THE SUN DHL OF AHAZ
Hezekiab, the Kin?, Lay Dying in
His Palace.
Praying: for Rwovcry, Ho It Told That
Ho Will Get Well—At a Sign the
Shadow Movea lliu kwtird on
the Dial—The Lonon.
Dr. Tahnage's text was: n King's
*0:11, “And Isaiah, the prophet cried
unto tho lvord: und he brought the
shadow ten degrees backward by
which it had gone down in tho dinl of
Ahaz."
Here Is the first clock or watch or
chronometer or time-piece of which the
world has any knowledge. Hut it was
a watch that did not tick and a clock
that did not strike. It was a sun-dial.
Ahaz, the king, invented it. Uetween
the hours given to state-craft and the
cares of oftlce he invented something
by which he could tell the time of day.
This sun-dial may have been a great
column, and when the shadow of that
column reached one point it was 0
o'clock a. m., and when It reached an
other point it was 3 o'clock p. m , and
all the hours and half-hours were so
measured. Or it may have been a flight
of stairs such as may now be found in
Hindustan and other old countries, and
when tho shadow reached one step it
was 10 o'clock a. m., or another step
it was 4 o’clock p. m.. and likewise
other hours may have been indicated.
Tho clepsydra or water-clock fol
lowed the sun-dial, nnd the sand-glass
followed the clepsydra. Then rami'
the candlo-clock of Alfred the (treat
and the cundle was marked into three j
parts, nnd while the first part was j
burning' ho gave himself to religion I
and while tho second part wus •
burning he gave himself to
politics and while the third part was
burning he gave himself to rest. After
a while came the wheel and weight
dock nnd Pope Sylvester II was its
most important inventor. And the
skill of centuries of exquisite mechan
ism toiled ut tho tipie-pieccs until tho
world hud Vick's clock of the four
teenth century and iluyghens, tho in
ventor, swung the first pendulum, and
Dr. Hooke contrived tho recoil escape
ment. And the “endless chain” fol
lowed, and the “ratchet and pinion
lever” took its place; and the compen
sation balance and the stem winder
followed, and now wo have the buzz
and clang of the great clock and watch
factories of Switzerland and Germany
and England and America, turning out
what seems to be the perfection of
time-pieces. It took the world 0,000
years to make the present chronom
eter. So with the measurement of
longer spaces than minutes and hours.
Time was calculated from new moon
to new moon: then from harvest to
harvest. Then the year was pro
nounced to be 314 days and 300 days,
and, not a long while after, 305 days.
Then events were calculated from the
foundation of Home, afterward from
the Olympic games. Then the llabylo
nians had their measurement of the
year and the ltornans theirs and the
Armenians theirs and the Hindoos!
theirs. _ Chronology was busy for I
centuries studying monuments,
inscriptions, coins, mummies and j
astronomy, trying to lay a'
plan by which all question of'dates
might be settled and events put in
their right place in tho procession of '
the ages. Hut the Chrouologists only
heaped up a mountaiu of confusion
and bewilderment until in the sixth
century Dionysius Exiguus, a Homan
abbot, said: “bet everything date
from tho birth at ltethlehcm of the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of tho
world." Tho Abbot proposed to have
things dated backward nnd forward
from that great event. What a splen
did thought for the world! What a
mighty thing for Christianity! It
would have been most natural to date
everything from the creation of the
world. Hut I am glad the chronolo
gists could not too easily guess how
old the world was in order to got the
nations in the habit of dating from
that occurence in its documents and.
histories. Forever fixed is it that all
history is to be dated with reference
to the birth of Christ, and, this matter
settled. Hales the chief cHronologist,
declared that the world was made
5,411 years before Christ, and the del
uge came 3,155 years before Christ and
all the illustrious events of the last
nineteen centuries and all the great
events of all time to come have been or
shall be dated from the birth of Christ.
Theso things I say that you may know
what a watch is, what a clock is, what
an almanac is, and learn to appreciate
through what toils and hardships and
perplexities the world came to its pres
ent conveniences and comforts, and to
• help you to more respectful
consideration of that sun-dial
of Ahaz planted in my text.
We are told that lle/.ekiah, the king,
was dying of a boil. It must hare been
one of the worst kind of carbuncles, a
boil witout any central core and some
times deathful. A fig was put upon it
as » poultice. Hezekiah did not want
to die then. His son who was to take
the kingdom had not yet been born
and HczcUiah's death would have been
the death of the nation. So he prays
•or recovery and is told he will get
well. Hut ho wants some miraculous
sign to make him sure of it. He has
the choice of having the shadow on
the sun dial of Ahaz advance or re
treat He replied it would not be so
wonderful to have the sun go down,
for It always goes down sooner or
later. He asks that It go backward.
In other words, let the day instead of
going on toward sundown, turn and go
toward sunrise. I see the invulid king
• bolstered up and wrapped in blankets
looking out of the window upon the
sun dial in the courtyard. While he
watches the shadow on the dial the
shadow begins to retreat Instead of
going on toward 0 o'clock in the even
ing it goes hack toward <i o'clock in the
morning. Tin; tig poultice had been
drawing for some time and, sure
enough, the boil broke and Hezekiah
got well. Now I expect you will come
on with your higher criticism and try
to explain this away and say it was an
optical dulusion of Hezekiah, and the
shadow only seemed to go back, or a
cloud came over and it was uncertain
which way the shadow did go and as I
Ilezckiah expected it to go back he
took the uction of his own mind for
the retrograde movement. No; the
shadow went bnck on all the
dials of that land and other lands.
Turn to II Chronicles, xxxii: 31, and
find that away oil in liubylon the
mighty men of the palace noticed the
sumo phenomenon. And if you do not
like llihle authority, turn over your
copy of Herodotus and And that away
off in Kgypt the people noticed that
there wus something the matter with
tlie sun. The fact is that the whole
universe waits upon God and suns and
moons and stars are not very big things
to him, and he can with his little Un
ger turn back an entire world as eas
ily as you could set back the hour
hand or minute hand of your clock or
watch.
At the opening of a new year people
are moralizing on the flight of time.
You all feel that you are moving on
toward sundown and many of you are
under a consequent depression. 1 pro
pose tliis morning to set the hands on
your watches and clocks to going the
other wny. I piopose to show you
how you may make the shadow of your
dial like the shadow on the dial of
Ahaz to stop going forward and make
it go backward. You think I have a
big undertaking on hand, but it can
be done if the same Lord who reversed
the shadow in liezekiah’s courtyard
moves upon us. While looking at the
sun-dial of Hezekiah and we find the
shadow retreating, we ought to learn
that God controls the shadows. We
are all ready to acknowledge his man
agement of the sunshine. We stand in
the glow of a bright morning and we
say in our feelings if not with so many
words, "This life is from God, this
warmth is from God. ” Or. we hnve il
rush of prosperity and wo say, “These
successes aro from God. What a prov-1
idential thing' it was I bought that lot
just before tlio rise of real estate! How
grateful to Uod 1 am that I made that
investment! Why, they have declared
10 per cent, dividend! What a mercy
it was that 1 sold out my shares before
that collapse!” Oh, yes; wo acknowl
edge Uod in the sunshine of a bright
day or the sunshine of a great prosper
ity. llut suppose the day is dark?
You have to light the gas at noon.
The sun does not show itself all day .
long. There is nothing but shadow.
Ilow slow we are to realize that the |
storm is from Uod and the darkness 1
from Uod and the chill from God. Or, |
we buy tlio day before tfie market's |
retreat; or we make an investment j
that never pays; or we purchase goods j
that cannot be disposed of; or a crop ,
of grain we sowed is ruined by drouth |
or lreshet; or when we took account of j
stock on the 1st of .1 ami ary we found |
ourselves thousands of dollars worse j
011 than we expected. Who under,
such circumstances says, “This loss is '
from God; I must have been allowed j
to go into that unfortunate enterprise !
for some good reason; Ged controls!
the east wind as well as the west
wind?” j
My friends, I cannot look for one
moment on that retrograde shadow on
Ahuz's dial without learning that God
controls the shadows and that lesson
wo need all to learn. That he con
trols the sunshine is not so necessary
a lesson, for everybody can be happy
when things go right. When you
sleep eight hours a night and rise with
an appetite that cannot easily wait for
breakfast and you go over to the store
and open your mail to read more or
ders than you can fill, and in the next
letter you find a dividend far larger
than you have been promised, and
your neighbor comes in to tell you
some flattering thing he lias
just heard said about you, and
you find that all the style* of goods in
which you deal have advanced 15 per
cent, in value, nnd on your way homo
you meet your children in full romp
and there are roses on the center of
the tea table and roses of health in
cheeks all around the table, what moro
do you want of consolation? I don't
pity you a bit. You feel as if you could
boss the world. Hut for those in just
opposite circumstances my text comes
in with an omnipotence of meaning.
The shadow! Oh, the shadow! Shadow
of bereavement! Shadow of sickness!
Shadow of bankruptcy! Shadow of
mental depression! Shadow of perse
cution! Shadow of death! Speak out.
Oh, sun-dial of Ahaz, and tell all the
people that God manages the shadow!
As tlezekiah sat in his palace window
wrapped in invalidism and surrounded
by anodynesjand cataplasms and looked
out upon the black hand of the only
clock known a‘; that time and saw it
move back ten degrees, he learned a
lesson that a majority of the human
race need this hour to learn—that the
best friend a man ever had controls
the shadow. The set-backs are some
times the best things that can happen.
The great German author Schiller
could not work unless he had in his
room the scent of rotten apples, and
the decay of the fruits of earthly pros
perity may become an inspiration in
stead of a depression. Bobert Cham
bers' lame feet shut him up from other
work, and he became the world-re
nowned publisher, and helped fashion
the best literature of the ages. The
painful disorder like that of llezekiah
called a carbuncle is Bpelled exactly
the same as the precious stone called
the carbuncle, and the pang of suffer
ing may become the jewel of immortal
value. Your set-back like that of
Ahaz s sun-dial may be recovery
and triumph. I never had a set-back
but it turned out to be a set
forward. Y'ou never would have be
come a Christian if you had not had a
set-back. The highest thrones in
heaven are for the set-backa In 1861
the shadow of the sun-dial of this na
tion was set back, and all things
seemed going to ruin; and it was set
back further in 1862, and further in
1863, and still further in 1865, but there
is not an intelligent and well-balanced
man, north or south, east or west, but
feels it was set ba.k toward the sun-'
rise.
nut I promised to show you how the
shudows might be turned back. First,
by going much among the young peo
ple. In most family circles there arc
grandchildren. By this divine arrange
ment most of the people who have
passed the meridian of life can com- i
pass themselves by juvenility. It is a
bad thing for an old man or old woman
to sit looking at the vivacity of their
grandchildren shouting, "Stop that
racket!” Better join in the fun. Let
the 80-years-old grandfather join the
8-years-old grandson or granddaughter.
My father lived to see over eighty
children and grandchildren and great
grandchildren and a more boisterous
crew were never turned out on this
sublunary sphere, and they all seemed
[ to cry to the old folks, "Keep young,”
i and they did keep young. Don’t walk
i with a cane unless you have to, or only
as a defense in a city afflicted with too
| many canines. Don't wear glasses
stronger than necessary, putting on
number tens when cighteens will do as
well. Don't go into the company ot
those who are always talking about
rheumatism and lumbago and short
ness of breath and the brevity of hu
niun life. It is too much for my grav
ity to hear an octogenarian talking
about the shortness of human life.
From all I cun find out he has always
been here and from present prospects
ho is always going to stay. Remain
young. Hang up your stockings in
Christmas time. Help the boys lly the
kite. Teach the girls how to dress
their dolls, lietter than arnica for
your stiff joints and cutnip tea for
your sleepless nights will be a large
dose of youthful companionship.
Set back the clock of human life.
Make the shadows of the sun-dial of
Ahaz retreat 10 degrees. People make
themselves old by always talking
about being old and wishing for the
good old days, which were never as
good as these days. From all I can
hear the grandchildren are not half as
bad as the grandparents were. Matters
have been hushed up. Hut if you have
ever been in a room adjoining a room
where some very old people a little
deaf were talking over old times you
will find that this age does not mo
nopolize all the young rascals. It
may now be hard to get young people
up early in the morning but their
grandparents always had to be pulled
out of bed. It is wrong now to play
mischievous tricks on the unsuspect
ing, but eighty years ago at school
that now venerable man sat down on a
crooaea pin not accidently placed
there, and purposely drove the sleigh
riding party too near the edge of the
embankment that he might see how
they would look when tumbled into
the snow. And that man who has so
little patience with childish exuber
ance was in olden times up to pranks
one-half of which if practiced by the
8-year-old of today, would set grand
father and grandmother crazy. Ile
vive your remembrance of what you
were between 5 and 10 years of age,
and with patience capable of every
thing join with the young. Put back
the shadow of the dial not 10 degrees
but 50 and 00 and 70 degrees.
Set back your clocks also by enter
ing on new and absorbing Christian
work. In our desire to inspire the
young we have in our essays had much
to say about what has been accom
plished by the young; of Romulus who
founded Rome when he was 20 years
of age; of Cortes, who had conquered
Mexico at 30 years; of l’itt, who was
prime minister of England at 24 years:
of Raphael, who died at 37 years; of
Calvin, who wrote his institute at ?0;of
Melancthon, who took a learned pro
fessor’s chair at 21 years; of Luther,
who had conquered Germany for the
reformation by the time ho was 3,*>
years. And it is all very well for us to
show how early in life one can do very
great things for God and the welfare
of the world, but somo of the might
iest work for God has been done by
septuagenarians and octogenarians
and nonagenarians. Indeed, there is
work which none but such can do.
They preserve the equipoise of senates,
of religious denominations, of reform
atory movements. Young men for ac
tion, old men for counsel. Instead of
any of you beginning to fold up your
energies, arouse anew your energy.’
With the experience you have obtained
and the opportunities of observation
you have had during a long life, you
ought to be able to do in one year now'
more than you did in ten years right
after you had passed out . of
your teens. Physical power less,
your spiritual power ought to be more.
Up to the last hour of their lives what
power for good old Dr. Archibald Alex
ander, old Dr. Woods, old Dr. Hawes,
old Dr. Milnor, old Dr. Mcllvaine, old
Dr. King, old Dr. Candlish, old Dr.
Chalmers! What have been Rismarck
to Germany, and Gladstone to Eng
land, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to
America in the time of an advanced
age? Let me say to those in the after
noon of life: Don’t be putting off the
harness; when God wants it off he will
take it off. Don’t be frightened out of
life by the grip as many are. At the
first sneeze of an influenza many give
up all as lost. No new terror has come
on the earth. The microbes as tire
cause of disease were described in the
Talmud 1,700 years ago as “invisible
legions of dangerous ones. ” Don’t be
scared out of life by all this talk about
heart failure. That trouble has always
been in the world. That is what all
the people that ever passed out of this
life have died of—heart failure. Adam
had it and all of his descendants have
had it or will have it. Do not be
watching for symptoms, or you will
have symptoms of everything. Some
of you will yet die of symptoms.
Symptoms are often only what we
sometimes see in the country, a dead
owl nailed on the barn door to scare
living owls. Put your trust in God, gc
to bed at 10 o’clock, have the window
open six inches to let in the fresh air,
sleep on your right side, and fear noth
ing. The old maxim was right: “Get
thy spindle and distaff ready, and God
will send thee.flax."
A Sympathetic Jury.
First Female Juror (some years
hence)—There seems to be no doubt
that the prisoner, Mr. Handlecash,
stole a hundred thousand from the
company that employed him. Was he
indulgent to his wife?
Second Female Juror—Yes, indeed.
He gave her everything she wanted.
Third Female Juror—She had just a
lovely timel Trips to Europe, Worth’s
dresses, opera box, everything
*******
Verdict—AVe, the jury in the case of
Mr. Handlecash, find that the prisonei
was an over indulgent husband, who
should be reprimanded by the court,
the company to pay the costa
Nothing Remarkable.
Mra Grumpps (looking up from the
paper)—A brother and sister who had
not seen each other for sixteen years
met accidentally the other day.
Mr. Grumpps—Huh! A brother and
sister seldom meet any other way.
Rather Tired of It.
St. Peter—Let—me—see, miss, where
are you from?
New Arrival—I am from Boston.
St Peter (playfully)—Ah, yea I
have heard of Boston
New Arrival—Now, see here. If
you say one word about beans, t won't
go in.
AS SHE IS SPOKE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
rugllah It la Tmight bjr a Pratf
Berks County School Teaclior.
She wns a buxom, rudely cheeked,
clear-eyed Berks county mr.idon of 20.
neatly dressed, snug, and tidy, a
teacher of a country school iu Heidel
berg township; probably as bright a
yonug schoolniarm as could be found
anywhere hereabout; one from whose
red lips the mongrel Euglisii dialect of
tlie region fell more softly and with
less uhcouthness than usually charac
terizes the speech of the Pennsylvania
Dutch. It was on an afternoon this
week', and she stood at the blackboard
before a mixed class of little girls and
boys, elucidating some mysteries in
reading and writing. She soerned a
trifle embarrassed by the presence of
half a dozen picnickers who had fled to
the log schoolhouse for refuge from a
sudden shower, but this embarrassment
only served to heighten the brightness
of her cheek nnd eye, and to increase
the earnestness which she threw into
her demonstration.
With a piece of chalk sho traced on
the blackboard the letters:
“P—i—g.”
Then, addressing her pupils, she
asked. ‘ Vos is dosP”
The class responded instantly, in
loud chorus. "Pick!”
_ "Yes,” said the teacher proudly, "I
gif you rcighdt. How many kiudts of
pickP”
There was a pause, and then it little
blackhoaded urchin spoke up. "Three
kindts!”
ah yes, 1 gif you rcighdt again
once,” responded the fair school mis
tress, smiling with erideut satisfaction
at her pupils’ creditable showing.
“Fii'stP”-—and she waited with wooden
pointer in air for au answer.
"Von wot grunts,” suggested several
of the children at once.
. VYe?-" n°dded the teacher, with a
rising inflection denoting her pleasure;
‘aud second P"
"Von pick to dick (dig) with.”
answered a yellow-haired little fellow.
"Yes. and the thirdt kindt?”
Another pause, and then the auswer
canie from n thin-faced littlesirl, wear
ing glasses, -Von to pick up!”
“Ah, yes.” cried the teacher, tri
umpnantly,glancing at the visitors.and
proceeded to writedown the definitions
in order on tho blackboard.
The picnickers withdrew, silently
convlilscd with merriment, afraid to
trust themselves longer in the school
room to hear more i(i tho same vein.
They are well-known Reading folks,
sud they vouch for the correctness of
the recitation as above reported. If
surprise should be expressed at the
state of Euglisli culture revealed both
by the teacher and her pupils let it be
stated that slio is about as far in ad
vance of her clientage as teachers in
more favored communities are of
theirs. A similar picture could no
rloubt be drawn of common schools iu
many other back townships of Berks,
and of Lehigh, Lancaster, and Lebanon
tis well. Tho truth is that the chief
disadvantage of those worthy people is
their lack of booklcaruing. "in natural
intelligence, sturdy honestv, and thrift
they are considerably above tho aver
age, but they cling tenaciouslv to old
customs and eutertniu au inherited dis
regard for culture.
Advice to a Voting Man.
Young men, in your youth either
split mils or work on a canal-boat,
says M unset/s Weekly. Then when
you grow older, tho Presidential chair
may bo yours. Do not dream of organ
izing a youthful band of faithful young
followers to go west and slaughter In
dians. for the red men, with tho as
sistance of bad whisky and Govern
ment ammunition, are killing thern
lelves as fast as possible.
Always speak kindly to your sick
ancle. He may make a will some day,
snd perchance ho might leave you one
)f the family spoons, or, oven better,
you might become the envied possessor
jf bis antique oak bootjack.
Wnen your parents disngree on
mine slight subject preserve u discreet
dleuce, and, if possible, leave the
room, for when your father comes out
lecond best, as he invariably will, lie
may take revenge on your youthful
aide.
Do not cry when you have to stay
Jidoors and play with the little girls.
As you grow oldor you will find that a
ittlo girl is a great comfort, even
■.hough she consents to be only a sister
:o you.
In sharing candy with your younger
arother always bear in mind that too
much would make. the little fellow
dck. Remembering this, you will al
ways be justified lu taking tho largest
•Imre for yourself. *
The New Military Balloon.
Some one has discovered that a new
military’ balloon bus been invented
which is so small that when collapsed
it can be carrihd in the knapsack, and
that this remarkable balloon is hence
forth to form part of the equipment of
the French soldier. How it is to be
used we are not told, but can easily
imagine. When the army is on the
march each soldier will carry his bal
loon iittnched to his shoulders aud
purtiiilly inflated, so as nearly to coun
terbalance bis weight. This will en
able him to advauce by a series of
enormous bounds, much after the fash
ion of tho kangaroo, and will make it
quite possible for him to attain a speed
of. say, tiveuty mil -s an hour. On
meeting the enemy tho balloons will
be completely inflated, and the wholo
army will soar into the air. aud from
an elevation of 1.000 or 2.000 feet will
drop dynamite on its foes. Of course
tho new balloon will not have suflicient
power to support horses or canuons,
and hence their use will be confined to
the infantry, but nothing is more
obvious than that infantry capable of
aerial evolutions will bo immeasurably
superior to iufautry compelled by want
of balloons to coniine their operations
to the surface of the earth. —N. Y.
Herald.
Mr. Stinter (examining some ac
counts on desk)--I think I prefer the
courting to the weddiug days. Then
there was alternate billing aud cooing,
BOW it seems to be about all 'billing."*
—Boston Courier. *
ANlAFRICAN pumpkin.
fkt Gamhsn, • Plant that Grow* on the
Inland of Socotra.
Through their many biological pe
culiarities the family of the pompfon
has become known to everybody.
Cucumbers, melons and pumpkins be
long to the heaviest fruits and yet they
grow on a very slender stalk. But as
a protection against being torn by the
weight of the fruit the truuk of the
plant either creeps along the ground
or winds aronnd other plants or props
that happen in its way. Bearing this
fact in mind, it is all the more surpris
ing to know that among this genus of
plants a specimen is found that deviates
from the rule of being a creeper and
grows like a tree.
The home of the Dendrosiccyos is
the Dark Continent, and this is un
doubtedly the reason why we have not
been mado acquainted with it earlier.
It grows on the Island of Socotra,
where the plant is known by the name
of gamheu. Wellstedt, who visited
the island in 1834. was the tirst to men
tion it in his “Memoirs ou the Island
of Socotra." In 1880 Socotra *as tra
versed by Bailey Balfour, the well
known botanist,'and he describes two
kinds of gamhen. Iu tho following
year Prof. Schweinfurth made a trip
from Cairo to Socotra, and to him we
are indebted for the tirst pictorial
view of this plant.. The trunk is
knoll-shaped and grows about 14 feet
high, with a diameter of from 3 to 6
feet. The rind is white as chalk and
perfectly smooth, and the clumsy’
trunks among the green shrubbery
look more like marble columns than
anything else. Near Tumarid, the
largest village on the northern coast of
Socotra, tiieso plants grow in asuch
large numbers that one's imagination
need not stretch very greatly in com
paring ‘‘the forest hills of Socotra with
a gravoyard full of marble monu
ments.”
These plants attain a venerable age;
Wellstedt reports having found at
Kadhub, not far from Tamarid. in the
bark of a gam hen trunk an Arabian
inscription bearing the date of 1640.
The fact that this'inscription has re
mained intactso long also demonstrates
that gamhcn docs not shed its bark
like our trees by the formation oi
scabs.
Tho wood is not solid and compact
like that of the trees we know, but full
of sap and cuts like a turnip. A pen
knife is sufficient to cut a stairway
into tho trunk of a gnmhen, over
which tho flowers on the top can be
reached.
Aside from Its tree-shape tho gamhon
resembles the pompion in every detail,
so far ns the formation of flowers,
leaves and roots is concerned.—h. Y.
Recorder.
The Brilliant Student's Dilemma.
A Harvard studeut told me an amus
ing story about himself the other dav,
says tho Boston Herald. It seems that
recently his mother had a young lady
guest at their home on the Back bav
and when he came from college in the
afternoon he was introduced to her.
At dinner, also, she sat opposite to
him .at the table. He paid little at
tention to the fair visitor, as his mind
was engrossed with a problem in his
lessons. However, his brothers were
as assiduous as possiblo in entertain
ing her. As it happened, the latter
had engagements out thnt evening,
and. as Mrs. A. had promised Miss B.
to have one of her sons to take her to
tho theater, it fell to the lot of mv
friend George, the Harvard man. He
accepted the situation gracefully and
iu due time the young couple set off
for tho theater. Arriviug, George left
his companion at one side of the lobby
while he stepped ud to the box-office
and purchased the tickets; then, turn
ing about he looked toward the place
where he had parted from the vounw
lady, and was surprised to see half a
i?zrn t*lere’ a,,d. ye gods! is it possi
ble?—he could not tell which was
his precious charge! Here wa3 a
dilemma. George said he immediate
ly decided that rather than risk speak
ing to the wrong person he would
stand still till the young lady spoke to
him. So he gazed at his tickets for
what seemed to him an age, but was
probably only a minute, when Miss B.
came up and said: “I fear vou do not
recognize me." ••Oh, yes— yes.” stam
piered George, equivocating; “ves I
•lid; I thought they had uot given me
the seats I asked for and was consid
ering what was best to do in the mat- •
ter. And this was one of the gallant
Ha.ward men!
The Profits of Beggars.
Robert W. Hebburd of tho Charitv
Organization society, who has had
many years’ experience with the beg
gars of New York and has. known
nearly all the famous ones personally,
says that an industrious beggar will
frequently make as much as $10 and
$15 a day. He has known men who
had been begging for some time to
have fortunes of $10,000 and $15,000.
“What is the best game you know of?"
I asked him. “Well, I think blind
men make the most money as a rule,
P^ticulariy if they are old men.”
•‘What is the best location for bejr^ai's
in the city?” "Wherever there °are
women. It is quite the fnd for Fifth
avenue ladies to step up daintilv and
drop a few pennies in the hund' of a
beggar. People have no idea of the
amount of money that is squandered
every voar in perpctnnting these paup
ers. If we had the money that is given
each year in maintaining this race of
parasites we could rid New York of
professional beggars.”—N. Y. World.
A Small Philosopher.
He wns six years old, short of his
age and barefooted and dirty. His
eyes wero sharp and watchful aud his
face was iiued and old. He ran uway
from school for weoks at a time and
scoured alleys and instinctively aroided
all the conventional and decorous paths
of childhood. When be listened to ad
monitions and promised to amend, his
inner ear was deaf and his words were
from the lips outward, but be voiced
his genuine experience and reflection
with the brevity of a maxiip:
“i think I’d rather be a girl; thee
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