K | My Fellow Laborer. !
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PP 5 By II. RIDER HAGGARD. *
fl CHAPTER IV. ( Contisuku. )
H * But putting aside the mental trouble
V Into which this most melancholy af-
B fvilr plunged me , It gave mo much
L \iuse for reflection. Making all allow-
B unce for the natural disappointment
P and distress of a woman who was , I
L suppose , warmly attached to me a
B > the time , I could not help seeing that
fl her conduct threw a new and altogeth-
m er unsuspected light upon Fanny's
K character. It showed me that , so far
B from understanding her completely , as
B I had vainly supposed to he the case ,
H I really knew little or nothing about
H her. There were depths in her mind
L that I had not fathomed , and in all
V probability never should fathom. I
B had taken her for an open-hearted weB -
B man of great intellectual capacity that
H removed her far above the every-day
R level of her sex , and directed her ara-
Hflr bitions almost entirely toward the goal
K > \f of mental triumph. Now I saw that
B the diagnosis must be modified. In all
V her outburst there had not been one
fl single word of pity for my heavy mis-
ft fortunes , or one word of sympathy with
flp the self-pacrifice which she must 1iave
fl known involved a dreadful struggle
L between my inclinations and my cenT -
T , science. She had looked at the matter
B' from her own point of view , and the
g standpoint of her own interest solely.
B Her emotion had for a few moments
P drawn the curtain from her inner self ,
L aud the new personality that was thus
flk revealed did not altogether edify me.
W F Still , 1 felt that there was great excuse
fl for her , and so put by the matter.
H After this unfortunate occurrence , I
flp made up my mind that Fanny would
B take some opportunity to throw up her
B work and go away and leave us ; but
f ahe did not take this course. Either
K because she was too fond of my poor
ft boy John , who , as he grew older , became -
& came more and more attached to her ,
H or because she saw no better opening
T1 not being possessed of independent
means she evidently made up her
flL mind to stop on in the house and c6n-
m tinue to devote herself to the search for
B the great Secret of Life. I think myself -
self that it was mainly on account of
T the boy , who loved her with an entirety
K that at times almost alarmed me , and
Hr to whom she was undoubtedly devoted.
L But from that time a change came
B over Fanny's mental attitude towards
V me , which was as palpable as it was
p > indefinable. Outwardly there v. 'as no
K _ change , but in reality a veil fell be-
H [ twecn us , through which I could not
F t ee. It fell and covered up her nature ;
K nor could I guess what went on be-
_
Hl iiind it. Only I knew that she devel-
V oped a strange habit of brooding silent-
K ly about matters not connected with
& our work , and that , of all this brood-
B ing , nothing ever seemed to come. Now
B I know that she wai building up far-
reaching plans for the future , which
fl . nad for their object her escape from
F what she had come to consider was a
[ hateful and unprofitable condition of
K • servitude.
fl Meanwhile our work advanced but
fl t slowly. I could take anybody who is
B curious to the big fire-proof chest in
the corner of this very room , and show
ft Tiini two hundred-weight or more paper
B covered with abortive calculations
fl. worked by Fanny , and equally abortive
K letter-press written by myself during
fl those years of incessant labor. In vain
H * we toiled ; Nature would not give up
B her secret to us ! We had indeed found
H ' the lock , and fashioned key after key
fl-1 ' to turn it. But , do what we would ,
ft and file as we would , they would none
ft , of them fit , or , even if they fitted , they
B would not turn. And then we would
Bl "begin again ; again , after months of laB -
B ] y Lor , to fail miserably.
B- During these dark years I worked
ft with the energy of despair , and Fanny
B followed , doggedly , patiently , and un-
flk complainingly in my steps. Her work
fl was splendid in its enduring hopeless-
fl ness. To begin with , so far as I was
ft concerned , though my disease made but
B little visible progress , * I feared that
B [ my sand was running out , and that
H , .none would be able to take up the
K broken threads. Therefore I worked
m as those work whose time is snort and
Wh. , who have much to do. Then , too , I
fl * i -was haunted by the dread of ultimate
failure. Had I , after all , given up my
B life to a dream ?
WL K At last , however , a ray of light came ,
B as it always yes , always will to these
B > . -who are strong and patient , and watch
ft. The sky long enough.
BL I was sitting in my arm-chafr , smok-
B | jng. one night after Fanny had gone to
By. bed , and fell into a sort of doze , to
BBS * wake up with a start and an inspira-
B tion. I saw it all now ; we had been
By working at the wrong end , searching
| .n . for the roots among the topmost twigs
Bj \ of the teat trees ! * think that I was
W Teally inspired that night ; an angel had
B breathed on me in my sleep. At any
ft rats. I sat here , at this same table at
B which I am writing now , till the dawn
B _ crept in through the shutters , and
fl covered sheet after sheet with the ideas
B that rose one after another in my brain ,
B > in the most perfect order and continu-
ity. When at last my hand refused to
| i hold the pen any longer , I stumbled off
TL\\ to bed , leaving behind me a sketch of
| the letter-press of all the essential
k problems finally dealt with in the work
B. known as "The Secret of Life. "
HB Next day we began again upon these
P ? new lines , though I did not tell Fanny
t of the great hopes that rose in my
| j j- "heart I had assured her that we were
\ j • on the right track so many times , that
i I did not like to say anything more
li about it. But when I explained the
I * ; course I meant-to adopt , she instantly
J ; - . .seized upon its salient mathematical
M. points , and showed me what lines she
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search after the Inscrutable factor ,
which , 'vhen found , would , If properly
applied , maKe clear to us wtienco we
came and whither we go that "open
sesame" before whose magic sound the
womb of unfathomed time would give
up Its secrets , and the mystery of the
grave be made clear to the wondering
eyes of all mankind.
CHAPTER V.
T j ft ETWEEN two or
{ Jj ) three months after
y "vj _ 7 C"n'e Ia ( started on
\ ylj this new course , I
? = * ? I'hjr } received a letter
\ from a lady , a dis-
I tant cousin of my
I own , whom I had
? known slightly
r many years before ,
asking me to do
ner a service , inou-
withstanding what they considered my
insane deviation from the beaten paths
that lead or may lead to wealth and
social success , my relatives still occa
sionally wrote to me when they thought
I could be of any use to them. In this
case the lady , whose name was Mrs.
Hide-Thompson , had an only son aged
twenty-eight , who was already in pos
session of verly large estates and a con
siderable fortune in personality. His
name was , or rather is , Joseph ; and as
he was an only child , in the event of
whose death all the landed property
would pass to some distant Thompson
without the Hide , his existence was
more valuable in the eyes of a discern
ing world than that of most Josephs.
Joseph , it appeared from his moth
er's letter , had fallen into a very bad
state of health. He had , it seemed ,
'
been a "little wild , " and she was therefore -
fore very anxious about him. The lo
cal doctor , for Joseph lived in the prov
inces when he was not living in town ,
in the stronger sense of the word , stat
ed that he would do well to put him
self under regular medical care for a
month or so. Would I take him in ?
The expense would of course be met.
She knew that I kept up a warm inter
est in my relations , and was so very
clever , although unfortunately I had
abaudoned active practice. Then fol
lowed a couple of sides of note-paper
full of the symptoms of the young
man's disorders , which did not seem
to me to be of a grave nature. I threw
this letter across the table to Fanny
without making any remark , and she
read it attentively through.
"Well , " she said , "what are you
going to do ? "
"Do , " I answered , peevishly ; "see
the people further first ! I have got
other things to attend to. "
"I think you are wrong , " she an
swered , in an indifferent voice ; "this
young man is your.relation , and very
rich. I know that he has at least
eight thousand a year , and one should
alwaj's do a good turn to people with
so much money. Also , what he would
pay would be very useful to us. I as
sure you , that I hardly know hgw to
make both ends meet , and there is
twentj'-seven pounds to pay the
Frenchman who collected those returns
for you in the Paris hospitals ; he has
written twice for the money. "
I reflected. What she said about the
twenty-seven pounds was quite true
I certainly did not know where to look
for it. There was a spare room in the
house , and probably the young gen
tleman was inoffensive. If he was not ,
he could go.
"Very well , " I said , "he can come if
he likes ; but I warn you , you will have
to amuse himl I shall attend to his
treatment , and there will be an end of
it. "
She looked up quickly. "It is not
much in my line , unless he cares for
mathematics , " she answered. "I have
seen five men un 'der fifty -here , during
the last five years exactly one a year.
However , I will try. "
A week after this conversation , Mr.
Joseph Hide-Thompson arrived
, care
fully swaddled in costly furs. He was
a miserable little specimen of humani
ty thin , freckled , weak-eyed , and with
straight , sandy hair. But I soon found
out that he was sharp sharp as a fer
ret. On his arrival , just before dinner ,
I had some talk with him about his
ailments. As I had expected , he had
nothing serious the matter with him ,
and was only suffering from indulgence
in a mode of life to which his feeble
constitution was not adapted.
"There is no need for you to come
to stay here , you know , " I said. "All
you want is to lead a quiet life , and
avoid wine and late hours. If you do
that , you will soon get well. "
"And if I don't , Gosden , what then ? "
he answered , in his thin , high-pitched
voice. "Hang it all ! You talk as
though it were nothing ; but it is no
joke to a fellow to have to give up
pleasures at my age. "
"If you don't you will die sooner or
later that's all. "
His face fell considerably at this
statement.
"Die ! " he said. "Die ! How brutally
you talk ! And yet you just said that
there was nothing much the matter
-with me ; though I tell you , I do feel
ill , dreadfully ill ! Sometimes I am so
bad , especially in the mornings , that I
could almost cry. What shall I do to
cure ms'self ? "
"I will tell you. Get married , drink
nothing but claret , and get to bed every
night at ten. "
"Get married ! " he gasped. "Oh ! But
it's an awful thing to do , it ties a fel
low up so ! Besides , I don't know who
to marry. "
At this moment our conversation was
broken off by Fanny's entrance. She
was dressed In an evening gown , with
a red flower in her dark , shining hair ,
and looked what she was , a most strik
ing and imposing woman. Her beauty
is of the imperial order , and lies more
in her presence , and if I may use the
word about a woman , her atmosphere ,
than her features , ' and I saw with a
smile that It quite overcame mv little
patient , -who BtammerM and. etuttereJ ,
end held out his wrong hand When I
introduced him. It turned oat after
ward that he had been under the Im
pression that Miss Denelly waa an el
derly housekeeper. At dinner , howev
er , he recovered his equilibrium and
began to chatter away about all sorts
of things , with a sort of low cleverness
which was rather amusing , though I
confess that being old-fashioned , I
could not keep pace with it. Fanny ,
however , entered into his talk in a
manner which astonished me. I had
no Idea that her mind was so versatile ,
or that she knew anything about bil
liards and horse-racing , or even French
novels.
At ten o'clock I told Mr. Joseph he
had better begin his cure by going to
bed , and this he did reluctantly enough.
When he had gone , I asked Fanny whak
she thought of him !
"Think of him ! " she answered , look
ing up , for she was plunged in one of
her reveries. "Oh ! I think that he Is
a mixture between a fox and a fool ,
and the ugliest little man I ever saw ! "
I laughed at this complimentary
summary , and v/e set to work.
After the first evening I neither saw
nor heard much of Mr. Joseph , except
at meals. Fanny looked after him , and
when she v. 'as at work he amus6d him
self by sitting in an arm-chair and
reading French novels in a translation ,
for preference. Once he asked permis
sion to come in and see us work , and
after about half an hour of it he went ,
saying it was awfully clever , but "all
rot , you know , " and that he had much
better devote our talents to making
books on the Derby.
"Idiot ! " remarked Fanny , in a tone
of withering contempt , when the door
had closed on him ; and that was the
only opinion I heard her express with
reference to him till the catastrophe
came.
One morning , when Joseph had been
with us about a fori night , having been
at wcrk very late on the previous ni ht ,
and feeling tired and not too well , I
did not come down Jo breakfast till ten
o'clock. Usually , we breakfasted at
half-past eight. To my surprise , I
found that the tea was not made , and
that -Fanny had apparently not yet had
her breakfast. This was a most unu
sual occurrence , and while I was still
wondering what it could mean , she
came into the room with her bonnet
and cloak on.
"Why , my dear Fanny ! " I said ,
"where ou earth have you been ? "
"To church , " she answered , coolly ,
with a dark little smile.
"What have you been doing there ? "
I asked again.
"Getting married , " was the reply.
I gasped for breath , and the room
seemed to swim round me.
"Surely , you are joking , " I said ,
faintly.
"Oh ! not at all. Here is my wed
ding ring , " and she held up her hand ;
"I am Mrs. Hide-Thompson ! "
"What ! " I almost shrieked. "Do you
mean to tell me that you have married
that little wretch ? Why , he has only
been in the house ten days. "
"Sixteen days , " she corrected , "and
I have been engaged to him for ten ,
and weary work it has been , I can tell
you , Geoffrey ! "
"Then.I . suppose you are going
away ? " I jerked out. "And how about
our work , and John ? "
I saw a spasm of pain pass over her
face at the mention of the boy's name ;
for I believe that she loved the poor
cripple child , if she ever did really love
anything.
( TO BE CONTINUED. )
The Ladies of Constantinople.
It was amusing to see negresses with
the thickest of lips veiled. All the
pretty faces were more or less painted
and the eyelids and eyebrows penciled.
The quality of the paint showed the
quality of the lady. Poor women daub
themselves with horrid pigments. No
Turkish gentleman goes out to walk
with his wife ; to do so would be count
ed in the highest degree absurd. At
most she is followed by a slave. But
wrapped up in the ugly black silk ferid-
je , she can go where she pleases and
alone. No man would dream of look
ing at a veiled lady in a feridje. Were
a Glacour to scan her face he would run
a risk of being massacred. Shopping is
a feminine , pastime ; another is holding
receptions , which , of course , only ladies
attend. Munching sweetmeats renders
Constantinople belles grossly fat , while
still young , and. rather spoils their
teeth. All over the east teeth are even ,
white , and of medium size , and mouths
well shaped. They are mouths made
for laughter , gourmandizing and sen
sual love. Eastern women are far bet
ter looking in youth than western.
Those of Stamboul are the least grace
ful. They are seldom neat above the
ankles. Their stockings are not well
drawn up , their shoes are a world too
big and their gait is heavy and shuf
fling. London Truth.
Great Mental Feats.
Ilortensius , the great Roman lawyer
and orator , had a memory of extraordi
nary scope and tenacity. After com
posing a speech or oration he could re
peat it , word for word , exactly as he
had prepared it. On one occasion he
"
went to an auction , where the busi
ness was carried on during an entire
day. and at evening , for a wager , he
wrote down a list of the articles that
had been sold and the prices , together
with the names of the purchasers , in
the order in which.the purchases had
been made
Almost a Hint.
Snaggs A § 10 bill . cannot by any
possibility be called a compliment , can
it , SpiffinG. Spiffins I don't know that
I follow you , Snaggs. Snaggs Well , I
heard that you paid Miss Northside a
compliment yesterday , and I was in
hopes you might regard in the same
light the $10 I lent you three months j I
a : o. Pittsburg Chronicle. I
TALMAGE'S * SEBMON.
SLAUGHTER OF MEN , LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
from the Following Test , rrovcrb * .
Chapter VII , Verse 22 : "A an Ox
to the JjlauKhter" Keep Clear oT
the Loan .Sharks.
i HERE is nothing
in the voice or man
ner of the butcher
to indicate to the ox
that there is death
ahead. The ox
thinks he is going
to a rich pasture
field of clover
where all day long
I he will revel in the
herbaceous luxuri
ance ; but after awhile the men and
the boys close in upon him with sticks
and stones and shouting , and drive him
through bars and into a doorway ,
where he is fastened , and with well-
aimed stroke the axe fells him ; and
so the anticipation of the redolent pas
ture field is completely disappointed.
3o many a young man has been driven
Dn by temptation to what he thought
would be paradisiacal enjoyment ; but
after awhile Influences with darker hue
and swarthier arm close in upon him
and he finds that instead of making an
excursion into a garden , he has been
driven "as an ox to the slaughter. "
We are apt to blame young men for
being destroyed when we ought to
blame the influences that destroy them.
Society slaughters a great many young
men by the behest , "You must keep
up appearances ; whatever be your sal
ary , , you must dress as well as others ,
you must give wine and brandy to as
many friends , you must smoke as cost
ly cigars , you must give as expensive
entertainments , and you must live in
as fashionable a boarding house. If
you haven't the money , borrow. If
you can't borrow , make a false entry ,
or subtract here and there a bill from
a bundle of bank bills ; you will only
have to make the deception a little
while ; in a few months or in a year
or two 3rou can make it all right. No
body will be hurt by it , nobody will be
the wiser. You yourself will not be
damaged. " By that awful process a
hundred thousand men have been
slaughtered for time and slaughtered
for eternity.
Suppose you borrow. There is noth
ing wrong about borrowing money.
There is hardly a man who has not
sometimes borrowed money. Vast es
tates have been built on a borrowed
dollar. But there are two kinds of bor
rowed money : Money borrowed for the
purpose of starting or keeping up legi
timate enterprise and expense , and
money borrowed to get that which you
can do without. The first is right , the
other is wrong. If you have money
enough of your own to buy a coat , how
ever plain , and then you borrow
money for a dandy's outfit , you have
taken the first revolution of the wheel
down grade. Borrow for the necessi
ties ; that may be well. Borrow for
the luxuries ; that tips your prospects
over in the wrong direction.
The Bible distinctly says the borrow
er is servant of the lender. It is a bad
state of things when you have to go
down some other street to escape meet
ing some one whom you owe. If young
men knew what is the despotism of be-
inz in debt , more of them would keep
out of it. What did debt do for Lord
Bacon , with a mind towering above the
centuries ? It induced him to take
bribes and convict himself as a crimin
al before all ages. What did debt defer
for Walter Scott ? Broken-hearted at
Abbotsford. Kept him writing 'until
his hand gave out in paralysis to keep
the sheriff away from his pictures and
statuary. Better for him if he had
minded the maxim which he had chis
eled over the fireplace at Abbotsford ,
"Waste not , want not. "
The trouble is , my friends , that people
ple do not understand the ethics of go
ing in debt , and that if you purchase
goods with no expectation of paying
for them , or go into debts which you
cannot meet , you steal just so much
money. If I go into a grocer's store
and I buy sugars and coffees and meats
with no capacity to pay for them , and
no intention of paying for them , I
am more dishonest than if I go into the
store , and when the grocer's face 'is
turned the other way I fill my pockets
with the articles of merchandise and
carry off a ham ! In one case I take the
merchant's time and I take the time of
his messenger to transfer the goods to
my house , while in the other case I
take none of the time of the merchant ,
and I wait upon myself , and I trans
fer the goods without any trou
ble to him ! In other words , a
sneak thief is not so bad as a man who
contracts debts he never expects to pay.
9
When a young man wilfully and of-
choice , having the comforts of life ,
goes into the contraction of unpayable
debts , he knows not into what he goes.
The creditors get after the debtor , the
pack of hounds in full cry , and alas- !
for the reindeer. They jingle his door
bell before he gets up in the morning ,
they jingle his doorbell after he has
gone to bed at night. They meet him
as he comes off his front steps. They
send him a postal card , or a letter , in
curtest style , teling him to pay up.
They attach his goods. They want
cash , or a note at thirty days , or a note
on demand. They call him a knave.
They say he lies. They want him dis
ciplined in the church. They want him
turned out of the bank. They come at
him from this side , and from that side ,
and from before , and from behind , and
from above , and from beneath , and he
is insulted , and gibbeted , and sued , and
dunned , and sworn at , until he gets the
nervous dyspepsia , gets neuralgia , gets
liver complaint , gets heart disease , gets
convulsive disorder , gets consumption.
Now he is dead , and you say , "Of course
they will let him alone. " Oh , no ! Now
they are watchful to see whether there
are any unnecewsary expenses at the
obsequies , to see whether there la any
useless handle on the casket , to see
whether there Is any surplus plait on
the shroud , to see whether the hearse
is costly or cheap , to see whether the
flowers sent to the casket have been
bought by the family or donated , to
see in whose name the deed to the
grave is made out. Then they ransack
the bereft household , the books , the
pictures , the carpets , the chairs , the
sofa , the piano , the mattresses , the pil
low on which he died. Cursed bo debt !
For the sake of your own happiness ,
for the sake of your good morals , for
the sake of your immortal soul , for
God's sake , young man , as far as pos
sible , keep out of It.
But I think more young men are
slaughtered through irrellgion. Take
away a young man's religion and you
make him the prey of evil. We all
know that the Bible is the only perfect
system of morals. Now , if you want to
destroy the young man's morals , take
his Bible away. How will you do that ?
Well , you will caricature his reverence
for the Scriptures , you will take all
those incidents of the Bible which can
be made mirth of Jonah's whale , Sam
son's foxes , Adam's rib then ycu will
caricature eccentric Christians , or in
consistent Christians , then you will
pass off as your own all those hack
neyed arguments against' Christianity
which are as old as Tom Paine , as old
as Voltaireas old as sin. Now , you
have captured his Bible , and you have
taken his strongest fortress ; the way
is comparatively clear , and all the
gates of his soul are set open In Invi
tation to the sins of earth and the sorrows - '
rows of death , that they may come in
and drive the stake for their encamp
ment.
A steamer fifteen hundred miles
from shore with broken rudder
and lost compass , and hulk
leaking fifty gallons the hour ,
is better off than a young man when
you have robbed him of his Bible. Have
you ever noticed how despicably mean
it is to take away the world's Bible
without proposing a substitute ? It is
meaner than to come to a sick man
and steal his medicine , meaner than
t. ) come to a cripple and steal his
ciutch , meaner than to come to a pau
per and steal his crust , meaner than
to come to a poor man and burn his
house down. It is the worst of all lar
cenies to steal the Bible which has
been crutch and medicine and food
and eternal home to so many. What
a generous and magnanimous business
infidelity has gone into ! This split
ting up of life-boats , and taking away
of fire-eEcipes , and extinguishing of
light-houses. I come out and I say to
such people , "What are you doing all
this for ? " "Oh ! " they say , "just for
fun. " It is such fun to see Christians
try to hold on to their Bibles ! Many
of them have lost loved ones , and have
been told that there is a resurrection ,
and it is such fun to tell them there
will be no resurrection ! Many of them
have believed that Christ came to car
ry the burdens and tc heal the wounds
of the world , and it is such fun to tell
them they will have to be their own
saviour ! Think of the meanest thing
you ever heard of ; then go down a
thousand feet underneath it , and you
will find yourself at the top of a stairs
a hundred miles long ; go to the bottom
tom of the stairs. 'and you will find a
ladder a thousand miles long ; then go
to the foot of the ladder and look off a
precipice half as far as from here to
China , and you will find the headquar
ters of the meanness that would rob
this world of its only comfort in life ,
its only peace in death , and ifs only
hope for immortality. Slaughter a
young man's faith in God , and there is
not much more left to slaughter.
Now , what has become of the slaugh
tered ? Well , some of them are in
their father's or mother's house , broken
down in health , waiting to die ; others
ara in the hospital , others are in the
cemetery , or , rather , their bodies are ,
for their souls have gone on to retri
bution. Not much prospect for a young
man who started life with good health ,
and good education , and a Christian
example set him , and opportunity of
usefulness , who gathered all his treas
ures and put them in one box , and
then dropped it into the sea.
Now , how is this wholesale slaugh
ter tc be stopped ? There is not a per
son who is not interested in that ques
tion. The object of my sermon is to
put a weapon in each of your hands
for your own defense. Wait not for
Young Men's Christian Associations to
protect ycu , pr churches to protect
you. Appealing to God for help , take
care of yourself.
First , have a room somewhere that
you can call your own. Whether it
be the back parlor of a fashionable
boarding house , or a room in the
fcurth story of a cheap lodging , I care
not. Only have that one room your
fortress. Let not the dissipater or
unclean step over the threshold. If
they come up the long flight of stairs
and knock at the door , meet them face
to face and kindly yet firmly refuse
them admittance. Have a few family
portraits on the wall , if you brought
them with you from your country
home. Have a Bible on the stand. If
you can afford it and can play on one ,
have an instrument of music harp , or
flute , or cornet , or melodeon , or violin ,
or piano. Every morning before you
leave that room pray. Every night af-
te" you come home in that room pray.
Make that room your Gibraltar , your-
Sebastopol , your Mount Zion. Let no
bad book or newspaper come into that
room any more than you would allow
a cobra to coil on your table.
Take care of yourself. Nobody else
will take care of you. Your help will
not come up two , or three , or four
flights of stairs ; your help will come
through the roof , down from heaven ,
from that God who in the six thousand
years of the world's history never be
trayed a young man who tried to be
good and a Christian. Let me say in
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regard to your adverse worldly cir
cumstances , In pnBsIng that you are on
a level now with those who are finally
to succeed. Mark my words , young
man , and think of It thirty ycura from
nou * . You will find that those who
thirty yearn from now are the million
aires of this country , who arc the orators
tors of the country , who are the pocta
of the country , who arc the strong
merchantx of the country , who are the
great philanthropists of the country-
mightiest in church and state are
this morning on a level with you , not
an inch above , and you in straightened
circumstances now.
Herschel earned his living by play
ing a violin at parties , and in the In
terstices of the play he would go out
and look up at the midnight heavens ,
the fields of his immortal conquests.
George Stephenson rose from being the
foreman in a colliery to bo the most
renowned of the world's engineers. No
outfit , no capital to start with ! youiiK
man , go down to the library and get
some books and read of what wonder
ful mechanism God gave you in your
hand , in your foot , In your eye , in
your ear , and then ask some doctor to
take you into the dissecting room and
illustrate to you what you have read
about , and never again commit the
blasphemy of saying you have no cap
ital to start with. Equipped ! Why.
the poorest young man is equipped a
only the God of the whole universe
could afford to equip him. Then his
body a' 'ery poor affair compared with
hi- wonderful soul Oh , that is what
makes me so solicitous. I am not so
much anxious about you , young man ,
because you have so little to do with ,
as I am anxious about you because you
have so much to risk and lose or gain.
There is no class of persons that so
stirs my sympathies as young men in
great cities. Not quite enough Balary
tr- live on , and all the temptations that (
come from that deficit. Invited on all ,
hands to drink , and their exhausted
nervous system seeming to demand j
stimulus. Their religion caricatured
by the most of the clerks in the store ,
and most of the operatives in the factor
torThe rapids of temptation and
death rushing against that young man ?
forty miles the hour , and he in a frail
boat headed up stream , with nothing
but a broken oar to work with. Unless
Almighty God help them they will go I
under. < I
* * * I
The great musician who more than I
any other artist had made the violin I
speak and sing and weep and laugh I
and triumph for it seemed when he I
drew the bow across the strings as if I
all earth and heaven shivered In delighted - I
lighted sympathy the great musician. I
ii a room looking off upon the sea , and I
surrounded by his favorite instruments I
of music , closed his eyes in death. I
While all the world was mourning at I
his departure , sixteen crowded steamer - I
er- > fell into line of funeral procession I
to carry his body to the mainland. I
There were fifty thousand of his countrymen - I
trymen gathered in an amphitheatre of I
the hills waiting to hear the eulogium ,
and it was said when the great orator I
of the day-with stentorian voice began I
to speak , the fifty thousand people on I
the hillsides burst into tears. O ! that fl
was the close of a life that had done fl
so much to make the world happy. But fl
I have to tell you , young man , if yoi fl
live right and die right , that was a fl
tame scene compared with that which fl
will greet you when from the galleries fl
of heaven the one hundred and forty I
and four thousand shall accord with fl
Christ in crying , "Well done , thou I
good and faithful servant. " And the fl
influences that on earth you put in motion - I
tion will go down from generation to fl
generation , the influences you wound I
up handed to your children , and their fl
influences wound up and handed to fl
their children , until watch and c'ock fl
are no more needed to mark the profl
giess. because time itself shall be no fl
longer. fl
WORLD'S LARGEST FLAG. fl
The 3Ionster Will Consume 700 Yard * B
of limiting- . H
Capt. George C. Beckley of Honolufl
lu. who arrived here recently to take fl
back the new steamer Helena , lately fl
launched here , is having the largest fl
flag made of which shipping men have fl
ever heard. It will be of the extraorfl
dinary width of forty feet and will be fl
eighty feet long , consuming in all no fl
less ' than 700 yards of bunting , bays the fl
San Francisco Call. This monster flag fl
is to be raised on the Helena on the fl
maiden trip of that vessel as she leave ? fl
here for the Hawaiian islands. It is fl
a Hawaiian flag , of course , and as fl
such will dwarf every other flag , no fl
matter of what nation , that comes into fl
port. When the Helena gets to Honofl
lulu the flag will be taken down and fl
will finally be put on a gigantic pole. fl
towering in the air from the heights of fl
Punchbowl hill. The pole will be 150 fl
feet long. It is to be made of a monsfl
trous Puget sound fir tree and is now H
en route to the islands. The way Capt. fl
Beckley happened to g t the idea of fl
eclipriing the world in the way of flags fl
is peculiar. He is a commodore in the fl
Hawaiian navy. On the eve of his defl
parture for this country a dinner was fl
given him by the employes of the com9
pany and he received a present of a H
fat purse. Capt. Beckley said , as it H
was handed him : "The money will oe H
used in the purchase of the largest H
Hawaiian flag ever seen in Hawaii. It H
will be larger than the great flag of the I
American league and will fly from the H
foremast of the Helena from San FranH
.cisco to Honolulu. Then it will float H
from a tall pole in my yard on the H
slope of Punchbowl hill. " This is wh > fl
a heavy manufacturing firm here is H
now busy with the great flag. "It will
be the biggest flag of which I ever H
heard , " said Capt. Beckley yesterday. H
"There isn't another one like it ia the
world. "