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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1897-6-24, Page 3• THE EXETER TIMES NOTOs 4N1) COMMENTS A. letter free. Meade, on the lower 'Congo, announces tbat, Ofl April 19 last, the railway bridge over the lakissi af- fluent of the gyeat.river was completed. and the first locomotive crossed the stream, Traits are flow running daily to the /nand, a entente, of 171 miles from, the sterling- point at Matadi, and the last large streem, an the Way to Stanley Pool bas been bridiaed. Twen- ty years earlier, lacking four days, Mr. StaiJIM', on his famous boat journey down the Congo, diiscovered the Inkiest. Xt was in that region of cateraete that he found his greatest impediments, mad it took him five months, from, Mara, 16 to &lig. 9, 1877 to eroas the. difficult region between Stanley Pool and Boma, Piety miles from the sea Tvirienty years later, 171 miles a the Journey he made is covered every dAy by tra.."1- lera in a, comfortable car and in eight to ten bolus, Next year the railroad wilt be comphited to Stanley Pool, and. then the entire region where Stanley toiled for five monthe, and where hts Week comrades nearly starved to death, they be oroased almest without fatigue, hi the sunlit hours of one da.y. Eliseo Reclus, the geographer, wrote a while aho that be was amazed whenever he contemplated the vast work done on the Catnip lin so short a, time. That work extends to every part of the Congo Whit, the secon(j largest river system in the world. R is proanoted by forty 'steamers and forty towboats, carried in small pieces en the heads of men around 285 miles of cataracts and now afloat On 7,000 miles of upper Congo water- ways; aeclethat week, marred though it -hits been by many instances of the cruel and unjust treatment of natives by men who were not worthy of their trust will be remembered in history as one of the great achievements of this tient ury. A. writer in an English. review says of Tliackeray that "it is his weakness, his conspicuous wealtness, to be con- certecj with trivial details to the ne- glect of prisaciples." If this is a rash judgment it is still important, because it represents a. generation in English literature which is too busy in criti- eising its bettors to produce anything worth, consideration itself. The England of the present day has not one writer who is even suspected of being worthto rank with Thacker - ay. It is hard to tell wby. Perhaps it is largely because of a contempt for the "trivia' details" whieh Fielding and Th,eckeray, Scott and Dickens, knew how to ine to make the perfect wholes of their pictures of humane life. On second thought however, it seercas that the• failure of the creative faoulty in literary England may be due to exces- siee use a the faulty of eriticism. Criticism always depends on analysis— on prating things to pieces, All great work is the exaet opposite of that. It can corns only from minds trained to the babit of constructiveness—of put- ting things together. So long as every frog in the English literary marsh thinks to grow into an ox by inflating his 'faculty for judging his betters, we are not likely to have another Thack- may. Fortunately, however, we have the old ote with us yet in all the im- mortal part a him, ETHEREAL TELEGRAPHY. alkomali rite Marconi System To Re Tried Against That or Preece. Perhaps the era. of wireless tele- graphy is net far distant and "Iumin- iferous ether" will become the electri- cal conductor of thought. The process of Signor Guglielrus Marconi, wipe has e devised a telegeeph iu which he util- izes the "eleethostatio waves," and by which he has transmitted messages about two miles on Salisbury Plain, is to be tried [wait against the system of A. N. Preece, C. A. nt, R. S., engin- eer -in -chief of the home postoffice, who has been experioneating on the same lines since 1894, and who in 1893 sent .wireless messages a,cress the .Brisiol ChanpaeI, three miles. He bas since transmitted messages five miles from the Tele of Arran to the anainland. Last year the cable between the Is- land of gull and Oban having been broken down for four days, 150 mes- sages, one press message ot 120 words, were transplanted by aerial telegrap.hy. An isolated wire about a mile long was laid along the- ground on the main- land, one end being pet to "earth" in the sea, and the other in a highland burn. The other wire skirted the op- posite coast of the Island of 1Vtu11, each of these parallel conductors becoming "primary" or "itelocindany," as used to send or receive ;messages. An alterna- ting cuerent we -s employed and the Itelegrapting signals of the Morse oode owlet be read by ear in, a telephone connected with the secondary eitceit. Whatever may be the nature of these oanductirig waves, wihicht Faratlay char- acterize(' as a !medium toe subtle to be detected by our senses o$even by our most dencatii aeparatuse ad which Clerk Maxwell sa.ys is nothing else than the lunainiferous ether which is the vehicle or light, earnest suientists are experimenting all along the line of development, extension" mastery, It is passible that but a short time may elapse before all -our present compli- cated and costly telegraphy and tele- pfhone apparatusi may be relegated to •"innocuous desuetude," by the uistalla- tiot of ethereal telegraphy. LIMPING YOUNG. Woman of forty, in ah old-tasht toned gown, -with badly dressed hair, looks passe, altogether; while her friend of fifty, in smart army, looks young in every movement. ,somo of the rules are: To stand and walk with the erect carriage ot young wolin.anbood; When sittin,g, to let the skirts sweep the floor gratefully; to keep the feet, together or easily orossed, wben at rest, instead of sitting 'any - and folding the hands over a wide lap. JOT OF A SAVED SOUL. MI•11/0, WHOM THE TRUTH FREES HAS RIGHT TO REJOICE AND BE GLAD. The Chreaboi Mumma to Which Everyone es invited e.t. restive Occasion Sanction- ed be the Qlovless cheistian Rene -ion. Rev, Dr. Talmage Oreaohed on Sunday frope the text, ,Luke Pcv., 23, " 13ring hither the fatted calf and kill it." In all ages ot the world' it has been customary to _celebrate joyful events by festivity—the signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the inaugura- tion of presidents, the coronation of kings, the Clietstmes, the naarriage. However much on other days of the year our Wile may have a stinted sup- ply, tie Thanksgiving Day, there must be aomething bounteous, And all the oorafortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. Some- thing has happened on the old home- stead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A favorite son whom the world suppose4 would be- come a vagabond and outlaw forever has got tired of sightseeing and has re- turned to his father's house. The world said the never would wine back. The old man always said his son would come hack. The had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He kneiw he would come haek, Now, having returned. to bis father's house, the father proulairas celebration. There is In the paddock a calf that has been kept up and fed to utmost cuipaoity, $0 as to be ready for some occasion of joy that might come along. Ale there never would be grander day on the old homestead than on this day. Sot the butchers do their work, and the housekeepers bring into the table the smoking meat. The musicians will take their places, awl the gay groups will move up and down the floor. All the friend e and neighbours are gathered in, and an Wee supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father pre- sides at the table and so.ys graze and thanks God. that his long absent boy is home again, Oh, how they missed him! How glad they are to have him back! One brother stands pouting at the back door and says: "This is a great ado about nothing. This bad boy should have been chastised instead. of greeted. Veal is too good. for hints" But the father says, "Nothing is too good; nothing is good enough." There sits the young man, glad at the hearty re- ception, but a shadow of sorrow flit- ting across his brow at the, remem- brance of the trouble he had seen. All ready now. het the covers lift. Music, He was dead, and he is alive again. He was last, and he is found. By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merry -making when a soul comes home to God. First of all, there is the newconvert's joy.. It is no tame thing to become Christian. The raost tremendous mo- ment in a man's life is when he surren- ders himself to God. The grandest time on the father's homestead is when the boy comas back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of our church professed,Christ one eight was a young man who next morning rang my door- bell, and said, "Sir. 1 cannot contain myself with the joy 1 feel. I came here this morning to enpress it. I have found more joyiin five minutes in serv- ing God than n all the years of my prodigality, and t came here to say so." You .have seen perhaps a man rennin; for his temporal eliberty and the otfieennetalie law after hien, and you saw him escape, 'r afterward you hear the judge had pardoned him, and how great was the glee of that rescued man, but it is a very tame thing com- pared with the running for one's ever- lasting life, the terrors of the hew after lam and Christ coming in to pardon and bless, and rescue and in his own bottle; Byron whipped be diseuietudes around the world; Vol- taire cursing his own end while all the streets of Parts were tipplaudirig Jinn.; Henry 11. consutning with hatred against poor Thomas a Beeket—all il- lustrations of the fact that this world cannot make a man happy. The very man who poitsoned the pommel of the saddle on whiali Queen Elizabeth ,rode shouted in the street, "God stain the Queen!" One moment the w end ap- platides and. the next momt ent ne world anathematizes. Oh, come over into this greater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent heantitude 1 The night after the battle of Shiloh, and, there were thousands of wounded on tile field, and the ambulances had not come, one Christian soldier lying there a -dying under the starlight, began to sing— There's a land. of pure delight, And when he came to the next line there were soores of voices singing: Where saints immortal reign. The song was caught up all through the fielde among the wounded until it was said there were at least 10,000 wounded men uniting their voices es they came to the verse: There everlasting spying abides And. never withering floivers, sTis but a narrow stream divides This heavenly land from was. Oh, it is a. great religion to live by and a great religion to die by! Thor 18 anIy one heart throb between youanc. that religion, Just lei* into the face of your pardoning God and surrender yourself for time and, for eternity, and all Ls yours. Some of you, like the young man of the text, have gone far astray. I know not the history, but you know ie. When a young man weet forth into life, the legend says, Ins guardian. angel went with bine and get tiog him into a field, the gee rdien ange swept a. circle around where the yeung man stood., it was a circle of virtue and honor, and he mutt not step beyond that circle. They could not pass. But one day a temptrese, with diamandec hand, stretehed forth arid crossed that (Melo with the hand, and the tempted soul took it,e•nd by that one fell gr' was brouglit beyond thecirele and died. Some of you Inge stepped. beyond that. circle. Would you not like this day. Ly the grace of God, to step look 1 This X say to ton Is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Aline what is loaned the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sick - nese, she email not, move ber head or move her hand, She was waiting for the hour when the ministers of state ' should gather La angry contest. and. •• worried. and worn out by the coining hour and ui momentary absence of the nurse, the.pwer—the strange pow- er whieh delirium sometimes gives one— she arose and stood in front of the cloak, and stood there watching the clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said, "Do you see anything pe- colia,r about that clack'?" She raade no answer, but soon died. There is a cinch scene in every history. If some of you would rise from tbe bed of lethargy and came ou.t from your delirium a sin and look on the olock ot your destiny this moment, you. would see and hear some- thing you have not seen or heard. be - fare, mut every tiok ot the minute, and every strolte of the hoar, and. every stroke of the hour, and every swing of the pendulum would say, "Now, now, now. now I" Oh, come home to year Father's house! Come home, 0 itro- digal, from the wilderness I Come home, came homel But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father's joy. He did not greet him. with any formal. "How fto you. do ?" Bei did not come out, and say; "You. are unfit to enter, Go and wa-th in the trough by the well, and then you can come We have had enough trouble with you." Ale no! When the proprietor of that estate pro- claimed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love and, a father's joy, God. ie youx Father, I have not much sympa- thy with the description of God I some- times hear, as though He were a Turkish suetan, hard and Inisympathetic and lis - toning not to the cry. of his subjects. A man told me he saw m one of the East- ern lands a king riding along, and two men were in altercation, and one charg- ed. the other with having eaten his rice, and the king said, "Then slay the man, and by post-nagrtem examination find -weather he has eaten the rice." And he was thee.. Ah, the cruelty of a scene like that! Ou:r reglis..not a sultan, not a despot, but a Fatbe.r kitid, loving, forgiven, and He makes all heaven ring again when a prodigal wanes back, "I have no pleasure," He says. "in the death cif him that dieth." All may be saved. If a ,mani does not get to hea- ven, it is because he will not go there. No difference the color, no difference the antecedents, no difference the sur- roundings, no difference.the sin. When the white horses of Christ's -victory are brought out to celebrate the eternal triumph, you may ride on:e of thein, and, as God is greater than all. His joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in His heart the surg- ing of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to express that gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eternity. It is a jay deeper than all depth, and higher than all height, and wider than all width, and vaster than all immen- sity. It overstepe, it undergirds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the universe and who can tell what Goichajoy is? You remember read- ing the story of a king who on some great joy of festivity scatters silver and gold among the people, who sent valuable presents to his courtiers, but naetbinks when a soul comes back, God Id so glad that to e,xpress His joy He flings out new worlds into space and kindles up new suns and rolls among the white robed anthems of the re- deemed in great halleluiah, while with a voioe that reverberates among the mountains of frankinseense and is echo- ed back from the everlasting gates he cries. "This my son was dead, and he Id alive again. I" I notice ale° that wben a prodigal comes home there is joy of the min- isters of religion. Olh, it is a grand thing to preach the gospel! know there has been a great deal said about the trials and OW • hardships of the Christian ministry. Since I entered the profession have seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some beast about their equilibrium", and they do not rise into enthusiasm, and thee do not break down with emotion, but I confess to you plainly that when • I see a man coming to God and giving up his sin feel in body, mind cold soul traneport. When see a man -bound band and foot in evil habit emancipated, 1 rejoice -over it as though Id were my awe emanoipation. e Winn in one comnaunion service such throngs of young and old stood upend in the presence of heaven and. earth' and hell attested their allegiance to Jesus Christ, I felt a joy something' akin to that -urilieli; the apostle de- scribes when he says: "Whe,ther the body I cannot tell; God knoweth." Oh, have net ministers a right to re - jokes when* a protligal eome,s home? They blew the trumpet, and ought they • at not to be glad of tbe gathering of the host? They 'minted to the full supply ad ought they not to rejoice when thirsty souls plunge as the heart for the water broolcst They came forth, saying, "All things are now Mari" Ought they • not to rejoice when the prodigal she down at the banquet ? Life insuranee men -will all tell you shtavetiallesgeort alt Uthea'se!nyw that ministers of religion ab a class lot h eaanioInti are tut! on eanniari longevity that ministers of religion) as a class live 'engin! than any ether. Why is it? There ienicre draft upon the nervous system. than in any otber profession, aud their tell is meet exhausting. I have seen mine uttere kept on miserable etipends be parsimontous congregations who won- dered at the dallnees of the sermon when the men of God were perplexe.d altaciet to death by questions of lieelie toad and had not enough nutritious fond to keep any fire in their tempera- ment, No fuel no Bre, I have some- times seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen, never ace cepting their hecepitality because they cannot afford it, but I have seen them struggle along on salaries of f ire on $500 a year—the average less than that —their struggle well depicted by the we•stern. adesionary van says in •a letter, 'Thank evu for the last remit- tanoe, Until it caltie we had not any meat in ten! Louse for one year, mud all lent winter although it was a se- e vere winter, our ohildren wore their 'Kammer clothes." And these men of God I find in diffeeent parts of the Land streagling against anneeenee and exaeperations innumerable, some of tbem week after week entertaining agents who have maps of hghtning rods to sell and submitting therneelves to all sorts of apnoyanoe and yet without complaint and cheerful of soul. - flow do you amount for thi, fact that 1 these life insurance men tell us that =netters as a class live longer than any other? It is because of the joy. of their evork, the her of the barvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their 1 ltather's house. Oh, we are in sym- pathy with all innocent bilarities. We be merry with the merriest, but those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that all these joys are tame •compared with the satisfaction of seetne men enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every. raitnistrw are out-pourings of the Holy Ghost and r thank God have men sixteen. :of them. Thank God, thank Godl '• I notice also when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk point, and there was a hurricane at sea and it was blow- ing toward the shore, and a vessel crash- ed into the rooks, and you. saw people get ashore in the lifeboats and ver , last man got on the wears in safety, you, would not control your jay. And. it is a glad time when the Church of God. sees men tossed an the ocean of their sins plant their feet on the rook Christ Jesus. Ob, when prodiguls come home, just hear the Christians sing! just hear the Christians prayl It is not a, stereotyped supplication we have heard ' over and over again for 20 years, but a puttie•g! of the case in the hands of God with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say, land their hearts are bard, and odd. A.11 • the prayers in the Bible that were an- swered were short prayers. "God be merciful to me, a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight." "Lord, save me, or I perish..." The longest prayer Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear there pray now that the prodigals are com- ing home. Just see them shake bands. No putting forth the four tips of tbe fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to olinch the fingers of one hand around the other hand. And. then see those Christian faces how illuminated they are 1 And see that old man get up, and with the same voice he sang 50 years ago in the pid country meet- ing ;house, say "Now, Lord, lettest thou Thy servant depart in peaee, far mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." There was a man of Keith who was hurled into prison in time of persecution and one day he got off his sbackleaand he came and stood. by the prison door„ and, while the jailer was opening the door. with one stroke he struok down the man who had incarcerated him. Passing along the streets ofeLondon, he wondered where his family was. He did not dare to ask, lest he excite sus- • .. ',but, passing along a little way from the prison, he saw a Keith tank- ard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation tie geheradon—he saw lit in a window. His family, hoping that some cley he would get clear, came and lived as near as they oould to the prison house, and they set that Keith tankard in the window, hoping he would SBS it, and he came along and. saw it and knocked at the door and went in, and the long.separated family were all together again Oh, if you would start for the kingdom of God this hour, I think some of you would find nearly all your friends and nearly all your fam- ilies around the boly tankard of the holy communion—fathers, mothers, bro- ers, sisters around that. sacred tankard which commemorates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord.. It will be a great communion day when your whole fam- ily sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth. One in heaven. Once more I remark that when the prodigal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festival. I am very cer- tain of it. If you have never seen a telegraph chart, you have no idea how mealy cities are conneoted together and how many lands. Nearly all the neigh- borhoods ot the earth seem reticulated, and. new flies from eity to city and from continent to continent. But more rapidly go the tidengs from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it Id announced before the throne of God. And if these souls now present should enter the klaigdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say, "That's my father," "That's ray moth- er." "That's my son," "That's the one I used to pray for," "That's the one for whom I wept so many tears" and one soul would say, •"Hosanna!" and an- other would say, "Halleluiah I" save. You rdmember John Bunyan in his great story tells how the pilgrim put his fingers to his ears, and ran, cry- ing, "Life, life, eternal life I" A poor car driver, some time ago, after years having had to struggle to support his family, suddenly was informed that a i large nheritance was his and there was a joy amounting to bewilderment, but that is a small thing compared with the experience of one when he has put in his hand the title deed to the joys, the raptures, the splendors of heaven, and he ca,n truly say: "Its mansions are mine, its isonos are mine; its God is mine!" Oh, it is no tame thing to become a at/Ostia& It Id a merry -making; it is the killing of the fatted calf; it is n jubilee. You know the Bible never conmare,s it to a funeral, but always compares it to something delightful. It is more at to be compared to a banquet than to anything else. It is commared in the Bible to water—bright, flesbing water, to the morning—roseate, fireworked, mountain transfigured morning. I wish I could to -day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace and life and comfort and hope and heaven, and twist them into one garland and put it on the brow of the humblest ehild of God in this assemb- lage, and cry, "Wear it, wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God AtImightyl" Oh, the joy of the new convert! Oh, the ailed- ness of the Christian service! You have seen sometimes a man in a re- ligious assemblage gat up and. give his exterience. Wen; Paul gave his experi- eine, arose in the presence of two churches—the elaurch on earth and the church in heaven—and he saich i; Now, tills is nay experience, sorrowful, yet always rejoleing ; poor, yet making many rich; having eothing, yet possess- ing all things," 11 the ipeople in this house knew the joys of the Christian religion, they would all pass over into tee kingdom. of God the next moment. When Daniel Sandeman Ives dying of cholera, his attendant Said\ "Have you much pain "Oh,' he replied, "since I fe ind the Lord I have linear had guy pate except sin." Then they. said, to him, 'Would you like tossed ai message to your friend's?" "Yes, X would. Tell them otlyr last night the love of Jesus came rushing into my soui Iike the merges of the sea, and I had to cry out, 'Stop, Lord, it is enough; stop, Lord, eno'ugh'!" Oh, the joys oe thie Christian religion! Juet pass over from those tame joys of this world into the raptures of the gospel. This world can- not satisfy you; you have found. that aut. Alexander, longing for other worlds to c.onqu,er, and yet drowned Pleased with the news, the saints below In songs their tongues employ, Beyond the skies the tidings go, And heaven is filled with joy. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire, Tile sinner lost is found, they sing. And strike the sounding lyre. At the bauouet of Lucullus sat Cieero, the orator, at the Macedonian eestival sat Philip the canquerer, at the Gre- cian banquet sat Socrates the philoso- pher, hut at aur Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more than con- querers. The table is so wide its leaves reaeh across seas and lands, Its gnests are the redeemed of earth and the glori- fied of heaven. The ring of God's for- givenees on every hand. The robe ole Saviour's righteousness- a -drop from every shoulder. The wine that grows in the cams is tome the bowls of 10,000 saeraments. Let all the redeemed of earth a.nd all the glorified of heaven rise end with glea.ming °helices drink to the. return aa thousand erodigals. Sing, shag, sing 1 "Worthy is the lamb that Ii714 slait to reeeive blessing and lichee and honor and glory -and. power, world, ;valiant end! That seene of jubilance ooraes out before meat thee moment as iln asort of picture gallery. All heaven in pictures. • Look! Look! There ia Christi Cuero painted Him for earthly galleries, and CU•raggin acad. Tintoretto and Benjamin West and Dore painted Him for earthly galleries, but ali thiese pletures are eclipsed bythe masterpiece of heaven. Cb.riat. Christ. t Theri e s Paul, the hiaro of the salneed.rin, and of Agrippa's III OICIF 81ti 13 Al.,., !Al" 'll'E-T-' , , . vvait alone in the little seaside, town, ,--- be ao,aarm a worlt being denied melee, ITEMS OP INTEREST ABOUT THE .°07:4441erckte titollezeilk..bliror ehethattlab. adreebmetlitilet BUSY YANKEE, •Ipant I hail longed fox a period of 11.- I eentte Bitch ati WV noStmine to enjoy, Reighberty Interest in hlis Dotage—Matters ' butthe greeting of my deeire hat/come ot moment and rattle eatbere41 from Ins amain, suoueisht apfre jahaitaeon. Orval gedvasepintroatttehely A dd." f Daily Recwd. an ari 1, the_ wired• that 4.0, analddermadyanuarenv jezymenearet iiffion Litibtabete., (mix room, end of Mars hill, and of most helpless paralyti isernpordted iln 1 wg---e... Nero's infamy, shaking his chained eist Cunabeeland county, Kentucky.. „ e wwto ge late in the meeeinhhecte Id the very fete of teeth -chattering rote Betboron and, Mixon, ' the man that a'llve from postponed sundown, And here is Vash- • has .141St bosh os-oce-ssfullr acrda°Plisha PIP .•90:Ixee 04 the "lewd Vex" ale tan' ed ntoimef time, shell crabs ''enuerAit, we8,12ethil4 tt! 40 II -at wa.acl•al. the E,ast to Portland, Or., "ssr,e'S "st Pennienane, and the ttiviiii alte• Here is Joshua the fighter of ti the profligate- of the Persian Court ,uttegabje because I etodd not eaves rueanador removebleiteomtjthe. d rtAvneilatoingodtenacosty•ors_iwkiatifromdlexandrthe az ,Vae.,,1,3asly darayiees of f the e al:: . Ithzeinil.04 be jperhapo a fortnigie „ii riders of this piature gallery. 'find. oth-4 tlement made it unlawful to bring in ' er. greet berme and. heromes—David oysters between April and September. Stile Pia" when Ila'st l' 6141Y the lady °4 Lightning struck two hoes that a neg- I whath' 1 w°u'id tell ro waa carrying over his shoulder near!; Looter at Moment as she drofre pest in the you. It wan only Millington, Md., and ssed throu h t CIDI°4si°3- of " °idea' w"aani hat that wit his Imre, and. Miriam ivith the eeraba.ls, and Zechariah with the serolI, and St, john with the seven viets, and the resurreotion angel with the them - pet. On, farther in the corridors, see lune from his shoulder his feet. iti 1-.' moment's sight was enough to ftll my the faces of our loved ones. Theccough ing hem. gone from the throet, the wannesegone ithoughts until I saw her again new Already grasshoppers are hatching in the morrow. She was beautichelheyoiel from the limbs, the languor gone from , the eye,. Let es go up and. greet them, such numbers in the region of Oakes-eh/II words; I fawned she chuld. hardly Lewint.ual;aeloviunpi and live with them. We dale, Wash., that the inhabitants are have paese.c1 the age tit twenty; and all:awned over the threatened injure to Prom ems hilltop I catah aglimpse of mops, • Meech end hearing had he•en denied. her those hilltops where all sorrow and Sycamore trees whioh for several ! • ! She had the hareocent egilaelneae eighiag shall be done away. Oh, that years have flourished where they sr...e; that =mains witite they are yet young Goo wouhd make that world, to us a . . reality! Faith ie that world helped oid rt twilit some wbo esti thus aftliete,d. SW f3lranted in various sectiens of PoTtland, ; . are dying of some disease which the looked Won the 4.V0141. with heeditifUl Dr. ahog whee he stood by the eatoheer. ' oe Ins deed, we egos° arm had then citizens do not understand, 'bright eyen, and, in tante alt fate, wee torn off in the thrashing machine, It is said that the sulphur mines near well plemsed to be altve. Bat she wan death ensuing, a.nd Dr. Tylag, with in- Buckley, Wash., were discovered by a, ,talking with her fingene to the, s14 - finite composure, preached the funeral camper whose fire on a rock gave rise erly lade, her compenion, in veleasei iteration of bis owe beloved son. Faitlt te ewe eteoes that he was forced to ',yea ah they ledieee ea tea chi 1 gm, Id that world helped Martin Liether helped the dying woman to see on the eky the letter 'W," and they' asked Va., a surveyor, has the compass leis favorite child, Faith in that world '-' move a long distence to estoeclesar7flivo-i . .. - o — George S. Deakins, of Row , • That pity inata,ntly invaded my heart, without one, tear to put away in death cation an engine pity imp:emigre her wbat .t.he SuPpoSed the letter "W." the instruments which belonged to his an4 stibglufhwitttshin6httiectfewl"aaecogGnnelis 4)0Uitherof Mai! on tbe sky meant. "Oa," she said, grandfather, when, with Washington, pettra.nce, and, &mita the feet that I "don't you know? 'W' stands for 'Wel- he surveyed the road from Washing- onew not so come.'" Oh, heaven swing open thy ton to the Ohio. neigh as heentinte, there gates I Oh, heaven roll upon us simnel Rbrt of the sunshize anthems! oh, heaven, i oeLaing. of Sugar Grove, Pa., with t- e to catch one of bis Pigs, was mixed wi the pi r a. is rise o t n us tbe. vision of thy luster I i was driving angry rebellion against the fatea who flash upo An old writer tells u,s of a ship come ; which he intended to butcher, when the Ile. ing from India to France. The erew ' animat lit him the Us b Ili bang thugaillieted lle4 wentmlY real" d '''''d3 o4It'a valaa a beau long from home, and as the ship it was feared that be would lose his poisoning resulted, and at last amounts generosity than was made up of Freneh sailors who had came along the coast of France the men ann. &limed the deck with glee, and. thee ; pointed to the spires of the churches I Waterville, Mee bas a very absent - where they once worshipped, and to the minded resident. Be drove to a lodge hills where they had played in boyhood. But wben the ehip came into portend 'meeting, blanketed and. bitched his these sailors SaAir father andmother and horse at the curb. and at the lose of witeeed loved ones on the wharf. they the meeting walked home, passing his ho sprang ashore and ruebed on tem banks horse, which stood at the hitching post all night. into tbs eity, and the captain had to get another crew to bring the shin to ' Cold biscuits ware served for break - hex moorings, So beeven will after fast by a wife in Somerset, Maine, and awhile come so fully in sight WO oanto aoespt her 'Wedeln. It was with a. the husband became so abusive that she see its towers, its mansions, its hills i gentle smile that she looked into the and as we. go into port, and our laved ones shall call from that shining shore had him aTrested. The police justice acquitted him, on the &mind that the could fancy that the meetiageashe Was pitying eyes of her companion, and r to the, beach, leaving this old ship of husband had had sufficient cause for a display of temper. awheerenahwumarnorozd apah.eciations of what and speak our names we shall spring conveyin,g with swiftly rrioving tingeing the world to be managed by another I Jonah Crosby, of Tirzah, S.C.. was crew, our rough voyaging a the seas devoutly praying in church when the atty earlier questions had been adt ended fiorever. dressed to a quaint, elderly waiter at — slightly inacesnypeinsiteonIceind lahlims. hIAPs himmire wee! sothrethm°Z—e aitintl'hisa eepectaaNribo badtaielkn tosoart DEATH INFLICTED BY BOILING. removing it the weapon was discharg- to my well-helng, and who was the England. has four instances of the ed, voeunding him seriously. and the neseeee approach to a weed 1 possean. death penalty being legally carried out cacnistgramegpatrell. darted for the doors in ed within a hunda•ed miles of theplaree, It happened that X was lunching at by boiling. The first happened in 1532, Five weeks after marriage there was the open window one day when the carriage passed, a little earlier than ueuel. "That is the lady ot whom I was speaking," I said to him. Es looked out of the window with quick interest. "IA. dear little match if I may say so. Yes, and the gild; is deaf and dumb; she's taakin' upon hem fingers. Well, I thought from what aou told me they must he strangers in these parts, and se they are. X don't even know the homes nor the car - through her. might otherwise have gled,dened the wide world. I could not refrain from laughter at the emo- tions so su.ddenly a.roused in me. might bave be,en her lover, and this inability to hear er to epee& a cal- amity quite noway fallen lelion her. On, the next day, at about the same hour, the ca,r.riage wend alone the ?ength of the promenade. She wesstill innocently glad to be alive, andoontent when a men was "sodden in a caldron trospective act of Parliament was pass- trouble in the household of a family in Smithfield." In 1531 a Long.- Island City, N.Y., A. widow- special re- t„ • ed to deal with the case of John Reese, er with seven children had married a ethcaokokit,abeehnonhfatdhapoBisisonnclepd0sfomRnenfhoeoadtairn, widow with. a hank account and five and. he guttered in a similar way. In! , children. Tbe dispute was as to which of them should pay for shoes for the the samechildren. year a maid servant was . boiled to death at King's Lynn for I Peter Dessau, of Escondido, Cal, runs poisoning her mistress. In 1542 au - other maid servant named Margaret ; a winery a,nd a hog ranch. Not long Davy suffered the same fate for secret ago a vat of wine containing nine hun- poisoning in three households in which dredgallons was tapped by a hog be- nage 0 the punishment is partly explained by must have drawn eut the plug she had lived. The borrible nature of longing to a berd of forty. The animal Thus passed a perked ofseveral days, I began to find rnyseilf vastly batten feet that it was only employed against Peter discovered the leak every. When hogin' isoners, and to ebec.k an almost un- the herd waa drunk. and, -with the gratith of energy, to England from the continent, which was , A policeman of Richmond, Va., burn- when I should return to my work id look forward pleasurably to the time known form of crime imported into peculiarly abhorrent to the instincts ed his hand in snatching off the blaz- London. 1 had, on divers occasions, set forth on foot and explored the coast of the nation. ; ing bonnet of a woman who was just and the inland lanes for myself. 1 — - 1 emerging from a soda water store went alone, but never felt the absence HOW BALIYIORAL WAS CHOSEN. I where cigars are sold. The bonnet had of companions, for my expeditions al - Balmoral was not the. Queen's first been ignited by conaing.in contact with ways attooerkhich she might he expected place bee or after the °ohm Her majesty tell le toe, at the gas jet of a swinging cigar light- ho Gr. • to pass alone the orpmenade, and so first sight with Ardverikie, on Loch' I With a heavy shoe in her band, a my thoughts were always busy, Logan, and would have. purchased it from Lord Henry Bentinck, who then wiOr Chicago bride of three weeks, sat dis- whether th anticipation remenx- held the lease, had it not been for . consolate at midnight, waiting for her niers. ce. Never once did. ethe fait me; never the Prince Consort who wished to wait carousing husband. There was a steal- once did ;her affliotion seem to menthe UAW they had. seen something more thy footstep, and it entered her room. beautiful gaiety of her moo& It ao- at Scotchernnery. et!It proved to be that of a burglar. She peered that sles sawandenjoyed every s,,,aietroatnhe Bal -the moral district 'wee isad.n dgave him a whack on the jugular, and ilittalietthig that be neva ahatithhas Queen was much struck wee. thttne e beau- he dropped unconscious. heliener Sean's vanity' Firstreatl'lh ritii-de me weader whether she had patYoi rtculanralytlimtbeimpressed. .Te"srw"- heapurrch'ase on-Tnheerellegatvlo. tfalri wet Dnof hrtellteseete-he noticed the fact that a certain sal- wus settled at her Majesty's first visit I and the deeds drawn up forth,with. The ! a former opponent of tbe Sunday low invalid was always idling on the newsUsa - Prince Consort was, however, largely ; „ Paper, has become an advocate of it, de - his belief that changed times I had come to impleentand the routine &roomer° nualde at the hour when Ku instrumental in determining tbe a's-ring Queen's choice; hence her attachment have made it necessary, and that it has of theie daily outing. They were man - to Balmoral. which seems to have deep- ened since his death. STRINGENT FOOD LIA.WS, France knows how to protect the rights of her people. Anybody who dou.bts the genuineness of an article of food that he has purehased from a Par- isian tradesman may take it to the municipal laboratory for analysis. It will cost him nothing to have it ana- lyzed and the fact determined whether it is unadulterated, or adulterated, end. if the latter the law deals with the of- fender without further action on the part of the purchaser. The shopkeeper is liable to be heavily fined and impri- soned, and has to display conspiouously in his shop window dr on his door for a year a large placard bearing the werds, "Convicted of Adulteration." FOREST OF WATERSPOUTS. The British ship Herat, -which arriv- ed, 130 days from Celcutta, report- ed sighting what one of the sailors spoke of as a forest of waterspouts. That was on 1Vtareh 26, when the vessel was about two degrees south of the Equator. There were light, variable winds, and the sea was smooth. The spouts were two miles distant, and presented a mag- nificent spectaele, the sky being al- most black at their beads, amid ger- rounding blue, while their spiral col- umns glistened in the sunlight. They gradually broke without corning near- er the ship, whioh kept her course. DOESN'T TRUST MIAN. naturalist says that in captivity elephants always stand up when they sleep, but when in the jungle, theie own land and home, they lie down. The rea- son given for LW difference between Use elephant io captivity and freedom Id that tbe elephant never acquires cern- plete coefiderice in bis keepers, and al - was longs foe liberty. become a permanent feature of the Weeny living sometwOleme to the west of community's life. the town. Every day they went through( Charles IL Beckley, a millionaire the inland lane; at the beak of it until _ philanthropist of Mthey were a mile or two to the east, Muskegon, Mich., re- and then, descending seawards, drove stricts himself to simple living. It is home by the promenade and the road said of him that he has ridden in his that skirts the sea. family carriage only once, and then to Some dozen ox so cottager and a lit - attend a funeral, and that although he tie pier stood at the margin of the owns a fine summer residence on the sea. Inland a eder houses were seen lake prize-afigrhatreerly calledonthe Rev. the i among the fruitful oroherds. But at A Charles 1. Stengle, pastor of the Meth_ space of wild w• • i , mid this, as 1 edge of the el' e there was a little odist church, in Leipsio, Del., and tried loeked acmes the flower girown hedge, tempted me to rest. I «limbed the in- to rent the church for a sparring ex- ' tervening barrier and lay down in the hibition. The pastor's rebuke was met shelter of a little oak tree. The man - with insult, and the boxer was about light flooded a, wealth of bracken. fox- . to thrash the divine, when the latter gloves and. golden herve.steiveed. I lay throttled the bully and squeezed his at ea,se, content to welch stray butt neck until he was blue in the face. tea -flies that went lazily from flower Not. having sufficient confidence that to ihrwer a cat which he procured would rid his It may be -I silent. Certainly Iwas a taavinaaereuntleapt thI ew house of mice, a man in the City of :oloangeae was not lonble; Mexico .sprinkled a banana skin with occupant of the wood. Someone wao strychnine and left it where the mice singing softly through the fern. X could get it. This oat took the skin and ' could tell by the sound that the newt. dropped it into the water ler, and the comer was stopping here and there to whole family were poisoned. Their lives pick roweri were saved by applications of the store- Now, Iliad enjoyed. the solitude, but ach pump. even at the rest the person who was At Centralia, Mo. jives a man who , comingitowarcl me did not strike me has worn the seine gold collar button as at ntruder. Hex singing was in absolute concord With my mond; rt for forty years. It was presented to wets as it one had thought of a poem him when he started from his hOnlo and a moment later found oneselt hum - there with a drove of sheep for Califor- ming the melody that would make of nia in 185'7, ale wore it throughout it a perfent song. X lay and waited, his subsequent adventurous career in and the wager tome nearer. the Rocky Mountain States, British Co- i The ong emitted -when she oresentln lumbie the South during war time, the appeared. She was a little startled, but e West Indies, and Panama, i not nearly so raubh as 1 I "Then you are not dumb!' 'erica ! involimterily, es I ;started to nerfent. A-RTIFICEAL EARS. mouth, 1 She hesitated, and a little smile play - The making of extificiad ears seems ed about thet bus earners a p e to have reached ecientific perfection eet e733,,y a,uht who Id dutab," she within the last decade. Made bf a ape- said. .Then wi,th a euddea recovery of s , hallo preparect rubber, flesh -colored in her dignity, "It don't thaw why you the rough, they are painted by hand, should ask" in exact imitation of the rent/ening eer a3u4 that was a matter of no igirear of ihe unfortunate customm, and aft difeicully ha explaining me I earee carefully "touclied" and marked over back to London the happiest men on as an artist's picture. God's earth