e DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON: Barn-Like Birthplaces, “Ve ghall find the babe wrapped in swaddl- tng-clothes, lying in amanger. And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host.—Luke 2 : 12, 13. AT miduight from one of the galler- les of the sky a chant broke. To an ardinary observer there was no reason for such a celestial demonstration, A poor man and wife—travellers, Joseph and Mary by name—had lodged in an outhouse of an unimportant village, The supreme hour of solemnity had pass- ed, and upon the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the tenderness, the divine significance of motherhood. But such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem, yet never before had a star been unfixed, or had a baton of light marshaled over the hills winged orchestra, If there had been such bril- liant and mighty recognition at an ad- vent in the House of Pharaoh, or at an advent In the Ilouse of Cwmsar, or the House of Hapsburg, or the House of Stuart, we would not so much have wondered; but a barn seems too poor a centre for such delicate and archange- lic circumference, The stage seems too small for so great an act, the music too grand ror such unappreciative audl- tors, the window of the stable too rude to be serenaded by other worlds, No, sir! No, madam! It is my joy this morning to tell you WHAT WAS BORN THAT NIGHT fn the village barn; and as I want to make my discourse accumulative and climuctenie, I began, in the first piace, bytelling you that that night in the Beth leliem manger was born encouragement for all the poorly started. He had only two friends—they His parents, No satin-lined cradle, no delicate atten- tions, but straw, and the cattle, and the coarse joke and banter of the camel- drivers, No wonder the medimval painters represent the oxen as kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to worship, From the depths of what poverty He rose until to-day He is honored in all Christendom, and sits on the imperial throne in heaven! What name is mightiest to-day in Christendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being? Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands kneel, in chapel and church and cathedral, this hour? Jesus, For whom could one hundred million souls be marshaled, ready to fight or die? Jesus, From what depth of pov- erty to what height of renown! And so let all those who are poorly started remember that they cannot be more poorly born, or more disadvantageous- ly, than this Christ. Let them look up to His example while they have time and eternity to imitate it. Do you know that the vast majority of THE WORLD'S DELIVERERS had barn-like birthplaces? Luther, the emancipaior of religion, born among mines; Shakespeare, the emancipator of literature, born in an humble home at Stratford-on-Avon; Columbus, the dis. coverer of a world, born mn poverty in Genoa; Hogarth, the discoverer of how | to make art accumulative and adminis. trative of virtue, born in a humble home in Westmoreland; Kitto and Prideaux, whose keys unlocked new apartments in the Holy Scriptures, which had never been entered, born in want. Yea, 1 bave to tell you that nine out ten of the world’s delivers, pine cut of ten of the world’s messiahs ~tle messiahs of science, the messiahs of law, the messiahs of medicine, the messiuhs of poverty, the messiahs of | grand benevolence — were born in want. I suppose that when Herschel, the great astronomer, was born in the home of a poor musician, not cnly one star, but all the stars he afterward dis- covered, pointed down to his manger, I suppose when Haydn, the German nomposer, was born in the humble home of a poor wheelwright, that all the angels of music chanted over the manger. Oh what encouragement for those who are poorly started! Ye who think yourselves far down, aspire to go high up! I stir your holy ambitions to-day, and 1 want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you, and inside and outside of your occupa- | tions or professions there may be those who would binder your ascent, on your side and enlisted in your behalf are the sympathetic heart and the almighty army of Que who, one Christmas night, about eighteen hundred and elghty- eight years ago, was wrapped in swad- dling-clothes and laid in s manger, Oh, what magnificent encouragement for the poorly started! Again, I have to tell you that in that village baru that night was born GOOD-WILL TO MEX; svhetlhier yout call it Kindness, or forbear- ance, or forgiveness, or geniality, or affection, or love, It was no sport of high heaven te send its favorite to that humiliation, Ib was sacrifice for a re- bellious world, Alter the calamity in Paradise, not oniv.did. the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, aud the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put to bad use tooth and paw, but under the very tree from which the forbidden fruit wus plucked were hatched out war and revenge and malice and envy and jealousy, and the whole brood of cockatrices, But against that scene 1 set the Beth- delist wmacager, which says: ‘‘Bless ther than curse, endure rather than Aassgult,” and that Christmas night puts guteviadictiveness, Itsays: ‘‘Sheathe _ Your Sword, dismount your guns, dis ‘mintel your balleries, turn the war- ship Constellation, that carried shot and shell, into a grain ship to take food to famishing Ireland, your cavalry horses to the plough, use your deadly gunpowder. in blasting rocks and in patriotic celebration stop your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous extract the sting from your sarcasm, | © wit coruscate but never burn, drop all the harsh words out of your vocabulary meestivad-will to i t i i “Oh!” you say, “I can’t exercise it; 1 WOI'L eXerciue i amu! Che la hi er ee » wo tian, If you forgive not men thelr trespasses, Low can ycu expect your Heavenly lather to forgive you? For- give them if they ask your forgiveness, and forgive them anyhow. Shake bands allaround. **Good-will to men.”’ “Oh, my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into our hearts this Christmas hour! I tell you WHAT THE WORLD WANTS more than anything else—more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die, more dispo- sition to give other people a ride, and to carry the heavy end of the load and give other people the light end, and to ascribe good motives instead of bad, and to find our happiness in making others happy. Out of that Bethlehem crib let the bear and the lion eat straw like an ox. “Good-will to men,” That principle will yet settle all controversies, and under it the world will keep on Im- proving until there will be only two an- tagonists in all the earth, and they will, side by side, take the jubilant sleigh- ride intimated by the prophet when he said: ‘*‘Holiness shall be on the bells of the horses,” Again, I remarked that, born that Christmas night in the village bain was sympathetic UNION WITH OTHER WORLDS, The only scepticism I have ever had about Christianity was an astronomical scepticism which said: **Why would (God, out of the heavens and amid the Jupiters and Saturns of the universe, have chosen our little bit of a world for the achievements of His only begot- ten Son, when He might have had a vaster scale and vaster worlds?’ Bat my scepticism is all gone as I come to the manger, and watch its surround- ings, Now I see all the worlds are sisters, and that when one weeps they all weep, and when one sings they all sing. From that supernatural group- ing in the cloud-banks over Bethlehem, and from the especial trains that ran down to the scene, I find that our world 1s beautifully and gloriously sarround- ed, THE METEORS ARE WITH US, for one of them ran to point down to the birthplace. The heavens are with us, because at the thought of our re- demption they roll hosannas out of the miduighe sky. Ob, yes; I do not know but our world may be better surround- ed than we bave sometimes imagined; and when a child is born angels fetch is, and when it dies angels take it, and when an old man bends under the weights of years angels uphold him, and when a heart breaks angels soothe it, Angels in the hospital to take care of the sick, Angels in the cemetery to watch our dead. Augels 1m church ready to fly heavenward with the news of repentant souls, Angels above the world, Angels under the world! Angels all around the world! Raub the dust of human imperfection to understand that the music of that night was NOT A COMPLETE BONG, but only the stringing of the instru. ments for a great chorus of two worlds, the bass to be carried by earthly nations saved* and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won, Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall meet you there. After all our imperfections are gone, I shall meet you there, I look out to-day, through the mist of years, through the fog that rises from the cold Jordan, through the wide open door of solid pearl, to that reunion, I expect to eee you there as certainly as 1see you here, What a time we shall have in high converse, talking over sins pardoned, and sorrows comforted, and battles triumphant! Iam going in, I am going to take all my family with me. Iam going to take all my church with me, I am going to take all my friends and neigh- bors with me. I have so much faith in manger and cross, I feel sure of it, I am going to coax you in. I am going to push you in. Dy holy stratagem I am golng to surprise you in. Yea, with all the concentrated energy of my na- ture—pbysical, mental, spiritual, and immortal—I am going to compel you to go in. I like youso well 1 want to spend eternity with you! Some of your children have already gone, Some time ago I buried one of them, and though people passing along the street and seeing crape on the door- bell may have said, **It is ONLY A CHILD,” vet when the broken-hearted father came to solicit my servicé he sald: “Come around and comfort us, for though she was only fifteen months old we loved her so much.” Ah! it does not take long for a child to get its arms around the parent's whole nature, What a Christmas morning 1t will make when those with whom you used to keep the holidays are all around you in heaven! Silver-haired old [father young again, and mother, who had so many aches and pains and decrepitudes, well again, and all your brothers and sisters and the little ones, How glad waiting, The last thine they saw your face it was covered with tears and dis- tress, and pallid from long watching, and one of them I can imagine to-day, with one band holding fast the shining gate, and the other hand swung out toward you, saying: “Steer this way, father, steer straight for me; Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee,” Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they went back after the concert that night over the hills, forgot to shut the door; ALL THE SECRZT 18 OUT. No more use of trying to hide trom us the glories to come, It is too late to | shut the gate, Itis blocked wide open out of our eyes, and look into the | heavens and see angels of pity, angels of | mercy, angels of pardon, angels of help, | angels crowned, angels charioted. The world defended by angels, girdled by angels, cohorted by angels—clouds of angels, Hear David cry out: “The chariots of God are twenty thousand, | Even thousands of angels.’ Bat the mightiest angel stood not that night in the clouds over Dethlehem; the mighti- est Angel that night lay among the cattle—the Angel of the new covenant, | As the clean white linen, sent in by motherly villager, was being Child Emperor, not a cherub, not a seraph, not an angel, not a world, but wept and thrilled and shouted, Oh, yes, our world has plenty of sympathi- zers! Our world is only a silver rung of a great ladder, at the top of which is our Father's house, No more stellar solitariness for our world, not a friend- | less planet spun out into space to freeze, | but a world in the bosom of divine ma- ternity. A star harnessed to a manger, Again, 1 remark that that night, born in that village barn, was THE OFFENDER'S HOPE, Some sermonizers way say I ought to have projected this thought at the be- ginning of the sermon. Oh, nol I | wanted you to rise toward it, 1 want- the jaspers and the emeralds and the chrysalis before I showed you the Kohi- noor—the crown jewel of the ages. Ohl that jewel had a very poor setling. The cub of the Lear is born amid the grand the lion takes its first step from the jungle of luxuriant leaf and wild-flower, the kid of the goat 1s born in cavern, chandeliered with stalactite, and pillar- ed with stalagmite, Christ was born in a bare barn, Yet that nativity was the offender's hope. Over the door of | heaven are written these words: “None but the sinless enter here’ “Oh, horror,” you say, ‘‘that shuts us all out!” No. Christ came to the world in one door, and He departed through another door, He came t brough the door of the manger, and He departed through the door of the sepulchre, HIS OWN BUSINESS was 50 to wish away our sin that ove second after we are dead there will be no more sins about us than about the eternal God, 1 know that is putting it strongly, but that is what I understand by full remission, All erased, all wash- ed away, all scoured out, all gone! That undergrinding and overarching and frradiating and imparadising possi- bility for you, and for me, and for the race was given on that Christmas fight, Do you wonder we bring flowers to- day to celebrate such an event? Do you wonder that we take organ und cornet and youthful voice and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do you wonder that Raphael and Rubens and Titian and G lotto, and Ghirlandajo, ad all the old Italian and German painters, give the mightiest stroke of the pencil to sketch the Madonna Mary and her boy? Oh! now 1 see what the manger was, Not so high the gilded and jeweled and embroidered cradle of the Henrys of England, or the Louis of France, or the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find, out of that Bethlehem crib fed not so BE te asf Jo white ow find the swaddling-clothes enlarging for a conqueror. Now I find that the «Qf you are a very with hosannas marching this way, and What | almost unmans me is the thought that | and I have been, If it bad been pro- | vided only for those who had always thought right, and spoken right, and | acted right, you and 1 would have had | no interest in it, had noshare in it; you and I would have stuck to the raft, mid- | ocean, and let the ship sail by, carrying | perfect passengers from life on earth to a perfect life in heaven, Ohl I have heard the commander of that ship is the | sympa- thetic One who hushed the tempest | around the boat on Galllee, and I have | heard that all Lhe passengers on the | And so ask the captain two questions: **Who | art thou? and whence?’ and He says: Oh! bright Chirist- | Wreathe all the | Rousse all the anthems, MERRY CHRISTMAS! given, merry with the idea of sorrows come, Oh! lift that Christ from the | manger and lay Him down in all our | hearts, We may not bring to Him as | costly a present as the Magi brought, | but we bring to His feet and to the | manger to-day the frankincense of our | joy, the pearls of our tears, the kiss of | our love, the prostration of our worship, Down at His feel, ail churches, all ages, all earth, all heaven, Down at His feet the four-and-twenty elders on tude that no man can number.” Down Michael, the archangel! Down all worlds at His feet and worship! “Glory to God will to men!” S————— Lost Money Found Through a Dream. You cannot convince Mrs, James Burr of Mouroe that there is no truth in dreams, Hecenutly she visited a store at Stepney Depot to do some trading. She had in her purse a ten-dollar gold piece, but she dil nol take it out, as she bad other money, On arriving home the gold piece was missing and the loss worried her greatly. That night she had a dream, In which she saw the interior of the grocery pictured plainly. Inoue corner stood an open box of oranges and this seemed to ate tract her gaze especially, The dream made a deep impression on Mrs, Bare’s mind, though, hér family laughed at ber about it, She harnessed her horse after breakfast and drove to the store, There she told of the loss of her money but it had not been seen. She re her dream to the storekeeper and asked him to look in the orange box. He very kindly took out the fruit and there, down in one corner, lay the miss. ing colon. Mrs, Burr then remembered that she had examined the oranges and probably had the open purse in ber hand at the time, Larboard, The ltalians derive starboard from westa bo “this side,” and larboard, From aia brda, “it se” ove: into sta and borda, ‘that Their resemblance caused go many mis. takes that, by order of the Admiralty Board, larboard is now thrown over | board and port substituted, “Port the under’ of ih wie lm,’ is even mentioned in Arthur 's voyage in 1580, ; The Rescue of Emin. The rescue of Emin by Stanley may now be assumed with a reasonable de- gree of certainty, Tho positive an- nouncement that both explorers had arrived in the lower Aruwhimi has been confirmed by despatches to the King of the Belgians and the Government of the Congo State. While details are lack- ing, it may safely be inferred that the advices received at St, Thomas are of luter date than these from Zanzibar. sStanley’s first message may have been inaccurately translated by Tippoo Tib, as we have previously suggested, and Emin may have departed from Wadelal with him, The independent account given by the Arab traders points to this conclusion, Stanley is reported to have arrived at Wadelai on January 20. A fortnight afterwards the Mahdi’s pomp. ous summons to surrender was received by Emin,and towards themiddleof April tidings came of the approach of the hos- tile expedition in Gordon's steamers, This Arab account breaks off abruptly with the statement that Stanley was preparing to send a detachment in search of his rear guard, and was urg- ing Emin to accompany him. At the end of May, when he started for the Aruwhimi, he may have succeeded in convineing the Austrian of the hopeless. ness of making a stand against the Mahdists, In that event they would have started together, Stanley with the advance guard and Emin bringing up the rear. Then, again, it is possible that Stanley left Wadelal, after recely- ing a promise from Emin that be would follow the same line or retreat if the Mahdists continued their advance up the river. The explorers may have met a few weeks after Tippoo Tib's carriers set out from the Falls Station for Zane zibar. The story of the Arab traders tends strongly to discredit the moving tale which Osman Digna related to Geperal Grenfell, At the end of April Emin is asserted to have been at Wadelal, and lying north of this capital, It seems incredible that he should have reversed his tactics after Stanley's departure late in May, and have advanced to Lado, two hundred miles down the river, in order to make a stand there, Oman Salehi’s official report of the capture of Emin and the unknown white traveller on October 11 will pot bear serious ex- been at Wadelai when Stanly set out from the Nile, and to have called in all his outposts, / ¢ tog €i The dis. or laying, if not preventing al assauit upon the dervishes seemed at first glance to corroborate partially the wily Arab’s story, there are now the strongest reasons for t 1 v 5 tures and heroic sacrifices Stanley's well-know aversion to bloo shed would undoubtedly have led decline entering into fen i a defen Noes, when Cgzhting could be avoided by a On the eve of his § ties on the road to Emin’s capital, mission was purely of Equatorial Africa by unnecessary “Fighting is folly if it can he exclaimed before left London, and then added, *‘1 preler diplomacy.” Presumably, be employed Wadelai and attempting to defend the the end, He was in a position to offer a Arabs who By diplomacy trian’s reluctance to leave the Provinces to their fate, Livingston, when found clined at first to accepl his rescuer’s offers, may have proved moiv reasonable in the end. The march from the Aruwhimi to Wadelai was so intrepid and gallant a struggle against seemingly be justified by Ewin’s deliverance, ed him to accede to Stanley’s solicita- tions, for his consent to retreat with crown with complete success one of the noblest and most chivalrous relief ex- peditions in the annals of adventure. ———— All 1n a Half Century. The discovery of the electric telegraph, The discovery ol photography. navigation, The annexation of Texas, The war with Mexico, and the ac- quisition of California, with the dis. coveries of gold that followed, The French revolute ut 1848, The rise and fall of Napoleon 111, and the establishment of the French Republic, "he laying of the ocean cables, The great civil war and abolition of slavery in the United States, The unification of Italy. The great Franco-German war and the unification of Germany. The overthrow of the Pope's tem- poral power, The emancipation of the Russian serfs, The extention of Russian power into Central Asia. The discovery of the sources of the Nile and Niger, and the exploration of interior The discovery of the telephone, The growth of Life Insurance fiom nothing to a million policy-holders, six hundred million dollars of assets, and two and a half bition dollars of insar ance in force, Eh SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON, BUNDAY JANUARY 20, 1930. Healing of the Leper. LESSON TEXT. Mark 1° 3545. Memory verses, 40-41) LESSON PLAN. Toric OF THE QUARTER! Muyhty Worker, Jesus the GoLpex TEXT vor TRE QUARTER: Believe me that 1 am in the Father, and the Futher in me: or else belveve me for the very works’ sake.~John 14 : 11. Lesson Toric: The Prayerful Dil- {gence of Jesus. { 1. His Personal Devotion, va. 85.78, lesson | 2. His Generous Zeal, v8. 8-42, Cutitpe: © 4 His Sell-forgetfal Humility. i 4545, GOLDEN TEXT: As soon as he had spoken, tmmediately the leprosy departed Yo him, and he was cleansed, —Mark 1:42 Day Home READINGS: M.—Mark1 : 35-45, The prayerful diligence of Jesus, T.—lev, 14 : 1-32 cleansing. W.—Num. leper, T.—2 Kings cleansed, F.—Luke 17 cleansing, 8.—Heb, 2 : 1-18, tic Jesus, S.~—Heb, 4 Jesus, LESSON ANALYSIS, 1. HIS PERSONAL DEVOTION, Prompt : A great while before day, he rose up 1 went out (35). ang I myself will awake right early (Psa, vi, The law of 12 1-16. Minam a 1-14. Naaman 1-19. Praise for The sympathe- 1-16. The helpful bi : B). 0 God, thou art my God; early seek thee (Psa. 63 : 1). With wy spirit within me will I seek thee early (Isa. 26 : 9). Those that seek me diligently shall find me (Prov. 8:17). IL. Prayerful: | He....departed into a desert { and there prayed (35). | He went up into the mountain apart to | pray (Matt, 14 : 23) | He withdrew himself in the deserts, and prayed {Luke 5; 16), | He continued all night in prayer to God Luke 6 : 12). Being earnestly will place, an agony, be prayed more Luke 22 HI. Persistent: Let the 1 that 1 may preach there also | Jesus went about in all Galilee, ing (Matt. 4:23 | I must preach in us go....into next » towns, teach- aod tidings, do i Luke 4 : 43). to-day and to- i the olher cities also {I must goo Morrow { { Who went 10 : 1. (‘He rose up and went out,.... jesert place, (1) His time of § ol and there prayed. (4) His purpose in prayer. “All are seeking thee.” (1) iy 1 “) he seeking: RA f forth.” {1 onsciousness of his apg (2) Pursuit of his appointed end. il. HIB GENEROUS ZEAL. L Broad: | He went their throughout all Galilee (39), { Jesus went about all the cities. . ing in their synagogues { Matt, synagogues into G9 - 30 Galiles (Luke 4 : 44). (John 6 {I have spoken openly {John 18 : 20). I. Sympathetic: Being moved with | ....touched ham (41). : OB). the fo compassion, them (Matt, 9 ; 36). I have compassion on { Matt. 15 : 32). Jesus wept (John 11 : 35). We have not a high priest that cannot be touched (eb. 4 : 15). 111 Saving: straightway from him (42). He arose, and straightway took up the bed (Mark 2 : 12), And his hand was restored (Mark 3 : 5). Straightway the damsel rose up, and walked {Mark 5 : 42). He is able to save to the uttermost (Heb 7:25). 1. “He went, ....preaching and cast- ing out devils,” (1) Missionary ac- tivity; (2) Pertinent preaching; (3) Holy helpfulness, the the leprosy clean.” (1) Willingness of Jesus tested; (2) Ability of Jesus affirmed, 3. “Straightway the leprosy departed {1} The healing command; (2) The ] responsive cleansing. | 111. M18 SELF-FORGETFUL 1. Landation of Him Forbidden: See thou tell no man (Matt, 8 : 4). They should tell no man that he was the Christ (Matt, 16 : 20). Tell the vision to no man Matt. 17 : 9) Do not even enter into the village (Mark 8 : 26). 11. Honor to Moses Commanded: Offer for thy cleansing the things which Moses command+d Sg This shall be the law of the leper (Lev. 14 : 2). Take from him....iwo living clean birds (Lev, 14 : 4). Un the eighth day he shall take two he- lambs without blemish (Lev, 14 : 10), If he be poor,....he shall take one he- lamb (Lev. 14 : 21). 11). Labors for Him Maltiptied: came to him from every quar ter (40). There came unto him great multitudes (Matt, 15 : 30). There was no longer room for them, no, not even about the door {Mark 2 : 2), followed 2. “Offer for thy cleansing the things which Moses commanded.” (1) The demand of Moses; (2) The command of Jesus, “They came to him fron every quarter,” (1) The gathering multi tudes; (2) The central attraction (8) The impelling motives, 3. rs osm LESSON BIBLE READING, LEPROSY. A prevalent disease (Luke 4:27 17:12), Regarded as incurable (2 Kings 5:7). Produced ceremonial uncleanness (Lev. 13 8, 11, 22, 44). Necessitated separation (Num, 5 : 12 : 10, 13-15), Jepers dwelt together (2 Kings 7:3 Luke 17 : 12). Cut off from God’s house 26 : 21). Excluded from priesthood (Lev. 2-4). Miraculously healed (Num, 12 : 13, 14 2 Kings 5 : 8-14 ; Matt, 10 : 8 ; Luke b:12, 13:17: 13, 14). at 2 (2 Chron. Gey « - - LESSON BUBRBROUNDINGS. The present lesson follows immedi. ately the events narrated in the last, Matthew places the healing of the leper after the Sermon on the Mount; but this is obviously a deviation from the chronciogical order. So Luke, who usually agrees with Maurk in this period of the history, interposes the miracul- ous draught of fishes between the events at Capernaum and the bealing of the leper (Luke 5 : 1-11); bul that miracle was probably in connection | with the call of the four fishermen, | The earlier part of the less n refers to a preceding tour through Galilee; at some point in the journey (probably not Capernaum) the leper was healed. The time was early in 780, A. D. 27 ; according to Robinson, it was a short time before the Passover; according lo Andrews, it was a short time after that i feast, 5 CURIOUS RESULTS WITHFIGURES ! Some Odd vombinations Obtained by Multiplications by Nine. D. M. Johnson, of Chester, Pa., | writes to the New York Tribune as fol- flows: 1 do not there is any ‘witchery” in the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (8, 7, 8, 9, multiplied by 45, or 1 any of think ‘ 45, the variations of the proposition of the | “Expert Accountant,” noted in your extract from the Buffalo Express in the Tribune of November If there is | any magic, 1t is In the figure 9, and net | especially In 45, for you will find all | the witchery by multiplying the above | figures, either, forward or backward, | by any of these figures, 9, 18, JG, 45, 54, 163, 72 or Bl. Probably the reason of the apparently curious resull of these | multiplications will appear 10 a math- | ematically inclined mind by this simple i Hlustration: 1234567 34 -r 81 equals 9 2 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 11101 equals® Explanation: One less to carry each { move to left, which is balanced by one | greater in right-hand figure of product, because the total of each is 9 less, {Reverse.) 087654321 9 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 9 equals 0 ebuals 9 equals 9 equals 9 i8 27 36 45 54 63 9 - ws i S885 8888 88 9equals 8] { One more to carry each move to left, | which is balanced by one less in right- | hand figures of product, because it is 9 | more total And one may amuse himself Ly mul- | tiplying this sequence of figures by the | other figures, of which 9 is a multiple, | up to 81, with similar resuits. If the | multiplier is greater than 9, the differ. lence in amount to carry forward, in- | stead of being one less or one more as { above, will be equal to the number of {times © will go into the multiplier. { Multiplied by 18, we have 9 twos and a | cipher. Reversed, we have 9 sevens, 8 and 1. Multiplied by 81, we have 9 | nines and a cipher. Reversed, we have | 9 ciphers and 8 and 1. In the same way the philosophy of the fact that the sequence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1g, 7, 8 9, multiplied by 8, produces 9, 8 7, 6,05 4,3, 1, 2, may be shown. “One of Us Mast Die.” A tragic occurrence took place at a small farm called Hendre Mochtre, near Newtown, Montgomerysire, re- cently. The tenant of the farm, a man named Abrabam Morris, with his son
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