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The Exeter Times, 1895-12-5, Page 3THE EXEll'ER TIME Norms Never before in Europe ca" in the Worl1 hae the been a politieo-nailitary eembination, of suds megratude as that O the six Ohrietian powere Nahiob have taken joint action in the eaSe of 'riga kilt The Holy Attie/see ot 1815 we a Meble thing in comparison with it. Th° PO'wers noW aotbag tegether for a Special purpose have snore soldiers under arras than therble-bodied inhab- •itants in the Ottoroan empire, The army a Sennaeheria the Assyrian, or • Alexander the Macedonian, or Caesar the Roman, would look small alongside the millions who march under the flags of the six powers that confront the Tura. The armies of the middle ages, Q r of leter centuries, the armies of Na- poleon. Bonaparte were far inferior in umber to the armies which standready •.atethis time to draw the sword against tie; Sultan. No 'military c,onaloination ever before existed upon the earth the • naagnitade a which can be compared with •that of the six Claristian powers • recently formed. The thing is uot like- ly to last long, but, while it lasts, it is a spectacle without a parallel in his- tory, 1 • It is etated that Mansfield, the actor, • having just recovered tromp, severe ill- ness, finds that he has forgotten all the • lines of his parts and will have to re- study them. This is by no means an unusual phenomenon, for memory is a tricksy faculty, as naost people find. out before reaching middle age. Much as we are obliged to rely on it in all the affairs of life, it is constantly deceiving us, often to our mortificatien, Sickness, as in Mausfield's case, and old age are the chief enemiese of 'Mem- ory and often greatly imp* it -.--that THE SON_ OF DAVJB REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON TO YOUNG MEN. 'Love of atoute—ineustrious moats— enaga Meal or alte—aesecct for the sabeata .—Tae chestiest iseilaion—e alienate Point. Washington, Nov, 24.—In biseermon to -day Rey. Dr. Talmage, Preaebing to the usual crowded audience, took op a subject of universal interest to young men. His text was selected trona. IL Samuel xviii, 29, Es the young man Absalom safe?" The heart of David, the father, tau wrapped um in his boy Absalom.. He was a splendid boy, judged by the rules of worldly criticism. From tae crown of his' head to the sole of his foot there was not a single blemish. The Bible says that he had such a luxuriant shock of hair that when once a year it was shorn what was cut off weighed over 'three pounds. But, notwithstanding all Isis brilliaracY of appearance, he was a bad boy and broke his father's heart. He was plot- ting to gain tlse throne of Israel. Ile flad th w' a marshaled an any to over ro his father's government. The day of battle had come. The confliet was be- gun. Davidathe father, sat between the gates of the palace waiting for the tidings of the conflict. Oh, how rapiday his Iseart beat with emotion! Two great., questions were to be decided -- the safety of his boy and the contin- uartee of the throne of. Israel. After awhile, a servant, standing on the top of the house, looks off and. sees some one running. He is coming with great speed, and the man on top of the house announces the coming of the messen- ger, and the father watches and waits and as soon as the messenger from the is, they impair the recollection, or the field of battle conies within hailing dis- power of recalling at will. It is doubt- tame the father cries out. an who wee faitafal to his early and adopted home Whe Was giaten over at the SaMe tiele to any grose OW o wieltednese. If you had more ea- joymexit in the clubroom, in the liter- arY .000iety, in the art seams than Yoe. do in these unpretending Lome pleae- ures, you are on the road to ruin. Thouga you may be cut oft from your early assodates, seal thougli you may be meparated from all your leindred, young man, is there not a room some- where that yosi ean call your own? Though it be the fourtb story of a thirdselass boardina house, into that room gather books, pictures asal a Urea. Bang your mother's portrait over the mantel, • Did unholy mirth stand back frorn that threshold. Con- seerate some spot in that room with the knee of prayer. By the memory of other days, a father's calmest, a moth- er's love and a sister's contideace, cail it home. Another safeguard for these young men is indestriotas habit. There are a great many people trying to make their way through the world with their wits instead of by honest toil. There is a young man who coraee from the coma try to the city, Ile fails twice before Jae is as old as his father was when he first saw the spires of the great towna. He Ls seated in his room at a rent of a2,000 a year, waiting for the banks to declare their dividends and the stocks to run up. • After a,tvhile he gets impatient. He tries to improve his penmanship by making copy plates of other merchant's signatures. Never mind—all' is right in businees. After awhile he has his estate. • Now is the time for him to retire to the eountry, amid the flock$ end the herds, to• cul- ture the , dorneatio virtues. Now the young men who were his schoolmates in boybood. will come, and with their ox teams draw him logs, and with their liard • hands will testa him to heave up the castle. That is • no fancy sketch. It is everyday life. I should not wonder if there were a rotten beam in that palace. I should not wonder if God should smite hirn with dire sickness and our into his oup a bitter draft that wall thrill bins with unbearable agony. I should • not wonder if that man's childeen grew up to be to blies a disgrace and to make his life a shame. I should. not wonder if that man died a dishonorable death and were tumbled into a dishonorable grave, and then went into the gnashing of teeth. The way of the ungodly shall perish. Oh, young man, you must have in- dustry of head or hand or foot or per- ish!. Do not have the idea, that you can get along in the world by genius. The -curse of this couritry to -day is geniuses --men with large self conceit and nothing else. The man vrho pro- poses to make his living by his wits probably has not any. I should rather be an ces, plain and plodding. and use- ful; than to be an eagle, high flying and good for nothing but to pick out the eyes of carcasses. Even in the garden of Eden it was not safe for Adam to be idle, so God made hira a horticulturist, and if the married pair had kept buy dressing the vines they would not have been sauntering under the tree, hankering • after fruit that ruined them and their posterity! Proof positive of the fact that when people do •not attend to their business they get into mischief. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which having no overseer or guide, provideth -her food in the sum- mer and. gathereth her meat in the har- vest." Satan is a roaring lion, and yet can never destroy him by gun es pistot or sword. The weapons with width you are to beat him back are pen and type a,nd hammer an& adze and saw and. • pickax and yardstick and the weapon of honest toil. Work, work or die. • Another safeguard. that I want to present to 'young men is a. high ideal of life. Sometimes soldiers going into battle shoot into the ground mstead of into the hearts of their enemies. •They are apt to take aim too low, and it is very often that the captain, going in to conflict with his men, will cry out. "Now, men, aim high 1" The fact is that in life a great many men take no aim at all. The artist plans out his entire thought before he puts it upon canvas, before he takes up the crayon or the chisel. An architect thinks out the entire building before the work- men, begin. Although everything may seem to be unorganized that architect has in his mind every Corinthian col- umn, every Gothic arch, every EY'ean- tine capital. A poet thinks out the entire piot of his poem before he be- • gins to chime the cantos of tinkling rhythms. And yet there are a great many men who start the important structure of life without knowing whether it is going to be a rude Tar- tar's hut or a St. Mark's cathedral, and. begin to write out the intricate, poem of their life without knowing whether it is to be a Homer's " Odys- sey" or a rhymester's botch. Out of 1000 999 have no life plot. Booted and spurred and caparisoned, ' they hasten along, and 1 rim out and say : man! Whither away a' "Nowhere I" they say. 0 young man, rnake every day's duty a filling up of the great life plot. Alas, that there should be on this sea of life so many ships that seem bound for no port! They are swept every whither by wind. and wave, up by the mountains and down by the valleys. Theysail with no chart. They gaze on no star. They long for no harbor. 0 young man, • have a high ideal and press to it, and it will be a, mighty safeguard. There never were grander opportunities op- ening before young men than are open- ing now. Young men of the strong arm, and. of the strong heart, and of the bounding step, I marshal you to- day for a great achievement. ful, from what experience shows, if we ever absolutely lose what has once been in the mind, We are often, sorprised by the coining up for a moment to Vie memory of scene long past event whiela ^ bad apparently faded from the recol- • lection. In fact, we often make efforts to recall something and utterly fail for the time being and aive it up. Present- ly there walks into the mind unbidden and uncalled. for the very circumstance or thing that -we had been so vainly seeking, • The experience of persons resuscitata ea -Irons, drowning confirms the tiaeory that nothing is lost from the. mind. nation and weot up the stairs of his palace, his heart breaking as he went, "Their testimony is unanimous that be- fore losing consciousness' every past wringing bis hands sometimes and then again pressing them against his tem- ples as thougb she would prese ahem ha creang: "0 Absalom, my son, my son t Is it a question in 'regard to the es- tablishment of his throne? Does he say: "Have the' armies of Israel been victorious? Am I to continue in my in:merle:1 authority? Have I over- thrown my enemies?" Oh, nol There is one question that springs from his heart to the lip and springs from the lip into the ear of the besweated and bedusted naessenger flying from the battlefield—the question, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" when it was told to David, the king, that, though his armies had been victorious, his son had been slain, the father turned his back upon the congratulations of the event of their lives passed vividly through their minds. Dr. Oliver 'Wen- dell Holmes, in his lecture on "Meehan - Blind and Morals," tells some es..• , anecdotes touching his experience of drowning men. His theory is that everything that has once entered the miral is photographed. there, as on the plate of a camera, and there it will al- ways remain for good or ill, Most of the great scholars are cele- brated for their memories, and we have all heard. of the feats in that way per- formed by Dr. Johnson, Macaulay and others. The celebrated Greek scholar, Dr. Pierson, seems to have excelled in this way. He knew by heart all the great Gree/e Ot,s and. prose writers, could recite wlattWeolaystof Slaakespeare, pages and pages of Gibbon's history, Pope's "Rape of the Lock," and the whole of Somollett's "Roderick Ran- dom" from tbe first page to the last, as well as countless smaller things. Actors are usually more noted in this respect than others and innumerable an- ecdotes are told of them. John Phillip Kemble memorized with astonishing -rapidity, and could repeat columns and eolum.us of a raorning paper after a careful reading._ Another story is told of an actor who naentorized a long part in a few honrs before going on the stage, but that after the play was over could not recall a single one of his lines. He played the part many times, but invariably had to memorize it fresh- ly, as he had done in tlae first instance. It has sometimes been invidiously emir]. that great ntenaories do not ne- cessarily accompany great intellectual powers in other respects, but the list is long of great men who had remark- able memories, from the days of julius • Caeaar, who knew the names of all his soldiers, down to Von Moltke who could keep silent in seven languages. 'A.sid the list includes not only soldiers • but philosophers, statesmen, orators and scholars. frieuds, keep the Lord's day. You met Unita it old fogy advice, but 1 give it to you now: Remember tint. aelabatii 4ay and keep it boly. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, but the iseYenea day is Lae Sabbath a the Lord thy a od, in it then shalt not do any woris." A man said thet he wooed. prove all this was a tallaey,and so he said, "I shall raise a Seaday crop." And he plosvect the field on the Sabbath and then be pot in the seed on the Sabbath, and he cultured the ground on the Sabbath ttrlaen the anneal', was ripe, he reaped it an the Sabbath, end he carried it into the mow on the Sabbath, and Olen he stood out defient to his Chrietian neigitbore and said, " There, that is my, Sunday crop, and it is all garnered.' After awhile a storm same up, and a great darkness, ated the ligitsuaga of heevea atruele the bean and away went lila Sunday erop. • There is aaother safeguard that I want to present. I have seved it until the last bemuse I want it to be more emphatic. The great safeguard for every young man is the Christian re- ligion. Nothing can take the place of it. You may have grecefulness enough to put to the blush Lord ChesMrtield you may have foreign languages drop- ping from your tongue, you may dis- cuss laws and. literature, you may have a pen of unequaled palisla and. power, you may have so much business tact that you can get the largest sal- ary in a banking house; you maY be as sharp as Herod end as strong as Sam- son with as long locks as tbose which hung Absalom, and yet you have no safety again:it temptation. Some of you look forward to life with great despoadency. I know it. I see it in Your faces from time to time. You say, "All the occupations and profes- sions are full, and there's no chance for me," 0, young inert cheer up. I will tell you how you den make your fortune. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, .and all other things will be added. I know you: do not want to be mean in this mat- ter. Yon will not drink the brimming cup ,of life and then pour the drege on God's altar. To a generous Saviour youwill not act like that a., you hese not the heart to ad, like that. That is not manly. That is not honorable. That is not brave. Your great want is a new heart, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I tell you. so to -day, and the blessed. spirit passes through the solemnities of this Isour to put the cup of life to your thirsty lips. Oh thrust it not back. Mercy presents it —bleeding mercy, long suffermg mercy. Despise all other friendships, prove recreant to all other bargains, but des- pise Gocit$ love for your soul—do not do that. There comes a crisis in a marta life, and the trouble is he does not know it is the crisis. I got a let- ter in whiele a man says to me: -"I start out now to preach the gos- pel Of righteousness and temperance to the people. Do you remember me? am tte man who appeared at the close of the service when you were worshipping in the claapel after you came from Philadelphia. Do you re- member at the close of the service a man coming Up to you all a -tremble with conviction, and crying out for mercy, and telling you he had a very bad business, and he thought he would change it t That was the turning point in ray history. I gave up my bad busi- ness. I gave my heart to God, and the desire to serve him has grown up- on me all these years, until now woe is unto me if I peetich not the gospel." That Sunday night was the turning • point of that young man's history. This vera Sabbath hour will be the turning point in the bistory of a bun- drea young men in this house. God help as. I once stood. on an anniver- sary platform with a ' ele,rgyman, who told this marvelous story. He said.: " Thirty years ego two young men started out to attend 'Park Theatre, New York, to see a play which made religion. ridiculous and hypocritical. They had been brought up in Chris-' biota familie,s. They started for the theatre to see that vile play, and. their early convictions came back upon. them. They felt it was not right to go, but still they went. They came to the door of the theatre. One ot the young men stopped and started., for home, but rammed and came up to the door, bat had not the courage to' gct in. Ile again started for home and went home. The other young man went in. He went from one degree of aenapta- tion to another. Caught 111 the whirl of frivolity and sin, he sank lower and lower. He lost Isle business position; he lost his morals; he lost. his soul; he died a dreadful death not one star of mercy ehining on it. stand before you to -day,' said. the minister, to thank God that for 20 years I have been permitted. to preach the gospel. I am 1:he other young man." Oh, you see that was the turning points—the one went back, tbe other went on! The great roaring world of business lit e will . soon break in upon you; young men. Will the wild. wave dash out the impressions of this day as an ocean billow dashes letters out of the sand on the beach? You need something better thau this world can give you. I beat on your heart, and it sounds hollow. You want something great, and grand and glorious to fill and here is the religion that can do it. God save you! Would to God I had died for thee. 0 Absalom, my son, my son !" My friends, the question which David . . the Xing, asked in regard to his son is the question that resounds to -day in the hearts of hundreds of parents. Yes, there are a great multitude of young men who know that the question of the text is appropriate when asked in re- gard. to them. They, know tlae tempta- tions by which tlaey are surrounded; they see so many whb started. life with as good resolutions as they have who have fatten in the path, and they are ready to hear me ask the question of my text, "Is the young man Absalom safe?" The fact is that this life is full of peril. He who u.ndertakes it without the grace of God and a Proper understanding of the conflicts Into which he is going must certainly . be defeated. just look off upon seciety to -day. Look at the shipwreck of men for whom fair thipgs were promised, and. who started life with every advan- tage. Look at those who have dropped from high social position and from great fortune, disgraced for time, dis- graced for eternity. All who sacrifice their' integrity come to overthrow. Take a dishonest dollar and bury it M the centre of the earth and keep all the rocks of the -mountain on top of it; then cover these rocks with all the diamonds of Golconda, and all, the sil- ver of Nevada, and all the gold of Cali- fornia and. A.ustralia, and put on top of these all banking and moneyed in- stitutions, and. they cannot keep down that one dishonest dollar. That one dishonest dollar' in the centre of the earth will begin to hea,ve and. rook and upturn itself until it comes to the res- urrection of damnation. "As the part- ridge sitteth on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool." Now, what are the safeguards of young men? The first safeguard of whicla I want to sneak is a love of borne. There are those who have no idea of the pleasures that coneentrate arou.nd the word "home." Perhaps your early abode wa.s shadowed with vice or poverty. Harsh words and petulance and scrowling may have de- stroyed all the sanctity of that spot. Love, kindness and self-sacrifice, svhieh have built their altars in so many abodes, were strangers in your feta- er's house. God pity you, young man. You never had a home. But a multi- tu.de in this 0,utlienee can look back to a spot that they can never forget. It may leave been a lowly woof, but, you cannot think of it »ow without a dash of emotion. You. have seen nothing on earth that so stirred your soul. A stranger passing along that place might see nothing remarkable about it, but oh, how much it means to you. Fresco on palace wall doca not mean so much to you as those rough hewii rafters. Parks and bowers and trees ab faelitioriable watering places or calm - try seats do net mea,n so much to you as that brook Chet ran in front of the plain farm haw, and singing under the weeping willows, The barred gate- way swung open by a porter in full dress does rot mean as much to you as that swing gate, your sister on one side of it and you on the other. She, gone fifteen years ago into glory! That scene coming back to you to -day as 'vett swept baelevvara and forward on the gate, shagina the songs of your thildhoed. But there are those bete Who ha,ve their secona dwellirig place. It ie your adopted home. ',Chet also is eaered. forever, There yote eetab- lielted the first family alter. There your children were born. In that twit flapped the wing of the death ange1. tinder that roof, when your work ie done you expect to lie. down and There is only ease word in all the Ian - Making Transparent Leather. The manufacture of transparent lea- ther is now carried on by a new process, After the heir hes been removed .from the hide, the latMr, tightly stretched upon a suitable fearcte, is rubbed with a solution of glycerine and numerous acids, and afterward placed in a room where the rays of the sun do not perces trate ; it is then saturated with a sol.' tion of biehromate ot potash, 'Mien the hide is dry, an alcoholic solution of tortoise shell is epplied be its surface, end. the transparene effect, is thus obs Maned. Help Wanted. Cad. Friend—Well, how is your fly - fog machine getting along ? Itreentor--Getting along ? I finish- ed that: twenty years ago, Every des tail is complete, There it stands, xeady to go. Croaky 1 Why don't you Show it to the world slan't. All men ere fools, What's the matter / ataa eine. e man anywhere with sense. guaga that can convey aroutautea of eost nee 080,000. arom that dea evert - enough to cliala steeglie 9,nd try thet place and that word is borne." thing went -wrong. I failed in balm - 1 the AinsightY with hini. (4), May we TI1E SUNDAY SC1100L. tind acre how worthless ie profane langaage? E wili give, See Lae $elt- cent/1(1(410e, the altsolate trast in auman INTERNA'l'IONAL LFsSSOli; DEC,fa '95. power, (5) Tboee wise lean on tbetns eelves alone will be brought to naught. „ David and wa..001n.„ 1 soh. 38.41 `b.lpryds.fulesh unto the fowls. "To the Sueh threats are to be read aolcieu sane rt, all throoga Iforner's " and met GENERAL STATEMENT. to -day be heard between Bedouins in The Sbepherd boy of Ilethlehemesoon tbaea,IlalstlitOa eetriesit, David Wee Dot after his anointing, was suanmenea to ashamed to sulteit that be was sntertor robebla t ehould the cOurt of lain Sant to soothe tbe in.weaSteen$ and in taysical power. A be a troubled . spirit of the despondent anal 'myelin." ill the nense Of the Lord, He hale inaane king hy his musie on the ad learned tilt lesson 01 faith, and be was aent book to his theep: Two listasspts?.wearS' hut tatit 3301 wlio years or more have since passed and tae rtelee the armies of heaven. As if boy has beeome a men of strong frame, David realized a legions of angele" ar- beit.eaaa tall bearing the fair tact faYed on, his behalf, .Tbe God ot harp- After a few- weeas eeeetee treeted not in his sting, though be kof new 440prrzetntottodersSrtianeyl, ittsbefuytouurzeig king. ;:er°0ailia' s'ailaYeeowpw:°:)ris(67rsliii)P°d- bY Israel le insigtit sato God and faitbein°hi to youth. The time ha's now c,onae i h ecoggezesseetsrael. as his goes at his father's Goannana to the ha4d6, Saikrdi,ll"tIllewirrgdivedeal'iviDer:vild(4°Pmasliietshr, c,arria in' tile valley of Elah with greet,- "The Lord will deliver "one trusted in inthtecrortdoahosrnerdee8b.nedratTna ierroniniiishheobine4nheoltailhmt.ihs, sosegoilidgii:etnahs_ ins gigantic spear, t he other in an A 1- faiglatY God. Into mine hand. He nieVent. eunn piraself only as the Metre - 0 Gat,h, adtartihneg yaonuynteraelite to 'meet God's power God's power t'cgineig: gewvilitgoivYe. CaBry he nti Mt v i. at li stihn eg 1 et h QoUngilb:gc: 1 'sa°11 et ghPel lenreescai till 1.,1:aottkin ds "hti feel- us 1isin a eceut f-he'eleite Utt:Ia' ye.b. ea aACI.t I lit ebis-:wt:ievl inecseertae5'itall as: I. thT;h111e; 't, e fltl birdsnto be devoured by wild beasts giant low. To ieee wonder of all, be of the event. A. God in Iarael' yA' j(% a: once plans the way to bring the who is livbas and mighty, and. arho will offers to fight the :Philistine, tiara elei fer his name to be mocked by meeting viracen old warriors shrink. He enconales. riseeebgronuizgehtthteomtihntletkreinigb,oyntianothdeoeysounnogt s47e.aciAll this assembly. David speaks tei tif it were a gathering for worship eaveth neott 1, 'tett Uzi array. The Lord biiueowntrhci armor, mboa sur ii a oen, Davidlyf for leasr lbesyi ne b a ,ts si :ii ze e 0 het ouhsi nee than nb r elluiGo-es• swfrowuriddinirsv.s1 iTnhaelbraawtatolnle'disge thHaeniLoad fallsrdQt's1111. (7) Well tor us all if we could e -ver keep champion. He arrays the youth in hie ofwn weapons and his An way of war- Bolsldi.ownenridnedn Gieve you. into our hands, 11 to ieeealeattais teepatea,e tette, as had many times shaogwanmstthaentettieeysw\llare° jbeessteudnermrainnyg astitnimg,ewahreoesenepotehveerbhuoishaefs aeonudidheuhralkethheissteopneaer.:efuOTnrhewisILtLYeegfiineamellis was the means of winning the victory. udah. The Philistine meets him with Ran towerd the army. The Philistine saenedrncoNnvittehmpsete,rbnuteaDjavid boldly army. erhileisprestelrssust in the God of Israel•Pr°;leaflomresfr'xiano4dt9i ce. s nacreatbtec h hi siHs he aaalidevctteerians adversary. s.t i ae Sl bag.ra igghtt Vn- in- the enemy can draw near, the smooth stant, just au time, w.hen near enough .atbtorneeugfbrotmheDeeirv,ida'nsas,leinimg egdoewis twhhdizeezianyg in danger. In his forehead. No ac- tor good aim, and still too far to be cident, but b3r a well -directed aira at o guide his .flock be goes to e t masters of the Israelites e a , e m e 48. David basted. He *Ten, to ant tha gi nt, while concealed he carries cipate the action of th Another safeguard is a respect for the Sabbath. Tell me how A young man spends his Sabbath and I will tell you what are his prospects in bus- iness, and I will tell you what are his prospects for the eternal world. God has thrust into our busy life a sacred day when we are to look after our souls. Is it exorbitant, after giving six days to the feeding and clothing of these perishable bodies, that God should demand one day. for the feed- ing and clothing- of the immortal soul? Our bodies are seven day clocks, and they need to be wound up, and if they are not wound ap they run down into the grave. NO man can continnotiely loreak the Sabbath and keep his phyd- cal And mental health. Ask those aged men, ana they will tell you they never knew snen who contintiouely broke the Sabbath who did not fail in mind, body or morel principle. A manufacturer gave this as els expert., ente: He said: " owned factor,y on the Lehigh. Everything prospered, 1 kept the Sabbath, and everytaing.event en well. But one Sebbath morning bethotight myself of a now shuttle. and .1 thought I would in' vent thai, sauttle before eunset, and refesed all food and dtink until bad com- pleted that shuttle. By sundowe had completed it. The next day, Monday, tabowed to ma workmen and friende Ibis hew shuttle. They all cobgretus listed me on my great sticeees, I ant that ehuttle into play. I etilergedmy businese, but, sir, that Sunaaya, work Noes, let me say that I toyer ktew neels and I Met ray null, Oh, my precision, sinks into the giant's uncov- a vital part, and the only part not pro - the ground, not dead, but having re- - . stone. would strike before it left the Meted by armor. He knew where the ered forehead. He falls heavily upon sling. Sunk into his forehead. Show- ceived the deathblow. Swift to take ing the mia,eaty force with wbich it. was a,dvantage of his opportunity, David hurled, and the strength of the youth - leaps upon. the prostrate form, draws ful arm that sent it. A small stone, forth his mighty sword, and evith it but it could ,slay a giant. (8) So with severs his head. The opposing hosts a little act for good or ill, bringing have gazed in wonder until this mo- to pass great results. Fell upon his anent, but as the Philistines behold in face. Perhaps not instantly killed, the air the bloody head. of their thane- hat stunned by the blow. pion, they fly in disorder from the field. 50, 51. Prevailed. Won his victory I,ed by David, Israel pursues even to with weapons that seemed so slight in the zates of (abb. Thus in single comparison with his adversary's. No day the shepherd and. the singer had sword. He was not a soldier, and un - become the hero and the deliverer of used to the sword, therefore carried his land. none. One sword wee serve both Gos CAN'T DEOEIVE THIS WONDERFUL POWERS OP A COUN* TRY YOUTH 'KNEW YORK, Ilia Sense of Veelloa, nearing, ficteeletatre Testate :tea Srellog tilarVelousI7 nletvel* opitol—Saor APPleS lotaxleoto IWO* Tells Colors by Ow Touch,rninili g*0321 the Seraleh or a rite A remarlocale case of a man sonsi- tiveDees is that of Clarence Berton 15 years old, son of sturdy country par- asite, who live seine five milem north" ea.st of Rodmen Village, N. Y. His senses ot feeltag, hearing, Melling, tasting, and geeing are Marveloasly dee veloped, A pin =atoll Will cause him to faint away from pain; a half dozen sage grapes or a sour apple or an (twinge that is not positively fresh it eaten by the boy will render him perceptibly in- toxicated; his sight is so renuerkabla keen that he can at once distinguish separate characteristics and pasuliarities in similar objects which an ordinary ob- server would, utterly fail to discover ; hiS Sense of smell 15 So acute that it vessels of water from a dozen differ- ent springs in the neighborhood are sobraitted, to hirn he can inamedSately tell by smelling cede in turn wlaat spring it was brouleht from, tell whica is the most strongly impregnated with Iron, .which with magnesia, whieh with alum, etc., although to the common in- dividual there is no pereeptible differ- ence even in the taste of these waters; his sense of hearing is most acute, and. while not partieularly nervous., as one might suppose so delicately organized. ' a child. would be, there are some lawn- ingly trivial things whiola are ainacat anbearable to his sensitive ears. • • • liath and him. David ran. Another EXPLA_NATORY. NOTES. instance of courage and promptness to Verse 38, Saul armed David. See the take advantage of opportunity. Stood General &element for the introductory upon the Philistine. In triumph. over events. Why Saul did not fight the his fallen foe. Took his sword. Which Plailistine is not known. He may have be afterwards carried. as his own wea- become unfitted for active wartare bY pon (see chap. 21. 9). 0) So God turns his insanity, which occasionally seized the forces of evil against themselves, him. "With his armor, The arms, of- and make the areas of his enemies do fensive and defensive, of the king, who his work. Cut off his head. Just as was himself almost a. giant in size. A• he ha,d predicted while as yet he had helnaet. The Govern's; for the head, no sword. The Philistines . . • generally made of leather, with plates fMd. Overwhelmed with a panie, such of metal. Brass should probably read as sometimes falls upon modern and either "bronze" or " copper." Coat of disciplined arrnies. The Israelites pur- 89. Girded his sword. The king's, tnibearde of small sued. them as far as Gath. • anal:ities o"vAerlea°paptinolgsecaaleehs'o' not his own. The ancient swords were USES MUSCLE ON HIS RIVALS, short, straight -bladed, and used rather to thrust than to cut. Assayed. 'Under- New Turk Twine Woman iceaseS a Reiect- took, but found it impossible to go to THE QUEEN. Untoward Incidents on Iler Recent Trip From Balmoral—She Iraveiled In a Train ot Thirteen Carriages. A aespatob from London says :—The old stories are revived of the failing health of the Queen. it is reported that she shows an excessive tendency to sleep, and that, the needs consta,nt watching. Visitors at Windsor castle state, on the contrary, that sleets active. Sloe constantly goes out driving, no mat- ter evhat the condition of tae weather may be. There was an unusual series of in.- cidtants during the Queen's recent joureey from Balmoral to Windsor castle. First, her Majesty's favor- ite collie dog was killed on the rail- way. As the Princess Louise was boarding the train at Aberdeen she missed the step of the coach and fell, and crawled into the carriage on her hands Cuad knees. Next the pilot en- gine which always precedes the Royal train was tbroevn from the rails, and tale accident caused a long delay. After arraying at Windsor castle, her lirlajesty event out driving,. and came neer running over a Inetrelist. The latter tv'as not lookisig wbere he was going and. PACCIIIIOCI hIS inaebine into the wheels ot the Qaeen's carriage. The bicyclist was slightly injured. AM in this bonnection it is to be not- ed that her ateaesty's train was made im of thirteen earriagee. Not Mysterious Disalmea,rance, Wind, bas become of all your chickens t We have bad two church confereuces in our town this year. It would take a Mit ot creates ex - tootling calmly. around the alobs to acconimodate the 87,000,000 babies that of acids whiell were " eremtniess " and are been into tale world every year. nothing ; on Um other, youth who bad Had not cfroved. " Tbern should be Miss Laura Givens, a young woman cif Suitor or Persecution battle with each inconvenient weapons. cannot go. He was wise in his deals- a former suitor, a young lawyer of substitute Inc "18." He was not fa- who resides in Linea, Livingston miller with the use of such arms, which Coun.ty, N.Y, has caused the a,rrest of were altogether too large for him. 1 his life in mica an unequal combat. ehat place, named Herbert Clark•son, on ion, for he wool& inevitably have lost He is a wise man who knows what (hle) aeepuserculiiiinarg charge. She accuses lathe of cannot do, as well as what he can. to prevent ber from con- cannot them off. He had his OWII plaA tra,cting a matrimonial alliance with some young man in the county. of fighting, and was determined to Some tinac ago Lawyer Clarkson The tick of a veateh, the bile -gni ot a bee, the patter of raindrops, and he squeaking of a door upon rusty hinges are among these annoyances. Loud or sudden noises, as of guns, blasting, eta., he does not mind. His sense of taste is no less acute than his other senses. Feod. has M be espeeially seasonea for hun, and is prepared in vessels which must be scrupulously free of the faintest trace of anything but the substance or article which it is intended eads v-eesel is to be particula,rly used for. Thus each asticle of food has to be separately prepared in a vessel in which nothing else has been previously cooked or pre- pared. HIS WONDERFUL PERCEPTION. The slightest quantity of salt, pepper, spice, sugar, or of vinegar, etc, is suf- ficient for his needs. A single drop of alcoholic spirits in a gallon of water would at once be detected by the boy. Adams is the railroad station nearest to Rodman Tillage. A mile or so west of Adams is the large seed farm and barns of Ts V. Maxon. Last fall Mr. Maxon laarvestecl less than a peck each of three different new varieties of wrinkled peas, grown from. samples sent to him from Englana a year ago last spring. These peas, to the common observer, are exactly alike in appear- ance—that is to say, a handful of one kind is so like the other two kinds that one would at once say they are all from the same kind of vines. However, waten growing in the fielas, there is a wide difference in the,se var- ieties, which the veriest blockhead would ha,ve no difficult M discerning. Mr. Maxon is an expert seed -grower, and very slight differences in similae seeds are quickly- noted. by him • but when through the carelessness of a bamdering farm hand, who thought them all the same kind, these new var- ieties of pease were hopelessly mixed in a bag, Maxon could no more distinguish, pick out, or assort one kind from an- other than if he had. never seen a pea, He was in a quandary. The see& were almost valu.eless unless assorted. Maxon knew the Barton boy's father, and, meeting him at Adams one day, told him how leis new peas were hope- lessly. mixed. Barton said he thought his boy interested sort them out. Maxon became interested at once, and seid that if the boy coultialo it, which could not be verified lentil the plants vrere grow- ing in the field, he would give him a50. 40. He took his staff. The shepherd's basked in her smiles and NVZ,S happy, abide by it. crook, used in guiding his sheep. but she rejected hint Inc another. The haps he took it now to divert the giaPnete,e_ first time lie met his successful rival he pummelled him and threatened to • concealed. Smootla stones. The sides repeat the performance if he continued attention from his sling, whiols was and bed of 'the brook (dry in summer) 'to °ail °11 Miss Givens. This had. the where the contest took place. are full desired effect, and Miss Givens was sot enwea,steereernoiedn, berounainid:dd pweliotihslesce, rStmaionottyb young naan was paying court to her. left without a suitor, but soon another Shepherd's bag. Maae of roup, un- An mterview with the lawyer, who is an athlete, caused him also to desist, tanned leather, was likewiss non and used for eeping itamther tame and -' food. Stint In the form of a, thon5 querecl, not only by Miss Givens, but t of leather, road in the middle, one en also bY Clarkson. fastened o the hand. by a loop, the The young woman then decided to other loose. He was an accomplished prosecute the lawyer. She swore 8.0 stinger, aucl, had fixed upon this method affidavit in which she charged that of fighting as one in which the great he had in divers ways interfered 'with size and complete armor of the enemy her happiness and had materially less - at reoruelaitbeiseeneneedfaer be. icee) flex:Lel/Tiara 1.evvaitrb- ened her thances of being a matron. wordour weeraptohnes , a rwrheewt hey ptiltaey erswordlaeof d rtehwe some tune justice Vessenden issued a After puzzling. over the affidayit for warrant charging Caarkson with ma- ubneatr,nnt Nneeaarr eennonangghb. Ito() ibleseexphisasesldintgn, lidous misehief. danger from, the eneraya spear. The difference between David and others in Rafts From Haversacks. way, but he alone had the Mrethought and tact and courage to undertake it. 41. The 1?hilistine, alis name was filled with straw. Four of these were cavalry with water -tight haversacks recently been made by the Austrian Experiments in crossing rivers have 4. f f f Mid togeths the Israelite army was not that he alone coula have slain the giant in this Goliath (verse a3), and he belonged. to 0 A • 4. the tsraelites found a small remnant at ;oriole, inso a SOT., 0... TO.,, the tam of the conquest, four aundred er by three sabers' on these five men got astride, the foremost steering with years before (Nam. 13. nee; Jose, an a .pole, and the horses were Ied, swim - Res, attached themselves to the Phil- 1311rs' ming. It took eight minutes to pre - eight minutes more to ones a 12). These, driven out by the Israel.- istines ; Dela Goliath appea,rs to have titter 650 feet wide and 12 feet deep, whom Werfi slain by David and lila mon and two minutes to resaddle on the opposite bank; so the five men were been one of a family of giants, all of (2 Sane 21, 15-22). * Goliath's height ready. for action on the other side in nliasine bteneneigerniouAleyt, esEtimis tiatrered °are ieearee_ NI,IsIrtgvUetnO.S 3811.Cotars wtleiere aoirsdoermatdoe cwroitstis condition of the Israelites, ill verses 4-7. or cavalry sabers, in which 12 or 14 the primeval race of A.nalcim, of which scribed, in contrast with the defenseless the Jaaversa,eles, stiffened by iron bars In those times great size and strength armed men we r_..(3 ferried ecross: aasd armor wore of immense polver in battle. Biste the :shield.. Every leader Did Him Injustice was attentlea by a servant carrying a great shield, behind which the evarrioe Stitt:Epson (angirly)---See here, Jimson, could be proeected evhile hurling his vveapon. . I just want to know if you turned or the champion who was. to contena Janson—Why—ere-certain IY not, old against him, Disdained bun. T.Aooked boy, 1—x' ---I didn't see you. upon hien with contem.pt. But, a youth, Slimpson (somewhat mollified)—I had (See notes on last lesson, verse 12.) Ile an Idea you thought I was one of those was now two or three Years older, and .tellows who eltvays borrow and never chattged eomenvaat in appearance frora pay. a boy tb a naan, yet youthful for a Jimson—No, no—er—of course not, soldiew (8) The world is, eery eat to think lightly of the forces in God's ettuae Your credit is as good as any one's. be• 4egue4e4., thAeynn alma nocitngalwaysA vexisulibjltte.on msoeSni,ti elan). apt,t3as olvries dollars. will fly Inyouou: linpjaru s id ine en ,. LJ et tnn(si down this side street to avoid me 42. Looked about. Looked eromed menner of context:14)01one speech he the East, where doge are WOrtliless, and without owners, Comeet Tatelee Turned. with steams, Or, "with stinks," Cursed tticks—Whet have you lost, my love? 13:v his grids' This wss the ittrs. Ilicke—i've been touched for eontreet: 'tie one side a giant it behalf 'sante' hove pea been through my bloom39 - Ars st,gain NOT A SINGLE ERROR. On returning home Barton, told his son what Maxon had said, and a few days later Clarence and leis father rode over to Adams and to Maxon's seed barns. The sack of mixed peas was dumped into a pickling tray, and after a handful of each of the three varieties (which, luck- ily, Mr. Maxon had saved. out to send away, etest before they were missed) were shown to the boy for comparison, Xis went to work. Maxon doubted the boy's ability to accurately separate the peas, and ,said so, but Clarenee kept right along diligently at work untilthe seeds were sorted, only remarking when he drove away with his father: " I'll come after that 100 next fall, mr.monl” It was with a good deal of doubt and misgiving that Mr. Maxon put those peas in the ground last spring, but about the middle of last month he sent a eheck, payebleto the order of Master Clarence Barton—not for a50, but for $100. So far as could be discovered not a single error had been made in the"' se sorting. The boy's sense of touch is also mars velously ciente. He cao name all the prime colors by simply touthing his fin- gers to whatever possesses the cola -- cloths draperies, painted or colored woods, flowers, etc. Another remarkable test, and one which has caused. no end of wonder bare, 18 wlaat young Barton calls the tape- eirriter teat. In this test tlie typevvriter carriege is turned back,and the led places the tip of bis forefinger directly over where the types are brought against the ribbon, and as the keys are manipulated by a skillful operatot he resets the words as fast as they are vvritten ageinst his finger. This is consiclered here as being the most, re- markable case of the kind on record. A favorite arausement with young Parton is said to be the drawing of pietures of animalculae, which he is -able to diseern with the talked eye la a glees of eommon spring Weber, but whieh to others wooid require a strong naieroscope to diecovet. Otherwise, the lad. is Vilma as all boys of hie age—fall of life and fun, Ile In quick to learn and he has ,eateatly ab- sorbed all that the teethersna his school district hese to of& in the way of boots knowledge. worse. Blake --We have a Wernan in Mit boarding hottee who can sing only eye sorig, and sings it every evening. Drake—YoUre in luck. We bee° nian in ours ,who calla, sing even one, but tries to sing ball a dozen every Latesh geologieat ealculatione ase the earth 1,526,730,000 yeara Old, 4