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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1896)
MOWtVJM OTWICHtfc Am fapntMil to Be Maste la Fleetd. "It occurred to ran roany years ago," Bid Mr. H. J. Tlflo. "that If eetrlca farnring eoald be snr-csssfuly carried on to California, tba aama might be done her, pecially If it were simply a ques tion of climatic adaptability, for the climate of eaat Florida la more similar to that of Roath Africa, the babiut of tba bird, than ia that of California. I bar etoeely watched the profreea of these lattr farms, becoming more in terested yearly, so that last fall, when. In Atalnnta. I had an opportunity to purchase some ostrlchea, I secured two, male and female, and brought them to my Indian River place on Merritt Isl and, which ia about latitude 28. These birds did so well, seeming so perfectly at home and well adapted to the condi tions, that I went back to Atlanta and bought the lot, fifteen in all some of them very large and valuable, and I now hare them ail at home. Moat of them were raised on a Los Angeles farm, but a few are native African birds. "The Talue of an ostrich in South Africa Is about $500. I bought mine1 for little more than $100 apiece, so thst I may be said to have made quite a bar- i gain. The birds seem to be perfectly at home, and feed upon the grass which grows plentifully upon my place. I also give them large quantities of corn and other grain, and occasionally try them with a little meat of some kind, of which they eat sparingly, for the ostrich la strictly a graminivorous feeder. When I first brought them down they ate little, and I concluded I must give them an appetizer, which I did, each one, in the shape of a good-slxed aaafoetlda pUL Since that time they have eaten ravenously. "Ostriches are like quails, in that they pair off, and need a run to them selves, separated from other pairs. At present mine are all together, as I have not 'had time to arrange their quarters. In Africa on the large farms a psir Shaa about forty acres to run in. I shall give mine only about two acres, which may be small for them at first, but to which I am sure they will readily adapt themselves in time. My birds have al-. ready begun laying. I have gathered auout six eggs, and the season is Just beginning. Fifty eggs are laid during the season, one laying season to the . year. The average weight of an ostrich egg is thirty-four ounces, some, of course, much larger, and it has the ap pearance of a ball of ivory. The shell is thin and delicate, and smashes easily If dropped when containing the yelk, but if the yelk is removed the shell is durable as china, and is largely used among natives as a drinking cup. ; "Ancients used them commonly, aud the famous draught of the pearl dis solved In vinegar is supposed to have been taken from an ostrich egg. The fe male sits on the eggs during the day, the male at night This seems to be nature, but most ostrich farmers now use Incubators, especially as the male bird manifests an unaccountable grudge against the young one, and kills it if possible. I shall Introduce the incubator when I begin raising birds. Ostrich eggs sell for $20 apiece, so fifty eggs a year makes a bird very profitable aside from the plumes, which bring In about JfiOO per year. The finest feath ers grow under the wins. Those of the male are usually binck. and are the finest of all; the female plumes are lighter in color, and permit dyeing. Tail and breast feathers are also valuable. The finest feathers produced by the ostrich are the three plumes used as a bead drew by the ladies of the court of 8t James, and those who are present ed to the Queen. Certain feathers are In demand for this, the finest on the bird, and they brinpr. of course, the highest prices." -Jacksonville Citizen. On the Wheel. The bicycle grows In favor; its sphere of usefulness Is being almost dally en larged. In the smaller towns in France, when a fire breaks out, a mes senger has to make the rounds of the town summoning the firemen from their work. These messengers are now mounted on bicycles, and are able to summon the firemen in a much shorter time than formerly. A New York mag istrate has decided that the repairing of a punctured tire Is a necessity. Wheelmen mtve long held this Idea, but It was not until a man was ar rested for violating the Sunday law by repairing a puncture that the court finally rendered judgment on this im portant question. In Jersey City an ordinance has been passed which pro vides for the imposition of a twenty flve dollar fine on any person who throws tacks, pieces of glass or other like material In the pnbllc highways. The object of the ordinance is to pre vent the puncturing of bicycle tires. The Board of Education of Montclalr, N. J., has taken formal recognition of bicycles as a means of going to and from school. At a recent meeting the fact that between seventy-five and one hundred children rode to school every morning on bicycles and that some ac commodation should be provided for the wheels was considered. The board then ordered that racks for the wheel be pnt in the different schools. amatinf Ignore ace. Uneducated persons, and some who are educated, when asked for an expla nation of something of which they are Ignorant, seldom say, "I don't know." On the contrary, they are apt to extem porise tba sort of explanation that was given to aeeoaat for the working of the electric telegraph when It was first erected. Tba message-pa per Itself, such waa the geaafal bdM among the Ignor ant, waaaetttorartba wlra. Even la tba lata forties, when tbe eteetrV tslearsph bad bam need la Kn aad far atranU year a eooatrymaa fcaaded aa operator a awamaga, paid tin ts aad tbM waltad to ae him send it X Taw ap sansar baa. tba pa par on t2a ksaa aajtf awtcfciy stgaeUed tba SMa- aaga ta tba operator at tbe place where I it waa to he delivered, Seeing that tbe maa waited, be said, "It baa gene." "Goner said be. "Why, It's there still ! Put It In the machine and seed It off properly, man 7' "Oh, very well; If you prefer it that way, here goes 7" answered the operator, not ashamed to counter ignorance with deceit. Be unfastened the back of the Instrument, put in the paper, shut up the apparatus, rang tbe bell, and nodded to the man, who went away with a satisfied smile at having made the ope rator telegraph properly. Forty years later an old woman, see ing men erecting telegraph wires In the village, exclaimed, "Well, I expect Vt have to watch them a long time before I saw a telegraph meeaage come along. My eyesight la getting so bad." Another good woman, after writing a message, asked for an envelope in which to inclose her telegram, so that no prying eyes might read it during its transmission over the wire. A work ingwoman, on arriving by rail at a town some distance from her home, discovered that she had brought the hots key instead of leaving it behind for her husband's use. Going to the telegraph office, she desired that the key might be sent to her house. When told that it was impossible, she, with no little irritation, exclaimed, "What then, is the nse of the telegraph? That's what I'd like to know!" Bella Without Lege. Recently In England a prize was of fered for the beet "bull" made of laugh-, ter-provoking words, and the Outlook publishes a selection from those sub mitted. Extract from a speech made at a meeting to promote total abstinence: "The glorious work will never be ac complished until the good ship Temper ance f-hail sail from one end of the land to the other, and with a cry of 'Victory! at each step she takes, shall plant her banner In every city, town and village In the United Kingdom." "We pursue the shadow, the bubble burst-, and leaves the ashes in our hands " An orator at one of the university unions bore off the palm when be de clared that "the British lion, whether It is roaming the deserts of India or climbing the forests of Canada, will not draw in its horns nor retire into its shell." A certain politician, lately condemn ing the Government for its policy con cernlng the income tax. Is reported to have said: "They'll keep cutting the wool off the sheep that lays the golden eggs until they pump it dry." Khali or Will. The controversy going on In recent magazine numbers, over the stylwtlc defect in writing caused by the improp er use of "shall" and "will," has been rather confusing to the ordinary mind. But at last they have fallen back upon the rule given in the old school grammar, prescribed anew by a prom inent literary critic, and which, if fol lowed, will prevent further mishan dling. I shall, thou wilt, he will, we shall, you will, they will, expresses futurity. I will, thou shalt, he shall, we will, you shall, they shall, expresses volition. Do not write your friends, "I will lie pleased to see you," for you will there by proclaim your literary Inexperience. Write, "I sttall le glad to see you." and even If they do not detect '.lie nicety of your taste, the expression will seem more euphonious, and be comfort ing to their unconscious linguistic nerves. MhII-Protected Monarchs. From 1HK5 to the time of his death the late O.ar of Rusia never appeared outside his bed-room ami study with out a flue steel suit of mall, which would protect his Issiy from the dagger of the ass.-ist.in. Excepting his valet and his wife uoIkmIv hud seen his suit of mail, but the Czar's un willingness to go even to a cabinet council without it was an open secret in all the courts of Europe. Bismarck at one dme wore such a coat, as did also Stamhouloff and Crispi. The Italian ex-premier, in deed, still wears, for protection from tbe assassin's bullet or knife, a light shirt of mall of double thickness over the heart None of these men, how ever, resorted to such precautions until repented attempts at assassination had been made. Nicholas II. of Russia baa waited for no such attempt on his life. Ever since the last arrests of nihilist students at Odessa he has worn a shirt of nickel and steel. Easily Managed. Sheep are not commonly regarded as beasts of burden, but in a large part of Northwest India thousands of sheep carry for many miles tbe commodities purchased by the sale of their own wool. The load for each sheep Is from sixteen to twenty pound. The sheep are driven from village to village with the wool still growing, and in vm town the farmer shears as much wool as he can sell there, and loads the sheep with the grain which he receives in ex change. After bis whole flock has been sheared he turns It towards home, each sheep having on Its back a small bag containing the purchased grain. Better than "Keep Oft tbe Graae.' "I should think the tourists coming to this place would destroy this lovely park of yours," said the Northerner to the Floridian. "Well, they 'used to pick up tbe oleail ders and steal my coeoanuts, but I p-it up tluit sign over there, and since that time they've respected my rights." The Northerner walked over to tbe sign and read aa follows: "Please do not Irritate tbe rattlesnakes." Nerer read a book that refers to a woman as "a piece of delicate Dresden china." This Is tbe stamp of a trashy book, and a trashy author. ' How we love a womaa who reaaeoi hers compliment that bar baea paid bar b nabs ad years ago! THE LION'S SHARE. aBB4lv TTsle tflad mt Marital Chivalry le acarca. A well-dreeaed, respectable-looklna man we win not mention hia national itytraveling with hla wife in a remote quarter of England, waa delayed by defective railway service, and waa an able to reach hla destination until 10 o'clock In tbe evening. He had left the railway train at a sinaJl station where there was no restaurant, and had hired a coach to carry him with his wife and hia baggage to the little village where he was to spend tbe night. When the travelers drew np at the old-f.ibhloned Inn in tbe village street they were very weary and faint with hunger. They had eaten nothing since their esrly breakfast As soon as the rooms had been en gaged and tbe baggage properly stow ed, tbe husband sent for tbe portly landlord aud aald: "We are the hungriest pair you evel fcaw. We have lost our train connec tions, and been delayed at station? where food was not served. For this reason we have had neither luncheon nor dinner. Now you must do your best for us We want a hearty supper." The landlord mnrmured that it was very lite, and he had not been eipeetin any one to arrive, but that he would go down and talk with tbe cook. He re turned in ten minutes with a troubled face. "You have taken us by surprise," he said with an apologetic air. "The mar ket stalls are closed and nothing in be had In the shops at this hour. This is only a modest quiet country inn. I have been talking with tbe cook and find that the pantries are qnlte empty." "Have you no meat?" asked the anx ious husband In a tone of irritation. "I regret to says" answered the land lord, "that there Is only one mutton chop in the house, but I think that Is a good sized one." The busliand glanced at his wife and then stared at the landlord. "What Is my wife to have?" he asked grimly after an awkward pause. The matter-of-fact way in which this lord of creation appropriated for his exclusive use the only chop, revealed his Idea of the relations of the sexes. The stronger half of the family was to be served first whatever might lie the necessities of the weaker half. Of course, the affectionate wife pro tested, that she was not very hungry and would le satisfied with a littl toast and tea, as she needed sleep more lhan nny thing else. Tlu- brute ste the chop and griiMibbil when he finished It because his hunger was not satisfied. This true incident makes a very uu satisfactory study of the kind of marital chivalry that is sometlmci. found In this closing decade of tie nineteenth centurv. Not New. Much of the slang considered new by those who depend upon current chat rather than books for information. Is In reality old. A young man was show ing bis country cousin around the city. He told him all the latest stories, bad sprung all the latest gags, had shown him all the sights that are supposed tp Interest the bucolic visitor, aud In the meantime was dropping all of the latest slang phrases. He emphasized Mich and repented It a time or two. In order to impress it upon the listener, who presently observed that city peo ple seemed to use a g"at many old slang phrases. "Well." said the other. In surprise, "you're a good thing. I don't think. We are " "There you go again. If that expression isn't uu old chestnut, I don't know what Is. Why. I 'if kens wore those out half a century ago. Noddy Biffin regarded himself as a good thing, and Tom Pinch, quoting John West lock, said: '1 am a nice man, I don't think. It strikes me you are a few years be hind the times." The young man de cided to read Dickens and find some thing new. An American Dodo. She was an extremely pretty youn? woman aud distinctly undomestic In her tastes; she consequently found the baby very wearing. Her husband's finances made It Im possible to have a nurse, but she did not propose to stop at home Just for that baby! A bright idea came to her. She put the infant in a bureau drawer, leaving a crack open to give it air, and sallied gayly forth. She lias been divorced twice since then. The baby, strange to relate, still survives. New York Journal. Sunflowers. , As a plant the sunflower has no supe rior for vigor, rapid growth and pro lific yield of seed, leaves and stalk, nil of which can be utilized. Iu China a valuable fiber, used in silk weaving, Is obtained from the stalk, and they are of service as fuel and a source of pot ash. The Orientals mix their tobacco with cured sunflower leaves, and make a yellow dye from the flowers, which are also rich In honey and wax. The sunflower grows riotously Iu the United States, and stands all extremes of weather well. It Is worthy of general cultivation. 'Tying the Knot. At a Babylonish wedding ceremony tbe priest, it la said, took a thread from the garment of the bride and an other from tbe garment of tbe bride groom, and tied them into a knot, wh'cu he gave to tbe bride. This Is prole artly the origin of the modern saying about tying the knot with regard to marriage. Tbe Cat Came Back. A man near Newklrk, Ob., took bis neighbor's cat, saturated Its tall In kero sene, and set It on Are, thinking It would run bona and burs tba neighbor out. Instead, It turned and amped into tbe torturer's owa barn sad burned It down. , TiLMAGE'S SERMON. Ml DELIVERS AN ELOQUENT MEMORIAL DAY DISCOURSE. frees the Faar Teere War mt tbe Bebelllea-Th Spirit ml Treaty aad the BalHt mt War aeir-Defsae aavd Ita Batiaa. Xoaaaa of the Daad. What could be more appropriate or stir ring than this discourse by tbe Rev, Dr. Talmage at the time of year when the friends of those who wore tbe blue and the gray hav decorated the muuuds of the fallen? The text Solomon's song, lv., 4, "The tower of Divid bull ied for aa armory, whereon there bang a thou sand bucklers, all sbicM of mistily men." The church U here compared to ao ar mory, the walls hung witfc trophies of dead heroes. Walk ill about this lower f David, snd see the dented bifida, and tbs twuted swords, and IK rusted hel met of terrible battle. So at this sea Mi, a month earlier st th South, a uuth later at the North, the Adicriea i (bun-he are turned hi to armories adorned with memories of departed bra res. Blossom and bloom, O walla, with stories of self sacrifice and patriotism and prowess! By unanimous decree of th people of the United States of America the grav.s of all the Northero sod Southern dead sre every year decorated. Ail acerbity and, bitterness have gone out of the na tional solemnity, and as the men aud women of the South one month ago floril Ised the cemeteries and graveyard, so yeaterday we, the men and women of the North, put upon the tomb of our dead the kiss of patriotic affection. Bravery always appreciates bravery, though it fight on the other side, and if a soldier of the Federal army bad been a month ago t Savannah he would not have been ashamed to march in lh floral proces aiona to the cemetery. And if yesterday a Confederate soldier waa at Arlington be was glad to put a sprig of heartsease on tbe silent heart of our dead. Brave Geaeroaitr. In a battle during our last war the Con federate were driving back the Federals, who were in swift retreat, when a Federal officer dropped wounded. One of hia men stopped at the risk of bis life and put hia arms around the officer to carry blm from the field. Fifty Confederate muskets were aimed at the young man who waa picking up the officer. But the Confeder ate captain shouted: "Hold! Don't fire. That fellow is too brave to be shot." And ss the Federal officer, held up by bia pri vate soldier, went limping slowly off the field the Con federates gave three cheers for tbe brave private, and just before the two disappeared liehind a barn both tbe wounded ollicer and the brave private lifted their cmi in gratitude to the Con federate captain. Shall the gospel be lens generous than the world? We stack arms, the bayonet of our Northern gun facing this way, the bayonet of the Southern gun facing tbe ether way, and aa the gray of the morn ing melts into the blue of noon no the typi cal gray and blue of old war times hare blended at last, snd they quote in the lan guage of King James' translation without any revision, "Glory to God in the high eat, and on eanb peace, good will to men." Now, what do we mean by this great observance? First, we mean insi ruction to one whole generation. Subtract lWCi. when the war euded, from our lWHt, and you will real lie what a vast nunilier of people were born since the wnr or wen? so young aa to have no vivid appreciation. No one nnder 41 years of oge baa any adequate memory of that prolonged .horror. Do you remember it? "Well," you say, "1 only remember that mother swooned away while she waa reading the news paper, ana mat tney Drought my father bonie wrapped in tbe flag, and that a good many people came in the house to pray, and mother faded away after that until again there were many people in the house, and they told me she was dead." 1 There are others who cannot reiiiem , ber tlie roll of s drum or the tramp of a regiment or a sljfh or a tear of that tor I nado of woe that swept the nation again j and again until there was one dead in ! each bonse. Xow it is the religious duty j of those who do remember it to tell those who do not. My voting friends, there were such partings at rail car windows snd steamboat wlmrfa, at front doors of comfortable homes as I pmy God you may never witness. Ob, what a time it was, when fathers and mothers gave up their sons, nerer expecting to see them sgain and never did see them again until they cm me back mutilated and crushed and dead. . A Glance at the Past. Four year of blood. Four yeara of hos tile experiences. Four years of ghastli nesa. Four years of grare-diggiug. Four rears of funerals, codins, shrouds, hearses, dirges. Mourning, mourning, mourning! It was hell let loose. What a time of waiting for news! Morning paper snd evening imper scrutinized for intelligence from tlie boys at the front. First, an nouncement that the battle must occur the next day. Then tbe news of tbe battle going on. On the following day still go ing on. Then news of 30,) slain and of Uie names of the great generals who had fallen, but no news about the private soldiers. Waiting for news! After many days a load of wounded going through the town or city, but no news from our boy. Then a long list of wounded aud a long list of the desd and a long list of tbe miss ing. And among the last list our hoy. When missing? How missing? Who saw him last? Missing!. Missing! Was be in the woods or by the stream? How was be hurt? Missing! Missing! What burning prayers that be may yet be heard from. In that swful waiting for newa many a life perished. The strain of anx iety was too great That wife's brain gave way that first week after tbe battle, sod ever and anon she walks the floor of the asylum or looks out of tbe window s though she expected some one to come along the path and np tbe steps as she soliloquises: "Missing; missing." Wbst made matters worse, all this might have been avoided. There ass no more need of thst wsr than at this mo ment I should plunge a dagger through your heart There were a few Christian philanthropists In those days, scoffed at both by North and South, who bad the right of It It they had been heard on both side, w should bar had ao war and no slavery. It waa advised by those Christian philanthropist, "Let tbe North pay In money for the slave property sad set them free." The North said, "We cannot afford to par." Tbe Month said. "We Witt not sell tbe slave anyhow." But tba Mart 414 pay la war expanse rooogh ts parehaae tbe slave, aad the ftouth waa cesBpeissd to give ap slavery anybow. Might not the North better have paid the atooey and saved the lives of 500,01' brave men, and might not the South bet tar have sold oat slavery sod saved her 000,000 brave men? 1 swear you by tbe grave of your father aad brother and son to a new hatred for the champion curse of tbe universe war. O Lord God. with th hottest bolt of thine omnipotent Indignation strike that monster down forever aad ever. Imprison it In the deep eat dungeon of the eternal penitentiary. Bolt It ia with all tbe iron ever forged In oannon or molded into ho wit sers. Cleave it with all the sabrra that ever glittered In battle aud wring its soul with all tbe pang which it ever caused. Let it feel all tbe conflagrations of the homestead It has ever destroyed. Deeper down let it burn till it has gathered into its heart all tbe suffering of eternity as well as time. Iu tbe name of the millions of graves of its victims, I denounce it. The nations need more the spirit of treaty and less of the spirit of wsr. Wh War la Detsatable. War is more ghastly now than once, not only because of the greater destmctire ness of its weaponry, but because now it takes down the best men, whereas once it chiefly took down the worst. Bruce, ia 1717, iu his "Institutions of Military I .aw," aaid of the European armies of bis day, "If all infamous persons and such as bare committed capital crimes, her etics, attHuta and all dastardly feminine men, were' weeded out of Hie army,- it would soon be reduced to a pretty moder ate number." Flogging and mean pay made them still more Ignoble. Officers were appointed to see that each soldier drank bis ration of a pint of spirits a day. There were noble men in battle, but the moral character of the army then was t5 per cent lower than the moral character of an army to-day. By so much is war now the more detestable because It de stroys the picked men of the nations. Again by this national ceremony we mean to honor courage. Many of these departed soldiers mere volunteers, not conscripts, and many of those who were drafted might hare provided a sulistitute or got off on furlough or have deserted. The fact that they lie in their graves Is proof of their bravery. Brave at the front, brave at the cannon's mouth, brave on lonely picket duty, brave in cavalry charge, brave Wore the surgeon, brave in tbe dyine message to the borne circle. We yesterday put a gavlsnd on the brow of courage. The world wants more of it. Tbe church of God is in woeful need of men who can stand under fire. The lion of worldly derision roars and the sheep tremble. Ia great reformatory move meats at the first shot bow many fall back. The great obstacle to the church's advancement is the Inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettine, the natnby pamhyisnt of professed Christians. Great on a pa rade, cowards in battle. Afraid of get ting their plumes rattled, they carry a par asol over their helmet. Tbey go into battle not with warriors' gauntlet hut with kid gloves, not clutching the sword hilt too tight lest the glove split at the back. In all our reformatory aud Christian work the great want is more backbone, more mettle, more daring, more prowess. We would in all our churches like to trade off a hundred do nothings for one do ev erything. "(Juit yourselves like men; be strong." Thy saints in ail this glorious war Shall conquer, though they die. They see the triumph froru afar And seise it with their eye. eelf ftacrlflce. Agnin we mean by this national observ ance to honor self-sacrifice for others. To all these departed men home and kindred were as dear as our home and kindred arc to us. Do you know how they felt? Just as you and I would feel starting out to morrow morning with nine chance out of ten against our returning alive, for the intelligent soldier sees not only battle ahead, but malarial sickness and exhaus tion. Had these men chosen, they could have spent last night in their homes and to-duy haee been seated where you are They chose the camp, not because they liked it better than their own house, nnd followed the drum and fife, not Is-cause they were better music than the voices of the domestic circle. South Mountain and Murfreesboro and the swamps of Cbick.-i- homlny were not playgrounds. 1 hese heroes risked and lost all for others. There is no higher sublimity than that. To keep three-quarters for our selves and give one-quarter to others is honorable. To divide even with others is generous. To keep nothing for our selves and give all for others is mag nanimity Christ-like. I'ut a girdle around your body and then measure the girdle and see if you are fifty or sixty inches round. And is that the circle of your sympathies the size of yourself? Or, to mensnre you around the heart, would it take a girdle large enough to encircle the land and encircle the world? You want to know what we dry theologians mean when we talk of vicarious suffering. I-isik at the soldiers' graves snd find out. Vica rious! pangs for others, wounds for oth ers, homesickness for others, bloisl for others, sepuldier fur others. Those who visited the national ceme teries at Arlington Heights and at Rich mond and Gettysburg saw one inscription on soldiers tombs oftenr-r repeated than any other "Unknown." When, about twenty-one years ago, I waa called to d liver the oration st Arlington Heights, Washington, I was not so much impress ed with the minute guns that shook the earth or with the attendance of President and cabinet and foreign ministers ntnl generals of the army and commodore of the navy aa with the pathetic and over whelming suggestivenexs of that epitaph on so many graves at my feet. Unknown! Unknown! It sit-ms to me that the time must come when the Government of the United States shall take off that epitaph They sre no more unknown. We hav found them out at last. They are the ls- loved sons of the republic. Would It not lie well to take the statue of the heathen goddess off the top of the cspltol (for I have tio faith In the morals of a heathen gisldess) and put one great statue in nil our national cemeteries s statue of Iils-rty In the form of a Chris tian woman, wun ner nami on an open Bible snd her foot on the Hock of Ago with the other hand pointing down to the graves of the unknown, saying, "These are my sons, who died thst I might lire." Take off the misnomer. Everybody knows them. It Is of comparatively little Im ports nee what was the name given them la baptism of water. In the holler and mightier baptism of blood we know them, and yesterday tbe nation put both arms round them snd bugged them to her heart, crying, "Mine forever." Patar Daav -; k this na'Waal reressoay we mran the future defeu- of "to fatls. ,, .reath of flower OO b v- dier.' grave we say. Th. wb dU to the country shsu i '. -- that will give enthusiasm to ear yeaaf i ..or nation should la the tu tor, need to defend itself in battle Wa shall never bare snotner w.r i-V. v..k Smith. The old decsyed bMa of contention. American slavery bas hsaa. cast out although here snd there a de praved pol'i''in ukei " up to " can't gnaw something off it M floating off farther sua isnur ..v possibility of sectional tnfe. No poiinity oi citu -711 foreign inva.ion I sm not so certals, !.- 1 .n.,k. .psinst war I said nothing against self-defense. An inventor told me that he had inventea a s.j.r . . . tj 1.- in l f Serena. pon wnicn omnu ur u- . TV but not in aggressive aarisrr, "When you get tbe nations to adopt thaf, weajs.n, you bare introduced the millen, nium." I have no right to go on my neighbor's premises snd assault him, but if some ruflian break into my bouse fot the assassination of my family, asd I can borrow a gun snd load it in time ana siss it straight enough I will shoot bun. There is no room on this continent for- any other nation except lana'la, ana better neighbor no one ever bad. If you, don't think so. go to Montreal and Toroa- to and see how well they will treat you Other than that there is absolutely Uf room for any other nation. I bare bees across tne continent agsiu 1 " know thst we have not a half-inch. 4 ground for the gouty foot of foreign dsSs potlsm to stand on. But I sin not so tu that some of tbe arrogant nations 01 an rone mar not some day challenge us, 1 do not know that tbose forts around New York bay are to sleep all through the net,! century. I do not know that narnegai lighthouse will not yet look off upon. hostile nary. I do not know but that a half-dozen nations, envious of our pra perity, may want to give us a wreaths, During our civil war there were two O three natious that could hardly keep their bands off us. It is very easy to pick na tional quarrels, and if our nation escape much longer it will be the exception. If foreign f's? should come, we want men like those of ISl'Z and like tbose of 1M2 to meet tbctn. We want them all np and down the coast, I'ulaski and Fort Sumter in the same chorus of thunder on Fort I-afyette and Fort Hamilton. Men who will not only know how to fight, but how to die. When such a time comes, if it ever does come, the generation on th stage of action will say: "My country will care for my family aa they did in the soldiers' asylum for the orphans In th civil war, nnd my country will honor my dust as it honored those who preceded me in patriotic sacrifice, and once a year at any rate, on Decoration day, I shall be resurrected into the remembrance of those for whom I died. Here I go fo God and my country! Hum!" If foreign foe should come, the old see tionul animosities would have no power, Here go our regiments Into th batth "lckli Fifteenth New York Volunteers, Tenth Alabama Cavalry. Fourteenth Pennsylva nia riflemen. Tenth Massachusetts artil lery, Seventh South Carolina sharp shoot, ers. I do not know but it may require tb nttack of some foreign foe to make n forget our alwurd sectional wrangling. I have no faith in the cry, "No North, no South, no Fast, no West." Let all four sections keep their peculiarities and their preferences, each doing ita own work snd not Interfering with each other, each of the four carrying its part In the great harmony the bass, the alto, the tenor, the soprano in the grand march of Union. Jnat One Flower. Once more, this great national ceremony menus the Ix-auiiticatinn of the tombs, whether of those who fell In battle or a ciilent, or who have expired in their beds or iu our anus or on our laps. I suppose yon have noticed that many of the fami lies take this season as the time for the adornment of their family plots. This national observance hoa secured the abort culiiire aud floriculture of the cemeteries, the straightening up of many a shib plant ed thirty or forty years ago, and bas swung the scythe through the long grass and has brought the stone cutler to call out the half obliterated epitaph. This day is the beiiedii'tioii of the resting place of father, mother, son, daughter, broth er, sister. It is all that we can do for them now. Make their resting places attractive, not absurd with costly outlay, but in quiet remembrance. You know how. If yon en 11 afford only one flower, that will do. It shows what you would do if you could. One blossom from you may mean more tlinii the Duke of Wellington's cntafalquo. Oh, we cannot afford to forget them. They were so lovely to us. We miss them so much. We will never get over it. Bless ed Iird Jesus, comfort our broken hearts. From every bank of flowers breathes promise of resurrection. In olden times the Hebrews, returning from their burial place, used to pluck the grass from the field three or four times, then throw It over their heads, sug gestive of the resurrection. We pick not the grass, but the flowers, and instead of throwing them over our heads we place them Isfore our eyes, right down over the silent hi-Mrf thnt once ts-at with warm est love toward us, or over the still feet that ran to service, or over the lips from which we look the kiss st the anguish of the last parting. But stop! We are not -Infidels. Our bodies will soon join the bodies of our de parted in the tomb, and our spirits shall join their spirits in the land of the rising sun. We cannot long be separated. In stead of crying with Jacob for Joseph, "I will go down into the grave unto my son, mourning." let us cry with David, "I shall go to him." ' On one of the gates of Greenwood is the quaint inscription, "A night's lodging on 'he way to llie city of the New Jerusa 1cm." Comfort one another with these words. May the hand of him who shall wipe away all tears from all eyet wipe your cheek with its softest tenderness. The Christ of MarH and Martha and Lauras will Infold you In his arms. Tbe white rols cl angels who sat st the tomb of Jesus will yet roll the stone from the door of your dead In radiant resurrection. The Ird himself shall descend from heaven with a shout snd the volte of the archangel. So tho "Dead March" In "Saul" shall become the "Halleluiah Chorus." ' Ilev. Thomas Vincent TjmtnS, prln clpal of ltswdon College, Leeds, Eng., and presidentelect ,f tba Baptist Union of Greet Britain and Ireland, Is a man of brilliant scholarship. Among the book he has written, "Tba MystarV 011s God" Is best kaswa.
