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“Spring Unlocks
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To Paint the Laughing Soil.”
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BMITHS IN THE HOUSE.
Fhey Are Men Noted for Thel: Ability
and Afability.
There are four Smiths in this house;
there will be five Smiths In the next.
Four of them will be republicans, and
three of them will come from the state
of Michigan, says the Washington
Post. In fact, Michigan is the state
that furnishes this new statesman of
the Smith family, The only demo-
cratic Smith Is Mr. David Highbaugh
Smith of Hodgensville, Larue county,
Kentucky, a little man of nervous man-
ner, who is one of the ablest members
of the Kentucky delegation in the
house, although, as he is now kerving
his first term. he has not come very
prominently to the front. It was In
this Mr. Smith's distriet, not far from
Hodgensville, that Abrabam Lincoln
was born, which makes it pertinent to
remark that Represéntative-Elect Hen-
ry C. Bmith of Adrian, in the Second
Michigan district, has an Abraham
Lincoln habit, much noted by his gros-
pective constituents, of {Illustrating his
arguments with a pat story. He i=
said to be nimble-witted and tells his
stories, which are sometimes original,
in excellent form. This Michigan
a farmer, and was born within
miles of the city where he now reaides
He pald his own way through college,
studied law and has bullt up a prac-
tice and won a reputation as the lead-
ing attorney of that part of Michigan.
He succeeds that intrepid old warrior,
Smith clambered into the
supporter of Michigan's emphatic chief
sxecutive, Representative 8, W. Smith
$f the Sixth Michigan district who ia
the smallest man in stature in the
house, but like Mr. Smith of Adrian
a very brilliant lawyer, was re-elected.
Representative William Alden Smith, a
is a member of the house committee
on foreign affairs, and who had a bat-
tle with Spanish soldiers in Cuba last
ber of them with his silk umbrella, has
George W. Smith of Murphysboro, IL,
representing the Twenty-Second dis-
trict. It is due to all of the Smiths
now members of the national house to
mention that every one of them Is
personally a very companionable gen-
tleman, each popular to a degree or
cles,
mm————— III isso.
A man named Kobo, who i= sald to bave
been 112 years old, bas just died at Vienns.
No
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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Bubject: “Bundles of Life" —fnspiration
Drawn From sn Homely Phrase—Life,
Spiritual and Physienl, is Divinely Pro-
tectodBundles Which Are Blessings.
Texy: ‘The soul of my Lord shall be
pound in the bundle of life with the Lord
by God.”—I Bamuel xxv., 29,
Beautiful Abigail, in her rhythmic plea
for the rescue of her inebriate husband,
who died within ten days, addresses David,
the warrior, in the words of the text. She
suggests that his life, physieally and In-
tellectually and spiritually, is a valuable
package or bundle, divinely bound up and
to be divinely protected.
The phrase “bundle of life" I heard many
times {n my father's family prayers. Fam-
ily prayers you know, have frequent repeti-
tions, beeause day by day they acknowl.
edge about the same blessings and deplore
about the same frailties and sympathize
with about the same misfortunes, acd I do
not know why those who lead at honsshoid
devotions should seek variety of composi-
tion, That famfliar prayer becomes the
household liturgy. I would not give one
of my old father's prayers for fifty elosu-
tionary supplications. Again and again,
in the morning and evening prayer, I neard
the request that we might all be bound up
in the bundle of life, but I did not know
until a few days ago that the phrase was a
Bible phrase,
During the last spell of sold weather
there were bundles that attracted the st-
tention and the plaudits of the high heav-
ens, buudles of clothing on the way from
eomfortable homes to the door of the
mission room, and Christ stood in the
snowbauks and said as the bundles passed:
“Naked, and ya clothed me. Inasmuch as
¥e have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren ye have dons ft
unto me.” Those bundies are muoltibly-
ing. Blessings on those who pack them.
Blessings on those who distribute them.
Blessings on those who receive them,
With what beautiful aptitude did Abigail
in my text speak of the bundle of life! Ob,
what a precious buandie is life! Bundles of
memories, bundle of hopes, bundle of
ambitions, bundle of destinies! Ones in
a while a man writes his auloblography,
and it is of thrilling interest. The story of
his birthplace, the story of his struggles,
the story of hissufferings, the story of his
triumphs! But if the autobiography of the
most eventful life were well written it
would make many chapters of adventure,
ef tragedy, of comedy, and there would
not be an uninteresting step from eradile
to grave,
Bundle of memories are you! Boyhood
memories, with all its injustices from fay.
mates, with all its game with ball and bat
and kite and sled. Manhood memories,
with all your struggles in starting—ob-
stacles, opposition, accidents, misfortunes,
losses, successes. Memories of the frst
marriage you ever saw solemnized, of the
drst grave you ever saw opened, of the
first mighty wrong vou ever suffered, of
the first victory you ever gained, Memory
¢f the hour when you wers afflanced, mem-
ory of the first advent in your home, mem-
ory of roseate cheek faded and of blue
eyes closed in the last sleep, memory of
anthem and of dirge, memory of great
What a bundle!
Bundle of hopes and ambitions also is al-
the starting.
or what reputation he will
will win, What makes college commence.
see the students receive their diplomas and
be Tennysons in poesy; they will be Willard
Parkers in surgery; they will be Alexander
will Le Websters in the Senate. Or she
will be a Mary Lyon ia eduestional
realms, or & Frasees Willard on reforma.
hospitals. Or she will make home life
and magnifisent womanhood. Ob, what a
bundis of hopes and ambitions! It is a
bundle of gariands and
whieh 1 would not take
mignonette nor extioguish
brilliance,
one sprig of
one spark of
They who start lite without
and inspiring ambitions
might as well not start at all, for every
Rather would I add
be because | wish to take anything from
and hosannas,
Bundie of faculties in every man and
every woman! Power to think—to think
of the past and through all the future, to
think upward and higher than the highest
pinnacle of heaven, or to think downward
until there is no lower abysm to fathom,
Power to think right, power to think wrong,
ower to think forever, for, once having
sgun to think, thers shall be po terminus
for that exercise, and eternity itseil shall
have no power to bid it halt. Faculties to
love--filial love, conjugal love, paternal
love. maternal love, love of sountry, love
of God. Faculty of judgment, with scales
#0 delicate and yot so mighty they ean
weigh argument, weigh emotions, weigh
worlds, weigh heaven and hell. Faculty of
will, that can climb mountains or tunnel
them, wade seas or bridge them, scoepting
eternal enthronement or choosing ever.
lasting exiles. Ob, what Ij is to ve a man!
Oh, what it Is to be a woman! Hublime and
infinite bundie of faculties! The thought
of it staggers me, swamps me, stuns me,
bewilders me, overwhelms me, Oh, what
a bundle of life Abigail of my text saw In
David and which we ought to see in every
human yet immbrtal being!
Know, also, that this bundle of lite is
properly directed. Many a bundle has
missed its way and disappeared because
the address has dropped, and no one oan
find by examination for what city or town
or neighborhood it was intended, All great
carrying companies have so many misdi.
rected packages that they appoint days of
vendue to dispose of them. All intelligent
people know the importance of having a
valuable package plainly directed, the
name of the one to whom it is togo plainly
written. Baggage master and expressman
ought to know at the first glance io whom
to take it,
The bundle of lite that Abigail in my
text speaks of is plainly addressed. By
divine penmanship it is directed heaven-
®t may bo the earthly
distance it travels its destination is the
eternal oity of God on high, Every mile it
joss away from that direction Is by some
uman of infernal frand practiced against
it. There are those who put it on some
other track, who misplace it in some rong
conveyance, who send it off or send It pac
some diabolie miscarriage
years there are foes within and foes with.
out. Mvil appetite joined by outside al
lurements, Temptations that have utter]
destroyed more people than now inhabit
the earth, Gambling saloons and rammer.
fos and places where dissoluteness reigns
supreme, epough in number to go round
and ronnd the earth. Diseouragements,
Jenlousies, revenges, malevolonees, disap.
pointments, swindles, arsons, confingra«
tions and eruelties, which make continued
existence of the human race a wonder.
ment, Was ever any valuable bundis ever
so imperiled as this bundle of lil? Ob.
look at the address and get that bundle go-
ing in the right way! “Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart and sont
and mind and strength.”
Know also that a bundle may have in it
more than one invaluable. There may be
init a photograph of a loved opesnd a
jewel for a earcanet. It may contain sa»
embroidered robe and a Dore’s {llustrated
Bible. A bundle may have two treasures,
Abigafl in my text recognized this when
she said to David, “The soul of my lord Is
bound in the bundle of life with the Lord
thy God.” And Abigail was right. We
may be bound 2» with aloving and sympa.
thetie God, ® may be as near to Him as
ever were emerald snd ruby united in one
ring, as ever were two deeds in one pack-
Bg6, A¥ ever wore Lwo vases on the same
sboll, as ever wers two valuables (u the
same bundle, Together in time of sorrow,
Together in time of joy. Together on
earth. Together in heaven, Close com.
panionship of God. Hear Him, “I will
never leave thes, nor forsake thee,” “For
the mountains shall depart andthe hills be
removed, but My kindness shall not depart
from thee, neither shall the covenant of
My peace be removed, saith the Lord that
hath mercy on thes.” And when those
Bible authors compared God's friend-
ship to the mountains for height and
firmness they knew what they were
writing about; for they well knew what
mountains are. All those lands are moun
tainous. Mount Hermon, Mount Gilboa,
Mount Gerigsim, Mount Enged!, Mount
Horeb, Mount Nebo, Mount Pisgal, Mount
Olivet, Mount Zion, Mount Moriah, Mount
Lebanon, Mount Sinai, Mount Golgotha,
Yes, we have the divine promises that all
those mountains shall weigh their anchor-
age of rooks and move away from the
earth before a loving and sympathetic God
will move away from us if we love and
trust Him. Oh, {I we could realize that
according to mr text we may bound up
with that God, bow independent it would
make us of things that now harass and an-
noy and discom and torment us! In.
stead of a grasshopper being a Eales, y
world of care would be as liZht as n
feather, and tombstones would be marble
stairs to the King's palace, and all the
gisots of opposition we would smite down
up and thigh with grunt slaughter,
inow, also, that this bundle of life will
be gladly received when it comes to the
door of the mansion for whish it was bound
and plainly directed. With what alnerity
and gles we awall some package that bas
been foretold by letter, some holiday pre.
sentation, something that will enrich and
ornament our home, some testimony of ad-
miration and affection! With what glow
of expectation we untie the knot and take
off the cord that holds it together in safety,
and with what glad exclamation we un-
chase in all its beauty of eolor and propor.
tion, Well, what a day it will be when
your precious bundle of life shall be opaned
in the “house of many mansions *
saintly and angelic and divine inspection!
wave and scorched of flame, but sil it has
within undamaged of the journey. And
with what shoats of joy the bundle of lite
heavenly home cirole,
come that awaits us if weget In atall. We
how hear that we are coming. Baoh close
thers between those
sudden arrival,
poet our coming visit and are at the depot
be met at the shining gate by old friends
now sainted and kindred now glorified, If
there were no angel of God to mest us and
show wus the way and polat out
and guide us to
tinl home, bowered
arched and {llumined by asun that never
sets, Will it not be glorious, the going in
about and apsettiogs of earthly experience?
We will soon know all our neighbors, king.
iy, queeniy, prophetic, apostolic, seraphie,
archangelle. The precious bundie of life
and scclamations,
we have got safely through, They saw us
down here in the struggle. They saw us
whon we lost our way. They knew when
we got off the right course, None of the
thirty-two ships that were overdue at New
to mest them at Sandy Hook
will be greeted Iu the
world if by the pardoning and pro-
tecting grace of God we come to celestial
wharfage. Wa shall haveto tell them of
the many wrecks that we have passed on
the way across wild seas and amid Carib
bean cyclones, It will be like our arrival
some years ago from Now Zealand at Syd.
ney, people surprised that we got in at all,
because we were two davs late, and some
of the ships expected had gone to the bot-
tom, and we had passed derelicts ani
abandoned crafts all up and down that aw.
ful channel-—our arrival in heaven all the
more rapturously welcomed because of the
doubt as to whether we would ever get
there at all,
Once there it will bs found that the
safety of that preelous bundls of life was
assured because it was bound up with the
life of God in Jesus Christ. Heaven sould
not afford to have that bundle lost because
it had bean said in = rd to its transporta-
tion and safe arrival, “Kept by the power
of God through faith unto complete salva-
tion.” The veracity of the heavens is in-
volved in its arrival. If God should fail
to keep His promise to just one ransomed
soul, the pillars of Jehovah's throne
would fall, and ths foundations of the
eternal city would eramble, and infinite
poverties would dash down all the
chalioss, and close alithe banqueting balls,
and the river of litle would change its
course, sweoaping evervihing with desoia.
tion, and frost wonld blast all the gardens,
and immeasurable sickness slay the fm-
mortals, and the new Jerusalem besome
an abandoned city. with no chariot wheel
onthe streets and no worshippersin the
temple—na dead Pompeli of the skies, a
Hp Herculaneum of the heavens, Lest
any one should doubt, the God who cannot
tie his omnipotent hand on the side
of his throne and takes afMdavit, declaring,
“As I live, saith the Lord God, I bave
no pleasure in the death of him that dieth.”
Oh, I eannot tell you how I feel about it,
the thought is so glorious, nd up with
God, Bound up with infinite meray. nd
up with infinite joy, Bound up wi
finit Bound up with in
That
As
PORTO RICAN BURIALS,
Im
POMPOUS INTERMENT FOR TUE RICH 1G-
NOBLE END FOR POOR.
Fixed Rent Paid for Vaulls--Faiiure on Cem-
cary Contracts Result in a Trangler of
Bones to a Common Pit-~Survival of
Quaint Medieval Customs,
Among the quaint old customs of
medieval times that bold the native
Porto Ricans in stagnant channels the
funeral ceremony and the aristocratic
old Bpanish cemetery present an in
teresting feature of the life of those
peowle,
Upon the hill at the edge of the cap
ital, just beyond Morro Castle, with
its time-stained, picturesque old walls,
within the shadow of its mighty para
pet, Hes the Catholic graveyard, with
its even rows of marble slabs, its great
Roman basilica for the noted dead, its
chapel for prayers, and then the dump
ing ground for the clay bones of jong
forgotten souls that have lost thelr
identity.
The funeral ceremony is certainly an
elaborate affair in these Southern
Catholic countries, Take, for example,
the death of some Spanish general
The great black hearse moves slowly
down the narrow streets, with {wo
priests in full canonicals preceding it
foot, and then four altar-boys
swinging the incense lamps, Behind
the hearse, draped to the ground and
drawn by two horses, come the long
line of mourners, composed of the
chief dignitaries of the town and the
especial friends, Mourners are
all men. No woman ever takes part in
n funeral procession unless she hap
pens to be the chief personage of the
These
occasion,
On the other hand observe the fun
eral of a lowly pauper. No pompous
procession marks the progress of the
dead to the graveyard. The naked
body, covered only with a white wind
ing sheet, is Inid without a coffin on
a six-foot board and carried on the
shoulders of four pall bearers, who
constitute the only mourners and are
almost invariably relatives of the dead.
Blowly this sad spectacle of the pov
erty-stricken unfortunate passes up the
hill to the cemetery, to be met with
even a more nmattractive burial
The Ban Juan cemetery covers six
acres of ground filled up with
glabs of white marble at irregular in
tervals. All along one side is a long
narrow vault like a Roman basilica,
where the coffins of the more prosper
well
niches in the wall and sealed up. This
is the most aristocratic mode of burial
and it costs the family of the bereaved
11 pesos per annum to re
tomb
it pald the
removed
£4
bones of
annual rent is
ile
from the tomb and literally shoveled
into ground of
skeletons ground is
the 1
the obo wid are
a Common
This
dumping
dumping
ty feet high, and open to the'sky., Al
most any day the top of this wall is
lined] with a group of soldiers dangling
dumping ground
and smoking and jesting with the most
extraordinary indifference to the
lime rendezvous of the dead. Just
beyond the low brick wall of the ceme
tery, shattered in spots with the force
of welldirected American shells,
w.0 potter's field. This is only a nar
inside thu
sub
lies
and 200 feet long, which lies between
the moldering walls of Morro Castle
and the graveyard, A horrible plague
inden rises eternally from that
narrow lape. To it the bodies of the
very poor are consigned until the dried
skeletons can be heaved into the big
vat of skeletons outside.
This is the only burial ground in the
San Juan district. Being a Catholic
cemetery, no Protestant can be buried
within its walls, And the lack of a
Protestant burial ground has deprived
several unfortunate Americans of an
definitely marked resting place. No
steps have yet been taken to lay out
a Protestant burial ground. Sach is
an absolute necessity, for an American
soldier does occasionally shuffle off
this moral coll, in gpite of the winter
season and the suppression of the
fever pestilence.
The Day of the Dead is celebrated
with great ceremony in San Juan and
is a holiday similar in purpose to De
coration Day in the States. All shons
are closed and business is entirely sus.
pended. On this day women visit the
graveyard and decorate the graves
with purple wreaths, No other flowers
except those of a purple color are used,
and beautiful large floral pieces of na:
tural and artificial flowers are earrizd
to the graves of relatives. Mourners
odor
black veils. ' Both men and women
cemetery chapel the crowd
cocoanut milk,
are a mob of ignorant, bigoted and
superstitious children,
the graveyard after dark and a strong
belief in ghosts and spirits is illus.
trated by a most unusual occurrence
Juan,
A group of young Porto Ricans were
sitting one night in a big open cafe on
the main plaza, sipping, as is the cus
tom here, dainty cupfuls of chocolate
or cocon milk, when one of the num
ber, boasting of his pride as a Porto
Rican soldier and his ambition to bear
American arms, defied the crowd to
name anything that he would not con.
ed palling an American flag on the
whieh
ro
Mm lying in a swoon at the entrance
of the cemetery. In his haste to nail
loose sleeve of his coat under the nail,
fastening bimself there unwittingly,
and after a few strokes of the ham-
mer, finding himself held there by
some force unknown to him, he lost
consciousness hmmediately in the at
tick of fright which has seized him.
Lucie France Plerce, in the Chicago
Herald.
BUFFALO BILL'S HUNTING,
His Remarkable Exploit With as Outfit
That Excited Derision.
A lively little story of hunting is tola
by Buffalo Bil. A herd had been
sighted from camp, and the famous
ranger at once jumped on his horse in
quest of fresh meat, of which he and
his companions were in great
need,
“While I was riding toward the buf-
faloes, | saw five horsemen from the
fort, who were evidently going out for
a chase. They proved to be newly ar-
rived officers-a captain and his leu-
tenants. ‘Hello, my friend. sang out
the captain, ‘I see that you are after
the same game that we are!” ‘Yes, sir,’
8a. I,
“They scanned my cheap outfit very
clogely, and, as my horse looked like
a work horse, ana had on only a blind
bridle, they evidently considered me
a green hand at hunting. ‘Do you ex-
to catbh buffaloes on that
Gothic steed? laughed the captain. ‘I
hope so by pushing bard enough on the
reins, reply ‘You'll never
world, my fine fel-
fast horse
pect these
Was my
cateh them
low! said
to do that ‘Does 1t7 asked 1, as if |
didn’t know Yes; but come slong
with us, for we are going to kill them
more for pleasure than anything else.
All want the and a
piece of tenderloin, and you may have
all that is left.’ “I'm much obliged to
you, captain,’ said 1, ‘i
follow you.'
“There were 11 buffaloes in the herd,
and they were not more than a mile
ahead. 1 saw were making
ward the creek for water, and [ start.
ed up that way to head them off,
while the officers came up in the rear
and gave The animals cams
rushing past me, not 100 yards dis
tant, with the officers 300 yards in the
rear. 1 pulled the blind bridle off my
horse, and he, a train knew
actly started at
brought me
buffalo. [1 raised
killed the animal at
the My horse then carried
me the and |
dropped him at t Thus 1
killed the buff shots,
and, as
the
‘it
in
he tnkes a
we are Tongues
carelessly.
they
to
chase,
«1 hunter,
He
i speed and
©x
what to do
i
the top of bh
alongside the rear
gun, fred
first shot,
my and
alongside next one,
* next fire,
lors with 12
last animal dropped, my
temember, 1 had been
riding him without bridle, reins or sad-
: but 1 jumped to the ground, know-
ing be would not leave me.
“The astonished officers were just
riding up. ‘Now, gentlemen, said 1.
‘allow m= to present vou with all the
tongues and tenderloins you want’
‘Well, sald the captain, ‘I never saw
the before! Who under the sun
are you, anyhow? ‘My name is Cody.’
#1 horse of yours certainly has
T Yes, sir: you're right;
he has not only the points, but he
knows how them.” ‘So 1 neo-
ticed.” ™
11
id
the
horse stopped.
tile
like
ry
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funning points
10 use
A Musk Rat Preserve
During the last year the wmembers of
the Cedar Point Club have taken steps
to prevent the rapid extermination of
musk rats in the marsh, and have
adopted stringent measures to keep
poachers from the preserves of the
club, As a result the marsh about the
club grounds has the appearance of a
veritable musk rat city, so thick are
the houses of the animal. The rats are
more numerous than ever before, and
by next year they will be so plentiful
that hunting them can go on without
fear of extermination.
For many years the awellers along
the bay shore have made it a business
to systematically hunt “the rat” and
kill them off in every possible man-
wer, primarily for the skin, and see
ondarily because their flesh is one of
the delicacies of the season. Owing
to the fact that a nomber of people
are bwing introduced to the rat as a
Gtlicate article of food, the demand
at times exceeds the supply by sev
eral rate, and the hunters have resorte
od to every menas to secure them.
This boded no good for the members
of the tribe about the marsh, and led
the Cedar Point Club to take steps
against the miscellancous hunting.
action of the club meets the
served is one of the finest dishes ima.
ginable. Toledo Blade,
Big System of Packets.
A big system of packet steamers is
planed for tha Mississippi river,
which may bring back part of the im
the river fn the timex whea Mark
The
plan i= to run 8 line of passenger and
freight steamboats dally from St. Paul
to New Orleans, tonching only at the
most important points. At intermedi
ate points tenders will meet the pass.
ing steamers, Depots will be built for
the convenience of passengers. The
passenger and freight boats will be
distinct. They will be fast, with steel
hulle, and will draw so litle water
that the runs can be made on strict
schedule Gime in the lowest water, In
the pilot system there is a wide varia.
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