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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1889.
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A MEDUKttKANEAN TRIP.
8EnMON PREACHED BY REV. T. DE
WITT TALMAGE, SUNDAY, NOV. 17.
"Ami So It Came to Vamn, Tlmt Ttiry K
cap1 All Bnfo to Land" Art xxvll,
44, IIU Text A Powerful tllncoim nt
Ilrlmlltl, lUljr.
DiUNDtst, Nov. 17. Tho Ilov. T. Do Witt
Talmage, D. D., preached In this Italian wrt
today. Ills mibjcct was "A Mediterranean
Voyago," and ho took for bin text Act xxvll,
44: "And to It en mo to jmim, that thoy escaped
nil Bnfo to land." Dr. Talmago taldi
Having visited your historical city, which
wo dcMrud to rco bocnuvj It was tho terminus
of tho most famous road of tho ages tho
Roman Applau Way and for Its mighty
fortress overshadowing n city which ovon
Hannibal's hosts could not thunder down, we
must to-morrow morning lenvo your harbor,
and, after touching at Athens and Corinth,
voyago about tho Mediterranean to Aloxau
drla, Egypt. I Imvo been reading this morn
Ing In my Now Testament of a Mediterranean
voyago In mi Alexandrian ship. It was this
very month of November, Tho vessel niu
. ' ly'i'K In i Iort not very far from hero. On
'' board that vessel wero two distinguished pas
sengers ono Josephus, tho historian, ns we
havo strong reasons to believo; tho other, a
convict, ono Paul by namo, who was going to
prison for ujisettliig things, or, as thoy
termed It, "turning tho world upside down."
This convict had gained tho confldeuca of tho
captain; Indeed, I think that Paul know almost
as much nlwut tho sea oa did tho captain. Ho
had been shipwrecked three times already; ho
had dwelt much of his llfo amidst cnwtans,
and yard-arms, and cables, and storms; and
he know what ho was talking about. Seeing
the equinoctial storm was coming, and per
haps noticing something unseaworthy In tho
. vowel, ho advised tho captain to stay In tho
harbor. Hut I hoar tho captain and tho first
mate talking together. Thoy sayt "Wo can-
not afford to take tho ad vlco of this landsman,
and he a minister. Ho may bo ablo to pi each
very well, but I don't bcllovo ho knows n
marllno-eplkofromnluff-tacklo. All nttoardl
Costoffl Shitt the holm for headway! Who
feera the Mediterranean P Thoy had gone
only a littlo way out when n whirlwind,
called Euroclydoii, made tho torn sa 1 it tur
ban, shook the mast as you would brandish a
J spear, and tossed the hulk Into the heavens.
Ovcrloard with tho cargo! It is all washed
with salt-water, nnd worthless now; in id thcro
aro no mariuo Insurance companies. All
bauds ahoy, and out with tho anchors!
A OIUCAT HKA BTOllM.
Oreat consternation comes on crow and
passengers. Tho sea monsters snort in the
foam and tho billows clap their hands in
gleo of destruction. In tho lull of tho storm
I hear a chain clank. It Is the chain of tho
great npost Ions ho walks the deck, or holds
fast to tho rigging amid tho lurching of tho
ship, tho spray dripping from Ills long beard
as bodies out to tho crow: "Now I exhort
you to bo of good cheer: for there shall Ira no
loss of nny man's llfo among jou, but of tho
ship. Kor thero stood by mo this night the
angel of Ood, whoso I am, and whom I serve,
a) ing, Fear not, Paul; thou must bo brought
before Dcwir: and, lo, Ood hath glveu thco
all them t lint will with thee."
Fourteen days have passed, and there is no
abatement of the storm. It is midnight.
Standing on tho lookout, tho man peers into
tho durkuoti, and, by a flash of lightning,
sees tho long whlto lino of tho breakers, and
knows they must bo coming near to some
country, and fears that in a few moments
tho vessel will bo shivered on tho rocks. Tho
ship flies like chaff in tho tornado. Thoy
drop tho sounding lino, and by tho light of the
lantern they sco it Is twenty fathoms. Sfxxxl
Ing along a littlo farther, they drop tho line
again, and by the light of the lantern they
tee it Is fifteen fathoms. Two hundred
and seventy-six souls within a few
foot of awful shipwreck I Tho managers
of tho vessel, pro tending thoy want to
look over tho side of the ship and under
gird it, get Into the small boat, expecting In
it to escape? but Paul, sees through tho sham,
and he tells thorn that if they go off In tho
boat it will bo tho death of them. The vessel
strikes I Tho planks spring! Tho timbers
crock! Tho vessel ports In tho thundering
urge! Oh, what wild struggling for llfo!
Here they leap from plonk to plank. Hero
they go under as If tbey would nover rise,
but, catching hold of a timber, come floating
on It to the beach. Hero, strong swimmers
spread their "arms through tho waves until
their chins plow tho sand, and they rise up
and wring out their wot locks on tho beach.
When tho roll of tho ship is called, two hun
dred and seventy-six people answer to their
names. "And to," says my text, "it camo to
post, that they escaped alt tofo to land."
SOXK wnOLKSOXK LXHS0.18;
I learn from this subject:
First, that those who get us Into trouble
will not stay to help ut out. Theso shlpmon
Sot Paul out of Fair Havens Into the storm;
ut as toon at the tempest dropped upon
, them they wanted to go off in the small boat,
earing nothing for what became of Paul and
the passengers. Ah met human nature it
the tame in all ages. They who get us Into
trouble never stop to help us out. They who
tempt that young man into a life of dissipa
tion will be tho first to laugh at bis imbecil
ity, and to drop him out of decent society.
Gamblers always make fun of the losses of
gambler. They who tempt you luto the con
test with fista, saying: "I will bock you,"
will be the first to run. Look over all
the predicaments of your llfo, and
count tho names of those who have got
you Into those predicaments, and tell mo the
name of ono who ever helped you out. Thoy
were glad enough to get you out from Fair
Havens, but when, with damaged rigging,
you tried to get Into harbor, did they hold
for you a plank or throw you a rope I Not
ene. Satan hat got thousands oX men Into
trouble, but ho nover got ono out. Ho led
them into theft, but ho would not hide tho
goods or bail out the defendant. Tho spider
thows the fly tho way over tho gotuamor
bridge into tho cobweb, but it never shows
the fly the way out of the cobweb over tho
gossamer bridge, I think that there were
plenty of fast young men to help the prodi
gal spend his money ; but when ho bad wasted
hit substance in riotous living, they let him
go to tho twine pastures, whllo they betook
themselves to sonio other now comer. They
who took Paul out of Fair Havens will bo of
no help to him when he gets into the break
art of Mellta,
I rtmark again, as a lesson learned from
the text, that it is dangerous to refuse tho
counsel of competent advisers. Paul told
them not to go out with that ship. They
thought he knew, nothing about it. Thoy
laid: "Hols only a minister I" They went,
and the ship was destroyed. Thero aro a
great many people who now hay of minis
ters: "They know nothing about tho world.
They cannot tall: to us." Ah, my friends, it
it not necessary to have tho Ablatio cholera
before you can glvo It medical troatment In
others. It' U not necn, ,-y to havo your arm
broken before you can .now how to splinter
a f met in e. And we w ho staud lu tho pulpit
and in tho nfllce of a Chilstlan teacher know
thnt thero are cvrtaln t)let of belief isnt
certain kinds of behavior that will load to
destruction n certainly as Paul know tlmt If
that ship went out of Fair Havens it would
go to destruction. "Itajolcc, O young iiinn,
In thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thro in
theda;'s of thy youth t but know thou, that
(or all thcM things Ood will bring theo Into
Judgment," Wo may not know much, but
wo knhw that.
Young people raftio the ndvlco of parent.
Thoy iay: "Father Is over suspicious and
mother is getting old." Hut these oreiits
have loen on the ia of life. Thoy know
where tho storms sloop, mid during their voy
ngo Imvo seen a thousand battered hulks
marking tho plum whero Unuty burned and
intellect foundered mid morality Mink. They
aro old sailors, having answered miiiiy n sig
nal of distress, and enduted gleitt treof
weathT, and gotio scudding under I hi to (xilcs,
and tho old folks know what they aro talking
about, IjooU at that man lu hi cheek tho
glow of infernal II res. His oyo flashes not ns
onco with thought, but with low jxikkIou,
His brain Is n sower through which Impiii ity
floats, and his heart tho trough in which lint
wallows and drinks. Men khuddcr oh tho
leper paste, and iwrvntu cry "Wolf I Wolf I"
Yet lionnco said tho Lord's prnjer nt hit
mother's knee, and against that Iniquitous
brow onco pressed a puro mother's lip. Hut
ho refilled her counsel. Ho went whero
eurocl)dons Imvo their lair. 1)3 foundered
on tho sea, while all hell echoed nt tho roar
of tho wrck, Ixwt Puclflvsl Iwt Pacifies!
TUB HAfTCTY OP CIIUIST1ANH.
Another lesson" from tho subject Is that
Christians nro nlwnyt safe.
Thcro did not seem to bo much chanco for
Paul getting outof that shipwreck, did thero I
Thoy had not, lu thovj days, rockets w Ith
which to throw rox.i over foundering ves
sels. Their lifeboats wero of but littlo wot th.
And yet, notwithstanding all the danger, my
toxt says that Paul escaped hnfo to laud. And
so It will always bo with God's children.
Tbey may bo plunged into darkness and
troublo, but by tho throno of tho Eternal
Ood, I assert It, "they shall nil cscapo safo to
land."
Sometime thcro comes a storm of commer
cial disaster. Tho cables break. Tho masts
fall. Tho cargoes are scattered over the sea.
Oh I what struggling and leaping on kegs,
and hogsheads, anil corn bins, and store
shelves! And yet, though they may havo It
so very hard In commercial circles, tho good,
trusting lu Ood, all come snfo to land.
Wreckers go out on tho ocean's bench, and
And tho shattered hulks of vessels; and on
tho streets of our great cities thcro is many a
wreck. Mainsail slit with banker's pen.
Hulks abeam' end on iimirnuco counters.
Vast credits kinking, having suddenly sprung
a leak. Yet all of them who nro Ood's chil
dren shnll at last, through His goodness mid
mercy, uio safo to land. Tho Scandina
vian wnriiorri used to drink wlno out of tho
ikulls of tho cncmlcfl they had slain. Even
o will God help us, out of tho conquered Ills
Hid illuMcrxof llfo, to drink sweetness and
ttrcngth for our souls.
You Imvo, my friends, had illustrations In
your own life of how God delivers his poo
plo. I hnvu had Illustrations lu my own llfo
Df tho same truth. I was onco in what on
your Mediterranean you call n Euroclydoii,
but what on tho Atlantic wo call a cyclone,
but tho same storm. Tho steamer Oreeco of
tho National lino swung out into the river
Mcrhoy at Liverpool, bound for Now York.
Wo had on hoard seven hundred, crow nnd
passengers. Wo camo together strangers
Italian. Luglishmcn, Irishmen, Swedes, Nor
wegians, Americans. Two flags floated
from tho miints Hrltlsh and American en
iigus. Wo had a now vessel, or ono so thor
oughly emodelcd that tho voyago had around
it all tho uncertainties of n trial trip.
Tho great steamer felt its way cau
tiously out into tho kca. Tho pilot
was discharged, and, committing ourselves
to tho enroot him who holdcth tho winds in
his fist, wo wero fairly started on our voyago
of three thousand miles. It wasrough nearly
all tho way, tho sea with strong buffeting
disputing our path. Hut ono night at 11
o'clock, nftcr tho lights had been put out, a
cyclone a wind Just mado to tear ships to
pieces caught us in its clutchos. It camo
down so suddenly that wo find not time
to take in tho satis or to fasten tho hatches.
You may know that tho bottom of tho At
lantic is strewn with the ghastly work of
cyclones. Oh! thoy aro cruel winds. Thoy
have hot breath,' as though they camo up
from infernal furnaces. Their merriment is
tho cry of affrighted iiassengers. Tholr play
Is tho foundering of steamers. Ami when a
imp goes down thoy laugh uutil both conti
nents hear them. They go in circles, or, as
IdoKcribo them with my hand rolling on!
rolling on! with finger of terror writing ou
tho whlto sheet of tho wave this seutenco
of doom; "Let all that come within this
clrclo perish! Hrlgantincs, go down! CUp
pors, go down I Steamships, go down I" Ami
tho vessel, hearing tho terrible voice, crouches
lu tho surf, and at the waters gurgle through
tho hatches and portholes it lowers away,
thousands of foot down, farther and farther,
until at lost it strikes the bottom; and all Is
peace, for they have landed, Helmsmat
dead at tho wheel I Engineer, dead amidst
the extinguished furnaces I Captain, dead in
tho gangway I Passengers, dead in the cabin I
Buried in the great cemotery of dead steam
ers, beside tho City of Boston, tho Lexington,
tho President, tho Cambria waiting for the
archangel's trumpet to sptlt up the docks, and
wrench open the cabin doors, and unfasten
the hatches,
milLS NOT TO DE MADE LIGHT OF.
I thought that I had seen storms on the sea
beforo; but all of them togothcr might have
come tinder one wing of that cyclone. We
wero only eight or nine hundred miles from
home, and in high expectation of soon seeing
our frlouda, for there was ho ono on board to
poor as not to have a friend. Hut it seemed
as if we were to be disappointed. The most
of us expected then and thero to die. There
wero none who made light of the peril, save
two: one was an Englishman, and ho was
drunk, and tho other was an American, and
ho was a fool) Ohl what a time It was A
night tomako ono't hair turn whlto. Wo
camo out of the berths and stood lu tho gang
way, and looked into tho steerage, and sat in
tho cabin. Whllo seated thero wo heard
overhoad something like minuto guns. It
was tho bursting of the sails. Wo held on by
both hands to keop our places. TIiomo who
attempted to cross tho floor rame Ixiek bruised
and gashed, Cups nnd glasses wero dashed
to fragments; pieces of tho tablo getting
loose swung across the saloon. It seemed as
If the hurrlcanu took that great ship of thou
sands of tons and stood it on end,
and said: 'Shall I sink it, or let It
go this onco!' And then it came
down with sucli forco that tho billows tram
plod over it, each mounted of a fury. Wo
felt that everthiug depended on tho propel
ling screw. If that . top ted for an lntaut,
wo knew tho vontel would fall olT luto tho
trough of the sea, and sink, and wiie prayed
that the screw, which three times luoe leav
ing LlverKxl hod already stopinxl, might not
stop now. Ohl how anxiously wo listened
for tho regular thump of tho machinery, ujioii
which uur lives seemed to depend. After
aw hllo bomo ono fcnlil ; "Tho screw Is stopped."
No; Its sound had mil) Iwcu overpowered by
tho uproar bf tho tcmiost, and wo breathed
wuicr ugnln when wo heard tho legular pul
sations of the ovei tasked machinery, going
thump, thump, thump. At 3 o'clock lu the
morning Hie water covered tho ship from
piow to stern, and tho skylights gave
wnyl Tho delugo rushed In, and wo felt
that ono or two more wnves llku that must
swamp us forever, As the water tolled Iwck
and forward In tho cabins, nnd Unshed ngnlust
tho wall, It sprnug half way up to tho coil
ing. Hushing through tho k lights ns It
camo In with such ten lllo I oar, tlieru went
up from tho cabin a shrluk of houtir which I
piny God I may nover hear again. I hnvo
dimmed tho whole ktihi over again, but (lod
has meiclfully kept me from heating that
ono cry. Into it twined to bo comprised tho
ngouyof uxiectcd thlpwrvck, It seemed to
wiy: "I Minll never get homo again I My
children shall bo orphnncd, and my wlfo !utll
bo widowed I I nm launching iunv Into eter
nity ! In two minutes 1 idmli meet my Ood I"
There wero nbout llvn hundred nnd llfty
MSM'itgors In thottcctngn; nnd as the water
rushisl In nnd touched thn furnaces, nnd bo
gan lolcutly to hiss, tho jxxir creatures In
tho stiringn Imagined that tho Ixiilcrs wero
giving way. Those, passengers writhed lu tho
water mid In tho mud, some ptnjlng, soino
crying, all terrified. They uinilo n rush for
tho deck. An olllcer stood on deck, nnd bent
them back with blow after blow. It wan
neewsnry. They would not hnvo stood nn
Instant oil tho deck. Oil, how they tagged
to get out of tho hold of tho shipl Ono wo
man, w ith n child in her arms, rushed up nod
caught hold of ono of tho ofllcers, nnd cried:
"Do let mo out! I will help you I Do lot mo
out! I cniiuot dto hero I" Homo got down
and prnjed to tho Virgin Mary, salng: "O
blessed Mother! keep us Hnvo mercy on
llsP Boiuoslood with, whlto llts and llxcd
gaze, silent lu their terror. Homo wrung
their hands nnd cried out: "0 Ood I whnt
shall (do! what shall Idol" Tho tluio cinno
when tho Ore w could no longer stay on tho
deck, mid tho cry ot tho olllcers was: "He
low! All hands ImiIow!" Our brnvunud sjin
IHtthotle Captain Andrews whoso prnlso 1
shnll not rente to sMak whllo I live had
Iki'ii swept by tho hurricane from his bridge,
mid hud cit'iicd very narrowly with his llfo.
Tho e) clone seemed to stand ou tho deck,
waving ItH w lug, crying: "This ship Is mine!
I have captured Itt Hal hal 1 will com
mand Itl H God will termlt, I will sink It
hero nnd now! Ily a, thousand shlpw locks, I
swear the doom of this vessoll" There was n
lull In tho storm; but only thnt It might gain
additional fury. Clash I went tho lifeboat on
ono side. Crash! went tho lifeboat ou the
other side. Tho great booms got loose, mid,
as With tho heft of a thunderbolt, (Mutinied
tho deck nnd beat tho mast the JihlxMim,
studding sail Ixxmi, nnd square sail boom,
with their strong arms, hont Ing tluio to the
awful march uiul musio of tho hurricane.
Meanwhile I no ocean became phosphores
cent, Tho whole sceno looked llku lire. The
water dripping from the rigging; thero wero
rope of lire, mid thero wero nmsts of llro,
and thero wns a deck of flio. A ship of fire,
sailing ou n sen of fire, through n night of
lire Mny 1 uovcr mm) anything liko It again I
HtAYKltH FItOl! ALL.
Everybody prayed. A lad of two'vo years
of ago got down nud prayed for his moth"".
"If I should glvo up," ho said, "I do not
know-what would liecomoof mother." Thero
wci'emcn who, I think, bad not prajed for
thirty years who then got down on their
knees. When it man who has neglected God
all his llfo tools that ho hat come to his Inst
tlmo It makes a vexy busy night. All of our
slus nnd shortcomings uiKcd through our
minds. My own llfo seemed utterly tmsutis
fnctory. I could only say: "Here, Lord,
tako mo oh I nm; I cannot mend mutters
now. Lord Jesus, thou didst dio for tho chief
of sinners. That's me! It seems. Lord, as If
my work is done, nud poorly done, nnd Umjii
thy Infinite mercy I cast myself, nud i (his
hour of shipwreck and dnrkness commit my
self and her whom I hold by tho linml to
thee, O Lord Jesus I praying that It may boa
short struggle In tho water, and that at tho
same instant wo may both arrive In glory 1"
Ohl I tell you a man prays straight to tho
mark w hen ho has a cyclone above him, an
ocean beneath him, and eternity so close to
him that ho enn feel its breath ou his check.
Tho night was long. At last wo saw tho
dawn looking through tho xjrtholcs. As in
tho olden tlmo, In tho fourth watch of tho
night, Jesus camo walking on tho sen, from
wave clIlT to wave cliff, and w hen ho puts
his foot upon a billow, though It may bo
tosed up with might, It goes down. Ho cried
to tho winds, hush I They know his voice.
The waves know his fo.t. Thoy died away.
And in tho shining track of bis feet I rend
thcM) loiters on scrolls of foam and file, "Tho
earth shall bo filled with the knowledge of
Ood as tho w atcrs cover tho soa." Tho ocean
calmed. The atli of tho steamer becama
more and mora mild; until, ou the last morn
ing out, the sun threw about us a glory such
os I never witnessed before. Ood made a
pavement of mosaic, reaching from horizon
to horizon, for nil tho splendors of eatfth and
heaven to walk upon a pavement bright
enough for tho foot of a seraph bright
enough for tho wheels of tho archangel's
chariot. As a (Mtrent embraces a child, and
kisses away its grief, to over that sea, that
had boon writhing In agony in the tempest,
the morning threw Its arms of beauty and of
benediction; and the lips of earth and heaven
met.
As I camo ou deck it was very early, and
we were Hearing the shore I taw a fow nils
against tho iky. They seemed like the spirits
of tho night walking the billows. I leaned
over tho taffrall of tho vessel, and told: "Thy
way, O Ood, is in the boa, and Thy path in the
great waters."
It grew lighter. The clouds were hung in
purplo clusters along the sky; and, as if thore
purplo clusters were pressed luto red wine and
poured out upon tho too, every wave turned
luto crimson. Yonder, flro-clcft stood oppo
site to flro-eleft; and hero, a cloud, rent and
tinged with light, seemed like a palace, with
flames bursting from the windows. Tho
wholo sceno lighted up, until it seemed os If
the angels of Ood wero ascending ami de
scending upon stalnA' llro, and the wave
crests, changed into Jasper, and crystal, and
amethyst, as they wero flung toward the
beach, made mo think of the crowns of
heaven cost Ixiforo tho throno ot tho great
Jehovah. I leaned over tho taffrall ugnln,
and said, with more emotion than before:
"Thy way, O Ood, is In tho sen, and Thy path
in the great waters I"
So, 1 thought, will be the going off of the
storm nnd night of tho Christian's life. The
darknotM will fold Its touts and a way I Tho
golden feet of tho rising inoru will coino
skipping upon tho mountains, and nil tho
wrathful billows of tho world's woo break
luto the splendor of eternal Joy, And so we
camo Into tho harbor. Tho cyclone twhlnd
us. Our friends befoi o us. Ood, who Is al
ways good, all around us! And if the roll of
the crew nud tho passengers had been culled,
seven hundred souls would hnvo nnsweted to
their name. "And so it camo to pas that
wo ull escued safo to land." And may Ood
giait that, when all our Sabbutlis ou earth
nro ended, wo may find that, through tho
rich mercy of our Ird Jesus ChrUt, wo all
havo wiuiliertil the galul
Into the harbor of tieaven now Me glide.
Home at last!
, Boftl w drift on the bright silver lido.
Home at List I
Glory to Ood ! All our dangers are o'er;
. We stand secure, nn thu Klorlfltnl shore.
01017 to (IihII we will shout eiermore.
Homo nt lust)
Home at taut!
No. (17B. A Nrnaoimlitn Arroallo.
All of tho words desci IImmI contain tho soma
numliorof loiters. When rightly guivwslnud
ptaccd ono below tho other, In tho order hero
given, tho third row trending downward)
will tc!l what wo all should glvo nt tho tlmo
named In the sixth row of letters.
Crosswords I Vigorous. U. Kntwltied, Ik
An ensign of war 4. Filtered. A. Assault
ed. (X Disperses. 7 Forobodos. 8. Any
system of faith and worship. 0, Survive.
10. Providing food. II, A two mnstod ves
sel. 111. A word correKndlng with nnothor.
Ill To reflect. 14. A vessel for holding Ink.
16. Not retarded.
o. 070. A Word Rqnnr.
OOOO
O O O O
0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0
Tho first row of four rings reprcscnta the
namo of n city famous for Its nrt, Tho sec
ond row, a precious stono regarded at un
lucky Tho third row, "to boat." The
fourth row, n girl's namo.
No, 077. Hidden Wonts.
.-
Find tho names of those objects, wrlto them
down In tho order In which thty come, nnd
then find hidden words to supply tlioso mist
ing In tho following sentences!
The should glvo to tho poor.
Whnt color did ho Itl
How that twinkles
John can n Ixwt,
Hoaz let Until In his field.
Go to tho pusturo, Charles, and get tho ,
This Is n good of water.
Tho guest was grateful to his
tho door
No. 07H. HrtiPiMltiienls.
Asa whole, I nm single, 'tis true:
Behead me, I nm single, too,
Hehcnd again, tho samo Is true,
Uchcnd again, n direction get;
Behead again, n direction yet;
Away with this nnd nothing is met
No. fl7n.-Clmruil.
When the sunsliluo and tbo shadows,
In tho prime tlmo of tho year,
Aro flitting o'er tho meadows.
My first you nlwas hear.
When man is softly sleeping,
And every enro Hoems sxm1,
My second, darkly creeping,
Oft fills his soul with dread.
My wholo's what wo dcsplso or tbun,
Or a delusion sprung from hato or fun.
No. 080. What Is My Name?
Of nothing I'm niode, but when complete,
Tbo' not to bo catcu, I tasto very sweet;
Nono ever beheld mo, yet often I'm sought,
Dut never ret handled after I'm caught.
I'm affectionate, balmy, lingering and long.
Proud and haughty, tender and strong.
Forced and unwilling, frigid and cold.
Treacherous and false, yot puro as gold.
Tempting and fragrant, sacred, divine,
Soothing and rapturous, delicious as wine.
Timid and trembling, gentlo and rude.
Hallowed, dewy, loathsome and good.
Just tho oddest of compouuus, ever the tame
Since the dawn of creation. What la my name I
No. 081. Numerical Enigma.
1 am composed of seven letters and my
whole it a plant
My 1, 13 Is a preposition.
My 4, A, 8 is a kind of carriage.
My 8, 2, 7, 1 is to wear.
My 0, 7 means partnership.
No. 689. An Kasy Itlddle.
I am a littlo word composed of flvo letters.
My 1, 2, 3 muko about half of the human
race; my 4, 2, 8 make so small a number that
it can bo represented by a tingle letter; my
8, 2, 4 mako an article very useful to many
persons; my 1, 2, 4 means encountered, and
my 1, 2, 8, 4, o names a city noted for iu
fortress and at being tho place where print
ing waa Invented,
No. 083. Conundrums.
Why ore cashmere shawls like deaf per
sons I
Why it a nail, fast In the wall, like an old
man I
Why ore washerwomen tho most Inconsist
ent of pertontl
When a boy falls Into the water what it
the first thing ho does I
What Is the difference between killed sol
diers and repaired garments!
A Conundrum Auswered.
A man said he had a brother and a titter.
They wero all children of the tamo parent,
and yot bo wot no relation to either of them.
What waa hot Now, dear reader, do think
this out a littlo beforo reading tbo answer;
Just nrguo a littlo brother and lister samo
parents. Lot us repeat the quostlou: A man
sold he had a titter and a brother; thoy were
each of them children of tho same parents,
and still ho wot no relation to either of them.
What was hel A tremendous Ilorl
Key to the 1'uulrr.
No. 007. A Wonderful Puzzle: A watch.
No. Ofia, Numerical Enigma: A now broom
tweeps clean.
No, 009. A Half Square:
M
M A
MAN
MANE
M A N E U
No. 070. Easy Rebut for Little Pooplei
Stop not to Idle,
No. 071. Auagromi Solitary Lapwing.
Tiresome.
No. 072. Letter Rebus: Largest (largo 8).
No, 07!!. Conundrums: Docuuso It make
oil boil Because it makes ma mad. Hocauso
It amies over a lover llecmiso It Is always
in inquisitive Because it begins and ends In
mucinosa. Hocauso it is found In loth cortli
ond'wrtfer.
No. 074. Enigmatical Trees: I. Ash tree.
ureaa iruit. a. u-range, 4. u-llvo.
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