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REV, DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON
ITS SIONIFICARCE.
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The Name Wiwi& is Above Every Name"
--et Stands ter Lege, ',silence, Mlles
ness, leerbeaesince, Sete:ewelace, Nag-
lianienity-reepie Who lend no Maim
In the Name -Dr. Talmage_ Hakes a
•Strong Plea tee tr.
A despatoh frora Washingtou says: -
Dr. Talro.age preached from the fol-
• lowing text: "A. name whieh is above
itvery other namea.-Phil. U. 9.
This was one of Paul's rapturous and
enthustaatic descriptions ot the name
of Jesus. By common proverb we have
come to believe that there is nothing
in a risme, and so parents sometimes
present their ehildren for baptist°. re-
gardless of the title given them, s.ncl
not thinking that that particular
title will be either a hindrance or a
help.. Strange mistake. l'ou have
no right to give your ehild a. name
that is lacking either in ettphonY or
moral meaning. It is a sin for you to
call your child jehoileina. or Tiglath-.
Pileser. BeCaU.Se you yourself may
ha,ve an exasperating name is no rea-
son why you should give it to those
who come after you. But how often
we have seen some name, filled -with
jargon, rattling down from generation
to generation, simply because some one
a; long while ago happened. to be af-
flicted with it. Institutions and en-
terprises have sometimes without suf-
ficient deliberation taken their no-
menclature. Mighty destinies hese
been decided by the significance of a.
name. There are men who all their
life long toil and tussle to get over
the influence of some unfortunate
name. While we may, through right
behavious and. Christian demeanor,
outlive the fact that we were baptized
by the name of a despot, or an infideL
or a, cheat, how much better it would
have been if we could have
started life without any such en-
cumbrance. When I find the A.pos-
tle, in my text, and in other parts of
his writing, .breaking out in ascrip-
tions of admiration in regard. to the
name of Jesus, I want to inquire what
ere some of the characteristics of that
appellation. And 0, that the Saviour
himself, while I speak, might fill me
with His own presence, for we never
can. tell to others that which we have
not ourselves felt.
First, this name of Jesus is an easy
name. Sometimes we are introduced
to people whose name is so long and
unpronounceable that we have sharp-
ly to listen, and to hear the name giv-
en to ILS tWO or three times, before we
venture to speak it. But within the
first two years the little child clasps
its hands, and looks up, and says:
"Jesus." Can it be. amid all the fami-
lies in this Church, there is one house-
hold where the little ones speak of
"father," and "rrlother," and "broth-
er;" and "sister," and not of "the name
which is above every name?" Some-
times we forget the titles of our very
best friends, and we have to pau,se and
think before we can recall the name..
Bat can you imagine any freak of in-
tellect in which you. could forget the
Saviour's designation? That word
Jesue seems to fit the tongue in every
dialect. When the voice in old age
gets feeble, and tremulous, and in-
distinct, still this regal word has po-
tent utterance. When, an aged man
was dying, and he had lost his mem-
ory 'of everything else, one of his chil-
dren said to him: "Father, do you know
me?" He replied: "No. I don't know
you." And another child came and
asked the same questton, and got the
same answer, and another, and anoth-
er. Then the minister of Christ came
In and said to the dying man: "Father,
do you know me?" He replied: "No, I
don't know you." Then said the min-
ister: "Do you. know Jesus 9" "0, yes,"
bald the old man. "I know Jesus. 'Chief
among ten thousand and the One al-
together lovely."' • Yes, in all ages,
• in all languages, and the world over,
it is an easy name.
"Jesus, I love Thy °beaming name,
*Tie music to my ear;
• Fain would I sound it out so loud
That heaven and earth might hear."
Still further: I remark it is a beau-
tiful name. You have noticed. that it
is impossible to dissociate a name from
} the person who has the name. So
there are names that are to me re-
? pulsive-I do not want to hear them
) at all -while those very names are at-
; treetive to you. Why the difference?
c It is because I happen to know persons
by those names who are cross, and sour,
and snappish, and queer, while the
persons you used to know by those
,) names were pleasant and attractive.
As we c•annot dissociate a name from
, the person who holds the name, that
• consideration makes Christ's name so
unspeakably beautiful, No sooner is
•'1 it pronounced in your presence than
you think of Bethlehem, and Gethsem-
ane, and Golgotha, and you see the lov-
ing bee, and hear the tender voice, and
feel the gentle touch. You see Jesus,
the one who, though banquetting with
heavenly hierarchs, come down to
breakfast on the fish that rough men
had just hauled out of Genessaret ;
Zesus, the one who, though the clouds
are the dust of His feet, walked
foot -sore on the road to Emmaus.
Just as soon as the name is pronounc-
ed in your presence you think of how.
the shining Orte gave back the cen-
turion's daughter, and how He help-
• ed the blind man to the sunlight and
how He made the cripple's crutch use-
• less, end How He looked down into
• the babe's laughing eyes, and, as the
little one struggled to go to Him,
flung out is arms around it, and im-
pressed a loving kiss on its brow, and
Said: "Of • suoh is the kingdom of
heaven." Beautiful name'Jesus1 It
• stands for love, for patience, for kind-
ness, for forbearanne, for self-saerifiee,
• for magnartimitte ft is aromatic with
all odors and accordant with all liar-
naorties. Sometimes I see that nanie,
• arid the lettere seem to be made out
• of tears, and then again they look like
gleaming crowns, Sometimes they
seem to me as thougb twisted out of
the straw on which He lay, and then
as though built out of the thrones on
which His people shall reign. Some-
times 1 sound that word, "Jesus," and
I hear coming through the two sylla-
bles the sigh of Gethsemane and, the
groan of Calvary; ad. again I sound
it, and it is all a -ripple with gladness
and.a-ring with hosanna. Take all the
glortea of book -bindery, and put theita
around the page where that name. is
printed. On Cbeistuaas morning
wreathe it on the wall. Let it dna"
from harp's string and thunder it out
in organdiapason, , Solana it .often,
sound it welt, until every star shall
seem to shine it, and every flower
shell seem to breathe it, and moun-
tain and sea, and day and night, and
earth and heaven acclaim In full
chant: "Blessed be His glorious name
every-evnear. name." haine that is above
m
jesus, the name high over all,
In heaven, and earth, and sky."
To the repenting soul, to the ex-
hausted invalid, to the Sunday -school
girl, to the snow-white octogenarian,
it is beautiful. The old man comes in
, from a long walk, and tremblingly
opens the doors, and hemp his ha: on
the old nail, and sets his cane in the
usual corner, and lies down on a
couch, and says to his childrea and
grandchildren: "My dears, I am go-
ing to leave you." They say: 'Why,:
where are you going, grandfather ?
"I am going to Jesus." And so the
old man faints away into heaven. The
little child comes in from play, and
throws herself on your lap, and TVs'
"Mengel% I am so sick, I am so stele."
And you put her to bed, and the
fever is worse and worse, until in
some midnight she looks up into your
face and says: "Mumma. kiss Me,;
And
dd-biaae, Isaaym: going away from you.
"My dear, where are
You going to?" And she says: "I am
going to Jesus." And. the red cheek
which you thought was the mark of
the fever, only turns out to be the
carnation bloom of heaven 1 0, yes;
it is a sweet name spoken by the lips
of childhood, spoken by tlae old man.
Still furth.er : It is a mighty name.
Rothschild is a potent name in the
commercial world, Cuvier in the
scientific
world; but tell me any name in al)
gor da, IPAT°71 el irnflag-
ton a mighty name in the i
oriiirde,raIryrvivn.
name in the
military
the earth so potent to awe, and lift,
and thrill, and rouse, and agitate, and
bless, as this name of Jesus. That one
word unhorsed Saul, and flung New-
ton on his face on ship's deck, and to-
day holds a hundred million of the
race with omnipotent spell. That
name in England to -day means more
• than Victoria; in Germany. means
more than King William; in Italy,
means more than Garibaldi or Victor
Emanuel. I have seen a man bound
hand and foot in sin, Satan, his hard
task -master, in a bondage from which
no human power could deliver him,
and yet at the pronunciation of that
one word he dashed down his chains
and marched out for ever free. 1 have
seen a man overwhelmed with disaster
the last hope fled, the. last light gone
out; that name pronounced in his
hearing, the sea, dropped, the clouds
scattered, and a sunburst of eternal
gladness poured into his soul. I have
I seen a man hardened in indiclelity, de -
,seen a man hardened in infidelity, de-
fiant of God, full of scoff and jeer,
jocose of the judgment, reckless of an
unending eternity, at the mere pro-
nunciation of that. name blanch, and
cower, and quake, and pray, and sob,
I and groan, and believe, and rejoice. 0,
i it is a mighty name! At its 0-
' teranee the last wall of • sin will
fall, the last temple of superstition
crumble, the last Juggernaut of cruel-
ty crash to pleees. That name will
first make all the earth tremble, and
then it will make allothe nations sing.
It is to be the password at every gate
of honour, the insignia on every flag,
the battle shout in every conflict. All
the millions of the earth are to know
• The red horse of carnage seen in
,• apocalyptic vision, and the black horse
l of death, are to fall back on their
, haunches, and the nhite horse of vic-
tory will go forth, mounted by Him
who hath the moon under His feet, and
the stars of heaven for bis tiara Other
dominions seem to be giving out; this '
seems to be enlarging. Spain has had
to give up much of its draninien. Aus-
tria has been wonderfully depleted in
power. France had, to surrender some
of her favourite provinces. Most of
the thrones of the world are being low-
ered, most of the sceptres of the world
are being shortened; but every Bible
printed, every tract distributed, 'every
Sunday -school class taught, every
school founded, every church establish-
ed, is extending the power of Christ's
name. That name has already been
spoken under the Chinese wall, and in
Siberian snow -castle, and in Brazilian
grove, and in eastern pagoda. That
name is to swallow up all other names.
That crown is to cover up all other
crowns. That empire hi to absorb all
other dominations:
"All crimes shall cease, and. ancient
frauds shall fail,
Returning justice lift aloft her scale;
Peace o'er the world her olive wand
extend,
And white -robed Innocence from hea-
ven descend.
Still further; it is an enduring name.
You clamber over -the fence of the
graveyard and pull aside the weeds,
and you see the faded inscription on
the tombstone. That was the name of
the man who once ruled all that town,
The mightiest names of tlie world have
either perished or are perishing. Gre-
gory VI., Sancho -of Spain, Conrad I.
of Germany, Richard 1, of England,
Louis XVI. of France, Catherine of
Russia -mighty names once, that made
the world tremble; but now, none so
poor as to do them reverence, and to
the great mass of people they mean
absolutely nothing; they never heard
of them, Bat, the name of Chriet is
to endure for ever. It will be 'perpet-
uated in art, for there will be other
Bellinis to depict the Medonnto there
will be, other Ohlriancljne to represent
C'brist's baptism; there will be other
Bronzinos to show us Christ visiting
the prison; other Giottos to appall
our sight with the erucifixion. The
name will be preserved in song, for
there will be other Alexander Popes
to write the "Messiah," other Dr.
Youngs to pertray fl.Is triumph; &her
Cowper :4 to sing rii4 tom it will he
preserved in costly and magnificent
architecture, for Proteslaniern is yet
to have its St. IVfarits and its St. Pet-
ers. That name will be, preserved in
the literature of the world, for already
it is embalmed in the best books, and
there will be other Dr, Paleys to write
— ,
the "Evidences of Christianity," and
other Riehard Baxters to describe the
Savioter's corning to lodgment. But
above all, and more than all, that name
will be embalmed in the memory of all
the good of earth and all the great
ones of heaven, l'l7111 the delivere1
bondman of earth ever forget who
freed him? I,Vill the blind, man of
earth forget who gave him sight? 'Will
the outcast of earth forget who
broaght hire hornet No! Nal To de-
stroy the memory of that name of
varlet, you wool(' have to burn asp
all the 13ibles and all the, churches„on,
earth, and then in a spirit ot univer-
sal arson go through the gates of hea-
ven, and put a toreli to tbe teinple,
and the temples, and the palaces, and
after all that city was wrapped in aw-
ful conflagration, and the citizens
came out and gazed on the ruin -even
then, they would hear that name in
the thunder of falling' tower and the
crash of crumbling wall, and see it
hie taught in the flying banners of
flame, and the redeemed of the Lord
on high would be happy yet and, ory
out; "Let the palaces and the tellePles
burn, we have Jesus left!" . "Blessed
be His glorious name for ever and -ever.
The name that is above every name."
Rave you ever made up your mind
by what name you will °all Christ
when you meet Him in heaven? You
know he has many names. Will you
call him Jesus, or the Annointed
One, or the Messiah, or will you take
some of the symbolical names which
on earth you learned frora your Bible?
Wandering some day in the garden
of God on high, the place a -bloom with
eternal epringtide, infinite luxuri-
ance of rose, and lily, and amaranth,
you may look up into his face and say:
"My Lord, Thou art the Rose of Shar-
on and. the Lily of the Valley."
Some day, as a soul comes up from
earth to take its place in the firma-
ment, and shine as a star for ever and
ever, and the luster of s. useful life
shall beam forth tremelous aiad.beauti-
ful, you may look up into the face of
Christ
orever."azidsay: "My Lord, Thou art a
brighter star -the Morning Star - a
star
Wandering some day amid the foun-
tains of life that toss in the sunlight
and fall in crash of pearl ancl ame-
thyst in golden and crystalline urn,
and you wander up the round -banked
river to where it first tingles its
silver on the rock, and out of the chal-
ices of love you drink to honour and
everlatting joy, you may look up into
Thou art the Fountain of Living
mthltetfearceof Christ and say: "My Lord,
.„
Some day wandering amid the lambs
and sheep in the heavenly pastures,
feeding be- the reek, rejoicing in the
presence of him who brought you out
of the wolfish wilderness to the sheep-
fold above, you may look u.p into His
loving and watchful eye, and say: "My
ltvoredriaoTthtoogH
Thou art Shepherd of the
E
But there is another name you may
select. I will imagine that heaven is
done. Every throne has its king. Ev-
ery harp has its harper. Heaven laas
gathered up everything that is worth
having. The treasures of the whole
universe have poured into it. The song
full. The ranks' full, The mansions
full. Heaven full. The sun shall set a-
fire with splendor the domes of the
temples, and burnish the golden streets
into a blaze, and be reflected back from
the solid pearl of the twelve gates, and
it shalt be noon in heaven, noon on tbe
i river, noon on the hills, noon in all the
j valleys -high noon. Then the soul may
look h
ok utp,oisgradvuailolo,yaccustoming itself
I
eyes as from the shading
h
almost the
sufferable splendour of the noonday
light, until seuntteil”lthe vision can endure it,
crying out: "Thou art the Sun that
n
At this point I am staggered with
the thought notwithstanding all the
charm in the name of Jesus, and the
fact that it is so easy a name, and so
beautiful a name, and so potent a
name, and so enduring a name, there
are people in this house who find no
charm in those two syllables. 0,00108
this day and see whether there is
anything in Jesus. I challenge those
of you who are farther from God to
come at close of this service and test
with me whether God is good, and
Christ is gratieus. and. the Holy Spirit
is. omnipotent. I challenge you to
come and kneel down with me at the
altar of mercy. I will kneel on one
side of the altar, and you kneel on the
other side of it, and neither of us will
rise up until our sins are forgiven,
and we ascribe, in the words of the
text, all honour to the name of Jesus
-you pronouncing it, I pronouncing it
-the name that is above every name.
"His worth if all the nations knew,
Sure the whole earth would love
Him too." .
0, that God this morning, by the
power of His Holy Spirit, would roll
over you a vision of that blessed Christ,
and you would begin to weep, and pray,
and believe, and rejoice, You have
heard of the warrior who went out to
fight against Christ. Be knew he was
in the wrong, and while waging the
war against the Kingdom of Christ,
an arrow struck bite; anci he fell. It
pierced him in the heart, and lying
there, his face to the sun his life -blood
running away, he caught a handful of
the blood that was rushing out in his
right hand, and held it up before the
sun and cried out: "0 Jesus, Thou
host conquered!" And if to -day the
arrow of God's Spirit, piercing yohr
soul, you felt the truth of what I have
been trying to proclaim, you would.
surrender now and for ever to the Lord
who bought you. Glorious name! I
know not whether you will accept it
or not; but r will tell you one thing
here and now, in the presence) of angels
and men, r take Him to be my Lord,
ray God, my pardon, my peace, my life
nay joy, nay salvation, my heaven !
"Blessed be His glorioue name for ever.
The name that is above every name."
" Hallelujah I unto Him that sitteth
upon the throne and unto the Lamb for
ever and ever. Amen and Amen and
Ara en."
AN HONEST TRADESMAN.
Customer -What's the dig:trends be-
tween these woolen undershirts?
Dealer -One is half cotton, and the
other is whole cotton.
A DRA.11,TH OF GAME.
Hear about Gunning? While out
hunting the other day he shot a point-
er for which he had paid $125.
What was the matter -were there no
men in the vicinity? .
ME SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, OCT. 16.
Temple Repaired," 2 Citron, 24,418.
Oolden 'S'ea(, 2 Citron, 34, 82.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 4. After this. Probably after
the young king's marriage. joash,
The great-grandson of Jehoshaphat. His
reign began B. C. 878, and lasted for-
ty years. No other king of ju.dali as-
cended the throne at so early an age.
Minded, The mind determines the deed.
The minds of boys and girls,' from
which all their acts come,. should cher-
ish noble purposes. Observe that when
this king "was minded" to do a noble
deed he did not stop there. He actu-
ally did it. Our being "minded" to
do a thing often goes no further. To
repair. Not only must evil institutions
be destroyed; good ones should be es-
tablished. The house of the Lord. If
one really loves the Lord, he will have
a tender regard for the Lord's house.
God's cause is left in human hands,
fox' God honors men by making them
workers with himself. The importanoe
of the houee of the Lord, the temple of
Jerusalem, as a religious and. politi-
cal center, cannot he overestimated.. It
was the depositery of the sacred and
political documents of the nation, and
was a sort of museum of historical cur-
iosities and of the arms of heroes, But
more than all else it stood. as a monu-
ment of strength, representing the
visible kingdom of God, although kings
and people at times went astray. As
Dr. S. L. Beller has said: "Politioally
it was the central magnet that held
together, and the dynamo that ever
rekindled fires of patriotism. Religi-
misty, even amid idolatrous shrines, it
was a stimulus to •the worship of Je-1
hovah. When closed it was a sermon
In stone, and its restoration was con-
neeted with every religious reforma-
tion. Morally it was in Judah what
conscience is in every human breast
-a reminder of God and the law." The
temple had much to do with judah's
not falling into corruptIon as rapidly
as did Israel, and hence the smaller
kingdom was taken into exile till
naore than a century after Samaria.
Tile restoration and preservation of the
temple was evidently one purpose of
Tu.dahes return from captivity.
5. The priests and .the Levites.
These hereditary officers of the tem-
ple and its worship might be expected
to feel a deep interest hi the work.
All Israel. Everybody everywhere who
could be induced to contribute. Money.
This money came from three sources:
1. The ordained assessment of half a
shekel, about thirty cents, on each
adult citizen for the expense of the
public worship, Exod. 30. 12. 2. Money ,
received from those who had bound
themselves by vows; and in that age I
the solemn religious vow was a fre-
quent act. 3. Voluntary gifts. It is
noticeable that, in that day, as in this,
freewill offerings raised most money.
The people had not paid the Mosel° .
tax, but the free collection paid for '
all the repairs and left a surplus. See
that ye hasten the matter. If the re-
storation of the temple were to have
its proper moral and religious effect,
it must be promptly done. The Levites
hastened it not. Mere formal ritual
services have no power to impart ear-
nestness, a.ncl tend to death rather
than to life.
6. The king called for jehoitida. It
is a noble sight this, of the youthfut
king deciding to be a leader in good
rather than a follower in evil. He
who begins by mastering lessons and
temptations prepares to rule well in
life. But, after all, the king had to
look after his plans himself. The
reviles to whom he first left it
seem to have put the money into
their own pockets, 2 Kings, 112.
7; at all events, their work
was not effective; but when the king
made his own arrangements he suc-
ceeded. Do not leave your duties to
be done by deputy. jehoiada. A
grand old character -the king's uncle.
He had, as the narrative in chapter
23 implies, carried on Jehovah% ser-
vices all through the dark days of idol-
atry. He had preserved the temple
from the very worst desecration. He
and his wife together had preserved
the little Joash also, and had planned
the revolution that put him on the
throne.And joaih's noble behavior
far the first quarter of e century of
his reign seems to have been largely
due to his heeding the good counsels
of old Jehoieda. It is an unspeakably
mournful consideration that the good-
ness of joash went away like the morn-
ing dew, and. that after jehoiada's
death he slew the good priest's son on
the very spot where his own corona,
tion had. taken place. Collection. The
assessment. As we have seen, the re-
quirements of the law had been ne-
glected. The tabernacle of witness.
Which in Moses's time stood, as the
temple stood at this time, for the
central worship of God.
• 7. Sone. Probably jehoram's elder
sons. Athaliala. Daughter of Ahab and
Jezebel and. wife of Jehoram. Her his-
tory is one of the most dramatic 're-
corded in the Bible. Broken up. Plun-
dered. 13esides the willful damage
thue dune, the walls had been cracking
with age. Baalim. A general terra
Lor idols, but especially the Phenieian
form of worship, introduced by Jeze-
bel into Israel and Athalial into ju-
dah.
8. The king's tommandment. The
matter was taken from the hands of
the Levites, who had lost the confi-
dence of the people, and was now man-
aged direotly by officers of the crown.
At the. gate. Thus appealing to the
aympathies of the worshipers as they
remembered the iormer magnifieence,
and contrasted it with the evident pre-
sent decay.
9. Made a proclaanation. The king,
noting with Jehoiada, set in motion all
the eivil and religious machinery of
the nation to advance his noble plans,
10. All the princes and all the peo-
ple. The "primes" were Jocal raagis-
trace and. nobles; the "people.' were
the same fickle multitudes who had,
oheerfully Indulged in gross idolatry.
• Their present enthusiasm wee shorl,
lived, 'tjetil they had made an end.
Till the whole nation had eontributed.
11, This verse shows the cheeks upon
maladministration, negligence) and
fraud which had been provided. The
ng's office. A publie place. Perhaps,
however, it ehoulcl read, the king's
"inspeetion." The king's sortbe. The
chief official of the royal treaatny,
The high priest's officer. Act:lording
to the story in the Book of Kings, Je-
hoiada did thia himself. Doubtless he
olosely supervised the whole work,
!Day by day. Every day of the week,
until means for repairs had come in
abundanote The temple was not, like
too many of our churches, a place of
• worship only on Sundays and at prear-
ranged hours during the week. It
was constantly open, and worship was
constantly offered within its holy pre -
eine tle.
12Theiff andt`ahoftheStatfdte tegVee
h
Suoh as did the work, Better, the
worktaaster or contractor. The
service of the house. Not religious
service, but work done for the repair
of the house,
13. In his state, According to its
original plans.
FAlTEI.FUL FLUSH.
Few faithful pets have received so
charming a tribute as Mrs. Browning
paid to her devoted little spaniel in
the well-known poem, "To Flush, my
Dog." It is pleasant, in her published
letters, to true the career of her cauth
loved and loving Flush, who was the
companion of his mistress during all
the most important episodes of her
life. Given to Mrs. Browning when she
was yet Miss Barrett by her friend,
Miss Mitford, Flush became and long
remained. the partner of her seclud-
ed life as an invalid, confined to her
MOW.. -
He was a beautiful little creature,
long-eared., silky -haired, large -eyed,
golden -brown in color, with a white -
breast, and full of intelligence and
spirit. Nevertheless, it was affection in
which he excelled-arefusing from the
first, any invitation to sport or exercise
beyond the bounds of the small, half -
darkened chamber, showing an almost
human sympathy with the sufferer,
and making tireless efforts in all pret-
ty doggish ways to divert or comfort
her.
He slept With his head against her
cheek at night, and in the daytime
when she was reading Greek, hie long
ears drooped down upon one page of
the big folio, while her eyes trawelled
down the other. When she was some-
what better, he would accompany her
wheeled chair or leap into it.
Twice he was stolen, -once in Italy,
once in England, and there was great
turmoil and trouble until he was re-
covered. The first time his 'poor, fraU
little mistress was siok with distress
until he was restored -by the payment
of six guineas and a half to the thieves,
who explained complacently that they
had been looking out for a chance to
steal him for two years; and that,
moreover, they should Steal him again
if they could, and that another time
they would not give him up under ten
guineas
"I tell poor Flushie," she wrote,
"while he looks earnestly in my face,
that he and I shall be ruined at last,
and I shall have no more money to
buy him cakes; but the worst Is the
anxietyl Whether I am particularly
silly or not I don't know; they say
here that I am; but it seems to me im-
possible for anybody who really cares
"When he was brought home he be-
ing in the hands of those infamous men;
and then I know how Flushie must feel
it.
"Wh.er he was brought home he be-
gan to cry in his manner -whine, as if
his heart was full. It was just what
I was inclined to do myself; but we
are both recovered now, thank you, and
intend to be very prudent for the fu-
ture."
"When he was brought home he be -
Browning. Flush accompanied the poet-
ic pair to Italy, and his happy mistress
-then greatly improved in health --
wrote gaily that Robert spoiled him
quite as much as she did, while Flush
evidently considered Robert created for
his especial convenience, to open doors,
and would nearly bark his head off
if this task were not always prompt-
ly performed.
Later, when her baby was born, Flush
was at first extremely jealous; but
in a year or two the tables were turn-
• ed, and it was the little boy who roared
with jealous wrath if his mother took
Flush up instead of himself; • while
Flush had. teamed to regard the child
with a kind. of lofty • toleration, very
amusing to behold.
Flush died, after a long life, in Italy,
and was buried in the vaults of Casa
Guidi, the dwelling made famous by
his mistress's poem, and now bearing
a tablet in her honor.
• A HAPPY THOUGHT.
Treasurer Below Par Railroad- Let
me help you to some more of the
money.
First Director -No thank you, I have
eat I can spencl without attracting at-
tention. °
ttreseurer-Permit me—
Second Director -No, No! Thanks,
no. I couldn't carry . another cent.
Pockets all bursting now. Same way
with all the others.
Treasurer, in despair -What shall I
do with all this pule? -It's ten times
too much for the sining fund.
First Direetor, after deep meditation
--By Jove! I have it. Let's deolare
SHE CONCURS.
I have just been reading a curious
book. It shows that very fewmen of
genius live happy -With their wives. • I
Wonder if that's the reason we don't
seem to get along any better?
She -It must be. You have EV Rog-
Lili,esI. genius for inakiee fool of your -
The epproval of your conseientse is
an excellent thing, but it is not stili' -
Cit to get you a raise of salary
BAVARIA' Kin YfAS NAB
HIS SUBJECTS LOVED HIM IN SPITE
• OF HIS WEAKNESS,
Danner Romantically laysterions at
First, Settles Into Madness -Das Seem,.
sot King Otto :t Madman,
King Louis II. of 13avaria ascended
the throne at; the early age of nine-
teen. From the early days of his reign
his subjects adored him; all who ap-
proached him praised the charm of his
Manner and conversation, There was
something of mystery in his very
smile, and at times his eyee Seemed
to be searching for something' they
could not find; his raind seemed filled
with dreams and fantasies, and Ba-
varia boasted of having for a sover-
eign a veritable king of romance. But
their 'manic king was also a very
wise king and at one time wrote to
the administrative eouneils of his
capital persuading theta to set aside
for benevolent purposes a part of the
money intended for a certain festival.
He was obeyed, end nearly two mil-
• lion dollars whieh had been raised was
set aside to aid the poor. At the same
time Louis II, gave from his own in-
heritance two 'millions dollars to be
used in encouraging art and science.
As popular as he was then, although
no one did him the injustice to doubt
his reason, there had been observed in
his conduct,' in his habits, his charac-
ter and his language, singularities
WHICH SHOCKED AND DISQUIETED
his people. At first his subjects de-
plored his obstinacy in not marrying.
At one time he appeared to have con-
ceived an affection for the Princess
Sophia, of Bavaria. Upon leaving a
ball where he had declared himself, he
mounted bis horse, galloped. into tlae
forest, and, until dawn, told. his love
to the stars. This passion very soon
cooled, however, arta ever afterward he
had the strongest; distaste for wo-
men. they inspired him with an invin-
cible aversion, and, excepting his
mother, the Princess Gisela, and the
Empress of Austria, he scorned them
all. He remembered that his grand-
father had lost his throne for having
to deeply loved Lola Moixtez.
Louis II. now gave himself more and
more to solitude; he would pass months
almost entirely alone in his beloved
mountains, where he believed himself
a thing apart, seeming to consider his
Majesty diminished when he approach-
ed the lower ranks of humanity. His
subjects loved him in spite of his weak -
nese. It was a severe blow when he
recognized in a Hohenzollern the suc-
cessor of the Wittlebach, and he was
obliged to yield to the stern and
hatghty Bismarck, and content him-
self, with the favours which the prince
granted him. Be considereci the true
kites as being the only sovereign who
exercised absolute power; and every-
thing now reminded him of his de-
pe,ndenc,e. From day to day
HE FELT MORE KEENLY
the awful disappointment. He became
a prey to gloomy fancies, and the dis-
orders of, his mind changed into a set-
tled wildness. He did not wish to
eurvive his glory, and resolved to put
an end to his life. But before leaving
this world he determined to deprive
of life the physician who had pronounc-
ed him insane. He eagerly sought an
opportunity -and found it. His sad,
tragic life• closed shortly after.
The misfortune is that he left his
Grown to another maniac. It was gen-
erally thought in Europe that Prinee
Luitpold would be proclaimed king in-
stead of his nephew, Otto, but it was
decided that this could not be done se -
cording to constitutional right, and
the Bavarians were consequently con-
demned for long years to the difficul-
ties and embarrassments of an un-
fortunate regency,.Little is. permit-
ted to become public 'concerning the
condition of Otto, but quite recently a
rumor escaped that he had become
very feeble, and that his death might
be expected.at any raoment.
DEPOPULATION OF FRANCE.
Influx of Foreigners Prevents the Dperease
Becoming Apparent.
The returns of the census for France
which was taken on March 29, 1897,
have now been published and compar-
ed with the statistics of the previous
census, waich was taken six weeks be-
fore, on April 12, 1891. A. year ago
the oumber of people in France was
38,228,969, and at the 1891 census it
was 38,095,150, so that in the six years
the population of France had only in-
creased by 133,819 persons. A.nd even
this trifling increase is more appar-
ent than real, for it has taken place
.entirely in tee large towns, and is dee
to the' influx of foreigners, sueb. as
Belgians and Italians, who are to be
Lound. in increasing nuMbers among
the urban populations of ranee.
In only twenty-four departments is
there any increase; in sixty-three •de-
partments there is a positi,a° falling
off, and this is more especially mark-
ed in the rural communes. Riven more
than in England does the population
flock from the country to • the town,
and yet we are always bearing of the
perfect nature of the French agrarian
laws and of the advantages of ma.11
holdings. The fact is, that small hold -
inn tend to keep down the rural pop-
ulation, for the eubdivision of fields
has now got to such a Weh t
family at all often means sta
to a man and wife.
For years past: the •Itrenth
tion has only been kept from s
an absolute decrease by the in
foreign workmen into the great
and yet the French allow th
of the colonial party to drag t
to ridicule:le enterprises abroa
benefit of a few greedy office
funotionaries. A nation with
oreasing population can never
&ties, and the French may
mired thee: sooner or later
onies will go the way of those p
by' the aister &that Stated.
NOTES ..4ND COMMENTS.
The liorrora of a battlefield are tlie
ntost hideous and ghastly that one can
possibly eoneetve. • There are . many -
events which of themselves do not.
cause a tithe of the suffering and de -
sedation of battle, but which excite In
greater degree all the emotions ot
fear, dread and abhoreetee whieh go tot
make up horror. There ate mis,
chances and even endings which are
foreseen, and for which the mind is
thus in a measure prepared, that yet
arouse much deeper horror than tlae
rigid corpses and soaltered equipxnent
of a battlefield. It is the resentment
against the thought: of the many lives
suddenly ended by shot and shell, thakm-6-150001,
is the base of the popular horror of
war. But the very fact that these
sudden and violent deaths are an in-
evitable and grewsome feature of
war, tends to diminish the horror ex-
cited by its visible results on the
field. The mental shock is weakened
by expectation, and the revulsion ot
the moral nature attenuated by
thought of the noble purpose for
which life was sacrificed.
It is well to remember that the
combination of emotions which we call
horror does not depend for intensity
upon 'the amount of pain and desola-
tion. It depends rather upon the un-
Madiness of the mind to contemplate
misery and suffering-. A. sudden
death by drowning or a; fall from a
housetop will excite horror, where the
death of the same person after a long
and severe illness ex:altos only pity.
The answer af six hundred riderless
horses to the bugle call after one of
the battles of the Franco-Prussian
war, was in its intellectual surprise
more horrible than the sight of the
stiffened corpses on the field. The
onlookers were prepared for the fami-
liar sight of the slain, but not for the If
sudden revelation of the extent of 3
the human suffering and misery made
by the trooping of the horses. The
degree of horror thus depends on the
entire unexpectedness of the cause
and the resultant intellectual shook,
rather than on the pain and sorrow
involved in the effect,
There are, however, many events
which exCite horror for which the
mind is prepared, and which can,
therefore, cause but little intellectual
surprise. Take for example, the death
of the drunkard or the debauchee. His
whole course of life tends to prepare
the onlookers for the end he finally
reaches. Nothing but the death of a.
brute would satisfy the inexorable and.
righteous law that as a man sows so
shalt he reap. Yet when thejeaevit-
able ending comes the horror is often
none the less because of the intelleo-
heal expectation of it. Indeed, it is
not infrequently greater than that
excited by death by war or mischance.
Nevertheless, the intensity ese the hor-
ror still depends on the shock receiv-
ed, though in this case it is moral,
not intellectual. The whole career of
the victim, and the extent of the mis-
ery in which he involved himself and
others, are after all so unnatural and
repellant, that, viewing the completed
whole, one receives a moral shook
greater even than would have proved
the intellectual shock had one been
unprepared for the issue,
• ---
lt may be doubted, in.deed, whether •
the sights of the battlefield ever ex-
cite the full intensity of horror, As •
we have said, the basis of horror of
this kind is mainly the thought of
the number of human lives suddenly
blotted out, the abrupt ending of so
many useful careers. But death comes
to all men, and to few with more en-
nobling effect than to those who dis-
interestedly yield up life in the ser-
vice of their country. Indeed the
willingness of so many men to lose N
life in defence of a great principle or
national cause is a testimony to the
reel nobility of human nature` It
would be unsafe to say that the men
who thus die would have better serv-
ed their kind had they lived on to die
from natural causes. ratrue, there is
horror of a certain kind in the abrupt-
ness of their taking off. But the as-
sumption that war entails these re-
sults attenuates the mental • shock,
while the moral shock is diminished
by belief that lives thus lost cann.ot
justly be deemed wasted. They are
dosed in the diseherge of a high duty,
in disregard of selfish fears, and mere
often than hot in such a- way as to
make them a fragrant memory.
NEW GOLD FIELDS. •
10,000 charm soaked out Ji, the ‘111u, Lake
District, 11.14
Reliable news comes from the Aetlin '
•Lake district, British Columbia, that
British Columbia officials there are re-
porting to Ottawa that the gold-beariri
area, of Aetlin district is known to be
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