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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-4-7, Page 22 BRittSSELS POST. BEFINITIOIT OF FAITE , REV, DR. TALMAGE PREACHES FROM A SOLEMN TEXT. e Main etalettient of enettein the Army er rertht . The PityShut Cooncomences elee- !of needene eerriect iirmough De:mei) gete-ele Sorrow In Mcbr tued land, No itorlintsis. e site n Nu nettle ot ell. A despateii from 'Washington, say -IteesDr. Talmage prenehed from 1 I follow ng te He lita believe; end Is baptized }Mall be sa ed, hut he tha t belleveth shall be damued,"-Mark xvi, 16. It. has been a question which 1 hay ten ofasked tuyeelf during the la three weeksw , hy it was that Cie brought me face to face with death u the Atlantic, end yet brought melee to this people alive. There are sona quections of Providence which we cat mit answer; but that question i hay had no trouble in answering. (Jodie Me through that prowess in order Dm I might emus with a more earnest, in .tense., eons *crated. Cbristian-like min Ietry to this people, and mey God for bid that the process shouid not has its proper effect twee, my soul. lbw for years had a men3orandura-book wideli it has been my custom to pu down teste of Seripture from which expected some day to preatth. Scan of these texte hath been. iu ray um morandum-book not preached upon Lo en yeare. Among these is the lex from which I speak this meeting. here noticed than t the time comes i une's ministry for certain subjects Ihe Spirit of the .Lord God has seem ed to say tor um thee this is the sub Jew I ought nuw to present to this Peoldec "He that beliereth and is peptized shalt be saved, but he that believeth not shall be daunted." Oh, it is it adman text-eolenin Pnough lor man to preach his last ,i1'881088on. It le a met, rbe trutbfuluese of which no outs can doubt who believes .bat Jeeus was honeet. for thee are His ewn words. It is a text that must reach down to your deepest conscluus- nes, and awake all your anxieties. rhere is no poetry about lt; there is 50 argument about it. lt isa plain eta cement ot t he I wu great, neaten - :Gas, infinite. eternal facts; and while I read this text it seems as though I netted two gates just shut -the. gate of I he loet -"He tha t bente :tch and s baptined shall be saved, but. he that believeth not ellen lee denmect," You see that the text divides all the pets - isle in this Tabernacle into two elites- ets-bellevers and unbelievers. Now, you need um sit back in your seats thinking I am going. tn give you a dry definition as to what faith is, I have no bazket theulogical chips to carry tu you. Faith is reliance upon 'the 1.81(1 jettue Christ. It is a feeling of can't save myself, but Christ will `do it -has done le 1 put my whole :weight epee His mercy; throwing away ail Illy Sintii nis. doubts, my fears, accept everything that Jesus bas promiNed te tee personalty, and every- thing that be has done for me person- ; s, ' is faith I heat: stirne 0110 say, "1 don't understend aft er all 'ulm( faith is." Don't yout Tee hours of mere human explanatiuu etiuld Hible says faith is the gift of God, and be only can explain it, and He explains it in anee.er to your prayer. Ile Is ready, this uument, to explain it if you. will ask for ii., Certainly, youare not too prowl to ask for hat great boon. 1 puttee itt 1 he midst( nf my sex- 6a0n 1.0 give eVerY.man, woman, and Mind in this house ant upportunity of uttering privet. for Leith, Let. the weenie he. "Lord, .1 believe, heip Tina mine unbelief." And leet I should make a mistake la regard uf my uwn experienee, I pray that prayer fur my - eel,: "Lord, I 13elieve, help Thou mine unbelief," Have you all prayed that 111'118'888 You sce• the text puts you eit hem en the eight side ur on the wrong side and NV nt• * • 8,0 he right side. Faith is :comet Innis an instantaneous act of the soul. Tilts may he the very minute. Let this he wh 1 138 very second en you. do believe. Between f: everlestin everlasting. hell yeu 11111X decide as '30(1.13' as your wits eh ran 110i. is the promise: "Wheiosver 001/10111 mite me, I will in no wise mist out." Throw yourselves flai upon t hal pro- mise. and sou are Hayed, There is one thing, however, to fellow, and that( is billbism. Oh. You say, "A. little water sprinkled 113110 11131 Mee, or my whole teely immersed, won't have any effvet 331(18 108, I pan Ile II ejltiNt 11 WWI- I/Ill, being hoptised." Cn ayou: 1. eeriem . lirpt Wis not we ler; it is a ieubli • ate.nowledgnaent JetianChriet, a 0,1 1 Canna be 71 C111151 inn 'wit hollt 1011,11131 announcing my faith in Hint, I do not say that you (1.01110.. I can- not. Suppose that, te WtMtk N5111' es1 1 h a foreign government, and after w five years of atruggle it ere rutted in regard to any roan that he had nut 01- '4ered any IN or(I of patriotism or loyal t y, 1(0(11,1 you have any faith Irthis patrio- tism or loyalty'? You would say, "1 ' have seen regiment atter regiment go pan, his door, and be never (1,1849,1 his bar. I have seen flags hoisted in Jile presence, (tad he never ut tared a Sleaze," Now, my dee e Met hr,',,, if we have come 'wider the ;ginner of 3e. lig, 1 believe we eon 04 make an eepreeeion of 1113181831,when Christ rex ieW5 IDS 1 rtrpt on eneramental 613., We will (40Xm , "I ain that army, and glad to in it." Put Inn down tee one of the troop. All over 98811118113 le MY Lord, 111141 110 MVP& nett adored; His worth if ell Ibe nations knew Sure 1 he *elide earth would love aim too," 1: sile filet believetla and is baptized shell he eaeed"-not from the 9113181- eonsequeeeee 5111. VII tare repent - a nee of Ain V, 111 not e diea 0 I hose eseisceptoneett . "His hones are fell of 01881/1 oe yettllb Which ehell liej down with itim in the dust." Joh, xx. Hs Thtf Psateeist David repeoted of his sin, and yet See know how hitter, even to the end of life, were the fruit* of his transgreesion uf the Divine hors, 011, y011/19 Man, do not thitik that future repentauce and faith Neill Mire1138(3111ay the 9183150181' consequeneem of 81n, 18 31 , Mall 1181118813 a team of fiery passions " to his hotly, he name. ride behind them ke 10 see spade line of the grave. His 0' soul nuty escape. awl he pardoned in 4 this world ; but in 1:1115 world his body eannot receipts 6fy text. has reference to chef future woeld: "He that believ- s; etit and is baptized shall be saved; he le shall be saved from all the coneequene- h es of sin. The body, reconstructed, v- will be pure and heelthy : the soul will ot he free 1 one itchabirant of heaven will never sits t u miuther inhabitant of „ heaven tauntingly: "Why, the last ': time I saw you, you were in a gamb- et I ling salceen in Boston, or in it low place el I ict New York. What are you doing ▪ here I There will be no reference to , . die past, save to extel the grave that lifted the soul from such a depth 80 1' such a height. You see tbe angels be! fore the throne. You will be 115 pure " 1gtilrVhetr!rt14ree oes:ethllcxltZ=-4or- a,sh!i. Holy 15 the Lord God Almighty, 8: and holy all the redeemed who stand _ around -him, - i wall 1 t . 11'.21tol. ea k:311g`';,s,:zr 1171o! te4eitlix; - _ some of you, life is one, long scene e of weariness, it is work, work, work, s You rise in 1114' morning no Inure rest - II endlistpearnedwhic;.d'unydre,ou faint ditleweadn:t neleitit . hilg t sides, weak back, weary legs,' nbruised s feet, exhausted strength. Sunday is , /1011 leng .en011et for you to get the wrinkles smoothed out of your disposi- ✓ of your limbs. Manufacturers let th - tion and the 5183(113 of life bathed on t fires go out on Sunday in their hector- / 1,s ; but in your minds and bodies the Lire's of toll never go out. Oh, thank God, there will be a terminus 01 18. , There will be no burdens carried _ through that heavenly gate. There will be no rushing about of anxious - and overwrought Men through those streets. There xeill be no employer ' thrusting his thuntli through tbe need- lework of the overburdened 1 Selv1811f, girl. No drudgery, but rest, you sons and daughters of toil, I con- gratulate you, If you are childreo of God, on the coming of a long, glorious, eternal holiday. Heaven must seem a different plaee, it appears to me, from what it does to other people, There is in this land such it rushing, and jostl- ing, and treading upon one another, that I do not know bow some souls will be quiet whets they get there. There will have to be a radical change, DT they: evould look upon the river of life as a waste of water power, and he planning some new 0017110e for the heavenly 111111151013, 01. get some new edition elf hymns for the redeemed, 1 There are sume people so struck 1 through with everlasting fidget, that 1 eannot imagine them in heaven ex- eept rushing upend down in the street, crying: "Get out of ray way, of. -I will run over you!" But one 1.11065 of the beautiful serenity nill roll over the redeemed, and they Mil be in the. pick- ed company of the universe at rest. They will aleo be saved from trouble. What is a tear 1 You ask the philo- sopher, end 1m will tell you it is a drop of limpid fluid secreted by the lachry- mai gland. You ;telt nee what a tear is'and I tell you it is 80111030 held in solution; it is the language of the world's woe, This is a. planee of . weeping we are living on. elee enter upon life with a cry, and leave it with a long sigh. If 1 eould gather up the griefs of this audience, and put them in one sentence, and then utter it, it xvould make everything between here and the throne of God shudder and howl. The earth is gashed deep: with payee. As at the elose uf the War, sometimes 310 SaW 1 regiment of one hindered and fifty men, the fragments of the thousand men that went out; so, as I stan(8 berore you, 1 minuet bul realize the fact, that yo0 are the fragg ruents representing thousands of regi- ments of joyful associates that have been broke up fur ever. Oh, this be a world of sorrow., But, ble.esed. be God, there will be no eurrow in heaven. endertaker will have to hare eagle other business there. Ln the summer timet our cities have bills of mortality which aro frightful-smnetimee in New York a thouetind deaths in a week, Sometitues It has been 1.150 thousand in London; but in that great heavenly city there will be not a single ease o1 idiekna58 or death; cot one black dress of mourning, but plenty of white rebeet uf joy ; handshaking of weleterie. but none of impel:anew Why, 11 0310 thim- ble should a I 111118 10 0111 81' heaven. the shining pollee of the city would pus. 1 tender everlasting orrest. IS ail the 80 tl31W14 a life mailed and sword - ed nutlet. Apollyon sh fuld attempt to force thel (9) 13, one company from the tower emelt( 5( 33113' them buck howling to I he pi t . 11 oom in heaven ror 1(1)t he mettles that ever knocked at the get ex htt• (111 loom for the mealiest nwooy- awe. though elight as mummer insect. Doxologe but no dirge. Banquet i Ing tes I no " funeral baked 4000 IS," No derknees al all ; no grief at till; no sieknese at ; death at all, A Mei witking up lix Ilea place ',sill eay " Oen it be that 1 ton here.? Will my heed never. aehe nicein 1 Shell t net er steed -11e over a greve again 1 Will I never hey good-bye to loved O1158 tignin I Can it be possible tha1 the stretem muds thee the hank is grim- ed 1 that the glory is begun e Show Inc the temple where 8 rimy wore:chin. Show sue Jesus that 1 may kiss His feet." When (he Hoek or. Christien suffering has run down, it will never j be welted up agent. " The Limb that fe in the millet of Gm throne 011411 lead Ginn to living fnunt eine or wa• ter, and God teluil I wipe reWay 111>' leers Trott their eyee," would like . melting vele to do from now to the , dist of My Mta 1)131. 10 1,11 1 he esled idi31.98 (11,1, reet provieleti God's, people. 1 1,158 0 ritrol a great deal be)e! ter then 1" do a dirge, 1 don't even . iike minor 1011e31 that Ile plenty of gift dimes 1,0,1 t ha 3 are ju Id 351.. 6 am a diseiple of (he etinshine. T like the shutter:4 of my house open, and ell the >Merles up, And ,vet it would be hyymerisy-i 8 vould be terwardicte-for Mt! 10 stand here thin morning MA loll yell inle-lutlf Of the, text and not tell you the other half, If there is a heevet), thiere Cs just as rerteinly a hell. Seppose 1 told you 011 the right tilde there were, flowers and , p�1atic tree% and beautifel font - Caine; het t did not tell you that MO the other eicle there were hotnetinties.) bettete in the juegle, and of pre- eipiees ore whieh you might fell-wintle 1 tit that NN,illoh is fair 10h, (111(88 (1(101(1 I do la 1141,1 1.1117' 08 putement if it were found oat that 1 irrettehed half the 1 1' 1.1 1 11, and mils- half ? The 1111110 keys: " les (Mall it be ni the end of the world. The e hetetl ehall laf severed Dons among the ,just, and they obeli Lie east into Die furnace of fire. There shall lie weeping and Imaithime of teeth, and the smoke of their torment ascended up for eves' awl 11140 5." 31115 4111,41111,>. the portion ot all who do not believe in Christ. Whatever may have been their outward exeei11+110188 of eharactee, and whatever male letve been their woeldly positiuns, (he text de- elaree: "He that helie.veth not shell be damned." Those who are east away under Ibis efentence will go away from the presence of the nicest lovely being In all this universe. The Lord Jesus Christ they will 11580r ace but mum, and thet on the Judginent-day-thte day which will be their eternal discom- titure. That Jesus; who stood plead- ing year after year for their love and falth win turn leis back upon them, anti yam out of their sight for eVEtr. They will be met mit from tbe corn- panionehlp of glorified kindred and felends. The gulf will be fixed -has been fixed. Ales. tuy dear friends. 11 you are On 11111' side of it, and father or mother, husband or wife, son o daughter on the oeber side. There wi be 110 bridge across that gulf. 'Mei' will be no elyinuning aeross it. 'You destinies will be widening -they 3130.5 ever!" 031, those fire -bells will uever 41i(9 ringing, 1/004 1150 t b a conflagration will never he done, "'rimy shall 110 punished with 818113131 1119 clehlruotIon from the preseime of the Lord, and from the glory of His power ;" 9 Those. 1. 9. .9111 it down in your menioromium-books, so ehat you wil1 see tint( it is not I but God that: saye it. Alt, rny strength glees 113)3', 11 (lel 1113' Wo1'115 break down, 1 van only, my dear bearere, 8,111 God 10 witness ilea .1 hav# this morning luld whet 1 think 111 1441 1115 331144 truth. I want to setae „myself, and to icave ail 18110 )14)51' 11*. 1 can't bear the thought the( one to W110111 1 have cal- luinistered the Gospel shall et last wise beeven. if I thought there was 0130 here determined on slush ruin, I would come down from this pletform, and 8.1SIN Oi reai ell, Every groat. man has owed xnueh to the pre-eininent love or lotteence of some one woman its ble life. Most of - len thie WOMen 18 1115 Mother; sonlo- LIMOS it iil a wife, but there are in- stancea sufficient to filt a book with stories of the dominant sway being held by a Aster,. There need not remain, the least shadow of a doubi but that 1110 wo- man BioseS took most deeply Welds eonfidenee and on whom (15 434)51 run repaid this patient and gemeron. sister. His only child Waft named for her, dying he left her everything 1111116 enough fer the support of hie wife and daughter, and Ills "Maim" tO Aueustte ere eloquent of deeper, truer emotions than i11031 other human being mow aroused in (1301.."Though helium, thee tildst not de, oeive me; Though woman, though dike not for - attire. Though loved, thou foreberest to 001000 13101 Though slandered, thou coul(1st never Winks. Wben near his death in Greece his letters to Augusta are full of pathetic, almost child -lila) reliance on her good sense, iter 011111111319 love to see that ell went well for hie daughter, and would seize hold of you and soy: firmly relied wits hie sister Miriam, 'a "Don't you do it. Josue wants to lie iWoMan considerably Ms Keeler ttnd by that his wife could be brought to a reconciliation, end it wag the gener- gracious to you. Why will Ion die when tbere ere 50 111410,Y vvoose clevernese :1114 Met he was re- :Ms, long-51.1Mring A11g0131 11 W110 fol - stored to labs mother erout this watery lowed him to hie tomb and fixed the 'worlds, I, De Witt Talmage, must Moses' favorite lieutenants during that able sister, W1108(1 good, work meant soon enter. And you, Which shall it be 1 em deciding it as certainlY. perilous business of getting Isreal out more to the world of art than the public of Egypt, She cheered the fainting for salvation 1" laudatory tablet above his grave, Upon one or the other or these 1W0 Cradle, 1141r11111a waft certainly one of A genuinely good, unselfish, wag - gives her credit for, was Margaret for myself this meriting. My deo r hearts of van.Eyck. She MB the only sister brother and KNOT, 1 etill't decide it for the. Jews by her admirable you; you will bave to decide it for songs, claming and music, and even °afiacithigebegrrteavtan je)i‘yleemk.isliTol'kret,iy8ptshojussoe yourself. Which sheit it be? Lord the twee sentences of the Old Testa- for them, to grind their colors, to Lemnos: pommel Moses' ,gena nes nurse, help and_ , encourage her two Jesus, whieh shall tt e Hwy splrit, ment ✓ which shall it be 1 Oh, emu agent great brothers Margarce foreswore e which shall it be f I take !mid of the leprosy, nor his enthusiatatio pleading herself painted miniatures admirably, threng rif dying men -.and women, grief when Miriam was stricken with marriage. This sturdy Dutch woman ✓ rope in God's bell tower, and 18104 this loth be ineqg God to restore her and wits, along with Jan and Hubert, end mere hely, you. more and men. sinful. Brighter joys hovering eve them, thicker darkness frowning 13.3 on you. Then you will think ot 81. time when you sat i)1 the bouse of Co together. You will think of the tine when ye(1 walked the path of life to gether, when you mingled in the sam joys, when you 18298 over the sant graves, and the saute Invitation strue the ears of both of you at the sane time. Oh., it is an overwhelmin thought. to me Dant sorne wire eint e alarm of learning, and Dais wedding- health. e of love. I reel my eye over all r these seats, and I can eay: you may 11 13 be saved every one of you. Look un- to 01e, ail ye ende of the earth, and he saved, tor 6 am God, and there is none else," - Don't go away this morning, and 5r131 O 1 anneuneed destruct inn 1,4 any 11110138- o rept to tbe men that 'went without k Christlf you have not understood be- e fore, now, in this clotting moment of g tny discourse, understand me: v waver will," wbatever. his sin, if he has gone through the whole catalogue --"whoeuever care not what his ttge mny be, if for eighty years he bas been steeped in erime-"whosoever will, let him eon.% and take of the wa- ter a life freely.' Mark this: if you are lost, it is your own faille Paedon and heaven ale offered to all. "He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved ; and he that believeth not shall be &toned." 5831011together in 1 13e tenderest 1108 of affeetion will, unlees they repent, or this Bible is a lie, pass their eter- nity in two different worlds; if these aceept of Christ, end those refuse Him, they must inevitably .part. The text says so. If you persist in your Impenitence, you had better neglect everything, tied spend all your time together, for you are hastening un to- wards the forks of the road at W11 icM you xnust part. So what you have to eflY, ser now, Or never eay at all. A few more anys and nights of eompan- ionship, and that communication 331U58 he ended- 18 the Bible 84131 be under - steed in any place, it must he under- stood in this plae,e. One moment aft- er tleath bas dropped upon you; the a801 -angel rising on his throne! rally* 1119 all tbe strength of his existenee, could not hinder your fall, or ehange you] destiny, or hinder the separa- tion. • there will be parting, parting, parting, At the Tudgment-seat of Christ." 9111 0111 people of the Church remem- ber when they used to sing that in olden times. I heard my father sing it -an old tune gone out of date and an old hymn. They who are, cast aevay will go into the companionship of the worst population that have gone out &on, this earth. There are only Lyre worlds -heaven mid hell. The be- lievers have all gone, or will go, to heaven and tile unbelievers will go to hell. No compromise of destiny -one 311109 or the other, just as certain as I stand Imre, and you sit there, TWO worlds! I don't think that in the world of the lost there 88111 be any cell for the thief, or for the unclean une, er for the murderer. I think there will he one vast tionnemolty of suffering and 'crime. The most of Sodom will be there; the most of I3abylon will be there. The very slums nf tbe earth will empty their popula- ljori into that piece. All the vice) of the world, let 'close there, will riot, and foam, and fieht, and blaspheme. It will be the penitentiary of the uni- verse If you. get in there 7011 1.8111 never get out I and, therefore, it is with so much earnestness 3, stand here pleading ear your life, Ole to be in meth coespany as that for ever 1 Be- lieving this, es t do, cam addrees yeu .in anything bet words thae tome from the depths of my soul? 1 know that the philosopher of the day has t81e11 to reason this 1131(59 mit, end eejeeted (he idea, end the doetrine makes 131111- ple actually venomous. I 1111 2111411 help 81. 11 is got e eight hetweee men and I tee; it is a fight. between teen and God. • if there is a heaven, there is a bell. rimee ho under that eentence are cafe away, will 40 into jean 1 1, don't say mental, or bodily', or both. 1: 1101 nnt 11018 de -mussing it, bu1 it will be unmitigated torture. There van 1319 (11) ot et mentung to thrum chapters about the nes,','-dying worm, and the entilecs fire; that must mean torture. Eire ie torture. There will be pain-infiulto pain. The English language Is fell frf wurde 'expressive or suftering-suoh words 118 "wretehechiese," "heart- breek," "pang," "(element ,'' "ennvul- 811.11." "agony," "despair," "nee. 1 will ovike a ladder uf these words, each 14u311 a round, and let it down um to this sebjew (0 5849 18 1 earl measure the depth ot sorrow which imee 3(111 hove who reject Christ. 1 let down the ladder, but it does not touoli the bet Imo. I have 810011 00 elift, end 1 ha VI! pushed a .roelt off, awl it has gime 1 1.33131)11ms d men, a n it af er (133)18( 10 , I Inv) heard, whet it struelc beneath, ' the echo wane to tny ear. Al other throse, 1 bare Stood ort a pret•ipice 1,0 great, that t 1.1110811119 01'81. .010111', havt• listened, hot there mime back no tented. 1 eould not hear when 11 el ruck. i4 1 eake (mice (em)lt; of wheel I. have jeet spuken, and 1 throw 1114001 over this preeipiee, rind I listen In bear ninitt 1/1031 Strike the hot (1,113, 13)4 eebo I No eelie 1 Bot t 0111 1858 ill (7. 1 rimless 1 Oh, the rein/olio and chagrin ot one wit° ham had ten thousend op- pertunities of being Hever!, and ye1 feels he ie het. Oh, 1 he wen ellipse id 0115 NNhO 11118 Sven 4011 million ;vows in anguish, and yet Ceele it ie only jutxt 1)04(11)1 Agony, with ite time warred with 84>'$ 11 suffering, ]ltving 1.31) 310161 hates Lowerds the fiery horizon, (ivy - fuer. "Tim weath to conte I to mat 1 to econe I" After millions of ages, soiree soul gays: "Itan't it most gone'? Ten% it nettely ended 8 1 ean't long- er endure il . The harvest is past, tbe simmer ie ended, end 1(1111 not saved. When will it end ?" And a finger of 119311 111114 will write ne the sky: "leo? seer:" and the following thundereeeal otalm eMong the eroom of death, "For HOW TO TELL A HORSE'S AGE. Slileis Experience Required ond Ninny Things 1111V0 Ike Considered. To distieguish merely between the young hoxse and the old, it is only necessary to remember a few salient facts. The first is that the milk teeth are present in the horse's mouth un- til he is between 1 end 5 yeaes old. Tbe second fact is that the "mark," . • or dark central depreesion on the sur» face of the incisors, • becomes gradu- ally worn out and in a horse over 8 years old has nearly always disapper- ed from the teeth of the lower jaw. The third fact is that the shape of the tooth is much wider from side to side than it is from. freed to baele.•As the /torso becomes older the surface becomes progressively narroleer, from side to side, and thus instead ot re- maining always oblong, it beet:twos triangular and tben in very am 1108' 01818flattened froxn side te, side. In young horses, then, we judge the age by observing which of the milk teeth are present, and which have been replaeed by peroaanent 01105. To distinguish between the milk teeth and the permanent remember tha,6 the milk teeth axe smaller, Whiter and have a. distiuct neck. Until a cod is over two years old his teeth are all milk teeth, and the Alga is estimated from tbe' amount of wear showu on the crowns of the teeth, Between two and three the first of the permanent teeth make their appearance, aud push out the middle two teeth in both upper and lower jaws. A• horse is 'said to be three years old, when these contrite perrnaeeet ineisors, are rutty in wear; During the next summer the meowed pair of permanent teeth 6931081', urld when they are eully grown anti in Wear the horse is 'four years old. Be- tween four tend live the last. paw make their appearance, and now the horse has what ie called a full mouth. So far both mares and horses are alike, but at or near rive years old the (tonnes, Lu• "Lushes," appear tbe male sex only. Up to the end of this period the detertnination of the age 15 a comperatively easy matter, and mar one who is at all observant can read- ily give the ago of harems by looking at their teeth. After' a full mouth is attained it is a more diefieult matter and the diffieulty is greater in pro- Pontion to tbeil. age. So innele is this the ease that it is -popularly slapposed that it is impossible to telt t.he age of horses after they are eight years old, This may be true to a great ex- tent arnoee untrained and inexpert- ettced, but to an expert it is not dir- fieu 0 to tell the age up to 15 years with 10 fair degree of ancuraty, and aim that age to approximate it with- in it couple of :years, To do this sue- cesseully regutres much experience cl a careful inspection ol all the vis- ible indieations of age. To rely upon one only, towel es the "8115.118," Is Lo court. defeat. All should be observed -113e mark, the slettpe of the teeth, their length and the engin et which they meet those of the other jaw, PINEAPPLE CLOTH. in the senreb for 'new fibres that may be used in vloth-malting it has been suggested recently that 1.13e pine- apple plant, might be pressed into eer- view Pineepple leaves oontain fibree, which can ha divided into exceedingly Olio filaments toed tben apun 11110 (14331,11)8. in Eastern 001313- 4,11101 (313118.581' fabrics, a,s light almost • cobwebta, have been made of this material, But as yet no peoeese of producing the fibees 111 eV:M- =610W quantities hae been 10500803.- 0d, peace teat reigned between the pair, ; of diarrionile, Wes he wee evident- a gala of !Ugh 1 or W111011 r01 - Certainly, for :my woman lase be- loved and less honored than his sis- ter, he would soaroely have done SO muell, for it is plainly said that jeal- ousy of Moses' aftection. for his Ethio- pian wife brought down' this ourse upon her. She lived and worked ap- parently to a good old age, and wee buried with honors • before her peo- ple reached the promised laud, e1 is 11 curious C0i1101481100 that the sisters who have wielded most influ- ence have been always older than their great brothers, and the margravine of Bayreuth, Sophie Wilhelmina, Crown Princess of. l'IMSS111, 0105 some years the senior of Frederick the Great. She bonored and decorated for 111(1 8150141; but, like Caroline Herechel, she had rather contempt for her own achieve- ments, and studied to paint in order that she might more intelligently nssist them. Jean anti Herbert epparently estimat- ed this sister very highly and cherish- ed ber tenderly. They also remain- ed unmarried, and the three Ile ekle by 7448 in the old town of Tregon. Un- divided in death as In life. "I ant nothing. I have done noth- ing; all I know I owe to my brother. am only a tool he shaped io his tote. Any e ell -I reined puppy dog would have leerned as mut311," said Caroline Efersehel when BOMB one tried to laud her own achievements. This remark - 'two eld lady, who discovered eight comets, lost her temper onlY wbee arlY are to draw a comparison be- tween berself rind her brother Will. was a ;strange, passionate, clever and iam. All she did for her adored Will - always a very unhappy creature, but kina is familiar hietory to those wbo she stands quite alono as the one woman whom Frederick eincerely lov- ed, for wiles() advice he had respect and whose memory he tenderly cher- ished. During his tragic youth it was in her he confided, with her he invariably corresponded, and Freder- ick had 110 great eeverenee for the feminine intellect. For his mother he felt respectful indifference, for his wife not even a sentiment of friendship, while his other eisters merely bored 'him, but. voter .Sophie, with to. her faults, evoked in. Jahn a devotion and reverenoe tbat lasted to the ena of her days. Charles V., 3155 another monareli who said in all• hie life he had known but one WPM= 1711018 oould trust in end tele/ on as be would a MEM, and that woman Wa5 his sister, Mary of Hungary. She Wa5 a woman after Charles' own rugged and warlike heart, and he showed how highly he esti- mated her talents and her virtues when be made her Regent of Holland and Flanders. A. less masculine creature would per- haps have failed to secure Charles' esteem, and in spite of the heavy beard that would grow on her stern chin, 01 the brawny arms that would pull the strongest horse to 1134 haunches and her ravage love of boar hunting, Charles gave her proof -11', the highest affection. He hid very tittle of his most monnutous plans trom her, gave her an absolutely free hand in govern- ing the low country, permitted. her to use an iron baud in the attempt at quelling 11ae rising tide of hersey, and after governing the Netherlands 25 years she retired frOm the Regency when her brother abdicated his throne. Charlet) shut himself up in his mon- astery, but this brother and sister cm- and the omen trip would oceepy three know anything about the lives of great women. She made his sbirts, baked his bread, and sat up all nigbt in the open air, breathing on. her ink to keep it warm while the great astronomer dictated to her and swept the heav- 013S. She eren taught herself to have his wife -a hard job for a jealously devoted sister. After lie scenes in Eng)and DA his ad- oriug elave, her heart wee so crush- ed at his death that she. fled book to Hauover. There ebe lived to be 97 years old, and was busted with a look of his hair, while by her own ar- rangement her eomhstone touellingly beers witnese to the faCt that she Was •Sir Herseheilereiater Old was perraitted to he his helper. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Eallowing a.111.41f001,11, 'Fmk Bo I."' k Sraokiug was condemned (0 01,3 early part of the seventeeneb century by the Russian government, and made a crime. 112 50010 08805 Lila 110505 of smokere neve cut. Mt la Turkey, Un- der Anewath 1V„ about 11914, the pun- ishment for smelting 31)15 death. Begin- ners were sometimes let at with the indignity of having their pipes tbrust through their noses. • An unusually intelligent Mount St. Bernard dog was sold to a Elloptlike party by Jeremiah Murphy, of Calu- met, Mich. This W115 eighteen mouths ago, and the unit:mil was taken to Dawson City, .A, few weeks two the dog reappeatect iu Calumet, at its ,Id home, Much to the surprise of its owner. ROW it Made its wny from Alaska nobody knows. An mean steamship route between Green. Bay, Newfoundland, turd the western coast of lreland, has been suggested. The diatante is 1,500 miles, responded. until this gralacst of the days. Fest. trellis from New York Hapsburgs died: could complete the Leip to Green Colin Campbell is one of the tvarriors Bay in two dnys, making he time be - of our century who never married, tween Now York and Great Britian hut who found great Holum) in the de- , 501 1011 his sister. Marjory Alicia, gave "ye itaYs• hira. Early in his Wrest he was too invalids emcee that they heve dean benefded by mud baths in the vuleauo- es of Mendoeina County, Cel. The volennoes belch forth lee-eold mud anti in tine eurferers from rheumatism and oulaneous disenses immerse themselvee by (dinging With their hands to 0 etrong sapling eetencled emcee the mouth of the orator. .90 egg was actidentally dropped trom a building in BOston occupied by a bu.kiag company, told binded Mem a lady eedestrian. elute and ob- poor to marry, and every penny over and above the breast:neressities of a soldier's) life went to the sister in Scotland. She was never a brilliant or a beautitul woman, but the hero of the Crimea. and the Indian Mutiny gave her all. Dix faithful affection that Oen I cies to a 010.11 r wi e. wrote to her among tile horrors of the Indian war be remembered her needs, and she, a crippled ,old woman, sat by his becleide when be died. She liver) unmarried, as lie had done, and death. 6138 inherited a oomfortable fortune at 1" Mined a verdict of SPII90. Her e0M- Byr011, tercl. Clyde a lways Nvrote to his sister on thel eve or any peril- plait) alleged that "the afoeesaid egg 0118 undertaking, end among. the ten was set in motioe by tbe negligence of different, versions of his deathbed, re- the defendant's servant.° markt; hie tester's *tame. invariably ap- Vienna hns organized a club ot rich pears. Byron in his relations with you 04 „oo,„ who are wodeed to marry every woman was iiingularly maid, exacting anti unfaithful, He abhorred Poor giele.s, Should one of tittle:: bide, ugliness in women; until he was a well- his pledge and marry ft we grown boy ho bad never seen his sise he meet pay 82,000 to the owe. This ter, and Yet he'Pereeneitice. ee- 'sum 18 to be given to some inmeeun- oentrie, critioid end highelemMered loos couple 3111 are about to marry, man neeorded hie plain -faced, conven- tional sister the only truly noble senti- A novel system or advertising hos ment of•wItteh lie was capable:. been inaegurated by.11 ‘0010/1 diatiller. 136 1(3011 first meeting he had pip- Ha hoggit u'oorgo 4arroto, i'llught , was a man of very •strong character. lured a romantically beautiful woman, them to say "Drink til.ilik's whiskey," 3 Ite accepted the suggestions or critic- ile fotind in the Honorable Augusta aod ts(ts presented them, in gilt , belle oe his asisoeietem \viten be sew Peron a girl almost ugly, but with the 1,11,08, to the saloonkeepere of Liver- I Mil they were 3011 and right, 110 Mie ,kindest eyes, the most amiable smile, * not 05011 the rope of Rune, or the wife beat his wateh to Pieces in a It'cureouds Iran ollmisenItosv, ew.heInn hhica min°ssutitteediriPliest; '711011: Blf It.(4.-1,...i1R-4'"-WENT":17"9(*). eleeiele 1 1,00doot; (do 0., e and from that moment he TieVer fal- miler of Pimento twilit! make 111111 al. ter rt line oil his drawings or of hie A despatch Prom Syraimme, N, 9,3 The rest had forgotten all about. rage tin the heerth end fuddled his brain with brandy, eeepeise, a„he may; :--A burglor, giving his Milne t35 1ele1P in Ih"ir la'e'reet in tile merle, moothe and control him( by o word:John Walsh was arrested undo?, 110_ but now they we -0 romInded of hie She kept the friendsbip of hie foolish ', auliar eireulneteitteem here on leeiday Misfortune by bearing him say, "1 and almost unrottnagoahle wife and ' looming, tre broke into a house, and 51111908e, *Uncle it'red that Minh:eel An - brought about the only intervals of , offer !teeming ble plunder, temetsling 4010 Would not have frosen his lame," The "ink plant" grows in New Oren. srid what is chiefly to hor credit tilts i 13' Pililor illioxletliM or overcool, with 6(1 10er,edeeTelirei e emerged trol() his snow.. ada. Its juice can he used for wettieg never allowed her unhappy " brother , Wellrinelai, for he lay 1103131 '33) e Rae ;Au e ( . t1W1111113 nose restored In itwithoa any preparation. At first o otitis° or defame his wife beforeml1ttilsiv(l)11117aii/1ii."n1(01a,8,1,3!nl11308(1:;:"s8nno,0r1the writing Is red, but ina few hOurs be! ,lgsei;4,,y(s,lnisi;1 ,1411Irinl;11,,if:la(161,8,7111))osiiv8h,0:;(01315il bcomes black, ma far es lay within his power, By- 3(1(11,' ri(oirmd thenide0, mu.m.(1(19111561((1(19111561(041 , ,is . ' lesmill, -4- 4-4-4-..0-4- ; rt. Young Folks. MY D00011.1. What little oreature did I love, All other creatures far above? %Vito was tc ine my cooing dove f lify doggie. No matter though be raised the dick - And who would eat one in a trice? Weo had a weakness, too, for ellickensl oI thouglit fresh ow were very, \c1 113i (wl,u,n,,sialscilmi ymdt o 8100)4 rai yga,hiyeeoe.3 nxboyoungddhoestd to :02 ; Who had a naughty little vine? My doggie, nice r nothing cared for sundry My doggie. TWbbouhoullodildn joyt IiinsteranyovnieremnslItpald 1112011 g How mutimh yf shdougugldie7but couldn't scold 111413, Have chicken pie to eat, or bust f Who cuussedsectior say he really mug Who merely smiled while neighbour'. M3' doggie. Who sovnreingtleary thought a good fat Would be just prime to bave for din - On Sunuetilefy, too; the little sinner, My doggie, Wee, then did cateh-alas, was caught? That Sunday meal was dearly bought; At latsheinskad()flesson then wee taught; Who would not heed %ellen told to My doggie. The 1;50,50 that he was on the brink of, el'ho only sighed, for a chanee to slink. off 1 31y doggie. Who buried lies neath blooming clover White o'er him flocks of chicken*. His etbaciryth0ty*, toils and troubles over P My doggie. UNCLE PITEITS STORY'. Jamie came horue from scheol one - day with the end of his nose very, white and the rest of bis face very red. " Why, :ramie!" exclaimed nitemma, as soon as she saw him, "you certain- ly have frozen the end of your nose. Don't go near the fire; will get some mow to put on it." So sbeleurried out-of-doors and soon einno beak with a good• big snowball. "Just. bury the end of your nose in tbat,' she said, "and it will soon ler all right." So Jamie sat down with his elbow on the table and hold Um snowball over his 11080. " HOW did. you cume to freeze your nose 1' mamma asked, at length. "I tied your muffler over it when you went away this morning, and told yo32. it was very eold. Why didn't you do. the saute when you mine homer Jamie looked at the carpet awhile before he ansveered. and then he said .slowly, "The boys laughed at me be - mime I was bundled up like a baby." Mamnaa looked sober exaougb as she answered, "And tto you froze your nose because you were afraid of being leugh- ed at I 011 1" Of course Mabel and Arthur laugh- ed when they otune in.and saw Tarnie with his nose buried in the snowbael, but ,Lurue did not consider it any laughing matter, and tbere began to be signs of trouble. "Shall I tell you a story, Jamie f" asked 'Uncle Fred, who was sitting be - etch: the fire with a book. - Janne nodded the beat tbal. he could and Mabel anti Arthur stopped tangle- ing to listen, too. "08 course you children know," Uncle Fred began, "1141.1 Michael Ane gelo W115 great painter arid soulpe ter." The ehildren all nodded anent. " 1Vhen he was a boy fifteen years old he made his (1551: carving in stone. It ems the masque ot faun; you tear have eeen pictures of it. At the time that he made it, Lorenzo the Magni- ticent wits rater of Florence, the city in which bliehael Angelo was study- ing. Lorenzo was very etude interest- ed in the work of the young students, end used often to visit their studios, rieet time that he came after Mb, Mut& Angelo had finiehed his masque the young artist waited to beer what he would tiny ol: its Lorenzo ai the heed, and then teeming to the young man, Haiti, " YOU have Levee your faun the head of an old men, but old men do not have such regular teeth as your faun hap." In it twinkling Mame Angelo had seizeti hls mallet and Chisel and knock- ed out ono of his faun's teeth. " Lorenzo wa-s very much pleased, and afterward Look him 1.0 live In his OWn palaes wheee he gave bint everY advent age. " Now, children," Uncle Fred went on " perhaps you think tbat the rea- son Michael Angelo knocked out that tooth wa5 because he wanted to please Lorenzo, but I am Sure it Wall MA, • Michael Angelo sew at mice tient Lor- ensio's critieism of big faun was 103131(8 oriticiene We know enough of Aftehael Angelo's obaracter to inake us cortaie that If he heel /tot reaognieed the truth of the criticism he never would have touched Ilia Calla, %MD to pleaSe Lore eneo 4,310 ilitgeifecenteMielutel Angelo.