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The Exeter Advocate, 1895-8-21, Page 3TIE COMMON PEOPLE. REV. DR. TALMAGE ,PREACHES UPON A POPULAR SUBJECT. Those OrdlnaryPeople who. Move in Or- dinary Spheres --The Disadvantage of Doing Conspicuous --The. Gospel of Con- tent --A Heavenly Elixir, Now York, Any 22,—Rev, Dr, Tal. nago, Who is still absent on his annual mid -summer tour, preaching and leotur- ing, prepared for yesterday a sermon on "Plain People" a topic which will appeal to a very large majority of readers any- where. The text soleotod was Romans xvi, 14, 15, "Salute Asynoritus, Phlegon, Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia." Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott and all the comment- ators pass by those versos without may es- peoial remark. The other twenty Ieople anentioned in the chapter were distingu- ished for something and wore therefore discussed by the illustrious expositors, but nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegon Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, Philogus and Julia. Where were they bora? No ono knows. Where did 'they die? There is no record of their decease. For what were they distinguished? Absolutely for nothing or the trait of oharaoter would have been brought out by the apostle. If they had been very intrepid or opulent or hirsute or musical of cadence or crass of style or in anywise anomalous that feature would have been naught by the apostollo camera. But they were good people because Paul sent to them his bigh Christian regards. They were ordin- ary people, moving in ordinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities. What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there be in the Unit- ed States (15,000,000 people. there are cer- tainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordin- ary, and then there are (34,000,000 ordin- ary, and we do well to turn our backs for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous people of the bible and con- sider in our text the seven ordinary. We ° spend too much of our time in twisting garlands for remarkables and building thrones for magnets and sculpturing war- riors and apotheosizing philanthropists. The rank and file of the Lord's soldiery need especial help. The vast majority of people to whom this sermon cosecs will never lead an army, will never wris a stcate•constitu- tion, will never electrify a senate, will never snake au important invention, will never introduce a new philosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation. You do not expect to. You do not want to. You will not be a Moses to load a nation out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut five Zings in a cavern. You will not bo a St. John to unroll an Apocaly- pse. You will not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic college. You will not be a Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probably be Asyncritus or Phlegon or Hermes or Patrobas or Hernias or Philologus or Julia. Many of you aro women at the head of households. This morning you launch- ed the family fon Sabbath observance. Your brain decided the apparel, and your judgment was the final on all questions of personal attire. Every morning you plan for the day. The culinary depart- ment of your household is in your dom- inion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food, and the apparel, and the habits, and decide the thousand ques- tions of home life is a tax upon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling, if there be no divine allevia- tion. An unthinking man may consider it a matter of little importance—the cares of the household and the economies of domestic life—but I toll you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen and nursery. Tho health shattered woman- hood of America cries out for God who can help ordinary women in the ordin- ary duties of housekeeping. The wearing, grinding, unappreciated work goes on, but the same Christ who stood on the bank of Galileo in the early morning and kindled the fire and had the fish already cleaned and broiling when the sportsmen stepped ashore, chilled and hungry, will hold every woman to prepare breakfast, whether by her own hand or the hand of her hired help. The God who made indestructible eu- logy of Hannah, who made a coat for Samuel, her son, and carried it to the corn temple every year, will help every woman I. mu in preparing the family wardrobes The awe God who opens the bible with the story wea of Abraham's entertainment of the three prec angels on the plains of Mature will help tin' every woman to provide hospitality, how- agar ever rare and embarrassing. It is high mo time that some of the attention we have boll been giving to the remarkable women of foot the bible—remarkable for their virtue or temp their want of it, or remarkable for their acre deeds; Deborah and Jezebel and Herodias and and A.thaliah and Dorcas and the Marys, est excellent or abandoned—it is high time and some of the attention we have been giv- ding ing to these conspicuous women. of the tim bible bo given to Julie of the text, an age, ordinary woman amid ordinary circum- stances attending to ordinary duties and meeting ordinary responsibilities. • Then there are all the ordinary business men. They need divine and Christian help. When we begin to talk about busi- ness life, we shoot right off and talk about Men who did business on a large scale, and who sold inn -lions of dollars of goods a year, but tho vast majority . of business men do'not.sell a million dol- lars of goods, nor half �a million, nor a quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Put all the business men of our Whoa. towns, villages and neighbor- hoods side by side, and you will find that They sell loss than $50,000 worth of goods. All these men in ordinary business life wont divine help. You see how the wrinkles aro printing on the countenance the story of worriment and care. You 0aanot, tell how old a business rnan is by looking 01 lain. Gray hairs at 80. .A. anon at 45 with the stoop of a n0nogonar- ian. No thine to attend to improved dentistry, the grinder's cease because they the astonishment of the World. Mon cannot understand the wonderful activity, and there is a roar, and a buzz, and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike 10 when they ought to Strike 5, and they strike 12 when they ought to strike 0, and they strike 40 when. they ought to strike nothing,and suddens ly they stop. Post mortem examination reveals the foot that all the springs and pivots'ancl weights and balance wheels of health are eonmpletoly deranged. The „human olook has simply run down And at the time when the steady hand ought to be pointiug to the industrious hours on a clear sunlit dial, the whole machin- ery of body, mind and earthly capacity stops forever. The cemeteries have thou- sands of business men who died of old age at 90, 35, 40, 45. Now, what is wanted is grace—divine grace for ordinary business men, men Who aro h messed from morn till night and all the days of their life—harnessed in businoss. Not grace to lose $100,000, but grace to lose $10. Not grape to. super- vise 250 employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the beekeeper and two sales- men and the small boy that swoops out the store, Grace to invest not the $80,00 of net profit, but the $8.500 of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of 0 paper of col- lars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor root. Grape not to en- dure the tardiness of the American con - gross in passing a necessary law, but grace to endure the' tardiness of an er rand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to deliver the goods. Such a graoo as thousands of business mon have to-day—keeping them tranquil whether goods sell or do not soli, whether cus- tomers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead failure—calm in all circumstances and amid al] vicissi- tudes. That is the kind of grace we want. Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Some hero or heroine comes to town, and as the prooession passes through the street the business men Dome out and stand on tiptoe on their store steps and look at some one who in arctic clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle, or in hospital agonies, did the brave thing, rg that they, the enthusi spectators, have gone through trials business life that aro just as groat be God, Thore are men who have gone through freezing arotics and burning tor - rids and awful Marengos of eatperiences without moving five miles from their doorsteps. Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the freindship of that • Christ who looked after the religious interests of Matthew, the custom hofise clerk, and helped Lydia of Thyatira to sell thy goods, and who opened a bakery and 'Ash market in the wilderness of Asia Minor to feed the, 70,000 who had come out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs' of your head with as much particularity as though they wore the plumes of a corona- ' tion, and who took the trouble to stoop d its Valentine Motts, and its Willard Parkers, but the, ordinary physicians do. the most of the world's meclleluing, and they need to understand that while tak- ing diagnosis or prognosis, or writing presoripions or compounding medicament or holding the delicate pulse of 0 dying Mild, they may have the prosoiv'o and the dietrlti(iri of the Almighty Doctor, who tools thowcase of the madman, and after leo had taro off his garmouts i.n. foaming doinentla olothod hint again, body and mind, and who Wool up the woman who for 18 years had beett bent double with the rheumatism into grace- ful stature, and wbo turned the scabs of lorposy into rubicund complexion, and who rubbed the numbness out of paraly- sis, and who swung wide open the (dos- ed windows of hereditary or accidental blindness, until the morning light came streaming through the fleshy casements, and who knows all the diseases, and all the remedies, and all the herbs, and all the oatholicons and is monarch of phar- macy and therapeutics, and wife has sent out 10,000 doctors of whom the world snakes no record ; but to prove that they are angels of mercy I involve the thou- sands of men whose ailments have been assuaged and the thousands of women to Whom in orisis of pain thy have been next to God in benefaction. Come, now, let us 'have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in ocou- pations, in agriculture, in the house- hold, in merahandfse-in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon, . Hernias, Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. First of all, if you feel that you ordinary, thank God that you are not traordinary. I am tired and sick a bored to death with extraordinary p pie. They take all their time to tell how very extraordinary they really You know as well as I do, my broth and sister, that the most of the use work of the world is done by unprete Hous people who toil right on—by poop who do not got much approval, and one seems to say, "That is well done.' Phenomena are of but little use. Thin that aro exceptional cannot be depend on. Better trust the smallest planet th swings on its orbit than ton corns shooting this way and that, imperils the longevity of worlds attending astio their own business. For steady illumine - in tion better is a lamp than a^ rocket. Then,. fore if you feel that you are ordinary, remem- ber that your position invites the le attack. Conspicuous people—how they have take it ! How they are misrepresent and abused and shot at! The higher th horns of a rpebuok the easier to tra him down. What a delicious thing must bo to be a candidate for preside of the United States! It must' be soothing to the nerves! It must po into the soul of a candidate such a sen of serenity when he reads the blesse newspapers! I came into possession of the abusi cartoons in the time of Napoleon 1, pri ed while he was yet alive. The retreat the army from Moscow, that army burse are ex- nd 00 us are. A LOVER AND HIS. LASS.. Chair Dialogue After heading the and oat arois., HE; Take, oh! take those lips away! Not but what 1 want to kiss them. Not but what, believe, me, pray, I most certaini v shall miss them, Heretofore, you know, I've joyed la our frequent lip -communion; Never yet have I been cloyed With the sweets of labial union; 'Tis on other grounds, 1 say, "Take, oh! take those lips awayla tly decision is no whin, Due, my love, to tit of vapors, 'Tis the consequence most grim Of perusing doctors' papers: For these journals now declare. With malign persistance, ]3eryl,. That each kiss in which we share • Reeks (excuse the word) with peril. That is why Pm forced to say, "Take, old take those lips away]" SHE; Try not thus to me dissuade, For in vain is your endeavor, What, shall 1 shrink back afraid, When my Edwin dares? No never! Darling. you know well our case, Love has bound us in one tether, 8o, If there be risks to face, We shall fade them both together; As you love me, then, don't say, "Take, ohl take those lips awayla HE AND SHE: We will never be coerced By the bullying bacillus, Doctors, though they say their worst. With dismay ahall never fill us, Let us, therefore, both of us, Their last raven-oroak dismissing, Show that thus—and thus—and thus! We still mean to go on kissing. Neither of us means to' say, "Take, oh! take those lips away!" —London Trutt er A GIFTED PARISIAN DOG. ful n_ ' Be ]Carew a Better Trick Than Barking at 10 the Burglars. no An amazing story of canine sagacity is , told in a recent number of LaLanterne, 01 ns Paris. M. and Mme. Herisson, living ib ed the Rue St. Sauveur, went to the theatre at one evening, leaving their domicile guard.. is ed only by a very intelligent little dog, ng who answered to the name of Castor. They to valued him highly, and often remarked: "Castor? We would not sell him forte, C00 francs." They had not been Iong away when bur ss glars entered the house. Castor, who was at that moment in the.kitchen, whiling to away the hours by chasing his tail, heard od the noise, and not recognizing bis master') e ssep, pricked up his ears and listened. .A ck nronient more and. he decided it must be it thieves. To the proverbial fidelity of his nt race there was added in this wonderful do so the wisdom of serpents. Realizing that i� ur he barked the intruders would seize and se silence him forever, he sat clown, covered d his Tread with his paws and thought ire tently. At last a light broke over his ve mind, and he stele noiselessly from the nt- house and ran swiftly to a near -by build• ing which was in the course of construe Mule tiou. There he seized a lighted lantern in his mouth and returned with it to the house. The ruse met with the success it descry. ed. The thieves, seeing the light in the adjoining room,believed themselves detect. ed, and fled. Castor's joyktnew no bounds. and when his owners returned they found him still rubbing his paws with satisfao. own with his finger writing ground.' although the first shuffle of obliterated the divine casigraphy, who knows just how many locusts th were in the Egyptian plague and kn just how many ravens wero nocessa supply Elijah's pantry by the br Cherit1i and wbo, as floral- command leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which pitch their tents of beauty and kindle their camp -fires of color all around the hemisphere; that that Christ and t that God knows the most minute affairs of your business life, and, however in- considerable, understands all the d affairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle store as well as all the affairs t of a'Rothsohild and a Stewart. t Then there are the ordinary farmers. d Wo talk about agricultural life, and we h immediately shoot off to talk about Cin- cinnatus, the patrician, who went from t the plow to a high position, and after he got through the dictatorship in twenty- i one days went back again to the plow. t What encouragement is that to ordinary g farmers. The vast majority of them, n none of them, will be patricians. Per- P haps none of them will be senators. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be b over 40 or 50 or 100 aures of the old home- p stead. What those men want is grape to T keep their patience while plowing with " balky oxen, and to keep cheerful amid the droughtthat destroys the corn crop, 1 and that enables them to restore the garden the day after the neighbor's cattle b have broken in and trampled out the n strawberry bed and gone through the e lima bean patch anti eaten up the sweet it in such large quantities that they st be kept from the water lest they' la 11 up and die; grace in catching a ther that enables them, without in- y ation,, 10 spread out the hay the third fo e, although again and again and n it has been almost ready for the w; a grace to doctor the cow with a ow horn, and the sheep with the rot, and the ]corse with the dis- er, and to compel the unwilling to yield a livelihood for the family, schooling for the children, and little ras to help the older boy in business, something for the daughter's wed - outfit, and a little surplus for the Wile when the ankles will get stiff with and the breath will be a little short, and the swinging of the cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man's vertigo. Better close up about Cincinnatus. I know 500 farmers just as noble as he was, What they want is to know that they have the friendship of that Christ who often drew his similes from the farmer's life, as whet) he said, "A sower went forth to sow," as when he built his best - parable out of the scene of a farmer's boy coming back from his derings, and the old farm house that night with rural jubilee, and colnpared himself to a lamb in the re field, and who said the eternal is a farmer, declaring, "My Father o husbandman." oxo stonomasons do not want to about Christopher Wren, the arehi- who built St. Patil's Cathedral. It d be better to tell them how to carry od of brink up the ladder without ing and bow on a cold morning with rowel to smooth off the mortar and cheerful and how to be thankful to or the plain food taken from the by the roadside. Carpenters stand - amid the adz, and the bit, incl the. , and the broad a x need to be told Christ was: a carpenter, With his own wielding saw and hammer. Oh, S a tired world, and it is an over- od world, and it is an underfed world, t is a wrung out world,and men and n need 10 know flint there is rest rectiporetion In God and in that roll - which was not so rnticb Intended traordinary people as for orclinar , because there aide more of them. h all a sig prafassi.olt has. had -rte e in the snows of Russia, one of the most feet I awful tragedies of the centuries, repre- and sented under the figure of a monster call - ere ed General Frost shaving the French em- ew"� parer with a razor of icicle. As Satyr ry to and Beelzebub he is represented, page ook after page, page after page, England cur- er, sing hire, Spain cursing hi ` Y tion. The Donkey in Jokes. n "By Jove!" said the country squire why 11 had got the worst of an argument with a Sydney Smith, "if I had a son who was s a donkey, I'd make a parson of him straight away." o "Possibly," returned the wit, "but yew e father was evidently of a different mind." 1 That is one type. Here is another: A man had a portrait taken with his children in s d donkey carriage, he standing at the anine al's head. Showing it to a friend, he asked his opinion of the likeness. "It's the very image of you," was the verdict, "but whe nursing him, Russia cursing him, Europ cursing him, North and South Americ cursing hire, the most remarkable ma of his day, and the most abused. • A hose Wren in history who now have halo around their name on earth wore crown of thorns. Take the few extraor- inary railroadmen of our time and se what abuse comes upon them, whil housands of stockholders escape. Al he world took after Thomas Scott, press out of the Pennsylvania railroad, abuse ins until he got under the ground I mention those things to prove it is ex raordinary people who get abused whit the ordinary escape. The weather of lif s not so severe on the plain as it is o he high peaks. The world never for Ives a man who knows or gains or doe tore than it can know or gain or do arents sometimes give confectionery t their children as an inducement to tak itter medicine, and the world's sugar lura precedes the world's aqua fortis. he snob cried in regard to Christ Crucify him ! Crucify him 1" And they had to say it twice to be understood, or they were so hoarse, and they go their hoarseness by crying a little while eforo at the top of their voice, "Rosen a!" The river Rhone is foul when it nters Lake Leman, but crystalline when comes out on the other side. But there are men who have entered the bright ke of worldly prosperity crystalline nd carne out terribly riled. If, therefore, ou Teel that you are ordinary, thank God r the defences and the tranquillity of your position. Then remember, if you have only what is called an ordinary home, that the great deliverers of the world'have all oome from such a home. And there may be seated, reading at your evening stand a child who shall be potent for,the ages Just unroll the scroll of men mighty in church and state, and you will find they nearly all carne from log cabins or poor homes. Genius almost always runs outin the third or fourth generation. You can- not find in all history an instance where the fourth generation of extraordinary people amount to anything. Columbus from a weaver's hut, Demosthenes from a cutler's collar, Bloomfield and Missionary Carey from 'a shoemaker's bench, Ark- wright from a barber's shop, and. he whose name is high over all in earth and air and sky from a manger; Let us all be content with such things as we have. God is just as good in what he keeps away from us as in what he gives us. Even a knot may be useful if it is at the end of a thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb asylum a child wrote upon the blackboard words as sublime as the "Iliad," tho "Odyssey" and the "Diving Commedia" all compressed in one paragraph. The examiner, in the signs of the mute langu- age, disked her, "Who made the world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, ``In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " The examiner asked her, "For what purpose did Christ come into tho world?" The deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the blaok- board, "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ :Tesus came duty the world to save sin - ars." The examiner said to her, "Wiry Were you born deaf and dumb, while 1 hear and speak?" She wrote upon the blackboard, "ldve.lr so, Fattier, for so it seeineth good in thy sight. " Oh that we might be baptized with a contented spirit l Tho spider draws Olson out of a flower the p boo gets honey out of a thistle, but happiness is a heavenly 'elixir, and - the contented spirit extra its it not from the rhododendron of the hills, but from o is that holding ° g your head?" s Here is stillanother specimen that recant n the "Society Upon the Stainslaw:" Twe s gentlemen in an auction -room . were din pitting the nossession of a picture by ' celebrated painter, which, faithfully repro o sented an ass. Finally one of them said: ° "My dear sir, it is of no use, I shall not give in. The painting once belonged to my grandfather and I intend to have it." "Ohl in that case," replied his rival, suavely-, "I will give it up. I think you are fully entitled to it if it is one of your t family portraits." Next to this we may place the retort of - the Irish girl, who, caught in the act o1 playing on Sunday morning and being accosted by the parish priest with the greeting, "Good morning, daughter of the evil one," replied promptly, "Good morn- ing, father!" wan shook Who pastu God is th Th bear toot, woul theh slipp the t keep God 1 .are few Actually dying at old ago at 40 pail or 50 when they ought to be at the rnon- ing clien. Many of these business mon have plane bodies liko'a neglected clock to which that you come, and you wind it up, anti it hand begins to buzz and roar, and then the this 1 Bands start around very rapidly, and work then the clock strikes 5 or 10 or andand i .- 40, strikes without any sense, and then sud- wome denly stops. So is the body of that worn and out business man, 11 is a neglected glen clock and though g by some summer re- for cit creation it may be wound up still the people Machinery is all Otit of gear. The hands The turn around With a velocity that eiteites Abreorembiesi and its Abernetlrysr gild the lily of the valley. The Kaiser Gavotte. A square dance in which society is mucb interested is the Kaiser gavotte. Thi, dance owes its origin to a German proles. sor, who gave it its name in honor of Em- peror William. The dance so delighted His Majesty that he has ordered it to be danced at all the Court balls. The Kaiser gavotte is a stately dance much resembling the minuet. As danced at the German Court balls a profound obeisance to the Emperor and Empress begins and ends the dance. The continue pus figure leave the beholder in a trans port of admiration. Only a professor of dancing could describe every figure. Two figures which are particularly beautiful are called the rosette and the star. The gavotte balance, however, is the most effective figure in the dance. The ladies, with their left bands, very daintily catch their skirts, 'lifting them ever so little, still enough to show satin slipper. and clouds of lace. With right hands held high over their 'heads, they catch their partners' hands, and in this wise, balanc- ing, one couple following another in suc- cession, uncession, they snake a grand tour of the ballroom. All the steps are stately and dignifled, and only persons with natural grace can dance the Kaiser gavotte well. Henry Irving's Logi. Some time ago, when Henry Irving was in Edinburgh, a Scotch clergyman came arid informed him that he was to attend the theatre that week for the first time in his life, to see one of the Lyceum produc- tions, Irving felt duly flattered, and so expressed himself; but the divine, after a certain amount of stammering, confessed that he did not wish to see a play in which there was a, ballet. Irving, greatly pus. zled, informed him that there was no dancing in the plays he was then produc- ing, but that, according to the slang of the "profession," the supernumeraries of both sexes were "the ballet,' and hence prob- ably arose his visitor's mistake. The worthy man's face beamed, and he took an affectionate leave of his host; but at the door he was seized with misgivings and suddenly demanded, point-blank: "If there is no ballet, Mr. Irving, why do people talk so much about your legs?" Irving's ansrier has not been chronicled. • • for Infants and Children. OTHERS, Do You Know !bat Paregnrin, bateman's Drops, Godfrey's Cordial, many so-called Soothing Syrups, and most remedies for children are composed of opium or morphine f Do You Know that opium and morphine are stupefying narcotic poisons ? Do Yon Know that is most ,ountsies druggists aro not permitted to sell nar(wtics. without labeling them poisons ? Do You. Know that you should not permit any medicine to be given your and unless you or your physician know cannon it is composed P Do Yon Know that Castoria is a purely vegetable preparation, and that a list of Its ingredients is published with every bottle ? Do Yon Know that Castoria Is the prescription of the famous Dr. Samuel Pitcher. That it has been in use for nearly thirty years, and that more Castoria is now sold than of all other remedies for children combined Do Yon Know that the Patent Ofdoe Department of the 'United States, and of other countries, have issued exclusive right to Dr. Pitcher and his assigns to use the word "Castoria" and its formula, and that to imitate them is a state prison offense 1 Do Yon Know that one of the reasons for granting this government protectionwas because Castoria had been proven to be absolutely harmless? Do Yon Know that 35 -average doses of Castoria are furnished for 33 cents, or one cent a dose ? Do Yon Know that when possessed of this perfect preparation, your children may be kept well, and that you may have unbroken rest ? Wens these things are worth knowing. They are facts. The foo -simile signature of ie on every wrapper. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. ..j..r q•: ;r - M. 111" . . t :ri'z+15;1k i'7'44ba.....'re, 14,. aaaaaaeenan --,.,.::;nae. _ w.^,.-.niMmi .- _ STREET PIANOS. The Makers Follow the Popular Taster closely. The maufacturers of street pianos fol- low the popular taste always, and the airs rendered this year show that the public is becoming decidedly callous re- garding open air music. One of the pieces rendered is suggestive of the dance which a few inquisitive Trojans witnes- sed on the Midway Plaisance, Chicago. Another racy air is the composition "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back." These airs have been accepted by the public, and the soulful Italian who turns the crank of the piano seems to think that he is grinding out selections from so010 divine opera, oom- posed in his own sunny land. There is a ghetto in the central part of New York where the organ grinder and piano man reap considerable profit. A court, sur- rounded by high brink buildings, is ever open to the peddler, tramp and canine. A number of Hebrew families occupy floors in the houses, where they sweat over benches day and night earning con- siderable money at various occupations. Tho court presents a picturesque appear- ance, with its strings of clothes flutter- ing in the winds and the piazzas ob- structed with squalling, frowsy -headed children and rubbish. Through the open casement of ono of the windows a sight of a dark -eyed young Jewess can be caught, as site bends over the brilliant; crown of a geranium. When the piano man comes along there is a clatter of foot 'on the many stairways leading from the dirty houses and a stream of humanity pours into the court. Mothers with ohildren in arms, bent old men, bright, frolicsome boys ane girls and barking curs fill the court with noisy clatter. As soon as the piano 010510 begins the children form a circle round the organ and dance and sing until the air ceases. The ghetto is an ex- cellent place to study human nature, if one doesn't mind strong odors and sights of humanity in its lower strata. CURIOUS STATISTICS. Computations 011 Smoke Pu IFS, Hisses, Air Pressure and Politeness. A German lover of figures has made the following curious calculations: A''ntan smoking a pipe of medium size blows out of his mouth for every time he fills the pipe 700 smoke clouds. If he smokes four pipes a day for twenty years he blows out 20.440,000 smoke clouds. If two lovers spend four hours together and the lover takes or receives 200 kisses —low maculation -tend each kiss lasts ten seconds, in five years' time the lover would have 805,000 kisses and their lips would have been united for the space of forty-two days and six hours. If the entire population is considered to be 1,400,000,000 the' brains of this number of human beings would weigh 1,922,712 tons, or as much as ninety-six ironolads of the ordinary size. The air pressure on a person of ordin- ary size is thirteen and a half tons. A man of 50 years of age has in ordin- ary cases undressed himself 18,350 times, and, of course, dressed himself just as many times. When a person on the street raises bis hat and;makes a bow, the work of a second, he is carried by the movement of the earth 500 motors round with the planet, three miles round the sun, and nearly a Mile forward with the sun, Going to Law. Sam S. Sanford, who was a pioneer in aninstrolsy, but now sells'oletrie belts' in country towns, who 0000 ran theatres in 21iilaclelphla and Pittsburg, who was known far and wide as manager, and per- former, once got into 0 dispute with the owner of his Philadolphi theatre: It was over a question of rent. The owner shut the theatre and Sanford sued for $50,000 damages. Next day his landlord mot him and said "I sew you intend to go to law about this affair of ours." "Yes, sir"' replied Sanford, "Well, before you do 1 wish you would go to a curtain saloon nt Such and such a street and read what is GM a sign in front of that piton, " Sea- ford did so, nett on an oval-shaped sign lie saw a picture of 0 finely -crossed, pros - porous -looking man riding at full gallop. Above the sign worn the weeds "Going to law." The reverse side presented a somewhat differeilt view. It was a pro: turd of the Sarno rnan, but Matted t<o is tramp. His horse was a living skeleton. and the rider was not much better. The, screed above the sign read: "Returning frorn the law." Sanford looked at the two pieores, pondered and went home. Next day he wont to his lawyer and re- quested him to withdraw the suit and the case was compromised. Inventor of the Gatling Gun Tells How 1t Affects the Tax Payer. People do not yet appreciate the enormous revolution in future warfare, caused by the invention of smokeless. power," said the famous Dr. R. J. Cat- ling, inventor of the machine gun, to a reporter for a Washington newspaper the other day. "Already it has made obsolete be- tween 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 of muskets in Europe that were built to shoot black powder, not to speak of the mil- lions of cartridges, all of which the countries possessing would be willing to sell for a song. Sere is a vast sunt of wasted taxes, but it is the inevitable result of progress. Our army guns in this country will soon be obsolete, for to keep pace with the rest of the world. we will have to adopt smokeless pow- der, too. A gun loaded with it will send a bullet just twice as far as the black powder does. If smokeless pow- der had been in use during the late - civil strife the war wouldn't have last- ed ninety days."—Evening World. As You Like H. I respectfully offer herewith to the bankrupt nations of the world a new and improved scheme of taxation. The French law, which claps a tax on every man who does not have at least one wife, is altogether inadequate. In- stead of it I would impose a tax on. every man who does not have at least two wives. The advantages of such a tax are obvious. It would be the only law insuring the proper care of the surplus female population.—Paul Ca- mille. Why Not? Why not tax personal property fully and fairly? First, because you can't; and then there are other reasons besides. When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ,Phan she was a Child, the cried for Castoria, ,Vhen she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,. •Vhou she had Children, she gave them Castoria. 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