REV. DR. TALMAGE, PAL “ THE BROOKLYN DIVIN SUN- DAY SERMON. | in the blast, “Sustaining Power of Re- ligion.”” Bubject | with gold. Texr: ‘Though ye have lain among the | s, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove | Bow with silver and her feathers with yel- | 0 gold," — Psalms Ixvill,, 13. I suppose you know what the Israeiites did down in Egyptian slavery. They made | bricks. Amid the utensils of the briokkiln | there were also other utensils of cookery. | he kettles, the pots, the pans, with which | they prepared their dally food, and when | fhese poor slaves, tired of the day's work, lay down to rest they lay down among the im- | lements of cookery and the implements of | Bs work. When they arose in the morn- | ing, they found their garments coverad with fhe clay, and the smoke, and the dust, and besmirched and begrimed with the utensils of cookery, jut after a while the Lord broke up that glavery, and He took these poor slaves into a land where they had better garb, bright and elean and beautiful apparel. No more bricks for them to make, Let Pharaoh make his own bricks. When David, in my text, comes go describe the transition of these poor Is- | raclites froma their bondage amid the brick- kilos into the glorious emancipation for swhich God had prepared them, he says, “Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow old.” } Miss Whately, the author of a celabrated | book, “Life In Egypt,” sald she sometimes saw people in the East cooking their food on the tops of houses, and that she had often geen just before sundown pigeons and doves, which had during the heat of the day been hiding among the kettles and the pans with which the food was prepared, pleking | up the crumbs that they might find, Just about the hour of sunset they would spread their wings and fly heavenward, entirely unsoiled by the region in which they had moved, for the pigeon Is a very cleanly bird. And as the pigeons flew away the setting sun would throw silver on their wings and old on their breasts, So youses it isnota rfetched simile or an unnatural parison when David, in my text, says to these emancipated Israslites, and says to all those who are brought out of any kind of trouble i any kind spiritual joy, “Though ye have lain among the pots, yet shall as the wings of a dove coverad with and her feathers with yellow gol Sin Worse thar drudging in a most degrading i ! after awhile Christ mes, and He says, > pass out from an Eo f the glo 18 liberty KOspal, » put on the clean robes Christian fession, and when at last we Soar away to the warm nest which God has rovided for us in heaven we shall go fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silv and its feathers with yellow gold, Iam going to preach something which some of you do not balieve, and that is that the grandest possible adornment is the re- | figion of Jesus Christ. There are a great many peopie who suppose that religion isa wery different thing from what it really is, The reason men condemn the Bible is because they do not understand the Bible, They have not properly examined it. Dr. Johnson | said that Hume told a minister in the bishop- | ric of Durham that he had never particularly examined the New Testament, yet ail his life | warring against it. Halley, the astronomer, | announced his skepticism to Sir Isaac New- | ton, and Bir Issac Newton sald : “Now, sir, & have examined have = od AY the and you Ing to be a philosepher, consent to condemn | a thing you have never examined.” { And so men reject the religion of Jesus Christ because they really have never in- vestigated it, They think it something un- desirable, something that will not work, something Pecksniffian, something hypoerit- eal, i when it Is so bright and so veautiful you might compare it to a chafineh, you might compare it to a robin red breast, you might compare it to a dove—its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. jut how js it if a young man becomes a Christian? All through the elubrooms where he associates, all through the business oir. eles where he is known, there is commisera- tion. They say, “What a pity that a young man who had such bright prospects should 80 have bean despoiled by those Christians, giving up all bis worldly prospects for some- thing which is of mo particular present worth!" Here fsa young woman who be- comes a Christian—her voles, her face, her manners the charm of the drawing room. Now all threugh the fashionable circles the whisper goes, “What a pity that such a bright light should have been extinguished, that such a graceful gait should be crippled, | that such worldly prospects shoul obliterated ™ Ah, my friends, it can be shown that religion's ways are ways of pleasantness ana that all her paths are peace ; that religion, instead of being dark and doleful and lachrymose and repulsive, is bright and beautiful, fairer than a dove, its wings covered with silver and its feathers with yellow gold. Bee, in the first place, what rellsica will do for a man's heart, I care not how cheer- ful aman may naturally be before conversion, | conversion brings him up to a higher standard of cheerfulness, Fa not say he will laugh any louder. I do not say but he tay stand back from some forms of hilarity | in which he onoe indulged, but there eomes into his soul an immense satisfaction. A young man nota Christian depends upon worldly successes to keep his spirits up. Now he is prospered, now he has a large salary, now he has a besutiful wardrobe, now he has pleasant friends, now he has | more money than he knows how to spend. Everything goes bright and well with him, But trouble comes, Thers are many young men in the house this morning who can tes- tify out of their own experience that some. times to young men trouble comes-his friends are gone his salary is gone, his health fs gone. He goes down, down. He becomes sour, cross, queer, misanthropic, bizmes the | world, blames society, blames the church, | blames everything, rushes perhaps to the in- | toxicating cup to drown his trouble, but in. stead of drowning his trouble he drowns his body and drowns his soul, But here ia a Christian young man. Trouble comes to him. Does he give up? | No! He throws himsel! back on the re | sources of heaven, He says: ‘God is my Father. Out of all these disasters I shall | luck Sivautage for my soul. All the prom- | ars mine, Christ is mine, Christian com- panionship is mine, heaven is mine, What | though my apparel be worn out? Christ | ves me a robe of righteousness, What hough my money be gone? 1 have a title dend to the whole universe in the promise, ‘All are yours." What though my worldly | friends fall away? Ministoring angels are my body-guard, What theugh my fare be Ror and my bread be scant? 1 sit at the | ing's banquet I” ooms- of ye Le silver f= masters ns My people ng the brick- of the of a nd we er al jac a * LEB ve ' be Ob, what a poor, shallow stream is world] enjoyment compared with the deep, bond, overflowing river of God's peace, rolling midway lo the Christian heart! Sometimes you have gone out on the iron bound beach «of the sea when thers has been a storm on the cosan, and you have seen (hh waves dash into white foam at your feet. They did not do you any harm, While thers you thought of the chapter written by the psalmist, and perhaps you recited it to yourself while the storm wus making commentary upon the . sage © ‘God is our refuges and stren ™, present help in time of trouble, ere. yory Jone iil 1 not soar; though the oarth be ro. moved, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of tho seas, though the waters thereof roar and be t though the mountains shake with the " thereof, . Oh, how independent the r~igion of Ohrist | good, going | rades and father and | laughter, { and under the flashing of | saith | transgressor | there is more joy in one drop | light, | this heavenly ark has wings | man start out for Christ? | kept the faith, i | for me a crown of righteousness, which the | | admire? ! but when the wave and the wind of death | trust botwesn the departures of a Christian | whether I live or die, makes a man of worldly success and worldly elroumstances | Nelson, the night before his Inst battle, sald, ‘To-morrow I shall win either a peerage or a grave in Westminster Abbey.” And it does not make much differ. snoe to the Christian whather he rises or falls in worldly matiers, He has everlasting re- nown anyway. Other plumage may be torn | but that soul! sdornad with Christian grace is falrer than the dove--its wings covered with sllver and fits feathers You and I have found out that people who pretend to be happy are not always happy. Look at that young man earleaturing the Christian religion, scoffing at everything | into rolstering drunkenness, dashing the champagne bottle to the floor, rolling the glasses from the barroom eoun- ter, laughine, shouting, stamping the floer, Is he happy? I will go to his midnight pil. low. I will ses him turn the gas off, I will | ask myself if the pillow on which he sleeps | is as soft as the pillow on which that pure young man sleaps, Ah, no! When he opens his eyes in the morning, will the world bes as bright to him | as to that young man who retired at night saying his prayers, fuvoking God's blessing upon his own soul and the souls of his com- mother and brothers and sisters far away? No, no! His laugh | will ring out hear it a8 you pass by, but it is holicw | In it is the snapping of heart- strings and the rattle of prison gates, Happ; that young man happy? Lot him fill high the bowl; he eannot drown an upbraiding conscience, Let the balls roll through the bowling alley ; the deep romble and the sharp erack cannot over- power the voices of condemnation. Let him whirl in the dance of sin and temptation and | death ; all the brilliancy of the scenes cannot make him forget the last look of his mother when he left home, when she said to him: “Now, my son, you will do right ; I am sure vou will do right. You will, won't you?" That young man happy? Why, across every night there flit shadows of eternal darkness ; | | there are adders colled up in every cup ; there ars vaitures of despair striking thelr iron beaks into his heart; there are skeleton | fingers of grief pinching at the throat, I come in amid the clicking of the glasses and Iery: “Woe! Woe! The way of the ungodly shall perish, There is no peace, my God, to the wicked, The way of fs hard." Ob, my friends, Christian satisfaction than in whole rivers of sintul de. Other wings may be dreached of the storm and splashed of the tempest, but the dove that comes in through the window of lke tha of aove coverad with sliver and her feathers with yellow gold. in, I remark, usa Here 1 inn euiture, | enty of friends, great we i na aif His rt. He lives useles Here is another His apparel may no tion may aot His happiness happy. Helis as sel! denyin soldier falling in the ranks, : “Colonel, there is no need of thoss boys tir- ing themselves by carrying ma to the hos pital. Let me dis just where I am.” Bo this young man of whom I speak loves God, wants all the world to love him, is not ashamed to carry a bundle of clothes up that dark alley to the poor. Which of those young men do you admire the better? The one a he style of ) som! nis own unregrettad be so others, | sham, the other a prinee imperial. Oh, do you know of anything, my hearer, that is more beautiful than to see a young Hero is some one falling ; he lifts him up. Here is a vagabond boy ; he introduces him to a mission school, Here is a family freezing to death ; he carries | them a souttle of coal. There are 500.000, - 000 perishing ln midnight heathen darkness. By ail possible means he tries to send them : , - Ho may be laughed at, and’ he may be sneered at, and he may be oari- | Pestured, but he is not ashamed to go every. {| where saying + “I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, It is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation.’ Such a young man can go through every thing. There is no foree on earth or in bel that can resist him. I show you three spec- tales Spectacle the First Napoleon passad by with the host that went down with him to Egypt and up with him through Rassia and srossed the continent on the bleeding heart of which he set his iron heel, and across the quivering flesh of which he went grinding the wheels of his gun carriages--in his dying moment asking his attendants to put on his | military boots for him. Spectacle the BSecoad--Voltaire, bright and learned and witty and eloquent, with tongus and volee and strategem infernal, warring against God and poisoning whole | kingdoms with his infidelity, yet applauded by the elasping hands of thrones and em- pires and continents-—his last words, in delirium supposing Christ standing by the bedside—his last words “Crush that wretoh I Spectacis the Third <Paul-—Paul, insigni- floant in person, thrust out from all refined association, scourged, spat oa, hounded like a wild beast from city to city, yet trying to make the world good and heaven full ; an- nouncing resurrection to those who mourned at the barred gates of the dead ; speaking consolations which light the eves of widowhood and orphanage and want with glow of certain and eternal release ; une daunted before those who could take his life, his cheek flushed with tmnsport and his eye ou heaven ; with one hand shaking deflance at all the foes of earth and all the rincipalities of hell, and with the other | and beckoning messenger angels to come and bear him away as he says: “I am now u Pp | ready to be offered, and the time of my de- I have fought the good | finished my course; I have Heonosforth there is laid up parture is at hand, fight: I have Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me.” Which of the three spectacles do you most | When the wind of death struck the conqueror and the infidel, they wore tossed | like sea gulls in a tempest, drenched of the wave and torn of the hurricane, their dismal | volees heard through the everlasting storm, struck Paul, like an albatross, he made a | throne of the tempest and one day floated away into the calm, clear summer of heaven, brighter than the dove, its wings sovered with sliver, and its feathers with yellow gold, Oh, are you not in love with such a | | roligion—a religion that can do so much for | & man while he lives and so muoh for a map when he comes to die? I suppose you may have notloed the econ. | and the departure of an infidel, Diodorus, dying in chagrin because ke could not com- poss a joke equal to the joke utterad at the other end of the table ; Zeuxis, dying in a fit | of laughter at the sketeh of an aged woman | ~ skotoh made by his own hand ; Magarin, dying playiv cards, his friend holding his | hands because he was unable to hold them | himself, i All that on one side, compared with the departure of the Sooteh Minister, who said | to his friends: “I bave no interest as to If I die I shall be with the Lord, and {f I live the Lord will be with me.” Or the last words of Washington, “It is well.” Or the last word of Melntosh, the learnad and the great, “Happy I" Or the Inst words of Hannah More, the Christian ems, “Joy!” Or those thousands of “Lord Jesus, receive m come quickly!” "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, wheres is thy victory?" Behold the contrast, Behold the charm of the one, behold the darkness of the other, Now, I know it Is It pular in this day for young men to think there is something more charming In sk m than in re are ashamed of the old-fash ro. ride themselves | scoffed at | when he went | came to a hotel, | am sorry that to-night | young college {| Hson shonld know { What ‘rom the saloon so that you | {| “Oh," sald the hotel keeper, | hotel keeper, “he is from | name?" | could leave that hotel, { heard something | Lost! | he became ona of the most eminent | of Paul the chandeliers, | | ram Judson, | Judson's skepticism | have | from that far-away region. | jeet from the head. ism Is a beautiful land at the start, it is a groat Sahara desert at the last, Yoars ago a minister's son went off from | home to college, At college he formed the sequaintance of a young man whom I sball call Ellison, Ellison was an infidel, religion, and the minister's son learned from him the infidelity, and home on his vacation broke his father's heart by his denunciations of Christianity, came, and the soon minister's son went I shall a very siok and dying man, no other accommodation,” student and “that will make no difference to me, except I oan give you the matter of sympathy with anybody that is | suffering.” The young man retired to could not sleep, his room, but between me and a departing spirit, Ellison should know how I feel? how my heart flutters? if Ellison knew my skepticlsm gave way?" He slept not, In the morning, coming down, he sald to the hotel keeper, “How is the sick man?” “he 1s dead, dootors told us he could “Well, said was the sink one's "Well," sald the Providence Col- “Providence College! What is his “Ellison.” “Ellison! Oh, how the young man was stunned! It was his old college mate--dead without any hope, It was many hours before the young man He got on his horse and all the way he saving to him: “Dead! Dead! Lost!" He eamsto no satis- isction until he entered the Christian life, until he entered the Christian ministry, until mission aries of the cross, the greatest Baptist mis. slonary the world has ever seen sines the days no superior to Adoniram Judson, Mighty on earth, mighty in heaven--Adoni- Which do you like the best, or Judson's Christian Hfe, Judson's suffering for Christ's sake, Judsom's almost martyrdom? Ob, young man, take your choles between these two kinds of lives, Your own heart tells you this morning the Christian life is more admir- , more comfortable and poor fellow, The not last through the night.” the young man, ‘‘what name-—where is he from?" loge.’ and started homeward, able, me more beautiful Oh, if religion earth, what will it 4 hat is the though re peacel ul loess so much fo him r 4 man on yonven? im sing wien aii he rises es | is gone and ip with the great xXology I want to w what standard carry when marching under ar { pearl army of want to know what company he will keep in the land where they are all kings and queens forever and ever, If I have induced { you this morning to begin un better life, then I want to know it, may not in this world clasp hands with you in friendship. 1 may not hear from your own lips the story of temptation and sorrow, but I will clasp bands with you when the sea is passed and the gates are en- terad, That I might woo you to a better life, and that I might show you the glories with which God clothes His dear children in heaven 1 wish 1 could this moming swing back one ef the twelve gates that there might dash upon your ear one shout of the triumph ; that thare m Sama Shou your eyes ons blaze of the sp 2 , when | of that good land, you involuntarily think of some one there that you loved--father, mother, kn he will hed 4] in the banners, I one o | brother, sister or dear little child garnered | already, You want to know what they are doing this morning. 1 will tell you what they are doing. Singing! You want to know what they wear. [I will tell you what they wear, Coroneta of triumph! You wonder why oft k to the gate of the temple and watch and walt, I will | you why they wateh and wait and look to the gate of the tempia For yeur coming! I shout upward the news to-day, for I am sure some of you will re. pent and start for heaven : “Oh, yo bright nes before the throne, your sarthiy friends are coming! Angels polsing midair, ery up the name! Gatekeeper of heaven, send for- ward the tidings! Watchman oti the battle ments celestial, throw the signal I “Oh,” you say, “religion I am going to It is only a question of time." My brother, | am afraid that you mar jose heaven the way Louls Philippe lost his em- pire. The Parisian mob came around the lafleries, the national guard stood in de fense of the palace, and the commander sald to Louis Philippe : “Shall I fire now? Shall [order the troops to fire? With one wolley wa can clear the piace.” "No," sald Louis Philippe, "not yet A few minutes passed mn, and then Louis Philippe, seeing the case was hopeless, said 10 the general, "Now is the time to fre.” “No,” maldithe general, “it is too ate now, Don't you see that the soldiers are exchanging arms with the citi gens? It is too late ™ Down went the throne of Louis Philippa, Away from the earth went the houss of Or loans, and all beonuse the king said, ‘““Not yet, not yet I" May God forbid that any of you should adjourn this great subject of re- ligion and should postpones assailing your spiritual foes until it is too Iate, too iste you losing a throne in heaven the way that Louis Philippe lost a throne on earth, VWhen te Judge descands in might, Chotasd In majesty an | Nght When the earth shall qu ake with fear, W hers, ob, where will (aon appear? they lo te ie - ee A Mastodon’s Tusks, A prospector who came down on the —- Ellison | Time passed on, and vacation | off to | | spend the vacation and was on a journey and | The hotel keeper sald : *1 | Wb to put | you in a room adjoining one where there is | “Oh,” sald the | minister's son, | All night long he heard the | | gronning of the sick man or the step of the watohers, and his soul trembled. He thought | | to himself: ‘Now, there is only a thin wall How {if | How if El they watched Him there | the alaent | xxxi., 15, | are { be said not to | hardened believe that steamship City of Topeka Thursday | night from the gold fields of Alaska brought a number of curious relics The most interesting of the collection is a set of | ivory tusks of an enormous size, the romains of a mastodon, A gres \ A gre t tooth i try to comfort their father, but how these ly. was also found with the tusks, which were discovered in a deep canyon sev- They form almost a semi- feet by actual measurement, tapering down to a point from a thickness of | about six inches, where the tusks pro. The eloments of | ages have apparently had but little of- feet on these mastodonic ornaments, for the surface is almost smooth and nearly as hard was rock, and the com- | bined weight of the two tusks exceeds 350 pounds. The tooth found is of ire regular shape, probably fourteen in- ches long, six inches through, and weighs ten or fifteen pounds, —Seattle (Wash.) Telegraph. i s——— It is claimed for Hachalish Bailey, of Bomers, N. Y., that about 1815 brought into the United States the first elephant, called **Old Bet,” which, period formed the. Beer: wavoling ported, formed rat menagerio in this country. Van Am berg, the noted lion tamer, was subse quently mssociated with the company, | ters rose up to comfort him, but | danghters Jacob had we are not told The size of the | | tusks in question is something phe- | nomenal. | circle, the circumference being ten | | Bn mystery, { eral hundred miles back in the moun- | | tains from Junean, “SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 15, Lesson Text: “Joseph Egypt,” Gen. xx=%vil., ~Golden Text: Sold 23-86 Gen, | 20~Commentary, 23. “And it eame to pass when Joseph was come unto his brethren that they stripped, Joseph out of his coat, Jeing sont father he went forth cheeriully to see 8H was well with his brethren, but when they saw him coming they determined to kill him (verses 13. 14, 18.20). Joews' hatred of xxvil., 13! They stripped Him to mo and when crucified parted among them (Math, xxvii, 28 'k Him, « 35 24. “And they took him and cast him into | & pit, and the pit was empty ; thers was no water in it Zech, ix., 11, and contrast the miry pit in which Jeremiah was put (Jer. xxxviff,, ¢ The sinner's deliver. ance from sin is compared to being taken from a horrible pit and miry clay and having his feet placed on n rock (P's, xl., 2), “And they sat down to eat bread When the decree had gone forth to kill all Jews, it Is written that the king and Haman sat down to drink (Esth. i] , 15). When they crucified Jesus it is sald that “Sitting down, (Math, xxvil., 36), The question of Jeremiah cen serning the sorrows of Jerusalem, “Is it nothing to you, all yo that pass by?" (Lam, |., come home to all who are sufferings of Jesus, 26, “Ard Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother and oconeeal his blood?" This same Judah long afterward became surety for Joseph's broth. er Benjamin (Gen, xliif,, 9: xliv., .. It was from him that the Messiah, the great doliverer, cams in the fullness of time (I Chron, v.. 2; Heb, They might conceal Joseph's b) ym his father, but lke Abel's it would to God 10 Compare ox 25. " 2) should indifferent to the 4 0 12, 58 ory (Cen, iv., ome and 1 let us sell him to the Ish , And let not our hand be upon him ; is our brother and « Aud his brethren wers content.” Thus Judah saved his brother { and his brethren from actual | Kea how one can in- fluence a nu: One with God can chase a thousand xxxii 0 28, “And ur flesh, sth ished, oer Dent i veriost (rifles It was I ther brother not to kill wal him into a pit, thinking that he might, unobserved, him out and restores him to his father (rerses 21, 22 Beubesn was the oldest of and Judah being both xxix. 32. 85 He had a heart to save his brother, but not the power to deliver him from those who hated him, He was dently abwent when Joseph was sold, 30, “And he returned to his brethren and said, The child is not, and I, whither shall go?" The same fhrase is used concerning in chapter xii, 13, 39, and Jer, What a contrast in that glorious of Jehovah, “1 am” (Ex. s 14)! the body or out of the body, If we identified with Christ we can never be, Tor He is our life, and be- cutse He liver we live (John xvi, 19). The anguish of Joseph's soul as he besought his brothers not to him [in ner xi, 2 they § he rent his ol first persasdod the Josep 1, but to Rot sil the brothers, he sons of Leah (Gon ovis Bae well is spoken wok J weph's goats, and Rin it has i BOTT halla the lige me again who, wher ir griels and carried wi body I 4: 1 Peter ii id stained Jose 1 that soile from that poor, crowned and fthe AT, “ Lae AP @ the nu re ( # Jowas ! His g ntl frespd (nther the fos they were making it very plain that thes their descendants afterward, another father, even ho who isthe all liars and murderers (John viii. , 33. “And be knew It and al : an evil boast hath J weph Is without douit There was 1 hemiocal analysis { the biood on that coat was t Was 00 son honest enough to tell the in the and so Jacob must be allowed think that his much | was actunily slain, and for twenly years he believed the same (xiiv,, 28 What an evil boast Is onvy and hatred, true children of the roaring lion (I Pet, v.. & 4. “And Jacob rent bis clothes, and put sackcloth upon his lolos and mourned for his son many days Waar we reap. Jacob had sown the and way reaping the whirlwind (Gal. vi, 7 ; Hos, viii,, 7%. He had eruslly deceived his father and lied to himself (Chapter xxvil,, 24), and now he was reaping a terrible harvest, This principle of retribution is seen continually and snoagh of it te make all but the most God means what He alter ong i“ sald, It fey in SOn'S ¢ ured hin rent in | y prove that ot human ; there jocom LET 3 ywwed son vor wo wind SOW says, 35. “And all his ons and all his davgh- ha refused to be comforted, and he sald, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning thus his father wept for him.” How many One, xxxiv., 1). We might sincerely Dinah is mentionad by name ean understand how they ing sons could comfort him Is somewhat of He is surely to be pitied, for he had not the hight which we have upon the future. He looked into the grave ; we look up and know that “to die is gain,” de. yart sand be with Christ is far better” (Phil, in 21, 28), 86, “And the Midianites sold him isto Egypt, unto Potiphar, an oMiesr of Pharoah's and auptatn of the guard. * The curtain falls upon the sorrowing father and the deceitful £8) sons, and we are given one glimpse of the | | as large as the common ear raised in oor boy 80 cruelly torn away from his home, fo ie now a slave in Egypt in the house of the chief of the executioners (seo margin). But whether a slave in Potiphar's houses or a prisoner falsely accused he Is always pros- porous, for “the Lord was with him” (chay- ter xxxix., 2, 3,21, 28) and there was bhiess- ing o whore, He was one of the blessed men of Pa, 1, 1-8, Lasson Helper, The Mary Washington Monument, The Froderiiatace (Va.) pi Council has Invited President © and and Mrs, Cleve. Ian, Vies-President Stevenson, Oblei Justios Fuller, the members of the Cablast, Governor O'Porcail and their ladies to attend the dedi- cation of the May Wash n monument to take place in that ity y 10. A coms mittes of twolve oitizeus has been appointed to wot in conjunction with the Mayor and City Couneil, Hevival oft Tvisiness, Bpeing itn weather cansod a general ree Into! How suggestive of the | Jesus, their brother who | came seeking thelr welfare (Math, xxi. 884 1 His garments | ‘ i | light the bunch lights. | ons trimming of the same | the waist, the accident might have | cost the actress her life. — Pittsburg | Dispateh | plied ear, vival of businoss at all trade centres, SELECT SIFTINGS, A farmer living near Bowling Green, Ky., was recently married to his sev- enth wife, An ugly man's competition is the latest rival to the beauty show in Brussels, Belgium. The first finger is sacred to Jupiter, | and is supposed to indicate the nobler elements of character. Five hundred thousand timated to ride in the men are es- elevators of | New York City every day. by his | . y . London was the first city in the world to use coal for fuel, this in the latter part of the twelfth century. Tenn., has rainbow fish hatchery in A pond near Nashville, just been with from the States Missouri stocked United named Cobb, near has & bisenit in his brought home There ix 8 man Roswell, Ga., who which WAT, possession he from the Firemen were driven ing store in New York burning snuff, which out of a burn by the odor of set them all to sneez ing viociently, The average height of men in Eu- rope feet inches : of wo men, five feet four inches, The Eng lish aud Russians are the tallest of Eu- ropesn peoples, five seven In Robeson Ce unty, North Carolina, Ira H. Lee set fire to a pine tree his farm. He was working under it, when the top burned off and fell, kill ing him instantly On Wheat is 80 low just now farmers of Bent County, that the Colorado, will take up most of their acreage this season with Kaffi; corn, which ere to wr corn and Jerusalen expected to pay Marble plaving was taught the other Frankfort, Alvord and singer had 8a mateh . t Cour afternoon, by Ks Li Assemblyn Eane in House Mar example, ir overnor ra 11 he ale pany coulds An f Indian relics has been made on the shores of Mus- kego and Wind Lakes, Wis, by two Milwaukee sportsmen. Among the find are a war canoe thirty feet long, made ] g of black walnut, arrow FOR OF interesting find K 0 The Chinese surname comes first, Li Chang is not Mr. Chang, but Mr. Li. The theory is that when a child | is born it already possesses the family | name of its parents. and that its given | {| name is properly second in impor- | tance The majority of American writers in newspapers, however, per sist in regarding the first name as the surname — Ruined by Dress Electricity, It is not often that you hear dress being ruined by electricity, v such an nccident really occurred the Alvin Theatre Tuesday night one net Miss Robinson wears some g which 1s trimmed the bottom and the waist metallic bronze en day might ul In s& hand around with a sort broidery, On Mon- when she answered her cue wih, by coming out of the house which isin the she noticed a bright fAssh of light just as she stepped out of the lore the audience. She thought of it, attributing the flash to the stage hands making some electric setting, door be nothing connection back in the wings On Tuesday night, at the same part { the play, Misx Robinson was walk " the Again owiy to saw the herself aw + around the bottom of no time to oall for assistance, but, hearing her stepped upon the stage, delighted to find the fire did not follow her. After the act was pver she examined her dress, and found that it was rained, the metallic trimming sround the skirt having been melted entirely off The cause of the strange accident was found The metallic em- broidery had come in contact with one of the eleetrie sockets in the floor, from which current is obtained to A cirenit be- ing formed, the continaous trimming made a sort of are. Had there been any inetallic connection with the copi- kind upon enve ope i had cue, soon A Freak in Corn John Gi. Oates, of Drone, Ga., hasa mrious ear of corn-<rather a multi. IY it were a real species in- stead of a lusas natuae, it wonld most | likely take the name of multum in parvo, for there is a large central ear, Burke County, and around itare eight distinet good sized nubbins, with a dispositiun to bear two more, if it had been a good day for nubbins Taking it all in all it is a curious little family. — Atlanta Constitution. I A Strange Faneral, A strange funeral could be seen go- ing down Charch street Saturday afternoon. The participants were all very poor. A Mexioan, perhaps the father of the dead ohild, was oarrying the coffin on his head, It was a large coffin, that of a n over half grown. Behind him, with woe de. pleted on faces seldom expressive of any emotion, followed two or three { corner whose color matehed his | we saw done many times over, and it | ion, | A MODEL HORSE PASTURE. THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S STUD FARM AT TRAKEHNEN, Pasture Land in Germany of the Young Horses, lim Z XTRAORDINARY = hd cording Magazine Stud Farm pains breeding and most to an of this article in “Emperor Hunt ing work, on and Prussia, where Frederick the Government ye ar these estates to the condition that each should be allowed to choose horses for his private it haps nnnecessary to say that thos lected are not the worst in the stud. 1158 The secret of Trakehnen's fame as a fact that in horse breeding place is the it is irrigated in direction such # manner that the grass is rich and sweet to an extraordinary extent, The soil, too, is most favorable and spongy. When it every was originally selected for the purpose it was nothing which still of of better than a vast swamp over the roamed wild, roams in a circumscribed the Baltic shores near month the Meme! River. The father of Fred erick the Great was 8 capital farmer, and had a good eye for horses as well, He converted this swamp into the richest pasture land of Germany, where even to-day one cannot dig two feet without striking water. In winter the meadows are flooded, and only the most careful irrigation preserves the in good condition for 1 balance of the year. There are ne where upon the estate, whi about nine Moose as he section ne m hii fie o 1 3 y £ ngland every vear for rpose of selecting horougi and has visited the stud-farms of n nt int in the wy nelade that his bins, 11 “1 insist said he, insist « condition until he 1s iV every oom ry fair to e feeling not the result of ‘But,” lispensable ust not be usea He must be allowed growth and seasoning belo We made a great mistake in permitting many young in horses, as young as four years of age, to come. into the army. They nearly all broke down, and in the long run were a source of great loss to us—far beyond their cost. With proper food and treatment, however, mdi agninst any horse 1 know,’ All the young horses are carefully rubbed clean and inspected every day, the brush and currycomb being used in cleaning During this process the colts are tied, but when three Id they stand guietly In order t part of joy it in- these ani 3 ruie be that esch day stroked 1--in other words, y make them masters mgb the rich sneculent grass produced by the pas- with the Lin such & way as i familiar with their future It would seem the As enough food for these young snimals, but said that they did better when they received tures wenld be the Major two portions of outs = day, once in the morning and at noon, but never at night One evening the Major took the horses called home from the pasture They in hundre and in large Again us to rg came gathered the large spaces In troops of V n- stables, or rather which is, closures facing the spent the night in common, { one hundr These pad docks were formed by planting rail- way sleepers on end at short intervals, connected by gas -pipes—a very simple and economical arrangement. Here the young horses are exercised in the winter when 1t would be unsuitable to them «ut in the snow. They round sud round in a ring under eye of the groom On the visit 1 noticed that the main body divided it- self according to the blacks going to one corner, the browns to an other, the bays to a third; of whites or grays I saw no specimens. Here and there would be one who had mis- taken his corner, or was seeking for- bidden company out of deviltry. The they all aps in gr 1 or less gO the of on OCCRsION color | keeper had no diffienity in bringing him to his right senses, however, by simply calling his name and waving | his hand in the direction of the corner | to which he belonged | addressed invarpably leaped out from The colt thus the corner in which he was an in- trader, and galloped straight to the This never failed Palatial Homes, C. P. Huntington's unfinished man- on Fifth avenne, New York, which has cost between 81, 000,000 and 2,000,000, is on the market. This splendid house was built to be the scene of brilliant social entertainments in which Mr. Hentington's danghter, who married 8 French Prince, was to be the central figure. It is. under- stood mow, however, that Mr. Han- tington intends to make his principal home in San Francisco. Mr. Yerkes's great house in Fifth avenue is nearing completion, and is one of the most magnificent establishments in New York. Mr. Yerkes is tv make his prin. sips home in the Empire City, sad Be A Swamp Converted Into the Richest Care ard taken in Germany with the of cavalry horses, woe Harper's Willism's Forest,” is still carried on near the little town of Trakehnen, on the eastern frontier of Cireat established a great stad farm. In 15848 the Prussian Crown made a present of on the King hirty 18 per- Re deep '
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