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—I.— 1 Mo Inos
timnhlu value of Christianity an an eleva
ting anil ennobling influence on the nature
of man, formed the subject of Ur. I :i 1 ■
male's nernion thin mbrning. Tlio
preacher chose an his text the huiniliaiion
of the Babylon 1»U king who being ilesll
tute of religion natik to the level of the
brute. Daniel lv: *.'8, ‘‘A 11 thin came upon
the King Nebuchadnezzar."
Colonel Itawlinsoa, the oriental trav
eler, says that the exhumed bricks,
not only of llabylon but of 100 towns
in an area of 100 miles in length and
thirty in breadth, are inscribed with
the name of Nebuchadnezzar. He
was a great warrior and at the glance
of his sword nations prostrated them
selves. He was a great king and built
a city roservoir ninety milos in circum
ference and ISO feet deep, and con
structed a hanging garden 400 feet
squure und seventy-five feet high, some
say to please Amukia, his wife, who j
had been born nmeng the hills, and !
others say to get a pleasure ground
free from the mosquitoes, which nlllict
the levels. 1 think, from his charac
ter, the latter reason may have im
pelled him as much a| the former.
When he conquered King Zcdclclah, so
as*to have no more trouble with him,
he put Ills eyes out—a most barbar
ous way of incapacitating an
enemy. Hut llabylon was a great
place, tlio houses surrounded by gar
dens und the housetops were connected
with each other by bridges, and one
day Nebuchadnezzar walked out on
those suspension bridges and showed,
peril-.'ps to a royal visitor, tlio vnstness
it lii£ realm as the sun kindles the
domes with glistenings almost insuf
ferable, and the great streets thunder
up their pomp into the ear of the mon
arch, and armed towers stand around
Adorned with spoils of conquered em
pires. Nebuchadnezzar waves his hand
above the stupendous scene and ex
claims: “Is not this great iiabylon
that 1 have built for the house of the
kingdom by the might of my power
and for the honor of mjf majesty?" In
other words: “What a great man I
am. Iiabylon was not anything until
I adorned it. See those waterworks;
see those gardens; see those forts I
did all this 1 shall never be forgot
ten. Why, my name is on every brick
in all those walls. Just look at me. I
am more than a man. Uut, in an in
stant, all that splendor is gone from
his vision, for a voice falls from the
heavens, saying: “0, King Nebuchad
nezzar, to thee it is spoken; the king
dom is departed from thee, nnd they
shall drive thee from men and thy
dwelling shall be with the beasts o‘f
the field; they shall make thee to eat
grass as oxen, and seven times shall
pass over thee, until thou know that
the Most High ruleth in the kingdom
of men and givetli it to whomsoever he
wilL" One hour from the time ho
made the boast, ho is on his way to the
fields a maniac, and rush ng into the
forests lie becomes as one of the beasts,
and is nfter awhile covered with
eagles’ feathers for protection from the
cold, and his nails grow to look like
bird's claws in order that he may dig
the oarth for roots and ciimb the trees
for nuts.
The mental disaster that seized him
was what the Ureck3 called lycan
thropy, by which a man Imagines him
self a beast and prefers to go out and
mlnglo with brutes, lie who had been
eating pomegranates and apricots off
of plates of gold inlaid with nmethj'st
and diamond, and drinking tho richest
wines from tho royal vats, now brows
ing on grass, and struck by the horn of
the ox ns ho contends for a better tuft
of tho pasturage, and instead of an
orchestra on benches of ivory playing
the national airs, now listening to the
moan and bellow and grunt of the
beasts. This is not hard for mo to be
lieve, for the forms of domentin are in
numerable. A few years ago, arriving
in a cuy on asummor aitcruoon, while
waiting lor ray engagement in the
evening, I sauntered forth into what
seemed to bo a pur'.: in front of a large
public building, the use of which I
knew not I met a gentleman, with
whom I fell into a delightful conversa
tion, and he seemed intelligent on all
subjects. After a while. I said: “Let
us sit down on this bench and rest
awhile and enjoy the sceno of verdure
and fountains.” “No.” said ho. “You
sit down, but I cannot I am made of
glass, and if I should sit down I would
break to pieces.” Then, I saw that he
was insane, and belonged to the large
building just behind us. After such an
interview as that, I can oasily believe
this account of my text Here is
Nebuchadnezzar on all fours. He once
prided himself on boing more than a
man, and now he turns out less than a
man. The courtiers look out of
the windows upon him as he moves
among the rojal herds and cry,
"A beast!” Seven years pass when
suddenly his reason returns, and he
comes back to liabylon a humble wor
shipper of the t-od of heaven. What
must have been the excitement in the
royal court ns this restored maniac
emperor walks into the palace. What
a time they hsd in enttiug his nails
and his l:&lr, which had grown for
seven years without being interfered
with by any shears. What a scrub
bing must have taken place in the im
perial baths What a transformation
nccossary in ordor that he who had
been herding with camels and goats
and swine may be made fit to associ
ate with princes. What a change from
a sty to a th»one-room!
While walking from this Ilabylonian
palace down to the pasture field, and
from the pas'.uro field back to the pal
ace, the first tiling that impresses me
is wliat an incongruous thing it is for
a king to be eating crass. It is good
for cattle.but not fit for man. And then!
for one to prefer it to a royal table
toward whoso bounty the orchards,
and paddocks, and streams, and vine
yards in all the earth might contribute
—what an amazement! And yet the
scene is ns common as the daylight.
When I see a man of regiu nature
made to rule in realms of thought,
capable of all moral elevation, besot
ting his faculties, attempting out of
low sensualities to satisfy his immortal
energies, coming down of! his throne
of power into brutalities, sacrificing
his higher nature to his lower nature,
stooping and stooping, coming down
and coming down until all his influ
ence for good is gone, I cry out,
“There is a king eating grass like an
ox!’’ And there are tens of thousands
of such Nebuchadnezzar*. So there
ure queens who dedicate themselves to
the same humiliation. What power
f >r good God gave that woman. Mag
netism of personal presence. Influence
more than imperial. l(y her intelli
gence. by lier tenderness, by her charm
of smile mid manner, capable of sooth
ing so much sorrow, nnd reforming so
much waywardness, nnd wielding so
much elevuted power: yet at the call of
worldliness, coming out of the throne
room of go ul influence, where God
would have her reign, coming down
over the ivory stairs of moral power,
coming down and coming down until
she has no moro soul than the dead
bird transfixed in her millinery or the
chinchilla that was slain to give her
warmth, or the kid that furnished her
the glove, and finding her only delight
in flatteries of brainless men, and mid
night schottlschu and debauched nov
elettes. I say "There is one who might
have been a queen unto God forever,
yet eating straw like an ox.” I look
over the pasture fields of folly
nnd sin, and find many grovelling who
ought to be erect. Oh men and women
go back to your thrones! A youug man
ran a tvav from home and broke his
widowed mother’s heart. Fourteen
years passed and he returned, and
came to the window at which his old
mother was sitting. She looked up and
uuuiuuiuiuiy recognized mm, uuu saut:
“Oh, Robert, Robert! Como in!” “No!”
said he, “mother, I shr.ll never come
in till I hear you say you forgive mo.”
Her answer was, "Robert, I have for
given you long ago. There is nothing
to forgive now except that you staid
away so long.” My hearer*, forgive
ness has been ready for you a good
while. With moro than a mother’s
tenderness God will take you back.
They are waiting for you up in the
palace. Nebuchadnezzar was the son
of Nobopolassar who ruled before hiin,
and you nre the child of a king!
The next thought that presses into
my mind from the contemplation of
this incident, is that conviction is not
conversion. Who is this monarch that
makes the boast about liabylon? The
very man who, under the revelation of
dreams that Daniel made from heaven,
deeply humbled himself, while he con
fessed that God is a God of Gods and a
Lord of Lords, yet, behold that that
humbling and arousing which he be
foro felt did not result in a radical
change. There is no mistake more
frequent than of supposing conviction
a synonym for conversion. Conviction -
is merely si sight of sin; conversion is
a view of pardon. Conviction is merely
alarm; conversion is confidence. Con
viction is dissatisfaction with deprav
ity; conversion is a turning away from
it. Conviction is a sword wound; con
version is the healing. Conviction is
the fever of thirst; conversion is the
slaking of that thirst. Conviction is
the pain; conversion is the medicine
that cures it. Thousands have experi
enced the former and never experi
enced the latter. There are multitudes
who think that as soon as a man is
serious he is fit for profession of re
ligion. What if a man should only
think seriously of being a merchant,
would that make him a merchant?
What if a man should only think seri
ously of being a lawyer; would that
make him a lawyer? What if a
man should only think seriously
of being a Christian; would
that make him a Christian? Felix
was convicted but not converted The
jailer was convicted before he- got out
of bed, but not converted until at the
advice of 1’aul ho believed in Christ.
Are you convicted but not converted?
I tell you what you make me think of.
You have made up your mind for
proper consideration to deed away a
property. You have drawn the deed.
The seal is affixed opposite where you
are to write your name. The commis
sioner of deeds is present to witness.
You have your pen in hand. There is
ink in the pen. Thero is only one
thing for you to do, and that is to sign
your name. Supposo you stop now
without signing youy name, what does
it all amount to? Nothing. So vou
nave resolved to give yourself up to
God. You propose to sign off to him
your body, your mind, your soul. You
have all things necessary for the
transfer. The angels of God are here
to witness the eternal transfer. Why
do you not now with your will com
plete the work? Halt where you are,
and all goes for nothing. Sign your
name to this spiritual transfer Pro
fessor Arago, the mathematician, got
wofully discouraged in his work and
was about to give up, when ho saw
some words on the paper which had
been used to stiffen the cover of his
book, and the words being indistinct
he dampened the cover until he could
take it off and saw the words plainly
and he found they were words of ad
vice given by D’ Alembert to a stu
dent, and the words were, “Go on, sir; ■
go on!" Oh ye who are convicted “Go
on!" You must tako ono more step, or
all the steps you have taken will
amount to nothing! Go on!
Learn also from my subject that
pride is the precursor of over
throw. Prido is a commander
we»l plumed and caparisoned,
but it leads forth a dark aud
frowning host “Pride goeth before
destruction, and a haughty spirit be
fore a fall." The arrows from the
Almighty’s quiver arc upt to strike a
man when on tho wing. Goliah shakes
his great spear in defiance, but the
Bmooih stones from the brook make
him stagger and fall like an ox under
a butcher's bludgon. He who is down
cannot fall. Vessels scudding under
bare poles do not feel the force of tho
storm. What are those three sleds that
have just gone into the yard of a mis
erable hotel in Warsaw, Poland,on the
cold night of December 10, 1812? Who
are they, who from these sleds have
entered, and the sorvant is trying to
build for them a fire with some green
wood? Napoleon, with six attendants,
on retreat, from Moscow. Tho fire
amid the green wood lias gone out and
the emperor is walking the floor to !
keep from freezing. Then bounding
into his sled, the thermometer 2S de
grees below zero, he disappears in the
darkness. He, who a little before had
an army under his command, together ]
with troops offered by other nations in i
aU 1,187,000 men, now retreating I
through thmt December night with'
three sleds, and those of his army not
dead under the snow, reduced for food
to a mere handful of rye-dough,
seasoned with gunpowder for lack of'
salt, and a mouthful of horsc-liesh.
I’rom what a height to what a depth!
Nebuchadnezzar in the palace;
I Nebuchadnezzar forsaken in the
Helds. *
Again learn from the misfortune of
the king of liabylon what a terrible
thing is the loss of reason. There is
no calamity that can possibly befall ns
in this world so great as the derange
ment of intellect—to hare the body of
a man and yet to fall even below the
instinct of a brute. In this world of
sad sights, the saddest is the idiot's
stare, in this world of awful sounds,
the most nwful is the maniac's laugh.
A vessel on the rocks, when hundreds
go down never to rise, and other hun
dreds drag their mangled and shiver
ing bodies up the wintry beach, is
nothing compared to the foundering
of intellects full of vast hopes and
attainments and capacitiea Christ's
heart went out to those who were epi
leptic, falling into fire, or maniacs cut
ting themselves among the tombs. We
are accustomed to be more grateful for
physical health than for the proper
working of our mind. We are apt to
take it for granted that the intellect
which has served us so well will ul ways
be faithful. We forget that an engine
with such tremendous power, when the
wheels have such vastness of circle and
such swiftness of motion and the least
impediment might put it out of gear,
could only be kept in proper balance
by a divine hand. No human power
could engineer this train of imwort il
faculties. How strauge it is that
our memory, on whose shoulders all
the successes and misfortunes and oc
currences of a lifetime nre placed,
should not oftener break down, and
that the scales*of judgment, which
nave been weighing so much and so
long, should not lose their adjustment,
and that fancy, which holds a danger
ous wand, should not sometimes
maliciously wave it, bringing into the
heart forebodings and hallucinations
the most appalling. Is it not strange
that the expectations of this intellect
should not be dashed to pieces on its
disappointments? Though so deli
cately attuned, this instrument of un
told harmonies plays on, though fear
shocks it, and vexations rack it, and
sorrow and joy aDd loss and gain in
quick succession beat out of it their
dirge, or draw from it their anthem.
At morning and at night, when in your
prayer you rehearse the objects of
your thanksgiving, next to 3’our salva
tion by Jesus Christ, praise the Lord
for the preservation of your reason.
How mauy fine intellects are being
destroyed by anodynes and anaesthet
ics, which were given by providence
for occasional use in alleviation of pain
or insomnia,abuf by being employed
continuously, after awhile capture and
destroy Chloral, cocaine, bromide of
potassium, opium and whole shelves
of seductive etceteras that help to turn
Nebuchadnezzars into imbecility or
madness. Do not trifle with opiates
that benumb the brain. If you cannot
live without the perpetual and enslav
ing use of them, you had better die.
Hotter die a sano man than live a fool,
What right have you to kill your brain
and put in wild jangle your nervous
system? Hut rum is the cause of more
insanity than anything else. There is
nothing like rum to put a man, like
Nebuchadnezzar, down on all fours.
Again, learn how quickly turns the
wheel of fortune, from how high up
to how far down went Nebuchadnez
zar. Those now in places of position
and power, ev(jn though they should
live, will, in a few years, be disre
garded, while some, who this day are
obscure and poverty stricken, will ride
up on the shoulders of the people to
take their turn at admiration and the
spoils of office. Oh, how quickly .the
wheel turns lktllot boxes are the
steps on which men come down as
often as they go up. Of those who
were a few years ago successful in the
accumulation of property, how few
have not met with reverses of fortune,
while many of those who then were
straitened in circumstances now hold
the bonds and the bank keys of the
nation and win the most bows on the
exchange. Of all fickle people in the
world fortune is the most fickle. Every
day she changes her mind, and woe to
that man who puts any confidence in
what she promises or proposes. She
cheers whtfh you go up and she laughs
when you corne down. Oh, trust not a
moment your heart's affections to this
changeable world. Anchor your soul
in God. Frofti Christ’s love gather your
joy Then come sorrow or gladness,
success or defeat, riches or poverty,
honor or disgrace, health or sickness,
life or death, time or eternity, all are
yours and ye are Christ's and Christ is
God’s.
Well-Disciplined Ducks.
Blackwood has a good account of a
■journey of 1,200 miles up th,e Yang-se
Kiang full of description and leaving
on the mind the impression that China,
besides being one of the most original
of civilizod countries, must be one of
the most beautiful. The following
passage may raise in some fowl-breecf
ers a new appreciation of Chinese skill
In disciplining their feathered flocks:
“During our stay at Hankow we
visited a duck farm. The process of
keeping the ducks is simple. A largo
wooden shed stands near the edge of
the river, where the owner of the farm
or an employe spends the night with
his feathered friends. There must
have been several thousand of ducks in
the farm we visited. Before sunrise
the door of the shed is opened, ajicl out
run the ducks, scrambling, one over
the other into the river, where they
spend the day feeding. As soon as
sunset approaches, from all parts of
the river they come, for they wander
far among the rushes and islands dur
ing the day, and there is still more
hurry and scurry to got into the shed
than there was to get out at dawn.
The reason is simple. IinTuovable by
the door sits the Chinaman, along cane
in his hand, and woe betide the last
duck to enter, for down on its back
'comes the long bamboo with a pain
inflicting thud. In this way punctu
ality is insured among the ducks.”
Children could hardly have learned
their lesson better than the ducks.
A scientific journal states that a little
sugar put on the hands with soap will
greatly increase its lather and clean*
tog power.
’CETTIN’ JINED TOGETHER."
The Erldenea Went Aealnst *Hm. anil da
Had to Quit.
When I wns about two miles out of
town, says a writer in the N. Y. Eve
ning World, it began to ruin heavily
ami a woman came to the door of a
negro cabin and called to me to
•■scratch in yere till tie wetness isober.”
1 found that sho was a widow with
throe or four children, and she had a
caller in the person of an old darky
who had seen at least seventy-live
yours of nil sorts of weather. Hu was
bliud in one eye. hump-backed and
lame, and he didn’t look able to lift a
peck of potatoes. .After somo general
talk the old man luMied to the widow
uud said:
"l’ze gwine ter ask he ’uo ’boat it.”
•'Shoo!"
"Yes, I ar’! He ’an ortcr know.
Will vo’ un nbide?"
"Doan’ boddor!”
"But l'ze gwine ter.”
She fidgeted around and ho got up
and sat down and cleared b>s throat
and finally asked:
"Say. boss, l'ze been axin Libbie
’bout our gittiu’ j’ined together.” '
"Shoo! ole roan—how flighty!" she
exclaimed as sho waved hini awav.
"You mean about getting uiarfied?"
1 asked. (
"Dat's it. Her husband’s dun dend,
an shu’s powerful lonesome without a
man."
in™, juoses, wnat yo iniKiu sicu
giddiness fur?’’ she protested.
. "It’s de troof. Libbic. Jist fadin’
right away ’kuseyo’ haven't got no hus*
band. Dose yere chill’eu jist cryin’ all
de time kuse dev haiu’t gut no ladder.
Pore leetle chill’n.”
"Daddy, l’zu dun tole yo’ dat you’*
too ole," she objected.
"Hu! How ole was I?”
"Mighty ole, daddy—mighty ole.
You’s duu ’bout ready to die.”
"Hu! H’ar dat woman talk! Boss,
I waut yo’ to decide dat questun. Jist
look me nil ober an' say how ole I was.”
.1 took him over to the window
where I could get a good look at him,
and as I scanned his features I realized
that he must be a very old man indeed.
"Do you want my honest opiuion?"
I asked, as we sat down agaiu.
"Sartiu, L*css,” he hopefully replied,
while the widow’s face wore an anxious
look.
"Well, then, as near as I can judge,
and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, you are at least 80 years old.
and perhaps live years older."
"Jist nke 1 dun tole yo’ daddy!” ex
claimed the widow; aud she pounded
her knees with her lists and laughed
long and loud.
The old man stood up and looked at
me reproachfully out of his one eye
aud then shuffled out of door without
a word. He full down getting off the
doorstep, and he tripped over a root
and fell down nt the gate; and as ha
went off up the road he humped over
so far that he did not appear to be
more than three feet high. Half an
hour later the rain ceased"falling, and
I followed him. Half a mile up the
road I came to a fork, and the old man
stood there under a tree.
"Daddy, which road do I take to go
to Kelley’s?'' I asked.
He looked nt me a moment and
then came shuffling out to the road and
replied:
••Boss. I won’t tole yo’ nuffln 'bout
do roads!"
‘•But why?"
• Kaso yo’ han’t no friend of mine!”
"Yes, I am. too; of course I am.”
"Ho, sah! No. sah! Can’t stuff dat
down me, sah! If yo’ was a friend of
mine you’d a tole dat widder dat I was
27 y’ars ole, sah—’zuetly 27 last week!
I doau’ know nullin' 'bout roads, nor
Kelley, nor nobody! Good day, sah!"
Very Like a Conspiracy.
A correspondent relates in a Now
York paper that before Mary Hartwell
Calherwood, the Illinois authoress,
entereil upon the writing of her "Story
of Tontv” she concluded to visit
Starved Rock ami "stand where he
had stood" to view the landscape o’er,
and perchance gain facts and inspira
tion. She went to Ottawa, stopped at
the Clifton,sent for the proprietor (one
Billy Taylor) and said she wanted a
man who knew the whole country to
drive her to Starved Rock.
"All right.” said Billy, "I know the
very man. He’s green, bashful and
taciturn, but he knows everything and
if you once interest him be'fl talk like
a book.”
"I’ll interest him,” cried Mrs. C.
joyfully, "What’s his hobby?”
••Science,” replied Billy at random,
and went off to engage a man he had
a .grudge against—one who, added tc
his natural bashfulnoss and stupidity,
had an absolute horror of women.
Billy assured him the passenger was
an exceedingly quiet woman, aD
authoress, nnd would pay well. So off
they started.
Poor Mrs. Catherwood! For eighteen
miles dowu and ditto back did she talk
motors, phonographs, etc., nnd uever
one wont did that driver reply but—
"Umpli! Ump!i!”
When utterly wearv, disgusted and
exceedingly angry she had paid hei
bill and departed. Billy sought the
driveF with. "Well, Mike, how did you
get along to-day?” Mike fairly shout
ed: "Quiet woman! Authoress! Billy,
I mane to kiil ye. but lirst I’ll wallup
the feller who tilled that funny-grapb
•vomau’s cylinder!”
As Ueorgle Understood ft.
A lady went not long since to cal!
upon a neighbor in the country and
found the live-year-old son of tliu house
playing upou the lawn.
"How do you do, Georgia,” she said.
"Is your mamma at homeP”
•'Nn. Mrs. Gray," ho answered with
the most approved politeness.
• I am sorry for that,” the caller said.
••Will she be gone long?”
"I don’t know,” the little fellow an
swered doubtfully. ‘•She’s goue to a
Christian and Devil meeting”
"Gone to what?" the lady exclainfed
in astonishment.
‘To a Christian and Devil meeting
in the vestry,” was the reply.
And it suddenly flashed across the
caller’s remembrance that for that
afternoon had been appointed at the
Church a meeting of the Christian En
deavor.—Boston Courier.
HOW TO TRAIN DOCS.
Some Interesting Fact. About th.t.
Teach a Game Dog to
A well-known dog and chicken *
cier was exercising n tweni!° •faB'
pound .bull terrier dog the other lgiht*
when a bun reporter happened
11m fancier when questioned t"*'
the mode of training general^ i
said” CODditioainS *8. lor a
- The time generally occupied in <u
ting a dog for a contest is sjvt„ ,1 au
The objects to lie obtained we tie'll'
move all superfluous flesh, gPt J
a perfectly healthy condition and 5 "
velop his muscles and his wind 80 lu
he call tiirht. » Inn.. _.. ... 80
he cau tight a long time without” stm,!
ping to rest. His muscles are hard«!
ed, his wind made stron»-.
flesh removed" bV har'd ^vo?? “5
should be as systematic as a inau tr-.in
ing ror a fight. ‘un*
"The apparatus used for training
consists of a wooden disk balanced nS
a center pia so that it will turn. Th»
dog is put on top of this disk. Th.
trainer sits facing the dog. starts th.
disk so that it wifi tend to ial^2 ft
away from him, and the do- has £
run while the disk turns so ns *to main,
tain his position near tho
Again, there is the old-fashioned tread
power which a dog is put into and
made to work. But there are dom
that will neither run on the disk nor
work ill the tread power, and these are
sometimes chained to n buggy and tak
en out on the road. The '’distance is
generally increased, and by tiie middle
of the training season the dog should
be able to run twenty minutes without
hanging out his tongue. Then the ex
ercise is gradually decrease ' until it
has reached the minimum ..^ain, just
before the tight. After each run the
dog has his breakfast, then bathed and
blanketed, his feet oiled and lie is put
in a clean bed. Most trainers object
to running a dog behind a wagon to
work off flesh. They claim that* walk
ing and rubbing are better methods,
because the running behind a wa<ma
fills a dog with dust. After an hour or
two of sleep during the forenoon the
trainer gets him up and walks him
around until dinner time. After din
ner he is allowed another short sleep
and then exercised. Some trainers
fight the dog with boxing-gloves to
strengthen his jaws and muscles of the
neck.
“To do this the trainer gets a pair of
six-ounce gloves, puts them on, and
stauds up before the dog. After a little
training the dog will jump at the glove?
and the trainer will attempt to keep
him off by blows. Another method is
to swing the dog by his grip on^a straw
bag: or a stuffed cushion. By this means
a dog is so trained that in a tight when
lie gets hold of an antagonist he can
keep it.
“When a dog is in perfect trim he
should be able to run thirty miles with
out showing that he is tireil. and should
be able to go into a ring and light from
one hour to one hour and a quarter be
fore he loses his wind. Everything is
done vvitli clock-work regularity, and
the work the dog is required to do must
take off the extra flesh without reducing
the daily allowance of food. He must
be bathed and rubbed every day, have
a clean bed and plenty of fresh air.
Dogs that are generally put into the pit
would be better fighters if they had not
been subjected so much to the fumes o)
thG saloon.”
“Nobody seems to be able to tell ex
actly wheu finger-rings were worn
first,” said a dealer to a reporter re
cently. “The wearing of finger-rings
has been nlmost universal,'and the cus
tom began at a very early period of the
world’s history. Some traditions say
that Tubal Cain was the lirst one tc
decorate his lingers with a dainty piece
of metal. The old Latin legend, speak
ing of the wedding-ring, says: ‘The
form of the ring built" circular—tha*
is to say, round and without end—ini
parted this much, that mutual love and
hearty- affection should roundly flow
from one to the other, as in the circle,
aud that continually and forever.
“The first authentic reference to fin
ger-rings occurs in the Old Testament,
where Judah’ssignet ring is mentioned.
It is also evident they were in use
among the Egyptians at that time, for
Pharouh is said to have taken the ring
from his own finger and put it 1111
Joseph’s hand when he made hint rulei
over Egvpl.
"The Egyptians were evidently very
fond of rings, for the hands of female
mummies that have been found have
been profusely decorated with rings,
many of them having very costly one!
on every finger. The poorer class seem
to have worn rings, too, but of cheapei
material, such as bronze, glass aia
pottery-. The ancient Chaldeans ana
Persians used to wear rings.
"In those days rings seem to have
been worn not so much for ornaments
as for practical purposes. They were
used for sealing. The Romans used tc
wear signet rings of iron, and every
free man had a right to wear one. r-m
bassadors in the early days used t
wear gold rings as a part of their one
cial dross. This privilege of wearm
rings was afterward extended to cm
magistrates and senators. The ®ml’®
ors used to confer this right up
those whom they wished to *»v '
Nowadays the wearing of rings ha
no particular significance except
wedding-ring and the engage in?
ring. Anybody who wants to »
who can afford to purchase one •
wear a signet ring. The cu.st0U ue_
wearing rings is a very popular •
»nd the manufacture of them 1 j
>ne of the most important hra
)I the jewelers’ industry.”—T- -
An English court has just
bat a wife married in Japan after
ashion of that country is a legs
n England,on the ground that • j
las long been recognized as a cn
:ountry.” A previous decision"
wise where the wife was a *nt0,
tud was married after the Hot . e
ashion had upset the union o
ground that the Hottentots wer. not
beus and polygamists, and ^
mow what marriage, in tue
>ensc, meant. __
The Rainbow Fire Company *Lgr.
ng. Pa., celebrated its llltb
ary recently.
