“REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Brookiym aMivine’s Sums
dny Sermo.
subject: «The Rirthiof Christ”
TEL? “Let us now go even unto Hethle
Hem.” —Luke ii., 15.
Amid a thousand mercies we give each
other holiday congratulations. By long
tlchemy was the mother of chemistry, snd
pecanse children are brighter than the
nother you do not despise the mother,
1t was the lifelong business of these astro).
gers to study the stars. Twenty-two hun.
Christ was born
the wise men on of the
rquinoxes, and they had ted the orbit
the comets. Professor
Smith declares that he thnks they andes
bealthful merriment. By gu
trees which blossom and in one Right,
‘by early morning surorise, by clusters
lighted candles, by children’s processions, by
sound of instruments sometimes more blatant
than musical, we wake up the night and pro.
long the day: I wish you all, in the grandest,
noblest and best sense, a merry Curistmas,
The event commemorated is the gladdest of
the centuries, Christ's cradle was as won-
derfu! as His cross. Persuade me of the first
and [am not surprised at the last. The door
which He entered was as tremendous us
door by which He went out,
I was last winter at the house where Jesus
lived while He was in Africg It was in
by Christmas
We find in ths book of Job that the men of
siden time did pot suppose the world was fla
18 some have said, but that he knew, a
Journey on foot which He took when Joseph
and Mary fled with Him from B to
Egypt to escape the masssore of Herod, All
tradition, as well as all history, points out
this house in Cairo as the one in which these
three fugitives lived while in Africa. The
voor is nine steps down from the level of
the street, I measured the room and found
it twenty feet long and seven and a hall feet
high. There are og shelvings of rock, one
of which I think was the cradle of our Lord.
There was no window, and all the light
must have come from lantern or cradle,
three arrived here from Bethlehem, having
crossed the awiul desert.
On the Mediterranean steamer going from
Athens to Alexandria I met the eminent
scholar and theologian, Dr. Lansing, who for
thirty-five years has besn a residengor Cairo,
and he told me that he had been all over the
road that the three fugitives took from
Bethlehem to t. He says it is a desert
way, and that the foroed journey of the in.
fant Christ must have been a terrible jour
ney, Uoing up from nETPt Dr. Lansing
met people from , their tongues
gwollen and han out from inflammation
of thirst, and althou b kis party had but one
goatskin of water le
ant for themseives, he was so moved with
the spectacle of thirst in these poor pligfims
that, though it excited the indignation of
his fellow travelers, ke gave water to the
strangers. Uver this dreadful route Jo-
geoph and Mary started for this land of
Egypt. No time to make myuch preparation,
Herod wes alter them, and what were these
peasants LeJore an irate king?
Joseph, the husband oy HH Jone night
Spreng up from his mattress in t alarm,
the beads of sweat on his fore i and his
whoie frame quaking. He had dreamed of
massacres of his wife and babe. They must
be off, that night, right away. Mary putup
a few things hastily, and Joseph brought to
the door the beast of burden. and heiped his
wife and child tomount. Way, those loaves
of bread are not enough, those bottles of
water will not last for sueh a long way, But
there is no time to get anything more. Out
and on. Good-by to the bho ne they ex-
ect never againto ses, Their bearts break,
t does not need that ours be a big house in
order te maie us sorry to leave it,
Over the bills and down through the deep
orge they urge their wav. By Hebron, by
Bass, wrt bot sand, under a blistering
sin, the babe crying, the mother faint the
father exhausted, ow slowly the days and
weeks pass! Wilithe weary three ever reach
the banks of the Nile? ill they ever see
Cairo? Will the desert ever end? When at
last they cross the line beyon . which old
Herod has no right to pursus their joy is un-
bounded. Freeat last! Let them dismount
and rest. Now they resume their way with
less anxiety, They will find a place sya
where for shelter and the earofug
bread. Here they are at Cairo, Egypt.
They wind Sioug the crooked strests
which are about ten Test wide, and enter the
humble house where [ have been to-day, But
the terminus of the journey of these threes
fugitives was not as Bymble as their starting
Pr t at Bethishem. that Oey across
be desert ended in a cellar it started from
a onrn. Everthing humble around that barn,
bus everything glorious overhead. Christ's
advent was in the hostelry called the house
of Chim Ham; the night with damonded
Sager pointing down to the plase; the door
of heaven sot wide n to look out; from
orchestral batons . kt dripping the ara.
tories of the Messiah; on lowest orate of
ven the minstrels of God discoursing of
lory and good will. Boon after ihe white
ded astrologists kneel, and from leathern
pouch chink the shekels and from open sacks
the frankincense and rustic out the
bundles of myrrh. The loosened star: the
dexelogy of celestials; the chill De
wight aflush with May mora; our
world a lost star, aud another star rushing
down 3he sky that t to beckon the wan.
e again, yet make all nations
keep Christmas.
Are thers no ats from the story
pot yet hacknsy: oft 1epeatal? Oh, yes!
Know in the first place, it was a sideresi ap-
that ledthe way. Why not a black
sbaps of & band os fluger point-
the sacred ? A cloud
0, and the world bad trouble
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Then,
spent their lives in the study
and liquids and solids,
the world’s library with th
wonderful veries, They were vastly
wise man who came from the East, and tra.
lition says the three wisest Sais- Ohapat, a
young man; Balthazar, a man of midlife,
The three
wisest men of all the century, They cameto
ihe manger,
So it has always boen—the wisest men
some to Christ, the Lrainiest men come to the
onathan
Edwards, the Christian. Who was the
wt astronomer of the world? Bean the
Christian. Who was the greatest poet ever
sroduced? John Milton, the Christian, Who
was the wisest writer on law? Blackstone,
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for the wise men to wor
Come now, let us understand in ounces
\od by inches this whole matter, In
wortem examination the brain of -
wished men bas been examined, and I will
faa the largest, the heaviest, the tiest
Iwill
Hore
ounoes,
the largest brain ever uced in America.
Now let me find what that brain thought of
Inthe d moment that man sald,
Thou mine unbelief
Whatever else 1 do, God, receive
{ shall be in the light and joy and blessed-
aes.” So Daniel Webster came to the manger,
I'he wise men of the East followed Ly the
wise men of the West,
It was in closing December that He was
m sharp blast, for people under clouded sky,
tor people with frosted hopes, for Dorore
with thermometer below garo. That is the
reason He is 80 often found among the desti-
tute, You can find Him on any Hight
coming off the moors. You can see Him
any night coming through the dark lanes of
the city. You can ses Him putting Hb
band under the fainting head in the pauper's
cabin. He remembers how the wind whis
that December night, and He is in sympathy
shutters ciattar on a cold night.
It was this December Christ that Washing
ton and his army worshiped at Valiey
Forge, when without blankets they iay
down in the Decomber spew. It was this
Christ that the Pilgrim Fathers appealed tc
when the Mayflower wharfed at Piymoutt
Rock, and in the years that went by the
graves digged, were more in number thar
the houses built. Ok, I tell you we want «
Christ for fai
with sickness, and chilling with disappoint
ment, and suffocating with bereavement,
and terrific with wide open graves. Not s
springtime Christ, not asummer Christ, not
sn autumosl Christ, but a winter Chriss
Oh, this suffering and struggling world
needs to be hushed and soothed sud rocked
aad lnllabied in the arms of sympathetic Om
nipotence! No mother ever with more ten.
derness put her foot om the rocker of the
cradle of a sick child than Christ comes
down to us to this invalid world, and He
rocks it Into placidity and quietness as He
rays, “My peas I give unto vou; not as the
world giveth give I unto you.”
Notice also the fact wiich no one seams to
notice —that this Christ was born amoug the
sheep, and the cattle, and the horses, and the
camels in order that He might be an alleviat-
ing influences to the whole animal creation,
It means mercy for overdriven, underfed
poorly sheltered, galled and maltreated
animal creations. ath the Christ who
com Himeslf to a dove no care for the
of the pigeon ooting? Hath
the Christ who compared if to a lanb
no care for the sheep whe are tied and con.
torted, and with neck over the sharp eige
oattie train
in hot weather from Omaha to New York,
with no water—fiftesn bhusdred miies of
sgony?
Hath the Christ whose tax was bys
fish, the coin taken from its mouth, no care
for the tossing fins in the fish market? Hath
the Christ woo strung with His own hand
the nerves of dog and cat no indigastion for
the horrors of vivie ction? Hath the Christ
who sald “Go to the ant” no watchfulnes
for the insscte? Hath the Christ
who said “Behold the fowls of the alt”
Himself never beheld the Sukragus
heaped upon the brute creation which
ial} This Christ
came net only to HIE the buman
out of its trouble, but to Uff out of
xg and hardship the animal creation. In
foe lorfous milenaial time the child shall
lead the lion and play with the coskatrice
only because brute and reptlls shall bave no
manger asad myrrh
Gold to that means all the afie.
ence of the world surrendered to Him. For
- xe the eripples hom they
way w
helped, feeling their slow way like the blind
pecple whom they sheltered. Millions of
for Christ where there are now
ders,
directors, and :
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a ——— ——
place Gould have by accident dropped a box
of alabaster, Ye soci dou Tha!
they burned inthe censer iu the anclent tem.
Frankincense, That means worship,
That is to fill all the homes,
tnd all the churchas, and all the capi
and all the nations from cellar of stalacti
save clear up to the silvery rafters of the
varlit dome. Frankincenss. That is what
we shake out from our hearts to-day, so that
the nostrils of Christ once crimsoned with
of the cross be flooded
of a world’s adoration,
kinoense in song and
sermon and offerwry and bandshaking and
decora
Praise Him, mountains and hills, valleys
and seas, and skies and earth and heaven—
cyclone with your trumpets, northern lights
your flaming ensign, morning with
Jour castles of cloud, and evening with your
itlowing clouds of sunset. Do you Know
how they used to hold the oeuser in the
olden time, and what it was made oft Here
Is &« metal pan and the handle by which
It was held. In the inside of this metal
pea were put living coals, on the top of
& perforated cover. In a square
box the frankincense was brought to the
temples, This frankincense was
and sprinkled over the living coals, and
then perforated cover was put on, and
when they were all Jeady for worship, then
the cover was litted from the censer and from
all the other censers, and the perfumed smoke
arose until it hung amid all the folds and
dro, amid all the altars, and then rose in
gros columns of praise outside or above the
rizing clear up toward the throne of
we have two cemsers to-day of
Christmas frankinosnse. Here is the one
senser of earthly frankincense,
On that we put our thanks for the mercies
of the past year, the mercies of all our past
lives, individual mercies, family mercies, so-
clal Enoreioy, national mercies, and our hearts
burning with gratitude send aloft the incense
of p toward the throne of Chriss.
B on mers incenss, and higher and high-
"wr the columns of praise ascend,
[ot them wreaths all theses pillars
and hover amid all theses arches
and then soar to the throne. But hers is
the other censer of heavenly thanksgiving
and worship, Let them bring all their
frankincense--the cherubim bring theirs,
and the seraphim theirs, and the one hun-
dred and foriy-four thousand theirs and
all the etermities theirs, and let them
smoke with perfume on this heavenly cen-
ser until the clond canopies the throne of
God. Then I take thess two censers—the
censer of sarthly frankincense and the censer
of heavenly frankincense—and I swing then
before the thrones, and then I clash them to-
gether in ome great hallelujah unto Him
whom the wise men of the Bast brought the
4 and the myrrh and the frankinoceuse,
be His glorious name forever!
the henorr!
with the per
Frankinoense.
sn out
How to Stain a Floor.
A good and easily-prepared stain of
a brown co'or, for margins of floors,
may be made as follows: Obtain from the
paint-shop some dry vandyke brown;
mix it with strong ammonia water to
form a paste. They can be mixed in a
cup or an empty jam-pot, and must be
thoroughly incorporated, 1f the paste
is very stiff, add ammonia till the con-
sistency is about that of thick con-
densed milk. Reduce to ligunidity with
water. The stain will be dark or light
socording to the quantity of water
added, and the shade may be modified
to any extent. The concentrated stain
may be kept ina covered jar; or,
sufficiently thin, in a bottle; but enough
should be prepared at one time, with
water, to do at least all that is required
of one room, as otherwise it is difficult
to match the shade exactly.
1{ great exactitude in width of mar-
gio is required, the limits of the stain
should be marked ont Presuming
that the centre of the floor is to be
esrpeted, let the stain goan inch or
two under the carpet. Apply it with
either a reg or a brush, laying it as
evenly as possible. If the floor is muaeh
Aare
or other marks which will not wash
out, a dark stain isadvisable, as it tends
to conceal them.
After staining, allow the floor to dry,
and then gu over the part done with a
coat of size. Buy thesize in a jelly
form, rather than dry, Melt the
in any conven ent vessel, adding a little
warm water, and apply to the floor
while warm. It is best laid on with a
brash. After the floor has dried again,
it is ready for varnishing. Use brown-
oak varnish, and apply it with a brash.
Ope coat will probably be sufficient, as
the size is used to prevent the varnish
sinking. If, however, the result looks
in a day or two.
have its appearance revived, at any
time, by re-varnishing, if the stain is
not worn through. To keep the varnish
brush in good condition, wash it with
tarpentine before it has becomes har-
dened. If you are in doubt about the
strength of the stain, try it upon a
piece of waste wood; which should be
sized and varnished, just as if it were
the floor. Then the stain can be ap-
plied without any guessing as to its
final appearance. B. E. M
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Louisville's Woman Sexton.
It may not be generally known, bm
it is a fact, nevertheless, that the sex-
ton of one of Louisville's largest cem-
eteries is a woman—Mrs. Shelby
who, since the death of her husband
in 1885, has had charge of St, John's
(Catholic) Cemetery, located at Twen-
ty-sixth and Bt. Cecilia streets. There
are now 13,000 dead restin
graveyard, the first grave in
OUT OF THE ORDINARY,
A new marble saw cuts two and a
half inches a minute.
Stop chewing gum and eat peanuts.
It has been discovered in Boston that
they will cure dyspepsia,
Btatistics just published show that
there are 2,272 soldiers six feet or over
in height in the British army,
In spite of hie far from enticing
name, William Swindell, of Allegheny
City, Pa.
tractor.
A peach grower at Marshallville,Ga.,
one carload of peaches shipped to New
York.
States is Lieut. Malin, of West Phila-
delphia, who is six feet five, and large
in proportion, “4
The fashionable wedding ring has
recently been of dull ggld, but Prin-
cess Louise went back to the old fash-
fon and chose hers bright.
There is unusually bitter complaint
this season of the lack of young men
at the summer resorts. he patrons
are almost all married people, young
people and dudes,
The latest addition to the methods of
suicide has been furnished by a soldier
in Flensburg, Prussia, who loaded a
cannon and killed himself standing in
front of it after having ignited a slow
match,
In France they now use for steam
and water pipe joints gas jets made of
wood pulp, which are boiled in linseed
oil. They give satisfactory results,
and are not subject to decomposition at
high temperature.
The first so-called lead pencils were
made in the United States in 1880. It
is estimated that the consumption in
this country is 250,000 a day; that, at
an average cost of five cents each,
amounts to $3,900,000 paid for pen-
cils a year.
A hail storm in Villafraneca, Pied.
that more than 100 persons were badly
The weight of some
estimated at two
skulls fractured.
hailstones was
pounds.
season is to shoot with rifles at por-
poises, schools of which swim along
the shore within range. Even the
Iadies engage in the hunt for the game.
however.
males ——
Newspaper Talk,
should have been sent to Pasteur,
be the people who will be squeezed.
It can hardly be regarded as remark-
are having a bad spell.
Marriage is not one-tenth as much a
failure as the average summer resort
engagement.—Baltimore American.
The captain who urged the passen-
| gers on the burning steamer to ‘‘keep
! pool,” gave them the best advice be
could.
As an old friend and lifetime associate
ought not Lord Fife to have invited
Gen. Dram to his wedding ?—New
York Tribune.
The ancient and honorable maidens
of Massachusetis might properly come
under the head of rejected Mss.—Roch-
ester Post-Express.
joined the Salvation Army. Marriage
that is a failure drives men to do des-
perate things sometimes, — Boston
fiobe.
If Brown-Sequard’s discovery is
what he thinks it is, will it enable him
| to langh at the young men who have
{ sneered at him as an old dotard.—Buf-
{ €alo Courier.
of its exactions, but they seem per
fectly willing to bear them. They
prefer to resign themselves to the
troubles to remgning the offices.—Bal-
timore American,
Why Net!
About ten miles beyond 8t. Thomas
the locomotive whistled an
slackened a bit, and then put on full
in the last coach. As soon as the
to the highway crossing we all piled
out to ascertain the treuble. A woman
| about 40 years old, hat off and hair
of the grass and a man of about the
same age sat on the ground staring
about him in wonder. In his left hand
he held a pipe and in his right a paper
of tobacco. He had been crossing the
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SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
BUNDAY, JANUARY 14 181
Idolatrary In israel,
LESBBON TEXT.
(i Kings 12 : 25.31. Memory verses: 280809
LESSON PLAN,
Torio oF THE QUARTER:
and Serving,
Goroex Texr vor THE QUanrrER:
odliness is Profabie unto all things,
Sinning
Lussox Toric: The Sin of Idola-
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1 Jarebonm’s Fears, vs,
2. Jeroboam’s Idols, vs.
B30,
8 Jeroboam's Baerilege,
81-38.
Lessox OvrLine:
Goroex Texr: Thou shalt not make
to ae any graven image,—Exod.
Davy Houx BeapivGs
M.—1 Kings 12; 25-83. Idolatry
in Israel.
T.—1 Eings 18 1-10, Ahab's
sacrilege denounced.
W.—Exod. 82 1-14. Israel's
idolatry.
T.—Ezxod 82 : 15-85.
ishment,
F.—Psa, 115 ; 1-18, The vanity of
idols,
B.—Isa. 44 : 1-20, The folly of
idolatry,
8.—1 Cor, 8 : 1.18.
with idols.
Israel's pun-
No fellowship
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LESBON ANALYSIS,
1. JEROBOAM'S FEARS,
I. Worldly Prosperity:
Jeroboam built Shechem, .... and
The prosperity of fools shall destroy
them (Prov, 1 : 82).
The rich man's wealth is his strong
city (Prov. 18 : 11);
Woe unto them that join house to
house (Isa. 5 : 8B).
Is not this great Babylon, which I have
built? (Dan. 4 : 30).
Now shall the kingdom return to the
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(Exod, 15 : 14).
Their heart melted, neither was there
spirit in them (Josh, 5 : 1).
For, lo, the kings....were dismayed
(Pea. 48 : 4, 5).
The Romans will come and take away
. our nation (John 11 : 48).
111. Personal Fears:
And they shall kill me (27).
Whosoever findeth me shall slay me
{(Uen. 4: 14).
Your terror 1s fallen upon us (Josh.
2: 9).
He atone, and went for his life (I Kings
: 8).
His knees smote one against another
(Dan. 5: 86).
1. *“Jeroboam .... went out from
thence, and built Pennel.” Jero-
boam’s prosperity (1) At home; (2)
Abroad. —(1: Established at 8hech-
em; (2) Aggressive at Pennel,
2. “Now I the kindom return to
the house of David. (1) Establish-
ed on the throme; (2) Disturbed
with apprehensions,
8, “They shall kill me, and return to
Beboboam.” (1) Life in peril; (2)
Power in jeopardy.
II, JEHOBOAM'S IDOLS.
ii: idols Made:
The king... .made two calves of gold
Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven
image Exod. 20:4).
He... madeit a molten calf (Exod.
32: 4.
Their idolslare. .. .the work of men's
hands (Psa. 115: 4).
He maketh a god, even his graven im-
age (Isa. 44: 17).
Il. Idols Pralsea:
Behold thy gods, O Isresl, which
brought thee np out... of Egypt (28).
When the ple saw him, they praised
their god (Judg. 16: 24).
These. . brought thee up oat of the
land of pt (Exod. 32: 4.
44: IN.
They. . . .praised the gods of gold, and
of silver (Dan. 5: 4).
111. Idols Worshipped:
The people went to worship (80),
Be a the walf and the dancing (Exod.
: 19).
They... .called on the name of Baal,
He maketh a god, and worshippeth
(1sa 44: 15),
All... .fell down and worstupped the
golden image (Dan. 3: 7).
« “The king took counse!,and made
it
king; (2) A foolish expedient; (3)
A wicked act,
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And he... went up unto the altar, tp
burn incense (83),
Unto Usin and to his offerings he had
not respect (Gen. 4: 5),
Btrange fire,.... which ke had noteom-
manded (Lev. 10: 1).
Nadab and Abihu died, when they offer.
od strange fire (Num. 26: 61).
Provoking me to anger b offering in-
cenes unto Baal (Jer, f1: 17)
1. “And made priests from among
all the people.” (1) God's law for
the priesthood; (2) Jeroboam's sin
against the priesthood,
2, “Which he had devised of his own
heart.” (1) The human heart va.
the divine law; (2) The devices of
man vs, the decrees of God,
8. “And he ordained a feast.” (1)
God's feast; (2) Jerobomm’s feast.
—(1) God's ordinations; (2) Man’
antegonisms.
LESSON BIBLE READING,
IDOLATRY ILLUSTRATED,
By Jans! (Exod. 82 : 14,19 : 2 Kings
By the Philistines (Judg. 16 : 28, 24),
By Mieah (Judg. 17 : 1-6).
By Jeroboam (1 Kings 12 : 26-80).
By Aub (1 Kings 16 : 81-33; 18 : 17.
)s
By Manasseh (2 Kings 21 ; 1-9),
By Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 8 : 1, 6, 7),
At Liystra (Acts 14 : 11-13),
At Athens (Acts 17 : 16, 22, 23),
At Ephesus (Acts 19 : 23.25),
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LESSON BURBROUNDINGS,
INTERVENING KvENTS.—King Rehoe
boam seads Adoram, “who was over
the levy,” one of the ‘older men,” to
treat with the revolted tribes, but they
stone him to death; the king fices to
Jerusalem; Jeroboam is made king over
Israel; Rehoboam assembles an army
to put down the rebellion, but is warn-
ed by “Shemaish the man of “God,”
to desist; the army is accordingly dis-
persed.
Praces, — Bhechem, Penuel, Dan,
and Bethel are named. The first was
fortified, and made the royal residence;
the second took its name from the in-
cident mentioned in Genesis 32 : 24-32,
It was east of the Jordan, north of the
brook Jabbok, and was probably forti-
fied to defend the eastern frontier of
the kingdom. Dan was the name, not
only of a tribe, but afterwards of a
city at the extreme north of the kiog-
dom of Israel, originally called Laish,
It was near the source of the Jordan,
and seems to have been early identi-
fied with idolatrous worship. Bome,
however, think the locality referred to
in the lesson was not the city, buta
cavern at the foot of Mount Hermon,
from which the Jordan issues Bethel
was about twenty miles south of Shech-
em, and twelve miles north of Jern-
salem; it was the scene of Jacob's vision,
and often referred to in the previous
history. This (naturally became the
more important centre of the worship
established by Jeroboam.
True, —Shortly after the revolt of the
ten tribes, posmbly in the same year,
B. C. 975 (or 977).
Persons. —Jeroboam only is named,
but the priests he made (from outside
the tribe of Levi) are referred to.
Pararner Passsaor —2 Chronicles
11 5-17 telis of comtemporaneous
events in Judah.
ct A AR A ATA
A CURIOSITY.
The Wonderful Flesh Hued Plant
Discovered by Fremont's Party
in 1843.
On the eternal peaks where winter reigns,
And cold and frosts their icy splendors shed,
Like dr ! blood on pallid banks on snow
This hyacinthine blossom rests its head.
A pyramid of tiny tongues of fiame
Parting from oul the drifts of dazzling wnite,
A strange, bright phanton. born of ioe and fire,
Flushing paie with gleams of crimson light,
The wonderful snow plant of the
Sierras, disesvered by the naturalist of
the iate Col. Fremonts party in 18438,
18 aptly named Barcodes Sanguines
(blooded flesh), the flower heads hav-
ing a translucent fleshy appearance.
Sarcodes Saunguines is usually found
growing among the pines at an eleva-
tion of about eighteen thousand feet,
but has been found at a much lower
altitude. The plants, when fully de-
veloped, extend from seven fo twenty
i inches above the ground and about as
| far below. The early development of
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{ which protect them from the winds
sweeping throughthe mountains. When
the snow has melted, the beautiful fow-
er heads are quickly seen to peep from
the yet partially frozen ground. The
rr stems consist of
i partly erystallized sugar, and sre said
to taste when cooked, sweeter, but not
unlike, asparagus. The stalks have been
known to be as much as twenty-two
{ inches in circumference, and bear as
| many aa eighty perfect flowers. They
resemble in general outline huge heads
{ of asparagus. They are thickly clothed
up to the raceme with firm, fleshy
scales, the lower ones ovate and closely
imbricated, gradually more scattering,
narrower, and passing into the linear
! bracts which mostly exceed the Sowers
| he corollas are pendulous and half an
' inch in length; rather fleshy.
Imagine a rosy red and snow tinted,
crowned hyacinth, every miniature bell
was dug by Mrs. Shelby’s husband. |
The lady was born in Ireland, and |
married there, but came to the United
Btates in 1865. She attends to all the
duties of the position, keeps her own
books, records, &c., in a thorough and |
systematic manner, and has achieved |
a most creditable success and made |
hosts of friends. She has a family of |
five children, one of whom, a daughter, |
is married. Mrs. Shelby attends to
ker duties faithfully, though suffering
from the effects of a lightning stroke
received some time since. She is the
‘only woman sexton in this city or
State, as far as known, and one of the
very few in this country. i
'wound about by a rosy and frosted
| mlver ribbon topped with an Separagus
' like head, in hoar frost and silver. The
frosted papilla is very marked on every
1) | sepal and bract. Tiagh the whole
tte translucent spike is flushed with rose
| and carmine the petals are the der fst
and most brilliantly colored p« $a of
the flower, which is five parted, and
‘each open one showing slightly the
road with his team. One horse lay |
dead in the ditch, and the other was
limping off down the road, while the
wagon was smashed to kindlings. phe
woman gathered up five or six parcels
and started off after the limping horse,
never speaking a word, and by and by
the husband slowly filled his pipe, !
hunted around for a match and lighted
it, and as he got to his feet to follow
his wife the conductor queried:
“Didn't you see the train coming?
“Of course,” was the
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presentation,
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Its origin; (2) Its essence; (8)
outcome.
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