THE COLUMBIAN, E3LOOMSBURO. PA U ojJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCQ 8 o f) 1 SATURDAY NIGHT TALKS 1 n Cy nnv. r. e. davison . Q Rullrmd. VI. hccccccccccccococcococcci DIGNITY OF LABOR. International Bible Lesson for Aug. I, '09-(Acts 18: 1-22)- mm It Is Interest Ing to trace back the river of Christianity to Its source, nnd observe tho hiind of an overruling Providence In the o p 0 n I n g years of Its In ception. Begin ning in Jerusa lem, a religious city, It went suc cessively to Ath ens the philoso phical city, to Corinth the pleasure-loving city, and to noino, the military city, each of them centres of influence from whence radiated beams of light to every quarter of the earth. Strange Providences. Awny off In the city of Homo there dwelt a Jewish couple, Aqulla and Prisdlla. The lJmperor, Claudius, in a fit of rage against the Jews, banish ed them from Home, and lienvy-heart-ed nnd disconsolate these two people emigrated far away to Corinth, und settled clown to their trade of tent making. Prom the opposite direction, unknown to them, a disappointed itin erant preacher, Paul by name, was coming toward the same point. After his mission was ended in Athens the lonely preacher tramped the Interven ing forty-five miles which brought ti 1 111 to Corinth. He was also a tent maker by trade. He at once sought employment, ltelng himself a Jew he naturally Inquired for his own coun trymen. And so it cr.me to pass that the tent maker Paul, became a laborer nnd a boarder In the family of the tent makers, A nulla and Prlscllla. Hard luck and persecution, extradi tion and banishment are not hand some courtiers, but they often intro duce us to people who are the Prime Ministers of the King. Paul, the Tent Maker, What grander testimony can be giv en to the dignity of labor than that of the tent maker, Paul. All day he toiled at his trade and preached the gospel by the good work he turned out, as well as by the words he ut tered. We often see Paul pictured as preacher In a crowd of listeners, but this lesson shows him as a toller, and d!'.y laborer. Cordage lying headped up around him, canvas drawn over the floor In folds, balls of twine scattered about here and there, the tent maker at work. I warrant you his seams never ripped, his cloth never proved to be shoddy. No one ever had to say sneerlngly, "I bought these cheap tenft of that Christian! See how he cheated me!" The dignity of labor! Paul's hands were hardened by It. Peter's and An drew's and John's were burned In the sun. Christ, the son of a carpenter, himself working at the bench. Paul evidently was not looking for a "good place," an easy berth, a fat salary. Klse he would never have accepted "a call'' to Corinth. He got near the peo ple by working 'with them. They did not pull him down; he lifted thera up. He spent no time grumbling and complaining because he had to toll, he did not feel that it was his right to have people feed him with chick ens, put elegant dressing gowns on his back, and soft slippers on his feet, and pamper his body and develop his pride. He worked for what he got and was independent of all. That was one reason why be was such a fearless preacher. He was not afraid of losing his salary if he told people the truth, and if he couldn't live in one place he could In an other, and if he couldn't preach, he certainly could practice, and he was equally good in both. Ills tents were as good as his sermons, and he didn't have to eat any man's bread, or be any man's puppet. Independent, dignified, self-reliant, he is a magnifi cent example to scores of men who are marching about from oue church door to another, begging for the privi lege of eating their bread and drink ing their water. Not that manual labor is the only kind of labor. The fact that a preach er has white hands and wears good clothes does not necessarily mean that he is not a laborer. Mental labor is often more strenuous than digging ditches. Perspiration of the body Is often a relief, where brain sweat is slow suicide. Many a man in the pulpit works harder than some men in the foundry. The one pounds iron and is able to Bhape it; the- other seeks to mould human hearts and finds them harder than flint and as un changeable as fate. He carries all sor rows, bears all burdens, receives all confidences, visits all perilous places, risks all dlsenses, responds to all calls, takes all rebuffs, and is responsible for a whole parish of human beings. Work! It is the common lot of man; with pen or spade, with needle or yardstick, with hammer or plough, with typo or sewing-machine, hard labor for life is punned upon all men. Let us all put heart and interest and love into it, and so be happy with the dignity of it. For as the old poet put tt, "Who sweeps a room as in God's tight, makes that, and the action floe." IIIH l'.OXES FOR BUTTONS. Other Part of a Man's Body to Be. come Violin Hiring. His bones to make buttons, his skin to be tanned and given to his friends nnd other parts of his body to bo mndo Into violin strings such are tin provisions of the will of Henry E. Sclllvan o; 233 West 100th streot. New York The will, which Mr. Sullivan ai leron Is mnde, has these clauses: I do hereby direct the executors of this my will to have mndo out of my bones circular Duttons of the dimen sions of from one-hnlf Inch to one Inch In diameter. I do further direct my said execu tors to have the skla of my bo.y tanned and made Into pouches. I do hercb) further direct my sr.UI executors to have made out of s ieh parts of my body ns may be suitable strings for the violin, such as are usually designated "cnt-gut" strings. And I do hereby further direct my said executors to have said violin strings adjusted to the body of a vio lin. I hereby give, devise nnd bequeath unto my beloved friend nnd club mate, James Hayes, all and singular, the buttons, violin strings and tanned skin made out of my body, as afore said, the same to bo by him distrib uted according to his discretion to my Intimate friends. When asked why he made such a queer testament Mr. Sullivan Bald. "Every task we undertake, every thought should have for Its object some useful purpose. Every stick of wood, ever stone, every piece of sod c-.j bo utilized. Did each one but train his eyes to b. the use to which ench object In this world can be put, how much happier the world would bo. "I made the will because I saw no reason why there should be such wastefulness, why so much good raw material should bo allowed to go for naught. "Why In this age should we cling to foolish, unhygienic, wasteful no tions? The body, after the soul has fled, Is Just so much material to be moulded by man for his own use, as Is everything else on this sphere. "My will Is perfectly feasible. My lawyer tells me that it cannot be con tested on the ground of insanity. I realize that it Is extraordinary, but I so will it as being consistent with my belief." Doctoring Dungerous Animals. One of the most difficult feats at tempted by physicians is that of at tending to wild animals who h-ive become ill while confined in iome of the big shows throughout the United States and Europe. When It Is recalled that many an elephant, Hon, or some huge boa constrictor Is worth thousands of dollars, It Is easy to understand that tho very best trained and expensive of phy sicians are called in to operate on the slcta animals. There Is often danger attached to the work, al though if the animal Is Known as very vicious it Is usual to chloroform It before tho physician begins his ex amination Into the cause of the dis ease. The methods of treatment resem ble largely those used when human patients call on the family doctor, varied of course by the peculiarities of the animal. For instance, vhn a big Indian elephant gets the stom ach ache, and they do this perhaps twice a year, there Is considerable hard work to be done, and It oust be done right away. For instance tho elephant must bo roped by all four legs and It must be done quick ly, because an elephant with the s'omacb ache or acute Indigestion (as It really Is) Is more dangerous ey a good deal than a runaway locomo tive. Then he Is thrown on one tide and must be Jumped on with the feet, in order to try to force the sas out of his system. The ordinary kind of rubbing would not even penetrate an ( le phant's skin. Then comes a tuge mustard plaster with blankets used to spread the mustard on and : bout 20 pounds of mustard to the pla '.er. Afterwards 2 quarts of whiskey rnd ginger should be poured down his throat. This treatment was used, in the New York zoo not lon& ego and cured the elephant's jtoniach ache In a couple of hours. A big Indian tigress namnd "Pr'n cess" In the London zoo had a bad record as a man eater near Mysore In India. She tried to kill anyone who approached her, and gave evi dence of being In agony. Ah at tempts to lasso this tigress were In vain, so one night a sponge soaked In chloroform was pokd under her nose on a long stick. ThU dazed the tigress and a bag containing anoth er chloroform soaked sponge whs pushed over her head. Before she could get off the bag the anecthetlc had worked and the doctor quickly drained off a huge abscess which was found on one of the big teeth of the man eater. Monkeys and birds oc casionally need surgical treatment and are not difficult to handle. The big inmates of the snake house, a"' ever, prove very hard to care for during illness. 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