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Exeter Times, 1896-3-19, Page 7THE EXE`PaR, TIMES:„ OffEERING T11011MITS. ' REV, DR. TALMAGE CONFIDENT THAT AMERICA IS FOR GOD. -- Be Believes met This continent 144as Ites rerred to in Bevoiationsftfl4jPresente taoreices, aicture of oar FuturcePose &agnate anti Prospeots. 'Washington, March 15. This dis- course presents a sublime theme and is of 'national iraportanee, and coming from the capital of the nation must have a stirring effect throughout the land. Dr. Talmage chose for his text Revelations xiii, 11, "And I eheld an- other beast coming up out ot the earth, and he had two borne like a lamb, and he epake ae a dragoa" Is America mentioned in the Bible? Learned and consecrated men who have studied the inspired book of Deniel and Revelation more than I shines and understand them better agree in seying that the leopard. men- tioned in the Bible meant Grecia, and the bear meant Medo-Persia, and the lion naeant Bebylon, and the beast of the text coming tar out ot the earth Wath two horns like a lamb and, the voice of a dragon means our countrY, because among other reasons, it kora- ed to come up out of the earth when Columbus discovered it, and it has been for the most part at peace, like a lamb, unless assaulted by foreign foe. iri wbich case it has had two horns strong' and sharp, and the voice of. a dragon load enough to make all na- tions Lear the roar of its indignation, Is it reasonable to suppose that God would leave out from the prophecies or His book this whole western hemis- phere? No, no. "I beheld another least coming up out a the earth, and he bail two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragoe." Germany for scholarship, England for manufactories., France for man- aers. Egypt for antiquities, Italy for pletures, but America for Go& I start with the cheering thought that the most popular book on earth to -day is the Bible, the most popular institution On earth to -day is the church, and the most popular name on cart to -day is Jesus. Right from this audience hundreds of raen and women would, if need be, marsh out and die for him. Am I too confident in saying; "Am- erica for God?" If the Lord will help me, I will sbow the strength and. ex- tent of the long line of fortresses to he token and give you my. reasons for . 'Wing it can be done and. will be done. let us decide in this battle for God whether we are at Bull Run or at Gettysburg, There is a Fourth of fulyish way of bragging about this 2ountry*and the most tired and pluck- ed lard that ever flew through the heavens is the American eagle, so much tio that Mr. Gladstone said to me facetiously at Hawarden, "I hear that the fish in your Araerioan lakes are so large that when one of them es taken out the entire lake is per- ceptibly lowered," and at a dinner given in Paris an American offered for a sentiment. "Here is to the United States—bounded on the north by the aurora borealis, on the south by the procession of the equinoxes, on the east by primeval chaos, and. on the west by the day of judgment." The eiteot of such grandiloquence is to discredit the real facts, which are so tremendous they need no garnishing. Tho worst thing to do ip any campaign military or religious, is to underesti- mate an enemy, and. I will have no part in such attempt at belittlement. ThLs land. to be taken for God, ac- eording to Hassel the statistician, has 14,219,067 square miles, a width and a length that none but the Om- niscient can appreciate. Four Europ- es put together, and capable of holding and feeding, as it will hold and feed, according to Atkinson, the statistician, if the world continues in existence and does not run afoul of some other. world or get consumed by the fires already burning in the cellars of the planet—capable, I say, of holding and feeding more- than 1,000,000,000 inhabi- tants. For you must remember it must be held. for God as well as taken for Gr o d , and the last 500,000,000 inhabit- ants must not be allowed to swamp the religion of the first 500,000,000. Not mueh use in taking the fortress if we cannot hold it. It must be held until the arcbangers truxapets bids living and dead arise from this foundering planet. You must remember it is only about o'clock in the morning of our na- don's life. Great cities are to flash and roar among what are called the "Tad Lands," of the Dakotas and the great "Columbia Plains" of Washing- ton state, and that on which we put our schoolboy fingers on the map and spelled out as the "Great American desert," is, through systematic and asumenating irrigation. to bloom like aatsworth park and be made more • productive than those regions depen- dent upon uncertain and spasmodic rainfall. All those' regions as well as those regions already =Riveted to be . inhabited! That was a sublime thing said by Henry Clay while cross- • ing the Allegheny mountains and he was waiting for the stage horses to be rested, as he stood on a roek, arms fekled, looking off into the valley, and some one sald to him, "Mr. Clay, what are you thinking about'?" He replied, I am listening to the oncoming tramp of the future generation of America." Have you laid our home; missionar• y scheme ois such an infinitude of scale lf the work of bringing one soul to God is so great, can 1,000,000,000 be captured In this country already planted and to be overcome, paganism • ha e built its altar to Brahma, and the Ohinese are already burning incense in their temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk in other days with the red whie of human blood at Lucknow aila Ca,wn- pur, and now fresh from the diabolism in Armenia, in trying to get a foots hold here and from the rain,arete. of ber mosques will yet mumble her Islas- bemies, sayang, God is great, and Mohammed Is hie prophet." Then there are the vaster muItituaes with no re- ligion at all. The,y worship no God, ',ley* live with no consolation, and they die with no hope. No star • of • peace points down to the manger in whieh they are born, and no prayer is ettored over the grave into whieh • they sink. Then there is alcoholierreite piled up deneijohns and beer barrels :led hogsheads of fiery death, a barri- cade high and. long as the Alleghenies and Rookies and Sierra Nevada, pour- ing forth da' and night their ammuni- tion of wretchedness and woe, 'When a German wants to take a drink, he takes beer. • When an Enelishman wants to take a drink, he takes ale. When a. Sootchman wants to take a drink,he takes whiskey. 13ut when an American wants t o take a drink he takes anything he can lay bis hands 011, • Pleaty of statistics; to tell how much money is spent in this country for rum and how many drunkards die But who will give us the statistics of how many hearts are crusted under the heel of this worst demon of the centuries? How many hopes blasted? How many children turned out on the world, ao cased with stigma of a de- bauched aneestryt Until the worm of the distillery becomes the worm that never lies, and the smoke of the heat- ed wine . vats becomes the smoke of the torment that ascendeth up forever and ever! Aloholisra, swearing—not with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from that, direction it can ge't no help, but with right hand stretched • down toward the perdition from which Lt came up—swearing that it will not cease as long as there are any home - steeds to despoil, any magnilleent men and. women to destroy, any im- ro.ortal souls to damn, any more na- tions to balk, any more civilizations to extinguisla. Then there is what in AP:arias .we ae often mentioned as great obstaoles oali stenalisra, in France communism —the centre of crime and the reser- and le Russia nihilism—the three voirs of all iniquities—are to lead in naraes for one and the same thing— the work of gospelization, Wbo gave and having but two dootrines in its most to home missions, to all styles creed: Pirst, there is no God; second, of humanitarian and Christian in - there shall be no rights of property. stitutions ? The cities. From wbat One of their chief journals printed places did the most relief go at the this sentiment, "Dynamite can be made time of the Johnstown flood, and out of the dead bodies of capitalists as Michigan fires, and Charleston earth - well as out of hogs." One of the lead- quake, and Ohio freshets ? Front the ers of communism left inscribed on his ready beeretaken. Where is American slavery? Gone, and the south, as heartily as the north, prays, "Peace to its ashes." Where is bestial polygamy? Gone by the fiat of the United ietatee Government, urged on by Christian sentiment, and Mormonism, havieg re- treated in 1830 from Fayette, N.Y., to Kirkland, 0,, and, in 1838 retreated to Missouri, and in 1816 retreated to Salt Lake City, now divorted from its superfluity of wives, will soon retreat into the Pacific., and no basin smaller tlaan an ocean could wash out its pol- lutions. Illiteracy going down under the work of Slater and Peabody funds and Sabbath schools of all the churches of all denominations 1 Pugi- lism now xnade unlawful by congres- sional enactment, the brutal custom knocked out in the first round! Cor- ruption at the ballot box, by the law of registration and other safeguards, made almost impossible 1 Churches twice as large as the old ones, the en- larged supply to meet the enlarged de- mand 1 Nihilism getting a stunning stroke by the seminary execution of it exponents after they had murdered the policemen in Chicago, received its deathblow from the recent treaty which sends back to Russia the bla- tant criminals who had been regur- gitated on our American shore, The very things that have been quoted as perils to this nation are go- ing to help its salvation. Great cities, °Ales. From what piece ala Christ prison wall, wbere he heti been justly send out his 12 apostles to gospelize Iincarcerated, these words; "When mace the world? From a city, What place you are dead, tbere is an end cif every- will do more than any other place, by thing. Therefore ye scoundrels grab its contribution of Christian men and whatever you can, only don't let your- women nad means; in this work of selves be grabbed. Amen I" There are taking Aimerica, for God? New 'York in this country hundreds of thousands city. The way Paris goes, goes France. of these lazy scoundrels. Honest men :The way Berlin goes, goes Germany. deplore it when they can -not get work, The way Edinburgh goes, goes Scot - bet. those of wbora I speak will not do 'land, The way London goes, goes work when they can get it. I tried to England, The way New York and a employ on 5 who asked for money. I , couple of other cities go, goes Ain - said: "Down in xay cellar 1 bave some; erica. May tbe eternal God wake us wood to saw, and 1 will pay you for1 up to the stupendous issue I it," For a little while I heard the saw Another thing quoted pessimistically going, and then I heard it no more, is the vast and overtopping fortunes 1 went downstairs and found the; in this country, and they say it means wood, but the workman had. disap- :concentrated wealth, and luxurious - and saw. peered, taking for company both buck ,ness, and display and moral ruin. It 1 is iny observation that it is people Socialism, communism and nihilism ,who have but limited resources who mean "too wicked to acknowledge God imake the most splurge, and I ask and too 'lazy to earn a living," and you, Who are endowing colleges and among the mightiest obstacles to be theological seminaries? Did you ever overcome are those organized elements .hear of Peter Cooper, and. James i Lenox, and sainted William E. Dodge, of domestic, social and political ruin. There also are the fastnesses ofin- land the Lawrencee, Amos and Ab - fidelity, and atheism, and fraud, and , bott, while I refrain from mentioning political corruption, and • multiform, ' living benefactors who, quite as gen- erous and Christian, are in this as - tionsheaded, million armed. abomina- tions all over the land. While • the sembly at this moment planning what 3r can do in these days, and m their ntightiest agencies of righteousness on .the earth are good and healthful news- :last will and testament in this cam- paip papers and good and healthful books, l gn that roposes taking America and our chief dependence for intellig- IIor God? The widow's mite, honored. gence and. Christian achievement of the Lord, is to have his part in this is continental capture; but we must have upon them, what word among the more more than that, and more right away. than 100,000 words in our vocabulary , can describe the work of that aroban-'Maa.g of the men who expect to get gel of mischief, a corrupt literature? the lessing for bestowing the widow's What man, attempting anything for mite will not get the blessingows, and. In the God and huraa,nity, has escaped a stroke first place they are not wid of its filthy wing? What good cause in the next place they have no has escaped its banderment ? -What oth- 1 "raight," er obstacle in all the land so appalling? l The time is coming—hasten it, Lord— and I think you and I will see it when, But I cannot name more than one-balf as Joseph, the -wealthy Arimathaean, the battlements, the bastions, the in - gave for the dead Christ a costly inau.- trenchments, the redoubts, the fortifi- soleum the affluent men and women cations to be, stormed and overcome if this country is ever taken for God. The of this country: will rise tn their , nothing but the multiplication table statistics are so awful:g that if we had build aor our King, n ! Jesus, the throne of this American cone ; and the arithmetic, the attempt to even-; , Another thing quoted for encourage- ment, is foreign eaamigration—now that tinent. .gelize America would be an absurdity! 1 higher than the tower of Babel before ' from Castle Garden we turn back by it dropped on the plain of Shiner. Where . pr p e foreign on are the drilled troops to march against tbe , dism—we are getting people the vast those fortifications as long as the con-, a . . talent? Where axe the betteries that majority. 9 whom 0 f i h fcome to make an ng them some o ; a can be unlimbered against these walls? honest I bravest living among °beat. If you should Where are the guns of la,rge enough turn back from this land to Europe the caliber to storm these gates'? Well, let i us look around and see, the first of • foreign ministers of the gospel, and the 'foreign attorneys, and. the foreign mer - all, who is our leader and will be our ; ;chants, and the foreign philanthropists, lea,der until the work is done. lwhat a robbery of our pulpits, our Garibaldi, with 1,000 Italians, could' courtrooms, our storehouses, and our do more than another commander with beneficent institutions, and. what a put - 10,000 Italians. General Sherman, on ting back of every monetary, merciful, one side, and Stonewall Jackson on the moral and religious interst a the land! other, each with 10,000 troops, could This oomeilegling here of all nationali- do more than some other generals with ties under the blessing of God will 20,000 troops. The rough boat in which produce in 75 or 100 years the most maga Washington crossed the icy Deleware nificent style of man and. woman the with a few half frozen troops was world ever saw. They will have the mightier than the ship of war that, wit of one race, the elocinence of en- during the American Revolution, came other race, the kindness of another, the through the Narrows, agun at each f porthole, and sank in Hell Gate. Our a generosity of another, the aesthetio ste of another, and. when that man leader: like most great leaders, was and woman step forth, their brain and born in an obscene place, and, it was nerve and muscle an intertwining of a humble home, about five miles from the fibres of all nationalities, nothing Jerusalem. Those who were out of but the new electric photographic itp- doors that night said that there was meatus, that can see clearly through the stellar commotion and range that came body, mind and soul, can take of them out of the clouds, as though the front an adequate picture. But the foreign door of heaven had been set open, and population of America is less than one - that the camels heard his first infantile eleventh of all our population, and. why cry.. Then he came to the fairest boy- all this fuss about foreign immigaation ? hood that mother was ever proud of, Eighty-nine Americans to 11 foreigners 1 and from 12 to 30 years of age was off If 89 of us New Jarseymen, or 89 of in India, if traditions there are accur- us New Yorkers, or 69 of us Ohioans, or ate, and then returned 'to his native 89 a us Georgians, or 89 of us Yankees land, and for three years had his path- are not equal to 11 foreigners, then we way surrounded by, blind eyes that he are a starving, lilliputian group of hu - illumined and epileptic patients to munculi that ought to be wiped out whom he gave ru.bicand health, and a existence. tongues that he loosed from silence in- , But now where are the weapons by to song, and those whose funerals he which, under our omnipotent leader, stopped that he might give • back to be- the real obstacles in the way of our reeved hothers their only boys, and country's evangelization, the 10,000 mile those whose fevered -pulses he had re- Sebastopols are to be leveled? The stoned into ryythraio throb, and whose first columbiad, with range enough to paralytib limbs he had warmed into sweep from eternity to eternity, is the healthful circulation—pastor at Caper- Bible, millions of its copies going out, eaum, but flaming evangelist every- millions on millions—this the monarch where, hushing• crying tempests and of books, that has made all the differ- ence between China and the 'United States, between Africa and America ; a book d.eolaring in every style of phras- eology that all nations are to be con- verted., a,ncleanes not that include our nation? If the Apocalyptic angel is to fly across the continents, will he not fly across this continent? The worst insult 3. coula offer you would be to doubt your veracity, and shall we doubt God's promise? Then there are all the gospel batteries, manned by 70,000 pas- tors and home missionaries, over the head of eaoh one of whom is the shield of divine proteetion, and in the right hand of each one the gleaming, two- edged sword of the Infinite Spirit I Hun- dreds of thousands of private soldiers for Christ, • marohing under the one starred, blood striped flag of Emanuel! They are marching on 1 Episeopaey, with the sublime roll of its liturgies; of heaven for his tiara—the mighty Methodism, with its battery of "The reader, he of Druinclog and • Bothwell sword of the Lord and John Wesley ;" Bridge, and Bannockburn, and the one the Baptist Church, with its glorious who waelmed. Spanish armada, " Com- navy sailing up our Oregons and See- ing • up from Mom, with deed • gar- mementos and Mississippis and Presby- raents frona Bozra,h, traveling in the terianism, moving on with the battle - greatness of his strength, mightyto orof "The sword of the Lord. and save," and behind whom we fall into John Knox," and then after a while will line to -day and march in the campaign come the great tides of revival, sweep - that is to take America, for God,. Hosea- beg over the land, the 500,000 convex - ilea Hosanna! Wave all the paha mons in 1857 eclipsed by the salvation branches 1 Al his feet, pat down your of millions ih a (ley, and the four ,&m - silver and your gold., as in heaven • ericen armies of the Lord's host mareh- you will oast before Him coronets, ling toward eaeili other ; the eastern army With such a leader do you not think marabing west, 1;he western army we can do it? Say, do you think we mare,hing east, the northern army can.? Why, many ramparts • have al- marching • south, the southern array I turning rolling seas in€o soled sa,pphise, and for the rescue of a race submitted to court -room filled with howling mis- creants, and to a martyrdom at the sight of which the sun fainted and fell back in the heavens, and. then treading the clouds homeward, like snowy moun- tain peaks, till heaven took him back again, more a favorite than he had ever been; bats coining again, lee is on earth now, mad the nations are gathering to his standard. Following him were the Scotch cove- nanters, the Theban legion, the vic- tims of the London Haymarket, the Piedmontese sufferers, the pilgrim fathers, the Huguenots aid uncounted multitudes of the past, jollied by about 400,000,000. of the present, and. with the certainty that all nations shall huzza at his chariot wheel, he goes forth, the moon under his feet and the stars marching north, sboulder to shoulder! Tramp, tramp„ tramp, until they meet raidcontinent, Itavang taken America for God! The thunder of the bombardment is already in the air, and when the last bridge of opposition is taken, and the last portcullis of sata,n is lifted, and the last gun spiked, and the last tower dismantled, and the last charge of ini- quity shall have been hurled back upon its haunches, what a time of re-; aiming! We will see it, not with these eyes, which, before that, will be closed. in blessed sleep, but with strong and better vision, whenthe Lord once in a while gives use, vacation among the doxologies to come down and. see the dear old land, which I pray may always text,be the lamb of the niild an peaceful, inoffensive, het incase foreign nations assail it, having two horns or army and navy strong enough to hook them back and hook them down, and a voice louder than a dragon—yea, louder than 10,000 thunders—saying to the billows of Asiatic superstition and European arrogance, 'Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be staid!" SPRING SMILES, "In battle musicians are always kept inents they 'have under way means in the rear." " That's not fair. Many of EARTH'S ELECTRIOITY, ELECTRIC CURRENTS DISCOVERED BY NIKOLA TESLA. cost or waiver, TAght and. meat 'Will. S0011, Be Pelieticiaiy Nothing —ileard an Autoharp Through Pour awes at Sone kook. The world is on the eve Of an astound- ing revelation. The oonditions under whiob we exist will be °banged. Inci- dentally, all monopolies that depend on power of any kind will. come to a sudden stop. The earth currents of electricity are to be harnessed. Nature supplies them free of °barge. The cost of pow- er and light and heat will be practically nothing. The scientist-electrieians who have for years been trying to master the mystery of electrical earth currents with which the ground, beneath Your feet is filled, are on the thresbold of success. The success of the experi- them richly deserve killing." much to them, but vastly more to the Say, Wilkins, that $5 bill you loan- People. It Means that if Nikola Testa, t ed me last niaat was a counterfeit." succeeds in harnessing the electrical "Well, you said you wanted it bad." !earth currents and putting them to Old bachelor—" Now that your sis- work for man there will he an end to lady—" Is that meant as an offer ?" ter bas married, it is your turn." Young oppressive, extortionate monopolies in Unique—" She is the most original steana, telephones, telegrapbs and the woman I ever knew." "How is that .?"1 other commercial uses of electrieitY, "When she hasn't anthing to say she and that the grasping millionaires wbo have for two decades milked the peo- ple's purse with electrical fingers will have to relinquish their monopoly. Nikola Tesla has discovered the se- cret of the electrie earth currents of nature, and they will be adapted to the uses of man. He has succeeded in transmitting sound by the (torrents that mk AN ELECTRIC NET • "If 1 bad your pull," said the small boy who was strugglingwith a large , kite m a March breeze, I'd could git purty high up in the world, too." R. R. Official—" You. may not believe it, but this dining car cost $20,000." Planetree—" How long has it been running?" "Just a week." "Paid for itself yeti" After the bale—First Sweet Thing— "Jack says Miss Passee didn't look twenty last niglet," Second Sweet Thing —"No. She looked. thirty-five." She—" Yes, I am deceived he her; I was misled, by her protestations of friendship." Lie---" What has she done?" She—" Bought a Cloak and, hat just like mine." Wiggles -4' Is that a good business college where your son is being educat- ed?" Waggles—" I guess oce They're very prorapt about sending their bills." Old Mr. Fussy—" Matilda, has that young man gone yet ?" His daughter— " Why, yes. papa!" Old Mr. Fussy— " Han! you were so still tbat I thought he was there yet 1" Halloo. Is this the feed sthore? Will, sind up at once a bale of hay, two quarts of bran and. a bushel of oats. Who is it More Ah, don't git gay. Its' fleore the horse." Charley Harduppe—" What do you mean by sending ray clothes home C.O. W Didn't I have a running account with you?" Kustem Made—" Yes. But it is all run oat." "You say, he is a remarkable man?" "Very," "In what way ?" "He's the only scientist in the country who has not made an important discovery rela- tive to X rays." "Now I'm ready to treat you," said the doctor, emerging from his private office. "A little whisky, with seltzer on the side, please," returned the pa- tient, absent-mindedly. "Fine feathers do not make fine birds." But every. harum-scarum Is not a. prince ; so heed my words: If you've fine feathers, wear 'em. Wife—" Shall I put your diamond studs ha your shirt, dear ?" Husband— What on earth are you thinking of Do you want to rule mo? I have a meeting with my creditors this morn- ing." • Tall shopper—" Will you. please tell me how long these skirts are ?" Clerk i(superciliously)—" They are the regu- lar length, madam." Tall shopper (meekly)—" Ah, but I'm not." "So you were thrown out ?" remark- ed the ashbarrel. "That is what you get for being crooked." "My crooked- ness is not nay fault," said the nail. "I was driven to it by a woman." Duckane—" Young Spiffins is the Jaz- lest man I ever knew." Gaswell—"In- deed'?" Ducka,ne—" Yes, indeed I Even when he has nothing to do he is too lazy to do it." Julia—" Louise showed me those beau- tiful landscapes. She says she had no trouble at all painting them." Mabel— "No. All she had to do was to sign her name after her teacher finished theme Cashier—" Don't think I can cash this draft, miss. I don't know .you." Miss —" Here, don't be silly; give me the money; who cares if you. don't know me? I don't know you, either." "I'll kiss you, for my sister's sake," "Pray, don't forget yourself," she said, straightway took her at her word, And kissed her for myself instead. As he paid the amount of his check to the. restaurant cashier he remark- ed, pleasantly; "3. have only one crit- icism topass on your clam chowder." "What is that ?" There are no clams in it." "lis stood at the top of the steps," she said, in telling about it afterwards, "and I mustered up enough courage to say 'You know this is leap year ?" "Yes. What then ?" "Then he leaped and I haven't seen him since." Perry Patettic (in the road)—" Wy don't you go in S De doe's all right. Don't you see him waggin' hsi bail?" Wayworn Watson (at the gate)—"Yes, I'm getting too steel to wear 'era." "3. don't know which end to believe." "Jennie," said Mr. Portly, "1 wish you'd .put a ' V ' in my dress trousers. Pm getting to stout to wear 'em." "1 will," responded his' spouse; but I wish you'd put a couple of • V's' in my purse. It's getting so thin that it slips through my fingers." "Now, then," began the president ef the Amalgamated _Association of Peri- patetics, ' ain't it it fact that you was oneet, a policeman ?" "3. guess it is," admitted the applicant for full mem- beaship, bilt it was a case of push. I hact to do it or go to work." Mr. Hardtack—" Well, what we want is a night watchman • that'll watch. Alert and on the qui vive for the slight- est noise, or indication of burglars. Somebody that can sleep with one eye and both ears open, and not afraid to See ?" Mose jaelsson sterdam, the bicentennial ofthe thimble trleem da aloynst Its• f eee, bens, I'll send was celebrated with a, great deal of of the earth. The transmission of pow- er will follow. His experiments re- duced to commercially practicable uses will mean that men will be able to tap the electric currents of the earth and retake theta serve the purposes of indus- try and of trade just as a well -digger taps water or a miner opens a vein of coal. The mighty electrical energy that has been stored up in the earth for ages will be barnessed and made to move the machinery of men. Sound travels with amazing speed, but electrical vibrations travel so swiftly that it is difficult to conjure up figure which will graphically illustrate their speed. Here is one that will, per- haps, convey a vivid and lucid impres- sion. In fancy place yourself at a table with a revolver in one hand and a fin- ger of the other hand on the key of a telegraph instrument connected with a wire that girdles the globe seven times and laps over the eighth turn a, dist- ance equal to 11,000 miles. Pull the trigger of the pistol and simultaneously press the telegraph key. While the sound of the report of the revolver is travelling 1,250 feet the electrical im- pulse imparted by the pressure on the • key ,will pass seven and a half times around tbe world through the wire with which the key is connected. Sound travels 1,250 feet .a second, an eleetrical impulse 1136,000 miles a second. If the electrical currents with which the earth is filled can be barnessed and put to work a new era in electricity will have dawned. It is to the mastering of the mystery of these earth currents and their adaptation that scientists like Tesla have been striving. In the course of. Teslas experiments it is reported he found that in the vicinity of large cities there were so many conflicting earth currents that satisfactory results could not be ob- tained. So he went out to Denver and near there found a. better field for ex- perimenting. There he met a friend in- terested in electrical research- They went to Pike's Peak. Conspicuous among their baggage was two auto- harps. Testa and his friend scaled the rugged sides of the peak. At an elevation agreed upon they separated. Testa skirted the peak and, on reaching a point precisely opposite the place at which he left his friend he stopped The two experimenters, on a line drawn straight through the peak, were thus separated by FOUR MILES of stratified rock. The two auto- harps had been very delicately attuned before the scientists parted, and a lime rad e to play on the auto - AN ALLEGED PROPHECY, IN THE MOMENT 0).. The Probability is that it is a Newspaperhot Fake. Over forty years ago an old Gernan hermit published in te, Bavarian paper a curious prophecy. In it he fore- told the Austrcarrussian and Franco-. Prussian wars, the death of Pope Pius. and the Turko-Russian debate at arms. He said that Germany would have three Emperors in one year before the end of the century, and ioclicated the death of two United States Presidents by assassination, All these things have come to pass. In the same article he said that when the twentieth century opens great seismic disturbances will take place whith will cause the subraersion of New York city and the western half of the city of Havana Cuba is to break in two, while Florida and Low- er California • are to suffer total ex-' Unction. The shock of these earth- quakes will raze buildings to the ground ill almost every city on the continent, and millions of lives and billions of dollars' worth a property will be lost. There is to be a change in the eco- nomic conditions of almost every oivil- ized nation. He foretells the growth of a democratic- spirit In England which will result in a revolution that will overthrow the present form of Government and make the country a Republic. He says the last ruler of ,England. will be the best the country ; ever had, and the first President of the new nation will be one of the Royal family. Queen Victoria ie by loug odds tlae best ruler England, has ever had, and in a recent speech the Prime of 'Wales said. it is his desire to live to see England a Republic. According to the hermit, Russia, France, and Italy will form an alli- ance, and will enter into war with • Turkey. This war is to be the out - fixed for Ms. Tesla's co an air (also agreed u harp. Tesla waited patiently he arrival of the appointed tinie. Then aeseeonnected his harp. with the ground In such a way as to secure harmonic resonance with the earth eurrent. The mannee and medium of this connectiou are secrets The receiving autoharp was equipped with a microphone. As the time ap proached for the friend on the other side of the peak to strum the appointed tune Tesla listened with rapt attention. At last, as a tuning fork responds to its harmonic note sounded on the strings of a piano, the autoharp in Mr. Tesla's hands gave out the harmonic tones "13en Bolt," whieh his companion at his station four miles away straight through the peak was plucking from the tense wires of his instrument. The experi ment was a success. After many tunes had been played Tesla and his compan iort descended the peak. A statement of the faces and results of the experi- ments was written and attested before a notary public as a matter of scien- tific record. The electric currents are in the earth Their strength is great enough to fur nish all the power and. light Man needs. Mr. Testa has Overcame the initial difficulty, and lets located and tapped the earth musents. The rest a win follow, s followed. the telephone Prof. Bell's discovery of bow to trans mit speech over a Wire. growth of Turkish persecution of Christian subjects. Tads triple alli- ance will conquer the domain of the sick man of the East. At the expira- tion of the war complications will arise which will plunge Italy and Prance into war with Russia. The result will be that the two countries will be gobbled up by the northern power, and will cease to exist as inde- pendent nations. While war is being waged between them the Pope will move the seat of Catholicism from Rome to some towa in Southern Ire- land. A rebellion will take place in the land of the shamrock, in hwich the country will become independent ot England. Then a conflict will arise between the ultra -Catholics of the south of Ireland and the ultra -Pro - land of the sbamrock, in which the southerners will be the victors. A kingdom will be established, and it is predicted that the reign of the first potentate will become laistorie for its tyranny, The prophet paints a dark future for the 'United States. He says that at the close of the century a feeling of unrest will seize the people. This feel- ing will be the outgrowth of unequal social and economic: conditions. He predicts that the twenty-fifth Presi- dent will be the last Executive head of the United States. Duriug his ad- ministration the discontented masses will break into open rebellion and the established form of government will be rent asunder, and for a year or more auarchy will prevail. When or- der shall be brought out of chaos six Republics will be formed, with capi- tals at the following cities—San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans, St, Louis, Washington, and Boston. • AT THE WEDDING. It's beneath a woman's dignity to keep track of keys. A girl who has been bridesmaid four times, and thereby cut herself off from all prospects of matri- mony, says this is what happens at every wedding: The bride gives minute and particular directions about the pack- ing of her trunk. She knows to within the hundredth of an inch the exact lo- cation of every frill and furbelow, and looks on while various members of the family assist in cramming the trays in and forcing the lid down. Methods of accomplishing this differ—sometimes it closes easily and sometimes it is neces- sary to jump up and down or sit on it. Then the bride-to-be orders some one to put a strap around it, but 0310 per- son leave.% it to another until the mo- ment for departure arrives. At this juncture the discovery is made that the trunk is not locked, the keys are miss- ing and everybody wonders where the strap can: be. . Twenty miautes until train time. "Where's your trunk key?" some o.ne - asked the greom., "My dear, they are asking for the key of your teunke Where is it'?" •" The key ? (in some perplexity.) Why, on my- key ring, of course; the little t silver one you gave me that tit:Lie; 'don't. you. remember, dear 1" " Certaiuly—on the key ring." To the anxious searchers: "You'll find the trunk key an a small, heart -shaped key .; .ring, my wife says," replies the happy • young man, "But where is that ?" conies in chor- I'm sure I don't -know," falters the bride, almost ht tears. , "(311; never mind. There, there.; both- _ tehrethgerootrmun. k; what do we care r says The • bride, ..has mi liappy thought. • George, le have two lseys to that trunk." •' "Well, you're a ivies little woman," - in tones di pride from the young hus- band, while the aunts and cousins say: "She hes a.nether keys": , "That they were botet-,on the seine key ring," continues the, bride, and. the general anxiety is redeabled. , The girl, who has lietiia abridesmaia four times sayn the firstetime this hap- •pened th,e key Curnecl •up at the last moment mside of the trunk, and. after that ehe aletays lookea there the first thing awl never failed' to find it. meg woman" or Gemmel' and lee 'general at aierveleate. Admirers of Napoleon I. --if any left—must often have felt es pointed wbile reedixia the recent abut ant Napoleonic: literature, to find hee Often his greateet and moat truly wide derful viotorie.s were announced and de- seribed, by his own pen or eraer, in a, re manner so carefully theatrie as to little rather than increase their ine, portance as we read of them. to -day. Ie fact, Napoleon a,ttaehed much value to the art of the repoater. Is practised it for many years with plenty of coaree cunning, a good. deal of picturesque in- vention, and little scruple at departing frons the bets or distorting them to please his public), Therefore his retain their power signally hi n i I 1 o. fto r 10f 'victory do not ring tru.e, and Not so is it with the two simple and unaffeeted pictures given by Archibald. Forbes in an article on General von Moltke, of that fine old soldier at the decisive moments of Gravelotte and Sedan, the two great battles et the Franco-Prussian War, waged against Napoleon ra a personage more like his faxaous predecessor in his theatrie tendencies than in anything else. At Gra.velotte Moltke led the final fierce, panerdsoan,sit appeared, desperate oharge in "Meanwhile," says Mr. Forbes, "King William had gone back to. latizonville„• where he sat in the village street on barepklaen,one nkgun-caearrdof iage,wthh ed a hicerested on dead horse. Tim roes pf the close bat- grtleouslawdellterdemabnldedcl.eepened- till the very "The niglat fell like a pall, but the blaze of the adjacent conflagration lit up the anxious group by the ohurchyard. wall. Frormi out the taedley of broken troopsanhe orattledur tr, nha To tf etg :haat vo cfjf lu rveeowaluaiciAnoapisYi .1 tag rghorolerleasi later, Moltke, his face for. onteraeumiveenrt- ing with exelteraent, sprang from tbe saddle, and ruaning toward. the king, cried out: yo'nr" Itmiasi.eagotoydr for us! Tile position has been retreeved, and the victory is with "The king, baring his head, sprang to his feet with a fervent, 'God. be welcomed eda galedsimtindlintagnsehous leurrab • ORIGIN 05' THE THIMBLE, A thimble wilts originally a thumb -bell beta,use it` wa,s worn on the thiusib, as sailors still wear their thimbles. It is a Dutch invention, and in 1884, in Am - mak wife around. THE PARTS GREEN MIXTURE. Paris green, one pound ; water, 200 to 300 gallons, or in this proportion. This mixture is used for large inseots that chew, as potato bugs and others that injure fruit when growing. It ca,n be mixed with the Bordeaux mixture without Injury to either, and sprayed j OneAcini us has Made Many clever art formality. The first thunble made was presented in 1684 to Anna veal Wedy, the seeond wife of Killian van Renssela- er the purchaser of Renseelaerwyck. In presenting his useful gift, Van 13enscot- en begged Mrae. Rensselaer "to accept this new covering for the protection of her diligent fingers as a token of his esteem," , COULDN'T DO ANY MORE. A father in consoling his daughter, who had, lost her husband, said: I don't wonder you grieve for him, my child; you will never find his equal. • I don't know that 3. eau, responded the sobbbag widow, but I'll do my best- --- History is ,hiogrephy - on a large seale.—Lamartine, VICTORIA'S DESCENDANTS: A laborious genealogist eammuuses, as the queen has had nine children, of whom she has lost two; 41 grandobild- ren, of whom eight have died; and 23 the restat of years of minute labor, that greategranathildren, all of whom; are living. She has, therefotre, 63 descendants liv- ing—seven children, 33 grandchildren and 23 of the next generation. Her next eldest great-grandobild, the Princess Feodore, of Saxe-NCeiningen, now neaxly 17, so that in all probability her majesty -svill live to see her grand children's grandchildren. Few English sovereigns before Queen Victoria, have seen, grandchildren grow' out of infancy, and. none ever saw a „ greategrandelaiid. Hence, her majesty had to determine the question of pre- cedence in tlae case ot the duchess of Fife's children, and she wisely decid- ed that they should rank only as datigli- texe of a. duke. The decision was in accordance with a house law decreed earlier in the reign by which the, title of prince and. royal laigimeas is limited. to the nhildran of the sovereign, and, the children of the sovereign's sons, the &Usher' of the soveteign's daughters taking precedence only according to the rank of their fathers. Thus the Prinee.ss Helena's children rank as children or Prince Christiap only with the Duke of Conna.ught'sare royal highnesses, and Prime Arthur ot Connaeght's eon and. successor, if he has one will be Duke of Connaught as the ordinary duke, taking precedence merely by date. of the creation of his dukedom. This is now the ease of the Duke of e Cumberland on th'a roll of the house of lords, though he is styled royal high- ness as son of a king of Ila,novea. STAG HTJNTING IN SCOTLAND. More stags were killed during the past season in the Scottish Highlands thaneever before, and there were more hunters. It is estimated that between 6,500 and 7,000 of the animals were kill- ed. Fewer royal stags were kilted and. the weight averaged much smaller— about 12 stone, or, say, about 168 pounds each. ' A few were reoorted to have weighed clean 19 or 20 stone, but near- ly all the animals had less than nine prongs. Malformed heads were seami- er, too, than in former years. Two very beautiful pairs of switch horns are reported to have been secured. Seven hundred and fifty stags were kiliedin the various Ross -shire forests, mostly those of less than .nine tines each. The average weight was about thirteen stone. In Caithness and Sutherland; In- verness, Argyle, and Aberdeen shires 1,176 were. killed, mostly under eight 'tines each, the average weight being twelve seine clean. Like, all game re- gions Scotland is more and more crowd- ed each. season. More game is killed., and the laws have Name to be made more stringent to save the game even Lon a, year. WHAT HE WANTED. In the midst of a stormy discussion a gentleman rose to settle the matter in dispute. Waving his hand triajOS- tiOnliY, he began: Gentleraeia., ell 3. want is oommon sense. Eektotly, interrupted another, that is precisely what you do want. AT THE CROSS ROADS. Miss Bloomer. Will you please tell me the way to 'Wareham? • Enamor 13rovv n. Fast I've seed, but peers to ilea you. wear 'era about right &tow. THE Ela-,MNSIVE MOOD. Smith—Yon are in rather a pen rs mood to -night, 'Jones. • Jones-eYes, I just got e bill, for the diamond pin my wife preseeted mS fot mny birtbday, and I am wondering -Where the pences are 10egla3e; trOM to sett,le it. • • • ;