The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VII.
HAJtKISOX, NEBRASKA, TJIUKSDAV, AUG. 22, 1895.
NUMBER '50.'
TALM AGE'S SERMON.
JONAH OF OLD SOON TIRED OF
THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS.
Bat It Took Heroic Treatment to
Brian Him to Hi 8ent. -Ur. Tl
muge Iraws Instructive .Moral Lta
una from JoaaU'a M Uad venture.
In hatua'a Service.
At tbia eawtn of tbo year, when a large
portiou of the community ia journeying
either by laud or sea. Rev. Ur. Tuluiuge,
who in alili aUeut un his inidNUiuiner
preaching and lecturing tour, ebone aa
the subject of hi crinon for last Sun
day. "Man Overboard," the text being
Jonah i., 0: "So the shipmaster came to
him, and aaid uuto hini: What meanest
thou, O sleeper? Arise, call uKin thy
God If o he that God will think iim)H us,
that we perish not."
God told Jonah to (to to Nineveh on an
unpleasant errand. He would not go. He
thought to get away from his duty hy put
ting to sea. With pack under hi arm. I
, find him on hi way to .loppa, a seaport.
He goc down among the shipping, and
say to the men lying around on the rock,
"Which of these vessel sails to-day?"
The sailor answer, "Yonder is a vessel
going to Turshii-h. I think, if you hurry,
you may get ou lonrd her." Jonnh steps
on hoard the rough craft, asks how much
the faro in, and pay it. Anchor In
weighed, sails are hoisted and Hie rigging
begin to rattle in the Ktrong breeze of the
Mediterranean, Joppa ia an excised har
bor, and it docs not take long for the ves
el to get out on the broad sea. The min
ora like what they rail tt "spanking
breeze," and the plunge of the vessel from
the crest of a tall ware ia exhilarating to
thoae at home on the deep. 15ut the strong
breexe heroines a gale, 'he gale u hurri
cane. The affrighted passengers ask the
captain if he ever aaw anything like thin
before.
"Oh, yea," he any; "thl ia nothing."
Mariner are alow to admit danger to
landsmen. Hut after awhile crush goea
the mast, and the vessel pitches ao fur
"abeam'a end" there ia a fear ahe will not
be righted. The captain anawera few
questions and order the throwiug out of
boxes and bundles anil of ao much of the
cargo an they can get at. The captain ut
laat confesses there ia but little hope and
tella the passengers that they hud better
go to praying. It ia aeldom that a ea
captuin is an atheist. He knows that
there is a (iod, for he has seen him lit
every pobit of latitude between Sandy
Hook and Quecnstnwn. Captain Moody,
commanding the Cuba of the Cunnrd Inn
at Sunday service led the music and aang
like a Methodist. The captain of this
Mediterranean craft, having act the pas
sengers to praying, goes around examin
ing the vessel at evety stint. He de
acends Into the cabin to see whether in
the strong wrestling of the waves the ves
Kcl had sprung a leak, ami he finds Jonah
asleep. Jonah had had a wearisome
tramp and had spent many sleepless
night about question of duty, and he is
ao sound asleep that all the thunder of the
storm and the screaming of the pusscti
gers does not disturb him. The captain
lay hold of him und begins to shake him
out of his unconsciousness with the cry
"Don't you see that we are nil going to
the bottom? Wake up and go to praying,
if you have any God to go to. What
meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call uion
thy God, if so be that God will think upon
us. that we perish not." The rest of thr
atory I will not rehearse, for you know it
well. To appease the sea they threw
Jonah overboard.
The Devil' Dupe.
Learn that the devil takes a man's
money and then sets hhn down in a poor
landing place. The Hible say he paid
his fure to Tarshish. Hut gee him get
out. The sailors bring him to the side of
the ship, lift him over "the guards," and
let him drop with a loud splash Into the
waves. He paid hi fare all the way to
Tarshish, hut did not get the worth of his
money. Neither does any one who turns
his back on duty mid does that which is
aot right.
There is a young man who, during the
. past year, has spent a large part of his
salary In carousal. What has he gained
by it? A soiled reputation, a half-starved
purse, a dissipated look, a petulant tem
per, a disturbed conscience. The man
acle of one or two bad habit that are
pressing tighter and tighter will keep on
until they wear to the bone. You paid
your fare to Tarshish, but you have been
set down in the midst of B sea of dis
quietude and perplexity.
One hundred dollars for Sunday horse
hire!
One hundred dollars for wine Nipper!
One hundred dollar for cigars!
One hundred dollar for frolic that
shall be ntmeless!
Making $iM) for hi damnation!
Instead of being in Tarshish now, he is
in the middle of the Mediterranean.
Here is a literary man, tired of the
faith of his fathers, who resolves to
launch out into what I called free think
ing. He buys Theodore I'arker's works
for Y1, Itenan' "Life of Christ" for
$1.50, Andrew Jackson Davis' word for
$2). Goes to hear infidels talk at the
club and to see spiritualism at the table
rapping. Talk glibly of David, the
psalmist, as an old libertine, of Paul a a
wild enthusiast and of Christ: as a decent
kind of a man a little weak In some re
KH'ts, hut almost a good ai himself.
Talks tnilingly.of Sunday a a good day
to put a little extra blacking on one'
boot, and of Christian aa, for the most
part, hypocrite, and of eternity a "the
great to be," "the everlasting now," or
"the Infinite what la it." Some day he
get hi feet very wet and find himself
that night chilly. The next morning ha
a hot month and la headachy. Mend
word over to the tore that he will not be
there to-day. Bathe hia feet, haa mus
, tard plaster, call the doctor. The med
ical man ay ald. "fHi la going to be
a bad cane of rohgeetton of rha lungs."
' Voir fall. ChndnMl a bat be kept down
1 Stairs or seat to theaetgbbers to keep the
1 boss lt -T say, "od lor tb
' 'mliHaW." Bat aw;bdp)Mt belie rath
' ' tafclatara.' fob mf "Rm4 ftw Bible to
bim." No; he doe not believe in the
Bible. A lawyer comes lu, and sitting by
his bedside writes a docuincut that be
gins: "In the name of God. Amen I,
being of sound mind, do make this my
last will and testament." It is certain
where the sh-k nian's body will Ut in less
than a week. It is quite certain who will
get his pMperty. Hut what will become
of his soul? It will go into "the great to
be," or "the everlusting now," or "the in
finite what Is it." His auul is in deep
water, and the wind i "blowing great
guns. Ocatu cries. ' uverooam wiiu uie
uubdiever!" A splash! He goes 10 tiie
bottom. He paid ?5 for his ticket to
Tarshish when he bought the infidel
books. He lauded in m-rdition!
Every farthing you spend in sin satun
will swindle you out of. He promises you
shall have.'IO per cent, or a great dividend.
He lies. He will sink all the capital, lull
may pay full fare to some sinful success.
but you will never get to Tarshish.
Icarn how soundly men will sli-ep in
the midst of danger. The worst sinner on
shipboard, considering the light he had.
was Joiiah. He was a nicnilter of the
church, while they were heathen. The
sailors were engaged in their lawful call
ing, following the sea. The merchants on
board, I supjioKe, were going down to Tar
shish to barter, but Jonah, notwithstand
ing his Cbristiuu profession, was Hying
from duly. He was sound asleep in the
cabin. He has been motionless for hours
his arms and feet In the s.mie posture
as when he lay down his breast heaving
with deep respiration. Oh, how could he
sleep! What if the ship struck a rock!
What if it sprung a leak! What if the
clumsy Oriental craft should capsize!
What would become of Jonah?
t.'nfsit lioniiiltle Depth of Danger.
So men sleep soundly now ami amid per
ils infinite. In almost every place, I sup
pose, the Mediterranean might be sound
ed, but no line is long enough to fathom
the profound beneath every impenitent
nuii). I'liinging a thousand fathoms
down, you cannot touch bottom. Ktcmity
beneath him, before him, around ti i lit !
Korku clow- by and whirlpools and hot
breallieil Levanters; yet sound asleep!
We try to wake him up, but full. The
great surges of warning break over the
hurricane deck the gong of warning
sounds through the cabin the bell rings.
"Awake!" cry a hundred voices; yea
sound uslecp in the cabin.
In the year 177."i the captain of a Green
land whaling vessel found himself nt
night surrounded by icebergs and "lay to"
until morning, expecting every moment
to be ground to piece. In the morning he
looked about and saw a ship nearby, lie
hailed it. No answer. Getting into a
boat with some of the crew, he pushed out
for the mysterious craft. Getting near
by, In- saw through the porthole a man at
a stand, as though keeping a logbook. He
hailed him. No answer. He went on
board the vessel ami found the man sit
ting at the loglxjok froxen to death. The
logbook was dated 17H2, showing that the
vessel hail been wandering for thirteen
years among the Ice. The sailors were
found frozen among the hammock and
others in the cabin. Tor thirteen years
this ship had been carrying its burden of
corpses.
So from this gospel craft to-day I descry
voyager for eternity. I cry; "Ship ahoy!
Ship ahoy!" No answer. They Hunt
about, tossed and ground by the icebergs
of sin; hoisting no sail for heaven. I go
onboard. I find nil asleep. It is a frozen
sleep. Oli, that my Lord Jesus would
come aboard and lay hold of the wheel,
mid steer the craft down into the warm
gulf stream of his mercy! Awake, thou
that slocpcst! Arise from llic dead, und
Christ shall give thee life.
Again, notice that men are aroused by
the most unexpected means. If Jonah had
been told one year before that a heathen
sea captain would ever awaken him to a
sense of danger, he would huve gcoffed at
the idea, but here it is done. So now men
in strangest ways are aroused from spirit
ual stupor. A profane uiun is brought to
conviction by the allocking hluHphcuiy of
a comrade. A man attending church and
hearing a sermon from the text, "The ox
knoweth his owner," etc., goes home un
impressed; but, crossing his barnyard, an
ox conn' up and licks his hand, and he
soys, "There it is now 'the ox knoweth
his owner, and the ass his master's crib,'
but I do not know God." Tim careless re
mark of n teamster bus led a man to
thought fulness and heaven. The child's
remark, "Father, they have prayers at
uncle's house why don't we huve them?"
has brought salvation to the dwelling.
Hy strangest way and in the most un
expected manner men ore awakened. The
gardener of the Countess of Huntington
was convicted of sin by hearing the count
ess on the opposite side of the wall talk
about Jesus. John Hardoak was aroused
by a dream In which he saw the last day,
and the Judge sitting, and heard hia own
name called with terrible emphasis, "John
Hardoak, come to judgment!" The Lord
has a thousand way of waking up Jonah.
Would that the messengers of mercy
might now find their way down Into the
sides of the ship, and that many who are
uucousciously rocking In the awful temp
est of their sin might hear the warning:
"What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise
and call upon thy God!"
Again, learn that a man may wake up
too late. If, instead of sleeping, Jonah
had been ou his knee confessing his sins
from the time he went on hoard the craft,
I think that (Sod would have saved him
from being thrown overboard. Hut he
woke up too lute. The tempest is in full
blast, and the sea, in convulsion, 1 lash
ing Itself, and nothing will stop It now
but the overthrow of Jonah.
Too Late.
80 men sometimes wake up too late.
The lust hour ha come. The man hit no
more Idea of dying than I have of drop
ping down thl moment. The rigging i
all white with the foam of death. How
chill the night is! "1 must die," he ay,
"yet not ready. I must puah out upon
thia awful aea, but have nothing with
which to pay my fare. The white cap!
The darktieaa!" The hnrrlcane! How long
have I been sleeping? Whole day and
month and years. ' I am quit awake
now. 1 see everything, but H ia too late."
lavlalbl ha ad taka Mat np.' He atrug
(1m to I at loo. " In vain. They bring
his Mat ta) tb verge, Thr let It down
over Tb sM. iTb wind howl. Tbo act
oi ns Its frothing jaws to swallow. He
lias gone forever. And while the canvab
cracked, and the yards rattled, and the
r'ljM-s thumped the sea took up the funeral
dirge, playing with open diapason of mid
night storm: "liccause 1 have called, r.rd
ye refused. I hare stretched out my hand
and uo man regarded, but ye have set
at naught all my counsel and would none
of my reproof. I also will laugh at your
calamity, I will mock when your fear
Cometh."
Now, lest any of you should make this
mistake, I address you in the words of the
Mediterranean sea captain: "What mean
est thou, O sleejier? Arise, rail upon thy
God, if so be that God will think uikju us,
that we perish not." If you have a God,
you had better call upon him. Do you
say, "I have uo God?" Then you had bet
ter cull upon your father' God. When
your ful her was in trouble, whom did he
fly to? You heard him, in his old day,
tell about some terrible exposure in a
snow storm, or at seu or in buttle, or
among midnight garroters, and how he
escaped. -IVrhups twenty years before
you were born your father made sweet ac
quaintance with God. There is something
in the worn pages of the Hible he used to
read which makes you think your father
had a God. In the old religious books
lying around the house there are pussages
marked with a lead pencil pussages that
uiuke you think your father was nut a
godless uiuu, but that, ou that durk day
when he lay in the back room dying, he
was ready all ready. Hut perhaps your
father was a bad uiun prayerless and a
blasphemer, and you never think of him
now without a shudder, lie worshiped
the world or his own appetites. Do not
then, I ls g of you call upon your father's
God, but call on your mother's God. I
think she was good. Yon remember when
your father came home drunk bite on a
cold night, how patient your mother was.
You often heard her pray. She used to
sit by the hour meditating, as though she
were thinking of some good, warn) place,
where It never gets cold and where the
bread does not fail and staggering steps
never come. You remember her now, us
she sat, in cap and spectacle, reading her
Hible Sunday afternoons. What good ad
vice she used to give you! How black
anil terrible the hole in the ground looked
to you when, with two ropes, they let her
down to rest In the graveyard! Ah, 1
think from your looks that I am on the
right track! Awake, 0 sleeper, and call
ujmih thy mother's God.
Hut perhaps both your father and
mother were depraved. I'erhaps your
crinlle was rocked hy sin ami snaine, ano
it is a wonder that from such a starting
you have come to respectability. Then
don't euil upon the God of either of your
parents, 1 beg of you.
Hut you have children You know God
kindled those bright eyes and rounded
those healthy limbs and set beating with
in their breast an Immortality. I'erhaps
in the belief that somehow it wuuld be. u,
the best yon have taught them to say an
evening prayer, and when they kneel be
side you, and fold their little hands, and
look up. their fare all innocence and love,
you know that there is a God somewhere
about in the room.
1 think I am on the right track at lust.
Awake, O sleeper, and cull upon the God
of thy children! May he set these little
ones to pulling at thy heart until they
charm thee to the same God to whom to
night they will say their little prayers!
Hut alas! alas! some of these men and
women are unmoved by the fact (but their
father had a God, that their mother had
n God, and their children have a God. but
they have no God. All pious example to
thein for nothing. All the divine good
ness for nothing. All warning for noth
ing. They are sound asleep in the side of
the ship, though the sea und sky ure in
mad wrestle.
Home at I.nnt.
Many years ago a man. leaving his
family in Massachusetts, sailed from Hus
ton to China to trade there. On the
coast of China, in the midst of n night of
storm, he made shipwreck. The adven
turer was washed up un the beach sense
less ull his money gone. He had to beg
in the streets of Canton to keep from
starving. For two years there wus no
communication between himself and fam
ily. They supposed him dead. He knew
not but that his family were dead. He
had gone out as tt captain. He was too
proud to come back us a private sailor.
Hut after awhile he choked down his
pride and sailed for Hostoii. Arriving
there he took an evening train for the
center of the State, where he had left
his family. Taking the stage from the
depot and riding score of miles, lie got
home. He says that, going up in front of
the cottage in the bright moonlight, the
place looked to Ism bke heaven. lie
rapped on the window, and the affrighted
servant let him im lie went to the room
where his wife and child were sleeping.
He did not dure to wake them for fear of
the shock. Heading over to kiss his
child' cheek, a tear fell upon the wife's
face and she. wakened, and he said:
"Mary!" ami she knew hi voice, nnd
there was an Indescribable scene of wel
come and joy and thanksgiving to God.
To-day I know that many of you are
sen-tossed and driven by sin In a worse
storm than that which came down on the
coast of China, and yet I pray God that
you may, like the sailor, live to get home.
In the. house of niuny mansions your
friend ore Waiting to meet you. They are
wondering why you do not come. Es
caped from the shipwrecks of earth may
you at last go In! It will be a bright night
a very bright night a you put your
thumb on the latch of that door. Once in,
you will find the old family faces sweeter
"than when you Inst saw them, and there
It will be found that ho who was your
father' God and your mother' God and
your children' T?od 1 your own most
blessed Redeemer, to whom be glory and
dominion throughout all age, world with
out end. Amen.
I'scful Cement.
A useful cement for mending broken
crockery and for repairing various do
mestic article la made of the curds of
milk mixed with lime. A similar com
pound la formed of cheese and lima
mixed with water or skim-milk, and H
used In Europe aa a putty for Jotnertf
work, and aa a material for monldtaf. , '
OUR TWO LANGUAGES.
One Tbat We 1 se in Con vtraation.
the Other in Written English.
A writer In the current number of
the Laucational Keview preiaces un
extremely Interesting article on Eng
lish literature lu the college by the dec
laration, "It Is now, I think, generally
admitted tbat the tirst principle of
rhetoric is, write as you speak. The
pedantic, declamatory. Latinized dic
tion that prevailed in literary circles a
hundred years ago Is no longer the
standard King's Knglixh. In order to
write well It Is necessary first to speak
well that Is, to speak naturally, cor
rectly and strongly."
This Is a clever and cunning, as well
as complete begging of the whole ques
tion. The assumption that we, English
and Americans, speak as we write, and
that the ordinary rules of grumniiir
and rhetoric run through and underlie
oral, as well as written language, is an
assumption which cannot Is? verified
by evidence. He who says "don't"
and "can't" and "isn't," and who talks
about "lilin und me" when he menus
"bo and 1," or who says "done" for
"did" or "seen" for "saw," can take his
pen or pencil lu hand anil write English
which Is unexceptional from the stand
point of person, mood or tense, the fact
Ixdng that written language Is a refine
ment, and, possibly, an Improvement
on spoken language, but at the same
time as different from It as the dinliM't
of Yorkshire from that of Cornwall,
or the talk of Yaukeelainl from the
patois of the- uplands of North Caro
lina or the lowlands of Louisiana.
The writer of the article In question
has fallen Into the rhetorical error of,
as the vernacular has it, putting the
cart before the horse. Every written
language, protected and fenced in as It
may be by rhetorical fences and hedges,
each of which Is bristling with rules
und safe-guarded by exceptions to
those rules. Is only a development from
a spoken language, and whether it le
an Improvement or not Is an open ques
tion. At all events It must be appar
ent to every student of language or
philology Hint we have, at least In
English, two, separate and distinct
languages, and that if we should at
tempt to follow the dictum of the
writer in the Educational Review, and
write as we speak, our contributions
to current literature would be speedily
side-tracked Into the editor's waste pa
per basket. It might bo belter for the
genius of the English language, and
for the preservation of Its integrity.
tlint we should speak as we write, but
to adopt the converse proposition titnl
write as we speak seems the very cli
max of absurdity to those who know
and Appreciate the distinction between
English "as she is wrote" and "us she
Is spoke." Sun Francisco Chronicle.
The Pu ni.
Mike Welsh had been recommended
to Simpson as a lit man to assist in tak
ing care of horses and cows; so Mike
was hired, and placed In charge of this
(lepurtment. One morning, after Mike
had been a month at the place, Simp
son, who bad made ready to start oft
with his milk-cart, said to him; "Mike,
you may give the cows some oatmeal
this morning; and be sure you give my
best milker an extra quantity." "The
best milker, is It, sir?" "Yes; you know
the old cow that gives the most milk?"
"Hedad, I think I do, sir." "Well, you
give her four quarts of the mash." "All
right, sir. I'll do that same." On the
evening of that day Simpson had occa
sion to go to the old wooden pump in
the yard. He tried the handle, but It
wouldn't work. The pump seemed to
be entirely choked up. Finally he dis
covered that all the upper part was
loaded with something very nearly re
sembling oatmeal mash. He called his
man. "Mike," said he, "what Is the
matter Willi this pump?" "The pump.
Is it, sir?" "Yes. How came this oat
meal mush In here?" "Sure, sir, I put
It In meself." "You stupid blockhead,
why did you do that?" "It was yerself
that told me, sir." "I I told you to put
It In here?" "Indade ye did, sir."
"Why, you thlck-hended rascal, what
do you menu?" "Don't bo In a passion,
master. Did ye not tell tne to give yer
best milker an extra quantity of the
mash? And where In all the world, I'd
like to know, Is the crathur that gives
ho much milk to yer cans as does this
old pump?"
Kleclrlc Lighting for Carriage.
Although It Is claimed that the first
private carriage having outside and In
side electric lamps wa that of the lord
mayor of London, twelve years ago, It
Is only within a year or two that the
precedent has been much followed.
The German emperor, the Prince of
Wates nnd other foreign dignitaries
have carriages thus lighted; and theit
example, as well as the exhibition of
such vehicles nt the Antwerp world's
fair last year, has gone far toward es
tablishing the fashion abroad. As yet
very few coaches In this country are
electrically lighted.
It Is a simple matter to provide a stor
age battery under the coachman's sent
which will supply the Current It Is
necessary, however, to monnt the lamps
on elastic supports of rubber or steeM
to prevent the Jolting of the vehicle
from breaking the lamps. Incandes
cent burners of leas elate than thoae or
dinarily employed In hones and offices
Are selected 'for this service.
An elfbt-ceU battery, eight Inches
lon, eaten dee? and fouf wide la said
to be sufficient to maintain the light for
eighteen hours without recharging. The
Inside lamp is placed In the center of
the roof, and has two filaments.
A reflector and a fiat glass plate cover
are other features of such lights. Ad
ditional lamps of various colors are
sometimes attached to the harness at
different points, producing a highly
decorative effect. New Y'ork Tribune.
Kerlin's Private I'ohU
Berlin has had for some years past
a private postal company for the de
livery of letters and packages, and
stidents of the postal question are
somewhat astonished to learn that this
concern rivals the government post
office in cheapness and pays animal
dividends of 2 per cent The private
post carries a letter of ordinary
weight within the bounds of the city
at 2 pfenninge, or about 5 7-10 mills.
Last year the private post carried 2,-
50oVKj) packages. The company em
ployes 1,K0 men and many horses. The
private post charges less than the pub
lic post for packages, circulars and the
like, and does a great deal of work
for business houses that in New Y'ork
is accomplished by special delivery
wagons and messengers in the em
ployment of the house. Some business
houses save large sums annually by
making use of the private post.
The capital of the concern is not
large, for Its 2o per cent, dividend was
made last year from net profits of
about $l0(uxxi. It lias been suggested
that the great European capitals should
have like private posts and establish
an International exchange for letters
and packages In competition with the
1'oHtal Union. Hut the by-laws of most
European countries, like those of the
United States, secure to the govern
ments a monopoly of business strictly
postal. New York Sun.
New York's Name T ) Long.
We don't object to the amputa
tion of the word "New" from the name
of New York, says the Sun, of that city.
Time would be saved by chopping It
off. It is useless, and it is out of place
In the name of a city that Is as old as
New York. Let our citizens who want
to get rid of it speak of our place as
"York" henceforward, and let the old
adjective "New" sleep in the grave in
which It has lieeu burled by lots of
other American cities. After a while
the word would be remembered only
by antiquarians. Plenty of the people
who live in the outer regions have al
ways called us York, and everybody
knows what place is thus spoken of
without looking in the geography for
the wen I her- worn English city on the
Itiver Ouse. "York State" is us much
heard of in other States.
We do not need any law to authorize
the amputation until after everybody
has performed if, and then the Legisla
ture can enact a law approving of it.
Lots of laws are made that way. The
best of them ure thus made.
We shall not urge people to cut off
the "New and call it York; but every
body who does so will save a breath.
If all the time wasted in the utterance
of the word "New" by the millions of
people who are constantly talking of
New York were devoted to the study
of the classics, ancient literature would
be better know n than It Is.
Woman's Fidelity.
The obligation of lldelity will be as
natural to woman In the time to come
as it was In the old days, because hu
man nature is stronger than any laws
we may make to change it, and the
Instinctive feeling of a woman, like a
dog, is fidelity lidellty to the man she
loves, the mini to whom she has given
herself. Education and modern in
fluences may modify for a time the
bent of her life, and may cause some
women to break away and embark on
other lilies and ways of living, but the
prodigals will return home, finding out
the hollowuess and the impossibility
of the career they prepared for them
selves. From physical causes, women can
not lead the same lives as men, do what
they may; and as nature, In her wis
dom, lias placed such restrictions ou
them, they will recognize, after a time,
their limitations, and be content to ad
mit that they have been worsted lu tie
unequal struggle. Lady Jeune, lu the
Saturday Review.
Wooden Hats.
Connecticut has always been prolific
in Inventors with a genius for utilizing
wood in unexpected directions from
the time when one of her sons manu
factured nutmegs out of plue knots
down to the present day. The latest
outcome of this ingenuity Is a wooden
hat. A Connecticut man has made a
machine that cuts a block of wood into
fine strips. These are moistened and
then woven like straw Into headgear,
which Is said to be very durable. The
Inventor says that the substance Is
lighter than straw, and that because
of Its easier manipulation and IoV?r
cost It will supersede the other material.
Boston Herald.
Corn Sprinkler.
A Hannibal (Mo.) man has Invented
a machine for sprinkling corn In dry or
arid regions. The machine la on the
same principle aa a corn planter. It la
ao arranged that from a quart to a half
gallon of water will drop at the hills.
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It requires considerable genius for a
man to relate his .woes- and keep bis
friends Interested.
WHITTIER'S COURAGE.
He Hazarded Life and Popularity ia)
the Cause of Abolition.
Before be was 30 he had made up hl
mind that it was his duty to do what
he could for the relief of Uie unfortu
nate negroes who were held in bondage
in the South. Iu he wrote a pam
phlet called "Justice and Expediency,"
I11 which he considered the whole ques
tion of slavery, and declared that It
should cease forever. Three years later
he became secretary of the Anti-Slav
ery Society. Iu 1S38 he went to Phlla.
delphiu to edit the Pennsylvania Free
man; and so boldly did be advocate the
right of the negro to own himself that
tne printing-oltice was sacked by a mob
and burned. Then, as more than once
afterward for the same cause, Whlttier
was in danger of his life.
Whittier showed physical courage in
facing the ruffians who wished to pre
vent free six-wh; but he had revealed
the higher moral courage in casting In
his lot with the little band of abolition
ists. Up to rhis time he had looked for
ward to holding public office, as well
he might, when many another journal
ist has stepped from the newspaper
desk into public life. When he became
one of the small band who denounced
slavery, be gave up all chance of office.
He also bad literary ambition, but so
strong was the power of the slave-owners
then, and so intolerant were they,
that most editors and publishers were
sorely intimidated, and declined to print
not only any attack on slavery, but
even the other writings of an author
who was known as an abolitionist
Thus Whlttier, in Identifying himself
with the autl-slavery movement,'
thought that he was giving up his lit
erary future also. He made his decis
ion promptly, and he never regretted It.
Indeed, In later life he said to a boy of
15, to whom he was giving counsel, "My
lad, If thou wouldst win success, join
thyself to some unpopular but noble
cause." St. Nicholas.
A New Field for Klectricitj.
It seems as though the United .States
House of Representatives will soon
miss the page boys who have hitherto
been so much in evidence. Not that
the boys will be abolished, but that
they will be relegated to ante-cbain-bers
and benches, where they will
await summons, like the ordinary mor
tals who answer to "Front!" In hotels.
Electricity will be responsible for this
change. There will be less noise, and
the wonted handclapplng of members
in a hurry will be a thing of the past;
but the house will be a decided gainer
In decency, quiet and decorum. Two
annunciators will be used, one in each
cloak room at either end of the hall,
dividing the floor into two sections,
and providing for a total of 3(J0 calls.
On each desk will be a calling push
button, and the wires will run under
the floor in cables to the rooms where
the annunciator boards are. When a
member calls, his number on the board
will drop and the page next on turn
will hie to his bidding. If this plan
should prove successful, as it promises
.o be, it is likely that members will
register their votes in like fashion,
with a great saving in time.
The Iord Mayor's Secretary. 1
-If the Lord Mayor's private secre
tary ever wore all his decorations his
breast would blaze as brilliantly as
that of the chief magistrate himself.
Mr. Soulsby, who has just received
from the Mikado the Order of the Ris
ing Sun, already possesses the blue rib
bon of the Legion of Honor, to say
nothing of the orders of Francis Joseph
of Austria, the Humane Redemption of
Liberia, and a Servian and Greek dec
oration to boot. The genial perma
nent secretary of the Mansion House,
who has assisted twenty-one lord may
ors to preserve some continuity of
civic government, was appropriately
born iu a cockney family, and educated
at the City of London School. While
still in his teens he began to read for
the bar, was called after the shortest
Interval of study permitted by the
Inns, and Immediately received the
appointment which he has filled with
such distinction ever since. He is 43
years of age.
Another Use for Aluminum.
The value of aluminum for use In the
army Is about to be demonstrated lu
another way for use as a signal lan
tern. The.Signal Corps has been exper
imenting with lanterns for some time,
and one has been found that gives ex
cellent results. It Is made of aluminum
and Its type Is similar In many respects
to the headlight of a locomotive. It
has worked satisfactorily at a distance
of twenty-eight miles. New York
Tribune.
A Versatile Actor.
A theatrical manager had considera
ble trouble with his star actor, who was
constantly meeting with accidents or
falling sick. ' One day, as the story
goes, the star was hurt In a boiler ex
plosion. When the manager heard of
it he remarked to his agent: "I am sick
of this sort of thing. Advertise Mm as
usual and add tbat we Intend bringing
out a new piece, In which the great star,
Mr. D , will appear In several parts."
Than should be a law providing that
the first grandchild belongs to Um
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