“REV. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S x J3« DAY SERMON. Subject: “The Morning Star." Texe: “Tam #2 bright and the morning lar," Revelation xxil., 16. This is Christmas Eva, Dur attention and the attention of the world is drawn to the star that pointed down to the caravansary where Christ was born, But do not let ns forget that Christ himself was a star, To that luminous fnet my text calls us, It seems as if the natural world were anxious we makeup for the damage it did our race in jurnishing the forbidden frait, It that fruit wrought death amoag the Nations, now all the natural profuct shall become a symbol of blessing, The showering down of the wealth of the orchard will make us think of him whom Solomon describes as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, and the flowers of tangled glen aad eiltured parterre shall be the dew glinted gariand for the brow of the Lord Jesus, Yona, even the night shall be taxed, snd its brightest star shall bs set as a gem in the coronst of vur holy religion. Have you ever sean the morning star ad- vantageousiy? Il it was on your way homa from a night's carousal, you saw none of its beauty, I” you merely turned over on your pillow in the darkness, glancing out of the win low, know nothing about the cheeriul influenes of that star, at thers are many ta this houss to-uigat who in great passes of their life, somes of them far out at Ben, have gazed at that star and been thrilled throuzh with indescribable gindness, That star trembline as though with the perils of the darkness, and yet bright with the anticipations of the day. It seems emo. tional with all tenderness, its eves fil with COM As the tears of many sorrows, It is the gem on the Lands of the morning thrust up to signal its coming. Others stars are dim, like holy canlles in a eathedral or silver boads count- ed in superstitious litany, but this is a livis etars, n speaking star, a historic star, mm evangelistic gtar—bright and brilliant and | triumphant symbol of the great Pedeemosr, Thetelegraphi morning star zg of 1» day, so Christ il and spiritual tur fawn, 5 § y Unrist heralded om- stion., There was when ler, 1 r. No v No lepth and length and Christ then ves, ‘By him were all things irs made ; things in heaven and rth and things under the earth.” t*inted the creation, He led torth and his sons. He shone before the His voice was heard in the «2 the morning stars sersnaded ‘our infant earth, when, wrapped ng clothes of Hye, it Jay In the i 14 Jehovaa. He saw the firs: He saw the fin. light kindled ae gr fountain laid. i “hat hand which was afterward crushed upon the ross was thrasd into chaos, andi brought out one world an | swung it fn that Agil out another world and ia auother orbit, and brought out ids and swung them in their oro They came Hke sheen & shepherd, They knew anil he called them all Ly their names, Oh, i #8 an interesting thought to me to know that Christ had some thing to » with the creation. I see now Why it was 30 easy for Him to change water Into wine. He first created the water. 1 80a now He first created the intellect, | #ee now why it was so easy for Him to hush the ter t. He sank Goannesaret, | was so easy for Him to swing fish frito Simon's net, He made the fish. y easy for Him to give sight He created the optic nerve IL son i sow to the blind man from the dead. He created the and the rock that shat him in. Some suppose that Christ came a str anger to Bothlehen Oh, no. He created the shepherds, and the flocks they watched, and the hills which they pastured, and the heavens that overarched their heads, and the angals that chanted the shorus on that Christ. mas night. That hand which was atterward Dailed to the cross, was an omnipotent and vf Lazarus creative hand aad the whole universe was poised on the tip of one of His fingers. Bee fore the world was Christ was, All the world came trooping up out of the darkness, and He greeted them, as a father greets his children, with a *‘good morning,” or a ** good Asn Sor | churches. Her vast population shall { surrender themselves to heist, What Js that i Hit [ ane breaking over the top of the Alps} Tae morning, All India shall coma to God, Hor idol shall be cast down, Her jugeor- nants shall be broken, Her temples of in. iguiry shall be demolishad, What 1s that haat 1 sus breaking over tae top of the Him. wluyas? Tue morning. Tho empurping clouds shinll gild the path of the conquering day. The Hottentot will come out of his mud hovel to look at the dawn; the Chinsman will come up on the granite cliffs, the Nor wogian will get up on the rocks, nud all the beach of heaven will be crowded with celes. tial inhabitants come out to ses the sun rise over the ocean of the world's agony, They shall come from the east, and from the west from the north, and from the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God, Thess swel- tare umder troploal suns, These shiverad under Ioelandic temperature. These plucked the vineyards in Italy. These packed the tenboxes in China. These were aborigines lifting up thelr dusky fuces in the dawn. And the wind shall waft it, and every mountain shall become a transfiguration, and the soa will become the walking place of him who irod the wave cliffs of stormy Tiberias, ani the song of joy shall rise toward heaven, and the great sky will become a sounding board which shall strike back theshout of salvation to the earth until it rebounds sgaln to the throne of the Almighty, and the morning star of Christian hope will become the full sunburst of millennial glory, Again, Christ heralds the dawn of heaven upon every Christian's dying piliow, I sup pose you have notioad that the character istics of people in their healthy days are very apt to ve their characteristics in their dying days, The dying words of ambitious Nupoison were, “Head of the army.” The operator puts his finger on tno | the electric instrament, and tha ross the aontinent, And sg, It it the finger of inspiratiofsls | th silver point inthe heave®), i sazh oll the earth, 8% wl tidines of great joy Bahold, I am the brig aid star," Lan meaning of my text is precedes and | says, “It is a star.” | quietude | these brothers told me of his mother in the aying words of poetic Lord Byron were, ‘1 must sleep now.” The dying words of affectionate Lord Nelson were, “Kiss me, Hardar," The dying words of Voltaire were, as he saw one vhom he supposed to be Jesus in the rocm, “Crush that wretoh.” But I have noticed that the dying words of Christians always mean peace, Generally the pain is all gone, and thers is great through the room. As one of last moment; “She looked up and said, pointing to some supernatural being tha? talnctite, making a seemed to be in the room, ‘Look st thay | bright form, now," " The lattice is turned so that the light is very pleasant. It is peace all around. You MA YOU Msed Why, oan this be a dying room?’ ever expected.” And you walk the floor, Why, they have come for me | It Is so different from anything 1 | and you look out of the window, and you | come back and look at your wateh, and yon look at the face of the patient again, and thers is no change, excopt that the fase is becoming more radiant, mors filuminated, The wave of death seems coming up higher and higher, until it has touched the ankle, then it comes on up until it touches the knee, and then it comes on up until it reaches the girdle, and then it comes on up until it reaches the lip, and the soul is about to be floated away ink glory, and you roll back the patient's sleeve, and you put your finger on the pulse, and ft | Is getting weaker and weaker, and the pulse | stops, and ye has gona or not, Indead, you oanno when she goes away, she goss away so oa tell wmnlly kaow whether the life | ly. Perhaps itis { o'clock In the morning, | and you have the bed wheeled around to the Winaow, ana tha Cying one 100ks out into the night sky, and sho sees something that attracts her attention, and you wonder what it is, Why, itis a sear. Tt Is a star that out of its sliver rim is pouring a supernatural Nght into that dying experience, And il say, “What fs it that you are looking at?" You say, “What star is it that seems so weil to please you?* Oh" she says, “that is the morning star Jesus ™ She | i I would lke to have my death bed under | that evangelistic star-—I would like to have | { hand, night Hall, Lord Jesus, morning star of the first creation, gaiu, Christ heralds the dawn ol comfort | fn a Christian soul, Sometimes we rome to passes in life where all kinds of tribulations f 4 “ why it was so easy for Him to care | BP Of the promise, “When Tha man ih my eye on that star, so [ vould be sasured of the morning. Then the dash of the sur! of | the sea of death would only be the billowing | thou through the waters, I will be with thee, asd the rivers, they shall not overflow thee All other lights will fail—the light that falig from the seroll of fame, the Hght that fuoshes parsest | from the gem in the beautiful apparel, the | light that flames from the burning lamps of a banquet but this light burns on and burns mn. Panal kept his eye on that morning star, antil he could say: “I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at | I have fought the good fight. finished my course, Edward Payson kept his eye on that sta until be could say. “The bresses of heaven fan me.” Dr. Goodwin kept his eyes on that I have I have kept the faith.” | evangelistic star until he cout say, “I am | swallowed up in God." John Tennant kept his eye on that evangelistic star until could say, ‘Welcome, sweet Lord Jesus welcome, oternity.” No other star ever pointed a mariner into sosafe a harbor, No other star ever sunk its sfivered anchor into : the waters. No other star ever pierced sach | accuamuiated sioud, or beckoned with such » | noty luster, With lanterns and torches and a guide, we | went down in the Mammoth eave of Ken. tucky. You may walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It is a stupéndons place, Some sinces the roof of the cave a hundred feet darks, The grottoss filled with weird echoes, | | oascades falling from invisible height to in | meet us. You are bullding up some great enterpris tou have bull the foundation - | the wall; are just about to put on the eapston wiex everything is demolished, You have a | y all strung for sweetest ac cord, and some great agony crushes it There is a IMtle voice hushed 1n tos house hold. Pu ve ciosged, Colordasted out of ths « The toot Iastend of tne fuick in the hall, the peavy tread of «2086 Wao march to the grave, still are people to do amid all thess sorrows? Bome sit down and mourn. lip until the blood comes. Some wring their ale hande Ok, what | Some bite their | Some fall on their faces, Some | i on their backs helpless and look ap into | what seems to them an unpitying heaven, Some pull their bair down over their eyes and look through with a flend’s glare, Some, with both hands, press their hot brain and want to die a ry, “0 God, 0 God"™ | Long night, bitter night, stupendous night of! the world's suffering! Some know not wirtshh way to turn, But not so the Christian man. He looks up toward the heavens, He does a bright appearances in the heavens, Can it be only a flashing meteor? Can it be only a falling star? Can it be only a dein. sion? Nay, nay. The longer he looks the more distinet it becomes, until after awhile he cries out, “A star-a mom. ing star, a star of comfort, wn star Of grace, nn star of peace, the star of the Hadeemer! Poaace for all trouble, Baim for all wounds, Life for all dead, Now Jesus, the great heart healer, comes into our home. Peace! Peace that passeth all understanding. We look up through our tenrs. Wa are comforted. It is the morn ing star of the Redeemer. “Who broke off that flower?” sald vue servant in the garden to another. “Who broke off that flower?’ Andthe other servant sald, “The master.” Nothing more was sala, for if the master had not a right to break off a flower to wear over his heart or to set inthe vase’ of his mansion, who has a right to tonoh the flower? And when CLrist comes down into our garden to gather lilies, shall we fight Him back? Shall we talk as though He had no right to come? If any one in all the universe ns a right to that which is beautiful in our homes, then our Master has, and Ho will take it and He will wear it over His heart, or Ho will set it in the vase of the palaces eternal, * Ihe Lord gave. and the Lord hath taken sway Liessad be the name of the Lord" Peace, troubled soul! I put the balm on yout wounded soul to-night, The morning star, the morning star of the Rodesmer, Auain, Christ heralds the dawn of millon. nial glory. It is night in China, night in In din, night in Biberis, night for the vas ma jority of the world's population, But i seams to me there ars some intimations of the morning. All Bpalr is to bo brought under the infinance of the Sospel, What is that Mgt 1 see breaking over the top of the The merning! Yea, all Italy | recuive the . he shall Bor schools’ and wer collaghe in hate { 108 pile visible depth. Stalagmites rising np from the floor of the cave-.stalactites descending | from the roof of the save, other, and making pMiars of the scuipturing, in balls of gypsum. As the guide carries his inntern ahead of you, the shadows have an appearance supernatural and spectral, darkness is fearful. Two people, getting lost from their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were demented, and for years sat in their insanity, You feel your breath ae yo a walk across the bridges that seem to span the hottomiess abyss, The guide throws his ealeium Hght down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rook to rosk sad from depty to depth making at every plange a new reve elation of the awful power that could have made such 8 slace as that, A sense Of SUTTOCALION AOMES UPON Fou As on think that yon are 250 foot in a strafahit ine from the sunlit surface of the earth, The guide after awhile takes you into what is ealled the “Star Chamber,” and them he says to you, “Sit here,” and then he takes the lantern and goes down under the rocks, and it gots darker and darker, until the night Is 50 thisk that the hand an neh from the oye Is unobservable, And then, kindling one of the lanterrs and piaciag it in a cleft of the rook. thers fa a reflection cast on the dome of the cave, and there are stars come Ing out in constellstions--a brilliant night heavens—and you involuntarily exelaim “Beautiful | beautifal ™ Then he takes the inntern down in other depths of the cavern, and wanders on, and wanders off, until he comes up from behind the rocks gradually, and it seems like the dawn of the morning, and it gets brighter and brighter, The poor J Is a skilled ventriloquist and he imitates the volees of the morning, and soon the gloom Is all gone, and you stand congratulating yourself over the wonderful spectacle, Well there are a great many people who look down Into the grave ns a great onvern, They think it Is a housand miles sutterransous, and al! schors seem to be the voloss of despair, and the cascades seem 19 be tho fulling tears that always fall, nnd the gloom of earth seems com. Ig up in stalagmite, and the gloom of the starnal world seems descending 14 the stale Hte, making piilars of indesoribable horror, The grave is no such place at that to me, thank God, Our Divine Guide takes us down into the great caverns, and we have the lamp to om foot and the light to our path, sod sll the sohos in the rifts o! the rosk are ant and all the falling waters are fountains o salvation, and after awhile we look up snd, behold | the eavarn of the tomb has beiome 8 king's star chamber. And while wo are looking at the pomp of it an morning begins to and all the tears earth jTvatiio ipto stalagmite, like holding | joining each | Almights’'s | There are rosettes of amethyst | The | a lr nthe Sin tide, aud ul 9 a pillar on the Jther side, and you' push against the Kate that swings betwen the two pillars, and as the gate Nashes open you find it Is one ofthe tweive gates which are twelve pearls, Dlessed be God that through this gospel the mammoth cave of the sopulehre has become the Hamined Star Chamber of the King! I would God that if my sermon to-day does not lead you #a Christ, that I-fore morning, looking out of the windot’, the astronomy of the night heavens mig” Jead you to the feet of Jesus, Hark! Hark! To God the chorus breaks From every Lost. from every gem; But one alone, the Savior speaks. In the Star of Bethishem SABBATH SCHOOL ——————— INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JANUARY 7. Lesson Text: *“The First Adam,” Gen, 1, 26.31; il,, 1-83-Golden Text: Gen §., 27-~ Commentary, 28. “And God said, Let us make man In Onur image, after Our likeness, and let them have dominion.” At some time in the past, known only to God, called in the first verse “the beginning.” God crested the heaven and the carth-—that is, He spake them into existence—as is proved by Ps. xxxiil,, 6: Heh, x1, 8. He must have everything good, for He always does, That He did not creats the earth without form sud void is stated in Isa, xiv, 18, Compare the R, V. What bappenod between verses 1 and 2to bring about this ohmos we shall know some day. About 0000 years ago God and beauty and fruitfulness out of the chaos and confusion into the space of six days, ns in here described. Bee also Ex, xx, 11 And now on the sixth day Ha makes man to | bave dominton over sll, How He made man and wonisn is more fully stated in chapter f., 7, 21-25, and that He caniled their name Adam Is stated in chapter v., 2, “Tot Us" imply the Trinity, which fact is flo clear to a sireplo minded Hebrew scholar in the word for God, 27. "Bo God created man in H's own age ; in the image of ereniod He male and female created He them.” this man and woman must have been finest palr that ever walkod the earth. ever also is implied in this image of God, it is evident from Eph, iv., 24, that righteous ness and holiness of truth are included, much more we shall know when in that ime tim; Then God bright morning of the resurrection we shail have been made lke Him who is the bright. ness of the Father's glory and the express image of His person (1 John iB 2; Ha Li, 2%, “And God Llessod them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful and 1 Htiply, and re. plenish the earth and subdue it, and have domigion.” The blessing of the lord It maketh rich, and t Prov. x, 2. R. V, God commanded His blessing « was as much produosd In one year ss ordin. artly in three years (Lev, xxv. 21 When Jesus blessed the lad’s loaves and fishes, they fod many thousands Hoe save, “Heroin is My Father that ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye disciples” (John xv. 8.) Hl addeth nothing thereto When in the sixth year 6 Israsl, thers The time ts coming when the last Adams witl subdue sil things unto Himself, for He is abe, Dut now He is gathering out andtrain. ing the subdaers. who shall in that Cay have dominion with Him. I find it hasipful to pray, “Lord, inasmach as Thon art able te subdue all things unto Thyself subdue me wholly to 29, “And God said, hysel! now, Behold, 1 Riven you every horh bearing sead which » upon | the face of all the earth, and every troe in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for ment.” God wou'd have His children at perfoot rest concerning ood and mithent, As to-viot mrad Gwe wear, thoy had none (M., 25), hat inasmuch as all other creatures had a» and Eve, made fn the images of God, lige God, clothed with light (Ps, civ, 1. 2 And now hes is full provision for thelr bodies as to food. Wo have no peo eaten tH after the deluge (chapter ix. 3 though we do not say that it was not eaten, But He who fed sintul [sensed for forty years | in the wildernsss will always provide for Hiz own #0, “And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that rreepth upon the enrth wherein there 's life, | bave given ovary groom beth jor meat-—-and it was 80.” Not only man, but beast, is provided for, These wait all upon Thea that Thou mays give them their meat in due season (Ps, civ, Behold the fowls of the air, your Heavenly Father foedith them. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and pot one forgotion before God (Math, vi, 26; Luke Xif., 8)7 Observe the phrase, “I have given,” and think of Bom. viii, 32. He who spared not His own dcp, but deliversd Him up for q f us all, how shall He not with Him also freely | give us all things? 31. "And God saw everything that He had made, and, behold, it was very good, And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” This is the seventh thme that it is i written, “God saw that it was good,” God | I= love, and He cannot do or make that | which is not in His sight good, 1) Hes round about us as a wall of fire and will not possibly permit aught that i not Rood to come 10 us, »0 we oan surely bless | the Lord at all times (Zeoh, i, 5; Ps. xxxiy., 1). Inallthe days of is first evening, fol lowed by night and then morning, So now it is the world’s night, but the night is far spent, and the day is at hand. The morning comath (Rom. xii, 12; Isa. xxi, 12). IL. “Thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them,” How? Why, by the word of his mouth (P's, xxxill., 6). In chapter { it is written ten times, “And God sald,” Now, since He thus created all things, what is thers He caanot do? “Ah, Lord God, behold, Thou hast arented the Heavens and the sarth by Thy ) great power and stretohed out arm, and there » nothing too hatd for Thee" (Jer. xxxil., 17). If Christian, how thankful we should be that God, who commanded the Hight to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the ight of the knowledge of the glory of God tha face of Jesus Christ (LI Cor. iv., 6) On “the host of them" ses Deut, fv., 19: Ex. xt, 41; Pe, ei, 21: I 8am, 1, 8 2. “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.” The words “finished” and Yendod” are suggestive of some other works In due time finished or to be fAnished, as the tabernacky, the temple, the work of stone. ment and Vso redemption of the world (Ex. xL, 85; XM Chron. vil, 11; John xx,, 80; Rov. xxi, 6,6). God “rested” cannot imply weariness, for He fainteth not, nefther is weary (Isa, x1, 2%), But Ho censed as the manna ceased or a work might conse (Joshua Yoo 121 Neh, vi, 8). And If we would enter Into His rest we must osasé from our own works sa God did from His ( Hel, iv. 10). # “Aud God blessed the seventh day and sanctified ir, beonuss that in it He had restod from all His work whic: God crested and mada” 1 we would know is rest, we must reveranos His Sabbaths, Disobedience hers pave Israel seventy years captivity (If Chron, xxevl, 21), Obedience in this pare tieular will bring the richest blessioes (fea, vith, 18, 14g vk, 440, Wo have come through henry R000 yours since God created Adar, It would net be strange if the seve enth thousand should prove to be sarth's Sabbath day, the thousand years of Rav, xx seth millenium, Let as conse from all our own works Joth as to salvation and servies, and resting in His work let Him work in us (PBL I, 18), Lesson Reipor, i IS Favelling of a Statue Postponed, brought order | The words, | the | What | How | Phil, i, 21.) clothing whieh | was a part of themselves, doubtless Adam | rd of flesh being | | of them is | Hels good, | and his mercy endureth forever (Ps, exxxvl,, | “Thus.” | HOW HIS STORE OF GOLD AND SIL. VER I8 MOVED AND GUARDED. Treasury Wagons That Have the Right of Way—-Well Armed Watchmen in the Treasury Department, N these times when the statement is made that throughout the conn- try the savings of the people are withdrawn from banks and say. ings institutions and hidden by the de- positors in insecure places like old stockings and abandoned coffee pots, it may be interesting to know, says a Washington letter to the New York Recorder, how Unele Sam protects the millions in his charge and keeps it circulating throughout the country, If you pass up Fifteenth street be- tween 8 and 9 a. m., or between 4 and bp. m., you will probably see backed up to the pavement one or two wagons of the United States Express Com- pany, unloading or loading the large sums of money which are handled by this company every day. This com- pany alone acts as the messenger boy of Uncle Bam, and all of the money or earried out is handled by this com- | pany. pet The wagons are large and strongly built and surmounted by a large iron pr cage. The money sent out of the Treasury Department is all packed in | strong safes, These are wheeled ont | on the pavement in tracks like those used by the railway employes. A | heavy planking extends from the pave- | ment into the wagon (forming an in- clined plane), he safe is tilted from the truck upon the plane, ropes and | pulleys are attached, several men pull, push and lift, and the safes are in this | manner loaded into the wagon. When the leading is complete, one armed man goes inside and the strong iron doors are closed and locked. Other armed men mount the driver's seat and the wagon starts down F street for the railway station at a lively pace. Thes right of 1 never stop or permit themselves t be come 1nvolved in a jam of vehicles | The people in Washington know th enstom, and always give these treasure wagons have the way; they Inden vans the richt of way, and ail the way they want, If you enter the ment by uny of the on the notice that a watchman is stationed st yon enter between 9 every door, If 4 will be said a. m. and 2 p. m., nothiz | to you, but if you attempt to enter after 2 p. m. you will be denied ad mission, for the department is at that hour to The rualos about admittance Pm. Are very strict, If you enter the Treasury Depart ment and visit the office of the captain Tronsury Depart either ground or main floors, you will entrances lose i visitors, after 2 of the watch yon will notice on the i side of the office three large cnses Pwo of these oases contain bresch- i loading rifles, aud the contze case con tains a large quantity of heavy revoly- | ers. These are used in arming the force of sixty-eight watchmen wh day and night are on guard to keey watch over the bmilding and the great vaults in which the money is stored The watchmen are all armed with re volvers, and there are rifles enough to | equip the whole foree of watchmen in case of a riot or assanit, Of ¢nurse something 10 wsure the faithinl discharge of the watchman'r dotie and looking this end some are detailed as patrol- men, who patrol the entire Imilding at stated intervals to hat the watchmen are at their posts, In ad dition to this cach watchman is re. quired to report his presence eve ry | half hour by means of an electric but. | ton, which registers his reports ia the main corridor at the Fifteenth street entrance, by ringing » gong and drop ping an indicator. Most of the watch. men are old soldiers who learned their first lessons in sterner school. If you are on u bridal tour you will want to go down to the vault where the vast amount of silver ’ not becanse there is much to see, but because it seers to be a regular thing to do. First, you must obtain per mission from the Treasurer of tle United States, Mr. Daniel N. Morzan When this has been obtained you are escorted down two flights of stairs into the sub-basement, where the walls are very thick and the corcidors narrow, Here yon halt heavy, grated door, behind which a watchman sits day and night. The messenger directs the watehman to open the door and yon step inside the corridor leading to the great vault where are stored one hundred and one million eight hundred and sisty thousand silver dollars, To enter the vault one must Ars: pass the great door with its multi plicity of combination loeks and time looks. Beyond this isa heavy steol | door weighing over six tons, which is rolled into place by n windlass and securely locked. Beyond this is the great silver vault, whichis eighty-uine feet long, fifty-one feet wide and twelve feet high. Around the other side of this vanlt is a corridor about three feet wide, which extands clear aronnd the inner vault, which is com. | posed of steel lattice work, strongly | riveted together, and which securely holds the millions within. But even throngh this steel lattice work you cannot see the white metal which is stored away, All that ean be seen is a long row of wooder boxes which are piled up, tier upon tier, from the floor of the vault to the ceil ing. All around the sides and lining the central corridor of the vault these must be done won mueh obedience at a is stored very before a : brought into the Treasury Department boxes ench hold two bags, #0 that a box of silver weighs 120 pounds ex- clusive of the weight of the box. If some kind f=lend would call away wie watchman and give youn a complete | | assortment of burglar's tools, and tell | you to help yourself, yon would have | to eut your way through the grated iron door from the outside corridor, and next break open the huge docr [ with burglar proof and timelock at- tachment, then eut your way through | an 1mmense steel door six inches thick and weighing over six tons, and then ent through the steel lattice work sur- sounding the boxes of silver. This work would take you hours to perform and then you would not be able to | carry away over two bags of silver, 120 pounds, so the trouble would hardly puy for the labor, for it would not be s fortune by any means. When the Democratic party eame | in power in 1885 a careful count of all the money wae made, and the books | and money balanced exactly ; when the lepublican party came in power in 1889 the count was found to be ex- nctly what the books showed it to be in the vaults, and upon the turhing over of the Treasury to the Treasurer the money was again counted. Of course each silver dollar is not connted, neither is each gold piece. A bag of silver contains 1000 silver dol- lars and shonld weigh sixty pounde, so in counting the money a bag of silver is placed on the scales and if up to weight the bag is counted as £1000, but if the silver dollars have lost in weight by the wear of circulation, then the bag is opened snd every dollar counted, so that there could be no pos- sibility of a mistake, After all, the amount of gold held in the Treasury by Uncle Sam is but small part of the gold which he owns, | The different Sub-Treasuries have more gold in them than the Treasury De- parti not form uch a circulating medium as paper s smaller silver coins, Uncle Sam but as gold does ont has enough in his Washington strong- box for all needs of business, and in dividing up the gold among the differ- ent Sub-Treasuries he is only follow. ing the practice of the majority of business men, who ery down the prac tice of putting all their eggs into one nest — pn ——— WISE WORDS, The road to fortune does not pass by every man's door, Love of home should prompt you to make it 8 home of love, The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness, Bejouice with them that do and weep with them that weep. The hard if rejoice § weigh of the transgressor is it be suspension from a gibbet, Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotheny love; in honor prefer- ring one another, dimspmniation: which is evil; cleave to Let love be-without Abhor that that which is good, Mankind in t monster that lo is a gaping deceived and yi 1% A has seldom been Narr BARK ( m is often the sine of obstinacy § wie do not easily be ¢ bevond what we can sed ¢ : 2 . If you want knowledge, youn must 1 for it; of {i , You must toil for t; nnd if pleasure, yon must toil fo it: toil is the law Exa justice is commonly more mereiful in the long run than pity; for it tends to foster in men those ats r qualities which make them citizens Every want, nota low kind, physi Il as moral, which the human and which brutes do not iy raises man by so waned in the serle of existence, and is a clear proof and =a direct instance of the favor of God toward His so-much sl human offspring. not thy destiny given thee in The one prudence in life is your boast feels, eel, and cannot fe favo: “Enlarge : endeavor not to do more than is COAT J 4 You must elect yon shall take what your brain ean, and drop all the rest. Only so ean that amount of vital force accnmne Inte which ean make the step from knowing to doing, A Bowl and a Pele, An Episcopalian minister who some- » visits small and almost isolated parishes for the purpose of holding | occasional services, tells the following funny little story of one of his ex- perianses in a small parish in Maine. He hind been asked to christen two or three babies, and this service was to take place before the regular charch Services : After the congregation had assem: bled in the little country church the minister discovered that he had for. gotten to have water provided for the christening, and that ther: was no re- ceptacle into which a little water might be pumped from the well in the churchyard, The suwall boy of the | Indy with whom the minister was stay. | ing sat in one of the front seats. The | minister leanad over toward this boy and said in a whispor: “Jimmie, will you please ran over home and get me a bowl?” Jimmie nodded his bead and stole out on his tiptoes. His raother's house was just across ths street. Three or four minutes later Jimmie reappeared bearing aloft his mother's clothesline pole, which was about ten fest long. Marching down the aisle Jimmie laid the pole on the pletform before the minister and sat down waiting for the concentration WOrs : wil and 1 wanted, I once made tg make a careful sury Longe mage qm IN OKEEFINOKEE SWAMP. A GREAT AREA OF BUBMERGED LAND IN THE SOUTH. Noted For Its Valuable Timbers and Its Dense jungles —Penetrated by a Canal, i KEEFINOKEE BWAMP is I } larger thau the Dismal | Bwamwp in Virginia, It ex- " tends from the eastern part of Pierce County, Georgia, to the eastern part of Columbia County, Flordia. It is sixty miles in length and twenty miles in breadth. Its | jungles are quite as thick and impass- { able as those in Africa and India. { Two-thirds of the swamp is inundated. In its interior are several lakes and islands, There is a dense growth of rose- mary pines on the islands. ‘I'he black cypress, which is used for manufactur- ing purposes, is found in abundance throughout the swamp. The timber in the Okeefinokee is estimated to be worth nearly 85,000,000, The interior of the swamp is reached by means of canoes. The depth of the water ranges from three to ten feet. The mud is very deep in some places, which makes traveling difficult. The jungles consist ef reeds, briers, bamboos, cypress, tussocks, thorn bushes, pine saplings, dwarf palmet- toes, creeping vines and small trees A pathwey for canoes is made by cut- ting a swarth in the jungle enough for two canoes to pass each other. An area of several miles has never been explored. It is in the so western part, near the Florida line: The surface of the mysterious plsce 18 | arge covered with a dense growth of reeds and vines, A fog hovers over it eon- tinually, The surface is composed of & yellow-colored mind, which is formed 5 1 by decomposed reeds, leaves and vines Its depth at the outer edge is ten feet } the in 3 C5 YF ny interior 1s un- while its depth in 15 An hunters s 34 by seen at 1 wenther ] The place is as silent as the grave, and not 8 bird ean be seen, Several during the last twenty vears io get a correct survey of the Okeefinokee, Three years ago the greater part of the swamp was purchased from the Gov- ernment by a syndicate of Atlanta capi- taliste. The price paid was very small, as it was not known that the timbeg was valuable. The syndicate orga zed a company, known as the Suwa Canal Company. Preparations we ti ie ns attempts have been made the entire swamp le «ab thd o¥a- struction of a canal place in the timbered belt to tO¥ St. Mary's River, for the purpose of draining the swamp and the transportion of timber to the wharves on the Atlantic coast A corps of civil engineers was em- ph ved. The engineer, with Obadiah Barber as a guide, set up camp in the western part of the swamp. Mr. Bar- ber was familiar with almost every place in the swamp, having explored it over one hundred times. The sur. vey was made through the jungles and mud with great difficulty. An opening for the capioes was cut with axes and brier hooks. When canoes vould not be used, on account of the shallowness of the water, the men waded through mud and water st the depth of two feet. The next survey was made from the northern part to its southern boundary, in Florida. Then a survey was made around the swamp. This is the only survey yet made that gave nearly the exact dimensions of the Okecfinokee, The conptrnetion of the canal was be- gun in March, 1891, It will be completed early this year. It extends from the St. Mary's River to “Camp Cornelia,” L Laur the Suwanee River, fn distance of h over twenty-five miles. It is forty feet wide and ten feep. The plan decided upon to get the timber is to thoroughly drain the ine undated portions of the swamp snd drag the timber to the canal by means of chains drawn, by machinery. The timber will then be rafted down the canal, Several extensive sawmill slants will be built on the St. Mary's River by the syndicate. The timber will be made into lumber and shingles. The beautiful Suwanee River, the subject of song and story, has ite source in the northwestern part of the Okeefinokee. It flows in a woutherly direction through the swamp and through the western part of Florida te the Gulf of Mexico. The natural scenery along the river is beautiful. Its banks are covered with the most beautiful flowers and trees and several varieties of tropical plants, Numer- ous springs of excellent mineral water are on its banks. It is believed by some that the Suwanee Spring is really the one mentioned by the landi- ans to De Soto as containing proper. tion for maintaining perpetual youth. The water is certainly remarkable for its efficacy in the treatment of many diseases of men, There are beers in the swamp bee sides deer and other animal game. Biilio’s Island ia near the centre of the swamp. 1 is eight miles long and three miles wide, It was for ma Years inhabited by the Sewinole diane, — New York World, i I—— i chief
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