| "REV. DR. TALMAGE. H i | petted and they wi Hare the hj THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. { ed? And If he can laver, and then come forth the wary tones, the very song of the person that breathed into it once, but is now dsoarted, If a man ean do that, cannot Almighty God, without half trying, return the volee of your depart- return the volce, why { not the lips, and the tongue, and the throat | that fashioned the volee? { and the tongue, and the throat, why not the Bubject: “Easter in Greenwood.” ——— f Text: “And the field of Hebron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the eld, and the cave which was therein, and all # trees that were in the field, that were in all | borders round about, were made sure unio Abraham.” Genesis xxlil., 17, 18, * Here ig the first cemetery ever laid ont. Machpelah was its name. It was an arbo- rescent beauty, where the wound of death was bandaged with foliage. Abraham, a rich man, not being able to bribe the king of terrors, proposes here, as far as possible, to over up the ravages. He had no doait reviously noticed this region, and now that rah, hig wife, had died--that remarkable person who, at ninety years of age, had born 0 her the son Isaac, and who now, after she had reached 127 years, had expired-—Abra- bam is negotiating for a family plot for her ast slumber, ywned this real estate, and after, ympathy for Abraham, refusing to fake anything for it, now sticks on a big rice-—400 shekels of silver, I'he cemetery ot 18 paid for, and the transfer made in the resence of witnesses in a publio place, for here were no deeds and no halls of record in those early times, Then in a cavern of limestone rook Abraham put Sarah, and a few years after himself followed, and then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob and Leah, Embowered, picturesque and mem- orable Machpalah! That “God's acre’ dedi- eated by Abraham has been the mother of Dn mortuary observances, The every civilized land has vied polis, The most beautiful hills of Europe outside the great cities are coversad with obelisk and funeral vase and arched gateways and col- umns and parterres in honor of the inhum- ated. The Appian way of Rome was bor dered by sepulehral rations. For this purpose Pisa has ils arcades of marble geulptured into excellent bas-reliefs and the features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and Constantinople covers with eyprus the silent abitations, and Paris has its Pere la Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzae and David and Jiacshl Ney and Cuvier and La Place and oliere ia mighty group of warriors and any and painters and musicians. In all oreign nati 108t genius on all sides is expende _— ’ 2 commen rk of interna aration. Our own country consents to be sec none io r wet to the lifeless body. city and town and neighborhood of ligence virtae has not ts sacred in gaged scaly and artificer in shown ite religi manner which it Who have passed forever awa Hills, and its Evergreens, and Hol; as and Friends All the wo knows of ou with now al 270,000 inhabitants sieepi among the hills that overlook the sea, by iakes embosomed in an Eden v Or mortuary architecture, at of mighty ones ascended, elegies in stone, Liiads in marble, whole generations in peace Waiting for other gensrations to join No dormitory of breathless slespers in ali the world has so many mighty dead, Among the preachers of the Gospel, Be- thune and Thomas Da Witt and Bishop Janes and Tyng and Abeel, the missionary, and sscher and Buddington, and MeClintoek Inskip, and Bangs and Chapin, and Noah Schenck and Samuel Hanson Cox. | Among musicians, the renowned Gottschalk | snd the Hastings. Among | : hropists, Pater Cooper and Isaac T, | dopper, and Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graiam, and Henry Bergh, the apostis of | mercy to the brute creation. Among the Mtterati, the Carys—Alics and Phobe— James EK. Paulding snd John G. Saxe. Among journalists, Bonnett and Raymond and Greeley, Among scientists, Ormsby, Mitchell, warrior as well as astronomer and lovingly called by his soldiers “Old Stars : Professor Proctor and the Drapers splendid men, as I well know, one of them my teacher, the other my classmate, Among i ins Howe, whothroagh the sewing » did more to alleviate the toils of woman 1than any man that ever lived, and Professor Morse, who gave us magnetic telagraphy, the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the thunderbolt. Among physicians and sur- geons Joseph C. Hutchinson and Marion Bims and Valentine Mott, with the fol. lowing epitaph, which he ordered cut in honor of Chr ligion : “My implicit faith amd hops is in a merciful Redeemer, who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and Amer This is our Amcrican Machpe- ah, red to us as the Machpelah in anaan i Jacob uttered that pastoral posm in “Thera they buried Abraham his wife ; thers they buried there I buried Leah , and is Easter service I ask and snswer seem & novel question, but it will bafors I get throu a practical tremendous Ww cometarios / them, Dr as = question, a day do for the will 5s their rain seasons trew flowers partad, It may have been fact that Christ's tomb was And when I say garden I do mean & garden of these latitudes, The ® frosts of spring and the early frosts of tUMn Ars 30 1 each other that there re only a few nths of Rowers inthe field, All the flowers wo to-day had to be oaxed and put under shelter, or ¢ not have bloomed at all, They id ithe conservatories, Jat supernal it is cus. over the ear wan iren t this season and through the most of the par the Holy Land is all ablush with floral alence You find all the royal family of flowers here, some that you suppose indigenous to he far north and others indigsnons to the ar south--the daisy and hyacinth, eroocus nd anemone, tulip and water lily, geranium id ranunculus, mignonette and sweet mar. ram. Io the college at Beirat you may ses pe. Post's collection of about 1800 kinds of iy Land flowers, while among trees are ie oaks of frozen climes, snd the tamarisk | [the tropies, walnut and willow, ivy and awthorn, ash and elder, pine and sycamore, such Coral and botanisal beauties are the id growths of the fleld, think of what a rden must be in Palestine! And in such a | arden Jesus Christ slept after, on the idier's spears, His last drop of blood had | conguinted, And then see how appropriate hat all our cometeries should be floralized fd tree shaded. In June Greenwood is | Wrooklyn's garden, “Well, then,” you say, “how can yom | ke out that the resurrection day will | benutify the cometorien? Will it not leave jem a viowed up ground? On that day ere will be an earthqaake, and will not his split the polished Aberdeen granite as ell ws the plain slab that ean afford but two | orde—~‘Oar Mary' or ‘Our Charley? ” ell, I will tell you how resurrection day {ll benuti’y all the cemeteries, It will be bringing up the faces that were to us pace, and in our memories are to us now, More beaatifal than any calla lily, and the ms that are to us more graceful than any illow by the waters, Can you think of pything more beautiful than the 1eappear- noe those from whom we have been ed? 1 do not care which way the tree ¥ 8 in the blast of the judgment hurricane, { the plowshars that day shall turn under © last rome leaf and the last china aster, if t of the broken sod shall come the bodies our loved ones net damaged, but irra- The ides of the resurrection oasler t d d as I hear the Js H inde ! rection | that coverad them, And If the lips, brain that suggested the words? And if the ! brain, why not the nerves, of which the brain is the headquarters? And if he can return the nerves, why not the muscles, which are | iss Ingenious? And {fthe muscles, why not | | the bones, that are less wonderful? the voloe, and the brain, and the muscles, and the bones, why not the entire body? If man can do the phonograph, God can do the resurrection, Will it be the game body that in the last | day shall be reanimated? Yes, but {nfinitely improved, Our bodies change every seven years, and yet in one sense it is the bod On my wrist and the second finger of my right hand there is a sear. I made that at twelve years of age, when, disgusted atthe presence of two warts, I took a redhot iron and burned them off and burned them out, Since then my body has changed at least a half dozen times, but those scars prove it is the same body. We never lose our identity, If God ean and does sometimes rebuild a man five, six, ten times In this world, is it mysterions that He can rebuild him once more and that in the resurrection? If He can do it ten times, I think He can do it eleven times, Then look at the seventeen year locusts. For seventeen years gone, at the end of seventeen | years they appear, and by rubbing the hind lag against the wing make that rattle at whieh all the husbandmen and vine dressers tremble as the insectile host takes up march devastation, Resurrection every suventeen years—a wonderful fact! Another consideration makes the idea of resurrection easier, God made Adam. He was not fashionsd after any model, The had never been a human organism, and so there was nothing to copy. Atthe first at tempt God made an perfect man, Hen him out of the dust of the earth, If out ordinary dust of the earth and witho model God could make a perfect man, sur out of the extraordinary dt of mortal and with millions of models God can each one of us a perfect being in the re rection, Surely the last undertaking wo t be greater than the first, Bee the gos igebra. Ordinary dost minus a als a . Extraord 1d plus a mo als a resurractio stories abo of re Lie it nuch ofa God w far as I can If AYER ODOT hand is extended ent I say that the o iful now, will be lies of cur morning of the resurrecti They will come in They whl come up rested. thom lay down at the last very tire often you have heard them say, “I an tired I" The fact is, it is a tired world, uld go through this audience and i the world, I conld not flad a person is @ of life ignorant of the sensation « fatigue, hag ty aaul tha } Les ven ine Ove i nn improved I do not believe there are fifty this audience who are not tired t is tired, or your back is tired, or your f tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves are tired, Long journeying or business ap- plication or bereavement or slokness has put on you heavy weights, So the vast majority of those who went out of this world went | oat fatigued. About the poorest place to rest in is this world, Its atmosphere, its sur- { roundings and even its hilarities are exhaoset | ing. So God stops our earthly life and marcifally cloass the eyes, and more espe. lly gives quisscence to the lung and heart, hat have not had ten minutes’ rest the first respiration and the first be It Y wears pell army to beat his drum for twenty. officer wou from a drummer b mmanded t ceasing, day ning t is a poor heart th IMA ifs thirty ity years ago, and it has had no day or night, and whether in ) nas stale rr atlemr J my reh of Jur snir raitator says that yf lung and the last thro of pulsa, and after the spirit is released, the eating tora t What mercy, then, it is that the grave Is the p where that wondrous machinery of and artery can halt! Under the healthful chemistry the wear and tear of ne i fn HnH § i be gn heart keeps on | ime, tra a a go ii Wil : Mea 0 ve had n the tin nt adise, get any recuperation house from which he was wat our going back into the dust? That original life giving material having been added to the body as it once was, and all the left behind, what a hody will be the And will not hundreds o! thousands of such appearing above the Gowanus heights make Greenwood more beautiful than any June morning after a shower? The dust of the earth being the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the same piace to get a perfect body, Factories are apt to be rough laces, and those who toll In them have their garments grimy and their hands smutehed, But who cares for that when they turn out for nus beautiful musical instruments or exquisite upholstery? What though the grave is a rough place-it is a resurrection body manu. factory, and from it shall come ths radiant man race ron ror replen f Adam from the dast sine in pat the store astructed with- deflects resurrection body! and resplendant forms of our friends on the ! brightest morning the world ever saw. You put into a factory cotton. and it comos out apparel, lead, and they comn out planos and organs, And #0 in the factory of the grave you put in pneumonias and consamptions, and they come out health, You put im groans, and they come out halieluiahs, For us, on the | final day, the most attractive places will not | | be the parks, or the gardens, or the palaces, | but the cometerios, i We are not told In what season that day | If it should be winter, those who | will come, some up will be more lustrous than the snow If in the autumn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the | woods after the frosts had psnoiled them, If | In the spring, the bloom on which they tread | will be dull compared with the rubleund of | their cheeks, Oh, the perfect resurrection body! Almost everybody has some defee. tive spot in his physical constitution—a dull ear, or a dim aye, or a rheumatic foot, or a neuraigic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an inflamed tonsil, or some point at which the east wind or a season of overwork assaults him, But the resurrection body shall be without one weak spot, and all that the dootors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will there. after have to do will be to rest without in. tarsdjtion after the broken nights of thelr earthly existence, Not i will that day be the beautification of well kept cometeries, but somes of the graveyards that have been neglevted and been the pasture ground for ls and roosting place for swine will for the first time have attractiveness given It was a shame that in that place ungrate- And if} same | | dred at once saw Him, the | | of ourselves, but thers is You put into a factory lumber and | ful generations planted no trees and twisted no garlands, had sculptured no marble for their Christian ancestry. But on the day of which I speak the resurrected shall make the place of their feet glorious, From under the shadow of the chureh where they slumbered among nettles and mullein stalks and this. ties and slabs aslant, they shall arise with a glory that shall flush the windows of the village church, and by the bell tower that used to call them to worship, and above the old spire beside which thelr prayers formerly ascended, What triumphal procession never did for a street, what an oratorio never did for an acadamy, what an orator never did for a brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did for a king, resurrection morn will do for all the cemeteries, ' This Easter tells us that in Christ's resur. rection our resurrection, if we are His, and the resurrection of all the plous dead, is as- sured, for He was ‘the first fruits of ‘them that slept.” Renan says He did not rise, but 580 witnesses, sixty of them Christ's enemies, say He did rise, for they saw Him after He had. If He did not rise, how did sixty armed soldiers let Him get away? Burely sixty ly. ing soldiers ought to be able to keep one dead man, Blessed be God! He did get away, After His resurrection Mary Magdalens saw Him, Cleopassaw Him, Ten disciples in an upper room at Jerusalem saw Him, On a mountain the eleven saw Him. Five hun- Professor Ernest nan, who did not see Him, will excuse us for 16 taking the testimony of the 5580 who did ses | Him. Yes, ves, Ho got away. And that makes me sure that our departed loved ones | | and wo ourselves shall get away. Freed Himself from the shackles of elod He is not going to leave us and ours in the lurch, There will be no our family sepulcher, for we cannot come out n doorknob on the , and that Jesus shall lay hold of, and, opening, will say: “Good morning! You havesiept | ng enough! Arise! Arise! then what wings, sad what flash. ing of rek eyes, and what gladsom rushing ross the family lot, is that you?" ‘Mother, is u?"’ “My darling, 1s that you? “How a all have changed! The cou , the msumption g , the weariness gone, ( let rend together! The older ones first, younger ones next ! Quick, now, get into | I'he skyward procession has already started ! now by that embankment of loud for the nearest gute An ns we ascend n gets smaller until it is no larger than a moun. n, and smaller until it is no larger than a , And smaller until it is no larger thao a i, and sma it is no larger than outsi indled that ome, Stor until i earth! But on the nat Orst appears And nearer it arawell, r aide, as we iarger than ; like nd arer it looks 8 Lhat shall al hat shallalwars again to 3 day will do graveyards from ed by Father esurrecti - ssii— An Eccentric Physician, Professor Zakharin, of Moscow, who attended the Czar during his recent serious illness, is almost as wellknown in Russia for his eccentricities as for his eminence as a physician. The British Medical Journal states that when he is called to attend toa patient special arrangements must be made in the house ; all dogs must be kept out of the way, all clocks must be stopped, all doors must be thrown wide open. he professor begins a pro f gradual undressing, leav- ing his furs in the hall, his overcoat in next room, his goloshes in the He insists on perfect the part of the afflicted rel- pt in reply to his ques- tions, whe: heir must be literally *Y He has a theory which expresses in the maxim “Take a rest before you are tired,” and accordingly he sits down every eight or ten steps. His de- meanor towards doctors with whom he happens to be unsequainted makes him greatly feared by them, and some eight years ago a kind of public agita- in opp to him ich 1 ny huudreds of doot rs part. Resolutions were passed and addres were presented, and hoes of the gathering storm made themselves heard in the press. These manifestations of feeling were speedily repressed in a way characteristie of Russia, The then OGeneral-Governor of Moscow, Prince Dolgorukoff, sent for the editor of the zaedieal journal in which the addresses were printed and told him that if he published a word more about Zakharin he would have to leave Moscow in twenty-four hours’ time. His eccentricities, how- ever, cease at the bedside of his patient; there he is courteous and considerate, most painstaking and minute in his examination, and very thorough in his treatment, So sue- cessful has he been in his profession that he 1s believed to be worth some 82,500,000, on entering TON ( speech Nay.” he wition CI — - New Method of Producing Pictures, Art students in this city are devot- ing a good bit of attention to a new method of producing pictures. The giant fungus that is found growing | from the sides of trees is gathered and | allowed to dry and then the yellowish growth that covers it is scraped away, This leaves the face of the fungus cov- | ered with an ivorylike substance that | cuts cleanly under a graver. A design is sketched on this face of {the fungus and cut through it. The | deeper the cutting is made the darker {the eolor of the heart exposed, and | this variation in tone lends the artist | the degree of light and shade essential | to make a picture. The results gained in this class of | art work remind one of the first out. tings in the process of cameo making. After the picture is finished the fun- gus is mounted in silver or plush and the effect is beautiful, Portraiture seems to be the most po subject for this sort of work. Pople Republie, A I AAA London has about one hundred and neventy-eight rainy days in a year, doorknob on the inside of | And i i with cries of 1 | | gh gone, the | ne, the par- | one side the earth ! ns Jo his brethren, | thou hast dreamed? SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON APRIL 8. Lesson Text: * Discord in Family,” Gen, xxxil., 1 -11- Golden Text: Gen, xlv,, 24 Commentary. Jacob's 1 “And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Cannan," The margin says, “In the land of his father's sojournings.” God spoke of Abrabam as a stranger in the land, and Abraham spoke of himself us a stranger and a sojourner (Gen. xvil,, 8; xxiil., 4). So also David in I Chron. xxix,, 16, Compare I Pet, iL, 11, If we are Christ's, we are citizens of heaven (Phil, tii, 20, 21), but shall reign on the earth when the kingdom comes (Rev. v.,, 5,10). The principal events in the jonter vening chapters since last lesson are the re conciliation with Esau, another appearance of God to Jacob and the death and burial of Isane, Rachel and Deborah, 2, “These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph, being sevonteen years old, was feed ing the flock with his brethren, and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.” This is the tenth time that we have met in this book the phrase, *“These are the gen. erations,” and it Is the last time, Joseph and Benjamin were the younger sons of Jacob, and both were the children of his be loved Rachel, who died when Benjamin was born (chapter xxxv,, 18, 19), It would seem that the conduct of Joseph's brethren was not commendable, and that he brought his father word to that effect, 3 ‘Now Israel loved Joseph more that all his childres, because he was ths son of his old age, and he made him a cost of many odors,” Of all the sons of Jacob the two most honered by Jehovah were Judah and Joseph, for from Judah came the Messiah, and the birthright was Joseph's (I Chron, v, 2). Hee In verses 834, 85 of our lesson chap- ter how great was Jacob's love to this son. and how he refused to be comforted when he thought him dead, 4. “And when his brethren saw thelr father loved iim more than all his brethren, the y hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him." Joseph was in many respests 8 won- irous type of God's well belove { Son, Jesus, our Saviour, Observe him hated and s« par- ated from his brethren (Gen. X., 28, 26 ; Deut, xxxiil,, 16), and think of Jesus hated cause (Ps, xxxv und and they ha £ 8 v ndy road « slech, to Jacob and an dream (xx, 8; xxxi., 11, 3), xxxiil,, 14, 15, we read that Go may turn them from thelr J ride and rain to which # loads, There is not the same ased for speak in dreams now that whois word of God, yet we say that he noevertelis any ro him to the tf Hike t reams any oo 610 them, Hear, I pray h 1 have dreamed It piy impressed Joseph and anxious fo fell i. When we have the sure word of God concerning all coming events, how is it that we are so little im pressed by it, and therefore so slow to spank cit? It must be simply unbelief on our part, or else willful ignorance, for as surel t's dremns wert fa $098 time fal- filled so aball every word of God be falfilled, foo Isa, xiv, 24; xivi, 8, 10; Pe. xxxiil., 10, iL 7. "For behold, we were binding sheaves in the fleid, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round aboutend made obeissnos tomy shea! i itficance of the dream seems and the brethren evidently tit seemed very unlikely to { Jacob were do fact that God and to Laban in a ph probably believed that P im. When any us as the we We are no about it sald to © you, this dress w ust have des made him underst be ful or BOGE © the had y their and Jos Cathe father 1 over m nyt then bis dreams an Their hatead did not affect fliment, but only thea has the hatred of the Jews | i affected the fulfl of God that He shall sit and reign over the bh Isa. ix., 7; Luke {i sly affected themsely w before Him in true p 10 ; xhil., 1). ecamed yot another dream brethren, and said, Behold a dream more, and, 1 » moon, and the eleven me, Here is the same revelation with an enlargement including father and mother. The dream being dou- bled would prove thal Xf was established by God, and that He would bring it to pass (xli 32). And we know that it came to pass, When I read in Bev. xii, the record of the woman clothed with the sun, the moon un der her feet, and on het bead a crown « twely I associate that vision with this dream and think that the man ehiid of that chapter will prove to bo a first fruits from Jaranl in the time of the great tribulation, which with the church as » first fruits from all nations and both identified with Christ will form the complete man child to rule all nations, In due time we shall see, 10, “And he told it to his father and to and his father rebuked him aod sald unto him : What fs this dream that Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed coms to bow down ourselves to thea to the earth?’ His father saw the interpretation, and it went some what against the grain, but he lived to see it all fulfilled, and when he and his sons be. came thoroughly humbled before this same Joseph then it was well with them and they wrospered, Bo shall it be with the Jews and uh It is hard to humble, but all who walk in pride shall be made to come down (Dan, Iv,, 87; v., 20 margin). Soe also Isa, i, 11, 17: Jaa, iv,, 10:1 Pet, v., 6, 11, “And his brethren envied him, but his father observed the saying.” Stephen said that, moved with envy, they sold him into Egypt (Acta vii, 9). Paul says, “Love envioth not” (1 Cor, xil,, 4), In [ Pet. ii, 1, wo are told to lay envy aside, It was well for his father to observe the saying, but had he bolleved it he might have found comfort when led to suppose that Joseph was dead, Soa Dan, vil, oh Luke if, 51; Rom, Iv., 20, 21. Lesson Helper, a I - foreign Muatten in New York. It is reported that a large amount of Beoteh and Irish lamb and mutton is being shipped to New York forthe hotel trade, This mutton ix very tender and excosdingly jaley, and the inquiry for Irish mutton is constant, It is said that some legs of this mutton eut off at the “altel” bons weigh between ten and six: teen pounds, as agalost four and eight pounds in the hind quarters of an American sheep, re for A ment Vie 32, 33), “8 an aH ahold : ie sitar o stare I —— A Kettle Fall of Greenbacks, Joseph Stephenson, while axoavating for a sollar on a lot, recently purchased by him Brith Bole Rolie t .. kettle con 4 ge suleido about FOR | SCIENTYFIC AND INDU Bilk is woven by electricity. RIAL, Aluminum does not rust or tarnish. The steam engines of the world to- day give 50,000,000 horse-power, There is a prospect of steam tur- bines being applied to torpedo boats. Zoologists say that all known species of wild animals are gradually dimin- ishing in size. A large meteor fell near Atchison, Kan., and people for miles around went looking for it The inventors in Chicago are quar- relling over the ownership of an ap paratus for the transfusion of blood. Opticians say that the ¢ can de tect the color produced by adding but one-millionth of a gramme of fuchsine to a glass of water, to eareful close study than » hard physical exercise, Ve According three hours of the body more estimates, wenr ont day of whole Italian fire enginesare supplied with fitted with ele ctrio #0 that fireman ORE hose the communicats gine Fire h those at handling the with Can the en- " 1 y..% . Every well-developed adult of the human has lung surface to 1400 square feet to {4 ii species equal The heart's power itself 13,000 feet is sufficient 1 tornadoes are clothing these effects cannot produced the wind, they bed to elects the We story re Bre spot of heated, This the atmosphere ind OMe CXoes ng the sir above to descend nflux of rom all sides, but unequally, the re ry i yinees an 1 f H sult being a gyrat motion and a Edison is 1 to grease the they wills water me resdiiy water and more than is generally believed, an if he can only do what he is trying to do the Campania can make the voyag:« between New York and Liverpool in four days, Professor Falb, of Berlin, prophe- sies a very probable collision between the earth and the comet November 13th, 1899, when wil oint the rives every vear at that tam t think a collision, The of 1866 the o eari ar- But he on Met 1 cut the I where n harm could materi *nt uniess { meteors A Student's Confession, All, n Favette, FOecs oy a cin 11 f He Tea] pe Aared room at and 118 room that unknown men had knocked him down, carrying him four miles in the country, was investigated by the college offi cers, but mld be obtained excited suspicion room-mate charged him with complicity in the matter Costigan then admitted that he had planned the whole affair to es ape the contest and create a sensation. C gan is about twenty-five years of age He was a candidate for County Superin tendent of Bohools in Clayton County last fall. He has left the university, ~ New York Pe \ : ciock at might I'he matter no clue of Costigan’s actions and finally his ost wt, lotus Eaters, According to Homer, the lotus sate érs were a people who lived on the northern const of Afrion, visited by Ulysses in his wanderings, and who endeavored to detain his companions by giving them the lotus to ent who- ever ate of this fruit wished never to depart. The Arabs ealled the fruit of the lotus “fruit of destiny, sss the A which they believe is to be eaten in Paradise. The lotus is a shrub two or three feet high, and its fruit, which is produced in great abundance, is a dwarl of tle mize of a wild plum, which has a pleasant, sweet taste, The name lotus has bee ngiven to several beautiful specimens of water lily, os weinlly to the blne water lily and the Fe iban water lily, «Chicago Her- ald, te Manli—— An Afrieamn Prince, What do yon think of this for a name? Fyo Ekpenyon Eyo IL, That, however, w the name of an Afriean Prives taken by an Englishman to Liverpool to be educated, and now he in wo cold, shivering all day over the fire, he asks but for one thing in the world to go back to Africa, whero once he went about in bare feet and sunshine to his heart's content, «- New York Jourusl THE NATION'S ARID LANDS! GREAT VALUE OF IRRIGATION TQ TILLERS OF THE SOIL —— A Vast Area, Not One-Tenth of Which Can Be Reclaimed -Avallability of Artesian Wells, RRIGATION of arid Asia and been practise d land ly ing in Northern Africa hag for Long 6 beforetheera of recorded history Bes; the system was perfected in those lands, Among the first governments estabe lished by the man were those founded and by the Population was first cemented to the soil by water that flowed through ditches, What little semi-civilization there was on earth waa fringed slong rivers that annually overflowed, and by through which life-giving and population ip porting water flowed All arid lands they Are on diteh ditches It matters not where and a large required to support a he, worthless, Ares 1s single from fifteen to thirty acres. The growth of and it does not endure and if Water With- brought With water properly applied the arid lands are transformed from non-productive moet productive = beast, say, gg TE 1K BCALLY, close grazing, so grazed itepeedily disappears, value in arid zones out water the land eannot be under the plow Only has deserts capable of supporting population. the area of | Btates? Open a map of Mee your index hundredth =n finger on epiddian at the draw it disgon boun lary rthward to the un Canadian OLN where the ‘ th meridian passes into Mant i west of fie Oe . . that line and east Wester: arid Western r f an is BAYS Ureg until mountain chains sink and and the InaGs 1 wereaQ aoccur iy ou Any acres Jess than the advocates of Government aid to irrigation ns sert. The annual rainfall in this region, taken asa whole, does not exceed ten inches. To raise grain to perfect ma- turity requires from twenty to thirty inches of rainfall, and with thisamount of precipitation the rain must not be bunched, but must fall led ] | zone a fa n seeded rain of a he gathering of any 5 but establish works when nes GeIAY © aeiay a few days . to ignorant men ven if every 18 not sufficient t« in and the plains, on sandy wastes, and on ' of which oan be the mountain chains, non« reclaimed moisture other groun in the rtion of evaporation, aria 4 ont ter « supply water are the of lofty irrigating In th regi altitudes the summer highlands a ns rains flanks of creeks an i which « quickly run down the the mountains and into the rivers And the sn the great bulk falls in the 1} mountain vallevs see) ontaine that deep in and shaded canyons Visture es EEL ighlands and melts slowly and keeps the streams full of water the vers that water is required on the everflowing rivers that course through the plains, save those that head in that lie in the the mountains It is evident that there can greater aggregate of water in gion than the amount that falls from the clouds on the land, less the amount that flows out by rivers, and less the evaporation. This being true, the statement that one-fourth or one-fifth of the arid land ean be reclaimed is a mistake. The writer unhesitatingly asserts that not one-tenth of the land lying between the one hundredth meri- dian and the Pacific Ocean, again ex- eluding Western Washington and Ore. gon and portions of California and favored areas, such as the Palonse re. gion, ean ever be bronght under. the the plow, and solely because therd is not sufficient water in the region to irrigate any larger area than ia here written of Much of the water that sinks below the level of ithe watercourses can be made available by artesian wells, but these wells cannot flow an excess of the water that falls on the land, and they cannot reasonably be expected to sip. during months plains, There are no permanent, the snowbanks innermost recesses of be no Any re- | plement irrigation ditches to any great extent, «New York Times —— II The diamond market has bedn very much depressed of inte, and the great London syadioate which controls the stone market has had a hard time to keep the prices up, so large is the sup- . 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