CAPITAL CITY COURIKR, SATURDAY, JANUARY .8, i8)o.
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Dll. TALMACK LN i'aKIS.
SERMON OF THE BROOKLYN DIVINE
PREACHED SUNDAY, JAN. 12.
Tim Text or ttie Dlnvimrso Won I'muid In
Srroml King xl. !l, 3, unit llrro I it lie
Mirl Ini Full "How n King's I.lfo Wni
Snvoil."
1'aiiih, Jnn. 11!. The ltov. T. Do Witt Tnl
innge, 1). I)., of Ilrooklyn, prvnctint In tills
city tixlny. Ito U making lilt wny homo,
which ho oxjwcbi to ronch In tlio cnrly iwirt
of Kclirunry. Dr. TnlmiiKo's tost wns: "Jo
lioshclm, tlio daughter of King Jorum, sister
of Almzlati, took Joasli tlio win of Aimlull,
mid stolo 1 il in from unions tliu kind's hoik
which vvcro slnlnj nml tlioy hid him, oven
hltn ami hi iiiirM!, In thu iHitdmmlH.'r from
Atlmlliili, so that ho ns not slnln. Ami he
vvnsvvlth her hid In tlio hotiso of thu Ivnl
six yenrs "II Kings, xl, a. !l Ho wilili
Omnilinothcnt nro inoro lenient with their
children's children tlinn they wore with their
own. At forty years of ngn, If discipline. bo
necessary, elinstisomunt is used, tint nt seven
ty, thu grmidmutlicr, looking lloii the mis
IxSlnivlor of ttiu grandchild, Is nslnKollt' mid
HlHKod to substitute confectionery for n hip.
There In nothing more bumitifiil tlinn tlili
mellow it ; of old ngo tovvnrd childhood.
Grandmother takes out her jiocket limidkel
chief nnd wlpw hor spectacles, mid iuiU
them on, mid looks down into (ho fnco of her
mischievous nml rebellious ilcMvnclmit, mid
says: "I don't think lie meant to do it, let
hlmoir this tltno; I'll bo rcsKnstblo for his
liolmvlor In tho futuro." My mother, with
tho second Keiierntlon around her n boister
ous crow said ouo day: "I siipioo they
ought to Imj disciplined, but I can't do it.
DrmidmotherH aro not fit to bring up gimid
chlldren." Hut hero, In my text, wo have n
grandmother of a different hue.
I have within a fow ilajxlxvii at.Iei usuleni,
hero tlio occurionco of tho text took place,
and tlio whole nceno canto vividly bcfoio mu
while I was going over tho Mto of tho ancient
temple and climbing tho towers of tho king'
palace. Here in tho text it Is old Athaliah,
tho queenly murderess. Hho ought to have
been honorable. Her father was a king. Her
husband was a king. Her sou was a king.
And jet wo find her plotting for thu extermi
nation of tho entire royal family, Including
her own grandchildren. The executioners'
knives are sharpened. Tho palace is red w ith
tho blood of princes nnd princesses. On all
allien nro shrieks, mid hands thrown up. mid
struggle, and death groan. No mercy I KIM
Kill I Hut wliilo tho Ivory floors of the palace
run with carnage, and tho wholo land is under
tho Blindow of a great horror, a licet footed
woman, a clcrgymnn'H wlfo, Jchosholm by
name, stealthily approaches tho Imperial
nursery, seizes uwu tho grandchild that had
ftoiuohownsyotcscaiMxl tunssnero, wrai it up
tenderly but In ban to, snuggles it against her,
flies down the palaco stairs, her heart In her
throat lest she bo discovered in this Christian
abduction. Oct her out of tho way as quick
as you can, for sho carries a precious burden,
oven a young king. With this youthful prizo
sho presses Into tho room of tho ancient tern
pie, the church of olden time, unwraps tho
young king and puts him down, sound asleep
as he is, and unconscious of tho irtII that has
been threatened; and thero for six yenm ho is
secreted In that chuich apartment. Mean
while old Athaliah smacks her lips with satis
faction, and thinks that all tho royal family
ore dead.
But tho six years expire, and It U timo for
young Joasli to come forth and tako tho
throne, and to push back Into disgrace and
death old Athaliah. The arrangements aro
all mudo for jwlltlcjil revolution. Tho mili
tary come and tako ixjsmx&Iou of tho temple,
swear loyalty to tho boy Joasli and stand
around for his defense. Boo tho shariwned
swords and thu burnished shields! Every
thing is ready. Jfovv Joasli, half affrighUx
at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared
at tho vociferation of his admirers, is brought
forth in full regulla. Tho scroll of authority
is put In his hands, tho coronet of govern
ment Is put on his brow, and thu eoplo
clapped, ami waved, and huzzaed, and trump
eted. "What Is thatt" said Athaliah.
"What is that sound over in the tompluf"
And sho flics to see, and on her wny
they meet her and Bay: "Why, haven't
you heard) You thought jou had slain nil
the royal family, but Joasli has come to
light." Then tho queenly murderess, frnntlo
with rage, grabbed her mantle nnd tore it to
tatters, and cried until sho foamed at tho
mouth: "You havo no business to crown my
grandson. You havo no right to tal.o tho
government from my shoulders. Treason 1
Treason I" While sho stood there crying
that, thu military started for her arrest, and
the took a shot t cut through u back door of
tho temple, and ran through thu royal stables;
but tho battle axes of the military fell on her
in thu barn yard, and for many a day, w hen
tho horses were being unloosed from tho char
iot, after di awing out young Joasli, thu fiery
steeds would snort mid rear passing thuplaco,
a they smell tho placu of the carnage.
The first thought I hand you from this sub
ject Is that tho extermination of lighteous
uess is an impossibility. When a woman U
good, sho Is apt to bo very good, nnd when
she is bid, sho Is apt to bo very bad, and this
Athaliah was ouo of tho latter sort. Sho
would exterminate tho last scion of thu houso
of David, through whom Jesus was to come.
Thero was plenty of work for emhalmeis nnd
undertakers. 8hu would clear thu land of
all Go J fearing mid God loving mop!o. Sho
would put an end to everything that could
in unywiv) Interfere with her imticrlnl crim
luallty. Shu folds her bunds and says- "Tho
work Is done; It is completely done." Is It)
In tho sw addling elothos of that church
apartment aro wrapped tho cause of God,
nd the cause of good government. That is
thu scion of tho house of David; It is Joasli,
thu Christian reformer; It is Joasli, tho friend
ef Ood; it is Joasli, tho demoralizer of Uiin.ll
tish Idolatry. I lock him tenderly; nurso him
gently. Athaliah, you may kill uli thu other
children, but you cauuot kill him. Eternal
defenses aro thrown at I around him, and this
clergyman's wife, Jehoslieba, will snatch him
up from thu palace nursery, and will run
down with him into tho houso of tho Ixrd,
and there she will hidu him for blx years, and
at the end of that tiiuu ho will comu forth
for your dethronement und obliteration
Well, my friends, just as poor a botch does
thu world always muku of extinguishing
righteousness. Suerstitlu l Ises up and
says: "I will just put an end to pure religion "
Ilomltiaii slew foity thousand Cluistiaus,
Diocletian slew eight hundred and forty -four
thousan i Christians. And the w thu of p-i -scuutlou
has been swung through all the ures,
and thu ll'iines hissed, mid thu guillotine
hopped, and tho 1 last lie groaned, hut did
thofousof ClitUtiiiuity exterminate it f Did
they oxlci minute Albaii, thu llr.t British
tucrillco or .uiugliiis, thu Swiss reformer;
or John Uldeastlu, thu Chiistlan iiobluimiu,
or Al dallali, the Arabian nun tw , or Anno
Askew, or Sanders, or Craumei I Grout work
of uxtfi munition thuy Hindu of It. Ju-t at
thu timuulien they thought they had slain
all thu my ill family of Jusiis, mviiu Jotsli
would spring up and out, and taUuthu thioiiu
of (kiwi r, anil wiuld a very soeptur of Chris
tian dominion.
Infidelity a "I'll Just extoi inmate the
Ditile." and tin Scriutures weu tluowu lute
I thu street for thu mob to trample on, and
iiioj- wen- puou up in i no puouc squares ana
set on fire, nml mountain of Indignant con
tempt were hurled on them, and learned mil
vorsltles decreed tho llihlo out of oxMcnce.
Thomas I'nlnu mlili "In my 'Ago of Reason'
I havo annihilated tho Scriptures. Your
Washington Is n pusillanimous Christian, but
I mn thefnonf IUbliw mid of churches." O,
how many nssaulta tqion tlmtWordl All the
hostilities that havo over lxen cuvitod on
earth arc not to lie couivircd with tho hos
tilities against that ouo Ixmk. Said one man,
In his Inlldi'l dcseratlon, to his wife- "You
must not lie rending that Illble," and he
snatched ltawa from her. And though In
that Illble was a lock of hair of the dead
child tho only child that dml had ever given
them-ho pitched the liook with Its contents
into thu Hie, and stiircd It with tho tongs,
mid spat on It, nnd cursed It, and said:
"Susan, never hnvo any mora of t hat dainim
blustuir hero!"
How many Individual and organized at
templH ha o Imsjii Hindu to exterminate that
llihlo! Havo they done Itl Havo they ex
termlnatisl the American Illble society) llavu
thej extermlnatisl the llrlllsh and Foielgn
llihlo MK'ietj ) Have they extuiinlnattsl the
thousands of Christian Institutions, whoso
only object It is to multiply copies of thu
Scriptuios, ami throw thepi broadcast around
tho world f Tliey lmi exteiiulnatoil until In
stead of out) or two copies of thu Ulblo In our
houses wo havo (Ight or ten, and wo pile
them up In tho corners of our Sabbath school
rooms, and send great txixus of them every
where If they get on as well as they are now
going on In thu work of extermination,
I do ut know but that our children
may livo to soo thu mllhsniilunil Yen,
if thero should come u time of persis'Mtlou In
which nil thu known Illbles of tho earth
should 1h destroyed, all theso laniM of life
that blare in our pulpits mid in our families
extinguished In tho very daj thntlnlldelity
ami sin should lo holding Jubilee over
tho universal extinction thero would Ik) In
some closet of u backwoods church a
secreted copy of tho itlble, mid this Joasli
of eternal literature would comu out and
comu up nml tuko tho throne, and the Atha
liah of Inlldellty mid ierseciitloii would fly
out tho back door of tho palatv, and drop her
miserable carcass under the hoofs of thu
horses of tho king's stables. You cannot ex
termluato Christianity! You cannot kill
Joasli !
Tho second thought I hand you from my
subject Is, that thero aru opjiortiinitics in
which wu may snvo royal llfo. You know
that profane history is replete with stories of
strangled inoiiarchs and of young prlncis
who havo been put out of tho way. Hero is
thu story of a young king saved. How Jo
lioshelxi, tho clergyman's wife, must havo
trembled as sho lushed into tho imperial
nursery nnd snatched up Joasli. How sho
hushed him, lest by his cry ho hinder tho es
caw. Fly with him! Jehoshubu, you hold
In your arms tho cause of Ood and good gov
ernment. Kail, and ho Is slain Succeed,
nnd you turn tho tido of tho world's history
in the right direction. It seems as If betw een
that young king and his assassins there is
nothing but thu frail arm of n woman. Hut
why should wo Bond our timo In praising
this bravery of expedition when Ood asks
tho samo thing of you mid mo) All around
us nro the iuiieriled children of a great King.
They aro liorn of Almighty imrentnge, and
will comu to a throne or a croon, if permit
ted. Hut sin, tho old Athaliah, goes forth to
tho massacre. Murderous temptations aro
out for tho assassination. Valens, tho em
jioror, was told that there was somclxxly in
his realm who would usurp his throne, mid
that tho name of thu man who should Imj thu
usurer would leglu w Ith tho letters T. II.
K. O. I) , and tho edict went forth from tho
euqieror's tin one: "Kill everybody whoso
name Ix-glns with T. II. K. O. D." And huu
dredsand thousands woruslnln, hoplngby that
massacre to put an end to that onu usurper.
Hut sin is more terrific in its denunciation.
It matters not how you sxj11 your name, you
come under Its knife, under Its sword, under
Its doom, uuloss theru bo somo omnipotent I o
llof brought to tho resell" Hut blcssisl bo
Ood, theru Is such a thlil as delivering a
royal soul. Who will snatch away Joasli)
This afternoon, in your Sabbath school
class, thero w ill Iks a prince of Ood homo
ouo who may yet reign as king forever lx
foro tho throuu; thero willbu someone In
your class who has a corrupt physical Inher
itance; thero will bo soinu ouo in your class
who has a father and mother who do not
know how to pray; thero w'l bo somo ouo
in your class w ho Is destined to command In
church or state somo Cromwell to dissolve
u parliament, homo Heethoven to touch the
world's harp strings, somu John Howmd to
x)tir flesh air into tho la.aretto, souio Flor
ence Nightingale to bandage thu bnttlu
wounds, sonu Miss DIx to soothe thu cnued
bruin, soinu John Frtslcrlck OIkm-IIii to edu
cate the lx.'M)tted, somo David Hralnard to
change thu Indian's war wliooi ton Sabbath
song, homo John Wosluy to marshal thnsj
fourths of Christendom, some John Knox to
uiaku queens turn pnlu, homo Joislito do
mollsli idolatry nnd strlku for the kingdom
of heaven
Thuio nro sleejilng in your crudles by night,
there aro playing In jour nurseries by day,
imperial souls waiting for dominion, und
whichever sldu tlio ciadlo they get out will
decidu thu destiny of emplJos. For i-ucli onu
of those children sin mid holiness contend
Athaliah on tho onu sldu, Jchoshchn on tho
other. Hut I hear people say: "What's tho
uso of bothering children with religious in
struction) Lot them grow up and oIioon) for
themselves. Don't interfere with their voli
tion." Suppose some onu had said to Juhoshu
ba: "Don't Interfere with that young Joasli.
Lot him grow up mid decidu whether he likes
thu palaco or not, whether ho wants to lx king
or not. Don't disturb his volition." Jchoshc
ba know right well that unless that day thu
young king was rescued, he would nover bo
nscucd at all.
I tell you, my friends, thu rwison wo don't
reclaim all our children from worldllness is
because wu Ix-gin too Into. Parents wait un
til their children lie leforo thuy tench them
thu value of truth. Thuy wait until their
children swear Ixjforo they teach them the
importance of i ightoous couvei sntiou They
wait until their children aru all urapxsl up
In this world Ixiforu they tell them of a but
ter wot Id Too latu with your piayei-s. Too
lato w ith your discipline. T(x lato w itli your
benediction You put all care Umii your
childieii between twelve nnd eighteen Why
do you not put tho chief enro between four
and nine It is too lato to repair a vessel
w lieu it has got out of thu dry docks. It U
too latu to save Joasli after thu executioners
havo broken m May Ood nnn u nil for
this woi I. of snatching loyal soul from death
to coromi in ii Cauviru iiiia iiieany sublimer
work Hunt t'u soul s..ugt That was
what lliisluil Paul's cIhhiI; witli eulliu
slasm, that was what led Miin-on to i;
his lile amid Ilui noiau emmibals. that was
what sent fir Alxt'l to. preach uudei lliooin
suiiuiig kl.li nt China, that was what gave
courage to 1 hocus in the Thud i-iutiuy
Whcn the inilitniy olllcers came to put huu
to ileal b lor Chiist's sake, lie put thrill to
lied that tle- nil ;lit ivst whili- he himself
went out, and in Ins own gulden dug his
giavo, mid (lieu cuuie bael. and said, "I um
ready ." but they wuru shoel.cd at thu idea of
taking the life of their host, He wild, "It ll
tlio will ol Ood that I should die," mid ho
siood n i t e margin of Ids own guvu aud
they behcnihsl him. You snv It Is n lunula,
n f(x)lhardliievs, a fanaticism, Uather would
I call It n glorious self abnegation, the thrill
of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Jonsh
from death, mid raising him to coionntlon,
Tho third thought 1 hand to you fmm my
text Is that tho church of Ood Is n good
hiding place, When Jelumheba rushes Into
tho nursery of thu king and picks up Jonsh,
what shall sho do with him) Khali sho tako
him to somo room In tho pnlaisd No; for
thu olltcial desMrad(xN will hunt through
every nook mid corner of that building.
Shall she takehhn to the resfdemsiof somo
wealthy citizen) No, that cltlren would
not dare to harlxir the fugitive Hut sho
has to take him somewhere Shu hears tho
cry of the mob in the streets, slm hears thu
shriek of the dying nobllltv . so she ruthes
with JikisIi unto the room of the temple, Into
the Iioiih' of (lisl, mid then she put hlm
down She knows that Athaliah and her
wicked assassins wiU not Nitlier tlio temple
n great deal, they am not apt to go very
much to church, mid so she set down Joasli
In the temple There he will Is, hearing the
songs of the worshlxni year after year;
thero ho will hi eat he (ho odor of tint golden
censers, ill that sacnsl sxit he will tarry,
sw ret is 1 until thu six years have pussod, and
he come to enthronement
Would Ood that we wye all as wlsu as Jo
hoshrha, and know that the ehui eh of (lod is
the Ix-st hiding place. l'erhais our patent
ttxik us there in early days; they snatched us
u way from the world mid hid us Ixditud the
baptismal fonts mid amid the Hihles and tho
psalm Imoks. O, glorious itielosiitol Wo
have I ss-n breathing tho breath of thu golden
censers nil the time, mid we have seen the
lamb on the altar mid wu have Uandlisl the
phials which are the prayersof all saints, and
wo have dwelt under tlio wings of thu cheru
bim. Olorlous Inelos-ure' When my father
und neither died, and the prop rt was set
tled up, tl.ero was hardly auv thing left; but
they endowed us with a iini ty worth more
than any earthlv possrrslon, lns-ause they
hid us in tho temple And when days of
temptation have comu ujhiii my Mini I have
gone theie for shelter, at.d wheuassaultisl of
soriowh, I have gone there for ooinfoi t, and
there I mean to live I want, like Joasli, to
stay there until coronation. I mean to be
burled out of the house of (lod,
0 men of tho world outside there, lie
trayed, caiicatured and cheated of thu
world, why do you not come in through
the broad, wide oxii door of Christian
communion ( I wish I could act thu part
of Jehosheba today, and steal you away
from your perils and hide volt in the
temple. How few of us appreciate tho fact
that tho church of Ood Is a hiding place.
Theru aro many xoplu who put thu church
nt so low a mark that they Ix'grudgu It
everything, oven thu fow dollars they glvo
toward It, They mnko no sacrlllces. Tlmy
dole a little out of their surplusage. They
ly their butcher's hill, and they my their
doctor's bill, mid they pay their landlord,
mid thoy my everybody but tho Ijrd, anil
they coins in nt thu hist to pay thu Iord In
his church, nnd frown as thoy say: "There,
Lord, it Is; if you will havo It, tako it now
tuk it, U.ko It; send mo a receipt in full, mid
don't bother me soon again 1"
1 tell you there is not more than one man
out of a thousand that appreciates what thu
church Is. Where aro tho souls that put
aside one-tenth for Christian institutions
one-tenth of their Income) Whero nro those
who, having put nsido that one-tenth, draw
Ux)ii it cheerfully I Why, It is pill, and drag,
and hold on, and grab, nnd clutch; nnd giv
ing Is nn alllletloii to most ixsiplo when It
ought to lx) an exhilaration and a lapture.
Oil, that (iod would remodel our souls on this
subject, mid that we might npprocialo thu
housuo! Ood as the great refuge. If your
children aru to come up tv lives of virtue nnd
happiness, they will come up under the sha
dow of tho church. If tho church does not
get them thu world will.
Ah, whin you pass away and It will not
bo long Ix-foro you do w lien you jmiss away
It will Ihj a satisfaction to ws your children
in Christian society. You want to havo
them sitting nt thu holy sacraments. You
want them mingling in Christian associa
tions. You would like to have them die in
thu sacred precincts. When you mu on your
dying Ixsl, and your llttlo ones come up to
take your last woid, mid you look Into their
lxwv lldered fuces, you will want to leave
them under the chinch's benediction. I don't
cure how hard you me, that is so I sabl to
u man of thoworld: "Your son mid daughter
aro going to Join our church next Sunday
Have you any objections)" "Hless you," lm
said, "objections) I wish all my child) en Ixi
longisl to the church. I don't attend to those
matti.rs myself 1 know I mn very wicked
but I am very glad they aio going, mid I
shall be theru to sis them I am very glad,
sir; I am very glad 1 want them there"
And so, though you may have lx-eu wander
ers from CkmI, aiid though you may have
sometimes cnrlcatmed the church of Jesus,
it Is your great deslie that your sons ami
daiighUrH should be standing all their lives
within this sacred iuclosine
Moie than that, you yourself will want the
church for n hiding place when the moitgagu
Is ton closed, when yjur daughter. Just
blooming into womanhood, suddenly clasw
her hands in u slumber that knows no wak
ing; when gnimt trouble walks through the
parlor, ami tho sitting room, and the dining
hall, and thu nursery, you will want some
shelter from the temiH-st. Ah, somo of you
hav i) Im-oii run ujxm by misfortune and trial;
why do you not come Into the shelter! I said
ton widowed mother lifter she had buried
her only son months after I said to her:
"How do you got along nowadays)" "Oil,"
sho replied, "I get along tolerably well ex
cept when tho sun shines." I said: "What do
you mean by that)" when hho said; "I can't
Ix-ar to sxs) thu sun shine; my heart is so dark
that all the brightness of the natinal world
seems a mockery to mo." O, darkened soul,
O, broken hearted man, broken hearted
woman, why do you not comu Into tho
shelter) I swing the door wide open. I swing
It from wall to wall. Como Inl Cotno In I
You wnnt n place wlicro your troubles shall
bo Interpreted, where your burdens shall bo
unstrapMsl, whero your tears shall lx) wipsl
away.
Church of Ood, bo a hiding placu to all these
people. Olvo them a seat whuio they can
rust their weary souls Flash soinu light
from your chandeliers uxn their dm kuess.
With soinu Mxitlillig liviuii hush their gilefs.
O, Church of Ood, gato of heaven, let mo go
through it' All other institutions me going
to fall, but the Church of (lod-its founda
tion Is the "Hock of Ages,-' Its charter Is for
everlasting eais, Its keys mo held by thu '
universal piopnutor, iu dividend U nu..u.'i,
lis president is (ioii:
Kuieustliy truth dmll last,
'to ' 1 hi shall U ,'iirn
The In .litest uloi iirtli can y lelu,
And Jii-liur hlMiof heaven
Ood grant tl it nil tl.isa. alienee, the young
est, thu eldest, thu wol t 'he let, may lllld
thuir safe and glorious hi ling place where
J lash loiiud It -hi thu teuu.le.
Thu police iu l'arlsaie U-ghiuing, it is an
nouneisl, to tal.o some sti ps to pi event tin)
sidu of indecent literature Thu "ceiuuie,"
as at picont exeicised, is a meru sham, so
far as thu uioials of new books me con
cerned, und thu third republic can boast of
having inaugurated an en of literary n
foim llndleai, isl of under thu - i.m ' ru (
A WANDbHEH IDENTIFILD.
Mr. Clniiiillrr lti-renlrs the Miipnsril
New Comet as 'I lint of l.cirtl.
News has liocii received at the Lick obser
vntnry of a remarkable mid etfiemcly Im
pel (nut theoretical discovery in coinelnry as
tronomy made by S. C. Chandler, of Cam
bridge, nn eminent mathematician ami as
trunomer Uoii investigating some ncu
llnrltlcn In tho orbit of the comet dlscovensl
last July by Mr. HriMiU, and which is still
under observation, Mr Chandler found that
It hail inadon reuuiikably close approach in
tin planet Jupiter hi ISMI, and that Its path
und then bis'ii eiitliely cliangisl, the comet
bung thrown Into IlKpiisetit small iiimi
wiilima xil(xl of Neveu veaix
Htimiilatisl by this to llud out what tin
lth of the comet was pievlous toKSllh(
wa list to the dlscoven that It was Identical
with thu famous l'Xell m "lost comet" of 1710
The (Miuet of 1770 was found by L-Xell to Im
involving in nn oilill wIiomi peilhellou win
ileal Venus und thu aphelion near Jupiter,
with a mi Iodic time of live and a half ye.ii..
The shortness of this m'HihI whs singular, iu
the comet had never Ixsmi seen previous tc
(Till, though In that year it was visible to tin
naked eve.
finther Investigation, ho ever, show isl
l'vell that In 1707 the eir-.iet had made n
siiiguhnly close upproaei, to Jupller, nt
which time thu gnvit attlaetlou of that
planet causisl u coinplele change in (Im
comet's oihit, It being thiown lulu the small
ellipse of imi. IVevloiis to this appioaeli to
Jupller, iti I7il7, thu comet was moving Inn
latguoibit, with thu s'rlhellon near Jupiter
and Its aphelion beyond Ihe orbit or Saturn.
In this oiblt thii comet was always too dis
tant to lx seen flom the earth
In 17711 the comet again passed still closer
to Jupiter, mid the attraction of the planet,
outweighing thlltof (bosun bv over'.MKIt lines,
kept the comet under Us Inlliienee for a iiiiiii
Ix'i of months, mid again completely turns
foimisl the oi bit, the K'i Ihellon once more
b inlhg so gioat that the comet could not
Imi ms'u flom Ihe eaith
At its apiH'iiraucc In 1770 (Ids comet up
proailnsl within less than l.oOO.OOO miles of
tin eailh a lemal kably close iippinaeh, so
iiiiieliK.i, hidissl,that I .a I'laeecaleiilatisl that
if the coiik I'm mass had Iki-ii eiiial to that of
tin cat th II would havo seriously ulfectisl thu
mi Hon of the earth, ami would hnvo length
em i our year by ulioiit ilutii hours As no
sensible illsttn banco was exjs-i ieneud, Iji
Place coucllldisl that the mass of the comet
must have Ixx'ii less than l-.'l,000th part of
the mass of thu earth. It was doubtless vast
ly smaller than that.
The comet at Its present return has at
tractcd n widespread Interest through tho
discovery at thu Lick observatory of the
sin ill companion comets that attend it In It
motion through space. Mr. Chandler sug
gests that these may owo their existence to
the encounter with Jupiter In IKSI), tho un
equal strain from the opening attractions of
tile planet and Its satellite system having
probably caused a disruption of the coinetary
matter sulliclcilt to produce the companions.
Carrying tho investigation back to lSbO,
Mr Chandler found that tho comet remained
under tho iiilhieiico of tho planet for more
than eight months, mid that pievlous to then
It was i evolving alxiut the sun In twenty
h" veil years' timo Iu mi orbit whose iei ihellon
lay near Jupiter lie also deduced tho path
tint the comet moved In about thu planet at
theappulso, ami found It to lxi a hyjx'i Ixila
with mi eccentricity slightly greater than
unity, so that "thu comet narrowly csciqxsl
being diavvn Into n closed oiblt as iisatelllto
of Jupitci " The nearest approach to the
planet iu tills path was May '.'(), 1S8U, thu dis
tance being about fOO.IxX) miles.
At pics-'iit wo cannot tell what havo Us'ii
Iht changes mid vicissitudes of this comet
hiiieo 1770, lliioiigh thu disturbing actions of
Jupiter. It is now, however, frto from thu
lullueiicoof that planet until Iltil, when it
will again suirer great erturhatlon that may
omu moio whisk It out of sight for l'JOyearv
or mole. It will in the meantime return
under fav oi able circumstances of observation
hi lh'.Hl, 11KM, ttllO mid 1017.
It is hardly jhissIIiIo to estimate tho luiioi
taneeof the discovery of Mr. Chandler, as It
picscnts to us one of the greatest physical and
mathematical problems that astronomer
havu had to deal with. Mount Hamilton
(Cal.) Cor. Chicago Tiihiiue.
Chrlstiiius In Copland.
'Iho English Christmas is, ixTluqis, the
richest ol all m that hearty hospitality and
uieriiiuelit, mid that plofuslou of substantial
gixsl chtsr which our xsiplu, like their Hi it
ish cousins, so closely associate w ith tho oeca
sloii.
The"Decei'ilx,r HIntHcs," as tliu wil 1 gam
bol-, piaiil.s mid uuiMpieiades of Chlistiuaii
time wi re called, the famous Christinas din
ner of the b lions with its dish of Uiar'ii head
boi ne upon a uiasslvu silver plattir ill gi eat
htnte thu w holu length of the I umeiiv) ball
ipietiug hull by thu major doinui.f the hi use
hold, attendiil bv a huge ihiiiiIkt of si-rvante
and vawils, tli. ' muiumiiig" or uiasipierad
lug, the singing of Christmas cm ols, the play
ing at snap diagou, hot cix-Mc and all thu
other Clnistiuas sikiiIs ami irnmes, iiieslcleil
over by n sixs-ially apMiinteil olllcer of the
liou-sihold cnlksl thu loid of inlMiilo or the
ubbot of unreason all these and countless
other featuiesof the old English Christmas,
Scott, that wonderful "wizard of thu north,"
has descrilxsl as only he could do it.
The modern English Christmas found its
iixistlu iu Dlekins, who, m his vivid word
pictures, has most clearly and accurately
xu tray oil Its every light and shadow. Tho
wil. I abandon of its picdcccssor of centuries
ago has Ixsm somewhat icstrnlucd, but with
in thu limit of IxH'omiug mirth there is still
no meirier Clnistiuas It is a strange tact,
however, that iu England tho day after
Christmas, or "boxing day ," as It is calks),
U an occusluii of even gieater festivity
nmong tho working classes than Christmas
day itself It derives its name from tho
'Chiistmas Ixixes" or donations of Chi 1st
mas sH'iii.iiig money whleh aio eollectisl on
that day oy letter earners, milkmen, butch
ers' Iwiys and other equally useful members
of society. Cor Washington Star.
A Cll III the Sea.
A city at tlio bottom of the sea was seen
tow aid thu end of November, near Tiepton,
on llni shot es of the lultlc. For a week or
ten davs a siwei ful wind had Ix-eii blowing
Iron the south and mi thu day the wonder
lul sight w ii witness! It nmoiiutod to lit
tie! vsi liana hiiliu .ne Thu wateis wile
ius! i d awuy from tin rhom in great nioiint
nius. uiieoveiing u iioitmii of ground Usually
Indil 'ii li'oui sight bv the waters, Itwiu at
tills time Hi it the i it ot Ihe elty of Hega
nine idi . once a ll nil Kli.ug c iiinni lelal celt
til, .1.1 swaliiwed up li thu liallic bet wis u
live and si ceutuie-. .i , was leveahsl ti
Iho i-t.ii tied v alders in thu lightlioUM) ueiu
tile .i ile The lllld- ii it sps'laele wan ell
jovtsl ouh for a sh it li in', vheu the st. .nil
4h.it si ami thu w . . 'e nisi, and nam
hll tiiuu view wha, . e lx-eu the nbodo
of busy men iiiid wm St l.'HIU lU-pub-
he
Sou oueaskislau 1 1 1 lady uLut a seiiuuii,
"Coi.1. l j ou leineiubur it(" "I'.eincinUT itl
La, lot The minister (ouldu't leineiubur it
hliuvlf He had to hav u it wi llten down,"
Chru.tau, Advocate.
A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.
History nml Wonderful Wenllli of n ,Vtln
In Central Queeiinlnlid.
Bitch is tho llllu which has lxsu justly
given to the great Mount Morgan gold mine,
Hunted In Central tjuis'iislaiid, which Is siy
lug nt thoiatoof over a million a year In
dividends. Thu lilstoiy of thu mine, which
has only Ixsin fully developed during thu Inst
year, Is a curious one. The original sehs-tor
of tho fiivhold (siitlonof this wonderfully
rich prosity, consisting of OKI acres, was
ouo Donald Oordon, who paid live shillings
an aero for It, mid tllllirod It as glaring laud
for his cattle.
A cm resMindent of Tho Sydney Moinlng
lleiald, whovllled tho liiluo somo timo ago,
told Ihe readers of (hat Journal how, leliirn
lug flout the uiotilitulli, ho stopHsl at a wy
side Inn, whim "a lull, weather beaten,
gi irhsl looking man" bxik his horse to a well
to ill Ink.
"This was tho iiilglnnl holder of tho fust
hold, who pu lis! with It to the Morgans. Ho
said he had always Isdlevisl the llloii' I'llns to
lxi of ironstone, and never knew of thu foi
tune that was so long within Ids grasp. In
olden days ho iimsI to sell the puiulceslono
looking quail;- hi ItiK'khamploti, to clean thu
Ileal ths mid doorsteps of the houses "
Oordon sold tho fnsihold to tho Messrs
Mori'im for i'lllll, or Xl nn acre They ills
covered gold Iu IHHU, and In thai yar foimed
n pal Inei-shlp, In which thev held half the
mine, while M(sssrs. T. H. Hull, W Hall, W
II D'Arey and W. l'altlson, who mo now
four of the pilnelpal propi lelois, held thu
Ms'oud half The Mi-ssih Mm gnu .nilbse
qiieutly illspMyl of their shale to these gen
tleiuen for iJll.l,(KHI; mid ill txso tho present
coniany was foi nasi with a capital of DI,
0O0.O.X) In 1,000,000 shmesof X'l each, of which
7s, IVI per shale isiald up
lciivln.r ItiK-khmuplon soon after ilo'eloclc
III Hie lliol uhu, thu tiuveler Is di'Kislled at
a roadslilu station lit uhout 7, and a lough
breakfast Is to Im obtalmsl nt u country Inn
from which the coach starts for Mount Mor
gan We weie about to enter the pi Inelpal
I (Mini In which breakfast was laid out, when
one of the assayers, who was employ isl at
the mine, Infotimst us lii mi uwo struck voice
that "Ihe dll ictois" were there, and as thu
dlKs'torx of thu Mount .Morgan mine weio
evidently too gleat lo bo containlliatisl by
thu pi esiMicu of oldlnary inoi lals, we lieliHik
ouixdves ton humbler apartment, where wo
clljnvcd u KHiier but cheaMT fain. We then
started in a light four-horse coach, holding
eight (Msiple Isoldes thu driver, Iu which wu
wuru Joltisl along tho roughest of toads
through "paililiK'ks of over 11,000 aen-s, with
uirrots nml cix-katixis shrieking among tho
brunches of the gum tnsmovcrhcad."
After a dilvoof betwis'ii two mid thtisi
hours through tho bush, Including tho tre
mendously steep ascent of a hill known as thu
Ilaorback, up which every particle of ma
chinery for Mount Morgan had to lx brought,
vo leaclnsl tlio newly formed mining town
ship Scatteiisl alsiut among the tlees with
ten's of vai Ions descriptions, liark huts, huts
of corrugatisl Iron, and wixslcu houses, Iu
a central sisltlon were two hotels, soinu stores
or general shops, it church Iu pnx'ess of con
htructioii, a hx-liixil, and an Odd Fellows' hall.
There ale already alsiut 5,1X10 Inhabitants,
mid the object which has at 1 1 acted them all
Is a conical shaxsl hill about MX) feet iu
height iiImivo tho water level, and with noth
ing, so far as outward apH'iirauccs nro con
ccruod, to distinguish it from nuiiieroiisother
well wooded hills which surround It.
At tho foot of the mountain is one set of
works, which are duplicated about half way
up it Some I3X) feet from the top u tunnel
runs lit for alxiut 7(XJ fisit, when It is met by
a shaft, down which tho stono Is scut. It is
then hi ought through thu tunnel iu small
trucks nnd shot down a illdo to thu upiwr
works, while a cablu tramway supplies thu
lower works. At thu top of thu mountain Is
a regular quarry, where some live doen men
nro occupied In blasting mid qunrrving tho
stonu. Fifty-two feet havo already Ixmiii cut
uway, and they nro now working at a second
Ix'iich.
Tho prcK)!idcrutlng stono Is a kind of
black Ironstone, with no upixnrauco of gold
whatever, yet It yields as much as live or
six ounces to the too. Some of the stonu Is
reddish, and hxiks as if it might contain cop
ix-r, wliilo hero and there is u hank of yel
lowbh sand which yields eleven ounces to
the ton. Formerly tho ore was trcatisl by
tho ordinal y battery and quicksilver amal
gnmatioii prix-ess, but tho gold is so finely
distrlbuUsl through the stono that most of It
was lost, and tliu tailings are lielng treated
with very satisfactory results by thu chlori
liatlou prix-ess, which Is now hi Uso nt the
mine. Under this process the ore h (list
flushed by Kworfiil machinery and redmed
to lino sii ud It Is then loastisl In furnaces,
and when cooled is placed In tho chlorina
tlon bairels and subject! to thu action .f
chloriuo gas, which dissolves tliu gold, and it
Hows out In a lluld, thu color of sheiry, into
largo vats.
It is then placed iu chmcoal llltirs. and
thu gold adheles to the dial co il beds, which
aro siilisispieutly roasttsl In a u veils'iatoiy
furnace until nothing is left but an ash con
tabling i.'i T cent, of metallic gold Thu
works, which mu lit throughout by the elec
tric light, aro kept constantly going night
mid day. Nino hundred men aru employed,
and work in three shift of eight bouts each
Thu ex'iidituro in wages is ijioo,!) poi
annum, 1,000 tons of llrovwxxl am burnt r
mouth, mid tho output of gold Is alxiut a
ton jxt mouth If tliu works wi re st..pssl
for a single day it would mean a loss 1 1 tho
shareholders of i:i,000. lmdon Times,
As She la Writ.
Ill Vienna thoy know how to write English
Tlio Viennese aro going to have an agri'-ul
tural exhibition, or, as they call it in the Lu
ghsh iiogrammu whicli has Just lx-eu pub
llshcd, a 'Oeuural lliirnl mid Foi est Exxr,l
lion iu tho year 1VJ0." Tliu following an
some of the exhibits as set forth in the pro
gramme: I l'nxliicoH of agricultu.-o and for
est culture, of gm den frultv ines, and Iiom-uI
ture, of cliase and feshery , aUi of f.iwl
Ix-o. mid silk bris.sl, fee. S lleasts as Imssl
limit use-, and lussiiry Ix-asts viz Ih.im-s
oxen, sheep, swine, fowl, dogs, game, llshes.
Thu exhibition of hemts, of garden mid fruit
Cllltlllu take place ill several series, tlesx. (
thu latter Ixting made known more hit. i
For all sol ts of objects of exhibit i upii. ( f
alxiut v il jr iVi.iKXl mill U' ven ( u
illg III medals of honour, dlstiibut i 1, i ,
prices, me lals, iu money an I h al.l
kuowltslmeiits. For K-cial i
uieiits of collalKJiatorsof the i i ,
pi ices will bo given." St Jjm i .
1 lie Milliliter .N"el.
Alas, i ly summer u ivel lit oi u i
a sigh. Th d iv I rashly lsui.,i i it i i
wus standing l Foi tint it a n ,
borrowed, t i lx, letllllitsl that n
since th it ! ital lie uncut it m . i i ,
my sight il - lent it to hikiwiiiii i
enjov.sl it, k i lie lent it loan ,..
kept II on tile i, nod leiil it to h. i i
lent it to lu girl, h i but it t
who with another whirl sent
nephew, who I nt It to a frie i I
to n loom mate, und oh! w.oi
Tin. aule nit this mull, in, i
!ins akin ' I k e in i li .ii In i
It II l 1 .' . I I , lit
I
II t
II
W II I N. lit It
U 111 it Kill'
ll'lvt Clll)
I' I'
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WAITED!
ISvorybody to oxmnine the
plans and standing of tho Un
ion CYntrSir 'Life Insurance
Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
before insuring, It has the
lowest continuous death rate
of any company. Realizes the
highest rate of interest on in
vested assets which enables it
lo pay large dividends.
Policies incontcstiblo ant!
non-forfaitak'" after third vear.
The Union Central issues
endowment policies at o di
ary life rates; these policies
are now maturing and being
paid in from one to two years
earliei than time estimated by
the company. They protect
the family and estate during
the younger years of life, and
the insured in old age at regu
lar life rates. Other desirable
policies issued. Call on us or
write for plans.
.. M. KDMIS1UN, State .lunit.
V. .. MHSllllUl, Amt.Stntr Autnt.
(I. T. I'lJMI'hU.l.y, Cltu SnUrtUir:
Itooiii '1 Ilurr lllnclt,
LINCOLN, NED.
WESTERFIELD'S
Palace Bath Shaving
PARLORS.
Ladies and - Children's -'Hair - Cutting
ASI'-SCIAI.TY.
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Roberts & Co.
212 North nth Street,
Undertakers anMmbalmers.
Tclcplmncs. OllkciS Residence I 56
Open Day nnd Nlfjiit.
E. T. ROBERTS, Manager.
FEED. E. THOMAS,
UNDERTAKER
A N I)- -
Funeral Director.
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