TALMAGfi'S SERMON.
“MEN AND WOMEN NEEDED/*
LAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT.
“Who KnowHIi Whether Thou Art
Come to tlio Kingdom for Hu«li *
Tlmo a« ThU" Ivitlu-r, Umpter IV.
Verne 14.
-~ 8THER the bcauti
fill was the wife of
Abasuerus the
abominable. The
time had como for
her to present a
petition to her In
famous husband in
behalf of the Jew
ish nation,to whteb
she had once be
longed. She was
afraid to undertake the work,
lest she should lose her own
life; hut her cousin, Mordecal, who
had brought her up, encouraged her
with the suggestion that probably she
had been raised up of God for that, pe
culiar mission. "Who knoweth wheth
er thou art come to the kingdom for
such a tlmo as this?"
Esther had her God-appointed work.
You and I have ours. It is my busi
ness to tell you what style of men and
women you ought to be in order that
you meet the demand of the ago In
which God has cast your lot. So this
discourse will not deal with the tech
nicalities, but only with the practica
bilities. When two armies have rushed
Into battle, the officers of either army
do not want a philosophical discussion
about the chemical properties of hu
man blood or the nature of gunpowder;
they want some one to man the hat
terles and take out the guns. And
now. when all the forces of light and
•darkness, of heaven and hell, have
plunged Into the fight, It is no time
to give ourselves to the definitions and
formulas and technicalities and con
ventionalities of religion. What we
want Is practical, earnest, concentrat
ed, enthusiastic and triumphant help.
In the first place, In order to meet
the special demand of this age, you
need to be an unmistakable, aggressive
Christian. Of half-and-half Christians
we do not want any more. The church
of Jesus Christ will he better without
them. They are the chief obstacle to
the church’s advancement. I am
speaking of another kind of Christian.
All the appliances for your becoming
an earnest Christian are at your hand,
and there Is a straight path for you
into the broad daylight of God's for
giveness. You muy this moment he
the bondmen of the world, and the
next moment you may be princes of
the Lord God Almighty. You remem
ber what excitement there was In this
country, years ago, when the Prince of
Wales came here—how the people
rushed out by hundreds of thousands
to see him. Why? Because they ex
pected that some day he would sit up
on the throne of England. But what
was all that honor compared with the
honor to which God calls you—to he
sons and daughters of the Lord Al
mighty; yea, to he queens and klug3
unto God. "They shall reign with hlui
forever and forever."
1 was once amid the wonderful, be
witching cactus growths of North Car
olina, I never wag more bewildered
with the beauty of flowers, and yet
when I would take up one of these
•cactuses and pul! the leaves apart the
beauty was all gone. You could hard
ly tell that It had ever been a flower.
And there are a great many Christian
people In this day just pulling apart
their Christian experiences to gee what
there Is in them, and there is nothing
left In them.
This style of self-examination Is a
damage instead of an advantage to
their Christian character. I remember
when I was a boy 1 used to have a
small piece in the garden that I called
my own, and 1 planted corn there, and
every few days 1 would pull it up to
see how fast it was growing. Now,
theie are a great many Christian peo
ple in this day whose self-examination
merely amounts to the pulling up of
that which they only yesterday or the
day before planted. Oh. my friends. I
" .* V a ill lj*
tlun character, plant It right out of
door* In the great Held of Christian
usefulness, and though storms may
come upon It. and though the hot sun
of trial muy try to consume It. It will
thrive until It become* a great tree.
In which th* fowl* of heaven may have
their habitation. I have no patience
with there (tower-pot Christians. They
keep themselves under shelter, and
all their Christlau experience in a
siualt, exclusive circle, when they
ought to plant It Itt the great garden
of the Lard, so that (be whole atmos
phere could he aromatic with their
Christian u*«fulur**. What we waul
In the church of God Is more strength
of piety. The century plant la won
derfully suggestive and wonderfully
beautiful, but I never tooh *t it with
out thinking of lu parsimony It let*
• hole genvrntlun* go by before It put*
forth uue blossom, so I have really
more admiration when I see the dewy |
• earn in the blue eye* of the violet,
for they com* every spring My Chris
tun friend*, time la going by *w rap
Idly 'hat we can not ilutd la ho idle
VMli, tt you waul to be guatihed to
mart the duties which this age tie j
m tad* of you you must, on one hand
aeoid reckless tenauel**m and on the
Hiker hand. put sil*h too mack to
thing* beegua* they are old The alt
t« full of pew plans, new prwjeeta, pew
tpwnrtwn of gwternmen* pew ibewtugtea
•»t t am amated '«* w* hew *>• mawt
Christian* want only n >v*l«» tp wrd- r
M rev rnmewd a tklpp <e tketr eonh
•I wee and *u they vaeiltai* and *wi.vg
iu and fw. and they am wastes* awe
>k-y are wnkappr Mew plan* seen |
l*i. ethiegL pkihmupkWal religion*
• vwAiianihr, Iras* AtUait* long
swowgk tw make a line r*'**kiag ftwo*
the Geraaan ewlveremee te Great halt {i
Lake City. Ah. my brother, do not
take hold of a thing merely because it
is new! Try It by the realities of the
Judgment Day. But, on the other
band, do not adhere to anything mere
ly herause It is old. There Is not a
single enterprise of the church or the
world but has sometime been scoffed
at. There was a time when men de
rided even Bible societies, and when a
few young men met In Massachusetts
and organized the first missionary so
ciety ever organized in this country,
there went laughter and ridicule all
around the Christian church. They
said the undertaking was preposterous.
And so also the work of Jesus Christ
was assailed. People cried out, "Who
ever heard of such theories of ethics
and government? Who ever noticed
such a style of preaching as Jesus
has?" Kzekle] had talked of myste
rious wings and wheels. Here came a
man from Capernaum and Gennessaret
and He drew Ills Illustrations from the
lakes, from the sand, from the moun
tain, from the lilies, from the corn
stalks. How the Pharisees scoffed!
How Herod derided! And this Jesus
they plucked by the heard and they
spat In Ills face, and they called Him
“this fellow!” All the great enter
prises In and out of the church have
at times been scoffed at, and there huve
hern a great multitude who have
thought that the chariot of God's
truth would fall to pieces If It once got
out of the old rut. And so there ate
those who have no patience with any
thing like Improvement In church
architecture, or with anything like
good, hearty, earnest church singing,
and they deride any form of religious
discussion which goes down walking
among everyday men, rather than that
which makes an excursion of rhetor
ical stills. Oh, that the church of God
would wake up to an adaptability of
work! Wp must udmlt the simple fact I
that the churches of Jesus Christ In
this day do not reach the great masses. |
There are fifty thousand people In Kd- j
ililmriZ’h wild Miivpr thn flrmtipl.
There are one million people in Lon- !
don who never hear the Gospel. The
great majority of the Inhabitants of i
this capital como not under the Im
mediate ministrations of Christ’s truth,
and the Church of God in this day, in
stead of being a place full of living
epistles, known and read of all men,
is more like a dead-letter postofOce.
‘‘Gut," say the people, “the world is
going to be converted; you must be pa
tient; the kingdoms of this world are
to become the kingdoms of Christ.”
Never, unless the church of Jesus
Christ puts on more speed and energy. '
Instead of the church converting the '
world, the world is converting the
church. Here Is a great fortress.
How shall it be taken? An army
comes and sits around about ft, cuts
off the supplies, and says; “Now we j
will just wait until from exhaustion
and starvation they will have to give
up.” Weeks and months, and perhaps
a year pass along, and finally the fort
ress surrenders through that starva
tion and exhaustion. Hut, my friends,
the fortresses of sin are never to be
taken in that way. If they are taken !
for God It will be by storm; you will j
have to bring up the great slegu guns I
of the Gospel to the very wall and j
wheel the flying artillery into line, and
when the armed Infantry of heaven
shall confront the battlements you will
have to give the quick command:
“Forward! Charge!”
Ah, ray friends, there is work for you
to do and for me to do in order to this
grand accomplishment. I have a pul
pit. I preach in it. Your pulpit Is the
bank. Your pulpit is the store. Your
pulpit Is the editorial chair. Your pul- I
pit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the |
house of scaffolding. You pulpit Is the \
mechanics’ shop. I may stand in my i
place and, through cowardice or |
through self-seeking, may keep back \
the word I ought to utter; while you, 1
with sleeve rolled up and brow be- j
sweated with toil, may utter the word '
that will jar the foundataions of |
heaven with the shout of u great vie- !
ivjij. «/ii, utigui uii irci mat
the Lord Almighty is putting upon us
the hands of ordination! - 1 tell you,
every one, go forth and preach this
Gospel. You have as much right to
preach as 1 have or any man living.
Medley Vicars was a wicked man in
the Kugllsh army. The grace of God
came to him. Me became an earnest
and eminent Chrlsllun. They scoffed
at him aud said: "You are a hypocrite,
you are as had as ever you were.” '
Still he kept his faith In Christ, and
after a while, finding that they could
not turn him aside by calling him a
hypocrite, they said to him: "Oh. you ,
are nothing hut n Methodist!” This
did not disturb hint. Me went on per- j
forming his Christian duty until he
had formed all his troops Into a lllbls
class, and the whole encampment was
shaken with the presence of God. So
Mavetork went Into the heathen tem
ple in India while the Kngltsh army
was there and put a candle Into the
hand of each of the heathen gftds that
stood around la the heathen temple,
sad by Ihe tight of Ihoaa candles held
up by lha Iduls Uen Havelock preach
»d righteousness, temperance, and
lodgment to coma And who will say
»u earth or In heavan that Havelock
ksd not the right to preach* In the
Minister's hunt where I prepared for
railage there worked a man hr Ihe
same of Petes t'swy Me could neither
read nor write hut he was a man of
d-d Often theologians would elop In
>he house grave thewtugiaae and at
lamtiy prayer Peter Cray w mid he
railed upon to lead, and all Ihoaa wla*
men sat around wonder struck at hi* i
-el gtous *•- iea<r When he prayed
** reached up and eeasned In take bul l
*1 lha vary ihfwne of the Almighty
tad he talked with Hod until the vary !
lee cans were bowed dawn lata the
liningswum on. if I were dying I
■•Old rather have pm!a Peter Ceng
inewl hy mi hsdetde and rommaad wo
•mortal spirit tw U«4 than the grant
wt nrehhtahap arrayed In raally raven
teals. Oo preach this Gospel. You
say you are not licensed. In the name
of the l»rd Almighty, I license you.
Oo preach this Gospel, preach it in the
Sabbath schools. In the prayer-meet
ings, In the highways, In the hedges.
Woe be unto you If you preach It not!
I prepare this sermon because I
want to encourage all Christian work
ers In every possible department.
Hosts of the living God. march on!
march on! His spirit will bless you.
His shield will defend you. His
sword will strike for you. March
on! march on! The despotisms will
fall, and paganism will burn Its Idols,
and Mahometanism will give up Its
false prophet, ami the great walls ot
superstition will come down in thun
der and wreck at the long loud blast
of the Gospel trumpet. March on!
march on! The beslegement w"l soon
be ended. Only a few more steps on
the long way; only a few more sturdy
blows; only a few more battle cries,
then God will put the laurels upon
your brow, and from the living founda
tion of heaven will bathe off the sweat
and the heat and the dust of the con
flict . March on! march on! For you
the time for work will soon he passed,
ami amid the uutfiashlngs of the Judg
ment throne and the trumpeting of
resurrection angels and the upheaving
of a world of graves, and the hosanna
and the groaning of the saved and the
lost, we shall be rewarded for our
faithfulness or punished for our stupid
ity, Blessed be the Lord God of Israel
from everlasting to everlasting, and let
the whole earth he filled with his
glory. Amen and amen.
FEW SHUT DOORS.
Why the People In ('ailed* I.eave
Them Open.
Canadians are known In Britain aa
the people who never shut doors, says
the Montreal Witness. Where rooms
are heated, as they are there, by grate
fires, the opening of a door sets up an
Immediate draught, ami If the person
who opens It docs not close It again he
quickly realizes Ills mistake. If not In
his own sensations, then In the re
proachful glances of others. The first
lewgon In manners taught to children
f« to shut the door, and that quietly.
The door handle, the child is taught,
Is not only for the purpose of open
ing a door, hut of shutting it. The
reason why Canadians do not learn to
shut doors is that their doors, for the
most part, stand open. The houses
are heated with a general heat, and
before the days of furnaces, unless the
doors of the room stood open, the
rooms would, for the most part, get
cold. ThuB has grown the habit of
leaving doors open. When a Canadian
comes to shut a door, he Is prone to
think that something very private Is
going on wllliin which he must not
disturb, and His first Impulse Is to re
tire from It. Where we In Canada
have a door which we want kept shut
we put. a spring on it, and so where
there are many offices there Is usually
a general and constant slamming of
doors. To one not accustomed to the
Jarring thus occasioned the result Is
torture. In time kindly nature steps
In and mitigates the evil by making
tlie auditory nerve less and less sus
ceptible to an accustomed sound. Ask
a person who lives in a cathedral
close, or under the shadow of one of
our great churches, whether the bella
do not. disturb him; his reply is: "Bells?
I never hear them.”
COOLNESS IN THE PULPIT.
Probably Saved a Cougrrsallou from
Tunic ami UlHiistcr.
Already vastly popular with his con
gregation, Rev. Arthur Wellwood of
Brooklyn, raised himself still higher
in general estimation on a recent
Sunday, when his coolness in the pres
ence of danger probably averted a
wild stampede from the Church of the
Incarnation. Although there were in
dications of impending disaster, the
people, acting upon his advice, filed
out of the church in an orderly man
ner to find a fire engine pouring water
flirt I'olliP tVirniifvli it frnnf win.
flow. Shortly ufter 11 o'clock smoko i
began to pour up through the regis
ters. The assistant pastor. Hex. Ar
thur Wellwood, went doxxn to the cel
lar to see If the furnace xx'ns smoking.
He was alarmed to find the cellar full
of smoke, so dense that he could not
go inside. He ran out and turned In j
an alarm. Then he walked rapidly up j
the aisle, and after xvhlsperlng to the
officiating clergyman, said aloud "The ,
furnace seems to be smoking worse {
than usual. I think the congregation 1
had better retire to allow us to open
Ihe windows." The people, assured by j
his ralmuesa. retired In good order. Iiut
be,■utile somewhat alarmed when they 1
saw the engines and firemen fa the j
street.
It at*eii* i mi ttmi..
Mr. Justice Mauls mne went on dr
rult wltb Judge Coleridge In a part of
ibe country where the high sheriff was
b shy and modest man and very much ;
slarmed st having to entertain his
ryalral lordship Cuming home la his
roach with the two lodges he inought '
it his duty tu m*he cunterwaihtn fur
them He ubserved thsl he huped
ibere would bo heller ••sihei ss tbe
■mb bad tbanged “tml are you
iucb e tout. Mr, Junes, es to imagine
ihal Ibe moon has any effect on the
seal her f” seif Mini# Neatly Hr ms
ir Mauls." said (Viands* sin waa
yotltspeea Itself. ”y.»u ere isry hard
iyu« uni friend for my perl, I
blab the sm*s has e mastdstsliis #|
'**t upon H * ‘"rhea.* said Men:*
ius* ere a* great a fuel as Juaea te "
tfter whtcb ruaterwsip.n la the shoe
•'a earring* taagn abed No* beaut
!»*m».<r*i end K** order.
It rains ua an e»*rage jgp data It the >
tear la IrtNad, about iff ta gag la ad
yt Keaaa about ninety del*. aad Ip Nr- '
serta only etaty Aar*
| IT TBAVKLS ON LAND.
A QUEER STEAMER TO DE
FOUND IN DENMARK.
It Kiiiit on Tito Lnkca and tl>* I»tlimr.a
l!«tw«0n i’MMmigrra Du Not DUfia*
•»*rk rrluelple of thfl (tout — Two
Hiu^ntiuBi.
In Denmark they have a boat which
travels both on land and water. J. W.
Smith writes of this curiosity In the
Strand Magazine: This might be called
the crocodile of boats, for she seems as
much at home on land as In water. She
comes up out of the water, as shown In
tfcir first illustration, crosses a narrow
strip of land on a little railway, and
descends into the water again with ut
most grace of motion. During her
short career of three summers, she has
safely carried over forty thousand peo
ple, most, of whom have been Intensely
attracted by the novelty of the thing.
Kor the Swan Is, I believe, the only
Itoat of her kind In the world.
To see her. you must go to Denmark.
A half-hour by rail northward from Co
penhagen will bring you to a little vil
lage named l.yngby, which lies on the
edge of one of three beautiful lakes.
These are greatly beloved by the Co
penhagenltcs, who use them for recrea
tion. The likeness Is even more evi
dent after you have boarded one of the
little steam launches which ply from
l.yngby to Krederiksdal ucross Lake
l.yngby for this launch, sometimes
with two or three crowded and stocky
barges In tow, soon enters a pretty lit
tle creek, which winds and twists like
the upper reaches of the Thames. The
trip to Krederiksdal takes about half
an hour, and costs half a kroner—
slightly more than sixpence. As the
amphibious boat lies by the landing
stage at Krederiksdal ready to take her
passengers on board, she looks much
the same as other boats. If. for a mo
ment, we may call attention to the
Swan discharging her passengers at
rreueriasuai, we may note inis simi
larity, except that the Swan Ih slightly
broader, with her lines full fore and
aft, in order to allow a framework for
the wheels. Wheels? Yes, most cer
tainly, for how else could she go over
the rails on the Fiskebaek, out of the
water and In again? It Is In regard to
the double use of wheels and propeller
that the Swan Is unique, and If a little
technical language Is pardoned, the
construction may be easily explained.
There is plenty of time to do it, for the
boat is now on her way across bake
Fure—or, as the Danish call It, the
Fure So—and it will be over an hour
before she rides on the railway at
Fiskebaek. The boat, then, is 46 feet
long, 9 feet 6 inches beam, and draws
3 feet to 3V6 feet of water, according
to the load. Seventy passengers can
be comfortably carried, and, at a pinch,
she will take eighty-four. With a full
load she weighs 15 tons, anil when emp
ty 11*6 tons. Parallel with the pro
peller shaft 1b another shaft, one end of
which runs to within 10 feet of the bow,
and these two shafts are connected
with each other "by chain gearing, like
the two wheels of a bicycle. The end
of the second shaft is connected near
the bow by bevel gears, to a little shaft
at right angles, and on this shaft are
keyed the two little wheels which carry
the boat across the rails. Another pair
of wheels is to be found at a like dis
tance from the stern, but these are not
driven. These are used to keep the
boat on the rails, and, with the help of
a brake, from going Into the water too
quickly. The wheels are about 18
inches in diameter, and carry two
flanges, the bearing surface being a lit
tle wider than the rails upon which they
run. So much for the heavy descrip
tion. It is. however, always necessary,
although I daresay that two-thirds of
the 40,000 people who have sailed In
the Swan have thought of little else
except the mere fact that they were
sailing In n boat on wheels. The in
terest of the passengers in this ‘•mere
fact" Is always shown as the Swan ap
proaches the end of her trip across the
Fure So. They crowd to the bow, ex
pecting every moment to see the how
rising out of the water, as if it were a
whale that had suddenly decided t->
ionic to the surface. Hut the trlek is
not done with sky-roekei quickness;
instead, the boat gradually nears the
shore, where a little dork has been eon- >
atrueted of piles rammed down into the |
mud. It is a V-shaped arrangement
tapered down until It Isouly two turtles ,
wider than the boat at its widest part. |
That ia to say, there remains Imt one ;
inch on each side of the parallel «leafs
or fllleta which rim along the side of !
the boat. Aa the hunt lits tightly, there
is no chance for It to wobble, and pas- (
etigers are tuu< h safer ou It than they i 1
would Ims on a 'bus or an electric car.
When the narrowest part of this V- | 1
shaped dock Is reached, the Swan en 1
‘ers a small parallel dock of equal
width and mum onward slowly until
the front wheel* on tha keel touch the | I
tails, which, for this purpose have been j i
Till! «W4N C*<W#!NO t )(K UlKU
i ' • it 11 fiiilliH
extended some distance at a gradient of
1 In 30 below the water. All this
time, of course, the propeller has been
at work shoving the boat onward, and
it keeps throwing out a circular column
of beautiful spray until the boat 13
completely out of the water, and has
begun its trip across the Flskebaek.
To see the screw whirling around In the
air like a Holland windmill always
tickles the crowd on board, who, at the
of losing their precious noses, put
their heads over the stern of the boat
to see the circus underneath. The rear
wheels find their way naturally to the
rails, and the Swan rests as steadily
and prettily on the land as a real swan
rests on water.
The Illustration shows the Swan rest
ing gracefully on the rails. Most read
ers will be surprised, as I was, to see
such small wheels; but It is the princi
ple of the thing, and not the size of
the wheels which makes the boat Inter
esting. When the boat stops to be
photographed, or through any othtr
cause, the curiously-minded turn to
this part of the hull with unerring en
ergy, and closely examine it. The
wheels are supported, as It were, by a
steel frame-work, riveted to the hull,
and resembling a patch on the side of
a shoe.
The Idea of taking a boat across land
on wheels Is not new, although the
Scandinavians are the first to put the
Idea Into practice. Several years ago,
Captain J. B. Kads, one of the best
“THE SWAN- ABOUT TO ENTER THE WATER.
known American engineers, proposed a
plan for a ship rullway across Tehuan
tepec, in Central America, but the plan
was never realized. Perhaps these
seeming difficulties In the way discour
aged other inventors. At all events,
when the amphibious boat was first
talked about old sea-dogs shook their
heads, refusing to believe in the possi
bility of the enterprise, and describing
It as imaginary and of no practical util
ity. The world, however, moves.
Key t'oiicrslsd In > Hlug,
A Cincinnatian but lately returned
from England tellH of a rather novel in
novation In the way of locks anti keys,
or to speak more correctly, key. At a
country place he visited he was sur
prised to see his host unlock the gate
way of the place with a small key that
In some mysterious way was produced
from a large seal ring he wore. Yet
the ring was not large enough to lte
conspicuous by reason of Its size or
style. As he expressed some surprise
in the matter, his host said; "This is
a master key. You see, it slides under
the set in the ring, and occupies no
space whatever. It will unlock every
lock about the place, even my dressing
bag, my trunk, my bond box and wine
cellar." He was asked as to the ar
rangement in general; whether one key,
Bay of the butler, would unlock the
front door. "Not at all." he replied.
•The locks are all arranged In suites.
The butler ran unlock all the doors that
ire In his department, and the house
keeper can uulock the linen closets and
ather doors under her supervision, but
she cannot get into the butler's do
main. And in every other department
about the place from end to end every
me has his or her key, but I have
nnly the master key. All of the doors
ipen to me. My valet can open my
Iressiug case and closets, but he can
not get a bottle of wine. Of course,
lie arrangement In a seal ring is uov
»l, but It is very handy for me. In
lie first place, 1 cannot lose it. and in
he second place, everything opens to
ne without asking a question Cincin
nati Enquirer.
sh« WanttMl I’roof.
Tramp Madam, have pity on a
lour man out of employment, I have
lot tasted food for two days." laidy --
What la your occupation?" Tramp—
■| was formerly a teacher of stage
laming" lady—"Well, take this ax
md go around to the wood pile and
iee If you have forgotten how to do
he spill.'*
An Oklahoma lawyer named Crank
uss petitioned the court to change his
lame
DISCOVERIES IN SCOTLAND.
Hp#<'lmeitM of (:e|>lml*i|>la Fonnd la S
CIIIT at Oallnnarh.
(Scottish Letter.!
The district in and around Oban ras
in recent years yielded antiquarian and
geological discoveries of peculiar scien
tific value and importance. In 'he
course of excavation for building pur
poses about two ypars ago a large pre
historic cave, containing a collection of
animal and human remains and sev
eral specimens of beautifully shaped
Implements of stone and bone, was dis
closed In a central part of the town of
Oban, ami more recently a find of con
siderable interest. If of lesser Import
ance, was made at (Sallannch, the ad
joining estate of Patten Maedougall.
It was only thp other day that a num
ber of urns of baked clay werp un
earthed on the borders of the burgu
boundary, and that has now been fol
lowed by a fresh discovery, and ont;
which Is believed to be most signifi
cant of all, in a rocky cliff on the hill
behind the town. In the month of
June last a slight subsidence occurred
In the cliff, and the fallen rocks hav
ing come under the notice of an officer
of the geological survey, who Is at
present mapping the district, and who
■ame to the conclusion that they con
tained fossliiferous remains, they were
subjected to investigation by a special
ist The surfaces of the rocks boro
well defined ripple marks, and rain
lilts, while worm pipes were as dis
cernible as they are In the sand on til*
seashore at the present day. No def
inite fossil forms were brought to light
with the exception that a gray layer of
shale at the base of the cliff yielded si
few fragmentary specimens of cephal
aspla.
A further examination of the rocks,
however, has now been begun, and the
results are already of the most satis
factory character. A large number of
more perfect specimens of cephalaspla
have been produced, and, though none
of them are complete, they conclusive
ly mark the geological age ot the rocks
In which they were Imbedded. Sir
Archibald Qelklc has always believed
that the purple shaft and conglomerate
strata of Western Argyleshire belong
to the lower old red sandstone age, and
while he regarded the somewhat in
definite forms discovered In June as
confirming this opinion, the more re
cent specimens place It beyond doubt.
So far the specimens embrace only the
heads of cephalaspfs, but several of
them are particularly well defined. In
one case the outlines of the head are
almost perfectly preserved, and the
eyes are distinct and prominent enough
to look uncanny. Cephalaspla Is clas
sified as one of a peculiar and extreme
ly ancient breed of palaeozoic fishes,
limited to upper Silurian and lower old
red sandstone; It belongs to a group of
fossil fishes which are among the vety
earliest to appear In the geologic if
record. Though confined to the lower
old red In Britain, cephalaspla survived
up into upper old red sandstone times
In Canada. The present discovery .s
not only of outstanding lmuortaneo
geologically, us fixing the age of tho
old red outlier of Oban, but It enables
it to be correlated with the same form
ation In other parts of Scotland. With
the exception of some worm trails and
pipes in quartzite discovered and de
scribed some years ago by the duke of
Argyll, these older raetamorphic rocks
on which the old red sandstone rests
have never to now yielded any fossils,
aud in the ubsence of these Invaluable
aids the geologist Is largely left in
darkness. Hugh Miller has describe!
the Highlands as a picture set In a
frame of old red sandstone. At Oban
the frame and picture can be seen tn
contact.
Wu»l Persia.
Persian wool Is going to Russia,
France aud the I’nlted Rules. Our
import of thst commodity Is made via
Marseilles, a small portion only of
that clipped from the millions of sheep
In the country Is used there, and that
in** for the manufacture of carets
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