The Brussels Post, 1890-5-16, Page 6THS LRUSS]LS .'QST. MAY 10, 1800,
NATURE AND RELIGION.
THE FORMER TESTIFIES TO THS
TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY,
R`atmage. Faye the God of Na etre Is the
God of the 1Gible, and He lies Neter
°nee Cuntraalcted llimnseif in All the
Universe,
"The glory al Lebanon shall come unto
thee, the fir tree, the pine tree and the box
together, to beautify the place uf my sane-
tuary."—Isaiah Ix, 15. This was the text
;from which Dr. Talmage preached t0 an ins -
amuse congregation last Sunday morning.
He said.
Ou our way from 1)amaseus we saw the
mountains of Lebanon white with snow, and
the places from which the cedars were hewn
and then drawn by ox -teams down to the
Mediterranee stea, and then floated in great
rafts to Joppa, and then again drawn by ox-
leanis up to Jerusalem to build Solomon's
-temple. Those mighty trees in my text are
Walled the "glory of Lebanon." inauimate
nature felt the effects of the first trausgrea-
sion. When Eve touched the forbidden tree
it seems as if the sinful contact had smitten
not only that tree, but as if the Air caught
the pollution from the leaves, and as if the
sap had carried the virus down into the very,
soil until the entire earth reeked with the
leprosy. Under that sinful touch nature
withered. The inanimate creation, as if
aware of the damage done it, sent up the
thorn and briar and nettle to wound and
fiercely oppose the human race. Now, as
the physical earth felt the effects of the
-first transgression, so it shall also feel the
effect of the Savior's mission, As from that
one tree in Paradise a blight went forth
through the entire earth, so from one tree
on Calvary another force shall speed
out to interpenetrate and cheek, subdue and
override the evil. Lu the end it shall he
found that the tree of Calvary has more
potency than the tree of Paradise. As the
nations are evangelized, I think a correspond-
ing change will be effected on the natural
world. I verily believe that the trees, and
the birds, and therivers, and skies will have
their millennium. If man's sin affected the
*around, and the vegetation, and the atmo-
phere, shall Christ's work be less powerful or
less extensive?
Ob, what harvests shall be reaped when
neither drouth, nor excessive rain, nor mil-
dew, nor infesting insects shall arrest the
growth, and the utmost capacity of the fields
forproduction shall he tested by au intelli-
gent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift and
tompeteucy characterizing the world's in-
habitants, their dwelling -places shall be grace -
Sul and healthy and adorned, Tree and arbor
and grove around abott will look as if Adam
and Eve had got back to Paradise. Great
cities, now neglects] and unwashed, shall be
orderly adorned with architectural symme-
try and connected with far distant seaports
by present modes of transportation carried
to their greatest perfection, or by new in-
ventions yet to spring up out of the water or
drop from the air at the beck of a Morse or a
Robert Fulton belonging to future gener-
ations, Isaiah in my text seems to look for-
ward to the future condition of the physical
earth as a condition of great beauty and
excellence, and then prophesies that es the
strongest and most ornamental timber in
Lebanon was brought down to Jerusalem
end constructed into the ancient temple, so
sllthat is beautiful and excellent in the
physical earth shall yet contribute to the
church now being built in the world. "The
glory of Lebauon shall come unto thee; the
fir tree, the pixie tree, and the box together,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary."
Much of this prophecy has already been
fulfilled, and I proceed to some practical
remarks upon the contributions which the
natural world is making to the kingdom of
God, and then draw some inferences, The
first contribution that nature gives to the
church is her testimony on behalf of the
truth of Christianity. This is an age of pro-
f ound research. Nature cannot evade melts
enquiries at once. In chemist's laboratory
she is put to torture and compelled to give
up her mysteries. Hidden laws have come
out of their hiding -places The earth and the
heavens since they have been ransacked by
geologist and botanist and astronomer, appear
so different from what they once were that
t hey may be called "the new heavens and
the new earth."
This research and discovery will have a
powerful effect upon the religious world.
They must either advance or arrest Cbris-
tianity, make men better or make them
worse, be the church's honor or the church's
overthrow, Christians, aware of this in
the early ages of discovery, were nervous
and fearful as to the progress of science.
-They feared tbatsome natural law, before un-
known, wouldspring into harsh collision
with Christianity, Gunpower and the
gleam of swords would not so much have
been feared by religionists as electric bat-
teries, voltaic piles, and astronomical ap-
paratus, It was feared that Moses and the
prophets would be run over by sceptical
chemists' and philosophers. Some of the
followers of Aristotle, after the invention of
the telescope, refused to look through that
instrument, lest what they saw would over-
throw the teachings of that great philoso-
pher, But the Christian religion has no
Such apprehension now, Bring 00 your
telescopes and microscopes, and spectro-
scopes—and the mora the better. The God
of nature is the God of the Bible, and in ell
the universe, and in all the eternities, He
has never once contradicted Himself. Chris-
tian merchant% endow universities, and in
them Christian professors to instruct the chil-
dren of Christian communities, The warm -
set and most enthusiestle friends of Christ
are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends
Of science, The church rejoices as much
aver every discovery as the world rej ices.
Good men have found that there is no war
between science and religion. That which at
first had seemed to be the weapon of the
infidel has turned out to be the weapon of
the Christian,
Scientific discussion may be divided into
triose which are concluded, and those which
.are still in progress, depending for decision
kpon future investigation, Those which are
Concluded have invariably rendered their
verdict for Christianity, and we have faith
to believe that those which are still in prose-
cution will come to as favorable a conclusion,
$ he great systema of error are falling before
these discoveries, which have only shown the
truth of the Bible and m reinforced Christian-
ity. Mohammedanism and paganism in their
ten tboneand forms have been proved taise,
end by great natural laws ehowh to be Im-
position, Burled cities have been exhumed,
and the truth of God foetid written en their
toffn-lids. 'Bettiett, Itobinsoh, and Leyard
have been not more the apnetles of science
than the apostles of religion, The dumb lige
of the pyramids have opened to preach the
gospel. Expeditions baso been fitted out for
Palestine, and explorers have cone back to
µ4y that they have found among mountains,
And among ruins, and on the shore of water's,
living and undying evidences of our glorious
Christianity.
Men who have gone to Palestine infidels
b.S0 neMi b184iLSt'ltkistfall&. Thi wile we're
blind and deaf to the truth ut home have
seemed to see Christ again preaching upon
Olivet and have beheld lu vivid imagluatiou
the Sou of Clod agate walking the hills About
Jerusalem, C'aviglia once 1'eje'.ted the truth,
but afterward said, el come 10 Egypt, and
the scriptures and the pyramids converted
Ale," When I was iu Beyroit, Syria, last
December, our beluvxd Animates); missionary,
Rev, Ur, Jessup, toll me of ids friend who
met asceptic at Juppe, the seaport of Jeru-
salem, and the unbeliever said to his friend:
"1 am geleghttu the holy Land le show up
the fully of the Christian- religion. f ant
going to visit all the so•ralleoi 'sacred pluses,'
and write them up, and show Gr. world that
the New Testament le en tulpnsttioa upon rho
world's ersolullty," Mouths after, lir. Jes-
sup's friendmet the sceptic at Beyrout, after
he bad complete:: his journey through the
Holy Laud, "Well, how isfie' said the afore.
said geutleloan to the sceptic, The answer
was: "I have seen it all, and I tell you the
Bible is all true: Yes, it is all truer' The
man who went to destroy came bask to de.
fend. After what I myself saw during my
recent absence, I conclude that anyone who
cau go through the Holy Laud and remabi au
' unbeliever, is either a bad man or an Imbe-
cile,
God employed men to write the Bible, but
He took many of the same truths which they
recorded, and with His own nimiglrty band
I He gouged them into the rocks, and drove
them down iota dismal depth:, and, as does•
meats are put is th0 corner -stone du temple,
so in the very fiuudstlon of the earth He
folded up and placed the records of heavenly
truth. The earth's corner -steno was laid, like
that of uther sacred edifices, In the name of
the Father, and of the Sou, and of the Holy
Ghost. The Author 4 revelation, standing
among the great strata, looped utoa Moses,
and said, "Let us record for future ages the
world's history; you write it there ea papy-
rus; I will write it here on the boulder."
At Hawarden, England, Mr, Gladstone,
while showing me his trees during it pro-
longed walk through his maguificout park,
pointed out asycamore, and with " ,seen st
• the band sant "In your visit to the Holy
Land did yen see nay sycamore more impres-
sive than that(' 1 confessed that I had not
Its branches were not more remarkable than
its roots. It was to such a tree as that Jesus
pointed when He would illustrate the power
of faith, "Te might say unto this sycamore
tree, "13e thou plueked up by the root and be
thou cast into the sea and it would obey you."
One reason why Christ has fascinated the
world as no other teacher is because instead
of using severe argument He was always tell-
ing bow something in the spiritual world was
like auto sometbiug in the natured world
Oh, these wonderful "likes" of our Lordl
Like a grain of mustard seed. Like a trea-
sure hid in a field. Like a merchant seeking
goodly pearls. Like unto a net that was cast
into the sea. Like unto a householder,
Would Christ teachthe precision with
which He looks after you, He says He counts
the hairs of your head, Well, that is a long
and tedious count if the head have the average
endowment It's been found that if the hairs
of the head be black there are about 120,000,
or if they be flaxen there are about 140,000.
But God knows the exact number. "The
baits of your head are all numbered," Would
Christ impress us with the divine watchful-
ness and ca e, He speaks of the sparrows that
were a nuisance in those tithes, They were
caught by the thousands in the net. They
were thin and scrawny, and had comparative-
ly no meat ou their bones. They seemed
almost valueless, whether living or dead.
Now, argues Christ, it my Father takes care
of them will £'Ie not take care of your Christ
would have the Christian despondent over his
slowness of religious development go to his
cornfield for a lesson. He watches first the
green shout pressing up through the clouds,
gradually swelling out with the pressure of
the corn: "First the blade, then the ear,
after that the 1, 'l corn in the eat"
Another coutr, lotion which the natural
world is malting to the kingdom of Christ
is the defense and aid which the elements
are compelled to give to the Christian
personally. There is no law in nature but
is sworn for the Christian's defense, In
Job this thought is presented as a bargain
made between the inanimate creation and
the righteous man: "Thou shalt be in
league with the stones of the field," What
a grand thought that the lightning, and
the tempests, and the hail, and the frosts,
which are the enemies of unrighteousuess,
are all marshalled as the Christian's body-
guard. They fight for him, They strike
with an arm of fire, or clutch with their
Rogers of ice. Everlasting peace is declared
between the fiercest elements of nature and
the good man. They may iu theft fury
seem to be indiscriminate, smiting down
the righteous with the wicked, yet they
cannot damage the Christian's soul, al-
though they may shrivel his body. The
wintry blast that howls about your dwelling,
yon may call your brother, and the south
wind coming up on et June day by way of
a (ower -garden, you may call your sister,
Though so mighty in circumference and
diameter, the sun and the moon have a
special charge concerning you, "The sun
shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon
by night." Elements and tortes hidden in
the earth are now harnessed and at work
in producing for you food and clothing.
(;orae grain -field that you never saw pre-
sented you this day with your morning
meal. The great earth and the heavens are
the busy loom at work for you; and shooting
light, and silvery streams, and sharp lightn-
iug are only woven threads in the great
loom, with God's foot on the shuttle. The
same Spirit that converted your soul had
also converted the elements from enmity
toward you into inviolable frteudship, and
furtherost star and deepest cavern, regions of
everlasting cold as well as climes of eternal
summer, all have a mission of good, direct
or indirect, for your spirit
Finally, I learn from this subject what
au honorable position the Christian occupies
when nothing is so great and glorious in
nature but it is made to edify, defend, and
instruct him, Hold up your 'made, sons
and daughters of the Lord Almighty, that
I may 'see how you bear your honors,
Though now you may think youreelt un -
befriended, this spring's soft wind, and
next suxniner's harvest of barley, and next
autumn's glowing fruits, and next winter's
storms, all seasons, all elements, zephyr and
euroolydon, rose'e breath and thundercloud,
gleaming light and thick darkness, are
sworn to defend you, cohorts of angels
would fly to deliver you from peril, sed
the groat God would unsheathe His sword
and arm the universe in your Cause rather
than that harm should touch you with one
of its hlghtest lingers. "As the mountains
around about Jerusalem, so the Lord le
around abort His people from this time forth
for evermore."
Oh, for teem sympathy with the natural
world, and then we ehoald always have e
I31ble open before us, and we could take e
lesson from the must fleeting circurnstaueev
se when a storm time down upon Englaiy'
Charles Wesley sat in a room watching It
through an open window, and frightened by
lightning and thunder a little bird new IA,
1194 .001.44itt Digen..gt.1hk..eottr neat
ens as he gently stemma It aim 1011 the cu.1) 2 fi1TIl s OF NEWS. . `xi
wild beating of his heart, be turned to 1112 V U 11 1j1 10 E '\ , 1) 1 ,
ttvsk and wrote that Lyme which will be
while the world lasts;
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to thy boson fly,
11'ldle the billowsnear me roll
While the anapest still is nigh;
RATTLER AND CENTIPEDE.
A Duel la Which hell alike 1tep111es Les
Their lives,
"Ugh 1 What is it t Tales it away I" TM
frightened speaker was one of seemed ens
ploycee of Yierce & Co., engaged in hautlllue
hardware in the basement of the firm's veal,
llslmientlu Broadway. He bad almost pieces
his hand upon the object that had startle'
him,
"Look out! It's a centipede, and a big one.
too," cried ono of his companions. "It must
have got into one of the packages of became
or other goods shipped at a Southern port
while the hardware was on board the versa:
on its way from the East"
This was ample warning to prevent esreles,
meddling with the centipede, but the hard
ware then determined to capture lrini, and
after a little effort the many -legged curio w•ui
scooped up on a shovel and carried apstaite,
But even then they didn't know what to de
with it,
h1 the drug store adjoining was a monster
rattlesnake, kept as a curiosity in a box it
the show window,
"Let's put him in with the rattler and starl
a zoo," said cue of the group, and the angges•
Son was received with approval. The cent!•
pede was carried in and dumped into the hos
with the rattlesnake. An ominous rattle and
quivering of the body of the snake showed
that he resented the intrusion, and the cents'
pede, apparently realising his danger, made
frantic efforts to escape by crawling around
the edges of the box, The rattler glared with
fury upon the venomous crawler, and attempt
ed several times to coil and strike the intru-
der; but the space of the box was too limited,
and, after several vain efforts, which all the
time were accompanied by an angry rattling,
the snake, gliding forward with dating
tongue, gradually closed up on his enemy,
and the centipede was soon writhing Mils last
agonies.
But it was not vanquished without retalia•
tion. The many legs of the centipede had
been doing their deadly work, and when the
snake moved away from his victim he himself
began to show signs of distress, He tossed
about from one side of his box to the other,
rolled over, coiled and uncoiled his scaly
length, and in every way except by cries, be-
trayed his agony to the group of interested
spectators. In about an hour the body of the
snake began to swell rapidly, His struggles
because gradually weaker, and fa two hours -
from the time the right commencer) his snake -
ship rolled over and died. The poison of the
centipede had done its fatal work. The body
of the snake lase swollen to twice its natural
size. The rattlesnake and the centipede lay
dead together in the box, and thus ended this
strange duel, --Son Francisco Examiner,
THE TRAINING FOR GIRLS.
Madame Albaei Awards the prize In the
What—shim—we—do—With—Our—
Girls Contest,
The New YorklVorld offered a prize
to the writer of the best short essay on.
the question of "what shall we do with
our girls!" There were many hundred
communications received, Madame Al-
bani awarded the prize to the writer of
the following. It was signed W.
"The foundation of society rests on its
homes. Tho success of our homes rests
on the wives. Therefore, first of all,
teach our girls how to be sucaesefulwives
Begin in their infancy to develop
their characters. Teach them that
jealousy is an immortality, and gossip a
vice. Train tlleni to keep the smallest
gromise as sacredly as an oath, and to
speak of people only as they wouldepeak
to them. Teach then) to look for the
best quality in every one they meet, and
to notice other people's faults only to
avoid then,
Train them to do small things well,
and to delight in helping others, and in-
still constantly into their minds the ne-
cessity for sacrifice for others' pleasure
as a means of soul development.
I "Once given a firm foundation of char
eater like this, which the poorest as well
as the richest parents can give to their
girls, and no matter what necessity aris-
es they will be able to rise above it.
"Teach them the value'of making them-
selves attractive by good health, physical
development, neat dress, and perfect
cleanliness, The worthy woman must
learn that her worth alone will not keep
her husband in love with hen She must
be so accomplished, amiable, as liberal
minded as tactful, as agreeable as her
lees worthy rivals. She must make home
the most delightful spot on earth,
and herself the most attractive woman
as well as the worthiest. Unselfishness
perseverance, patience, and cheerfulness,
must be her constant aids, and above all,
tact."
Time Works Cltnngea.
Hotime worke changes! Last even-
ing I dropped into the famous place kept
by Justus Schwab. Ten years ago he
was a fierce Socialist and owned nothing.
At that tined he favored the division of
all property and the establishment of a
new civilization. Upon the black board
In his front room were always verses
from such Socialistic poets as William
Morrie and .A.Igernon Swinburne and
quotations from the incendiary press of
Europe. 1u the past decade Schwab has
made a good fortune, and is now a fat,
comfortable citizen. There areuo poems
on the blackboard now and no quotations,
In their stead are theatre posters and bus-
iness advertisements, The people pre,
sent are no longer hungry Socialists and
wild-eyed anarchists, but well-dressed
rotund and preaperous people,—New
York Star,
'teases, for it.
"I wonder why it is," remarked old
Spoodie, "that I should be continually
visited by commercial agencies in re-
ference to my financial responsibility. I
DM not asking credit anywhere."
"True," said his friend, "but your
only daughter is now esigutteest,"—Society.
iAn old Sew.
Idahler--What a nonsensloei say Ing that
is, "Money talks,"
Shafer—I think it a very wise ons,
• "Money" does "talk," and its remarks are
tnvariabiy full of cents.—Chatter
A COLUMN OF THE CREees OF CUR.
RENT EVENTS.
The Very Latest. Ji, Soviet, Soletnin's and
General Clreles Suechmtiy stated—An
Lai -cresting collection,
The eity of Boston has four women in
her schoel hoard and two colored then in
the 00/11111011 council,
Franco has half as many people 1113 the
United States, but her natural debt is
twit's Its great,
The new sultan of Zanzibar has only
28 wives, fie is considered practically a
baohelor in that country,
It is announced that a photographer of
Klnusenburg, Austria, has succeeded in
photegrnphing natural colors,
An Australian tonal has given its
streets chemical naives, stroll. as Argent,
Beryl. Cobalt, Kaolin, Iodine, Oxide,
Brtnuide and Sulphide.
It is not generally known that Dr.
Mary Walker has become a cripple for
life. On Decoration day loot the fell and
broke her right hip.
In China, the man who lives nearest
the scene of a murder is accused of the
crime, and lie must prove his innocence
or else stand the punislmtent.
The oldest newspaper nolo published in
the United States is the Maryland Gay
etto, of Annapolis, the first number of
which appeared Jan, 17, 1740.
The daily rations of a pair of ostriches
on a farm in San Diego county, Cal., are
40 pounds of beets for breakfast, and a r
half a peck to a peck of grain for dinner.
Marshall Wass, on tiro Denver ,,Ys Rio
Grande railroad, 10,851 feet above the sea
level, is the highest point crossed by e
railroad inside the limits of the United
States.
The largest sailing yacht in the world
is now being designed by Alex. Brown,'
of London. It is 140 feet on the water,
line, 27 feet beam, 14 feet draught and a
500 -ton capacity,
Emile Zola has had an offer of $200 a
night for 40 leoturce ou"Realism"in the!
States. Ile wrote a eurt answer in'
which Ile asked: "Where and what is!
the United States?"
The New York Tribune has entered
upon the fiftieth year of its existence.
One of the compositors who helped get
out the first number, Washington Dodge,
has been at the case ever since.
A piece of pink coral 80 feet long and
0 inches in diameter at one end, with)
branches projecting about 4 feet ou all
sides, was recently obtained on the coast,
of Japan. Its value in a prepared state
would b0 about 815,000,
Civilization has produced nothing
more remarkable than au invention in-
troduced by a shirt vender of Brussels.
To every undergarment which he sells is
attached a musical instrument, which
can be secretly played by the wearer.
Mica is now being used as an electrical
insulator, while preparations of it are;
said to form tau excellent lubricant for,
machinery, so that the field of use for
this material—hitherto chiefly used for
stove doors—is rapidly extending.
Austria pensions ballet girls of the
Vienna opera, Before they can secure I
a pension, however, they .must be pro-
nounced by examiners as neither young
enough, beautiful enough, nor graceful
enough, to take even the most insignifi-
cant part.
Gen. von Caprivi, the new German
chancellor, never has a pipe out of his
mouth when he is awake, except during
his meals, and he drinks beer by the gal-
lon, He is most deliberate in his move-
ments, and always meditates for a min-
ute or two before answering the most
trifling question.
Gen. 0. 0. Howard, although a regu-
lar army man most of his life, believes in
the national guard. "For proof of it,"
said he recently, "there are two privates
sitting at my family table. One of my
sons is a private in the Seventh regiment
and the other serves in the same capacity
in the Twelfth.
STRANGER' THAN I`TCTION•
'1ctioin Is Downright Gospel Compared
with the Average Snake Story.
Seve..een years ago I lived with my father
and mother on the banks of the Stranger
River. in Atchison county, Kansas, I was
only 7 years of age, and ono day my youthful
fancy was caught oy the pretty colors of a
b'acksnake, I pulled a small ring orf my
finger and a string out of my pocket, Placing
the ring over the head of the awake, I started
home in triumph, dragging the snake at my
heels, and feeling as much a conqueror as the
Roman Emperor who dragged the captives
behind his chariots, In climbing over a tense
my captive made Its escape. Ring, string,
everything disappeared.
I shed a few tears at the time, but had for.
gotten the natter until this week, when I re•
turned to the vicinity of my old home In
Atchison county for the purpose of buying
some sheep. While crossing a small creek
MIDI Rowe into the Stranger River my atten-
tion was called by the barking of my dog to a
strange something in a tree. I investigated
and found there an immense blacksnake, fully I
ten feet long. Between She dog and myself,
we succeeded in killing the snake, though I
was obliged to use in the wmfaro both a club
and a revolver. The dog finished the snake
by giving ita shaking and tearing it in pieces,
You will hardly believe me, I know, but
you can have my head if it wasn't the same
identical snake that got away from me seven-,
teen y0015 ago, How do I know? Simple
enough. That little blacksnake had grown to
he a monstrous big ono, the Little silver ring
around its neck had grown until it was as
large as a lady's bracelet, and the piece of
twine had grown until it had become a good-
sized rope. .13111 the strangest part of all was
that the deg hod shaken out seventeen little
blacksnakes, end that each one was the exact
ootnterpart of the snake that made its escape
from mo in the long ago, While around the
woke of each of the seventeen young ones
were silver rings, and attached to those rings
were short pieet%of twine. And upon oath
ono of those silver rings you could plainly
distinguish the initials of my name just as
they bad been stamped in the silver ring that
I wore when 7years old—Kansas City Times.
,J.I,L'IAL .LII.
Tal]fa Witlethe Doctor,
Is there a roma•k 54101101 made b woman
than "Olt, it's only a hcadnrhe," ly,, there e
Mill/ tame ullh1(sal1 is there an ailment so
universally submitted to?
'Misery levet' company '. _Does it help
clatters any that when we wakou in the
tamping with a Jiendaehe, we eau relied, he•
1ween the throbs, that every Anter woman
i11 town has one too; "Only a hcadnelie
and yet physicians, who (win nfze sixteen or
more distinct forms of the dieease are often
completely ISIlIkd in their attempts to euro
it. "Only a headache:" --and yet it takes
all the ,enjoyment out of life and rolls up
greet, dark clouds that hide the sun,
idoubt 1f there could ] he t Huey painful
conbinalion than a headache couple`: with
an east wind I
I think you will agree with elle that the
most of our headache I.rouhie arises froei olu•
uegleet of oureelves or from overawe* ing
ourselves in same way.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that
in headache the head alone le the offending
part of the body.
It would be an easy natter to cure a
headache if the remoirulor of the body was
in perfect, healthy working order, One of
the most puzzling features of the ailment is
the "sympathetic' phase, What is known
in the profession as a sympathetic headache,
you would probably recognize as it "bilious,"
or "sick," or "nervous" headache.
It is a headache brought on through sympa-
thy with some other organ of the
body, which is in some way irregular in
the exercise of its functions, even though
the Bead and brain may be in perfect con-
dition.
Let pie endeavor to illustrate, for surely
this subject is worth the thio and study
necessary to 0 better tuideretanding, and
unless ave ma able to diagnose our own
cases a little, it is far better to "throw
physicto the clogs," ete
Consider, then, that the brain is the centre
of a great system of telegraphic wires.
These wires connect with every pert of the
body, and we know them as the ?arsons
system.
Every event, little or great, is telegraphed
right to 1111 brain You are closing a floor,
end pinch your Pinqgo•—tie new to there al-
ready, You feel the sensation of pain in-
stantly, and the seusatien will continue
until the bruise is mended. There is a eml-
t171111a1 flexr of news freer ,ivory part of the
body to the brain, a ,ol the condition of re-
pose is (Maned to excitement or depression
according to the net ma of this news ; hence
a disarrangement of the stomach, liver or
kidneys, will prooace headache, notwith-
standing tate head and brain arc in a healthy
condition.
Dyspeptic or bilious headache is very
common, and, it seems to m411 is the head-
ache which is most easily traceable to its
cause and most readily avoided without
medioiue. I Intuit pass it with only a word,
for every one who has ever suffered from it
knows, its well as I can tell (11015, the cause
and remedy.
Its treatment belongs to the clergy rather
than to the doctors.
It is the old story of appetite, indulgence
and punishment.
So if you wish to know my advice as to
coring bilious headache, I sty—Don't get it
Eat such food ns egreea with you ; be ten]
petat0 in all things, and be as regular as
clock -work aboutour habits. In the case
of young people this headache cell (11815eys
bo traced to sone error in di0t--as rich food
in immoderate quantity, eating at unreason-
able er tmnsfal hours, drinking wine o'
beer, etc, etc, -and it readily gives way to
at emetic; and sleep. -Almost any emetic
will do—ipecac or sulphate of zinc, In the
erase of elderly persons, however, the head-
aches, although less acute, are apt to be
more tedious and more exhausting, Rest
in bed, cold applications to the heat:, and
some purgative medicine talion so as to
operate in tine morning, will uesually effect a
eure.
Nervous headache is closely allied to the
headache of anaemia, and yet there is a dif-
ference, as many persons are affected by it
whose blond is sufficient in quantity, and
rich and strong in quality. This is the
headache which affects persons of ihighl
tura, and alt1 vivid imagination, and especially
at snob times as the persons are deprived of
their Usual amount of sleep. It comae 011
3'115,1 the patient dwells persistently upon
any mm10180111 subject ; when she is "blue,"
and can see nothing but clouds in the future,
thus trying the brain and disarranging its
circulation ; for it is a fact generally ad.
inittecL"That thought exhausts the nervous
substance as surely as walking exhausts the
muscles."
Olive Oil in Scarlet Fever,
Dr. Hutchinson, in the Americas Maw
(azin0, says :— Among the many mothers who
read these lines there may bo 0110 01 more
whose child has scarlet fever, that terrible
disease that has come to be so dangerous of
late years, and who will be glad to know of
anything to help their baby. And this is
something so simple, yet so effective, that
110 physician can object to its employment,
It is the application to the entire body of
waren sweet oil, well rubbed in. There ie
something curious in its immediate good ef-
fect. Almost twenty years ago I had five
patients in one family with the ern inose or
throat variety of scarlet fever, and had then
all brought into one room for convenience
sake, as well as seclusion. Five little :heads
returned my greeting every time it visit was
made, and all clamored loudly for their oil
bath. No medicine was given and butlittle
well needed to supplement (absorbed oil.
And in recovery there was an absence of
the usual complications, so that in myy west-
ern town oil baths came to be generally used
with excellent result. Other fats were
tried, but none atawered rho double purpose
of nutrition and shin cooler as well as plain
olive oil. It le well worth trial.
$cans.
Itis the fashion nowedays to descry this
staple food of our ggranchnothere. Berens laic
said to bo coarse, indigestible, only suitable,
fee the laboring chases, It is even white
pdred at times that they aro vulgar, and
when Madan Cdrundy issues this edict, who
so bold at' to defy and persist? Let us be
deceitful; let ne be 174111, nay, even let no be
dishonest, blit vulgar 1—slides of 0111' I111009-
tors—never I Therefore I proposeto put in
a plea for this saute despised hetn—roman.
tale, and endeavor to pro•o, that they are
more sinned against than sinning, that
properly cooks and served, they form a
(nest nutritious, appetizing, healthful tint
economical , n only anfood, t l for stout on and
o
lioys, but for delicate women and children
as well, Not one time in a hundred are
they properly cooked, especially when left
to servants, They eoltumn 24 per cent. of
1,itreg0innne matter in tjie tome of legamino,.
or vegetable caseinel and arc therefore more
highly nutritious then almost any food,
Were it not for the had that ne usual:
cooked, they a•0 rather min% difficult
of dit'es'iml than ,•,try 1(',er
there would be no gltestion as to
their supereminence as n diet, One pound
of 11011115 101130his nearly six ounces
of hrat•protlneing .properties and half on
0111100 of Ilcsl-forne ng food, which is more
than twice as much of the Jksh•food, and
nearly as tnnwd1 of the heat food ns v. heat
eont(aina,
Sturgeon risking in Wisconsin,.
They fish with fishlines six 1111108 long in
Winnebago Lake, 11'Is,onsin, and eau 20+,000
henna on every Ilne, if they don't }lard lip
_1,0510 tlsh ever? 1111)0 they if a line they
don't think they are having very good luck.
And every fish will weigh from twenty to
seventy pounds. That's the way they lish
for sturgeon out there, One of these lisp.
ulnae will reach half way across the lake,.
it st•etelmd out into the lake by means
of boats, large buoys being attached to it at
intervals to keep of 1
1 lit i 1 surface. uifnce. Tho
'20,(11111 hooks, baited with pieces of pleat or
lisp, "re lowered to the bobtonl of the lane
by snoods of the proper length which aro
10stened le the neem line, It takes twenty
Nate, with iwo,llen in each, to look after this
hug fishline, hitch boat has 1,(531 of the
snoods in its charge. 'these are tied to the
main line Li inches apart, and to bait all
the hooka once requires not less than 1,000
pounds of bait, It takes the forty keen and
twenty boats ten hours to set the line for
the first time, After that the fishermen aro
employed in going over the line, hauling in
the sturgeon that have been caught on the
hooks, and rebelling whore it is necessary.
1b hail in a seveltypolnnl sturgeon from
the bottom of the lake is an exciting piece
of work ; but it requires more strength than
skill, as the fish always has the hook several
Mulles down his throat, having sucked bait
and all flown without any regard to con-
sequences, There is no clangor of losing the
lista unless the hook breaks. When the tisk
is hauled to the surface a gaff as big as a
meat hook is thrust into the side of its head
and the sturgeon is hauled into the boat and
knocked in the head with a heavy maul.
The hook that captured it is cut out of its
throat, rebelled, and thrown leak into the
lake. 'Phe average catch of sturgeon is ono
to every ton hooks. When a lost is loaded
with all it can carry of sturgeon the fisher-
men prow• back to shore, where othere
take the lisle and dispose of them, 'lite
fishermen know the particular sections of
the line on which they work by the arrange.
mart of the buoys.'nese are placed ten
feet apart, and one in 150 of them is painted
red. The space between the red buoys con-
tains 1,000hook s. 'l'lsc 5e011110 015111110)000(1
and the boats are nunlhcre,d. The heats
work the sections as their numbers cor-
respond with the section numbers. While
the average catch is one sturgeon to ten
hooks, it is no uncommon thing for the fish-
ermen 10 find but one or two x111 1111 e1nt11•0
eection of 1,0(51 hooks. The very next
section may 05(1,1in the frill average of 100,
and porhnps more, The Lake W innelaago
sturgeon is highly prized among the lumber-
men and others in tate region. The flesh is
finer and of bettor flavor than the river or
salt water sturgeon of the Past, The tide
sells at six cents per pound retail. Lage
quantities are salted and smoked for 0,0 fn
the lumber camps.
After the Slave Prada the Gin Tree:.
With due stoppage et the slave `rade the
gin traffic only received more powerful
stimulus. pus. To its propagation all the ener-
gies of the trailers were devoted. For spirits
there ups already as huge demand, audit was
increasing out of all proportion to the taste
for better filings. It required ne exertions
an the part of the merchants to set it ageing,
and 0nee started it grew and spread itself
withoutany changer of its stopping. The
profit;,, too, were enormous nod certain,
because the appetite for drink had to be
assuaged, no matter wheat the price. Yet
in all conscience Lhe pleasures of intoxication
sire not expensive in \1 est Africa. Over the
doorway of hundreds of traders' houses might
be hung the signboard of 1-Iogarth's p11 1)1e,
"Drum, for a p01111y, (101111 drank for two-
pence," only the " clean straw for nothing"
would have to be left out. With the traffic
in useful articles it was euitely. different.
To push it was a slow and labortoss task,
and the profits were uncertain, which did
not suit men who wanted to make money
rapidly.
Che result of this state of matters is that
the diabolical wok commenced by the slave
trade }lits been effectually carried on and
widened by that in spirits. I for one tun in-
clined to believe that the latter is producing
greater—and what are likely to be quite as
atsting—evils than the former. The spirit
traffic has a more brutalizing efeet; it more
effectually blights all the native's energies,
it ruins his oonstitution, and, through the
habits it gives rise to, his lands ere left as
desolate as after a slave rad,
What are the most aharasteristic Euro-
pean imports into West Africa? Gin, ruin,
gunpowder, rand guns. What European
articles are most in demand The sante, In
what light do the natives look upon the
Europeans? Why, as makers anseailersof
spirits and guns. What largely supports
the (hovornmentcal machinery of that re-
gion ? Still the same articles.
The ships which trade to Africa are load-
ed with gin out of all proportion to more
1(sefml articles ; the warehouses along the
coast aro filled with it, The air seems to
reek with the vile stuff, and every but is redo-
lent of its fumes. Gin bottles and boxes meeb
the eye at every step, and in some places the
wealth and importance of the various villages
ma measured by the size of the pyramids of
empty gin bottles which theyereot to their
own honor and glory and the envy of poorer
districts. Ovo• large areas it hi almost the
sole currency, and ft.—telly parts tine year's
wages of the negro faetory workers ispaid in
spirits, with which they return home to en-
joy a few daye of fiendish debauch.--Josep4
P'flonpeol 291 the Contemporary, flerieiC.
One Way of' Reason*.
" lila; I've an idea that some of the folks
n this graveyard haven't gore to heaven."
" You don't stay 1 What makes you think
they haven't 2"
' Because I read it on the tombstones,"
" No 1"
" Yes, I diel, though. It was owed on
eve so many, --'Peace to his Italica,' Now,
there ain't any ashes 'cept where it's very
hot, is there, me, ?"--Lippineolt's .ellninsdue.
Entertaining Journals,
Blinks—" tV hat eot of mute papers do
they have over fn Europe?"
Jinks--" Excellent,"
I3heks " Are the jokes like curs?"
Only a month older, 1 Salve jukes, in foot,
11n10114 Put,--0fro lemon, juice .and rind,
One tinned of water, one cupful of rolled
crackers ; stole raiehis and boil until soft;
mei e the 1e11en rind, mix well together, and.
11 .1.0 tl•'th 111`