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[ ' "MIGHTY HUNTERS" WAS LAST
B SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
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HI Archery iintl the Arrow of the
B 4 , „ -Gospel.
H 3/f / ? N 0UR dayhunt-
H % < L w S S is a oport ; but
H B < fe4 / \ in the lanUs and
yMthe timcs infested
' ( $ $ $ $ $ $ with wI1 ' d leasts , ifc
B1 { ( f * M tl\ was a matter oE ii e
B a5P/fvt&s& } or death wtn * the
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B * * a ® ( people. It was very
K. B NfcL 1 * ! ! different from geL
Ing ont on a sun"
fjw '
B ts shiny day with a
B. " c/- / patent breech-loid-
B -er , to shoot reed-birds on the flats ,
H when Pollux and Achilles and Diometl
m * des went outto clear the land of lions
H | -and tigers and bears. My text sets
m forth Nimrod as a hero when it preo
Wm 'sents him with broad shoulders and
Ktj Bhaggy apparel and sun-browned face ,
B and arm bunched with muscle "a
H mighty hunter before the Lord. " I
Mm think he used the bow and arrows with
_ „ great success practising archery.
B > I have thought if it is such a grand
m thing and such a brave thing to clear
K wild beasts out of a country , if it is not
H [ a better and braver thing to hunt down
m and destroy those great evils of society
B * that are stalking the land with fierce
H , -eye and bloody paw , and sharp tusk
H and quick spring. I have wondered
H if there is not such a thing as Gospel
m archerj' , by which those who have
K ibeen flying from the truth may be cap-
H ttured for God and heaven. The Lord
Hf Jesus in his sermon used the art of
H : angling for an illustration when he
k said : * * I will make you fishers of men. "
K , And so I think I have authority for
H using hunting as an illustration of
H ; Gospel truth ; and I pray God that there
H may be many a man today who wUl
H begin to study Gospel archery , of
H whom it may , after a while , be said :
H "He was a mighty hunter before the
M Lord. "
H How much awkward Christian work
H there is do > * e in the world ! How many
H good people there are who drive souls
B away from Christ instead of bringing
H them to him ! All their fingers are
H > thumbs religious blunderers who upset
B more than they right. Their gun has a
B crooked barrel , and kicks as it goes off.
j They are. like a clumsy comrade wiio
B goes along with skillful hunters : at the
B very moment when he ought to be most
B quiet , he is crackling an alder , or fall-
B ing over a log and frightening away
B the game. How few Christian people
fl ' liave ever learned the lesson of which
9' I read at the beginning of this service ,
B Low that the Lord Jesus Christ at the
B -well went from talking about a cup of
B water to the most practical religious
Rt truths , which won the woman's soul
I lor God ! Jesus in the wilderness was
> Lreakii'g bread to the people. I think
, it was good bread ; it was very light
' bread , and the yeast had done its work
thoroughly. Christ , after he had
' • "broken the bread , said to the people :
I "Beware of the yeast , or of the leaven ,
of the Pharisees. " So natural a tran-
sition it was ; and how easily they all
understood him ! But how few Chrisv
tian people who understand how to
fasten the truths of God and religion
to the souls of men. Truman Osborne ,
one of the evangelists who went
through this country years ago , had a
wonderful art in the right direction. He 1
came to my father's house one day , and
I -while we were all seated in the room , '
he said : "Mr. Talmage , are all your
children Christians ? " Father said :
"Yes. all but DeWitt. " Then Truman
Osborne looked down into the fireplace ,
and began to tell a story of a 1
storm that came on the mound
tains , and all the sheep were !
in the fold : but there was one lamb 1
outside that perished in the storm. Had 1
he looked me in the eye , I should have i
I oeen angered when he told that story ;
K Lut he looked into the fireplace , and it
5 was so pathetically and beautifully
! i done that I never found any peace un-
\ til I was sure I was inside the fold ,
1 / where the other sheep were.
J The archers of olden times studied I
i their art. They were precise in the
; V matter. The old books gave precise
1 directions as to how an archer should I
v > go , and as to what an archer should do.
{ He must stana erect and firm , his left t
\ foot a little in advance of the right
S ? foot. With his left hand he must take
\ hold of the bow in the middle , and I
J then with three fingers and the thumb
1 of his right hand he should lay hold 1
of the arrow and affix it to the string -
jjj/ so precise was the direction given.
S But how -clumsy we are about religious
i ' work ! How little skill and care we
\ exercise ! How often our arrows miss
f the mark ! Oh , that there were more
It institutions established in all the towns
and cities of our landwhere men might
f leamthe art of doing good studying
spiritual archery , and known as
't ' "mighty hunters before the Lord ! "
L In the first'nlace , if j'ou want to be
[ effectual in doing good , you must be
j' -very sure of your weapon. There was
\ something very fascinating about the
} archery of olden times. Perhaps you
[ ' do not know what they could do with
\ the bow and arrow. Why , the chief
! { battles fought by the English Planta-
I ) genets were with the long-bow. They
U _ would take the arrow of polished wood ,
f and feather it with the plume of a bird ,
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* and then it would fly from the bowi
L * " string of plaited silk. Tire broad fields
L- . of Agincourt , and Solway Moss , and
# ; v Neville's Cross heard the loud thrum
| g , or the archer's bow-string. Now , my
W- Christian friends , we have a mightier
'B i weapon than that It is the arrow of
ff& . the Gospel ; it is a sharp arrow ; it is
mb " a straight arrow ; it is feathered from
mT the wing of a dove of God's Spirit ; it i
Ws , Hies from a bow made out of the wood
PC of the cross. As far as I can estimate (
mii K > r calculate , it has brought dowa four <
P , hundred million souls. Paul knew <
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how to bring the notch of that arrow
on to that bow-string , and • its whirr
wan heard through the Corinthian
theaters , and through the courtroom ,
until the knees of Fells knocked to-
gether. It was that arrow that stuck
in Luthcr'B heart when he cried out ,
j"Oh | , , my sips ! Oh , imyjsins If Jt
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istflkoa.tnan j in-the head.Ut .kills lils
scepticism < ; if it strike a man in the
heel , it will turn his step ; if it striSe
him in the heart , he throws up his
hands , as did the Emperor Julian of old
when wounded in the battle , crying , " 0
Galilean , Thou bast conquered ! "
If you want to be a skillful in spiritc
ual archery , you must hunt in unfrequented -
quented and secluded places. Why does
the hunted go three of four days in the
Pennsylvania forests or over Raquette
Lake into the wilds of the Adiroi ?
dacks ? It is the only way to do. The
deer are shy , and one "bang" of the
gun clears the forest. From the Call1
fornla stage you see , as you go over
the plains , here and there , a coyote
trotting along , almost within range of
the gun sometimes quite within range
of : It. No one cares for that ; it is
worthless. The good game is hidden
and : secluded. Every hunter knows that.
So , many of the souls that will be of
most worth for Christ and of most
value to the churcn are secluded ,
They do not come in your way. You
will have to go where they are. Yono
der they are down in that cellar ; :
yonder they are up in that garret. Far
away from the door of any church the
Gospel arrow has not been pointed at
them. The tract distributor and city
missionary sometimes catch a glimpse
of them , as a hunter through the trees < '
gets a momentary sight of a partridge
or a roebuck. The trouble is , we are >
waiting for the game to come to us.
We are not good hunters. We are standf
ing in some street or highway expect
ing that the timid antelope will come
up and eat out of our hands. We are '
expecting that the prairie-fowl will
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light ! on our church-steeple. It is not
their habit. If the church should wait
ten millions of years for the world to i
come in and be saved , it will wait in
vain. The world will not come. What
the ' church wants now is to lift its ;
feet from damask ottomans , and put
tj
them in the stirrups. We want a pulp
pit on wheels The church wants not
so much cushions as it wants saddlebags -
bags and arrows. We , have got to i
put aside the gown and kid-glove ? .
and put on the hunting-shirt. We :
have been fishing so long in the !
brooks that run under the shadow of !
the church that the fish know us.
that they avoid the hook , and escape :
as soon as we come to the bank , while :
yonder is Upper Saranac and Big Tupfi
per Lake , where the first swing of the ;
it for the multitude
Gospel net would break -
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titude of the fishes. There is outside j
work to be done. What is that I see i
in the backwoods ? It is a tent. The i
hunters have made a clearing and [
camped out. What do they care if they
have wet feet , or if they have nothing ;
but a pine branch for a pillow , nr for
the northeast storm ? If a moose in i
the darkness steps into the lake to
drink , they hear it right away. If a i
Icon cry in the moonlight they hear
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it. i ( So in the service of God we have j
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exposed work. We have got to camp i
out } and rough it. We are putting all I
our ] care on the people who come to our
churches. What are we doing for the
thousands upon thousands that do not I
come ? Have they no souls ? Are
they ] sinless that they need no pardon ? ?
Are there no dead in their houses , that
they need no comfort ? Are they cut t
off from God , to go into eternity no
wing to bear them , no light to cheer
them ] , no welcome to greet them ? I [
hear to-day surging up from the lower
depths , a groan that comes through our
Christian assemblages and through out
beautiful churches ; and it blots out all 1
this ] scene from my eyes today , as by
the ] mists of a great Niagara , for the
dash and the plunge of these great torc
rents of life dropping down into the
fathomless and thundering abyss of
suffering and woe. I sometimes think
that : just as God blotted out the
churches of Thyatira and Corinth and
Laodicea. because of their sloth and
stolidity , he will blot out American and
English Christianity , and raise on the
ruins a stalwart , wide-awake mission
ary church , that can take the full
meaning of that command , "Go into all
the world , and preach the Gospel to
every creature. "
I remark , further , if you want to succeed -
ceed in spiritual archerj- you must
have courage. If the hunter stand
with trembling hand or shoulder that
flinches with fear , instead of his taking
the catamount , the catamount takes
him. What would become of the
Greenlander if. when out hunting for
the bear , he should stand shivering
with terror on an iceberc ? What
would have become of Du Chaillu and
Livingstone in the African thicket ,
with a faint heart and a weak knee ?
When a panther comes within twenty
paces of you and it has its eye on you
and it has squatted for the fearful1
spring , "Steady there ! "
Courage , 0 ye spiritual archers !
There are great monsters in iniquity
prowling all around about the com-
munity. Shall we not of the strength
of God go forth and combat them ? We
not only need more heart , but more
backbone. What is the church of God ,
that it should fear to look in the eye
any transgression ? There is the Bengal -
gal tiger of drunkenness that prowls
around , and instead of attacking it ,
how many cf us hide under the church-
pew or the communion table ! There
is so much invested in it that we are
afraid to assault it ; millions of dollars
in i barrels , in vats , in spigots , in cork-
screws , in gin palaces with marble
floor and Italian-top tables , and chased
ice-coolers i , and in the strychnine , and
the logwood , and the tartaric acid , and
the nux vomica , that go to make up
our "pure" ' American drinks. I looked
with wondering eyes on the "Heidel-
berg 1 tun. " It is the great liquor Tat
of Germany , which is said to hold
eight hundred hogsheads of wine , and
only three times in a hundred years it
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lias been filled. But , as I stood and
Icoked at it , I said to myself ; "That
i3 nothing eight hundred hogsheads.
Why our American vat holds two mil
lion , five hundred thousand barrels of
strong drinks , and we keep two hun
dred thousand men with nothing to debut
but to see that it is filled. ! ' Oh ! to at >
tack this great monster of intemper
ance , and the kindred monsters of
fraud and uncleanliness , requires you
to rally all your Christian courage.
Through the press , through the pulpit ,
through ] the platform , you must assault
il . Would to God that all our Ameri
can ; Christians would band together ,
not for crack-brained fanaticism , but
for < holy Christian reform. I think it
was in 1793 that there went out from
Lucknow , India , under the sovereign ,
the greatest hunting party that was
ever projected. There were ten thou
sand : armed men in that hunting party.
There were camels and horses and ele
phants. On some princes rode , and
royal ladies , under exquisite housings ,
and five hundred coolies waited upon
the ] train , and the desolate places of
India ; were invaded by this excursion ,
and the rhinoceros , the deer , and ele
phant fell under the stroke of saber
and bullet. After awhile the party
brought back trophies worth five thou
sand rupees , having left the wilderness
of India ghastly with the slain bodies
of wild beasts. Would to God that Instead -
stead : of here and there a straggler go
ing out to fight these great monsters of
iniquity ] in our country , the million
membership of our churches would
band together and hew in twain these
great crimes that make the land frightful -
ful with their roar , and are fattening
upon the bodies and souls of immortal
men ! Who is ready for such a party
as that ? Who will be a mighty hunter
for ( the Lord ?
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I am sure that there are some hen
who at some time have been hit by the
Gospel arrow. You felt the wound ot
that ) conviction , and you plunged intc
the ] world deeper ; just as the stag ,
when the hounds are after it , plunges
into Scrooii Lake , expecting in that
way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your
track todaj- , impenitent man ! not in
wrath , but in mercy. 0 ye chased and
panting souls ! here is the stream of
God's mercy and salvation , where you
may cool your thirst ! Stop that chase
of sin today. By the red fountain that
leaped from the heart of my Lord , I
bid you stop. Is there in all this
house anyone who can refuse the offer
that ] comes from the heart of the dying
Son of God ? Why , do you know that
there are , in the banished world , souis
that , for that offer you get today , would
fling the crown of the universe at your
feet < , if they possessed it ? But they
went out on the mountains , the storm
took < them , and they died.
There is in a forest in Germany a
place they call the "deer-leap" two
crags about eighteen feet apart , between -
tween them a fearful chasm. This is
called the "deer-leap" because once a
hunter was on the track of a deer ; it
came to one of these crags ; there was '
no escape for it from the pursuit of the
hunter , and in utter despair it gathered
itself up , and in the death agony at-
tempted to jump across. Of course , it
fell , and was dashed on the rocks far [
beneath. Here is a path to heaven.
It is plain , it is safe. Jesus marks it
out for every man to walk in. But
here is a man who says , "I won't wall :
in that path ; I will take my own way. "
He comes on until he confronts the i
chasm that divides his soul from heo-
ven. Now his last hour has come , and
he resolves that he will leap that ;
chasm from the heights of earth to the i
heights of heaven. Stand back , now ,
and give him full swing , for no soul '
ever did that successfully. Let him
try. Jump ! Jump ! He misses the ;
mark and he goes down , depth below
depth , "destroyed without remedy. "
Men ! angels ! devils ! what shall we
call that place of awful catastrophe ? ;
Let it be known forever as the sinner's
death-leaD.
HISTORICAL.
Madagascar was so named by the
early explorers , from the Malagasy , or
Malays , who inhabited it.
Payne , as far as can be gathered ,
wrote "Home , Sweet Home" one dreary
day in October , 1822 , in Paris , far from
his own home , and in poor circum
stances.
The are order of Presidents when in
augurated was as follows : W. H. Har
rison. Buchanan , Taylor , Jackson ,
Adams , Monroe , Madison , Jefferson ,
Quincy , Adams. Washington , Johnson ,
B. Harrison , Hayes , Van Buren , Lin
coln , Tyler , Arthur , Fillmore , Polk ,
Garfield , Pierce , Cleveland , Grant.
The beaver was numerous in some
localities in the north of Wales in 940
and again in 118S. There are records
of them much later in Scotland. Rein
deer were abundant in Scotland , and
were hunted in Caithness in the year
1159. Wild boars were numerous
when large tracts of wood gave them
harbor.
SCRAPS FROM 'EVERYWHERE.
The figure of Britannia first appeared
on the copper coins in the reign of
Charles II.
In London a publisher can have a
book well illustrated throughout for
from $125 to S250.
London society has developed a new
craze midnight cycling excursions into
J
to the city.
In Gloucester over 20,000 persons
have been vaccinated and revaccinated
during < the present outbreak.
There is one firm in. Birmingham
putting 1 out a thousand fiint guns every
week for the African trade.
A resident of Buluwayo says that up
to I the present , taking the whole "dis
turbed" 1 area , about eighty white people
ple ] have "been killed.
According to the Laay Cyclist , the
Sultan ! some time ago introduced bicy
cles i into his harem for the punishment
of i refractory wives.
CHILDEEN'S COENEB.
INSTRUCTIVE READING FOR
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Cnpt. Jacc ! Crau-ford on the I-lttlo
Ones Ilonry VTartl Hccchor's Lessou
la Solf-Itolintico A TouchltiSJ Iiicldnnt
A Hey Divarr.
ffi T7 OW often as we
J crowd along , in
,1/ life's onrush-
/ 3& ( ti iDg mart-
i A littIe seed from
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% Cg& I childish lips ,
( f &sM O finds lodgment
U V riy in the heart'
• W y * ' & And there takes
• cr root and flour
ishes in mem
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ory's living
bower ,
Until it seems a sermon of the most
convincing power.
But yesterday , while grumbling at the 1
slow descending rain ,
And inwardly condemning it , again
and yet again ,
A baby sitting by my side , remarked in
accents low ,
"You shouldn't scold it that way , for
rain makes flowers grow. "
I glanced from out the carriage , as down
the street we sped ,
And saw the pretty flowers , each tiny ,
tender head ,
With open mouth , uplifted , drink in the
gentle showers ,
And ne'er before had I beheld such
beauty in the flowers.
Their ' leaves and petals glistened , like *
the jewels of a queen ; j
The grassy beds in which they grew , I
were swept by crystal sheen , j
And in remorse and conscious shame , I ; j ;
felt my head bow low , j
• Beneath the heaven-sent reproof : ; ,
"Rain makes the'flowers grow. " j
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That little speech went to my heart and 1
made me bless the rain , j
And bound me ro that baby king , with t \ i
love's most tender chain. i
It taught me that the gentle showers ,
descending from the skies , j I i
Were ? ent ro beautify the earth and I ,
gladden mortal eyes. ! ;
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God bless that little preacher , may the j '
bounteous hand above
Forever flood its lawn of life , with ,
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showers of heavenly love , !
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For 'tis the love of heaven above and
love of friends below , j j i
That causes such dear mortal flowers , j j
as that sweet babe to grow.
Capt. Jack Crawford.
Self-KfUHncf.
Henry Ward Beecher used to tell this
story of the way in which his teacher of j
mathematics taught him to depend upon j
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himself :
"I was sent to the blackboard , and 1 j !
went , uncertain , full of whimpering. I
" 'That lesson must be learned , ' said I '
my teacher , in a very quiet tone , but !
with a terrible intensity. All explanations
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tions and excuses he trod under foot
with utter scornfulness. 'I want that' '
problem ; I don't want any reasons why
you haven 't ithe would say.
" 'I did study two hours. '
" 'That's nothing to me ; I want the j
lesson. You need not study it at all , or
you may study it ten hours , just to suit t
yourself. I want the lesson. '
"It was tough for a green boy ; but
it seasoned me. In less than a month I [ j !
had the most intense sense of intellec .
tual independence and courage to defend -
fend my recitations.
"One day his cold , calm voice fell [
upon me in the midst of a demonstra .
tion. 'No ! '
"I hesitated , and then went back to
the beginning , and on reaching the
same point again. 'No ! ' uttered in a
tone of conviction , barred my progress.
" 'The next ! ' and I sat down in red
confusion.
"He , too , was stopped with 'No ! ' but
went right on , finished , and , as he sat
down , was rewarded with 'Very well. '
" 'Why , ' whimpered I , 'I recited it
just as he did , and you said , 'Xo ! '
" 'Why didn't you say , 'Yes , ' and stick
to it ? It is not enough to know your
lesson ; you must know that you know
it. You have learned nothing till you
are sure. If all the world says 'No , ' your
business is to say 'Yes , ' and prove it. ' "
A KojDtvarC
Down in Georgia ; in a little town
called Tweed , lives a tiny bit of hu
manity who is probably the smallest j
lS-year-old boy alive. The name of
this junior midget is Henry Rutherford - j
ford Ricks , Jr. He looks very much ! :
as Tom Thumb looked at the age of IS , J
and he's as bright as a new dollar. I
Young Ricks is only thirty-five inches
tall and weighs but forty-eight pounds.
Hs is a fully developed boy and is as
amhitious as he is small , which is say
ing a great deal. Henry is a great
reader , and has an honest , open face.
He is also very good natured. and , con
sidering his size , is very plump. He
is a pupil of the Farmers' Academy ,
and his teacher speaks of him in the
highest terms ; she says he is one of her
best scholars and learns more quickir
than the other boys. The Liliputian
has a sleek coated dog named Gyp , and
the two are familiar to everyone round
about" Tweed ; Gyp is a gentle
dog. It is lucky for Henry that
this is so , because if Gyp was rough
he might easily kill little Henry , w-ho
barely reaches to the shoulder of the
dog when standing beside him. Henry
is strong for one of his extremely di
minutive size. He enjoys a big ap
petite big for him and there really
does not seem to be anjr reason for his
cwarfi3hness. since both his father and .
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mother are persons ot the onJIaary
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size. You might think to look at Sim
that young Riclts was a lad of 8 , though
his manner Is that of a gentlemanly
youth of 18. He scorns the idea of
showing himself in museums , though
he has had several very liberal offers
from well known people in the theatrical -
cal i business. Some fine day this new
Tom Thumb means to visit New York ,
If he takes this trip he will be the
most conspicuous little man in the
metropolis , and with his dog Gyp , he
would easily become the center of
all j attention ; so much so that Mr. De-
pew , Mr. Roosevelt and Mayor Strong
would have to look to their laurels in
the matter of popularity. New York
Recorder.
Hey With a Future.
A young Chicago correspondent
writes to the editor , telling some in1
teresting things about little Carter
Henry Harrison , Jr. , the grandson of
the late Carter Harrison , mayor of the
City of Chicago. The small chap says ,
when you ask him his name , "I am
Carter Henry Harrison , Junior , the
,
Third , sir ! " though he is really the
seventeenth l of that name. The little
fellow was the pet of his murdered
grandfather , and he is very bright for
[
one of his years. Speaking about the
boy , the Chicago Inter Ocean recently
said , : "People who know say that the
resemblance between the late Carter
Harrison and his little grandson is absurdly -
surdly strong. He is 'Hail fellow , well
met' with all the people on the street ,
and ; a regular little politician in his
pleasant greetings and his good memory -
ory , for faces. " His German nurse has
taught him to speak the language of
the Fatherland quite as easily as Engv
lish in fact , of the two languages ,
German comes most readily to his
tongue. He is a manly , robust little
fellow , with big , honest blue eyes , dark
lashes , fair hair and a rosy complexion ,
He has good features , and bids fair to
be a very handsome man. He is ab-
solutely without fear , rides a small
bicycle , and has a spirited pony for a
pet. He has not yet gone to school.
He is brought up sensibly , allowed to
romp and play in the dirt as much as
he likes , and fed plain , healthy food.
"As long as I know that he has had
his bath in the morning , I let him play
and get as dirty as he likes , " said his
mother. "I think it is healthy. He
has a wonderful memory , and you
would be surprised to know how much
he remembers of our trip abroad , and
every now and then he astonishes me
by an allusion to something he saw in
Egypt or England. He is very fond of
flowers , and I think he inherits that
taste from his Grandfather Harrison ,
who was never so happy as when he
was gardening. He has a decided will
of his own , but is obedient , and we try
not to spoil him. " Young Harrison
has a future that looks bright now.
A Touching Incident.
The Epworth Herald is authority for
the following story of a verse :
"A little boy came to one of our city
missionaries , and holding out a dirty
and well worn bit of printed paper ,
said :
" 'Please , sir , father sent me to get
a clean paper like that. '
"Taking it from his hand , the inis-
sionary unfolded it and found it was a
t'page containing the beautiful hymn , of
which the first stanza is as follows :
'Just as I am , without one plea ,
But that thy blood was shed for me ,
And that thou bidst me come to thee ,
O , Lamb of God , I come. '
"The missionary looked down with |
an interest into the face earnestly upturned - <
turned to him , and asked the little boy j
where he got it , and why he wanted a ;
clean one. |
" 'We found it , sir , ' he said , 'in sis- (
ter's pocket after she died , and she *
used to sing it all the time when she -
was sick , and loved it so much that
father wanted to get a clean one to
put in a frame to hang up. Won't you
give us a clean one. sir ? '
"This little page , with a single hymn
on it , had been cast upon the air like
a fallen leaf by Christian hands ,
humbly hoping to do some possible
good. "
j
j | Our Master.
| { The Master will knock at niy door some
night ,
And there in the silence hushed and
dim ,
Will wait for my coming with lamp
alight
To open immediately to Him.
I wonder if I at his tap shall spring
In eagerness up , and cross the Seer
With rapturous step , and freely fling
In the murk of the midnight , wide the
door ;
Or will there be work to be put away ?
Or the taper , that burns too low , to
trim ?
Or something that craves too much
delay
To open immediately to Him ?
Selected.
What a Uoy Thinks About Wasps.
A boy's composition on the wasp :
"The wasp is a six-legged bird that lives
mostly in trees and under the eaves of
barns , and cannot taim him ; he is too
busy. Never stroke his fur the wrong
way , because it makes him mad , and
when a wasp is mad you don't want
'
nothin' to d 6 with him. He has what
they call a 'stinger' and when he goes
out on business , beys must keep away
from him , because the stinger is the
business end. I leaned up agin one once
when he was on business and I jumped
as much as three feet. Maw had to put
a mud pie in the place. I hit a wasp's
nest with a stone once and the boss
wasp chased me clean across the lot so
fast that when I got over the barb ? ence
I tore my pants ; then maw spanked me
until I wished I had let the wasp stinc :
me. " . . _ . . J
TrsfDB.MUiliMlppl Invention * . a mi
Omaha. ' Nebraska , Juno 27 , 180CC 1 1
Amongs t the Trans-Mississippi invent
ors who received patents the past week , * <
Messrs. ] Sues & Co. , Uuited States Pat * y ]
ent I Solicitors , Bee Building- , Omaha ,
Nebraska , report the following : Dau- -A
iel j Harmon , Duvenport , Nebraska , \
road grader and ditcher ; Clarence II. s
Judson , Council Bluffs , Iowa , card 3
shooter ; George Lames , Fort Madison , 4
Iowa ] , gas engine ; George I ) . Foster , ]
Preston " , Iowa , portable corn shook j
press ; John II. Nelson , Omaha , Nebraska -
j braska , drink mixer ; George R. Perkins - §
ins , Schuyler , Nebraska , photographic |
tank < ; IJans II. Sieh , Millurd , Nebraska - |
ka i , improved combination eart , and |
Conrad Stroebel , Omaha , Nebraska , reversible - " 1
versible plow. * '
Amongst the curious inventions is
sued the past week are found the fol-
lotving : a machine for weavinc cross
wires in wire fences ; an electrical en
ergy indicator ; a fodder bundler ; a
button 1 hole sewing machine ; an anti-
train robbery aparatus ; an improved
pencil for arc-lamps ; a mechanism for
converting continuous rotary motion
into j alternate rotary motion ; a pneu
matic fire alarm ; a bicycle skirt com
prising attached bloomers ; and a spring
actuated saddle post for bicycles.
A copy of any of the above patents
will be mailed upon receipt of 10 cts.
The Hlackirnter State.
Nebraska has been termed the Black-
water State. The explanation of this
poetical nickname is found in the fact
that the water of the principal streams
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