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DEMENTIA AMORIS.
latere, all aea an lust the i
Beta prodigal u4 absent minded;
Let Beauty her desfre but name.
And eoBUBoa-sease at oaee i bUadei.
There is a difference la caste.
He auy poueaa a pipe orneerage:
Lore la a thin that can't be classed
It ttmvels cabin stria or steerage.
A mild insanity it seems
A teaiperarr abarraUon;
The stricken man. as on who dreams.
Is rambling ia his conversation.
No heed takes he how runs als pun,
To count expenses savor treasoa;
He eiiya eao of silly verse
To aaake young poets losa their reason.
Ok. yea who never have felt
Theae symptoms o( a happy lover.
Nor to a blushing girl hare knelt.
Nor timidly hare leased above her.
A word with yoa: Whea you have fount
That only one for whom yon tarried.
Don I ie engagea a iwawsmasasesweanwi:.
ifaV-Plbiw-wwpri
FALCON-FLYING.
Interostinjr Description of This
Poraian Sport.
An i:xritiiir "l Ne VT r HaERliB
tiamr l'lirnninc ll" Antelor How
tlir IHnU Are IMiiiilt-ft A Suc-
CfKidul FIlKht ICetrleil.
In the oldon times, when the slur of
rri:in Kmpiro v,:is sit its brightest,
and the land of th.: Lion and Sun w.is
one of the foremo-jt countries of the
world, the IVr-iani ut-ed to be great
sportsmen. Old paintings made by
l'erian artists centuries ago depict
spirited scene- of theehaie, and, among
other thing-, prove that the game of
polo v.'!h played on horseback by the
young no'le of l'ersia long before any
thing of the kind was known to Eu
ropeans. This w:u at a time when the
Persian were a ci vili.ed and cultivated
people, and Europe-ins wore neither
cultivated nor civil ied. As focieri
eans, they were not v. in exi-tence.
except the Aztecs and the aboriginal
savages we now call Indian-.
All tlii- has now changed. To-day
it i- the Europeans and Americans
v: hi are civilized, and the Persians but
partially so. With this great change
iu the life of the Eastern and Western
nation-, the ri-e and fall of sports and
pastini'-- has kept even pace.
The Persians no longer play polo.
Mthr on hor-selriek or afoot, but the
English and American sportsmen play
it both ways. On tho other hand, fal
coning, which was one of the chief
ports of Kfiropcati 7ir!nar'? jiohk
-ltrthe. old scml-clriiued' days, but
which has now gono out of fashion in
civilized countries, is one of the very
few sports in which tho Persians nowa
days indulge.
Oa my bicycle ride through the
; dominions, I saw more of falcons
Ir il.aH other snorts
TbinedT Almost aUtho?f3 no-
nnd Koordish chiefs keejicon.
among their retainers ny '"'
w.u....n li f-ilennnrloafinoiUt, With
one of these birds rcsty a Utt,
,w,rti.irt inh. to whioXe is attached
FV1HUIU J-WB vhV -- - -
hv means of a tinv b
Beside their usotholr legitimate
field of sport, thptafiT of falcons
is considered a t of nobility, and so
tnanv vcll-to Tersian gentleman,
who in thesffenerato days of their
country, Rrgcthcr too indolent to
earo abou 'U still keep tho falcons
for thojff of the prestige it gives
them.Xg f
i rf .on tho Tabreez Plain in
waw a . ...
JL. rflia, 1 fell in witn a party
oojuoordlsh nobles engaged in
iickfeir falcons after wild pigeons.
i were, oi cuurau, ;rv-.n. "-
etseu wnn rav novui uwuuui vuuwj-
US
"unce. such a thing ua a bhycjvflTftsctj 'Hehfiuiteas swi
ftTlnghy:Tr5UaiiTTiblroottwtry hefom
Thoy invited nio to accompany them
as longas 1 c:ir'd to do so and promi-od
me nire sjxirt in return for riding back
and forth over a smooth stretch of
gravel several times on my wheel for
their amu-ement.
Their falcons. I observed. in-tad of
beinghoodi'd in the w ay practised by Eu
ropean falconers, lnd theirejc-i blinded
in a manner that impressed me as be
ing cruel. Small hole- had been bored
in the eyelids and threads of silk fas
tened therein. The threads were passed
over the top of the falcon's he-id and
tied so that he could not open his eyes.
When the European falconer desired to
make a flight he u-ed to remove the
hood; the Koordish or Persian sports
man simply loosens the silk threa Is.
Thus the bird is permitted to open his
eves, and he flies after the game with
the little silk threads streaming from
his pierced eyelids.
On all the plain of Pers'ui are miles
and miles of ancient, underground
water-ditches called Kanoat. The
water is conducted along the-e sub
terranean passage-ways from far
off mountain Ktreams and springs
to the cities on tho plains, chiefly
to avoid the wasto by evapora
tion aad absorption that would occur
in surface ditches in a hot desert coun
try. The course of such water-ways
can always bo traced by mounds or
earth above the surface, which repre
sent the excavations from perpendicu
lar shafts, at the bottom of which the
crystal water can bo seen coursing
along toward its destination. The
- shafts are man-holes for the purpose of
readily clcariug out the channel of the
Kanaals
The Kanwits are tho resort of flocks
of wild pigeons, that descend the shafts
In search of watar. as well as to find a
cool retreat from the boat of the Per
sian sun. It was ia quest of pigeons
thus invading tho Aonaof that the
Koordish falconers were turning their
hores' heads toward a long line of
mounds when I joined their company.
Excitement ran high as we ap
proached the Kanon's. for we had al
ready seen pigeous ascending and de
scending the shafts in the distant
When we arrived nor enough, two re
tainers were sent on in advance to
scare the pigeons out of their hid'ng
iiiaces. This they wcild do by throw
ing stones down the sltafts. The shafts
were but ou hundred yards apart, aad
r bto sad
If tlver irera
woald flatter
kwated eWwathe
aav vWreoM there
aJeaf the
aadlyaf) tk
next oae.
Wehad not beea at the
Mitabore
five amlnuteswhea up
Vaaamft af
pigeoaefroma ahafta
huadre
aadlfty yards away. As
pigeon
rose ia the air, a pair ef
eyes had already beea
tuned 'loose after them.
eager fight they gave
short time were wiaginf
eteee, hot pursuit. The p:
peered to become bewildered
ror, and iastead of hasteoiag
straight, rapid flight, circled
aad mounted ia short, eccentric
es.
Now mounting higher, bow
ing
swiftly downward, flitting
thither, as though in their
and
they
fancied themselves su
on all
sides with hawks ia vengeful
rsult,
the nieeons tried to elude the
falcon
foes. Like evil spirits
their
?m&!22smh&
,,, ., . -. --,w--
fmm0o$
to have secured his victim, but the
next moment would find the pigeon
again with many a yard of blue bky
lictwcen him and his enemy, and the
falcon still in hot cha.su after him.
Once or twice we aw feathers fly and
then we knew the end was not far off.
Presently we saw one of tho falcons
make a hhort, hurried swoop, and tho
next minute he was winging his labored
ilight toward our party, bearing in his
talons one of tho pigeons. Tho pigeon
was barely dead when ho reached us:
but one of the Koords at once ripped
him open and fed his quivering liver .o
i ln victorious falcon.
I The other falcon still doggedly pur-
sued his prey, but ho never brought it
home. We saw the pigeon descend
with tho rapidity of a falling rocket
stick to earth, and wo saw tho fulcpn
swoop after it with that rapid cycloid
curve peculiar to birds of prey: but Ho
returned to us without the pigeon.
Some of tho party were of the opinkn
that the pigeon, in sheer desperation,
had flung himself recklessly headlong
from a height of several hundred feot
into one of the Karinat shafts, and thus
escaped. Others thought that ho had
fallen dead, and, failing to overtake
tho bodv in its fall through mid-air.
tho falcon has disdained to pick tho
careass up from the ground.
I remained with tho party for an
hour or two, and witnessed several
pretty flights, in which the pigeons
were captured. The Koordish sports
man, hospitable to tho lat degree,
urged me to tako halt tho catch, as I
bade them farewell to continue on my
journey. Unwilling 10 lane so large a
hare,-mnd. Tnorf2J2twIS,un- lo
?T x)
"carry sotnany on my oicy
selected
a pair of nice, plump yoh
pigeons.
which I had cooked for
pper at
tho caravanserai. where&Il
emamoo.
over that night.
Abbas Khan, the BriMi
political
of hawk-
agont at Meshed, is vory ft
ing. When I was in Metl
he told
mo of a hawking expedij
he had
Khan,
recently taken with Mi
Chief of the Timurees. andfj
w other
Khorassani noblemen. M
very holy city, owing to
domed sanctuary of Imam:
there. The pigeons 'and 1
Mmihnd havo acauircd tl
;d is a
gold-
la tieing
about
idor of
sanctity, from tho probabilW
Df their
having somoiimo peroneal
in tho
e-olden dome oi tne tniaisr
.mesjid.
And so no falconing Is alloi
in tho
nice to
in saint
lint had
vicinity, for fear of doing
thw..inomory of the Mohami
by the destruction of pigeo
themselves become sacred ft
icttling
on his sanctuary.
Anleloim wore among the
o pur-
sued bv Abbas Khan and hi
rieuils.
and in the pursuit they m
ersian
grayhounds and falcons.
orsian
cmivhound Is a 1:
roniely
graceful animal, wli
r ears
mil per-
h:n- swifter than those of
our own
country, but then so is the
Persian
antelope. Tho falcons, however, are
swift enough to overtake either with
the greate-t of ease.
The falcons are trained to pursue tho
fleeing antelope, and retard their
flight by attacking thorn savagely in
the face. Bewildered by the fnlcons,
the antelope lo-es ground rapidly by
false movements, and finds him-elf
struggling for life with tho greyhound
much soon than would have been his
fate but for tho aid rendered bj- the
falcons. Thoinai Steven, ia Youth'
Companion.
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HARVARD'S ANNEX.
ItrnMritM Condition or the Wewta
Department of the rntveralty.
Perhaps tho most interesting experi
ment of the day. in the line of the
higher education of women, is that of
the "Annex" at Harvard. When tho
tine and thoughtful educative work
dono for women at Michigan Uni
versity. Cornell, Smith. Vassar and
Wellesley is considered, ho who would
claim exclusive pre-eminence for any
one would be rash indeed. But waving
the question of ultimate results, the
Annex must fairly be claimed as the
most interesting in the process of pre
aentation. The daughter of the poet
Longfellow and the widow of the noble
Agassiz are active in the work of the
society, and the instructors are apt to
be men of cosmopolitan reputation.
The magnificent college library. Gore
Hall, is freely open to Fay House, and
the distinguished librarian. Mr. Justin
Winaor. shows a constant personal in
terest and generosity to the woman
students.
The Annex has now completed its
first decade, and its growth has beea
an example of marked prosperity. The
social lifeoi the Annex has widened
greatly since the establishment of Fay
House! This year a new club has
been formed by the young women,
called the Emanuel after the college
from which John Harvard graduated,
a club which devotes Itself to the eaa
sideration of philanthropy and ethics.
The meetings are usually addressed by
some speaker of note, Mr. Arthur
Gilman says that they And in under
graduate women tho same ability to
grasp every subject presented that is
found in tho undeiradjuate men; that
they show diligence and energy, and
do not break down under reasoaable
and rational work, and that the
women,.as the men. are far better fitted
for general life after the course af ua
Toraity study. Btm 3VwWer.
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The text was: "Gwillaeea is prelUMa
aate all tamgs. hariac ptomlss ef the life
taasaewisaaWBbaswbJafctetoeesaa.''
ITissethylv.t, Dr.Talaugeeali:
AhaapygewYaarteaaeaadalll There
is a gloomy aad passive way ef waiting
for the erik ef the opeaiag year to
oosm ape as, aad taera is a heroic way
ef aetec eattoieeatthosa,atreag.la God
aad feerug aetata. Waea the hedy ef
CatMiae was faaad ea the batUaJsi it
was foaad far ia advaace ef all kU troops
aad aauag the enemy; aad Ua heat way
is aet f or a to lis dowa aad let the avaaU
you have just entered into business part
nership, and others of you take hiKhcr
positions in the commercial establishments
where you were engaged, and others have
entered upon new enterprises, and there
were last week in these cities 10,003 bus
iness change.
You are expecting projperlty, and I am
deteiuiuied, so far a I have any thing to
do with it, that you wholl not be disap-po'nt-d.
and therefore I propose, as God
may help ma this morning, to project upon
your attention a new element of success.
You w ill have in the huiiness firm, fru
gality, patience, industry, perseverance,
economy a very strong busincsi tit m. but
th-re needs to be ono member added,
mightier than them all, and not a silent
partner either the one introduced by my
text: "Godliness which is nroH table unto
all things, having the promise of tho lifo
that now is as well as of that w hich is to
come."
I suppose you are all willing to admit
that godliness is important in its eternal
relations; but perhaps some of you say:
"All I want is an opportunity to say a
prayer before I die, and all will ha well."
There are a great many people who sup
poo that if they can finally get safely out
of this wortd into a better world, they will
have exhausted the entire advantage of
our holy religion. They talk as though re
ligion were a meie nod of recognition
which we are to give to the Lord Jesus on
our way up to a heavenly mansion; as
though it were an admission ticket, of no
use except to give in at the door of Heaven.
And there are thousands of people who
have great admiration for a religion of the
shroud, and a religion of the coflln, and a
religion of the hearse, and a religion ot
the cemetery, who have no appreciation
for a religion for the bank, for the farm,
for the factory, for the warehouse, for the
jeweler's shop, for the broker's otllco.
"ow, while 1 would not throw any slur
on a pott-mortem religion, I want thin
morning, and on the tlrst ISabbath of the
new year, to eulogie an ante-mortem
religion. A religion that is of no use to you
w bile you live w ill bo of no ue to you
when you die. "Godliness is profitable
unto all things, hitviu? the promi-o of the
life thnt now is as well as that which is to
come." And I have alwas noticed that
when tho grace is veiy low in a man's
heart he talks a great deal in pravrr
nieetingi about deaths, and about cofllns,
and about graves,and atout church-yard.
I hare noticed that the healthy Chiistian.
the man who ia living near to God. and is
on tho straight read to IIoivon, is full of
jubilant sal isf action, and talks about the
duties of this life, understanding well that
if God help him to live right Ho will help
him to die right
Now, in the Jlrt place, I romnrk that
godliness is good for n man's physical
health. 1 do nt mean to say that it will
restore a ln!un down constitution, or
drive rheumatism from the limbs, or niu
ralgia from the temples, or pleurisy from
the side: but 1 do mean to ssytlmt it gives
one such habile and puts one in such con
dition as is n ost favorable for physical
health. That 1 believe, nud that I avow.
Eveiybody knows that buoyancy of spirit
is good physical advantage. Gloom, un
rest, di'jectio-i are at war with every pul
iation of the heart, and with every respira
tion of the luns. It lowers the vitality, it
slackens thecircu'ation, w hile exhilnrntiou
of spirit iiours Mte veiv bs'm ol Heaven
.hrotigh all the currents of life. The reuse
of insecurity which sometimes hovers over
an unregenerat! man. or pouncrs upon
him with the blast often thousand trum
pets of terror, is most depleting and most
exhausting, whilo the feeling that all
things nro working together for my good
now, and for my evei lasting welfare, is
conducive to physical health.
You w ill observe that godliness iiiducw
industry, which is the foundttion of goo I
health. There is no law ot hygiene that
will keep a lazy man well. Pleurisy will
stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaun
dice will discolor him, gout will cripple
him, and the intelligent physician will not
presenile antiseptic, or febrifuge, orano
d ne. but saws and hammers, and yard
sticks and crowbars, and pick axes. There
is no such a thing as good phvsical con
dition without positive work of some kind,
although you should sleep on down of s w an,
or ride in carriage of softest upholstery, or
have on your tabie all the luxuries that
were poured from the w ine vats of Ispahan
and Shirar. Our religion says: "Away to
the bank ! away to the field ! away to the
shop! away to the factory ! do something
that will enlist all the energies of your
body, mind aad soul" 'Diligent in busi
ness, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord;" while upon the bareback of the idler
and the drone comes dowa the sharp lash
ot the apostle as he says: "It any saaa
will not work, neither shall he eat."
O, how important ia this day. when so
much is said about anatomy aad physiolo
gy and therapeutics and some new style
of medicine is ever and anon springing
apon the world, that yoa should under
stand that the highest school of MMdiciae
ia the school of Christ, which declares
that "Godliness is profitable anto all
things, having th promise of the lira that
ow is as well as of that which is to cone."
So if you start oat twe atea ia the world
with eqwal physical health, aad then oae
ot thesa shall get the religion of the Lord
Jeans Christ ia his heart, aad th other
shall aot get it, th oae who becoeae a soa
of the Lerd Almighty will lira Ua longer.
"With long Ufa will I satisfy then, aad
how thaa my salvation."
Agam 1 remark that godlinesa ia good
for tea Intellect. I know aosne have sup
posed that jast as soon aa a man enters
into the Chrietiaa Ufa his intellect gees
iaas a bedwartng process. So tar from
that, religion will give new Brilliancy to
the intellect, aew strength to tho imagiaa
tion,new force to tho will aa4 wider
swing to all the iatellectnal facnltiea.
Christianity ia the great central Ire at
which philoaophy has lighted its brightest
torch. The religion ef the Lard Jeans
Christ is the fountain oat of which learn
ing haa dipped ita clearest draagkt The
Helicon peered forth ao snch iasplriag
waters aa those which low from aader
the throne of God clear as crystal. Re
ligion has give aew energy to poesy,
wesniag in Dr. Yosmz's 'Sight Taesghts.'
tearhiag in Cosracr'a "Task," flaming ia
Chtrles Wesley's hy mas and mLiag with
arcaaar.Iic splendor through
"Fara!ie Lost." The religion
Jli.tos's
of Jce;
Christ has hrag in studio nnd la gallery
ef art aad ia aUcaa. tho Vest pictures
Titiaa's Aawmp tiea." Raphael's -Traas-
lesaratioa," &atas' "Descent from the
Crest Claude's "ahwaws; Bash," aad Aa -
M4imVmJkiwnn mmtmX 4laeilBba-haitar Uaa baltoa Ui- Wlca aia ae eaaarti. Ha ba4 werwad at W0 k-o, kai wke. it l aiMblcM at trmciad raatrtfer." ms)
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msmes toheraess the mlad te eH iatrhmey
aad elehoratlea, batter thaa legie to amr
ohal the tetelleetoal ferees fsreaawt ead
rletoty. It will go with Hagh Miller aad
ehewbiatUefooiariateaC the Creator ia
the red esaostoae. It wfll ge with the
betaaist aad shew him the eateattel gienas
aanaainii aader the eartam ef
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great heights whure Oed
mramit SWfc at ararlda that
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ealle them all by their names.
AgaJa I remark that gedUaeas Is pretV
aHe for oaas dlspmltioa. Lord Aabley,
hafora he waat iato a great battle, was
heard toeffer thla prayer: -O, Lerd, I shall
be very basy to-day; U I forget Thee,
forget ma not." With aaeh a Cbriatiaa
man bo crosit and sour and fretful natu
rally, after he become a Christian he will
always have to be armed against the rebell
ion of those evil inclinations, but religion
has tamed the wildest nature; it has turned
fretfulness into gratitude, despondency
into good cheer and those who were bard
and ungovernable and uncompromising
have been made pliable and conciliatory.
Good resolution, reformatory effort,
will not effect the change. It takes
a niichtier arm and a mightier
hand to bend evil habits than
the hand that bent the bow of Uly. and
it takes a stronger lasso than ever held lha
buffalo on the prairie. A man can not go
forth with any human weapons and con
tend successfully against these Titans
armed with upturn mountain. But you
havo known men into whose spirit the in
fluence of tho gospel of Christ came, until
their disposition was entirely changed.
So it was with two merchants in New
York. They were very antagonistic.
The' had done all they could to injure
each other. They were in the same line
ot business. One of the merchants was
c inverted to God. Having been con
verted he asked the Lord to teach him
bow to bear himself toward that busi
ness antagonist, and bo was impressed
with the fact that it was his
duty when a customer asked for certain
kinds of goods which ho had not, but which
he knew bis opponent had, to recommend
him to go to that store. I suppose that Is
about the hardest thing a man could do;
but being thoroughly converted to God he
resolved to do that very thing, and being
asked for a certain kind of goods which he
had not he said: "You go to such and such
a store and you will get it." After a while
merchant number two found these custom
ers coming so unit, and he found also
that merchant number one had been
brouebt to God, and he sought tho same
religion. Now they nro good friends and
good neighbors, I he grace of God entirely
changing their disposition.
"O," says some one, "1 have a rough,
jagged, impetuous nature, and religion
can't do any thing for me." Do you know
that Martin Luther and Holwrt Newton
and K'.chnrd Baxter were impetuous, all
consuming natures, yet the grnce of (Jod
turned them into the mightiest usefulness?
A miuufncturer enres but ery little for a
stream that slowly runs through the
meadow, but a t-ong torrent that leips
from lock to rock, and rushes with mud
energy through the valley and out toward
tho sen, nlohg that nvir you will lind
fluttering shuttles aitd grinding mill and
flashing waterwheel. And a nature, the
swiftest, tho most rugged and the most
tremendous, that is the nature God turns
into greatest usefulness. O.i bow many
vhohae been pugnacious, and hard to
please, and irascible, and moro bothered
nlout tho mote in their neighbor's eye than
about tho beam liko ship timber in thlr
own eye, who have been entirely changed
by the grace of God, and have found out
that "Godliness is protitnblts for tho lifr
that now i, as well as for the life which is
to come "
Again I remark, thnt religion is good for
a nnn's worldly business. I know tho
general theory i, the moro busincs the
b'ss religion," tho moro religion tho les
business. Not so thought Dr. Hans In his
"Biography of a Chri-tian Merchant."
when ho sajs: "Hcgiewin grace ths last
six years of his life mure than at any time
in bis life; during thoo sir j ear lie had
more busin s crowd ng him than at any
other time." In other woids the mote
worldly busmes man has, tho more op
portunity to serve (Sod. I)oe religion
exhilarate of retard w lrllly business? is
the practical question for you to discuss.
Does it lisng iil a mottgage oer the
firm? Is it n bud debt on the ledger? Is
it a lien against the estate? Does It crowd
the door through which customers come
for broadcloth and silks?
Now. religion will hinder your business
if it be a bad buslne-s, or if it be a good
business wrongly con iucted. If jou tell
lies lch.nd the counter if you are false in
your weights and measure, if you put
sand in sugar, and tret juic- in vinegar,
and lard in butter, and sell for one thing
that which i another thing, then relig on
will interfere with that business; but a
I.twful business, lawfully conducted, will
find the religion cf the Lord Jesus Christ
its mightiest auxiliary.
Religion will give an equipoise of spirit,
it will keep you from ebullitions of temper
and you know a great many tine busi
nesses have been blown to atoms by bad
temper it will kep you from worriment
about frequent los, it will keep yon indus
trious and prompt after loss it will keep
you back from squandering aad from dis
sipation, it will give you a kindness of
spirit which will b easily distin
guished from that mere store courtesy
which shakes hands vloleatlr with you,
nsking about the health of your family
when there ia bo anxietr to know whether
your child is well or sick! buttheaaxiety
is to know how many dozen cambric pock
et handkerchiefs yon will take and pay
cash down. It will prepare you for the
practical duties of everyday life. I do not
mean to say that religion will make as
flaaacially rich, but I do say that It wid
give us. it will assure as of n comfortable
sustenance at the start, a comfortable sub
sistence all the way through, and it will
kelp ua to direct tho bank, to manage the
tratBc, to conduct alt our huaiaeea matters,
and to make the most insigaificaat affair
of our life n matter ef vast importance
gloriled by Christian priacip:.
In New York City there was a merchant
hard la his dealings with hla fellows who
had written over his banking house or ale
counting house room: "No Compromise.
Thea whea some merchant got ta a crisis
and went down no fault of his. tat a
conjunction of evil circumstance aad nil
tho other merchant ware williag to com
promisethey would take 73 coats ea tae
$1, or SO cnts, cr SO cents coming to this
last man of alt, he said: No compromise;
1 wilt take 1 cents on tho dollar, aad I can
afford to wait." Well, the wheel tamed,
aad after a while that asaa eras ia n crisis
of business, aad he seat oat his agents to
compromise, and the agents said to tho
merchants: -Will you take iu era tscu th
1?" "No." -Will von take anr th ag?"
"Well take ICO cats on the dollar. 2o
compress! . Aad the man who wrote
that inscription over his countinr boas
j door died ia destitution.
o. w waat ruore ot thekhsdnesi
Us
gospel after the spirit of lore fa car busi-i
nsas enterprises: How aiaay voucganea
havo found In the religion of Jews Christ
a practical help? How maav there are ia
1 this house to-day who could testify, oat of
village
ale
at
day after day, algae
algal, aad
km nigh
he had not asaea eae farthiag
from that hank, bat somehow, for seaw
reason last i stasia then, the aeeeaam
woalda't ba'anee. The time rolled en,
aad the meralag of the day whea the
hooks should pans aader the msnoecJoa of
the other emeats arrived, aad ho felt him
aetf la earful paril. conscious ef hie ewa
lategrity bat aaabio te nreve that in
tegrity; That atoning he woat to the
haak early, aad he knelt dowa before
Ood aad told the whole story ef hie
saeatol aaguish. aad ha said: "O. Lerd;
Iaavedeae right; I havo preserved my
integrity, bat hero I am about to he over
tarewa naleas Then should eomo to my
reecae. Lord, deliver ase." Aad for oae
hoar he ceatlanod the prayer before Ood
a taea ao reeu aaa went 10 nn ui use- i
which he onlv needed to add to another
line of figures some line of figures ha
had forgotten and knew not where he had
laid them and the accounts were bal
anced, and the Lord delivered him. You
are an intldel If you do not believe it. The
I.ord delivered him. God answered bis
prayer as He will answer your prayer, O
man of business, iu every crisis when yoa
come to Him.
Now, if this be so, then I am persuaded,
as you are. of the fact that the vast ma
jority of Christians do not fully test th
value of their religion. They are like a
farmer In California with 15.W acres of
good wheat laud and culturiug only a
quarter of an acre. Why do you not go
torth and maLe the religion of Jesus
Christ a practical affair every day of
your business life and all this year, Ikj-
ginning now, and to-morrow monuna;
putting into practical effect this holy
religion and demonstrating In your life
that godliness Is profitable here as well as
hereafter?
How can you get along without this re
ligion? Is your physical health so good
you do not want this divine tonic? Is your
mind so clear, so vast, so comprehensive
that you do not want this divine inspira
tion? Is your worldly business so
thoroughly established that you have no
use for tbnt religion which has been the
help and deliverance of tens of thousands
of men in crises of worldly trouble And
if what I have, said this morning is
true, then "yu what a fatal blund-r
it is when a man adjourns to
life's expiration the uses of religion.
A man who postpones religion to sixty
years of age gels religion titty years too
late. He may get into the kingdom ot God
by- final repentance, but what can compen
sate him for a whole liMlme uunllnviated
and uncomtorted? You want reliulou to
day in the training of thai child. You will
want a religion to-morrow in dealing with
that Western customer. You wauted ie
ligion yesterday to curb your temper. Is
your anus strung enough to twat your way
through the floods? Can you without l
ing encased in the mail of God's eternal
he'p go forth amid the assaults of all hell's
shatpshooters? Can you walk aloneacross
these crumbling graves and amid these
gaping earthquakes? Can you. water
logged and innst-shivered, outlive the
gale? O, how many there have len who,
postponing the religion of Jesus Christ,
have plunged Into mistakes they never
could correct, although they l.ved eighty
years atler, and like serpents crushed
umler cart wheels, dragging their
mauled belies under th rocks to
die; so these men have fallen und r
the wheel of awful calamity, crubd
here, destroyed forever, while a vast
multitude hno taken the rellgiou of Jesus
Christ into everyday life, and tlrst in prac
tical business affairs, and secondly on the
throne of heavenly triumph, hare illus
trated. whIe aiucls looked o:i and a
universe appioved. the glorious truth that
"Godliness is profitable unto all thing,
having tha promise of tho life which now
is as well as of that which is to come."
-sfresv-
TREATMENT OF FELONS.
The Nature anal symptoms of the
oor
I'nrins of the AftVrtlnn.
The medical name of thi- atl'ection is
whitlow. Every one who has been
attacked by a felon will admit that it
richly ile-orvcs its nntno. The Saxon
mime whitlow a white flame refers
to the intense pain which attend it.
and the whitened skin over the ma
tured abicess.
There are four form", though if neg
lected, the first may run into the ec
ond. nnd the second into the third.
The lir.st is superficial, and originates
at the side of the nail in the true skin
under the scarf-kln. or cuticle The
pain is not at first .severe; but if the
cuticle is not opened and cut away with
sri-sor.s, tho skin may ulcerate, and
the pus work its way beneath tho nail.
In the .second form, the flesh of the flrt
joint (phalanx) is inflamed, in consr
quence of some injury, or perhaps
from the extension to it of the first
form. The tip of the finger swell,
nnd throbs with burning pain, and pus
is soon formed. Unices the abscos ia
opened early, tins pus may burrow into
the tendon sheath, thus giving rise ta
the third form, or even into the sub
stance of the bone, as in the fourth
form. In the third form, the inflam
mation begins in the sheath that ea
closes the flexor tendon those which
bend the finger. Unless tho pus is
evacuated quite early, it destroy the
tendon, burrows into the other joint
(phalanges), and destroys the finger.
It may even extend to and destroy the
entire hand. In some cases it haa
proved fatal.
Ia the fourth kind and this is the
kind that is more commonly called a
felon the inflammation is ia the
membrane (periosteum) that iaveete
the bone of the first phalanx. It is
this periosteum oa which the life of
the bone depends, aad heals it whea
broken. It can even replace with new
boee large portions which may have
been removed. If left to itself, the
pus has to work its way to the sarfaca
from the very bose itself, the patiee
suffering unbearable agoaj for several
days and as many sleepless nights. Aa
incision to the boae aloae givas relief,
In each form of the whitlow hot aav
plication are helpfuL The iadaioa
should be performed hy a skillful phy
siciaa. who will avoid arteries, aad ha
sure of the location of tho pus, for it
often seems to be la frost, whea it kf
oa the back of the boae Tosrtha
Compasioa.
A Paris paper prists in good faith
the story of a New York gntleasaa
who. going to a fashionable physiciaa
to ai: the reference of a servant, at
made to pay fd) for a ceasaltatleav
Soace eslighteoed iahabluats ef tha
gar cspeti! impUrit! heiieee tha
awerrvtaie.
erthopsirpoeee of Bvlgntioo, eiaca
we know that whea it m mldaighe at
Philadelphia, for iaetaace, it le nearly
oae o'clock ia Portland. Malaevaasl aot
musm after emvoaa'ctock la Chieaga.
IIL Oath land UWmeJrue very
differeaee ia business affaire, except ia
the matter af telegrama.
To illustrate: The differeaee la tlma
betwoea Liverpool aad New Tork m
about Ire hours, so that a telegram
seat from Liverpool at aooa will ar
rive ia New Tork shortly after sevoi, wttl
la the meralag, net allowing far eVlfrsn
lays.
Usually, the groat beat races be-4
tweea Oxford and Cambridge are
rowed about foar p. m.. and wo hear
Via MMtilt avt nmn.
I'MWi fWtfi..MF' W
'
tmu frornEnglnnd. and la cons-oquotico
tho California iiatHjrs can publish rvt
six a. iu. news of happenint; in Kngl.ind .
and tho Continent at two p. re. of tho ,
umu day.
Tills is interesting but jmszUni;. ov
poclally to navigator-, and in ordr to
prevent loss of rickonin it Iwcamo
necessary to fix ou oaio particular siot
where the astronomical or nautical day
should bogin.
According to the way in which this
nrrangctnuiit is now carried out. the
tlrt land that tho new day.dawns upon
is Eastor Island, about two hundred
and thirty mile west of tho coast of
Chili. South America. That is to say.
tho second of July breaks here within
a fow hours of tho tlrst. having brorfen
on the American coast to the east, and
tho two days run ou alongside tho
second in Ka'ster Island and places west,
tho first in all places on tho American
-ontiutnt.
Wo may. therefore, realize this ldoa
that at7:-0 o'clock any morning iu
threat llrltain. or at noon in Philadel
phia, tho next day is commencing In
tho world, and Is to be found at this
little island in the Pacific tXcoan.
whence in duo course it will travel
round to us.
Hut to have tints the start of tho
world is not an uiimitigatud advantage
to these islander. Suppose one of
them sails east to America, what i tho
result? He will find that they keep
tho day there under a different date,
and ho will have to reckon one day in
his calendar twice over to put himself
right with their notions.
On tho other hand, if nn American
crosses from east to west this wonder
ful magic line where the day begins,
ho will find tho dates in this fresh
part of tho world an ono In advance of
him. and he must ned btrlke a day
out of his calender to keep up with
tho times.
This fart was curiously lllustrattwl in
the case of Magellan, the Portugese
captain, who sailed around the world
from east to west In WiL and ha Ing
crossed the mrtglo line of "day's birth"
in his wanderings, his calendar be
came, of course, a day in arronr. Tho
sailors were completely Ignorxnt of
this, and finding, on landing at homo,
that their .ibb.ith was falling on a
Monday, they accused one auothur of
tampering with the reckoning.
It was not for some time that tho
true nnd simple explanation of the
wonderful loss of iiino was discu vcrvd
Golden Diry.
EXPLOSIVE OUST.
The
Ks-tratlAc .rl of Hi Cas Tr
sterlna; Its Cfnttle.
Combustion is the chetnicnl union of
oxygon with n combustible, and a!lul
stances are combustible which so unite
with oxygen, whether by rapid burn
ing or by slow oxydatlon. both model
of union Nil tig forms of combustion.
Ordinarily tho oxygon for combustion
Is obtained from the air. but whenever
found free it will unite, under favora
ble conditions, with a combustible.
Combustibles include not only u!
lances containing carbon, or hydrogen.
orlioth (as wood, grain, oil, etc), but
a!o soveral of the metals. The most
favorable condition for combustion la
that which gives the fre-et areose to
air or pure oxygen sufficiently hunted
to start the action, and henos in the
condition of diffused dust. In th'.s staUj
even iron will not only burn In the air.
but it may be made to explode.
Explosion Is tho suddea expansion
of a burning body and of the hsntod air
about It, by which the whole moment
arily demand awre room. Thoec are
the chemical laws which relate to ex
plosive. The fact are: Ail combustibles ex
plode if in suKcieotly flne powder thy
are suddenly fired whtledlffusoUa air.
This includes many bodies aot other
wise explosive, as reels, wood. coal,
the grains, and evea iron aad some
other aseUl. Demonstration: Clone
aa ordinary tin cup with a perforat's,
cover filed with small hole; fix a
lighted oaadle in the center of the tap;
have a small tube, on e-fourth of ao Inch
la diameter , pa through the side of
the cup near the top and sloping
downward wlthla to near the hot
tern. Oa the eotto m af the cup have a
Uyer ef powdered renin. Thea hiew a
aasldea paf of air from the taenia
Ukreagh the tube, aad so drive a email
cloud ef the powder thiwugh the
foentioao iato the air around the
lag candle. A harmless cJtpteeiea la
the air will iastaatlj follow, preduciaf
a laah af tteater lightning.
rhualj powdered weed (hnsmhW)
Tale aad similar bodies aaay he ra
in the same way. Aad hy
md licatsoas ef the apparatae
taelj powdered Ire er etiswrctmhsjsti-
uaa? saemarmnmavmi ammmtw ammj uwsw amssmwus-w a-
Isao "expieeifw gan about
aay ef
hedba aatfl developed j
aad aeae ofths-neeemaust
thlea will explode whea aet dif aeed la
the air. They will simply basra with
fast explesriom. te all ceuahosfitaa
hadiee loati trua Sae powder la the
air are liable to explode. Cr. Cmrafe
rriSwac
Sefcedy haa heaa able ta
the eeal dealer ef the
error af has
First earns "IU
raciod yesterday. M
ladessd.1 did net
y letV Varsof
"Poor Simaaea! A
t tbirtomhaart aaaaaa
dleaer.' ''What, la he eWr "Xw;
Um night, -J
Ethel-0, papa, did
aew parlor lamp Aunt JaUa
R'e the latest thing ostu'
StMtday asgata, uaywaf ;
The
It ht vary peynlar la.
tiea jaet new aa it always ha Voea
with huahaads whea they aere trying
to exalala to their wlvoe iuet hew it
I'
ir
-Thi
Now York Sun . -raw
rlckediies- at preHii l !
favorite
brakin.'
farmed by
This raacallty ! pvr-
thte who havw no particu
lar business, but ars betst known m a
Jack o! ault raid.
- New York t'lty is -aid to support
about six thousand lawyer, and it U
clalnntl that the Immense amount of
litigation done here through the ourtsj
or prhftts office of couusel attract
and keeps here tho highest legal lain'.
ot the Mate, if not of the country.
Alas'" jild a inomlitlng bachel
or, within earshot of a witty young
! lady of the company, "thbi world I at
j best but a gloomy prison " Yes."
sighed the merciless minx. "espec-lnHy
to the poor creator doomed to H
tarv confinement."
" Belinda -"So. father. I am re
aohed not to glu up Alotuo. You.
may threaten ana cajole as you will,
but rather than bo parted, wo will dU
together. Stern pawn I (gruffly)--You'll
be lucky if you fuv together."
.1 wrrsVa.
If you really want to know which
of jou is the bolter man why don't you
mml in ssiiue room In tho prvMinoo of
a few friends and xttlo the matter?
Wbv not quit blowing nnd go to fight
ing?" "Sir." replied the great mw
with lofty scorn. "I ,m n professional
prize-fighter. CiVio TriUtnt.
Are you a guet of this house?
naked the "clerk at thsi cigar stand of a
traveling man. "A what?" "A gtv-L"
H- no'p not at all. I am simpljr
permitted to live here -tolerated at lhe
rate of four dollar, per day." Mcr
chnnt TravtUr.
Friend "I alwar read jonr-joke
twice. Fred." Author "Ah ' you tlud
them interesting, then? An author
whose, writings aw reread can not m
aaid to have written In alu." Friend
"Um-yes ahem; you we 1 have to
read your jokes twice because I can not
eee the point at first." l'ani HUU.
- -Say that you will be mine, dear
est Angelina."" "1 will, upon one con
dition." -Name it. my adored, and if
it were to gt you to tho moon "
It 1 -aslnr than that, In brief, simply
thi. that you will Invito me to spend a
month in your father's house prilrloue
to our marriage. "Of course, certain
ly, but why doyou make such a strange
rrsiu...l?" " "Well. 1 wish to learn Us
cook like your mother!" -A". 1. l.tdysr.
royaiTVamilies.
iillmsw ef
the Tlrlou taUrlar Life ef
SHssmUUs.
It 1 fortunate for "Hoyai Houses.'
and especially for Uioo of the dejijHitio
lyjM, that their privnto sayings nnu
doings are seldom rejorUsl; for when
ever we obtain a gl!inpcof thn InWriinr
lifo of despotism it -token u. Truly
ha it h!! said by n distinguished
esaylst that "th tuastsT of mankind,
when stripped of the artificial pomp
which inTrt thetn in public, resombie
nothing o nearly aa Dm meanest of tho
multitude,"
There arc sound philoopblcal
grounds for this opinion. The trry
highest and the very lowest of the)
human race are iqunlly beyond the In
fluence of that wholesome control te
which tho lnUrrosdlate. claser an
ubjeotl. by thsir mutual dependence,
nnd the nrd tby have of thn good
will and b-omof tbir Mlnwa. Thoee
who are at th very bottom of th social
ladder nro !yond tho sphere of thin
lnfiuenc; thoee who stand oo th top
mot round am nbovo it. Persons whs
have nothing to gala am pretty aischj
in the same position, relatively, to tha
reet of the world as wretch who have
nothing to lone; aad both arw equal It
liable to dUregrd the maaim ef reckee
ing one's self last, which la the beaie
of all politf-os. aa well aa of all he
aevolencR. We lnd, vor4itj. that
abeolute mosarchs. however respect'
able some of ihesa aaay have
moaarch, have geraHy h
five brutss ia their fasalliee.
Frederick William ef rruaaia. the
father of Frederick the freeV starrsel
and beat his wife aad children, neat
was arc-jetomest. after having eaten hla
dinner, to spit into each dish, lent they
aheeld partake of the remaeats ef tha
ass-aL rer the (ifssat eampeUed taw
Ccarisa. Catherlaa. ta aisur.lati what
vile creatorea. ajaet e7 Usees arUeaa
and aaaherwamaa. wheat he had em-
Ra9visarBB saMmTaa ineVnunawl eaasuav SJnaWslJ' W
ladlesvis-waitiac: aad he aieefrismt
ly aavaaod himself with caaiag aie sa
tire h?uehessi. f rasa the fmsre
la farUwheejeveraPrJeeeera
halls taiee out ef arh
Frederick the Creel tha MeW&rravisna
ef aWrs-uth-did. er wa fat hy aay
a peep wsaiasl tae eaa )eaaV
y lattrienw atfeea tms aafv
lie eye aad tha private hleterj f
ahmiluie snrverJtTae. am ievariaWf nunt
that the eejecte ef saiffar warship
ae hrstal.as vfeiesH,
all the ii ing aad ssepilssJus af
ty ia their smh
ef their aaVJacte la
wrrtdsesl hsyreis ta whssm mJasay
unsMsWned themw Thea 4 ahe egat
ef idema nssrweransi
asset ea a cumavm level af
lAt as he UsaakfsU tanter ey
gsjversaaeiit uigmUs aa jrasa
ef ralerata wlhsesTiee at art
aad that mr si nisi swrneaste hmt
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