B : TALMAGE'S SEBMON.
HH ' " "CATTES. , , OF CARBUNCLE" THE
Hl : iSUBJtUT OF SUNDAY. '
HH 1 vVow the Text : "And I Will aiafco Thr
H WS dow or - Agates nd Thy Gat * *
1 • * CarbuiiolcB" Book of Isaluh ,
H ' CJ * ptor CI , Verse 13 ,
ERHAPS because a
\ human disease of
/ most painful and
f ofttimcs fatal char
acter is named af
ter it , the church
W 1 'I P 4"- * and the world have
S InS lp l never done justice
Ha \Jw to that lntease and
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Hfl V mM all-suggestive pre-
1 a Jy cious stone , the
HjS carbuncle. The
HI -pearl that Christ picked up to illus-
Hfl [ rate- his sermon , and the jasper and
Hfl the sapphire and the amethyst which
Hffi the apocalyptic vision masoned into the
Sf "wall of heaven have had proper recog-
Huf cition , but this , in all the ages , is the
HSt first sermon on the carbuncle.
Bw ! This precious stone is found in the
BSi | ' 32ast Indies , in color is an intense scar-
| Set. and held up between your eye and
i " fthe aun it Is a burning coal. The poet
! puts It Into rhythm as he writes :
i Xike to the burning coal whence cornea
| its name ;
I J&mong the Greeks as Anthrax known
i to fame.
* God sets it high up in Bible crystallo
graphy. He cuts it with a divine
1 chisel , shapes it with a precise geometry
metry , and kindles its fire into an alf -
f .most supernatural flame of beauty. Its
law of symmetry , its law of zones , its
t law of parallelism , something to excite
ihe amazement of the scientist , chime
-the cantos of the poet , and arouse the
• adoration of the Christian. No one
t but the Infinite God could fashion a
* carbuncle as large as your thumb nail ,
hw and as if to make all ages appreciate
Hffff ' this precious stone he ordered it set in
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nf i the . first row of the highpriest's breast-
BjJf , i ' . 'plate in olden time and higher up than
Hk § ! * the onyx and the emerald and the dia-
Hg | | rxnond , and in Ezeklel's prophecies coa-
Bffij | -cerning the splendors of the Tyrian
Hfffj court , the carbuncle is mentioned , the
H'l S brilliancies of the walls and of the tas-
H § § rsellated floors suggested by the Bible
Hffi -sentence , "Thou hast walked up and
Hp | . -down in the midst of the stones of
Bf | | : Jtae ! " But in my text it is not a soli-
HpJ -rtary specimen that-1 hand you , as the
Hjg "feeeper of a museum might take down
1 ; from the shelf a precious stone and al-
H § § "low you to examine it. Nor is it the
HI | -panel of a door .that you might stand
Hw .and study for its unique carvings or
Hf | "bronzed traceries , but there is a whole
§ 1 . .gate of it lifted before our admiring
jE -anti astounded vision , aye ! two gates
Hk of it , aye ! many gates of it : "I will
w inake . thy gates of carbuncles. " What
HE S tes ? Gates of the Church. Gates
Hg | of anything worth possessing. Gates
Hw "Of successful enterprise. Gates of sal-
" -vation. Gates of national achievement.
Isaiah , who wrote this text , wrote also
- all that about Christ "as the lamb to
I -he slaughter , " and spoke of Christ assaying
-saying , "I have trod the wine-press
.alone , " and wrote , "Who is this that
H 1 -cometh from Edom , with dyed gar-
H | I : xnents from Bozrah ? " And do you
H think that Isaiah in my text merely
Hi happened to represent the gates as red
B I . : gates , as carmine gates , as gates of car-
gj j b.ucle ? No. He means that i is
I through atonement , through blood-red
I - . . struggle , through agonies we get into
-anything worth getting into. Heav-
j -en's gates , , may well be made of pearl ,
H a. bright , ' pellucid , cheerful crystallization -
H -t-ion , because all the struggles are over
H | ' -and there is beyond those gates noth-
H 4ng but-raptures and cantata and tri-
H | . "imphai procession and everlasting
H > holiday and kiss of reunion , and so the
H twelve gates are twelve pearls , and
H sould be nothing else than pearls. But
H | 'Christ hoisted the gates of pardon in
B .bis own blood , and the marks of eight
H fingers and two thumbs are on each
H .Kate , and as he lifted the gate it leaned
j -ogainst his forehead and took from it
K jm. crimson impress , and all those gates
H -are deeply dyed , and Isaiah was right
H -when he spoke of those gates as gates
K .of carbuncle.
H What is true of individuals is true
B -of nations. Was it a mild spring morn-
B | ins when the Pilgrim Fathers landed
m -on Plymouth Rock , and did they come
m -Ifn a gilded yacht , gay streamers flying ?
H J 2o. It was in cold December , and from
H i . - . ship in which one would not want to
H cross the Hudson or the Potomac River.
H ; Scalping knives all ready to receive
H .them , they landed , their only welcome
H the Indian war-whoop. Red men on the
H "beach. Red men in the forest. Red
| H Tnen on the mountains. Red men in
M Xhe valleys. Living gates of red men.
M - < 5ates of carbuncle !
H We are not indebted to history for
M -our "knowledge of the greatest of naH -
H Clonal crises. Many of us remember
fl I il , and fathers and mothers now living
H .had better keep telling that story to
H their children so that instead of their
H being dependent upon cold type and
H -obliged to say , "On such a page of such
H a. book you can read that , " will they
M rather be able to say , "My father told
H jne so ! " "My mother told me so ! " Men
M . and women who vividly remember 18G1 ,
H nd 1862. and 1863 , and 1864 , be your-
. selves the historians , telling it , not
-with " pen , but with living tongue and
1 rolce and gesture. That is the great
" -use o Memorial Decoration Day , for
-the calla lilies on the grave-tops soon
H I tfcecome breathless of perfume , and .in
H I a week turn to dust like unto that
H I -rvhich lies beneath them. But the story
M J of courage and self-sacrifice and pa-
H I triotism told on platforms and in
H 1 households and by the roadside and in
H I I * churches and in cemeteries , by that an-
H I I nual recital will be kept fresh in the
H memory of generations as long as our
H 9 American institutions are worthy of
H M -preservation. Long after you are dead
H m your children will be able to say , with
H m vtiio PsalniiBt , "We have heard with our
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ears , .0 Gad , our fathers have told us ,
what work .thou didst in their days , In
the times of old. " But what a time it
was ! Four years of homeslcknere !
Four yenra of brotherly and sisterly
estrangement ! Four years of martyr
dom ! Four years of massacre ! Put
them in a long line , the conflagration
of cities , and see them light up a whole ,
continent ! Put them in long rows , the
hospitals , making a vast metropolis of
pain and paroxysm ! Gather them in
one vast assemblage , ths millions of
bereft from the St. Lawrence to the
Gulf , and from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific beaches ! Put the tears in
to lakes , and the blood into
rivers , and the shrieks into whirl
winds ! During those four years
many good and wise men at the North
and the South saw nothing ahead but
annihilation. With such a national
debt we could never meet our obliga
tions ! With such mortal antipathies
Northern and Southern men could nev
er come into amity ! Representatives of
Louisiana and Georgia , and the Caro- '
Unas could never again sit side by
aide with the representatives of Maine ,
Massachusetts and New York at the
national capital. Lord John Russall
had declared that we were "a bubble-
bursting nationality , " ' and It had come
true. The nations of Europe had
gathered with very resigned spirit at
the funeral of our Americanrepublic. .
They had tolled the bells on. parlia
ments and reichstags and lowered their
flags at half-mast , and even the lion
on the other side of the sea had whined
for the dead eagle on this side- The
deep grave had been dug , and beside
Babylon , and Thebes , and Tyre , . ? .nd
other dead nations of the past our dead
republic waB to be buried. The epitaph
was all ready : "Here lies the American
Republic. Born at Philadelphia 4th of
July , 1776. Killed at Bull Run July 21 ,
1861. Aged eighty-five years and sev
enteen days. Peace to its ashes. " But
before the obsequies had quite closed
there was an interruption of the cere
monies , and our dead nation rose from
its mortuary surroundings. God had
made for it a special Resurrection Day ,
and cried , "Come forth , thou Republic
of Washington , and John Adams , and
Thomas Jefferson , and Patrick Henry ,
and John Hancock , and Daniel Web
ster , and S. S. Prentiss , and Henry
Clay. Come forth ! " ' And she came
forth , to be stronger than she had ever
been. Her mightiest prosperities have
come since that time. Who would want
to push back this country to what it
was in 1860 or 1850 ? But , oh ! what a
high' gate , what a strong gate she had
to push back before she could make
one step in advance ! Gate of flame !
See Norfolk navy yard , and Columbia ,
and Chambersburg , and Charleston on
fire ! Gate of bayonets ! See glittering
rifles and carbines flash from the Sus
quehanna , and the James , to the Mis
sissippi , and the Arkansas ! Gate of
heavy artillery , making the mountains
of Tennessee and Kentucky and Vir
ginia tremble as though the earth it
self were struggling in its last agony.
The gate was so fiery and so red that I
can think of nothing more appropriate
than to take the suggestion of Jsaiah •
in the text and call it a gate of car
buncles.
This country has been for the most
part of its history passing through ,
crises , and after each crisis was bet
ter' off than before it entered it , and
now we are at another crisis. We are
told on one hand that if gold is kept
as a standard and silver is not elevated ,
confidence will be restored and this
nation will rise triumphant from all
the financial misfortunes that have
been afflicting us. On the other hand ,
we are told that if the free coinage of
silver is allowed , all the wheels of bus
iness will . revolve , the poor man will
have a better chance , and all our in.
dustries will begin to hum and roar. '
During the last six presidential elec
tions I have been urged to enter the
political arena , but I never have and
never will turn the pulpit in which I
preach into a political stump. Every
minister must do as he feels called to
do , and I will not criticise him for do
ing what he considers his duty ; but. all
the political harangues from pulpits
from now until the 3d of November
will not in all the United States change
one vote , but will leave many ears
stopped against anything that such
clergymen may utter the rest of their
lives. As a general rule the laymen of
churches understand politics better
than the clergy , because they ( the lay
men ) study politics more than the
clergy , and have better opportunity of
being intelligent on those subjects. But
good morals , honesty , loyalty , Christ
ian patriotism , and the Ten Command
ments these we must preach. God
says distinctly in the Bible , "The sil
ver and the gold are mine , " and He
will settle , the controversy between
those two metals. If ever this country
needed the Divine rescue it needa it
now. Never within my memory have
so many people literally starved to
death as in the past few months. Have
you noticed in the newspapers how
many men and women here and there
have been found dead , the post-mortem
examination stating that the cause of
death was hunger ? There is not a day
that we do not hear the crash of some
great commercial establishment , and
as a consequence many people are
thrown out of employment. Among ,
what we considered comfortable homes
have come privation and close calcula1 1
tlon and economy that kills. Millions
of people who say nothing about it are ,
at this moment at their wits' end. ;
There are millions of people who do
not want charity but want work. The
cry has gone up to the ears of the
"Lord of Sabaoth , " and the prayer will
be heard and relief will come. If we
have nothing better to depend on than
American politics , relief will never
come. Whoever is elected to the presi
dency , the wheels "of government turn
so slowly , and a caucus in yonder while
building on the hill may tie the hands
of any president Now. though we who
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live in the District of Columbia cannot
vote , we can pray , and my prayar daj
and night shall be , " 0 , God , hear thi
cry of the sonls from under the altar
Thou who hast brought the wheat and
corn of this season to such magnitudf
of supply , give food to man and beast
Thou who hadst not where to lay Thy
head , pity the shelterless. Thou who
hast brought to perfection the cotton
of the South and the flax of the North ,
clothe the naked. Thou who hast filled
the mine with coal , give fuel to the
shivering. Bring bread to the body ,
intelligence to the mind , and salv tlon
to the soul of all the people ! God sa.
the nation ! "
But we must admit that It Is a hard
gate to push back. Millions of * hin
hands have pushed at it without mak
ing it swing on its hard hinges. It la
a gate made out of empty flour barrels ,
and cold fire grates.and worn out appar
el , and cheerless homes.and unmedlcat-
ed sickness , and ghastlinessand horror.
It lis a gate of struggle. A gate of
penury. A gate of want. A gate of dis
appointment. A red gate , or what
Isaiah would have called a gate of car *
buncles.
Now , as I have already suggested , as
there are obstacles in all our paths , we
will be happier if we consent to have
our life a struggle. I do not know f-ny
one to- whom it is not a struggle. Louis
the Fourteenth thought he had everything
thing- fixed just right and fixed to "tay ,
and sohe had the great clock at Bor
deaux made. The hours of that clock
were struck By figures in bronze rep
resenting the kings of Europe , and at
3. certain time of day William the Third
of England and other kings were made
to come out and bow to Lout the
Fourteenth. But the clock got out of
order one day and' just the opposite of
what was expected occurred , as the
clock struck a certain hour Louis the
Fourteenth was thrown to the feet of
William the Third. And so the clock
of destiny brings many surprises and
those go down that you expected to
stand , and at the- foot of disaster most
regal conditions tumble. In all the
styles of life there comes disappoint
ment and struggle. God has for some
good reason arranged it so. If it is not
poverty , it is sickness. If it is not
sickness , it is persecution. If it is not
persecution , it is contest with some evil
appetite. If it Is not some evil appe
tite , it is bereavement. If it is not
one thing , it is another. Do not get
soured and cross and think your case
is peculiar. You are just like the rest
of us. You will have to take the bitter
draught whether it be handed to you
in golden chalice or pewter mug. A
man who has a thousand dollars a
year income sleeps sounder and has a
better appetite than the man who has
five millions. If our life were not a
struggle we would never consent to get
out of this world , and we would want
to stay here , and so block up the way
of the advancing generations. By the
time that a man gets to be seventy
years of age , and sometimes by the
time he gets to be fifty years of age ,
he says : "I have had enough of this ,
and when the Lord wills it I . am ready
to emigrate to a country where there
are no taxes and the silver of the
trumpet put to one's lips has no quar
rel with the gold of the pavement un
der his feet. " We- have in this world
more opportunity to cultivate patience
than to cultivate any other grace. Let
that grace be strengthened in the Roy
al Gymnasium of obstacle and oppo
sition , and by the help of God , having
overcome our own hindrances and wor-
riments , let ua go forth to help others
whose struggle is greater than our own.
*
My hearers , it will be a great heaven
for all who get through , but the best
heaven for those who had on earth -
nothing but struggle. Blessed all
those who , before then entered the
gate of pearl , passed through the gata
of carbuncle !
RAM'S HORNS.
The greatest business for anybody
is God's business.
We cannot have God's favor and the
pleasures of sin both.
The rejection of Christ is a refusal to
hear God's best witness.
It is better to starve and be right ,
than to feast and be wrong.
The man who is on the side of the
saloon is not on the Lord's side.
All of our future will depend upon
the stand we take today for Christ.
The top of the tower of Babel was no
nearer heaven than the top of a pig
sty.
sty.No
No other man can get so much out of
this life as the one the Lord is lead
ing.
ing.The
The man who hates his enemy , finds
no joy in thinking that God loves
him.
him.The
The existence of the devil is never
doubted by those who are on the Lord's
Bide.
There is no greater career possible
than to do well whatever God gives us
to do.
Without the shedding of blood , the
name of love could never have been
written.
The man who would be a leader must
be ready to start before the procession
is formed.
So far as this world is concerned , a
little child is the biggest thing God
ever put in it.
Commanding an army Is sometimes
small business compared with holding
the hand of a child.
Drive the devil out of the church at
one door , and he will cover up his
cloven hoof and walk in at another.
II we have on the whole armor of
God , we can count upon the Lord for
victory every time we go into battle.
If preaching were only done when the
preacher felt like shouting , church
doors would stav shut most of the
time.
TO THE FAEHERS.
HENRY CABOT LODGE APPEALS
TO THEIR GOOD SENSE.
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Cllncled by the Prospect of Higher
Prices ITorcet That l'rloes of City
Made Goods , Which They Need , "Will
Also Increase. .
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Asa ; class , the farmers are honest ,
/ntelligent , and patriotic. We cannot
believe that after they have examined
Into the silver question they will , vote
for free coinage. Certainly they have-
no wish ; to- injure either themselves or
their country. Some of the reasons
why they should not support Mr. Bry
an are set forth in the following state
ment prepared at onr request , by the-
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge , one of the
able senators front Massachusetts :
To the- Editor of The Post Express :
The wage earners of the United.
Statesj. whether employed in the fac
tory or on. . the farm , would suffer more-
severely from- the free coinage of sil
ver than' any other class in the com
munity. They might receive the same
number of dollars that they do now ,
but the- value of those dollars would be
cut in halves by reduction of their pur
chasing power : . The wage earners , the
men who are- paid at the end of each
day , or each week , , or each month , are
the great creditor class in the country ,
and it is upon them , that the free coin
age of silver would falL with the great
est severity : .
The farmers are the crass to whom
the free silver advocates appeal most
strongly. They tell them that prices
of farm products would rise with free
silver. Thisis no- doubt true , but they
do not tell them that the price of
everything they have to buy would
also rise , so that they would be no
QUERY.
What. Goodi Would "More Money" Bate a Man In Hfe Position ? Chicago
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better off than they were before. On
the other hand , farmers would be in
jured directly in other ways , apart' '
from the question of the price of what
they sell and buy. Any farmer who
had laid up money in the savings banker
or elsewhere would have it cut in
two. If he happened to be a soldier
and drawing a pension , he would lose
one-half his pension. If he has in
sured his life for the benefit of his
family he has paid his premium in
gold , but under free silver coinage the
insurance would be paid in silver and
reduced one-half in value.
But there is a broader view to be
taken than this , and one which every
intelligent farmer ought to take. The
farmers are a part of the great com
munity which we call the people of
the United States. One portion of. the
population cannot prosper if all the
rest suffer. The farmer will not make
money if the people who buy their
products are injured and ruined by a
bad financial policy. The election of
Bryan would mean the most terrible
panic that this country has ever seen.
It would mean the wholesale reduc
tion of wages and the temporary or
permanent destruction of many indus
tries. The sr&tb r'age earning and
business classes on whom this disaster
would chiefly fall are those who buy
of the farmer and make his prosperi
ty , and when they suffer he will suf
fer , too.
There is no class in the community
so profoundly interested in the main
tenance of sound currency , which is
one of the essential conditions of good
business , as the farmer. I cannot be
lieve that the farmers of the United
States , who are an intelligent and pa
triotic class of men , can support a pol-
vay or vote for a party whose success
would not only ruin them but involve
the repudiation of the national debt ,
and deal a deadly blow at national
credit and national honor.
H. C. LODGE.
Mr. Lodge was elected three times
to the house of representatives , and
in January , 1893 , was sent to the Fed
eral senate , as the successor to the
Hon. Henry L. Dawes. He is chair
man of the committee on immigration
and a member of the committees on
civil service , foreign relations , and
pensions. He has taken an active part
In the debates on tariff and finance ,
and Is regarded as one of the ablest
men in public life. We are sure that
what he says to the farmers will have
very great weight with them. Roch'
ester ( N. Y. ) Post and Express.
Western Newspapers.
Whatever the weeping popocrats
may say about "everybody" being
"against us except the people , " the
newspapers of this country no doubt
reflect public opinion as faithfully as
they always have done. The absurd
charge that the public press of the
United States is controlled by a syn
dicate of bankers that secured Mr
Cleveland's bond issue , Is too absurd
to need refuting. Nobody except a
few Tillmans and Watsons believe it.
If. there were any large number of
voters in the republican party who
had determined to forsake it and fol
low after such strange gods as Altgeld
and Peffer , there would be a corresponding
spending change in the tone of the re
publican press. On the contrary , the
fact is notorious that the changing has
been almost entirely in the opposite
direction , with the exception of a smalt
handful of papers such as the Salt
Lake Tribune , seated in the very
midst of the silver mining district-
The defection from the - col
umn , has been toe minute to be worth :
noticing-
A young business man of Dayton * ,
O. , having a desire to see how the
newspapers in the west were inclined' ,
maHed postal cards to different news
papers in the western states immediately -
, diately- after the Chicago convention , ,
and secured from each a copy. One
\ hundred , and sixty-one answers were-
received' . Ninety-four were republican ,
forty-one democratic , eighteen inde
pendent and eight populist. Ninety-
five of them he found to be for gold
and sixty-six for silver. In California ,
where the silver movement is said to >
have- been making great strides , thir
ty-six of the thirty-nine republican pa
pers declared for gold and three of the
fourteen democratic papers likewise.
From Nebraska he secured three re
publican newspapers and they were
unanimous for gold. One of the three
democratic newspapers he received was
also for gold. The eight republican
newspapers from Kansas , the three-
from North Dakota and the eleven
from Missouri declared for the honest
standard. The evidence of the straw
vote which the young man of DaytoD'
secured is not conclusive , for a great
many reasons. But it gives a fair in
dication of the state of things and it
gives good reasons for the hope and
belief that the size of the silver boom
in the west is mostly in the eye of the
popocratic party. Syracuse ( N. YJ
Post.
Ir Capita Circulation.
This country has a per capita circu
lation of $9 in gold , $9.08 in silver and
§ 6.10 in paper ; total , $24.18. This state
ment which is made on the authority
of the director of the mint , takes no
account of the larger circulation , in the
form of bank credits and commercial
paper. Adding our credit to our
money , we have the largest per capita
circulation of any nation on the globe ,
except England. Do we want to con
tract the circulation by means of the
destruction of credit ? Is not our credit
worth more to us , many times over ,
than all our gold , silver and paper ? The
frt e coiners seek ( unwittingly , perhaps )
to destroy our credit , the republican
party is striving to maintain it. Free
coinage at 16 to 1 means contraction ,
whatever its advocates may say or be
lieve.
Would Xof In rei o the Demand.
Talk about making an "unlimited
demand for silver" by free coinage at
16 to 1 is folly. The amount of silver
money which can be forced into cir
culation is strictly limited by the needs
of business. Free silver or no free sil
ver , the . people will not use more of
the heavy and bulky silver dollars than
they do now.
With free coinage of silver at the ratio
tie of 16 to 1 every mine in the world
would be worked to its fullest capacity
and the entire output dumped at our
mints. Why ? Because for every $9.94
of silver bullion our government would
give the owner $18.G0 a net profit of
$8.66 upon 16 ounces. Who would
blame the millionaires who own silver
mines for making this money ? Com
mon people will be forced to take from
the rich mine owner a dollar at 100
cents whose intrinsic value is about 53
cents and whose purchasing value is
never higher than its intrinsic value.
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ciows and minor features of museums i fH
„ and fairs which seems oti ite face more- I | H
attractive than the exhibition of o- , : | H
called . educated fleas , says Happy ' | !
Thoughts. There is something in the- J !
idea of educating any of the lower | , !
animnls that appeals to all of us , and f ( / !
the lower the animal the more there ' 'SlH '
is In it of interest to the people. The U
suggestion , even , that it is possible to ] • !
get insects to perform tricks which JH
seem as if tl 5 result of intelligence !
of * 'IB
excites at once the sympathies
spectators , and the educated flea calls HI
together companies who are delighted |
with the apparent results , although. •
really ignorant of the causes or of the , SH
fact that each trick : means the death II
of that particular flea. If one will re- ' JIH
fleet but a moment , the absurdity of ijfl
educating so ephemeral an animal as y % |
the flea becomes apparent. After a > 1H
couple of weeks as a legless little worm ! 1H
the young flea spins for Itself a cocoon ( "Isi
which is its habitation for a couple 111
of weeks longer , when it awakes in its 1 1
familiar form for a brief existence of ' \ M
a few weeks at the most. To Instill a./ } M
into so short-lived a creature anything % 11 1
like appreciation of the tricks that he * 'IM
is to perform is out of the question1 , and " 111
the results which are attained arehy , r' ? W
purely mechanical and cruel process. 'H sl
The work" which the flea is expected to /MB
perform is something in which , its fn- \ ; | isl
stihet to > escape becomes of servfee ; 'iH is !
it is "harnessed- a little wagon or { fl
shoots off a miniature cannon , or does ' v M M
some other simple thing requiring-only ! l' |
a feeble pull la a straight line. The , 'J |
"harness" ' isa sharp-pointed wfr © ? |
which is stuck- into the body of the : M
unfortunate insert , and in itsstruggles , |
to' escape the poor flea performs its -\WM \
trick , and the amused spectators are \ M
not aware-of the cruelty to which it is ) |
subjected. If passengers in the shape |
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of other fleas are desired to make the M
wagon trick more remarkable , era < M
coachman or a rootman , they may he M
readily had by impaling others of the M
insects upon properly placed wires , re- M
suiting , of course in torture and' death M
to them as well. Our local societies H
have put a stop to these exhibitions H
in this state , and very properly so ; for H
the very meanest of created things in H
entitled to a life free from unneces * |
sary. torment. HH
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Riding to Keep Cool. M
ft seemed queer to hear a person remark - \ M
mark recentTy that he was "going out vbsbb !
on his wheel to get cool. " The remark j |
was overheard when old General Hu- -j |
midity was playing havoc with starchfii ' |
shirts and collars. It is a fact that en ' |
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a red hot day riding a bicxele is one |
means by which one can keep comfort- . M
able. The rapid motion stirs up a refreshing - , . . ; H
freshing breeze , and as long as it in < Vsbbb !
kept up the rider cs comfortable. . | |
Of course , when one stops perspiration - / \ M
tion breaks out from every pore , but if |
the rider has been thoughtful enotrgh < 9
to clothe himself properly with woolen M
next to the skin no discomfort need be |
experienced on that account There is jH
yet to be recorded an instance where a * " B
person has been overcome by heat while M
riding a wheel in a rational manner , |
and if many of tLose who think it is |
too hot to ride now try the experiment |
and don't return reeling much better |
than when they started out it will be w k
the first time the plan has failed. New H
York Press. M
How to Collide. _ _ H
"Collisions , " says a man who offers W
radical advice , "are sometimes un- fl
avoidable , no matter how careful a ,9
rider may be. Of course , it is always / I
best to avoid a smash up , if such a / H
thing is possible. There are cases , and
it happens to nearly every cyclist , when 9
a collision cannot be avoided. Then the H
old saw , 'Self preservation is the first I
law of nature , ' comes in. Put op a lit- fl
tie extra steam and strike your adver- fl
sary's wheel head on. Don't allow him - -fl
to hit you broadside or your wheel H
won't be worth much. Above all , keep v 'fl
cool and observe the rules of the road. tjl
If you do this it will be the other fel- "
low's fault if there is any trouble. " - * j 9
New York Sun. < • H
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
It disgusts us to see others doing the Xj , H
foolish things we do. L. A. W. Bulle- H
The true secret of success in life is - ? B
to know what you can't do well. tT B
Medical Era. # 1
The man who rocks the boat ought to
be stoned when he gats back on shore. B
Boston Globe. $
A father is proud when his boy gets
into his first fight , but the mother prays H
about it. Atchison Globe. H
Happily , Grant's memory is immor- fl
tal. It will live even after his tomb is B
finished. Philadelphia Ledger. fl
Many a life has been spoiled by not
knowing the difference between thrift "fl
and stinginess. Milwaukee Journal. H
A majority of those who talk against I
bosses would not be
able to make a
living without one. Wabash Times.
Human nature is the excuse generally -
ally offered by a m.n who has been
acting like a hog. Indianapolis Jour-
nal.
While it is pretty hard to say what I
constitutes a gentleman off hand , it is < I
a pretty safe assertion to say that the J
man who says he is a gentleman isn't. •
Cincinnati Enquirer. g' fl
The worst complaints about baseball v jfl
used to be regarding the blackguards ' 4M
m the audience. The Mrorst complaints ll
now are about the blackguards in thotffl
field. Philadelphia Bulletin. 2H
Chicago has 5.100 Johnsons inte \ ' < H
directory , and \mly 4,200 Smiths. " H