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EZEKIEL THE 1,DIVINE DREAMER
The, Res sibt!it its of Author& and News.
paper Writers' Are Great -That Which
People Read Decides The eIorads or
40:1-
Xeemeoeues. Their Prosperity or Ten-
ure, Thor peeth oz reibeilef
le tee wet* -eta* ea J113=1:/
WAY awe erune 4yeetnear ieeet,
Itteatitee: caecteiteee ..4 .autto ateee-
*Mee brought, to bear xur teee %retains
ituproveurene. ate, text is iezetena
el. -Anil one 'mar. among theta
d with linen, wait 0. write
ro by les ;tate."
tea frontwAie nee- text. is
eitiei eyrie. dramatic., weird
verposterie . It, is more than
eque. No one ever
t• iitteeene as Linehiel.
Osiont this propeet had seen
il angels., distroying augels.
with a sword, Lint in ute• text
intreifia .iegel with an
. lie receptaele for the int; iu
olden was tattle out of the horn
or
4 VOW or a rata or e roebuelt, :es
rtow it is outdo otit of meat' or glees.
god therefore was ailied au int -Joan,
ke/ nue; We eay ilikstand. WO ilaNS`
4%11 seokeu of the potter of the sword.
O t the power of weelte, of the ptio•er
of office, a the 1.,,w,r a seeial intat-
entee, but ttotioy 1 epeatt. of the pow-
er for itootl or evil in the irdistand.
It is !Inca your oil 1, s, holding a
black or alue or red !amid. lt is a.
fertreste an @emcee:. a gateway, a.
elitism) ter a 407,o,l,riort. "You 2S'.
t" • eays wee ere. -it ie the pot
thot hes the power.- No, arty friend.
Matt ie tne intim eve of a Ore, pent
paste ii ate tied down .I, eileel of pa-
pet.arel it leaea; no merit. It ex-
Xet vieetion. li gives zee
Warning. It sioteids nee intelligence.
Xt iti the liiiniii ei.icit the in dips
oat of the inationtil that does the
'worn. IliTe Mid there 4 celebreted
pen, with which rt. lieelaration of In-
Seependertee or a Magna Cbarta or a
treaty was sawed bas been kept in
literary museum or national archives
but for the most part the pens,
whether, as of old, nettle out of reed
Or later of wing ter bird or still later
tte metallic stile -Wince, have disan-
tareed, utile thi• liquid which the
scrolls witicia if put together,
las took from the inkstand remains
InOuld be large enough to enwrap the
Mind world. For practical, for
oral, for reiigious, for eternal pur-
aoses, I speak of the mission of the
fteiter's inkhorn.'
irst, I mention that which is
lamely domestic. The inkstand is ha
..ery household. It awaits the op-
Wiortetuity to express affection or con-
olence or advice. Father uses it;
zaother uses it; the sons and dough-
' s use it. It tells the home news;
comounces the marriage, the birth,
%he el •parture, the accident, the last
sickness. the (teeth. That home ink-
stand, what a mission it has already
executed, and 'whet other missions
will it yet fulfill! May it stand off
from all insincerity and all queru- _ha]e the re olence of
Burke and Edward Irving, while to .
letusness. Let it tell only that i the ithite lilies of universal pea.ce. Is
make music for us Handel and Mo IL it would be well to read after t it not 'time that the boasted invene
the hand that wrote it and the hand , zaxt and Mendelssohn come in, and tion of new and more explosive and
we watch Collin:thus landing and see
that reeeived it ean write no more. - more widely devastating weapons of
John liarvard's legacy of Je900 paid
Itip out of that inkstand only that 1 death be stopped forever and the gos-
'will& is paternal, maternal, filial, over for the founding of Harvard pel have a chance and the question
i University, and •Joshua Reynolds
sisterly, brotherly. Sacred let it be not asked, How many shots can
' and David Wilkie and Rembrandt
be not to what are sometimes called ' be fired in a minute? but How many
tell us of their pictures. Oh, the
the '4household gods," but to the one - souls may be ransomed in a day?
and the only God who "setteth the i„ books! Thank God for the books, The world needs less powder d
solitary in fainnies." Inp out of it t and thanks be to all the authors! more grace, fewer fortresses and more
de of years and encouragement
solace for parents on the descending
steeps.
for those who are climbing the i vine inspiration!
do well to Warne the publisher, but
May the inkhorn ever be under di -
When a. bad book is printed you eyesightoc hf marcutr 1 lcehpe wos .waa rieneredsr sitteohop eosawasn
vpedile. i. nit thoer heed,destroyxtIbionngeu si sain naandnceddk
Tbe °ravers and glass blowers are most ot all blame the author. The
malaria rose from his inkstand. Th
poison that caused the moral or spir
itual death dropped in the fluid from
the tip of his pen. The manufactur
er of that ink could tell you that i
is made of tannin and salt of iron
and nutgalls and green vitriol, bu
many an author has dipped from hi
inkstand litipercriticism and znalevol
ence and slander and salaciousnes
as from a. fountain of death. Eu
blessed be God for the author's ink
stand in 10,000 studies which ar
dedicated to pure intelligence, high
est inspiration and grandest purpose
They are the inkstands out of which
will be dipped the redemption of the
world. The destroying angels with
their swords seen in Ezekiel's vision
will be finally- overcome by the mer
ciful angel with the writer's ink
horn.
Among the most important are th
editorial and reportorial inkstands
The thick ink on. the printera epller
is different from the ink into which
the writer dips his pen and is com
pounded of linseed oil and larapblaek
and made thick by boiling or burn
ing. But the editorial and repor
toriel pens are responsible for that
which the printhr's ink roller in
presses upon the flying sheet. Where
one _man reads a book, 5,000 men
read a newspaper. What change o
opinion in regard to the printing
press since the day when the great
Addison wrote concerning it, "One
cannot but be sorry that such a per-
oicious machine is erected among
them," and when, under the reign of
Charles II., only one newspaper, the
London Gazette, was allowed to be
printed, and that enly on Monday
and Thursdays! Not until the
judgmeet slay, waste the
fortes• wkirat leave influeneed
'the werld shall Ite compared and an-
atouneed, will be Leveret like power 44
the loodera newepaper.
A wrong theory is abroad thee the
newepaper teepee:aloe le ephemeral.
Maumee we piece •eat east et etelike in
as kerni tool novo /see it again n'e
etre attet to allege eat we „aro parted
Trete Its loatiseet. 13,0 volume ef
WOO pages vette* -week bostroseiee
opine Ike people a -s eke elalle eews-
paper_ TO di lest ,elsalo eve rre away
lezrobliy krj7dri ate ,e1b0 4utsi *nee In
leldbire Ilifte tti *A* tee ddo idirtion lie -
temporal and eternal destiny. Tbe
is a rash young man ruoning
wad speculetion, and with as =Ale
ink as you can put on the pen
one time you euay save him from th
n gineers who now guide the reit
re lation to 'outi welfare as the story of
o what the world is now doing or has
Id reeently done. Yesterday has more
edi to do with to -day theo something ,
e occurieg a, century previous. The en- 1
Niagare, rapids of a ruizied life. 0
the next street ehere is a young ma
.started in business wbo, through lack
of patrouage or mistake in purchase
af goods or want ot adaptotion„ is
on the brink of collapse. One line of
ink from your pen will save hino. from.
being an uuderling all his life and
start. Wm on a career that wilt win
him a fortune which will euable him
to become endower of libraries.
an opener of art galleries and build-
er of churches.
Furth rmore great are the
responsibil it ies of the au-
thor's inkhorn. All the people,
or neoxly ell the people, otad, and
that tebich they read decides their
morels or immorals, their prosperity
or failure, their faith or their uubet
lief. their purity or corruption, tlaeir
heaven or hell. Show rae any man's
librery, great or small, and after ex-
amining the books, finding tlowe with
leaves uncut. but displayed for sake
of the binding. and these worn with
frequent perusal, and without ever
seeing the man or knowing his name.
I will tell you his likes end his dis-
likes; his morals, good or bad or in-
different; his qualifications tor busi-
ness or artistic or professional o
mechanical life. The best index t
any man's character is the book h
prefers above all others. Ob, tie
power of a. book for good or evil!
Abralseze Lincoln in oerly rea
Pathe's "Age of Reason," and it s
influenced him that he wrote a
essay against Christirtuity, but al
terward some Christian books eara
into his han Is and gloriously clew
ed his mind and mode hint a mos
ardent 'friend of the Bible and a, ma
of prayer.
While passing, as in pareethests,
advise: Read books ot 'Poetrv. tha
trains, the sea captains who now
command the ships, the erchiteets •
I
who now design the bizadings, the Te* cf tite l'es"n" Luig'e 'iii' st-53. '
tra, the legislators who now make 1 c"' 'd• 3wcAnneientarn reePared i
the laws, the generaLs who now "L'I the 11"' P. -11" Stearnig'
march. the hosts, the rulers who now [eepyrl.t, IOC% by American Press Association.]
govere the nations, the inkhorns 33-35. It lo It like a mistake to begin
that now flood the world with in- ° 8
the crucifixion lesson at verse 35 when
telligence-these are what we have
most to do with. the record of the crucifixion begins at
verge 33 TAM week's lessen closed with
You bave all seen 'what is called '
Simon compelled to bear His cross. Then
indelible ink, which is a weak solu-
tion of silver nitrate, and that ink we bave 'Testis' message to the wmen
you cannot rub out or wash out. who bewailed Him. Tben He, with the
Put it there, and. it stays. Well, the two maletactors, come to the place Got -
liquid of the editorial and reportor
_ gotha or Calvary, Although we are MOM
ial inkstands is an indelible init. It familiar with the latter name. Luke
puts upon the souls of the passing alone uses it while hlatthew. Mark aid
generations chara.cters of light or John each call it Golgotha. But names
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL, ,
LESSON FIRST QUARTER, INTeRe
NATIONAL. SERIES, MARCH 24. '
batons that now coutrol the orthes- 3'etaorY verses, 40, 47-Golaen treet,
daxkuess tbot tune cannot wash out and records are notialue unless they take
and eternity cannot efface. Forever eked of our betties and point us to Jesne
indelible. Be careful how you use Chtist our Lord. "They crucified Hine"
it. The impression raade with it lanai words, but de you consider what
will be resplendent or repnlsive on
the dey for which all other days sigae'ne to ief-Youorrette4rnetlimwpelofratiaon?ce /tins yreofu.
All 'Christendom has been welting ef "lawmen ae you say. For we, pie
were made.
see Mtn undergo ewes part of the procese
tor great revivals of religion to start
me? end tioce your heart ache for Him
from the pulpits And prayer meet- „ * t leech Ills suffer-
ings, I nOw suggest that the great- will* it 'II° ees la
ins bring to you?
30, 37. "If Thou be the ging or the
Jews, save Tbeselt." The soldiers tein
with the rulers in deriding Ulm wine be-
ing. according to His owl) Confession, the
Son of GoJ, could not save IIituself. Ap-
pearances were against aim. Lie had
t;(1iii dint no oae could tate Maar° from
Nino yet here thee were Routinely doing
It. Why did Ile not save Himself? Be-
cause Ile could not save Himselt and
otbers, too. and Ile Mlle to save others.
He did not pity Himself. but gave Rim-
eeif for our sius, mut we should give our-
selves willingly in nuilinug Hint and His
Salvation kuoo'n to others.
38. "This is the King ot the Jews."
Title title in three team:Ages. for 1111 the
world. was put upon His eross, for all
the -world shall yet hnow that Jesus of
Nazareth is the King of the Jews, a
King who shall uever nie, for lie lies
tiled and risen frOM the dead and is
preelate bow small is the vestibule
boons of religion, that you maY an- in its scattered eragmeeasi* spead" alive favorer more. When lie, the Ino
louder titan when it remained whole, mortal Eine, shall have His throne at
of titue soomareil with the palaces of Wattle, arna's reach of where you it Jerusalem, all natious Atoll be gatherol
eternity, there may be 4 fluid that you may Unto /Diu (3er. 1T), and
Through books we ea. down and put on wing with meesage of light tiil then, shall wars and tuthmeunhsbucteansoet
talk with the raightiest spirits and love. Oh, for the swift flyingtual all the horrors of the curse of sin
all the ages. We aceimillanY TeauY- augel of mercy which Ezekiel saw he tiVee.1.1di 118.12'1V:if; list Pete'resrliteree)i,IM (Ma'
son on his springtime walk as he vision "with a writer's inkhorn by awe recite, the tee reward et
falls upon his knees in the meadows, his slew.
! our deeds; but this Inau hath done Deal -
crying to his corapaniont "Violets, The other angels spoken of in InY ing amiss." Time spoke one of the male -
man, violets! Smell them." Or toe text were destroying angels, and lectors, while the other railed on Him,
ride with Trajan in his triumphal each bad what the Bible calls a saying, "If Thou be Christ, save Thy-
niarch, or stand with Godfrey at the "slaughter weapon" in bis hand. It self and us." Matthew and Mark say
taking of Jerusalem, or with arctic was a lance or o battleax or a that both reviled nine which they niust
explorer hear the craSli of the ice- sword. God hasten. the time When have done at the first, but one, by the
bergs, or are received with Hernando the last lance shall be shivered. and grace of God, immune penitent; the other
Cortes in the halls of Montezuma, or the last battleax dulled and the last continued in his sins. lloth might bare
watch in the observatory as Her- sword sheathed, never again to leeve repented, but one did and one did not.
schel with his telescope captures an- the scabbard, and the angel of the
other star, or the ink in. the ink- text, who, Matthew Henry says, was
horn turns red As blood. end we are the Lord Jesus Christ, shall, from
eit Mare:eget end ArbeIa and 7y1au the full inkhorn of his mercy, give a
ancl Borodino and Leipsic; or we sail saving call to all nations. That day
with Ilarailcar from Carthage to may be far off, but it is helpful to
Palermo, or we see Galilei fighting think of its coming. As. Dr. Ra-
iler the solar system, and around us leigh declared, that when 50 miles of
ga.ther for conversation Aristotle sea off the coast of New England the
and Plato and Robert South and cattle on boend the ship, as well as
Sydney Smith and Locke and Sam- himself, scented the clover on the
• uel Rogers and Chaucer and Paul New England bills, so NVO, ()mid all
Richter and Swift and Hazlitt and the tossing wades of the world's con -
Leigh Hunt and Talleewand and t in
o est revival of all time amy start a.
coucertecl and organized movement
through the it -Althorns of all Christen-
dom each writer dipping from the
d . •
• inkhora nearest lam a letter ot gos-
, pel, invito.tion, gospel hope, gospel
) warning, gospel inetruction. The
e ink is already on a hundriel thousand
. tables, and beside it are the implo-
meets wale which to dip it out. Why
not through such process, lima
lions of souls brought to God before
next summer? 13y letter you could
make the invitation more effective
t than by word of mouth. The invite-
•
taheitubtneigl! in ei-loounrd st,oiltotor77. tbhe.:a•Zetvoaut teen_ from your lips may be argued
may know how 'wrongdoing in time bad"' 333a -
Y evoke querulous reply,
may be answered by a joke, but a
eomes to defeat and righteousness to
victory. Read books of law. Octet
pgroaoedie,r,Waarniall'egtiQuIPteldi iwetittebr.pwrarei.ternatiind
that you may' see that en:web-to bas followed by prayer, will be read over
no right in a world so precisele* goo- and Ove.r again and cannot be An-
erneel. Read books ot wit and steered. in a frivolous way. it will
tremor, that you may experience the enfoe from flu, tnhin h., ii,,, n a
healthfulness of laughter. Read -d---- — `—'' -^." —; "n".
h 1 pettishly . -
eyer busy making more ornate and
&Mita bowls for the ink, but not
one of them will be so sacred as the
ed fashioned inkstand out of which
Was dipped the liquid for the winking
of the family record on the blank
leaves in the Bible between the Old
and the New Testaments, not so
Jitney leaves now blank as before re-
cent years made birthday or mortu-
ary insertions. From that home
&Ostend the child dips out material
fos7 those large and awkward letters
VW. one always makes when learn-
ing to write, and from it are taken
Wee trembling letters that show tbe
wrinkled hand is gradually forgot-
ten its cunning.
0 ye who have with recent years
set up horctes of your own, out of
the new home inkstand write often
to the old fdlks, if they be still liv-
ing! A letter means more tde theme
*than to as, who are amid the a.ctivi-
ties of life and to whom postal cor-
respondence is more than we can
Manage. They await the coming of
the letter. Undertake no great thing
in life without their advice. Old
people for 'counsel; young people for
aotion. Even though through decad-
ence they maw be incorapetent to give
valuable opinions on important af-
fairs, compliment them. by asking
their °omelet. It will do them good.
It will make their last days exhilar-
adet. Mak. that home inlestana a
suture° of rejuveneecanoe to those
era° are near the terminus ef the
eenthly journee. Dome.stle corre-
000ndence is teat alitsieded to at once.
Tiaiz newspaper, 44:ening with the tele-
geneli, bears the takings of all the
ighborlaome, test vivifies* revolving
el • of MOdern printing press and
eneet Seek along tete eleetrie wires
neves de OHO flynpatketie wetb
the home lakebanot. As the inertia
angel of owe tepOvered beer*
bream. oleos' the Iradeura
•slde ea ditedieletes nidshea, so
angel set teltet aljan 3alevitineee sop -
et eke atiottle Ore 'efte 'ord lkossw,
aleicaoraw.. 440 Oaristang' kl so
ass ems Otte
n pet/ town iiike *war 413-41o, *ba-
t 40elliallr41013 40k)k, ItraVIV-
Mat tikeza irg3 JO he .3t seeee
3rett ofaitaltie ggy1
.
grave enc es and the widow -
e hood and orphanage and childless-
- ness which sob and groan and die in
the wake of the armies on both sides
- of the sea! Oh, for less of the
t slaughter weapon and more of the
evangelizing inkhorn! Oh, for the
t stopping of the science of assassinee
5 tion, that crime of crimes, that woe
- of woes, that horror of horrors, that
5 hell of hells -war, which this moment
t stands reeking with blood and wash-
- ing itself in tears and blaspheming
e the heavens and pushing off the edge
- of this life men who have as much
• rigiat to live as you and I have and
blasting homes in which there dwells
as much loveliness as in our own!
Would that the merciful ang-el of my
text take the last weapon of war and
- fang it off and fling it down with
- such force that it shall clang on the
lowest round of the perdition where
e the first keen edge of human strife
• was sharpened! War! In the name
of Almighty God and of all the
homersteads it has destroyed and is
- now destroying, I hate it, I denounce
it, I eurse it!
- If our Bible is true -and no tdther
- book that was ever printed is as
true as that book, which Moses be-
gan and John finished -then the time
will come when all the vreapons of ,
cruelty lain stop and the inkhorns of
f eva.ngenz.ation Will have their way.
The red horse of carnage that St.
John saw in vision, and the black
horse et famine, and the pale horea
of death will be stabled, and the
white horse pf prosperity aid peace,
mounted by the King of Kings, will
lead tire great army with banners.
innate,
The eves de
ves thus divides people to this doy,
" 42, 43. "Lord, remember nte when I
'Thou contest into Tay kingdom." This
man saw what ordinary eyes did not see. ;
lie saw in Christ a King and a Saviour
and confeseed llim as Lord. Ile also
confessed himself a sinner suffering just -
h. for his sine before men. In his lost
and helpless coudition he turned to I
Christ, and how gloriousaves the result!
"N (ally, I say unto thee, today shalt.
tbou be v.ith Ate in paradise," No good
works did he do to be saved, no right-
eousness of his own did he bring; no
money did he pay, no promises did he
make; he wits not baptized with water,
no church on earth did he unite with, ho
never partook of the communion; yet he
wont from the cross to paradise that day.
44-10. "Father, into e
hands I cov
nuind My Spirit. And, bavieg said thus,
lie gave up the ghost." Darkness from
the sixth to the ninth hour, or, as we
would say, from noon till 3 p. m., then
three other sayings, and this last one
and His sufferings were over. Consider
well His seven sayings from the cross -
three before the darkness and four at the
vette: of it. In the first is salvation, the
second glory, the third provision for all
the journey here, and all by reason ot.
great work. Las being forsaken that
we might never be, His agony, His
atonement. Consider ttlso the rending
of the veil and its lessons -not only the
way opened into the holiest, but our
oneness with Christ in His death. Tho
veil represented Leis body x, 20).
and the veil was worked with cberubirn,
representing the church, Las body. Lis-
ten to their song in Rev. v, 9, 10. When
He died, the veil being rent, the cherubim
worked on the veil were rent with it.
We died in Him. Let no one doebt but
that Jesus, having committed His Spirit
to God, went to God white His body lay
in the grave. His words to Mary Meg -
(Inane refer to His risen body.
47-49. "Certniuly this was a righteous
men." Thus said the centurion, glorify-
ing God. The people. beholding, smote
their breasts. His acquaintance and the
women who followed Him beheld also,
and. judgiug from the unbelief of the dia
eiples concerning His resurrection and
the .conversation of the two with whom
Ile walked to Emmaus, it must have all
lookvel very, very dark to there, and all
their hopes seemed blasted. Many had fol-
lowed Him, many of those who follovved
Hina for a time had left Him, a few had
remained fnithful. No kingdom had been
(sleetadtip. nothing seeme
mpd .to have been ac-
colished toward it. anHe now e was
50. 51. "'ho also himself waited- for
the kingdom of Gad." This is a state,„
ment concerning .1 (well' of Arimathea,
an honorable eounselor, gomi Man and
a just male .n. A discipof .lesus, but se-
cretly for fear of the 'Jews, he had not
consented to the counsel and deed of.
there .who put en death +Mark xv,
Jelei xix. elet There ere many disci
s of Christ Irene sat other ands
Through the convicting, converting, Awl riziong t 10 he Joves w flavit perhaps
sanctifying .power of the Eternal • nee, fr,bliciy soureeeee liint no united
MaY We all raarch in that er r ehtiict, tj oh nighh Into .10-
)rocession! Hail, then Mighty. Rid- found nt he creel ie some enter-
er of the white horse in the final ;Tete-. when other oreinevily bolder ones
• triumph! Sweep down and sweep bY, mielit he found wanting
thou Angel of the New Covenant I 52 53 -This m wet Pil
, an I unto a te
With • the inkhorn • of the world's and begged the body of Jesus." Pilate
evangelization! "elle mountains and • consenting, he took the body, and, buying
the lilts ehall break forth 'into sing- fine linen, he and Nicodetnus wrapped it
Ing, axel ell the treeS of the fields up with about 100 pounde of spices and
ing, and all the trees 'of the field laid it in Joseph's neW sepuleber, In a
'shall *lap their hande. Trisieted Of garden, in a tomb where never a body
Ilis ,theen shall sews xtp• the er tree had yet been laid. His enemies would
'eel teetered. of the tarter elaetil come
sap the seyrtile tee* 411111 it shall be to
Ike Lent for a manse, for an eVer-
Otiettes eine tiltiet eke& teed be vet
have put His body with those of the
malefactors; but it had been foretold that ,
Itfe would be buried with the rich (Iss..
lid, 8, g. IT), and the Scripture was ful- ,
peal, and ail Scriptuie 10111 be In dee
Oil Oro- 'silk 114,
A STROLLING SINGER.
Ile sang along the woodland paths
When all the world Witt wane and gay;
The birds half meelied him overhead;
The shadows cooled bis mania way.
The earth was sweet with growing things,
The vintage promised full and fair,
Axel oue with eyes nee larkepur buds
Autl garnered sunsliine ber bah*
Stood watching. by the ilex trees,
A. glow, a welcome in licr eyes.
He sank, too tired, at her feet
And smiled through wistful little sighs,
"Dear love," he said, "I cannot live;
I shall not see the morrow'e sun,
But,I am tortunete to die
While yet my loving is not done.
"And weep no foolish tears for me.
But when the vines wali gold ere hung,
Tbinic, 'Life was very good to him,
For he had lived and loved and suuge
-Qharlotte Becker in ainslee's elagazIne
FIVE MOUNTAIN STORMS.
liaging at Once In Sight of Vl
iiVirginia Cisttri'l:alCiltity"man tom Ne -
wide to a reporter, "is pretty well up in
the world, as any one knows who bas
ever been there, and there are very few
localities in all the Rocky neouutain re-
gion from which wider rettee of coma -
try can be taken in at one TieW,. Owlue
to that fact scene very beautiful, striking
and UntiSilal siglits are frequently seen
by the dwellers la that famed city, al- ,
znost within sounding distance of the
clouds. I have witnessen some of them
myself, and one- in particular 1 remera-
ber, In fact, it was a sight that no oue
bother seen could ever forget. It was a
moviug panorama, grand, impressive, in
the extreme, being tie loss than five dis-
inlet ouowstones ragiug among the tuella-
talus and deserts to the eastward, while
in the city not a flake of snow was fall -
lug. The storms represented all degrees
of Aereeness and covered an area of at
least 100 miles. The one farthest to the
neaosrtthearnlyd one
was
aspampnerentitinyiennthsseinzug os
di-
rectly over tbe 40 mile desert, It was
as black as a thuudereioud, eo douse
was the whirling body of snow, and was
perliaps ten tulles In diemeter. Any one
lu the midst of it would liaxe been will-
ing to swear that a snowstorm must he ,
raging over the entire continent, and just
to the north or it several tall, stalely •
peens rose out of the acme storm and
towered above it in the full splendor of •
sunlight, The high aills that lay beyond
the storm were shut all from sight as
thougb. by a gigantic bleck curtain.
"Nearer and to the soutb.ward another
storm not so blank and fierce as the
Arst, but still dense enough to hide all
the region helaind it, was in less active
progress. It crept along toward the east,
reaching from the level of the Carson 'val-
ley upward to the very cloud where it
came bigh in tne heavens, Still nearer
and between the city and the mountains
of Como a lighter storm, yet one only two
or three miles in width, missed on its
way. Through this the niteintain peaks
could be seen dimly, as in a thin fog. A.
mile fartber south a fourth snowstorm,
smaller in area than even. the last one,
but as black and temptestuous as the
great blizzard that, with the sun touch-
ing its crown was sweeping' the 40 mile
desert, raged in awful fury. All behind
It was hid as with the pall of blackest
night Miles away, farther up to the
southward, the aftli storm, a vast and
violent one, was sweeping along, cover-
ing and hiding a letup of 30 miles of
high hills.
"Between these several storm bodies
bills, plains, mountains and peaks stood
, revealed as far as the eye could see, fill
SCENTS OF A OENTalny,
Perfumes That owe Their Deing to the
Among the many developments of '
euentists. are
which the last century may or may
not get the credit, statis Tim London ,
Daily Graphic, is the advivace in the
seience of scent. As creatures of sen-
sibility we have not *developed our
seeee of smelt beyond that possessed •
by the beaux aud belles of Georgian,
days. Bitter alizonds, vanilla,. he- ,
liotrope, though then it was called,
cherry pie, verbena, tonlet becia !
sweet woodruff, lavender, musk and
orris root were the scents of 1801,
as well as of 1001; and the Jew that
have been added to their number,
such. as Ylang Ylang, or new mown,
110,Y, axe only rearrangements of -the
Ixodltivancrocasd, tititlioestsnte
sv.er, Tihne tcheentcuhreYmileT1
manufacture of scents. The oil of
bitter almonds is no longer made
e• by creslaug apricot stones, but by
operations with a, test. tube; belie -
trope is now "ametbylene ether,"
and sweet woodruff and the scent of
new Blown hay float to us through
the medium of "orthobydroxycinna-
one anhydride." Not all scents hove
allell diSturbillg chemical origin tee -
that; the inewthorn blossom's frage
ranee is derived from n'amethol." and
the odor of fresh violets is poetically ;
prepared from "lormee." Even the
sacred oil of "otto of roses" has at
last succumbed to the chemist, Wad
some day thee, like the other scents,
may be reduced to a. hundredth part
of its former cost in manufecture.
With all this practical development
the theoretical side of the eense of
smell and its physiologic ealleee and
effects have remained stationary.
Perhaps the new "Science of Smells"! '
is reserved for this century.
AMERICAN SPE
People Imelzing Throt
adays All Round
"-Op to 15 years ago
ciao, "four-Afths of*1• ewe.
'Melee used were mode tidef "tr"'dalm
the past six or eight years Fregeli
spectacles Jia -re been largely sup..
planted by American glasses, which
I are now sold even in. Frence-
:.: "American spectacles are now easili
tbe best in the world, find their supe*
riority is due to the same characterife
" tics tbat mark so many Auterican Man,
ufactured productioneossamely, adapt.
ability to their ilea geed Workmanship,
• unifc.rmity and interchatigeebility
• parte. There hove been made ia thiti
country great leaproveztients in the
special maehinery with which the sped,"
taeles are made, so that the parts eide
OW,e
Sugar aS 4 roott,
The craving for sugar is said to
be netural, and particularly in
children, who are continually in mo-
tion, and. in those doing work re-
quiring great phe'sical exertion, Su-
gar is it heat and energy -producing
• food, and in moderate amounts is
. readily digested and assimilo.ted. An
excess of sugar, however, causes an
, acid condition of the stomach.
In many cases it supplies heat pro-
ducing food in a form more readily
assimilated than either starch or fats
and oils. It is especially eseful in
warm weather or warm climates, as
it supplies energy to the body with-
out the over -heating ellects of large
quantities of fate "In Indio it is
said that workmen must have, daily,
large amounts of food well -seasoned
with, sugar. The employer must fur-
nish it or lose his workmen. In all.
tropical lands the consumption of
dates, figs and other sweet fatale ia
very large.''
"The food value of candy ratty be
expressed by the amount of the su-
gar contained (7:2 to 90 per cent),
but the wholesoraeness of the other
ingredients must be taken into ac-
count."
We should remember that, although
sugar is a valuable food, it is a con-
centrated form of nourishment, and
should be eaten in moderation, es-
pecially by those leading a sedentary
life.
lymg m the glory of a late October sun.
The gleaming peaks that rise golden far
above the black masses of storm as taey
raged in fury at the mountain bases and
far up the rocky sides made a perticular-
ly striking and awesome part of, that
strange picture."
Tlie Hotel Detective.
The duties of a hotel detective are not
arduous, and his greatest value to the
guests is as a eicerono He is supposed to
know the -city thoroughly*, to be an au-
thority on the theaters and to be able to
direct men who want to gamble to places
where they can find "square games." One
lintel detective who was discharged not
long ago was said to have made nearly
$10,000 a year in tips from guests and
commissions from gambling houses. He
was able to do the latter many a good
turn, and they showed their appreciation
for his work by paying him liberally.
Nominally he was engaged by the pro-
prietor of the hotel to preserve order, but
in reality lie was expected to make him-
self generally useful to visitors. He must
know where to pilot parties on slumming
expeditions, and the more weird tales he
can tell them about the placee to which
he takes them the larger will be his tips.
A detective employed by one Broadway
• hotel for many years became quite as well
known as the hotel itself. He was an au-
thority •on boxing, find the lest word
about any big cohtest was not said until
he cliose to exprese his opinion. He was
also the stakeholder in many big bets.
' Collateral.
On a recent early- .morning trip of the
Hyde Park night owl car a party of col-
ored people took seats with becoming
gravity and dignity. Evidently they lied
been participants in what had seemed an
important event, and the occasion was
soon revealed teethe occupants of the car.
They had been to a wedding. Various
features were being discussed, when ono
matron broke in with:
"I'ze dunno, but dar's sumfin awful
'sterious 'bout dis heah mahinge. Dial you
see how de preacher done fold up daf'
'stificate and put it in his pocket? Nevelt
did dat w'en you an me was done mitifed,
did 'e, honey'?"
"Huh, de preacher he don do' dat dis
ebenin cause dey stood 'ina off," said her
honey.--Cineinnati Enquirer.
Coniirnied Liars.
"1 don't know who first said ,figures
couldn't lie," said the yoting woman,
"but I would bet any old sum that the
person was a man." '
Then for the fourth time she tried to
make her personal account book balraice.
The Scriptures make frequent Mention
of the practice of irrigation in the arid
I-Ioly Lands, and from Persian, 'Greek
and Roman writers we learn that in all
the Mediterranean countries of old the
people were more or less familiar with
the art.
The bottom of the deep sea is a land
of phosphorescent light, witere almost
every animal there is alight giver.
Four and one-half tons of cattail raga
192./.491. 41'.1 t.°T,T.Y.P4Dir.
•
31%re Light.
A sexton of n. certain New York
church declares he will never again,
be guilty of going to sleep during
the service.
It was a very warm evening, and
after the sermon began the sexton
turned down the gas in tlte body of
the church.
The text that evening was, "Let
there be light." As the sermon pro-
ceeded the sexton unconsciously yield
to a desire for sleep. He came sud-
denly to his senses, however, when
the minister exclaimed loudly, "More
light! More light!".
The sexton sprang to his feet, hur-
riedly went to the stop -cork and
turned on a full head of gas.
A ripple of amusement went
through the congregation, and the
embarrassed sexton realized that he
had made a mistake, evett before
some one told .hini that the minister
had been quoting the dying words of
Goethe. •
I
Powers Have Her Approval.
A pretty, talkative little girl, evi-
dently her mother's pet, was riding
in. a Liverpool tram the other after-
noon. I-Ier mother accompanied her.,
Presently a remarkably fat China-
man, in full Chinese costume, en-
tered, and set opposite the child. She
looked at him in apparent aniazie-
ment, and then, turning to her moth-
er, whispered:
"Mamma, what's that oppiosite?"
' That's a Chinaman, my
dear," answered the mother in a lotv
tone.
• "The same kind of Chinaman papa
says the English are killing?"
"Yes, my dear. Don't talk si)
loud"
The child meditated a moment and
then said: • "Well, I don't blame
them." •
• Impure 'Spraying 21.11xtures.
Compjaints have, been received at
the department of agriculture con-
cerning the sale of impure • Parte
green and. other aesenical prepara-e
tions foe spraying mixtures. In sev-
eral fruit segtions last year, owing
to the use of Weak, non-poisonous
arsenic, the itodlin moth caused great
damage, as the -spray was ineffective.
The department is inspecting Paris
green and other arsenics which are
imported, but the government has no
authority to regulate the manufac-
ture and sale within this country,
more than it has to regulate food or
compel pure food -Farmers' Voice.
Bees Annoying Neighbors.
Where bees are kept in a village or
in a thickly settled community,
sometimes they cause considerable
annoyance to neighbors. The plan:
adopted .by a Massachusetts bee-.
keeper has caused him 'very „ little
trouble in this respect. If it colony
shows a disposition to be CrO,SS,
th4) queen is killed and replaced by
one from a More peaceable strain.
When no honey its coming, itt, care is
taken to avoid ,opening the hives
except when absolutely 'inecesiiary,
a.nd it is Olen den* as 4;111104 es
taiteible.
• 1 1
"YOU will site au inereasielg
of signs saying that iipectaeles can be
mended while you wait. This can lip
done with these fiuely made American
spectacles. You break a bow, for Al-
staoce, or your Steel seeetaelee and atty,
one ant of it thousand howa ot the male
style will At in place of it
gaitiliericeit spectacles may not be tIl
cheapest produced hi the world, but
they are certainly the best, and a goaa
proportion of the population of the
world tbat ases glasses now 100101
tbrougb epectacles of American, MUM,
facture,
"We pay much more attention to our
eyes In this country now than we for-
merly did. There are Wally more OW-
liStS Imre than there fern1erly Were
uniX many mora kllil
of people who ougihtto wtleitiarUsAglasseee
i;lit
greater ir'.oportion now ;ban eve '
r De -
fore do wear thew.
"I dare say that a third of the spec -
tacks now made in this country are
exported, and our exports or theSlif
goods are all the time Increasing, We
sell spectacles in China, in Australia
and New Zealand, In South 44.merica.
and South -Africa and some, as 1 said;
in France and more or less of theta
Germany and other countries of contf-
nental Esrope. Large numbers Or
American spectacles are sold ha Great
Britain. I guess you would find that
shipments of such goods from here tO
England are made as often as weekly.,
I Imagine that there are now worn in
England and in Scotland more sneCiLe
des of American than of any oboe
manufacture." -New York Sun,
Oar ernmigrante,
Sonle of the big questkins of the
country, have been so weighted dawn
with figures that nine -tenths of the
readers of newspapers and periodleahs
avoid them as religiously tts if they
lereopvioputzeiles ofiskruitooz:lS.
bother,701 long
rows or statistics and Tdffirnin
ptiroonbs;e:ohfaitmezila.,nint:nt.v by 00 little la
really rea0 by the polnic on the great
emb,
Ask the average man how many dif-
ferent nationalities enter Into the great
American body, and he will name you
nine fJr ten. AS a Matter of fact, 41
rtnaicgerso tairoen rteop ensee eutne idtoian st 1 it t ae on.n ual m -
Ask the same average citizen how
many immigrants arrived during the
last 100 years, and lie ttiui give a WI:td
guess, not knowleg that they exceeded
23,000,000 and that they are now com-
ing at the rate of over 1200 tit day.
Ask him where the giTtat increase is
coming from, and he mention
northern Europe, not kl4owlng that
e Croatian
..ew, the
tie Pin-
t Scan-
' .tireta
vs
os -
during the last fiscal year t.
and Slavonlan races, tbe
south Italian, the Japanceet
nish, the Magyar, the Polisted
dinavian `and the Slovak it
310,441 out of the 448,672. Seee
may be interesting. They slit
where we are increasing and to'
mopolitan we are becoming. •
Whether 'Uncle Sam expandstl
world or not, he will have wit:
own confines every nationality',
the sun. -Saturday Evening Post.
Peat of quick Conetruetion. :
P. S. Van Kirk, a well known carteo
ter and builder, on a wager recentlt -
constructed a carpenter's shop 50 he
wand two aeries high in four boors.
As the time called for was 4e4 hour
the builder won the bet, which, it if
said, was a large one. The buildint
bad to be weather proof, flooree , awl
roofed and ready for occupancy.
Promptly at 1 o'clock 75 men leaped
JO the timbers, and as if by magic the
framework was up; the Slats and raft-
ers on and half a hundred hammers
were nailing the sides and roof. The
building is at tbe corner of River and -
Fulton -streets. Mr. Van Kelik wee on
the spot and surierintended the work.- .
Paterson Letter In New York Tifpes„_ ,
The English Birth Rate Deli• le,
Mr. J. Holt Schooling, after investi-
getions coverhig tbe-whole or the lAei
quarter of the ,nineteenth century, de-
clares that therelaas been a steady de-
crease in tbe British birth rate, 'Eng-
land having fallen to the lowest birth
rate of any first rate pewee, France •
alone excepted. One eestat of this loS0
of "birth force," As Mr. Schooling calls
It, is that in every day of the five years
1894-8 500 to 600 fewer children were,
born than- would have beep born had
the 1fl74-8 birth rate remained opera-
tive during
111.tidlar Titres Rulers,
Lord Nelson is the only member -of
the house ef loon; who his been a peer
throughout the Victoria') era, from its
dawn at 2:20 op, the Morning of June
21, :1837; to its cloee at 8.80 on the
crenlag of Jan. 22, 11181. Be 'has been
. .
Urd Nelson under three rulers. ge
'VAS ee.e et King William's Deere, suc-
ceeding to the title.en the death of /OS
father In 1,8.40, ke tea the oath ef
xii-
Xeginee to guikap 110004, and ke io •
too of *lie 1..a0kiel kalts XEktutkil