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HALLOWED BY TIE
Some of tlio Oldest TMngs
and Oldest 3Ien in the
United States.
A HOUSE BUILT IN 1642.
Wheat and Corn Taken From Mum
mies 4,000 Tears Old.
HOARI-HEADED EAILROAD HEN.
The Printer Who Set Up tlio Star Spangled
Banner 7S Tears Ifo.
A CDBIOUS COLLECTION OP EECORDS
iwiarrgy tor the distmtciiJ
The oldest inhabitant is the most elusive
as well as one of the most interesting human
beings. "When you think you have him
located he doesn't seem to be there. Every
city, town and hamlet in the country boasts
of his possession, and not infrequently he
has been known to boast himself. Probably
the most interesting old man, nnd unques
tionablv the oldest "ew Yorker, is Colonel
rtiorlse T5.irMav Tanncn. who is leading
a serene old age, full of years and honors
y .. .- Vvvi, .is '. wi.-
THE VAST EEXSSELAm HOMESTEAD.
and with a handsome share of this world's
goods.
Colonel Tappen was 93 years old on the
5th of February, 1S92, and has lived in New
York City for 80 years. He was born in
Hanover, Morris county, N. Y., where his
graudtather settled just before the Revolu
tion. The "Eecordof the Tappan Family,"
for the name is spelled indiscriminately
with the a and the e, shows that on his
father's side his ancestors settled in New
bury, Mass., in 1G37. Colonel Tappcu
walks from his residence on East Sixty
eighth 'street, New York, down to AVall
street on any fine morning, smokes one cigar
n day, uses wine in moderation, li3S ?. great
granddaughter 21 years of age, has had 11
children born to him, and hasn't taken CO
cents worth of medicine in "CO years.
Colonel Tappen is the oldest ex-officeholder
of New York City, having been Commis
sioner of Public Works from 1S35 to 18J8.
looked Like the OUest Frenchman.
He is a very striking looking man and his
blue eyes are as clear a? 50 years since. The
resemblance between the oldest New Yorker
and M. Chevreuil, the "oldest Frenchman,"
who died several rears tiuce in Paris, was
very striking. They were both, ns Mr.
Tappen is still, benevolent looking old gen
tlemen, with fine and clear-cut feature1:,
framed bv a soft curly mass of white hair
and whiskers. Colonel Tappen is the father
of Frederick I). Tappen, lor years a uell
knoun figure in Wall street. He besan life
end laid the foundations of his lortune as
an architect, and many of the houses which
he built GO or 70 years since are as good as
ever.
Nothing inanimate ages so humanly and
picturesquely as the dwelling house The
oldest inhabited mansion in the United
States, in all probability, that is, the oldest
now standing and now inhabited, in which
men have lived continuously since its foun
dation, and certainly the oldest in the State
of New York, is in Itensselaer county, near
Albany. It is the house of Killian Van
Rensselaer, in the suburb? of the New York
btate canital, which is called Grrecnbusn, It
is of brick, with a gambrcl roof, and looks
out over the Hudson river. In its front are
two slits through which the eaily Tan Ilens
selacrs used to
Mioct l::amorlmses at tho Indiing.
One of the walls bears a plate set up by
the Albany Commemorative Society, the
Inscription on which sins that mansion is
the oldest in the United States and was
built in 1C42. Behind it was a well upon
the coping of winch, according to tradition,
"Yankee Doodle" was composed, during
the French and Indian war, which preceded
the war of the Revolution. This bouse has
been inhabited by some of the Van Rens
elaers until within a leiv years. In one of
its hallways the Dutch Reiormed worship
ers of the early days held religious serv
ices. The boards in the floor and some of
the walls were cut out with a'lzes and some
of them are said to be a foot thick. NoboJv
seems to know who wrote "Yankee Doodle"
though the tradition is that its author was a
British officer who, standing by this well,
composed in mocking mood a burlesque
national anthem to the tune of "Rogue's
JIareh."
The oldest wheat that ever Fproutcd was
the "mummy w heat" taken by the famous
Egyptologist, "Wilkinson, from the cere
ments of a mummy in the year 1840. Tho
mummy came from a tomb supposed to be
nearly 4,000 cart, old. Fifteen or 20 stalks
sprang from each of the grains which were
planted, bearing remarkably long ears, some
of them more than six inches in length.
The dryness of the Egyptian climate is sup
posed to have contributed in some way to
the prescription of vitality in this wheat.
Corn of the ljxptuins.
In 1B8S David Drew, of Plymouth , N. H.,
is said to liae come into possession of some
grains of maize, alsi declared to have been
taken from a mummy 4,000 j ears old. The
stalKs which gretv from these grams under
Sir. Drew's watchful care attained a height
of more than six feet and showed many of
the characteristics ot our corn. There was
no tacl and no silk, the only thing like an
ear being a cluster of little sjiiKcs studded
with grains, each in a husk by itself, the
whole grow ing at the top of the'stalk.
The oldest American playwright is
thought to be Charles Gayler; 138 of his
plays have ben product d "in this country,
lie took up the profession of play writing
In the icar 1S4'J, and is therefore called the
pioneer in it. He was a lnend of the
elder Jrilorson, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ed
ward Wi.kmson aul D.on Iloucicault.
During the fifties, the remarkable statement
Is made, one of Mr. Gayler's plays was run
ning at eacn one ol the six first-cla5s thea
ters then in existence in the city of New
York. "The New Piesidcnt," Ironi his pen,
was the first production on the boards ot
"Wallack's Theater on Thirteenth street.
His "Bull Run" was the first war play, and
he Is laid to be responsible for 'the first
farce comedy. Edwin Deaves, -who died in
New York in 1890 at the age of 72, was the
oldest minstrel in America. He began to
appear in burnt cork parts in the forties,
and traveled widely up and down the
country before he settled down in San Fran
cisco. Oldest Railroad Engineer In Serrtoe.
The oldest railroad engineer in active
service in the United States is thought to
be Benjamin Haffner, who entered the em
plovment of the Baltimore and Ohio Bail
road Company August 18, 1810, when barely
20 years of age. He began as a fireman on
an engine running between Baltimore and
Cumberland. In two years ho was made
engineer of a first-class passenger train. He
is now and has been for more than 30 years
in the employ of the Erie Railroad Com
pany. It is averred that not one of the
millions of passengers who have traveled
behind his cab in the course of his half
century of active service has ever been
killed or seriously hurt Five times En
gineer Hafiher has himself been thrown
down embankments in his locomotive. He
is called the "Flying Dutchman" by his
locomotive brethren, and tho fiftieth anni
versary of his service was appropriately
celebrated some time since in Port Jervii,
X. Y.
The oldest living college graduate in
America is supposed to be Colonel Amos
A Parker, ot Fitz-William, N. H. On
October 8, 1891, his 100th birthday was cele
brated. He entered the University of Ver
mont in 1811, became tutor in the familv of
a wealthly planter at Fredericksburg, Va.,
afterward studied law and opened an office
in 182L Colonel Parker is said to be the
oldest editor in the country. He is also the
oldest living member of the Hew Hamp
shire bar. In 1823 he assumed editoral
charge of the New Hampshire Statesman at
Concord. In the year 1825 ho was appointed
by Governor Morrill a special escort to
j bring General Lafayette from Boston to
Concord on a visit and did so.
Facts Aboat the Oldest Printer.
Samuel Sands, who first put into type In
the year 1814 the "Star Spangled Banner"
from the immortal manuscript of Francis
Scott Key, died last summer in his 92d
year. He was the oldest printer in the
United States. From the year 1811 until
1S91 he was either editor, printer or pub
lisher. He was a printer's devil in the
office of the Baltimore American when, on
the dav after the bombardment of Fort
McHenry by the British, Judge Nicholson
brought into the American office and gave
to voung Sands to "set up" the manuscript
of Key's poem.
Th. nlrlpst T-tnnfc Yinrtrait of Christ is
(thought to be the painting in the catacombs
of Calistns in Rome. It "is believed to date
j from the second century and represents its
J subject with long, oval face, brown hair
j and brown beard.
The oldest bank note in existence is in
the British Museum, and was issued from
Colonel Charles B. Tbppen.
the Imperial Mint of China at the begin
ning of the reign of the first Ming Emperor.
The first bank in Europe was that at Bar
celona, established in 140L This Chinese
'bank note is supposed to date back to 1100.
The oldest and biggest apple tree in the
State of Onio stands on the Silas Oaks farm,
at Newburg, O. It is 15 feet in circumfer
ence and bears a big crop of bright yellow
apples every year. It was planted by a
Virginian in 1791. and before it ever bore
fruit he was scalped and killed by tho
Indians almost within its shadow.
The Oldest Keijnlnc Sovereign.
The oldest reigning sovereign is Christian
IX., King of Denmark. He is 73 years of
age, and has reigned 28 years. Queen Vic
toria is the next oldest, and the King of
Wurtemburg, who died a tew weeks aco,
was the next. Alnhonso XIIX, of Spain,
who has been reigning ever since he was
born, and is just 5, is the youngest sover
eign. The oldest mine on record which is now
worked as a copper mine is in the Musashi
Province of Japan, which was first worked
1183 years ago. The oldest watches in the
world are in possession of Queen Victoria,
two little gold ones by Breguet, being sup
posed to be 100 years old; they have silver
dials and are about the size of a 2-shilling
piece. One is a blind man's watch, the
other a repeater.
One of the oldest barns in Pennsylvania,
Amos A. Parker.
and unquestionably the oldest in Berks
county, was burned'October 23, 189L It was
erected in 1710, and tradition says General
"Washington once stabled his horses in it.
It was the property ot Frank Y. Kaufmann.
The oldest living steamboat engineer is
Allen Studwell, who was 92 years old in
1891. He began his career as an engineer
in the year 1823 and followed it until 1885,
IgPifei
when he retired on account of deafness. In
1826 he shipped as a fireman on the steamer
Constitution, then plying between New
York and Albany. He was chief engineer
of Commodore Vanderbilt's famous steamer,
the Prometheus, and later on took charge of
the Star of tho "West and the Northern
Light, the most famous vessels of their
time.
How .Long Goose TTUI Live.
The oldest goose on record as now living
belonged to John Ray, a respectable resi
dent of Croton Landing, N. Y. He says ho
purchased the goose from Isaao Hill, who
made an affidavit at the time that the faith
ful fowl was 52 years of age then. The
Oldest Portrait of Christ.
goose lays B0 eggs a year and was sold by
Mr. Rav at the end of the third-year of his
possession for 5100. Ho says to the best of
bis knowledge and belief she is now 86
years of age.
The oldest railroad conductor In the
United States is Richard Coughlln. In
1833 he ran a train from Paterson, N. J., to
Jersey City. The train then consisted of
cars each one of which was pulled by a team
of horses along a strap rail i inch'es wide.
The rails were nailed to girders. "Uncle
Dick," as he is called, is something over SO
years of age. "When he began service every
conductor had to collect cash fare3.
The oldest bride of recent mention was
Eliza A. Clark, of New York, who, accord
ing to some of her relatives, was 91 when in
February, 1892, she was married to Dr. Mar
vin iubbell.
Michael Shea, of Indianapolis, had been
nearly 90 years at the forge when 1892 came.
He was 110 vears old October 25, 1891.
In February, 1892, "Aunt Jennie" Aden
had lived 10G years in the Cutler place at
Morristown, N. J.
J. D. Turrcll, of the Attioa branch of the
New York Central Railroad, is the oldest
railroad conductor, he believes, in active
service. He is 82, and has been CO years on
the cars. A plow exhibited in 1891 nt
Fryeburg, Me., had been in use 115 vears.
The Royal Egyptian statues are the oldest
in existence.
A Iionc Time In the Hnrnen.
Hickory Jim, "the oldest race horse in
the world," was running at Guttenburg in
1892, aged about 23. The headquarters of
the American Fur Company at Macinac,
built by John Jacob Astor in 1809, is now
occupied as a dwelling house. The oldest
tailor's bill on record as now existing and
unpaid at that, has been found at Caire,
Switzerland. It belonged to the Emperor
Maximilian, and was contracted in 1490.
Fred Stingle, of Marion, O., has.an eight
foot clock made in 1728 in Paris.
Hiram Lester, of Atlauta, Ga., who was
married there on November 4 at the age of
124 years, says he is the oldest living in
habitant on earth. Judge Landoum married
him to Mrs. Mary E. Mosely, who is 80
years of age hcrselK
The Holy Scriptures say Methuselah at
tained the age of 969 years. The oldest peo
ple in the Bible, if "the translation of the
terms describing their ages has been cor
rectly done, wero these: Adam, 930: Seth,
912; Enos, 905; Cainan, 910; Jared, 962; Me
thuselah, 969, and Noah, 950. It is con
tended that the reading, "And all the days
that Adam lived were nine hundred aid
thirty years," should be "were an hundred
years and thirty and nine." If this be cor
rect the ages respectively of Adam, Setb,
Enos, Cainan, Jared, Methuselah and Noah
would be 139, 131, 114, 119, 117, 124 and 159,
instead of the much greater figures hereto
fore given. There is still another theory
that the word translated years really means
months. "Were that true, to obtain'the cor
rect age of these worthies it w ould bo. only
necessary to divide their biblical age by 12,
which would make them not so very old
after alL Jonx Paul Bocock.
WOMEN PARTIAL TO BEPIILES.
"What Strange Thing a Visit to the Clyde
Tier in New Turk Reveals.
New York Herald.
Why do women naturally take to snakes
and lizards and alligators and similar slimy
associations? Does that old original serpent
still wriggle in the feminine bosom? If you
will pay a visit to the Clyde pier when one
ot the coasters from Florida comes in with
Its human freight of returning winter
visitors you will see a good many small
boxes cigar boxes, with open tons covered
with fine wire netting, envelope boxes with
holes punched in them, and all kinds of
packages containing live serpents, small
alligators, chameleons, lizards, nasty bugs
and things of every description. I asked a
learned New England lady the other day
what she was going to do with them.
"Oh, keep them lor souvenirs and pets,"
she replied. "You don't suppose I brought
them home to eatl"
The idea of having a pet snake did not
originate with the lovely Cleopatra, nor did
it die out with that famous beauty of the
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modern civilization taking a collection of
horrible things to her New England home
as souvenirs and pets, to be fed and fondled
and exhibited to admiring female friends.
No man ever had such an assortment, except
with the delirium tremens, and he is never
proud of that. He is scared to death even
with the idea, let alone indulging: in the real
ity. A woman of refinement will embroider
dragons and scorpions and toads all over her
dainty boudoir. She just naturally revels
in snakes. So when she comes back from
Florida she can think of no more pleasing
souvenier than a box of choice young alliga
tors and lovely lizards and dear little water
serpents, and she brings a lot home for house
pets.
WOMEN LOVE TO GAMBLE.
The Tables at Monte Carlo Brine Oat Their
TVort Traits of Character.
Neir Tort Advertiser.
Everybody has heard of the queer little
principality of Monaco,-of its famous town
ot Monte Carlo and its Casino, the Mecca ot
all the gamblers of Europe. Leaving out
the bnel period ween it was merged in the
French Republic ot 1793, Monaco is one of
the oldest principalities iu the world, but it
is now on the land side bounded every
where by French territory, and as all re
straints are practically withdrawn gambling
goes on with more magnificence than ever.
Kincc lotiy tne entire revenue of the prin
cipality (it covers but six square miles and
and has but G.000 inhabitants) consists of
the rents of the Casino. From the early
morning, when the professional gamblers
crowd the hall, till late at night, when the
cash is locked in the iron-bound chests, con
tinuous chauge goes on among the habitues,
but in the last lew hours titled ladies and'
noblemen, famous actresses and sports,
criminals and statesmen, innocent looking
girls and grizzled harridans jostle each
other around the tables. At one table dur
ing the vacation season sits a famous tenor,
and at an adjacent one a French duchess.
There is a saying there that "all women are
gamblers at heart," and really there seems
to be something in it, for the fascination of
the Casino overcomes thousauds who would
never be suspected at home. English visi
tors often complain that they are jostled at
the tables by their own servants, and by
men and women whose character is pain
fully evident in their faces, but the bland
officials onlysmile. "All who have money
are free to risk here," is their motto. In
truth, the Casino is the most demopratic
place in Europe,
THE BUSINESS MAN.
Some of the TMngs That He Will
Kot Do if He Be a Christian,
BEING- GOOD DURING THI WEEK.
How-lliterial Interest! Clash "With, the
Snles of Eight Livinj.
C03J0EITB EXAMPLES IK PITTSBUBG
riTKlTTJilT TOB THI DISPATCH.!
Church attendance may or may not be an
indication of Christianity. I believe, in
deed, that all good people ought to go to
church. Church going is a fair thermome
ter of religion; it is an indication of spirit
ual heat and cold. Yet it is byno means an
infallible thermometer. "A man may
smile and smile and be a villian,"
and a man may pray and pray, or
at least appear to pray, and be anything
but a Christian. Christianity is not proved
by church attendance.
Even church membership may or may not
be an indication of Christianity. I hold,
indeed, that every good man and good
woman ought to be a member of the Chris
tian Church. There is something incongru
ous in the attitude of any honest man or
woman who desires to know the highest
truth and aspires to live the highest life,
and yet stands outside the Christian organ
ization. They ought to join the church for
their own sake, to get good; and for the sake
of others, to do good. And yet I know some
most excellent Christians who are not mem
bers of the church; and I am informed by
business men that the fact of church mem
bership is not by any means a guarantee in
the business world of commercial integrity;
which means that a man may be a member
of the church, and yet not be a Christian.
An Estimate of Heresy.
And that which is true of church attend
ance and church membership is equally
true of church orthodoxy. John Wesley
said in his strong way, that a man may be
as orthodox as the devil himself, and as
wicked. Opr Lord drew a distinction be
tween two kinds of blasphemy, one of which
may be forgiven, hut the other never for
given. Blasphemy against the Son of Alan,
he said, is capable of pardon, but blasphemy
against the Holy Ghost is not. "What is the
difference? Blasphemy against the Son of
Man is theological heresy. Anybody who
knows the history ot theology, knows that
horcsy has centered about the person of
the Son of Man, about the doctrine of the
Trinity and ot the incarnation. Christ says
that all thatkind of heresy may be pardoned,
that a man may be the worst kind of a the
ological heretic and yet be a Christian. But
the other kind is moral heresy.
Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is the
sin of the man who calls wrong right, and
rirht wrong, who calls darkness light and
light darkness, who goes against the voice
ot his own conscience. And there is no for
giveness for the man who persists in that
position, Jesus says, either in this world or
in the next. The most pernicious of all
heresy is heresy against the law of righteous
ness. No amount of theological orthodoxy
makes a man a Christian.
Ceinsr Good Only on Sunday.
And so we can take those three. items, of
church attendance and church membership
and church orthodoxy, and add them all to
gether and yet not arrive at the definition of
a Christian. A man may go to church and
be a member of the church and profess to
believe all the dootrine3 of the church, and
do all those three things in an exceedingly
emphatic manner, and yet be thoroughly
obnoxious to the Lord Jesus Christ and be
nothing but a scribe or a pbarisee. It is
six times more important to be a good Chris
tian on week days than it is on Sunday. It
matters comparatively little what people
profess iu ueuevs wiui iitcir ups in com
parison with what they show that they ac
tually believe in their lives. The test of
Christianity is the life. But our lives
are not lived solitarily. "We live in contact
with other people. Men, especially, live a
large part of their lives in close touch
with other men in the world of business. So
that for a man it is pre-eminently essential
that he should be a Christian in his busi
ness, nd that is the subject of this sermon,
"The Christian iu Business."
It is necessary to begin with certain ele
mentary truths. One ot them is that thn
Christian will not lie. There is no room in
the Christian religion for a liar unless he is
a converted liar. A case came under my
observation only a month ago that illus
trates this question.
"IVhy a Tonns 3Tan Didn't Join.
A yonng man was meditating church
membership and as he thought about the
matter and compared the ideal of Christian
dis'ciplesbip with bis own life there arose a
certain problem in his mind. Thi3 yonng
man's business, let us say, was puttinc on
lath in houses. He worked at this trade in
company with half a dozen other mon and
their day ended at 5 o'clock in the after
noon. Sometimes the job was large and
sometimes it was small, so sometimes they
got through at i o'clock and sometimes they
got through at 3. And the custom was
among them, and is still, to say among
themselves, "Now we will report to the
contractor when we go back to-morrow
morning that we stopped work, not at 3
o'clock, as we did, but at 4:45, so that we may
get a whole day's pay." And this alterna
tive was brought up before the young man's
conscience should he run the risk of losing
his position, should he incur unpopularity
with bis associates, or should he follow the
Lord Jesus Christ? And he had good re
ligious sense enough to know that he could
not be a Christian and tell lies at the same
time. He stayed out of the church. He
made the great refusal.
"What is it to tell a lie? Lying is any
kind of meddling with the truth to our
neighbor's disadvantage. Misrepresentation
of the quality of goods is lying. Evasion ot
contracts is lying. Breaking agreements
that have not been written down on paper
is lying.
Sir. Hodzes on the ,Tary.
I remember a case that came up last fall
when I was sitting on the jury. A con
tractor was building a house, let us say in
Sewickley, for a large firm in Pittsburg, and
it was discovered in the process of building
that there was an exceedingly difficult piece
ot work to be done in the foundation that
had not been foreseen, and he went down, or
sent down to this firm iu Pittsburg and said:
"It is going to be expensive to do this
what shall be done?" And they returned
the verbal answer that he was to go ahead.
So he did, and then when he brought in his
bill at the end, they refused to pay for the
extra work because it was not in the con
tract, and he had to sue them in the court
for it. The large and prosperous firm of
business men showed themselves in that
transaction to be thieves and liars.
That brings me to a second elementary
truth, and that is that a Christian will not
steal. There is no room in the Christian
religion for a thief, unless he is a penitent
thief. That means stealing time, as well as
money. That touches every clerk or work
man who uses his employer's time for his
own pleasure. The rule that the Christian
religion laj s down for service is the rule of
regarding every employer as if he were the
Lord Christ himself. Every real Christian
serves after that fashion.
Gamb'.Inc Is Simply Stealing.
"What is it to steal? Stealing is any kind
of process by which a man getssomething
for nothing. Gambling is stealing gambling
is one of the meanest kinds of stealing. It
is the taking of a man's money at the ex
pense of his own pain in addition. There is
the curse of Cain on every dollar of the
gambler's money. All lottery business is
stealing. A great deal of speculation, I
understand, has theft mixed up with it.
Dealings in futures and options, buying
things which one never expects to have
delivered, selling things which one has
never owned, can not be classified as honest
business. Every way in which a nan
defrauded is a theft.
A young man told me the other day about
some of his experiences in a large drygoods
store in which he worked in Philadelphia.
He had charge of the silk department, and
one of his tasks was to examine the bundles
of silk which came from the wholesale
factory, and every blemish he could find he
was to report to his employers, and they got
an eighth of a yard off for it. And then they
sold that silk,withont taking off any eighths
of a yard, to their customers. That is
stealing.
'What Christianity Kially Means.
However, this is all upon the outside of
the subject. This would be true if the
sermon were upon the Mohammedan in
business, or the Buddhist in business, in
stead of the Christian in business. We need
to get nearer to the heart of the matter
than that. A man, I say, may be a church
attendant and a church member and be
perfectly orthodox along church lines and
in addition to that may be a perfectly hon
est business man and yet not be a Christian.
Because Christianity means all that and
more. It means the putting of something
else ahead of that. What is that? "The
kingdom of God and his righteousness."
And what does that mean? Divested of
vagueness and sentimentality, what does
that mean?
Why, it means, first of all, and in gen
eral, the setting of the higher before the
lower. No man who so attends to his busi
ness that it unfits him for the higher occu
fintions of life, for the higher pleasures of
ife, is the best kind of a Christian. A
man who so grinds at his business that he
becomes unfit for thinking, has unfitted
himself at the same time to be an ideal
Christian.
rattln; Too Much Tims In Work.
I would say, also, that a man who spends
so much time at his business that he has no
time for his family, who is so good a busi
ness man that he is a very poor husband
and no kind of a father, is not a Christian
in the true sense. And then we must go
farther and say that the man who lets his
business obstruct his SDiritual life, no mat
ter how honest his business is, is not a
Christian. The man who lets his business
come in between him and his prayers, and
makes the Lord's Day simply a rest day
that he may go to work with the more vigor
on the morrow, is not conducting even an
honest business along Christian lines.
The Lord Jesus Christ was acquainted
with a great many business men. He was
interested in and cared for business men.
He enioved a talk with a business man more
than he did with all the priests and all the
theological doctors in Jerusalem. When ho
came to choose his twelve apostles, he
chose twelve business men. When he
came to select a place of residence, he left
Jerusalem, the city of worship, and took up
his abode in Capernaum, the city of work.
So that the Lord Jesus Christ knew very
well the temptation of the business man.
Jesus was forever warning men about lay
ing up all their treasure down here on earth
and being bankrupt up above.
The Traco Question, or All Aces.
The invitation comes to-day which he
gave in that parable of the marriage of the
king's son, the invitation to come into
higher living, to make really the most of
life,.to emphasize that which is of chief im
portance. And still men say that they
must go and see about their merchandise.
And the tragic question is azain asked that
the Lord Jesus Christ asked eighteen hun
dred years ago: "What shall it profit a
man if he gain the whole world and lose his
own soul?" Thus a man may conduct a
thoroughly honest business and yet fail of
being a Christian.
But the kingdom of God means more defi
nite things than that. For the kingdom of
God, as Christ preached it, was meant to be
a reorganized society in which the Lord
God should be the head of the Btate, and all
men should be brothers, xne man who is a
Christian, who is Christ's kind of a Chris
tian, sets an emphasis on brotherhood be
fore business and cares far more for men
than he does for money.
He's true to God who's true' to man; where-
evcr wrong is done
To the meanest and the weakest 'ncath the
all-beholding sun.
That wrong is also dono to ns; and they are
slaves most base
Whoso love of risrht Is for themselves and
not for all the raco.
The Christian Loves Man.
Prof. Ely says that every man who claims
to be a Christian and is not a philanthropist,
is a liar and a hypocrite. I question the
advisability ot calling people liars and
hypocrites very much, for the purpose of
preaching is not to abuse men, but to per
suade them. But no man can be a Chris
ian unless he loves men.
Now, let us apply that. It touches the
wide question ot tho relation of the em
ployer to the man in his employ. Here for
example, is one un-Christian thing that no
Christian employer will do. The Christian
man will not reduce the wages of his men
unnecessarily. The Christian religion does
not require anybody to do a losing business;
but take such a case as this: A man looks
over the pay roll of his mill. He is doing
a fair business, making money, but he wants
to make more money, and he figures out how
much more money he can make if he insti
tutes a general reduction. What does that
mean? It means the taking of so much
bread out of the hands of hungry children.
It means the thrusting of men and women
into meaner dwellings. And all in order
that a man who already has more money
than he needs may have a little more.
Hours of the Tollers.
Nor will the Christian man increase the
hours of his men's work. For what does
that mean? It meins the taking of a man
so much more away ironi his family. It
means so much nearer an approach to the
absolute destruction of family life. It means
the transformation of human beings into
machines, and for that same purpose that a
man may add to his store an unnecessary ad
dition. The Christian employer cares more
for men than he does for money.
Is there a lack of Christianity in business?
Is there not something wrong when a man
can work from the dark of morning to the
dark of eveniug, and his wife work and his
children work, and with all the labor of the
whole family in all their waking hours, get
only a starvation dinner and a sty to live in?
The trouble is that nobodwknows exactly
what is the matter. The Christian man
ought to make it his dnty to find out.
All this applies not only to the way in
which a man treats the men who are under
him, but also to the investment which a
man makes of his money. I was speaking
the other day of the problem of poverty,
and in that connection, of the tenement
house evil. And I referred to the great re
sponsibility that lies upon every man who
owns a tenement house, and somebody said:
"Yes, and there is another responsibility
upon a great many people who ought to
own tenement houses and do not."
Investing Money to Do Good.
A great responsibility does indeed lie
npon men who might so invest their money
that, with a fair return financially, there
would be also return in actual good done
to their brother men in the erection of
dwellings that might be fit to live in.
Ail that l nave said concerning the em
ployer and those in his employ applies to
the very smallest business. If a man has
only one man under him, it is still his
bounden duty to treat that one man .as his
own brother, to see that he is fairly dealt
with, to take care that he himself caies less
for money than he does tor men.
To do unto others as we would have them
do unto ns is not Christianity. Yes; it is
Christianity, in the sense that Christianity
includes everything good in the world.
But that is not where Christianity stops.
That good rule had been given before Christ
gave a new commandment that we should
love others as he loved us. There is the
very heart of Christianity. The real Chris
tian is the man who loves his brother men
as Christ loyed us. As the Lord Jesus
Christ loyed us, so to love each other, to
deal with all men as members with, us in
the great brotherhood of Christ, is to be a
Christian in the world of business.
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THE WOMEN OF WAR.
Fierce and Brutal Amazons "Who
Will Give the French Trouble.
THET FIGHT LIKE HAD DOGS.
Scalps
of Yangnlsliea Foes Dangfc-Proin.
Hanj a Maiden's Girdle.
THZIR COSTUMES AND ORGANIZATION.
prETTTXS' TOB THS DISPATCH.
The prospective war in Dahomey occupies
considerable pnblic attention on account of
the famous Amazon or women soldiers who
will take part on the aide of the African
King. The French will have perhaps the
fiercest fighters in the world to face. The
most astonishing stories of their valor are
told. They seem to know no fear and in
battle1, as one traveler describes them, they
fight like so many mad dogs.
The regiment of about 4,000 Amazons is
divided into three battalions, the center and.
two wings. The Fanti's or center division
is analagous to the English Guards. They
wear on the head a narrow white fillet on
which are sewed blue crocodiles. This orna
ment was bestowed upon them because one
of their number once killed a crocodile.
The English Grenadiers have another
counterpart in the Blunderbuss Company,
who are selected for their size and strength.
Each member is followed by a slave bearing
the ammunition. Equal in rank are the
Sharpshooters, the Carbineers and the
Gouma, Chief of the Amazons.
Bayonet Company. The women ofthe
greatest courage are gathered into the Ele
phant Company, whose special busineis it
is to hunt the elephant for the cake of'his
tnsks. The youngest, handsomest, most ac
tive and best dressed are the archers. Their
weapons consist of a small bow and arrows
and small knife. Their uniform or dress
though richer is scantier than that of the
regular army. They are distinguished by
nn ivory bracelet on the left arm and a tat
too extending to the knee. They are
trained to dancing, and when in the field
are employed as messengers and in carrying
oil the dead and wounded. Their official
title is Go-hen-to, "the bearers ot quivers."
Then there are tho razor women, each of
whom is armed with a weapon like a huge
razor, the blade of which is about two feet
long. It was originally employed for de
capitating criminals. As a weapon it is al
most worse than useless, being as likely to
wound the person who uses it as it is him
against whom it is directed.
The Amazons are larger, and, as a rule,
more masculine looking than the male sol
diers, and they are, without doubt, the real
fighters of the Dahomevan army. Deprived
by the severe laws of all social ties theyare
as cruel, bloodthirsty, and fearless beings as
exist on this earth. In order to increase
their brutality, those who have killed an
enemy are permitted to exhibit somo sym
bol of their prowess. This is usually the
scalp.
Alfa, Chief of the warriors, whose picture
is presented herewith, is in command of the
male portion of the Dahomeyan military,
but the King really controls his troop's.
The same holds good in the case of Gouma
and her Amazons. They, being the King's
body-guard, are even more immediately
under his control. The pictures are repro
duced from photographs.
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POINTS ABOUT PAWNBE0KEE3.
Qualifications Necessiry to the Sucoessfal
Conduct of the Business.
ITev Tork Henld.l
"To be a successful pawnbroker one must
have a thorough knowledge of the value of
jewelry, a general knowledge of the busi
ness and, more important still, must be a
perfect student of human nature," said an
uptown pawnbroker to me last evening.
"Without the thorough knowledge of the
value of jewelry he will never be able to
estimate in advance the profit on a loan he
is asked to make, and without the knowledge
of human nature he is absolutely worthless
in the business.
"For instance, say a man comes in here
iTith a valuable watch to pawn. He wants
(ISO on it. Now if lam a student of human
nature I can tell in a moment whether th.it
man intends to redeem the watch or whether
he intends to let it remain here until the
ticket expires and I have the legal right to
sell it. If his face tells me that he will not
redeem the watch I let him have only STjon
it, for then my profit1 on its sale will be
larger, but on the other hand, if I can tell
by his face that he intends to redeem the
watch, why I willingly let him have 100,
for my interest on the loan will amount to
more and my profits on the transaction will
be larger. "All these points are considered
by a good pawnbroker who understands his
business."
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Iiive as near the top of your house as you
can. It is the most healthy place in the
whole building. There is more air, a freer
circulation and less of the unwholosome
dust of the street. People often wonder at
the good health enjoyed by scrvants.despite
their constant and wearing duties. It is to
a great extent owing to the fact that they
sleep in a purer atmosphere than any other
occupant of the house. The attic, general
ly devoted to storage and servants' rooms,
.'a far more valuable thaa the first and sec
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Science now admits that all diseases aro caused by
invisible living microbes.
CONSUMPTION
Xs the Trusts and inflammation produced by tho tu
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BRIGHTS DISEASE
Is the work of the kidney micrubo.
ECZEMA
Is caused by a microbe in the pores of the skin.
TYPHOID FEVER
By a microbe in the blood and intestines.
DIPHTHERIA
Bv a microbe In tho throat. A separate and distinct
m'icrobe lias been found for every disease, and to ef
fectually destroy these parasites and euro, a medlcina
must be a powerful antiseptic, ana a thorough blood,
purifier.
ond floor bedrooms occupied by the heads
of the family.
There are certain physicians who insist
on their patients being taken away upstair3
at the beginning of an illness. In the aver
age flat house the top floor is always rented
tor a lower sum than any other. This seems
curious, as, save for the extra flight or so of
stairs, the apartment is the best of all. It
is sure to be light, while downstairs it is'
often necessary to burn gas all day. The
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passing the door or tramping over your
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they cet the benefit of every leak in the
roof; but there is deep consolation inj'.the
fact that no one can be legally made to pay
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