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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-14, Page 3JUr x 14; 1899. THE BRUSSELS PO$T. CHURCH OF OIIRIST TO -DAY REV, DR. 'I'ALMAGE SPEAKS OF ITS PRESENT POSITION 1lnngarone lin• Clio (baron or nod to en low lie weepiest to stay to elle Ilaade of Itx binonilnx—Oi9ureh't ltntonreen Are Actually hidden and owned and the developed—'rhe lir. theorems u Timely Sermon, A despatch from Washington says: 'Rev Dr. Talmage; preached from the following text :-" Now there was no Smith found throughout all the laud 'of Israel; for the Philistines said, lest the Hebrews 111nke them swords or spears. But all the Israelites weal down to the Philistines to sharpen ev- ery man hie sher0, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock. Yet they had a )Ile for the mattocks, and for the .coulters, andfor t he forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads." -1 .Snanuel xii1. 19-21. What a scalding subjugation for the Israelites 1 The Philistines hod carried 011 all the blacksmiths, and torn down all the blacksmith's shops and abul- is.hed the bla0ksmith's trade in the laud of Israel. The P1111181100s would not even allow these parties to work their valuable mines of braes and iron, nor might they make any swords or spears. There were only two swords left in all the land. Yea, the Philis- tines wont on until they had Laken all the grindstones from the land of Is- aae!, so that if an Israelitish farmer wanted to sharpen his plough ur his axe, he had Lo go over to the garrison of the Philistines to get LL done. 'There was only one sharpening instrument loft in the land, and that was a file. The fermate and the mechanics having nothing Lo whet up the coulter and the goad and the pickaxe, save a simple file, industry was hindered and work practically disgraced. The great idea of these Philistines was to koala the Is- traelities disarmed. They might get iron out of the hills to make swords of, but they would hot have any blacksmiths to weld this iron. If they gat the iron welded, they would have nu grindstones ou which to bring the instruments of agriculture or the military weapons up to an edge. 011, you pour weaponless Israelites, reduced to a file, how 1 pity you I But these Philistines were not forever to keep their heel on the neck of God's children. Jonathan, on lois Bunds and knees, climbs up a great rock bey'ondwhieh were the Philistines; and his armor -bearer, on kis 11and8 and knees, climbs up the same rock, and these two men, with their two swords, hew to planes the Philistines, the Lord throwing a great terror upon them. So it was then; so it. is now. 'Iwo men of God on their knees, mighter than a Philistine ho81 on their tent. L learn first from this subjeot, how dangerous it Is for the Church of God to allow its Weapons to stay in the hands of its enemies. These Israelites might again and again have obtained a supply of swords and weapons, as for instances when they took the spoils of the Ammonites; but these Israelites seemed) content to have no swords, no spears, no blacksmiths, uo grindstones, no active iron mines until it was too late for them to make any resistance. I see the farmers tugging along with their piokaxes and ploughs, and I say: " Where are you going with those things?" They say: "0, we are going over to the garrison of the Philistines to get these things sharpened." I say: " You 1ool1eh men. why don't you sharpen them at home 1" " 0," they say, " the blacksmith's shops are all torn down, and we have nothing left us but a file." So it is in the Church of Jesus Christ to -day. Wo are too willing to give up our weaporte to the enemy. THE WORLD BOASTS that it has gobbled up the schools and the colleges and the arts and the 8ai- enoes and the literature and the print- ing -press. Infidelity is making a )nighty attempt 'o get all our weap- ons In its hand, and then Lo keep there. You know it is making this boast all the time; and after a while when the great battle between sin and right- eousness has opened, if we do not look out we will be as badly off as these t-sraelltes, without any swords to fight with, and without any sharpening in- struments. I call upon the sperintencl- ents of literary i1181LLulion8 to see to It that the men who go into the plass rooms to stand beside the Leyden jars, mud the electric batteries, and the mic- roscopes and the tolesoopes be ohil- ?ran of God and not Philistines, The Carlylian, Emersonian, and Tynclallean thinkers of this day, are trying to get all the intellectual weapons of this century in their own grasp. What we want is scientifim Christians to call` tare the science, and acholiStio Chris- tians to capture the seholarehip, and philosophic Christians, to capture the philosophy, and lecturing 011118 ian8 to take bank the lecturing platform, We want 10 send out against Schenkel end Strauss and Henan, to Theodore ChrisL- li:e.b of Bonn; and against the infidel eo1entis1s of the day, a God -worship- ping Silliman and Hitohcook and Ag- assiz. We want to capture all the philusopbieal apparatus, and swing around the telescopes on the swivel, un- til through them we awn see the morn- ing star of floe Redeemer and with mineralogical hammer discover the "Rock of ages," and amid the flora of all roaltns find the " Rose of Sharon and the lily of the valley." We want a clergy learned enough to discourse of the human eye, showing it to be a mic- roscope and teloseope ha one instru- ment, with eight hundred wonderful contrivances, and lids (losing 30,000 or 40,000 times a day ; all its lnuseles and nerves and bones showing the infinite 'Skill of an infinite God, and then wind- lag up with the peroration 1' He that (Dented) Lhe eye, shell he not. eon?" And then we vasa lb be able to theeoars8 about the nnman ear, its wonderful iniegumfots, membranoas and vihre. tuns and Its (Main of small bones and its aiudIIOry nerve, eluetng with the queetion; tie that planed the ear shall he not. hear'?" And we waint some one able to expound 4110 first oh:lliier of Genvele, bringing to it the geology and the astronomy of (he world, unl i1, as Job suggested, " the donne of (ho field ellen be in league" with the truth, acid the attire in their 8.0111'80 shall FIGHT AGAINST SISEIRA. O Church of lied, go out and recapt1re these weapons. Let the men of God go out and take 1(00.4052k m of the plats form.. Let the debauched prinling- p+ose of this 8(110111 17 be recaptured for ('hrIet, and the reporters and the type- setters and the editors and ln)blieh(rs bo made to swear ails htnre to the. Lord God of truth, A1C, my friend, that day utast ruma1. and IX the great body of Christian men have cul the faith or the ('Garage or the consecra- tion to do. it, then lel some Jonathan, OIL his busy head++ and on his praying knees, climb up on the rook of hind- rance, and in the nem( of the Lord God of Israel slash to pieces those lit- erary Philistines. 1.1 these men will not be converted to God, then they utast be destroyed. Again, I leant flclm this eubjooL what a large amount of the Church's re- sources is actually hidden end burled and undeveloped. The Bible intl.- metes that 111:(1 was a very rich land —this land of -Israel. . It says: "The stones are iron, caul out of the )hills thou shalt dig brass," end yet hun- dreds of thousands of dollars' worth of this metal WOO kept under the hills. Well, there is the difficulty with (he Church of God at this: day, Its talent is not developed. 1f one-h'alf of ice energy could be brought out, it aright take the public iniquities of the day by the throat and make them bile the dust. 11 Montan elo- quence were consecrated to the Lord Jesus Christ, it could in a few year's persuade this whole earth to surren- der to God. There is enough unde- veloped energy in this one church to bring this city to Christ—enough un- developed Christian energy in the city, to bring all the United States to Christ—ouougit undeveloped Christen energy in the United States to bring the whole world to Christ; but it is buried under strata of indifference and under whole mountains of cloth. Now is it not. time for the mining to begin, and the pickaxes to plunge, and for Chia harried metal to be brought out and put into the furnaces, and be turned into howitzers and earbindafor the Lord's hosts? The vast majority of Christians in this day are useless. The most of the Lord's battalion be- longs to the reserve corps. The most of the crew axe asleep in the ham- mo.ks. The most of the metal Is un- der the )tills. 0, is it not time for the Church of (hitt to rouse up and understand that we want all the ener- gies, all the talent, all the wealth en- listed for Christ's stoke? I like the nickname that the English soldiers gave to Blucher, the commander, They called him "Old forwards." We have had. enough retreats in Lhe Church of Christ; let us have a glori- ous advance, And I say to you to- night, as the General said when his troops were affrighted. Rising up in his stirrups, his hair flying in the wind, he lifted up his voice until 20,000 troops heard him, crying out: "FORWARD THE WHOLE LINE I" Again.: I learn from this subject, that WO sometimes do well to take ad- vantage of the world's sharpening in- struments, These Israelites were re- duced to a file, and so they went over to the garrison of the Philistines to get their axes and their goads and their ploughs sharpened. The Bible distinctly states it—the text which I read at the beginning of the service— that they had no other instruments novo with which to do Lhis work, and the Israelites did right when they went over to the Philistines to use their goin,datones. My friends, is it not right for us to employ the world's grindstones? If there be art, if there be logia, if there be business faoulty on the other sido,,let us go over and employ it for Christ's sake. The fact is, we fight with too dull weapons, and W0 work with too dull implements. We hook and we maul when we ought to make a keen stroke. Let us: go over among sharp business men, and among sharp literary men, and find out what their toot is, and then transfer it to the cause of Christ. If they have sci- ence and art it will do us good to rub against it. In other words; let us employ the world's grindstones. We will listen to their music, and we will watch their aetu a -n, and we will use their grindstones; and we will borrow their philosophical apparatus to make our experiments, and we will borrow their printing -presses to publish our Bibles, and we will borrow their rail - trains to carry our Christian litera. Cure, and we wilt borrow. their ships Lo transport our missionaries. That was what made Paul such a mas- ter in Iris clay. • He not only got all the Learning he could get of Doctor Camelia, but afterward, standing on Mars hilt, and in crowded thorough- fare, quoted their poetry and{ grasped their logic and wielded their eloquence and employed their mythology, until Dionyeius the Areopagite, lea2'ned.in the schools of Athens and Heliopolis, went down under his tremendous pow- ers. That was what gave Thomas Chalmers his power in his day. Ile conquered the world's astronomy and compelled it to ring out, the wisdom and greatness of the Lord,, until for the second gime, the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy. That was what gave to Jonathan Edwards his influence in his day. He commenced the world's metaphysics and. forced it into the se..r- vice of God, until not only the old meeting -house at Northampton, Massa- ohusetts, but all Christendom felt thrilled by Iris Christian power, Well, now, my friends, we all, have tools of Christian usefulness. Do not let them lose their edge. We want no rusty blades in this fight. We want no a ut- ter that minuet rip up the glebe, We want no axe that cannot fell the trees, We want no goad, that cannot start the lazy team. Let use get, 1111' VERY BEST GRINDSTONES possession of the Philistines, compel - we man find, though they be in the ling them 'to turn, the crank while we bear down with all Gun might on the swift revolving wheel uuLil all our energies and faculties shall be brought up to a bright, keen, sharp, glittering edge. Again: ley su11,1801 Wadies use on what a small allowance Philistine int- quity lents a meet. Yes; th0811 1'hllis- tinee shut up the, /nines, acid then they Cook the spears and the swords, then They Look the blaeltsmiths, then they took the grindstones, and they Look' everything but a filo, 0, that is the way sin wurks;It. grabs everything. It begins with robbery and it ends with robbery. 11 despoils this faeutly and that facially, and keeps on until the Whole nature le gone. Wart the man eloquent before, it genet ally thickens hos tongue. Was he fine, in immune/ appearances, it mars hie visage. Was he affluent, it sends the, eheieff to Sell him out:, Was he influential, it des- troy' his popularity. Was bo elaepd and genial and loving, it masses Idea splenetic and cross; and so utterly is he changed that you (nn see he is sitrcastie and rasping, and that the !'hilietines have left 111,)1 nothing but a file. 0, "the way of the transgressor is hard," Itis eup is bitter. HIie night is dark. His pangs are deep, 11is end i8 torr•iftc, Nbiliste q 01178 to the mon: "Now, siaurreninideruity to me and 1 will give you all you want.— mimic for the dance, swift s(.eecls for the race, imperial couch Lo elutnber on, and you shall be refreshed with the rarest fruits, is 11as11018 of gulden 111- agree." Ile Iles, 'Che music turns out to be a groan. The fruits burst the rind whit rank poison. The filagree is made up of twisted snakes. The couch le a grave. Small allowance of rest; small allowance of peace; small allowance of comfort. Cold, hard, rough,—nothing but a file. So it was with Voltaire, the most apptduded man of his duy: "The Scriptures was 1115 Jest -book whence he drew Bon mots to gall the Christian and the Jow; An insickfidel? when well, but what when 0, then a text would touch )him to the quirk," Seized with hemorrhage of the lungs in Purse, where he, bud) gone to be crowned in the theatre as the idol of all ft'aneea, he sends n messenger to got a priest, that the +nay be reconciled to the Church before he dies. A great terror falls upon him. He makes the place all round about; hien so dismal that the nurse declares that she would not for all the wealth of Europe sea another infidel (lie, Philistine Ini- quity had promised him 811 the world's garlands, but In the last hour of his life, when he needed solacing, sent tearing Across bis eonscien,e and his nerves a file, a file. So Lc was with Lord Byron, his uncleanness in Jing - land only surpassed by his uncleanness in Vautc8, then going on Lo olid hie brilliant misery at Misselougi, fret- ting at his nurse Fletcher, fretting at himself, fretting at the world, FRETTING AT, GOD; and he who gave to the world "Childe Harold" and "Sardanapalu8" and "The Prisoner of Chilton" and "the Siege of Corinth" reduced) to nothing but a 111e1 0, sin has great faoiiity for making promises, but it has just es great facil- ity for breaking them. A Christian life is the only cheerful life, while a life of wicked surrender is remorse, ruin, and death. Its painted glee is sepulchral ghddstliness, In the bright- est days of the Mexican Empire, Montezuma said he fat gnawing at his heart =nothing like a canker. Sin, like a monster wild beast of the forest, sometimes licks all over its vic- tim in order thxrt the victim may be more easily swallowed; but generally sial rasps and galls and tears and up- braids and files. Is IL not so, Herod? is it not so, Hildebrand? Is it not so, Robespierre? Aye I aye! it is so, it is so. The way of the wicked He turnslh upside down." History tells us that when Rase was founded, on that day there were twelve vultures flying through the air; but when a transgressor tries, the sky is black with whole flocks of them. Vultures I vultures! vultures I When I see sin I see them going down day by day and robbtng so many of my hearers, and week by week, I must give It plain wetenip:g, I dare not keep it back lest I risk the salvation of my 00011 soul. Rover the Pirate pulled down the w,atrning bell on 11101tap0 Rock think- ing that he would have a chance to despoil vessels that were (rushed on the rooks, but one. night his own ship crashed down on this very rock, and he went down with his cargo. -God" declares: "When I say to the wick- ed, thou shalt surely die, and thou giv- est him not warning, that same man shall die in his Iniquity ; but his blood will I require at thy hands." I learn once more from this subject what a sad thing it is when the Church of; God loses its metal, These Philis- tines saw that if they could only get all the metallic weapons out of the hands of the Israelites, all would be well, and, therefore, they took the swords and the spears. They did not want them to have a single metallic weapon. When the metal of the Is- raelites was gone, their strength was gone. This is the trouble with the Church of God to -day, It is surren- dering its courage, a It has not got enough metal. Ilov seldom It is that you No n man tak'ng his position in paw or in pulpit or in a religious society, and holding that ;position e.gailest all apposition and all trial and all persecution, and ell eritidism. The Church of Gocl to -day ' wants more backbone, more defiance, VLORE CONST CRAT1$D BRAVERY, more metal. How often you see a man start out in some good enterprise, and al the first blast of newspaperdom he has collapsed, and all his courage is gone, forgetful of the fact that if 81 man be right, all the newspapers of the earth, With all their columns pounding away at him, cannot do him any permanent damage. It is only wheyrr a man is wrong that ho can be damaged. Why, God is going to vin- dioate HIS truth, and He is going to stands by you, my friends, in every ef- fort you make for Christ's cause and the salvation of mon. I sometimes say to my wife: "There is something wrong; the newspapers have not as- saulted me for six weeks! I have not done my duty against public iniquities and I wall stir them up next Sunday.'! Them! I stir them up, omit all the fol- lowing week the devil. howls and howls and howls, showing that I ' have hit him very hard. Go forth In the Ser- vio. of Christ and do your whole duty, Yon have one sphere: I have another sphere. "The Lord of Hosts is with us, anti the God of Jacob is our re- fuge. Selab." We want more of the cksterl.nnationa of Jonathan. I do not suppose he was a very Wonderful Iran; but Ile got on his knees and slumbered up, t i k and will the, hell of h armor bearer bearer lie hewed down the Yhil- istin(x and a man of very ordinary intellectual attainments, oil hie knees, can storm anything 101' llud and fur the truth. We want something of the determination of the goneral who went Into the twat', and as lo' entered hie first battle, Iiia knees knocked lugelh er, Lis physical courage not quite up to his Moral Courage; and he looked down 11 hie knees and said; "Ah, if you knew where 1 was going to take you, you would shako worse than that l" There is only mei question for you to ask and for me to ask. What does God want me to do? Where le the field? Whore is the work? Where is the anvil) Where is the prayer - needing Where is the pulpit.'1 Awl, finding out what 0011 wants us to do, ' go ahead and do it --all lite energy of aur body, mind, and soul en- listed 111 the undertaking. 0 my bre- thren, we have but little lime in which to fight for God. You will he dead soon, Put in the Christian cause every energy that God gives you. "What thy hand findeth- to do, do it with all thy might, for there is neither taiethen nor device in the grave whither we are all chastening." I see now the plumes of the lords cavalrymen tossing its the air. The archangel before the Throne has already burnished his trumpet, and then he will put its gold- en tips to his own, and he will blow the long, loud blest that will MAKE ALL TIIE NATIONS 10.11 BE, Clap your hands all ye peoplel Bork! I hear the falling thrones, and the dashing down of demolished iniqui- ties. "Hal lelujah I the Lord God Om- nipotent reigneth. Hallelujah) the kingdom of. this world aro became the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ," A ROYAL ROMANCE. The widow of the King of Portugal is dying, and it is recalled that she has been the only example in Europe in this century, of u queen not of titled birth. She was an American girl, named Elise Hensler. lier story is a romance, in- deed. She was born in Boston. Her parentage was respectable, but she was poor. To eke out the family income Elise sang in the Park street church of her native oily, and the beauty of the girl, her rioh, pure voice, and the gen- tleness of her manners, won her rfiends among the church folk, who got up a purse and sent her to Europe for musi- oel training, Sire studied In Paris and Italy, returned for an engagement in New Yorlc, and then to Europe for a continental tour. At her first appearance in Europe, in the Royal Opera House atLisbon, Ring Ferdinand saw the girl and was charm- ed by her beauty. He had buried his first wife, Dona Marla, sixteen years previously. His .regency during the minority of his son had ended, and his son was on the throne. The son wits married and had two sons, one six years old, the other four. Why should not Ring Ferdinand marry her, though it was contrary to all precedent) He scoured an introduction to the beauti- ful American, and had found her as unsullied in mind and as sweet of spirit as her persottal charms were undoubt- edly great. He asked her hand, and not morganatioally. Accepting him, she was made by the graciousness of the King's cousin, Duke Ernest of Saxe - Coburg and Gotha, Countess of Jdia. King Ferdinand announced to his rela- tives that he was to marry and whom he was to marry. The family saw no reason why this quiet -loving king should not enjoy his honorable retire- ment as he (hose, and, in June, of 1880, an American, whose paternal seat was a little brisk house un New England, became the mistress of royal palaces. For sixteen years Ferdinand and his wife lived in happiness, mostly at the Moorish castle at Metre owned by Fer- dinand. The Ring worked in his garden among his flowers and among his books in his library, with his wife always by his side. She sung to him and to his friends, he playing her accompani- ments. After his death, twelve years ago, the Countess clung to her retire- ment, but In her palace she was visited on a perfeot etpeality by members of the royal fatally. And now, alter a dozen years of loneliness itis said that this American -born queen, uncrowned, but none the less highly honored, is at the point of death. THINK BLT'ORE YOU STRIKE. Think before you strike any creature that cannot speak. The following lit- tle story is quite true:: When I was young I worked for a farmer, and was given a span of horses to plow with, one of which was a four-year-old colt. The colt after walking a few stops would lie down in the furrow. The farmer was provoked and told me Lo sit ou the Dolt's head to keep him from rising while he whipped nim, to break him of the notion, as he said. But just then a neighbor Came by, He said, "There's something wrong here, let him get up and ler us find out what is the matter." He patted the colt, Looked at the harness, and then said: "Look at this collar; it is so long and narrow, and carries the harness so high that when he starts to pull it slips book and choi e:s him, so teat he can't breath." And so it was, and but for that neighbor, we should have whipped es good a creature as we had on the farm, because he lay down when he could net breathe. Always remember that: all animals aro dumb, and cannot make their wants known. Think before you strike any oreature that cannot speak, THE GIRL WHO ENJOYS HERSELF, There is room everywhere for the adaptable girl. No one surpasses her in popularity. It is alio who makes icer- soli thoroughly at home erten.' invited out, who puts her hostess into a happy frame of mind and deludes a mixed company into the belief that they are congenial. This is the type of girl who Will Qat food that she does not like rather -than N1If1 her posters unc0m- for.tablo, She Is always weldeene. Icer gracious manner wins the heart pf high and 1000 alike. She puts everybody at ea8e by being so much at ease her- self, 11 EALT OARS OF THE HAIR, The mare of the hair is one of the moat importalit adjunots of 8 woman's Leilmt, and to many who were not dealt will generously by nature, the color of it is a source of great annoyance, Of course dying the hair must be 1u- etenLly ouudemned. In meet oases tbo solution used is a dallgaroue one, and many limes it results seriously: idowever, soma girls are, unfortu- nately, gifted w1111 ugly leokiug hair 1(51 just misses being beautiful. A r'eddieh brown or briok Color seems 1.0 be the greatest 8uffer80. In such cases the use of harmless artificial means for helping it Alto the category of beauty is pardunabro The woman who possesses sandy bret4. hair can very mouth improve it by putting a tablespoonful of salts of tartar lobo the water when washing It. 1f t1ie� dues tun have an effect, put a table- spoonful of peroxide of hydrogen in- to the rinsing water, OL eoure0 the last named must: be used sparingly, for It is a sure bleach fur the hair, if used In sufficiently large quantities. This effective property of peroxide of hy- drogen can be used to good, effect in other ways, huwsvor. Fur instance, the removal u( superfluous hair is a serious matter, and can unly be (mete - pilshed successfully by the use of 'the electric needle. Where much hair is on the arms, it is impossible to re - 11.1000 all of it in this way, su that the next: best thing to do is to bleach the hair by putting 011 peroxide ut hydro- gen. The light colored hair is very much less noticeable. Brunettes whose hair. as of a geed color should be very earefu1 neves to put anything in the nature of a bleach into the shampoo water, though five cents' worth 01 salts of tartar put in i tis delightful fur blonde heads. It Will give it a slightly lighter tins, though not a nil iceable bleach, and it makes the hair fluffy, soft and silky. After suoh a wash, the hair should be Lannert dry in the sun. Brushing is very essential to the beauty o1 the hair, and also to the health of the scalp, but if the hair is inclined to fall out it should not be brushed much until this trouble is remedied. A good recipe fur this is: Forty-eight grains of resorcins, one- fourth ounce of glycerine and alcohol sufficient to fill a two -ounce bottle. limb into the scalp night and morning. Besides, the hair should be shampooed once a week, using pure mettle soap. Here is another excellent tonic: One pint of water, twenty grains of qui- nine, one tablespoonful pastor oil, one 10a8poouful borax, ossa and a hall tincture of oanLharides, three table- spoonfuls of witch hazel Lwo table- spoonfuls of alcohol. Of course, the presence of dandruff indicates an unhealthful condition of the scalp and a consequent impairment to the hair. A cure can be had by means of the folluwing: Alcohol, two ounces; witch hazel, two ounces; re - stamina, fifteen grains. This thor- oughly cleanser the scalp and makes the hair soft and silky. It should be applied each morning by rubbing well into the scalp with the tips of the fin- gers. To make the hair grow, an easily compounded lotion is made by using ono pint of bay rum and. one ounce of castor oil. Shako well together, and rub on the scalp. FOR STOUT WOMEN. While general exercise is valuable, 11 is not alone sufficient to aid those who are 'too stout, particularly those annoyed by embonpoint, but specific motions are necessary. Here is a sim- ple exercise which works wonders. It must be performed with the corsets and long skirts off. Assume a per- fectly upright position—that is, put the heels together, the arms by the side and the head high, and the spine curved to throw the chest out and the trips baok. Then touch the floor in front of the feet with the finger tips, without bending the knees. liaise to the standing position, and repeat fif- teen times. If there is much fatigue, raise the arms over the head before de- scending, to soothe and stimulate the nerves ul the back. This simple ex- er'oioe lt+a8 been known to mime the weight Lvrenty pounds in three months, the greatest effect being over the ab- domen. At first there will be difficulty in reaching the floor without bending the knees, but this can be overcome by persistent effort, which adds interest to what might seem monotonous and meaningless. Drop the arms, and by a series of up and down muttons, lilte pumping, the tense muscles of back and thigh will relent, and the hands get nearer to Gus floor. AL the end of a week the difficulty should be over- come, and suppleness gained. When it comas to dieting for obesi- ty, the rules are so muoh like those for dyspepsia and gout, that invalidism is suggested. Primarily the ban goes out against that vvioked trio of sweets, Cats mud starches. All are tabooed, and that means a diet so monoton- ously simple that many a one lapses 11010 her former state of indulgence, from weariness and impatience. There can be no candy, no enticing drinks from the soda -water fountain, no sugar in uolfea or tea, although saccharine can be used, no dessert; neither can there be anything fried, nor mayon- naise, nor creamy things, nor farinaeo- 9Ad. , Ve�gG.t,a.2?ies thiot gFQOY . below .6 m1/2.— le(eien ve stables like o- p ust bo lea outofoctose and beets—Must ft o this Spartan diet, and butter is for- bidden. What is there left? Why, this: A cup of hot water an hour be- fore meals, none wit food; fresh moats—'except: porke-end pu1l"od Thread, with solve indulgence in vegetables and fruit. Whist of course, is severe, but it is necessal7 for only a short tiAte, and surely will lower the weight. After a sufficient number of pounds leave vanished into thin air, a more genel'oue diet should be gradually adopted. SUBSTITUTE FOR FEATHERS. Feathers and down are expensive, but if you know a bank where the cat -tail grows you pan have down pillows galore for the mere making. You must knew that the fluff of the ripe cat -tail, which may be gulhored in July or August, mutes a pillow equaled only by down itself. So if you live near a lake ur pond seouro a harvest of eat-laila for future use, If it should be your fate to live in a section of rountry whore rat-tails do not grow, then su.betitute the silk from milkweed pods. Gather the node in the fall of (1ua year, 11a.ng them away in paper bags lo dry, and they will burst open and can be made up into pillows in the early spring, GRIEF-STRICKEN ANIMALS. '100,, Pathetic 2ioi'lex 1lilrh Show the Ar• 4s feel lou or numb Animals Or Uwe An. ower. Lovers of sport, whose guns have brought down many a swift -winged bird or fleet -footed animal, may per- haps be :.tile to match the following stories by memories (rf their own. A member of a shuutiug-p,rty kill- ed a female munkey, and carried it to his tent. The Leu. was soon surround- ed by lurly ur fifty munkeys, who made a groat noise, and seemed disposed to attack the aggressor. They retreated when he presented his fowling -piece, the terrible effect of which they had witnessed and appear- ed quite to understand, but the head of the troop, stood his ground chat- tering furiously. The sportsman who, perhaps fell some cumpuuctiun fur hav- ing killed one of the family, did nut like to fire at the creature, :and noth- ing short of firing would suffice to drive him off. At length the monkey came to the door of the tent, and finding threats of no avail, began a lamentable moan- ing, and by the must impressive ges- Lures seemed to beg that the slaugh- tered nnim.1 might be gn'en back. The dead body was accordingly given to )him. Ile took it sorrowfully in 1118 arms, read bore it away Lo his waiting companions. Thuee who witnessed the extraordin- ary scene resolved never again to fire at one of the monkey race. A case equally pathetic occurred at Chalk le trim near Hampton, in Eng- land. A man set to watch a field of peas, which h,d been much preyed up- on by pigeons, shot an old mate pigeon that had long been an inhabitant. of the farm. Its mate immediately set- tled upon the ground by its side, and showed her grief in the most expres- sive manner. The laborer took up the dead bird and tied it to a short stake, thinking the sight of it would drive away oth- er depredators. The bereaved bird, how- ever, did not forsake her mote, but continued day after day walking slow- ly round the stick. The kind-hearted wife of the bailiff of the farm at last heard of the oir- cumstance, and immediately went to afford what relief she could to the p00r bird. On arriving it the spot she found l:he hen -bird much exhausted. It had• made. a circular beaten trade, around the dead pigeon, giving now and then a little spring toward him. On the re- moval of the hood bird the hen re- turned to the dove -cot. GERMANY READY. The fronds beading From prance On Cot Limon•, Fort. Metz and Strasburg, the outposts of the German army, face watchfully to- ward the west. From. the gates of Metz the roads to Paris taper through wall after wall of entrenchments, whlah end with the heights above the stricken field of Grovelotte. Thence to the frontier of France is only a walk across the grave -covered ground. From litatz to Francs is one long "gla- de,' unassailable by the invader. Above it rise the five great sentinel forts which surround Metz, and from the high ground on which these stand can be seen seen, 15 miles to the west, Verdun, the nearest french fortress, the threat of France. In Metz and Strasburg a great Ger- man army stands at attention, ready for war. Touch the right button In Berlin and in half an hour 80,000 men will be Marching from Metz, and within 12 )tours 100,000 men—the frontier field force of Alsace-Lorraine—will be cross- ing tbo border ; while the system Ln accordance with which the railway touches all the great cantonments of Germany, and then converge on to the frontier, will land halt a million men near Metz in three 'days. In a week 2,500,000 men will be on and beyond the frontier; in a week 4,000,000 Ger- mens will be under arms. In Moto and Strasburg stores and food and fodder lie ready in magazines, the transport animals stand harnessed by the wagons. A11 the appliances and munitions of modern war are to hand, and would bo on the road in a few minutes, When the troops go "route marching" they carry with them three days' food and throe days' ammunition ; their clothes are in their knapsacks. They can car'r'y no more in war. HOW THEY MANAGED IT. And so you Imp findily siicceoded in getting your hasbaud to take the gold cure? I thought he always claimed that he could quit drinking whenever he wanted to ? Iles, he did. We have just convinc- ed him that he ought to take some. thing to make him want to. iNIEAVOr, Hirci. - 'Young Wife --.I had nothing else to do, so I did the cooking. Husband --Yes, yes) Satan finds imam mieehdof still for idle hands to doe WHRT UGLE SAN � at ITGM5 OF INTEREST ABOUT THB BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest in Ilia Doings—Matters of Moment and flirtit Gathered from Ills Dolly Record. Rev, 11r, Theodore L. Cuyler, Brook- lyn, boasts that be is of Welsh an- cestry. Criminals sentenced to death in i_Ttah have a choice between hanging and shooting. There aro 212 German Baptist churches In the United Statics, with 22,000 members. On the docket of the Criminal Court of Atlantal are the names of twenty- seven' uncaught murderers, As a result of strong winds and a dual -laden atmosphere, an epidemic of aura eyes prevails in Chicago. A mausoleum is to be built in a cemetery in Milwaukee, 10 be the burial piece of the priests of that Catholic diocese, Kingfisher, Kansas, has an ordin- ance requiring the dog-oatoher to produce the tail of every unlicensed dog killed by him. The total value of farm animals in the United States is estimated at $1,- 997,010,107, an inereode of ;3108,866,- 082 during the year. The 'Agricultural Department or lians:is estimates that the wheat yield of that State will be only one- quarter of a full crop. Aiiohigan expects to have the larg- est park in the country. The treat in- volved covers 78d,5110 mares, and is located in six counties. it is announced that Mar iron has gone up about 58 per cent., steel a little more, wire nails 08 per cent. and tinplate 10 per cent. Prince. Tokuma Kunoe, of Japan, president of the Japanese House of Peers, will spend a year in the United Slates studying educational institu- tions. Alexander Beaubien, the first whiter ohild horn in Chioago, and a son of Gen, John Baptiste Beaubien, has just' celebrated his golden wedding at his home in that pity. Anthony N. Brady, the Wali street financier, who was one of ex -Governor Flower's most trusted associates, he. gen life as the keeper of a small hotel in Albany, N.Y. lMfark Twain is greatly distressed by the death of a favorite oat, which he has owned for many years, and which always lay on his writing table while the author was at work. Gov. Gerr, of Oregon, is one of the most zealous spo1Lsmen in the west - On a hunting trip reports say that he brings down as much game as all the rest of the party put together. At Carmel, lnd., reoentiy, a young woman was married on the silver an- niversary of the marriage of her parents, and the golden anniversary, of the marriage of her grandpar- ents. W. B. Stratton, who has Just sold the famous Independence gold mine for $10,000,000 to an English syndi- cate, was once so poor that he located under "grub stakes" the mine that since produced $1,500,000. Philip D. Armour's annual European trip will this summer take him to Carlsbad. He has been greatly shaken by the de.atlh of his brother and the attack of the grip, which kept him abed for several weeks last winter. By the death of James Sohoolbred Gibbes, of Charleston, S. C., that misty, as a residuary legatee under the will of Mr. Gibber' father, will receive $100,000, bequeathed to found an art school and a women's library. Statistics shoe that firs' destroys 6,000 lives and $1511,000,00 worth of property in the United States every year. This shows that the science of oonstruction is still a perilously long ling from 400 to 900 postage stamps distance from what 11 should be. A new machine capable of oaneet- e minute is now being tried in Chi- cago post -offices, It has four feed pockets, in which the letters may be placed either singly or in bunches. Representative D. B. Henderson, of Iowa, has announced his candidacy for the Speakership of the National House of Representatives at Washington. In a statement be says the Iowa dele- gation is united in favor of his oan- didaoy. notary Probasco, of Cincinnati, was a millionaire a few years ago. But he adopted Mr. Carnegie's views of wealth, and gave away his fortune in be•nevolenees. To -day, at seventy-nine years, he finds himself impoverished, and lives in a little rented house, sup- ported by a small salary as an officer of a cemetery assootation, Six of the thirty-four State Senators of Missouri are over sox feet tali. "The big four," as they are known, are Chas. Schweicharclt, 0 feet, 2 1-2 in- ches, 210 pounds; Buell L. Matthew, 6 feet 2 inches, 210 pounds; E. B. Fields, 0 feed; 2 inches, 225 pounds, and J. M. Rollins, 6 feet 3 1-4 inches, 245 pounds. Admiral Sohley delights in telling bow ha was once an amateur aeronaut. As a boy he visited a country fair, went up in a balloon which ascended 80 feet in the air, was wrecked, and let its occupants fall into an apple tree. All were more or less hurt, ex- cept Sohlev, who eecapod with a Lew contusions. Edouard Rod, the French critic and author, has signally failed in his ap- preeint.ien of one of Chicago's pet shoes, While he was witnessing the killing of hogs in thesto:k yards there he fainted al the sight of blood and slaughter. When he was resuscitated they wanted to go on with the per- formance, but be ooied "No more, no more.' IT SOMETIMES FAILS. He --Do you think theta is anything 1n the old theory that a bad begin ning insuee8 n good ending? She—No. You began by Mumbling your words dreadfully when you pros posed to me, and, ycsa remember, don't papa a mo in and flung o' you, that a g Y u through the door just as 7011 were bee ginning to be intelligible?