RELIGION AND DAILY LIFE
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Men Should Mix Their Godliness
With Their Business.
The Christian Cannot Eat Enough at the
Spiritual llamiui't to IjuI Seiran
Days •• 1,111 le Annoyances
That Wear,
BimoKi.TN, N. Y., Jan. 24.—Dr. T»1
muire'n text was taken from I. Corinthians
x. 111: ‘'Whether, therefore, ye eat or ilrlnlt,
or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God.”
When tlio apostle, in this text, sets
forth the idea that so common no
action as the taking of food and drink
is to be conducted to the glory of God, I
he proclaims the importance of religion j
in the ordinary affairs of our life. In
all ages of the world there has been a
tendency to set apart certain days,
places, and occasions for worship, and
to think these were the chief realms
in which religion was to act. Now,
holy days and holy places have their
importance They give opportunity
for especial performance of Christian
duty, and for regaling of the religious
appetite; but they cannot take the
place of continuous exerciso of faith
and prayer. In other words, a man
cannot ho so much of a Christian on
Sunday that he can afford to be a
worldling all the rest of the week. If
a steamer put out for Southampton,
and go one day in that direction and
the other six days in other directions,
how long before the steamer will get
to Southampton? And though
a man may seem to be voyag
ing heavenward during the holy
Sabbath day, if, during the fol
lowing six daysof tho week, he is going
toward the world, and toward the
flesh, and townrd tho devil, he will
never ride up into the peaceful harbor
of heaven. You cannot eat so much
.at the Sabbath banquet that you can
afford religious abstinence tho othor
. six days. Heroism and princely be
havior on great occasions are no apol
ogy for luck of right demeanor in cir
cumstances insignificant and incon
spicuous The genuine Christian life
is not spasmodic; does not go by fits
and starts. It toils on through heat
and cold up steep mountains and along
dangerous declivities, its eye on the
everlasting hills crowned with the
castles of the blessed.
i propose, this morning, to plead for
a religion for today.
In the first place, we want to bring
the religion of Christ into our conver
sation. When a dam breaks and two
<tr three villages are overwhelmed, or
an earthquake in South America swal
lows a whole city, then people began
to talk about the uncertainty of life,
and they imagine that they are en
gaged in positively religious conversa
tion. No. You may talk about these
things, and have no grace of God at all
in your heart. We ought every day to
be talking religion. If there is any
thing glad about it. anythlug beauti
ful about it, anything important about
it, we ought to be continuously dis
cussing it 1 have noticed that men,
just in proportion as their Christian
experience is shallow, talk about
funerals, and grave-yards, and tomb
stones, and death-beds. The real,
genuine Christian man talks chiefly
about this life, and the great eternity
beyond, and not so much about the
! insignificant pass between these
two residences. And yet how few
|f circles there are whero the religion of
K Jesus Christ is welcome. Go into a
circle, oven of Christian people, where
*. they are full of joy and hilarity, and
talk about Christ or heaven and every
thing is immediately silenced. As on
a summer day, when the forests are
full of life, chatter, and chirrup, and
carol—a mighty chorus of bird har
mony, and every tree branch an or
chestra—if a hawk appear in the sky,
Jv every voice stops, and the forests are
still; just so I have seen a lively relig
ious circle silenced on the appearance
of anything like religious conversa
tion. No one has anything to say.
save, perhaps, some old patriarch in |
the corner of the room, who really
thinks that something ought to be
'said, under the circumstances; so he
puts one foot over the other, und
heaves a long sigh, and says, “Oh, yes;
that's so. that’s so.”
My friends, the religion of Jesus
Christ is something to talk about with
a glad heart It is brighter than the
waters; it is more cheerful than the
sunshine. Do not go around groaning
about your religion, when you ought
to be singing it or talking it in cheer
;j •: (ul tones of voice. How often it is that
wo find men whoso lives are utterly in
consistent who attempt to talk re
ligion, and always make a failure of it!
My friends, we must livq religion, or
we cannot talk it If a. man is cranky,
and cross, and uncongenial, and hard
in his dealings, and then begins to talk
about Christ and heaven, everybody is
repelled by it Yet I have heard such
men say, in whining tones *'We are
miserable sinners;” "The Lord bless
you;” "The Lord have mercy on you;”
their conversation interlarded with
snch expressions, which mean nothing
but canting; and canting is the worst
form of hypocrisy. If we have really
felt the religion of Christ in our hearts,
let us talk it and talk U with an
illuminated countenance, remembering
?>* tiaat when two Christaln people talk,
i|i; <Jod gives especial attention, and
writes down what they say. Malachi
iil:16: “Then they that feared the
Lord spake often one to another; and
the Lord harkened and heard it and a
book of remeinbrunce was written.” -
Again I remark, we must bring the
religion of Christ into our employ
ments “Oh," they say, “that i-t very
well if a man handle large sums of
money, or if he have an extensive
traffic; but in my thread-amt-needle
store, in my trimming establishment,
in the humble work in life that 1 am
called to, the sphere is too small for
the action of such grand heavenly
principles.” Who told you so ? Do
a, you not know that God watches the
faded leaf on the brook’s surface as
certainly as he does tlie path of a
blaming sun? And the moss that
jfe creeps up the side of the rock makes
■ as much impression upon God's mind
as the waring tops of Oregon pine
and Lebanon cedar; and the alder,
«rarkling under the cow’s hoof, aonnds
as loud In God's ear as the snap ot a
world's conflagation. When yon have
anything to do in life,however humble
it may seem to be, God Is always there
to help you do it If your work is that
of a fisherman, then God will help you
as he helped Simon when he dragged
Genncsnret. If your work is drawing
water, then he will help you, as when
he talked at the well-curb to the
Samaritan woman. If you are engaged
in the custom house, he will lead you,
as he lead Matthew sitting at the
receipt of customs. A religion that is
not good in one place is not worth any
thing in another place. The man who
has only a days’ wages in his pocket as
certainly needs the guidance of re
ligion, as he who rattles the keys of a
bank, and could abscond with a hun
dred thousand hard dollars
There are those prominent in the
churches who seem to be, on public oc- (
casions, very devout, who do not put
tho principles of Christ's religion into
practico. They are the most inexor
able of creditors. They are the most
grasping of dealers. They are knowr
ae sharpers on the street. They fleecu
every sheep they can catch. A coun
try merchant comes in to buy spring or
fall goods, and he gets into the store
of one of these professed Christian men
who have really no grace in their
hearts, and he is completely swindled.
He is so overcome that he cannot get
out of town during the week. He
stays in town over Sunday, goes into
some church to getChrlstian consolation
when,' what la his amazement to find
that the very man who hands him the
poor-box in the church is the one who
relieved him of his money! Hut never
mind; the deacon has his black coat
on now. lie looks solemn, and goes
home talking about “the blessed ser
mon.’’ It the wheat in the churches
should be put into a hopper, the first
turn of the crank would make the
chaff fly, I tell vou. Some of these
men are great sticklers for gospel
preaching. They say, "You stand
there In bands and surplice and gown,
and preach—preach like an angel, and
we will stand out hero and attend to
business. Don't mix thinga Don't
get business and religion in the same
bucket. You attend to your matters
and we will attend to ours.” They do
not know that (iod sees every cheat
they have practiced in the last six
years; that he can look through the
iron wall of their flre-proof safe;
that he has counted every dishonest
dollar they have in their pocket
and that a day of judgment will come.
These inconsistent Christian men will <
sit on the Sabbath night in the house
house of Qod, singing at the close of
the service, “Rock of Ages, cleft for
for me," and then, when the benedic
tion is pronounced, shut the pew door,
and Bay as they go out, "Good-by, re
ligion, I'll be back next Sunday.”
1 think that the church of God and
the Sabbath are only an armory where
we are to get weapons. When war
comes, if a man wants to fight for his
country he does not go to Troy or
Springfield to do battling, but he goes
there for swords and muskets. 1 look
upon the church of Christ and the Sab
bath day as only the place and time
where and when we are to get armed
for Christian conllict; but the battle
field is on Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
"St Martin’s” and "Lenox,” and "Old
Hundred" do not amount to anything
unless they sing all the week. A ser
mon is useless unless we can take it
with us behind the plough and the
counter. The Sabbath day Is worth
less if it last only twenty-four hours.
There are many Christians who say:
"We are willing to serve God, but we
do not want to do It in these spheres
about which we are talking; and it
seems so insipid and monotonous. If
we had some great occasion, if we had
lived in the time of Luther, if we had
been Paul’s traveling companion, if we
could serve God on a great scale, we
would do it;,but we can't in this every
day life.” 1 admit that a great
deal of the romance and knight
errantry of life have disappeared
before the advance of this practical
age. The ancient temples of Rouen
uuvo ucen cuuugeu 1ULU siore-nouses
and smithies The residences of poets
and princes have been turned into
brokers' shops. The classic mansion
of Ashland lias been cut up into walk
ing slicks. The groves where the
poets said the gods dwelt have been
carted out for fire wood. The muses
that we used to read about have disap
peared before the emigrant's ax and
the trapper’s gun, and that man who
is waiting for a life bewitched of won
ders will never find it. There is, how
ever, a field for endurance and great
achievement, but it is in everyday life.
There are Alps to scale, there are
llellesponts to swim, there are fires to
brave; but they are all around us now.
This is the hardest kind of martyrdom
to bear. It took grace to lead Lati
mer and Ridley through the fire tri
umphantly when their armed enemies
and their friends were looking on; but
it requires more grace now to bring
men through persecution, when no
body is looking on. I could show you
in this city a woman who has had
rheumatism for twenty years, who has
endured more suffering and exhausted
more grace than would have made
twenty martyrs pass triumphantly
through the fire. If you are not faith
ful in an insignificant position in life,
you would not be faithful in a grand
missioa. If you cannot stand the bite
or a midge, how could you endure the
I breath of a basilisk?
Do not think that any work God
gives yon to do in the world is on too
small a scale for you to da The whole
universe is not ashamed to take care of
one little flower. 1 say, “What are
you doing down here in the grass, you
poor little flower? Are you not afraid
nights? You will be neglected, you
wiil die of thirst, you will not be fed.
j Poor little flower!” “No,” says a star,
|‘5'il watch over it tonight.” “No,”
I soys a cloud, “I’ll give it drink.”
! "No,” says the sun, “I’ll warmit in my
| bosom " Then I see the pulleys going,
i nnd the clouds are drawing water, and
! 1 say, "Whut are you doing there, O,
I clouds?” And they reply, “We are
! giving drink to that flower." Then
; the wind rises, and comes bending
j down the wheat, and sounding its
; psalm through the forest, an 1 I cry,
“Whither away on such swift wing,
O. wind?” And it replies, "We are
; go ng to cool the cheek of that flower ”
I And then I bow dbwn and say, “Wiil
! God take care of the grass' of the
I field?” And a flower at my feet re
| sponds. “Yes: he clothes the lilies of
I the field, und never yet has forgotten
. me, a poor little flower.” Oh! when I
j see the great heavens bending them
selves to what seems insignificant min
istration, when I find out that Uod
does not forget any blossom of the
spring or any snow-flake of the wint«fc
1 come to the conclusion that we can
afford to attend to the minute things in
life, and that what we do we ought to
do welL, since there la as much
perfection In the construction of a
spider's eye as in the conformation of
flaming galaxies. Plato had a fable
which I have now nearly forgotten,
but it ran something like this: lie
said spirits of the -other world camo
back to this world to find a body and
find a sphere of work. One spirit came
and took the body of a king, and did
his work. Another spirit came and
took the body -of * poet and did his
work. Aftera while Ulysses came and
he said: “Why, all the fine bodies are
taken and all the grand work is taken.
There la nothing left for mo.” And
some one replied: ”Aht the best one
has been left for you.” Ulysses said:
“Whnt'a that?” And the reply was:
“The body of a common man, doing u
common work, and far a common re
ward." A good fable for the world,
and just aa good a fable for the church.
Whether we eat or drink, or whatso
ever we do, let us do it to the glory of
Uod.
Again, we need to bring the religion
of Christ into our commonest trials
For severe losses, for bereavement, for
trouble that shocks like an earthquake
and that blasts like a storm, we pre
scribe religious consolation, but, busi
ness man, for the small annoyances of
last week, how much of the grace of
Uod did you apply? "Oh!” you say,
“these trials are too small for such ap
plication.” My brother, they are
shaping your character, they are sour
ing your temper, they are
wearing out your patience, and
they are .making you less
ind less of a* man. I go into a
icuipior s studio, una see mm shaping
» statue. He has a chisel in one hand
tnd a mallet in the other, and he gives
i very gentle stroke—click, click,
dick! I say, "Why don't you strike
larder?” “Oh!” he replies, “that
.vould shatter the statuo. 1 can’t do it
that way; I must do it this way.” So
le works on, and after a while the
Features come out, and everybody who
snters the studio is charmed and fas
cinated. Well, God lias your soul,
inder process of development, and it is'
the little annoyances and vexutions' of
ife that are chiseling out your ira
nortal nature. It is click, click, click!
! wonder why some grent providence
loes not come, and with one stroke
prepare you for heaven. Ah.no. God
lays that is not the way. And so ho
ceeps up by strokes of little annoy
inces, little sorrows, little vexations,
intil at last you shall be a glad spec
tacle for angels and for men. You
mow that a large fortune may be
ipent in small change, and a vast
imount of moral character may' go
iway in small depletion. A swarm of
locusts will kill a grain field sooner
than the incursion of three or four
cattle. You say, “Since I lost my
child, since I lost my property, I have
been a different man.” Dut you de
aot recognize the architecture of little
innoyances that are hewing, digging,
cutting, shaping, splitting and inter
joining your moral qualities Rats
inay sink a ship. One lucifer match may
send destruction through a block of
store houses Catherine de Medicis
got her death from smelling a poison
ous rose. Columbus, by stopping and
asking for a piece of bread and a drink
of water at a Franciscan convent, was
led to the discovery of the new world.
And there is an intimate connection
between trifles and immensities, be
tween nothings and everythings.
Now, be careful to let none of those
annoyances go through your soul un
arraigned. Compel them to administer
to your spiritual wealth. The scratch
of a six-penny nail sometimes produces
locked-jaw and the clip of a most in
finitesimal annoyance may damage you
forever. Do not let any annoyance or
perplexity come across your soul with
out its making you better.
Our national government does not
think it belittling to put a tax on pins,
and a tax on buckles, and a tax on
shoes. The individual taxes do not
amount to much, but in the aggregate
to millions and millions of dollars.*
And I would have you, O Christian
n)an, put a high tariff on every annoy
ance and vexation that comes through
your soul. This might not amount to
much, in single cases, but in the aggre
gate it would be a great revenue of
spiritual strength and satisfaction. A
bee can suck honey even out of a net
tle, and if you have the grace of God
in your heart, you can get sweetness
out of that which would otherwise irri
tate and annoy. A returned mission
ary told me that a company of ad
venturers rowing up the Ganges were
stung to death by flies that infest that
region at certain seasons. I have seen
the earth strewed with the carcasses of
men slain by insect annoyances The
only way to get prepared for the great
troubles of life is to conquer these
small troubles
A Honolulu Feast.
A Kentucky burgoo is nothing com
pared with 'a Honolulu feast. An
American in Hawaii writes about one
lie attended nut long ago. The awn
ing of sails covered tables occupying
6,000 Fqnnru feet, with room for several
hundron guests. The cooks were pro
vided with forty-five half-grown pigs,
two beeves, 125 chickens, several hun
dred fish, and sweet potatoes in abund
ance. The cooking was in pits filled
with hot stones. Ou these was spread
a thick layer of fresh banana stems
followed by nearly three feet of meat
in bundles. Over these was laid a
thick mat of banana leaves.and on top
a lid of dirt a foot thick. The trussed
pigs were put in whole, and the cook
ing occupied an entire night. The
fish aud sweet potatoes were simmered
iu their own juice iu another pit. The
tables were gay with funeifully cut
watermelons, nod suppliud with native
nuts, fruits, and sea food. The feasters
were not only allowed, but expected
to lick their lingers.
Likely to Die.
Kibbon Clark—“When yon are at
liUwlv I wish you would eonie down
t<> I lie office and wituess my will.”
| Hamburg Clark—"Do you expect to
din sooilP”
| Kdiboti Clark— ‘-Life is uncertain at
i tliu best; besides, the floor walker’s
| in-si girl was in a few minutes ago and
11 told her he had gone out with a
[ wheelbarrow to deliver some goods.’’
A WOMAN'S ■LIFE,
i ft* ItatM, from th« ^ntli to th*
Grarr, Deftly Told,
A wee mother 1s carefully putting
6er favorite tloll to bed, gossips the
!ie« Orleans Picayune. With tender
•olicitude ehe carefully removes each
laioty garment and fastens on the
iiny nightgown. Then with a fond
Kiss she hugs her treasure to her and
places it io its cradle. After tapping
It gently she tiptoes out of the room as
the twilight peeps curiously in.
A fair maiden stands beforo her
looking glass adding the last touches
to her evening toilet. Her lover will
toou be here! Her eyes are full of in*
aocent lovelighi! Site looks eagerly
it her reflection in the glass! How
find sbe Is that she is pretty! She
frowns a little at p crimp that will not
itay just as it should. A ring conies
at the door and sbe hastens away to
meet her beloved.
A young wife sits anxiously watch
ing for her husband. At each ap
proaching footstep her heart beats
rapturously and then grows heavy
with disappointment! She will not go
indoors, it is so sweet oat there! The
creeping shadows cheer her trembling
soul—so she waits and wishes, and the
shadows lengthen into darkened night.
A mother is rocking her baby to
sleen. He looks at her gravely while
they move to and fro, as if asking why
the bright sunshine must loavo and the
ugly shadows hide her dear face from
him. There is a wealth of wisdom in
his great sweet eyes! He holds tightly
to her dress, us *if to keep her near1'
hint!
When at Inst his eyes are closed she
disengages the loving hand, kisses him
lightly—he must not be awakened—
and arises to put him into his crib.
Thus she sinks buck into her chair and
begins to rock again. It is so pleas
ant to rest in the twilight, and he is so
sweet to nurse!
A woman kneels by a fresh mnde
grave. The headboard stares coldly
at her and seems to say over and over
again the words inscribed upon it:
''He was her only child and she was a
widow.” Willi tear ladeu eyes she
heeds lower and lower, till her lips
rest upon tlio earth. She longs so to
kiss the quiet form it is hidiug from
her! And the twilight seems to hurry
past and lose itself in the darkness.
A careworn old woman sits watch
ing the shadows come—they are friends
to her—friends that she welcomes—fot
they always sing the same song to her,
••O’ue Day Nearer Home.” And she
•miles to them her thanks. She, too.
repeats, “one day nearer home.” And
so lifo—woman's life—goes on in the
twilight till rest comes to her weary
body and joy to her aching heart—till
her spirit reaches its home, where
never u shadow can full upon it.
BEATEN BY A MOOSE.
fEzoltlnsr Four-Mile Bum In Whieh the
Monuroh of th« Forest Won.
As a short train of flat-cars was run
(ling up the Duluth & Winnipeg Road
nto Itasca County. Minn., a large
pioose was discovered near the track,
says Youth's Companion. In an in
stant lie tied ahead of the train aloug
the old tote path used by the Indians
and woodsmen before the railway was
bnilt. The path is close to the cat
track and parallel With it. As there
are no regular trains on Sunday the
engineer had a clear Held and deter
mined to show the moose how to run.
The iron horse snorted and bounded
along over his track of steel, while nil
on board intently watched the race. It
was a four-mile straightaway run.
The moose's gait was an indescriba
ble trot, such ns only a moose can ex
hibit; his hind feet fanning his ears,
his tongue hnnging from his month,
every muscle in his body moving, while
his paces wore apparently two rods
In length. At Hrst it was only a little
jog. but as the engine began to do its
best the moose let himself out n knot
at a time, and all the mysterious power
of steam could notiprevail against this
monarch of the forest.
Faster and faster sped the engine,
bnt still the frightened moose trotted
In the van, letting out his tongue an
other link, and adding another knot,
as was needed, to bis gait. But when
four miles had thus oecn traversed,
the contestants came upon a clearing
where men were gathered. Thus
driven from his pathway and forced to
abandon wlint seemed a playful pas
time, the moose dashed across the
track several rods in front of the en
gine. and a moment later, without
awaiting the reward of his well
earned luurels, was lost to sight in tbs
forest
Solid With the Company.
Among the first railroads be.Ut in
die United Slates was a little line about
twenty miles in length. In the course
»f time a big tunnel liue was construct
ed through the snme country. The
original line beenme merely a branch,
tor many years it wns run in a cheap
way,with one locomotive,one engiueer,
and two or three freight cars.
Finally a new general manager was
appointed. He had not been in office
but one week when he sent for the one
|pue conductor, who had been there
ever since the road was built..
“I would like to have your resigna
tion," said the general mnnager when
the conductor appeared.
“My resignation?" inquired the con
ductor in astonishment.
“Yes. sir; yours.”
“What; for. pray?”
“Well, 1 want to make some changes
and get Dew blood in the line," was
the general manager's reply.
“1 won't resign," answered the con
ductor.
“Then, I will be compelled to die
charge you, a step which, for your
sake, I had hoped I would be saved
from taking."
“Young man. you will not discharge
me. I own n controlling interest in
•he stock of this railroad and elect the
President and Board of Directors. I
shall have you tired.”
I be old conductor did really own
the majority of the stuck, and, as he
said, put in j,h own It >ard of Direct
ors uud President.—AtlaiUn OunttUn
tion.
Col. John Ilav has preseated Adel
bert College la Cleveland with $2,000
THE MIGRATIONS OF INSECTS.
anights of ItattarlllM and Dragon flH|
Orar tha Prairie.
We all know that birds of nearly
evory spocies dwelling within tbt
north temperate cone migrate fo|
long distances and at stated periods
Hying in the spring to the far north and
returning to the south in autumn ot
early winter. A few kinds of quad,
rupeds also migrate at certain seasons,
chiefly in search of more abundant
food. This is true of tho buffaloes,
which nt one time roamed in vast herds
east of the Mississippi river, but which,
many years ago. departed to tho grassy
plains of the far west, never to return.
Travelers relate a similar fact with re*
gard to great troops of elephants in
certain sections of Africa.
Certain reptiles also migrate from
place to place. I have myself observed,
says a correspondent of the Philadel
phia Times, rattlesnakes crawling
across a western prairie in couutless
numbers, all in the same direction.
At the time I saw them they were
spread over a very large terri*
tory, the width of the strange pro*
cession being not less than eight to ten
miles.
The migration of insects is a fact
that has been seldom recorded and
perhaps not often witnessed. In this
case, again, to And illustrations, we
must look to the prairies of the west.
In that vast and trackless domain,
where nature reigns supreme, she un
folds her richest treasures and relates
her strangest stories.
It was once my good fortune to wit
ness in tho far southwest the migrations
in vast numbers of throe widely differ*
ent species of insects. The first, which
took place in the month of May, wa(
the flight of white butterflies of the
species known as kricogonia lyside,
about a9 large as our common cabbage
butterfly, and pretty closely resemb
ling it. In the morning those white
butterflies began to leave the places
where they Imd concealed themselves
during the night and to move to one
general direction toward the north.
By noon the prairie was alive .with
them all around as far as the eye could
reach.
i wanted several miles that morning
through the vast cloud of wiujjs, but
foumfno end of it. At times I com
pared then: in numbers to bees lenving
n hive, nt others to great rarid snow
flakes. 1 stood with my collecting-net
catching on the wing some of the
finest and largest specimens that came
.within reach. There was not much
choice, however, for I noticed that
nearly all of them were in fresh and
perfect condition, having evidently
just emerged from the chrysalis.
All that day they continued to fly.
but, of course, the migration ceased at
night, because it is the instinct of
butterflies to go under cover when
darkness approaches. I found few that
Imd lodged under the leaves of the
mesquite, a bush rolated to our locust.
The uext morning the flight was re
sumed, and the white-robed travelers
continued to move past me in dense
swarms for about an hour, after which
the numbers dwindled down, thun be
came scattered. Then a few strag
glers only were to be seen, and ai last
they disappeared.
On two other occasions I witnessed
northward migrations of the same
species. 1 was assured by observers,
whom I had reason to cousider trust
worthy, that iu the early autumn large
flights of this same white butterfly
take place in a southward direction.
Such a flight must be composed of in
sects of a later brood, because the life
of an individual butterfly is but a few
weeks in duration at most. It is quite
possible that by some developed in
stinct peculiar to only a few species,
theso butterflies are impelled, at the
beginning of the long, dry, southern
summer to seek a more noighern
climate, where they may find a soil
less baked by the sun and more suc
culent herbage adapted to the wants
of their voracious caterpillars.
At the end of summer it would seem
that they return, like the birds, to find
a_ warm and sunuy winter. The
flights that I observo took place iu,
southern Texas, but in my journevc
farther north I never found'this species
in largo numbers, I nru, therefore, un
able to say to what northeru locality
my great clouds of white butterflies
could have been wafted!
in June of the 8nmo year nnd again
in August n certain large dragon fly
caught the migrating fever and mil.
lions of this kind flew in swarms all in
one direction over the prairie. As far
as our party could travel in one day
we continued to see these winged
“darning-needles.” In June they flew
due northwest, in August nearly south
west. This also seemed like a going
and returning migration. Unlike the
butterflies, theso dragon flies continued
their passage during, the night and
their procession occupied three or four
days in passing us. We had no means
of learning whither they were bound
or whence they came.
The common gray beetle known as
the Spanish fly is another migrant over
the Texas prairies. Our party sud
denly encountered an army of these
beetles as we were driving from one of
our hunting camps to another, and we
turned and followed in its wake. The
insects crawled as fast as their active
legs could carry them, making a
column that varied from six ihcbes to
two feet in width nnd more than
100 yards in length. The head of the
army was impactly formed in a dunse
line, but its rear ended with a long
stream of stragglers, which became
fewer and more scattered until they
gradually ceased. 1 am inclined to be
lieve that all these myriads of beetles
wero batched from eggs laid close to
gether by a few females of the preced
tng generation.
the new Countess of Dudlev is, ac
cording to all accounts, a very beauti
ful woman, but to sny that she is hand
somer than the dowager Countess, her
mother-in-law. is something which is
difficult to believe. The senior Count
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whose charms only ripen nnd expaud
with age. r
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