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About The Sioux County journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1888-1899 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1898)
Alt twfllgtit, love. Whoa radea tbe laat faiat gleam ef ea ' aWTO flow, to FBBcye boat eer hleaa'ry'a aea, ay thong bta aall hif go. guide the helm; Thea ewiftly Mil my tot imn the tide Of weary years, Aad eoon, la a foam, I'm by roar aide. I are yaor fire Aa year ago It beamed upon my awa; fhaaa limpid eyes, Wkeee lovelit smile were once for m aleoe. I' fed yaur band geotly amootb tba atray locks fram aay brow; atetbiaks I hear Taa any. "Tba poet la all U areata! the. bt se dream, Tba while la mem'ry'a castle that I dwell, Wrt. bold my hand, 1 dread ta waken, leat I break tba epelL a a V bear a eraah, My fragile hark, tba eaethiag wavee cleae o'er, Twna bat tbe wreck Of tkat bright draaaa a pa lUelity'a ehre. , 3 Be Olobe. QUAKER DETECTIVE. WE wera Ore passengers In all; two ladles 00 tbe back seat a middle-aged geiule anaa and a Quaker on tba middle, and atself on tbe front. Tba two ladlea might bare been another and daughter, aunt and niece, gavsrnet and charge, or might bare aantalned any other relatlonahip which Makes It proof r for two ladlea ta travel ttTethr unattended. Tba Middle-aged gentleman waa aatightly and talkattlfa. Ha eoon araek up au acquaintance with the to ease, toward whom. In bia seal ta da, b ratber overdid, tbe agreeable bew tag, amlllng, and chattering over bis afcealdera In a manner suggestive, at a time of life, or a "crick" In tba neck. Be waa evidently a gay Lothario. Tba Quaker wore tbe uniform of bla seat, and confined bla apeecb, aa many aarllameutarlsu would aave bla cred m ay doing, to almple "yeae" and wifi." As for myself, I make It an Invariable rule of tbe road to be mere bj a looker-on and llitenar. award evening I waa aroused from aatt af thoae reverlea Into which a jataag rnati, without either being a poet eta a lever, will aometimca fall, by the afcrapt query from tba taikatlra gen JaJuaa: "Are yea armed, alrf ' t am not," I anawered, astenlahed. Ml daubt Tlalbly, at the question. 1 am aorry to bear It," be replied, "Jer before reaching out stopping place m will be several hours In the night, I wa muat pasa over a portion of tba n wblcb mora than ana robbery a) reported to have been committed. Tba Indies turned pale, but tba atran aajr aid bia beat to reassure them. "Nat that I think that there Is tba atlghteat danger at preaent" be re aamed; "only when one la reaponalble aw tba safety of ladies, you know, aach a thing aa a platol In reach would materially add to ane'a confidence, four prlnclplea, my friend," address Btg tba Quaker, "I presume, are aa afueh apposed to carrying as ta using eaxnal weapona?" ' 'Tea," was tbe response. ' "Have tbe vlllalna murdered any af their victims f tba alder lady nervous ay Inquired. "Or have tbey contented themselves with with plundering them?" added ate younger, In a tlmoroue voice. "Decidedly tbe latter," tba amiable gentleman hastened to give assurance; ud aa we are none of us prepared to offer resistance In caaa of attack, noth nVg worse than robbery can befall us." Then, after blaming bis thoughtless ness In having unnecessarily Introduced a dlsagreesble subject, tba gentleman quite excelled himself In efforts to salsa the aplrlts of tbe company, and asccecded so well by tbe time night sat ta that all bad quite forgotten, or only remembered their fears to laugh at them. Our genial companion fairly talked himself hoarse. Perceiving wblcb, be taok from bis pocket a package of aawly Invented "cough candy," and af ter passing It first to tbe ladles bs belp af himself to the balance, and tossed aba paper out of tbe window. Bo waa In tba mldat of high enco miums on tbe new nostrum, more than naif tbe efficacy of wblcb, be Insisted, depended on Its being taken by sue fton, when a shrill whistle waa beard, aad Immediately tbe coach stopped, while two faces, bldeoualy blackeued, presented themselves, eae at each win aw. ' "Sorry to trouble yon," as Id the man ea tbe right, acknowledging wltb a bow two ladylike ecrsama from tbe back seat; "but 'business Is business,' aad ours will aooa be ever If things go smoothly." ' "Of coarse, gentlemen, you will spare, as far aa may be consistent wltb year disagreeable doty, the feelings of these Udlesr appealed the polite pas senger, In bis blandest manner. "Oh, certainly; tbey Shall be first at tended ta, and shall not be required to leave their places or submit to a search, their conduct readers it necee- "And now, ladlea," eaatlnned the robber, the barrel of hla alatat gleam fcmf la the tight of the coach lamp, "he a good as ta paaa ewt year panoa. watches, aad aach other trlaheta aa Xii tauirs cam dewa bandssataty, aad were no further molested. One by one tbe rest of ns were eera- pelled to get out, tbe middle-aged gen tleman's tura coming first He sub mitted with a winning grace, and was robbed like a Cbeeterfleld. My own affair, like the sum I lost, was scarcely worth mentioning. Tbe Quakers turn came neit. lie quietly iiaiiuea over nia pocketbook and watch, and when aaked If be bad any other valuable, aald "Nay." A Quaker'e word la good even among thieves, ao, after a hasty "good-night," tbe robber thrust bla platol ir.to bia pock et, and wliii lii two companions, one of whom Lt'ld tbe reinr. of tbe leaders, wag about raking bia departure. "Stop!" exclaimed the Quaker, In a tone more of command than request. "Stop! what for?" returned the other, in evident aurprlae. "For at least two good reaaona," waa the reply, emphasized with a couple of Derrtngera cocked and presented. "Help!" fcbouted tbe robber. "Stop!" tbe Quaker again exclaimed, "and u one of thy alnful eorapanlona advances a Kiep to thy tellef, tbe aplrlt will aurely move me to blow thy brains out" Tbe robber at tba oppoelte window, and tbe one at the leaders' heada thought It a good time to leave. "Now get In, friend," aald tbe Qua ker, itlll covering bia man, "and take the middle seat; but Brat deliver up thy pistol." Tbe other hesitated. "Thee had better not delay; I feel the spirit beginning to move my right fore finger." The robber did aa be waa directed, and tbe Quaker then took bla place by bis side, giving tbs newcomer tbe mid dle of tbe seat. Tbs driver, who was half frightened out of bla wits, now set forward at a rapid rate. Tbe lively gentleman soon recovered bla vivacity. lie waa espe cially facetlvua en tbe Quaker'a prow ess. "You're a rum Quaker, you ars. Why, you don't quake worth a cent" "I am not a 'Shaking Quaker,' If that Is what tbee means." "Of tbe 'Hickory, or ratber tbe 'Old Hickory' stripe, I should say," retorted tbe lively man; but the Quaker relaps ing Into bis usual monoayllablea, tbe couversstlon lagged. Time sped, and, sooner than we ex pected, the coach stopped where we were to have supper and a change of horses. Wa bad deferred a redistribu tion of aur effecta till we ahould reach this place, aa the dim light af tbe coach lamp would have rendered tbe process somewhat difficult before. It wsa now necessary, bswever, that it should be attended to at once, aa our jovial ccuipanlon bad previously an nounced bla Intention af leaving ua at thla point Ue proposed a postpone ment till after supper, wblcb be offered to go and order. "Nay," urged tba Quaker, with an ap proach of abruptness, and laying hie band on the ether's arm, " 'business be fore pleasure,' and for bualnesa there ta no time Ilka tbe preaent" 'Will thee be good enough to March tba prisoner r be aald to me, still keep ing bis band In a friendly way on tba passenger's arm. I did ao, but not one of the etolea ar tlclca could be faund. "lie muat have gotten rid of them In tbe coach," the gay gentleman auggrit- ed, and Immediately offered to go aad aearch. "Stop!" thundered the Qaaker, tight ening bla grasp. Tbe man turned pale, and struggled to release bla arm. In an Inatant one of the Derrtngera waa leveled at hla heart. "Stir a hand or faot, and you are a dead man." Tbe Quaker muat have been awfully excited so aa to forget both the lan guage aud the principles of hla per suasion. Placing the other platol in my band, wltb directions to fire on tbe first of the two men that mode a auspicloua movement, be went to work on Lotha rio, from whoso pocketa. In leas f.uie than It takes to tell It, he produced ev ery Item of tbe missing property, to the utter amaxement of the ladlea, who had begun In no meaaured terms to remon strate against tbe shameful treatment the gentleman waa receiving. Tbe Quaker, I need scarcely add, waa no Quaker at all, but a ahrewd detec tive, who bad been aet on the track of a band of desperadoes, of whom our middle aged friend who didn't look ao near middle-aged when bis wig waa off was tbe chief. Tbe robbery had been adroitly planned. Tbe leader of tbe gang had taken possession of a aeat In tbe coach, and after learning, aa be auppoaed, our de fenceless condition, bad given tbe slg nal to bla companlona by throwing out the scrap of paper already mentioned. After the unexpected capture of tbe first robber. It waa attempted to save tbe booty by aecretly passing It to tbe accomplice, atlll believed to be unsus pected, who counted on being able to make off with It at the next stopping place. The result waa that both, for a sea son, "did the State some service," True Flag. Tbe Blae Ixbt r la Ilaro. One of tbe very rareat of all marine creatures, the "wandering flab" not ex cepted, Is tbe crustacean known aa the Indigo lobster. During the years 18110-1 the lobster men Of New London, Conn., csugbt five of those wonders, two of tbem In tbe Fisher Islaod sound. lob sters of that variety are 00 exceedingly rare that It la not known that more than two af that kind bad ever been captured before la -the history of the world. The capture of two bluo lob atera off tha coast of stains la 18M waa rrportod, but oa good authority If la aid that the raport wa I .4,(1 J 'II.. II ', 1 t' t '"HI OWNS A RARE ColN. Oae of the Three 104 Dollars Pwa eeeatd by a at. Joaeph, Mo , Man. L. E. Altwdn. of St. Joseph, Mo., Is now the happy possessor of an "1804" sl'ver dollar. Tbe value of this rare coin, only three of which sre known to be in existence, is $1,000. Mr. AlV weln secured it from an Illinois man. with whom be has been negotiating for a long time. It will be a valuable addition to his collection, which to con sidered one of the beat In tbe United states. Tbe blutory which attaches to the dollars coined In 1804 la peculiarly IntereKting. Out of the 7,000 wb.tb came out of the United States mint all but a few disappeared In a lump. In tbe year 1708 the United States went to war wltb Algiers. The differ ences were finally settled by tbe Uni ted States agreeing to pay $800,000 for tte liberation of American seamen who bad been Imprisoned, and $23,000 for the promise of Algiers to leave Ameri can merchantmen alone. In 1801 war broke out between Tripoli and the Uni ted Statea. In 1804, thla last war be ing then atlll In progress, the United States frigate Philadelphia was seized off tbe coast of Tripoli. On board thla vessel was a sum of money aggregat ing. $23,000, destined for Algiers, In payment of a portion of the war indem nity. The night after tbe Philadelphia wax aelzed Commodores Prebble and Morris aalled Into the harbor, with stxtT men on board their vessels, and recaptured the frigate. The $23,000. which included nearly all of tbe 7,000 1804 dollars, had, however, been taken from the vessel. The sum was never recovered and the silver Is probably still lying In some marbled Moorish castle,' carefully guarded among the heirlooms of some aemicivilized orient al potentate. Kansas City Journal. In Hungary whisky is distilled from turnips, maize, potatoes and molames. In some parts of Africa slaves are still tbe basis of all financial reckon ing. Tbe body of a man weighing 154 pounds contains forty-six quarts of water. Tbe steam power of Great Britain represents tbe combined strength of 1,000,000,000 men. When once filled in, a Moslem grave is never reopened on any account. To avoid the faintest chance of its being thus defiled, a cypress tree Is planted after every Interment, ao that tbe cem eterlea resemble forests, and are quite decorative. Tbe most awkward man In tbe world without doubt Uvea In Tennessee. lie recently shot a dog, and In explaining tbe accident to the dog's owner shot blm. Iter, in abowlng bow the trag edy occurred, he shot the coroner, lie haa been liberated now for fear be will try to txplalu It to somebody else. Tbe theaters In Japan have a novel method of Issuing pass-out tickets, which are positively non-transferable. When a person wlahea to leave the the ater before the cloae of the perform ance, with tbe Intention of returning be bolda out hla right hand. The door keeper then, with a rubber stamp, lui prints upon tba palm the mark of tha establishment While cowhide bas long been used for various purposes, though Its place has now been taken to a considerable extent by other aud cheaper leathers, it is used, for example, in making tnpe rior suspender tips, and Ita uae In mak ing military belts Is familiar. For this purpose It Is made up' with tbe flesh aide out and tbe belta are whitened, at occasion may require, with chalk or pipe clay. How 8leepleeaneae May Be Car-d. Among devlcea found to control In somnia the Medical Register mentions the following: Tbe aouud of water dropping alowly and steadily Into a pan occupiee and quiets the brain. This la tbe principle on which we are told to count aheep going over a fence, aud do any sort of automatic thinking. If sucb an expression be permissible. A former victim of Insomnia cured himself by keeping tbe eyeballs looking down. An other kept rolling tbem In one direction wltb good effect repeating, meanwhile, a certain word or number. Long In spirations by the mouth and expira tions by tbe nostrils, conceiving the air as currents, have been found effectual All Intellectual exercise should be stopped balf an hour before bedtime. A tumbler of milk, Instead of tbe usual copious draugbta of water, taken dur ing aleeplesauesa, will often help to overcome It Great la Truth. Tbe late Mr. Froude once stated that he never found any lioer who waa not truthful. A friend of bla waa visiting tbe Transvaal, and, to an ex-dlploinat wbo knows tbe people thoroughly, he expressed absolute reliance on tbe word of the historian. "Well," said the diplomat, "I will give you proof to tbe contrary at thla very moment" And, calling to an old farmer, wbo had evidently from bla appearance, come Into Pretoria from a long distance, be aald, In TsaJ: "Are you not tbe man to whom 1 promised a present last Cbrtstmasr "Yea," anawered tbe old fellow; "where do y6u liver "There la your truthful Boer; I never aaw the man before." Japanese yanbol of Affection. Instead of aa engagement ring tha Japanese lover gives his Bweetxteart a piece of beautiful allk for her Red-Halro't aglloh. ' It la eetl mated that one English per son la every twenty-four haa rod halt. Balf the people work too maca, waft tha ether half aatit work aaaagh. 1 i(i-w ffii,'!tfr iili.n ,! '!"'!' . . . fil irij.tw ml lr,i tul .iim . ' IN this discourse Dr. Talmage gives heroic treatment of s delicate subject and applies to modern society the les suu tnught by Christ on a memorable oc casion; text, John viii., 0, "Jesus stooped down and with his tiuger wrote on the ground." You must take your shoes off and put on the enpeciul slippers provided at tbe door If you would enter the Mohammedan nioxque which stands now where once stoixl Herod's temple, the scene of my text Solomon's temple had stood there, but Nebuchadnezzar bad thundered it down. erubhatiel's temple had stood there, but that had been prostrated. Now we take our place in a temple that Herod built, because he was fond of great ar chitecture, and be wanted the preceding temples to seem insignificant l'ut eight or ten modern cathedrals together, and the; would not equal that structure. It eoTered nineteen acres. There were mar ble pillars supporting roofs of cedar and silver tables on which stood golden cupa, and there were carvings exquisite and in scription resplendent glittering balus trades a'l ornamented gateways, lbe building of this temple kept 10,000 work men busy forty-six years. In that stupendous pile of pomp and magnificence sat Cbriot, and a listening throng stood about him when a wild dis turbance took place. A group of men are pulling and pushing aloug a woman who hsd committed a crime against society When they have brought her in front of Christ, they ask that he sentence her te death by stoning. Ihey are a critical, merciless, disingenuous crowd. They want to get Christ into controversy and public reprehension. If he aay, "Let her die," they will charge him with cruelty. If he let her go, they will charge him with being in complicity with wickedness. Whichever way be does they would bowl at him. Then occurs a scene which baa not beea auOiciently regarded. He leaves the lounge or bench on which he was sitting and goes down on one knee or both knees, and with the forefinger of his right hand he begins to write in the dust of the floor, word nfter word. But they were not to be diverted or hindered. They kept on demanding that he settle this case af tra-'pgrcKHion, until he looked op and told them tbey might themnelvea begin the woman's assassination if the complainant who had never done anything wrong him self would open the fire. "CJo ahead, but be sure that the man who flings tbe first aiissile Is immaculate." Then he resum ed writing witb his finger in the dust of the floor, word after word. Instead of looking over his shoulder to see .what he bad written, tbe scoundrels tkulked away. Finslly the whole place ia clear of pursu ers, antagonists and plaintiffs, and when Christ bas finished his strange chirog raph in the dust he looks af aad Bads tbe wsmsa all alone. A Divine Jsdare. The prisoner ia the only tot af the court room left, the judges, the police, the prosecuting attorney having cleared out Christ is victor, and he saya te the wom an: "Where are the prosecutor In thla rase? Are tbey all gout? Thea I dla ebarge you. ilo and sin no more." 1 have wondered what Christ wrote on the ground. For do you realise that is the aoly time that he ever wrote at all? 1 know tiiat Eusebius says that Christ once wrote a letter to Abgarus, the king of Edcssa, but there is no good evidence of surh a correspondence. The wisest being the world ever saw, and the one who had more to 611 j than any one who ever lived, never writing a book or a chapter or a paragraph or a word on parchment! Noth ing but the literature of the dtiBt, and ne sweep of s brush or one breath of s wind obliterated it forever. Among all tbe rolls of the volume of the first library founded at Thebes there was not one scroll of Christ. Among the 700.000 books of the Alexandrian library, which by the infamous decree of Caliph Omar were used as fuel to heat the 4.000 baths of the city, not one sentence had Christ penned. Among all the infinitude ef volumes now standing in the libraries of Edinburgh, the British museum or Berlin or Vienna or the learned reposi tories nf all noilone not one word written directly by the finger of Christ. All that ae ever wrote ne wrote in oust uncer tain, shifting dust. My text says he stooped dowa and rote on the ground. Standing atraight op a man might write on the ground with a staff, but if with hi finger he would write in the dust he muat bend clear over. Aye, be must get at least on one knee t he cannot write on the ground. Be not surprised that he stooped down. Hi whole life waa a stooping down. Stooping down from castle to barn. Stooping down from celestial homage to tnonocratic jeer. From residence above tbe star te where a (tar bad to fall to designate bla landing place. From heaveu'a frint door to tbe worl'd'a bark gate. From writing la round and ailvered letter af conatellatloa aad gal axy on the blue scroll of heaven ta writ ing on the ground in the dust which the feet of the crowd bad left in Htrod's tens tie. If la January you have ever step ped nut of a prince'a conservatory that Sad Mexican cactus and magnolias In fall loom into the outside air, 10 degrees be low zero, you may get some Idea Of Christ's change of atmosphere from cries tisl to terrestrial. How many heavens there are I know not, but there are at least three, for Paul was "caught ap into tbe third heaven." Christ came down from the highest heaven to the second heaven and dowa from second heaven to first heaven, dowa swifter than meteors ever fell, down amid stellar splendors that himaelf eclipsed, down through clooda, through atmos pheres, through appalling apace, dowa te where were wa no lower aepta. rrem being waited oa at tbe banquet of the lehaM ta aha Vwllhsg of tea for his ewa 1 , . , .. ...... 1 . . . breakfast on the banka of tbe lake. From emblazoned chariota of eternity to the aaddle of a mule's back. From the bom age cherubic, seraphic, archangeiie, to the paying of 62 cents of tax to Caesar. From the deathless country to a tomb built to hide human dissolution. The up lifted wave of Galilee was high, but he hnd to come down before with his feet be could touch it, aud the whirlwind that arose above the billow was higher yet, but he had to come down before with hia lip be could ki it into quiet Bethlehem a stooping down. Nazareth a stooping down. Death between two burglar a Hooping down. Yea, it waa in consonance with humiliations that went before and aelf abnegations that came after when on that memorable day in Herod's temple be stooped down and wrote on the ground. How Christ Write. Whether the words he waa writing were in Greek or Latin or Hebrew, I can not say, for he knew all those languages, but he ia atill stooping down and with hia finger writing on the ground. In the win ter in lettera of cryatala, in the spring ia lettera of flowers, in summer in golden lettera of harvest. In autumn in lettera of fire on fallen leavea. How it would sweeten up and enrich and emblazon this world could we see Christ'a caligraphy ail over it! Thia world was not flung out into space thousands of years ago and then left to look out for itself. It ia atill under the divine care. Chriat never for a half second take hi band off of it, or it would soon be a shipwrecked world, a de funct world, an obsolete world, an aban doned world, a dead world. "Let there be light" waa said at the beginning, and Christ atanda under the wintry akie and aaya, Let there be anowflake to enrich tbe earth, and under tbe clouda of apring and aaya. Come, ye blossoms, and maks redolent tbe orchards, and in September dlpa tbe branches in the vst of beautiful colore and awing tbem Into the hazy air. No whim of mine ia thla. "Without him was not anything made that waa made." Chriat writing on tbe ground. If yon could ace hia band la aB the pass ing seasons, how it would Ulumins ths world! All verdure snd foliage would be allegoric, and agaia we would bear blm say, aa of old, "Consider ths lilies of the field, how they grow," and wa would not bear ia the whietle of a quail r tha caw ing of a raven ar tha roundelay of a browa thrasher witbaut aaying: "Behold tbe fowl at tha air. They gather not in barn, yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them," and a Dominic haa of the barn yard cauld not clock for her brood but we would bear Christ aaying, a af eld, "How often would I kava gathered thy children together, even aa a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings," and through the redolent hedgea wa would hear Christ saying, "I am the rose af Sharon." W could not dip the aeaaoning from the salt cellar without thinking of the divine sug gestion, "Ye ara tha aalt of the earth, but if the aalt hath loat its aavor it ia fit fat nothing but to be cast aat aad Woddea under foot af men." What right have wa to threw away ase of God's Bible ye, the first Bible he ever gave the race? We talk about tbe M Testament and tbe New Testament but the oldeat testament contain the les sons of tbe natural world. Some people like the New Testament ao well they die card the Old Testament. Shall we like the New Testament and tbe Old Testa ment so well as ta depreciate tha oldest namely, that which was written before Moses was put afloat an the boat af leavea which waa calked with asphaltum ar reject tbe Geneala that was written reuturiea before Adam loat a rib and gained a wift? No, not Wbaa Deity stoops dowa aad writes aa aba svaad, let aa read it. Tha Bible la Natare. I weald have aa laaa appreciate) af tha Bible on paper that comas aut of the pa per mill, but I would urge appreciation of the Bible ia the grass, ths Bible ia tha sand hill, tba Bible in the geranium, the Bible in the asphodel, tha Bible In the dust. Some ane asked aa ancient king whether he had aeen the eclipae of the sun. "No," aaid he. "I have so much to study on earth I have no time ta look at heaven." And If our faculties were all awake in tbe study of God we would not have time to go much farther thaa tha first grass blade. I have no fear that nat ural religion w ill ever contradict what we call revealed religion. I have no sympa thy with the follower of Aristotle, who nfter the telescope waa Invented would not look through It lest it contradict aome of the theories of thefr great master. 1 shall be glad to put against one lid of the Bible the microscope and against the other lid of the Bible the telescope. Hut when Christ stooped dowa sad wrote on' the ground what did be write T The Phariseee did not atop to examine. The cowards, whipped of their own con sciences, fled pellmell. Nothing will llay a man like an aroused conscience. Dr. Stevena, in hia "History of Methodism," saya that when Ilev. Benjamin Abbott of olden times was preaching he exclaimed, "For aught I know there may be a mur derer in thia bouse." And a man rose from the assemblage and started for the door and bawled aloud, confessing te a murder be bad committed fifteen year before. And n wonder tbeae Pharisee, reminded of their aina, took to their heels. But what did Chriat write ea tbe ground T Tbe Bible doea not etate, yet aa Christ never wrote anything except that oace you cannot blame ua for want ing to knew what be really did write, but I am certaia be wrote nothing trivial or nothing unimportant and will you allow me to say that I tblnh I know what ha wrote 00 the gronndf I judge rrem tbe circumstances. He might have written ether things, but, kneeling there in tba temple, surrounded by a pack of hypo crites who were a eelf appointed constab ulary and having in hla presence a parse cuted woman, who evidently was very penitent for ber sins, I am sure he wrote two words, both of tbem graphic and sre mandoua and reverberating, and the one word waa "hypocrisy," aad the ether word wa "forgiveness. From the way these Pharlaeea and scribe vacated the premises and cot out Into the fresh air ae Chriat, with just one Ironical sentence, unmasked tbem I know tbey were firat-claas hypocrites. It waa then as it ia now. The mors faults and Inconsistencies people have of their own the more severe and censorious are they about tbe faults of others. Here they are, twenty etoot ate s nesting aad ar raigning one weak woaiaal Maaalaeeat aa to he tngagofi nil They waa taa tbe f aa ef aeeiag hot falat away aaama heavy judicial eeateaee from Chriat, aaat thea, after she had beea take ewtohtoaff tbe city and fastened at the feet af Bhe precipice, tbe scribes and Phariseee njaa ed the satisfaction ef each com rag aaat dropping a big atone ea ber head, for that waa tbe atyle ef capital pnniahaseat that tbey aaked for. Some people have taken the responsibility ef aaying that Chrast never laughed, bnt I think aa he aaw those men drop everything, ehagrhMd, mortified, exposed, and go out quiches than they came in he muat have laughed. At any rate, it makes me laugh te read It, All of thoae libertine dramatising indig nation against Impurity I Blind beta lec turing on optics! A flock of crows oa their way up from a carcase deaoaaeias; carrion! Rebuking Hypoerier. Ye, I think that one word written ea the ground that day by the finger of Christ wa the awful word hypocrisy. What pretensions to sanctity are tbe part of those hypocritical Pbariaeea! Whea the fox begin to pray, look out for year chickens. One of the cruel magnates of olden times waa going to excommunicato one of the martyrs, and he began in the usual form "In tbe name of God. Amen." Stop!" saya the martyr. "Don't aay 'to the name of God!' " Yet how many out rages are practiced under the garb of re ligion and sanctity! When in synods and conferences ministers of the gospel are about to say something unbrotherly and unkind about a member, they almost al ways begin by being ostentatiously pious. the venom of their assault corresponding to tbe heavenly flavor of the prelude About to devour a reputation, tbey say grace before meal. But I sm sure there waa another word In that dust From her entire manner I am sure that arraigned woman waa re pentant She made no apology, ana Chriat in no wise belittled ber ain. But ber supplicatory behavior and her tears moved bim, and when be stooped down to write on the ground be wrote that mighty. that imperial word, forgiveness. . W hen on Sinai God wrote tbe law, he wrote it with finger ef lightning on tables of stone, esch word cat as by a chisel into the bard granite aurface. But when he writea the offense of thia woman he writes it in duat ao that it can be eaaily rubbed out and when she repents of it eh, ho waa a merciful Chriat! I waa reading ef a legend that ia told in the far Eaat abeat him. He waa walking through the atreets of a city, and be saw a crowd arouad a dead dog. And one man aaid, "What a loathsome abject ia that dog!" "Yea," aaid another; "bia ear are mauled and bleeding." "Yea," aald another; "even hia hide wonld not be af any uae te the tanner." "Yea," aaid another, "tbe odor of bia carcase ia dreadful." Then Chriat, standing there, said, "But pearla cannot equal the whiteness af bia teeth." Thea the people, moved by tbe idea that any ne could find anything pleasant concern ing the dead dog, said, "Why, thia must be Jesus af Nasareth!" Reproved aad convicted, they went away. Surely this legend f Chriat is good enough to be true! Kindness in all hit words snd ways and babita! Forgiven aaaf "yaspathr for the Penitent. I unit not forget ta say that aa Christ, etooping down, with hi finger wrote en the ground it la evident that hia sympa thies are witb thia penitent woman and that he baa no sympathy with bar hypo critical pursuers. Just opposite to that ia the world a babit. Why didn't tbeae unclean Pharisees bring one of their own number to Chriat for excoriation and) capital punishment? No, no! They over look that in a man which they demnate in a woman, and ao tba world haa bad fat offending woman acourgea and ebjurga tion, and for Just one offense ahe became a a outcast while for men whoa Uvea have been aodomia for twenty years tbe world awinga open ita doora of brilliant welcome, and they may ait in high plaeea Unlike the Christ af my text tba world writea a man' misdemeanor ia duat, bat chisel a womaa'a offense with great aaa itala upon ineffaceable aiarbla. For foreign lord and princes, whose names cannot even be mentioned In re spectable circles abroad because they are walking laaarettoa ef abomination, seme of our American princesses of fortune wait and at tbe first beck sail aut with tbem Into the blackness of darkneae for ever. And in what ara called higher cir cle of society there ia now not only tbe imitation of foreign dre and foreign manner, bnt an imitation of foreign dis soluteness. I like a foreigner, and I like an American, bnt the sickest creature en the earth ia an American playing the for eigner. Society needs to be reconstruct ed on thia subject Treat them alike, masculine crime and feminine crime. If you cut the one in granite, cut tbem both in granite. If you write tbe one in dnt, . write the other in duat "No, no," aaya the world; "let woman go down and let man go up." What ia that I bear plash ing into the Hudson or Potomac at mid night? And then there ia a gurgle as ef strangulation, and all is still. Never mind. It is only a woman too discouraged tf live. Let tbe mills of the cruel world) grind right on. But while I speak of Chriat of the text, hia stooping down writing in the duat do not think I underrate the literature of the the duat. It ia the moat tremendous of all literature. It ia the greatest of aB) libraries. Wbea Layard exhumed Nine veh, he was only opening the door of Ita mighty dust The exeavationo of Pompeii have only been the nnclaaplng of the lids of a volume of a natioo'a duat. When Ad miral Farragut and hla frieada vieited that resurrected eity, the house ef Balbo. who had been one ef its chief eitiaena la Ha prospermia days, waa opened, aad a table waa spread m that house which 1310 years bad been buried by soloaaio eruption, and Farragut aad hia gatata walked over the exquisite mosaics and under the oeantifnl fresco, and it 1 seemed like being entertained by who MghtasB ssatanaa ago had aaraod ta duet. Beaadflsoe Merer. Oh, fats mighty Iheratare of the daatf It la not ee wonderful, after aB, that Chriat chose metoad ef aa lahetaad tha Impressionable sand oa the floor of aa s-. cient temple, and Inatead of a hard pea put forth hie forefinger with the same kind of nerve and muscle aad heae aad flesh aa that which mahea ap oar ewa forefinger, snd wteta taa awful doom of hypocrisy, aad raB aad complete forgive ness for repentant Bianera, area tha worst We taih about the ocean at Ohriet'a mercy. Pat fear abipe apoa that ocean and lot them aaB out to eppoaita airectloaa far ljOQD years aad aae if thow can find the shore of tha ocean ef tb 4 vine mercy. Lot thorn tall to the Berts and the aaatkand the aaat aad tha west, and thea after the MOO yearn af voyage lot thorn eesse hack aad they wifl reaect, "Ne shore, ae shore to the oeaaa af iisfl