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WKOiNG USES OF MONEY.
A SERMON OF GREAT POWER BY
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAQE.
Soma of til" Itilliiou MettimU Adopted to
Get Ulcli Corrupt rolltlrn llrlliorjr Utv
Kin nt llnniK Attunes of Trust I'uiiiln.
It I'rtJK In II" llnnrnl.
BnooKi.YK, Mnrch 10. At tlio Tabornnclo
this morning fix thousand voices, supported
by orgnti ami cornet, rolled out tho hymn lw
Binning!
Ne'er think tlio victory Hon,
Nor otico nt wwo kit down;
Thlno anliioui work will not lio ilono
Till tliou hast Rot thy cronn.
Tlio Itov. T. Do Witt ThlmnRO, D. D.,
preached tlio sermon. Ills subject was,
"Wrong Uses of Monoy," ntul his text, I
Timothy vl, 0: "Thoy that will bo rich fall
into temptation and a snaro, and Into many
foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men
in destruction and erd!tlon."
That Is tho Niagara Falls over which rush
I multitude of fcouls, namely tho determina
tion to huvo monoy any how, right or wrong.
Toll mo how n man gots hli monoy mid what
bo docs with It, and I will toll his character,
and what will bo his destiny in this world and
tho next. 1 propose to sponk this morning
about soino of tho ruinous modes of gutting
inonoy.
Wo recently passed through a national
election In which It has Ixmjii ostlmntod that
thirty million dollars were expended. I think
about twenty million of it n era spout In out
nud out bribery. Hoth jMUtles inisod all thoy
could for tills purpose. Hut tlitit was only on
a largo scale what has been done on a smaller
scalo for fifty years nud In nil departments.
Folltlcs from being tho science of good gov
eminent has often been bedraggled Into tho
synonym for truculoncy nnd turpitude, A
monster sin, plausible, potent, iHwtlfcrous,
has gouo.forth to do it dreadful work lu all
ages. Its two hands aro rotten w itli leprosy.
It keeps its riglit liaud hidden In a deep
pocket. Tlio left hand is clenched, and with
its Ichorous knuckle it taps at tho door of tho
court room, tho legislative hall, tlio congress
and tho parliament. Tho door Hwiugs open
and tho monster enters, nnd glides through
tho nlslo of tho council chamber as softly as a
slippered page, and then It takes its right
band from Its deep lockot nnd offers it in sal
utation to judgo or legislator. If that hand
bo taken, nud tho palm of tho Intruder cross
tho palm of tho olllcial, tho leprosy crosses
from palm to ialm lu a round blotch, round
as a gold eagle, and tho virus spreads, and
tbo doom Is tlxod, nnd tho victim polishes.
Lot bribery, accursed of Qod and man, staud
up for trial.
Tho Bible- arraigns It again and again.
Samuel says of his two sons who becamo
judges, "Thoy took bribes and perverted
judgment." David says of homo of bis pur
suers, "Their right hand Is full of brlh.-s."
Amos says of somo men in bis day, "They
toko a brllxi and turn asldo tho poor in tho
gato." Elipliaz foretells tho crushing bolts of
God's Indignation, declaring, "Firo shall con
sumo tho tabernacles of bribery."
It Is uo light temptation. Tlio mightiest
havo fnllen under It. Sir Francis Hocon,
lord chancellor of England, founder of our
modem philosophy, author of "Novum Or
ganum" nnd a wliolo library of books, tho
leading thinker of his century, so precocious
that when a little child ho was asked by Queen
Elizabeth, "Howoldaroyout" ho responded,
"I am two years younger than your mujesty's
happy reign;" of whoso oratory Hen Jonsou
wroto, "Tlio fear of ovory man that heard
him was lest ho should make an end;" having
an income which you would suppose would
havo put him beyond tho temptation of bri
bery thirty-six thousand dollars a year, und
Twickenham court a gift, and princely estates
In Hertfordshire nnd Ooriinmbury yet under
this temptation to brilxiry falling lint into
ruin, and on his confession of taking bribes,
giving as oxcuso that all his predoccssora took
them, ho was lined two hundred thousand
dollars, or what corresponds with our
two hundred thousand dollars, and Im
prisoned In Loudon Tower. So, also,
Lord Chancellor ilneclosllold foil; so, also,
Lord Chancellor Wntorbury perished. Tho
black chapter, lu English, Irish, French nnd
American olltlcs Is tlio chapter of bribery.
Somo of you lemeiulier tho l'acldo Mull sub
sidles. Most of you remumber tho awful
tragedy of tho Credit Mobilicr. Under tho
temptation to bribery licuvdlct Arnold sold
tho fort lu tho Illghlunds for $31,670. For
this sin Oorgoy bat rayed Hungary, Ahltho
phel forsook David nud Judas kissed Christ.
When I soo so many of tho illustrious going
down under this temptation It makes mo
think of tho rod dragon spoken of In Hovcla
tions, with soven heads and ten horns nud
soven crowns, druwing a third part of tho
stars of heaven down, down after him. Th.
lobbies of tho legislatures of this country con
trol tho country Tlio land Is drunk with
bribory.
Evcnv MAN HAS NOT ins mica.
"Oh," says somo ono, "there's no need of
talking against bribory by promlso or by dol
lars, becauso every man has his prico." I do
not bellovo It. Even heathenism and tho dark
agos havo furnished mmclnions of Incorrupti
bility. A cadi of Smyrna had ncaso brought
before him on trial. A man gavo him tlvo
hundred ducats in bribory. Tliocaso camo
on. Tlio briber had many witnesses. Tho
poor man on tlio other sido had uo witnesses.
At tho closo of tho case tho cadi said, "This
poor man has no witnesses, ho thinks; I shall
produce- In his bohnlf flvo hundred witnesses
against tho other sido." And then pulling
out tho bag of ducats from uudor tho otto
man, ho dashed it down at tho feet of tho
bribor, saying,, "I glvo my decision ngaiust
you." Kumlnoiulas, ottered n bribe, said, "I
will do tills tiling if it bo right, and if it bo
wrong, all your goods cannot pursuado mo."
Fabrlcius, of the Unman senate, was offered n
bribo by Pyrrhus of Mnccdou. Fabrlcius an
swered, "What an example this Mould bo to
tho Iloiuiui people; you keep your riches and
I will keep my jwverty nud reputation."
Tho president of tho American congress
during tho American Revolution, Oeu. Heed,
was oilered 10,000 guineas by foreign com
missioners If ho would betray this country.
Ho replied: "Gentleman, I am n very poor
man, but till your king ho Is not rich enough
to buy iiio," Hut why go so far when you
nnd 1, if wo moo in honorable society, know
men nnd woiuo.i who by nil the concentrated
force of earth and hull could not tx bribed.
Thoy would uo moio bo bribo 1 than you
would think of tempting nu angel of light to
exchange heaven for tlio pit. To oll'er n
brlbo Is villainy, but It Is n cry poor coin
plimej t to the man to whom it it oli -cd.
I linio not much faith lu tho-i pjoplo who
go about bragging how much thoy could got
if they would only sell out. Thoso women
who complain that thoy aro very often In
sulted need to understand that there Is some
thing in thoircariiago to Invito insult. There
uro men at Albany, and nt Hnri isburg, and
nt Washington, who would m more bo ap
proached by a bribo than a pirato boat with
a fow cutlasses would daro to attack a British
ninu-of-war with two banks of guns on each
sido loaded to tho touch hole, Thoy aro in
corruptible men, and they aro tho few man
who are to savo tho city and save tho land.
Meanwhile, my ndvlco U to all people to keep
Ml of politics unlnss you nro Invuincrablo to
this stylo of temptation. Indeed, If you nr
naturally strong, you need religious buttress
ing. Nothing but thocrucoof Qod can sus
tain our public men nnd mako them what
wo wMi,
i. 1 wish that there might como
fashioned revival of religion, thnt '
an old
It might break out In congress nnd In tho
legislature and bring many of tho lending
Republicans nnd Democrats down on tho mix
loin font of rcpentnnco. That dny will como,
or something better, for tho Illblo declares
that kings nnd queens Mini) becomo nursing
fnthers and mothers to tho church, nnd If tho
greater In authority, thon certainly tho less.
llltlllKUV HKOINR AT HOME.
My charge nlto to parents is, remcmticr
that tills ovll of bribery often begin In tho
homo clrelo nnd in tho nursery. Do not brllio
your children. Tench them to do that which
is right, nnd not hocnuso of tho ten cents or
tho ornngo you w 111 glvo them. There Is a
great illirerenco between rownrdlng virtue
and making tho profits thereof the luiellliig
motive, Tlint man w ho Is honest merely be
cause "honesty Is tlio lest jwlloy," Is nlrendy
n moral bankrupt.
My charge Is to you, lu nil departments of
llfo steer clear of briliery, nil of you. Every
man nud woman nt some t lino will ho tempted
to do wrong for comciintlnii. Tho brlbo
may not lw offered lu inonoy. It mny Ih
ottered In social position. Let us remember
that there Is u day coming w hen tlm most
secret transaction of prlvnto llfo nud of pub
Uo life will como up for public reprehension.
We eanuot bribe death, we cnntiot brlbo sick
ness, wo cannot brllw tho grave, wo cannot
brlbo tho judgments of that Owl who thun
ders ngaiust tills sin.
"FloP'sald Cardinal Ilenufort, "flol enn't
death bo hired! Is monoy nothing! must I
dlo so rich I if tho owning of tlio wliolo realm
would savo mo, I could get It by policy or by
iiurchnso by money." No, denth would not
bo hi ml then, he will not be hired now. Men
of the world often regret thnt thoy havo to
leavo their monoy hero when they go nwny
fi om tho world. You can tell from wlint
thoy say lu their last hours thnt ono of their
chief sorrows is thnt thoy hnvo to lenvo their
money. I break thnt iloliisiou. I tell thnt
brlbo taker that ho w 111 tuko his monoy with
him. God will wrap It up lu your shroud, or
put It In the plnlm of your hand lu resur
lection, nnd there It will lie, not tho
cool, bright, shining gold ns It wns on
the dny when you sold your voto nnd your
moral principle, but there it will lie, n hot
motal, burning nnd con-mining your hand for
ever. Or, if there lo enough of it for n chain,
then it will fall from the wrist clanking tlio
fetters of nn eternal captivity. Tho brllw Isnn
overlnstltig xssoks1oii. You tnko It for tlmo,
you tnko it for eternity. Somo day in tlio
next world, when you nro longing for sym
pathy, you will feel on your check n kiss.
Looking up you will find It to lie Judas, w lip
took thirty pieces of silver as u bribe nnd flu
lihed tho bargain by putting nn Infamous
kiss on tho pure chock of his divine Master.
Another wrong use of inonoy Is seen In tho
abuse of trust fuuds. Everyman during tho
course of his life, on n larger or smaller
scalo. has tbo projicrty of others committed
to his keeping. Ho Is so far a safety deposit,
ho Is nn administrator, and holds in his hand
tho luterest of tho family of n deceased friend.
Or, ho Is nn nttornoy, nnd through Ills cus
tody goes tho payment from debtor to cred
itor, or ho is tho collector for a business houso
which compensates him for tho responsibility;
or ho is n treasurer for a charitablo Institu
tion nnd ho holds nlms contributed for tlio
raftering; or ho is nn olllcial of tho city, or
the state or the nation, nnd taxes, nnd subsi
dies, nnd salaries, and supplies are in his keep
ing. It is ns solemn n trust ns God enn mako
It. It is concentred nnd multiplied confi
dences. On thnt mnu depends tho support of
a bereft household, or tho morals of depend
ents, or tho right movement of a thousand
wheels of social mechanism. A man mny do
what ho will with his own, but ho
who abuses trust funds, in thnt ono
net, commits theft, falsehood, jwrjury,
and becomes in nil tho Intensity of tho
word, n miscreant. How many widows nnd
orphans there nro with nothing between them
nnd starvation but n sowing machine, or held
up out of tho vortex of destruction simply by
tho thread of a needle, red with their own
hearts' blood, who n llttlo w Idle ngo had, by
father anil husband, loft them n comjietenoy.
What Is thomnttcrt Tho administrators or
tho oxecutors hnvo sacrificed it running
risks with it that thoy would not havo dared
to encounter In their own privnto nflalrs.
How often It is that u man will earn a liveli
hood by tlio sweat of his bw, and then die,
and within n fow months all tho estate goes
into tho stock gambling rapldsof Wall street.
How often it is thnt you havo known tho
man to whom trust funds were committed
taking them out of tho savings bnnk and
front trust coni)nulcs, nud ndminlstrntors
turning old homesteads Into hard cash and
then putting the entire estate in tho vortex
of speculation. Embezzlement is nu easy
word to pronounce, but it has ten thousand
ramifications of horror.
AIIUBE OP TRUST FUNDS.
There Is not u city Hint has not suffered
from tho nbuso of trust funds. Whcro is tin
court house, or tho city hall, or tho Jail, or
tho jxistolllco, or tho hospital, that In tho
building of It has not had a polltlenl job?
Long lieforo the now court houso In New
York city w us completed It cost over $12,000,
000, Flvo millions six hundred nnd slxty
threo thousand dollars for furniture! For
plastering nnd repairs, $2,1170,000. For
plumbing and gas works, $1,231,817. For
nwnlngs, Jil.WII. Tho bills for three months
coming to tlio ulcollttlohumof $1:1,101,108.80,
There was not nn honest brick, or stone, or
lath, or nail, or foot of plumbing, or Inch of
plastering, or Inkstand, or door knob in tho
wliolo establishment.
That bail example wns followed in many of
tho cities which did not steal quite so much
becauso there wns not so much to steal.
There ought to lw closer Inspection nnd there
ought to lw less opKrtunlty for embozilo
inent. Lest u man shall take a flvo cent
piece that does not belong to him, tho con
iictor on tho cltv horse cur Must sound his
boll at every payment, nnd wo nro very cau
tious ubout small offenses, but give plenty of
opportunity for sinners on a largo scale to
escape. For u boy who steals a loaf of bread
from n corner grocer, to keep his mother
from starving to death n prison, but for do
frnuders whouboud with half u million of
dollars a rustle on tho Rhino, or, Halting
until tho oifouso is forgotten, then u castlo on
the Hudson.
Auuthcr remark needs to lie iiuido, nnd
that is that paoplo ought not to go into places,
into business, or Into positions, where tlio
temptation U mightier than their character
.i thuo bo largo sums of money to bo bundled
nnd tlioitinn Is not sure of his own Integiity
vou have no rllit to run an unseaw oi thy
craft in nn curoolydou. A man can tell by
the sense of weakness or strength lu the pres
ence of a bad opportunity, whether ho is in n
safe place. How many parents make nu nw ful
mistake w hen thoy put their boys in bunking
houses mid stores nud shop nud factories and
places of solemn trust, without once discus.-.-iug
whether they can endure tlio temptation.
You glo tho loy plent) of money, nnd luivo
uouccouut of it, and make the wuvdowu
hocomo very easy, nud you niav put upon
him n pressure that ho cannot stand. There
o men who go Into positions full of temulu
tion, considering only tho ono fact that thoy
am livraUvo positions. I say to tho young
CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MARCH 16,
peoplo heio this morning, didhonesty will not
pay In this world or tho world to como.
An nbbot wnntcd to buy a pirco of ground
mid tho owner would not tell it. but tha
iwncr flnullv ronsmitod to let It to litni linLlt
ho could rnlso ono crop, nnd tho nbbot sowed
neorus, n crop of two hundred yearil And
1 tell you, joiing man, that tho dishonesties
which you plant In your heart nnd llfo will
iccm to lw very Insignificant, but thoy will
grow up until thoy will overshadow you with
horrible darkness, overshadow nil tlmo and
nil ctuiuity It will not lie a crop for two
hundred years, but n crop for everlasting
ngo.
I stnud this morning lioforo many who
hnvo trust funds, itlsn compliment to you
thnt you have lieen so Intrusted; but I chnrge
you, In tho pivnenco of God nnd tho world, Ih
careful, bo n direful of the property of oth
ors as you are careful of your own. Alwvo
nil, keep your own prlvnto account nt tho
txiuk separate from your nccount ns trustee
of nn estnte, or trustee of nu Institution.
That is the olutnt which thousands of people
mnko shipwreck. They got tho projicrty of
others mixed up with their own property,
they put it Into Investment and nwny It all
f;oesand they cannot return thnt which they
torrowed. Then comes the explosion nnd
tlio money mm ket Is shaken nud tho press de
nounces nud the church thunders expulsion.
You hnvo no right to use tho projicrty of
others except for their advantage, nor with
sut consent, unless thoy nro minors. If with
lliclr coiiMMityou Invest their pi ojiortyns well
iLsyoucniinnilltisullloxtynunreiiottoblnmo;
you did tho Ixwt you could; butdo not come
into the delusion which has ruined so many
men, of thinking becnuson thing Is In their
possession, therefore It Is theirs. You hnvo n
solemn trust that Clod has given you. In this
vast iiHM'inhliigo there may lw somo who hnvo
misappropriated trust funds. Cut them back,
or, If you havo so hoclcssly Involved them
thnt you cannot put them back, confess the
wliolo thing to those whom you hnvo wronged,
nnd you wlil sleep bolter nights, and you will
hnvo tho butter chance for your soul. What
a sad thing It would be, if nftcr you nro dead
your ndmlnistrntor should llnd out front tlio
nccount books, or from tho lack of vouchers,
thnt you were not only bankrupt In estate,
but that you lost your soul. If nil the
trust funds that havo been misappropriated
should suddenly lly to their owners, nud nil
tho property that lias lieen purloined should
suddenly go back to Its owners, It would
crush Into ruin every city In America.
DISHONESTY IS UNritOKITAIlI.E.
A blustei Ing young man arrived nt n hotel
in the west, nnd ho sawn man on the side
walk, nnd In a rough way, as uo mnu liasn
right to address n Inborcr, said to him,
"Carry this trunk upstnlrs." Tlio man car
ried tho trunk tiistnirs nnd ennio down, and
then tho young mnu gave him n quarter of a
dollar which was marked, and lnstcnd of
being twonty-flvo cents It wns worth only
twenty cents. Then tho young man gnui
his card to the laborer, and saldi "You tnko
this up to Governor Grimes; I wnnt to see
him." "Ah," said tho lalwrcr, "I am Gov
ernor Grlmcsl" "Oh," said tho young man,
"you I excuse mo!" Then the governor
said: "I wns much Impressed by tho letter
you wroto mo askbig for a certain ofllcoln
my gift, und I had mado up my mind you
should hnvo It; but n, young mnu who will
cheat n laborer out of llvo cents would
swindle the government of tho stato, If ho
got his hands on It. I don't want you. Good
morning, sir." It nover pays. Neither In
this world nor in tho world to come will it
pay.
I do not supjioso there over was n liivter
specimen of honesty thnij wns found lu tho
Duko of Wellington. He marched with his
nrmyover tho French frontier, nnd tho nrmy
wns suffering, nnd ho hardly know how to
got nlong. Plenty of plunder all about, but
ho commanded none of tho plunder to be
taken. Ho writes homo thoso remarkable
words: "Wo nro overwhelmed with debts,
aud I can scarcely stir out of my house on
nccount of public creditors, waiting to de
mand what Is duo to them." Yet ut that
very tlmo tho French jieasnntry were bring
ing their valuables to him to keep. A colo
brnted writer snysof tho transactions "Noth
ing can lie grander or more nobly original
than tills admission. This old soldier, nftcr
thirty years' service, this Iron man nnd vic
torious general, established In an enemy's coun
try at tho head of nn Immense nrmy, is afraid
of ids credltorsl This is n kind of fear that
has seldom troubled conquerors und Invaders,
nud I doubt If tho annals of war present any
thing conquirablo to 1U sublime simplicity."
Oh I Is it not high tlmo thnt wo reached the
morals of tho Gosjiel, right besldo the faith of
tho Qospelf Mr. Froudo, tho celebrated Eng
lish historian, has written of his own country
theso remnrkablo wordst "From tho great
houso in the city of London to tho vlllngo
grocer, tho commercial llfo of England has
been saturated with fraud. So deep hn It
gone that n 6trlctly houest tradesman can
hardly hold his ground against coiiictltlon.
You can uo longer trust thnt nuy in tlclo you
buy Is the thing w hich It protends to lie. Wo
havo f also weights, f also measures, cheating
und shoddy every w hei o. And yet tho clergy
hnvo seen nil this grow up In ubsoluto Indif
ference. Many hundreds of sermons havo
I heard In England, many n dissertation on
tho mysteries of tlio faith, on tho divlno mis
sion of tlio clergy, on bishops and Justifica
tion, nud tho theory of good works mid
verlml Inspiration, und the cllicacy of tho
sacraments; but, during nil these thli ty won
derful years, never one thnt I can recollect
on common honesty."
Now, that muy lie an oxnggernted state
ment of things In England, but 1 am very
certain that in nil parts of tlio earth wo need
to preach tlie moralities of tho Gospel right
nlong besldo tho faith of tho Gosjiel.
My hearer! What nro you doing w itli that
fraudulent document in your socket My
other heurerl How are you getting nlong
with that w Ickoil scheme you have now on
foot? Is that n "pool ticket" you hnvo In
your jiockct? Why, O young man, were you
last night practicing lu eopjlng jour em
ployer's signature! Where were jou Inst
night) Aro your habits as good ns when you
left your futlier'a housol You had u Christian
uncestry, jK-rhaps, and you have had too
many prayers spent on you to go overboard.
NO EXCUSE roil DOINO WUO.NO.
Dr. Livingstone, tho famous explorer, wns
descended fi om tlio Highlanders, nud he said
that one of his ancestors, ono of tho High
lands, ono day called his family around him.
Tho Highlander was dying; hu had his chil
dren around his death bed. Ho said; "Now,
inylaiU, I hnvo looked all through our history
ns fur back ns I can llnd it, nud I havo never
found a dishonest man in nil the line, nud 1
want jou to understand jou inherit good
blood. You ha o no excuse for doing wrong,
my lads, bo honest."
All, my friends, bo honest lioforo God, be
honest bvfum your fellow men, lie honest be
fore your soul. If there lie those hero who
have wnudoied away, como back, como homo,
como now, ono anil nil, not ono exception in
all tho nvsomblago, como into the kingdom of
God. Como back on tho right Hack. Tin
door ni mercy is oien und tho lntliilto henrt
cfGolis full of lompasslon. Como homo!
Como home I Oh, I would lie well satlslled if
I could sae some young man this morning,
some young mnu that has been going astray
nud would liko to got back.
I am glad soiuu one has set to muslo that
seen In August of IbSI, when a young girl
sa veil from death u whole rail train of pas.
kviRor. Homo of you remember thnt out
fit, In thnt year on n stormy night, a liurrl
:nno blow down part of n railroad brldgo. A
Ireight tri.ln rnmo nlong nnd It crashed Into
tho ruin nnd tlm engineer and conductor per
IshoiL There wnsn girl llvliig In her father's
:nbln near tho disaster, and alio heard tho
:rash of tho freight train, nnd sho know thnt
In a fow moments nn express train wns duo.
Slio lighted n lantern nud clnmtiored upon
tho ono Uvun of tho wrecked brldgo on to tho
main bridge, which wns trestle wntk, nud
itarted to cross nuild tlio thunder nnd tho
lightning of the temiest nud tho raging of
tho torrent bencnth. Gun misstep nud It
would hnvo lieen denth. Amid nil that horror
tho lauteru went out. Crawling sometimes,
and sometime wulklng over the slippery mils
aud over tint trestle work, she rnmo to the
other side of the river. She wnutotl to get to
the telegraph stntloti where tho express tialn
did not stop, so that the danger might bo tel
egraphed to the station where tho train did
top. Tho tiuln wns duo In llvo minutes. She
wns one tulle olT from the telegraph station,
but, fortunately, tho train wns Into. With
Silt nud bruised feet sho Mow liko tho wind.
Coming up to tho telegraph station, panting
with almost deathly exhaustion, sho had only
strength to shout, "The bridge Is down I"
when she dropped unconscious and could
hnnlly lie resuscitated. Tho moMsago wns
sent from that station to tlio next station nud
the train hnltisl, and thnt night thnt bravo
glri;savisl tho lives of hundreds of wis.oiigen,
and saved ninny homos from desolation.
Hut every street Is it track, nud every stylo
of business Is a track, nnd every day l n
track, and every night Is n track, nud multi
tudes iinilcr the powvrnf temptation como
sweeping on nud sweeping down townrd ierlls
raging and tcrrilla. God help us to go out
and stop the train. Iot us threw somo sig
nal. Lot us glvo some warning, lly tlio
throtio of God let us Hash somo lulllience to
stop the downwind progress. Howutel Ho
ware I Tha bildgo Is down, tho chasm Is deep
mid the lightnings of God sut nil the night of
slu on lire with tills wnriiingt "Ho, Unit being
often reproved, hurilcnoth his neck, sliaU
suddenly lie destroyed, ami that without
remedy."
In nu I'bk Shell.
"When you IkiII eggs, don't boll them." So
says Dr. rohluinn, tlio HulTulo chemist. In
a recent lecture ho said, to bo digestible, eggs
shouldn't reach n higher touieruturo thnu
KXJdegs., but they should lw placed in water
from i 10 to 180 dogs., nud allowed to cook on
tho back of the stove. Then the various
methods of cooking incuts were taken up nud
explanations given for putting soup meat Into
cold water, putting roasts Into n hot oven,
nnd broiling steuk directly over n hot lire,
which nro now commonly accepted ns tho
proper method of preparing tlio ditti-rcnt
meats.
Dr. I'olilmnii said the object of preparing
food was not to preserve tlio nutriment so
much ns it wns to prepare it fur easy diges
tion. "A K)und of hard wood contains pre
cisely ns much nutriment us a pound of Hour,
but I would rattier lie excused from eating
It." said he,
A word was said against mothers who tor
ture infants by their contltninl cry of "eat
slowly," "chew It lino." Tho lecturer said ho
believed lu tlio natural processes of mastica
tion, and that when n child felt like swallow
ing Ids food lu chunks ho ought to bo allowed
to do so. "This luimperlug to old Ideas, tho
fallacy of which hits long lieen show n, Is non
sense," mid the doctor. "When wo think
thnt tho stomach is tho only organ lu tho
body over which man has control, mid when
we think that tho stomach, ulno cases nut of
ten, is tho root of nil tho modern disenses, it
doesn't sp;nk very high for tho Intelligence
of man. Glvo jicoplo chunks If they want
chunks, salt If they want unit, vlnegur If thoy
want vluegnr, tlioy won't wnnt what thoy
don't need." Dr. I'ohlman said that n llfo
long exicrienco with bonrding houso cooks
had led him to Infer thnt those Individuals
know little nlmut the chemistry of cooking.
Now York Stur.
The Crown I'lnto of Knclaiul.
Victoria's celebrated Sovrcs dessert service
Is kept in tho green drawing room at Windsor
castle, Mr. Ooodo, of South Audloy street,
who Is it most eminent expert in such mat
ters, Informs mo, says Tho Ioiulon Truth,
that no fower than twenty-eight pieces of tl.o
scrvlco were lost (or stolen) during the reign
of Georgo IV, when It wns in daily
uso ut Carlton house for his majes
ty's prlvnto table. Mr Ooode, during
tho Inst fifteen years, lias managed to buy
back nineteen of theso pieces, which nro
Identical in every resjioct witli those In the
cabinets In tho green draw ing room. Mr.
Goodo values the service (which lickings to
tho crown I. o., It Is not tho prlvnto property
of the queen) nt fully JtlOO.OOO, and one piece
ulono (the famous punch bowl), was valued a
fow years ago by a well known nuctlonoer at
10,000; while Mr. Goodo himself vuinly of
fered Jt.100 to tho present owner of one of tho
missing plates.
Tho Into Ixird Dudley's superb vase, which
wns liought by Mr. (Joodo nt tho snlo of his
china, originally U'longod to this service, and
had probably been removed from Windsor
qastlo nt the time of the confusion which pre
vailed thei e during the last mouths of tho life
of Georgo IV, when, ns ono of tho pages told
Mr. Charles Grevillo, "loaded wagons were
sent nwny nearly uvery night." I understand
that Mr. Goodo ottered tlio pieces w hlch he
had reeovcied to tlio queen, lu order thnt tlio
Windsor servicu might Incompleted, but pie
stimnbly her mnjosty did not care to oxjK'iid
10,000 in making n present of china to the
ciown.
llorsi's mid i:irrtrlo Cum.
All Interesting x)lnt lu connection with
tho first running of eleetrlccnrs on tlio Fourth
nvenuo lino wns the ettect that the apH.ur
nnco of tlio cars hail on horses. A New York
horse is accustomed to sights nnd sounds that
would turn a country horse's maim and tail
"white in a single night," but uvun tho sii
perlor iuetioKilitnn least has uo lovu for en
tlrely new and unexplained phenomena. It
was noticed, however, Hint horsos attached
to ordinary cm ts nud carriages, w Idle they
took n deep interest in electric cars, showed
a little fear of them, but horses attached to
other street cars, when thoy llrst saw the
now machines heenmu almost immiiuageuble
from ten or. No satisfactory reason could
lw given for this stuto of things, oieclall a
streetcar horses have generally been noted
more for stiict sobriety nnd uttontion In
duty than for nuy undue Intel est inoutid
iiiatters. The only plausible explutiution that
lias been ottered Is that those horses mu) re
gard tlio electi ic cars as "scabs," mid see lu
them u danger of the loss of their occiimtiou
Now Yoi k Ti Ibtiiio.
Iti'liitUn l!u of I.uii;iiiige,
Professor Klrchhoir.of Halle, a well known
philologist, him Ihvii t'udyliig the relative use
of languages, w itli some Interesting results
Ho llnds that the lauuage that has boui
most spoken on tlie globe for tho last tlio j
sand j ears Is the Chinese, which U xikcu I v
nt least 400,000,000 piiiplo. Next eonlc the
Hindustani, which is the langunge of over
100,000,000. Then ho places tho English next,
with about I00,())0,000, though this is oM
deutly a mUtnko, us the leal number f far In
excess of third. Russian follows t. Itli Tt,
000,000, then German, with S7.000.000, nnd
Spanish, with 1 7,000,000. San Frniiciseo
Chronicle.
1889.
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