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Contributions From Persons Who Are Interested in the Study of
Phantasms, Ghosts Dreams, and Thought uransierence
Amotf the reports cf the Psychical
Research society Is the account cl a
nan and bis wife who cultivated the
cwer of mental telegraphy tele
pathy to such an extent tlat at a cer
tain hour each evening- Mien he was
an ay. he being a traveling rr. an. they
would sit alone In their respective
rtcms and concentrate their thoughts
upon each other, and were thus able to
five mutually and briefly any Informa
tion or communication dettred. Occa
sionally messages were received, word
for word, as given, but often the gen
era substance of the thought. This
was done without regard to distance.
In 1888 I was employing an Inventor
in another city on some labor-saving
devices. He waa In great need of mon
ey due him which I had failed to send
promptly. He wu brooding over the
matter one afternoon when he heard
me say. "I must send K. some money."
Then he saw me sitting at my desk,
take out by checkbook, write a check
for $50. inclose It and put It In the
letter box for, mailing. He made a note
of the matter and In due time received
the check for the amount he had seen.
Consulting me. the facts were found as
he had heard and-seen.
That same year I was In Boston on
business, and a member of my family
at home was anxious about some mat
ters In which I was engaged. This was
particularly the case one evening, when
she sat alone In her room. Suddenly
he heard me In conversation and saw
me In a room conversing with another
person. On my return she related the
matter, described the room and the
aurround'.ngs. which were In accord
with the facts.
The Inventor previously referred to.
while working for me received a letter
Informing him of the serious Illness of
his only sister, who lived some distance
away from bis home.
He was under engagement with me
to put up a certain machine in my office
for exhibition, and proceeded to do it.
finishing which he went to the depot
to return some 230 miles to his home.
Intending to take a night train from
there to visit his sister. On reaching
the depot nearly an hour before his
train time he boarded his car. which
was without other occupants. He took
his seat, being In anxious thought
about his sister. He remembered noth
ing further until he was aroused by a
sudden Jerking of his car when the
train started and found It full of pas
sengers. He made his Journey, took
the night train from his home to his
sister's, arriving: In the morning, went
to his sister's cottage, walked Into the
house and Into his sister's sick room,
where she was lying in bed. the nurse
Bitting beside her. The first greeting
of his sister was. "Oh. Tom. why did
you play us such a shabby trick yester
day afternoon?" He replied. "I haven't
played you any tricks." She said. "Yes.
you did. Tou came in yesterday be
tween 2 and 3 o'clock with that same
black bag you have In your hand, look
ed In here, turned and walked out
through the kitchen Into the pantry
and then disappeared. I spoke to you.
but you wouldn't answer!" She then
appealed to the nurse, who corroborat
ed her. both seeing him at the time he
cat lost In thought about her in the
car 30O miles away. R
A PROPHETIC RING.
The Duchess de Bellmere writes: "The
most superstitious people are invariably
to be found In the extremes of society
the highest and the lowest the world
over. Among royalty, and the aristoc
racy in particular, talismans are com
mon enough, while the amulet Is held
sacred by an overwhelming multitude.
Czar Nicholas I. was In possession of a
ring presented him by Princess Char
lotte of Prussia. Her royal highness,
the daughter of Frederick William 111.,
bad been reared by a Swiss governess
named Wlldermuth. While superin
tending the education of her royal pu
pil Mme. Wlldermuth came Into a leg
acy which necessitated her Journeying
home, and on her return she showed
the princess an antique ring among
other articles of Jewelry. It was small
nd Gothlo in shape. "This ring of
yours." she said, "surely must be some
oueer old talisman It looks like a tal
isman I have read of." With that the
princess Placed the ring on one of her
own fingers, and when, later on. she
tried to take It off It fitted so tightly
thst all her efforts were v,n- ..
-Your royal highness may be r,ni;
aid Mme. Wlldermuth with a laugh
-and you will honor me by keeping It
s a aouvenlr." Yeara later the ring
came off. and. much alarmed. the
princess attempted to decipher an al
most obliterated inscription Inside. The
Inscription proved to be "Empres. of
"it U your royal highness' destiny."
cried the now superannuated govern
ess: "take my word for It you are to
become the future empress.' A twelve
month to the very day of the decipher-
.nH the Driocess was be
trothed to the Grand Duke Nicholas.
The brother of Csar Alexander I. was
pot tN crown prince at the time, as
bl, e.der brother. Constantly, had not
renounced his right to succession. The
betrothal banquet was held at the Ber-
lln
palace. and during ttie repast ..."-
olas.
who was seated oesiae ma -
anced con.-f. n undertones:
Chariots p you not give me that
oldfashionl&Xring? I shall prize it
l,''wb" said the princess, with a
b'.usb.jw can you expect me to r-ve
It to" TTi before aw mut
n rirm of the JaDS.
9 rr .
tnese are ruthless In their
1 Wuh nature. If they decide
ant a bird or -""
.ir thev set about
ivape or k
hng the article, so to speak,
! Jse of exceedingly eler
;nd untiring patience. Here
is how .
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tenr.e a person dressed in
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"The easiest thing 'in the world."
said the duke. "Conceal It in a piece cf
your bread, and 1 shall take the bread
unpercelved."
The union proved to be a happy cne
and eight yeara later the grand duke
ascended the throne. Too email for the
imperial finger. Nicholas wore the ring
attached to a cold chain on his breast.
A LUCKY DREAM.
A lady of St. Louis lest her husband
by death. He lad a good bueiness. but
there was no cne to go cn with it. She
did not know what to do to tave It. One
night the dreamed that her husband
came to her and said: "You must take
up the business and go cn with it.
Write letters to all my patrons. and
they will deal with you as they did
with me. If you will do this you will
be sure to succeed."
With many doubts and little hope the
lady followed the directions she had re
ceived in her dream. She prospered far
beyond the expectations of her friends,
and la now In possession of a valuable
business plant which has supported her
for many years. D. P.
SAW HIS DEAD SON.
Sivlo Clbrario. a young man of good
Italian family, while attempting to
climb a peak In the Maritime Alps, lost
his way. and on the following morning
a search party found hi body terribly
crushed and brulsei at the bottom of a
deep crevasse. Count Clbrario his fath
er, who was at Turin, and knew noth
ing of his son's expedition, on the night
cf the accident aroused the rest cf his
family, announcing with tears that Sl
vlo was dead. He had teen him distinct
ly, he said, bleed flowing from his tat
tered head, and had heard these words
spoken in a voice of terrible ar.rulsh
"Father I slipped down a precipice and
broke my head, and 1 am dead, quite
dead." Count Clbrario. It should be ad
ed. is a very matter-of-fact person. In
sound health. He has never affected
spiritualism In any way. and the inci
dent is well attested by himself and
all of his family, who are well known
and respected In Turin.
THREE STRANGE EXPERIENCES
By Mrs. Frank Leslie. Author and
Publisher: I have never seen spooks,
but I have had many peculiar experi
ences. Once my husband was to give a din
ner for me on my birthday at Delmon
Ico'e. The table had been arranged and
the time set for the dinner had almost
come when we received a teiegrom from
Mr. Blackmore. founder of the Sails
bury Museum. In England, that he and
his wife were off Sandy Hook.
Mr. Leslie at once wired them about
the dinner, said he would not take no
for an answer, that he would wait
until they came before sitting down to
the table, and they came. The covers
were laid for a dozen and we looked
forward to a most enjoyable occasion.
What do you think they did? They
brought a friend! Of course. In the ex
citement of Introductions and greet
ings the number was noticed.
We had had our oyr-ters and soup
when a young- Latin who sat at my
left said to" me: "Why. Florence, have
you noticed that there are thirteen at
the table V I held up my har.fis.speech
less. I had always been a believer In
the superstition cf 13 at the table, and
though I didn't know what to do. I
was going1 to do something. "Don't
move." he said; "whatever spell Is upon
us Is already cast." So I let the matter
rest.
Within three weeks Mrs. Blackmore
was dead. Within three months the
friend who had sat at my left had also
died.
The morning lie died J arose at 3
o'clock and got out cf bed. I had
heard him call me by name three dis
tinct times! I could not make myself
believe that he was not somewhere
about. Shortly after that I heard of
his death at the rdentical time when I
heard his voice.
1 have had experiences with friends
from whom I had parted In anger, but
for whom my attachment was very
strong. With one. not a word was spo
ken for eleven months. We wero sep
arated by the ocean. At the end of
eleven months our cablegrams crossed.
We had both given in at the same time,
and with the same person this has oc
curred three different times.
That Intense longing to see a friend,
especially when one la dying, is per
haps accountable for another expen
nre which I remember distinctly. Mrs.
Nicholson, who edited the Picayune of
New Orleans, after the death of her
husband, was a very dear friend or
mine.
One morning- when I was In Nice I
awakened with the most Intense feeling
of her presence, though I had not seen
her in years. Verses she had written
came to me and I repeated them over
and over. I picked up the paper at
breakfast and read that she waa seri
ously 111. The Allowing morning I
read of her death. It had occurred
shortly after I first became conscious
of her presence.
SAW HER AUNT'S SPIRIT.
By Marie Burrounds. Actress: When
I waa a little girl I lived with my par
ents In San Francisco. My mother's sis
ter lived about four miles out cf town
I had not seen her for several years.
One evening I went Into our garden
tack of the house and Aunt Llllle came
floating toward me. robed In white.
Naturally I was frightened, and after
she had floated out of my sight I ran
into the house and told my family of
the experience. They quieted me. and
told me I must have been dreaming:
atlons of birds result In completely
white bird.
Japanese children are taught to write
with both hand.
The Japanese have translated. Max
Muller'a works on India and Fawcett's
"Political Economy." with many other
learned works: but no attempt has been
made, apparently, to translate Scott,
Dickens or Thackeray.
Japanese air cushions are made of
paper and cotton, and take up. when
empty, no more room than a pair of
gloves and cost only one-third, aa much
a rubber cushions
passed It off. telling- me to give tha mat
ter, no further thought.
The next morning the news came that
my aunt had died at the time I waa :n
the garden.
Shortly after this my little sister and
her companion were both taken with
scarlet fever. My mother nursed my
sister night and day. She was recov
ering. One night I was awakened by
an Intense white light. I saw my sit
ter's little friend sitting on the s'.di
of my bed. She did not speak to me.
tut her face was like an angel's Much
frightened. I pulled the bedclothes over
my head.
My sister, who was sleeping In the
tame room, said to me next morr.lr.g.
'Marie. I saw the most beautiful tight
the side of your bed. with the most
last night. Little May was sitting on
beatuiful white light all about her."
A neighbor coming in at that moment
said she had died during the night,
A VERY UNLUCKY DAY.
One of the most remarkable instances
of bad luck that ever have been re
cored and vouched for authoritatively
is that of a hospital patient whose his
tory waa Investigated and reported by
the London Lancet. Thi patient broke
his right index tinker when he was 10
years old. The date waj August 28. In
three years afterward he fell from a
horse and broke his left leg below the
knee. The date was August 26. In
his fourteenth year, on August 26. he
stumbled and broke both bones of the
left arm. On August 2tl of the following
year he caught his foot under an Iron
car and broke his left leg In two places
above the ankle. Cn the next August
rg te was run ever ty a coal car In
a ccal.rr.lne and tcth leg" 'r Injured.
It was necessary to cut off the right
leg telow the knee. After that the un
lucky man carefully refrained frcm
working cn August 26. ar.d he escaped
accidents for twenty-eight years. In
150 he forgot himself and worked on
that date for the first time. He fell
and broke his ieg in two places. Since
then he trends every August 26 In his
ted.
DRESSED BEEF TRADE. &W
Beef Barons Makln Plans for
B'tf War.
BEEF Barons making plans for btg wa
Startling news Is expected shortly
from Chicago, concerning the dressed
beef trade. It will affect both this
country and England Three big pack
ers. It Is said, are now conducting ne
gotiations which will revolutionize the
dressed beef trade of Great Britain. If
put Into effect.
There are rumors afloat concerning
the matter. While It is contended in
some quarters that a big combine Is
being formed, the nore general belief
ts that the principal beef shippers. are
preparing plans for one of the biggest
fights on record.
One of the three firms mentioned has
been shut out of the dressed beef ex
port business until quite recently. It
could not get refrigerator space until a
few months ago. when It secured some
of the si ace out cf Baltimore. The
concern since then has put boxes on
steamers tailing from New York and
Bcston, and It is now claimed that It
Intends to inaugurate a dally service
of dressed beef between America and
London.
This service will furnish American
beef to the English markets from re
frigerator cars without the Interven
tion of wholesale houses or special
agents. Under present arrangements
it would be Impossible to establish a
service like this, but it Is claimed that
refrigerator space in vessels of several
trans-Atlantic steamship companies al
ready has been engaged, the White Star
and Cunard lines being- particularly
mentioned.
The English railway companies will
provide the required refrigerator cars,
and the beef will be sent to all parts
of England. London ha? been the dress
ed beef center and the market fluctu
ates wildly as supplies happen to be
excessive or below requirements.
If this new plan Is put Into effect the
interior markets will not have to de
pend on London, as supplies will be
brought to their doors Some weight
is given to this story by the fact that
the firm referred to l now making al
terations In its refrigerating plant In
Chicago, which will cost over $800,000.
and that one of the firm is now in Eng
land. But there is another story afloat.
I There Is a member of another large
meat cocnern In England, and the peo
ple who claim to Know say ne is tnere
chartering steamers to be engaged In
carrying dressed beef and live stock,
and incidentally in carrying- whatever
other freights they can secure. Thl
firm has expended enormous sums each
year In freights, and has come to the
conclusion that it would be cheaper for
it to run a line of its own. The query
comes: Can It be possible that the ta
bles have been turned on this firm, and
that they have been shut out by the
people tbey have shut out so long?
There Is a member of another large
exporting Arm also in England, but It
Is not known what he is doing. While
these stories may be exaggerated it Is
the general Idea that with the opening
of 1899 the big fight between the beef
kings of America will commence, that
the English markets will be flooded
with American beef: that the Britisher
will buy his roasts cheaper than he has
ever bought them before, and that the
American consumer will find the price
of beef advanced In this country In
about the same ratio as the decline In
Great Britain.
Republican College Laague.
Indianapolis. Ind.. Oct. 24. The sev
enth annual convention of the Repub
lican College league, postponed from
May last on account of the war. will
be held In Indianapolis, Ind.. November
17 and 18. as per official call Issued by
the president of the league. Arnold I.
Davis. Every college In the United
States bavins; a republican club to en
titled to representation In ''to convention.
Talmages' Sermon.
Washington, D. C, Oct. 30. All out
of the usual line of sermonizing is this
story of Dr. Talmage concerning the
next world, and it may do good to see
things from a novel standpoint. The
text is Rev., xxl., 1: "And I saw a new
heaven."
The stereotyped heaven does not make
adequate Impression upon us. We need
the old story told in new style in order
to arouse our appreciation. I do not
luppose that we are compelled to the
aid phraseology. King James' transla
tors did not exhaust all the good and
graphic! words in the English diction
ary. I suppose if we should take the
Idea of heaven, and translate it into
modern phrase, we would find that its
atmosphere is a combination of early
June and of the Indian summer In Oc
tober a place combining the advan
tages of city and ccuntry, and streets
standing for the one, and the twelve
manner of fruits for the other; a place
of musical entertainments harpers,
pipers, trumpeters, doxologles; a place
of wonderful architecture behold the
temples! a place where there may be
the higher forms of animal life the
beasts which were on earth beaten,
lash-whipped, and galled and un
blanketed and worked to death, turned
out among the white horses which the
Book of Revelation describes as being
in heaven: a place of stupendous litera
ture the books open; a place of aristo
cratic and democratic attractiveness
the kings standing for the one. all na
tions for the other; all botanical, pomo
logieal, ornithological, arborescent,
worshipful beauty and grandeur.
But my Idea now Is to speak chiefly of
the Improved heaven. People some
times talk of heaven as though it were
an old city, finished centuries ago, when
I have to tell you that no city on earth,
during the last fifty years, has had such
changes as heaven. It is not the same
place as when Job and David and Paul
wrote of It. For hundreds and hun
dreds of years it has been going through
peaceful revolution, and year by year,
and month by month, and hour by hour,
and moment by mcrrent, it ia ehanging,
and changing for something better.
Away back there was only one residence
In the universe the residence of the Al
mighty. Heaven had not yet been
started. Immensity waa the park all
around about this great residence, but
God's sympathetic heart after a while
overflowed in other creations, and there
came, all through this vast country of
immensity, inhabited villages, which
grew and enlarged until they Joined
each other, and became one great cen
tral metropolis of the universe, streeted,
gated, templed, watered, Inhabited.
One angel went forth with a reed, we
are told, and he measured heaven on
one side, and then he went forth and
measured heaven on the other side, and
then St. John tried to take the census
of that city, and he became so bewil
dered that he gave it up.
HEAVEN'S MULTITUDE.
That brings me to the first thought of
my theme that heaven is vastly Im
proved in numbers. Noting little under
this head about the multitude of adults
who have gone Into glory during the
last 100 or 500 or 1.000 years, I remember
there are 1,600,000,000 of people in the
world, and that the vast majority of
people die In infancy. How many chil
dren must have gone Into heaven dur
ing the last 500 or 1,000 years. If New
oYrk should gather in one generation
1,000,000 population, if London should
gather in one generation 4.000,000 pop
ulation, what a vast increase! But
what a mere nothing as compared with
the 500,000.000, the 2,000,000,000. the "mul
titude that no man can number," that
have gone into that city!
But add to this, if you will, the great
multitude of adults who have gone Into
glory, and how the census of heaven
must run up!
Again: I remark that heaven has
vastly improved in knowledge. Give a
man forty of fifty years to study one
science, or all sciences, with all the
advantages of laboratories and obser
vatories and philosophic apparatus, he
will be a marvel of Information. Now,
Into what intelligence must heaven
mount, angelhood and sainthood, not
for st nd vine for forty or fifty years,
but for thousands of years studying
Rml and the soul and immortality ana
the universe! How the intelligence of
that world must sweep on and on, with
eyesight farther reaching than telescope
with power of calculation mightier than
all human mathematics, with powers of
analysis surpassing all chemical laDor
atory, with speed swifter than teleg
raphy! ITS VAST KNOWLEDGE.
What must heaven learn, with all
these advantages, , In a month. In a
year. In a century. In a millennium?
The difference between the highest uni
versity on earth and the smallest class
in a primary school cannot bo a greater
difference than heaven as it now is
and heaven as it once was.
Again, heaven is vastly Improved in
its society. During your memory how
many exquisite spirits have gone into it!
If you should try to make a list of all
the genial, loving, gracious, blessed
souls that you have known, it would
be a very long list souls that have
gone Into glory. Now, do you not sup
pose they have enriched the society?
Have they not improved heaven? You
tell of what heaven did for them. Have
they done nothing for heaven? Take
all the gracious souls that have gone
out of your acquaintanceship and add
to them all the gracious and beautiful
souls that for 500 or 1.000 years have
gone out of all the cities and all the
villages, and all the countries of this
earth Into glory, and how the society
of heaven must have been improved!
Suppose Paul, the apostle, were Intro
duced into your social circle on earth;
but heaven has added more apostles.
Suppose Hannah More and Charlotte
Elizabeth were Introduced into youi
social circles on earth; but heaven has
added all the blessed and the gracious
and the holy women of the past ages.
ALWAYS PERFECT.
But you say, "Hasn't heaven always
been perfect?'" Oh, yes! but not in the
sense that It cannot be augmented. It
has been rolling on In grandeur. Christ
has been there, and he never changes
the same yesterday, today and forever;
glorious then and glorious now, and
glorious' forever. But I speak now of
attractions outside of this, and I have
to tell you that no place on earth has
Improved in society as heaven hah
within the last seventy years; for the
most of you. within forty years, within
twenty years, within five years, within
one year; in other words, ty tne ac
cessions from your own household. If
heaven were placed In groups an apos
tolic group, a patriarchal group, a
prophetic group, group of martyrs,
group of angels, and then a group of
your own glorified kindred which
group would you choose? You might
look around and make comparison, but
It wou' not take you long to choose.
You would say, "Give me back those
whom I loved on earth; let me enter
into their society my parents, my
children, toy brothers, my sisters. We
lived together on earth, let us live to
gether in heaven." Oh, Is it not a
blessed thought that heaven has been
improved by its society this coloniza
tion from earth to heaven?
WRAPPED IN SYMPATHY.
Again: I remark that heaven has
greatly improved in the good cheer of
announced victories. Where heaven re
joiced over one soul. It now rejoices
over a hundred or a thousand. In the
olden times, when the events of hu
man life were scattered over four or
Ave centuries of longevity, and the
world moved slowly, there were not so
many stirring events to be reported
in heaven: but now, I suppose, all the
great events of earth are reported in
heaven. If there is any truth plainly
taught in this bible It is that heaven
ts wrapped up in sympathy with hu
man history, and we look at those In
ventions of the day at telegraphy, at
swift communication by steam, at all
these modern improvements which
seem to give one almost omnipresence
and we see only the secular relation;
but spirits before the throne look out
and see the vast and the eternal rela
tion. While nations rise and fall, while
the earth is shaking with revolution,
do you not suppose there is arousing
Intelligence going up to the throne of
God, and that the question ts often
asked before that throne, "What Is
the news from that world that world
that rebelled, but is coming back to
its allegiance?" If ministering spirits,
according to the bible, are sent forth
to minister to those that shall be heirs
of heaven, when they come down to
us to bless us, do they not take the
news back? Do the ships of light that
come out of the celestial harbor Into
the earthly harbor, laden with cargoes
of blessing, go back unfreighted? Min
istering spirits not only, but our loved
ones leaving us, take up the tidings.
But the vivacity and sprightllness of
heaven will be beyond all conception
when the final victories come In, when
the church shall be triumphant every
where. Oh, what a day In heaven it
will be when the last throne of earthly
oppression has fallen, when the last
chain of serfdom Is broken, when the
last wound of earthly pain Is healed,
when the last sinner Is pardoned, when
the last nation is redeemed! What a
time there will be In heaven! You and
I will be in the procession; you and I
will thrum a string In that great or
chestra. That will be the greatest day
In heaven since the day when the first
block of Jasper was put down for the
fc undation, and the first hinged pearl
swung-.
THREE STOUT REASONS.
Now, I say these things about the
changes in heaven, about the new Im
provements in heaven, for three stout
reasons. First, because I find that
some of you are impatient to be gone.
You are tired of this world, and you
want to get into that good land about
which you have been thinking, pray
ing and talking so many years. Now
be patient. I could see why y-j would
want to go to an art gallery if some
of the best pictures were to be taken
away this week or next week; but if
some one tells you that there are other
beautiful pictures to come other Ken
setts. Raphaels and Rubens; other
masterpieces to be added to the gal
lery you would say, "I can afford to
wait. The place Is Improving- all the
time." Now, I want you to apply the
same principle in this matter of reach
ing heaven and leaving this --Tld.
Not one glory Is to be subtracted, but
many glories added. Not one angel will
be gone, not one heirarch gone, not
one of your glorified friends gone. By
the long practicing the music will be
better, the procession will be longer,
the rainbow brighter, the coronation
grander. Heaven, with magnificent
addenda! Why will you complain
when you are only waiting for some
thing better?
GIVES CONSOLATION.
Another reason why I speak in re
gard to the changes in heaven, and
the new improvements in heaven, is
because I think it will be a consolation
to busy and enterprising, good people.
I see very well that you have not much
taste for a heaven that was all lone
and finished centuries ago. After you
have been active forty, or fifty, or
sixty years. It would be a shock to
stop you suddenly and forever; out
here is a progressive heaven, an ever
accumulative heaven, vast enterprise
on foot there before the throne of
God. Aggressive knowledge, aggres
sive goodness, aggressive wwer, ag
gressive grandeur. You will not hive
to come and sit down on the banks of
the river of life In everlasting Inoc
cupation. O busy men, I tell you of a
heaven where there Is something to do!
That is the meaning of the passage,
"They rest not day or night," in the
lazy sense of resting.
I speak these words on the changes
In heaven and the new Improvements
in heaven, also, because I want to cure
some of you of the delusion that your
departed Christian friends have gone
into dullness, and silence, and uncon
sciousness. They are in a stirring,
picturesque, radiant, ever-accumulative
scene. When they left their
bodies they only got rid of the last
hindrance. When they landed it was
not as you land in Antwerp, or Ham
burg, or Havre, wandering up a strange
wharf, looking at strange faces, asking
for a stranere hotel. They landed amid
your glorified relatives, who were wait
ing to greet them.
Oh. does not this bring heaven near
er? Instead of being far off. It cornes
down Just now. and It puts Its arms
around our necks, and we feel Its
breath on our faces. It melts the
frieid splendor of our conventional
heaven into a domestic scene. It comes
very close to us. If we had our choice
in heaven, whom would we first see?
Rather than look at the great po
tentates of heaven we would meet our
loved ones. I want to see Moses, ana
Paul, and Joshua; but I would a great
deal rather see my father, who went
away thirty years ago. I want to see
the great bible heroines. Deborah, and
Hannah, andAbigail; but I would rather
see my mother than to see the arch
angel. JUDGMENT DAY.
I enter heaven one day. It Is almost
empty. I enter the temples of worship,
and there are no worshipers. I rralk
down the street, and there are no pas
sengers. I go into the orchestra, and 1
find the Instruments are suspended in
the baronial halls of heaven, and tht
great organs of eternity, with multi
tudinous banks of keys, are closed
But I see a shining one at the gate sf
though he were standing on guard, and
I say, "Sentinel, what does this mean'.
I thought heaven was a populous city.
Has there been some gteat plague
sweeping off the population?" "Havt
you not heard the news?" says the sen
tinel. "There Is a world burning, thert
is a great conflagration out yonder, and
all heaven has gone out to look at th
conflagration and take the victims out
of the ruins. This is the day for which
all other days are made. This is the
Judgment! This morning all the charlotf
and the cavalry, and the mounted In
fantry rumbled and galloped down the
sky." After I had listened to the senti
nel, I looked off over the battlements
and I saw that the fields of air were
bright with a blazing world. I said,
"Yes, yes, this must be the Judgment;"
and while I stood there I heard- the
rumbling cf wheels and the clattering
of hoofs, and the roaring of many
voices, and then I saw the coronets and
plumes and banners, and I saw that all
heaven was coming back again coming
to the wall, coming to the gate, and
the multitude that went off In the
morning was augmented by a vast mui
tltude caught up alive from the earth,
and a vast multitude of the resurrect
ed bodies of the Christian dead, leaving
the cemeteries and the abbeys and the
mausoleums and the graveyards of the
earth empty. Procession moving . in
through the gates. And then I found out
that what was fiery Judgment day on
earth was Jubilee In heaven, and 1
cried, "Doorkeepers of heaven, shut the
gates; all heaven has come In! Door
keepers, shut the twelve gates, lest the
sorrows and the woes of earth, like
bandits, should some day come up and
try to plunder the cityr
QUANTITY
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington has for a rumter of years
Invited all the larks cf the United
States, national, state and private, ever
nine thousand in all. to report the tc
tal amount cf mrney of all klrds which
they held cn a certain day. These re
ports show that we have tct In cir
culation In this country the amount of
money that is usually claimed. For ex
ample, the report given cut by the
comptroller December 2, 1895. shows
that on July 11. 195. all of the tanks
In the United States, national, state
anl private, held only $631,111,250. while
at the same time there was In the
treasury of the United State?, at claim,
ed by the reports. I423.61T.7H; tut of
this sum there was $101210.555 In gold
which was held as a reserve and net
available for c!rcu!atIon. This left the
total amount of money In the 'bank
ar.d in the treasury at that time 1952.
41S.448. This was all the rr.cr.ey in sight
at that time available for circulation
Of the sum held ty the tanks, t:27 621.
099 consisted of gold, and this wts all
cf the available gold then in the United
States. The foregoing sums comprise
all the money we then had In this coun
try except what there was In the pock
e?j of the people. And inasmuch as we
have banks In every village, and w
have had years of idleness during which
little savlnga were exhaus'ed and in
asmuch as building associations have in
late years absorbed nearly all the mon
ey that used to be held by private In
dividual. It is claimed by competent
Judge that when you Include the col.
ored people of the south and the poor
everywhere that an average cf $5 per
family would be a high average of what
there was at that time In the pockets
of the people. As there were less than
fourteen million families, that would
make less than $"0,000,000. but if we
double this sum and assume that there
was on an average $10 in the hand of
very family in the United States at
that time it would make less than $140.
tOO.t'CO. Adding that to what there was
then in the banks and In the treasury
It gives us the total money In the coun
try. which Is less than $1,100,000,000. But
the treasury officials persist In giving
out figures published ty the director of
the mint. In which he claims that there
are In this country altcgether $1,651,
310.000; that we have $23 9 per capita,
and that there are $618,100,000 cf gold
alone in this country. Eut in his re
port for 1892 the directcr explains that
these figures are In part estimated and
in part based on assumption In the
first place he assumed that every dol
lar of paper issued by the national gov
ernment during the !ast thirty years or
more and by the national banks cf this
country Is still in circulation, except
where a record has been made cf its
cancellation in Washington, and that
none has been lost or destroyed in all
that time. Second, he assumes that all
of the gold which the records of the
custom houses and at the mints show
came into this country Is still In circu
lation, except where there Is a rec
ord of Its exportation or of its use In
the arts. In other words, he makes no
allowance for what was carried across
our southern boundary for a quarter
MARVELOUS INVENTIONS OF SOAE ANIMALS.
Men and women ere very proud of the
different things which they do In this
world, but they really have no reason
to be to. The little creatures which
go under various names have done
things much more wenderful than man
even thought of doing. For instance,
the invention of the electric light Is
considered something great, but no one
ever thinks of giving much credit to
the little firefly, which, in the thousands
of years that he and his species have
been on this earth, have invented some
thing which serves for them Just as
well, if not better, than an electric
light. They carry a light with them all
the time, and can put it out when they
derlre or they can keep It burning all
the time. It is exactly the same with
other creatures which we are pleased
to call members of the lower order of
life.
Take, for Instance, the great Eiffel
tower, which Is over in Paris, a thing
which Is considered very high and won
derful. It is over 1,000 feet high, over
187 times as tall as the man who In
vented It. and consequently the same
number of times as tall as one of the
men who built It. But this record is
beaten by a creature called the termite,
an ant which lives in Africa. If men
were to make building or towers In the
same proportion that the ant does, man
would have to build something about
5,000 feet high, or five times as high as
the great tower now In Paris. These
little ants are no bigger than a speck,
yet they build hills which look like
little mountains. Down In Africa It is
no unusual Eight to see a big animal,
very much like our American buffalo,
standing on the top of one of these ant
hills, using It as a watch tower and
yet the creatures which built this same
ant hill could live for thousands of
years with no other meat than that
provided by one of these buffaloes.
Ants are not the only masons. The
mason bee, common enough In Eng
'and, hollows out the crumbling mortar
of old walls, and frcm the debris builds
finely finished galleries, where she lays
'ier egg. She Is a clever engineer and
always turns the mouth of her passage
downwards towards the earth In order
to prevent the rain from getting In.
Of diggers and ditchers and miners
there are excellent examples In the
animal world. Don't imagine that the
burrowing creatures start to work In a
re:kless fashion. No. they look ahead
and provide for all sorts of emergen-1
BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN
Faith does not rest on the bed of
'ancy.
A bad man's hate is a good man's
reputation.
The root of all evtl is the cause of
-nuch digging.
It takes a windy man to blow his
own trumpet.
Hope Is a staff In the morning and a
couch at night.
You can throw a ten-pound stone far
ber thau a feather.
AND PRICES.
cf a century unrecorded, nor for what
was carried across our northern bound
ary during that time, ar.d of which as
record was made, nor for what was car.
rled to China during that time, and of
which no record wax made. He makes
no allowance for what was used in tht
arts and cf which r.o report was made.
and he makes no allowance for what
was carried to Europe In the pockets
ci our peopie curing a Quarter ci
century. In his report for 1(91. the
directcr says that the amount cf mon
ey which the American people spent In
Europe during the year of the Paris
exposition was estimated at over $90,
000.000. Of course, most cf this was
registered in the form of lettert ol
credit, etc., but so much of It as was
carried In the pockets of the people
was not registered. S4 that the tables
given out by the director of the mint,
when carefully examined In the light
cf information which he himself has
given out in prior reports are fcur.d to
be absolutely worthless. The ether fig
ures given ty the comptroller, that I
have referred to. are accurate. They
practically constitute an Inventory cf
everything in sight, ar.d they show
that Ir.sted of having $23 59 per capita
in circulation In this ccuntry we havs
not got $15 per capita In circulation,
whi'e Eng'and has $208 France $35 77.
Germany $17 59. Belgium $27 62 and the
Netherlands. We are drifting toward
the basis of the pauperised countries
of Europe. Italy has $10 79 per capita,
Austria-Hungary $10 67. Ru.-sta $8 4$;
even Impujverlshed fpaln hat $16 L5. It
Is a most remarkable fact that the po
sition held by a people lnit.e scale of
civilization seems always to depend on
the amount of money they have In
! arhial lrrii Ifl t inn A n 'nrrl i n ta tht tS.
bles Issued by the United States treas
urer. Turkey has $4 09 per capita. Mex
lco $4 95. Central American states $1 6.
India $3 33. Chlnt $2 .08 and Servia $3 74.
Bankers have been heard to say. even
during a panic, that there was plenty of
money. This was done to keep the pub
lic from becoming alarmed, for every
business man knows that It Is not true,
ar.d the fact that so many banks pay
high rates of Interest on deposlts shows
thai It Is ret true. During the last
panic the New York banks actually
suspended payments ar.d forced the
public to take clearing house certifi
cates. It has, however, been found that
after a panic produced by a great con
traction the money that if left flows
toward the cities ar.d lies Idle becsuse
business conditions are not favorable.
Physicians tell us that If a large part
of the blood Is taken out of the human
body the remainder flows to the heart
and the extremities get cold; and the
same law applies to money, which Is
the blood of commerce. Reduce its
quantity and the body gets cold, while
the heart may be'eongested. At pres.
ent money Is In demand, not for new
business enterprises, but by debtors
who are carrying a heavy load of old
debts and are forced to make new ar
rangements. If prices were again to
go up new life would come Into the
business world, and money would then
be In demand and new enterprises
would be begun.
JOHN P. ALTGELD.
cles. The mole, fcr Instance, arranges
his central chamber so that rain will
never swamp him. Drains carry off
the surplus moisture. The badger, our
most elaborate digger, makes a regular
cave about five or six feet below the
surface, and has no less than from five
to seven outlets, thus securing what the
cleanly beast delights In excellent ven.
tllation.
We mortals think a lot cf the way
In which we have learned to embalm
our dead. The ordlrary beehive doesn't
make so much fuss. But if. as often
happens, a big moth intrudes and dies
In the hive, the Insects quickly cover
the body up In a thick coating cf wax,
thus preventing unpleasantness. Bees,
too, have learnt fortification. Death's
head moths, when plentiful, enter the
hive. and. secure In their thick, tcft
ccats, rifle the cells Cr.e year, when
these were very thick. It was noticed
that the bees all over the country had
closed up their hive entrances to that,
whilst a bee might still squeese O.ra',
a fat moth had to stay outside.
But this whole page might be writ
ten on bee marvels, how they venti
late their hives, how their marvelous
mechanical Instinct teaches them to
build six-sided cells, an arrangement
no mere man could improve on, and
the like. ?
Cabinet making is supposed to be
entirely a human accomplishment, but
it would puzzle many an expert to
construct anything neater than the
home of the mason spider. This small
workman digs himself a neat pit, and
fits it with a lid that closes so perfectly
that the keenest eye could not detect
It. even after seeing It open a second
before. The II dls made of earth and
hinged to a nicety with bands of web.
The interior of the home Is cosily lined
with soft spider silk.
Another very neat miner is the mole
cricket, which has front paws enor
mously developed for Its size, and
which are exactly like the paws of a
mole. Mole crickets dig their nests
with a smooth passege leading to them,
and deposit their eggs within. The
larvae, when hatched, find their way
out by the passage.
Chicago Pest: "How did he get his
mone?" "Why. he caught an accident
Insurance company napplng and suc
ceeded In getting a policy that did not
prohibit him from playing on a foot
ball team. The company hasn't done
a thing but pay money to him ever
since."
Few people get too miserly about
laying up treasures In heaven.
It is sometimes better to climb over
a mountain than to remove It.
Thinking over our own faults makes
us talk less about those of others.
Some people lend a helping hand sel
domunless It Is to help themselves.
If you feel like shaking a friend who
la In trouble, let it be bis hand that
you shake.
w. . mi uinh that wa want
the earth, we are not likely to give
much thought to the world to come
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