SeilieS jflk swil in H. F. BOHWEIER, THE OON8TITUTION-THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE TaA-XS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XLVII. MIFFLINTOWK. JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. 1S93 NO. 20. CN THE SEA. ' ilHic is (2 err t?u. on tbe Cca; it canr.M K q uter," (cr. XLIX.L."..) When Hi' s tin" "1'i iv helure the Mast, nil in lil 1 1 i l t sue s oe nverr.ist, V ti ii lll.'' white fr.iin irkness leap 1. 1 , I --st ie-s sen ;ls i f 'In- lie. p. Ami t. n e sis with their ilism.il wail, 'III (I it' - Iihii-i v cut a.ail ; 1 hen I i'i'" ll,-tl " It at"1 clumbers tiee, bvc.iusi- nt -mru-A mi llie sea. Tin n. !i in-f.il calm. ith morning light hui'i"'-i'i t''i" '" 'r ::,il "i icti nt nilit; 'I lii.ilt'h i IviT rlift il'iit l-ZHre bay i.ii.un In u lii liene.itli (hi smile of day. 'j in- .i i-noi cr.ili of Ine.ikini; wave )h i.i ihiu t.ii fniiti rin k unit C3ve, II. i.i l'i- anil pint-liecy niav be. Fur '.In ii suriuw on I tit sea. Still. lu-n tliaf liiillnw sonno" Is oVr, S:-it ilil'li". ii 111 11:111 on t lie shore. All. I. .i "III fi" illl' 'i olt reveal A 1' itn II" lali.n t'. ivtceal, '1 In- u'.ni-iike m i-ail. all so f.tlr, i i I li-tl with a ti-ilili n rare. i-mm v. ii'- li it M"V i I- woolly free; 1 le le iriil is serum- on the aea. The ImMesf aire vnnM n:in, ny.fr-ast. If. ri i-.ir.1 nt ! In" lunicd put. '1 in- ho I . .out if os, the lnv-s and bates. The lei-rers ol iiiirniiiitirreit fates; A nil. Iill i .-I." ii'il, arise its ile.ul, A i ..iiN nl huly i-pr liave Paiti, It it . i. -1 be mleii iiy Hus decree, 1 hi re will be un.iw on the sea. -T TlIK HOME OF A XATUKALIST. I V Till-- lil V. ll. J. VKJXOI.ES, M. A. "It is not ev.rvone's lot to pet to C'.iriutli," so 1 lie Kniimn poot tells ns; Bil l no wonder, for tbe. journey from liramiusium to Greece was encom passed with many tlifllcnlties to the ancient voyager. Horace had proved tl.o perils of "Adnn," and there are numberless (illusions in the great writ er's poems to its unexpected mutations of temper, ami tho frequency of its dark skies, its anry billows, and its ruthless winds. lu visitinp; tho home of the great na turalist of this century there are no such perils of tho deep, and yet it is by no menus easy to get at that se questered spo' on ili backbone of the escarpment of Mid Kent, which has now become classic ground, as the scene of those meditations and experi ments and profound generalizations which have built up tiie imperishable fame of Charles Durwin. It is close npon four miles from Orpington on the South-Cistern i'ailway, ami the visitor must walk the whole way.unless he is so fortunate as to liad a carriage wailing at the statiou to carry its owner to Down, and to be courte ously invited to tak the only spare seat; but this was a piece of unexpected Koo.l lnck which f. 11 to the writer's lot, as the homo of the gentleman to whom I refer was cloee to Mrs. Mr. Darwin's residence. Tor a stran ger the only other way of reaching i'ownisfron Idyes, where a carriage may be ordered lielorehaud; or, if the visitor is equal to it, there lies a glori ous walk of five miles before him, r.ver tho "l:lark heath pebble beds" which form the tertiary ontlier of Jlayes aud Kestun Commons; and then on through the delightful park of Ilolwood, now belonging to the Earl of Derby, but which a ctutnry ago was the property of the creat statesman William Pitt, and was his favorite re treat from the strife of controversy and the cares of State. As is well-known, Charles Darwin conld not endure a town life, for which his tastes, his habits, ami, above all, his health unfitted him. Social meet ings i he tells nsi always at the time (rave a fillip to his spir it, but the ex citement was i'i variably followed r.y painful physical and mental prostra tion. 'J bus it happened that he was driven into the country, and (to use his own words) "alter a long and fruitless search in Surrey and else where, at last found this hotiso (at Down) and purchased it pleased with the extreme quietness and rusticitv of the place." 'J his was in September, 18-12, ami here the great philosopher was permitted to live and lalor for nearly forty years; or, as ho mole-tly puts it, "my chief enjoyment and sole employment thrngh life has been scientific work." It whs in the pnr?nit of Fcientific relaxation that a party of geologists found their nay by road and rail, by carriage or on fo.it, to this remote but pleasing retreat on the ISth .lnne,ls.2; n appropriate day, for we know "peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." and hey or d controversy Charles Darwin has climbed to as se cure a footing on the platform of fame by his scientific achievements as did the "immortal "Dnke" by his skill, daring and patient endurance on the field of battle. Oar leaders on the oc casion were Messrs. Whitaker and Leigbton, together with an amateur geologist aud explorer, whose contri butions to our acquaintance with pre historic man by liis discovery of pairs obths on the chalk bills of Mid Kent have been gratefully acknowledged by the leaders of geological inquiry." fiy the peculiarities of the South eastern train service, and by the unex pected kindness of the lesideut already referred to, 1 found myself at Down fully two hours earlier than the other members of our littlo congress; and here was a diltghtful .opportunity of quiet hero-worship, "fsr from the mad ding crowd," in the silent solitary rhrine consecrated by the genius, and still (as it were) haunted by the spirit of one of the noblest aud yet humblest of the high priests of inductive seieuce. No member of the Darwin family was in the house, but I was bidden a kind welcome by the courteous lady who hail long been a member of the household, and had often rend to Mr. Darwin from some favorite novel in the half hours of latermission of bis daily toll. My guide took me into the garden, and we held a brief converse on tbe character istics of the great man, from whom she "ha 1 received," as she said "more truly religious let-sons than (glancing at my white tie) from any miuitter of the Church of England." I qnito assented, and assured her of my admiration for those qualities w hich in him were so conspicuous, but in most of ns lay or clerical so rare: sound jndgment. un wearied industrv. absence of prejudice. a passionate love of truth, and withal abounding charity, all diflerent aspects of real religion; to which the lady sim ply answered, "Yes, and humility." ller words made me think of parts of his autobiography where it is evident hat Darwin then retained reverence for revealed religion, e. ft. in Irs notes on visiting son e of the Pacific isles on his voyage in the lieotlp. "It is ad mirable to liehold what the missionaries have effected both here, aud in Ntw Zealand. 1 firmly believe they are good men, working for a good cause.'' And in a letter he remarks: "The impossi bility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our coDseion selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for tbe existence of God. ... I have always considered that the theory of evolution is quite compatible with that belief." I made jno further remark, however, to my companion, bnt recalloj th. rVA,i exempuucation of thU virtue of hu mility g,Ven in his "Autobiography." when, on receiving from the Malay luinsulam July. Ii3. A. K Wallace's lssay oa the Tendency of Varieties to depart tndoanitely from their Origi nal Type Darwin at onee determined to do nothing more with his own manu script notes on the "Origin of Species , saying that Wallace had independently worked out tho i.ame views, "but had expressed them much better." It was with dilhculty Eyell persuaded him to read an alwtract of bin own work oa the same evening that he communicated Wallace s Essay to the members of tha i-.intj.uau Society. Vbat thoughts of the immortal "Ori gin thronged within me ao I stood alone in tho very penetralia of its birtu .lace tha larger of the two studies which were his workshop, and gazed on that admirable photograph. What a graud expanse of brow, what serions pnrpose in the steadfast face, what in telligence and transparent Iruthfnlness in the expressive eyes, what simplicity and benevolence in the open counten ance! And this was the snot where the great investigator sat down, on the very morniug after the reading of these two memorable pages, to compose his '1 rincipia"-as the ijook might well be called of the system of organic life on our earth, as the mighty Newton had done nigh two centuries earlier for the mechanism of the heavens. In this room uarwin began tho final arra-go-) tuent and condensation of those piles , of manuscript which contained the re j searches an t observations ou which he had labored at invorvals for twenty-one years, and (as he has told ns) he wrote j continuously aud with intense applica tion "for one year and ten days;" and thermit of this travail was the corat le- -...no! mo vngiuoi recies in the late summer, and its publication aud triumphant reception by the world in tho November of 1M."!. I lleniemlx'ringthe philosopher's hab- jis, i iooKe i ciosoly at the bookshelves in this room, but tho collection was somewhat miscellaneous. Amongst them, however, as I expected, was a goodly array of novels; but the volumes had evidently been bought for reading, not for show. No fctately phalanx of Scott's or James', or isulwcr Eytton's romances, with costly bindings and richly giit backs, such as one often sees iu the well ordered library of a town or country mansion; bnt the volumes were mostly "yellow-backs," many of them belongi' g rather to the category of the "intense" than to the "inspired," and in every case giving evidence of being procured to be thumbed aud read and put away, all packed together on tho plainest and homeliest of bookshelves, without nail KMidded leather fringe below or green baize edging above. There they were clnstered, without formal array or order, Dickens', Marryat's, Yonge's, Oliphant's, Lever's, i'.radilon'a, r' hoc iji hiih mitnr. Each had served its turn, had ministered to the tiucc tlrsi )" rr of the great thinker, or contrib uted its harmless opiate to his tired mind; hn I evoked the quiet laugh, or unlocked the too-little used chambers of imagery, or, it may be, demanded from that childlike nature a tribute drawn from the "sacred source of sympa thetic tears." It was a pleasure to find this motley collection nndispersed; bnt not all the books were novels. Others 1 saw which suggested that Mr. Darwin's sons, now grown to man's estate, walk ing in their father's footnteps, and even augnmeuting his fame, had laughed ami cried over childish tales of tender pity and boyish heroism. Aloreover, I espied two books of a religious char acter, side by side, both expressive of the breadth of mind, the freedom from effete conventionality, and tbe pres ence of a true devotional spirit, whioh are now the distinguishing character istics of the liberal r-eVool of theology. The two books were the sermons of 1". W. Eoberison and of i'ishop Colen hO. Eive-and-thirty years a??o the writings of the one were hardly rated as orthodox, whilst those of tbe other were branded as the mst pernicious heresy. I'erbaps if I bad ventured on a closer scrnnity I might have disco v- l . i . r lil - 1 ereti me copj ui r nicy a c.viueuet?a ! n.l rr 1. 1 a I'V.ln.nl 'I 'I.Iott ' l.i.lh of which works Darwin regarded as models of close and conclusive rea soning, "tbe premises" (as he says) "being granted;" and he always, and rightly, valued at the highest rate tbe exquisite clearness and perspicuity of the writer's stylo. Hut whether for good or ill "Evo lution" has so largely remodelled our interpretation of "Nature,'' that the old methods of reasoning njron phenom ena mental and physical, sensuous and supersensuous have very little dialectic ellicacy on the modern Intel lect, and have become practically obso lete. In the midst of my cogitations tbe visiting party arrived, beaded by our courteous host, Mr. Wm. Darwin, who ha I come from Southampton expressly to meet them, as Ins mother (the owner I I ,.A KnnnA .nnl.l Tl n f nr.oaiil V.l llio llwl.ru, j .i nil. t ...... Of this venerable lady I may say in passing that she is in the full posses sion of all her facnlties, and is still blessed with exolient health. How much is owing to her for the scrupu lous and reverent care that preserves undisturbed to many touching mem orials of her husband's personality and work, in the spot now consecrated by the remembrance of his life and labors! Mr. W. Darwin pointed ont in the smaller stndy many impressive relics of his fa'hor; his fav. Ve chair, the table at wnich he wrote, the micro scope which he used so constantly in physiological and anatomical re searches; and on this table were num erous sheets of his MS. notes, and, above all, the bst pages which he bad penned before death pat ah end to his toil. In the drawing-room, on a side-table, there was laid open for onr inspection the large handsomely-bound albnm, which was presented to the distin guished English student of scienc3 by u!l the great naturalists belonging to tho German, French, Austrian, Danish, and other foreign Universities. Their names are legion, and their photo graphs number several hundreds, and completely fill the volume. On the dedication page is an inscription in richly-illuminated letters: "DE.U CHARLES DARWIN Beformator der Natur-gesrchichte." Underneath many of trie portraits were written the individual's name and title, bnt by far the majority were left without such indication. If a stranger might venture on a suggestion, it would largely add to the interest of this heirloom and to tbe intrinsic value of the albnm if the needful in formation were given in every oaae. For another reason 1 was (14 X h rived early at Down, for I thus was able to spend a whole hour entirely in solitary meditation, loitering along Darwin's own particular walk, his fa vorite, and, 1 believe, hi-i only place of exercise; a heiten path extending along three sides of a small wood, measuriug in all about one-third of a mile, and bearing the name of "Saud walk." in this sequestered spot tLe great philosopher on every fine day took his "constitutional," if such a word of mundane association, so sug gestive of one's own too often vacuous and listless promenade, oan be applied to the self-communing sage whose presence seems still to hover round this lonely spot. We can picture him as he paced the narrow footway, or rested awhile on the rustic seats " over shadowed by thick shrubs, pondering long and painfully on the complex and far-reaching results of his great central generalization, the "Oricin of Suedes" J in the world of organic nature. That ine writer ol this article is not giviug the reins to his own undisciplined fancy is shown by the simple inci dent, related by Darwin himself, of his noting "the very spot on the high road over which the carriage was p is- 1 sing when tbe idea of variation of spe j cies by migration and change of local condition first oecnred to bim. We can conceive how slowly but surely . tbe ultimate issues of that grand but simple- hypothesis thronged upon his mental gaze, and how a calm confidence in the invincible truth of Evolution gradually but firmly established itseif in his mind. Humble as he was, the I prospect must have filled his tout with I glowing expectations, not of human applause or the rewards that fall to the ' statesman, the senator, or the specu I lator; bnt of the calm triumph of trulli over error, of light over darkness, of the symmntry and simplicity of natural law over the confusion and caprice that marked the artificial hypotheses oi prejudice and ignorance. Y'et we must never forsret that (to use I'rofessor Tyndali's words) Evo lntion neither solves nor professe- to solve the ultimate mystery of this uni verse. Or, as the late Anbrey Moore said "Evolution has done nothing to explain creatiou." The problem of Arctebiosis still remains unsolved; and we may do worse than fall back on the suggestion of one of the greatest i atners of the Church, when he says, in commenting on (iecesis: "God at first created many germs which should afterwards develop according to their own laws." In tho garden through which a vis itor must pass to reach the "Sanil walk" there are seen the beds, diverted once more to the cultivation of homely vegetables, and unconscious rf the high er uses to which they were once dedica ted by tho great experimentalist, w'jen he sowed different kin Is of grass seed, and counted each individual stem as it grew, in order to observe or discover the traces of cross-fertilization, or the tendency of any species to variation. Ami it was in the neihlidring meadow that he laid down the chalk, the grad ual substance of w hich was to mark the rate of deHsition of tho mould above it by the operation of enrth worms. At the eastern extremity of the ou! buildings were the dove-cots, the home of birds now immortalized iu the pro saic records of science, in which were reared the varieties of breeds and cross-breeds of countless families of pigeons; and the results of thise pa tient and long continued experiments became as we all know a very im portant factor in the practical confir mation of tho theory of Evolution. Here (as Dr. E. Kay Lankester has put it) was proved the possibility of "ba lance," or 'elaboration," or "degen- , eration," in the genus Com, .... The ingenuity of the philosophei : discerns the direction of Nature's laws . towardsimprovemeut or deterioration in organized beings, according to tl e more or less favorableconditiou or their environment. Care, nurture, ami fe licitous combinations produce variety and beauty of form and color, and a continnal tendency to advance in the scale of natural endowment. And the converse is eqnally trne; a colony of pigeons in some far oft i-Iam'l, isolated from the bannts of civilzed man, wonld be compelled by the operation of law to revert slowly to some lower or more primitive type; discarding the badges of a higher culture, losing by degrees the marks of grace and beauty once at tained to, and conforming to the ruder image and less perfect structure of the past. And the lesson runs into deeper ground than this, for as don est cated I animals gradually lose their higher qualities if they chance to be driv. n again into a wild condition, so does I man deteriorate, both in body and I mind, by any revcrsiou to savary iu ! social or civil or domestic life. I!y neg lecting physical requirements las body must degenerate; and by disre garding tbe mental and spiritual cul ture of his higher nature, bis moral character may become debased by law lessness and vice, and his soul be atrophied by disobedience to the de mands of science and rebuion. The visitors to Down Honse wer. now dispersed over the grounds, hav ing enjoyed with evident relish after their long pedestrian excursion over the chalk plateau the bountiful re freshments so liberally laid out for them by order of Mrs. Danvin. Tho lawns are spacious and beautifully kept, and there was a profusion of flowers on alt sides, aud some m.inuii cent trees and shrubs, which, on the south-east side, had formed leafy alleys, atlordiug delightful strolls to the urban visitors, and providing a shady retreat, here and there, for the contemplative, in which to dwell on some of the many problems of Ea'ural I existence, of mental and material life in man and beapt, which the works of tbe great Kentish philosopher are con tinually bringing before us How to discern between tho "knov able" and the "unknowable"; how to combine the assured prevalence of in violable natural law with tbe undeni able claims and instinctive convictions of moral right and wrong, and, above all, with the secret wbitperings of the hope of immortality hereafter, must ever provide the thoughtful mind wilt the gravest and most momentous cogi tations. Y'et, as full of such "obstinate qnes tionings" we move homeward, per haps, in more senses than one, the answer may be fonnd nearer than we supposed: Hotfifur ambittando. And now, at the close of the record of this memorable day, I think I can not do better t.'an conclude with the lines of Burns: "But how my subject theme mav gang. Let time and ch.tnee deteinune; Perhaps It may turn out a sanic. i'erbaps tura out a sermon." When a man is puffed up with a harmless kind of pride that doesn't hurt anyone, it is a cruel piece of busi ness to take the oonoeit ont of him; it it is as erne as to pall the feathers out of a peaoook'i tail- HliV. DR. TALUdClll The IJrooklyii Divine! Sunday Sermon. S il jact: Apoli cits for Not E-.teiirg the Christian Lif ." Tkt; "And thru all with an eni.wa' Itgan to make excuse." Luke xir., IS. After tbe invitation, to a tere ire sot out the regrets coma in. On inn np jUzm lor non-itteri'l-iiie. on on3 eround, aiilhu t.n another trrounil. The moit of trie r;rjta are f.,uu e.l on prior en ra ;enunts. So in niv text a crut banquet w js srea I. the in vitations w.-re cireuiats-l, an i now the re f. rets coine in. '1 he one crives an ai irultu ral reason, the other a slojfc dealer's reason, the other a dnrnest e retson ill poor rear-on s. The agricultural reison beirnt that the man htd Urn; lit a larni an 1 wanted tt e it. l oiild be hoc sje it tbe next dayf J be stork Healer's reason being that he had bought five yoke of ox-mi, and he w intJ to go and prove tneni. tia nal no huiineis to I uy them until he knew what they were, besides thai a in in who can own five yoke or oxen cm command bis own time. Be sides that be might b ive yoked two of the n together and dr.ven them on the way to the l.nn.u t, for locimotion was not as rapi I then as no. '1 he man wno gave tUe domestic reason said he had pot married. He oujht to have taken his wile with him. The fact was they did not want to Ko. "And they all with one ron-erit !. hi to make exen.e." So now 1 iixl sprea is a sreat banquet; it is the trojpe! iasl, an I the table reni-uei across the hem lsi .bei- and tne invitations go out an I mul titu !e o.ne and sit down ii 1 drink out of Iheehal ces of (Jod's love, while other innl tilul s d dine oniing ;.he one ijivins this m ii.i.ijv and the ot ler irivm? that ap And ti.ej all with one consent bewail to tease exeue." I propose this morning, so far as may help me, to examine the polOs-ies which meu make for not eutoriu the Christian life. Apology thelirst; lam nit sure there il anything valuable in tbj Christian re. hzion. Iti-ipleadet that thore are so many impoaitiou in this day s mtny things that seem to be real are sham. A gilded outside mav have a hollow iniide. Th-re is o nuieh quaekery in physics, in ethics, iu polities, that men co ne to the habit of in credulity, and alter awbiie tuey alio that increduliry to collide with our holy re ligion. tint, my friends, I think religion has ma Is a prttiy g.iod rec rd in the woriit. How many w. .mi ls it has salve I: how many pil lars ol tire it has iiitel iu tbe uiidweht wilderness; how many hi 'in sin struck S liaraa it hum tnrnii in'o tha gardens of tne Ixird; bow it hath stil.e I the cbonped seat hat rosy light it hath ssnt streaming through rheiirtof th storm clou I wrack; what pools of cool water it hath Kathere 1 for thirsty Hagar aud tshmael; what m inna whiter than coriander seed it hafi dropped all around the conn of hardly bestead pil eruns; what promises it hath sent out like holy watcliers to keep lh- lamps huriiiiiir round death beds! Throu'h the darkne-4 that lowers into the sepulchre, what dasher ot rsurr-t Rn morn. Besides th it, this religion has m vie no rnany heroes. It brought Summerrlel I, tbe Methodi-t. across tbe Atlantic Ocean with bis silver trumpet to blow the acceptable year of the Lord, until it seema I as if all our American cities would take the king dom ol heaven by violence. It sent Je hudi A-hmaii into Afr.ea alonn, in a conti nent of na ; I birlrians, t hit the stan dard of civihzitioo and Christianity. it made John Miiton anion; D iets, Raphael ,m"; painters, Christopher Wren anion; architects, Thorwaldsen aiuoii sculptors, Jlanlel among musicians, Oupont anion; military commanders; an t to give new wiugs to the imagination, and better bal ance to the ju Ijineur, an I more det -mi illa tion to the will, ant greater useiuiness to the life, an 1 grander nobility to tho soul, there is nothing in all the earth like our '.hristiau religion. Nothui in religionl Why, then, all those Chi-eti ms were deceived when in their dyinj mo nenr. thev thought tn y saw the c.i.-tli-s r the bless d an I your child, that With urmtteralile aony you pur. away into the "j-ave you will n. y r see him aaiu, uor hear his sweet voice, n r led tha throb of his youn hart? Thre is nothing in r liSionl Sickness will coma upon you. Rill arid turn ou your pillow. .No relief. 'Ilia medicine may be bitter the nijjbt may Im dark, the pain mav be slurp. No relief. Clii-.st n. vercomes to the si-k room. Lc the pain stati. Let the fever burn. Cnrse 'tan ldie. 'Ihei-e is not'iiu; iu religion A iter awhile death will come. You will hear the pawin? of the pale hors on the threshold. The spirit will ha hrea . in? away from tne bodv, and it will takefliiht whither, whither? There is no Got, do mm stei ins angels to conduct, no Chri-. no neavtrn. no home. Nothing in religion! iou are not willing such a dis nal theory the world is full of skeptics, say there is no class of to adopt And yet Ami let me people for whom I have a warmer svmnatnv than for skeptics. We do not know how to treat tiieui. "We i.eride them, we caricature them. We, instesd of takinq them by the so. t hand of Christian love, clutch thn with the iron piiicersof ecclesiasticism. Oh, it you knew how those men had fallen away lrom Christianity and become skeptics you would not tie so rouh ou them. Some were brought Ui in homes w here religion was overjone 1 be most w re tolled day in the week was Sunday. Religion was driven into them with a triphammer. They bad a sur eit ot pnyer in etinis. They were Mulled and ihoKed with catechisms. They were told by their parents that they were the wont children that ever lived because they liued to ri le down hill better than to read "Pilgrim's Progress." They never beard their parents talk of religion tut with the corners ot their mouths drawn duwp am i the eyes rolle I up. Others went into skepticism thron;h mal -treatment on the part of some who pro lessed religion. There is a man who rays, "My partner in business wis voiublo in prayer meeting, an I be was niticdous in all religious circles hut no cheated me out of t.Vmo, nnl 1 don't want any of that re hjiii.n." '1 here nre others who got into skepticism by a natural persist -nee in askinsj q'i-tions Wuy or how. How can Ood be one beinz in three r ers.,ns? 1 bey c-tnnot understand i it. Neither can I. Ho can God be acorn- ! plete s veieign an t yet nun a free agent? j i'liey cannot understand it. Neither can I. t They cunnoc understand whv a holy Got I ts sin Cuine into tne world. Neither can L They say "H-re is a great mystery. Here is a disciple of fas'iiou, frivol us and ffo I- ! less all her davs .h. lives on to he an oero- I Ifenai'iau. Here isa Christian mother train- ! ing her children for Gil ant tor heaven, j eU-Mcnlicin j, t hr.siliue. indis;ienssde I seemingly to tnat h m-ehold she takes the : earn er aud oies." The skeptic says, 1 cau't I til lain that." Neither can I. i Oh, I can e-' how men reason themS-Mvet j into bKt.ptic.4-n. With burniu feet I bare ! trod that blistering way I know waat it is to have a bun Ire 1 nights pmre l into one I hour, 'lii-ra are men in tun au hence who. ' w. uid ",iv -tl.eir th lus.nds of oo.lars if they cotiid et bic; to the ol 1 religion of th r lathers. .?ujn men ar j not to be carica- I ture.l, fmt h.-ipe.', ani not through their ! heads, bur. throu'D their hearts. When i these men leally do come into the kingdom ! ol Got, thev wdi be worth far more to the ; cause ot Christ than those who never ex- ninined the vi lences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers once a skeptic; Robert Hall once a .-keotic; Christmas hvans once a skeptic, hut wheu they did lay bold of the gospel caaiiot, how they male It speed, ahead t If therefore I stand this morning beforv men an 1 nmr.en who have drifted away into suept cis.n i throw out no scoff. 1 rather mislead you by the memory of too j pool ol t tm". whn taw knelt at yont mot tier's kn" -n 1 Slid yourevnin praver, and those othr davs of sickness when sh watched ad niihc an 1 gave yon the roeli cines at just the nsht time and turne I tha pillow when it was hot, ant with hand Ion? a o turns t to riut soothed your pains, and with that voice yon will never hear ajraio unless yon join her in tha beater country told yr a never mind you would be better by and by, and by that dyiqz oonotvwhart slie talked so slow'.y. catching her bream between tha words by all those memories I ask yon to coin? and take the same relig ion. It was sto- 1 enough for bar it is gojJ enough for you. Aye, I make a better p'ea by tha wouads an I the death throes of tb Son of Go ), who approaches yon this morning with born brow and lacerated han Is and wainoed back cry ing: "Come unto Me atl ve who are weary and heavy la len, an I I will ive yon r?st." Other persons a.v:o- re for not entering the Christian life liecauseof the incorrigi bility of thair te nusr. Now, ws admit it is harder for some p?o-!e to liecome Christians than lor others ttut tha irrana of Got never Mine to a mountain that it ooul i not climb, -r to an abvss that it could not fathom, or to a bondage that it ciuld not break. T le wildest horse that evar trod Arabian sands has been br ilsen to hit an I trac . Tue mad est torrent tu ublin-r. from mountain shelving has been harnessed to the mill wheel and the factery oan t, setting a thou sand .buttles all a-bazz aud a-clatter, and tbe wildest, ths haughtiest, the most on- .-I,, i-re.f. 1 hv the Te. of Got may be suSluel anl sent ont on ministry of kindness, as God sndi an An ;ust thun lertonu to wter the wild lwers don in the grass. Gooi resolution, reformatory effort, will not elfeet the cba-i i. It takes a mightier arm and a mightier bant to bjul evil habits than the nan 1 that bnt the bow of Ulysses and it takes a stronger lasso taan ever held tho hulT ilo ou tha prairie. A man ctnnot go fortu with any human weapons anl contend successfully against these Titans ar neil with uotorn mountains. Hut you h ive known men int-) w lose spirit the influence of the gospel nl Christ cam until their dis 'insition was entirely cha ise J. So it was .vitli to me:-chiuts in New York. They werj vry nnajoaistie. Tney bad done all they could to injure eaoh other. They were in the sa.na line ot business. One of tho merchant was onvertel to Gol. Having been conv -rtl, he aKe 1 the Lord to teach bun how to bar himself toward that business antagonist, an 1 hd was im pressed with the tact that it was his duty when a customer asked for a curtain kind of go: Is which be had not, but which he knew his oppo lent ha 1, to reco n nen 1 bim to go to that store. I sunpose that is ahout the hardest thin-; tue in in could do, but b-3in thoroughly converts 1 to Gj 1 he resolve I to do that v Ty thin;, an i beniu asksd for a certain kind of goo is which ha bad not he said, "You go to sit "h an 1 such a st ire and vou will get it." Afo-r awhile merchant N-i. 2 touiid these cu-to nerj co aiu; so se it, and he foun 1 also tiiat merchant No. I had iwri brought to G nl and he soilpjrit the saui'j religion. Now they are good n-jan.ig and good neighbors, the grace of GJ en tirely changing their dispisition. "Oh," savs so ne ona, "l luve a rou;h, jajie I, impetuous nature, and reli?;iou can't do anvthtnj lor mV D.j you know that MarVn bother anl Rhert Newton and Richard H.xter were imoetuou, all con suming natures, y t the grace of God turne 1 them into the mightiest use'ulness? Oil, how many wno have beet pugnacious and hard to please and irascible ani more both ered ahout thj mota in their neighbor's eye than aliout tha tieam like ship t'tnbar in their own eve havoi ben entirely changed by tho grace of God and have foun I intft that "go.ihness is pro itabla fr the life that now is as well as for the lite which is tr come 1" Peter, with nature temoesfu-)us as the sea that he once tried to walk, at one look of Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rich harvests of graca may grow on the tiptop of the jagged steep, and flocks ot Christian gracs may tin i paturaga in fieldsof bram ble and rock. Though your disposition may be all a-brisrle with fretfulness, though you have a temper a-leim with quick light nings, thou ;n your avarice he 1ir that of tlie horse-lee.'h. cryin;, Give!" though damnatile im lUrities have wraopd you in ad consuming rire. Go 1 can drive that devil out of your soul, an t over tin chaos and rba t irisiii's-s lie caa siy, 'Lac tnere be lb'ht." Converting grace has bfte 1 the drunicard from the ditch and snitched the knite from the hand of the assissin anl the falsa keys from tue burglar, and in the pestiferous lan-'s of tbe city met the daughter of sin under the dim lamplight and scattered her sorrow and her guilt with tie words, "i'hr sins are forgiven o and sin no more." For icar'.etsiiia sc iriet arooeinnt. Other nrsms apologize for not entering the Christiou life becjiuve of tbe inconsisten ciesof tho-e who profess reiision. Thereare thousan Is of poor tanners. They do not knnx thj n ,tur. of soil nor tha proper rota tion ot crops Til-Mr corn is shorter iu the stalk and smaller in the ear. T.iey have ten less bushels to tnea.M-e than their neighbors. But w ho declines lieni!? a tanner becausf 'here are so many poor tanners. Thereare thousinds of incompetent mer shants. They buy at tho wronij time. Th-y get cheats 1 in the sale of their goods Every bale of gio Is is to them disaster. They fail al ter a while and go out ot business but who declines to De a merchant because there are so many incometent merchants? There are thousands of por lawyers. They cannot draw a declaration that will stand the t-st. They c tnnot recover just dam aes. They cajnot help a defendent e-cape lrom theinjnstica of hia persecutors They are the worst evidence againstany casein which they are retaineii. But who declines to be a lawyer because there are so many lncomietent lawyers? Yet there are tens of thousands of people who decline being re ligious because tnere are so many unworthy Christians Now, 1 say it is illogical. Poor lawyers are nothing ainst jurisprudence, poor physicians are nothing against medi cine, poor fanners are notnin against agri culture, and mean, contemptible professors t religion are nothing against our glorious" Christianity j Sometimes yon have been riding aion; on a summer night by a swa no, an 1 you have seen lights that kindle! ovm- dectyed vege tation lights which nrecallel jack-o'-lantern or will-o'-the-wisp. 1'bese lights are merelyjoisonous miasmata. My f nend, on your way to heaven you will want a belter light than the will-o'-the-wisps which danca on the rotten character of dead Christiana. Exudations from poisonous trees in our neighbor's earden will maae a very poor balm for our wounds. Sickness will come, an 1 we will be pushed out toward the R? 1 S-a which divides this world from the nex and not the incon sistency of Christians but the rod of laitn will wave back the waters as a commander wheels his host. Tne judgment will come with its rhuuders'iod solemnities atten led by bursting moiinfains and the dear lau-rh oi earthquake--, and suns will fly before the feet, of Go 1 like sparks fro n the anvil, and 10,0)1 burning worlds shall bias like ban ners in tne tr ick ot Gii omnipotent. Oh. then we will stop and savs '"Tuere was a mean Cui-tstiau; there was a cowardly Chnsttan, there was an impure Christian. In that day as now, "It t urn bo wise, thou halt be wise for tayelf, lm if thou soorn est th at aiona snail beir it," Why, my brother, the incousistmcy ot Christians so far lrom being au argument to keep you away lrom Go I ouzht to be an argument to drive vou to Him. The)best place lor a skill ful doctor is a neighborhood where they are all poor doctor.,: tue best place for an enter prising merchant to np n bis store is in a place wnere the bargain makers do not un derstand their bn-iuess, and the best place tor you who want to become the illustrious and complete Christians the best plaoe for yon is to coma rigut down amoug us who are so injoinjieteui. and so inconsistent aom jmel. Oilier persons ap ilogize for not becoming Cnristians because they lac k time, as thong o religion muddle i the brain of tbe account ant, or tripped the pen ot the author, or thickeued tne tongue of the orator, or weak enel the arm of the mechanic, or mnwen the brie1", of the lavver. or interrupted tha sales of the marcaant:. They bolt their store doors against it anl flihf it hac with trowels ant with yard sticks anl erv, Awav with your religion from our store, our office, our factory T Thev do not nn terstanl that religion ra this workaday world will hlo yon to do anything you nurht to do. It can lay a keel, it can sail a shin, it can buy a cargo, it can work a pnllev, it can nave a street, it ean fit a wristband, it can write a constitu tion, it can marshal a host . It is as appro priate to the astrona nM- as his tles"sope. to the chemist as his laboratory, to the mason as hia nlnmhline, to the carpenter as hia plane, to the child a. his marbles, to tha grandfather as his staff. No time to be religions here! Too have jo time not to be religions. You might as well have no clerks in yonr store, no books In your library, vo compass on your ship, as rifla te mn batti . Vt for yoy head, no coat for yonr hack, no snoes im your feet. Better travel on towar I eternity bare headed and bare fonte.1. and housele-s an I homeless, an I friendless, than gt through life without religion. Did religion make Raleigh any less of a ftatesraan. or Haveloc'-c any lew of a ?o' dier, or Grinuell any less ot a merchant, or West any less of a nainter? Religion is the best security in every bargain, it Is the sweetest note in every son. it is the bright est gera in every coronet. No time to be re ligions! Why, yon will have to take time to he sick, to he troiib'e-L to die. Our world Is only the wharf from which we are to em hark for heaven. No time to secure the friendship ot Christ No time to buy a lamp and trim it for that walk through the darkness wliich otherwise will be illumined only by the whiteness of the tombstones. No time to e 'jicate tha eye for heavenly splendors or tuahani for choral harps, or the ear for everlasting songs or the soul f r honor, glory and immortality. One would 'hink we had time for nothing else. Other persons aoologiit for not entering the Christian lite because it is time enough yet. Taat ii very like those persons wbo send their regrets and sayt "I will come in perhaps at 1 1 or 13 o'clock. I will not be there at tbe opening of tbe banquet, but I will be there at the close." Not yet I No! yet I Now, I do not give any doleful view of this lite. There Is nothing in my nature, nothing in the grace ot Ooi, that ten ts to ward a doleful view of human life. 1 have not miwh sympathy with Addison's descrip tion of the "Vision of Mirra," where he rep rea -nta human life as lieing a bridge ot a hundred arches, and both en Is of the ori.lge covered with clouds, and the race coming on, the most of them falling down througn tbe first span, and all of them falling down through the last sjian. It Is a very dismal picture. I have not much sympathy with the Spanish proverb which say--, "the sky is Rood, and the earth is good that whioa 'a bad is between the earth and ths sky." But while we Christian people are bound to take a cheerful view of life we must also confess that life is a great uncertainty, and that man who says. "1 can't become a - -. -.-i is runniu; a risk Infinite. You do "not per. haps realm the fact that this descending grade of sin gets steelier and steeper, and that you are gathering up a rush and veloc ity which after awhile may not answer to the brakes. Oh, my friends, be not among those who give their whole life to tbe world and then g.ve tbur corpse to God. It does not seem fair while our pulses are in full play of health that we serve our selves and serve tbe world and ttieu make Go I at last the present of a coffin. It does not seem ri;ht that we run our s'-iip from coast to coast, carrying cargoes for ourselves, and then waen the ship is crushed on the rocks give to Got the shivered timbers, it is a great thing for a man on bis dying pil low to repent better than never at all but how much better, how much more generous it would have been if he bad repented tilty years before! My friends you will never $et over these procrastinations. Hare is a delusion. People think. "I cat go on in sin and world. ina-a. but alter awhile 1 will repent, an I then it will be as though 1 had coua at the very stare" That la a delusion. No one ever gets fully over pro crastination. If you give your soul to God, some other time than this, you will enter heaven with only half the capacity tor en liyment and snowlelge you might have had. Tnere will be heights of blessedness you might have attained, you will never reach; thrones of glory on which you might have been seated, but winch you will never climb. We will never gee over pro crastination, neither in time nor in eter nity. Wa have atarte 1 on a march from which there is no retreat. Tne ahad aws of eternity gather on our path way. How insignificiu". is ti.ne compared with the vast eternity I I was thinking of this while coming down over the Alleghany Mountains at noon, by that wonderful place which you have atl heard described as the Horsehoe a depression in the side of the mountain where the train almost .turns backs again upon itself, and you see how appro priate is the description of tha Horseshoe and thinking on this very theme and prepar ing this very sermon it seemed to me as if tbe great courser of eternity soesding along had just struck the mountain with one hoof and gone into lllirnitanle space. So sh rt is tune, soinsignid.-ant isearih, compare 1 with the vast eternity I This morning voice roll down tbe sky, and all the worlds of light are ready to re joice at your disenthrall nent. Rush not into the presence of the King ragged with sin when you may have this robe of right eousness. Dish not your foot to pieces against the throne of a crucified Christ. Throw not your crown of life off the battle, menta. All the scribes of God are this mo ment ready with volumes ot living lijht to record the news of your soul emanc ipated. Transfusion ol Blood Not New. Transfusion of blood as practiced in surgery is by no means a recent develop ment in science. Medical records show it to have been knows to the Egyptians, Syrians and Persians. Tbe Pittsburg Dispatch regards it as even possible that the ancients were more successful than the physicians of recent periods. In the Seventeenth Century so many attempts were made in France, accompanied by so many failures and fatalities, that the Parliament of Paris declared against its legality. The experiments continued, however, calf's blood being substituted for the human. The results were not encouraging, tbe physicians not being aware that the blood of animals injected into the veins of another belonging to a different species acted as a poison. For 200 years the experiments were discon tinued, and then one day, some years ago, the story of the death of a youns; medical student named Romain le Goff, while trying to save the life of a friend with hia own blood, created a great sen sation. A street in Paris, named after le Ootf, commemorates bis brave act. By this time the medical meu hd learned that to be successful the blood must neither be allowed to coagulate, nor air suffered to enter tbe veins with it. Doctor Roussel, of Geneva, invent ed an apparatus which overcame both the above difficulties. Since that time the experiments have been centinued with remarkable success. Many lives have bsen undoubtedly saved by it. An old employe of the Theatre Francais in Paris, named Diipnitch, has given up his blood several times to those in need of it, for which he has been awarded a magnificent gold medal by the French Government. Six t ibicco plautatio s w'thin the lUrlrti city lini't yielded 13-KJ i-oands of tobacco In 18112. Purely bygenic methods are st:ll the only safe one; for ovrreomit ;; the torments of nights pissed wide awake. Typhus fever Is also known as jail, tiospital, spotted and caunp fe er, and is a near relative (o typhoid and emi grant fever. Seven American Presidents have died i'i t'ie month of Juiy, and iu tli. t month Garfield receive! his fabd wound. The natives or the Solomon Islands believe that cvclones are caused bv .some monstrous invisible b'rds flappn g tlielr wing?. Mlse Lucy Cubiniss Is a caterer and florist at Jackson, Miss., and servis as a womau's exchange to Mississippi housekeepers. Tbe Cuban costume consists rf shirt, trousers, and hat wltb the en -belllsbment of a big 1 1ar. Even tl.e beggars smoke, and some of them ride horseback while pursuing their calling. EDWARD B. WHITNEiV iimed by tha President for Aesa Attorney General. Edward B. Whitney, of Xew York 'ity, who via recently nominated iy President Cleveland for Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was born in He's? Haven, Conn., Aug. 17, 1857. His fath er, William Dwight Whitney, Im profes sor of Sanscrit, com parative philology cDWABu a w hitmey. and modern lan guages at Yale University and editor )f the Century Dictionary. After a Kiursc at tho Hopkins Grammar School Edward entered Yale in 1874, tniong his classmates being Judge William Taft, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Whitney jraduated from the academic de partment In 178 and took a course )f law at New Haven. Then ho en tered the Columbia Law School, of New York, and In 1880 wasadmitted to the bar. Four years later he be :ame a member of the law Urm of Huriiett & Whitney, of Kew York. Mr. Whitney has always been a itout supporter of Mr. Cleveland from the time that the latter was :na le Governor of New York. He abnred hard for his nomination and ilecllnn la 1834, 1883 and 1892. One f the pioneers of the National League of Ik-mocratic Clubs, he was ts secretary from 1 886 to 18 DO. He was foremost among the opposers of the convention held In February, I8(t2. to pledge delegates to the sup port of Hill for the Presidential nomination, and labored night and lay for the success of the Syracuse invention, at which he was appoint ed a delegate to Chicago. CLATTER OF THE KLOOMPERS. line of the Sounds Which Attract the Ears of Travelers In Holland. One of the queerest sights which 1 aw In Europe was a row of wooden shoes outside of a Dutch farmhsuse n Saturday morning, says a writer In Harrier's Youug People. There were the big-sized shoes of the farm er himself, the middle-sized shoes of his good vraow, and several small sized shoes of the children, and all the line had been scrubbed and fresh ly whitewashed In preparation for Sunday. There are many kinds of wMalen shoes worn by the peasants in Europe, but none are more clumsy nnl heavy than the "kloompers" of the Hollanders. They are boat Miaped, with high wooden protections to the heels, and a curious little up ward twist to the toes, like the prow of a Chinese junk. But heavy and awkward as the shoes are the Dutch children run about as lightly as If they were shod in Cinderella's glass slippers and do not seem to object In the least to the clicking sound m ado by the shoes on the pivement. One of the most extraordinary sights In the world is a line of little Dutch boys playing leap-frog In their great noisy wooden kloompers. Having formed a row of "frogs" from one end of their village to the other the boys begin to jump in the usual agile way tf the players of the lively game. As soon as the line is in motion a most rreineiitloiis sound startles the village. The oldest inhabitant can hardly "bear himself think," but he knows that the noise Is not tlmi.der; it Is r.nly the rattle of the boys' wooden 5tn.es as they strike the hard, brick oaved street. Wade Hampton. Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, j.inied as Commissioner of Railroads coiues of an old Southern family. and was horn I n Columbia, S. C, in 118. He was gradu ated from the Uni versity of South Carolina 1 n 18:5. When the war broke out he was known as one of the large-t planters in the South. He had served in both branch es of the Legislature, and was a man of great influence. Though opposed to secession, he entered the Con federate army and organized and took command of the Hampton Legion. He served with great gallantry, and attained the rank of Lieutenant Gen eral. After the war Gen. Hampton became a prominent advocate of the policy of conciliation between the whites and negroes, and In 1876 was elected Governor of South Carolina on this platform. He was re-elected at the expiration of his term, and then was sent to the United State Senate, where he served two terms. Hllk from Wood. A London paper says that at Besan con, France, the production of silk from wood pulp is very successful. It has never come into common use, one reason lieing the extreme Inflamma bility of the material, as well as Its want of durability. In one of the consular reports, quoted in the Lon don Times, details of the process are given, and an account of the forma of a new company at St. Eticnne, but the conclusion is that the experi ments are more curious than im portant, and the silkworm will re main the triumphant producer of good silk. Bier Hnm tor Charity. No less than 2n,ufil,ri27 was given .ast year in the United States for pur poses of education, charity and pop ular entertainments in various forms. Of this amount the citizens of Chi cago contributed $4,146,000. Raplrf Workman. A sack sewer In a Tondleton (Ore gon) flour mill challenges the North west for the championship on his recort of sewing up 600 fifty-pound ucks Inside of Ave hours, or about two sacks a minute- Mr. Gladstone's Pro;re.lvee. Among the many progressive meas ures Inaugurated by Mr. Gladstone's administration is a scheme for teach ing the elements of politics In all scholastic institutions controlled or 8ii p-vised by the government. Hith erto this branch of education, to which so much attention Is pah) in this country, as well aa in Switzer land and France, has been entirely neglected In the primary schools of Grwa..Tirltlain - RESEMBLES THE BIBLE STORY. A Guatemallan Indian Leg-end mt the World's Creation. Of all the American nations, notv have left a fuller mythological legacy than the Guichesof Guatemala, who, in addition to a vast mass of ora tra dition, possessed also a written liter ature on the subject, full of rude, strange eloquence and poetic origi nality. The simple sublimity of their account of the creation equals any thing to be found in literature. "And the heaveus were formed and all the signs thereof were set in their angle and alignment, and its boundaries were Oxed toward the four winds by the Creator, the Mother and Father of life and existence; He by whom all move and breathe, the Father of the peace of nations and the civiliza tion of bis people, He whose wisdom has projected the excellence of all that is on the earth or in the lakes or in the sea But there was as yet no man, nor anjjanimal, nor bird, nor crawfish, nor my pit, nor ravine, nor creen herb, nor any tree; nothing was but the firmament. The face of the earth had not appeared, only the I eacef ul sea and all the space of heaven. There was nothing yet joined together, nothing Jthat clung to Taj thing else; nothing that bal anced itself, that made the least rustling, that made any sound in the heavens. There was nothing that stood up, nothing but the quiet water; but the sea, calm and alone in its boundaries; nothing lived, nothing but Immobility and silence In the darkness, in the night, lieteriulned to people the waste, the Supreme Father called into being the earth, the plants, the trees, and finally ani mals, birds, beasts and creeping things. And the gods called on these, their creatures, to praise their Creator, and they could not, so the gods despised them. And again and again they tried to create an animal that should speak and Intelligently declare the praises of its Maker. And finally after many failures and thousands of years spent in experi ment, they made men, and the men looked up to heaven and said: 'Hail, O Creator! Thou that hearest and understaudest us! Abandon us not; Forsake us not! Give us to walk al ways in an open road, in a path with out snares, to lead quiet, happy and peaceful lives, free of all reproach.' Under the protection of the gods men multiplied, but soon forgot ta praise and honor the deities, and a great rain fell which destroyed all but one good man, his wife, his sons, and his sons' wives, all of whom had taken refuge in a great canoe. When the rain ceased they settled In a place called Tulan, and there the language of all was confused, so they deter mined to leave Tulan and go to dif ferent parts of the earth; thus thej did, and in this way the whole eartfr was peopled with men." Something; of a Idar. Iu a downtown barber-shop Is em ployed a little boy to keep the flies ofl the patrons of the place in summei and act as general utility man in the winter. Having nothing else to oc cupy his mind, he has develoid a wonderful faculty for relating marvel ous stories. He bids fair in time tc outrival Joe Mulhattan and severa1 others who have become noted as pro varicators. His talent in this direo tion is so marked, indeed, as U astonish the patrons of the shop, whom he never fails to regale witfc one of his choice selections. The other aftei noon a gentlemai who was in a hurry to catch a train took a seat in one of the chairs. IU had not got fairly settled in the bin cushions when the youthful story teller, with a most serious counte nance, began a new work of the lio agination. 'You are going away on the train, aint you, mister?" There was an as senting nod. "I suppose you must e goin' dow to Georgy this time o' year. It's so cold, you know. I used to live down in Georgv with my gran'pa. Me an' him raised popcorn together. We had eighty acres in our farm and n four ot them we raised popcorn. When it got ripe we shucked it and put in a big barn. It was hot an' the barr vas dry. "One night it caught fire. Tlx corn popped and flew all over the farm, until it looked like it had snowed. The nci. morniu' when oui old cow come out o' her shed she saw tne popcorn over ever'thing, and, thinkin' it was snow, she laid down and froze to death. " Lonisvill Courier-Journal. Down a Parisian Sewer. A correspondent of the Congreg.-i tionalist describes the sewers of I'arii and the description affords an ex ample of what well might be in ever large city of the land. Going down, with some seventy other visitors, bi two flights of carjieted iron stairs, he landed in a vaulted chamber, where the visitors took seats in two large boats in the sewer, which was over 1 i feet wideand 14 feet high. The sew age. vhich is only the water dis charge from dwellings, factories, etc. (the offensive sewage from closets be ing, otherwise disposed of), flows in a central channel 12 feet wide and from 4 to 5 feet deep, and this chan nel is Tir4ered on each side by paved walks, 3 feet in width and perfcctlT dry, sweet and clean, giving excellent sidewalks for workmen or visitors. The sewer itself Is far more than an American sewer. It Is a great and well-built tunnel, constructed for a variety of uses, only one of which h to carry away the waste water of the city. It Is a way for huge watci and gas pipes, for conduit and serv. ics nipes, for telegraph and tele phone wires and for pneumatic tubes for postofrlce and other service. By ropes attached to the boats the vi.s. Itors were propelled along this roofed over canal, from which no offensive odor was perceived, while the rapid current, made by the constant inflow from tne side pipes and small sewers Kept up the 6teady flow of the stream. After a long ride In the boats the visitors cl I tuned up two other flights of carpeted iron stairs, having been on their visit to the sewers just an hour. The banana aeeds only in one small spot on earth, tha Andaman Islands. Everywhere elsa it must be raised from ackers, , .
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