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ttUAKDED BY THE LORD.
-An Appropriate Centemilal Dis
' course by Dr. Talmage.
OmrContryuardeIBj the DWBna.ti
iKramrles of the Thirteen Colonies
Other rerila Safely Faeecl-A
Bright Fatora.
At the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Sun
day before the centennial of the inaugu
ration of George Washington as President
of the United States, Dr. Talmage
preached a sermon appropriate to the ap
proaching anniversary. The text was
from 2 Kings vL 17: "And the Lord
opened the eye of the young man; and
he saw; and, beho'd, the mountain was
fall or horses and chariots of tire round
about ElUlia.' Dr. Talmage said:
As It cost England many regiments and
2.000,0J a year to kop safely a troubk
soai? captive at St. Helena, so the King of
Syria sends out a whole army to capture
one minister of religion perhaps M.OX)
men to take Elisha. During the night the
in ray of Assyrian came around the vil
lage of Dothan. where the prophet was
staving. At early daybreak the man serv
ant of Elislm rusliedin and said: ''What
shall we do there is a whole army come
to destroy you. We shall die, we shall
die." Hut Elisha was not scared a bit, for
he looked up and saw the mountains
all around full of supernatural
forces, ami ho knew that if there were
iW.000 Assyrians against him. there were
100.090 for him; and in answer to the
piophet's prayer in behalf of his affrighted
man servant, the young man saw it too.
Horses of liro harnessed to chariots of
fire, and drivers of fire pu ling reins, of fire
on bits of fire, and warriors of fire with
brandished swords of fire, and the bril
liance of that morning unrisa was
eclipsed bv the galloping splendors of the
celestial cavalcade. "And the Lord
openo'i the eyes of the young man; and
he saw; and, behold, the mountain was
full of horses and chaiiotsof tire round
about Elisha." 1 have often spoken to
yoa of the Assyrian ierils which Uneaten
our American institutions, but now, as we
are assembling to kep the centennial
celebration of the inauguration of Wash
ington, I speak of the upper forces of the
text that are to fight oa our side.
You will notice that the divine equipage
Is always represented as a chariot of tire.
Kzekiel and Isaiah and John, when they
come to describa the divine equipage, al
ways represent it as a wheeled, a liar
noised, an upholstered conflagration. It
is not a chariot likw kings and conquerors
of earth mount, but an organized nud
compressed lire. That means purity, jus
tice, chastisement, deliverance through
burning esciipo. Chariot of rescue? Yes,
Imt chariot of fire. All our national dis
enthrallments have b'on through scorch
ing agonies and red disasters. Through
tribulation the individual rises. Thr"";!i
tribulation nations nse. Chariot of ;e
cue, but chariots of tire.
Hut how do I know that this divine
rquipago is on the side of our institution?
I know it by tin history of the last one
hundred and eight years. The Anieric-iu
revolution atarted from ttie p?n of John
Hancock in Independence Hall in 177!.
The colonies without ships, without am
munition, witho.it gun, without trained
warrior., without iiiouev, without prestige.
Oa the other sido. the mightieit natiou of
the earth, the largest arutfo and the
grandest navies and the most di-tiugtiisbed
commanders, and ruoutcvs lie xhuustible.
and nearly all nations ready to hack them
up in the' tight. Nothing as against im
mensity. The cnuso of tiie American colonies,
which started at zeio, dropped still lower
through tho quarreling of I lie Coin-nils
and through the jealousies ut uall sue
cess and through the winters which sur
passed all predecessors in depth of
Know and horrors of coimealm-nt. E'isha
surrounded by the whole Assyrian army
did not seem to lie wor-e on" than did the
thirteen colonies encompassed mid over
shadowed by foreign assault. What de
cided the contest in our fuvns? The upper
forces, tho upper armies. The (Sreen and
"Whito mountains of New England, the
highlands along the Hudson, the mount
ain of Virginia, ali the Appalachian
ranges wens full of reinforcements which
the young man. Washington, saw by
faith; and his men endured tho frozen
feet and the gangrened wounds nud the
exhausting hunger and the long march
because "the Lord opened the eyes of the
young man; and he saw; and, behold, the
mountains were full of horses and chariots
of fire round about ElUha."
Washington himself was a miracle.
What Joshua was in sacred history the
first American 1'iesident was in secular
history. A thousand other men excelled
him in different things, but he excelled
them all in roundness and completeness
of character. The world never saw his
like and probably never will see his like
again, because there probably never will
be another such exigency. He was let
down a divine interposition. He was
from God direct. I do not know how any
aum can read the history of those times
without admitting that the contest was
decided by the upper forces.
Then in 1861, when our civil war was
opened, many at the North and at the
8eath pronounced it national suicide. It
was not courage against cowardice, it was
not wealth against poverty, it was not
large States against small States. It was
heroism against heroism. It was the re
sources of many generations against the
resource of generations, it was the prayer
ef the North against the prayer of the
ttoeth, it was one-half of the Nation in
armed wrath meeting the other half of
the Nation is armed indignation. What
ooeld come Imt extermination?
At the opening of the war the commander-in-chief
of the United States forces was
a awn who had been great in battle, but
old age had come with many infirmities
and he bad a right to quietude. He could
aot mount a horse and he rode on the bat
tle ield in a carriage, asking the driver
aot jolt it to much. During the most of
the four years of the contest, on the South
era side was a man in mid life, who had
la his Tains the blood of mauy generations
of warriors, himsjlf one of the heroes of
Chernbusco and Cerro Gordo. Contreras
and Chapnltepec. As the years passed on
and the scroll of carnage unrolled, there
cmm9 out from both sides a heroism and a
strength and a determination that the
world had never seen marshaled. And
what but extermination could corn when
fhilip Sheridan and 8tonewall Jackson
atet, and Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney
Johnston rode in from North and South,
aad Grant and Lee, the two thunderbolts.
lashed? Yet we are a Nation and yet we
an at peace. Earthly courage did not
decide the coaiict. The upper forces or
the text. They tell us there was a battle
feaght above the clouds oa Lookout mount
la, but there was somsthin: higher tham
Chat
Again, the horses aad chariots of Gol
ame to the rescue of this Nation in 1S76 at
aha etoae of a Presidential election famous
Jar devilish ferocity. A darker cloud yet
eetated down upon the Nation. There
jaK ef the election was ia dispute and
(relation, aot between two or three sec
tiane, but revolution in every town and
ana city ot xae uniiea ocais
i teaalneat. The prospect was that
: would throttle New York aad
Zer rtoans would grip New Orleans aad
iBMWw. ""
Tri wafr lagtoa Washington. Seme said
J..TT- JL .Wted atfcara laid Mr.
-- THSSB mmm -
n araa elected, aa
iectei. aad how near we
etna
aot to the honesty and righteousness of
infuriated politicians, but I ascribe it to
the upper forces of the text. Chariots of
mercy rolled in aad though the wheels
were not beard and the flash was not seen,
yet all through the mountains of the North
and the South and the East and the West,
though the hoofs did not clatter, the cav
alry of God galloped by. I tell you God
is the friend of this Nation, in the awful
excitement at the massacre of Lincoln,
when there was a prospect that greater
slaughter would open upon this Nation.
God hushed the tempest. In the awful
excitement at the time of Garfield's as
sassination, God put His foot on the neck
of the cyclone.
To prove that God is on the aide of this
Nation, I argue from the last eight or
nine groat national harvest, and from the
national health of the last quarter of a
century, epidemic very exceptional, and
from the great rivals of the Church of God,
and from the Continent blossoming with
asylums and reformatory institutions, and
from an denization which promises that
this whole land is to be a paradise where
Goil shall walk in the cool of the day.
If in other sermons I showed you what
was the evil that threatened to upset and
demolish American institutions, I am en
couraged more th-iu I can tell you as I see
the regiments wheeling down the sky, and
my Jsremiads turn into doxolog'fs, and
that which was the Good Friday of the Na
tion's crucifixion becomes :b Easter morn
of its resurrection. Or cour.se God works
through human instrumentalities, and this
national betterment is to come among
other things through a scrutinized ballot
box. IJy the law of legistratiou it is almost
impossible now to have illegal voting.
There was a time you and I remember it
very wll when droves of vagabonds
wandered up and down on election day
from poll to poll, and voted here anil voted
there, and voted everywhere, and there
was no challenge; or, if there w-re, it
amounted to nothing, because nothing
could so suddenly bo proved upon the
vagabonds.
Now in every well organized neighbor
hood every voter is watched with severest
scrutiny. 1 must tell tho registrar my
name, and how old I am, aud how- long I
have resided in the State, and how long I
have resided in the wuid or the township,
and if 1 misrepresent lifcy witnesses will
rise and shut me out from the ballot box.
Is not that a great advance? And then
notice the law that prohibits a man voting
if he has bet on the election. A st p
further needs to be taken aud that man
foi bidden a votn who has olfered or taken
a bribe, whether it be in tho shape of a
free drink or caxh paid down, the suspic
ious casus obliged to put their hand on the
Ihbla and swear their vote in if they vote
nt all. So through the sacred chest of our
Nation's suffrage redemption will coma
God also will snve this Nation through
an aroused moral sentiment. There never
has been so much discussion of morals
aud immorals. Men, whether or not thoy
nckuowledge what is right, have to think
what is right. We have men who have
had their hands in the public treasury the
most of their lift-time, stealing all th"V
could get their hands on, discoursing
eloquently about dishonesty in public
servants, and men with two or three
families of their owu preaching eloquently
about, the beauties of the seventh com
mandment. The question of sobriety ami
drunkenness is thrust in thy face of thi-s
Nation as never before, and is to take a
part in ourpolitical contests. The question
of national sobriety is going to be respect
fully and deferentially heard at the bar
ot every L-gisiature ami every Houn of
Representatives and every United States
Senate, and an omnipotent voice will ring
down the sky and aero-. this land and
back again, saying to these rising tides of
drtinkeiines which threnten to whelm
home nud Church and Nation: "Thus far
hali thou come but no further, and h"re
shall thy proud waves bo stayed."
1 have not in niv mind a lridovv of dis
henrteiimsnt as large as the shadow of a
huusflly's wing. II y faith is in tho upper
forces, the upper armies of the text. God
U not dead. The chariots are not iin
wheeled If you would only pray more
and wadi your eyes in the cool, bright
water. fre.-Ji from the well ot ilirttnin
leiuini. it would be said of vou. as of this
one of tho text: "The Lord opened the
eyes of ttie young man; and he saw; and,
behold, the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of the roundabout Ejlia."'
When the army of Antigouus went
into battle his soldier weie very much
discouraged, and they rushed up to the
General and said to him: "Don't you see
we have a few forces and they have so
many more?" and the soldiers were af
frighted at the smallnesH of their number
and the greatness of the enemy. Antig
ouus, their commander, straightened him
elf up and said, with indignation and
vehemence: "How man do you reckon
me to be?" And when we see
the vast armies arrayed against the cause
of sobriety i: may sometimes be very dis
couraging, but I ask you in making up
your estimate of the forces of righteous
ness I ask you how many do you reckon
the Lord God Almighty to be? He is our
commander. The Lord of Hosts Is His
name. I have the best authority for say
ing that the chariots of God are 2),'0,
and the mount litis are full of them.
You will take without my saying it that
my only faith is in Christianity and in the
upper forces suggested in the text. Po
litical parties come and go, and they may
be right and thoy may be wrong; but God
lives and I think He has ordained this
Nation for a career of prosperity that no
demagogism will be able to halt. I ex
pect to live to see a political party which
will have a platform of two planks the
Ten Commandments and the Sermon on
the Mount When that party s formed it
will sweep across this land like a tornado,
I was going to say. but when I think it is
not to be devastation but resuscitation, I
change the figure and say, such a party
as that will sweep across this land like
spice gales from Heaven.
Have you any doubt about the need of
the Christian religion to purify and make
decent American politics? At every
yearly or quadrennial election we have iu
this country great manufactories of lies,
and they are run day and night, and they
turn out half a dozen a day all
equipped aud ready for full tailing.
Large lies and small lies. Lies private
aud lies public and lies prurient. Lies cut
bias and lies cut diagonal. Long limbed
lies and lirs w ith double back action. Lies
complimentary and lie defamatory. Lies
that some people believe, and lies that
all the people believe, and lies that
nobody believe. Lie with hump like
camels and scales like crocodile and
neck as long as storks and feet as swift
as an antelope's and stings lik an ad
der's. Lies raw and scallced and panned
and stewed. Crawling lie aad jumping
lies and soaring It. Lies wi h attach
ment screws and rufller And braiders and
ready wound bobbers. Lies by Christian
people who never lie except during elec
tions, and lies by people who always lie,
but beat themselves in a Presidential cam
paign. I confess I am ashamed to have a for
eigner visit this country in such times. I
should think he would stand dazed, his
hand on his pocketbxk, and dare not go
out nights. What will the hundreds of
thousands of foreigners who come here to
live think of us What a disgust they
must have for the laud of their adopt ioa!
The only good thing ahSut it is many of
them can not understand the English lan
guage. But I suppose the German aad
Italian aad Swedish and French papers
translate it all and peddle out the infernal
stun to their subscribers.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such a a od of iadeceacy. Tho Christian
relbrioa will speak: after a while. Tho
aitagagmto aad low
rebuked by that religion which speaks
from its two great mountains, from the
one mountain intoning the command.
"Thou sbalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor," and from the other
mount making plea for kindusis and love
and blessing rather than cursing. Yes,
we are going to have a national religion.
There are two kinds of national relig
ion. The one is supported by the state,
and is a matter of human politics, and it
has great patronage, and under It men
will struggle for prominence without ref
erence to qjal lications. and its archbishop
is supported uy a salary of ?"'. 000 a year,
and there are great cathedrals with al
the machinery of music and canonicals,
and room for .0H people, yet an audience
of fifty people, or twenty people, or ten
or two.
We want no such religion as that, no
such national religion; but we want this
kind of national religion the vust major
ity of the eoplii converted ami evangel
ized, and then they will maungv the secu
lar as well as the religious.
Do you say that this is impracticable?
No. The timo is com.ug just as certain us
there is a God and that this is Hi bojfc
nud that He has the strength and the hon
esty to fulfill His promises. One of tho
ancient Emperors u-ed to pride himself
on pel form ng ihut which his counselors
said was impossible, and 1 have to tell
you to-day that man's impossibilities are
God's easles. "Hatti He said and shall
He not do it? Hath II j commanded and
will He not bring it to pa,s?" The Chris
tian leligion is coming to take possession
of every ballot box, of every school house,
of every home, of every valley, of every
mountain, of every acra of our national
domain. This Nation, notwithstanding
all tho influences that are trying to de
stroy it, is going to live.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when 'Satan was hurled headlong ll.iming
from tho ethereal s-kis in hideous ruin
and combustion down," have the powers
of darkness been so determined to win thii
continent as they are now. Wht a jewel
it is a jewel carved ill relief, the camec
of this planet! On oili side of us the At
lantic oce-ui, d.viding us Irom tho worn
out govcrnm-iits of Europe. On th othei
sido the 1'acitlc ocean, dividing us from
the superstitions of Asia. On the north ol
us the Artie sea, which is the gymnasium
iu which the explorers and navigators de
velop their courage. A continent 10,.'0C
miles long. 17.tW,M'J scjiro miles, nd all
of it but about one-seventh capable ol
rich cultivation. One hundred millions ot
population on this continent of North and
South America one hundred millions, and
room for many hundred millions more.
All Mora and all fauna, all metals and all
precious woods, and all grains ami all
truits. Th Appalachian range the back
bone, nnd the rivers tins ganglia tarrting
lifon'l through nnd out to the extremities.
Isthmus of Darien, the narrow waist of a
giant continent, all to bi under one gov
ernment, and nil fre ami all Christian,
aud the scene of Christ's personul reign
on eaitli if. according to the expectation
of many good people, Ue shall at last set
up IIi t!iro'i in this world. Who shall
have this hemisphere, Christ or Satan;
Who shall have tho shore of her inland
seas, the silver of her Nevada, the gold ol
her Colorados. tho telescopes ut her obser
vatories, the bruin of her universities the
wheat of her prairies, th rice of hoi
savannas, the two great ocean lynches
the one reaching Irom Ratlin's bay to
Terra del Fuego and the other from
Rehriug straits to Cape Horn and all the
moral und temporal iinl spiritual andever
lasting intwests of a population vast be
yond nil human computation? Who shall
have the hemisphere? You ami I will de
cide that, or help to decide it. by con
scientious vote, by earnest prayer, by
maintenance of Christian institutions by
support of great philanthropies, by put
ting buly. mind ami soul on tho n'gJit side
of all moral, religious an l national move
ments. Ah! it will not be long l.foro it will not
make any difference to you or to me what
becomes of this continent so far as earth
ly comfort is concerned. All w will
want of it will be seven feet by three, und
that will take in the largest, and thert
will be loom to spare. That is all of thi
countiv we will need very soon the
younget of us. Hut we have an anxiety
about tne welfare and happiness of the
generations that are coming on, and it
will ben grand thing if. when tin- arch
angel's trumpet sounds, we find that our
sepulcher. like the one Joseph of Arima
thea provided for Christ, is iu the midst
of a garden.
One of I he seven wondeis of the world
was tho white maible watch tower of
Pharos of Egypt. Sostratus, the architect
and sculptor, after building that watch
tower cut his nam on it. Then ho cov
ered it with plastering and to pleaso the
King he put the monarch's name on the
outside of the plastering; aud the storms
beat atid the seas dahed in their fury and
they washed otT the plastering, ami they
washed it out, and they washed it down,
but the name of Sostratus was deep cut in
the imperishable rock. So across the
face of this Nation there have been
a great many names written, across
our finances, across our religions.
nams worthy of remembrance, names
wtitten on the architecture of our churches
and our schools and our asylums and our
homes of mercy, but God in the architect
of this continent and He wa the sculptor
of all its grandeurs, and long after through
the wash of the ages and the tempest of
centuries all other names shall be obliter
ated the Divine S.gnature aud Divine
Name will be brighter and brighter as the
millenniums go by. and the world shall
see that the God who made this continent
has redeemed it by His grace from all its
sorrows and from all its crimes.
Have you faith in such a thing as that
After all the chariots have been un
wheeled and after all the war chargers
have been crippled the chariots which
Elisba saw on the morning of his peril
will roll on in triumph, followed by all
the armies ot Heaven on white horses.
God could do it without us, but He will
nob The weakest of us. the faintest ot
us, the smallest brained of us. shall have
a part in the triumph. We may not
have cur name, like the name of
Sostratus. cut in the imperishnble rock
and conspicuoas for centuries, but we shall
be remembered in a better placothan that,
aud la the heart of Him who cam to re
deem us and redeem the worl 1 and our
names will be seen close to the signature
of His wound, for to-day as He throws
out His arms toward us He says: "Be
hold. I have graven thee on th palms ot
My bands." By the mightiest of all agen
cies, the potency of prayer. 1 bg yen te
seek our national welfare.
Some time ago there were 4 600,000 let
ters in the dead letter post-office at Wash
ington letters that lost their way but
not one prayer ever directed to the heart
of God over miscarried. The way is all
clear for the asc-nt of your supplications
Heavenward in behalf of this Nation. Be
fore the postal communication was so
easy and long ago, on a rock 1C0 feet high
oa the coast of England, there was a bar
rel fastened to a post, and in great letters
on the side of the rock, so it coatd b seen
far out at sea. was the word "Pos -office:"
and when ships camo by a boat put out to
take and fetch letters. And so sacred
were those deposits of affection ia
that barrel that no lock was ever pet upon
that barrel, although it contained mes
sage for Amenca, and Europe, aad Asia,
and Africa, and all the islands of the eesv
Maay a storm-tossed sailor, home sick,
got messages cf kindness by that rock,
aad maay a homestead heard good news
from a boy long goao. Woald that all tho
heights of oar aatioaal oroporiry wore
ia laterchango of symp,thlos seajmi
going up meeting Msssiogs nsalsgdowa;
piste 1 celestial, aot a snam-sui
STEAMSHIP COLLISIONS.
DIBcalty of Chechia the Kpeesl
of
Meaner Coder fall Headway.
A great deal has been said and writ
ten on the above subject, without duo
consideration, always, for all tho facts
in the eae. The Srst thinj; to be re
membered is tho utter density of the
fog- that causs these collision. Ia m
genuine ocean fog- one end of a vesv-l's
deck is absolutely invisible from the
other end. and the rays of a brilliant
headlijrht can not penetrate the tntotiso
blackness more than a few rods. Tho
one protection that steamers have in
these fogs is the blow-in-; of whistle.-s.
It should, of course, be made the duty
of the captain of a steam versol to have
this whistle sounded continuously, or
nearly so, during" the entire time thai
a fop lasts, hut this practice is too often
neglected. The use of the whistle.
however, can not prevent accidents: I
first, because it- sound only announces
tho existence of a danger, but does not
locate it. It is very di'Rcuit. almost
impossible, to accurately ji'.aco tho
direction whence the sound of the
whistle comes, until the danger, if
dangcr it be. is so near that escape ,
from it is impossible. This is because,
secondly, it is by no means easy to
check the speed of a steam vessel
under full headway. Few land-
men have any idea of the momen
tum of ocean steamers. Several years
ago the Scientilic American took
occasion to interview the commanders
of ocean vessels on this subject. Sup
pose, it was asked, a steam vessel was
running at" full speed, and the engines
were reversed, how far would the ves
sel run before it began to "gather stern
way" that is. move backward? The
answer varied between two and four
miles, but tho conclusion was that two
vessels approaching each other at full
speed, might, after hearing the fog
horn at the distance of four miles, do
their best to stop and still collide with
serious consequences. As to the mat
ter of double track lines, or "ocean
lanes," as they are called, these were
first suggested nearly fifty years ago. ;
and a chart was made for the use of i
captains of Atlantic steamers, on which
one line was laid down for eastern and
another for western passage. At that i
time there was but one lino of steamers. I
the Cunarders. between this country (
and Kurope. Now steamship lines have
multiplied to such an extent that their
courses cross and recross each other
like a network of telegraph wires, and
the original plan of a chart is manifest
ly no longer equal to the needs of tho
case. It has been suggested, however,
that it would be possible to have charts
prepared by an authoritative board, or
commission, showing the exact outward
and homeward courses to be followed
by each of the steamship lines in each
mouth. These, if carefully followed
nillv lessen tlu"daners of I
would gem:
" . :
collision, even if thev could not
ould not alto- i
gether prevent it. Chicago luter
Ocean.
BRAINS IN BUSINESS.
Tlie
One (treat sierrel of iir-r III Coin-
inrrrinl l.lfr.
One great secret of success in busi- j
ncss the secret, in fact, of success on
a large scale is to conceive of it as a j
matter of principle, not merely as a j
scries of transactions. There are great (
merchants ;is there are great states- .
men. and there are small merchant as j
there are small politician; and the j
dilTereneo between the great and the
small man is very much the same in
both professions. The small politician j
works by the day. and sees only the ,
one small opportunity before him; the j
small merchant does the same thing
he is looking for the next dollar. Tin
statesman, on theother hand, i master
of the situation because lie understand
the general principle which control
events; this knowledge enables him to
deal with large question and to shape
tho future. The great merchant doe tho
same thing: his business is not a mere
money -getting affair, not a mere matter
of barter, but a science and an art; he
studies the general laws of trade,
watches the general condition of the
country, investigates present needs,
foresees future wants, and adapt his
business to the broad conditions of his
time nnd place. He put a much
brains into his work a does the states
man, nnd he ends by Wing, not a
money-getter, but a large-minded and
capable man. An eminently successful
business man. of the statesmanliko
quality, said tho other day that the
more he understood of life, the more
clearly he saw that it wa all done on
business principles. Uy which ho
meant, not that the universe stands for
the dollar, that the universe is governed
by unvarying laws; that promptness.
exactness, thorough nes. and honesty
are wrought into its very fiWr. On
these business principles all life is con-
dncted if not by men. at least by that
Power which is behind man. It ought
to be the ambition of every young man
to treat his business from the point of :
view or the statesman anu not irom that
of the politician. Christian Union.
OriRin of the Word "Snob,"
The origin of the word "Snob" ha
generally Wea attributed to Thack-.
eray, to whom, certainly, may bo '
credited the fact of its having taken its
place in the English language as a
regular nous substantive. expreive J
of something that no other inglc word
can adequately convey. "Snob" was .
in use. however. K'fore Thackeray
came into the Held as a satirist. It
was then a slang word much usod .
among hunting men in England o de
note a sportsman of the Cockney school
a vulgar swell as distinguished from
a quiet, well-appointed geatleraan.
"Snobs was also used to denote prr
sons who worked for lower wages dur-
lag; a strike, the men who stood out be-
ieg dbtingubhed as "nobs. Thack-
tneaaiair one who mcaaly tries to ap
pear to be otaetki'ag- core thaa he
actoallj ia. or io ewtitlow to be X. T.
erav adopted the word "Snob 'for wast 1 even to shooting a yr. o? vitw- aioa? v Miasm 7 ?"" "- '- ' si- - " w ?"vc ---fs
of a better, extended it so a to take " the barrel to keep It cooL Is r Zcol pAT oZ If1 TXl I '- :lliS117 ?- ta
in a great deal bevond sere drcs and :vcd btrsdred sbr a ralnoi,. ac4 a!i agitoUoa. J Ztj'Z im t-tltl4- tit s-jf at
tcaaaers. and used It to such good pur- that the operator has u do U to airs it- vif?iaVjJiJ -7 XzA ug'Jbr ! ri ei Tt r-r U si
pose that it at once took hold of tho This is th Stanley ffua. Vcw caa VlSls4- j- Ttvyrfm AW- rakiftg to ahw to U O mix J Jt-
popular miad and became claAsical. aa not It Is the L'slte-d States sow. for S rLvi--tt Ca m& tso yrtfj&& f" - r at ? 3. ''
s
--There io tt artelajicholy Bdir-Hiai
httawareatltk4oiothoarooaaaea.
law i infill j ill ifii hji if Ij'IHi-i
SKINS OF REPTILES.
A Stew Tor. hs-Keeper Talks jstmet tho
L'see or srfl IIMee.
In the window of nn up-ton Hroad-
way store, where fancy articles in
leather are old. hangx a skin which
.... .... ..tnltt.u est llf irtttitrO
... . .i .v. .. i
hide, except for greater length and !
.' ' ,. ..tu ." .:i .1, ,
""' "" "'V . w:.H:!wi The condition of tho
proprietor Ol uie hiure wui" ijui-t-
tioned. "L the largest anaconda i!dn
ever exhibited in this city. It is Sheen
feet lon;. two feet in width, and. a
you see. i beautifully marked.
Do you mean to say that there I a
staple trade in atmeotida skins?" was
aaked.
"ot at all. no use a reat many
anufru-turu f
snake skins for tho m
Ioeket-books. small eachols. and arti
cles of that description, but there is no
dealer in leather who keejn tanned
stin'Re kins in stock that I know of.
All the skins we ;;.: are brought to us
by private individuals who have had
them tnmictl and are willing to sell
them. The anaconda that originally
possessed the skin :u my window was
formerly one of the attractions of a
dbne tsusciim. When lie died I heard
of it and secured his hide. A skin like
that is worth about Sifte
a dollars.
"What is it good for?"
Well, the leather
is remarkably
tough, and could le used to cowr
furniture, but I secured it more as u
curiosity than any thing else. I hnvo
made slippers from anaconda leather,
but the scale tire a great objection to
its Use for such a purpose. Vou see.
each one has to be carefully cemen:-d
down, but a little water i apt to work
them loose."
"Do people ever bring snake ..kin
to vou to have articles made from
; them?"
"Yes. indeed: and. strange to sny.
my best customers are women. A very
I pretty girl came to me the other day
1 with the skin of a king scake. The
king snake, you know, is a native of
' Florida, and is to the snake kingdom
I what a Hon is to the animal. He can
j lick any thing that crawls even a
! rattler. The skin that the young lady
j brought in was one of the handsomest
' I have ever seen. The yellow circles
1 around the dark body shone in contrast
, like gold, and so nicely had the leather
been tanned that it was as soft and
pliable as chamois. Us .jwrier hail a
story to tell about the snake, which, it
seems, her brother had captured in a
somewhat novel way. He was sitting,
she said, one afternoon on the shore
of Lake Weir, iu Central Florida,
when suddenly he heard a thrah-
ing in the brush at hi side. Ho
investigated and discovered two
snakes fighting for all they wore
worth. One was a king snake and
tho other a tug black suaice. l liov,
weren't exactly fighting, either. ,h;,
aid. for tho king snake h:ul succeeded
Setting the black snake ju-t whe
, ... i .i i .k
" w-r.meu mm. in outer worn. wu
head of the tdnelc snake was in the
king snake's mouth, and the ..wallowing
process had already Wgun. The
thrashing was tint re-uit of the black
snake's indignation at the proceeding.
To make a long story short, the king
snake finally succeeded in swallowing
his black rival until only aWut two
indie-, of the lalter'n tall projected
from tin conqueror" mouth. "Hi
voting lady's brother then took them
up to the stable, and. laying them on
the tloor. put his foot on the protruding
tail aud gently pulled them apart.
The blaek snake wa still alive, but
hadn't much energy left. The king
snake, oi the contrary, w a. as lively
as a kitten and iuimodintlv howil
tight. The two snake were placed in
a barrel together, and the next morn-
ing the black one wa dead. The
young man brought the king nake
home with him. and he Iwani" a pet in
the family. Tho cold wa too much
for him, though, and he finally died."
"Hut what did the young lady wish to
have made from hi kln?"
"She wanted it stuffed. You oe,
she had become attached to the reptile,
and. woman-like. wantI to preorve.
the remain-in the must life-like form."
N. Y. Kvening l'o-t.
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STANLEY'S MACHINE GUN.
It JOniulil Have Melt-age.! to Anwrlrs,
Itut llfies Helune; In r,n(UniL
'Die print of the Kngli-h-peaking
world have Wen full of torie nWut
the machine gun which Henry M.
Stanley carried with htm in hi lant
desperate venture in Africa. And yet
it is an old story. It occurs to this
paper to jroj'rly tell it:
The weapon so much talked
nbout is a Maxim gun. It ww in
vented by a citizen of the.; Unit!
States. He was poor and -ought en
couragement from our Government.
Ho so. none. He went to Kngland
where they ww It merit at once and
j made him rich. So his gun Is under
control of the I!ri'.ih government.
At the time when he commenced hi
nvestiirntion the three envat machine
ir
gun of the world were the Gatling.
.v. ii.i..i i .w. v i v... .i.
ine iojjiis. jjju iuc.ioiucuuuii hit
flrt two American. th lat
There was little diJIercr.cc
,,'",!
-
At aeeve.
merits. av uiat too notcaici. was
lighter and made for ready tranjKrt-
ation.
Maxim, an American boy. said to
himself: Thre are fault about thee
marhine, in.
I. The
, , .. .
ie turning of the cranx pn-
y thing like an aim. 2. Often
'. vents an
the cartridge hang Sre a little, but the . Vlin t-lamd V I-owJa. aftd nx
crank turn on and they explode at the j !..., .0 rt-Dw old xus. w-c tTilr
wrong lime. 3. jMoto"aiL tbe rapid J his u -jjeir bo-!. i Jey -firing
heat the gun so that It Is u- , vok U dy. aad amrtnjat t doai-
leis and even daogcroas in
second .
irw
Th Maxim gun ovemiroc all thcx'
defrct'
craak.
con
as the sua ply of cartridge lat Th
j power of the recoil dor all the work.
it U owned by "& govercrxiat of Great
fMtaJau ClsciaKati Eoqalrer-
tsMirhere werejres hos-a. 2tt48 $?
ofcro! m ahUosUfcrof4jrt of -Kreet hog-
TaBaa ( Tas VaToBtft. aTatff'eft- ahfr bVbTb BfetA IIbTbW
iy.-l-otI
1
. Iti.auvitnatic. It zsLs no "; Z?ZTVV V.Z Vr- i- - J. a4 th-w-r :
Pull the trigger otc and it : ZZ iaS. U.o?-o Tb r I. & -t-J U-
tlnus to load aad Sro lUelf o l&oi- ; Kaco-xres. P7ri wjtjs a Tat? '" mi - '" 1
AUTOMATIC AMBULATION.
A reveller Ceta f lwMe " iaiee
KeporteJ by a I'hjaWlsn.
The very Interesting ci.m df-criled
br lr. lonaldm under tho titlo
"Automatic Ambulation. which h
had seen in the clinic of I h.-wvot. 1
not without parallel, jw the doctor sup
patirttiU
rational.
in which, though seemingly
he waj. rwiilv u
..r
ering from a lape of
.... '
oonclou.-nes. is one which ha been i
described by several writer upon
epilepsy, notably Hughlincs. J.nekoa
and turner. ronaeny it t as
serted thv. such a state of double
consciotisncss always a pt-pl-
Iop:iv phiMhititvnon. N tl Udwv.nl
that It mav cnHiir as tae pay tout
j equivalent of the epileptic attaeic
t An interesting case, which illustrate
this condition. wn obrvl at my
i clinic not vory long ago. A young
man. a carpenter by trade1, who bad
occasionally -ullered from eplU-pUe at-
- hVtorv:
iV. 1.
tacks, related the follow m
He reinemberiHl tinviae- com Uottv a
usiml frotn work on a 1'htirsday nlghu J
and having s to Jhw wtta air
brother, with trhoin he always stop.
The next thing he rente ra)xp U awak
ening on Friday afternoon, at four
o'elook and tlndinghmiseif in lMlovuo
Hospital. lie had no recoil lion
whatever of how he got there, nnd It
was a surprise to him not to find him
self iu his own nnHiu Ho ksiml.
however. sul.eoueiit'v. that ho had
gotten up, apparently m. u-ual. on Vri
ilny morning, after a quiet night. h
brother Wing positive tUntheevmld not
have had an epileptic attai k dnring
the night, and his family having
noticed nothing unusual in hU appear
ance or manner, lie had gon to his
work a usual, ami had Wen ent by
i the foreman UKn an errand. Involving
a vvalk of sixteen blocks, which or mud
ho had partly carri.il out. as he had
delivered the package t the req .tired
place. Hi next two of himsjf I In
i a distant part of the city, in the hop
of a plumWr, with whom. It seem, ho
had picked a quarrel, aud w ho turned
him over to a policeman, who In turn
j took him to the statlon-hoii, whon.-e
he was sent to the !t,l!ev.u Hospital.
The jHiliee jutte. soiit him to the hos
pital because he npparsl to be Wwlt
dereil. but not drunk, a he answered
question Intelligibly, and eou'.d wnjk
MTfecllv, and yet did not e.in wirll.
When he reached the hospital hn wu
put to bod. and soon fell asleep. When
the phy-lclan came to examine him
sihui after, he was awakened, and then
was In hi natural condition, and ap
pearing to W well, he was discharged
and came home.
There appeared to bo no ovlduHco
that the bov hal had a M hi tongue
, '
Ua not bitten, he wa not lntruMl rta
he had been after other attack. "'
.. . i wa. verv intelligent, and tt an lu
ll ..
i teret in hi vendition. Bad in? out the
fact. which have Imoii relabtd. Thr
had. undoubtedly. irn n tital 1hmh
of consciousness" from Tuur-dny uisThl
until Friday afternoon, yd during lJfce
jxiriml he had acted an If onrUtii. and
had found hi way ne uul toad piacw
.if work.
It seem- preferable to ;.: of such
;i inte a one of double isaaeciosjanoea.
rather than n on.o lap- of mci.
tej-s, though there ; certainty n .apee
of memory. I le ha Und o iibsnoi
atUick to my knowledfo. ha via leo
treated with broTifali He for estly.
A somewhat lrolinr . hsx rswatly
wnder my obrvatloo
In fosvol-
Uvtion. but varloM elrruata b
sequently dlH)VttrHi by tho atten41nj(
phylcian led u WU to bl that it
wa a of malingering I havo mt
doubt that other hav en -iwilnr
cae. though I can not but bHti
thit they are vry rae. -Dr. M. A.
Starr, in .Mediinl N'ew.
THE POET LAUHCATE.
llilrrrtlM( m,i tiiinln( .Ine.-tliOe ftn.
rrnlH( rtoJ'.
Abent-inlndeI to a dgr., Teriny
on often forget lo whom he I HKik
Jng, and once when In full convera
tion.with ItoWrt Hrowalag ald. ap
parently apropos de Vtte: "I voider
how Ilrownlng l-getting on," "Why"
exclaims! lloWrt. "I am Hrowhlng "
"NoneiiMi." rejdled Tenwv.oH. with
almot an attempt at rij;ulh raillery.
"1 know the fellow woll. ojou can't
tell tne you are he.
A few ftir ago ome enihaLs.,ji
.wlmln-r f Tennyon gav a large
dinner In hi honor, and Invited all
their choicest friead in the world of
literature aixl art to raet him. Teony
on. who rarely aorpt aa lavitstion.
did. for a wonder. jil in aa appear
ance on this fejlor. but, duria? th
first half of the dinner. aaoil tb!
greatel disappointment by rensaclg
absvlut;ly silent, and a if I. m tb
mQml j)ro;rtjn,j
ho naj ,.,.,.
reverie I h" gue-i.
-tJ U hang on ord
i falling like pear I of thoug&t fros his
j lip, gazed oraes,riat "vt-tiu.nr n aim,
! when uddoaij rouiar hiniH". b
i clainv-d in a Wrsd. .twrtan yw-i
' 5ik? mv mutton cut chunk I rsm
: . .
i nm rioiii lu-uerjua. oov - -j -.
1 .. l . I - ,. OsWeaWaa M
something of mliws prepen in thi j
btirt of confident--. d that th rr
( roan ;o4. a ool COOars.i Irritated :
J Wing gapd at. ard a rwrTptMlD;
deir to pnaib th oJeJf.r.
An n-Joe -oW nv? nt Song r fyf
i the daughvr-lo-U I aic-. la ib-'.
! It -b b" sh " r "1 "-
J rwJle of jt'ling to IltUs w-aevsi.
j P-0"- .' ,, t.,,-.
' . - . B ..;- MB- vr.r. la
j dl! Urmoi th birds Ss. Sitting
1 dorn u rivr a not? er? . h--
v th taUfortose to -href tKer eta-
jog of &e ?-, ht-bi ,r4no
, tL oSadiax Isk .tato- "tX 7v J
o5'diax
carpet attll sot a ft ssi. TJto
r. i W . .'l1fr- .k! ;
iri eavroett Sr e slJiftw ?
a few ssoeske aftcro arlTaa js
- w - .
04lawiU.!.! :rJrs4 ir e-r
I heBeve Ufct oho ha lot
. tl Mf 1 V --.... tl r w .
i aewaa. s mmj ww i - . . . s,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Strang. J true wtwfc.tnlm
Ts.ni r o!loa hedtron. 1W,
xaoro American.
- Tho cvcntiaN of a watnrinc plior
may U alllterativcly summod up tlm:
j Ss. alt, un. and. shell, shrimp,
j steamers., hlp. Hors and hlnc!,
Sitae one h ficurvsl that only on
young nun owl of fifty who marries
I " .. -i . iiv,,i -
. as-. tin ,d ninn consent. Iz h Un .
. booted o U door-Vp orhosl wp
i by the dog h- taVti It J a lin that lh
I old man i u:Uc. and ho roatH cor
rectly. ( - They arv dmwtnc the roetsr Usw
j Jlae Jn a Jamtxie. I. I.. ttt tVt
Uio prtnetpal rp.;;.! tw bay. tt
aid. for beta : dark isamptAtiooW.
white t" lighter on ut tho .B
family cc aKv yl u mssuvin.
l.Ulle l'lorns. a Knch ty. went
on: to walk vtlh bu fathor a th
neul. and wn badl) fright! lev .-
'JVV', ,4 CS'U "U S '
! a'rw-a. Plovvwr hi lat
hould vM b
fraud. PkrrroV hi IfttWr a-l
"Yuu tr; wrh erosvurxr iv that at din
ner, vou know. "Yob, spn." wv.d
Fierro. "Iw; tbt? arem't oil .,;,
dooe.- Youth's ompi.
Ctrl in ltiddeford oad Kosw. !..
com to tuvt musk qtr tat Oa
lady ma!: na ecura U iho hrU
yard ooeh ummoratKl Uy In a pi'
of ale, btu clay to nt tfcrossgh in
ttlMtor. Anuiber fnvorttw dnltT U it
oft brick, and b'ng aprtMcw a
lx,-Ul Ur horn to ...U-t th ohfa,t
.! lnio- at a gtanco. Kara a Us"
Wolle ha lived to a ;Hd oW a;J to
enjoy her favorite diK.
Aocordlag jo a report awvdo hy Ur
torg Human. .Mellnl Kinmiaor sf
Ut St. lut Polico leKrlafJ. tho
police of that city ar nmllar,v !UM
j to pulmonary iltsea. Mm .y. sst
j oHrlioieo ;uU&e tar. e i peU.tii
j that nlxHit half of all ho H th M
; Urni polWt fonst mi! nervw ton y.wr
will die ot iiiuiHiUti oon nltr
retichtag forty yr of a.jo
A tory 1 told of to pnrrt th.-vt
lived MoariKieh ether. In l'htbttihWv
One wa aeoutomed to slag hvoso.
while the other wa add lew! lieAr
lag. The oner of the iMtr ttotle4
jH"rBt!iu for tl to aerfat lth Ut
fiwmer. hoping that ltbol haMt xwuid
W correct.!; but th oppo4fc notsll
follow hI, tor tth UstriMiel U nr
alike.
Whero's the (jtorr" a9asi
F44le. "1 wsat to Hlnko - OlOO. "
. I -oolda'tt" alil eaglK t'aol
.fix, who love k tno tuaoll io5
"TWro are wsinpen iieMMHrh In this
heti. alrwodr.' "VelL 1 ant
to make nmlly troJy ." aa-er4
l"ldt iriratiy. ! fesles't Mfitu.
1 havmi't got th toissir' - Yossth
(oi-euiot.
A ae rnmi'dy for !rl 4i.
ny tho llospllai. k a .vt4aunl hoth.
the rntiaat nt. 4rtakia; Hn !
big then uatil Hiid. a asttioat ha
Wn kopt In such n hath for K Ay.
Ho k Uott .p nlf ot atarh to e
vot hlto frwi liffJkg mi s h hn
-In.wo. 'lite saUm n4 solos h somas
tauch ahrtv-44. hot th- rweto. tjoehi
urn hajel Th -moor la taf t
ataj-etll aVf row.
Tho Kneel a a avthss tar wof4af
a mania; hovso fc oiaj to ho ory f
f-tie, a4 kt a-4 jmrt&vinrtf rruM
Tny psae a eoew with n. rMo4ekf ha-
a-oao4 hs low' oorh asra-r Has awr
etrapv To tfcU etlfatrns attach a awtr
of rolas, whirh asay h tfcrvwo wr
tho dhbr4 ready to h siao4
ooce. U'hoa tho horee wsorto
tho -stm rsdoe ssm! tlfhWHl
arouBst taw horf' Uiranft. Tho
fariou lar.o Vk eiseAosl toe lo
i.Uatljr; mo4 vUl aot klok r (oil
If a lady U wlw In mmn)1 osW
hm ro tew Oon4a i-.f u;
la a4 vaoco omuujth Imr up .r sit e
hr crtajmay in Uoy oo nt nvdl ie
tnutla of tho eolr of th Imhtt oovora
Uor.. (.iUi-i bn.Sj-t thsi -Us HWhsri
are bent-! tth ta wwity We) 4
form th ehkf nrtMusosh f the 41a a
room. l.'alr Ue tr8t.t-hoi li- -raut
hav vhit oo Ijlmz. aa4 wtw
W ! want h iflly ntrt t
latter nnd ihrtr lbSM into Uo mof
atr. tkag them ot a-o tho fta
la W.ii e,xtr! aa4 wiag tas
in a i'rer lop b-vtn.
"Iv. ye." il Mr. Orpooksn
rornptrupssntly ft ar rimn imtn
trip Ft. ! til you I let t-Wom '
Yorker koo that o ahtt
much (J!ool tyl oot hswe th ot
felloe. We it 4t at tins Hfla
Avyrw la St York t4 at Use Vs
dorn in ItoUn, 4 a Ai &" I
wore car "J sati deooi'ly 4r 4a
to wtakt rrrj tborohsg. 4 asy
'dttary dijrtr-'l yessr-i-. m4 tar
dlataon! fi that Wj lkj?M
tr
u la mj hlr o4 ttsj j-s-rt
(mh! 4icso4 Hrii. ! I os "eoa
ali d a Uy ev'rjr tl I -ot. J I
gOt Or t.OiSMI atSS t ' 4T
to dimr d Ut we)d th oft
in. as4 1 r6s4 tio rrt rmmA
btga WBjfc r. i 7 h-ws st
s Ot h.i af h4 "w H'M rj
nii-fet. I o " Jt rso4
aU tVjU v'7 7"' theyoxht
14 b ie-o aa4 rwH-wl rt;"et tsUtf u
U-yt. -Tlav.
Mo-M-'Je Ail' of HarMS.
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wUnaH si-msm. wi tavrr a 5ja-
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