pppip"RiPiipni r "jT T&Ji-n ffC if bt$ wrf&vqr "V. f TrjJrY'ii" ft" 33BSr "-T -Tit I W 8r HB' jljKyyTBBBHpffPBBiHBHHBWiMWt 10 things except the laws of health and life. I went to Encland when 34, and cot some hints from there. In those days very little F attention was paid to hygiene, and after re turning I began to put into practice what I had learned, and ever since that time I have increased in weight and size. I increased my chest measure 12 inches, and my weight from 50 to 60 pounds. Ton will be surprised to fcnow that this was done fvwithnnt mr vev crninir jntA n tfpmnrfiinm Health In Lone Breaths. p "I could only use tbs means within the (breach ol a blind man. and one of the princi- t'pal means of increasing my size and weight which I adopted was air, taking a larger and larger .quantity into my lungs. I hare I cultivatstbrcathing as the basis of life, so that sow I suppose I can inhale and exhale as large a quantitr of atmosphere as any i living man. That is the secret of the devel t opment of physique, to take into your lungs ' the whole amount of air which your lungs ' are intended to receive, and that is, in the case of a man of fair chest proportions, 330 . cnbic inches. The well built men in this country do not take in 200 inches. "Tne hrst thing you do when you awake ' in the morning is to be snre yon hare a cur rent of fresh air passing through your room. Remove the heavy bed clothing from your i person, leaving only a sheet over you, lie as nearly flat as you can, draw up the knees and relax the muscles of the abdomen. I Then with your mouth closed and your chin I raised, in order to relieve all constraint , about your chest, draw in all the air you can without violence, doing it gradually and without painful effort. Hold the air os long as you can and breathe it out ' through the mouth or nose, in the former case with effort. Never Itreath Through the Month. "Close your lips as soon as all is out, and practice doing nil your inhalations through your nostrils, never under any circumstances inhalinr through the mouth. I would rather drink the water left in a finger bowl at the close of a White House dinner, than to take in one spooniul of Washington air through my nioutii. Do this breathing while in bed in the morning for five or ten minutes. This has been my constant habit lor a number of years. "You will remember the Bible says: 'God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of liie, and be became a living soul.' Shake speare and other famous men speak of the nostrils as the only proper channel to be used in breathing, and it is an uncontra dicted fact that the Indians who never breathed through their mouth were never subject to thousands of our diseases, until coming into contact with modern civiliza tion he was induced to adopt the white man's silly method, and he at once became sus ceptible to all of those ills of the Caucasian. Iu the pulpit the very moment I need a supply of iresh air I close the mouth, and the great ranee and power of my voice I at tribute most largely to the development of the luugs through my great breathing capacity." Xtaldness and the Sun Care. "Air is my first prescription," continued Dr. Milburn; "the sun is my next. I oiten walkabout with my hat off in the sun, and it was a practice of Goethe to do this for an hour at noon. He said it stimu lated his intellect.nnd that there was a vital end quickening power in the sun's rays. Thirty years ago I began to be bald. My father aud younger brothers were as bald a's the palm ol your hand when they were 40, but I told them when they informed me that I was getting bald, that I would never be so. I have resolved to prevent it and I did. I never wear a hat when I can help it, and I am not as barefooted to-day on the top of my head as I was in 1860. I wash my hair whenever I wash my face and bands. "I have a muscular exercise, alight dumb bell exercise," Dr. Milburn went on, "and haveoften used Indian clubs, and in addition have some gymnastic movements for the arms, legs, chest, etc As to the massage treatment, I suppose I am the most expert i massage operator in 'ibis country, and am also the best groomed animal in this respect. Immediately after get ting out of bed, I take a cold, tepid or warm bath, and rub down Justice Hi adieu. vigorousIy,andIspend from one to two hours everyday in Grooming My Venerable Carcass. VI used to be brought constantly in con tact with Henry "Ward Beecher, and other prominent characters of large physique, 30 years or so ago, and they were always banter ing me about my small vitality. 'Why don't vou laugh and grow fat,' they would ,say. "'Well,' I would reply, 'I laugh ynough, but don't know how to grow fat.' Wince I have changed my plan of life I have buried them all." "I use horsehair mats in rubbing down," he continued, "and then put on vaseline or oil and rub into all parts of my body. The oil taken up by the skin in this way is as good as food, and it keens the cnticie in ex cellent condition. This use of oil was com mon among the Greeks and Romans, and jou will find it among many ravage tribes." "How about vour eating'."' I asked. "Oi course," replied Dr. Milburn, "a man must varv bis diet according to his habit-;. If you cat a certain article the year round it will certainly give you the itch, The diet should conform to the sea son. The Duke of Montrose once put up Itching I'olcs In Scotland for the benefit of the peasantry, and you know Sandy feeds on oatmeal 12 months of the yer. The tilings were a subject of considerable ridicule, but the people ap preciated them, find whenever they used them they said as they rubbed: 'God bless the Duke of Montrose' "When I come to eating I take a cup ol hot water aud sip it. It should not be drunk. That is the only water I taste during the day except a glns's of water at the beginning of dinner. All the water I drink is boiled. Then comes porridge and fruit, the former with milk and sugar, xnen some Drown oread and Dutter, a little fish and a little bit of chop or steak, and then I wind np with two boiled eggs. "I have eaten from two to four boiled eggs every day of the year lor 30 years, and t when I speak in the evening I hi ways eat two boiled eggs beiore so doing. For lunch 1 eat n few biscuits, a little cheese, herring and shavings of dried beef. For dinner at 6 o'clock a simple soup, one course of meat with one or two vegetables, green things in spring, and above all, onions. I am very strong on onions. I believe it to be the most valuable vegetable that enters the stomach. I take boiled milk before going to bed, which is the last thing, and it enables me to sleep well. My digestion is as perfect as when a boy, and 1 think that without a doubt, any man, by adopting the same methods that I did, can achieve the same results." fupreine Justice Bradley on Longevity. Dr. Milburn here attributes his good health and working powers to his habits of life, Many ol our spry est old men say that ' habits are little, but the inherited constitution is everything. Take for instance. Justice Joseph P. Braaiey.ortbe United States Supreme Court, who has, for the last 2t years, been one of th ' most learned men on thi Supreme Bench, and who now does as much work as any man in pub lic life lie was born iu 1813, was 78 years old last .March, and his Sm,v Kina. working hours are from 10 to 12 daily. There Is no brighter mind in the country than his, and his range of knowledge is as wide as that of any other man on the bench. X met him at Deer Park during the past summer and ehatted with him as to his health. Said he: "I have been a worker all my life, aud flurjni ureatputof mv career J have putj mmzm w - kL.vminr f.Nrt HS HM iu from 12 to 16 hours out of 24. It is my habit now when the court is in session at Washington to put in four hours on my cases before I go to the Capitol. I rise earlv, take mv breakfast and wort from 7 unti'l 11. The' Court meets at 12, and I sit theie .ind pass upon cases uqtil, 4. I then return to my house uponue adjournment of session of court, and take a. couple of hours of relaxation until dinner time. Some times I take a nap. Mathematics as Becreatlon. "After dinner I usually spend the even ing in my library, w.here I work until I get sleepy. I vary my work with philosophical or mathematical calculations, and some times take a rest by reading a good novel. I am very fond of good fiction, and I have a natural tendency toward mathematics. "I attribute mv health and working powers." said the Judge, ''to an excellent constitution, added to a moderate degree of temperance in eating and drinking. My father was a farmer, and he married a farmer's daughter. He was 18 years old when hejras married and my mother was 17, and I was the first child and apparently inherited the vigor of both parents. I was brought up on a farm and spent a part of every year upon one until I was 20. After I weut to college I spent my vacations in teaching, and I also did considerable sur veying. While I was at college I studied 16 hours a day, and I think that I worked too hard during my early life, and especially during a period of my practice of the law. I Was very ambitious to succeed, and when I had Important cases" I often sat.up until morning studying them. A Warning Against Overwork. "One might remember well and it was this experieuco tnat led mo to be moderate. I had a very knotty problem to solve, and I worked away far into the night. Toward morning I was shocked to find my mind all at once refuse to act. I could not think at all upon the case and I feared that I had piralysis ol the brain or at least the first symptoms of it. I took a wet towel and laid it over my head and went to bed and slept aoout three hours. Wheal awoke I found my mind all right, hut I decided not to risk such a thing again. I have since been more temperate in mv work, and am regular in my working hours. " - , "1 have never patronized the doctors to any extent," continued Judge, Bradley, "and I have been well the greater part of my life. When I was about 20 years old I was troubled with bilious attacks. These continued a number of years and then left me. 1 don't know that I. did anything to drive them away, and I have no particular rules of diet, 1 have smoked during apart of my life and I smoke now. An Intermittent Tobacco Smoker. "I find no trouble, however, in stopping, and throughout life I have smoked lor two or three years at a time and then stopped. Then taking it up again, ai.d again stop ping. When I break off smoking, however, I become a teetotaler as to tobacco for the time. 1 also take a little whisky and water occasionally and I have never found it to disagree with me. Good wines in modera tion seem to suit some men, but they are too acidiferous for my stomach and I do not drink them. As to what I eatlam'not par ticular, save that I choose such things as agree with me and discard tbos which do not. "You ask my advice to young men who wish to make the best of their working powers. I can only advise moderation and temperance. The young man who is moder ate in everything, "leading a temperate life, abstaining from worry, and keeping his working apparatus in good order,is bound to outlast him who does not, provided the con stitutions of the two are the same. I believe that marriage conduces to length oi years. The married man keeps better hours, and his life is a natural one." Uow Horatio King Hoops Tonus;. Another Washington septuagenarian, al most as old, and fully as active, both phy sically andjnentally as Judge Bradley, is the Hon. Horatio King, who was Postmaster General in Buchanan's Cabinet,.and who now, a generation later, is as fond of Wash ington literary and sociaLlife as he was then. I met him on the street" the other -day, and my first question was as to his habits of ex ercise, baid he: " " "I am a great believer in walking, and I think one of the .secrets of my good health is in that I never owned a horse or carriage. I walk until I get tired, and then if I have not reached my-tiestination I take a street car. As to my other rules of life, J don't really know that I havo any except those of ordinary temperance. I have always been accustomed to plain living. My father was an independent farmer in New England, and I was brought up on a farm. We had plenty of potatoes and meat and good bread, and this aras-cnough Jflr-us, without overloading our stomachs. We were not very particular as to what we drank, and I remember we always laid in a barrel Of Fine Old Medford Bum at harvest time. Well. I have kept up mv love for plain living all my life, and I sup posemy health has been the better for it. I enjoy life now, and I have always done so. I keep no regular hours, go to dinners and receptions aud enjoy them! and I used to smoke tobacco and was fond of it. I found, however, that it was not good for me, and I gave it up." I asked (be noted lawyer, Mr. Latrobe, of Baltimore, who is nearly if not quite 90 years ol age, and whose health is apparent ly perfect, his receipt for perpetual youth. Suld he: "I attribute my long lifejto an ex cellent constitution, and the only advice I would give to young men would be tn avoid the use of tobacco. I have not used it uow for 25 years, and I stopped it because I found it was injnringmv health. As to my other habits of lite, I have been rather gen erous to inTself than otherwise. I have eateu good dinners and have given dinners. I don't believe generally in the mortifica tion of the flesh, and I believe in enjoying li.e an. far as possible as you go along." Ex-GoTernor Curttn, of Pennsylvania. Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, has been one of the leading public men in the United mates lor many years. He was eminent as a War Governor. He served withgreatdistinction as our Minister to St. Petersburg; and be has bad a long career as a member of Con gress. He is in good condition "now, and be promises to live to be 100. Said he.: "I owe much to a good constitution. My grandfather died from being thrown Governor Curtin. from a horse at 106. and my father lived"to he 93. I have had a stirring lite, have seen some sickness, and am cow, at77, in perfect physical condition. I had three or four attacks of the grip list winter, and have survived them. My rule of life is temperance apd regularity. lam blessed with a very small appetite, and I don't know what it is to be hungry. I have just eaten my supper. It consisted of some bread and milk, and I rarely eat more than this for breakfast. My dinner is light, and lean go all day without eating and not notice it. I have no particular rules of diet. I drink a little good rye whisky everv dav. and smoke in moderation. I dow not exercise a great deal, and nave no particular rules of health. I believe that marriage conduces to a long life, "because it j ,,, -. . is in the course of nature. Not Always a Healthy Stan. , "At the close -of the war I was, a very tick man. For four years I was constantly with in the sound of the clicking of the tele graph. It was so in the Governor's office in Hairiaburg, and in the field I carried an operator with me. Day and night my mind and nerves were on a strain, and at the olose of the war my nervous system was broken down. I could not olose my hand, I was so nervous, and J low entire .control of my self. My doctors told me that a change of climate was all that would save me, and they-sent me to Cuba. I improved as soon as I got out of New York, and X was well In a few months. Fsaotc G. CXBraxxxs. X Us wi&n via 'Ji' vr . THE GOSSIP'OF THE WEEK, Case of Isaac Smith, of Ohio, Who Was Respited Eight Times. DR. FELIX OSWALD ON L0K6EYITI. Portrait tf Emma Eames, Who It Bitting ill London by the fan. MAEEIAQB OF THE FBIK0KSS L0UIBB nrxiTTXir roa th Disr.i.TCB.1 Governor Campbell, of Ohio, has at last decided to settle the case of Isaac Smith, convicted of the murder of his cousin, Stephen Skidmore, by commut ing the prisoner's death sentence to life imprison ment The case is re markable from the fact that the prisoner, since originally convicted in 1889, has been respited eight times, both Gov ernors, Foraker and his Jtaac Smith. successor, having grave doubts of his guilt. Smith was "found guilty on circumstantial evidence, pure and simple, and such evidence as would hardly be satisfactory to any other jury in the world except an American. The prosecu tion relied almost entirely on the evidence of a man, Fowler, who repeatedly perjured himself in matters of minor importance. As a result many influential persons interested themselves in the prisoner's behalf and feeling swayed repeatedly to and fro, now with Smith, then against him, until the present Governor of the State determined on a life-sentence as the' best way out of the difficulty. Smith himself very consistently argues that he is either guilty or not, aud if there is a reasonable doubt he should bo permitted to go free, but this was more than the Governor was willing to allow and Smith will, therefore, have to serve his time, whether guilty or not. Tho Kale for Longevity. Dr. Felix L. Oswald gives some reoipes for longevity in a recent letter, but very sensibly refuses to indorse any of them. The learned doctor is always interesting, no matter what his subject, because be is so thoroughly conversant with- everything worth talking about In this last case he is every bit as entertaining as usual, but does not cover the ground completely as his wont, not from a lack of knowledge so much as a lack of space. In treating of the sub ject of longevity it is idle to fix upon any given rule lor its attainment No scientific or other rule ever promulgated has demon strated power to lengthen for a single year a human life. Yesterday we might have met So-and-so on the street and compared his magnincenc pnysique with our puny shell, inwardly envying the fortnue Nature had bestowed on the other. ' To-day w read of his death. The 'poor, weak;, "cold-blooded mite of humanity goes shivering past and we mentally fix the date of his funeral, thereaiter granting him respites for gen erations perhaps. "Oh, man, man," raves the prohibitionist, "drink will destroy you," and yet there is not one among us who cannot point out dozens of persons who have been drunkards all their lives: are still robust and hearty, and likely to bury the majority t those who are busily trying to save them. There is a man who has had consumption lor the last 20 years and looks better to-day than he did at tho beginning. There's an other and another and still another, who have bad incurable diseases as long as we nave Known mem ana thev are still livine. Baxter, the celebrated non-Conformist, was such a frail delicate man before "20 years that he could scarcely move about without assistance. So fragile was he then and until the time ol his death that scarcely a dav passed but the life-blood oozed Irom the pores of his fingers' ends through weakness, and yet he lived to be 76 years of age, preached many wonderful sermons, wrote a series of works which fill completely 25 large volumes,, served 18 months' imprison ment and did a prodigious amount of labor generally. What law or rule held good in that man's case? Was it abstinence? Per haps. And yet German statisticians have recently demonstrated that heavy drineers live longer than total abstainers, and mild drinkers longer than either. Doctor Oswald may agree with you that a genuine' specific for longevity has not been discovered yet Importation of Egyptian Cotton. The steamer Fitzroy recently arrived in New York from Alexandria, with a con signment of Egyptian cotton destined for consumption in this country,' amounting to 2,150 bafes and valued at $36,000. It seems ather strange that the importation of this material is necessary, when according to the most recent statistics, the production of cot ton in the United States exceeds the demand by 5,316,000 bales, or in plain figures the estimated production last year was 7,434,000 bales of 400 pounds each, against a consump tion ol 2,118,000. Will someone please ex plain the necessity for importing the foreign articles. Must we admit the Egyptian cot ton to be superior to ours, after the time honored assertion that the American pro duction was the finest iu the world?' A FrollHo French Writer. Most people think that when a, person reaches the age ol 60 or thereabouts it is high time to prepare for dis solution, but M. Fran cisque Sarcey, the eminent dramatic critio of a Parisian journal, does not go on this theory, for now. just as he has reached the ripe! age ol Oi, what does h do but get married. Old as he is his tastes are evidently young, too, if we may judge by the fact that he has selected Franoltque Eareey. as his bride xauy luuvau -lean vouncrer than himself. M; Sarcev is not a handsome man as the reader will agree by reference to the" portrait accompanying this article. Both face and form are thick and "Dodgy," and one look ing at him would think him a dull old fel low, but, in truth, his is one of the brightest intellects in all France. Foryears'he has been contributing 14 or more columns weekly of dramatic matter to his paper without ces sation, and it c.in be said that his articles are always lull of lite and spirifand the opinion of no man of his time is held in higher esteem. . Besides, there seenis to be no limit to his powers. Others will at least occasionally drift away from their chosen field, but M. Sarcey never. Day afjer day he has bomething new to say in theatrical matters. To-day it is on dramatic novelties; to-morrow new books relating to the staire: the next questions concerning the advance- ment or condition of his favorite, rtrofessinn Always uruiiani.iogicai and sparlcliug with ideas are the productions of this dis tinguished writer, and 'as he is still active and strong we may reasonably hope for a long continuance of his much-admired work. A Judge's Peculiar Baling;. The judge of a petty court in England raised a peculiar point in a trial which took place there recently. ' A committee of miners dismissed a man for drunkenness. The oommittee happened to be made up en tirely ot teetotalers, and when the man whe bad been discharged appeale'd'to'th law the judge In question sustained him, .and, fur thermore, 'roiused to accept the testimony of the committee, on the ground that the men composing it were so extreme ia their views that their evidence was bound to be influ enced. While many persona will obtect to . .it. , . . - ri: . . .such a theoretical manner of aondnstimsr 4 Km? T5t J iv ,m&& m im WHMM Kk. Hi ...mm vK9SSk. I VtNOI S FCTTSBpTRff DI8FAT0H. trial, there are others again who will admit that there is considerable good, hard common seme hi the judge's view. The Erlncess Ioulia's Marriage. Another" niarriage-of the spring aud win. ter variety, soon to take place, is that of the reigning irince, George Victor, of Waldeck-Pyrm o n t, with Princess Louise Caroline Jullane, of Schleswlg-Holstein-Sonderburg- Gluoks burg. The groom was born Janurylt, 1831, and the bride January 0, 1858, so there is a slight dis crepancy in age. Princess Louis is de scribed as afatr.blue eyed, kind-hearted girl of more than or PiWn.iii l".si.fV dinary intelligence. Whither she may or may not consider it a matter for self-congratuiauou, n nwi that she at one time was seriously consid ered as a mate for the'present Emperor of Germany. 'The arrangement waa set aside, however, and-Princess Victoria chosen in stead. Probably Louise, etc.. is better off as it is. even if she, does marry a man well up in years, as he has at least the reputation of being a good-hearted old fellow.whlle the Emperor's marital affairs do not appear to be as' happy or as well balanced as they could be., Alsace-Lorraine lsj German. There is a lot of talk these days about the hatred of Alsace-Lorraine for everything German and it would appearas if the border countries ceded to Germany after the Franco- .Prussian war were solidly French communi ties carried oyer bodily into the enemy's country. The sensational writers who are continually issuing reports ought to remem ber that these principalities, though under French rule since the time of Louis XIV, are"" not French in any other particular. During all the 200 years this splendid coun try was alienated from the German people, the language of tbe,Bhinelanders never ceased to be the language of the people and even all the newspapers have been printed in both languages. An officiil estimate ot the population, -made in 1S90, also annuls the wild assertions. Ot the 1,660,000 persons comprising the population 1,350,000 are of German origin. Under the circumstances, it is certainly ridiculous to,assume that Alsace-Lorraine is clamoring to return to French rule. A Great American Singer. If it were true, that kittens born in a bake-oven should be loaves of bread, then Emma Eames, the Boston singer who has become famous at Lon don with the charms of her voice, should be a Chinese girl, for the land of tea, pig talis and objections to Henry W. Blair, is the land of her birth. She is the daughter of an attache of the diplo matic service who was JTmmo Eames. stationed there when she was born. Her childhood was spent iu Boston. She learned the value of her voice early, and deter mined to fit herself for the operatic stage, going to France for that purpose. Two years of study with Madame Marches! and Gounod and she was ready for active work, ner first appearance at the Grand Opera House was an instantaneous success. She essayed the role ot Juliet in which she made a great hit Sinoe that time she has ap peared in several other operas, in all of which she has shown to advantage, and many critics think her the best singer, with out exception, this country,has produced. The. Colony on Trlstan-CAounha. -The published reports concerning the con dition of the inhabitants of that remote island in the South Atlantic, Tristan D'Acunha, are rather misleading. It would appear as if the entire colony, which now consists of abont 100 souls, was wrecked on the island in 1836, while in fact Peter Green, the present bead of it, is the only one who reached the Island in such a man ner, it having been colonized years before. Although Tristan D'Acunha; is 1,300 miles from at Jieiena, a compauy or British artil lery was placed there in 1816 to watch Na poleon. When the latAer died the force was withdrawn, with the exception of a Corporal named Glass and a few companions who were left in charge of the small fort that had been erected. Finding the soil very fertile and the locality agreeable, the men decided rto remain when their terms of enlistment had expired. Thev were also able to carry on a brisk trade with passing vessels which added considerable to their revenue. Iu the meantime their number slowly but steadily increased. The island is about 20 miles in circum ference and is within a score of miles of two others, one of which, Inaccessible Island, is of special interest from the circumstance that it harbored two Germans named Stolten hoff, who led quite a Boblnson Crusoe exist ence there fccgiuning in 1871. They were finally takeu off by the. Challenger on Octo ber 16, 1873. Wilkie. - THE- Aira-TIGHTS CHAMPI01T. Kellale, of Minnesota, Now Finds Zdf an Almost Intolerable Bore. The most utterly miserable man in tho State of Minnesota is McHale, the antl tichts'ah'ampibn, says Thomas J. Beamy, of St. Paul. He thought, for a time, he was one of the. 'greatest men in the United States. Up to the time the Sent pa'ssed his bill be had been left comparatively free from criticism. He was rudely awakened the next morning to find that "the world had turned against him" in one night Ye godsl how the newspapers did "throw it in" to himl They printed columns of clippings front the Dress of the country, and that "busted'.'-MoHale. Then came tho guying.- He would start for a drive, and find that some solicitous friend had encased the legs of the animal in old trousers. Did he 'go into a restaurant or hotel dining room, some wag would see to it that the, bill of tare wonld read "frog's limbs" instead of frog's legs. He would order spring chicken, and the leg of'the fowl would, be wrapped in paper. Even the'girls'would giggle when they met him, an 1 with expressive glances look down at their dress to see it was not disarranged. Then the oldvman's mail began to Increase until it seemed that everybody iu the United States. had determined to take a crack at him. t The letters many of them were abusive made the old man wild. The writers called him by every name known, and some., of,' them were addressed "Old-Man-Ashamed - of- His Shape McHale," "Nude-in-ArtMcHalej" etc. These letters orushed'tbe old fellow, and it is probable he will be'seennonore in' public life. ,02DEBS IS A COFFEE H0U8E. The Walter Uses a language Peculiar to His Establishment Baltimore 'Herald. J t Any man who has ever a meal within the portals of a full-fledged coffee house has beard the sportive waiter singing out his abbreviaied;and nondescript orders. If you. nouiu-nappen tocau lor roa oeei ana a baked potato you, will immediately hear! "One slaughter house and a murphy!" If It is a mince pie sprinkled with white sugar you crave, the waiter calls aloudi "One dyspepsia in a snowstorm I" Only a few days ago I asked the waiter of one of these resorts to order ae some poaehed eggs,. No sooner were the word ont of ray month than I heard him yellt 'Adam and "Eve afloat in aid oeean." But I changed 'my mind, quickly saying I ucureu soraBiBiop. & no cnangea Ota oner to oninwrecj-Aasa ana xntv 9T v"2fc 3 9. vsBr I BUNDAY, MAY 10, A GREAT COpISSION. Dntj Laid Upon tho Church in the Second Sermon on the Honnt. DISCIPLES OP ALL 'TBE NATIOJS. It Wav Hot U Bo a Lieal Crouds, bit to Embrace "tho World. THI B1FTIS AHB'THS MACHI56 f iwarrraif ros xxrz nisrxToa. Sometime between the resurrection and the ascension into heaven, sometime prob ably in this very month of May, Christ preached the second sermon on the Mount Some say that there were 11 people in the congregation, some say that there COO. Any how, we may be sure that the number made no difference to Him. That is one of the notable things about Christ, that He never cared about the siae of the congregation. Eleven people, or 1,100 people, JJe made no ohauge in the sermon. Perhaps the most important sermon He ever preached was that in which his pulpit was a moss-grown well-curb and where He had a congregation of one. It matters little how many people heafd the second serman on the Mount It is worth while, however, to notice this" about the congregation: That although they had heard Christ preach before, and many times, they came to this sermon as they had never come to any other. You cau see a change in the attitude of 'the disciples toward the Master. "When they saw Him, they worshiDed Him, but some doubted." Some worshiped and some doubted. Some, sure that it, was He, fell down at His feet in adoration. But some looked a second time, and waited until He got nearer, guessing that it was the Lord, but not certain. Here is something to think about. A Month With a Dead Man. They had come aloug tne country road, between the green fields of- the Syrian May, a wondering company. Not a spaos for silence all the wayl Marvels, and marvels, and marvels, more than they had tongues for, to talk aboutl These men had lived such a month as no other men ' have lived since Enoch walked with God. They had lived a month with a dead man. And the dead man had touched them with his hands, sat down to supper with them, held long and wonderful conversations with them, and had proved to them that he was not a dead man at all, but alive, and alive for evermorel The gates of death had opened, and He had come back to live with tbem for 40 days. And as they olimbed the hill, the old hill beside the lake where He used to meet them in the days "of their ministry together, be hold a Figure coming down. And some worshiped, but some doubted. Christ and His disciples had lived verv familiarly together. They had a vague and dim idea sometimes that He was somehow quite different from the rest of them. But they had never thought of worshiping Him. As for any doubt of His identity, and difficulty ahout knowing who He was when they saw Him, there had never been such a thing. They knew Him as we know our friends. They could recognize Him a quarter of a mile away, and never make a mistake. A Change Not to Be Described. But there was a difference now. Christ was changed after His resurrection. The men who were walking out to Emmaus walked all the way with Christ aud talked with Him all the way, and did not know Him. The disciples, gathered in the upper room, were scared at His sudden entrance, crying out that it was a ghost Peter and James and John, who knew Him best, stood at His side upon the shore of the Sea of Galllse and looked into His face and heard His voice, and yet wanted to ask "Who art thou?" and durst not, "knowing that it was the Lord." They were absolutely sura that it was the Lord and yei, what was it about Him which held tbem back from the old loving familiarity? Evidently some thing. He who preached the second sermon on the Mount had somehow unspeakably and indescribably changed since He preached the first sermon. The truth is that Christ rose with a spirit ual body. And that is something about which, at present, we knew nothing. "There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body." The natural body is laid in the grave. and.God.will give ns "another body as it hath"pleased Him," a spiritual body. That is what we are told about our own resurrection. There Is little use in talking much about the shapes aud colors of Things That Are In the Dark. By f nd by, when Christ gives us light, we shall see with our own eyes, and know per fectly. It does seem plain, however, stand- ing among the congregation Defore the second Sermon on the Mount begins, that when we .say that "on the third day He rose again frbm th'e dead," and mean bv that that life came back to His crucified body, and the still heart began to beat, and the cold hands began to move, and He rose np as Lazarus did and came out of the grave if we mean no more than that, we are only at the beginning of the truth. Nobody had any difficulty about recog nizing Lazarus, but there was a difficulty about recognizing Christ The resurrection of Lazarus was not like our own resurrec tion at all; but the resurrection of Christ was. He did rise again from the dead in such a body that He could show Himself alive, and oonvince the hardest-beaded un believer that He was risen indeed. And yet, was it the same body? Down He comes along the hillside, 'as we stand here watch ing. Is it indeed the same Jesus of Nsu reth that we used to know? Yes; it is He and yet how marvetously changedl And some doubt, and some worship, A Grand and Noble Commission. So the sermon begins, and the doubts end. A brief sermon, as they who listened have remembered it lor us, more like a text than a sermon, in these words: "All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing tbem in the -name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost; teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have conrmanded youj and lo, I am with you alwav, even unto the end of the world." This is the second Sermon on the Mount. "Ail authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth." That they were to understand the beginning. Th'e head of the new kingdom of Gud, which was to be begun on earth, was to be Christ Himself. Christ was to be the center of all its theol ogy, the possessor of the authority of heaven. Christ was to be the heart of all its morality, the possessor of the , authority of earth. When they thought of God, and wondered what God was like, they were to think of Him and get an answer to all their questions. They knew God because they knew Him. Wheu they thought of duty, and were perplexed amidst temptations, or confused among many authorities in church or state, and questioned what to do, they were to obey Him; He was to be their guide, their counsellor, their conscience. The Need of the Disciples. "Go ye, therefore, and make disciples of all the uutions." Does that follow? Christ has all power. Does He need this little company of Galilean peasants? Hewbo possesses all authority in heaven and on earth, has He need of Peter, the fisherman, and of Matthew, the tax collector, and of these obscure men and, women? I suppose that the Lord knows, best bow His own work is to be done in the world, fend it is the Lordf Himself who lays "Go ye." The Liordli good work in the world actually de pend! upon that little congregation, and depeaus to-day some part of it upon you. andmV. We have an idea that He who has all aatherity la heaven aad on earth will therefore look after thlars Himself, and has no need of us. But this if not the lessen ef the eend Berinon'on the'Mont Thelessoa is that the T.nrA nri af . that wa ay Sla fallaw Xworkiwik the JUtasKUAlMa- lgf if we leave our .'share of the work undone we actually put things back in the plans-of God Almighty. God could do it all, and do it this afternoon. He could convert ail the nations of the heathen, change all the temples into churcnes, translate all the Vedas and the Korans into Biblcs.and write the Christian creedwhere every man could read it, plain across the sky. God could end all wrong, light up all the dark places and plant all the waste places, make all the men genuine Christians, solve all the hard problems which confront us, and bring in the millennium to-day. But no. "Go ye," the word is, the work is ours. -Work of the Missionary. Some people say that If God wants "all the nations" converted, He will convert them without any need of missionaries. Don't yon believe it God does want the heathen converted. He wants them? as it is written in this sermon, to be baptized and to be taught to observe all of Christ's com mandments. The Lord Christ set His fol lowers the task of carrying His truth to all the nations. And that task isn't done yet He wants His message carried to' the culture of Japan to-day just as He wanted it carried to the cultnre of Home 2,000 years ago. He wants it to lighten the darkness of wild Africa to-day just as He wanted it to lighten the darkness ot wild England in the daysofonr savage forefathers. There is no change in the eternal principle. There is no countermanding of the "marching order of the church." As for the plea that we ought to convert New York and Pittsburg first before we ad vance upon Tokio and Timbuctoo, it oan be said, at least, that the congregation Vho heard the second Sermon on the Mount did not so understand the preacher. Thev did not wait to convert everybody in Jerusalem and Jericho before thev pushed oatoAn tioch and Athens. Happily not Else bad the Christian religion been a little, foolish, narrow sect to-day, struggling still for life among the peasants of Syria. A Duty laid Upon AIL "Baptizing" them and "teaching" them. The kingdom oi God is the kingdom of truth, as Christ said. He meant that it should grow among men, not by the aid of civil power, not by the sword, not by force. nor by violence, but by the persuading of the reason ana the heart ot man. It should grow by winning "disciples," that is. by at tracting men to learn more about it, till they should be desirous of entering into it that they might be taught the ways of God more perfectly. Every man or woman 'who belonged to this kingdom should have it for principle and purpose to persuade somebody else in. Every Christian should "go" and win dis ciples. That means something different from sitting down and being content to re ceive disciples who might come. Not a word is spoken of the duty of those who are outside the kingdom to come in. But it is laid upon us who are inside the kingdom to go out and bring them in. I hope that there were 00 people in that congregation, and 'not just the 11, as some would have it; because the 11 were ministers, and it might be said that it is the duty of the min isters, indeed, but of nobody else, to go and make disciples. Christ meant that for all the 00, whether they were there or not He meant that for every Christian, minister or layman, rich or poor, wise or unwise. Go ye and make disciples. That reaches all the way to Pittsburg, into this nineteenth cen tury, into this month of Hay, aud touches us." Teaehlng Comes After Baptism. "Baptizing" them, that was to make them members of the great Christian society. And "teaching" them; that was to make them members of the right sort Notice that the teaching comes afterward. Some people think that they must do all things whatsoever Christ commanded first, and be baptized and come into the Christian church afterward. They will wait a long time. Christ would not have them wait at all. First a man must be a disciple. What is that? Why, simply one who wants to learn. Whoever desires to know the truth of God and to follow the will of God, how ever imperfect may be his performance, however great his faults if ho'does but de sire to learn, he is a disciple. He has taken the first step. Then comes baptism, and then a whole lifetime of learning, and prac ticing, and growing in grace and iu the knowlege and love of God. Finally, the Lord promises His help. "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." A great task, but suffi cient strength. Tribulation, adversity, per secution, discouragement, failure again and again, but the Lord with them, the Lord working with them always. Thus the second Sermon-on the Mount ends in bene diction. The Lord is on our side. All power is His in heaven and on earth. Hs will be the gnide and helper of His church over all the hard ways, through all the doubtful battles, in the midst of every dan ger, even unto the end of the world. , Geoboe Hodges. X ORABimiO LITTLE G0WGOL, Picture ef the Tonus Woman Wow .Attract ing Attention In Gotham. tw Tork Becorder. A good many pictures have appeared in print at one time and another of the young woman who is Private Secretary to Com missioner Beattie, and who, indeed, has a a face that is fine enough to be worthy of very frequent reproduction. But the picture that is herewith given has not seen the light in any of the multiplied sketohes of her oareer. A LtttU ComatrL Miss Cynthia Westover, for that is the young woman's name, has not always been the idol of the Italian laborers of the street cleaning department and the Com missioner's right hand in respect to fig ures. When she was n child sho lived pony-back among the Bnckics with Prof. Westover, the geologist, who is her father. In those days she spent months without see ing a woman, and ready to scream at such a curiosity, lor as vou observe, she had no re minder in her own person that there was a sex feminine, since she was dressed for con venience, and perhaps also for pictureque 11 ess and beauty as if little cowboy. She could swing the lariat when she wore these garments, and charm squirrels. Sbe could do, indeed, most things the Indian children do, which makes it all the stranger that she should be now in such a responsible metro politan position. How to Prevent Pneumonia. Any tendency of a cold or the eriD to re- r suit In pneumonia may be arrested by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and using proper care to avoid exposure. So far as it can be learned, no ease of the grip has resulted in pneumonia where this remedy has' been used, and mere than a thousand bottles have been sold eaeh day for seven months past For sale by all druggists.' . TfBtt TiresVThU Hants.' JsTaadsemely colored plotnre for frasae, wish eaeh dossn cabinet. Lisa' Gallxxt. , JIudUSixUatTStti, TOPRIKG IN TEXAS. Bill Kyo Enjoying Life on a Very Ac commodating Haiiroad. TALE OP THE GENTLE CHEROKEE. The Fat Contributor's Lecture In a Jtj Town of Pennsylvania. EBMARIS OH THE L05E BT1R BTATE iWMTrxir roa ties Diir.iTcs.1 We' are still in Texas and to-day we rode past whole townships of cacti. All kinds of rare vegetables grow in this strange and mighty State. The fuzzy csotus flourishes here especially flourishes like a profes sional penman. There is nothing small about Texas. A ranch that does not em brace a whole town is hardly worth assess ing. A county with a barbed wire fence around it is more lik'e the customary thing. A friend of mine here has" the best of a county. It is fenced in with barbed wire, whioh the outlaw used to cut now and then so that the cattle wonld get out and wander away into Peru and other neighboring places. He had to keep a force of cowboys to "rlde'tbe lines" and examine- the fence every day, until it occurred to him that he could make the top wire a telegraph wire, and with an instrument at headquarters he could detect a, break and locate it at any time. So now a line repairer and a cheap operator, who has nothing to do but to communicate with himself all day, consti tute the fence force in place of the old and expensive corps of riders and repairers. A Very Accommodating Haiiroad. We rode up from Galveston the other day with Conductor Taylor. He is a hearty man with a genUl smile filled with mirth and gilt-edged teeth. He is thekfnd of conductor who looks ont for his passengers' comfort He telegraphed ahead and got a lunch for us, which saved our lives' no doubt, for we had to travel all day oh the Houston and Shreveport Bailroad, which is said to be the J J Tte Dovmtroddtn Cherokit. worst in the United States. Tet it is a genial and accommodating road. All the trains are accommodation trains. The one I rode on stooped 15 minutes while a tall man went back to recover his hat, and it was not a very good hat either. When the train pauses at a station on the Houston and Shreveport road the little bronze razorback hog comes and eats the axle grease off thd cars, and the inebriated Cherokee Indian assists his jag on board tho train and reproaches the white man for robbing him of his lands. We had one as a fellow passenger. He were a pink shirt with large, wide flounces at the wrists and around his neck. He had been drinking, so I was told by people who knew him, though I thought at first that it was his way. He spoke of the past with some sorrow, and as he held my hand a great big warm tear welled up in his dark eye and fell on my. vest lie said tnat ms loics owned all the South at one time, but the white man came among them, and two or three treaties with 30 days and costs deprived them ol their once lands. Nobody Has Seen Well Treated. The Cherokee has not been well treated, of course. Neither his the negro, nor any body else, for that matter. The heathens have been imposed upon, and so' has the missionary who went across the sea to knock a little gospel into bim. A mission ary who graduated with me at the same re male seminary, in fct went over, to sock a little Calvinism into the heart of Timbuc too, but his relatives to-day do not even know the names of the folks who ate him. On the other hand, the heathen is said to murmur a good deal about the flavor of several well meaning pastors who used to bacco to excess, and which Impaired their usefulness from a food standpoint The use of tobacco for many years makes the most toothsome people as nnpafatable as a Mexican. In the day coach there was a lady with a snuff stick in one corner of her mouth, asleep. The "dipper" is quite common here among the plain people. If one could have seen this peri slumbering there, with her snuff swab in the corner pi her sagging jaw and the cornoob stopper of a bluing bottle which did not contain blnlng any more, however as it peeped from the pocket of her deep and proiound mourning dress he would have said to himself, "How cool and restful must have seemed the grave in which her husband secreted himselfl" Any way that is what I said. Others, of course, might have looked at the matter differently, however. Everything is out of repair on the Shreveport road except the receiver. He is looking first rate. A Boy Spoiled HI lecture. I lectured once in Mississippi. After I had done so, and the roar of applause had died away, a small boy with a pale, Mil waukee brick complexion, broken here and there by large melodious freckles, came for ward to the footlights, and in a childish treble inquired, "Is that all, captain?" I said yes, and he went away rather reluctant ly, I thought. That is the reason why I went home feeling rather depressed, for al though I regarded the lecture as a financial and moral success according to Horace Gree ley's standard viz., that more people stayed in than went away during the show yet when this boy called me captain, here in a land where yon can get enough majors for a mess in 20 minutes. I concluded that possibly I had missed it in Mississippi. All railway conductors in the south are captains. Cap tain Taylor, of the Santa Fe, saiJ that they used to do a very poor business between Gal veston and Houston. Once, he said, be played to 15 cents a round trip. I think doused this term 'in order to make himself clear. Speaking of the show business reminds me of a pleasant afternoon and evening with Mr. Gnswold, the old "Fat Contributor," a few days before his sudden death. He was a most gentle and genial man to meet, and when I use the overworked word "gen ial" I do so because it did really fit bim. He told me about his experience as a lecturer in a little place, I think, in Pennsylvania. How Western School Was Sabdaod. This town bad made a laudable reputa tion for itself 25 or 30 years ago beoanse it could and djd break up. everything in the line of a show that had come there for years. What a glorious ambitionl Just as some of the tough schools of the woolyv wildtr ness used to olean out the teachers whe tried to educate them. I remember one ease where a consumptive boy teaeher was virtu ally murdered by big boys in such a sohoel. His suecessoronly remained one day, but he conquered'the school. Ha entered, at 9 o'clock with a Bible, a valise and an armful af beech c-adi. He - --s I "1 ' .jaaasM wiik 9T7V XasX fe raai a.Xarngglitv chapter and opened his valise. He took out a hammer and a big nail. He.&rove the large nail into the door frame oyer the latch. Then he took a big revolver out of his valise, and with that in one hand and a big beech whip in the other he went at that school, and with wonderful generosity and liberality, and a commendable equity, he whipped every boy in that school so that people passing by thought there .was a car pet renovating establishment inside". He did it so well that two of those boys are now said to be in the ministry, aud two of th.em doing time in Congress for a term of years. Then he took his valise and left the place. He never asked for any salary, but those 'who saw hfm last saw him "with his little valise in his hand, crying over-the grave of his brother, the poor consumptive teacher That Ml, Captain who preceded him, and who gave his Ufa tit this tough and heartless school. The Eecord the Town Had. Well, "the Fat Contributor" was advtr tlsed to "nrcy" at the hall on a certain evening in the town I speak of, and as ha did not know anything about the place or this record, which, I am told, is now forgot ten almost, he had no fears about it, and ie went there to honestly please and entertain people as well aa he could, knowing that if they did not like his methods they had the divine right to remain away. Well, after the owner of the hall bad re ceived his fee, and bad filed it carefully away in the dried pancreas of a "beef crit ter" which was the popular purse in that town he told "Oris" that they had the reputation there of breaking up every show that came, no matter what it was. Not be cause the show was poor, mind you, but be cause the town had a reputation to sustain. "Oh, yes." he said, "the last thing waa what's called the blind vocalists. Come bact here and I'll show you where they had to jump out Structcdown there, about 30 feet, on that lumber pile. I bet you it was rich. One of 'em was deaf, and she lost her bearings and thumped her head a$in that blacksmith shop over there. Oh, they lit out like a scared coVey of quails, you bet One of 'em broke his wrist when he fell, 'cans he tried to save his old fiddle frsm get ting busted. Said it was all he had to get living with. Xou better not fool with these fellers, I tell you. They're mighty spirited boys, these is." Silenced by a Woman. Well, Griswold said that he had agreed to lecture there, and he believed that be would try it He began and showed good nerve. Ton can imagine, however, thefsel ings of a man who is trying to wring laugh ter from an audience who came to mob hint, and who had not been above mobbing helpless little band of blind singers. He got about half way through when the noise was too great for him, and then his wife came forward. Her eyes blazed. The noise ceased for a moment "Yon , miserable loafers I" she said. "Cowards, every one of yout I dare yea t make a move toward this stage. Here is a man who has come to please and entertain, you, and you who. dare not singly touch si hair of his head unite together to mob hint. You contemptible coyotesl You haven't the courage to even rob a corpse until it U cold." Then the lecture went on. Griswold had to knock down two or three toughs at the door, but he said he did not mind thajLJ People at the door were liable to knot down something anyhow. Bill Htx THE HEGEO KOSKEY. A Creature In London That Comes sTnar tv the Jllislns Link. Bliek and White. Our portrait represents the negro" senksy (Logothrix Humboldtli) recently pnrohased by the Zoological Society. His face, which is devoid of hair, his hands aud the hair of his head are jet back, so that he has the ap pearance of a diminutive negro, two feet high, dresssd in a suit ot grayish fur. Thia view, of course, disregards the long prehea sile tail which he possesses in common with his cousins, the monkeys of the New World j This tail is devoid of bair on the under tidv near the end, the bare part having the sasae texture as the palms of the hands, and the tip seeming to curl automatically round any convenient object with which it may coma into contact This particular Logothrix Humboldtii likes to be fondled by his keeper, readily coming out of his cage and as readily returning; behaving generally la a very self-contained manner. He sits aad "talks" in his way in a little whistling voice, slightly showing a row of even white teeth. In Charch. ' Hew Tt ork Herald. J There's an angel up by tho pulpit stair, Of marble white and cold, "' A saint of goodly deeds so rare That in history tney are told. But whenever 1 look bis lips are dumb 1 t . ' It VI IU lUltL And I find that my heart and mind are numb,, -. And I cannot think to pray. j . A girl sits down in the pew beneath, " With serlons, saintly eyes. - . ' - That gaze Troin under her hat's flower wreath ' In most demure surprise. , ,... She looks my way and her eyes meet mine . ftf With a smile so sweet and faint ,, That 1 And in my heart a prajor divine To this pretty, modern saint. , y '. Andlvowoldvowslnmycblldhoedmade, As 1 sit in the pew alone, - '.. - Jfor 1 like a saint that U taller made Setter than one of stone. A Speelflo for the Coajh TaQowuasi X Orlpp. " Hanvpersoas who have rssovsrtd trm' the influenza are now troubled with a Mf sistent cough. Mrs. A. J. Allen, wife ts the editor of the Scott county. Iowa, Bl ad. says Chamberlain's Cough Bemedy. i-"tV speelflo for the cough which usmally follow aS an attaeir ot ia grippe, j or saie y ana tn
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