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LESSONS LEARNED.
Dr. Talmage Commences a Series
of Discourses on His Tour.
Xfson Drawn From the Pyramids of
CTPt The Grandeur or Man's labors
and What lie Can Accomplish
Heaven's Glorious Mementoes.
Bev.T. De Witt Talmage recently com
menced a Berics of sermons at llrook
. lyn on his eastern tour entitled: "From
"-jfcfhc Pyramids to the Acropolis, or What
" fllBaw in Egypt and Greece Confirma
f tory of the Scriptures." His text was
Isaiah xbc 19-20: "In that day shall
there be an altar to the Lord in the
midst of the land of Egypt and a pillar
at the border thereof to the Lord. And
it shall he for a sign and for a witness."
Dr. Talmagc said:
Isaiah no doubt here refers to the
great pyramid of Egypt. The text
speaks of a pillar in Egypt, and this is
the greatest pillar ever lifted; and the
text says it is to be at the border of the
land, and this pyramid is at the border
of the land; and the text says it shall be
for a witness and the object of this
I. sermon is to tell what this pyramid wit
nesses.
"We had on a morning in December,
lsei), landed in Africa. Amid the
howling boatmen at Alexandria we
had come ashore and taken the rail
train for Cairo, Egypt, along the bank
of the most thoroughly harnessed river
of all the world the river Nile. Wc
had, at eventide, entered the city of
Cairo, the city where Christ dwelt
while staying in Egypt during the
Herodic jM-rsecution. The next morn
ing we were early awake and at the
window looking upon palm trees in full
glory of leafage, and upon the gardens
of fruits and flowers at tho very sea
son when our homes far away are
canopied by bleak skies and the last
leaf of the fon-st has gone down in the
equinoctials
Uut how can I describe tho thrill of
expectation, for to-day we are to see
what all the world has seen or wants
to see the pyramids. We are mounted
for an hour and a half's ride. We pass
on amid bazaars stuffed with rugs and
rarpets, and curious fabrics of all sorts
from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Per
sia, from Turkey, and through streets
where ue meet people of all colors and
all garbs, carts loaded with garden
productions, priests in gowns, women
in black veils, l.c'louins in seemingly
superllous apparel, Janissaries in jacket
of embroidered gold out and on
toward the great pyramid; for though
there are sixty-nine pyramids still
standing, the pyramid of (Jizch
is the monarch of pyramids. The
road we travel is for part
of the way under clumps of
acacia, and by long rows of sycamore
and tamerisk, but. after a while it is a
path of rock and sand, and we find we
have readied the margin of tho desert,
the great Sahara desert, and we cry
out to the dragoman as we see a huge
pile of ruck looming in sight: "Drago
man, what is that?" His answer is:
"The pyramid." and then it seemed as
if we were living a centurj- every min
ute. Our thoughts and emotions were
too rapid and intense for utterance,
and we ride on in silence until we
come to the foot of the pyramid spoken
of in the text, the oldest structure in
all the earth, -l.O(it) years old at least
I had started that morning with the
determination of ascending the pj'ra
mid. One of my chief objects in going
to Egvpt u as not only to see tho lie
of that granitic wonder, but to stand
on top of it Yet the nearer I cum. "
i eTt0"lity-L.V. &c inoreny de
v p? mutation was shaken. Its altitude
T to me was simply npalling As we dis
, mounted at the have of the pyramid 1
said: "Others may go up it, but not I
I will satisfy myself with a view from
the base. The ascent of it would be to
me a foolhardy undertaking." lint
after I had given up all idea of ascend
ing I found niv daughter ias deter
mined to go. and 1 could not let her go
with strangers and I changed my mind
and we started with guides. It can
not be done without these helpers.
Each person in our party ha-i
two or three guides or helpers.
One of them unrolled his turban and
tied it around my waist and he held
the other end of the turban as a mat
ter of safety. Many of the blocks of
stonuare four or five feet high and be
yond an3- human stride unless assisted.
Hut two Arabs to pull and two Arabs
to push, 1 found myself rapidly as
cending from height to height, and on,
to altitudes terrific, and at last at the
tip top we found ourselves on a level
space of about thirty feet square.
Through clearest atmosphere we
looked off upon the desert, and off
upon the winding Nile, and off upon
the Sphinx with its features of ever
lasting stoicity. and yonder upon the
minarets of Cairo glittering in the sun.
and yonder upon Memphis in ruins,
and off upon the wreck of empires and
the battlefields Qf ages, a radius of
view enough to fill the mind and shock
the nerves and otherwhelm one's en
tire being.
After looking around for a while,
and a kodack had pictured the group,
we descended. The descent was more
trying than the ascent for climbing
vou need not see the depths beneath,
but coming down it was impossible not
to see the abysms below. ISut two
Arabs ahead to help us down, and two
Arabs to hold us back, we were low
ered, hand Klow hand, until the
ground was invitingly near, and amid
the jargon of the Arabs we were safely
landed.
I said the dominant color of the
pyramid was gray-but in certain lights
it seemed to shake off the gray of
centuries and become a blonde and the
silver turns tc. the golden. It covers
thirteen acres of ground. What an
antiquity I-"" It was at least :!, 000 years
old whenrthe baby Christ was carried
within sight of it by His fugitive
parents, Joseph and Mary. The
storms of forty centuries have drenched
it, bombarded it, shadowed it, flashed
-upon it, but there it stands ready to
take another forty centuries of ntmos
pheric attack if the world should con
tinue to exist The oldest buildings on
earth are juniors to this great senior of
centuries. Herodotus says that for
ten years preparations were being
made for the building of this pyramid.
Ifhas S2,lll,000 cubic feet of masonry.
One hundred thousaud workmen toiled
U one time in its erection. The top
Vanes were lifted by machinery such
BBW'. - - i - .1
"ihe world knows nouxing oi io-uay.
is 746 feet each side of the square
base.
The structure is 450 feet high, higher
than the cathedrals of Cologne, Stras
burg, Kouen, St Peter's and St Paul's.
Ko surnrise to me that it was put at
he scad of the seven wonders of the
Id. It has a subterranean room ol
"f granite called the "king's cham-.-"
nnd another room called the
"queen's chamber," and the probability
is that there are yet other rooms unex
plored. The evident design of the
architect was to make these rooms as
inaccessible as possible. After all the
work of exploration and all the dig
ging and blasting, if you would enter
these subterraneous rooms you must
go through a passage only three feet,
seven inches high and less than four
feet wide. A sarcophagus of red gran
ite Elands down under this mountain of
masonry. The sarcophagus could not
have been carried in after the pyramid
was built It mast have been put there
before the structure was reared. Prob
ably in that sarcophagus once
lay a wooden coffin containing
a dead king, but time has de
stroyed the colfin and destroyed
the last vestage of human remains.
For 3,000 years this sepulchral room
was unopened, and would have been
until to-day, probably unopened, had
not a superstitious impression got
abroad that the heart of the pyramid
was filled with silver and gold and dia
monds, and under Al Marnoun an ex
cavating party went . work and hav
ing bored and blasted through a 100
feet of rock they found no opening
ahead, and were about to give up the
attempt when the workmen heard a
stone roll down into a seemingly hol
low place and encouraged by that they
resumed their work and came into the
underground rooms. The disappoint
ment of tho workmen in finding the
sarcophagus empty of all silver and
gold and precious stones was so great
that they would have assassinated Al
Mamoun, who employed them, had he
not hid in another part of the pyramid
as much silver and gold as would pay
them for their work at ordinary rate of
wages and induced them there to dig
till they to their surprise came upon
adequate compensation.
I wonder not that this mountain of
limestone and red granite has been the
fascination of scholars, of scientists, of
intelligent Christians in all ages. Sir
John Herschel, the astronomer, said he
thought It had astronomical signifi
cance. The wise men who accom
panied Napoleon's army into Egypt
went into profound study of the pyra
mid. In IMS Prof. Smyth and his wife
lived in the empty tombs near by the
pyramid that they might be as continu
ously as possible close to the pyramid
that they were investigating. The
pyramid built more than four thousand
years ago, being a complete geometric
al figure, wise men have concluded it
must have been divinely constructed.
Man came through thousands of years
to fine architecture, to music, to paint
ing, but this was perfect at the world's
start, and God must have directed it
All astronomers and geometricians and
scientists say that it was scientifically
and mathematically constructed before
science and mathematics were born.
From the inscriptions on the pyramid,
from its proportions, from the poiuts
of the compass recognized in its
structure, from the direction in
which its tunnels run, from the relative
position of the blocks that compose it
scientists. Christians and infidels have
demonstrated this pyramid must have
known the world's sphericity, ami that
its motion was rotatory, and how inab
ilities it was in diameter and circumfer
ence, and how many tons tho .world
weighs, and knew at what point in the
heavens certain stars would appear at
certain periods of time- Not in the
4,000 years since the putting up of that
pyramid has a single fact in astronomy
or mathematics Wen found to contra
dict the wisdom of that structure. Yet
they had not at the age when tho pyra
mid was started an :istronomer or an
architect or a mathematician worth
mentioning. Who then planned the
pyramid? Who superintended its erec
tion? Who from its first foundation
stone to its capstone erected every
thing? It must have been God. Isaiah
was right when he said in 1113 text, "A
pillar shall be at the border of the land
of Egypt aiid it shall be for a sign and
a witness." The pyramid is God's first
Itible. Hundreds, if not thousands of
vears lefore the first line of thtvjiiiiu"!
of Genesis
the lesson of
tile. TftnTn ill w!i. written
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Well, of what is this Clyclopean
masonry a sign and a witness?
Among other things, of the prolonga
tion of human work compared with
the brevity of human life. In all the
-1,000 years this pyramid has only lost
eighteen feet in width, one side of its
square ut the base changed only from
704 feet to 74rt feet ami the most of that
eighteen feet taken off by architects to
furnish stone for building in the city of
Cairo. All Egypt has been shaken by
terrible earthquakes and cities have
lecn prostrated or swallowed, but that
pyramid has defied all volcanic
paroxysms. It has looked iifton some
of the greatest battles ever fought
since the world stood. Where are the
men who constructed it? Their bodies
gone to dust and even the dust scat
tered. Even the sarcophagus in which
tho king's mummy ma3' have slept is
empty.
So men die, but their work lives on.
We are building pyramids not to last
4.000ycars. but 40.000. 40.000,000. 40.000.
OOO.OIW, 40,000,000.000,000, 40,000.000.
000,000.000. For a while we wield the
trowel or pound with the hammer or
measure with the 3'ard stick or write
with the pen or experiment with the
scientific battery or plan with tho
brain, and for a while the foot walks
and the e3e sees and the car hears and
the tongue speaks. All the good
words or the bad words we speak are
spread out into one layer for a pyra
mid. All the kind deeds or malevolent
deeds we db are spread out into an
other layer. All tho Christian or uu
christian example rwe set are spread
out into another layer. All the indi
rect influences of our lives are spread
out into another layer. Then tho time
soon comes when we put down the im
plement of toil and pass away, but the
pyramid stands.
Yon modestly S33: "That is trus in
regard to the great workers for good
or evil and of gigantic geniuses Milton
ian or Talleyrandian, but not of me,
for 1 live and work on a small scale."
My hearer, remember that those who
built the pyramids were common work
men. Not one of them could lift
one of those great stones. It took
a dozen of them to lift one stone
nnd others just wielded a trowel
clicking it on the hard edge or
smoothing the mortar between the
layers. One hundred thousand men
toiled on those sublime elevations.
Cheops didn't build the pyrimid. Some
boss mason in the world's twilight
didn't build the pyrimid. One hundred
thousand men built it and perhaps from
first to last 200,000 men.
So with the pyramids now rising,
pyramids of evil 01 pyramids of good.
The pyramid of drunkenness rising
ever since tho time when Noah got
drunk on wine, although there was at
his time such a superabundance of
water. All the saloonists of the ages
adding their layers of ale casks and
wine pitchers and rum jugs until the
pyramid overshadows the great Sahara
desert of desolated homes, and broken
hearts, and destroyed eternities. And
as the pyramid still rises, layers of
human skulls piled on top of human
skulls and other mountains cf human
bones to whiten the peaks reach
ing unto the heavens, hundreds
of thousands of people are build
ing that pyramid. So with the
pyramid of righteousness. Multitudes
of hands are toiling on the steps, hands
infantile, hands octogenarian, mascu
line hands, female hands, strong hands,
weak hands. Some clanging a trowel,
some pulling a rope, some measuring
the sides. Layers of psalm books on
top of layers of sermons. Layers of
prayers on top of layers of holy sacri
fice. And hundreds of thousands com
ing down to sleep their last sleep, but
other hundreds of thousands going up
to take their places, and the pyramids
will continue to rise until the millen
nial morning gilds the completed work,
and the toilers on these heights snail
jjjj. v.ratgnT
take off their aprons and throw dowa
their trowels, crying: "It is finished."
. I rejoice that all the thousands who
have been toiling on the pyramid of
righteousness will at last be recognized
and rewarded the mother who brought
her children to Christ, the Sabbath
school teacher who brought her clasa
to the knowledge of the truth, the un
pretending man who saved a soul.
Then the trowel will be more honored
than the scepter.
Further, canning out the idea of my
text, the pyramid is a sign and a wit
ness that big tombstones are not the
best way of keeping one's aelf affection
ately remembered. This pyramid and
the sixty-nine other pyramids still
standing were built for sepulchres, all
this great pile of granite and limeston
by which we stand to-day, to corer the
memory of a dead king. It was the
great Westminster Abbey of the an
cients. Some say that Cheops was the
king who built this pyramid, but it Is
uncertain. Who was Cheops, anyhow?
All that the world knows about him
could be told in a few sentences. The
only thing certain is that he was bad
and that he shut up tho temples of
worship and that he was hated so that
the Egyptians were glad when he was
dead.
We say nothing against the marble
or the bronze of the necropolis. Let
all that sculpture and florescence and
arborescence can do for the places of
the dead be done, if mean will allow
it But if. after one w dead, there is
nothing left to remind the world of
him but some pieces of stone, there is
but little left Some of the finest mon
uments are over people who amounted
to nothing while they lived, while some
of the worthiest men and women have
not had above them a stone big enough
to tell their name. Joshua, the great
est warrior the world ever saw, no
monument; Moses, the greatest lawyer
that ever lived, no monument; Paul,
the greatest preacher that ever lived,
no monument; Christ, the Saviour of
the world and the rapureof Heaven, no
monument A pyramid over scoundrel
ly Cheops, but only a shingle with a
lead pencil epitaph over many a good
man's grave. Some of the finest obitu
aries have been printed about the worst
rascals. To-day at Brussels there is a
pyramid of flowers on the grave of
Itoulanger, the notorious libertine. Yet
it is natural to want to le remembered.
While there seems to be no practical
use for post mortem consideration later
than the time of one's great-grandclril-dren,
yet no one wants to m, forgotten
as soon as the obsequies arc over. This
pyramid which Isaiah sa3's is a sign
and a witness demonstrates that neither
limestone nor red granite are com
petent to keep 0110 affectionately
remembered; neither can bronze;
neither can Parian marble; nei
ther can Aberdeen granite do tho
work. Put there Is 'something out of
which to build an everlasting monu
ment and that will keep one freshly
remembered four thousand years. It
does not stand in marble yards. It is
not to Imj purchased at mourning
stores. Yet it is to be found in every
neighborhood, plenty of it, inexhausti
ble quantities of it It is the greatest
stuff in the universe to build monu
ments out of. I refer to the memories
of those to whom we can tlo a kind
ness, the memories of those whose
struggles we may alleviate, tho memo
ries of those whose souls we may save.
All around Cairo and Memphis there
are the remains of pyramids that have
gone down under the wearing away of
timet and this great pyramid of which
Tsuiah in the text speaks will vanish
if the world lasts long enough; and if
the world does not last, then with the
earth's dissolution the pyramid will
also dissolve. Put the memories of
those with whom we associate are inde
structible. They will be moro vivid
tho other side of the grave than this
side.
Will any of the 470 women and chil
dren imprisoned at Lucknow, India,
waiting for massacre l3' the Sepoys,
forget Havelock and Outram. nud Sir
David Heard, who broke in and effected
their rescue? To some of 3-011 who have
loved and served the Lord, Heaven will
le a great picture gallery of remem
brance. Hosts of the glorified will
never forget you. Ah, that is a way of
building monuments that shall never
feel the touch of deca3'. 1 do not ask
you to suppress this natural desire to be
remembered after 3ou are gone, but I
only want you to put your materials
into a shape that shall never weaken
or fade.
As in Egypt that DecemlKsr after
noon, 180, exhausted in body, mind
and soul, wc mounted to return to
Cairo, wc took our last look of the pyra
mid at Gir.eh. And 3-011 know there is
something in the air toward evening
that seems productive of solemn and
tender emotion, and that great pyra
mid seemed to lo humanized and with
lips of stone it seemed to speak and cry
out: "Hear me, man, mortal and Im
mortal! My voice is the voice of God.
He designed me. Isaiah said I would
be a sign and a witness. I saw Moses
when he was a lad. I witnessed the
long procession of the Israelites as they
started to cross the lied Sea and
Pharaoh's host in pursuit of them.
"The falcons and the eagles of many
centuries have brushed my brow. I
stood here when Cleopatra's barge
landed with her sorceries and Hypatia
for her virtues was slain in yonder
streets. Alexandor the Great Sesos
tris and Ptolemy admired my propor
tions. Herodotus and Pliny sounded
my praise. I am old. 1 am very old.
For thousands of years I have watched
the coining and going of generations.
They tarry only a little while, but they
make an everlasting imprevsion. I bear
on my side the mark of the trowel and
chisel of those who more than 4.000
rears ago expired. Beware what you
tlo, O man! For what you do will last
long after you are dead! If yon would
be affectionately remembered after
-ou are gone, trust not to any earthly
commemmoration.
"1 have not one word to say about
any astronomer who studied the heav
ens from my heights or any king who
was sepulchred in my bosom. am
slowly passing away. I am a dying
pyramid. I shall yet lie down in the
dust of the plains and the sands of the
desert shall cover me, or when the
earth goes 1 will go. But you are im
mortal. The feet with which you
climbed my sides to-day will turn to
dust but you have a soul that
will outlast me and all my broth,
erbood of pyramids. Live for eter
nity! Live for God! With the
shadows of the evening now fall
ing from my sides, I pronounce from
you a benediction. Take it with you
across the Mediterranean. Take it
with you across the Atlantic. God only
is great! Let all the earth keep silence
before Him. Amen!"
And then the lips of tne granite
hushed, and the great giant of masonry
wrapped himself again in the silence
of ages, and as I rode away in the
gathering twilight this course of ser
mons was projected.
Wondrous Evpi! Land of ancient pomp
and pride.
Where beauty walks by boary rnt&'s side.
Where plenty reigns and still the seasons
smile.
And rolls rich gift of God ubaustless Xlle.
Three For a Quarter. Customer
"Have von any ten cent carpenter
nail sets?" Facetious Clerk "Er, will
you please tell me what kind of car
penters ten cent ones are7 " Yamkee
Blade.
THE OMAHA CONGRESS.
Resolutions Adopted My the Traniml Is
ppl Conrrntlon Irp Water farther
IHwnurd.
Omaha, Neb., Oct i At the Trans
mississippi congress yesterday Mr.
Fishback. of Arkansas, chairman of
the committee on resolutions, stated
that after working until midnight hit
committee had completed it labors and
was ready to report
A lengthy discussion arose as to the
manner, of disposing of the resolutions.
It was finally decided to read them at
length and then adopt them section by
section. This consumed some time and
the following were adopted:
Whereas, The Intereyt of mining create
and add to the wt alth of the country near
lr Jiwi.wn.001 annnallr. of Rold and silver
atone, wh'we carrity mean the deprecia
tion of the farm, the home and all th real
property of the country, as srrll as the
wheat, the cotton and the corn produc-d by
our toillnc million and whose abundance
mean" Increased proipcrity to tUc Kreat
mat of our people.
Wheren. There are million of acre of
the sold and llrer hearing mineral land of
the et on which there are thousand of
niln ntr properties, hoth patented and nn
pat nted. within tin limits of the cranio to
the pacific railroad, and which are in Im
minent danger of heomlns the pn.pert' of
lhee railroad companies, now, therefore,
be It
leolved. That this body earnestly ak of
coiiRres such legislation as will protect and
foter our mining Inter t and forever pre
vent our mines and mineral land ln-arlni:
K'j.d. .ller. copper or lead, from hccommic
property of these corporations and the r
grants.
That till hody ask the delegation in this
contention fnim the territories of Arizona,
I tail. New Mexico and the ntate of Call
forntit, Nevada. Colorado, WyominK. re
Kon. Idaho, houth IfaLola and 3Iontuiia.
which have a common Interest In thl suh
Joct. to nulhor 7.e the president to select a
committee of seTen fueinhcfft sWio shnll
form a committee for the purpose of rcur
Ing such uniti d and efficient action a will
snve these mini s and mineral Uud to the
people
Unsolved, That our n.itura'.tz itmn laws
-Imuld Ire more stringent, an I til it the
I n:tcd Mates cjut.s only Mi-miIJ exercise
the power of nattirulir ition.
Keolcl. Thst He the necessities of the
1 r.iiismi.isippl states demand an ocean
outlet on the northwest coast of the (ulf of
Mexico, nnd the commis-lon of Itujurrv ap
pointed under the authority of congress h
reported that (ialveston is the only port at
w Iilch such deep water as I ndojtMtc tothe
needed purpose can ho secured, and. us In
aceordnncc with tills report -comrres has
authorized the secretary of war to contract
for ihe building of such a harlor at i,.ile
ton. we would respectfully unje. upon the,
honorable secretary of war the completion
of tile Jetties now under construction as
sp edil a possible, mil that the western
trunk lines of rallroa Is be ropier ,-! to r
tend their rnllw iy fuel. hum to .jlveton as
rapid! as the work of tie- Jetties proceed
K. 'solved. That It l the en.i of this con
gress that the Imml'rntion law lie so
nuit-ndcd t tint only immigrant who hoth
desire and ure fitted for American cltlr.en
ship Mm 'I b" permitted to land on our
Hh'ires. nti I that t lie laws should be moro
x rmgeiit
I'pon the silver question there were
three reports, all of which were laid
over for future discussion.
The convention then attempted to fix
the place for holding its next meeting,
but after the names of Helena and Salt
Lake had leeii presented the whole
matter was laid on the table.
In the afternoon members of the
congress were driven about tie- city for
a cetiple of hours and then rettirnrd to
work.
Col. Gresham. of Texas, took up the
discussion of the deep water problem
and asserted that when a deep water
harbor should be established on the
gulf a profitable traflic could be estab
lished and much would 1 accom
plished toward building up an Amer
ican merchant marina He sjioke of
progress made in the work on the Gal
veston harbor and' expressed the belief
that in another year there would be
twenty feet of water there.
S. A. Thomson, of Minnesota, made
an address on the importance of water
ways in general, and the beauties of
Ihiluth as a great shipping point in par
ticular. He held that lake transporta
tion cost only one-twenty-sixth part as
much as rail freight and steamers made
as fast time letween Ihiluth and Huf
falo as did freight trains. The speaker,
by means of a map. showed the
country tributary t Galveston,
Chicago and Ihiluth nnd demonstrated
that the greater part of the country
represented by the congress lxdonged
in Ihiluth territory.
At the conclusion of the address a
resolution was adopted urging con
gress to provide for further improve
ment of the Galveston harbor, and also
a resolution congratulating the people
of Valcsco on having seven tecu and
one-half feet of water in their harbor.
THE CHIUAN ELECTIONS.
The Liberal Carry KrerythlnR With Heavy
Majorities.
Santiago ik Ciiii.i, Oct 2i In the
election for presidential electors and
members of the senate and chamlwr of
deputies Sunday the entire proceedings
were marked by due regard for the
constitutional rights of all voters, and
the returns show that the liberals have
a large majority in the electoral col
lege, the duties of the memlers of
which arc to a great extent similar to
those of presidential electors in the
United States with the important dif
ference that the members themselves
select and appoint the ch ief of the state.
The mcmlers of the Chilian senate
5crve six years and are elected directly
by provinces. The members of the
chamber of deputies serve three years
and are elected by departments. The
popularitj-of the liberal party is shown
by the fact that it has elected thirty of
its candidates for the senate, while tho
clerical party has elected only two. In
the chamber of deputies the liberal
will have full control, for they will
have at least a majority of thirty, the
returns showing the election of sixty
two liberals and thirtv-two clericals.
China Dare Xnt j
Sa.x Fkajjosto, Oct 2i The steam- !
r Oceanic, from China and Japan, 1
brings news that Mr Mason, the Brit
ish subject who f urnished arms to the
Chinese rioters is under arrest The "
penalty for Mason's offense Ls impris- "
onment for two years at hard labor, a
fine of S000 and. finally, banishment '
Over 2,000 stand of arms have been re- '
ceived at Chin Kiang alone It is be
lieved that any action by the Chinese
government looking to the punishment .
of rioters unless backed by a foreign
force, would result in a general out- (
break all over the north. j
I tall way "Votes.
The Maple Leaf line still insists that
the St. Paul road shall reimburse it for
lost traflic under the western passenger
agreement
It is now positively asserted that
Gill ,fc Fisher, the grain merchants,
have made a contract with the Balti
more fc Ohio road which will secure an
enormous amount of western grain.
The 'Frisco road has sued Hon. John
O'Day in six counties of Missouri to
compel him to deed to the company the
title to certain lands which, it is alleged,
be bought in under foreclosure while
he was vice-president of the company.
Shot Her 4arr.
New York. Oct 22. William Foster,
20 years of age, of Brooklyn, was shot
last night near his home by Carrie
Bowers, a pretty giri 0f years,
whom he is said to have mined. The
girl Sred twice, one bail taking effect
in the chest and the other passing
through Foster's clothing.
lot Kapaaer Deavd.
St Lons, Oct. 2 CoL L G. Kapp-
ner, a well known resident of this city,
died at his home vesterdav. aired AS.
CoL Kappner was at one time riTnw
manager 01 the fosygMpatcc.
SANITARY SCIENCE.
Convention of Health Adroratrs at Kana
City Interesting- laper Stead.
Ka.nA! Citt, !ol, Oct 2t It was.
indeed a representative body of men
which filled the Audttoriutn when Irc
ident Montixambert called the nine
teenth annual convention of the Amer
ican Public Health association to order
at 10 o'clock yesterday. Kmiornt
advocate of sanitary imprurctnent
from all parts of Canada. Mexico and
the United States had asvcinbled to dis
cus, matters of interest to the health
of the people of the two great repub
lics and the Hrttish dominion of the
North American continent It was a
body organized for work, and the cbir
actyrr of the men w ho compoed thai
body is ample evidence that any sub
ject which might come before it would
be dealt with in an able and intelligent
manner.
Dr. J. IJcrricn Liad.!ey. of Nashxille.
the treasurer, submitted his report for
the closing year. It show ed 'that the
receipts from annual fees were SlTO
and from the alc of jiubllcaUons
$174-12, making a total of l.M 41
The disbursement for printing and
for clerk hire and for traveling ex
penses of the association wereSt.7W.S).
leaving an unexpended balance of
S.VX34.
Dr. G IX McDonald, of Kansas City,
read a paper on "The Cause and Pre
vention of Infant Mortality " He gave
statistics showing that the infant mor
tality soon after birth was tJO pr cent
, fine of the principal causes w a
the exjKjsure to a low texnprra-
ture a chilly room soon after
birth. He had been present when it
was necessary to wear an overcoat
, in a room where a newly-born child was
I exjxrsed to bathitig. Forcing sleep by
I soojliing sirups to overcome the effects
of this exposure was another cviL An
, other trouble was the forcing of fiKnl -
foreign snbstauccs, crackers and water
and whisky into the young, inert stom
I ach of the newly-born. The mother
s ho refused to nurse her child
J from selfish reasons deserved
' the censure of the community,
j Statistics show that in the first year
the infant mortality when the child is
, fed by artificial food is .M) per cent
With natural food the mortality was
1 but 10 per cent The le.st artificial
ftKxl was pure cow's milk. Sterillza
1 tion by chemical process was not thor
' oughly a success ticcause vital prin
1 ciples cannot l applied by chemical
! process, but sterilization was prefer
, able to impure milk.
A paper on "The Necessity of More
Stringent Legislation to Repress Era-
pincism," by Allt-rt II. Morton, chief
justice of Kansas, was then read He
stated in ojiening that the strongest
forces were the silent ones. I'pon
health the happiness and prosjerity of
1 the world depended All assistance or
promotion along this line was among
the highest of missions ami the noblest
of all aspirations. He sjxike highly of
the good that the association hud al
ready done. It had unlimited Kssi
hilities. 'ASSOCIATED PRESS RUPTURE.
The sun and Tribune Withdraw From the
New irk Agreement.
CinrAfio, Oct Ul. - The reort of the
disagreement in the New York Associ
ated press, which resulted in the Sun
and Tribune withdrawing from that
association and organizing a new one,
of which they are to Iks the principal
members occasioned quite a stir in
newspaper circles all over tho couu
try. The intimate relations existing
between the New York Associated
press and the Western Associated press
caused many to fear that the quarrel in
the former organization might in some
way affect the latter, but the president
and executive committee of the West
ern Associated press who were all in
Chicago yesterday, assured all comers
that the service of the organization
would In? in no wise impaired
For eight years up to the present
rupture in the New York association,
the busiuess of the two organizations
has lccn under the management of a
joint committee composed of Charles
A. Dana, Whitclaw Kcid and James
Gordon Bennett on the part of the
New York Associated press, and Rich
ard Smith and W. II. llaldcman, on the
part of the Western Associated prcw
Messrs. Held and Dana having taken
their papers out of the New York asso
ciation of course takes them nece.s- ;
sarily out of this joint committee Hut
the New York Associated press remains
intact and It is only necessary to reor
ganize the joint committee. Judging
by the conversation of the tncmtwr. of
the executive committee of the West
ern Associated press there will prob
ably be no difficulty iu, doing this to
the satisfaction of all concerned, and
as the newspapers remaining in the
New York association are all wealthy
concerns it Ls hardly probable that
there will lie any serious trouble.
Mlssnurl I'reahyterian.
St. Jo-r.nt Mo, Oct 21. The Pres
byterian synod of Missouri assembles!
last night, the Presbyterians composing
the svnod being well represented.
Kev. Dr. S. J. Niccolls of St Iouis
preached the opening sermon, after
which the administration of
the Ijord's supjicr was conducted by the
moderator. Dr. Bullard, assisted by
Kev. S. C Palmer. Dr Dancan Brown,
of the Palmyra presbytery, formerly
pastor of the North Third street
church, of this city, was elected mod
erator and Kev. T. D- Kobcrtson and
Kev. A. II. Glassard temporary clerks.
The Tonkawa Indians.
Posca. 1. T.. Oct 21. -The Cherokee
commissioners held a council yesterday
with the Tonkawas now the occupants
of the Nez Perce reservations and the
Indians offered to sell the -O.000 acres
remaining after taking allotments for
5t2-" per acre. There are only seventy
five members of this tribe, including
women and children. Thy are proba
bly the most improvident tribe now in
the Indian -territory. 'The commission
ers will remain in the vicinity of Pooca
for jcveral wctrks iryinjr to negotis'.
for the lands of the (Kaces Otocs
Kaws, Iawnces and Poncas.
The Woodroff Caar nhmlttrd.
LrrrtK Ktk, Ark.. 0-t 2L Argu
ment on the demurrer ti the indictment
in the case of the stave against ex-State
Treasurer WoodmtT, charged aritti em
bezzlement, was continued until to-morrow.
The principal qnestion dis
cussed was upon the construction of
the law regarding the final settlement
of the treasurer. The stale maintained
that the auditor was the proper person
with whom the treasurer hjpld settle
before retiring from oSce, while te
defense contended that the settlement
could be made only by a joint commit
tee of the general assembly
Bssni't Ilenlal.
Wa5HI"GTOX, Oct 2L Commissioner
Eaum, of the pension bureau, says that
be has not tendered his resignation to
the president with the nnderstanduag
that it snail be announced after the
November elections. He said that the
animus behind the fortnightly attacks
upon him were ea&Hy understood.
Tal aaw Harvard Foot bait
SrTUSGFirm. Ma vs.. Oct 2L Yale
and Harvard agreed to play anneal
championship football games harrr for
the next fosr years one each Sitcnlar
text preceding TaksgtTia day.
STOCK ITEMS.
Stuntrd animals of any clasa U not
make as good use of the fe-ed ct'on taxjra
as do th- more thrifty ones ctrn ussier
the same condition.
Any animal that do" not maVc a
rood gain in proportion to the amount
J of food supplied should If convulcrcd
I scrub, whether nattre or ImportoL
! The most economical feeding t that
' which srrcrr the most rapid grwth
and dcTclojs-mcnl of muscie. aad the
1 greaU-st amount of fat with th least
waste of feesL
If the cattle arc to be turned into the
stalk field arran?c to let them In early.
-o that after they have cleaned thrra
up the fields can lr plowed for jrng
crops. In many cases after the fall
rams set m the laud Is seriously injured
j by tramping
Every man who embarks in swine
I breedim with tliei extx-etation of im
proving the breed in hand or originat
ing a new breed, must have a el! de
fined Ideal to work for He must have
in mind a well laid coarvc to pursue to
reach his ideal,
j A thin, poor qualltr of slop makes a
pot-bellied pig This part of tae brxly
i Ls round and full, hut the frame 'hat
i carries It Is thin. sharp-polntl and ti
I ceedingly uncomely. The fcei should
always develop all part of the lodr in
, even proportionv It is a shame U
j comicl a pig to drink slop that to sus
tain life he must drink so much that it
keeps him ir to carry It
If thoroughbred hogs are pruer!y
( fed there is. no danger of their running
I out or becoming too tine In the tonn.
I Guc them the material from fetch t
1 make bone and ther will utah It
. Give them fonl adapted to growth and
they will taKo on profitable tlesh.
Shut them up in clo? pons ih their
, youth and jjire them au exel4relv
I corn diet and thev will certainly In
come weak in the lne
The Jerusalem artichoke, w hwh ha
) long Wen an iuiortaiit llrni of agri
culture in some Hirttou of Kurje. is
legiuniug to attract attention in this
country. All animals seem to In fond
of thr tubers and they are claimed to
. lc much more nourishing than man
golds. Hogs in particular, are fond t
them, and will fatten ujn them rapid
I lr They are planted ami cultivated
1 like potatoes and yield largely
When it can ! done, the lest plan
of feeding fodder, or In fact roughness
of any kind, is to run through a cuttinc
Ik and then mix with some kind of
grain, feeding to the stock In a tight
Ikix or manger In this wav there is
but a small percentage of waste and n
very good ration can Ik made up But
the larger class of farmers are not pre
pared to do this and the roughness
must Ins fed whole, line ohjeetlon to
feed in it the corn fodder in the stnMes
or sheds is that the stalks worked in
, among the manure increases ery inn
tonally the work of hutidSing it
, FARM NOTtS.
' Rotation gives a rest and a change to
the land.
Save nil the fowl-house mauHn
There is none letter for melons anil
early garden vegetables.
The general farmer is not tied dow n
to any one crop or out1 branch of stck
raising, and has less failures.
Iu fanning it is very nnjiortant t
prevent the deterioration of the fertili
ty and to M-cure lest rulurns at the
lowest cost
I cached ashes, though not as salu
able as the unlonehed. nre still worth
saving, ns their mechanical effect uoti
the soil is good.
There is no material that will equal
gtHxl, sound corn or comment for fat
tening fowls especially niter cool
weather set in.
It is not consistent with gtKd farm
management to allow barn yard manure
to go to waste, and then purchase com
mercial fertilizers.
A shcil on the south side of the poul
try house will br found quite nn ad
vantage during the winter, especially
if protected from the northwest winds.
It will afford the fowls nn opportunity
to nir themselves on Liys w hen it
would otherwise le Impossible.
The ideal farmer knows that "hk
produces like." therefore he provide
or raises the lcst of seed of all kinds ol
grain or vegetables He knows that It
is ndvnntagcous to change seeds from
place to place, even at the distance of
hundreds of miles, therefore he i in
constant correspondence with success
ful men in their particular branch of
industry, and with these he changes or
of such he buys even at extra cost
Kye can be used to good advantage
for several purjKrses. It can le grown
for the grain and straw, the same as
wheat, oats and barley, and consider
ing the risk and the yield, it is fully as
profitable as wheat In many local!
ties there is less risk of failure of the
crop than there is with wheat How
to a suitable market the straw is of
more value than that of either oats or
wheat It is good for early pasturage,
and a'.so for plowing under, while
green, as a fertilizer
While the production of heavy arop
is jifrhaps the most important factor in
the profit of farming, the disposing of
them require good judgment and bus
iness methods and the farmer who
ercLsrs thes wi,l usually get more f.-r
his product than the man who is care
less in this partem! ar This is c"Ha;
lr true of crshable crop, site a
fruits and vegetables whieh not only
must le sold at once, hut thoir vale, de
pends largely on the appcaranco and
the package
ntea.
Flavoring butter with the flr of
fresh flowers is one of the arts of the
French peasantry The proces is very
simple and consist of patting the HttJr
prints, which have first been wrapped
in a thin cloth, into a tigh; porcelain ,
dish on a lcd of rrsve, or whatever
blossoms are chsen.
In feeding stock for market tkne is
raoncy. No one can ailord to feed any
class of animals except by foroag them
from the start
To improve the stock on tls? farm se
lect the ones best a!aptcd to j&ut pr
por and then stick to It
In a majority of cases when a printed
is low is a gol time tocotnacace grow
ing it and not when it is high.
If one can produce a rr-l dairy cow !
which will also tcm off a gt-i carcxs 1
of beef when her ttvefaln Urrlr '
is ended, it is certainly wise to de ia
Assorting frait and vegetables 1 '
often enable the sof' to get censid- I
erably more :aooy for thretr-foartk tti
the crop than the whole wonld bnag if
Wat Vgethcr. '
A largi- quantity of MWsosri tobacco
is exported directly to Gsrrmany. So br
mingled with raiider grades for s&4k-
Under present coadhior&s of fee-ding
1 it cost too much to winter pg wituoct
shelter to make thcra profitable Ani
mal heat can be supplied by furnishing
a bouse, and in this way th cost ol
, svin utring be rrdooed sat-riaJlr.
It s often the caA that a varvety of
wheat removed to a distance r-orcs
one or more years to becjrac scfSeseatly
aeclbnaied to do well Of ccrsre it U
cot always the cas.
Wita the exception of poultry drop
pings, sheep manure Is th ricL-st oa
the farm.
Fowls with tai'.I cocahs and clear
Hah are bj. 03 the fans.
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