HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1895-9-5, Page 2KY, OR. TALMAGE TO THE BEREAVED
MID FAINT HEAPiTEO,
Owisalla rieterefe the Attractiens or
We Woad Boyond-The lIealth, the
Reunion* sod the Song
of itlaeverte
Thew Twit, Aug, M. -For the bereavt
eel and faint-hearted there could. be
Ito worde of stronger consolation or
enoouragement than those ot the Ser-
mon prepared by Rev. Dr. Talmage
for ta-d. His subject was "Surpass-
ing SPlerielors," With inimiteble touele
he Mk pictured the glories and. attrae-
tions oe the world beyond the skies in
a. way to bring joy to believin.g. souls
*mi. to :oscillate even the thoughtlese
and indifferent. Tete text chosen was,
lye hath not seen nor ear heard," I.
Corinthians ii, 0.
"I am goinn to heaven! I am going
to heaven! elea'venl Heaven: Heaven!"
These were the last words uttered a
f ew days ago by my precious wife as
she ascended to be with. God forever,
and is it not natural as well as Chris-
tianly appropriate that our thoughts
be mueli directed toward the glorious
residence of which St. Paul speaks ni
the text I have chosen?
The city of Corinthlasbeen called
the Park of antiquity, Indeed to
epleridor the world bolds no such won-
der to-d.sy. rt stood on an isthmus
weehed by two seas, the one sea. bring -
bag the commerce of Europe, tae other
the commerce of Asia. From her
w-harves, in the construction of which
whole kingdoms had been absorbed,
w,ar galleys with three banks of oars
pushed out and confounded the navy
yards of all the world. 'Huge handed
machinery, such as modern invention
tannot equal, lifted ships from the
tea on one side and transported them
on. trucks aceoss the isthmus and
set them down in the sea on the other
side.
The revenueofficers of the city went
down through the olive groves that
Nned the beach to collect a tariff from
all nations. The mirth of all people
sported in her Isthmus games, and
the beauty of all lands sat in her
theaters, walked her porticoes and
threw itself on the altar of her stu-
pendous dissipations. . Column and
• statue and temple bewildered the be-
holder. There were white marble
fountains into which, from apertures at
the side, there rushed waters every -
Where known for health giving quanti-
ties. Around these basins, twisted in-
to wreaths of stone, tbere were all the
beauties of sculpture and architect -
are, while standing, as if to guard
the costly display, was a statue of Her-
cules of burnished Corinthian brass.
hrasee or terra cottta adorned thee eme-
Varies of the dead -vases so costly that
Julius Caesar was not satisfied until
tie had captured them for Rome. Arm-
ed officials, the "Corinthlaril," paced
up and down to see that no statue
Was defaced, no pedestal overthrown,
no bas-relief touched. From the edge
of the city a hill arose, with its mag-
nificent burden of columns and towers
and temples -1,000 slaves awaiting at
one ehrine-and a citadel so thoroughly
Impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap
• of sand compared with it. Amid all
that strength and magnificence Corinth
stood and defied the world.
Oh, it was not to rustics who hag
Stever seen anything grand that St.
Paul uttered this text. They had beard
the best music that had come from the
best instruments in all the world, they
had heard songs floating from morn-
ing porticoes and melting in evening
g„roves, they had passed their whole
lives away among pictures and sculp-
ture and architecture and Corinthian
brass, which had been molded and
shaped, until there was a chariot wheel
• en which it had not sped, and no tower
en which it had not glittered, and no
gateway that it had not adorned.
Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul
tt: stand there amid ail that and say
"All this is nothing. These sounds that
aortae from the temple of Neptune are
not music compared with the harmony
of whieh 1 speak. These waters rush-
ing in the basin of Pyrene are not
pure. These statues of Bacchus and
Mercury are not exquisite. Ton cita-
del of Anecorinthus is not strong com-
pared with that which I offer to the
poorest slave that puts dawn his bur-
den at that brazen gate. You, Cor-
inthians, think this is a. splendid city,
you think you have heard all the sweet
sounds and seen all beautiful sights;
but I tell you 'eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither have entered into
the heart of ' man the things which
God hath prepared for them that love
You see my text sets forth the idea
that, however exalted our ideas may
be of heaven, they come far short
of the reality. Some wise men have
been calculating how many furlongs
long- and wide heaven is, and they have
wilculated how many inhabitants there
•tine on the earth, how long the earth
• will probably stand, and then they
tome to this estimate -that after all
• the nations have been gathered to
heaven, there will be a room for each
Soul, a room 16 feet long and 15 feet
Pride. It would not be large enough for
•fete. I am glad to know that no human
listimate is sufficient to take the di -
•mentions. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear
beard." nor arithmetic calculated.
I first remark that we can in this
enerld get no idea of the health of
• heaven. When you were a child, and
•you went out in the morning, how you
.hotinded along the road or street -you
had never felt sorrow or sickness!
. Perhaps later -perhaps in these very
• summer days -you felt a glow in your
• cheek, and a, spring in your step, and
• an etuberance of spirits,. and a clear-
• bees of eye that made you thank God
• note were permitted to live. The nerves
Were liarpstrings, and the sunlight was
a doxology, and the rustling leaves
Were the rtietling af the rebes of a great
• Owd Teeing up tO praise the Lord,
Toe thenght that you knew what it
Seel '0 be Well, but there is no perfect
•health en eatth. The diseases Of Past
• generations come down to us. The airs
that float now an the earth are unlike
those Which floated above paradise.
• hey are charged with impurities and
• dietempers. The most elastic •and ro.;
buet health of earth, compared with
Plat thote experience before
•Whom Mt gates lia-ve been ()Petted. is
nothing hut eickness and emaciation.
Loolt at thet ;soul attending beton: the
throne. On earth she was a lieelong
ihe'elltl- See her step now and hear
her yoke now, Catch if yeti eon one
breeth of that oelestial air. Health
in all the pulses( Health of vision;
health of spirits; immortee health. No
racking cough, no sharp pleurielea, no
coneuralog fevees, nO exhateeting pains,
no hovitels of wounded men. Health
swinging In the air; health flowing in
all the streeene; health blooming on the
banks, No headahhes, no sideaches, no
backaches. That child that died in tho
agonies of croup, hear her voice now
ringing in the anthem. That old men
that went bowed down with the infir-
mities of age, eee him walk now with
• the atep of an immortal athlete -for-
ever young again! That night when
the needlewomen fainted away in the
• garret a wave of the heavenly air ree
sencitated. her forever -for •everlasting
Yeare to have neither ache nor pain
nor weakness nor fatigue, "Eye bate
not seen it; ear hath not heard it."
I remark further that we can in this
world get no just ides, of the splendor
of heaven. St. John tries to describe it.
He says: "The twelve gates are twelve
Peshis," and that "the foundations of
the wall are garnished with all manner
of precious stones." As we stand look-
ing through the telescope of St. John
we see a blaze of amethyst and pearl
and emerald and sardonyx and chrysee
prasus and sapphire -a mountain of
light, a cataract of color, a sea of klass
and a city like the sun. '
St, John bids us look again, and we
see thrones -thrones of the Prophets,
thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of
the angels, thrones of the apostles,
thrones of the martyrs, throne of Je-
sus, throne of God. And we turn round
to see the glory and it is -thrones!
Thrones ! Thrones!
St. Sohn bids us look again, and we
see the great procession of the redeem-
ed passing, Jesus, on a. white horse,
leads the march, and all the armies of
salvation following on white horses.
Infinite cavalcade passing. passing '
empires pressing into line, ages fol. -
lowing ages. Dispensation tramping
• on after dispensation. Glory in the
track of glory. Europe, Asia, Africa,
and North and South America press-
ing into line. Islands of the sea
shoulder to shoulder. Generations be-
fore the flood following generations af-
ter the flood, and as Jesus rides at
the head of that great host and waves
• his sword in signal of victory an
crowns are lifted and all ensigns flung
out, and all chimes rung, and all halle-
luiahs chanted, and some cry, "Glory
to God most high," and some "Ho-
sanna to the Son of David," and some,
"Worthy is the Lamb that was slain" -
till all exclamations of endearment and
homage in the vocabulary of heaven
are exhausted,and there come up surge
after surge of "Amen! Amen! Amen;
"Eye hath not seen it, ear hath not
heard it." Skim from the summer wa-
ters the brightest sparkles, and you
will get no idea of the sheen of the
everlasting sea. Pile up the splendors
of earthly cities, and they would not
make a stepping stone by which you
might mount to the city of God. Ev-
ery house in the palace. Every step a
triumph. Every covering of the head
a coronation. Every meal is a ban-
quet. Every stroke from the tower is
a wedding bell. Every day ,is a jubi-
• lee, every hour a rapture, and every
moment an ecstasy. "Eye hath not
seen it; ear hath not heard it."
I remark further we can get no idea.
on earth of the reunions of heaven. If
you have ever been across the sea and
met a friend or even an acquaintance
in some strange city, you remember
how your blood thrilled, and how glad
you were to see him. What, then, will
be our joy, after we have passed the
seas of death, to meet in the bright
city of the Sun those from whom we
• have ng been separated!
A ter we have been away from our
friends ten or fifteen years, and we
come upon them, we see how different-
ly they look. The hair has turned, and
wrinkles have come in, their faces, and
we say, "How you have changed!"
But, oh, when you stand before the
throne, all cares gone from the face,
all marks of sorrow disappeared, and
feeling the joy of that blessed land,
methinks we will say to each other
• with an exultation we cannot now
imagine, "How you have changed!" In
this world we only meet to part. It is
good -by, good -by, farewells floating in
the air. We hear it at the rail car
window, and at the steamboat wharf -
good -by. Children lisp it, and old age
answers it. Sometimes we say it in
a light way -"good -by" -and sometimes
with anguish in which the soul breaks
down. Good -by! Ali! That is the
word that ends the thanksgiving ban-
quet; that is the word that comes in
to close the Christmas chant. Good -by,
eood-by! But not so in heaven. Wel-
lomes in the air, welcomes at the
gates, weloomes at the house of many
mansions -but no good -by. That group
Is constantly being augmented. They
ere going up from our circles of earth
to join it -little voices to join that an-
them, little hands to take hold of it
In the great horne circle; little feet to
lance in the eternal glee, little crowns
o be cast down before the feet of
Jesus. Our friends are in two groups -
group this side of the river and a
;noun on the other side of the river,
Nrovr there goes one from this to that,
and another front this to that, and
..00n we will all be gone over. How
many of your loved ones have already
entered upon that blessed place? It I
sbould take paper and pencil, dm you
chink I could put them all down? Ah,
my friends, the waves of Jordan roar
so hoarsely we cannot hear the jos ou
the other side where their group is
J.ugmented. It is graves here and cof-
• ens and hearses there.
A littIe child's mother had died, and
they comforted her. They said: "'roar
mother has gone to heaven. Don't
cry." And the next day they went to
the graveyard, and they laid the body
of the mother down into the ground,
and the little girl came up to the verge
of the grave, and looking deem at the
bode' of her mother said, "Is this heieV-i
en?" Oh, we have to idea what heav-
en is! It is the grave here, it is the
darkness here, but there is merry-
making yorider. Methinks when a,
soul arrives some angel takes it around
to shoev it the wonders of that blessed
place. The usher angel eays to the
• newly arrived. "These are the mar-
tyrs that perished at Piedmont. Theft
were torn to pieces at the Inquisition.
This is the throne of the Great Je-
hovah. This is lesus!" "1 am going
to eee Jesus, ea% a dying negro boy
ex am going to see Jesus." And the
missionary said: "You are tire YOU
will see him?" "Oh, yea; that's what
/ want to go to heaven for," "But,
e"
aid the rnessionary, "suppoee that
;roses should go away trent heaven. -
what then?" "I should follow him,"
seed the dying negro bey. "But it
ensue went down to hell -what then?"
The dying boy thought for a moment
and theu he said., "Meeea, where Jesus
is there can be no hellr Oh, to stand
In his presence! That will be heaven. !
Oh! to put our hand In that hand
which was mounted for us on the cross,
to go around amid all the groups of
the redeemed and shake bands with
prophets a.ncl apostles and martyrs and
with our own dear, beloved ones -that
Will be the great reunion. We cannot
imagine it now, our laved, ones, seem
so far away. When. we are in trouble
and lonesome they don't sem to
eome to us.
We go on the banks of the Jordan
• and call across to them, but they don't
seem to hear. We say, "Is it well with
the child, is it well with the loved
ones?" and we listen to hear if any
voice comes back over the waters.
None! None! Unbelief says, "They are
dead and extinct forever," but, blessed
be God, we have a Bible -that tells us
different. We lepen it and find that
they are neither dead nor extinct; that
they never were so much alive as now;
that they are only waiting for our
coming, and that we shall join them
on the other side of the river. Oh,
glorious reunion! we cannot grasp it
now. "Eye hath not seerenor ear heard,
neither have 'entered into the heart
of man the things which God leath pre-
pared for them that love him." •
I remark again, we can in this world
get DO idea of the song of heaven. You
know there is nothing more inspiriting
than music. In the battle of Waterloo
..e.e nig-manners were grving away,
and Wellington found out that the
bands of music had ceased playing. He
sent a quiok dispatch, telling them to
play with utmost spirit a, battle march.
The music started, the highlanders
were rallied, and they dashed on till
the day was won. We appreciate the
power of eecular mueic, but do we ap-
predate the power of sacred song?
There is nothing more inspiring to me
than a whple congregation lifted up
on the wave of boly melody. When
we sing some of those dear old psalms
and tunes, they rouse all the memories
of the past. Why, some of them were
cradle songs in our father's house.
They are all sparkling with the morn-
ing dew of a thousand Christian Sab-
baths. •They were sung by brothers
and sisters gone now, by voices that
were aged and broken in the music --
voices none the less sweet because they
did tremble and break, When I hear
these old songs sung, it seems as if
all the old „country meeting mouses
joined in the chorus, and Scotch kirk
and sailors' bethel and western cabins,
until the whole Oontinent lifts the
doxology, and the scepters of eternity
beat time to the MUSIC. Away, then,
with your starveling tunes that chill
the devotions of the sanctuary and
make the people sit silent when Jesus
is coming to hosanna.
But, my friends, if music on earth is
so sweet, what will it be in heaven?
They all know the tune there. Me-
thinks the tune of heaven. will be made
up partly from the songs of earth, the
best parts of all our hymns and tunes
going to add to the songs of Moses and
the Lamb. All the best singers of all
the ages will join it -choirs of white
robed children, choirs of patriarchs,
choirs of apostles, morning stars clap-
ping their cymbaLs, harpers with their
harps. Great anthems of God roll on,
roll on, other empires joining the har-
mony till the thrones are full of it
and the nations all saved. Anthem
shall touch anthem, chorus join chorus
and all the sweet sounds of earth and
heaven be poured into the ear of
Christ. David of the harp will be
there. Gabriel of the true -met will be
there. Germany, redeemed, will pour
its deep bass voice into the song, sae
Africa will add to the music with ner
matchless voices.
I wish we could anticipate that dong.
I wish in the closing hymns of the
churches to -day we might catch an
echo that slips from the gates. Who
knows but that when the heavenly
door opens to -day to let some soul
through there may come forth the
strain of the jubilant voices until we
catch it. Oh, that as the song drops
down from heaven it might meet half
way a song coming up from earth(
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HIS USEFULNESS MAY STILL CON-
• TINUE.
Some nitrations a serious merge May ne
Asking Himself.
When railroads were first put in opera-
tion it was predicted that there would be a
great fall in the value of horses, a deterior-
ation of horse flesh, aid finally that the
animals would soon become curiosities on
the way towards extinction. Of course
everybody knows that nothing of the kind
happened, Horses increased in number,
value, and quality. The business the rail-
roads' developed all along their lines
occasioned a demand for more and better
horses. Just at present the popularity of
the bicycle and the application of electricity
to transportation are causing some people
to repeat the predictions of fifty years ago
concerning. the horse. It is even said that
the horse in the near future will be raised
simply for slaughter for food. If the horse
could learn of this prediction his intelligence
and his sense of his value would prevent
him from taking it seriously. • Ile might
ask : What good is the electric ear off the
rails? How does a bicycle act on plowed
ground, and what can it draw without the
assistauoe of human energy'? If horses
become very cheap will not more people
buy them, and will not the aggregate of
individual wants occasion a great demand
tbat will send up prices? The intelligent
horse asking these questions. could well
afford to inueoh his oats calmly while the
alarmists were cogitating as to what reply
was possible.
Revenge.
Proprietor of Rose:outwit (to Waiter) -
How much did that couple in the dark
comer over there order Moe they've been
here?
Waiter -They've only had two pietas of
ice cream.
Proprietor-1that all? Then just light
another gas jet in the corner.
TER,
INURAEE OINDLING
OF CUNNIIiia CONSPIRATORS AND
THEIR AWFUL CRIMES.
Noted enses Acetified ily Lire Insurance
etme-,-A Simnel or Valli), Tragic Events,
Where Stoney Was Secured liy Murder,
Arson and Deceit.
The murderoue wake of that Arch fiend
and coutipirator, Holmes, with all Ste horri-
ble inhuman reveletious,lise proved beyond
cloalit that in the matter of swindling life
insurance companies hie efforts have been
unequaled in the past. Yet the reoorde
these companies show the bloody work of
many another practical hand besides the
one that has through its cunning atrokes
kept the nerves of several nations at a
high tension for some time past. The
idea of taking human life in order to de-
fraud life insurance aompauies is ty no
manna a new ene, yet less often resorted. to
than those of feigning death or of the
"mysterious"and"sudden dtsappearauces."
It will be found that up to the advent of
Holmes one death was usually sufficient to
satisfy the person manipulating these
orimes,while in his case whole families had
to be saorificed in order for one policy to
be eashed,
From reviewing the reoorde preserved by
life insurance companies, it appears that
THE EIRST.OASE
where a company ever convicted a man or
woman of swindling it by feigniug death
occurred in London about the year 1730. In
this case a man and woman figured. The
woman was 20 yeare old and .the man
middle-aged. She was insured In favor of
her husband, and a short time after ap.
parently took skit, and the physician got
to her in time to see her die, or at least he
thought she was dead, and returned his
verdiet to that effect. It is not known just
what means she employed to successfully
deoeive the physician. It may have been
OM of those East Indian tricks of tongue
swallowing ; at any rate,the coffin was duly
balastecl and buried, and the fake was sum
oessfully carried out and the money on the
policy received. Some time after the bus.
band moved away and was living again
with the woman who was supposed to be
dead, when the fends ran low and the same
scheme was again practiced. The °lever
couple continued to move along in this line
until the wife had been buried four times
when the fraud was discovered.
Tbe case of Thomas Myers at Elwood,
Ind:, is one of still more recent occurrence.
in which the deceased was insured for $11,-
500, and died suddenly and was buried. As
certain suspicious circamsthnces eurrounded
the death, the grave was opened with the
intentionof bolding a .post-mortem exam-
ination, but the coffin was found to be
empty. It is thought that the body was re.
moved by persons who feared the develop.
meats of suoh a move, and four people
have been arrested.
Tin BALTIMORE TRAGEDY.
In July, 1872, a case occurred near Bate
more, which, in its main features some.
what resembled the Holmea-Pietzel ease.
The plan was that of plsainic a body in a
building, burning the building and on the
cheappearance of the person insured get
theinsurance money -a matter of some
$25,000.
About four miles from Baltimore'on the
York road, a cottage was leased by W .8.
Goss, of that city, for the evident intention
of making certain chemical expernitte,
One afteinoon, in company with his bee:Aiken
in-law, Wm. Udderzook, Goss wenneo the
oottage. In the evening a neighbor dropped
in and after an hour the lamp went out and
refused to burr. Udderzook lef t with the
neighbor to secure a lamp from his house,
and there spent some time talking. Wheit
the two returned they found the cottage
wrapped in flames. It was Udderzook's
theory that Goss had been burned, and on
the following day the charred remains of a
body was found. It was palmed off for that
of Goss, and suit was brought for the re-
covery of the $25,000 for which they found
his liie had been insured. It was supposed
that the chemicals had exploded, •but the
insurance company was suspicious about the
matter, and on investigating foundthat the
man whose bodywas found- had had no
teeth, while Goss, a wife testified that her
husband had had a sound set of teeth, but
in spite of this and other facts the Courts
decided in favor of Mrs. Goss.'
On June 30, 1873, Udderzook arrived in
the little village of Jennersville, Penn.,
where he had spent his boyhood and where
his parents still lived. He was accompani-
ed by a stranger, to whom meals were
served in the little hotel, and on that same
night hired a buggy and left in company
with the man. He returned alone about
midnight, and the next morning blood was
found on the buggy and a blanket and oil-
cloth were missing. About a week later a
farmer discovered the place where the
stranger was buried, near the country road,
and the murder came out.
TRIderzook was arrested in Baltimore and
removed to the Chester County Jail, Eihnea
he was hanged at West Chester in 1874. It
developed that Goss was a drinking man,
and after his disappearance drank more
than usual. Through fear that he might
at some time when intoxicated teveal the
whole secret, Udderzook conceived the
idea of putting him out of the way,
THE PALMER. MURDER.
The case of William Palmer'a Liverpool
surgeon, was one of unusual fiendishness,'
and occurred in 1856. He murdered hie
fa.thenin-law, mother-in.law, his wife and
four children,all of whose lives were insured
in hie favor.
In 1856 the Travelers' Insurance Com-
pany fought e. case whose execution was
fraught with unusual ingeniousness. A
man of the name of John H. Sargent scour-
ed a $2,000 accident policy at Beloit, Wis.
He came from Rookford, Ill., with a
woman of the name of Follett, and two
days before the two were married both
were insured ha favor el each other. In
about a month after the company was
informed that Sargent Was dead. Pay-
ment was refused by theinsurance com-
pany. A suit followed, la which a
photograph of the Man Sargent, who was
supposed to be drowned, was introduced
and identified by Mrs. Sargent as, being
thet of her husband, An expert made out
the name of the photographer, and the
original of the picture was found to be a
man living in a smell town inIlUnoie and
the conepirators abandoned the Snit and.
fled the country. •'
Another case of praatically the tern°
aharaoter was that of Mre, Mary D. Devis,
of rtiohniond, Ind., who carried a $25,000
policy, She mysteriously disappeared for
severed weeks. Sometime After it deoolle
ported body WO found in a aeighboriug
foot that Was identified as that of Mary
Davis. The Cowman • verdict sustained
this theory. Several years later ehe Was
diecovered living at Greeusburg, Penn,
SOTO= Tama.
Suicide as a means o defrauding yam.
paniee has often beea tried. William
Callender, of York, Penne, in 181, rode on
horsebaok to Harrisburg and insured his
life for $9,000, and on hie way back bought
arsenic and died of self-poisoning. No na.
nuance Was recovered on the polioy,
Captain Oalvaeoreasea, a United States
navy officer was found dead. in Bridgeport,
Oonne June 3, 1872, He had insured his
life for $195,000 and then deliberately shot
himself,
Dr. Myer e was reeently convioted of
murder in Now York, and was foxed from
death byGoveruor Morton, who commuted
it to life imprisonment. Myers killed his
man by poisoning him, after insuring his
life for a large amount-.
ITXRED A THUG.
The celebrated ehrmeteong.Huneer case
in Camden, N. j., whioh took pleoe about
20 years ago, was one of the first of these
modern attempts to defraud insurance cornpanien Dr. Hunter, a well-known and
reputable physician, hired a thug named
Graham to kill Armstrong. Armstrong
owed Hunter money, and Hunter had
• Armstronghi life insured to aecure the debt.
The hired assassin struck ouly one blow
with a hammer, which he dropped, and
then fled, By a strange oversight, one of
those utterly unexplainable oversights,
the hammer that struok the blow was
marked with Hunter's name, he having
furnished it to the thug. Minter's repu.,
tation was, however, so well established
that he almost succeeded in escaping
detection by claiming that Graham stole
the hammer from him. Graham did nott
finish his work, and Armstrong was carried
home with a fractured skull, and was in a
fair way to recover, when Hunter, under
the guise of friendship, obtained access to
his room, and deliberately removed the
bandages and stuck a probe into the brain
of his victim. Then he replaced the
bandages, but he was unskillful, and the
dead man's oondition attracted attention.
An examination of the wound disclosed
• what had, taken place., and Hunter was
arrested. He had plenty of money, and
a battle royal followed in the Courts. The
accused was convicted and hanged.
Can Solder glass.
M. Margot has taken advantage of the
singular faot that aluminum, zinc and mag-
nesium, when fused, will adhere to glass,
n order to introduoe a new style of decora-
ion, namely, glass coated with these
metals. The pure metals require a very
high temperature to melt them ; for in-
stance, 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit in the
case et aluminum, but M. Margot has
found that alloys of the metals possess the
same property. An alloy of 90 parts tin
and 10 parts aluminum melte at 662 degrees
Fahrenheit, while an alloy of 95 parts tin
and 5 poets of zinc melts at 302 degrees
Fahrenheit. Both of these alloys have a
fine, untarnishable luster. Moreover, one
can actually solder glass with them as
easily as one solders two metals, either by
warming in an oven the two surfaces of
glass to be united and applying the solder
as.,. one does sealing wax, or with the
ordinary soldering iron.
War Trains.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
has juet had completed at Montreal after
many months of ,labour, two special
military or war trains, which comprise
fourteen cars for the men, two cooking
oars, two Pullmag oars for the officers, two
care for wines and stores, and two dining
oars. The officer's cars are fitted up in
luxurious style, and contain etatterooms,
lave,tor, amoking.roome, etc. Each train
consists of eleven cars and engine, and has
ample accommodation for nearly four
hundred. With these fast war trains, the
C.P.R. expects to be able to cover the
distance from the Atlantic to the Panne in
five and a half days. '
Athletics and Success.
Some new facts have been brought: oub
in regard to the much-discussed qUestion
as to whether athletic prowess when at
college is of any benefit to a man in his
future oareer. The various university
boat crews of Oxford and Cambridge have
been followed up and the achievements of
their members in afterlifenoted, It has been
discovered that the Oxford 'Varsity (news
have contributed to the country 31 magie •
trates, 4 doctors, 8 commanding officers in
the army and a large number of eminent
divines. To the credit of Cambridge are
80 leaders of the church niilitant in high
standing, 50 magistrates, 2 doctors, 2 gen-
erale and 1 colonel.
Settle or Leave.
a
eellete4110
Mrs. Rushmore- You'll have to settle up
or leave.
Summer Boarder-Thanks,awfally 1 The
last place 1 was at they made me do both.
Convincing Proof.
Stranger, is this a healthy 'neighbor
hood? '
Hodge Agent--Realthy 1 See that man
over there?
• Yes.
Well, he's got rich in two pare ago.
Who is he ?
He sells boys' clothes.
Both Might Improve.
•• Workingman -If you fellers wet work
wid your heeds would do a little hand-
work once in a w'ile, you'd walls straight*
Scientist -True, And if you men who
work With your hands would do a little
head -week OD00 in a while, youhl think
(straighter. •
HE IS A GREAT SOIENTIST
LORD KELVIN AND HIS WORK IN
THE WORLD OF SCIENCE. -
e vt1114e:eelel arrtio:rsetaNaAnityllieftli-tit etTtliceasybaitleel a:Ttehle/roon 55 tool:
Was. faingerons--llis Connection With
Anion the scientific ince of the present
day few, if any, occapy so distinguiehed
potation se Lord Kelvin, the famous profee-
eor of natural philosophy in Glasgow uni-
versity, We certainly can recall none who
has contributed more to the progress of
civilization. To find his compeers it is
necessary to go baok to earlier ages, and
mention the names of Binh men as Watt
and Stevenson and Luisa Newton. What
they did ie regard, to steam Lord Kelvin
has been one of the principal faotors itt
doing in regard bo electricity -making it a
bond that connecte the nations of the world.
Telegraphy on land had, of course, been in
general use before his time, and a successful
experiment had even been made in sub --
marine telegraghy-a line being laid so
early as 1850 across the channel from
Dover to Calais, but when nee proposal was
Bret made to lay a cable across the bed, of
the Atlantic ooean the scheme was general-
ly looked upon as chimerioul in the extreme.
The difficultiea in the way of carrying it
out were certainly enormous, but aoting ifl
conjunotion with Cyrus Field, who was
facile princeps in supplying ehe enthusiaem
and. the sinews of war, Professor William
Thomsen, as he was than called, worked
perseveringly ab the solution of the per-
plexing problem, and in the face of numete
owedisappointments vvhich for yam beffied
all other attempts, at last found his efforts
crowned with suooess, and on August 17 th,
1858, this message was fleshed from shore
to shore :-" Europe and America united
by telegraph. Glory to God in the highest;
on earth peace and good will toward men."
A fortnight later the caLle broke, to •the
ill -concealed delight of the croakers, and
eight years more of toil and ingenuity and
enterprise were required to bring
THE ST‘TPEM)OUS TASK
to a successful completion. Then there
was no longer any doubt that the great
modern miracle, as a cor temporary maga.
eine writer calls it, had, at ket been
wrought, and honors without number were
showered on the Glasgow inventor, as well
se on all others who had been iientified
with the enterprise.
Though, however, Lb is prinoipally as an
eleotrioian that the world knows Lord
Kelvin, that is far from being the only
oapacity in which he has made invaluable
additions to scientific knowledge. His
sounding -machine and compass are admit-
ted to have done more for the safety of
navigation than any invention since the
first compass and sextant, and his patents
are so numerous that the magazine writer,
Mr. Arthur Warren, excuses himself on
She ground of want of space from catalogu-
ing them, and remarks that they have all
contributed to progress andto the ease of
oivilization. His device for taking deep-
sea soundings obviated the labor and un-
certainty of the old modes. It is done by
mean neted of a wire, accurately
atus which, when thrown
over t „.0 ,e
rec de ptoeasteat,er at the very spot
wthenet
was moving
ip was when the
inh
he old style was
euo tded-oertainly to k the place of
g
work. -By substituting piano wire
ne old fashioned rope, the trouble of
anon was so nearly overcome that the
wire, offering ve-41 little teesistance when
going through the water, cestaid be easily
cast with the ship going at feel epead, and
could be hauled aboard, by two men instead
of by half the crew. In the old days it
was hardly possible to make sounding casts
-more than once an hour. Lord Kelvin
made it possible to thtow a cast once every
ten minutes. All waters that are frequent.
ly navigated now have their soundings so
completely marked 'upon the charts that
with Lord Kelvin's apparatus the position
of a vessel can be determined in a fog as
easily as in clear weather.
LORD KELVIN'S COMPASS,
like many other inventions of great utility;
• was scoffed at by official wisdom when its
adoption was first proposed. The Admir-
alty would not take it as a gift ; they
rejected it as an impracticable toy. That
was twenty years ager Nobody could be
found to look upon it with favour. So
Professor Thomson took it to James White,
the celebrated instrument maker at Ghia-
, gow, and at his own cost had a uuinber of
j the compasses made and put aboard sea -
I going vessels -with what result all seafar-
I ing men know welLenough, for there is not
1 a ship worth ite timbers and. its rivets
which has not at least one of Lord Kelvin's
compasses aboard of it to -day.
Lord Kelvin, who was knighted on the
completion of the isecond Atlantic cable in
1886, and raised to the peerage in 1892 in
furthur recognition of his scion tific achieve.
ments, is president of the Royal society,
an office in which his prodeoessors included
Sir Isaac Newton'Sir Christopher Wren,
Sir Humphrey Davy and Prof, Huxley,
He has been professor of natural philosophy
ab Glasgow for nearly fifty yeare, having
been appointed when he was 22 years of
age, and.as Mr. Warren says,the university
there is assuredly his home, for "he was
but 8 yeare old when be went to live there
with his father, Dr, James Thomson who
had been appointed professor of mathemat-
• ics, That elder 'Thomson was also a
remarkable man. He was born on a little
farm, near Ballynahinch, in county Down,
Ireland, where his family had dwelt for
several generations, although the line was
Scotch. James Thomson had, even as a
lad, a huge
HUNGER FOR KNOWLEDGE.
When he was between eleven and bwelVe
years of age he learned, without the aid of
a teacher a,nd with the assistance of a few
books, the principles of the sundial, and he
taught himeelf to make dials for any 'all-
tude. Also, from old volumes which...he
somewhat happened to unearth .in his rut.
tive village, he taught himself the elements
of niathematiati, passion for tins study
seemed to be of suchan extraordivary
nature that his father permitted nine to
attend a smell clatudeal and mathematioal
sohool, in which, while still quite a youth,
he bettame an nedistant *cher, Teaching in
this little sohOol in the summers, he studied
during the winters at the -University o
Glasgow, and at the end of his fifth year as
a student there he received AD appointment
•0 Woof), He Marrieds:um after he Went
4
to Belfast, nd itt that oity eight children
were bora to iiite-five sous end three
daughters. The eldest of the sopa bore Itia
father's Chrietian florae. He Was VW° yeart
the eenior of his brothel' William, no%
Lord Kelvin. These two brothers werN
as Wye and men, the Meet devoted QOM(
Mani. Neither jams nor Williern went to
eohool before the age of ten. Their educe..
tion up to that time was imparted to thent
entirely .by their father, who lied to an
amazing degree the' pit' of' inspiring
enthumena,and who Was not only afamoul
mathematician, but else A fine Waseca'
edholar, and well equipped, in many other
depertntents of learning, The attachment
between the father and hie sone was of the
closest nature, and it did inuoh to &asp(
the
OiateteelTeete OS THE Lee%
William Thomsou ( Lord Kelvin) entered
the University of Glasgow at the unuauslly
early age of 11 years, and after taking the
courses there he went to St. Peter's college*
Cambridge, graduating in 1845 as second
wrangler and first Smith's prizeman. Lord
Kelvia as a lad was an amazing prodigy,
but he differed from nearly all juvenile
prodigiee that one reads 01 10 hie love of p.
fun and boyish sports. He was as active
physically as he was mentally, and he set
himself up with a splendid stock of health.
No doubt beholders thought him precool.
ous, Imagine, if you can, the amazement
of men grown gray in scientific work vvbeu
they read in one of their favorite
periodicals a aeries of learned papers white)
upset many old and wellatureed theories,
and substituted sonae surprising new ones.
which proved to be correct, and which
were propounded by a youth of eighteen
Who was this William Thomson, whom
contributions to the Cambridge and Dub.
lin Mathematioal Journal drew the atten.
tion of the soientifict world. There was
something more than juvenile audacity itt.
hi articles y.there was knowledge -there
w
• "You will see him of a morning -s
white-haired, white -bearded man of seven.,
ty-walking aoross the University grounds
towards the laboratory ; in spite of his
lameness he walks so quickly that his
professor's gown streams out behind him.
If you address him you will be charmed
by the simple, natural courtesy of
response, and by the light of kindliness in
his clear eyes. As he Mk his mortar-
board oap you will note the height and
fulness of his fine dome-shaped head, and
you will feel instinctively, even if you are
not aware of hie identify, that you are
standing in the presence of a great man,
and a greanhearted oue."
GOING TO EUROPE BY LAND
THE BIGGEST JOURNEY AN EX-
PLORER EVER CONTEMPLATED.
flurry de Windt Proposes a Tien* 01'4000
illiles-Starts Next Nevelt 'With the
Fxpectation or Beaching Louden About
m/aAhh,
ohntes Nee -Levees Behring Strait
onIce. *
A London reporter had an interview- Ilk
recently with Harry do Windt, whose ex-
plorations and, ipvestigations of prison life
in Siberia and walk from Peking to Calais
have made him famous, Although he has
been back from his Siberian wanderings
only a few months, during which time he
has twice crossed the Atlantic, Mn le
Windt will soon be off on another journey.
"I am getting through with my book on
Siberia," he said, "mad in the middle of
September I leave Europe by La Gasoogne
for New York. My contemplated journey
will be th e biggest I have ever attempted. In
point of distance, it is exactly three times
as long as any of my former journeys. I
have not had much evperience of sea travel-
ling, my metier being iand work. On this
journey, however, I have a
NASTY BIT OF SEA
to encounter. Hut, as it will be ice when
I cross it, I shall assume it to be land.
"I am going from America to Europe
overland. Me objects are to explore Alaska
and the northeastern parts of Siberla-a
task which has never been accomplished -
and to study the condition of politioal
exiles in l'hkonesk. After the conclusion
of a lecturing tour next March, I shall
leave Vancouver and proceed to Sitka, on
the Alaska -Canadian frontier. Thence an
eight days' journey will take me to Mount
Sc. Elias. There I hope to form my expedi-
tion and to pick up my dogs, fifty sledges,
iustruments and natives. Starting in a
northwesterly direction, I intend to cross
that absolutely unknown part of Alaska
lying between Mount St. Elias and Prince
of Wales Cape, the extreme northwestern
point at Alaska on the American Continent.
This part of the journey will take at least
four months. I can only proceed further in
midwinter because the ioe on Behring
Straits will then be formed.
"I expect to leave Prince of Wales Cape
about January, 1897. In crossing Alaska
there is no danger front natives but the
extremes of temperature are grealt and
THE GOLD IS FRIGIITEUL.
I shall sleep in the open. 1 know I shall
also have to arose two chains of mountains,
each of which is as high as Mount Blanc:
Beyond this, Alaska ie a terra incognita,
and I only imagine what I shall have to
encounter. •
"One of the chief difficulties will be the
crossing of Behring Straits, From Prince
of Wales Cape, on the American Continenb
to East Cape in Asia on the opposite shore
of the S traits (a distance of thirty-two miles)
will take me about eight days. I have
made special arraegementa, besides the
dogs and sledges for India rubber boats,
which, while light for transport, will not
be easily injured by ice floes or crushed by
th e pack.
"On Teaching East Cape, the most east-
erly poiht of Asia, I shall. proceed to
Ghigilja'distance of 1,000 miles ; thence to
Okhotsk, a farther stage of 800 miles ; and
from there to Yakutsk. This part Of my
journey will be performed first by rein.
deer, then by dogs, and finally by horses.
From 'Y akutsk I shall proceed by river
steamer to Irkutsk, thence by post road to
Yomsk, and by my old route home through
Russia. I hope to reach England at the
end of 1897, after travelling over 22,000
Sufficient Cause.
I hear tars. Young.Wife hag doebta
her husband's sanity.
• For What reason?
Ho told her she Was a better cook thae
his mother.
elmorial,*
A New Malady.
How did all the peopla In this town
appen to be afflicted with St, Vitus'
donde
They're net. That's the Way ele decline