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    ALL ETERNITY IS AN ECHO
Spiritual Lessons Drawn From the
Law of Sounds i
Thu Rfnoiwiire of flood Iteod* and the
Echo or Kell Done Will Fill the
Kara of the Assembled Mil
lion* the I.a*t Day,
Brooki.tx, N. Y., Jan. 17.—Dr. Tnlmnge
gave a netv llluatrntion in hi* sermon
this morning of hi* mastery of the art of
drawing spirited lesson* from common na
tural phenomenon. HI* subject vra*
“Kchocs,"aml his text: Ezekiel vli ;7,"The
sounding again of the mountain*.''
At last 1 havo found it The biblo
has in it a recognition of all phases of
tho natural world from the aurora of
the midnight heavens to the phosphor
escence of the tumbled sea. llut the
well-known sound that we call the
echo I found not until a few days ago
I discovered it in my text: "The sound
ing again of the mountains.'' That is
the echo Ezlkiel of the text had
beard it again and again. Horn among
mountains and in his journey to dis
tant exile ho had passed amoug moun
tains, and it was natural that all
through his writings there should loom
up the mountains. Among them ho
lad heard tho sound of cataracts and
of tempests in wrestle with oak and
cedar,and the voices of the wild beasts,
but a man of so poetic a nature as Eze
kiel could not allow another sound,
viz., tho echo, to be disregarded, and
so he gives us in our text "the sound
ing again of ihe mountains”
ureeK mymoiogy represcm.cn me ,
echo as a nymph, the daughter of ,
Earth and Air, following Narcissus :
through forests and into grottoes and '
every whither, and so strange and .
weird and startling is the echo I do {
not wonder that the superstitious have (
lifted it into the supernatural. You ■
and I in boyhood and girlhood expert- 1
men ted with this responsiveness of
sound. Standing half way between
the house and barn, we shouted many
a time to hear the reverberations, or
out among the mountains back of our
home, on some long tramp, we stopped
and made exclamation with full lungs
just to hear what Ezekiel calls "the
sounding again of the mountains”
The echo has frightened many a child
and many a man. It is no tame thing
£ . after you have spoken to hear the
same Words repeated by the invisible.
All the silences are filled with voices
ready to answer. Yet. it would not be
so startling if they said something else,
but why do those lips of the uir say
just what you say? Do they npean to
mock or mean to please? Who are you
and where are you, thou wondrous
echo? Sometimes its response is a re
iteration. The shot of a gun, tho clap
ping of the hands, the beating of a
drum, the voice of a violin are some
times repeated many times by the echo.
Near Coblent/., that which is said has
seventeen echoes. In 1770, a writer
says that near Milan, Italy, there were
seventy such reflections ' of sound to
one snap of a pistol. Play a bugle
near a lake of Killarney and the tune
is played back to you as distinctly as
when you played it. There is a well
310 feet deep at Carisbrooke cas
tle, in the Isle of Wight Drop
a pin into that Well, and the sound of
its fall comes to the top of the well
distinctly. A blast of an Alpine horn
comes back from the rocks of Jung
frau in purge after surge of reflected
sound, until it seems as if every peak
had lifted and blown an Alpine horn.
But have you noticed—and this is the
reason for the present discourse—that
this echo in the natural world has its
analogy in the moral und religious
world? Have you noticed the tre
mendous fact that what we say or do
comes back in recoiled gladness or dis
aster? About this resonance I preach
this sermon.
j. rareuiai veacning unu exuiupie
J, have their e cho in the character of
descendants. Exceptions? Oh, yes.
So in the natural world there may be
no echo, or a distorted echo, by
reason of peculiar proximities, but the
general rule is that the character of
the children is the echo of the charac
V ter of parents. The general rule is
that good parents have good children
and bad parents have bad children.
If the old man is a crank, his son is
' apt to be a crank and the grandchild
a crank. The tendency is so mighty in
that direction that it will get worse
and worse unless some hero or heroine
in that line shall rise and say: "Here!
By the help of God, I will stand this
. ' no longer. Against this hereditary
tendency to queerness I protest.”
And he or she will set up an
altar and a magnificent life
that will reverse things and there
will be no more cranks among
that kindred. In another family the
H' ‘ father and mother are consecrated peo
ple. What they do is right; what they
teach is right. The boys may for some
time be wild and the daughters
worldly, but watch! Years pass on.
perhaps ten years, twenty years, and
i you go back to the church where the
father and mother used to be consist
ent members You have heard noth
ing about the family for twenty years,
», : and at the door of the church you see
v the sexton, and you ask him: "Where
‘ - is old Mr. Webster?" "Oh! he has
f been dead many years.” “Where is
Mrs Webster?” “Oh! she died fifteen
years ago.” “I suppose their son Joe
went to the dogs?" "Oh! no,” says
the sexton. "He is up there in the
elders' seat He is one of our best and
most important members You ought
to hear him pray and sing. He is not
Joe any longer; he is Elder Webster.”
"Well, where is the daughter, Mary?
I suppose she is the same thoughtless
butterfly she used to be?” "Oh! no,”
says the sexton, “she is the president
of our missionary society and the di
ti-- • rectrcss in the orphan asy!um, and
•*when she goes down the street all the
ragamuffins take hold of her dress and
cry. ‘Auutie. when are you going to
■ bring us some more books and shoes
and things?' And. when, in times of
revival, there is some hard case back
in u church pew that no one else
^ ■ can touch, she goes where he is, and in
■ one minute she has him a-crying, and
tho first thing we know she is fetching
the hardened man up to the front to
.be prayed for, and says, ‘Here is a
brother who wants to find the way
;v ....
nto tho kingdom of God.’ And tf no*
boov seems ready to pray, she kneels
town in the aisle beside him and says:
Oh! Lord!' with a pathos and a
power and a triumph that seem in
ttnntly to emancipate the hardened
tinner. Oh! no, you must not call her
v thoughtless butterfly in our presence.
Vou see we would not stand it” The
Fnct is that the son and daughter of
Lliut family did not promise much at
ilic start, but they are now an echo, a
rlorious echo, a prolonged echo, of <
ourental teaching and example.
A Vermont mother, as her boy was j
ibout to start for a life on the sea, j
mid, “Edward, 1 have never seen the |
>cenn, but I understand tho great '
temptation is strong drink. Promise
ne you will never touch it” Many
rears after that, telling of this in a
neeting, Edward said, "I gave that
iromise to mother, and have been
iround the world and at Calcutta, the '
jorts of the Mediteranean, San Fran- 1
dsco, Cape of Good Hope, and north
ind south poles, and never saw a glass
>f liquor in all those years that my ;
nother's form did not appear before
ne, and I do not know how liquor
.astes. I have never tasted it and all
localise of the promise I made to my
nothcr.” This was the result ofl,
.hat conversation at the gate
>f the Vermont farm house. The
itatunry of Thorwaldsen was sent from
taly to Germany, and the straw in
vhich the statues had been packed
vas thrown upon the ground. The
text spring beautiful Italian flowers
.prang up where this straw had been
:ast, for in it had been some of the
eeds of Italian flowers, and, whether
lonscious of it or not, we are all the
.line planting for ourselves and plant
ng for others roses or thorns. You
bought it only straw, yet among it
vere anemones
nut, hero is a slip-shod home. The
larents are a (lodless pair. They let
.heir children do as they please. No
ixample fit to follow. No lessons of
norality or religion. Sunday no better
han any other day. The bible no
letter than any o'ther book. The
icuse is a sort of inn where the older
ind younger people of the houshold
•top for awhile. The theory acted on,
though not announced, is: “The chil
Iren will have to do as I did, and take
heir chances. Life is a lottery any
iow, and some draw prizes and some
slanks, and we will trust to luck.’’
ikip twenty years and come back to
■he neighborhood where that family
ised to live. You meet on the street
>r on the road an old inhabitant of
:liat neighborhood, and you Bay: “Can
pou tell me anything about the Peter
ions who used to live hero?” “Yes,”
lays the old inhabitant, “I remember
them very well. The father and
mother have been dead for years.”
•Well, how about the children? What
lias become of them?” The old
inhabitant replies: “They turnod
nut badly. You know the
sld man was about half an in
fidel and the boys were all infidels,
rhe oldest son married, but got into
lrinktng habits, and in a few years his
wife was not able to live with him any
longer and his children were taken by
relatives, and he died of delirium tre
mens on Iilack well’s island. HU other
son forged the name of his employer
and fled to Canada. One of the daugh
ters of the old folks married an inebri
ate with the idea of reforming him. !
and you know how that always ends—
in the ruin of both the experimenter
and the one experimented with. The
other daughter disappeared mysteri
ously, and has not been heard of.
There was ayoung woman picked out
of the Hast river and put in the morgue,
and some thought it was her, but I
cannot say.” "Is it possiblo?” you cry
out. “Yes. it is possible. The family
is a complete wreck. ” My hearers,
that is just what might have been ex
pected. A11 this is only the echo, the
awful echo, the dreadful echo of pa
rental obliquity and unfaithfulness.
The old folks heaped up a mountain of
wrong influences, and this is what my
text calls “The sounding of the moun
tains" Indeed our entire behavior in
in this world will have a resound.
While opportunities fly in a straight
line and just touch us once and are
gone never to return, the wrongs we
practice upon others fly m a circle, and
they come back to the place from which
they started. Doctor Guillotine thought
it smart to introduce the instrument of
death, named after him; but did not
like it so well when his own head was
chopped off with the guillotine.
no, aiso, mo judgment nay will oe
an eclio of all our other days. The
universe needs such a day for there
are so many things in the world that
need to be fixed up and explained. If
God had not appointed such a day all
the nations would cry out, "Oh, God
give us a judgment day.” But, we are
apt to think of it and speak about it as
a day away off in the future, having no
special connection with this day or
any other day. The fact is that we are
now making up its voices, its trumpets
will only sound back again to us what
we now say and da That is the mean
ing of all that scripture which says
that Christ will on that day address
the soul, saying, "I was naked and ye
clothed me, I was sick and in prison
and ye visited me. ” All the footsteps
in that prison corridor as the Christian
reformer walks to the wicket of the in
carcerated, yea all the whispers of con
dolence in the ear of that poor soul
dying in that garret, yea all the kind
nesses are being caught up and rolled
on until they dash against the judg
ment throne and then they will be
struck back into the ears of these sons
and daughters of mercy. Louder
than the crash of Mount Wash
ington falling on its face
in the world-wide catastrophe,
and the boiling of the sea over the fur
naces of universal conflagration will
| be the echo and re-echcu of the good
j deeds done and the sympathetic words
uttered and the mighty benefactions
! wrought On that day all the char
| ities, all the self-sacrifices, all the
; philanthropies, all the beneficent last
wills and testaments, all the Christian
work of all the ages, will be piled up
into mountains, and those who have
served God and served the suffering
human race will hear what my text
styles "the sounding of the mount
ains"
My subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself Is only an echo of time.
Mind you, the analogy warrants my
saying this. The echo is not always
exactly in kind like the sound origin
ally projected. Lord Rafeigh says that
a woman's voice sounding from a grove
was returned an octave higher. A
scientist playing a flute in Fairfax
county, Virginia, found that alt the
notes were returned, although some of
them came in raised pitch. A truiupet
tonnded ten times near Glasgow, Scot
land, and the ten notes were all re
turned, but a third lower. And the
tpiritual law corresponds with the
natural world. What we do of good
nr bad may not come back to us in just
die proportion we expect it, but come
ttack it will; it may be from a higher
gladness than we thought or from
i deeper woe, from a mightier
tonqueror or from a wor*e cap
tive, from a higher throne or deeper
lungeon. Our prayer or our bias-'
nhemy, our kindness or our cruelty,
mr faith or our unbelief, our holy life
>r our dissolute behavior, will come
iack somehow. Suppose the boss of a
factory or the head of a commercial
irm, some day comes out among his
:lerks or employes, and putting his
thumbs in the armholes of his vest,
tays, with an air of swagger and jo
:osity: “Well, I don't believe in the
nible or the church. The one is an
imposition and the other is full of
lypocrites. I declare I would not
rust one of those very pious people
'urther than I could see him. ” That
s all ho says, but he has said enough,
l'he young men go back to their coun
ters or their shuttles, and say within
themselves: “Well, he is a successful
nan and has probably studied up the
.vhole subject and is probably right.”
1'hat one lying utterance against
aibles and churches has put five young
nen on the wrong track, and though
the influential man had spoken only in
half jest, the echo shall come back to
nim in the five ruined lifetimes, and
3ve destroyed eternities. You see the
schoes are an octave lower than he an
ticipated. On the other hand, some
rainy day, when there are hardly any
zustomers, the Christian merchant
:ome> out from his counting room and
itands among the young men, who
have nothing to do, and says: “Well,
boys, this is a dull day, but it will
dear oil after a while. There are- a
ifuuu uiuii'V ups uuu uuwns in ousmess,
but there is au over-ruling providen e.
Years ago I made up my mind
to trust God and he has
always seen me through. 1 remem
ber when I was your age, I had just
come to town and the tempi ations of
city life gathered around me, but 1
resisted. The fact is there were two
old folks out on the old farm praying
for me. and I knew it, and somehow I
could not do as some of the clerks did
or go where some of the clerks went.
I tell you, boys, it is best always to do
right, and there is nothing to keep one
right like the old-fashioned religion of
Jesus Christ. John, where did you go
to church last Sunday? Henry,"how is
the Young Men's Christian association
prospering?” About noon the rain
ceases and the sun comes out und the
clerks go to their places, and they say
within thnmselyes: ‘‘Well, he is a suc
cessful merchant, and I guess he knows
what he is talking about, and the
Christian religion must be a good
thing. God knows I want some help
in this battle with temptation and
sin.” The successful merchant who
uttered the kind words did not know
how much good he was doing, but the
echo will come bnck in five lifetimes of
virtue and usefulness, and five Christ
ian death-beds, and five heavens
From all the mountains of rapture
and all the mountains of glory and
all the mountains of eternity, he will
catch what Ezekiel in ray text styles
“the sounding again of the moun
tains.”
Yea, I take a step further in this sub
ject,and say that our own eternity will
be a reverberation of our own earthly
lifetime. What we are here we will
bo there, ouly on a larger scale. Dis
solution will tear down the body and
embank it, but our faculties of mind
and soul will go right on without the
hesitancy of a moment and without
any change except enlargement and
intensification. There will be no more
difference than between a lion behind
iren bars and a lion escaped into the
field, between an eagle in a cage and
an eagle in the sky. Good here, good
there; bad here, bad there. Time
only a bedarfed eternity. Eter
nity is only an enlarged time.
In this life our soul is in dry dock. The
moment we leave this life we are
launched for our great voyage, and we
sail on for centuries quintillian, but
the ship does not change its fundamen
tal structure after it gets out of the
l dry dock, it does not pass from brig to
schooner, or from schooner to man-of
| war. What we aro when launched
I from this world, wo will be in the
| world to come. Oh! God! by thy con
i verting and sanctifying spirit make us
j right here and now, that we may be
i right forever!
j “Well, says someone, “this idea of
moral, spiritual and eternal echo is
new to me. Is there not some way of
stopping' this echo?" My answer is:
“God can and he only.’’ If it is a
I cheerful echo, wo do not want it
| stopped; if a baleful echo, we would
! like to have it stopped. The hardest
thing in this world to do is to stop an
echo. Many an oration has been
spoiled and many an orator con founded
by an echo. Costly churches, cathe
drals, theaters and music halls have
been ruined by an echo. Architects
have strung wires across auditoriums
to arrest the echo and hung uphol
stery against the walls, hoping to en
trap it, and hundreds of thousands of
dollars have been expended in public
buildings of this country to keep the
air from answering when it ought to
be quiet. Aristotle and Pythagoras
and Isaac Newton and La Place and
our own Joseph Henry tried to hunt
down the echo, but still the unexplored
realms of acoustics are larger than the
explored When our first ltrooklyn
tabernacle was being- constructed, we
were told by architects that it %vas of
such a shape that the human voice
could not be heard in it, or,
if heard, it would be jangled
into echoes. In state of worri
ment I went to Joseph Henry, tho
president of the Smithsonian institute
at Washington, and told him of this
evil prophecy, and he replied: “I have
probably experimented more with the
I laws of sound than any other man.
and I have got as fur as this; two
| buildings may seem to be exactly alike
. and yet in one the acoustics may be
I good and in the other bad Goon with
I your church building and trust that all
I will be well. ” And all was well. Oh
| this mighty law of sornd! Oh, this
| subtle echo! There is only one beiug
j in the universe who thoroughly under
I stands it—“the sounding again of the
mountains ”
Oskaloosa proposes to build many new
buildings in 189J.
INVESTMENTS IN LAND
A Retrospective View by an Intelli
gent Observer.
Northwestern Iowa Ten Tears Ago the
Same as Sonth Dakota and Ne
braska Now—The Prospects
Hopeful for All.
Mr. Joseph Sampson, of Sioux City, i
a la rye investor in western lands and
a most competent observer and judge
of values, has recently published the,
following interesting sketch:
In the month of June, 188J, accompanied
by n friend. I drove across the country
northwest from Storm Lake to Sheldon,
in O'Brien county, to attend a land con
vention being held under the auspices of
Geo. D. Perkins, the newly appointed j
commissioner of immigration for the state
of Iowa. The distance between Storm
Lake and Sheldon in a straight Hue ;
across the county is about sixty miles. ;
On this drive we passed over many solid
sections of vacant prairie. After leav
ing Buena Vista county and getting
into the corner of Clay and O’Brien coun- i
ties we began to note vacated houses and
abandoned farms, the number growing
quite large as wc came near the county
seat town of Primghar. where we stopped
for refreshments. While we were eating
lunch the proprietor of the restaurant
begged us to buy his farm, which we had
passed on the way. It lay two miles east
of town and was mortgaged for about
1000. He wanted $i00 for his equity, hut
we felt that we would not be safe in offer
ing him $100 for his homestead subject to
the mortgage for fear he would take us
up. This would have made the farm co*t
us less than $5 per acre. It had a com
fortable little house and a nice grove of
trees, and about eighty acres under culti
vation. We had noted the farm on
our way along with especial interest on
account of the over-supply of dilapidated
machinery that we saw scattered around
the house and in the grove adjoining.
Hundreds of farms we found could be
bought on as favorable terms in several of
the counties of northwestern Iowa at this
time, and the burning questions that were
discussed at the land convention were how
to attract settlers to our prairies and how
to best promote the prosperity of those
already settled. We discussed flax grow
ing, dairy business, blue grass, timothy.
I-IUYCI, CYI2. UUiillf, iuv l-MUYKir
tion we .heard from Alexander
Peddle, representing Scotch colon
ists, and Close Bros., representing
English colonists. L. S. Coffin, of Fort
Dodge, made a stirring address, pointing
out the necessity of keeping these lauds
for American farmers who would yet come
in by the thousands and appreciate the
magnificent opportunities our prairies af
forded of founding fine homes. Willis
Drummond, jr., of Chicago, was on hand
with his lieutenants representing the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul land grant,
and other men were on band representing
the land grant departments of other rail
road companies. these gentlemen were
all perfectly willing to let the land be in
vaded by the peasant farmers of Europe,
or India for that matter, provided the lands
were sold at fair prices and a good first,
cash payment made on the purchase.
Looking back acrostf only the brief pe
riod of eleven years and thinking of the
really desolate character of northwestern
Iowa in that year when we were all so
anxious to promote immlgratibn, one is
lost in wonder and surprise at the swift
fhauges that have taken place in this por
tion of Iowa. Since that day in Juue the
railway system of northwestern Iowa has
been perfected to a wonderful extent, so
that it is impossible for a farmer to get
more than ten miles from a railway sta
tion. The Northwestern line has been
built through from Eagle Grove to
Hawardcu and beyond; the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Northern line through
from Grundy Center to Watertown and
Sioux Falls: the Illinois Central branches
from Cherokee to Onawaand Sioux Falls;
and last but not least, the Sioux City and
Northern, with its great lake outlet forth©
produets of the soil. If someone had pre
dicted at our land convention in 1883 the
things that would come to pass during
these eleven years, indicating the com
pact settlement of the prairies, the enorm
ous rise in the price of lands and the in
dustrial and agricultural changes inci
dent to improved methods of farming, all
who were present at the convention would
have voted the man a “visionary” or per
haps insane.
Taking up the cue from what we have
all seen of northwestern Iowa since 1881,
may not we who live here in Sioux City be
entirely justified in glancing to the west
and northwest of us to find the conditions
that surrouud the people of Dakota and
Nebraska in a certain sense just the same
as surrounded the people of northwestern
Iowa ten yearn ago? May we not also be
entirely justified in looking for much
greater progress and development during
the next ten years in the section referred
to than has been made by us in Iowa be
tween the years 1880 and 1892? The soil
of the prairies west of us is as fertile as is
that of Iowa, perhaps more so, having a
larger quantity of lime in the soil, thus
making sure a better quality and yield of
small grain. The climate is the same.
The one drawback that has been menacing
the people of portions of South Dakota—
namely, the lack of moisture—is now in a
fair way to- be overcome by irrigation.
It is clearly shown that the irrigation of
immense areas of South Dakota is purely
a mechanical question, that is to say, a
question of reaching the underground
flow of water, and then, when it is found,
distributing it properly in t ie right season
over the land in crop. Millions of acres,
however, that are yet to be brought into
cultivation will yield profitable crops
without irrigation, so that whether irriga
tion becomes the commercial success that
is hoped for or not, still the state of South
Dakota is capable of sustaining an agri
cultural population ten times greater than
it has at present and still not have its
first-class lands as compactly settled as
are the lands of some of the eastern
states.
To give more than a mere hint at the
fillin'’ up of Dakota a id Nebraska that is
sure to come within the next ten years
would seem to be unnecessary, for our
most thoughtful people fully concur in the
idea of the rapid settlement of the cheap
lands west of us. There is no such body
of cheap lands to be found on the globe
today having the same dim itic conditions
and railway facilities. No other section
of the country today presents such a field
for land investment or speculation. East
of us very little unimproved land is left to
sell and the improved lands are ranging
from $.30 to (45. while to the west
of us the same quality of land
with as good market facilities can be
bought at from $10 to $20 per acre. With
the inrush of new settlers and the stir
and enterprise that wUJ be in the
air during the next fow years no doubt the
smaller towns and v 1 ages will be built
up. The building ui of the towns
and villages wiu in turn affect
business in our city and give to our people
the opportunity of aiding and fostering
further enterprises that will re-act uyon
and itr prove the general industrial and
commercial development of the country
surrounding.
We have ertered into a period of good
average pri< cs for farm prod* cfc*. This
condition will continue ft r a uumber of
years without any question. In other
words, we will not see the same depression
of agricultural products that has kept our
farmers behind for the past six or seven
year* Aside from the European d ;mand
for our breadst^JCs we are getting nearer
to the point where the domestic consump
tion equals the domestic supply. For the
nest tour years, as Krastus Wlman has
put it. “the’farmer will bo on top '• t hat
we will all rejoice in the prosperity of the
farmer goes without sayinjr, and that this
prosperity will incidentally affect us all,
and improve our condition on every hand,
may serve to fill us with hope as we cntei
upon the year 1892.
A FEW THOUSAND BUSHELS SHORT.
A Splurge In Wheat an<l Wliat It Sug
gested to a Visitor.
•70.”
•70 1-4."
The floor was a living hell. A seeth
ing, raving torrent of half-crazed men;
a Babel of clamor; an air rent with
wildly flung arms and hands.
The street bail gone mad.
It was one of those sudden lits of fury
that come after a long period of stag
nation; the air trembles with the storm
for a while; then the tempest, dying,
leaves naught behind but the nerve
killing memory of it and the mined
lives that lie behind.
This time it was wheat. The bulls
were tossing it up viciously. Tho bears
were grinding their teeth 'and waiting
for the break to come.
Would it come?
- Tiie messenger boys were breathless.
The arms that were not flung skyward
linnded out orders and telegrams so
rapidly that tbn wires could hardly
carry it all. Fortuues were hanging
on threads, threads of wire; the West
ern Union was making money, whether
it was bull or bear that won.
Ah! That was a cable, tbat time.
‘ 'London selling.”
•70.”
••69 3-4.”
The pit became more' like a witch's
caldron than ever. Blood-purple faces,
blue-swelling veins, hoarse, inarticu
late yells, uncouth, joint-looseuing
gestures—all the animal things in man
most patent. Saw you over the tigers
fed in the Zoological? Bah—a very
gentle sight—to this!
•G9 1-2."
, The bears, yelled louder. The market
was bending to them. It was, with
many of them, a fortune either way.
It was the battle for wealth crowded
into hours; many drag it through a
lifetime. But all the fierceness - of a
life’s struggle was esscnced here.
• C9 1-2."
-69 S-4."
-70.’’
The hulls leap in a very frenzy ot
glee. It was another cable from Lon
don. -Strong buying tendency.” Then
advices of a panic in the West—wheat
rising like a kite.
The bears began to waver. The
“shorts" trembled. It was the balls’
opportunity—to become rich suddenly.
To break there—no matter.
-70 1-4.”
-70 1-2."
The climb began. The fractions
were despised. The jumps were by
cents.
If it had been hall on the floor oe
fore it was a greater inferno now. The
shorts turned pale. But they still
fought. Grim, savage, desperate,
bloodless.
It was no use. The price went up
steadily as the thermometer towards a
summer noon. There was a fever in
the West, aud it was contagious—by
wire.
Now it was -80."
Would the clock never strike the
closing hour? No; there were for
tunes to be made; lives to be ruined.
For the wheat itself, who cared? It
was the same whce‘ all the time, but—
-90.”
Still upwards.
-#1.00.”
Paff!
There is a little ring of smoke in one
corner, aud under there is a dead man,
with a fuming pistol hanging to a
limp hand. Tlie crowd surges his
ward a little.
“Corbridgo,” says some one. “he
was a good mauy thousand bushels
short. It’ll bo hardish ou bis family.”
••#1.01.” J
And the market closes.—Chicago
Tribune.
TEA AS IS TEA.
Monkey Brand Tea I« Worth Two Dol
lars and a Half an Ounce.
“What do you think of that tea?”
asked a friend at whose house 1 was
dining a few days ago and whose wife
had just poured me a second cup of
the iuvitiog liquid.
“Well,” I respouded, "I’m not much
of a judge of tea. This is a little
strong, isn’t it?'’
"Strong,” said he. “well I should
say so. Do you know you nro drink
ing monkey tea, worth $2.60 an
ounce?”
“Now, look here,” said I, “you have
just returned from China, I know, and
1 am willing to take most of your mar
velous yarns with a grain of salt, but
when you attempt to ring in nny mon
key brand tea at $2.60 an ounce on
me, why. I draw the line."
"I assure you,” responded my friend,
“that I am perfectly serious. In one
of the southern provinces of China
there is a variety of the tea plant
which grows upon the sides of some
jiigh and almost inaccessible cliffs. It
is considered to be the best tea grown
in China. To gather the leaves the
natives have trained monkeys. These
animals gather the product,, which
they put into little baskets strapped on
their arms. The tea is very strong
and. of course, very valuable.
•■Why.” said he, answering my look
of incredulity, "they have birds train
ed to catch iish over in China. Every
schoolboy knows that. It is very hard
work to train those monkeys, but the
Chinese are great animal trainers.
“Now I’ll tell you something else
about tea. In the grand courtvard of
tho Imperial Palace at Peking are two
very large tea bushes. These are iu
cased in glass houses and are carefully
guarded by attendants appointed for
the purpose. For many years the only
tea drank by the imperial family has
been plucked from these bushes. Oua
of these plants, by the way, died a few
years ago. It is still zealously watch
ed, though, and no one, under penalty
of death, save those who guard them,
eTen touch one of the plants.”—
N. I. herald. 1
The University of Michigan has de
termined to add women professors and
lecturers to its faculty.
The Crjln* Jfe«d» „f America T«uT ,
Inkwells and Keyhou.™** ***
Philadelphia Times.
American scientists waste too v
time grappling with the mightily?
lems. and do not devote snfflcienf!t
tention to smoothing the rockv t^a
of every day life. 3 04®*
Especially is this error common with
the inventors who. in their anxtetv £
produce something big and compile,..*
neglect the practical walks of hums
ity, and thereby miss opportunities^
acquiring much wealth. 1
We do not pant so loudly for perB.. ’
ual motion as we do for non-bEt
trousers 1 nstead of staying avalEH
night, cogitatim over *a
will not mote let Keeley produce atnP
key composed entirely of white meat
Give us an ink well that sounds
alarm on the approach of a mucila«
brush. Above all, devise for us »
that needs no key-one that will orwn
at the pronouncing of some mavili
word, for example. ® '**■
The American citizen who, inth*
cold, gray dawn, with the mercury
chasing zero, has shivered for minutes
that seemed centuries, chasing a kev
hole all over his front door, will rli
up and call the inventor of such a lock
blessed.
„ Anlif„ther® he tr“th in spiritualism
Ezra Tailcott, of Montana, came horns
after a protracted seance with ths
flowing bowl. Not being in a frame
of mind proper for nice distinctions he
attempted to open his door with a re
volver.
During the heat of the ensuing be
bate between the keyhole and the
shooting iron the trigger took a hand
and a bullet found shelter in Ezra’s
abdomen. The funeral occurred sev
eral days after
Here is a case which accentuates the
crying want of an improved keyhole
Now, then, you inventors, come down
out of the clouds and get to work.
Among1 the natives of Australis
notched and carved sticks are used for
messages.. For instance, a piece of
wood carried from one village to au
other, with straight and curved lines
cut upon it means, '‘There is a fight on
hand; fetch your spears and boome
rangs. ” The North American Indians
have utilized wampum belts from time
immemorial for like purposes, the ar
rangement of the different colored
beads conveying the signification de
sired.
The authorities of the city of Tam
boy have printed check books contain
ing each ten to twenty checks. Every
baker in the city gives for every check
a pound of bread, for which it charges
the city two hopecks. The residents
of the city were notified not to deal out
any money to mendicants, for such
money is in most cases spent on drink,
but to buy checks at the city hall and
to distribute them among the poor.
A comparatively new system of con
struction, the invention of M. Monier,
is being applied to the building of
houses, bridges, fortifications, reser
voirs, sewers, etc. It consists of a net
work of iron rods covered with cement
concrete, and the most remarkable
feature in connection with it is the
great strength of f he constructed ma
terial relatively to its weight.
A few weeks ago there was found in
central Missouri a small bowlder or
nugget of copper weighing twenty
three pounds It is eleven inches long,
six inches wide and three inches thick
at the thickest part. It is almost en
tirely pure copper, but with a thin
crust of the green carbonate all over it.
Ethel—I think I shall be safe in mar
rying George; lie would never marry
me for my money.
Maud—How do you know?
Ethel—I'm told he doesn’t care for
money; throwing it away as fast as he
gets it.
—There died at the little fishing village
of Port l enn, Del., the other day, Shubert
Burrows, a brother of Kube Burrows, the
outlaw. Shubert was a deserter from tbe
confederate army, and afterward a mem
ber of Rube's outlaw gang. For the last
twelve years he had lived alone in a cabin
on the Delaware shore and maintained
himself by fishing and trapping. He was
buried the day after his death, nnd after
the funeral expenses had been paid out of
the 9110 realized by the sole of his pos
sessions the rest of his fortune went to
charity.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for wy
case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by taking
Hall’s Catarrh Cure. , , _
F. J. CHENEY * CO., Props., Toledo. 0.
We. the underaigne 1, have known F.J. yJ®*
rev for the last fifteen years, and believe mm
perfectly honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry out any obligation!
made by their firm. . „ n
Wert A Tbuax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, u.
Walding, Kixnan & Mabvin, Wholesale Drug
gists, Toledo, O.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken interna1 y. acuns
directly upon the blood and mucous surfftc
the system. Testimonials sent free.
por bottle. Bold by all Druggists.
— Clpnr ashes ore used for medical pur
poses ns a cure for rinpworm, ep|<l®
scarlatina, etc. Thev are useful on
count of the lime ani alcoholic proper
they contain.
—A seamstress recently died of ldooi
poisoninp. The mischief resulted
using a dirty metal thimble marked
rerdiprls. *
—In twelve years the city of
expended $i!70,000 on statues and *3o>“w
on ornamental fountains.
Beecham’ . P12.LS enjoy the larpest
of any proprietary medicine in ttie
Made only in St Helens, England.
—A parasite which kills forty
pers an hour is to bo imported
numbers from Australia.
Out of Sorts
Describes s fee ins peenUsr to persons of ■** or
tendency, or c.used iy cbsnxe of cum. ■ Ml>—
life. The stomach Is out ot order. t““ “
er does not fsel rlsbt
The Nerves
sesm stained to their utmost, the ®ln 11<nt cor
and Irritable. This condition Bnds i« *
reotlye In Hood’s Hsissperllls. wLicb,
Isttns mod tonlna power , soon
Cures Indigestion,^
iMtorm harmony to the iyatena. *
mind, norms. And body. Be ini'® ,0 .
Hood’s 8ar8aparma
which in curative powar la PecuHar v> ^
Hood'S PIIIS care liver l^s.
pric®3