S&.F&g&X'
.'lfr$
5 TsJPT "
16
THE FTFrSBTJKG- DISPATCH, 4 SUNDAY.. FEBRUARY 7, 1892.
thing rbich protected him from open in
tuit, and that was his muscle.
These young people, had seen him exer
cising mornings, sfter his cold sponge bath,
and they had perceived by his performance
md the bnild of his body, that he was ath
letic, and also versed in boxing. He felt
pretty naked now, recognizing that he was
thorn of all respect except respect for his
fists.
One night when he entered his room he
found about a dozen of the young fellows
there carrying on a very lively conversa
tion, punctuated with horse laughter. The
talking ceased instantly, and the frank
affront of a dead silence followed. He
said:
"Good evening, gentlemen," and sat
down.
There was no response. He flushed to the
temples, but forced himself to maintain
silence. He sat there in this uncomfortable
stillness some time, then got up and went
out The moment he had disappeared he
heard a prodigious shout of laughter break
forth. He saw that their plain purpose had
been to insult him. He ascended to tho
flat roof, hoping to be able to cool down his
epirit there and get back his tranquility.
He found the young tinner up there, alone
and brooding, and he entered into conversa
tion with him.
They were pretty fairly matched now, in
unpopularity and general ill-luck and
misery, andthey had "no trouble in meeting
xipon this common ground with advantage
and something of comfort to both. But
Tracy's movements had been watched, and
in a few minutes the tormentors came strag
pling one after another to the roof, where
they began to stroll up and down in an ap
parently purposeless way. But presently
they fell to dropping remarks that were evi
dently aimed at Tracy, and some of them at
the tinner.
The ringleaderof this little mob was a
ehort-haircd bully and amateur prize fighter
teamed Allen, who was accustomed to lord
ing it over the upper floor, and had more
than once snown a disposition to make
trouble with Tracy. .Now there was an
occasional cat-call, and hootings and
i hillings, and finally the diversion of an
exchange of connected remarks was intro
duced. "How many doc it take to make apair?"
"Well, two generally makeB a pair, but
eomctimes there ain't stuff" enough in them
to make a whole pair." General langh.
"What wcreyoa saying about the English
& while ago?"
"Oh, nothing, the English are all right,
only I
"'What was it you said about them?"
"Oh, I only said thev swallow well."
"Swallow better than other people?"
"Oh, yes, the Englishswallowagood deal
better than 'other people."
"What is it they swallow best?"
J "Oh, insult"!." Another general laugh.
"Prettv hard to make 'em fight, ain't it?'
"o, tain't hard to make 'em fight."
"Ain't it, really?"
"So, ta'n't hard. It's impossible." An
ethcr laugh.
"Tnis one's kind of spiritless, that's cer
tsin." "Couldn't be the other vay in his case."
"Whv?"
"Don't you know the secret of his birth?"
"So. Has he got a secret of his birth?"
'Ton bet he has."
"What is it?"
"His father was a war figger."
Alien came strolling by where the pair
were sitting, stopped and said to the tinner:
"How are vou off for friends, these days?"
"Well enough off"
"Got a goodmany?"
"Well, as many as I need."
"A fr.ee d is'valuable sometimes as a
protector, you know. What do you reckon
would happen if I was to snatch your cap
o2 and ship you in the face with it?"
"Please don't trouble me. Mr. Allen. I
ain't doing anything to vou."
"Ion answer me! What do you reckon
would happen?"
"Well, 1 don't-know."
Tracy spoke up with a good deal of de
liberation, and said:
"Don't trouble the young fellow. I can
tell you what would happen."
"Oh, you can, can you? Soys, Johnny
Bull can tell us what would happen if I was
to snatch this chump's cap off and slap him
in the face with it. Now you'll see."
Kc matched the C3p and struck the youth
in the tace, and belore he could inquire
what was going to happen, it had already
happened, and he was warming the tin with
the broad of his back. Instantly there was
a rush, and shouts of "A ring, a ring; make
a ring! l"air play all ronndl Johnny's
grit; give him a chance."
The ring wa3 quicklv chalked on the tin,
and Tracy found lumself as eager to begin
as he could have been if his antagonist had
been a prince instead of a mechanic. At
bottom he was a little surprised at this, be
cause although his theories had been all in
that direction for some time, he was not
prepared to find himself actually eager to
measure strength with quite so common a,
man as this ruffian.
In a moment all the windows in the neigh
borhood were filled with people, and the
roofs also. The men squared off and the
fight began. But Allen stood no chance
whatever against the young Englishman.
2eithcr in muscle nor "science was he his
equal. He measured his length on the tin
time and again; in fact, as fast as he could
get up he went down aiain, and the ap
plause was kept up in liberal fashion from
all the neighborhood around. Tinally Allen
had to be helped up. Then Tracy declined
to punish him further, and the fight was at
an end.
Allen was carried off by Eome of his
friends in a very much humbled condition,
his face black and blue and bleeding, and
Tracy was at once surrounded by the young
fellows, who congratulated him ami told
him that he had done the whole house a
service, and that from this out Jfr. Allen
would be a little more particular about how
he handed slights and insults and maltreat
xnent around among the boarders.
Trac3' was a hero now, and exceedingly
popular. Perhaps nobody had ever been
quite popular on that upper floor before.
But, if being discountenanced by thee
young fellons had been bard to bear, their
lavish commendations and approval and
hero-worship was harder still to endure.
He felt desraded, but he did not allow him
self to analyze the reasons whv too closely.
He was content to satisfy himself with the
suggestion that he looked upon himself as
Degraded by the public spectacle which he
had made of himself, fighting on a tin roof
for the delectation of everybody a block or
two around.
Bnt he wasn't entirely satisfied with that
explanation of it Once he went a little too
far and wrote in his diary that his case was
worse than that of the Prodigal Son. He
naid the Prodigal Son merely fed swine, he
didn't have to chum with them. But he
ttruck that out and said, "All men are
equal. I will not disown my principles.
These men are as good as I am."
Tracy had become popular on the lower
floors also. Everybody was grateful for
Allen's reduction to the ranks, and for his
transformation from a doer of outrages to a
Cere threatener of them.
The young girls, of whom there were half
a dozen, showed many attentions to Tracy,
particularly that boarding-house pet, Hat
tip, the landlady's daughter. She said to
him, very sweetly:
"I think you're ever so nice." And when
he said, "I'm glad you think so, Miss Hat
tie," she said, still more tweetly:
"Don't call me Miss Hattie call me
Tass."
Ahl here was promotion! He had struck
the summit There were no higher heights
to climb in that boarding house. His popu
larity w as complete.
In the presence of people, Tracy showed a
tranquil outside, but his heart was being
eaten out of him by distress and despair. In
a little while he should be out of money,
and then what should he do? He wished
now that he had borrowed a little more lib
erally lrom thvt stranger's store. He found
it impossible to sleep. A single torturing,
tcnitying thought went racking round and
round in his head, wearing a groove in his
brain. What should he do what was to
become of him? And along with it began
to intrude a something presently which, was
ery liken wish that he had not ioined the
treat and noble ranks of martyrdom, but J
Lad Staved at home inri hn rnntent to he'l
merely an earl and nothing better, with
nothing more to do in this world of a use
ful Bort, than an earl finds to do. But he
smothered that pvt of his thought as well
as he could; he made every effort to drive
it away, and with fair success, but he
couldn't keep it from intruding a little now
and then, and when it intruded it came
suddenly and nipped him like a bite, a
sting, a" burn. He recognized that thought
by the peculiar sharpness of its pang. The
others were painful , enough, but that one
cut to the quick when it came.
Ulght after night he lay tossing to the
music of the hideous snoring of the honest
bread-winners until 2 and 3 o'clock in the
morning, then got up and took refuge on the
roof, where he sometimes got a nap and
sometimes failed' entirely. His appetite
was leaving him, and the zest of lile was
going along with it
Finally, one dav, being near the immi
nent verge of total discouragement, he said
to himself, and took occasion to blush pri
vately when he said it: "If my father
knew what my American name is he
well, my duty to my father rather requires
that I furnish him my name. I have no
right to make his days and nights unhappy.
I can do enough unhappiness for the family
all by myself. Eeally, he ought to know
what my American name is." He thought
over it a while, and framed a cablegram in
his mind to this effect:
"My American name Is Howard Tracy."
That wouldn't be suggesting anything.
His father could understand that as he
chose, and doubtless he would under'tand it
as it was meant, as the dutiful and affection
ate desire on the part of a son to make his
old father happy lor a moment Continuing
his train of thought, Tracy said to himself,
"Ah, but if he should cable me to come
home! I I couldn't do that I mustn't
do that I've started out on a mission, and I
I musn't turn mv back 'on it in cowardice.
So, no, I couldn't go home, at at least I
shouldn't want to go home."
After a reflective pause, "Well, maybe
perhaps it would be my duty to go in the
circumstances; he's.very old, and he does
need me by him to stay his footsteps down
the long hill that inclines westward toward
the sunset of his life. "Well, I'll think
about that Yes, of course, it wouldn't be
right to stay here. I if I well, perhaps
I could just drop him a line and put it off
a little while, and Fatisfy him in that way.
It would be well, it would mar every
thing to have him to require me to come in
stantly." Another reflective pause then: "And
yet if he should do that I don't know but
oh, dear me home! How good it sounds!
and a body is excusable for wanting to see
his home again, now and then, anyway."
He went to one of the telegraph offices in
the avenue, and got the first end of what
Barrow called the "usual Washington
courtesy," where "they treat you as a
JB.
1 TOft
HIS ATHLETIC TgAETKTO
tramp until they find out you're a Congress
man, and then they slobber all over you."
There was a boy of 17 on duty there, tying
his shoe. He "had his foot on a chair, and
his back turned toward the wicket He
glanced over his shoulder, took Tracy's
measure, turned hack, and then went on
tying his shoe. .
Tracy finished writing his telegram and
waited, still waited, and still waited, for
that performance to finish, but there didn't
seem to be any finish to it; so, Anally,
Tracy said:
"Can't you take my telegram 7"
The youth looked over his shoulder and
said, by his manner, not his words:
"Don't you think yon could wait a min
ute, if you tried ?"
However, he got the shoe tied at last, and
came and took the telegram, glancing over
it, then looked np surprised at Tracy.
There was something in his look that bor
dered upon respect, almost reverence, it
seemed to Tracy, although he had been so
long without anything of this kind he was
not sure that he knew "the signs of it
The boy read the address aloud, with
pleased expression in face and voice.
"TheEarlof Bossmore! Cracky! Do you
know him?"
"Yes."
"Is that sol Does he know yon?"
"Well yes."
"Well, I swearl "Will he answer yon?"
"I think he will."
"Will he, though? Where'U you have it
sent?"
"Oh, nowhere. I'll call here and get it
When shall I call?"
0h, I don't know I'll send it to you.
Where shall I send it? Give me your ad
dress; I'll send it to you soon's it comes."
But Tracy didn't propose to do this. He
had acquired the boy's admiration and def
erential respect, and he wasn't willing to
throw these precious things away, a result
sure to follow if he should give the address
of that hoarding house. So he said again
that he would 'call and get the telegram
and went his way."
He idled along, reflecting. He said to
himself: "There is something pleasant
about being respected. I have acquired the
respect of Mr. Allen and some of those
others, and almost the deference of some of
them on pure merit, for having thrashed
Allen. While their respect and their def
erence if it is deference is pleasant, a
deference based upon a sham, a shadow,
does really seem pleasanter still. It's no real
merit to be in correspondence with an earl,
and yet, after all, that boy makes me feel
as if there was."
The cablegram was actually cone home!
The thought of it gave him an immense up
lift He walked with a lighter tread. His
heart was full of happiness. He threw
aside nil hesitances, and confessed to him
self that he was glad through and through
that he was going to give up this experi
ment and go back to his home again. His
eagerness to get his father's answer began
to grow now, and it grew with marvelous
celerity after it began. He waited an hour,
walking about putting in his time as well
as he Could, but interested in nothing that
came nndcr his eve, and at last he presented
himself at the ofnee again and asked if any
answer had come yet The boy said:
"So, no answer yet," then glanced up at
the clock and added: "I don't think it's
likely you'll get one to-day."
"Why not?"
"Well, you see; it's cetting pretty late.
You can't always tell wherc'bonts a man is
when he's on the other side, and you can't
always find him just the minute you want
him, you see, and it's getting" about 6
o'clock now, and over there it's pretty late
at night"
"Why, yes," said Traey. "I hadn't
thought of that"
"les, pretty late nowt half past iO or 11.
Oh, yes, you probably won't get any answer
to-nicht"
So Tracy went home to supper. The odors J
ST .ui!i.r y
in that supper room seemed more strenuous
and more horrible than ever before, nnd ho
was happy in the thought that he was so
soon to be freed from them again. When
the "supper was over he hardly knew
whether he had eaten any of it or hot, and
he certainly hadn't heard any of the
conversation. His heart had been
dancing " all the ;time, his thoughts
had been far away from these things,
and in the visions of his mind
the sumptuous appointments of his father's
castle had risen before him without rebuke.
Even the plushed flunkey, that walking
symbol of sham inequality, had not been
unpleasant to his dreaming'view. After the
meal Barrows said:
"Come with me, I'll give you a jolly
evening."
"Very good. Where are yon going?"
"To mv club."
"What club is that?"
"Mechanics' Debatinsr Club."
Tracy shuddered slightly. He didn't say
anything about having visited that place
himself. Somehow he didn't quite relish
the memory of that time. ThCsentiments
which had" made his former visit there so
enjoyable, and filled him with such enthu
siasm, bad undergone a gradual change, and
they had rotted away to such a degree that
he couldn't contemplate another visit there
with anything strongly resembling delight
In fact he was a little ashamed to go; he
didn t want to go there and hnd out by the
rude impact of the thoueht of those
people upon his reorganized condition of
mind, how sharp the change had been. He
would have preferred to stay away. He ex
pected that now he should hear nothing ex
cept sentiments which wonld be a reproach
to him in his changed mental attitude, and
he rather wished he might be excused. And
yet he didn't quite want to say that, he
didn't want to show how he did feel, or
show any disinclination to go, and so he
forced himself to go along with Barrows,
privately proposing to take an early oppor
tunity to get away.
Alter the essayist of the evening had read
his paper the Chairman announced that the
debate would now bo upon the subject of
the previous meeting, "The American
Press." It saddened the backsliding diciple
to hear this announcement It brought up
too many reminiscences. He wished he
had happened upon some other subject
But the debate began, and he sat still and
listened.
In the course of the discussion one of the
speakers, a blacksmith named-Tompkins,
arraigned all monarchs and all lords in the
earth for their cold selfishness in retaining
their unearned dignities. He said that no
monarch and no son of a monarch, no'lord
and no son of a lord ought to be able to
look his fellow man in the face without
shame. Shame for consenting to keep his
unearned property, titles and privileges at
&Cft
SERVED HIJI VraXU
the expense of other people. Shame for
consenting to remain on any terms in dis
honorable possession of these things, which
represented by-gone robberies and
wrongs inflicted upon the general peo
ple of the nation: He said: "If there
were a lord ortheeonof a lord here, I would
like to reason with him, and try to show
him how unfair and how selfish his position
is. I would try to persuade him to relin
quish it, take his place among men on equal
terms, earn the bread he eats, ajd hold of
slight value all deference paid him because
of artificial position, all reverence not the
just due of his own personal merits."
Tracy seemed to be listening to utterances
of his own made in talks with his radical
friends, in England. It was as if some
eavesdropping phonograph had treasured
up his words and brought them across the
Atlantic to accuse him with them in the
hour of his defection and retreat Every
word spoken by this stranger seemed to
leave a blister on Tracy's conscience,
and by the time the speech was fin
ished he felt that he was all con
science and one blister. This man's
deep compassion for the enslaved and
oppressed millions in Europe who had
to bear with the contempt of that small
class above them, .throned upon shining
heights whose paths were shut against
them, was the very thing he had often
uttered to himself. The pity in this man's
voice and words was the very twin of the
pity that used to reside in his own heart and
come from his own lips when he thought of
these oppressed people.
To be Continued Next Sunday.
How to Wash the Face.
Mrs. Anna Buppert, the authority on the
arts preserative of woman's beauty, pre
fers cold water to hot for bathing the facr
and advocates the use -of soap once in 24
hours at night A good lather should be
produced, 3nd after it is well washed off, the
face should be rubbed briskly with a
chamois leather. All of which most women
will pronounce rank heresy.
Tho lstakes of Chllrthood.
Mother (reprovingly to little girl Just
ready to go for a walk) Dolly, that hole
was not in yonr glove this morning.
Dolly (promptly) Where was it then,
mamma?
A Use for tho Triangle
A pretty New York housekeeper has on
her wall the triangle and fixture shown in
this Illustration. She uses it to call her
household to dinner.
ftfAKL. " '
MJ YV,A
73S?sia , v.
f! Willi
' . xmmzr 7
rwx -
1 A .
&ff
- 2Tutie of the Triangle.
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
Its Author Was a Remarkable llan
of GrcafSocial Prominence.
CALLED TO PREACH IN A DBEAM.
How He Took Up the Political Questions
3 hat Concerned His Teople.
BRIEF SIKOESIS OF HIS WHITINGS
J WRITTEN FOR TOE DISPATCTM
The book of Isaiah is remarkable among
the books of the Bible for its interest and
its value. The Bible is made np of a con
siderable number of books, some in prose
and some in poetry, some history, some
proverbs, some letters and some sermons.
The book of Isaiah belongs among the ser
mons. The word prophet, we onght to keep in
mind, means preacher. You can find an
other meaning in the dictionary and in com
mon conversation. The conj action of
Venus and Jupiter is just now giving occu
pation to what we are accustomed to call
nowadays the exercise of prophecy. Prof.
Totten, of Yale University, is a prophet
But this use of the word is quite a recent
definition. The idea of prediction has been
prominent in this old word only since some
time in the last century. In the days
when Jeremy Taylor wrote in defense of the
"Liberty of Prophesying," everybody un
derstood that he was advocating the princi
ple of free speech.
Siblical Meaning jir Prophet.
In the Bible, the prophet is a preacher.
We may read a good many of the writings
of the Old Testament "prophets" without
discovering any prediction at all. The
prophet is not a fore-teller, but a for-teller.
He is the man who speakes tor God. And
that is the business of every preacher even
to-day. Thus God appointed Aaron, we
read, to be the prophet ot Closes, xnat is,
he was to speak for Moses, he was to carry
Moses' messages. Isaiah was a preacher.
The book of Isaiah is a book of sermons.
I want to say something this morning
about this prophet and his book, about the
preacher and his sermons. I will begin
with the preacher.
concerning the personal me of Isaiah we
know little. The first verse of his book,
which is a heading added by the men who
gathered these sermons together into this
volume, tells us that he lived in the days of
TJzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings
of Judah. This means the eighth century
before Christ "he eighth century before
Christ was that day of national trouble
among, the little provinces of Palestine
which saw the destruction of the Northern
Kingdom by the armies of Assyria, and the
fearlul dangers ot the Southern Kingdom
before the same great enemy. Amos and
Hosea were the creat preachers in Israel
during the youth of Isaiah. Isaiah preached
in Judah.
A Very Considerable Personage.
Isaiah was a man of education, cnlture
and evident literary gifts. He belonged to
a'family of high social position in the aris
tocratic circles of the capital. He belonged
in Jerusalem, and was much about the
court, and was a personal friend of the
greatest of the Jewish sovereigns of his life
time, King Hezekiah. Isaiah, like St
Peter, was a married man. He had two
sons. Isaiah's wife was called the prophet
ess, probably because she helped her hus
band in his work by her sympathy, by her
wise advise. Nobody knows how much of
the family history ot Isaiah is hidden away
under that ancient title. There is no record
of the indebtedness of Isaiah, and through
him ofall the religious world, to Isaiah's
excellent wife.
Perhaps he read to her-the notes of these
great sermons. Some of the critics, who
are so much interested in making out that
nearly every chapter in the Old Testament
was written by two or three different per
sons, may some day discover for us how
many good things in Isaiah's sermons are
due to the suggestions of his wife.
Significance of Bis Sons' Names.
Isaiah's two sons had quite remarkable
names. The Old Testament names have
many of them a queer sound in our ears.
Fathers and mothers do not often resort
nowadays to the first five chapters of the
First Book of Chronicles to get names for
their children. But Isaiah's boys were
burdened with names which even in those
davs must have seemed grotesque, angular
and awkward in the mouth. One was
named Shear-jashub, the other was llaher-shalal-hash-baz!
These names, we find, had
meanings. That was one advantage which)
many of the old names haa over our modern
ones-nthey meant something. And the
meanines of these names had an intimate
connection with the truths which Isaiah
was preaching.
Thus Shear-jashub means "a remnant will
remain." That, we will see presently, was
one of the most notable of the doetnucs of
Isaiah. Haher-shalal-hash-baz means
"speedy prey, swift spoil." That was what
Isaiah said when the politicians of Judah
refused to follow his advice concerning the
foreign relations of the Government He
declared that the kingdom would speedily
be destroyed.
Shows Their Great Earnestness.
Thns Isaiah's boys had names that were
condensed sermons", That shows how deep
the prophet and the prophetess had their
hearts in the great work. They never tried
to get an ay from it, even in their home,
never shut their door upon it It was the
whole of their life. Every interest they
had, even their children, was trapped up
and included in this deepest and widest in
terest, their interest in the church and in
the state They gave their whole life to,
theicountry.
It is likely that Isaiah continued preach
ing 40 years. He spent 40 years in one par
ish. He was probably about 70 when he
died. His death, according to old traditions,
was by martyrdom in the reign of the bad
King Manasseh, when he is reported to have
been sawn asunder with a wooden swori
The call of Isaiah, the beginning of his
ministry, is described in a chapter which,
for some reason which no one knows now,
is numbered in the book not one, bnt six.
How He Came to Preach.
In the sixth chapter of Isaiah we learn
what it was that made this man a minister.
It was not because he had tried two or three
avocations and had not succeeded very well
in any o'f them, that he concluded to try the
clerical profession. Neither was it on ac
count of the persuasion of his friends. Nor
was it even in consequence of a deliberate
decision made at the end of a serious en
deavor to discover his duty. This man was
called to God. At least that is what he said
himself, who ought to know.
The prophets, indeed, are all Bnanimoiis
in the assertion that God called them. They
were going on about their ordinary business,
so they say, aud somehow there came a
voice. God called them. Andthey obeyed,
sometimes unwillingly,having no sort of in
clination toward thatkind of work, desir
ing most earnestly to keep out of it, living,
some of them, in days when, as they say, a
wis: and prudent man will preserve a dis
creet silence. They were somehow impelled
into this ministry by some sort of influence
from without
All the Old Frexchers Were Alike.
They were stopped, and suddenly turned
about, and sent -on a message from God.
Thenceforth the words they speak are God's
to their sermon. There is something nota
ble in this constant affirmation of the old
preachers that God called them.
In the year that Sine TJzziah died. Isaiah
had a vision. He seemed in a dream to be
standing in the temple, only the temple
was a hundred times greater and fairer than
he had ever seen it before. In the place of
the merey seat a great throne was set np,
and upon this throne sat One hidden by the
wide folds of his imperial vestments. ,,. Be- J
side the throne, on either hand, floated in
the air choiis of angelic beings, with the
wings which ever since have had place in
the pictures, except that each of these had
six wings, covering their faces, and their
feet and spread for flight, emblems of rev
erence, of humility aud of prompt obedi
ence. Isaiah heard the angels singing, now
one choir and now the other, answering
each other in melodious slroohe and anti-
strophe, saying the words that are uttered
omi in one ot the supreme moments or me
greatest of our Christian services of adora
tion, the holy communion, "Holy, holy,
holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth
are full of thy glory."
Bow His Worlc JJcsan.
And then the whole great temple seemed
to reel and shake, and a great mysterious
cloud ot smoke, as of the incense of the
prayers of heaven, descended upon it And
Isaiah, standing by the door, cried, "Woe
is me, for I have seen the King, the Lord of
Hosts; and I am a man of unclean lips."
And one of the angelic beings taking a coal
from the flaming altar touched his lips, in
token of forgiveness and of cleansing. And
there came a voice, crying, "Whom shall I
send, and who will go for ue?" And Isaiah
answered, "Here am I, send mel" Thus his
work began.
4 Isaiah may be thought of as a statesman,
as a reformer, as a theologian.
It is notable that the first thing which
this wonderfully commissioned preacher
did was to go info politics. Isaiah was first
of all a politician. He was a religious pol
itician. Isaiah made no separation in his
thoucht between the Church and the State.
It is not likely that ho carsd much for any
institution as an institution, whether civil
or ecclesiastical Isaiah's interest? was alto
gether in the people. His highest desire
was to have the laud full of good- men and
women.
Political Questions of His Time.
Thus he concerned himself in whatever
concerned them. And the chief concerns
of his time were of a political complexion.
Great measures were pending, and great
perils impending. From the East the As
syrian was every day getting a little closer
to the West "in "the North Syria and
Ephraim were allied against Judah. The
people were terribly afraid of Syria and
Ephraim and were determined to ask the
alliance of Assyria. Isaiah was opposed to
that alliance. The people, however, had
their way. Bnt no sooner had they allied
themselves to Assyria than they repented
and wished instead to join bands with
Egypt.
Isaiah was all the time on the side of na
tional independence. These were great
questions. The supreme need of the time,
as indeed of every time, was a wise man and
a good man who could look, at these critical
questions from the religious point of view
that is to say, from the point ot view of
deep and eternal principles. Isaiah was
that man. Isaiah, like all the best politi
cians, was a reformer. He saw no end of
abuses, political and social And he was
conscious of his own personal responsibil
ity. He felt that he had no right to stand
by and see these things go on.
He Was a Bold rreacher.
St Paul, who was a good judge of relig
ious audacity, says that Isaiah was very
bold. He was indeed. The boldest thing
that a man can do is to denounce the sins of
his own class. It is easy for the poor to re
vue tne ricn. xne poor man wno apuses
the rich wins popularity among his peers.
But when a rich man speaks his mind, and
opposes himself to the opinion of his asso
ciates, he becomes a candidate for all sorts
of martyrdom. Social tics, companionship,
business association, shut men's months.
How easy it is in Pittsburg to denounce the
Louisiana Lottery! It is a good deal harder
down in New Orleans.
This man stood in the midst of the court,
a rich man, a man of' social standing, a lay
man, too, with no allowance for professional
zeal possible in his case, and spoke his
mind about the iniquities of priest and
prince. This is a man worth knowing. I
want to introduce some of my newspaper
congregation to the prophet, Isaiah, of
whom they have perhaps heard, but whom
I am sure they do not know. A brave, good
man, a patriot, a hero, not only the writer
of one of the small number ot supremely
great books of the world, but a man of
action, whose splendid example ought still
to be on inspiration to us.
The Boole of Isaiah.
Of Isaiah as a theologian, I will have
more to say another time, for I mean to
speak of this preacher and his sermonsmore
than ODce now, and perhaps more than
twice. We will let the theology go to-day.
So we come to the book. There are 66
chapters in this book. They fall into tno
quite distinct divisions. The first chapter
of the second part is number 40. These two
divisions are so different that a good many
scholars tmnK tney were written by quite
different men. This matter, also, we will
defer until we naturally come to it
Of the 39 chapters of the first part there
may be made a three-fold division. In the
first division. 12 chapters; in the -second, 15;
in the third, 12 again. The first and third
divisions are consecutive prophecies; that
is, connected sermons. The middle division
"is made up of isolated prophecies, single
sermons. The single sermons begin with the
thirteenth chapter and end with the twenty
seventh. They are chiefly taken up with the
affairs of other nations.
Not a Narrow Teacher.
The whole world was of interest to Isaiah.
There was nothing narrow or parochial
about him. Babylon and Egypt, Moab and
Edom, Arabia and Tyre, had their places in
his sermons. The God whom Isaiah be
lieved in was the ruler of the round earth,
nil the movements of the nations were in
the ordering of his wide providence.
The consecutive sermons of the first
twelve chapters begin with an arraignment
of the Jewish nation for their political and
religious transgressions. Then follow the
questions which rose out of the war with
Syria and Ephriara. The consecutive
prophecies of the third part deal with the
invasion of Sennacherib. How far away
these old names sound! And yet human
nature has not changed much. The ques
tions that Isaiah inet are even to-day coming
up again for answer. It ought not to be
altogether wasted time, if we go back with
onr disinterested and unprejudiced minds
and study them. George Hodges,
TIN SUPPLY 0? THE WOEID.
How It Is Found In the Beds of Ancient
IUvers on the Malay Peninsula.
Experts attached to the geological sur
vey regard the prospects for American tin
hopefully but not with confidence. There
is plenty of -that metal tBll over the United
States not only in Dakota, California and
Virginia, where millions of money are
being expended in preparing to mine for if,
but also in Montana, Wyoming, Maine,
Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
along the Hudson1 and elsewhere. Wherever
coarse granite exists, the industrious pros
pector will find this valuable metal. But
the difficulty is to get it out at a small
enough cost to compete with the foreign
product .
.Two-thirds of the tin produced at present
in the world comes from the Straits of
Malacca. The backbone of the Malay
Peninsula is a granite range of mountains
containing the same formation as that of the
Black Hills in Dakota, with irregular veins
of coarse rock that holds exide of tin.
Severe rains accompanied by tremendous
tornadoes are characteristic of the climate
in that region. They wash away the sub
stance of the hills, which is carried toward
the sea by the river, the tin being dropped
on the w.iy because it is heavy. This has
been going on for ages, and in the dry chan
nels where streams formerly flowed the
mining is done forthe metal, which is found
in little round nuggets like shot of different
sizes. Theso nuggets are separated from
the gravels by the crudest conceivable
methods of washing, and sent to Singapore
for shipment to various parts of the world.
Two of a Kind.
"These trousers are very much worn this
season," said the tailor, displaying his
goods.
"So are these I have on," replied the
poet, sadly.
A WILD MAN'S STORY;
Steve Farenbach Was Driven to the
Woods bj Failure to Get Work.
LIYED LIKE A HOUNDBUILDEE.
Almost a Tear in a Ends Hovel In TVJjicU a
Eeast Would Freeze.
KTJTS AND BOOTS WERE HIS FOOD
fWTJTTIir POB THI DISPATCItt
EADERSofTHE
Dispatch will
remember the ac
count published
exclusively in iis
columns last
Tuesday of the
capture of a wild
man near the
town of Home
stead, up the Mo
nongahela river,
and on the line of
the P., V. & C.
E. B. It is al
most beyond be
lief in this age of
civilization and
in a locality
claiming to be
the heart of this
great industrial
world, that one
of God's creat
ures should be
driven to seek
the shelter ot the bush, and the companion
ship of beasts and birds.
Yet such was the case of poor Steve
Farenbach, the unfortunate farm laborer,
who became discouraged and finally de-
SBSil
WHERE THE TJNFOKTTOTATE SPEJTT THE 'WTjrTEB.
spondent -in his vain effort to secure em
ployment of the most menial kind. He
sought the solitude of the woods and de
scended to the level of the animals that
burrow in the earth for safety and shelter,
obeying instinct rather than intelligence.
One could not have descended lower in
the scale of humanity than 'he, hiding
in the densest thicket in the light of day,
and then stalking forth in the darkness of
night into some seclnded orchard to gather
th'e fruit which had become overripe and
had fallen to the ground, or into an already
ravished vegetable garden and there fall
upon his knees and with his bare, bleeding
fingers, dig through the snow and ice into
the frozen earth in search of a stray potato
or turnip that might have been overlooked
when the crops were harvested, and, if for
tunate, to hug his lucky find to his bosom
as earth's greatest treasure.
A TalR tVIth the Wild Man.
It was the writer's privilege to visit this
poor, forlorn creature the next morning
after his capture and receive from his own
lips the story of his life. Tho officers in
charge of the lockup had been'very kind to
him; several good meals, a warm bath and
a good nightN sleep had changed his un
couth appearance of the day before into that
of a respectable, civilized being. He had
become quieted and was altogether rational,
and, though hesitating and halting in his
conversation with the reporter, spoke intel
ligently about himself and his strange life.
He was glad The Dispatch would pub
lish his story, for then it would reach the
eves of goodpeople who would come to him
and give him work. He wanted to be re
spectable again and go to church as he used
to do m the old days when he was with his
mother and sisters in his beloved father
land. On the farms here in America the hired
men were slaves, be said, and though the
masters drove to church in their fine car
riages the farm laborers, who were nearly
always such poor fellows as he, were com
pelled to stay at home and work.
But it will interest the reader most to
read his story in his own words and it is
written here as it fell from his lips in the
lockup at Homestead:
"I was born on a farm near the town of
Freiburg, in Baden, Germany, and when I
was old enough attended the burger school
in that time. Besides myself there were in
my family three sisters and one brother.
We were simply farmer folk, as were our
kindred for genations back. In the spring
of '84 1 emigrated to America, and, having
no training for any kind of work but the
farm, I naturally sought employment at
that kind of work, but had hoped that in
time I would be enabled to better my cqu
dition and save enough money to bring my
mother and sisters to this country.
Not Much Money In Farmlna-.
"But alas! forpoorme. The life ofa farm
laborer in this free America is a dog's life
at the best and last March I found myself
without employment. When I asked for
work they laughed at me and so I became
discouraged and took to the woods and lived
like the animals. I bad a little money and
with it I bought a cheap suit of clothes at a
store in Homestead and took them with me
to my den in the woods. I had never worn
them, but put them carefully an ay in the
woods in the hope that I would soon secure
a job of work and then I would have the
clothes to put on and look respectable.
"But one day in the fall several men came
along. They seemed to be looking for some
one, and I judged that some one to be my
self, and so I ran away to the hills and did
not return to my former place of abode in
the ravine where I had my hut I dis
covered then that my clothes had been
stolen and, worst of all," a piece of jewelry
that I had placed in one ot the pockets. It
was a locket which contained a picture of
her face. It was the last thing I had had in
my possession to remind me of the dear
ones so far away."
Vvntchlne the Squirrels Work.
The simplicity of the man was illustrated
'when he recited how he had busicdhimself
.watching the squirrels laying in their win-
ter store of nuts in the hollows of the great
fallen trees and beneath the hnge boulders
tbai strewed the ravine. He never
molested them and they did not fear him
-id when the sound of the hunters' guns
echoed through the w oods they would run
to his den for safety. He knew the haunts
of all the squirrels in the neighborhood of
his hut and where was hidden their winter
store of nuts, but he, as hungry as he had
been at times, never touched them.
He, too, like the squirrels, had laid in
some nuts hazel nuts but he needed some
thing besides, so he had dug some roots,
which he was familiar with in the old coun
try, and with these he had kept off sickness
and disease. I asked if, while in the woods,
the thought of theft or suicide as a means of
ending his troubles had ever entered his
mind. He said: "My mother taught me
better than that"
The man had been in the woods since last
April. His hands arid feet are much frost
bitten. Once last fall he was mistaken for
Fitzsimmons. The illustration is from an
instantaneous photograph. The man was
taken to his rude hpme in th'e woods and
photographed as seen. H. 'D.
A DOG FAMOUS IH E3 GLAND.
Thronsh His Instrumentality Some 83,000
' Were Collected for Charity.
Dlnstratcd News of the World.
A faithful and clever animal, formerly
well known to many passengers on the Lon
don and Brighton Railway, has lately died
at Ncwhaven. This dog, a Scotch collie,
was trained by Mr. John Climpson, guard
of the evening tidal train, to carry an invi
tation for money to be given by the passen
gers and others, in aid of the "Associated
Society of Bailwoy Servants," of England,
Ireland, Scotland, Wales, for the "Orphan
Fund."
The late Kev. Dr. Forman Macleod, by
the assistance of Mr. W. Riddell, of Hailes,
Haddington, procured a suitable dog for the
service; indeed, the animal was a gift from
Mr. Biddell. "Help" was his name, and
he wore a handsome silver collar, to which
was appended a silver medal bearing the
following inscription: "I am Help, the
railway dog of England, and traveling
agent tor the orphans of railway men who
are killed on duty. My office is BS, Cole
brook Bow, London, where subscriptions
will be thankfully received and duly ac
knowledged." Itis estimated that "Help"
wai instrumental in obtaining upward of
1,000 for the Orphan Fund. At the Bristol
Dog Show, in 1884, "Help" was presented
with a silver medal, and Mr. F. W. Hughes,
of the Gresham Club, presented him with a
silver collar and tablet
The Bosh to South Africa.
Pan Mall Bndjjet.J
For the last ten days or so the Govern
ment offices of the Cape of Good Hope, in
Victoria street, have been besieged by ap
plicants for information about South Af
rica. The applications are made chiefly in
writing, and from 50 to 60 letters are re
ceived every day. The large proportion of
apparently intending emigrants are work
ing people, who want no pecuniary assist
ance, but only require advice as to the best
place to settle and the methods of proceed
ing. Some announce a "desire to go north
into Mashonaland, others desire to settle in
Bechuanaland and the South. Among the
numbers who are daily applying there are a
few clerks who are generally advised not
to go out but there are as yet no agricul
tural laborers.
A Neat Sinner Gonf.
The accompanying illustration shows the
design for a dinner gong gotten np by a
T
In a Fagoda ef Bamboo.
Philadelphia lady noted for her taste. The
bamboo pagjoda makes it an ornament.
A Common-Sense ' Remedy.
. In the matter of curatives what you want is something that
will do its work while you continue to do yours a remedy
that will give you no inconvenience nor, interfere with your
business. Such a remedy is Allcock's Porous Plasters.
These plasters are not an experiment ; they have been in use
"for over thirty years, and their value has been attested by the
highest medical authorities, as well as by voluntary testimonials
from those who have used them. .
Allcock's Porous Plasters are purely vegetable and
absolutely harmless. They require no change of diet and are
not affected by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere
with labor or business ; you can toil and yet be cured while
hard at work. They are so pure that the youngest, the oldestr
the most delicate person of either sex can use them with great
benefit.
Beware of Imitations, and do not be deceived by misrepresentation.
Ask for Allcock's, and let no solicitation or explanation induce yon to
rrmt: .-i substitute. "" "---- ' "S1
r , J. . .. '
KEALM OF SflMCET
Some Ifewv Inventions and Novel
Applications of Old Ones.
TALEIKG feiTO A TELEPHONE.
A Suggestion That Electricity Ee Harnessed
. to Carry Mails.
THE TONGUE AS A HEALTH I3DICAT0B
rJtrrr FOE TIEE DISPATCH.!
It is found that not one person in ten
among those who are dailv using the tele
phone, know how to use it properly. The
manager of a large exchange says: "Why,
just talk in an ordinary conversational
tone, as if you were soeaking to somebody
three or four feet from you. I can talk from
Washington City to Portland 3Ie.lt that
way and make myself plainly heard. The
best position Is to stand with the month
about three inches from the transmitter.
Mostpeoplo stand further tack, but It is
better to stand even nearer. It is almost
impossible to get too near the instrument,
provided a distinct conversational tone li
maintained. If you watch the girls at tho
switchboard, yon will notice that they talk
distinctly, and that most of them put their
noses ajainst tho instrument when they
speak. .They don't have trouble, and nobody
else would if he would adopt similar
methods."
How to Head th Torino.
The perfectly healthy tongue fs clean,
moist, lies loosely in the mouth and has no
prominent papillae. The tongne may bo
furred from local causes or sympathy with
the stomach, intestines or liver. The dry
tonjrno ocenrs most frequently in fever, and
Indicates a ncrvnns prostration or depres
sion. A white tonprne is diagnostic simply
of the lovensh condition, with perhaps a
sour stomach. When it Is moist and yellow
ish brown it shows disordered digestion:
when dry nnd brown, a low state of the sys
tem, pcsibly typhoid. When it is dry and.
red and smootc, inflammation, gastric or in
testinal, is at hand. When the papillae on
the end of tho tongue are raised and very
red, tho strawberry tonsnols developed.and
that means scarlet rcver. A sharp pointed
red tonzno snjrgests brain irritation or in
flammation, and a yellow coating indicates
liver deranffotnent. It will thus be seen that
it Is worth while to acquire the reading ot a
health barometer at once so useful and so
handy.
The Electric Torch lamp.
A clever adaptation of the electric light
has been made for the purposes of theatrical
display. It is named the "torch'Mamp, and
consists of a larse incandescent b nib with
four lenses fused on to it, all the surface
around them beinjr frosted. The effect of
this combination of a trne spheroidal form
or globe with frosting and lenses is topro-
ect the li;ht in the form of four condensed
icams. An American firm has sent a large
number of these lamps to Europe within tho
last month, to ho used for the nrodnctlon of
the opera "Kobe.rt le DIable." The lamps
were mounted on torchc. which contained
small storazo batteries. Little vanes at the
base" of the lamps revolved with the least
motion of the air. and gave a rotary motion
to tho lamps, the beams of which would
then flash In every direction. Thi3 lamp is
alo nsed with excellent effect as a loco
motive headlight.
Saf ety Gnard lor Citrs.
A large percentage of aecidents on street
railways are dne to passengers attempting
to get on and off the moving cars. A device
has been designed for tho purpnse of throw
ing the person away from the car shonld ho
lose his hold, and to push him to one side
out or the path of the following car shonhl
he miss the step and fall. The device con
sists ofa plate or board extending from the
top part of 'he fender to a point near tho
track rail. This plate projects laterally
from the car fender, to which it Is made ad
justable by means of vertical slots, corre
sponding slots being made in the fender.
Should a passenger miss his grip of the
handle of the car the guard throws him
clear of the step, and In case he slipped or
stumbled in leaving the car the dependent
part of the guard wonld push him out of
harm's way.
Tha length of tho Sun's Day.
An Important piece of work has been dons
in tho observatory in Potsdam, Germany.
Prof. Doner has obtained a hitherto un
known exactitude in tho measurements of
the movements of tho sun. and finds that
that body moves round its axis at the rate of
a mile and 212 feet in a second of time. The
snn's day lasts, therefore, at its equator 23
days and 12 hours of our reckoning. Cut
what is remarkible in Dnner"s measure
ments is tint they resnlt in a different
length of revolution In different parts of tho
body of the sun, reznlarlr increasing in
length from the equator to the pole', so that
those parts of the son's surface lying near
the two poles have a day as long as 6 of our
davs. This is possible only with a movabls
and gaseous surface llko that of the sun.
An Electrical Mall Carrier.
Among the plans wnicn have been sub
mitted to the Kew Tork postmaster is one
lor the electrical transmission of the malls.
A traveler, say 6 feet long and 11 by 18
inches In breadth and height, to the back of
which is attached an electric motor about "i
inches square, is actuated by an electric
wire which runs at the bottom of an iron or
steel cnbe, in which the whole arrangement
is inclosed. In point of fact, it Is a minia
ture trolley system, and the wire which sup
plies the power Is fed from one end of the
route. It is claimed that a speed or from "0
to 100 uiile3 an honr, or even more, can be
obtained. Tins system wonld give all the
advantages of tho pneumatic system, but
with mnch less expense for the plant and
maintenance.
Antlpyrln and the Grip.
The 111 advised use of antipyrln in cases of
grip has been promptly taaen In hand In
Germany, where the prominent physicians
have asited the Government to prohibit tha
sale or antipyrln except under such restric
tions as will prevent its use withont medical
supervision, as they find it a dangerous
remedy when employed without proper
cantion.
Delicate Chronographs.
At a recent meeting of the French Physi
cal Society, Bevcral forms of chronographs
were described, capable of measuring down
to the ten-thousandth part of a second.
Theso devices have been applied with good
results to the measurement of the initial
velocities of projectiles, and also to the time
occupied by bodies falling through short
distances.
Growing Cork In California.
It would appear that the soil and climate
of California are better adapted to tha
growth of the cork oak even than those of
pain and Portugal. It is now suggested
that the State take early action In the mat
ter of fostering tho planting and cultivation
of the cork tree. Many a tall cork oak is
now to be found in the state.
- i, ! ,i, S-l.' WS"""1
&J
s
&-
-&.
StJta
V3sLj
M,
. ?&
if - -S 1 .t '
.f
i- r .... ,-, J .m&mxm jm?
T
T.u'.aM A -nilfe
Bfc'iSiiaE:i'
&SLi
m