MOLASSES IN TAJIKS,
The Liquid Sweet Hereafter to be Sent
Over ine Ocean in Bulk Just
as Petroleum Is.
OLD OIL STEAMERS CHARTERED.
An Official Investigation in England Into
the Causes of the Familiar
Lamp Explosion.
SHOOTIXG DEEE WITH BLUE TILLS.
Cuiocs TicU ml HsjpemEgi (hthtred From lie (Mimas
ef Ue ExeisEgti.
A new industry that is about to be en
tered into by molasses importers, that of
shipping the product in balk, was made
public last week in Philadelphia by the an
nouncement of the chartering of the tank
steamships Circassian Prince and Pollux,
which have heretofore run in the oil trade.
They have been chartered by W. J. 51c
Caban & Co., of Philadelphia, it is said,
who have just completed a large plant at
their works, foot of Morris street, by which
tankers can be unloaded with as much
rapidity as though laden with oil.
This is doubtlessly the hardest blow sail
ing vessels have had yet, as this trade has
heretofore been entirely iu the hands of sail
ing craft flying the American flag. Should
this new undertaking prove a success in
time, like in the petroleum trade, the tank
ers will enjoy a monopoly of the business,
which will prove a very lucrative one for
their owners. By the shipment of molasses
in bulk hundred of coopers will be thrown
out of employment, both here and in Cuba.
Vessels which have been engaced in carry
inc empty hogsheads to Cuba will be com
pelled to seek other employment, and, alto
gether, it will be a most depressing outlook
lor the shipowners and 'longshoremen.
Stevedores will be done away with, as well
as counters, caulkers and others who are en
gaged in the handling of hogshead molasses.
A well-known merchant states that he
has no doubt that this undertaking will
prove a success ul one and it will be a
great saving to the importers, as every
hogshead shipped lrom here to Cuba to he
refilled stands them $6 by the time it re
turns; that is counting the extra freight,
cooperage, etc. A question that seems to
bother a great many merchants, is the
manner in which the molasses is to be
shipped in the Pollux and Circassian
Prince. Both steamers have been engaged
in the petroleum trade for a series of years,
and their tanks are lull of petroleum odor,
and the question is, can their tanks be
cleaned so us not to ruin the molasses. This
it is claimed can be done by use ot a
chemical preparation. Tlie freight paid on
the molasses is 11 shillings. They will go
out in water ballast
Causes of Lamp Explosions.
The frequency of lamp explosions re
cently induced the London Board of Safety
to appoint a commission to inquire into the
cause. SirF. Abel and Mr. Boverton Bed
wood, as such commission, report that the
causes of explosions may be arranged under
the following heads:
1. Rapidly carrying or moving a lamp, so
as to agitate the oil, causes a mixture of
vapor to make its escape from the lamp in
close proximity to the flame, and bv be
coming ignited, determines the explosion o!
the mixture existing in the reservoir.
2. Existence of an imperfectly closed fill
ing aperture in the lamp reservoir favors
explosion, owinjr to a vapor and air mixture
being formed.
3. A sudden cooling of the lamp, owing
to exposure to a drausht, may give rise to
an inrnsh of air, whereby the air space in
the reservoir is charged with a highly ex
plosive mixture, and the flame of the lamp
may at tie same time be forced into the air
space. Blowing down the chimner to ex
tinguish the lamp has the same effect, and if
the wick be lowered very much, or the flame
otherwise much reduced in size, the lamp
may become heated, and its susceptibility
to the efiects described will be increased'.
Explosion in these cases is favored by the
air passages being obstructed by dirt or
charred wick, by the wick not being long
enousth to tench the bottom of the oil
reservoir, and if the lamp is allowed to burn
until the surface of the oil is scarcely level
with the end of the wick.
i. The accidental dropping of the burning
wick into the oil reservoir is a fruitful
source ot explosions.
If the flashing point of the oil used be iust
near the legal minimum, -vapor is given off
comparatively lreelr, but the mixture of
vapor ana air in the reservoir will probablv
be feebly explosive in consequence of the
presence -oi an excess ot vapor, but lr the
flashing point of the oil be comparatively
high the vapor will be less readily or copi
ously produced, and the vaporous mixture
be more violently explosive. The efiects a re
more violent if the quantity ot oil in the
lamp is small, and oil of high flashing point
is more likely to cause heating of the lamp
than one of low flashing point, in conse
quence ot the higher temperature developed
by the former, and of the greater difficulty
with which Eome oils of that description are
conveyed to the blame by the wick. It there
fore follows that safety in the use of mineral
oil lamps is not to be secured simply by the
employment ui oils oi niu uasuing poinu
Sir F. Abel and Mr. Redwood state
further that a loosely plaited wick of long
staple cotton draws up the oil ireely and
regularly and is aitoghter beetler and safer
than a tightly plaited wick, and their ex
periments lead them to the conclusion that a
lamp explosion is not usually sufficiently
violent to cause the fracture of an ordinary
glass reservoir, although in several recorded
cases it had this eflect.
Education of the Phagocyte. -j
The phagocyte is the eDemy of the bscillffs.
The future ot preventive medicine lies in
the education of the phagocyte. So says
Prof. Ray Lankester. The phagocyte is
simply the white corpuscle, to whose benev
olent interference it is due that we are nut
altogether destroyed by the bacilli. These
enemies of mankind exist in vast numbers.
It is some indication of their extent and
variety to know that there are 1,000.000 of
tbemin'every cubic inch of the water which
islurnlshed to the people of Paris. These
germs swarm throughout the membranes of
the body. But they do little harm unless
they can get into the blood. This they have
difficulty in doing. It is here the phagocyte
comes to our relief and defense.
The moment the bacillus makes its ap
pearance in a drop of blood the phagocytes
fall upon it and devour it. Sir Joseph
Litter has described one of the experiments
of a Russian doctor wmch established this
truth. An anthrax ge!m was introduced
into the blood of a gieen frog. The germ
perished because the phagocytes devoured
it But another anthrax germ was intro
duced into the body of the trog, inclosed in
a bag which excluded the phagocytes and
that germ fl.urisntd. Tne habft of the
phagocytes is to fall upon everything alien
and barnitul that gets into the blood and
destroy it But the phagocytes sometimes
fail. If the temperature is raised they lose
their appetite lor bacilli. Our knowledge
of the services and peculiarities of the phag
ocyte may lead to a more extensive use of
the transfusion of blood. The education of
the phagocyte, we may add, is at the bottom
of the science ol inoculation, says the New
York Timet. A smallpox germ would
prove too much for the digestion of a phago
cyte which had not been prepared for such
food, jnst as neat brandy would be too much
for a teetotaler. But if -he baa been edu
cated up to such food by a weak dilution of
the smallpox germ, the phagocyte may
then devour and destroy it. It is from such
considerations as the above that Prof. Ray
Xiancesier asserts mat me luiure oi pre
ventive medicine lies in the education of the
phagocyte.
Shot a Deer "With rills.
A member of the United States Senate,
distinguished alike for his treat ability and
the unctious manner in which tie tells a
story or relates a joke, even if it be upon
himself, entertained some newspaper men
Saturday in the lobby ot the Senate with
the recital of an incident in connection with
a recent successful deer hunt not over 1,000
miles from the nation's capital, says the
Baltimore Sun. The Senator was combin
ing a quest of health with pleasure on this
deer huut, and had gone provided with a
liberal supply of pills provided by his
Washington physician. He was camped in
the mountains and was meeting with a fair
share of success.
One morning, while preparing to take
bis departure for the deer stand, a messen
ger arrived loaded down with glowing c
couutsof the November Democratic victories
throughout the country. Now, the Senator
is one of the stanchest and most enthusi
astic Democrats in the country, and
the great news fairly set him wild.
About this time the Icud-mouthed
bay of the hounds came from the
mountain, announcing that the fleet-footed
deer had been started. The Senator
quickly loaded his double-barrelled gun
and hastened to the stand. He had been
there but a few minutes when a splendid
ihree-nronced buck put in an appearance,
scarcely 40 yards distant, utterly uncon
scious of such close proximity to the usually
unerring aim ot the Senatorial deer hunter.
Then there was a loud report, the deer stood
motionless, and then the Senator let him
have another barrel. But to the Senator's
sirprise the buck took a header through the
forest at a rate of speed which showed that
he was unaffected in wind or limb by the
fusillade to which he had been subjected.
The Senator is now convinced that instead
of loading with buckshot he had used the
pills, and at most the buck only received a
hypodermic injection of blue mass. The
Senator did not say, butit is just possible that
lie also got in the wrong pocket that morn
ing when taking his daily dose of physic,
and instead of the pills dosed himself with
buckshot It is certainly possible he might
have done so and been excusable, suffering
as he was under the effect of Democratic
and buck fever.
Frozen GOO Feet Deep.
For many years scientists have been per
plexed over the phenomenon of a certain
well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as
1828 a Russian mecrbant began to sink this
noted well, and after working on it for three
years, gave it up as a bad job, having at
that time sunk it to a depth of 30 feet with
out getting through the frozen ground. He
communicated these facts to the Russian
Academy of Science, who sent men to take
charge of the digging operatiou at the won
derful well. Tnese scientific gentlemen
toiled away at their work for several years,
but at last abondoned it when a depth of 382
feet had been reached, with the earth still
:roz;n as hard as a rock. In 1814 the
academy bad the temperature of the soil at
the sides of the well taken atvariousdepths.
From the data thus obtained they came to
the startling conclusion that the ground was
frozen to a depth exceeding 600 teet
Although it is known to meteorologists
that the pole of the lowest known tempera
ture is in that region of Siberia, it is con
ceded that not even that rigorous climate
could force frost to such a great 'depth be
low the surlace. Alter figuring on the sub
ject for over a quarter of a century, geolo
gists have at last come to the couclnsion
that the great frozen valley of the Lena
river was deposited, frozen just as it is
found to-day, during the great grinding up
era of the glacial epoch.
Artificial Incubation on the Nile.
Artificial incubation is by no means a
strictly modern industry in Egypt, writes
Consul General Cardwell from Cairo. The
art ofjutching cjjs by other than natural
process was known and practiced by ancient
Egyptians, and the Egyptian incubatory of
to-day is but a reproduction of the one of
thousands of years ago. In all these years
thi Egyptian breed of chickens has not
changed, and the manner ot reproduction
has remained immutable. Not long ago I
secured the metal stamp of a chicken de
posited in a tomb over 2,000 years ago, and
it is the perlect type of the Egyptian "low! of
to-day; and when this stamp was struct ar
tificial incubation was a thing of actual ex
istence in Etrypt The methods of hatching
eggs by artificial means and a knowledge of
constructing appliances for the same have
descended through ages from father to son,
and the wonderful success attending this in
dustry throws into insignificance the modern
scientific machines lately introduced into
the United States and elsewhere. The
marvelous success of artificial fowl produc
tion in Egypt proves the tact that inventive
genius even in America might be directed
into more successful and lar less expensive
methods of industry by drawing inspiration
from these patient never-tiring people of
the Nile valley. In 1880 the fowl industry
of the United States amounted to over $200,
000,000; and if to sc vast an industry could
be applied the economies of Egyptian pro
duction pronts would be trebled.
Rich Finds In Florida.
According to the report of the Surveyor
General very prolific new sources of wealth
have recently been unearthed in Florida.
Extensive and very valuable deposits of
rich phosphate rocks were discovered only a
lew leet beneath the surface on the pnblio
land that has lately been drained. Many
other valuable substances were found in the
course of the explorations. Among them
are slate, mica, zinc ore, kaolin, sulphur,
marl and fossil guano. Large areas of
swamps that have been drained now open to
tillage a broad expanse of arable land well
adapted to the cultivation of sugar cane and
other semi-tropical crop;. Development of
the resources of the State cannot intelli
gently proceed, however, until a complete
survey has been made. Such surveys are
essential. They not only reveal the pres
ence of valuable mineral deposits, but re
duce to a minimum the waste of money usu
ally expended in crospectinc bygiving reli
able information as to the approximate loca
tion of paying mines.
Mermaids and Mermen.
The dugong, a species of whale found
abundantly in the waters of both the great
oceans, but especially off the coast of Aus
tralia in the Pacific, is believed to have
furnished the slender basis upon which all
mermaids and mermen stories have been
founded. Its average length is from 8 to 20
feet It has a head much resembling that
of the human species, and breathes by
means of lungs. It leeds upon submarine
beds of tea-weeds, and when wounded
makes a noise like a mad bull. Long hair
in the female species, and hair and beard in
the male, adds to the human resemblance of
the head and neck. The flesbof this species
of whale is used for food, and is said to have
tne flavor of bacon, mutton or beef accord
ing to the parts of the body from which the
meat is taken.
A. Case of Suspended Animation.
Andrew Oleson is an iron handler em-
tployed until recently by the St Paul
Foundry Company, says tne tt. x-aui uiobe.
Some months ago he complained of an un
controllable desire to sleep at all times, and
be was frequently seen at his work in a half
wake condition. This peculiar affection
grew on him until he was compelled to
throw up his position and submit to medical
treatment He returned-with his wife and
one child to Esu Claire, Wis., where his
parents reside, and there placed himself in
the care of a physician who had brought
him safely through the ills of childhood.
Oleson seemed to derive soue benefit lrom
the treatment he received, and on November
1, considering himself cured, returned to St
Paul and was employed in the performance
of numerous odd jobs about the residences
of Summit avenue people.
One night he returned home and com.
plained of a return of the old symptoms.
Mrs. Oleson prepared a warm meai for him,
oi which he ate sparingly and retired to bed.
When Mrs. Oleson endeavored to wake her
husband next morning she was horrified to
find him rigid, cold and apparently dead.
Dr. Bole was called, and he declared after
a brief examination that the man was alive.
Various methods were resorted to in the
effort to effect resuscitation, but the body
remained rigid. At 6 o'clock in the even
ing an electric current was applied at the
soles of the feet, and the effect was immedi
ate. The man's limbs began to twitch nerv
ously, and in about 30 seconds he drew both
feet up with a jerk, opened his eyes, and
damued the doctor in choice Norwegian.
Oleson seemed in no hurry to go to sleep
again when seen that night His wife states
that this is the first time be has been affected
iu the manner described.
What Makes Hair Curly.
The difference between straight and curly
hair is very apparent on a microscopical ex
amination, says the St Louis Globe-Democrat.
A hair is a hollow tube, and a straight
hair is as sound as a reed, while a curly hair
is always flattened on both sides and curls
toward one of the flat sides, never toward
the edge. It is a curious and little known
fact that the hair of women is coarser than
that of men, as well as thicker on the scalp.
In an average head of hair there are about
130,000 individual hairs. The hair seems to
have a life of its own, independent of that
o the man, for numerous instances are
known ol the hair continuing to grow after
death. In one of the St Louis cemeteries a
body of a lady was some years ago disin
terred for the purpose of removing it else
where. When the coffin was opened the en
tire capitv was filled with a mass of auburn
hair which had grown after the interment
had taken place.
Sand Saturated With Petroleum.
Prof. Selwyn, Chief ot the Geological Snr
vey, is very much interested iu specimens of
hardened black sand which comes from the
Athabasca district, says a dispatch from
Ottawa, Ont It is simply common saud
saturated with petroleum which has oozed
through from the overcharged earth be
neath. It is a pretty well accepted fact that
underlying the'strata of the valley are vast
petroleum deposits, whose presence is be
trayed by the trickling of the oil in exposed
places, and its appearance on the surface of
the lakes and streams all over that region.
When asked to what use the impregnated
ssnd could be put, the professor said that
one use that suggested itself to him was the
employment of it as insulatory matters in
underground electric conduits. At present
the material lor this purpose has to be
manufactured. The sand, or rather the
crude oil in it, burns like tar. Prof. Selwyn
will recommend that a boring be mado at
Government expense at Athbasca Landing
next summer for test purposes.
A Doc; Without a Voice.
Robert C. Dingee, a stenographer, living
in Plainfield, N. J., owns a dog which is
straneely afflicted, says the New York
Tribune. It has lost entirely the use of its
voice, and is in fact almost as dumb as an
oyster. The dog is a big savage-looking
Newfoundland, and is chained to a kennel
at one side of the house. Tramps think
twice before attempting to enter by the
gate, and upon second thought they gen
erally decide to call elsewhere for cold
victuals. Although it cannot bark or growl
Mr. Dingee's pet is a first-class watcher,
and by showing two rows ot gleaming teeth,
and by excited rushing to the lensth of its
chain limits, intruders ore generally scared
away.
The handsome brute has not always been
dumb, however. One unusually hard winter
it caught a severe cold and nearly died.
Mr. Dingee argued that what was good for a
human couch ninst necessarily be also good,,
for a canioe cough. Accordingly he pro
cured lrom a druggist the best bottle of jotk
and rye in the market and prescribed liberal
doses orthe"same to the dog. The latter at
once felt the soothing efiects of the medicine,
which, bv the way, it was not loath to take,
and rapidly recovered. As the cough left
the animal so did its voice. When Mr.
Dingee comes home now his pet welcomes
bim with a rattle ol its chain, and on occa
sions ot unusual joyfnlness it indulges in a
wheezinc sound, which is no more like a
dog's bark than is the noise made by escap
ing steam.
A Sandwich Island Fruit
The papaia, says Paradise of the Pacific,
published at Honolulu, is a iruit that has
long been grown in this country and is more
easily raised than almost anything that is
planted, yet it does not seem to be valued
according to its worth, nor cultivated as ex
tensively as it should be. At the right stage
of ripeness it is quite agreeable to eat fresh,
and made into a pic it is delicate and deli
cious. When fully grown, but still green,
it may be pared and cooked as squash or
turnips are. It makes a very edible vegeta
ble, and is most serviceable when those
better known vegetables are scarce. Horses,
swine, fowl and birds thrive on it Grow
ing up straight witnout wiae-spreauing
branches the tree occupies but very little
room, and will grow and bear a great many
years. Visitors to Hawaii should indulge
in a taste of papaia, and then learn how
careless the community is in not taking ad
vantage of the opportunity to propagate a
useful, delicious fruit
A Boston Kleptomaniac
"I want you to watch that woman over
there," said Inspector Knox, of Boston, to
a Traveller reporter the other day. She was
a young and rather prepossessing woman
who stood in the middle of the little party
at the counter in a jewelry store. She
called for a tray of rings. They were taken
from the case and put on top. She then
took one of the rings in bcr fingers and
looked at it, and then, turning to another
tray, took up another ring. A moment
later she adroitly dropped one of the rings
and stepped upon it Resuming her ex
amination of the tray before her she at the
same time dropped her handkerchief on the
floor, and when she picked it up the ring
was concealed somewhere within its folds.
Every time this was repeated a ring went
into her pocket, until she bad half a dozen.
Outside of the counter were two persons,
friends of the customer, and each had a
memorandum block upon which was kept
an exact tally of the number of rings taken
from the trays, while inside of the counter
was the superintendent of that special de
partment and two of bis assistants, each of
whom also kept count upon a block. The
blocks were subsequently compared, and the
iriends of the young woman were notified,
and the bill was paid. It is a form ot
amusement, however, that she is seldom per
mitted to have, although the family is well-to-do.
How an Earthquake Feels.
A peculiar thing about living in Central
America is the ease with which you become
accustomed to the earthquakes. They do
not come without giving due notice. You
are sitting in a piazza of a hot afternoon
chatting with your friends, when suddenly
the sky seems to grow hazy, the crows stop
cawing and the buzzards quit fighting in the
street There is a general rush, and, though
you may not know hat is the matter, you
cau not help feeling uneasy. The old na
tives say, "We are going to have a little
shake," and then the house begins to rock,
the tumblers fall off the table, you feel
deadly sick at the stomach, and the thing is
all over; the sky clears, the crows begin
their noisy screfms and the buzzards resume
their quarrel over the street offal. There is
something inexpressibly terrifying, however,
about the trembling of the earth; the slight
est oscillation will awaken the population
of the whole town and rouse a drunkard out
of the deepest stupor, but unless some con
siderable damage is done, everybody goes to
sleep again as a matter of course.
THE NIGHT COMETH.
Opportunity for Preparing for Judg
ment Must Cease Sometime.
SO IT IS WELL TO BE PREPARED.
Procrastination Steals More Than Timet It
Steals the Soul.
THE BET. GE0EGE DODGES' SERMON
IWSITTCN VOX TUB DISPATCH.!
Christ has come, and is again coming. He
came to save us, and is coming again to
judge us to judge usl Nobody knows
when; nobody knows just how. But every
body who puts faith in the plain word of
the Master knows that sometime and some
how He will come, and will come to
judge us.
Christ comes in all the crises of human
life. He said once to His disciples that
they should see the Son of Man come before
they died. It is not certain of what event
He spoke, whether of the founding of the
Christian church or of the fall of the He
brew capital. But it is evident that He
meant some coming before the last Christ
is always coming, and judgment is always
going on. Every supreme moment, every
great trial, or strong temptation, or unusual
joy or sorrow, or wide opportunity, in the
life of a nation or of an individual, is the
hour of Christ's coming. And He
comes to judge us. The coming
of death, then, must be a coming
of Christ; and the hour of death must be in
some measure the day of judgment for every
one ot us. That there is life after death, we
know. Our Lord came back out of the
grave to make that sure for all who take
His word. The conditions of that life, how
far it corresponds with our ordinary life,
and how far and in what it differs from it,
how much of human opportunity ends at
death, we may guess, we may argue out
from here and there a vague phrase of reve
lation; but we know not So far as we
know, death is the end of opportunity. I
hope it is not I hope that in the next life
there will be a chance for people who have
thrown away their chances in this life. Still
more for those who seem not to have had any
decent chance at all.
DEATH IS THE END.
But all that is on the other, side of a wall
without a window. Nobody can be seen
about it Nobodr ran calculate upon it So
far as we know, death sets the signature and
seal to human destiny; and so becomes our
day ot judgment The coming of Christ to
lead us into that land which has thegrave for
a gateway, is the end, so far as we can see,
of all the plans and promises and resolu
tions of man. Whatever is not finished
then, will be carried, still unfinished, into
the presence of the Master. "The night
cometh, when no man can work."
The end of the year approaches; the end
of life approaches; the end of opportunity
approaches. Do we need to be told that the
night cometh? Is that a strange discovery?
Presently it will be noon, and then the sun
will begin to decline, and the light will
grow dim; presently the light will go out
altogether, and the sky will be black above
us, and it will be night; do we need to be
informed of that? And death cometh; do
we need the voice of the preacher to teach
us that? The silver cord v, ill be loosed, and
the golden bowl be broken, and the pitcher
be broken at the fountain, and the wheel
broken at the cistern; and man will go to
his long home, and the streets be filled with
mourners. Is that new? That is as old as
human life. Amid all the doubts and un
certainties which beset us, this we are
absolutely sure of that we must die.
A TETjTH not realized.
But do we realize it? Do we live as if we
honestly believed it? "By and by'rwe4y.
But will there be any "by and by?" "After
awhile I will do it." Do what? Why,
change my course of life; be more straight
forward in my business; and more loving
and less exacting and complaining, and
more unselfish in my home; stop that beset
ting sin of mine, put it away; hold up my
head like a Christian, and try to be a Chris
tian; I will join the church; I will give my
heart to God, and consecrate my life to His
service, and be of more use in the world, and
definitely endeavor after my ideal. When 7
"After awhile."
Tolstoi tells, in a recent parable of his,
about a company of men and women who
were discussing the life which our Lord
Jesus Christ lived, and comparing theirown
lives with it,. and they all agreed that they
were living unworthily, and were ashamed
of the ease and luxury and selfisness and
unchristlikeness of their daily behavior.
And a young man in the company
spoke up and said: "We all confess that
onr faces are turned in a wrong direction.
Why, then, seeing that we are following a
false path, do we not turn about, and seek
the true one? As for me, that is what I
will do. I will stop and turn about.
Henceforth I will live as Christ lived, de
voting myself to theservice of those who are
worse off than I am, lilting up those who
are down, and trying to be of some use in
the world."
But the young man's father rebuked him.
"It is the place of youth," he said, "to learn
and not to teach; to submit to the guidance
and follow the example of those who are
more advanced in years and in wisdom.
Wait a little. Learn all you can, and see
all you can. And, bv and by, when your
enthusiasm is trained and your mind is
matured, then, if you see fit to'try this ideal
life, go and try it"
THE MAN OF THE EAETH.
After that, one of the married men of the
company spoke." 'T have seen a good deal
of lite," he said, "I am young no longer. My
mind is matured. lam perfectly sure that
the course of life which I am followiug leads
neither to happiness of mind nor peace of
conscience. My days are spent in selfish
toil; my whole purpose is to make money;
my whole ambition is occupied with
merchandise, and dresses, and dinners.
Would it not be better henceforth to live
unwordly, putting away selfish luxury, and
training myself and my wife and children to
think less of ourselves and more of others?"
But all the women of the company ob
jected. "A married man," they declared,
had no business to utter such heresy. It is
the part of such a one to provide for his
family. As for you, you have spent your
youth in pleasure, and will you make lite
unpleasant for your children? Let them
grow up in peace and quiet, and when the
time comes, choose their own course ot liv
ing for their own selves."
Finally, an aged man, who had but a day
or two ot his life left, made his resolve: "I
am at the end of my years. Nobouy is
dependent upon me. And I am ashamed of
all my past; life, and still more, of my
present life. My whole thought is about
what I will eat At last, I am determined
what to do. I will put it all away, and
live the few remaining days ot my existence
as our Lord commands."
But his sons dissuaded him. "You have
lived so long in one wy that it is now too
late to change it Besides, why make your
self uncomfortable?"
And so it appeared, as the conclusion of
the whole matter, "that no one should lead
a good, upright, spiritual life the utmost
people may do is to discourse about it"
AIWATS AN EXCUSE.
There is always some good reason for not
being a thorough Christian. At least, we
persuade ourselves that the reason is a good
one. There are always in every congrega
tion a considerable number of good people
who are quite familiar with the teachings of
the Christian religion, and yet they hare
never definitely given their allegiance to the
Lord Jesus Christ They have never eome
yet to the point where they were willing
to stand up and openly confess
themselves upon His side. They are good
people who are accustomed to be guided in
their behavior by the light of reason. They
must have tome good reason here. Nine
times out of ten the central word of this
good reason is the word "to-morrow."
"By and by," and "after awhile," and
"to-morrow" are the catch words of the
devil. The devil is the most persistent of
all preachers. He is "always at it" And
presently we come to recognize him by his
style. Like everybody else who does agreat
deal of talking, he comes to have certain
favorite and characteristic word. Yon re
member the legend of the devil preaching
in the Cathedral pulpit, disguised in the
friar's gown and cowl. The congregation
ousht to have known him. He bad con
versed with most of them ofteu enough lor
that No doubt his first premise was "by
and by," and his second premise was "after
awhile" and his conclusion wns "to
morrow." Anyhow, it all came to that, we
may be sure. For that is the line of his
argument with us.
ALL KNOW THE BIGHT.
There is no use trying to persuade most
people that black is white, or, that wrong is
right We all know better than that There
is no nse trying to persuade us that the com
mon lives we live are adequate, or that they
satisfy us. They don't. 'You might as well
try to convince a hungry man that he isn't
hungry. And the devil is very wise. He
does not try any such loolish logic as that.
He whispers no contradiction when we cry
out discontentedly about the low level on
which we live our lives. He rather en
courages our discontent. But he takes all
the meaning ont of it by persuading us to
put the whole matter away until to-morrow.
We set down a first-rate resolution, with the
devil for a willing indorser, and then we
begin to feel better. We take credit to our
selves for our good resolution. And we
stop there. For there is a deep philosophy
in the question ol the little child, who asks,
"Is this to-morrow?" Dear child, to-morrow
never comes; the only thing that cer
tainly comes is the night "when no man can
work."
Begin to-day. There are people who go
about their houses with frowns upon their
faces. They are iretful, cross, surly, selfish.
They keep all their courtesies and good
manners lor strangers. They scold their
children and each other. There is no peace
when they open their door to come in. And
yet these people so queerly are we made
may really love each other. Little as you
would mistrust it, they may actually love
each other and their children.
WHEN OPPORTUNITY IS GONE.
And by and by when death comes, and
one of these little children is taken away
out of hearing of all this discordant babel of.
frettings and scoldings, and out of bearing,
too, ot all the tender words which might
have been said, but which cannot be said
now why, these strange, cross people, this
quarrelsome father and this, fretlnl mother,
are bowed down with sorrow. They look
back over all theancer, and ill-temper, and
unhappy times, and memory changes into
pain. Oh, for a single day, to live even a
very little of it over again, and live it bet
terl Death has a key lor every door. The
night cometh in every human habitation.
And you can't unsay things after death
enters. There is no 'languace which can
carry messages within the walls ol that deaf
ness. It you have any tender words to say,
say them to-day. If you think that there
ought to be more peace and more unselfish
ness, and more happiness, and moie love in
your house, bring in your share to-day.
If vou want to make any change in your
life, begin it to-day. Is it quite good enough,
this life which you lived yesterday; and in
tend to go back to to-morrow? Is it all that
you ought to make it? How much of Christ
is in it? How is it different, on account
ot that cross set up on Calvary,
and that message of your heavenly Father's
love inscribed upon it? How far does it fol
low that ideal lite which Jesus lived, to
show what a man's life can be, and ought to
be, in this evil world? Are you proud of
it? Are you satisfied with it? Are you
happy in it? A Christian life, beginning
in love lor Christ, and extending out. in
unselfish helpfulness toward everybody who
is down; a lile for which the neighborhood
is better; a glimpse into something higher,
and an influence of inspiration and uplift
ing, among your associates; is this your life?
I do not need to tell you that this life ought
to be your life. And if you knew that there
would be a certain end to it be'ore next
Sunday, that it would be all summed up
and completed some day this wee, that
you would die this week, you would do
your best at once to make it such a life.
But you must die, sometime.
rEOCEASTINATION THE ENEMY.
"Ah, yes! Sometime." Procrastination
is a thief, notoriously. Bnt be steals a pos
session of far moro value than our time; he
steals our souls. Put it offl Put it offl
Almost thou persuades! me to be a Christian,
but wait, consider a little. "We will hear
thee again of this matter." And so away to
business and pleasure and forgetfulness.
For "sometime" is as far off as the horizon.
You journey on, and on, and on, and it gets
no nearer.
Nobody ever became a real Christian
without somehow saying "Now." It is no
use saving "sometime." "Now is the ac
cepted time; now is the day of salvation."
"To-day, if ye will hear bis voice, harden
not your hearts." The "night cometh."
The day of acceptance passes, hour by hour.
That is one of the uses of the services and
sacraments of the church to emphasize this
word "to-day." They offer an opportunity
for immediate action. Good resolutions
prove the best in the open air. Shut them
up within your heart, where nobody can see
them, and (half the time) they wither. So
the Church gives us something to do, opens
a chance for us to fortify our new purposes
by making them known. Come to her
services, and bring your heart and lips with
you. If you have never been enrolled in
the company of those who love the Lord
Jesus Christ, here is a sacrament of initia
tion. If tou have once given your lile to
Him and nave taken it back again, here in
the sacrament of Holy Communion you may
renew your loyalty and love. All the time
the Christian church gives every man a
chance to do some definite thing, to make
and testify his choice, to mark his determi
nation to live a Christian life. The weeks
pass. And "the night cometh."
George Hodges.
BABE SF0BT.
Chicago Capitalists Shooting Prepared
Game In the South.
Boston Traveller.
Recently a large party of wealthy gentle
men from Chicago visited the Electrio City
of the South seeking an investment for their
superfluous lumps, and having a little spare
time on their hands resolved to make up a
hunting team. Big stories of wild turkey
in abundance about the mountainshad been
floated about the Hotel De Jialb, and en
thusiasm crept under the vest of the fortune
hunters in large majorities. A well-known
trapper was approached, who tumbled to
the scheme at once, but knowing
wild turkeys did not abound in that
region, to any great extent he set his
wits working, and resolved to keep up his
reputation as well as that of the country
where he was a prophet Procuring half a
dozen good turkeys from a near farmer and
a bright lad to tend them, he located both
in a lonesome place up the mountain and
left them to their fate, with instructions to
keep track of tbem for so many hours; and
wherever they went to scatter paper scent, a
la hare and bonnds, that the trapper might
track tbem. Bright and early the next day
came the party, eager for mountain game,
and the guide hitting the scent easily was
not long in scarinc up a bird. Bang 1 bang I
bangl bang! and the wildest specimen in all
Alabama came down with a flutter of wild
feathers, an easy victim to Chicago's
prowess.
In a short space of time five more rare
birds, were bagged, but the hunt kept on
unabated, umil the sun commenced to
slant his eveninjr rays, 'when the mighty
hunters resolved that the whole family
were slaughtered, and, weary ot sport,
betook a homeward conrse. Great was the
curiosity at the hotel to see the fruits of the
hunt, and congratulations were in order all
round. The next day the Chicago gentle
men left for home, carrying those six wild
tame turkeys, and are probably to-day
telling their friends of the sport they bad in
the mountains of Alabama, shooting wild
fowl.
The trapper thought the story too good to
keep, and thus it leaked out.
A BIT OP BAD WATEB.
Tbe Worst Soil to be Had is Over to
the Shetland Islands.
RESDLT OF A SPANISH SHIPWRECK.
How Gallant Paul Jones Was Frightened
by Red Petticoats.
A WHOLE ISLAND 0WXEDBT AW01UIT.
Icor.r.EsroNDtscE op the dispatcb.1
Lerwick, Shetland, Dec. 12. In
crossing from the Orkneys to the Shetland
Islands, a distance of p-rhaps 100 miles
from Kirkwall, the capital of the former, to
Lerwick, tbe capital of the latter, it is pos
sible for the traveler to encounter the
fiercest ocean tides, and the roughest waters,
known to any seas. The perilous tideway is
called the Boost (Norse, rtest, tide-race) of
Sumburg, and the waters sweep through it
with incredible velocity. One who has
known the roughest passage from Dover to
Calais, across tbe English Channel, will re
member that experience as a gentle sail
after tumbling about in the Sumburg
Koosf, and particularly that portion nearest
the Southern headlands of Shetland, known
as the "west shot" of Sumburg.
Your steamer in the passage sails almost
within h'ailing distance of lone Fair Isle,
standing midway between the Orkneys and
Shetland, and its natives invariably inter
cept passiug vessels in their curious, frail
yawls, eager for newspapers, magazines and
any scrap of knowlege of the outside world.
Fair Isle was the Fridarey of the Orkney
inga Saga. It and one or two of the Orkney
group still retain the name of the Faroe or
Sheep Islands. No spot in all these north
ern seas receives such lashings and beatings
from the Atlantic, and its '250 sonls are
never free from the shriekine of sea fowl or
the howhngs of the deep. The island has
no lighthouse, and has been the scene of
many a terrible shipwreck.
TAUGHT BIT PEISONERS.
In 1688 El Gran Grifon, a warship of the
great Spanish Armada, commanded by Juan
Gomez de Medina, went to pieces in Sivars
Gio, on its desolate shores. Eighty-six souls
perished. Two hundred reached land, many
of whom died of starvation. Others were
thrown from the cliffs by the perturbed na
tives, who believed that the crew of El
Gran Grifon had been sent to destroy them.
Those escaping death by sea, starvation and
murder Anally secured toleration and a sort
of friendship which had curious results. The
Spanish sailors became, until ttjey were res
cued from the island, dependents and slaves.
Seeking the eood will of their Faroses mas
ters, the Spaniards actually spun yarn. wove
at hand looms and knit for the women.
That was nearly three and a half
centuries ago; but the very patterns in
stockings, gloves, capes and jerseys for
which tbe Faroe Islands are to-day famous,
were then tanght them by tbe shipwrecked
crew of El Gran Grifon; they are identi
cal with those now worn by the Pescadores
of Barcelona and Spanish sonthern ports;
while it is even said that Murillo, who gave
the Louvre, in Paris, its matchless Ma
donna, painted similar patterns upon a
shawl in his stndy of the Flower Girl, now
seen in the Dulwich Gallery, London.
If one can keep good sea-legs under him,
the approach to Shetland is interesting and
exciting, your steamer bounds, lurches
and pounds through tremendous seas, and
a strange trembling of the strongest vessel
is always felt as tbe unseen forces of the
tideway contend for the mastery.
ADVENTTJEES OP TAUL JONES.
Straight before you is the southernmost
Shetland sea-nose, the grim precipice of
Sumburg Head, crowned by a noble light
house, the first ever erected in Shetland,
built by Bobert Stevenson, the great Scot
tish engineer, in" 1820. Around to the west,
its base white for 100 feet high with the
spume of the sea, and its highest peak as
white with drifting mists, rises upward of
1,000 feet, wild liittul .Head, the legendary
home of Scott's Noma, the Beimkcnner,
as dark, forbidding and fearful a spot as
ever human eyes looked upon. To the
east, here and there feathery lines of
smoke on the sea horizon tell of the going
and coming of German ocean "tramp"
steamers or traders of the Baltic fleet.
Nearer in the foreground, like sea-'owl
resting upon the water while snnning their
uplifted wings, the sails ol countless Dutch
and Scottish herring-busses.
There is no finer anchorage in the world.
In Bressay Sound it was that King Hakon
came with his wonderful fleet of 200 Gal
leys, when on his disastrous expedition,
terminating in the battle of Largs. Our
own redoubtable Paul Jones once came
here to loot the capital of the Shetland!.
But ho ran away again speedily. Hun
dreds of Shetland women climbed the Knab,
a promontory near, to get a better view of
the "Yankee Pirate." They all wore red
petticoats. The hero of the Banger and
Bichard, believing them to be the red uni
lorms of a large garrison of King George's
soldiers, did not stop to even "kipper" and
eat a herring with the Shetlanders, but
made away as fast as his ships' sails could
carry him to the Solway Firth, where he
failed in an attempt to despoil Scotland of
her good Earl of Selkirk, in Kirkcudbright
shire. AM. OWNED BY ONE LADT.
The area of Bressay Island is perhaps
12,000 acres. It has a population of 1,000
souls. All tbe acres and people are tho
property of a very pleasant and marriage
able lady, Miss Cameron Monat, who lives
in high state and dudgeon, because of tbe
modernization of Shetland and the incom
ing of tourists, at her quaint old mansion
house of "Gardie," which lifts its huge
chimneys and gables exactly opposite the
harbor and city of Lerwick.
Facing old Lerwick Iron a steamer's
deck, or from Bressay Island opposite,
you would almost fancy your vessel had,
by some trick ot navigation, entered a
port of the Netherlands. If tbe level
land and dikes and weird .old wind
mills of Holland could be thrown in
behind Lerwick for a background,
the Dutch picture would be complete.
Architecturally, Lerwick is as odd a
town as you will find in all Europe. It is
built on the face of a brae, aud the morning
sun, when it gets around far enough north
to shine at all in this region, looks over
Bressay Island and peers squarely into its
rough old face. Jumble upon jumble it
straggles around to the southeast and the
northeast for a good mile, in all manner of
enrious groups and piles; just as though,
upon a time, it had been leisurely built on
the edge of the hill above, and then the hill
had gently shook itself and everything had
quietly slid down its side, and finally got
comfortably settled, fronts, rears and gables,
all inextricably yet satisfactorily askew.
One recalls Gray's description of Kendal:
"They (the houses) seem as though they had
been dancing a country dance and were out
They stood back to back, corner to corner,
some up hill, some down."
IT'S A TOWN ON EDGE.
But Lerwick is deliciously more so. It
is uphill, downhill, and all around itself.
Yet there is some little method in it all.
For it is all along shore, and all upon, over,
under and near a delightfully crooked and
shadowy thoroughfare .following the vagar
ous sinuosities of the shore, and a modern
street, or road, that at last was beaten alone
the top oi the bill, where the more preten
tious, but altogether uninteresting new town
lies. Connecting these two thoroughfares
are numerous lanes from three to seven feet
wide, at an angle ot 35. Tbe ancient
burghers could not onlv fish out of their
back windows, but some houses were so con
structed that a yawl-load of smuggled goods
could) in case of pursuit, be shot into con
venient openings, aud the latter as instantly
closed. Numbers ot buildings had secret
anartments. and vou mar still find struct
ures, at soma distance from tho shore, to J
which spacious subterranean passages lead
from the bay. The simple Dntch traders of
those olden times knew how to fear God and
thrive.
Two of the most interesting, though some
what grewsome, objects of interest in the
little islands are the Pictisb tower of Mouse,
and Fitful Bead, of both of which you have
caught glimpses from your steamer. A boat
must be hired at Sandlodge, seat of the
Shetland Braces, to cross the sound to the
utterly dreary island of Mousa. Tbe broch
or tower stands at the southwest corner ot
the island, and is remarkable from an anti
quarian standpoint in being the largest and
finest example of the olden Pictish towers of
defense now remaining in Europe. They
are very numerous in Northern Scotland
and the Orkneys and Scotlaud. Anderson
gives 60 lor Sutherlandshire. 70 in Caith
ness, TO in the Orkueys and 75 in Shetland.
WALLS FIFTEEN FEET THICK.
The Mousa tower has tbe appearance of a
gray, ragged aud gigantic dice-box; is built
of nncemeuted stones like the great Dun
jEngus on the Irish Aran Islands; is about
100 feet in circnmference,and it is still fully
40 feet high. The walls, which are about 15
teet tbick,are really double, or rather consist
of two concentric circles of stone five feet
thick, with an intervening space of equal
width. This space, chambered by making
the floor of one tier answer lor the ceiling of
the next one below, light and air only being
admitted from the open interior, contained
all tbe barrack accommodation the hardy
warriors of old knew how, or cared, to pro
vide. A curious screw-like stone staircase, built
into the inner wall, winds around within
the tower, communicating with the tiny
stone chambers; and on tbe ground floor
are three large detached chambers, 15 feet
long, 10 feet bigb, the width of the space
between the walls, in which are square
storage-holes or ambries. Mousa js a
wondrous old relic of Pagan times. Its
age is certainly 1,500, and perhaps 2,000
years. Strange chronicles flash along the
pages of Norse history regarding the orgies,
sieges and tragedies known within this
ancient tower; and we can easily learn that
among its other nses it was held iu high
repute 1,000 years ago by Norse lovers of
noble blood, as a sort of impregnable
Gretna Green. Many a Norse Viking has
besieged the sturdy place in vain for
daughter, or sweetheart, who has found
protection, a husband and a honeymoon,
within its gray old walls.
A VERITABLE WHITE MOUNTAIN.
By foot-path across the moorland wastes
it is bnt about seven miles to Fitfnl Head.
It is tbe White Mountain of the Norsemen,
on account of the luster of its slate torma
tion. Its highest crag rises rally 1,000 feet
above the sea, bnt the legendary habitation
of Noma, a bold, almost detached, cliff
lifting its sea-front into a point as sharp as
a church-spire, is not more than three
fourths that elevation. It is quite accessible
alter a rough scramble, and its sides are the
haunts of myraids of sea-fowl.
Horrible indeed must be the spot in time
of storm. But when I had accomplished
tbe task of scaling its heights, natnre
seemed asleep and dreaming peacefully.
Away down there below, the sea was as
calm as a Highland loch. From the higher
headland the whole of Shetland could be
seen with a glass waste, moor, hillock,
valley, glen; a land without forests, split
and serrated by the ceaseless gnawings ot
the sea. Tremendous Precipices rose every
where. Lochs and tarns showed without
copse or verdure. Shadowy "hellyers" cut
the seawalls where the tide is ever at ebb or
flow. Here a fishing station; there a dreary
hamlet Yonder a gravelly beach, with
fish enrers and their sodden toil; beyond a
weird gio with a herd of seals turning their
shining sides to tbe low, red sun. Oyer all,
a filmy, dreamy, tender presence; for in the
brief days before the dark, long winter sets
in, it is "peerie summer" in the Shetland
Isles. Ed gab L. Wakexax.
A CURIOUS OPEEATIOK.
Bono From a Doe Grafted In a Boy's Leg and
Both laves Nourish It
New York Herald.
The bone gralting operation which was
performed in a small operating room at the
Charity Hospital by Dr. A. M. Phelps, Pro
fessor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Univer
sity of New York aud the Post Graduate
Medical School and Professor of Surgery in
the University of Vermont, at Burlington.
His chief assistant was Dr. James E. Kelly,
who is now in Berlin to procure a supply of
Dr. Koch's lymph lor the Charity Hospital,
and another assistant was Dr. C. D. Boy, at
the time Honse Surgeon at ttie hospital.
A portion of the bone of a living dog was
engralted into Johnny Gethius' leg to take
the place of the bone that was lacking.
There was a congenital malformation of
Johnny's right leg. It had been operated
upon before and intentionally broken before
by tbe surgeon, but the bones had refused to
unite.
Dr. Phelps told the three score of surgeons
and students who were present that he pro
posed to engraft the ulna of a dog's foreleg,
the homologue of a man's arm, into the
wound in the boy's leg. He had attempted
the operation once before with a moderate
degree of success. Union between the mus
cular parts bad been per.ect, but bony
union between the man and dog had been
prevented by muscular twitching of the
dog's scapular muscles, which had pulled
the bony graft from position.
Dr. Phelps said he would endeavor to
guard acainst this in Johnny's case by put
ting in an aluminum peg. He used it in
preference to one of ivory, because it was
stronger and lighter and would not excite
the slightest supuration.
THE SUBGEON3 AT WOKK.
Four attendants bad brought in the un
conscious form of the boy. Just above tbe
ankle of tbe right leg was a space entirely
lacking in bony tissue. The foot dangled
in the air because held in place only by
muscles and integument
Alter the usual antiseptic and other
measures had been taken Dr. Phelps re
moved tbe cicatricial tissue otj Johnny's leg
and exposed tbe ends ot the bone to view.
All newly formed tissue was scraped away
and the blood vessels tied.
Then the dog Gip, rechristened Charity
by the boy himself soon after the operation,
was brought in, firmly encased in a plaster
cast and also unconscious. The surgeon
cut off the dog's right leg above tbe knee.
He then cutoff another inch and a half of
tbe bone.
To this was left attached the dog's flesh
and the arteries to sustain it until it should
become a part of the boy. The dog was
placed with his head toward that of the boy.
The peg was passed through the hollow bf
the dog's bone or graft Sliver wires con
nected tbe two parts ot the boy's bone
loosely.
The graft or dog's bone was dropped ber
tween tbe extremities of tbe boy's bone,
which were in turn fitted into the peg. Tbe
silver sutures were then drawn tight and
tied. The skin and flesh flaps of the dog's
leg were sewed firmly to the sides of the
wounds in the boy's leg. Bods of iron were
bent over the wound to form a protection and
bandaged to the leg. The plaster cast was
omitted immediately surrounding tbe wound
to allow the surgeon to look at his dressing,
linen bandages taking its place.
The dog was then strapped by plaster of
paris bandages to Johnny's leg and his vocal
chords cut, so he could not howl.
Tbe final operation or separation of the
dog and boy consisted merely in cutting tbe
slender flesh flaps uf what was left of the
dog's leg, and consisted ot merely a few
strokes of the knife that a student might
have made.
Who Has This Information?
To tb Editor of The DHiitcai
I am desirous of knowing whether the
Pennsylvania Bailroad Company has more
engines than the London and Northwestern
Bailroad Company, in England.
J. Thomas Williams.
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