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To meet the great demand for new
guns the royal gun factory of Wool
wich, England, is being enlarged.
A war balloon, such as Is used at
fhe present operations, can be inflated
and floated in not more than twenty
minutes.
Owing to the stubborn resistance of
the Sultan the cities of the west coast
of Morocco are still without tele
graphic connection.
A special service for the detection of
gambling has been organized by the
police of Vienna, Austria. The police
seek for offenders not only In cafes,
but also in clubs and private apart
ments.
Reports Just received from the
Wlilte-House-Harrlson expedition to
Abyssinia, which safely returned to
Mombasa, on the east coast of Africa,
on June 10, shows that the explorers
found the districts around Lake Ru
dolph and Stephanie deserted, and that
the Inhabitants bad either died or left
the country. It Is added that the
kraals were discovered to be full of
skeletons.
Scientists are much perplexed over
the finding of a curious chain In the
ruins of a house at Pompeii, ami none
of the wise men has as yet been able to
give any idea as to the uses of the
article. Further research may show
that the Roman matrons were accus
tomed to chain their husbands to the
wall when the Gracchian league of Ad
vanced Femininity held its weekly
meetings.
The first place at which one of the
census-takers in the District of Colum
bia called on the morning of June 1
was the executive mansion. The presi
dent's secretary was prepared to tell
him Mr. McKinley's age at his last
birthday, his color, occupation, and
whether he could write and speak
English. The president is one man in
the country whose census questions a
great many other people could answer
for him with reasonable accuracy.
Nine out of ten travelers would tell
Inquirers that the roughest piece of
water is that cruel stretch in the Eng
lish channel, and nine out of ten trav
elers would say what was not true. In
<*eality the "wickedest bit of sea” is
not in the Dover straits; or in yacht
ting, for example, from St. Jean de
Luiz up to Pauillac; or across the
Mediterranean race from Cadiz to
Tanglers. Nor is it in rounding Cape
Horn, where there is what sailors call
a "true” sea. The “wickedest sea” is
encountered in rounding the Cape of
Good Hope for the eastern ports of
Cape Colony.
According to the annual report of
the British comptroller-general of pat
ents, a number of new acts have been
passed in Japan to amend the law of
patents, designs and trade marks. Un
der these acts the duration of a patent
is fixed at fifteen years, and of the
copyright of a design ten years, sub
ject to the payment of annual fees.
The term of protection obtained by
registration of a trade mark is fixe i
at twenty years, except in the case of
trade marks previously registered
abroad, where the term is the same as
that for which the original registra
tion is valid.
M. Leuret, the French manufacturer
of artificial pearls from fish scales,says
that he will come to the United States
and erect works as soon as he hears
of a locality where the right kind of
scales can be had in large quantities.
It is suggested that a suitable place
might be found on the St. Lawrence
river, among the Thousand Islands.
The scales should be small and have a
silver sheen. The brighter they are
the higher price they will command.
The scales should be removed while
the fish are alive if possible. Twenty
five thousand pounds of these scales
can be used a year. It is anticipated
that twice that quantity may be used
in a few years.
A timely warning is sound* d against
my wholesale rush ot fortune-seekers
\a South Africa. The ending of the
car and the absorption of the Boer
Cates into the British Umpire will
■ oubtless stimulate migration to thus*
.egions and will also increase the op
portunities of profitable settlement
there. But it will not be prudent for
any one to go thither without some
capital, or at least sufficient resource,
fo maintain him for some time in Inde
pendence of anything he may or may
not do there, it |s an expensive coun
try to live In. and the gold mines and
other sources of profit can be worked
only at considerable expense It is a
country In which capital will find prof
(table investment, but mu one in which
the pentnlees adventurer la likely to
pick up a fortune.
If village Improvement societies, to
make n town more beautiful, why not
public progress boards to make It mors
busy? 8u*h a society has just been
organised In Uaatlne. Maine, and Its
, pr«a« at l".il. » tc »i..i i. » -
•hip building firm tu bests its ,,|4Ut
In that pretty town, which la a great
deni more likely to get Its wish than
It would be If It sat down and waited
to te discovered Many a decaying
p*weo would be prosperous today If It
had SOOt Its advantages to market In
•tend Of expecting some capitalist to
•wee* after them with big ova wagoa.
TALMAGES SERMON.
RELIGION A P REV E JITATIVE OF
THE WORLD’S ILLS.
It I» an Acllft Prlnclpla, Says Dr. TaW
un.gr. Which Constantly Works for
the Walters ol tha Itody, Mind and
BouL
(Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.)
Dr. Talmage la now traveling in
Norway, where he has been deeply
Interested In the natural phenomena
and the quaint social life of that won
derful land. In his discourse this
week he argues, contrary to the opin
ion of many, that religion is an active
principle which works constantly for
the welfare of body and mind and
soul. His text is Luke xiv„ 34, ‘Sait
la good."
Tha Bible Is a dictionary of the
finest ■linlles. It employs, among liv
ing creatures, storks and eagles and
doves and unicorns and sheep and cat
tle; among trees, sycamores and tere
binths and pomegranates and al
monds and apples; among Jewels,
pearls and amethysts and Jacinths and
ehrysoprases. Christ uses no stale
Illustrations. The lilies that he plucks
for his sermons are dewy fresh; the
ravens In his discourses are not stutt
ed specimens of birds, but warm with
life from wing tip to wing tip; the
fish he points to are not dull about
the gills, as though long captured,
but a-8qulrm In the wet net Just
brought up on the beach of Tiberias.
In my text, which is the peroration of
one of his sermons, he picks up a
crystal and holds It before his 'on
gregatlon as an illustration of divine
grace in the heart, when he says, what
we all know by experiment, "Salt Is
good."
I shall try to carry out the Savior's
Idea In this text and In the first place
say to you that grace Is like salt in
Its beauty. In Galicia there are mines
of salt, with excavations and under
ground passages reaching, 1 am told.
280 miles. Far under ground there
are chapels and halls of reception, the
columns, the altars and the pulpits or
salt. When the kins and the princes
come to visit these mines, the whole
place is illuminated, and the glory of
crystal walls and crystal ceilings and
crystal floors and crystal columns,
under the glare of the torches and the
'amps, needs words of crystal to de
scribe It. But you need not go so
far as that to And the beauty of salt.
You live In a land which produces mil
lions of bushels of It In a year, and
you can take the morning rail train
and In a few hours get to the salt
mines and salt springs. And you
fc.avc this article morning, noon and
night on your table. Salt has all the
beauty of the snowflake and water
foam with durability added. It Is
beautiful to the naked eye. but under
'he glass you see the stirs and the
diamonds and the white tree branches
ind the splinters and the bridges of
Are as the sun glints them. There is
more architectural skill In one of these
crystals of salt than human Ingenu
ity has ever demonstrated In an Al
hambra or St. Peter’s.
find's Mrrrlm Innumrrnbte.
It would take all time, with an in
fringement upon eternity, for an an
,tel of God to tell one-half the glories
in a salt crystal. So with the grace
of God. It is perfectly beautiful. I
have seen It smooth out wrinkles of
care from the brow. I have seen It
make an aged man feel almost young
again. I have seen It lift the stoop
ing shoulders and put sparkle Into the
dull eye. So'omon discovered Us
i merapeutic qua mes wnen ne said, "It
Is marrow to the bones.” It helps to
ligest the food and to purify the
blood and to calm the pulses and qu!»t
the spleen, and Instead of Tyndals
r rayer test of 20 years ago. putting a
ran in a philosophical hospital to be
xperlmented upon by prayer. It keeps
nim so well that he does not need to
be prayed for as ait Invalid. 1 am
speaking now of a healthy region—not
if that morbid religion that sits for
three hours on a gravestone reading
ilarvey's "Meditation* Among the
Toml s"—a religion thoO prospers best
!n a bad state of the liver! 1 speak
of the religion that Christ preached, l
suppose when that religion has con
quered the world that diiwise will be
banl:hed and that a man a hundred
years of age will come In from busi
ness and sav: "I feel tired. 1 think
t must be time for me to go." and
without one physical pang heaven will
have him.
Hut the chief beauty of grace la in
ihe eoul. It takes that which was
bard and cold and repulsive and
makes It all over again. It pours
ipon ones nature what David calls
the beauty of holiness.” it extir
pates everything that la hateful ami
unclean. If Jealousy and pride and
mat and werldlluesa lurk about, they
ire chained and have a very small
sweep Jesus throws upon the soul
the fragrance of g summer garden as
he comes In. saying. I am the rose
f Sharon." and he submerges It witn
he glory of a spring morning as he
says. ”1 am the light Oh. how atueh
(hat gr.ee did for the three Johns!
ll took John Hunyan the foul (north
ed. and made John Hunyan. the tin
mortal dreamer It tooh John New
*on, Ihe lafldel siilor, and in the mid*
of the hurricane made him cry <mii.
"My mother e <Jod, have mercy upon
me?" It toek John it urn me. Held (rum
a life ef atn and. by the hand u( a
1‘hrletUn maker of edge Iwih. led him
into the pulpit that burns etltl with
the light uf I he I i'hnsuan eloquence
• hivh iharmed thousand* le (he Jeett*
whom he uwe* despised Ah. ywu may
, eeervh all the earth ewer her anyihiag
an beautiful or beautifying as the
grae« of God. Go all through Che deep
min* passages of Wieliczka and amid
the underground kingdoms of salt in
Hallstadt, and show me anything so
exquisite, so transcendently beautiful
as this grace of God fashioned and
hung in eternal crystals.
A Kenolt; of Utc.
Again, grace is like salt In the fact
that it is a necessity of life. Man
and beast perish without salt. What
are those paths across the western
prairies? Why. they were made thnre
by deer and buffalo going and coming
away from salt “licks.” Chemists and
physicians all over the world tell us
that salt Is a necessity of life. And
■o with the grace of God; you must
have it or die. I know a great many
speak of it as a mere adornm«nt, a
sort of shoulder strap adorning a
soldier, or a light, frothing dessert
brought In after the greatest part or
the banquet of life is over, or a medi
cine to be taken after powders and
mustard plasters have failed to do
their work, but ordinarily a mere
superfluity, a string of bells around a
horse’s neck while he draws the load,
and in nowise helping him to draw It.
So far from that, I declare the grace
of God to be the first and the last ne
cessity. It Is food we must take or
starve into an eternity of famine. It
is clothing without which we freeze
to the mast of intinite terror. It Is
the plank, and the only plank, on
which we can float shoreward. It is
the ladder, and the only ladder, on
which we can climb up into the light.
It is a positive necessity for the soul.
You can tell very easily what the ef
fect would be If a person refused to
take salt into the body. The energies
would fail, the lungs would struggle
with the air, slow fevers would crawl
through the brain, the heart would
flutter, the life would be gone. Salt
a necessity for the life of the body;
the grace of God a necessity for the
life of the soul.
Again I remark that grace la like
salt In abundance. God has strewn
salt In vast profusion all over the con
tinents. Russia seems built on a salt
cellar. There Is one region In that
country that turns out 90,000 tons a
year. England and Russia and Italy
have Inexhaustible resources In this
respect. Norway and Sweden, white
with snow above, white with salt be
neath. Austria yielding 900,000 tons
annually. Nearly all the nations rich
in It—rock salt, spriug salt, sea salt.
Christ, the Creator of the world, when
he uttered our text, knew it would be
come more and more significant as the
shafts were sunk and the springs were
bored and the pumps were worked
and the crystals were gathered. So
the grace of God is abundant. It is
for all lands, for all ages, for all con- ;
ditions. It seems to undergird every- !
thing. Pardon for the worst sin, com
fort for the sharpest suffering, bright- !
est light for the thickest darkness
Around about the salt lakes of Saratov
there are 10,000 men toiling day and
night, and yet they never exhaust the
saline treasures. And if the 1,600,000,
000 of our race should now cry out to
God for his mercy there would be
enough for all—for those farthest
gone In sin, for the murderer standing
cn the drop of the gallows. It is an
ocean of mercy; and if Europe and
Asia, Africa, North and South Amer
ica and all the islands of the sea went
down in it today they would have
room enough to wash and come up
clean. Let no man think that his
case is too tough a one for God to
act upon. Though your sin may be
deep and raging, let me tell you that
God’s grace is a bridge not built on
earthly piers, but suspended and span
ning the awful chasm of your guilt,
one end resling upon the rock of eter
nal promises and the other on the
foundations of heaven. Demetrius
wore a robe so incrusted with Jewels
that no one after him ever dared to
wear it, but our King. Jesus, takes oil
the robe of His righteousness, a robe
blood-dyed and heavcn-impearled. and
reaches it out to the worst wretch In
all the earth and says: "Put that on!
Wear it now! Wear It forever!"
• Pure Helot? f he Surface.
Again, the grace of Uod is like salt
In the way we come at It. The salt
on the surface Is almost always Im
pure—that which Incrusts the Rocky
mountains and the South American
pampas and in India; but the miners
go down through the shafts and
through the dark labyrinths and along
by galleries of rock and with torches
and pickaxes And their way under the
very foundations of the earth, to
where the salt lies that makes up the
nation s wealth To get to the best
saline springs of the earth huge ma
chinery goes down, boring depth be
low depth, depth below depth, until
from under the very roots of the
mountains, the saline water supplies
I I he aqueduct. This water la brought
to the aurface and Is exposed In tank*
to the sun for evaporation, or It I*
put In boiler* mightily heeled, and th»
water evaporates, and the salt gather,
at the bottom of the tank—the work
| la completed and the fortune made.
Ho with the grace of Uod It Is to lie
profound!) Bought after With all tht
concentrated energies of body, mind
and soul We must dig for It. No man
■tumble, accidentally on It. We need
to go down to the very lowest atrata
1 of earnest ness and faith to And It
ktipeiAltai exploration will not turn
it up W. must strive and Implore
and dig until w# strike lbs spring
foaming with living water* Then 'h<
noth of evaporation begins and ns
• hen ike miins **>ii nr* mp«»i to
the ton tbs vapors Boat away. Isav
lag nothing but Ike pure white suit
el Ik* bottom uf Iks tank, so whtu
I Ike Christian e»ul la etpueed lu Uxe
| Nun ef Righteousness the vapors nf
pride and saSflshiifss and worldlfness
float off, and there is chiefly left be
neath pure white holiness of heart.
Then, as in the case of the salt, the
furnace is added. Blaring troubles,
stirred by smutted stokers of darkness,
quicken the evaporation of worldll
ness, and the crystaltsation of grace,
• • •
The PIvotsl Hattie.
When Gov. Geary of Pennsylvania
died, years ago, 1 lost a good friend.
He impressed me mightily with the
horrors of war. In the eight hours
that we rode together In the cars he
recited to me the scenea through
which he had passed in the civil war.
He said that there came one battle
upon which everything seemed to
pivot. Telegrams from Washington
said that the life of the nation de
pended on that struggle. He said to
me: “I fcent into that battle, sir,
with my son. Ills mother and 1
thought everything of him. You know
how a father will feel toward his son
who Is coming up manly and brave
and good. Well, the battle opened and
concentrated, and it was awful.
Horses and riders bent and twisted
and piled up together. It was awful,
sir. We quit firing and took to the
point of the bayonet. Well, sir, I
didn't feel like myself that day. I
had prayed to God for strength for
that particular battle, and I went Into
It feeling that I had In my right arm
the strength of ten giants.” And as
the governor brought his arm down
on the back of the seat it fairly made
the car tremble. "Well,” he said,
"the battle was desperate, but after
awhile we gained a little, and we
marched on a little. I turned round
to the troops and shouted: ‘Come on,
boys!* and I stepped ncross a dead
soldier, and, lo! It was my son! 1
saw at the first glance he was dead,
and yet I did not dare to stop a min
ute, for the crisis had come in the bat
tle. So I Just got down on my knees, i
find I tnrew ray arms around blm, and j
I gave him one good kiss and said, j
'Uoodby, dear,* and sprang up and i
shouted, ‘Come on. boys!’’’ So It Is J
In the Christian conflict—It la a fierce
fight. Eternal ages seem depending
on the strife. Heaven Is waiting for
the bulletins to announce the tremen
dous issue. Hall of shot, gash of
saber, fall of battie-a*. groaning on
every side. We cannot stop for loss
or bereavement or anything else. With
one ardent embrace and one loving
kiss we utter our farewells and then
cry: "Come on. boys! There are
other heights to be captured; there
are other foes to be conquered; there
are other crowns to be won.”
Yet, as one of the Lord's surgeons,
I must bind up two or three wounds.
Just lift them now, whatever they be.
I have been told there Is nothing like
salt to stop the bleeding of a wound, 1
and so 1 take this salt of Christ's
gospel and put it on the lacerated j
soul. It smarts a little at first, but ;
see—the bleeding stops, and lo, the (
flesh comes again as the flesh of a lit- 1
tie child. "Salt is good.” “Comfort
one another with these words.”
TO PREVENT BALDNESS.
Sugcestioiu for I’reurrvInB the Hulr by
» UermatologlMt.
The men of my father's generation
habitually used pomades on the scalp, j
To protect the hair coverings from the j
grease on their heads tidies came into
vogue. Then the pendulum swung
the other way, and now pomades of all
kinds are tabooed. That there has |
been a great increase in baldness
among young men of the present gen
eration is a general impression, al
though 1 know of no statistics to sup
port or refute it. Some fifteen years
ago, when I first became interested In
the study of diseases of the hair, I
accepted the teaching of the time that
pomades did no good, and, becoming
raociu, uiu pumiive tun m. v» uu cu- i
larging experience I am becoming
more and more convinced that l was
wrong and that one reason why the
hair is lost so early nowadays is be
cause the sons have forgotten the
teachings and practice of their fathers
in regard to the use of pomades. They
neither use pomades nor seek to stimu
late the natural oily supply to the hair ;
by systematic brushing. Instead
they daily wet their heads with water
to enable them to arrange their hair.
By not using pomades and by wetting
the hair instead of brushing it their
hair becomes more and more dry, dan
druff Increases, and their hair falls. I
believe that If boys were trained to
brush their hair thoroughly every
night and morning and had a little po
made that would uot turn rancid, such
as contains sulphur or aalyclllc* acid,
for Instance, rubbeu Into their scalps
once a week or so, and avoided wetting
their heads, baldness In the rising gen
eration would uot be so prevalent as It
Is in this.—Medical News.
Rtrly In Kngboot.
Articles of value could he sent If an
arcount of them were given at (he
othce. In 1711 an act wns passed abol- '
tahtng the penny poet. They were taxed
with the rates and stamped with the
mark of the general postofflee, and
the rate was l shilling per ounce for
parrels, letters could be carried
eighty miles for 2 pence; letters more
than eighty miles, 2 peuce and 4 pence.
A letter to llublin rust 4 pence slugle,
and double letters 1 shilling, and 1
shilling and 4 peine an ounce. For
eign postage was not expensive. la
I7i>3, for Instance, a letter of a single
sheet could be carried to lh# West In
dies fur l shilling and 1 pence, and In
; I Jo* Mr 1‘orey established s foot post
carrying letters lu the lamdon district
only, for half a penny, it was not
1 long, however, before the post*! au
thorities stopped him
Happiness to g grant bewail her.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON IV. JULY 22—MATTHEW
16:13-26
Golden Teat—"If Any Man Will tome
After Me, Let Him Deny Himself, and
Take t'p Hl« Cross, and Follow Me”—
Matt. 10: 24.
13. "When Jesus came.” The place
from which he came is not stated, but It
would naturally be through Bethsalda
(Murk 8:22) on his way northward along
the road that runs east of the Jordan to
"the coasts." Parts, district, "the region
belonging to a city, the country around
it."--Thayer. Murk says “to the villages
of Cesareu Philippi” (see “Place" above).
"He usked his disciples,” ufter he had
been praying alone (Luke). As usuul, the
great epoch, the new work, began In
prayer. His object seems to have been to
draw out the faith of his disciples, and
to reveal to them more fully his nature
and his redeeming work.
14. “Some suy . . . John the Bap
tist,” returned to life. Among these was
Herod (Matt. 14: 1. 2). "Home, Kltas.”
Greek form of Elijah, who had wrought
some great mirucles. and had turned the
tide of the nation from heathen worship
to the true God, and was the promised
forerunner of the Messiah (Mai. 4: 5, 8).
"And others, Jeremlas.” The Greek form
of Jeremiah. "Jeremiah Is placed lirst,
because In the Jewish canon be wus
placed first among the Old Testament
prophets." "Or one of the prophets,” 1.
e., "that one of the old prophets Is risen
again” (Luke V: 19).
15. “But whom (R. V., "who") say ye
that I am?" Observe "ye," plural, and
by position tn the Greek exceedingly em
phatic—In contrast with the discordant
popular opinions. What have you learned
about me and my work during the two
or three years you have known me?
16. "And Simon Peter answered.” "The
question Is addressed to all, and Peter
answers as their spokesman, Just us he
does In many other cases."—Broadus,
"Thou urt the Christ." The expected
Messiah for whom the people were look
ing utul hoping.
17. "Blessed urt thou." Because thou
hast opened thy heart to the truth; be
cause thou hnst broken from the bond
age of Jewish prejudice and worldly vis
ion; because thou hast such tlrm confi
dence In such a Saviour. "Simon Bur
Jona,” I. e., son of Jonah. Bar Is Ara
maic (the Syriac Hebrew then In use)
for "son.” Jonah should begin with a
capital J. as In the H. V. "For flesh
and blood (man) hath not revealed” this
unto you. It hag not Its origin In the
mere human knowledge. In the workings
of the human mind. "But my Father
which Is In heaven.” God Hashed forth
the truth, and Peter did not close his eyes
that he might not see.
IS. “Thou art Peter.” Greek, Petros,
a stone, a piece of rock, as in Homer of
Ajax throwing a stone nt Hector (Iliad.
VII.), and now attention Is culled to
Its meaning. "Upon this rock.” Petra,
the feminine Petros, denoting rock, bed
rock, as distinguished from a stone or
piece of rock.
"And the gates of hell.” Gales of
hades, which Is composed of the Greek
a not, and idein to see, and stgnltles
the Invisible lund, the realm of the dead,
19. “I will give unto thee." As one of
the ehlefest of the apostles, the first
among “The keys of the kingdom of
heaven.” The keys are the means fcy
which one enters a house, a city, or a
treasury. The kingdom of heaven, not
the abode of the blest, but the kingdom
of God on earth, Is represented under the
figure of a city with gates, or of a large
house with gates for entrance, and doors
of treasure room. "Whatsoever thou
shult bind on earth.” That Is, forbid or
declare forbidden. “Shalt loose on
earth.” That Is, ullow, declare to be per
mitted. "Shall be bound In heaven."
20. “Then charged he his disciples that
they should tell no man that he was . .
the Christ.” Omit "Jesus,” or, that he,
Jesus, was the Christ. Why not proclaim
this glorious truth trom the house-tops?
21. "Prom that time.” The disciples
were now strong enough In their convic
tion that Jesus was the Messiah to have
their errors concerning his nature and
kingdom corrected.
22. "Then Peter took him” one side to
speak to him privately. "And began to
rebuke him.” Only began, for be was
Interrupted. His was a mingled motive
of love and self-assurance that he was
right. "Saying, Be it far from thee,
Lord.” The plan of redemption outlined
by Jesus was so contrary to all Peter's
< xpectatlons and hopes, so completely op
posite to bis picture of the Messiah king
and his reign, that It seemed Inconceiv
able to Peter.
23. “But he turned." Turned round to
the disciples (M irk S: 3ft). "And said un
to Peter.” Publicly before them all.
"Get thee behind me, Satan." Satan
means "adversary," the great "enemy”
or ail goou, uweu m inc saviours rune
•if a proper name. "Thou art an offence."
A stumbling block Instead of a founda
tion stone; a hindrance, by placing be
fore Idm the very temptation which Ha
tan had presented to him In the wilder
ness. “For thou savourest” tmlr.de“t
"partakest of the quality of") "not the
things that he eif Hod." Hod's wise [dun
for his kingdom. "But those that be of
men." The natural, human view of the
Messiah, a worldly kingdom, riches, hon
or. glory and triumph.
24 "If any man will (would, wishes to)
eome after me." He his follower, his dis
ciple; and seek to attain his character
and his reward, "l-et him deny himself."
Renounce self as master and accept
t'hrlst as master.
25. "For whosoever will save his life."
Wishes, wills to save It, by doing wrong,
by avoiding hard duties and self-denial,
by gaining worldly good at the expense
of religion and righteousness. "Hhull
lose It." Khali utterly fall, shall lose ev
en the earthly rewards he seeks, and his
eternal blessedness. I.lfe If the same
word as soul In the next verse. It Is the
man himself, and all that In his eyes
makes life worth living "And whosoev
er will lose his life." The lower life,
the things that seem to worldly men to
make life worth living
g "For what Is a man profited, if be
shull gain the whole world twhleh he
never does), and lose his own soulT" All
that makes It |ms*ltile for him to use or
enjoy the world he has gained What
good do worldly thlnga do to one who
Is sick, or suffer* the stings of con
science, or destroys the character which
siijoy the world he has gained.
... sad Vr. b dear on.
t'anon Bellalrw, who died In Kngland
recently. was an t>ld enemy til the
helltgerant Archdeacon lienlson lie
waa a school Inspector la-fore the act
al t>7U. and Kaat llrent waa In hts
district. The nrchdeacon objected to
government Inspection of his echaul.
taught the children to alng some line#
of ridicule when his brother clergy
man appeared, and nt Inst wrote to
Mr Be I la Ira telling him that he would
put him In the village horsepon.l If
he again dared to show his facs la that
1 part u4 jjwmerset i
TRAVELING ON SUNDAY, f
Its Dreartf cm Accounted for by a Veteran
of the Road.
A man who travels much on busi
ness said yesterday that, as far as his
observation went, the number of per
sons who set out on long Journeys
Sunday exceeded that of week days.
.When he made this remark he was
speaking of the suggestion made re
cently in Chicago that a car for di
vine service be attached to through
trains. "Thli suggestion is idle,’’ he
said. “Not S per cent of Sunday trav
elers would heed the services, aatl
those who d Id would get little good
from them. It Beems clear to me,” he
went on, "tLat more people prefer
Sunday to any other day to make long
journeys on. I know that every time
I have within the last year bad to go
to some distant point the train has
been packed, not a seat empty. In or
der to be sure of a seat I make a point
of getting to the station early. Late
comers frequently have to stand.
This Is not because there are fewer
trains; the fact is the number of
through trains on all the railroads go
ing out of New York is the same as
on week days. I say this with regret.
I am not a Sabbatarian, but I don’t
like to see people travel on Sunday.
There is nothing, not even open sa
loons, more destructive of the sacred
character of the day. The stir, the
bustle, the rush and jostle of the
train, make tatters of the Sabbath
feeling. If my observation Is accur
ate, not one out of every 100 passen
gers gives a thought to the day. Sun
day ordinarily disposes the mind to
devotion, Inspires a prayerful feeling.
Not Sunday on a rushing railway
train. I think that the mind of near
ly every man and woman aboard Is
innocent of any thought, sacred or
profane. The mind seems to be lulled
to a peculiar Insensibility. To my
mind nothing is more lonesome than
Sunday traveling. Something is al
ways lacking. At the railway station
there is an absence of the week-day
rumble of trains and hissing of escap
ing steam. Streams of people are
pouring to the trains, but in silence
and dejection. This dejection, how
ever, may be the reflection of my own
mood, for I am always blue when set
ting out on a Journey on Sunday.—
New York Mall and Express.
A jSTRANCE ACCIDENT.
roUooed l>y Carbonic Acid tu • Ilrcwcry
Tat.
It sometimes happens that men
whose work it is to clean out brewery
vats are overcome by carbonic acid.
One such case, which resulted fatally,
occurred in the town of Khymney, En
gland, awhile ago. The man was 2.>
years old. The vat was 8 feet deep
and 6 feet in diameter, having a man
hole 18 inches square. The vat was
of an almost obsolete pattern, the
modern one being large and shallow.
It was used for storing beer prior to
‘racking.” The beer had been drawn
off, leaving a sediment or “slummage”
of a few inches in depth at the bottom.
The vat was then flushed with water
and the cover put on the manhole
sometime in the afternoon—It is said
by the man himself. The object of
covering up the vat was to facilitate
the subsequent cleaning, as otherwise
the sides became dry. After removing
the cover and allowing the hose to run
Into the vat for ten minutes the man
entered the vat with a lighted candle
in his hand. About twenty minutes or
twenty-five minutes later a cellarman,
wishing to borrow the mop, called out
to him, and, receiving no answer, went
up to look for him, when he saw him
lying on the bottom of the vat, faco
downward, with the ladder, which had
fallen on its side, resting up against
his body. The candle was subse
quently found on the bottom. This
is an important fact, as it Indicates
that the man was overcome before or
shortly after he had reached the bot
tom—the custom being to stick the
candlestick into the side of the vat, a
spiko being attached to It for that pur
pose. Having called for help and pro
cured another ladder from an adja
cent office, the cellarman descended the
ladder, followed by another man. They
hitched a rope around the arm, and
with the aid of some others got him
out of the vat in about three minute*,
when a doctor was called and arrived
within a quarter of an hour.
Wade and Oungla*.
It Is very much to be doubted
whether Stephen A. Douglas ever had
a superior on this continent as a de
bater. He and Wade wore, of course,
generally on opposite sides of ques
tions In the Benate, but were Arm per
sonal friends One day. In dlacuaainff
some bill, the groat Illinoisan said:
Mr. President .that proposition Is con
rary to my code of morala." Wads
lumped up snd shouted "Against his
•ode of morals! Hood Ood, Mr I'resl
lent, his code of morals' 1 didn't know
he had any!” which was one of thus*
df hand shots at point-blank range
vhlch would disconcert any man. tem
;iorarily, at lenat. Ones Wad* was
crossing the plains. On the train s
man said. "All this region needa la
more water and better acalety." "Yea.**
growled old lien, "that's all hades
needs to make It an Ideal dwelling
olaos!'*-- Ibiston Herald.
A alt*** WaMUa* Wanfctgk
t: If Station* Which ars being madn
at l»uab»rh. France. la connection
with the eateastoa of the d«* ka have
revealed a wooden aaiatup with au
tlqus canmui* burled la the saad*
It Is believed Ibal the vessel belonged
to tha dpaaUh Armada, which was
■tied out la IMT fur the subjugation
of Kagtaad
