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SPIB1TUAL POWER.
SAMSON'S FALL THE SUBJECT
OF DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
PhTical and Moral GlanU Should Uae
Their Power ia Hoing Good- Mi--uiad
Strength Mar Work Li r rat
KtU Chri.t Our Champion.
Oar Waahington Pulpit.
Taking the exciting story of Samson's
fail as a sugge-stiou, Ir. Ta Image in this
discourse shows how giant in body and
mind or soul ought to be consecrated to
good a: I great purpose. His text is
Judge xiv., 1, "And Samson went down
to Tinuiath."
There are two aides to the character of
Samson. The one phase of his life, if fol
lowed into the particulars, would admin
ister to the grotesque and mirthful. But
there ia a phase of his character fraught
with lesson of solemn and eternal imixitt
To thetie graver lessons w e devote oar ser
mon. This giant no doubt in early life
gave evidences of what he was to be. It
ia almost arway so. There were two Na
poieons the buy Napoleon and the man
Xupoleon but both alike; two Howard
the boy Howard and the man Howard
tut both alike; two Samsons the boy
3amson and the man Samson but both
aiike. This giant was do doubt the hero
of the playground, and nothing could
stand before his exhibition of youthful
prowess. At 18 years of age he was be
trothed to the daughter ot a Philistine.
Going down toward Tirana! h a lion came
upon him, and, although thin young giaut
was weaponless, he seized the monster
t'y the long mane and shook him as a hun
gry hound shakes a March hare and made
bis bones crack, and left him by the way-
aide bleeding under the smiting of his fist
and the grinding heft of his heel.
There he Btands, looming up above oth
er men, a mountain of flesh, his arms
bunbced with muscle that can lift the gate
, of a city, taking an attitude defiant of
everything. His hair had never been cut,
and it roiled down in seven great plaits
over his shoulders, adding to his bulk,
fierceness and terror. The Philistines
want to conquer him. and therefore they
must find out where the secret of his
strength lies.
Wilea of Delilah.
There is a dissolute woman living in rhe
valley of Sorek of the name of Delilah.
Tbey appoint her the spent in the case.
The Philistines are secreted in the same
building, and then Delilah goes to work
and coaxes Samson to tell what is the se
cret of his strength. '"Well," he says, "if
jou should take seven green withes, mi eh
a they fasten wild beast with, and put
them around me I should be perfectly
powerless." So she binds him with the
seven green withes. Thpn she claps her
hands and says, "They come the Philis
tines!" and he walks out as though they
were no impediment She coaxes him
again and says, "Now tell me the secret
of this great strength," and he replies, "If
you should take some ropes that have nev
er been used and tie me with them, 1
should be just like other men." She ties
him ith the ropes, claps her hands and
shouts, "They come the Philistines:"
He walks out as easily as he did before
not a single obstruction. She coaxes him
again, and he says, "Now, if you should
take these seven long plaits of hair and
by this house loom weave Ibem into a
-web, I could not get away." So the bouse
loom is rolled op, and t!:e shuttle flies
backward and forward, and the long
plaits of hair are woven into a web. Then
she claps her hands arid f.iys, "They come
the Philistine:'' He walks out as eas
ily as lie did before, dialing a part of the
loom with him.
But after awhile she persuaded him to
te.'l the truth. He :-;s. "It you should
take a razor or shear find cut off this
long hair. f should be powerless and in the
hands of my enemies.1' Samson sleeps.
and that -die may nut wnke him up during
the process of sl-earing help is catted in.
Yon know that (he Icrbrs of the oust
have such n skillful way f manipulating
the he;(d to this very My rbat i not end of
waking u;i a sleeping 'ran 'hey will put a
man wide awake sotiiiii as'e-p. I hear the
!!.! des of (be shears grinding against each
other, a!:d I see Hie long locks falling off.
The alien rs or razor ace.nnplihes what
green withe and new ropes and house
loom could not do. Suddenly she claps
her hands and snys. "The Philistines be
ukiu thee, damson!1' lie rouses up with
a struggle, '-nt bis strength is nil gone.
He i in the hands of h's enemies.
I hear the groan of th giant as they
tal'e his eyes out, and then I see him stag
gering on in his blindness, feeling his way
as he goes on toward (!m,i. The prison
door is open, and the giant is thrunt in.
He sits down and puts his hand on the
mill frank, which, with exhausting hori
zontal motion, goes day after day, week
fter week, month after monthwork,
work. work. The consternation of the
world in captivity, his locks .shorn, his
eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza.
J'hyaieal and Moral Power,
First of all. behold in this giant of the
text that physical power is not always an
index of moral power. He was a huge
roan. The lion found it out, and the .l.tifiO
men whom he slew found it out. Vet he
was the subject of petty revenges and out
giatited by low passion. I am far from
throwing any discredit upon physical
lamina. There are those who seem to
have great admiration for delicacy and
ickliness of constitution. I never could
eo any glory in weak nerves or sick head
ache. Whatever effort in our day is made
to muke the men and women more robust
ahotild haTe the favor of every good citi
zen a well a of every Christian. Gym
nastics may be positively religions.
Good people sometime ascribe to a
wicked heart what they ought to ascribe
to a slow liver. The body and the soul
are such near neighbors that they often
catch each other's diseases. Those who
ever saw a aick day. and who, like Her
euies, show the giant In the cradle, have
Hire lo answer for than those who ire
the subject of lifelong Infirmities. He
. who tun lift twice aa much as yon can
nd walk twice aa far and work twice aa
long wilt hare a doable account to meet
la the judgment.
De BMMtkinc
How often la it that yon do not And
physical energy Indicative ot spiritual
power! If clear bead la worth more
nan one dlssy with perpetual vertigo, if
Mavlea wrtfc the play of beaJtb in them
ate worth aor than those drawn up In
earvaic rttfajaaatfca, V an eye quick to
atf paaatag ohjecta la better than one
fn rial dbji aed uncertain, Then Ood
Wfil reqatre af m eflcieacy Just in pro
waff -
WHfcM tt wfcat ha has given n. I
"f tiw riftf U a tt9 "
rnyst-
moral
power. We ourht tn have m good diges
tion of truth aa we have capacity to a
aimilate fisid. Our apritual bearing ought
to be aa good aa our physical hearing. Our
spiritual taste ought to be as clear as our
tongue. Samson in body, we ought to be
giants m moral power.
But while you find a groat many men
who realize thai they ought to use their
money aright and use their intelligence
aright, how few men you find aware of
the fait thpt they ought to use their phy
sical organism aright'. With every thump
of the heart there is something saying.
"Work, workT and lest we should com
plain that we have no tool to work with,
God gives us our bands and feet, w ith ev
ery knuckle, and with every joint, and
with every muscle, saying to us, "Lay
hold and do something."
Hut how often it is that men with phys
ical strength do not serve Christ! They
are like a ship full manned and full rig
ged, capable of vast tonnage, able to en
dure all stress of weather, yet swinging
idly at the docks, when these nx-n ought
to be crossing and reerossing the great
ocean of human suffering ajid sin with
God s supplies of mercy. How often it is
that physical strength is lined in doing
fugitive damage or in luxurious eate
w hen, with sleeves rolled up and bronzed
bosom, fearless of the shafts of opiiosi
tion. it ought to be laying hold with all Its
might and tugging away to lift up this
sunken wreck of a world.
A fthameleaa Fact.
It is a most shameless fact that much
of the business of the church and of the
world must be done by those comparative
ly invalid. Itichard Baxter, by reason of
hia diseases, all his days sitting in the
door of the tomb, yet writing more than
a hundred volumes and sending out an
influence for God that will endure as long
as the "Saints' Kserhtsting Hest." Ed
ward Payson. never knowing a well day,
yet how he preached, and how he w rote,
helping thousands of dying souls like him
self to "swim in a sea of glory," And
Kobert SIH.'beyne, a walking skeleton,
yet you know what lie did in Dundee, and
how he wh.tok Scotland with seal for God.
Philip oildridge, advised by his friends,
because of his illness, not to enter the
ministry, yet you know what he did for
the "rise and progress of religion" in the
church and in lhe world.
WUberforce was told by his doctors that
he could not live a fortnight, yet at that
very time entering upon philanthropic en
terprises that demanded the greater en
durance and persistence. Robert Hull,
suffering excruciations, so that often in
his pulpit while preaching be would stop
and lie down on a sofa, then getting up
again to preach about heaven, until the
glories of the celestial city dropped op the
multitude, doing more work perhaps than
almost any well niuti in his day.
Oh, how often it is that men with great
physical endurance are not so great in
moral and spiritual stature! While there
are achievements for. those who are bent
all their days with sickness achieve
ments of patieme, achievement of Chris
tian endurance I call upon men of health
to-day, men of muscle, men of nerve, men
of physical power, to devote themselves
to the Lord. Giants in body, you ought
to be giants in soul.
Behold also in the atory of my text il
lustration of the damage that strength
can do if it be misguided. It seems to me
that this man spent a great deal of his
time in doing evil, this Kanfm of my
text. To pay a debt which he had lost by
guessing of his riddle he rob and kills
thirty people. He was not only gigantic
in strength, but gigantic in mischief and
a type of lhoe men in all ages of the
world who, powerful in body or mind or
any faculty of social piwition or wealth,
biive used their strength for iniquitous
purpoaer.
Misguided Giants.
It is not the small, weak men of the day
who do the damage. These small m-n
who go swearing and loafing about your
stores a.vl shops and banking houocs a
saiiing Christ and the Bible and the
htin tt. 1 hey do not do the damage. i !.v
have ie influence. They are vermin tint
you crush '.vith your foot. But it is the
giants of lhe day, Uie misgu.ded giants,
giants in physi-.i! poiver, or gini t hi
mental acumen, or giants in ori-il p";.
tion, or giants in wealth, w!m do the dmn-
a'c. The men with lKirp pens iljat M::b
religion and throw their poison all through
our literature; lhe nun who u" the power
of wealth to sauetioii iniquity, aid bribe
justice, and make truth and honor bow
to their go'dn aeepter. Misguided giants.
Look out for them. In the middle and
atter part of the lat century no doubt
there were thousands of men in Paris
and Edinburgh and Ixmdon who hated
God and blasphemed the name of the Al
mighty, J'ut they did but little mischief.
They were small men, insignificant men.
Yet there were giants in those days.
Who can calculate the soul havoc of a
Boeweati, going on with a very enthusi
asm of iniquity, with fiery Imagination
seizing upon all the impulsive natures of
his day, or David Hume, who employed
his life as a spider employs its snmmer in
spinning out silken weba to trap the un
wary, or Voltaire, the most learned, man
of his day, marshaling a great host of
skeptics, and leading them out in the dark
land of infidelity, or Gibbon, w ho showed
an uncontrollable grudge against religion
in his history of one of the most fasci
nating periods of the world's existence
the "Decline and Fall of the Human Em
pire," a book in which, with all the splen
dors of his genius, he magnified the errors
of Christian disciples, while, with a
sparsenes of notice that never can be for
given he treated of the Christian heroes
of whom the world was not worthy?
Bad Influences Abroad
Oh, men of atout physical health, men
of great mental stature, men of high so
cial position, men of great power of any
sort, I want you to understand your pow
er, and I want you to know that that
power devoted to God will be a crown on
earth, to you typical of a crown in heav
en, but misguided, bedraggled in in, ad
ministrative of evil, God will thunder
against yon with his condemnation In the
day when millionaire and panper, master
and slave, king and subject, shall stand
side by aide in the judgment, and money
bags, and judicial ermine, and royal rohe
hall be riven with the lightnings!
Behold also how a giant may be slain!
Delilah Marled the train of circumstances
that pulled down the temple of Dagon
about rtanison's ears. And tens of thou
sands of glnirta have gone down 'o death
and hell through the same Impure fasci
nations. It seems to me that it ia high
time that pulpit and platform and printing
press speak out againaf the Impurities of
modern society. Kantidlouaneaa tad prud
ery Mir: "Better hot apeak. Yon will
rouse up adverse eriticlam. Yau will
make worse what you want to make bet
ter. Better deal In glittering general I ties.
Tb subject In tyle!k-ata fcr BOitU
But there comes a, voire fnn heaven over
powering the mtacing sentinientaliuea ot
the day. saving. "Cry aloud, at re not
lift up thy voice like a trnmpeL and show
my people their ira.iigresiiMi ud Uh
house of Jacob their sins."
A llnlf of Iniquity.
You who are seated in your Chrietiai
homes, compassed by momj and religioua
restraints, do not realiw the gulf of in
iquity that hounds you an the north aiM!
the south awl in ett and the west
While 1 sak there are tens of thousand
(it men and women going over the awfu;
plunge of an impure life, and hile I crj
to God for mercy upon their souls, I call
upon you to marshal in the defense ol
your homes, your church and your nation.
There is a banqueting hall that you havt
Dever heard oV-wer?ied. You know all
about the feat a t Ahiisuerus, where a
thousand lords sat You know all about
Bclshazzar's carousal, where the blood ot
the murdered king spurted into the faeci
of the banqueters. You may knew of the
scene of riot and waail when there waa
set before Kpua one dish of food that
cost f 4l.(KiO. But I speak now of a dif
ferent banqueting hall, lis roof is fretted
w ith fire. Its floor k tessellated w ith fire.
Its chalices are chased with fire. Its aoitg
is a song of lire. Its wails are buttresses
of tire. Solomon refer to it when he
savs, "Her guests are iu the depths ol
he'll."
Behold also in this giant of the text and
in the giant of our ow n century that great
physical power must crumble and expire.
The Samson of the text long ago went
away. He fought the lion. He fought
the Philistines. He could fight anything,
but death was too much for him. lie
may have required a longer grave and a
broader grave, but the tomb nevenheleas
was his terminus.
If, then, we .ire to be compelled to go
out of this world, where are we to go?
This body and sou must soon part. What
shall le the destiny of the former I know
dust to dii but what shall be tb
dtiny of the latter? Shall it rise into
the coinpsriionwhip of the white rolled,
whose sins Christ has slain, or will it go
down among the tmlx'lievitig. who tried
to gain the world and save their souls, hut
were swindled out of both? Billed 1
God, we have a champion! He is so
style,! in the Bible a dmmpini who ha
conquered death and hell, and he i ready
to fight aJI our battles from the first to
the last. "Who is this that comet h from
Edom w ith dyed garment from Bozrah,
mighty to save?" If we follow in th
wake of that champion, death has no pow
ct and the grave no victory. The worst
man trusting in him shall have his dying
pangs alleviated and his future illumined.
Things to Consider.
In the licht of this subjer-t I want to
call your attention to a fact which may
not have been rightly considered by five
men in all the world, and that is the fact
that we must be brought into judgment
for the employment of our physics! organ
ism. Shoulder, brain, hand, fool we
must answer in judgment for the use we
have made of them. Have they Wt used
for the elevation of society or for its de
pression In proportion as oar arm i
strong and our step elawlic will otir ac
count at last be intensified. Thousand
of sermons are preached to invalids, I
preach this morning to stout men and
healthful women. We must give to God
an account for the right use of this phy
sical organism.
These invalids have comparatively little
to account for perhaps. They could not
lift twenty pound. They could not walk
half a mile without sitting down to rest.
In prejoiration of this subject I have said
to mjself. How shall I account to God in
judgment for the use of u body which m-v-er
knew one moment of real sii-kiiei?
Rising up in judgment, standing beside
men and women who had uily littl-e phy
sical energy, and jet consumed that en
ergy in a conflagration of religions enthu
siasm, how will we fee! abashed:
Oh, men of the str tig arm and the
stout li-jirr, what ue are you making of
your phyieal f.irees? Will you be able
t-i stand the lest of that day when we
ti;ii-i nnswer for the use of every talent,
whether it were a physical energy, or a
in !-. ii 1 acumen, or a spiritual power?
TI.e dtiy approaches and I one who j
in tills world wns an invalid, and as she
stauiK before the throne of God to answer
she u: "I was sick all my days, I had
b,t very little sli-en-Mlt. but I did as well
?.n I could iu being kind to thoM' who were
more hick and more suffering." And
Christ will suy, "Well dotio. faithful ser
vant." A Prophetic Urciim.
And then a little child will Hand before
the throne, and she will say: "Oa earth I
had a curvature of the spine and I wat
very weak and I was very sick, but I used
to gather flowers out of the wildwood and
bring Uiem to my sick mother, and she
was comforted when she saw the sweet
flowers out of the wildwood. I didn't do
mueh, but I did soutething." And Christ
shall say, aa he taken her up in hia anna
and ki- her, "Well dome, well done,
faithful servant; enter thou into the joy
of thy Lord." Whnt, then, will be said,
to us we to whom the Ixird gave physi
cal strength and continuous health?
I said to an old Scotch minister, who
was one of the best friends I ever had.
"Doctor, did you ever know Hubert Pol
lok, the Scotch poet who wrote 'The
Coitoe of TimeV " "Oh, yes," he replied,
"I knew him well. I was hia classmate."
And then the doctor went on to tell me
how that the writing of "The Course of
Time" exhausted the health of Hubert
Pollok, and he expired. It seema aa if no
man could have such a glimpse of the day
for which other days were made aa Hob-
ert Pollok had and long survive thaf
glimpse. In lhe deacription of that day
be says, among other thlnga:
Begin the woe, ye woods, and tell it ta
the doleful winds,
And doleful wind wall to the howling
hills,
And howling hills mourn to the dlama)
vales.
And diamal vales algb to the sorrowing
brooks,
And sorrowing brooks weep to the weep
ing stream.
And weeping stream awake the groaning
deep.
Y bearena, great archway of the uni
verse, put sackcloth on,
And, ocean, rob thyaelf In garb af wid
owhood !
And gather all thy waves into I groan
and utter It I
Long, loud, deep, piercing, dolorma, w
roenae. S
The occasion aaka it nature Mm, aad
angeta cone to lay bet ha bar graft.
What Hnbert Pollok aaw la pmahatta
dream you and I will aee In poatart re
alitythe judgment, the Jadgmaatf
CaI right.
A boat Compositions,
Tb' average pupil hales comjsisl
rioos. WbyT Before trying to answer
tnia question, let us state and illustrate
a principle: People, old and young,
like to do whatever they can do well,
and dislike to do whatever they do bad
ly. The person wh can't drive his ball
through the tirft arch Invariably "bates
croquet:" no! so the chap who pfetjra
his ow n and bis partner' a ball through
srvh after arch, while his discouraged
opponent stand roimd despairingly
waiting for their idiam-e to play. S
It ifc In everything ele- It is always the
skillful who comprise the enthusiasts.
Now In the matter of eotnpoKitbma:
Once get a child to feel that he U doUitc
his work well, and you have woo the
victory. He won't "bate compositions"
any more. Generally, too much is ex-Mi-ted
of the pupil at the start, and in
most cases the start is not made soon
enough. The difficuliy nlsiul composi
tions Is nearly aln ays in the case of the
children to whom the matter comes aa
s new and unfamiliar task. Tee-;hers
who have to do with sue, pupils
should Is' sure, first, to sit the composi
tion tusk w ell w ithin the "pupil pow
ers; and, se-oml, to choose the subject
of the i)injioItlon from among those
things that have for the pupil a living
liitereht. Instead of asking a girl of
14 to write un such subjects as "The
Advantages of Industry." "Our Duty to
Our Parents," "T, Value of Educa
tion," etc., have her describe the lost
picnic she attended, write on the prop
er eara of a canary bird, or give her
own Ideas as to the Cult tire of pansles.
A Is.y w ho will play hookey in order to
avoid writing , eom)0ltion on "The
Tsi-s of Polite yens. Hie Character of
Washington," or "True Manhood." will
Jump nl a chance to write about "Cat
ShIi and How to Catch Them." or to
give an account of the different kinds
of kites, or to write about any other
thing that he knows about anil takes an
Interest In.
It Is well not to tie too critical about
the eompoHitloriM. Pass over (lefeH
lightly, and heartily praise evert- Indi
cation of originality. Allow pupils to
read their com pewit Ion a publicly, as a
special nia.k of favor, not as a require
ment. Above all. never require pupils
to w rite compositions as a punishment,
or force them to rend the-lr productions
licfore the school, unless you want to
bare them hate composition writing
foreverniore. learning by Doing.
Will Meet in Washinsrton.
The Executive Committee of the N.
E. A., at Its meeting In Chicago, decid
ed, by a unanimous vote, to select
Washington as the place for the next
meeting of the National Educational
AoMtcintlnn, mid the time, July 7, to K5,
lncluhlr.-. The choli-e wns a m ilter of
no Utile difficulty, owing to the very
strong attractions offered by lhe com
peting cities, vix Oimnlia. Halt Lake
City and Ixus Angeles. lr"d the
rall'oiid lines from Chicago to Wash
Ingfr ' have granted the usual one fare
for tin md trip, plus the niemlM-rHlii)
fee. Pv ?nul action as to ticket con
dition and extensions of tickets for
niuni will le Announced at an early
date. It Is believed tlmt these ticket
conditions will Is- more lllii-.-al ilmn
have ever before been secured. The
no ( tings will open on the evening of
Thursday, .Inly 7. nn1 close on the
evening of luesqay, July l.i. l lie ad i
vantages oi tins arrangement are mat !
Sunday travel to or from the meeting
will he unnecessary. There will lie no I
session on the afternoon and evening
of Saturday, tln time being given to j
social and oilier recreations. j
The churches of Washington will lie j
Invited to arrange for sermon anil ad-
dresses bearing upon educational j
themes on Mintiny, me utn. it is tio
lieved thnt this relief of Saturday nfler
tieion and Sunday occurring In the
midst of the session will be welcome.
Overwork in Schools.
The evils resulting from overwork
in the public school of hwltzcrlntid
have attracted the attention of the edu
cational authorities, and a series of
proiwwItloiiH for combating these evils
liHve been under consideration. The
projKised changes were (submitted un
der the authority of an eminent physi
cian, who la also an expe-rt In school
hygiene. One of the recommendations
la that children tw not sent to achool
until tbey have passed the age of 7.
Other proposition are to limit the
itudlea In the primary schools to read
ing, writing, arithmetic, drawing, sing
ing and gyiiHiastica; to do away with
borne rtudy; to give the pupils fre
quent Intermissions and vacations, and
to mitigate greatly the rigor a exam
inations. The tendency In every en
lightened country la to call a halt on
the crowding of young jup-'a In their
t udles.
A Balldlna: at Onialni.
The Woman's Iteiard a the Bureau
9t Education of the Trans Mississippi
and International Exposition propose
to erect a building upon the grounds
to be known aa "The Girl and Boya'
BuileUng." To aeeure this building,
with !ta fiiriilahlnga and accea-aeirle-a,
the Woman' Board must hare
the co-operation of all the girl and
boy of the West. Hhare will he 5
cent each, nd every child la asked to
take at leant one ahare. Individual
or cheil taking twenty or more aWea
will receive a handsome certificate giv
ing a picture of the building; while In-
dlrldnala. school or couotiea ubacrfb
Ing for 200 aharea will bare mention
on roll ot iionor, which will be placed
In the building.
Hiata ta Teacher.
Don't np the bey wba alt In
Uo back turn mm tm kit coat col
farW. his hair worn la Pompadour,
and hi finger nalla In mourning who
won't learn hie lew sons, and who will
git iDto- mlacblef. I knew a teach 'I
who had a pupil Just like him. She
howed Interest In him; ahe rMted bin
parents, and didn't a"t as If their lan
guage and manners made them devoid
of all flue feeling. She asked him t
help her about iotip work after sctxioi
one night, and Raid. "By the way, John,
we know each other pretty well now,
I like yon and I ho-pe you like me. I
want you to do ixnnething for me,
will youT
"If I can," w as the answer.
"Come tn school to-morrow with a
collar, comb your hair nle-ely. and pare
your fingernails. You see 1 like you
as you are now, but I want other peo
ple so like you too. and they won't If
you are carcles atiout your appear
ance." Do you think the ty hah-d her? No,
He was never seen untidy after that
evening. He graduated from the high
Hcbool with honors, and Is to-day Oiling
a re.-qHuislble position iu siM-lety. II
swear by that teacher. She made
man of hIbu. Selected.
Itahv Has Gone to trhnol.
The baby has gone to s Iuk.I. Ah me!
What will the mot Iter do.
With never a call to button or pin
Or tie s little sh ,e?
How r-an idle kep herself busy all day
With the little biDdering thing away?
Another basket to fill with lunch.
Another "Good-by" to say,
And mother stands at the door to see
Her baby march away.
And turns with a sigh that is half relief
And half a something akin to grief.
She thinks of a powihle future morn
When the children, one by one.
Will go from their home to the distant
world
To battle with life alone.
And not even Imby lie left to cheer
The scattered home of that future year.
She picks up the garments here and tik-re
Thrown down in careless haste,
And tries to think how It would twin
If nothing were displaced.
If the house were always as still a tbia
How could she liear the loneliness?
Ivdueational Notea,
The School Iioard of Chicago expend
e4 over $7,ihk,omi Intrt year.
Of the twenty-seven royal families of
Europe, two-thle are of German
origin.
A law s-)iool under the control of th
I'nlverslty of Maine In to tie opened In
Bangor In IKS18.
The attendance at the Cnlversily of
I'ttih, Salt Lake City lt the largest In
the history of that Institution.
The Northwestern University of
Evanston, 111., the largest denomina
tional school in the couuJ", bin tt.WO
rvgiwtered studoiae
The letu-rs iu the various aJphabeta
of the world vary from V! to 202 In
nutnlsT. The Sandwich Islanders" al
phabet Is 12, the Tartarian 'XC
For twenty-six yearx young women
have enjoyed the fullewt freedom In
the University of Michigan, and now
tin-re are atiout J"0 of Uiem In various
departments.
Philadelphia has selected thirty men
and five women to act as truant catch
ers at $2 a day. It la also to provldu Its
high Kchool with tli Vrgext triple u-1-i-ftcope
In the world.
A step in tbe right direction has been
taken in securing a woman physician
for the new girls' high school In New
York City, She will teach physiology
and will also --Ve attention to the phy
sical nx-eds e'f the young women. Dr.
I'rIHji Lippert is the appointee.
Harvard I'nlverslty si-euis to Ik- ile
MrmiKof placing itaclf In active contact
with the teachers In lhe surrounding
e-itk'B, and tor that purpose contem
plates the establishment of courses of
lectures dealing with the subject-matter
taught iu the different achools. A
course of teu bK-tures will be given on
methods of teaching the following sub
jects: Chemistry, physical geography,
physics, mathematics, botany, zoology
and physiology.
The public schools of the city of St
Louis ure endowed In an unusual man-
B'T. The Kcbeiol Board controls real
estate comprising 21K acres, valued at
$l,5oo,(M)0, and from which It derives
an annual revenue of f70,0O) In ground
rent. When the United States acquired
the iiosaetwlona of Spain certain lots n
Bt. Lotila Tvliiob had lx-en set apart 111
commons by the original settlers wera
re-served for the aupport of public
schaols, and aa the city grew upon
the alte of the amall aettlenient the
lands became of much lmjiortance.
PuT.7.Ie Kind the Boy.
The acboolmaater baa mlaaed a acbol
ar. Where ! be?
Preacher Match Too Wicked.
Once a clergyman of considerable em
inence, but eenaatlonal proclivities, vol
unteered to write anouymotuly for the
Hun. In hi Brat article he made toe
amazing blunder of trying to adapt
himself to what he uiipoaed to be the
worldly and recklea tone proper to a
Holiday newspaper. Mr. Dana chuck
led quietly and aent the manuscript
bark, after Indorsing It, In blot pencil,
Tbia la too wicked."
tlrai Atlantic cante mtttMi la MM.
(CLAIMING COAL FKOM MRT.
rawuwand of Too. Are Takea' 61 af
(irrat Heap of Mefaaa.
A aovel Industry ha I wen
taken Iu Pennsylvania In the great .
mal mining dwtrU t and I rapidly be
ing developed. It consist tn reclalm
'ng from the dirt heap near the col
lieries thousand of ton of good coal,
tome of w hich has been buried in the
.ilrt for a quarter of a century. Year
1 go there waa no demand for coal of
!he email size known a pea ooaj, but
if late years It has tx-come a valuable
1 commodity In the traik- aa any other
iie and two Mnaller i?-ei known a
buck wheat aud rice have also been add-
d to the lists. In the old day the
imittl conl wan thrown away with the ,
.ilrt on the' heap near the breaker
tnd the Philadelphia and Heading
(al Company ban recently started t
reclaim It and have taken out over 50,-
ihjO tons. A clear profit of 1 a ton Is
made on this coal, so that $."0,000 baa
been added to the coffer of the com
"any from what was thought to tie
dead Ins
As (toon as It was discovered that t bit
could be don and that thousand of
Ions of salable eiml were buried iu .ie
lirt heap the work of reculaimJug it In
i small vv;iy was lx-gun by the native
near abandoned arid worked put col-
liesles and goes on briskly, but the big
coal company, by the use of washertes,
Is making rapid progn. one Ann
near Girardsvillc la Hlilpplng sixteen
earn of coal a day from what was
thought to be a useless dump. Some of
the mountains of coal dirt are :i00 feet
high and cover ten acres and there t
no means of estimating bow uiauy
thoiisnud tons of coal are concealed un
der the dirt.
?ji war times, when the government
vns buying Immense (juantltlea of coal
or lhe men of ur, the ordera for nut
ami lump coal were always on the ruwli
and the small coal wax thrown to omt
side to facilitate the movement of tLa
soverumcnt orders. Pea coa 1 and w ha t
!t now known aa buckwheat and rice
coal, and was at that time thought to
be useless, wu dumped on the hi-aps
fcnd fiisui burled from sight under cor
loads of dirt, to remain there for thirty
Qve years before lxdng ri-cu(Hl and
;dacod on the market. This buried
;oal la worth hundredsi of thousands of
doilan. since It require little work to
tun It through the waahcrtew. Iideed,
Uieso arc now used at the principal col
lieries for washing coal freshly mined
and it ! placed on the enr clean and
sparkling.
The bed of the old canal aud tha
Schuylkill river are a!o being worked
over, us thousand of tons of coal ar
concealed In them, anil private parties
are washing out five and six tona a day.
The ne along the abandoned canal
and river Is-ds are like those Id a pla
cer mining camp, little parties working
With crude wasberies and scoops a few
hundred feet iifKi rt. Men, women and
children are !uy wievlng and gather
ing the p'coious black lutriim. Soma
lamllles clean up Ave or aix ton a
day.
i'enal Kervitmle feir LITe for Thla.
The edltorlul article for which a n
tlve journalist, the editor of the Satars
Pnitfla, vas sentenced by a British
tribunal In India to Imprisonment for
life Ik reprinted In full by the London
Chronicle. The prosecutor admitted
Rt the triul that be bad not heard of
tiny lii-affection in the towna where
the in-wHiaper circulated:
"Preparations for Becoming Inde-jK-ndeut.
Canada h a country In the
liortli of America under British ruia,
the people of whi'-h have now become
Intoleraiil of their subjectioit to Kng
land. Tlioilgh they are ubjii-( to Brit
l.sh jicotde, tbey an- not effeuinate Lke
lhe people of India. It is net their
hard lot to uiarve tltctnael re or All
the purse of Eiig,llHbme!i. They are
not obliged to pay a pit b England.
Their Income from land revenue and
taxes are expended for their benefit.
They enact their own laws tediHin
tletitly and Appoint iheir own ol.lcera,
except one or two who axe sent frotn
England. Of even thla nominal e
jiendenee they have become Impatient,
and are now buay making efforta to
throw It off. It 1 natural, for tliem to
envy their neighbor, Wyi, aftw cast
lug off their English uatlonality and
tissuiiiln!? the deKlgnation of Ameri
cans, are now enjoying the blessings of
ll free nation. Tbey have appointed a
committee to frame un independent
coiiatltullon for thentaelTtw. Tbl corr,
mlttee baa lssiu-d a notlflcntloo of tbl.
alms, coiles of which have been d.
trlbuted even In India. In thl no
tification tlu-y have clearly yated theii
Intention of throwing off the English
yoke and establishing a government ot
their own. Like us tbey are not men
given to vain iiratting, but can act up
to their word. There 1 also strong
Unity among them. Spirited mrn show
y their ai-tlon what stuff tbey are
made of. There are nn people on the
earth who are ho effeminate and help
less a those of India, We have be
come so callous aud aharneleaa that w
do not feel humiliation while we are
liiugbed at by all nations for loalng
puch a vast and god-like country aa
India. What manliness we can ei
1iit.it In auch a condition I elf evi
dent." Not Very Kncouraaiag.
Tlmklna Did ber father ratify your
engagement?
Slmklim-Ye, In a way. When I
mentioned It to blm he ald, "Ratal"
Clear Understanding at thaHtart,
Landlady Hare you a young man,
Bridget?
Kervot No'm. He'a older' n 1 be.
Boaton Courier,
Moanawhat Tall.
Giraffe are from IS to 14 feat from
the ground to the tip of their noma.
Bueelmena from 18 to 23 feet bare been
known.
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