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OUR HOUSE ON THE HILLS.
8UBJECT OF SERMON DELIVERED BY
DR. TALMAGE, SUNDAY, JULY 7.
A Homo tho Favorlto lllbllciil Sltnllo for
Ilcnvcii "In Sly Father's llnue Aro
Mnny Itootns" Tlio Doctor' Men of
Tlint the llmno of tho llct Will lie.
The IlAiirroxB, N. Y., July 7. tlov. T.
Do Witt Tnlmage, D. D., preached hero to
day on tho subject! "Our Houso on tho Hills."
Hl text nu John xlv, 2i "In my Father's
houso nro many rooms." Ho saidt
Hero Is n bottlo of mcdlcluo that Is n euro
nlL Tho disciples wero sad and Christ offered
boa ven ns nu alternative, n stimulant and a
tonic Ho shows them that their Borrows nro
only a dark background for a bright picture
Of coming felicity. Ho lot thorn know that
though now thoy llvo on tho lowlands they
shall yet Imvo a houso on tho uplands. Near
ly all tho Dtblo descriptions of heaven may
be figurative, lam not positive that In nil
heaven thero Is a literal crown, or harp, or
pearly gnto, or throno or chariot, Thoy may
bo only used to lllustrato tho glories of tho
plnco, but how well thoy do It I Tho fnvorlto
symbol by which tho Dlblo presents celestial
happiness is n houso. Paid, who novcr owned
ft house, although ho hired ouo for two yoars
in Itnly, speaks of hoaven as a "houso not
mado with hands," nud Christ In our text,
tho translation of which is a littlo changed,
so as to glvo tho moro accurato meaning,
sayss "In my Father's houso aro many
rooms."
This divinely authorized comparison of
heaven to n great homestead of largo accom
modations 1 proposo to carry out. In somo
healthy uetghlorhood a man builds a very
commodious habitation. Ho musit Imvo room
(or all his children. Tho rooms como to bo
called after tho different members of tho
family. That Is mother's room. That Is
Georgo's room. That Is Henry's room. That
Is Flora's room. That Is Mary's room. And
tho houso is nil occupied 13ut tlmo goes by
and tho sous go out Into tho world and build
their owu homos and tho daughters aro mar
ried or havo talents enough singly to go out
and do a good work In tho worlX After n
whilo tho father and mother aro almost nlono
In tho big houso and, seated by tho even
ing stand, thoy say: "Well, our family
Is no larger now than when wo
started together forty years ago." Hut
tlmo goes still further by and somo of tho
children aro unfortunato and return to tho
old homestead to llvo, and tho grandchildren
como with them, and perhaps grent-grnnd-children,
and again tho houso is full. Many
millennia ago Ood built on tho hills of heaven
a great homestead for a family innumerable,
yet to bo. At first ho lived alono In that
groat houso, but after a whllo it was occupied
by a very largo family, cherubic, seraphic,
angelic Tho eternities passed on and many
of tho Inhabitants becamo wayward and left,
novcr to return. And many of tho apart
ments wcro vacated. I refer to tho fallen
angels. Now theso apartments aro filling
np again. Thero aro arrivals at tho old
homestead of Qod's children overy day, and
tho day will como when thero will bo no un
occupied room in all tho house
"IN JCT FATHER'S HOUSE Aim MANY nOOMS"
As you and I oxpoct to enter It and mako
thero eternal rosldenco, I thought you would
liko to get somo moro particulars about that
many roomed homestead. "In my Father's
houso aro mauy rooms." You soo tho placo
Is to bo apportioned off Into apartments. Wo
shall lovo all who aro in heaven, but thoro
aro somo very good peoplo whom wo would
not want to llvo with in tho samo room.
They may bo hotter than wo aro, hut thoy
aro of a divergent temtwrament. Wo would
llko to meet with them on tho goldon streets
and worship with them in tho templo and
walk with them on tho river banks, but I am
glad to say that wo shall llvo in different
apartments. "In ray Father's houso aro
many rooms." You soo heaven will bo so
largo that If ono want nu entire room to him
self or herself, it can bo afforded. An Inge
nious statistician, taking tho statement mado
In Revelation, twenty-Urst chapter, that tho
heavenly Jerusalem was measured and found
to bo twclvo thousand furlongs, nnd that tho
length and height nnd breadth of It aro equal,
says that would mako hoaven in size 'J4S box
tlUIon OSS qulntllllon cublo foot, and then re
serving a certain portion for tho court of
heaven and tho streets, and estimating that
tho world may last a hundrod thousand years,
ho ciphers out that there aro over five trillion
rooms, each room seventeen feet long, sixteen
foot wldo, fifteen feet high. Out I havo no
faith in tho accuracy of that calculation. Ho
makes tho rooms too small From all I can
read tho rooms will bo palatial, and thoso
who havo not had enough room in this world
will havo plenty of room ut tho last. Tho
fact is that most people In this world aro
crowded, and though out on n vast prairio or
In a mountain district pooplo may havo moro
room than thoy want, in most caves
It is houso built close to houso, and
tho streets aro crowded and tho cradlo is
crowded by other cradles, and tho gravo
crowded in tho cemotcry by other graves,
and onoof tho richest luxuries of many peoplo
In getting out of this world will bo tho gain
ing of unhindered and uncramned room.
And I should not wonder if, instead of tho
room that the statistician ciphered out as
only 1? feet by 10, It should bo larger than
any of tho imperial rooms at Berlin, St.
James or Winter Palace "In my Father's
houso nro many rooms." Carrying out still
further tho symbolism of tho text, let us join
hands and go up to this ranjestio homestead
and soo for ourselves.
WE WILL BE USHERED IN.
I As we ascend tho golden steps an iuvlslblo
guardsman swings open tho front door, and
wo aro ushered to tho right Into tho recep
tion room of tho old homestead. That is tho
placo whero wo first moot tho wclcomo of
heaven. Thero must bo a placo whero tho
departed spirit enters and a placo in which
It confronts tho Inhabitants celestial. Tho
reception room of tho newly arrived from
this world what scenes It must havo wit
nessed slnco the first guest arrived, tho vic
tim of tho flnt fratricide, pious AbeL In
that room Christ lovingly greeted all now
comers, no redeemed thorn and ho has the
right to tho first embrace on their arrival
'What a mlnuto when the ascended spirit first
sees tho Lord. Better than all wo over
read about him or talked about him or
song about him in n tho churches and
through all our earthly lifctimo, will it bo,
just for ouo second to too him. Tho most
rapturous idea wo over bad of him on sacra
mental dayB, or at the height of somo groat
revival, or under tho uplifted baton of an
oratorio, aro a bankruptcy of thought com
pared with tho first (lakh of his apparanca
in that reception room.
At that momcut, when you confront each
Other, Christ looking ujwu you and you look
ing upon Christ, thero will bo an ecstatic
thrill and a surging of emotion that beggars
all description. Look I Thoy need no intro
duction. Long ago Christ chooo that re
pentant sinner and that repentant siiiner
chow Christ. Mightiest moment of an Im
mortal history tho first kiss of heaven!
Jesus and the souL The soul and Jesus,
i But now iuto that reception room pour tho
glorified klusfolk. Enough of earthly reten
tion to let you know them, but without tUelr
wounds or their sickness or their troubles.
Soo what honven has douo for them. Bo
radiant, so gleeful, so transporting!' lovely.
They call you by name Thoy greet you with
an ardor proportioned to tho anguish of your
parting nnd tho length of your seuirntion.
Fatliorl Motherl Thero Is your child. Sis
ters! Urothcrsl Friends! I wish you Joy.
For years apart, together ngnln in tho reccp
tlon room of tho old homestead. You see
thoy will know you aro coming. Thero nro
so mauy Immortals filling all tho spaces lw
tweeu hero nud henvoii that news llko that
(lies llko lightning. Thoy will bo thero In nn
iustnuti though they wcro in somo other
world on errand from Ood a signal would bo
thrown that would fetch them. Though you
might nt llrst feel dared and overawed at
their stiorual splendor, nil that feeling w 111
bo gone nt their llrst touch of heavenly
salutation nnd wo will snyi "0 my lost boy,"
"0 my lost companion," "0 my lost friend,
nro wo hero togctherl" What scenes havo
been witnessed In that reception room of tho
old homestead I There met Joseph nud Jacob,
finding It a brighter room than anything
thoy saw In Pharaoh's palace; David nnd tho
littlo child for whom ho once fnstcd nud
wepti Mary and Lazarus af tcr tho heartbreak
of Bethany; Timothy and grandmother Lois;
Isabella Oraham and her sailor son, Alfred
and Qoorgo Cookman, tho mystery of tho sea
at last mado maulf est; Luther nud Mngda
leno, tho daughter ho bemoaned; John How
ard and tho prisoners whom ho gospollzed;
am multitudes without number who, once, so
weary and onco so sad, parted on earth but glo
riously met In honven. Among all tho rooms
of that Iioum) thero is not ouo that moro en
raptures my soul than that reception room.
"In my Father's houso aro many rooms."
WE AUK OF THE IIOVAL FAMILY.
Another room in our Father's houso is tho
throno room. Wo belong to tho royal family.
Tho blood of King Jesus Hows in our veins,
so wo havo n right to enter tho throno room.
It is no easy thing ou earth to get through
oven tho outside door of a king's residence
During tho Franco-German war ono ovcutido
in tho summer of 1871) I stood studying tho
exquislto sculpturing of tho gnto of tho Tull
cries, Paris. Lost lu admiration of tho won
derful art of that gate, I know not that I was
exciting suspicion. Lowering my eyes to tho
crowds of peoplo I found myself being closely
luspoctod by governmental officials, who from
my complexion Judged mo to bo a German,
and thnt for some belligerent purpose I might
bo examining tho gates of tho alace. My
explanations lu very oor French did not
satisfy them nnd they followed mo long dis
tances until 1 reached my hotel, nnd wero
not satisfied until from my landlord they found
thnt I was only nn Inoffenslvo American.
Tho gates of earthly )alaccs nro carefully
guarded, and, If so, how much moro severely
tho throno room! A dazzling placo Is it for
mirrors and nil costly nrt. No ono who over
saw tho throno room of tho first nnd only Na
poleon will over forget tho lotter N embroid
ered lu purplo and gold on tho upholstery of
chair and window, tho letter N glided ou tho
wall, tho letter N chased on tho chalices, tho
letter N flamlug from tho colling. What n
confiagaration of brilliance tho throno room
of Charles Immanuel of Sardinia, of Ferdi
nand of Spain, of Elizabeth of England, of
Bonlfaco of Italy! But tho throno room of
our Father's houso hath a glory eclipsing all
tho throno rooms that over saw scepter
wave, or crown glltUr, or forcigu am
bassador bow, for our Father's throno is
a throno of grace, a throno of mercy, a
throno of holiness, a throno of Justice, a
throno of universal dominion. Wo need not
stand shivering and cowering beforo it, for
our Father says wo may yet one day como
up and sit ou it bosido him. "To htm that
overcometh will 1 grant to sit with mo in
my throne" You seo wo are princes and
prlucesses. Perhaps now wo movo about in
cognito, as Peter tho Great in tho garb of a
ship carpenter at Amsterdam, or as Queen
Tlrzah in tho dress of a peasant woman seek
ing tho prophet for her child's euro; but it
will bo found out after a whilo who wo aro
when wo get iuto tho throno room. Ayo, wo
need not wait until then. Wo may by prayer
and song nud spiritual uplifting this moment
enter tho throne room. 0 King, llvo for
over! Wo touch tho forgiving scepter and
prostato ourselves nt thy feetl Tho crowns
of tho royal families of this world aro tossed
about from generation to generntiou nnd
from family to family. Theroarochlldrenfour
years old In Berlin who havo been tho crown
on three emperors. But wherovcr tho coro
nets of this world rlso or fall, they aro des
tined to moot in ono place And I look and
seo them coming from north and south and
east nud west, tho Spanish crown, tho Italian
crown, tho English crown, tho Turtdsh crown,
tho Russian crown, tho Persian crown ayo,
oil tho crowns from under tho great archl
volt of heaven; aud whilo I watch and won
der they aro all flung in rain of diamonds
around tho pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign where'er tho sun
Does hU successive Journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rlso and set no more
Oh, that throno room of Christ! "In my
Father's houso aro many rooms."
rLENTY OF MUSIO IN HEAVEN.
Another room In our Father's houso Is tho
music room. St. John and other Bible writ
ers talk so much about tho muslo of heaven
that thero must bo muslo thero, jwrhaps not
such as on earth was thrummed from trem
bling striug or evoked by touch of Ivory key,
but If not that, then something better. Thero
nro so many Christian harpists and Christian
composers and Christian organists and Chris
tian choristers and Christian hymnologists
that havo gono up from earth, thero must bo
for them somo place of especial delectation.
Shall wo have music in this world of discords
and no music in tho land of completo har
mony? I cannot give you tho notes of tho
first bar of tho now song that is sung in
heaven, I cauuot imagino either tho solo or
tho doxology. But nil this Bible talk
about striuged aud wind Instruments in
heaven moans music, and can mean nothing
else Occasionally that music bos oscapod
tho gate. Doctor Fuller dying nt Beaufort,
B. C., said; "Do you not hearp "near
what!" oxclaimod tho bystanders. "Tho
muslo! Lift mo up! Ojion tho window!" In
that muslo room of our Father's houso you
will somo day meet tho old Christian masters,
Mozart and Handel and Mendelssohn nnd
Beethoven; and Doddridge, whoso sacred
poetry was as rotnarkablo as his sacred proso;
and James Montgomery, and William Cow
per at last got rid of his spiritual melancholy,
and Bishop nober, who snug of "Greenland's
icy mountains and India's coral strand;" and
Dr. Rallies, who wrote of "High in yonder
realms of light;" and Isaao Wntts, who went
to visit Sir Thomas Abnoy and wifo for a
week, but proved himself so agreeable
a guest that they mado him stay
thirty-six years; and, side by sido,
Augustus Toplady, who lias got over his dis
like for MethodUts, nnd Charles Wesley freed
from his dislike for Calvinlsts; and Georgo
W, Buthune, as suot a song maker as bo
was great as a preacher, and the author of
"Tho Village lljmns;" and mnny who wroto
In verso or sons. In church or by eveutida
cradlo, nnd mn-iy who wero passionately fond
of music, but cculd make uono themselves.
Tho (worest singer thero moro thau any
earthly prima damn, aud tho poorest players
thero tuoio than any earthly Gottschalk.
Oh! thut muslo room, tho headquarters of
endoncu a '.d rhythm, symphony and chant,
psalm and nntlphonl May no be thero somo
hour when llnydtt sits nt tho Leys of onoof
lit otfn orntorlos, nnd David tho ixnlmlst
fingers tho harp, nnd Miriam if tho lied Sea
banks claps tho cymbals, nnd Gabriel puts his
ll to tho truuiiot, nnd tho fonr-nud twenty
soldiers chant, nud Llud nnd Pimn render
tuntchl'li duct lu tho muslo room of tho
old ho.vvenly homestead. "In my Father's
homo ni e many rooms."
UOOMB KOU TltK FAMILY.
Another room in our Father's houso w 111 bo
tho family room. It may correoud somo
what with tho family room on earth. At
morning nud evening, you know, that is tho
placo wo now meet. Though overy mcinlcr
of tho household havo n sopnrnto room, In tho
family room thoy all gather, anil Joys nud
sorrows and cxerlonceaof nil stylos nrothero
rehearsed. Sacred room in all our duellings!
whether It bo luxurious with ottomans nnd
divans nnd books in llusslnn lids standing in
mahogany caw, or thero bo only n fow plain
chnlrs nnd n cradle So tho family room on
high will bo tho placo whero tho klusfolk ns
somblo and talk over tho family oxperlencos
of earth, tho wedding, tho births, tho burials,
tho festal days of Christmas aud Thanksgiv
ing, reunion, Will tho children deinrUd re
main children thero? Will the aged remain
aged theroi Oh, no; ovcrythlng Is erfoct
there Tho child will go ahead to glorified
maturity aud tho nged will go back to
glorified maturity. Tho rising sun of tho ono
will rlso to meridian and tho descending sun
of tho other will return to meridian. How
ever much wo lovo children on earth, wo
would consider It n domestic disaster If thoy
stayed children, nnd so wo rojolco nt their
growth here And when wo meet in tho
family room of our Father's houso wo will
bo glad that they havo grandly and gloriously
matured; whllo our parents, who wero aged
nnd infirm here, wo shall be glad to find re
stored to tho most agile nnd vigorous Im
mortality there If forty or forty-llvo or
fifty years bo tho npox of physical nnd men
tnl llfo on earth, then tho heavenly childhood
will ndvnnco to that aud tho heavenly old
ngo will retreat to that.
When wo Join them In that family room wo
shall havo much to tell them. Wo shall want
to know of them right away such things ns
this: Did you soo us lu this or thnt or tho
other strugglof Did you know when wo lost
our projKTty and sympnthlzo with usl Did
you know wo had thatnwful sickness! Were
you hovering nnywhero around when wo
plunged Into that memornblo accident! Did
you know of our backsliding? Did you know
of thnt moral vlotoryl Wcro you pleased
when wo started for hoavent Did you cclo
brato tho hourof our conversion! And then,
whether they know It or not, wo will tell
them nil But they will havo moro to tell us
than wo to tell them. Ten years on earth may
bo very oveutful, but what must bo tho biog
raphy of ten years In heaven? Thoy will havo
to tell us tho story of coronations, story of
nows from all Immensity, story of conquer-oi-s
nud hicrarchs, story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story of angelic victory over
diabolic revolts, of extinguished suns, of
obliterated constellations, of new galaxies
kindled nnd swung, of stranded comets, of
worlds on flro, nnd story of Jehovnh's tun
Jostle reign. If In that family room of our
Father's houso wo havo so much to tell thorn
of what wo havo passed through slnco wo
parted, how much moro thrilling nnd Mous
ing thnt which thoy havo to tell us of what
they havo passed through slnco wo parted.
Surely that family room will bo ono of tho
most favored rooms In all our Father's
house What long lingering there, for wo
shall novcr again bo in a hurry.
"Let mo open a window," said an
humblo Christian scrvaut to Lady Rallies,
who, becauso of tho death of her child, had
shut herself up in a dark room nud refused
to see nny ono; "you havo been many days
in this dark room. Aro you not ashamed to
grlovo in this manner when you ought to !c
thanking God for having given you tho most
beautiful child that over was seen, and in
stead of leaving him in this world till he
should bo worn with trouble, lias not God
taken him to heaven in all his beauty? Lcavo
off weeping nnd lot mo open n w Indow." So
today I am trying to open upon tho darkness
of earthly separation tho windows nud doors
nnd rooms of tho heavenly homestead. "In
my Father's houso aro many rooms."
IN CONCLCBION.
How would it do for my sermon to leave
you In that family room today? I am suio
thero is no room In which you would rather
stay than in tho enraptured clrclo of your as
cended nud glorified kinsfolk. Wo might visit
other rooms in our Father's house Thero
may bo plcturo galleries penciled not with
earthly art but by somo process, unknown in
this world, preserving for tho next world tho
brightest and most stupendous scenes of hu
man history. Aud thero may bo linos and
forms of earthly beauty preserved for heaven
ly inspection in something whiter and chaster
and richer than Venotlau sculpture over
wrought. Rooms besido rooms. Rooms over
rooms. Largo rooms. Majestic rooms, opal
escent rooms, nmethystino rooms. "In my
Father's houso aro many rooms."
I hope nono of us will bo disappointed about
gettiug there Thero is a room for us if wo
will go and tako it, but in order to reach It it
is nbsolutcly necessary that wo tako tho
right way, and Christ is tho way; and wo
must enter at tho right door, nnd Christ is
tho door; nnd wo must start in tlmo, and tho
only hour you nro suro of is tho hour the
clock now strikes, and tho only second tho
ouo your watch Is now ticking. I hold in my
band a roll of letters inviting you nil to make
that your home forever. Tho New Testament
Is only a roll of letters inviting you, as tho
spirit of them practically says: "My dying
yet immortal child in earthly nolghliorhood, I
havo built for you a great residence. It is
full of rooms. I havo furnished them as no
palaco was ever furnished. Pearls ai o noth
ing, emeralds aro nothing, chrysophrusus Is
nothing, Illumined panels of sunrlmj nud sun
set, nothing, tho aurora of tho northern
heavens, nothliiK compared with tho siilen-
dor with which 1 havo garultured them. But
you must lo clean beforo you can enter thero,
and so 1 havo opened a fountain whero you
may wash all your sins nwny. Como now I
Put your weary but cleansed feet on tho up
ward pathway Do you not seo amid tho
thick foliago on tho heavenly hilltops tho old
family homestead f" "In my father's houso
aro many rooms."
Trees and tlio IUInfull.
MaJ. J. W. Powell, who is as good authority
ns wo havo, writes that In his Judgment tree
planting does not Increaso rninfall or aid in
reclaiming arid lauds in that easy nnd direct
manner. But trees servo to equalize atmos
pheric coudltlous and nld tho soil nud air in
retaining the rain that does full. He Ulloves
thut by tree planting to supplement irrigat
ing methods, nearly all arid lands may bo
reclaimed for tillago, and that somo of our
worst wastes will U-como our best pasture
lands nnd most productive farms. It mutt,
however, Ik) nllowed that other good authori
ties believe that rainfall is directly affected
by forests. St. Louis Globo-Deiuocrat,
Tho Row E. P. Terhuno thinks that it Is
useless to lay out n course of reading for other
iieoplo to follow In this inntter n man must
bo hit own Judgo, nnd tnke his time when ho
can get it. Ho knows of ono man who has
sjont an hour on tho street cars overy day,
and who, by improving that time, read tlio
stiuvlwd novelists and kept himself generally
well Informed.
ODDS AND ENDS.
A nw st . lo of sword Just Introduced Into
tho ilcrninn army for tho uso of officers Is
straight,
Mr. Itusklu has a littlo friend, tho daugh
ter of n Loudon fnmlly. who has bestowed
tiiou tho sago tho shaking tltlo of "St,
CrumnL"
If tho faoo seems constantly dry, rub It w itli
a trlllo of ollvq oil overy night for a tlmo; if
too oily, put a littlo borax In tho wnter used
for bathing.
In tho Dutch portion of Borneo tho natives
used to adorn their huts with human heads,
nnd they wero not particular wlioso hend It
wo. Over 8,000 of them had to Ihj killed In
order to put ft stop to this practice, which Is
now obsolete
It may servo for n great lesson of humilia
tion to mankind to liehold tho habits nud pas
sions of men trampling over Interest, friend
ship, honor nnd their owu personal safety, ni
well ns thnt of their country. Swift,
Tlio shall of Persia has granted to Baron
Router tho privilege of establishing "Tho Im
perial Bank of Persia," with a capital of
twenty millions of dollars, nnd to Imvo tho
exclusive right to Issuo notes,
Tlio woman who weeps Is not n pleasing ob
ject to look upon, but heartless husbands may
console themselves with tho thought that the
woman who dissolves Inn flood uf tears novcr
throws fiat Irons. Somervlllo Journal.
Whatever tho number of n innu's friends,
thero will bo times in his llfowheu ho hoi
ouo too few; but If ho has only ouo enemy,
ho Is lucky Indeed If ho has not ono too
mnny. Uulwcr Lyttou.
Anthony Burrows, of Wnlker county, Ga.,
has n small plno stump that has lieen petri
fied. It is as heavy ns stone, cuts hard nnd
resembles n rock, though tho streaks of rosin
and growth can Ihj seen, nnd beyond a doubt
has been n small plno stump, which ihowi
tho marks of an nx.
Tlio largest naturnl gns well over struck ti
near Bell Vernon, twenty-six miles from
Pittsburg, Pa. It is yielding -lO.OOO.OOO feet
per day, under tho pressure of WO poundi
to tho Inch. Tho discovery of this well is re
garded as significant of nu unlimited supply
of this useful product,
Ono of tho vestlbulo trains from Savnnnnb
to Jacksonville, ran tho distance of 173 mile
nt tho nverago rate of 62.-1 miles per hour.
Sovernl runs aggregating 00 miles wero made
ntthornteof 00 miles r hour or over, IS
miles nt over 70 miles per hour, nnd ono run
of 5 miles wns mado at 75 miles per hour
It Is not easy to gain a mule's confidence
They nro nbsurdly timid, and if onoof a
drovo is scared tlio rest aro also panic strick
en, An old black log always makes n mule
shy. Snakes terrify and lienrs paralyze
thorn. Ou tho plains no spurring or whl
plng can drlvo n tuulo up to nn Indian. Tnke
a number of mules and throw their relut
over somo of tho others' enrs, and thoy will
stand nil day in tho belief that thoy nro so
curely tied.
Only old men enn remember when Amer
ican nowspnpers used to rojiort In full tho do
bates in congress. An approach to a liko In
difference is now exhibited in England, al
though thero parliament does nearly all the
work which ou this sido of tho Atlantic It
porformed by congress aud tho state legisla
tures combined. Tho Times Is now tho only
daily nowspn!er in London which publlshct
ostensibly completo reports of tlio debates in
parliament.
Cava Dwellers round In Mexico.
A dispatch from Doming, N. M., says
"Lieut. Schwatka has arrived here lilt
party has boon successful beyond exiectatioui
in their explorations, and especially In south
ern Chihuahuu, whero living cliff nud cavi
dwellers wcro found lu groat nbuudauco.wild
as any of tho Mexican tribes at the tlmo ol
Cortez's conquest. Tho abodes they llvo Ir
aro exactly similar to tho old, abandoned cllfl
dwclliugs of Arizona nnd New Mexico, about
which thero has tx-en much speculation. II
wns nlmost luiosslblo to get near them, sc
wild and timid wero they UKn tho ap
proach of whito jeople they Ueo to thcii
caves by notched sticks placed against the
fnco of tho cliffs. If steep, although they cat.
ascend vertical stono faces If there nro the
slightest crevices for their fingers nud toes.
"Those cliff dwellers nro suu worshipers
putting their new born children out in the
full rays of tho sun tho first day of theli
lives, and show lug many other forms of do
votiou to tho great luminary. They aro usu
ally tull, lean and well formed, their skic
being a blackish rod, much nearer tho coloi
of tlio negro than tho copper colored Indian
of tho United States.
"Schwatka claims thnt nothing has hereto
fore been known about these pooplo except
by tho hulf Indian mountain Mexicans, and
thinks his investigation will bo of immcns
anthropological aud archaeological value II
estimates tho cavo and cliff dwellers to U
from 3,000 to 12,000 In number, armed only
with bows, arrows nnd stono hatchets."
A Hon Mechuulc.
Archimedes was tho first boss mechanic t
tell tho true story of things. Ho lived Ir
Sicily, nt Syracuso, and was born 2S7 yean
beforo Jesus. For a vivid idea of how long
beforo tho Christian religion had a founder
Archimedes was among men, let us ndd thest
257 yenrs to tho year 1U07, which was thoflrsl
English settlement nt Jamestown. Tho same
will tako us to tho year 1S1M, and therefor
Archimedes wns lorn longer lniforo tho time
of Jesus than wo llvo nftcr tho tlmoof Ralelgl
aud John Smith.
Archimedes picked up somo ideas in Egypt
nnd distributed others there This is the mar
who shouted "Eureknl" when ho discovered
tho law of specific gravity. Ono yarn nbout
him is that he destroyed Roman ships lcsleg
Ing Syracuse by tho nld of great burning
glasses. Tho mathematical works of this old
chap aro still to Ihj hail, and they show that
ho was a lino mathematician. Ho discovered
tho ratios of the sphere and cylinder, and the
ratio of n circumference to n dlamoter on va
rious kinds of lilies, nnd asked that tlio cylin
der nud whoel bo placed upon his tombstone
Tlio Romans stormed Syracuso and n com
mon soldier killed Archimedes In tho havoc,
but tho Roman general had him burled in
stylo, and 140 years afterward, when Cicero
was tlio Roman governor of Sicily, ho hunt
ed among tho weeds and thorns to find the
tomb of Archimedes, who left ablo pupils in
mechaulc8. Oath in Cincinnati Euqulrcr.
A Dob Thut an Tell Time.
Samuel Held, tho truckman, is tho owner
of a very intelligent Irish setter, nud ho nover
tires of telling of tho mauy wonderful per
formances of his pet. Last night Mr. Held
told his wife, in tho pretence of tho dog, tc
nrouso him at 0 o'clock this momlm as lie
wished to go to tho llosednlo dock to begin '
woric on 11 largo stock of freight which was
awaiting his attention. This morning Mrs.
Held failed to awako at tho hour named, nnd
Mr. Reid was aroused by hearing his know
ing dog scratching nt his bedroom door. He
instantly arc, nud upon looking nt the
clock discovered that it was three minutes
past 0 o'clock. Mr. Held wys It would tako
considerable money to tempt htm to dupoe
of tho dog that seemingly so well understands
tho English lauguago, and Is withal to faith
ful aud knowing. Uridgeport Farmer
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