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A SCRIPTURE chara.-t.-r whose
name is not given becomea the
subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon,
in which hp seta forth the qualities of
good and noble womanhood; text, II.
Kings it S, "Klisha passed to Shunem,
where was great woninn."
The hotel of our time h"d no counter
part in any entertainment of olden time.
The vast majority of traveler must then
be entertained at private abode. Here
conjes Klisha, a servant of the Iord, on
divine mission, and he must find shel
ler, A balcony overlooking the valley of
Esdraebm id offered him in a private
house, and it in emu-dally furnished for
bin occupant- - n ehair to sit on, a tnhle
from which to n candlestick by which
to read and a In-1 on which to slumber,
the whole establishment belonging to a
great and good woman. Hi-r husband, it
eeeuia, wan a g'tdly man. but he was en
tirely overshadowed by his wife's excel
lences just as now yon sometimes find
in a household the wife the center of
dignity find influence and power, not by
ny arrogance or presumption, but by
superior intellect and force of moral na
ture wielding domestic affairs and at the
same time supervising all financial and
business affairs. The wife's band on the
shuttle, or the banking house, or the
worldly business.
You see hundreds of men who are suc
cessful only because there is a reason at
home why they are successful. If a man
marry a good, honest soul, he mukes his
fortune. If he marry a fool, the Lord hell)
him! The wife may be the silent partner
in the firm, there may be only masculine
voice down on Exchange, but there of
tentimes comes from the home circle a
potential and elevating Influence. This
woman of ray text was the superior of
her husband. He, as tar as I can under
stand, was what we often see in our day,
a man of large fortune and only a mmli
nmi of brain, intensely quiet, sitting a
long while in the same place, without
moving hand or foot; if you say "Yes,"
responding "Yes"; if you say "No," re
' sponding "N'o" inane, eye half shut,
tnouth wide open, maintaining his position
in society only because he has a large
patrimony. But his wife, my text says,
wai a great woman. Her name has not
route down to us." She liclonged to that
collection of people who need no name to
distinguish thera. What would title of
duchess or prim-ess or queen what
would escutcheon or gleaming diadem be
to this woman of my text, who, by her
Intelligence and her behavior, challenge
the admiration of nil ages? I-ong after
the brilliant women of the court of Louis
XV, have been forgotten, and the bril
liant women of the court of Spain have
beeu forgotten, and the brilliant women
who sat on the throne of Russia have
lieen forgotten, some grandfather will
put on his itacea and, holding the
book the other side the light, read to his
grandchildren the story of this great
womuu of Shunem who was so kind and
courteous and Christian, to the goml pro
phet Klisha. Yes, she was a great woman.
The Hospitable Woman.
In the first place, she was great in her
hospitalities. Uncivilized ami barbarous
nations have this virtue. Jupiter hud the
surname of the Hospitable, and he was
said especially to avenge the wrongs of
strangers. Homer extolled it in his verse.
The Arabs are punctilious on this subject,
and among some of their tribes it is not
until the ninth day of tarrying that the
occupant has a right to ask his guest,
"Who and w hence art thou?" If this vir
tue Is o honored among barbarians, how
ought It to )e honored among those of us
who believe in the Hihle, which command
us to use hospitality one toward another
without grudging?
Of course, 1 do not mean tinder this
cover to give any idea that I approve of
that vagrant class who go around from
place to place, ranging their whole life
time perhaps under the auspices of some
beuevolent or philanthropic society, ipiar-
' tering themselves on Christian families
with a great pile of trunks in the hull and
carpetbag portentous of tarrying. There
Is many a country parsonage that looks
out week by week upon the ominous ar
rival of wagon with creaking wheel and
lank horse and dilapidated driver, come
under the auspice of some charitable in
stitution to send a few weeks and can
Tas the neighlsirhood. Let no such re
ligious tramps lake advantage of this
beautiful virtue of Christian hospitality,
Not ao much thesuuiptuousnc of your
diet and the regality of jour alside will
Impress the friend or the stranger that
steps acros your threshold as the warmth
of your greeting, the informality of your
reception, the reiteration by grasp and
by look and by a thousand attentions, in
significant attention, of your earnestness
of welcome. There will lie high appre
ciation of your welcome though you have
nothing but the brazen candlestick and
the plain chair to offer Klisha when he
come to Hhtinem. Most beautiful is this
trace of hospitality when shown in the
house of (Jod. I am thankful that I have
alway been pastor of churches where
stranger are welcome. Hut I have en
tered chore he w here (here wa no hospi
tality. ' A stranger would stand in the
vestibule for awhile and then make a
pilgrimage up the long aisle. No door
opened to him until, flushed and excited
and embarrassed, he itarted back again,
and coming to some half filled pew with
apologetic air entered It, while the occu
pant glared on him with s look which
seeaied to any, "Well, If I must, I must."
Awsy with ncb accursed Indecency from
, the bouse of (1I! Ij-t every church that
wonld msintaia large Christian Influence
la community culture Habbsth by 8sb
bsth this beautiful grace of Christian
VmpitaHty.
A food man traveling in the far West
tat wikierues waa overtaken by night
and storm, and he put in at a cabin. He
saw firearms along the beams of the cabiu.
and he felt alarmed. He did not know
but that he had fallen into a den of
thieves. He sat there greatly pert urbed.
After awhile the man of the house came
home with a gun on his shoulder and set
it down in a corner. The stranger was
still more alarmed. After awhile the
man of the bouse whispered with his
wife, and the stranger thought his de
struction was Is-ing planned. Then the
man of the house came forward and said
to the stranger: "Stranger, we are a
rough and rude people out here, and we
work hard for a living. We make our
living by hunting, and when we come to
the nightfall we are tired and we are apt
to go to bed early, and before retiring
we are always in the habit of reading a
chapter from the word of Cod and mak
ing a prayer. If you don't like such
things, if you will jiiHt step outside the
door until we get through, I'll be greatly
obliged to you." Of course the stranger
tarried in the room, and the old hunter
took hold of the horns of the altar and
brought down the blessing of God upon
his household and upon the stranger
within their gates. Hude but glorious
Christian hospitality!
The Joy of the Minister.
Again, thi woman of my text was great
in her kindness toward Cod's messenger.
Klisha may have been a stranger in that
household, but as she found out he had
come on a divine mission he was cordially
welcomed. We have a great many books
in our day about the hardships of minis
ters and the trials of Christian ministers.
I wish somebody would write a book
about the joys of the Christian minister,
about the sympathies all around about
him, about the kindness, about the genial
considerations of him. Poos sorrow
come to our home, and is there a shadow
on the cradle, there are hundreds of hands
to help, and many who weary not through
the night watching and hundreds of pray
ers going up that (Jod would restore the
sick. Is there a burning, brimming cup of
calamity placed on the pastor's table?
Are there not many to help him drink of
that cup and who will not be comforted
because he is stricken? Oh, for somebody
to write a book about the regards of the
Christian ministry about bis surround
ings of Christian sympathy!
This woman of the text was only a.type
of thousands of men and women who
come down from mansion and from cot to
do kindness to the Lord's servants. I
could tell you of something that you might
think a romance. A young man gradu
ated from New Brunswick Theological
seminary was called to a village church.
He hud not the means to furnish the par
sonage. After three or four weeks of
preaching a committee of the officers of
the church waited on him and told him
he looked tired and thought he had better
take a vacation of a few days. The young
pastor took it as an intimation that his
work was done or not acceptable. He took
the vacation, and at the end of a few
days came back, when an old elder said:
"Here is the key of the parsonage. We
have been denning it up. You had bet
ter go up and look at it." Ho the young
pastor took the key, went up to the par
sonage, opened the door, and lo! it was
carpeted, and there was the hut rack all
ready for the canes and the umbrellas
and the overcoats, and on the left hand'
of the hull was the parlor, sofaed,
chaired, pictured. He passed on to the
other side of the hall, anil there was the
study table in the center of the floor with
stationery upon it, book shelves built,
long ranges of new volumes, far beyond
the reach of the menus of the young pas
tor many of these volumes. The young
pastor went up stairs and found all the
sleeping apartments furnished, came
down stairs and entered the pantry, and
there were the spices and the coffees am)
the sugars, and the groceries for six
months. He went down into the cellar,
and there was the coal for all the coming
winter. He went into the dining hull,
and there was the table already setthe
glass and the silverware. He went into
tile kitchen, and there were all the culi
nary implements ami a gn at stove. The
young pastor lifted one lid of the stove
and he found the fuel all ready for igni
tion. Cutting back the cover of the stove,
he saw In another part of it a lucifi-r
match, and all that young man had to do
in starling to keep house was lo strike the
match. You tell mc that is apocryphal.
Oh, no! that was my own experience.
Oh, the kindnesses, oh, the enlarged sym
pathies sometimes clustering around
those who enter the gospel ministry. I
suppose the man of Shiuiem had to pay
the bills, but. It was the large hearted
Christian woman of Shunem that looked
after the Lord's messenger.
Great I-.yeii in Trouble.
Again, this woman of the text was
great In her behavior under trouble. Her
only son had died on her lap. A very
bright light went out in that household.
The sacred writer puts it very tersely
when he says, "He sat on her km c milil
noon and then he died," Yet the writer
giH-s on I" say that she exclaimed, "It is
well!" Great in prosperity, this woman
was great in trouble.
Where are the feet that have not been
blistered on the hot sands of this great
Sahara? Where r the soldiers that
have not liont under the burden of grief?
Where Is the ship i-tilmg over glassy sea
that has not after awhile been caught in
a cyclone? Where is the garden of earth
ly comfort but trouble hath hitched up
its fiery and panting team and gone
through it with burning plowshare of dis
aster? Under the netting of age of suf
fering the great heart of the world ha
burst with wis. Navigators tell us about
the river and the Amazon aud the Dan
ube and the Mississippi have been ex
plored, but who can tell the depth or the
length of the great river of sorrow, made
up of tear and blood, rolling through all
lands and all age, bearing the wreck of
famllle and of cominiinitie and of em
pires, foaming, writhing, boiling with the
agonies of it.OdO years? Etna, Ootopaxl
and Vesuvius have been described, but
who ban ever sketched the volcano of
suffering retching up from its depth the
lava and scoria and pouring them down
the sides to whelm the nation? Oh, If
I could gather all the heartstrings, the
broken heartstrings, Into a harp, I would
play on It a dirge such aa was never
sounded! MylbolrtglM tell ns of gorgon
aud centaur and Titan and geologists tall
us of extinct species of monsters, but
greater than gorgon or megatherium and
not belonging U tka racial of fable and
not of an extinct sfte, a unnnter with
an iron jaw and a hundred iron hoofs has
walked across the nation and history
and Kctry aud sculpture, in their attempt
to sketch if and describe it, have seemed
to sweat great ilrops of blood. But, thank
God. there are those who can conquer as
this woman of the text conquered aud
oiy, "It ia well, though my property be
gone, though my children ! gone, tho'lgh
my home Is- broken up, though my health
be sacritii-ed, it is well, it is well!" There
is uo storm on the sea but Christ is ready
to rise in the hinder part of the Kbip and
hush it. There is no darkness but the
constellation of God's eternal love can
illumine it, and though the winter comes
out of the northern sky, you have some
times seen that northern sky all ablaze
with auroras which si-em to say: "Come
up this way; up this way are thrones of
light and seas of sapphire and the splen
dor of in eterual. heaven. Come up this
way."
We may, like the ships, by tempest be
tossed
On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.
Though sataa enrage the wind and the
tide,
The promise assure us the Lord will pro
vide. The Home Woman.
Again, this woman of my text was great
in her application to domestic duties.
Kvery picture is a home picture, whether
she is entertaining an Eliaha or whether
she is giving careful attention to her sick
boy or whether she is appealing for the
restoration of her property. Kvery picture
in her case is one of domesticity. Those
are not disciples of the Khunetiiite woman
who, going out to attend to outside chari
ties, neglect the duty of home tlx; duty
of wife, of mother, of daughter. No
faithfulness in public benefaction can
ever atone for domestic negligence. There
has been many a mother who by indefat
igable toil has reared a large family of
children, equipping them for the duties of
life with good manners and large intelli
gence and Christian principle, starting
them out, who has done more for the
world than many a woman whose name
has sounded through all the lands and
through the centuries. I remember when
Kossuth was in this country there were
some ladies who got honorable reputa
tions by presenting him very gracefully
with bouquets of flowers on public occa
sions. But what was all that compared
with the plaiu Hungarian mother who
gave to truth and civilization and the
cause of universal liberty a Kossuth?
Yes, this woman of my text was great in
her simplicity. When this prophet want
ed to reward her for her hospitality by
asking some preferment from the king,
what did siie say? She declined it. She
said, "I dwell among my own people," as
much as to say: "I am satisfied with my
lot. All I want is my family and my
friends around mc. I dwell among my
own people,"
The Heantlful Home.
Oh, what a rebuke to the strife for pre
cedence in all ages! How many there are
who want to get great architecture and
homes furnished "with all art, all paint
ing, all statuary, who have not enough
taste to distinguish between Gothic and
Byzantine, and who could not tell a figure
in plaster of paris from Palmer's "White
Captive," and would not know a boy's
liem-iling from Bierstadt'a "Yosemite."
Men who buy large libraries by the square
foot, buying these libraries when they
have scarcely enough education to pick
out the day of the month in the almanac!
Oh, bow many there are striving to have
things as well as their neighbors or better
than their neighbors, and in the struggle
vast fortunes are exhausted and business
firms thrown into bankruptcy and men of
reputed honesty rush into astounding for
geries! Of cojrse I say nothing against
refinement m culture. Splendor of abode,
auinptuousnesM of diet, lavishness in art,
neatness in apparel, there is nothing
against them in the Bible or out of the
Bible. God does not want us to prefer
mud hovel to English cottage, or untan
ned sheepskin to French broadcloth, or
husks to pineapple, or the clumsiness of a
boor to the manners of a gentleman. God,
who strung the beach with tinted shell,
and the grass of tin- field with the dew
of the night, and hath exquisitely tinged
morning cloud aud robin redbreast, wants
us to keep our eye open to all beautiful
sights, and our ear open to all beautiful
cadences, and our heart open to all ele
vating sentiments,
lint, what I want to impress npon you,
my hearers, ia that you ought not to in
ventory the luxuries of life among the In
dispensablea, and you ought not to depre
ciate this woman or the text, who, when
offered kingly preferment, responded, "I
dwell among my own people." Yea, this
woman of the text was great in her piety.
Just read the chapter after you go home.
Faith in (Jod, and she was not ashamed to
talk about it before idolaters. Ah, wom
uu will never appreciate what she owes to
Christianity until she knows and sees the
degradation of her sex under paganism
ami Mohemmeilaiiism. Her very birth
considered a misfortune.
Sold like cattle on the shamble. Slave
of all work, and, at last, her body fuel for
Ihe funeral pyre of her husband. Above
the shriek of the fire worshipers in India,
ami above the rumbling of the jugger
naut a, I hear the million voiced groan of
wronged, Insulted, broken hearted, down
trodden woman. Her tears have fallen
in the Nile and Tigris, the La Plain, and
on ihe steppes of Tartury. She has bi-en
dishonored in Turkish garden and Per
sian palace and Spanish Alhambra. Her
little ones have been sacrificed in the
Indus and the Gauge. There is not a
groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a
mountain, or a river, or a lake, or a sea,
but could tell a story of the outrage
heaped upon her. But, thanks In God,
thi glorious Christianity comes forth,
and all the chain of this vassalage are
snapped, and she rises from ignominy
to exalted sphere and becomes the affec
tionate daughter, the gentle w ife, ihe hon
ored mother, the useful Christian. Oh,
if Christianity has done so much for wom
an, surely woman will become it most
ardent advocate and lis subliinest exem
plification. Copyright, Ison.
A New Law. When the children 'of
Israel were led out of Kjrypt their eon
dlllons were changed, anil they needed
new law to fit the new conditions.
Ood gave It. Wo of this getioiniiou
are not the children of Israel, there
fore, we are not under the law of
Moses, and therefore a new law la nee
essary, God Intends his children to
weigh the testimony he give. He ti.nt
given US tba evidence of Christ. e
has given us the four gospels, gn a er
trldenco than that given the child. en
of lsrel.-Rev. C. C. Bowen, Sweden
borglan, San Jose, Cat.
Good Roads and Country Life.
An unmistakable demand for good
common roads la being heard lu all
parts of the United States, says Popu
lar Science Monthly. This demand Is
rapidly growing in volume and is taking
on the systematic organization which is
essential to the (success of such a move
ment. That bad roads in this country
cause an enormous loss of money each
year to those w ho use them tuny easily
be proved, but tbis fact Is veiled from
many persons because they have never
known anything better. The farmers
are the greatest sufferers. Where wag
on wheels sink hub deep in mud at some
seasons, a farmer who has much haul
ing to do must keep one or two more
horses than he would need If he had
only hard, even roads to go over, aud
his loss In the wear and tear of horse
flesh, harness and wagons is a heavy
tax on his Income. It often happens
that a farmer finds the roads absolute
ly Impassable with a loaded wagon just
at a time when his produce would bring
the highest price If he could haul it to
a railroad, and he Is forced to wait and
take a lower price later. Livery stable
keepers and all other owners and users
of horses and vehicles suffer from bad
roads In a similar way.
In order to obtain better roads two
things are necessary. The first is to
create a general conviction that the Im
provement of our highways is impera
tive, and that the money wisely expend
ed for this purpose Is sure to return.
The second requisite Is to place all road
making and mending under the charge
of competent road builders. Various
efforts to secure these ends are being
made anil the aid of country and State
authorities, and even the national Gov
ernment, has been Invoked to further
the movement. While It Is very desira
ble that the highways of adjoining lo
calities should be under some central
supervision, so that they may be made
to perform a connected whole, It may
be questioned whether the national
Government could be an effective
agency In road Improvement. Why, for
Instance, should the dwellers beyond
the Mississippi and on the Pacific coast
be taxed to maintain In Washington a
school for road engineers and a museum
of road construction that few, If any,
of these distant communities could de
rive any benefit from? A more practi
cal scheme would be to have Instruction
in road engineering given at each of
the State colleges of agriculture and me
chanical arts. In a country showing
such wide differences in soil, rainfall,
temperature and topography between
different sections as the United States
does, road building can be taught and
administered far more efficiently by the
Slate or the country than by the nation.
There Is need of much intelligent care
In framing legislation In the interest of
the movement for better roads. Annoy
ing prohibition should be no part of the
policy of the road reformers. For In
stance, large loads carried on wheels
having narrow felloes and tires do great
damage to roads; hence It lias been pro
posed to prohibit narrow tires on heavy
wagons. A much better policy Is that
adopted In Michigan, of giving a reduc
tion of one-half their road tax to those
who will use broad tires. The move
ment for good roads shows a lusty vig
or. The success that it has already
achieved Is splendid testimony to the
efficiency of voluntary association of
Individuals, and If Its leaders continue
to carry It on without the paralyzing
patronage of the general Government,
It Is likely to attain great results.
M Ichijrnn V'lllusre "as n Plan.
The Bear Lake Council has "tumbled"
to the fact that good roads and passable
itreets mean more trade from the farm
ers of the vicinity, and It has purchased
a gravel pit, the gravel from which will
oe used In Improving the streets of the
village so they will be fit to use In all
iinds of weather. Detroit Free Press.
The New York Tax Is Small.
The fifty thousand dollars appropri
ated for road Improvement by the Sl;tie
of New York is but one cent on curb
thousand dollars of assessed valuation
In that State.
I;xcesslve Grades a Detriment.
A road Is not, strictly speaking,
good." even though It have n hard sur-
' r.ti.a If If h.iu rtvtiaolvA vmliu
All the Differrnc In the World,
Good rouds save money, time and la
bor; bad roads waste them.
Its n king In Swlty.erl.inil.
Some of the methods are sufficiently
antiquated, According to our standards.
For Instance, It requires fifteen min
utes In which to make a deposit at a
bank. Kvery banking-house has nu
merous chairs outside the railing, and
the visitor Is expected to sit quleily aud
ctlltlvale a spirit of patience w hile the
machinery is getting tinder way. A
customer who wishes to make a deposit
goo to a window and hands In his
money, together with a memorandum
of the amount. The employe behind
the railing counts Ihe money and pre
pare a receipt for It, adding his signa
ture by way of preliminary. Then a
small boy take the receipt upatnlrs and
submits it to an official, who studies It
And then ponders for a while aa to
whether It will Im safe to take ttao
money. If he derides that the Nink cn
undertake the risk he passes the re
ceipt to another man, who prepare a
duplicate slip and makes several en
tries, and finally signs his name. Then,
aa soon aa another tuna has examined
the receipt and added nis name, It Is
takaa downstairs aud turned orar to
the depositor. There Is one satisfaction
tue money is thoroughly deposited.
An American residing in Zurich went
to (he bank the other day with a check
which had been given him by a busi
ness man In a large town near here. He
handed in the check, and twenty min
utes later received his money, less four
teen cents charges. The American was
well known at the bank, having been
a depositor for about two years. He
had endorsed the check. A busy and
nervous Chicago man would have torn
down the railing before the twenty
minutes expired.
DIED BY HER HUSBAND.
The Wife Kef used tife Unless He
Could Be Saved.
"I will stay with Al if you cannot
save him," said Sirs. A. C. Howe, when
the windows of her room in the Hotel
Dakotah at Grand Forks were veiled
with flame-shot smoke. And she knelt
down beside the bed where her husband
lay in the chains of paralysis and hid
her face In his bosom, reports the Chi
cago Journal.
Outside was the tumult of voices, t,1-
clatter of horses' hoofs, the roll of
wheels, and the sharp clang of fire bells.
A ladder had been thrown against the
blazing wall, and a lithe young fellow
with a fireman's helmet on his head ran
swiftly iqi to the window of the room
where Mr. and Mrs. Howe were known
to be. "Come," he shouted from the
midst of a pillar of flame.
The wife struggled to lift her husband
in her arms, but she was powerless to
even move him.
"Al, dear one!" she cried in agony.
"See the fire! Try, oh, try to lift just a
little. I will hold you! Oh, help! help!"
The fireman leaned forward from a
background of flame.
"Come," he cried, "the ladder Is burn
ing! I can only save one of you!"
Then It was the woman nestled down
beside the man she loved.
"I will stay with Al," she said simply.
The ladder sprang outward and the
fireman made the ground In a flying
leap. A sound of a woman's voice In
singing came to the ears of the horri
fied watchers below. Then there was
a crash of falling walls, a mighty, up
ward shooting cloud of spark-filled
smoke and yellow blaze and all was
still.
Burled with Military Honor.
At the breaking out of the ten years'
war in 1S08, the Spaniards In Cuba
adopted the sparrow as the symbol of
their pertinacity and fighting qualities,
and applied the name of "cat" as the
most contemptuous word to the na
tives. In March, 18t59, a Spanish sol
dier saw a cat seize a sparrow with
teeth aud claws. Clubbing his mus
ket, he disabled the cat and took the
dead bird from its mouth. The occur
rence le!ng reported, the cat was tried
by drum head court-martial and sen
tenced to death, while the body of the
sparrow was ordered to be burled with
military honors. The best known
Spaniards in Cuba were ordered to at
tend. There were eight battalions in
Havana, and the wife of the com
mander of each sent large offerings of
flowers. A bier was prepared and the
sparrow was placed on a fragrant bed
of roses and lilies. The drum was
muffled and the 6,000 soldiers were
given the order to march. With sol
emn tread the long line proceeded to
the cemetery on the outskirts of the
city, ami there the victim of the cat
was committed to the earth with mili
tary honors.
Bacteria Jn Oust.
In a recent number of the Annales de
Mierographio, Ir. Miquel gives the re
sults of some Interesting observations
made by him In respect of the vitality
of disease germs. In May, 18S1, he
took some earth from the Moutsouris
Park at a depth of ten inches below
the turf. This he dried for two days
at a temperature of 30 degrees Centi
grade, and then he placed the dust in
hermetically sealed tubes, which he put
aside In a dark corner of the labora
tory. When taken the soil contained
an average of 0,50(),0o0 bacteria per
gramme. After desiccation the num
ber had fallen to rather less than
4,Oun,(H0. Sixteen years later he still
found H.oOO.OOO per gramme, ami he
was enabled to Isolate the specific mi
crobe of teta utis. The Inoculation of
this soil in guinea pigs determined
dcuth from tetanus after an incuba
tion period of two days, showing the
remarkable vitality of pathogenic ml-
crobes under favorable
Philadelphia lieconl.
conditions.
Willed His Pension itaek.
The will of the late Isaac Lloyd of
Philadelphia disposes of an estate val
ued at about $1.-,KKI. Mr. Lloyd was a
veteran of the late war and drew a
small pension, which he saved with
the Intention of returning It to the gov
ernment, providing he was never In
want (luring life. When the will was I
probated It was found that his Inten
tions had been carried out, and the will
concluded with the following para
graph: "My pension, w hich I have not
used, 1 have always expected to return
to the United States Government, ex
cepting I should be In distress or want,
I order my executor to return the pen
sion." (jninlne In India.
There whs a time when the gorern
ment of India hud to Import annually
$2.o,0oo worth of quinine and did not
get enough of It even then, After a
great many experiments the cnltlTatlon
of the cinchona tree was made success
ful In India, and now (hero are 4.000,
000 trees In Bengal, and every rural
postofflce In India sells a Ave grain
packet of the drug for half a cent,
while the government makes from
$2,000 to $3,500 a year out of the profits.
It makes a man turn cold at the man
ner In which a woman puts his bard
earned money Into a pocket book, car
lies It loosely In her band and learaa
tt the first counter aba reachea.
Over 8.000,000 loaves of bread are con
sumed daily in Greater New York.
The trusts now in existence in Amer
ica have an aggregate capitalization of
2,7S8,773,!00.
British trades union printers have
taken a decided stand against firms
who print the Bible but refuse to pay
living wages.
The largest sewing machine in the
world Is in operation In Leeds, Eng.
It weighs 0.500 pounds and sews cotton
belting.
A plan Is being arranged to establish
In the mills at Olneyville, R. I., the sys
tem for small savings similar to that in
the public schools.
The Dutch fishermen kill the fish
caught as soon as they reach the shore,
while the French fishermen leave their
booty to die of suffocation.
A ship building firm in Belfast, Ire
land, has received instructions from a
Liverpool company for the construction
of a cargo steamer to be 680 feet long
aud 75 feet of beam.
A new kind of cloth is being made in
Lyons from the down of hens, ducks
and geese. Seven hundred and fifty
grains of feathers make rather more
than a square yard of light waterproof
cloth.
The silk Industry In the United States
is assuming gigantic proportions. Thir
ty years ago the value of silk produced
In the United States was less than $,
000,000. Last year It exceeded $87,
000,000. The glassworkers have set aside $1,
250 a year to send representatives to
lawmaking bodies, and the miners, ma
chinists and telegraphers have also
made provision to keep members in gov
erning bodies.
At Sheffield a single machine will turn
out 5,000 finished knives per day, and
It can be adapted for either table or
pocket cutlery, razors hollow or
straight sheep shears; indeed, for al
most any kind of tools.
The combination policy of the Van
derbilts on the Lake Shore and Michi
gan Central railways aud the changes
and consolidations on the Vanderbilt
system between New York and Chicago
is expected to result in laying off 5,000
men.
During the last twelve months the
Parslan shambles received 21,667 horses
for slaughter, 52 mules and 31 donkeys.
Only one mule, 310 donkeys and 734
horses were condemned as unfit for hu
man food. Prime cuts of horse brought
18 cents per pound, while the most in
ferior kinds sold for 10 cents per pound.
During 1897 there were 1,015 separate
fatal accidents in and about all the
mines and quarries, more than 20 feet
deep, in the United Kingdom, involv
ing the loss of 1,102 lives, showing, on
comparison with the previous year, an
Increase of eleven in the number of ac
cidents, and a decrease of 86 in the
number of lives lost.
An apparatus has been invented for
recording the work of firemen in the
stoke room of steamships. It not only
tells the fireman what he ought to do
regarding the raising of steam, but ac
curately registers the character and
amount of work. It Is, in fact, a regu
lar tell-tale, which knocks revolution
gauges out of use.
Judge Holmes of the District Court
of Des Moines, Iowa, has handed down
an opinion in the case of George S.
Hughes against the Des Moines TyM
graphical Union. It favors the latter,
holding Hughes cannot recover dam
ages from the union for being kept out
of employment because Its members re
fuse to work in the same office with
him, he being a non-union man. Hughes
had sued for $5,000 damages.
Tanner R. Cross of Hammond, N. Y.,
has received letters patent on a paper
hanging machine, which experts say
will revolutionize that branch of the
Interior decorator's art. The principal
features claimed for the new device are
that It will paper a given wall or ceiling
in less than half the time usually re
quired under the ordinary method. The
machine friins, pastes and hangs paper
direct from the roll at any point or an
gle. In appearance it resembles a car
pet sweeping machine, and as it weighs
only seven pounds is easily handled and
manipulated.
The Origin of Scalping.
At the annual meeting of the Balti
more Folk Lore Society Miss'Alice C.
Fletcher gave an Interesting contribu
tion In a paper entitled "The Signific
ance of the Scalp Lock; a Study of the
Omaha Trilio." The Omaha Indians,
like many other tribes, have peculiar
Ideas regarding a continuity of life aud
a kind of spiritual link between ani
mate and Inanimate objects. They be
lieve a piece of any article connects
them with the entirety. The hair Is
thought to have a close connection
with life, and one possessing It may
work his will upon whoever or what
ever the hair belonged to, Prom thla
Idea came the custom of scalping ene
mies. Boston Evening Transcript,
Koine On uses or Death.
It Is estimated by a competent foreign
authority that only 000 persons out of
1,000,000 die from old age, while 1,200
succumb lo gout, 18,400 to measles,
2,700 to apaplexy, 7,000 to erysipelas,
7,600 to consumption, 48.000 to scarlet
ferer, 25,000 to wboping cough, 30,000
to typhoid and typhus and 7,000 to
rheumatism. The areragea vary ac
cording to locality, but these are con
sidered accurate aa regards the popula
tion of the globe as a whole.
Tba motorman on an electric car la a
nonconductor. .
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