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TEE DAY 18 AT HIND but I think Christian nations. have
gradually learned that war is disaster
to victor, as well as vanquished, and
that almost anything
REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON is bought at too dear bougat byr blood a pewee I wieli
A RAPTUROUS OUTLOOK.. to God this nation might be a model
a willingness for arbitration. No need
of kaluag another Indian. No need of
saorificing any more brave General
Ousters. Stop exasperating the red
man, and. there vrill be no more ar-
rows shot out from the aixtbushments,
A general of the United. States arina
in 'high repute throughout this land,
and. who, perbeps, had been in more
Indian wars than any other officerand
who had. been wouoded again and again
in behalf of our Government in battle
against the Indians, told me that aal
the warts?• that had ever occurred be-
tween Indians and white men had been
provoked by white meu, and there was
no exception to the rule. While we
are arbitratin.g with Christian nations
let us toward barbarians carry our-
selves in a manner unprovocattve of
contest.
Let me put myself in their place; I
inherit a large estate, and. the waters
are rich with fish, and the woods are
songful with birds, and my cornfields
are silken and golden., Here is my
sister's grave. Oat yonder under the
large tree my father died. An invader
coraes and proposes to drive me off
and take possession of my property,
He crowds ine back, he crowds me
on, and crowds me into a closer cor-
ner, until after awhile I say, "Stand
bade! Don't crowd me any more, or IT
strike., Wliat right beve you to come
here and drive me off my premises?
got this farm from my father, and he
got it from hie father. What right
bave you to come there and. molest
me?" You blandly say, "Oh, I know
more than you do. I belong to a higher
civilization. I cut my hair shorter
than you do., I could put this ground
to a great deal better use than you do."
And you keep crowdieg me back and
orowthee me on into a closer corner
ancl closer corner. until one day, 1 loola
arttund upon my- suffering family, and,
fired by their hardships, I hew you. in
twain. Forthwith all the world comes
to your funeral to pronounce eulogium,
comes to my execution to anathematize
U1. You are the hero. I ant the col
-
Plat. Behold the United, States Gov-
ernment and the North American In-
dian 1 The red man has stood more
wrongs than I would, or you. We
would have struck sooner, deeper. That
which is right in defense of a Wash-
ington home, is right in defense of a
here() on top of the Sierra Nevada, Be-
fore this dwindling red race dies com-
pletelyout I 'wish. fleet, this genera-
tion might by contiaion justice atone for
the inhumanity of its predecessors. In
the day- of God's judgment I would
rather be a blood smeared Modoc than
a swindling United States officer on
the Indian reservation. One was a
barbarian and a savage, and never
pretended to be anything but a bar-
barian and. a savage. The other pre-
tended. to be a representative of a
Christian nation. Notwithstaueing all
this, the general disgust with war and
the substaution of diplomatio skill for
the glittering edge of keen steal is a
sign unmistakable that "the day is at
hand."
I find another ray of dawn in the
compression of the world's distances.
What a slow, snaillike, almost im-
possible thing would have been the
world's reetification with 1,400,e00,000, of
population and no facile meanes of com-
munication, but now, through tele-
graphy for the eye and telephonic in-
timacy for the ear, end through steam -
boating and railroading the 25,000
miles of the world's circumference are
shrivelling up into insignificant
brevity. Hongkong is nearer to New
York than a fetv veers ago New
Haven was. Bombay, ,Iosco-tv, Madras,
Melbourne within speaking distance.
Purchase a telegraphic chart, and. by
the blue lines see the telegraphs of
the land and by the red lines the
cables under the ocean. You see what
opportunity this is going to give for
the final movements of Christianity.
A fortress may be months or years
'in building but after it is constructed
it may do all its work in 20 minutes,
Christianity has been planting its bat-
terie.s for 19 centuries anci may go on
in the work through other centuries
but when these batteries are thorough-
ly .planted, those fortresses are fully
built, they may all do their work in
24 hours. The world sometimes derides
the church for slowness of movement.
Is science any quicker? Did it not take
science 5652 years to find out so simple
a thing as the circulation of the human
blood/ With the eaxth andthe sky full
of electricity, science took 5800 years
before it even guessed that there was
any subtle and. mighty element. When
good men take possession of all these
scientific forces and all these agencies
of invention, I do not know that the
redemption of the world will be more
than the work of halt a day. Do we
not read the Queen's speech at the
proroguing of Paxliament the daybe-
fore m London? If that be so, is it
anything marvelous to believe that in
24 hours a divine communication can
reach the whale earth? Suppose Christ
should descend on the nations -many
expect that Christ will come among
the nations personalay; suppose that
to-mogrow morning the Bon of God
from a hovering cloud should descend
upon these cities. Would not that
fact be known all the world over in
24 hours? Suppose he shouldpresent
His gospel in a few words, saying: "I
am the San of God. I came to pardon
all your sins to heal all your sorrow.
To prove that I am a supernatural be-
ing I have just descended from the
clouds. Do you believe Me, and do
you believe. Me now?" Why, all the
telegraph stations of the earth would
be crowded as none of them were ever
crowded, just after a shipwreck.
I tell you all these things to show
you it is not among the impossibilities
that Christ will conquer the whole
earth, and do it instanter when the
time comes. There are foretokenings in
the air. Something .great is going to
happen. Lilo not -Umiak that Jupiter is
going to run us down or that the axle
of the world is going to break, but I
mean something great for the world's
blessing and for the world's damage
is going to happen. I think the world
has had it hard enough. Enough the
famines and plagues. Enough the Asiatic
,tholeras. Enough the wars. Enough the
shipwrecks. Enough the conflagrae
tions. I think our wooled could stand
right well a procession of prosperities
and triumphs. Better be on the look-
out. Better 'have your observations
open toward the heavens and the lenses
of your most powerful telescopes well
polished. Better have all your Leyden
jars natty- for some new pulsation of
mighty mfluence. Better have new
fonts of type in your printing offices
co set up some astounding bannerthat
has never been carried ready for sud-
den processions. Better have the bells
in your chuech towers well hung and
rope within Teach, that you may ring
out the marline of the King's Son.
Cleanse all your court -houses, for the
Judge of all the earth may appetite. Let
all your legislative halls be gilded, for
the Great Lawgiver may be about to
come. Drive off the throne e of despo-
tism all the occupants, for. the King
of heaven and earth may be
about to reign. The darkness of the
"Pt..
Ale Says it Shonlet Stir the "World to
Gladness -Arbitration a Better Mau
Battie-Itays or Dawn in the Day ot:
Progeess.
Washington, Sept. 27, -If the darion
note of this sermon delivered at the
national capital could sound through
Christendom, it would give everything
good a new stert. Dr. Talmage's text
was Romans xiii, 12, "The day is at
heed,"
Back from the .utowataine and. the
sea side, and the springs, and the farm
house, your cheeks bronzed. and your
spirits lighted. I hail you, home again
with the words of Gehazi to the Shur
aegananaite: "Is it well with thee?" Is
"Tt well with thy husband?: Is it well
with the child?" On eiame faces I see
the mark of recent grief, but all along
the track of tears I see the story of
resurrection, and reunion when, all tears
are done, the deep plowing of the keel,
followed by th,e lash of the phosphor -
essence. Now tape 1 bave asked you
ID regard. to your welfare, you natur-
ally ask how I tun. Very well, thank
you., Whether it was the Inswing air
of the mountains or a bath in tlite surf
of Long Wend beach, or whether it is
the joy of standing in this great group
of warna-heaxtes1 friends, or whether it
ID a new appreciation of the goodness
111 of God, I cannot tell. I simply know
I am happy. It was said. that John
Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher,
occesionalle got fast in his sermon, a,nd
to extricate himself would cry "Halle-
luiah!". I am in no meth predicament
to -day, but I am full of the same
zbapsodie ejaeulation,
Starting out this morning on a new
ecclesiastical year, 1 want to give you
the keynote of nay next twelve months'
ministry. 1 want to set it to tbe tunes
of "Antioch," "Ariel" and "Coronation.'
I want to put a. new trumpet stop
into my aermons. We do wrong if
we allow our personal sorrows to inter-
fere with the glorious fact that the
kingdona is coming. We are wicked
If we allow appreheusion of national
disaster to put down our faith in God
end. in the mission of our American
people. The God who hath been on the
side of this nation since the Fourth of
July, 1776, will see to it teat this nation
shall not commit suicide on Nov. 3,
1896, By the time the unparoleeled har-
vests, of this summer get down to the
stir[tt, oard we shall' be standing in a
sunburst of national prosperity that
will paralyze the pessimists who by
their evil prophecies are blaspheming
the God who hath blessed this nation
as He hath blessed. no other.
The first ray of the dawn I see lathe
g.rea,clual substitution of diplomatic skill
for human butchery. Within the last
twenty-five years there have been in-
ternational differences which would
have brought a shock of arms in any
other day, but which were peacefully
adjusted, the pen taking the place of
the sword. The Venezuelan controversy
at; any other age of the world would
have brought shock of arms, but now
ID being so quietly adjusted that no
one knows just how it is being settled.
The Alabama question ail any other
age of the world would have caused
war between the United. States and
England, How was it settled? By men-
of-war off the Narrows or off the Mer-
sey? By the gulf stream of the ocean
crossed by a. gulf stream of human
blood.? By the pathway of nations in-
carnadinede No. A few wise men go
into a quiet room at Geneva, talk the
matter over, a.nd telegraph to 'Wash-
ington and to London, "All settled."
Peace, peacel England pays to the
United States the amount awarded -
pays really more than she ought to
have paid. But still, all that Alabama
broil is settled -settled forever. Arbi-
tration instead of battle.
So the quarrel about the Canadian
fisheries in any other age would have
caused wee between the 'United States
and England. England said, "Pay me
for the invasion of my Canadian fisher-
ies," The 'United States said, "I will
not pay anything." Well, the two na-
tions say. "I guess we had better leave
the whole matter to a commission."
The commission is appointed, and the
commission examines the affair, and
the commission reports, and pay we
ought, pay we must, pay we do. Not a
pound of powder burned, no one hurt
so much as by the scratch of a pin.
Arbitration instead. of battle.
So the Sam.oan controversy in any
other age would have brought Germany
and the United States into bloody col-
lision. But all is settled. Arbitration
instead of battle.
France will never again, I think,
through the peccadillo of an ambassa-
dor, being on a battle with other na-
>dons. She sees that God, in punish-
..ment at Sedan, blotted out the French
e, empire and the only aspirant for that
throne who had any right of expecta-
tion died in a war that has not even
the dignity of being respectable. What
ID the leaf that England would like to
• tear out of her history ? The Zulu war.
Down with) the sword and up with the
treaty!
• We hi this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties by ar-
bitration than by the trial of the sword.
Philanthrophy said to the north, "Pay
down a certain amount of money for
the purchase of the slaves, and let all
those barn after a certain time be
born free." Philanthrophy at the same
time said. to true South, "You sell the
slaves and get rid of tnis great nation-
al contest and trouble." The north re-
plied, "1 wont pay a cent." The south
replied, "I went sell," War, war 1 A.
• mdlion dea,d men, and a national debt
wilich might have ground this nation
to powder. Why did we not let Wil-
liam H. Seward of New .Yak and Al-
exander- It Stevens of Georgia go out
• and spend a few days under the trees
on the banks of the Potomac and talk
the matte,' aver and tsettle it, as settle
it they could, rather than the north pay
ID cast a war $4,700,000,000 and the
south pay e4,750,000,000, the destroying
angel leaving the first-baln dead in so
many houses all the way from the Pe-
nobscot to the Alabama? Ye aged
men whose sons fell in the steefe, do
you not think that would have been
hotter? Oh, yes 1 We have comae to be-
lieve, I think, in this country thatear-
bitration is better then battle.
I may be mistaken, but 1 hope that
the lest war between Christian nations
Is ended. Barbarians may mix their
war paint and Chinese • and Japanese
go into wholesale massacxes and Af-
ghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows,
4*,
THE EXETER iri,manp
eight is blooming ancl wititening into
the lilies of morning cloud and. the lilies
reddeniug into roses of stronger day-
-fit garlands whether White or Ted,
for Him on wholes heed. are maey
erowme. The day is at band."
One retire ray of the cla.wia 1. see in
tote ohronologmal and. mathematical.
Come now, do not let us do' another
stroke of work until we have settled.
one matter. What is going to be the
final issue of this great contest between
sin and righteousness? Which Ls going
to prove himself the stronger, Gor or
Diabolue Is this world going to be
all garden Or all desert' Now, lotus
bave t hat matter settled. If we be-
lieve Isaiah and. Hosea and Micah and
Kalaelli and John and Peter andEaul
Ind the Lord Himself, we believe that
it is going to be all garden, But let
ue have it settled. Let us know, while
her we are working on toward a suc-
cess or towaed a dead, failure. If there
is a child in your house side and you
are sure he is. going to get well, you
sympathize with present pains, but all
the foreboding le gone, If you are in
a cyclone off the Florida coast and tlae
captain assures you the vessel is stanch
and that winds are chenging for a- bet-
ter stilarter, and he is sure he will
bring you eate into the harbor, You
patiently submit to present distress
with the thought of safe arrival. Now,
I want to know whether we are com-
ing on toward dism,ay, darkness and
defeat or on toward laglat and blessed-
ness. You and I believe the latter, and
if so every year we spencl is one year
subetracted from the world's wee, and
every event that passes, whether
bright or dark, brings up one event
nearer a happy consummation, and by
all that is inexorable in chronology and
mathematics I commend you to good
cheer and courage. If there is any -
ng in arithmetic, if you ;subtract
two from five and. have three, then by
every rolling sun we are coming on to-
ward a magnificent terminus. Then
eve* winter paesed is one severity
less for our poor world. Then every
summer gone by brings us nearer un -
fading arborescence. Put /our alge-
bra down on the top of your Bible
and.' rejeice.
If it is nearer morning at 3 o'clock
than it is at 2, if it is nearer morning
at 4 o'clock than it is at 3, then we are
nearer the dawn of the world's de-
liverance, God's clock seems to go
eery slowly, but the pendulum swings,
and the hands move, and it will strike
noon. Tim sun and the moon stood
ettfl onoe. They will never stand still
again, until they stop forever. If you
believe arithmetic. as well as your
Bible, you must believe we are nearer
the dawn. " The day is at hand,"
Beloved people, I preach this ser-
mon because J. want you to toil with
the sunlight in your facesel want
you old men to understand before you
die that all the work you did for God
while yet yeen ear was alert and your
foot fleet is going to be counted up
in the final. victories, I want all these
younger people to understand that
when they toil far God thee always
win the day; that all prayers are an-
swered and. all Christian work isin
some way effectual. and. that the tide
IA setting in the right direction, and
thiet all beaven is on our side -saint-
ly, cherubic, archangelic, omnipotent
cliariot ana throne, doxology end pro-
cession, principelities, and. dominion,
He wlee bath the moon under Bas feet,
and all the armies of heaven on white
horses.
Brother, brother, all I am afraiA of
Is not dant Christ will lose the teethe
but that you and I will not get into it,
quick enough, to do somethirg worthy
of our blood bought immortelity.
Christ, how shall I meet Thee. Thou
of the scarred brow, and the, scarred
back and the scarred bawl, and the
scerred foot, and the scarred largest, It
I have no scars or -wounds gotten in
Thy service? It shall not be so. 1 step
out to -day in front of the battle. Come
on, ye foes of God, 1 dere you to com-
bat. Come on, with pens dipped in
malignancy. Come on -with tyres soak-
ed m the scum of tbe eternal pit. I
defy you I Came an; I ben; me 'brow;
I uncover any heart. Strike! I cannot
see my Lord until I have been hurt
Lan Christ. 11 we do not suffer with
Hen on earth, we cannot be glorified
with Hine in heaven. 'Peke gaol heert.
On, on, on! Sae. The skies"bave bright-
ened] See, the hour is aliew to come!
Pick out all the cheeriest of the an-
thems. Let the orchestra string their
instruments. "The night is far :pent;
the day is at hand."
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. II.
I WONDER.
The. sun has sat, IL is faintly light.
The pink hi the west is chill and. blight.
Voices are somewhere, the air is still;
A. fax is barking on Crow Nest Hill.
Through the long dim lane, to tha pas-
ture' bars,
John drives the cows 'neath the early
stars.
aohn is handsome and brown and ball;
He is looking up ehrough the trees at
the Hall.
"The grand old house is ablaze with
liglet;
The heir gives his lairthclay ball to-
atigh t.
The captain's sons are home from
towe,
They have brought their dogs and
horses down,
There's no lack of dinners and belle
and wine,
For their city friends. white-hancled and
fine.
1. saw the heir,as he rode to -day,
Scented and trim, on his prancing bay,
Disease on his form had left its trace,
And a frown disfigured his thin, dark
face.
I wonder if he would give his wealth
For my brown -limbed. strength and rud-
dy health,
I wonder," says John, "I wonder."
"Tall and stately, there by his side,
Rode the girl theysay is to be his bride,
With a proud fair face and white -lid-
ded eyes*
As duskly dark as yon starlit skies.
I wonder which has the sweeter face,
My haughty lady of high-born race.
Or blue-eyed Nannie, as shy and sweet,
As the violet abloom 'neath her little
feet.
I wonder," says John, "I wonder."
"But, although the lady is proud and
fair,
They say it is not her golden hair,
Nor her silver voice, nor her glances
eweet,
That have brought the heir of the
• Hall to her feet.
The bride is well dowered, so rumors
rule
'Tis hex yellow gold that his heart has
won,
I wonder which love will the truer be,
Though Nannie brings naught but her-
- self to me.
I wonder," says John, "I wonder."
"They are very rich, I know, at the
Are they happier for it, after all?
There's bad blood twixt the brothers;
• the gossips say,
The captain's brow wears a frown al -
wept'.
And his lady, in spite of her gems and
lane.
Has but a fretful, unhappy face,
Wealthy palace or humble cot,
I wonder which is the happier lot.
I wonder," says John, "I wonder."
111. letontgomery.
Wige VII0lee." 1 Kings 3,5-15,
Golden Text. psalm. 111,1e.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
The reign of Solomon began with a
great religious eervice, which was the
last ever celebrated at the dome of the
old tabernaele. It took Place at the
-
height of Giixot, six miles north of
Jerusalem, where fee a generation the
sacred tent and the brazen altar had
stood, while the ark of• the covenant
was resting in its temporary shrine on
Mount Zion. At Gibeon were assembl-
ed all the nobles of the realra, and a
thousand burnt offerings smoked upon
the andent altar, while the trumpets
of the Levites accompanied the chant-
ing cif the psalnas of David. Under the
splendor a the outward rites, true
warship was not wanting. Day after
day the young king continued in pray-
er before the altar, and at night the
spirit of comruunioa with God entered
into his dreams, He seemed to see the
forra of Jehovah by his bedside, and
a Voice bade bizu melte his ohoice for
life. He was a youth, with youth's
fiery blood. throbbing hi his veins, with
the world's visions rising in his sky;
yet his choice was not of outwaxd
things, as not men choose now, and.
0.1S naost men chose then; it was not of
pleaeure, or a prosperity. He re-
membered the miglity trust reposed to
last care, and forgetting himself, asked
for wisdom to execute it. Only one
Weller elloice could he have made, the
aspiration after God, the highest good,
and likeness to his character. The King
ef kings acceprect tite deeision of the
young monarch, and well pleased, prom-
ised that it should be granted. Wis-
dom should be his, and as its result
would come prosperity, aael riolaes, and
honor, 011e tint only was given of
his danger, in the admonition to walk
ID the ways of God., and gain thereby
long life and enduring success. The
vision faded, and Solomon knew that
it was a. dream. Yet it was a dream
which revealed the young king's char-
acter, end pointed onward to his des-
tiny.,
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 5. In Gibe•on. A hilltop six
miles north of J'erusttlem, where the
ansient altar and tabernacle were stand-
ing in the days of Solomon. Hit her
Solomon had come to offer secrifices,
whin the Lord spoke to him. The Lord
appeared. Solomon's mind, had been up-
lifted by the devotions of the day, and
at night his thoughts were still fixed
upon the subject of Ids, prayer; and in
his vittiens God met him. In a dream.
I
. .
bis was but one cut the menv forms
ID whdi Go I hid made Itimselt known
before the full reveller...1i of hs will
in the, Scriptur:e. Aek what I shall
give'Goe knew ltoth Solomon's neea.s
and his desires, bus h 14'.1.V3 hint the
privilege, as a tee: a les character,
and as a lesson to others. (1) Our dreams
le- night. are often the refleetion of our
•beueli-s by day. (2) Every young man.
like Seamen. mikes his own choice of
an Pell in life.
Selomon siie. Ile rests hs pall -
len upon thmercy which Gel had
shwa to hi; faille-, whet now eneour-
:tees lam to :Lek like Ilessiage. 'Unto
he ser Devel„.gret: merey. To
Davie God hid given prceparity, suticees,
ei ie cen -news, etel a settled eirtpre.
Lefore thee in truth. David
hed ineeed P,rved Gd with an earnest
h?art. He had sinned, lut his
crimes were suih as no other
oriee t el mos rch tvould hive consider-
ed worthy o" noteie, 'ur1 his. repentenee
hid been deep and full. In truth. In
'112 slneere delleng to truth as it waa
revealed to hen. Tie; great eiad-
ness. . a en. In. centrast with Saul,
it Igoe house kid leen cat of, David's
famlie tees rermated to nettin tin
tit:one. (3) Gail's reward; are iu pro-
perte-e to tbe fidaate of our eery:ea
(4) Children rean tee benefits of their
fat s gela
7. Tem his mete; thy servant lane.
SZ.s."43/3,- felt thee hts 'ro'e
was Gal's gat a.-acl not h'sby tepee. In-
stead of David. To suce..eA. th • Frciat-
esli statesmet, poet ani,eadier
of the age was a ta,sle- what na:ght wen
make a yomeg man trenable, 1 ren liut
a little ch id. H:s pree.-Le, age at this,
time is miknewn.; Jese,has says it was
fourteen; but mcd:rn writers regard it
as somewhere fram IDh een to twenty-
ett-o. To go out or come in. An expies-
seen referring to pubee life in ,presence
of the people. (5) He is best qualaied
to 'nee whi fettle hie otve weakness and
looks to God for help.
8. In the midst of thy people. Among
the diffi:ulties cent -mane Solomon
were the central of hs titer irothyri,
an.1 the court; tb.s quelling of tribal
jealousies letween Ephraim and Ju -
•dab; the subordinetion ca. a tureueent
tine independent people.; the putting
down of watery, wh cli NV -13 still prev-
alent; the regulation of conquered states
always ready fon relellion; • and the
worlelv, secaler eine:items of Israel as
a people. Net all ot Oa:se pioblems
were successfully solved during his
reign. A great people, that cannot be
numbered. A hypeabolical reference to
the growth of Israel, which at that
time numbered nearly seven millions.
9 Give therefore. Solomon's choice was
wise, but not of ills highest wisdom;
ID was of this world, not of heaven; it
was of human wistlem, not of divine.
David would heve said, "Give me to
know God and have fellowship with
him." An understanding heart. A
nierst endowed with quiek and clear pen-
etration, to see where right lay amid
conflicting opinions. To judge. A
judicial wisdom, to discriminate and de-
cide wisely, and upon exeunt' of right.
Solomon sought not only Ireennets of
perception, but righteousness of aim, as
his own Proverbs shoW. (6) The only
wise ch,aioa in lite is a choics of the
right in God's eight.
10. The speech pleased the Lord.
Though it was a dream, it was no
c:ommon dream, but a state of trance,
ID which tbe mind was in possession of
ail its powers, and lifted up to high spir-
itual perceptions. So it was Solomon's
choice, though made while asleep..
U. God said. Perhaps by an inward
voice to the spirit of the sleeper.Thou
bast asked this thing. • God.
Wks pleased because Sclo.mote
had not asked for himself, his Own
pleasure or prosperity, or what a young
man would be apt to choose. Long
life. Ever regarded as a blessing,even
isa t.he trotibles of our ehrtlile state.
Riches for thyselt, Which most men
now seek after as the greatest end of
their been. The life of thine enemies.
Sush a choice as Salome made, demand-
ing the head a John the 13a4tLsti Sol -
canon had enemies as Jeroboam, Hadad,
and Rezon (1 Kings 11), whose destruc-
tion, 84 an oriental) king, he would na-
turally desire. •
'
12. I have done according. (7) Every
man fie& what be seeks far in life, in
charaoter, though not eiways in degree.
Given thee a wuse. . heart. God will
grant eveey mane prayer for wisdom
(James 1. 5). Sodompeas wisdom came
from. God, yet was eat gained without
thought, study, &lid practice. None like
thee before thee. In knowledge of all
truth, in practicel discernment, and en.
power to adapt his knowledge to the
need of the hoer, Solomon was the wise -
est of the ancients, Neither after thee.,
"In tile keowledge of what was in man
and in tlite wisdom to direct men's go -
hies, he was to be the wisest o/ all mere
mene-Speakera Commentary.
13. That which thou hest not asked.
(8) Every man's ehief aim in life car-
ries with it other subordinate aims. (9)
God gives to men always better than
their prayers. Riches end honor. Tbus
the result of his wisdona in government
were the prosperity of his realm., and
his own enrichment. Foreign trade, a
long period of peaee, a wise administra-
tion, made his reign an era af great
wealth. Yet thee wealth was one of
the influences whicia corrupted tile na-
tion and led to its decline and downfall,
The wealth was Gal's gift, the abuse
of it was man's fault. •
14. If thou wilt walk. This promise
was conditioned mem Solomon's faith-
fulness to God; bit ha failed, and its
fulfillment was not granted. I will
iengPeel thy days. Solomon fell in-
to nn, forsook :the God of bis father,
and fell short a old age, dying at lees
than sixty years. No character in
Scripture is more mingled of opposiug
elements, and none mare disaaalacenting
in its results.
15. It was a dream. Tliough &mare,
Ib was real, and showed his true desires
and God's; purposes. Stood before the
ark. From tb.e altar at Gibe= he
journeyed to the ark on Zion, and
there renewed his offerings. Burnt of-
ferings. Sacrifices wholly eonsumed, ex-
pressive of entire consecration. Peace
offerings. Sacrifices of which a part
was eaten in a 'feast before the altar,
indicative of conamunion with God. A
feast to all his servants. A sacrificial
tmheealse, eoxynice.
sisting of the flesh of the an-
imal saerific,ed, and ea,ten as a part of
STORIES OP NANSEN'S CREW.
Polar Bears Too Familiar "when the Frain
Was Frozen. In.
As is only natural, all the people of
Tromso take tbe liveliest interest in tlae
Namsen expedition, more especially as
three men of the ship's complement,
viz., Piot jakobsen and two sailors,
belong to that port. So any of the
Frana's• men who happen to be about
ID always surrounded by a, knot of eag-
er listeners, to whom he has to re-
count his adventures, often illustrat-
ing his meaning by a rough sketchwith
a Piece of chalk or a pencil. The men
are all good-natured fellows, and seem
willing enough to talk, and. many is
the excited discussion as to whether
the Ifram should have exttered the ice
north or south of the New Siberian
Islands, and so forth. Here are some
of the yarns erbich have delighted the
Tromso people:
In the perpetual darkness of winter,
ID the deso1at polar regiens, we could
hardly see our bands before our faces.
One night when the whole ship's com-
pany were snug below, we suddenly
heard the dogs barking most furiously.
It was ship's carpenter Mogstad's
watch, so he went up on deck to see
if amythbig unusual was going on, but
as he coulkt stse nothing, he went down
below again, coeclutling thet the dogs
were jeer, barking for tee sake of bark-
1,...is their ki ant. However, the
xweee was repealed at intervals, so he
• went up an deck again, and, taking
a Inn.ern, saw that several of the ani-
mals had disappeared, and that some
Leber& were
Ge.E.EtBOARD ON THE ICE.
elegs.ad called ou.t for Henriksen, and
they both let themselves dawn on to
• tee ice icom the deet of the ship, tvhich
et the 1.11110 was high above the ICE sur-
face. alley -walked off a little distance
from the ship, to see if they could
tend tiny traess.
As they were searchin.g about, with
na more formidable weapon than a
small lantern between them, all at once
a polar bear sprang up before them.
The.n there was a race between the
theee-the two men and the bear -to
the sheia Mogstad, a bit more light-
ooted than his mate, reached thee -ram
first, but fell down twice an to the
ioe xis ha was climbing up her side.
1 At the second fall he mild not help
muttering to himself, "Now the bear's
got you, my friend." But despair
steadied his nerves, and he managed
to hoist himself safely up behind the
ship's bulwarks. He had hardly got on
aoterd, however, when he heard his
comrade call out, and saw that the
beer had got hold of hien, and had. bit-
ten him. .But Henriksen, who is a big,
powerful, resolute fellow dealt his as-
sailant sucli a blow on the head. with
the lighted lantern he was carrying,
that the brute, half stunned, and half
scared, let go its prey, and Henriksen
seized tb.e opportunity, to skip up the
-etram's side. The bear revenged itself
by seizing one of the dogs. Ou a. dos-
er investigation bey- e made, it was
found that the beat -nue paid two vis-
its to the ship during the night, creep-
ing hi through an open port hole, and
•h,ad carried off a dog each time.
One day wben Neilsen and Johansen
had. to pass along a somewhat narrow
path they were suddenly
ATTACKED BY A BEAR.
;fohanisen, evho is a man of no ordin-
ary strength, caught hold of his ene-
nay's throat with a grip of iron, and.
held him at arm's length till Nansen
was able to get his ilile and lay the
hear low. North of 84 degrees no ani-
mal life was found to exist, and this
would seem to cast some discredit on
the hitherto prevalent theory that if
a sufficiently high latitude could be at-
tained, one would come to dry land
and open water, because binds are to
be seen flyimg toward the extreme
north. This northerly flight of tbe
birds is now believea to be attribteted
to their having lost their way or being
blown out of their' course. One day at
82 degrees latitude a seal was perceiv-
ed from on board the Fram, with a
flounder in its mouth. On the approach
of the vessel, the seal went up away
over the ice. A flounder was also ab -
Served at about eleven miles from Bear
Island,. The depth of the water in the
extreme north also seems to indicate
that there can be no land near. Sound-
ings taken at 84 degrees latitude gave
a depth of from 1310 to 1530 fathoms
(2400 to 2800 meters) and farther north
the lead reached even greater depths -
as much ats 2186 fathoms (4000 met -
ens), it es said,
"-
fee14 ah. dea '1" 'r;I:".?‘1 " ah11"4- eallteble,1;',act?eeat" ateaa-41a;01-tal-eaatai ',4he eliae ee;e'e,` e eele,"•.‘"I'l7„aa tazt!ita ‘411.4
IF UNCLESAM IS AT.
rrems OP INTEREST ABOUT THE
• BUSY YANKEE.
Neighborly Interest In Hie DoIngs-alatters
of Moment and rlirth Gathered from its
• .Datly Record.
Of hides and skins for tanning pur-
poses this coentry last year exported
36,002,859 pound, valued at $2,310,323.
It is said in Delaware "thee Ambassa-
dor Bayard will return to that state
lieet March and take active measures
ID procure Ids election to the Senate.
A• cow wanaered into the town hall
of Kingman, Ariz., where the county
records aro kept, and. ate same of them
and tattered he rest.;
It is estimated that 810,000.000 has
withdrawn from legitectate trade chan-
nels in Chicago by tbe speculative jug-
glery and failure of the Moore Bros.
• A one -legged. newelooy in Buffalo
serves a route of papers by witarling
on a, bicycle. Hie waodert leg is so
fitted that it turns one of the pedals.,
It has lae.en estimated that electric
railways have displeeed in the United.
States no less than 275,000 horses, and.
the movement has not yet been stop-
ped,
A Chicago women is eaid to have been
arrested 700 times in the. la.st 25 years,
an averatee of about once every two
weeks. Intemperance is lier besetting
• weakuess
Rev, Daniel B. Jenkins, of New Lon-
don, Pa., bas been elected president a
Parson's College, at Fairfield, Ia., tofill
the vacantly occa.sioned, by the resigna-
tion of Dr. Ambrose C. &meth. Mr. Jen-
kins is a comparatively young man, not
30 years of age.
In the la,st six years t,here were 43,-
902 homicides in the United States -an
annual average of 7,317. During the
same period there were 723 legal execu-
tions, and 1,118 lynelaings.
Walter D. Wellman, a San Francisco
bookkeeper, has succeeded in writing
7,069 words ort an ordivary postal card.
The words cemprised an extract from
one of Victor Hugo's novels.
Albert Nelson Prentiss, professor ol
botany at Corneal, who died recently,
was cam a the few remaining instruc-
tors who had been connected with Cor-
nell College frotm the first,
Thomas Watson, the populist nominee
Lor Vice -President, made famous the
phrase, "Where am I at?" Cobb, ot
Aaabaxaa, had used it in, a book, wiateh
appeared a couple of weeks later.
Among the most beautiful flowers
brought from Japan is the fragrant
annul= lily. It is of easy culture and
free from enemies. Spring is the time
for planting, and the large builis are
the best.
Barney afeKernan, of Phoenixville,
Pa., says he 'is one of the two men
now living in this country who took
rt in the famous charge of the Light
rigade. He was born in Ireland sixty-
nine years ago, and came to this eoun-
try forty years ago.
Rev. Mr, Meese, of Auburn, Ind., re-
cently gave a matrimonial reunion to
all the couples at whose weddings be
had officiated. A. raatrimonial address
delivered, and all the married people
joined in a grand march.
President Octae Chanu.te, of the
America,n Society of Civil Engineers, has
offered a prize of $100 for the best mo-
nograph on the kite, giving a fall
the,ory of its raechanic.s and stability,
with quantitative c.amputations ap-
pended.
Sarau.el E. Stone, of Brewer, Me., who
is by .trade not exactly a rail splitter,
he being a carpenter, wears his whis-
kers in much the same style as did Pre-
sident Lincoln, and has the same, or
nearly the same, characteristics of
face mad figure.
A. J. eIoxara, the millionaire, who is
reported as having contributed e25,-
001.1 to the fund of the English ground
rent taxation campaign, is a partner
of Congressman Toro. L. Johnston, in
works at Johnstown, Pa., where a son
of Benry George is employed.
It is understood that the firm of
ALexim-Nordenfeldt, of England, -which
manufactures guns of that name, pro-
poses to establish gun plants at Hart-
ford, Can., and Pittsburg, Mesa This
action is taken because of the active
part this company is taking in the gen
competitions•whieb are being held in
this country.
Dr. Alice Bennett, who has just re-
signed the dfice of superintendent of
the woman's department. of the Penn-
sylvania State Hospital for tha insane,
after holding it for sixteen years, was
the first women ever appointed to the
independent charge over a woman's
hospital.. She is ieeog.nized mac of
the greatest alienists in the country.
The recent death of Prof. "Whitney
leaves Prof. Child the oldest instructor
ID active service at Harvard. Although
he began his profession as teacher in
the ca,pacity of instructor in mathe-
matics, Prof. Child is now renowned
the world over for his investigations
into the ballad literature of England
• and for his Anglo-Saxon and Chaucer-
. .
ian studies.
Vertical penmanship, which has long
been required in many County Clerks'
offices and other places where records
are kept, and came into vogue in the
fashionable schools in New York a
couple of years ago, superseding the
Englieh style, has just been adopted by
the Kansas City Board of Education as
the system which must be hereafter
tau.ght in the public schcols.
THE NEW FARKINIL
Bacteria to Be Feed to Fortillr.e
Neve cliseoverSileel 4:eea,1113alsCl.tese art
isms°ther. inItthise reali offeVecre7r:Irisine ()chrgtata: t,
words raicrobe and bacteria were reedit ett
mr4beic7loonlibestg abeufflurafxr:elifaya rx:tetmetrghs:wil:mtly sWilway: mi
sloortitunarieyrahenes 'or MY 00"WS. For it
itt no
,thbeuttnittlrhei944adbavanct4targiaeousillatallarde
ID is known ;that no phase of plant
life can go on succe.ssfully without the
intervention of teese mic.roscopie aids.
So it is to microbes again that we owe
the chemical changes that charaderize
the dairy, The changes from freak
Milk to butter are due to the action 01
kuse:fpulitbriest'4b.rt eivl'eoeksstetrtiolizeexpxnoislek ;wilt to
l
bacteria win. hasten its changes of
form and qua,Iity. Milk is Pasteurized
or denticrobod by heating it up to
about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. This
kills the, bacteria, after whioh teey
rand lee excladed by tight bottling
The air is simply an ever full labors-
eraan of nainute ohemietta; they
operate everytbing, ourselvesin-
cluded. Erea.lth as well as disease It
INS/181E14E NEIGHBORS.
In our gardens we are learning that
Cultivation =sista( riot simply in stir-
ring and in feeding tact soil, but in ad-
ding to it OT in removing (tom it those
bacteria, that affect plant growth. It
will not be bag before every farmer
will have what he may call his bacteria
stable, as much as he now has his
horse stable. In fate, we are likely te
lose our horses, but not be able to get
ort at 011 without microbes. Such a
stable or room will hold not only ep-
paratue ancl substances for destroying
fungoid attacks that destroy the nigh
vitaa proceeses cif plants, bat it will
hold "cultures" of beneficial microbes.
These can be preserved and put in es -
able conditions, as yeast is prepared for
the kitehen or "Rare cultures" of lase-
teria for the dairyman,
The ro.ast recent discovery alang this
line is that of the famous Prof. Nob -
be, of Saxony. He hue made it his
specialty to prepare what we might
call farmers' yeasts, or bacteria, use-
ful for plant geowth, in such form
that a farmer may saw it in his field,
or otherwise bring it into contact with
the seed that he places in the groand.
It is caily a few years sinoe it was
found that the leguminous plants, by
some means, could directly extraet
nitrogen from the air. On the roots
of clover you. will find small and very
beautiful nobules. Thew, it was Suss
pected, had something to do with the
nitrogen; bu.t it wee a long while be-
fore it was founcj out that these no-
dules were the work of bacteria, that
at first they axe parasitio growths, „
which later become passive, feud that
then the bacteria. permeate the clover
or the beaaa plant and give a new,
faculty -that ot nitrogen -filiation. But
it is not the saute bacteria that aids
the clover and the beans. It was Clear,
that if this power could. be transferred,
or inaoulated just as we inoculate flour
with yeast, it would be of
GREAT VALUE TO AGRICULTURE.
A new field of experiment was opened.'
Hereafter it would be sought not only;
ID destroy mischievous bacteria but
ID multiply and transplant the use.
ful. It was found that where baotexia
had worked RI eo-operation with beans
or clover the soil was richer in nitro-
gen rather than poorer, and that =cif
soil could bsa sowed upon and worked
irtto other soil poor in nitrogen to give
it power to extract nitrogen from the
air. This wee ID oultivate and s
nitrogen -feeding baet.eria. B
took from 1500 to 2000 pounds o
prepared soil to fertilize an aore.
was expensive, and practically nullifie
the utility of the discovery.
Prof. Nobbe set about endeavoring
ID secure a culture, that is a pure '-
product a bacteria, or what you itught
call a bacterian yeast, which could be
bottled, and carried aboat, and stored,
and planted in any gail where it might
be wanted. The news now comes that
he has succeeded, and that what itte
calls "Nitragin" is now for sale. It cat
ID had for a. vexy small sum indeed -
enough to nitragenize an acre for lees
than e2. This pure culture is placed. in
contact with the seed. before the lat-
ter is sown, or is itself sown and worked
bato the soil to a. depth of 3 inches. The
culture, which we might just as well
call yeast, is kept m bottles, and
taust not be exposed to light or heat
above 98 degrees Fahrenheit.
A QUESTION DECIDED.
The sun sorter winks when a cloud
passes by,
• In a knowin' and amiable way,
An' the boughs they lean low o'er the
spot where 1 lie,
Like they had somethiee pleasant ter
say.
An' I know wbut they mean, fur it's
Perfectly true
That they's sense in their blinkin' an'
swishine
Thee want mae ter tell 'em whut I'd
• ruther do,
Or go fishine
I'm retkn' my leisure ter ponder it o'er,
Fur 't's pleasure ter doze an' ter
• dream;
It's fitne where the mosses grow thick
• on the shore,
And the shiftin' light spangles the
stream.
It's silent an' cool; and I'm there out o'
view
Of them es thinks life hez a mission,
I don't know of nothin' that I'd ruther
do
Than go fiehin'.
"This is the dayCZe which our house
is to burn down.", "Gracious I What
a oyou meant" "Why, buildings alwaye
?burn down the day alter their insur-
ance hes expired."
LL-•
ELECTRICITY IN CITIES.
Compared with other large European
towns, London, is easily at the head for
the magnitude of its electrical supply.
Paris, for instance, has only an equiva-
lent of about half a million 8 -candle-
power lamps, as compared with the 1,-
20J,000 lamps in London. Manchester
and Liveepocia have respectively about
51,000. Glasgow 70,000, Edinburgh, 43,-
000, Dublin 16,000 and Cardiff, 9,000. Of
the total capital expended in the whole
of the United Kingdom for the supply
of electricity. London has spent more
than one -half. -Boston Trascrnipt.
• FRANK. t
It was a hot Sunday afternoon, ana
during the eermon a man in a smock
frock, sitting in the gallery over the
clock, every now and then leaned over
to see the time. After some time the
irritated preacher could stand it no
longer, and addressing himself to the
gallery, he exclaimed: I beg to inform
that men who continues to look at the
dock that it is tweety-three minutes
past four, and I shall have dome my
dreary serfami in a minute or two.
If you please, six, came the unexpect-
ed answer from the gallery, I warn't
bit tired o' your sermon, but the cows
mann be milked.
SOME MAN HATERS,
A woman who died recently used to
boast that she had not spoken to a
man for over 30 years, and another was
equally ,jubilaett aver the fact, that she
had lived 5 years in one hotese 'without •
ever a man crossing the threshold. I301 ,
probably the bitterest men -hater of
modern timee was an Austrian woman,
who, at the time of her cleath, was en-
gaged in developing it plan for the ulti-
mate extinction of the whole male sex. .,
'SOON RUNS OUT.
'
He (well-boen, but not well-bred,
PomPolielY)-11 takes six g\ ienerations. 4,
you know, to make a gentleman. au
She (innocently) -Yes. What it pity it
only takes one so unmake hen. .2
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