The Exeter Times, 1895-11-7, Page 743,
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1EW FIELD OF WORL
REV, DR. TAIMAGE'S 'IRT stRiwo
AS A WASHINGTO,N PASTOR,
ateareeed nereee a Vest lattlatiteute--An
Eloquent and Etototresque Ehateneree
On ").al kieavee Leettins eu" ra'41
S(allditee ta (heAla philthaall'e•
WaSilingt011, Oet. 27, --Those who
know that no eburch in this or foreign
ceentriee has been able to bold audi-
ences that ileac assembled when It 'er"
announced that Dr. Talmage would
Preeeb will not be surprised that 'east
multitudes attempted in vain •to hear
his first sermon as pastor in Washing'
thu. The. subject• a his opening ser-
mon.at the national capital was " Alt
Heaven Looking On," the text seleeted
being the famoue passage from Re^
brews xii. 1, "Seeing we also are e"1 -
Passed about witu so great a eloud of
witnesses."
ego this ray opening sermon be the
national capital I give you heartiest
Christian salutation. 1 bethink my-
self of the privilege of standing in this
historie ehurele so long presided over
by one of the most remarkable men of
the century, There are plenty of goocl
ministers besides Dr. Sunderland, but
I do not know of any man except him-
self with enough brain to hare stood
successfully and triumphantly 43
years in this conspicuous ptilpit. Long
distant be the year when that gospel
chieftain shall put down the silver
trumpet with which he has marshaled
the hosts of Israel or sheathed the sword
With whicle he has, struck such aniglaty
• blows for God. and righteousness. I
come to you with the same gospel that
, he has preached and to join you in all
kinds of ,work for making the world
better, and I hope to see yoi . in all your
homes and have you all come and see
• me, but don't all come at once, and with
but any preliminary discourses as to
what I propose to do I begin here and
now to cheer you with the thought that
all Heaven is sympathetically looking
on. "Seeing we are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses."
Crossing the Alps by the Mont Cenis,
,pass, or through the Mont Cenis tun-
nel, you are in a few hours set down
at Verona, Italy, and in a few minutes
began examining one of the grandest
rums of the world --the amphitheatre.
The whole building sweeps around you
in a circle. You stand in the arena
where the combat was once fought or
the race run, and on all sides the seats
rise, tier above tier, until you count
40 elevations, or galleries, as I shall
see it to call them, in which sat the
itenators, the kings and the 25,000 ex-
nted spectators. At the sides of the
arena and.underthe galleries are the
iages-in whith the lions and tigers are
kept without food, until, frenzied with
hunger and thirst, they are let out
upon some poor victim, who, with his
sword and alone, is condemned to meet
them. I think that Paul himself once
L. stood in sueli a place, and that it was
gsat only figuratively, but literally,thet
hed "e fought with beasts at Eph-
e
The gala day has come. From all
the world the people are pouring into
Verona. Men, women and childeen,or-
eters and senators, great men and
small, thousands upon thousands come
until the first gallery is full, and the
second, the third, the fourth, the fifth,
—all the way up to the • twentieth,
all the way up to the thirtieth, all the
way up to the fortieth. 'Every place is
filled. Inamensity a audience sweeping
the great circle. Sitence 1 The time
for ,the contest has come. • A. Roman
official leads forth the victim into the
arena, Let him get his sword with
firm grip in his right hand. The 25,000
sit breathlessly :watching. I hear the
door at the side of the . arena creak
open. Out plunges the • half-starved
lion, his tongue athirst for blood, and,
with a roar that brings all the galler-
ies to their feet he rushes against the
sword of the combatant. Do you kuow
how strong a stroke a man will strike
•wben his life depends upon the fest
thrust of his blade The wild. beast,
Larne and bleeding, slinks back toward
the side of the arena; then, rallying leis
wasting strength, he comes up with
fierce eye and more terrible roar than
ever, only to be driven back with a fa-
tal wound, while the combatant conies
in with stroke after stroke until the
monster is dead at his feet, and the
25,000 people clap their hands and utter
a shout that makes the city tremble.
• Sometimes the audience came to see
a race, sometimes to • see gladiators
fight each other, until the people, com-
• passionate for the fallen, turned. their
thumbs up as an appeal that the van-
•guished be spared, and sometimes the
ecnn.bat was with wild beasts. •
To an araphitheatrical audience Paul
, refers when he says, "We are compas-
sed about with so great a cloud of wit-
nesses."
The fact is that every Christian man
has a lion to fight. • Yours is a bad
temper. The gates of the arena have
been opened and this tiger has come
out to destroy your soul. It has lacer-
ated you • with many a wound. Youh
have been thrown by it time and again,
but an. the streneth of God you heve
arisen to drive it back. I verily be-
lieve you, will conquer, et think that
the teramtatioa is getting weaker and
weaker. You have given it so many
wounds that •the prospect is that it
will die, and you shall be victor ;
through Christ. Courage, brother 1 Do
not let the sands of the arena drink
•,he blood of your soul. ,
Your lion is the passion for strong
drink. You may have coextended'
against it for 20 years, but it is strong
ot bodyand thirsty of tongue, • You
have tried to fight ee back with broken
bottle or empty wine flask. • Nay, that i
is not the weehon.. With one horrible
roar he will seize thee by the throat
and rend thee limb Leone limb, Take a
this weapon sbarp and keen, reach up e
and get it from God's • armory—the p
sword of the spirit. With that thou f
mayest drive him beak and conquer, . h
But why specify evhen every man a
and woman has a lion Ito fight? If a
there be one here who has no besetting' J
sin, let tern speak out, for him 1 have '
effendteh•
If Yen he:Ye not fought the t
lion, it 'is because yoti have let the lion
eat you up, 7'bis very moment the
contest geee en, The Trajen celebree f
tion, where 10,000 gladiators fought and t
11,000 wild beasts were slain, was not t
So terrific a steuggle as that svhieli at
dais moment goes on in many a soul.
That combe,t eras for the life of the t
body ; this is fee the life of the seta). r
Thee was with wild heaets from the i
jangle ; this is with thca roaring lion of t
hell,
• enMeeilltIlliianhlft Wel= ?Igy Tvtee figg taitabli tb
all alone, No. They stand in the cen-
tre of an immense cede of sympathy,
Paul had been, eeeiting the names Of
Abel, leaoole Noah, Abrahara, Sarah,
Isaae, Joseph, Gideon and Barak and.
then says, "Being eon:massed, about
with so great a aloud of witnesses,"
Before I get through, show you
that you fight in an, arena around whith
direle, in galleries above eath other, all
the kindling eyes and ell the sympa-
thetie hearts of the ages, and at every
victory gained there comae douse the
thundering applause of a great multi-
tude thet no man can number. "Be-
ing compaseecl about with so great a
cloud of witnesses,"
On the firse elevation of the ancient
amphitheatre, on the day of a celebre-
tion. Sat Tiberius, or Aegustus, or the
reigning king. So, in the great arena,
of spectators that wattle Your struggles
and in the first divine gallery., awl sliail
call it, • site our king, one J'estas, On
his head are many crowns!' The 3o -
man Emperor got his place by cold
odecl conquests, hut our king hath
come to his place by the broken hearts
heated, and the tears wiped away, and
the souls redeemed, • The Roman Erni.
Peror at with folded arms, indifeeren
64$ to whether the swordsman or the
lion beat, but our king's sympathies are
all with is. Nay, unheard of coracles -
tensions! I see hen come down from
the colliery into the arena to help us in
the fight, shouting until all up and
down his voice is he'ard: "Fear not! 1.
will help thee 11 tvill strengthen thee by
the right hand of mY power 1"
They gave to the men in the arena
in tee olden time, food to thicken their
blood, so that it would flow slowly, and
that for a longer time
gloat over •the scene, But our king
the people might
has no pleaeture in our wounds, for we
are bone of his bone, flesh pf liis flesh,
blood of his blood.
In all the anguish of our heart.
The Man of Sorrows bore a part,
Once in the ancient amphitheatre,
a lion with one paw caught the combat-
ant's sword and svith his other paw
caught his shield. The man took his
knife from his girdle and slew the
beast. The king, sitting in the gallery,
said: "Tliat was not fair, the lion must
be slain by a sword." Other lions were
turned out, and the poor victim fell.
You cry, "Shame, shame!" at each
meanness. But the king, in this case,
is our brother, and he will see that we
have fair play. He will forbid the
rushing out of more lions than we can
meet, He will not 'suffer us to be
tempted above, that we e able, Thaak
God ! The king is in the gallery His
eyes are on us. gis heart is with us.
His band tvill delayer us. " Sleeved are
all they who put their trust hi him i"
I look again, and I see the angelic
gallery. There they are—the angel
that swung the sword at the gate of
Eden, the sante that Ezekiel saw ap-
bolding the throne of God and from
which I look away, for the splendor is
insufferable. • Here are the guardian
angels. That one watched a patriareh;
this one protected a child; that melees
been pulling a soul out of temptations.
All these aremessengers of light. Those
drove the Spauish armada on the rocks.
This turned Sennacherib's living hosts
into a heap of 185,000 corpses. Those
yonder chanted the Christma,s carol
over Bethlehem until the chant awoke
the shepherds. These at ereatioaa stood
in the balcony of Heaven and serenad-
ed the nelyborn world wrapped in swad-
dling clothes of light. And there,
holier and mightier than all, is Michael,
the archangel. To oommaud an earth-
ly best gives dignity, but this one is
leader of -the 20,000 chariots of God and
of the 10,009 times 10,000 angels.
I think God gives command to the
archangel, and the archangel to the
seraphim, and the seraphim to the
elieruhine until tall the lower orders of
heaven hear the command and go forth
on the high behest.
Now, bring on your lions. Who can
fear? All the spectators in the angelic
gallery are our friends. " He shall
give his angels charge over thee to
keep thee in all thy. ways. They shall
bear thee up in their hands, lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone. Thou
shalt tread upon the lion and adder;
the young lion and the dragon shall
thou trample underfoot."
Though the arena be erowdee. with
temptations, we shall, with the angelic
help, strike thene down in the name of
God and leap on their fallen carcasses.
Oh, bending therong of bright angelic
faces and swift wings and lightning
foot, hail you to -day from 'the dust
and struggle of the arena!
I look again and I see the gallery of
the prophets and .apostles. Who are
those nughty ones up yonder ? Hosea
and Jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah
and Paul and Peter and John and
James. There sits Noah, welting for
all the world to come, into the ark, and
Moses, waiting till the last Red Sea
shall divide; and Jeremiah, waiting
for the Jews to return, and John of
the Apocalypse, waiting for the swear-
ing of the angel that time shall be no
longer. Glorious spirits! Ye were
howled at; ye were stoned; ye were
spit upon. They have been in the fight
themselves, and they are all with us.
Daniel. knows all about lions. Paul
fought with beasts at Ephesus.
In the ancient amphitheatre, thepeo-
ple got so excited that they would
shout from the allories to the men
in the, arena: "At again 1" "For-
ward 1' "One more stroke!" " Look
out!" "Yell back!" Huzza!" So
in that gallery, prophetic and eyesta-
lk, they cannot keep their peace. Daniel
cries out, Thy God. will deliver thee
from the mouth of the lions!" David
exclaims, "He will not slitter thy foot
to be moved I" Isaiah calls out: "Feer
not I am with thee! Be not dismay-
ed!" Paul exclaims,"Victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ!". That throng
of prophets and apostles cannot keep
still. They make the welkin ring with
shouting and hallelujahs.
I look again, and I see the gallery
of the martyes. Wbo is that? Hugh
Latimer, sure enough! He. would not
apologize for the truth preached, and
so he died, the night before swinging.
from the bedpost in perfect glee at
the thought of emainnpatiorn Who
are that army of 6,666? They are the
Theban legiori who died, for the faith.
Here is a larger host in magnificent
array -834,000 ---who perished for Christ
n the persecutions of Diocletian. Yon-
der is a family group, Felieitas of
Roble and her children. • While they
ewe dying for the, faith she stood
nepuragmg them. Oak son was whip -
ed to death by thorns ; another was
lung from a,rock another • was be-
eaded. At last the mother became
martyr. There they are, together—
aurally group in heaven 1 Yolider is
ohn Brandford, who said in the fire,
'We shall Jive a merry supper with
he Lord to-inglat 1" Yo der is Henry
Voes who eeclaimel as e died "11
had ten Itearls, they should, fell off
or Christ 1" The tenet throng of mar -
yrs 1 They had hot lead poured down
heir throats; horses were fastened to
their hands and other horses to their
feet and thus they were pulled epart;
her had their tongues gulled eat by
eclhot pladaere ; they were sewed an
n the skins of animals, and then
hrown to the doge; they were daubed
ti 01 combustibles and ect on fire 1 If
all the martyrsstekes that have herfa
kindled eould be ,;et, proucr diet maces
they would make the mideuglit all the
world over bright as noonday I aeut
now they sit yonder in the martyre"
gallery. For them the firm of tense-
eution have gone out, The swords
UO sheetnee and the mob budget. Now
they 'weeoh us with en all obsera znic
sympathy. They know all the pale,
all the hardships, all the anguiSh, all
the injustice, all the prestation; They
cannot keep stUl. They ory "gourage!
Tete fire wall not. consume. The Mode
cannot drown. The floes cannot tie
-
your 1 Coarage, down there inthe
arena!"
What, aro they all looking? This
night we auswer bade the selatation
they give, and cry,. " gall, sous and
daughters of the fixe
I look agatu, and 1 see another gal-
lery, that, of eminent Christians. What;
strikes me strangely it the mixine in
companionship or those who on earth
could not agree. There 1 see Martin
Luther, and beside him a Roman Cath-
olic, who looked beyond. the supersti-
tions of Ms ehureh and is saved! There
is Albert Barnes, and aroand him the
presbytery who tried him for hetero.
doxyl Yonder is Lymau Beecher and
the church court that denouneed him!
Stranger than all, there are doles Cal-
vin and James Arrainiusl Who would
have thought tb.at they would sit, so
lovingly together ? There are George
Whitfield and. the bishops who svonld
not let him come into their pulpits
because they thought }aim a fanatic.
There are the se eet singers Toplady,
Montgomery, Charles Wesley, Iseao
Watts and Mrs. Sigourney. If heaven
had had no music before they went
up, they would have started the sing-
ing. And there the learld of mission-
aries—David Abed, talking of China
redeemed, and John Scudder ot India
saved, and David Brainerd a the ab-
origines evangelized, and Mrs. Adon-
iram Judson, evlaose prayers for 13ur-
mah took heaven by violenee. All these
Christians are looking into the arena.
Our struggle is nothing to thews. Do
we, in Christ's cause, Reefer from the
cold ? They walked Greenland's icy
mountains. Do we suffer from the
heat it They sweltered in the tropics.
Do we get fatigued? They fainted,
with none to care for them but ean-
nibals. Are we perseauted? a hey
were anathematized. And as they look
from their gallery and see us falter
in the presence of the lions, 1 seezn
to hear Isaac Watts addressing. us in
his old hymn, only, a little changed:
Must you be earned to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize,
Or sailed through bloody seas?
Toplady shouts in his old byran:
Your harps, ye trembling saints,
Down from the willows take.
Loud to the praise of love divine,
Bad. every- siring awake.
While Charles Wesley, the Methodist,
breaks forth in his favorite words, a
little varied:
• A charge to keep you have,
A God to jelority ;
A never dying eoul to save
A.nd fit it for the sky!
I look again, and I see the gallery
of our departed. Many of those an the
other galleries we have heard of, but
these we knew. Ola how familiar their
favs I They sat at our tables, and we
walked to the house of God in com-
pany. Have they forgotten. us? Those
fathers and mothers etaited us op. the
road of 'life? Are they careless as to
what becomes of us? And thoee chil-
dren, do they look on with stolid in-
diteerence as to whether we win or lose
this battle for eternity? Nay. I see
that child running his hand over your
brow and saying, "Father, do not ire';
mother, do not worry." They remem-
ber the day they left us. They re-
member the agony of the last farewell.
Though years in heaven, they know
our faces. They remember our sor-
rows. They speak our names. They
watch this ftght for heaven. Nay, I
see them rise up and lean over and
wave before` us their recognition and
encouragement. That gallery is not
full. They are keeping places for us.
After we have slain the lion they ex-
pect the king to call us, saying, "Come
up higher." Between the hot straggles
in the arena I wipe the sweat from
ray brow and stand on tiptoe, reach-
ing up my right hand to clasp theirs
in rapturous handshaking, "while their
voices come ringing down froni the gal-
lery, crying, "Be thou faithful unto
death, and you shall have a crown,"
But here 1 pause, overwhelmed with
the majesty and joy of the scene. Gel-
lery of martyrs! Gallery of saints!
Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gal-
lery of martyrs! Gallery of saints!
Gallery of friends and kindred! Oh,
majestic circle of light and love!
Throngs 1 Throngs! T/arongs 1 How shall
we stand the gaze of the universe?
Myriads of eyes beaming on usl My-
riads of hearts beeting in sympathy
for us! How shall we ever dare to
sin again? How shall we ever be-
come discouraged • again?. How shall
we ever feel lonely again? With God
for us, and angels for us, and prophets
and apostles for us, and the great
souls of the ages for us, and our glo-
ri.fied kindred for us, shall we give
up the fight and die? No, Son of
God, who clidsb die to save us! No,
ye angels, whose wings are spread
forth to shelter us 1 No, ye "prophets
and apostles, whose warnings startle
us I No, ye toyed ones, whose arms are
outstretched to receive usI No, we
will never surrender 1
Sure I must fight if I would reign—
Be faithful to my Lord,
And bear the cross, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.
Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer, though ehey die,
They see the triiimph from afar,
And seize it with their eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thine armies shine
It robes of victory tluough the skies
The glory Shall be thine.
My hearers; shall we die in the arena
or rise to join our friends in the gal-
lery? Through Christ we may come
off more than conquerors. A. soldier
dying in the hospital rose up in bed
the last moment and cried: "Herel
Herat" His attendants put him back
on the pillow and asked him why be
shouted "Here le "Oh, I heard the roll
can of heaven, and I was only answer-
ing to my name," • I wonder vvhether,
after this battle of life is over, our
naines will be called in the muster roll
of the pardoned and gloritied, and with
the •joy of heaven breaking upon our
souls we shall ory, a Here! IIere 1"
The,Waybetek Code,
Mrs, Wayback—La sakes, ef 1 ain't
forgiteul. Anter all that trouble finish-
ing that new dress before them folks
come, and all the time' / ,wa,seed get -
tin' it on, I forgot the meet iMportent
thing of all,
Daughter—What was that
Mrs. Wayheck--1 forgot', to say: Ex-
CU4c my appettrence, 'haute 1 ain't dress.
ed, for company.
r 8 LAKES ARE. DRYING DT
MINNESOTA'S WATERS ARE PAST
DISAPPEA4RING,
• APatiota EXporteinplo g the Same ph event te
tionaloeniku felled Rale:salt supposed to
thil Se a1%u, �ryi» Itt
A remarkable physical ohange hes
been going on in Minnesota within the
last ten years, earl the St. Paul Pion-
eer Prose, of the extent ex' significance
of which few people are ware, Min-
neseta has long been known as "the
Lake etate." It. was fatuous, as con-
taining a greeter number and variety
of beautifu.1 lakes then any other sec-
tion of' coliatry, In an official report,
of Surveyer General J. 11. Baker, Pub-
lished some eleven years ago, it was
stated that there were over 7,000 lakes
within the surveyed limits of the state.
Bat the last tea years have wrought
wonderful changes in this charecteris-
tic feature of our landscapes. A large
proportion t)f these lakes have dried up
entirely, and in inany cases cultivated
fields now occupy their rich bottoms
formerly covered by from ten to twenty
feet of water, Nearly all of the rest
have greatly shrunken in volume and
are slowly disappearing, There are a
few exceptions, but this is the general
rule, The Pioneer Press publishes in
reply to its enquiries, a large number
of letters from correspondents on the
suhject, and they bear startling testi
-
many to the raelaneboly fact that as a
rule the lakes of Minnesota
ARE GRADUALLY DRYING UP.
There seems to be no instance in which
even the largest and deepest lakes,
though nourished by spring fed streams,
have n.ot considerably dimeeished in vol-
ume. The same story comes from
evere section of the state,- from.
Ni-
onliet's mediae region, which embraced
• the counties of La Sueur, Blue Earth
a.nu the adjacent districts, and which
was so-called from the mullitud.e of
lakes which dotted it like a constella-
tion to the far more •pronounced lake
region, which has its seat chiefly in the
I
counties of Becker, Otter Tail and Dou-
glas.. There is hardly to be found in
the world in the same area a more
aumerous or more exteneive cluster of
lakes Than is comprised m these omen -
ties. They term the natural reser-
voles that supply the headwaters of the
Red river and of the northeastern af-
fluents of the Mississippi. These lakes
seem to have felt the causes which
have operated to reduce their old vol-
ume less severely than elsewhere. But
our reports from that district are as
yet toe partial to be able to name the
• list of exceptions, if there be any, to
• the general rule. It is
EVEN WORSE IN THE DAKOTAS
than iu Minnesota. There were many
large lakes in those states ten years
ago, some of them miles in. extent.
But nearly all of them have now dis-
appeared, their ancient beds turned
into fields, and such as remain are
• shrunk to sloughs or pools in great
wastes of reedy mud. Lake Madison
in South Dakota, one of the largest
and • finest lakes in that state, was
equipped some years ago with steam-
boats and. hotels and all the arrange-
ments• for a Western Chautauqua as-
semble.. It had a reach of five miles
for steamboat excursions and in great
part was from twenty. to thirty feet
deep. It has suffered the fate of all
the rest, and. the waters have so far
retreated, that at the present rate' of
doereese it will not be long before they i
disappear entirely. What s the cause
• of this drying up of the lakes of Min-
nesota and. the Dakotas Our corre-
spondents are generally agreed tbat 14
is due, first, to the diminished rainfall
of the last ten years, and especially of
the last six or seven years, and, second,
in
THE CULTIVATION OF THE SOIL
hi their neighborhood, whida has ab-
sorbed. the rainfall that would other-
wise have laeen drained into the lakes.
There is no doubt that Old is the true
ex -planation. 33efore the soil was
broken up for farming purposes the
native sod formed a thatched roof from
whach within the limits of the drainage
area the stater from real to snow
flowed freely into the streams and.
lakes. But when the plowman broke
up this roof every furrow out off the
natural draivage, and it VMS absorbed
in the sandy loam, which forms the
prevailing soil of both Minnesota and
Dakota. Tbe eiminished drainage bas-
in and the diminished rainfall together
are suffieient to account for the gradual
drying tip of elk lakes. Is their clis-
appearanee permanent 8 For the mail-
er and shallower lakes, yes. The di-
minished supplyis suffident alone to
account for their disappearance. The
evaporation in the hot summers is too
repot to be overcome by the relatively
small supply of rain water received
from their diminished basins, As to
the larger lakes fed by streams or by
adequate drainage areas it may be con-
fidently predicted that they will be
gradually filled up again, nearly, if not
quite to their old level. For there is
no reason to suppose that the dimin-
ished rainfall of ISIinnesote, and Dokote,
during the last eight or nine years, in-
dicates
A PERMANENT CHANGE OF CLIM-
ATE.
Every old Minnesotian has seen sever-
al years of drouth in succession, in con-
sequences of wbich the lakes in the
Red River valley and other districts
affected by it either dried up or 'lost
much of their water. Subsequent
years of increased rain and snowfall
filled them tip again. To the oycle of
dry veers we have recently been pass-
ing through is sure to emceed a cycle
of wet years. The Pioneer Press, there-
fore, agrees with those of its corre-
spondents who believe that eventually
a, few seasons 01 heavier precipitation
will replenish the wasted waters of
many of thesevanished or shrunken
lakes. They will probably never again
reach their maximum levels in the past,
for the reason already stated—the en-
croachment of agriculture on their ba-
sins of water eupply. Of the 7,000 lakes
of Minnesota m 1885, it is quite prob-
able that as the result of the cultiva-
tion of the soil perhaps a, third or more
of them will permanently disappear.
The remainder will andante hi vol-
ume with the average raeneall, shrink-
ing materially ditteng successive dry
seasons and reeppearmg ia all their an-
cient beauty when the raid comes back
to fill their empty bowls,
• Double Duty.
Manager—Great snakes 1 • Wha,t'e
this ? You, a tempetence lectu.rer,
drinking I an& Worse • than that,
drunk?
Leeturer—Ish all (hie) right m' friend,
Our horrible xample • has etruck for
igher wages, arid POO getter play (m—
ine) both parts t'night
CARCASS OF A DEAD HORSg,
toteetone poote, Glove* Cotolo, Glue oind
Yartoite rule' "tools elude W14.4 kilt OM
4a1
In these bleyele days, when a horse is
bardly worth the pries of his eats, end
he is a better Boum: of revenue velum
dead than he was when. alive, it may
he 1,1eztas,
inglyt 0111C1104goest otu
Wwhat heee one
r
es
1 s x
dering works in Paris or M Portland,
Ore. Not long ago the Portland con-
cern bought one round -up of Montana
horses for 03 each. The canning of laorse„
flesh for European consumption is yet
in its infancy, and there is hut slight
probability that it will ever become a
profitable industry. • As a matter of
feet, the horse carcass is more, valuable
for his claenaieal produete than he ever
will be as an artiele of food.
Home that have served useful and
honorable careers of twenty to thirty
years are fit only for the oheinieal pro
cess. When the retired animal is
dragged in, it ie first relieved of its
hair by a shaving process. The tail and
mane are especially valuable, and from
these is made the haireloth of com-
merce.
THE SHORT HAIR
taken from the hide is used for eat.
fing cushions and horse collars, and
thus the _dead are made to minister to
the comfort of the living:
The hide of the horse is quite valu-
able and the leather known as cordo-
van is made from the .skin over the
rump, This leather is used ha the
manufacture of high class htuatieg and
wading boots, as it (Ian be made imper-
vious to water. The other leather is
soft and Is used mostly for slippers and
heavy driving gloves. The hoofs of
the animal are removed and after being
boiled to extractthe ail &Din, them,
the horny substance is shipped to the
manufactories of combs and what are
known as Mikado goods.
Net i
xt the carcass s placed in a °plea-
der a,nd cooked by steam at a pressure
a three atmospheres. This separates
the flesh from the bones. The leg bones
are very hard and, white, and are used
fax handles of pocket and table cutlery.
The ribs and head are burned to make
Lor n' e ij ae egkluaefter they have been treated
that is in them. In the
calcining of these bonesthe vapors ads-
ing are condensed and, form the chief
source of carbonate oe ammonia, nrhicb
constitutes the base of nearly all am-
vmeornmicifaulgseasl,ts. There is an animal oil
yielded in the cooking process which is
a deadly poison, and enters into the
composition of many inseetioides and
THE BONES TO MAIM GLUE
are disolved in marled° acid, which
takes the phosphate of Time away; the
soft element retaining the shape of the
bone is disolved in boiling water, cast
into squares and dried on nets. The
phosphate of lime, acted upon by sul-
phuric acid, and calcined with carbon,
produces phosphorus for lucifer matches.
The remaining flesh is distilled to ob-
tain carbonate of ammonia.The re-
sulting mass is pounded up with pot-
ash, and then mixed with old nails and
iron of every description ; the whole
is calcined and yields little yellow ory-
stals—prussiate of potash, with which
tissues are dyed a Prussian blue and
iron transformed into steel. It also
forms cyanide of potassium and prussic
acid, *he two most terrible poisons
known in chemistry.
In the course of a lawsuit in Ss.
Louis several years ago it was put in
evidence that the River Rendering
the removal of dead animals from the
Company, which had the contract for
city streets, made a clear profit of 424
on each horse carcass that they handled.
WAR BALLOONS,
some Interesting Experkineiats Made In
There have bee7sl
so:"
einteresting ex-
periments with war balloons at the
Steinfield gun range in Austria. A
war balloon called the "Budapest,"
measuring about 3$ feet in diameter by
46 feet hi height, was sent up to a
height of 2,625 feet. A battery of
eight 3 1 -8 -inch guns wafe brought into
position as soon as the balloon was
sighted by the artillery men, and open-
ed fire with shrapnel at a range of
5,750 yards. A staff of men, placed in
a safe position, by raeans of a rope
moved the wineh-car to which the bal-
loon was attached. In one experiment,
which raay be taken as a fair specimen
of the whole number, the officer na com-
mand of the battery had almost found
the range after the eighth shot when
ha was informed that the balloon had
shifted, and he had to alter it. As soon
as his shells came anywhere near the
balloon its position was shifted again,
and he soon exhausted, without result,
his alloted store 01 80 shrapnel charges,
which emitted. 10,000 balls and splinters,
in spite of which the balloon floated
tranquilly on. On its being lowered it
was found to have ree.eived three slight
hits, which, however, had not impaired
its buoyancy. The difficulty of point-
ing increases, of course, with the alti-
tude attained by the object. It is nec-
essary to keep the balloon out of a
dangerous range (about 4,4e10 yards),
and. a clear view oan be obtained at a
distance of from four to six miles.
Shrapnel alone is of any use in firing
at balloons at any attitude above 700
feet.
Electric Rapid. Transit.
The substitation of the electric motor
and special devices for fast travel may
be delayed by the managers of steam
railways, whose business will be injured
thereby, but, the change has got to come.
Present methods are not in keeping
with the progressive science of the age, s
The steam roads carry a ton of ear
weight ear every pa,sseeger they trans-
port, where only 400 pounds are requir-
ed with the new system. The slaught-
er of people by crossing roads built at
grade on the surface must be stopped,
and this is one way to avoid it. Why
should passengers be bothered with
sleeping -ear accommodations to make a e
journey that earl be accomplished within r
the sheet hours that now constitute a
legal working day ? In the Brott sys-
tem l000raotives are dispensed with.
The motors are an the axles, under the
cars, Hence, it is possible to dispense tt
WIWI °WOLF SAN 18 AT
ITEMS Or INTEREST ABOUT Tiii)
BUSY YANXEE4
inierest ma ON oniao—nat.
let% or rosocot owl earth (tethered
trot, fltibt 100/1x ateeere,
A. Reading, Pa., wataan bled to death
after beving sixteen teeth ,extraded,
Forty thousand Armenian Oatholice
have sought, and obeeined refuge irk the
Rassian CatiOdanS.
Mae. James 14. Gates, of Milwauke,
owns a Bible that was bronght over in
the Mayflower in 1620.
ya'aella:raego,istalk of ththe restoration on the
Missouri Pacific of e wages of tveo
There are 24 oreameries la Maine that
ydeoanrortelatitengd, but inanufactiere butter the
The estimated cast on both sides of
the great civil war of the United. States
was 46,500,000,000.
A New York newspaper predicts that
standard bicycles will be sold aext year
for $30 and perhaps less.
A rich deposit of gold and. silver is re-
ported to have been discovered recently
oti a farm in Chatham, N.H.
It is said that the final estimate of
wheat by the United States Government
will be 403,000,000 bushels.
A Kentucky. conference of the IVLE,
church voted In favor of admitting wo-
men to the geaeral conferense.
County Treasurer Clay, of Ireton, 0.,
has returned and. has been arrested
charged with a shortage of over e27,000.
A matt iaGileam, N,H., while deanin
out a raceway recently, found a gal
ring which his wife lead lost seven years
ago.
The colonels of the United States army
get a salary of e4,500 a year, lieutenants
colonels$4,000, and majors 43;500.
About 1,000 Grammar school gradu-
ates of Brooklyn are unable to find
Parlaectelas oist btanindiliniggsb. schools, f30 Crowded
Missouri ranks first in mules, having
in tbe last e,ensus year 251,714; the next
bTeeirinn% sTseexe ,a ser, witt 2h0 2473, 9". 2, and the third
The Libra' y B arJ of Chiaage it spend-
ing 4400,000 in decorations on the new
library for that city. Every floor will
be of white or colored marble.
The battlefield of Chicisamauga, in
Tennessee, where, 32 years ago, thirty
thousand, dead and wounded lay, has
been dedicated as a pleasure park.
The Legislature of South Carolina has
resolved that there shall be 3:ko divorce
for any cause whatsoever. Oklahoma
territory goes to the other extreme.
Adolph Satre, Mayor of San Francisco,
has offered to the California State Uni-
versity thirteen acres of land on which
to put up buildings for the university.
The work of registering the voters in
New York city for the fall elections will
call for the services of 11,040 officials,
and will cost the city about 4450,000.
The people of New York state are to
vote this month on a proposition to
spend e9,000,000 in deepening the canals
of the state from sevea feet to nine feet.
It is estimated, that the electric car
and the bicycle are responsible for a fall-
ing off in the demand for oats in the
United States, amounting to 100,000,000
bushels a year.
Levi Tho. nton. ale 1 M•s. Linda Rid 'ler,
of Coal Run, Ky., were wedded the other
day. The groom WaS 81 years old, the
t
im
bridee
s
8p0r,eanvioduselayc.h had been married five
The University of Pennsylvania has
found that co-education works so welt
in the biological school that the system
may be inaugurated in the other depart-
ments of the university.
- A Pennsylvania, couple were married
the other day after an engagement of
60 years. The bridegroom, who was 80
years old, had been working all that
thne to amass a competency.
Senator Nelson, of Minnesota, has a
fine farm of nearly four hundred acres,
under the best system of cultivation.
He has lived on it since 187L This
year he has large crops for sale.
London nets about *140,000 a year on
the gleanings from its dust chutes, and
it is estimated that under a proper sys-
teni the waste of New York would give
the city a gross revenue of about 47,-
000,000 a year.
Daniel Spraker, of Fonda, N.Y., is the
only president the Mohawk River
National. Bank has ever had. He has
held the office for forty years, and, al-
though he is 97 years old, goes to the
bank daily and attends to business.
Some idea of the quantity of salmon
in the Columbia river, or at least at the
quantity taken out, may be learned
from the fact that some of the big
canneries there put up in ca,ns an aver-
age of ten tons of the fish every day.
Arabasea 'or Bayard's fatally have been
holding office continually under the
United States Governmeut for 100
years, James Bayard, the Ambassador's
grandfather having been elected a dele-
gate to the Federal Congress in 1796.
Theodore Roosefeldt has made a col-
lection of all the cartoons about him-
self that he could. get hold of, and has
pasted them on the walls of a roora alt
his home. He says he gets a lot of fun
out of showing his "cartoon room" to
his friends.
Lowell, Mass., has ola one of her road-
sides a large urn, which is kept con-
stantly filled with fresh flowers at the
expense of a wealthy lady who resides
in the vicinity, as a rneraorial to her
pet poodle, who was killed by the care
at that spot.
General Greely, who has been inter-
viewed on the proposed balloon' polar ex-
pedition of Mn. Ariclree, does not believe
the glen is leasable, or likely. to be suc-
cessful. Engineer Melville es of a like
opinion, and regards Mr. Andres's
cheme as foolish.
A thirteen -year-old girl of Grand
Rapids, Mich., has lately developed an
abnormal habit of sleep. 13eganning
some two months ago, her somnolence
increased daily until now she sleeps
twenty to twenty-three hours of every
day. She is awakened at, meal times,
drowsily takes her food, and then
rem/Cy relapses into sleep again.
A ten -foot "wind -wheel" in Nebraska
Mess 1,000 gallons of water daily to a
eight at seventy-five feet. These wind -
wheels are conung more and more into
se in the weet, arid it is thought that
hey will have a very important bear-
ing on the Industries of the future,
with the mighty locomotive, that has
to be made nearly as heavy as the whole
train in order to secure it proper hold
upon the track. Now diet ocean steam-
ers have so closely approached railroad
speed.it is high time that the land roads
forged ahead before designers of water
craft catch up.
Equipinent.
Coretne,ndet—Your troope need bat-
ter arms, 64eneraL
Ilrignelier--C cannot say as to that,
sir. Their legs are excellent,
At Flatbrookville, Pas, Farmer I,twis
Beam says ;that he detected a seven -foot,
blank snake stealing eggs from his old
speckled hen's boudoir. He killed the
thief. He says that an autopsy tevealed
the presence of half a dozen china neet
eggs inside the snake,. He also eeys that
t,wo live chicketie were about to piek
their way out, of a maple of eggs that
had been swallowed, by the snake, the
process of incubation having been car-
ried on by t,he internal departracot of
the eentile,
Speaking. a, POO,
Pli tett yeti how Pleee
First analte my hew;
Then .0 bring. my worde oue dear
And plain AS I 10ow how.
Next I throw my hands OP $01
• Then I lift My eyes.—
Thetas to lel, my hastens. kas,w,
Sometbiug cloth SurPrise,
Next I grin and :Mow my teeth
Nearly every ene;
Shake my shouldere,,hold ta3r Sides;
Metes the sign of taa.
Next I start and knit my brow,
• Hold my head ereet ;
fornetielug's wrtaig, you See, and
Deatnedly object.
Then I wabble at my knees,
Clutch at seadows near,
Tremble well from Lop to toe ;
Teal's the sign of fear.
Soon 1 scowl, and with a leap
Seize an eiry dagger.
" Wretch 1" I cry, That'S tragede.
Every soul to sta,gger.
Then I let my voice grow faint,
Gasp wad hold my breath ;
Tumble down and pluzage about:
That% a villain's death,
Quickly then I come to life,
Perfectly restored;
With a bow nay speech is done,
Now you'll pleese applaud.
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Silken Tents.
It had rained five days in a steady
drizzle, and out on the terrece the spid-
ers had crept into tiny hales in the
ground, where they sullenly rernainedall
all day long, not even venturing forth
in quest at a stray fly for a meal. At
(task on the fifth day the raii ceased,
leaving the earth and its atmosphere
full of moisture.
The wise little spiders cattle out
then, worked, in the mystic sileuce of
the night a wondeous epell, and lo,
when the naorning sun began to dispel
the dense mist, there, in the grass.num-
berless white silken tents Were spread.
They had been pitched one above each
hole in the ground. At first one re-
ceived the irapressiou that some tres-
passer had scattered sheets white pa-
per over the terrace, but it took but a
r
heeonsidikgelnanweeebts° reveal the truth about
Had the spiders gone into camp -dur-
ing the night ?
What Paper is Made Of.
Paper is one of the most' lavishly used
artides of mode= times. The mater-
ials of which it can be made are almost
as numerous and common as the uses to
which the finished, article is put. There
are something over two thousand pat-
ents covering the making of paper. It
ina.y be manufactured, under some ,of
them, from the leaves of trees; from ho• p
plants, bean. stalks, pea vines; from the
trunks and stems of Indian corn and
every variety of grain; from rnoss,
clover, and timothy hay, and more than
100 kinds of grasses ;from straw and co-
coanut fibre; from fresh -water weeds
and sea weeds; from sawdust, shavings,
and asbestos; from tbistles and thistle,
down; from banana, skins, tobacco stalks,
and tan bark; from hair, wool, fur, old.
sacking, or bagging, and from almost
any other imaginable refuse.
A Dip in a Japs Pocket.
Japanese folks have six or eight poc-
kets cunningly inserted. in the cuffs of
their wide sleeves. These pockets are
always filled with a curious miscellany
peculiar to the droll little people.
As common as twine it the British
boy's pocket is the prayer amulet, writ-
ten on delicate sheets of rice paper and
composed by the priests. These pray-
ers are swallowed, paper and all, like a
pill, in all cases of physecal and mental
distress.
Another essential, never missing, is a
number of small squares of silky paper,
which are put to the most unexpected
purposes—to hold the stem of a lotus
or lily, to dry a teacup, wipe away a
tear, or blow the absurd little nose of
the doll -like elittle woman. The raost
aristocratic people of japan use this
kind of handkerchief for practical pur-
poses. After one of the payers has
been used it is thrown away.
Prince Oscar's Birthday Gift.
The little German princes, as is well
known, have an English governess, to
whom they are warmly attached. The
governess' birthday oecurree reeently,
and not only the emperor and empress
made her presents but the young
princes also tried to afford their teach-
er some special pleasure. The governess
noticed among the gifts a elven little
paperihvbaotx.is
this? she asked, in sur-
prise, taking it in her hand.
Seven-year-old Prince Oscar drew
him"
That's from fPrro°Micime 1" he replied.
" But it is empty," said the teacher.
"'es, it's empty now," answered the
prince, "but to -morrow papa is going
to pull out roy first tooth, and the Vox
is meant for that; I'm going to give it
to you."
The next day the little fellow, beam-
ing with joy, really did bring the tooth
tens atheehegrom.verenneshee,ra.12rndeeeshieetaotv wears it
Cattle Trade a Western Canada.
In considering the prospects of the
cattle trade in. Manitoba and the
North-West, the Manitoba Free Press
says ;LP Last • year the North-West
sent, out 30,000 head of cattle. A few
weeks ago it was estimated that the
number this year would reaele 40,00p.
One at the largest dealers, 1V1r. Iron -
melee, is authority for the statement
that no less than 45,000 head will be
shipped out by the end of the present
season, an increase over last year of
fifty per cent. At this rate itt will nob
be long before the cattle trade of the
North-West • completely overshadows
the wheat crop. We may not have
been expecting it, but it looks more
and more as if ota. much -worshipped
No. 1 Hard will have 10 abdicate in
• favour of King Bullock," The pros-
eet is a, pleasant one, ancl it is to be
hoped that there will bta sufficient
room for King Bullock and No. 1 Bard
to flourish together.
Might Explain it.
What is the reason that, the OP
tiraver of a boarding house bettreau will
never ,either epee or 8hut / asked the
newly -arrived gueet.
Possibly, aneweree bet frieltd, it's
due to the quality taf the board,
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