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I f "CHAPTER VII ( Concluded ) .
1X "Oh , my foot ! I had forgolen. "
m "Let me ringfor assistance , " says
1 | Harry , approaching the boll.
m "Don't dare to touch tho boll ! " she
' [ < cries excitedly. "Why have you two
m forced yourselves hero into myliouse
Ij -without invitation ? Go , both of you ,
M and leave me. How dare you stop
m .here abusing and catechising me ? Go ,
. m I say do you hero ? "
i m "Yes , " answers Harry doubtfully ,
H ; and pulling at his short moustache.
W "Had we better leave her ? " he asks
W me , in an undertone.
B I feel utterly incapable of offering
i tin opinion on the subject ; but our
Sj : mutual indecision is of little conse-
H ] -quenco , for at this moment the door
B ; t * opens , admitting an elderly woman
H ; tastily wrapped in a warm dressing *
AT own , and a look of terror on her
B somehat careworn face.
| B "What is the matter what has
happened ? " she asks , gazing with
EC natural perplexity on the group be-
9 "fore her. "I thought there were burg-
PS 'lars ' in the house are there ? "
WU "No , " I make response , feeling in-
HH -finitely relieved by her opportune ap-
8 pearance. "You may thank her"
H . pointing to the figure on the sofa ,
| H -"that your slumbers have been "
B ' -Hold your tongue ! " cries Alice
B - * and then she
| -iharply addresses her-
Wm self to the stranger. "There is noth-
| a ing on earth thematter , Mrs. Whel-
| ' lerjonlyI have been for a stroll on
jf thegrbunds , and these highly imagi-
PPg -native people took me for a ghost , and
ISj -set dogsupon me , and chased me till
pj | J. . .felland hurt my footI wish you
| fi * woulLturn them out I can't. "
Ill "In self-defence , " says Harry ,
tj | ' -while the indignant blood surges over
fm nishot face , "I must correct that
I -statement. The lady lying there fhas
mj as you may easily see got herself
Ig Tip with the view of intimidating an
Hj y' over-sensitive friend of mine. Night
Kjf rafter night she has personated a spirit ,
H -until'we were forced to devise some
H . method for putting a stop to her mi d
Irl pranks. "
mm "Mad pranks indeed ! " echoes Alice ,
Ii starting up on the sofa , while her dark
| fl eyes seem literally to emit flashes of
M .fire. "Do you imagine that it was
H only for my own pastime and to prove
H the weakness of his mind that I per-
H eonated Lucy ? If so , you are vastly
K mistaken. It " was revenge ! I have
Jl ' meditated revenge for years , only
m -wondering how I could compass it.
n ' He hiniself put the stick into my hand
ft with which Ihave chastised him. ' I
X , * was wandering one evening at dusk
"V near the old summer-house , when he
took it into his head that I was a spirit
Lucy spirit. Was it likely that I
-would throw away so grand a chance
of scaring him ? If you had only left
cue alone , I would have killed him
with sheer fright. Why not ? He
killed " my sister Lucy ; lie put the
skates on her feet which lured her to
Jier death. A life for a life is justice. "
While Alice pours forth this wild
rtorrent of words , Mrs. Wheller gazes
r : in distress from one to the other.
* When at length Alice sinks back ex
hausted on her pillows , the companion
steps up to us softly , and lays a hand
I" 'On my arm.
I • "I think you had better go , she
ft • says , in a low troubled voice. "It
! .seems a most extraordinary affairirom
"
- "beginning to end , and I don't as yet
r- -quite understand , it ; but X think you
.tad better go. "
"You are right , " I answer moving
T „ la the direction of the open window ;
| fr " • but Mrs. Wheller steps before me and
jf. closes it , securing also the shutters as
i she does so.
L • 'I will let you out at the hall door , "
pC-1 she says , with a glance which intimates
§ ? - _ . , • -that she has a few words to say to us
k&- t "before we start As she leaves the
Toom she closes the door behind her.
"I am quite unnerved by this extra-
* S ordinary occurrence , " she says , when
X. ; she joins us ; "nor can I understand
I gf u any sane woman playing such a paltry
* * .rick. "
'
"Perhaps Bhe is not sane , " suggests
$ fiarry.
Y f"I don't think that ; she is sane
ipr1- f enough , " answers the companion , with
Bg a decided nod. "I am afraid we
Bf& can'fc Pufc * * down to anything but
mfr malice. She always was most eccentric ,
g * and her mind lias got into a morbid
K * tf state with , always dwelling on one
P % ' -mournful subject. We have been
P-s aoroad for years , and are starting
g . .again shortly ; only she had a ' great
i- , fancy for spending a fewweeks here
P ' before her departure. She has a pre-
p sentiment that she will never return
, to England. "
ft * . - * 'You should get heaway from here
&Z r as soon as possible. "
Ep - -"Of course , and I will guarantee"
gfT * Tvithafaint smile "that she sha'n't
jL- play the ghost again. "
aSk "I am afraid she has sprained her
wJm ankle badly , " I say.
P "In that case she will have to keep
V. .to the house. "
K * ; "Uppn my word , I pity you your
jL- - - task , " says Harry , with a shrug of his ;
li * v shoulders.
rn ZT "You are very kind , but your pity is
B ' " , superfluous , " answers the companion
kV- ' ' -drily. "Miss Seymour likes me , , and
' * il am most attached to her , notwith-
P1 " , -standing her .eccentricities. We lead ,
| f • .as a rule , a peaceable , though some-
E r - * what Bohemian existence , wandering
Lj > ' . about the continent. " *
§ * ' * \ "Well , we must be going , " I remark ,
P4' .aftpr staring for some moments in blank
s , • - * wonder at the little woman before me.
* Then Mrs. Wheller unfastens the
* : • * 4 Iheavy-bolts of the hall door , which are
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changod , and we step out onco more
into tho brilliant moonlight.
"It is about the strangest affair I
over know in my life , " remarks Harry
thoughtfully.
"I wonder how Robin is getting on
with John , " I murmur with sisterly
anxiety.
Durlngourhomeward walkourmlnds
are naturally occupied with the re
cent adventure , and yet so selfish is
poor humanity in general , and poor
ongaged humanity in particular , that
long before we reach the end of the
Lovers' Walk our conversation has re
verted to. Harry's approaching depart
and tho heart-brokon-
ure , consequent - -
ncss pn.both sides.
We find Robin alono in the dining-
room. She looks rather a desolate ob
ject perched on one of the penitential
straight-backed chairs , and my heart
reproaches me for that loitering in the
grounds.
"Where is John ? " I question , in an
eager whisper ; our movemens must
needs be stealthy for fear of waking
aunt Louisa.
"Ho has to his "
gone up-stairs room ,
answers Robin , in the same hushed
tones.
"Not to his study ? " in some sur
prise.
" 2fo , not to his study ; and , Mr.
Rodman" turning to Harry "he told
me to wish you good night on his be
half , and to say that ho ielt ashamed
of his folly , and hoped you would not
chaff him too unmercifully to-morrow. "
"Oh , Robin ! " I cry amazed. "Jack
surely did not use the word 'chaff ? ' * ;
"Well , no I believe you are rightf"
acquiesces my friend tranquilly ; "but
he gave me a message which amount
ed to what I have told you. "
Then Harry declares that he must
be off ; so we quietly let him out of the
window , and watch him till he disap
pears round the stable angle , with Nell
at his heels. The groom is never ex
pected to wait up for Harryt When
late , he saddles his own horse , having
been provided with a duplicate key to
the stable-door , for convenience sake.
After securing the dining-room
shutters , Robin and I creep cautiously
up the moonlit staircase ; and as we
reach the landing the hall-clock strikes
two. Instead of repairing to my room ,
I follow Robin to hers , feeling anxious
as to how John may have taken the
denouement of his spiritualistic meet
ings."Is
"Is John angry with us all ? " I ask
eagerly , as Robin , having lighted her
candles , begins to divest herself of her
wraps.
"No he seemed too
; infinitely re
lieved at the result to take much heed
of the means employed to bring it
about. "
"That is a good thing. I had an
idea he would be desperately angry at
our interference. "
"He is far too just a man for that , "
says Robin seriously. "Do you know ,
Blanche , " she continues , after a mo
ment's pause "I can't tell you how it
is but I don't feel in the least in
clined to at brother's
laugh your con
duct , though it is of course very ridic
ulous ; but be was himself so thorough
ly in earnest , so thoroughly convinced
that he was in communication with a
spirit. He confided to me everything
as we walked home , and , instead of
laughing , I actually cried when he
told me of the dread , and yet longing ,
which seized him when he first be
lieved he was holding intercourse with
his lost love's spirit. "
"I am afraid the brusque arousing
from his dream will affect his spirits
most dreadfully , " ' I remark for in
truth a gloomy foreboding overhangs
me.
me."On the contrary , " returns Robin ,
with confidence , "I thinft he will re
vive and become an ordinary mortal-
now. The scene to-night has opened
his eyes to the folly of his conduct in
brooding over the past till it had be-
come a monomania with him. "
"He seems to have been quite con-
fidential , " I say , a little jealously.
• 'He was , " answers Robin , with
marked emphasis ; "and , though I
hope , as a rule , I am not very dog-
matical , I took the liberty of giving
your brother a small piece of my mind
abused the unwholesome literature he
has been dipping into , to my heart's
content , and ended by advising him to
read Longfellow's 'Psalm of Life , ' "
"Your intentions , I am sure , are
good , Robin , " I say with some pity in
my tone. But I am afraid your advice
won't be of much use ; I don't think
Jack ever reads poetry. "
CHAPTER YHI.n
Nevertheless I feel that Robin has
the best of it , when.the next morning ,
as we are sitting with our books under
the shade of a friendly weeping ash ,
Jack sweeps aside its branches and
enters , laden with ten or twelve vol-
umes and carrying a spade.
"I have come to ask you both to a
funeral , " he says , smiling a little ner-
vously and tapping the bright steel
end of the tool against the slender
trunk of the ash.
"What kind of a funeral , and in
what manner are we expected to at
tend ? " demands Robin , glancing up
brightly.
"Well , certainly not as mourners , "
with a look of thought stealing into
his eyes "merely as witnesses. The
fact is , I have been thinking over your
advice , Miss Wolstencroft , and I have
come to the conclusion that you-were
pretty right about my poor old
friends" glancing down at the pile of
books under his arm almost affection-
ately ; "so I am going to dig a big .
hole and bury them. " J
"Do let me have a peep first. Put '
off the funeral till to-morrow , " pleads \
Robin.
"On no account ! " replies Jack , fall
ing back a few paces as Uobin holds ;
out an eager hand. "You do not '
know what you are asking ; it would
be most dangerous to your peace of
mind. "
I do not think Robin believes this
oracular statement ; but she has the
good sense not to contradict him.
Throwing down her book she rises with
a laugh , declaring herself delighted to
assist at the coming ceremony. "
You-vwiiraiave to excuse me , "I say , ;
"for1 fct\tbis\ monnt"Ibecome sware .
that Harry is rapidly making his way
between Jthe flower-beds to our retreat ;
and then I further explain apologeti
cally "There are so few mornings *
left , you know. "
"Just so , " answers Robin , laughing.
"Shall I carry some of those booksf"
she continues , turning to Jack. "You
look rather heavily laden. "
L "No , thanks , " returns my Imrfhar
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come to the conclusion that he Is
afraid to tru3t Robin with the volumes
lest womanly curiosity should lead hor
to peep between tho forbidden loaves.
So Robin and Jaok 'disappear
through the trailing branches of my
arbor , and a few momenta later Har
ry enters from the opposite direction.
"Oh , Harry , " I .Bay oagerly , when
our somewhat lengthy greeting has
come to an end , " &o you know last
night has worked wonders for JaokP
Robin has actually persuaded him to
give up those horrid old books over
which he was always poring ! I
shouldn't wonder if she induced him ,
before long , to take some interest in ,
the pursuits of ordinary mortals. "
"I wish she would persuade him to
marry her , " remarks Harry , with a
meditative smile in his kindly eyes.
( to be continued. )
The Dollar Mark.
Some discussion has been entered
upon with regard to the dollar mark.
There is no question that it comes from
the Spanish dollar , and that with them
it was a reference to the pillars of
Hercules , which he was supposed to
have set-up at Calpe as a Bign thathe-
yond was the mighty ocean , and that
man could go no futher than these pil
lars. The Spaniards triumphing in
the new world which they had gained
from Christopher Columbus , placed
upon their Mexican dollars these pil
lars as a sign that they had gone be
yond the confines of the old world. All
this is conceded , but the discussion is
upon the meaning which the Phoeni
cians gave to these emblematic pillars.
The authentic story that Hercules
burst open tho mountain ridge that
separated , the Atlantic from the Medi
terranean is obviously a myth , attri
buting to the Phoenician god a change
wrought by a cataclym , which may
have been local or may have been cos-
mical. But in no case could the pil
lars refer to this geographical change '
by which the Western Mediterranean
was formed , that afterwards slowly
united itself with the Levant or East
ern Mediterranean. For the pillars
are obviously a symbol of a Kabirel
triad , and by themselves are partly
meaningless. They are found in Tyre
upon coins , and in Carthage upon
coins , and from tho other symbol it is
clear that there were two Hercules ,
who were the champion gods of those
who worshipped the sacred tree , which
is thought to be a. symbol of infinite
love , and to have the same meaning
as the winged globe. The two pillars
stand invariably in the coins on each
side of a temple , or of a conical stone
associated with the worship of Astor-
eth. Astoreth is the same as the
sacred the , and if this symbol is tanta
mount to the winged globe , then the
two pillars are the same as the two
serpents on each side of that symbol.
This would explain that Tyrian qoin ,
which has on its obverse a tree around
which a serpent is coiled , and it would
also explain the caduceses , the rod
around which two serpents are en
twined. On the Etruscantombs the
two Hercules are generally painted on
each side of the entrance , one with
lion's skin and club , the other with a
goat skin and club. Little is known
of the secret rites of Samothrace ,
where the kabiri were worshipped , but
we do know that one Hercules was
typified by a white goat and the other
by a black goat. It is conjectured that
Castor and Pollux represent the two
kabiric Hercules of Italian mythology ,
but the subject is wrapped in great
obscurity. What adds to this is
the perplexing fact pointed out by Ig3
natius Donnelly , that in the Mexican
museum is a large bronze coin similar
to the Tyrian one in some respects.
There is certainly a tree with a ser-
pent twined around it. This would
lead to the extraordinary deduction
that Tyrian art was derived either
from the Mayas or the Talotecc of this
continent. ,
At the Theatre.
"Absalom , " said the wife. , settling
herself : firmly in her seat , "you have
gone { out between the acts three times
already. ; If you intend going again
you ; will have to climb over me. I >
i shall not budge. "
"Tha , thass right , Nanshy , " said
Mr. Rambo , approvingly , as he climbed
over ( her. "You shtay right here. I
c'n , ( hie ) budge 'nough f r th' whole
fam'ly j , Nanshy. "
A Modern Instance.
"Madame , are you a woman suf-
fragist i ? " 3
"No , sir ; I haven't time to be. " ]
"Haven't time ! Well , if you had j
the privilege of voting , - whom would _ 1
you ; support ? " ;
"The same man I have supported :
for : ten years. " 1
"And who is'that ? " '
"My husband. " Nebraska State ,
Journal. i
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A Family of Physicians.J
"Who is your family physician , !
Freddy ? " asked Mrs. Hendricks of the ]
Brown boy. ]
"We got none , " said the boy. "Pa's ,
a homeopath , ma's an allopath , sister ]
Jane is a Christian scientist , grandpa •
and grandma buy all the quack medi- (
cines ' going , uncle James believes in 1
massage and. brother Bill is a horse
doctor. ' I tell you , sir , we're in bad \
hape. " l
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A Deadly Parallel. j
"I can't see why there should be ]
such ( a craze for Russian literature , " <
remarked Hanover Squeer ; "why •
should people want to know so much .
about a country that nobody would !
care to live in ? "
(
"Ah , my boy , you forget , " returned ,
Barker Carper , "that 'Dante's Inferno' j
is so popular that you can buy paper J
copies for twenty-five cents. " Puck. ,
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More Than He Bargained for. j
The Pastor You remember me , ]
don't you , Polly ? 1
The Parrot Remember you ? I '
reckon I do. You're the copper-toed \
heretic who preaches so long that good <
little Tommy wishes ' you'd die. J
( And it was n't many long days be- ]
icre fiisfmother learned that Tommy i
had'tieen-.giving thato bird , " dtrilyHes ? "
sons ) Time. * " *
Their Lot Equally Sad.
First Old Bach "I wonder who thai
melanoholy looking man is ? "
Second Old Batch "His name is
Blank and he is one of a pair of twins.
One of them recently late ids wife and
* he other ono recerjSy marrtecL I
don't khowhick one lie ! & - "
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ANELECTRICAL DISCOURSE
The Fomous and World Renowned
Brooklynlte Enlightens the
Masses.
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The Eev. Talmage 'TTsed ' for a Subject , "The
Lord Opened the Eyes of the Young
Man and He Saw All. "
;
Bbooklyx , April 28. At the Tabernacle
to-day , the Kov. T. DeWitt Talmago , D. D. ,
preached a sermon appropriate to tho com
ing centennial. Tho vast congregation
sang the hymn beginning :
Before Jehovah's awful throne ,
Te natloni , bow with sacred Joys.
"Dr. Talmapre's text was II Kings vi , 17 :
"And the Lord opened tho eyes of tho
young man ; and he saw : and , behold , tho
mountain was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha. " He said.
As it cost England many regiments and
two million dollars a year to keep safely a
troublesome captive at St Helena , so tho
king of Syria sends out a whole army to
capture ono minister of religion perhaps
50,000 men to take Elisha. During tho night
the army of Assyrians camo around the
village of Dothan , where tho prophet was
Staying. At early daybreak tho man sor-
Tant of Elisha rushed in and said : "What
shall we dol there is a whole army come to
destroyyou. . We must die , wo
must die. " But Elisha was not scared
a bit , for he looked up and saw
the mountains all around full of su
pernatural forces , and ho knew that
if thove were 50,000 Assyrians against him
there were 100,000 for him ; and in answer to
tho prophet's prayer in behalf of his affright
ed man servant , the young man saw it too.
Horses of fire harnessed to chariots of lire ,
and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on
bits of fire ; and warriors of fire with brand-
shed sword of fire , and the brilliance of
that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the
galloping splendors of the celestial caval-
• ; ade. "And the Lord opened the oyes of
tie young man ; and he saw : and , behold ,
the mountain was full of horses and chariots
of fire roundabout Elisha. " I have often
spoken to you of the Assyrian perils which
threaten our American institutions , but
now as we are assembling to keep contennial
celebration of the inauguration of Washing
ton I speak of the upper forces of the text
that are to fight on our sidn. If all the low
levels are filled with armed threats , I have
to tell you that the mountains of our hope
and courage and faith are full of the horses
and chariots of Divine rescue.
You will notice that the Divine equipage
is always represented as a chariot of fire.
Ezekiel and Isaiah and John when they
come to describe the Divine equipage , al
ways represent it as a wheeled , a harnessed ,
an upholstered conflagration. It is not a
chariot like kings aud conquerors
of earth mount , but an organized and
compressed fire. That means purity , jus
tice , chastisement , deliverance through
burning escapes. Chariot of rescue ? yes ,
but chariot of fire. All our national dis-
enthrallments have been through scorch
ing agonies and red disasters. Through
tribulation the individual rises. Through
tribulation nations rise. Chariots of rescue ,
but chariots of fire.
But how do I know that this Divine
equipage is on the side of our institutions ?
I know it by the history of the last one
hundred and eight years. The American
Revolution started from the pen of John
Hancock in Independence hall in 1770.
The colonies without ships , without ammu
nition , without guns , without trained
warriors , without money , without prestige.
On the other side , the mightiest nation of
the earth , the largest armies , and the grand
est navies , and the most distinguished
commanders , and resources inexhaustible ,
and nearly all nations ready to back them
up in the fight. Nothing as against im
mensity.
The cause of the American colonieswhich
started at zero , dropped still lower through
the quarreling of tne generals , and through
the jealousies at small success , and through
the winters which surpassed all predeces
sors in depth of snow and horrors of con-
gealment. Elisha surrounded by the whole
Assyrian army did not seem to be worse off \
than did the thirteen colonies encompassed
and ! overshadowed by foreign assault.
What decided the contest in our favor ? The
upper forces , the upper armies. The Green
and White mountains of New England , the
Highlands along the Hudson , the mountains
] of Virginia , all the Appalachian ranges
were \ full of re-enforcements which the
young man Washington saw by faith : and
his j men endured the frozen feet , and the
gangrened j wounds , and the exhausting
hunger , andthe long march because
"the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man ; and he saw ; and , behold , the
mountains 3 were full of horses and chariots
of j fire round about Elisha. " Washington
himself was a miracle. What Joshua was
in sacred history the first American presi-
dent ( was in secular history. A thousand
other < men excelled him in different things ,
but he excelled them all in roundness and
completeness ( of character. The world
never ] saw his like , and probably never will
see ' his like again , because there probably
I never will be another such exigency. He
was let down a Divine interposition. He
was from God direct.
I do not know how any man can read the
history i o those times without admitting
that ! the contest was decided by the upper
forces.
Then in 1861 , when our civil war opened ,
many ] at the north and at tho south pro
nounced it national suicide. It was not
courage ] against cowardice , it was not
wealth against poverty , it was not large
states ' against small states. It was heroism
against heroism , it was the resources of
many \ generations against the recources of
generations j , it wa the prayer of the north
against ' the prayer of the south , it was one-
half of the nation in armed wrath meeting the
other , half of the nation in armed indigna-
tion. 1 What could come but extermination ?
At the opening of the war the command-
er-in-chief ' of the United States forces was
a man who had been great in battle , but old
age , had come with many infirmities , and he
had a right to quietude. He could not
mount a liorse , and he rode on the battle
field in a carriage asking the driver not to
jolt it too much. During tho most of the
four-years of'the'-contest , on'the southern
side was a man in mid-life , who had in his
veins the blood of many generations of war
riors , himself one of the heroes of Cheru-
busco and Cerro Gordo , Contreras
and Chapultepec. As the years pass-
ed on and the scroll of carnage
unrolled , there came out from both
sides a heroism and a strength and a de-
termination that the world bad never seen
marshaled. And what but extermination
could come when Philip Sheridan and
Stonewall Jackson met , and Nathaniel
Lyon and Sidney Johnston rode in from i
north and south , and Grant and Lee , the
two thunderbolts of battle , clashed ? Yet , !
we are a nation , and yet we are at peace. •
Earthly courage did not decide the conflict.
The upper forces of the text. They tell us ]
there was a battle fought above the clouds :
on Lookout mountain ; but. there was some- j
thing higher than that. 1
Again , the horses and chariots of God :
came to < the rescue of this nation in 1S76 , at .
the olose of a presidential election famous -
for devilish ferocity. A darker cloud yot 1
settled down upon the nation. The result of '
the election was in dispute , and revolution , (
not between two or three sections , but revo- \
lution in every town and village and city ;
of the United States , seemed imminent , j
The prospect was that New York would
throttle New Yorkand New.Orleans would 1
grip New Orleans , and Boston , Boston , and
Savannah , Savannah , and Washington , ]
Washington. Some said Mr. Tilden was
elected ; others said Mr. Hayes was elected : J
and how near we came to universal
massacre some of us guossed , but ;
God only knew. I ascribe our escape
not to the honesty and rigtheous-
ness of infuriated politicians , but
I ascribe it to the upper forces of the text. "
Chariots of morcy rolled in , and though the :
wheels were not heard and the flash was
not seen , yet all through the mountains of :
the north and the south and the east and the
west , though the hoofs did not clotter , the
cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you God
is the friend of this nation. In the awful
excitement at the massacre of Lincoln ,
when there was a prospect that greater
slaughter would open upon this nation , God
hushed the tempest. In the awful excite
ment at the time of Garfield's assassination ,
ilodput his .foot on theneck , of the cyclone.
To prove that God is on the side o this '
nation , I argue from the last eight1 Jbr .nine
/reat national harvests , and from the na
tional health of the last quarter of a con-
, eqidemics very exceptional , and from
Iury great revivals of the Church of God ,
Indfrom the continent blossoming with
Asylums and reformatory institutions , and
bom an Edenization which promises that
ihis whole land is to be a paradise where
God shall walk in the cool of tho day.
If in other pennons I showed you what
was the evil that threatened to upset and *
demolish American instituioBS , I am ea- ! |
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couraged more thnn I can toll you as \ sco
tho regiments wheeling down tno sky/and
my jeremiads turn Into doxologies , mad that
which was tbo Good Friday of tjio uution's
crucifixion becomes tho Easter morn of its
resurrection. Of course God works through
human instrumentalities , and this national
betterment is to come among other things
through a scrutinized bali6t box. By tno
law of registration it is almost impossslblo
now to have illegal voting. There was a
timo you aud I romombor It very well
when droves of vagabonds wandered up
and down on election day from poll to poll ,
and voted here , and voto there , and
voted everywhere , and thoro was no
challenge ; or , if there were it
amounted to nothing , because nothing
could so suddenly be proved upon the vaga
bonds. Now. in every well organized
neighborhood , every voter is watched with
severest scrutiny. I must tell the registrar
. and how old .1 and how-long
my.namo , < . am , < -
I have resided in tho state , and how long I
have resided in tho ward , or the township ,
and if I misrepresent fifty witnesses will
rise and shut me nut from the ballot box.
Is not that a great advance ? And then notice
the law that prohibits a man voting if he
has bet on the election. A stop further
needs to be taken , and that man forbidden
a vote who has offered or taken a bribe ,
wllother it bo in tho shape of n f reo drink ,
or cash paid down , the suspicious cases
obliged to put their hand on tho Bible and
swear their vote in if they voto at all. So
through tho sacred chest of our nation's
suffrage , redemption will come.
God also will save this nation through an
aroused moral sentiment. 1 hero never has
been so much discassion of morals and itn-
morals. Men , whether or not thoy acknowl
edge what is right , havo to think what is
right. We have men who havo had their
hands in 'the public trc.isury the most of
their lifetime , stealing nil they could got
their hands on , discoursing eloquently about
dishonesty in pibltc servants , and men with
two or three lamilics of their own , preach
ing elopjcntly a tout the beauties of the
seventh cominandmont. The question of
sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in tho
face of this nation a * never before , and to
take a part in onr political contosts. Tho
question of national sobrioty is going to be
respectfully und deferentially heard at tho
bar of every legislature and ovory
house of representatives and every United
States senate , and an omnipotent voice will
ring down tho sky and across this land and
back again , saying to these rising tides of
drunkenness which threaten to • whelm
homo and church and nation : "Thus far
shalt thou come , but no further , and hero
shall thy proud waves be stayed. "
I have not in my mind a shadow of dis-
heartenment as large as the shadow of a
housefly's wing. My faith is in tho upper
forces , tho upper armies of the text. God
is not dead. The chariots are not unwheeled.
If you would only pray more and wash
your eyes in tho cool , brieht water fresh
from tho well of Christian reform , it would
be said of you , as of this ono of the text :
"The Lord opened tho eyes of the young
man ; and he saw : and , beboldtthe moun
tain was full of horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha. "
When the army of Antigonus went into
battle his soldiers were very much discour
aged , and they rushed up to tho general and
said to him : "Don't you see we have a few
forces and they have so many more ? " and
the soldiers were affrighted at the smallness
of their number and the greatness of the
enomy. Antigonus , their commander ,
straightened himself up and said , with in-
dignation and vehemence : "How many do
you reckon mo to be J" And when wo see
the vast armies arrayed ajrainst the cause
of sobriety it may sometimes be very dis
couraging , but I ask you in making up your
estimate of tho forces of righteousness I
ask you how many do you reckon the Lord
God Almighty to be ? Ho is our commanj
der. The Lord of Hosts is his name. I
have the best authority for saying that the
chariots of God are twenty thousand , and
the mountains are full of them.
You will take without my saying it that
my only faith is in Christianity and in the
upper forces suggested in the text. Politi-
cal partios come and go , and they may be
right and they may be wrong ; but God
lives and I think he has ordained this na
tion for a career of prosperity that no dem-
agogism will be able to halt. I expect to
live to see a political party which will have
a platform of two planks the Ten Com-
mandments and the Sermon on the Mount.
When that party is formed it will sweep
: across this land like a tornado , I was going
to say , but when I think it is not to be de
vastation but resuscitation , I change the
figure and say , such a partv as that willi
sweep across this land liko spice gales from
heaven.
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Have you any doubt about the need of the
Christian religion to purify and make
decent ' American politics i At every yearly
or ' quadrennial election we have in this .
country ' great manufactories , manufactories
of ! lies , and they are run day and night , and
they turn out half a dozen a day all equipped
and ready for full sailingLarge lies and
small ; lies. Lies private and lies public and i
lie3 prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut
diagonal. ' Long limbed lies and lies with
double ! back action. Lies complimentary
and : lies defamatory. Lies that some peoE
pie believe , and lies that all the people be
lieve , and lies that nobody believes. Lies
with : humps like camels and scales like
crocodiles ! and necks as long as storks and 1
feet as swift as an antelope's and stings like
adders. Lies raw and scalloped and panned i
and stewed. Crawling lies and jumping lies
and ; soaring lies. Lies with attachment (
screws ; and rufflers and braiders and ready <
wound bobbers. Lies by Christian people
who never lie except during elections , and (
lies by people who always lie , but beat ,
themselves m a presidential campaign.
I confess I am ashamed to have a foreign- (
er ' visit this country in such times. I should
think he would stand dazed , his hand on his \
pocket ] book , and dare not go out nights.
What will the hundreds of thousands of for
eigners ! who come here to } ive think of us i
What a disgust tbey must have for the land i
of ' their adoption ! The only good thing (
about it ismany of them cannot understand *
the ; ' English language. But I suppose the
German ' and Italian and Swedish and
French papers translate it all and peddle
out ( the infernal stuff to their subscribers. j
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such a flood of indecency. The Christian
religion : will speak after a while. The bill1
ingsgate and low scandal through which we
wade every four years , must be rebuked by ]
that ' religion which speaks from its two .
great i mountains , from the one mountain in- '
toning 1 the command , lThou shalt not bear *
false witness against thy neighbor , " and i
from the other mount making plea for kindi
ness ! and love and blessing rather than curs
ing. ' Yes , we are going to have a national
religion. ;
There are two kinds of national religion. J
The one is supported by the state , and is a
matter of human politics , and it has great
patronage 1 , and under it men will struggle
for prominence without reference to quali
fications ; , and its archbishop is supported by ]
a salary of 875,000 a year , and there are
great cathedrals , with all-the machinery of c
music ] and canonicals , and roon for a thout
sand people , yet an audience of fifty people ,
or twenty people , or ten , or two. c
We want no such religion as that , no such i
national religion ; but we want this kind of (
national religion the vast majority of the c
people converted and evangelized , and then "
they will manage the secular as well as the 1
religious. . c
Do you say that this is impracticable ?
No. , The time is coming Just as certain as t
there is a God and that this is his book and .
and that he has the strength and the hon- \
csty to fulfill his promises. One of the ani
cient emperors used to pride himself on per- ]
forming that which his counselors said was ,
impossible , and I have to tell you to-day
that man's impossibilities are God's easies.J
] "Hath he said and shall he not-do it ? Hath 1
he ' commanded , and will he not bring it to 1
pass ? " The Christian religion is coming to (
take possession of every ballot box , of every m
school house , of every home , of every ;
valley , of every mountain , of every acre of 3
our. national domain. This nation , notj
withstanding all the influences that are \
trying to destroy it , it is going to live.
Never since , according to John Milton , ,
when "Satan was hurled headlong flaming \
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and ]
combustion down , " have the powers of dark- ]
ness been so determined to win this conti- ]
nent as they are now. What a jewel it is .
a jewel carved in relief , the cameo'of this ,
planet : ! On one side of us the Atlantic
ocean < , dividing us from the worn out gov- '
ernments ; of Eurone. On the other side the \
Pacific ocean , dividing us from the sunersti-
tionsofAsia. On the north of us the Arctic )
sea , which is the gymnasium in which the >
explorers and navigators develop their '
couraee. A'continent 10,500 miles long , 17- j
OOO.DOi ) square miles ? and all of it but aoout
one-seventh 'capableof rich cultivation. .
Ono hundred millions of population on '
this continent of North and South America '
one hundred millions , and room for many j
hunared millions more. All flora and all .
fauna , all metals and all precious woods , *
and all grains and all fruits. The Appala- <
chian range the backbone , and the rivers 1
tbo ganglia carrying life all through and
out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien ,
tbo narrow waist of a giant continent , all to
be under ono government , and all free , and J
all Christian , and the scene of Christ's perc
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sonol roicm on cs. th If , according to tho i
poctations of many gcod people , ho shall at
last set up his throne in this world. Whc
shall havo this hemisphere , Christ or Satan'
Who shall havo tho shoro of bar inland
seas , the silver of her Novadas , tho gclil
of hor Colorados. tho tolcscopos of hor oi >
sorvatorios , tho brain of hor universities
tho wheat of her prairies , tho rico of hn ;
savannas , tho two groat ocean beaches tht
ono reaching from liaflin's bay to Torra dii
Fuego , aud tho othor from Bohring strait )
to.Capo Horn and all the moral and torn ,
poral and spiritual and everlasting interest ! !
of a population vast beyond all human com
nutation ? Who shall havo tho hemisphere !
You and I will docido that , or help to decide
it , by conscientious voto , Dy earnest prayer ,
by maintenance of Christian instltut" > ns ,
by support of great philanthropies , by put
ting body , mind and soul on the right Atdo
of all moral , religious and national move
ments.
Ono of tho sevon wonders of the world
was tho white marble watch tower of
Pharos of Egypt Sostratus , tho architect
and sculptor , after building that watch
tower cut his name on it Then he covered
it with plastering , and to pleaso tho king ho
put tho monarch's name on tho outside of
tho plastering ; and the storms beat and tho
seas dashed in their fury , and thoy washed
off the plastering , and thoy washed it out
and they washed it down , but tho name of
Sostratus was deep cut in tho imperishablo
rock. So across the face of this nation
there havo been a great many names writ
ten , across ' our finances , across
our religions , names worthy of remem
brance , names written on tho architecture
of our churches and our schools and our
asylums and our homes of mercy , but God
is the architect of this continent , and he
was the sculptor of nil its grandeurs , and
long after through the wash of tho ages and
tho tempests of centuries , all other names
shall bo obliterated , .tho divino signature
and divine name will bo brighter and bright
er as tho millenniums go by , and tho world
shall see that tho God who made this conti-
nent has redeemed it by his grace from all
its sdrrows and from ail its crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as that ?
After all the chariots have been unwheeled ,
and after all tho war chargers havo been
crippled , tho chariots which Elisha saw on
tho moraine of his peril will roll on in
triumph , followed by all tho armies or
heaven on white horses. God could do it
without us , but ho will not. The weakest
of us , the faintestof us , tho smallest brained
of us , shall have a part in tho triumph.
Wo may not havo our name , like the namo
of Sostratus , cut in imperishable rock and
conspicuous for centuries , but wo shall
bo remembered in a better place than that ,
even in tne heart Him who came to redeem
us and redeem the world , and our names
will be seen close to tho signature of his
wound , for as today he throws out his arms
toward us , he says : "Behold , I have graven
thee on the palms of my hand. " By tho
mightiest of all agencies , the potency of
prayer , I beg you to seek our national wol-
fare.
Some timo ago there were 4,600,000 letters
in the dead letter post office at Washington
letters that lost their way but not ono
prayer ever directed to the heart of God
miscarried. The way is all clear for tho
ascent of your supplications heavenward in
behalf of this nation. Before the postal
communication i was so easy , and long ago ,
on ( a rock ono hundred feet hicrh , on the
coast < of England , there was a barrel fastenl
ed i to a post , and in great letters on the sido
of i the rock , so it could bo seen far out at sea ,
were tho words "Post Office ; " and when
ships : camo by a boat put out to' take and
fetch letters. And so sacred were those de
posits of affection in that barrel that no
lock was ever put upon that barrel , although
it contained messages for America , and :
Europe , and Asia , and Africa , and all tho
islands j of the sea. Many a storm tossed i
sailor < , homesick , got messago of kindness
by 1 that rocK , and many a homestead heard •
good j news from a boy long gone. Would •
that 1 all the heights of our national prosper
ity j were in interchange of sympathies i
prayers ] going up meeting blessings coming s
down ; postal celestial , not by a storm *
struck rock on a wintry coast but by tho
Rock ; of Ages.
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Baising- Pup. f
A pup can bo brought up in a great r
many different ways , just as there are 3
more methods of killing a dog than t jj
choke him to death on butter. Hero's 3
the very latest way to raise a pup. The -
youngest in a family of three , a boy of g
immense \ acquisitiveness and precocity ,
brought ' home a tiny Newfoundland ?
pup ] the other day. - '
"Willie , " said the mother , "that pup c
is too young it is not more than a day
old you ought to take it back. " 3
"Oh , I know how to raise it , ma , " P
replied the boy. "Wo1 ! ! feed it with a 3
bottle. " 3
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After some skirmishing this young p
fancier J , aided and abetted by his two y
sisters , procured a large wine bottle , J
which they partly filled with milk and. fa
warm water. One of the giris carried
the bottle which was to the pup what
a hogshead would be to you and the
boy held the pup's mouth open. Most
of the milk and water went all .
over the pup's furry body. This stylo n
of feeding might have improved the E
dog's coat had it been persevered in , ,
but ' the dog would have died had not '
of the small cried "The ;
one girls : right p
way to do is to pour the milk and waii
ter on a rag and let the pup eat the f (
rag. "
So a rag was obtained and saturated n
with milk , but the pup had no connfe
dence in the rag his omnivorous appev
tite had not yet arrived. He declined
to be fed through 'the rag. Jt
Then it was the boy's turn again , j-
and with a wild yell of joy he shouted :
"Oh , I know the very thing. The =
medicine dropper. "
So the physician's instrument for j *
measuring minute doses was hunted up , ;
and for hours © very day since the dis- &
covery that unfortunate pup has had B
its mouth held open to receive nourishfci ;
ment from the dropper. n
But the pup is getting fat all the rc
same and growing apace. Pittsburg w
Dispatch.
The Extermination of the Buffalo.
At the present time , outside of the
National Park , where aboutswo hun0
dred and buffaloes har-
sixty are now - $ i
bored , there are not over three hun-
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dred , probably not as many , left in the o
whole United States , he survivors
of this magnificent race of animals are P *
scattered in little bunches in several b >
localities. There are about one hun-
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dred in Montana , or at least there were
a year ago , some at the head of ° >
Dry Creek and the remainder at the al
head of Porcupine Creek. In Wyom-
ing there are a few stragglers from the p ,
National Park , which , when chased , %
run back there for protection. In the ft
mountains of Colorado last summer re
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there were two bunches of mountain
bison , one of twenty-five head and the :
other of eleven. These have prob-
ably been killed. There are none
in Dakota , though eighteen months * (
ago thirty were known to be 3' '
there. It was estimated in 1887 * v
that there were twenty-soven in Ne3 ,
braska , and about fifty more scattered
in the • western part of the Indian Ter
ritory and Kansas. Those in Nebraska
have since been killed by the Sioux.
Of the thousands that once inhabited p
Texas , only two small bunches remain.
Thirty-two head near the Batons , in1
the northwestern part of the Panhantc
die , and eight in the sand-hills on the D1
Staked Plains north of the Pecos Kiver. ,
These were seen and counted on the pr
first of April of last year. This estiin
mate of the remnant of a great race is
believed , to be essentially correjgt It
was obtained from reliable and wellj"
informed persons throughout the West , "
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and in part from personal observation jk
during the past year. Franklin Satn
terthwaite , in Harper's Magazine. ? t
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Spring is with us at last ; but there are 3i
many cold days ahead for tiie government pi
office-holder. Puck.
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Callei Grost A Fool. ' ; | j I
Private soldiers fnivo their own pri- -jm' ' j
vato opinions , oven about the be- _ M
havior of their commanding officers , - Jjjfr\
and now and then thoy can not help jry
sxpressing them. The historian of * S
the Ninety-sixth Ohio Eegiment cites f M4
an instance , attho siege of Vicksburg. \ . Jh
At nine o'clock every morning , in full \ p 'm
view of the forts , and always over , A3 |
the same course , Geuoral A. J. Smith. * • . J |
could be seen riding tho same bladk . ' M
pacer at lightning speed. At that t J | j
hour , therefore , the Confederate ar- V | | I
tilleriats stood to their pieces , know- i | | i
ing they should have a chance to < M |
Bhoot at the "old white hat" whichmA \
the General always wore. As. a con- n |
sequence , the boys came to expect a | pj
battle shower at precisely nine g
o'clock. General Granttoo , madehis g
staff , apparently paying no attenW h
lion to consequences , individual or f * |
collective. At last he seemed to dis- tf f
cover that his appearing with so p • ;
many attendants caused an unnecesW
sary i exposure' of his men , and next * '
day ho came alono. This did not , fe
lessen tho enemy's attentions , und Jl i
on i tho following morninghoappeared i % '
without insiginia of rank , and mount- J <
ed ' on a mule. He halted in the rear \ %
of i the Ninety-sixth Ohio , surveyed iw {
the position in open view at tho ene- . '
my : , and , intent on knowledge , cooly %
drew i his field-glass , took a steady *
survey , apparently not being aware
of ' the well-aimed shot and shell that
whizzed past or exploded above and
around him. This play of fireworks i
over < the soldiers in the trenches was .f
a i little trying to their nerves , and \t \
one . of the men became thoroughly j
indignant. ' |
"See here , you old fool , " he shout- t
ed , to the distinguished observerwho ft
was 1 only a few rods distant , "If you • !
don't < get offthatmuleyou'llgetshot ! 4
. Some one informed the man who 8
it was to whom he was administering I
such peremptory advice. jl
"Well , I don't care ! " he retorted. f
"What's he fool in' round here for , 1
any-way ? We're shot at enough , U
without takin' any chances with him. j j
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A. l Tramp Killed torive Sardou a L
lesson. , *
Boston j Journal. , " " * * 6
Long before the world knew of his 'I
existence Victorien Sardou was pass- \
ing one winter ' s night along a street
in the Latin quarter. "I was asking (
myself , "he Bays , "if life was really J
worth so much useless labor , and i *
if fare would always be implacable. " fi
Sardou was a prey to one of those j |
moods of 'tter discouragement , j *
which make any folly possible , more j
particularly suicide. To escape the if
rain , which was falling in torrentshe ,
stopped for shelter under a porte- I *
cochere , which he left suddenly , in- l\ \
stinctively , without knowing why , jf
and a ragged tramp took his place. Ij ?
Just \ then there was a terrible noise. j j
Sardouwho was going on , turned and j
saw that an enormous block ofstone i *
liad fallen from a passing dray upon J ]
bhe tramp , killing him instantly. \ \ \
"I do not know what instinct , " j.
says Sardou , "made me quit tho .
place which destiny had marked for T J
some one's death. But it seemed to f . { * '
show me that I was not raeantto die h\ \
poor and unknown that I must & &
ivork , struggle and always hope. J
Mv star was shining behind a som- < ) '
bresky ! " V
Paper from Wood. J J
The discovery of the value of wood ' [
n paper making is credited to Dr. " ° v
H. H. Hill , of this city. About forty j
fears ago the doctor visited thejpap- j
r mill at Vassalboro , andafterlctoki i '
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ngover the machinery suggested the - ' • '
easibility of using wood , and asking "j t
vhy the manufactures did not get a j i
ew bales of excelsior from Augusta , Ij
vhere it was made , and try the ex- ' / . .
leriment of makingpaper from wood.
'It can't be done , " said the manu- ha
acturers. "Have not you as much ' r
gumption as the hornets , whose nests ( j
ire made of wood paper ? " asked the "
loctor. The result of the conversa- ' ,
ion was a letter , some time later , * " ' :
rom the firm's wholesale agents in jf
Scston , asking what they were put- *
ing in their paper to make it so /
nuch better than it had been. It \t '
vas the wood , then first used in this i'\ \
vay. Kennebec ( Me. ) Journal. if j
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Sustaining Strength/ofBricks. ft )
Professor Baker , of , the Illinois Si •
Jniversity , writes of the , sustaining | l • ;
trength of brick work , "bjr actual I ]
xperiments in a testing machine , - - - J | j
he average strength , from'fifteen ex- il \
eriments , of piers laid in ordinary ( \
rick : and common limenortar , | \ ]
ising ] the same care as that with • ' 1
rdinary brick masonry is built , ! I' - !
tood a few pounds ( I , ami writing , t jj
rom memoryover. .l,5Q.q ' .nounds ; j f
er square inch ; which is equal to f5 , li
116,000 pounds per square foot , or f j" !
he weightofa column of brick 2,000 f . .
et high : with ordinary Portland ]
ement mortar , the strength was , $ * { ' - '
or a mean of eight experiments , § |
t,500 and some odd pounds per < K - J
quare inch , which is-equal to 360- ff-v
100 pounds per square foot , or the T
reight of a column of brick masonrv 'r ' 1
1,600 feet high. " j ,
When It Pinches Us \ \ fl
"It is curious , " remarks William j JM
-hilpot , "to observe how much more - * " t < 1
normous and outrageous * we are apt < " V Lw
account a piece of dishonesty if we |
urselves are pinched by it. ' v M
hought it sad , and a heinous thin , ' f vL k
the land , when , the other day , v * ' 'jH '
lanin my neighborhopd was dis- | H
onesfcabout an Insurance business. ' B
tut when I discovered , afterwards , '
hat this same man had taken a pre- - W
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