~es for .Rom the sheep, etc., io make up ■•essed meats th the excep the provisions etual shape in taken on board. i the vessel are: beam, sixty-seven anient, 23,000 tons; rage speed for the .30 knots, and she has ney from Sandy IIooU rd In live days, seven nirty-eight minutes. .1 number of souls on board PROVISIONING A TRANSATLANTIC LINER—EQ S IVALENT IN LIVE STOCK AND GENERAL STORES. of the vessel when she has a full pas senger list is 1017, made up of 41!7 first cabin, 300 second cabin, 300 steer age and a crew of 550, the crew com prising officers, seamen, stewards and the engine-rooin force. Sixteen hun dred and seventeen souls would con stitute the total inhabitants of many an American community that digni l.-.'.s itself with the name of "city." iiad it is a fact that the long proces sion which is shown in our illustration wending its way through the assem bled provisions on the quay, by no means represesents the length of the line were the passengers and crew strung out along any great thorough fare. If tills number of people were to march four deep with a distance of say about a yard between ranks, they would extend for about a quarter of a mile, or say the length of four city blocks. To feed these people for a period of six days requires, in meat alone, the equivalent of fourteen steers, ten calves, twenty-nine sheep, twenty-six lambs and nine hogs. If the flocks of Chickens, geese and game required to furnish the three tons of poultry and game that are consumed were to join in the procession aboard the vessel, they would constitute a contingent by themselves not less than 1500 strong. The ship's larder is also stocked with 1700 pounds of flsh, 400 pounds of tongues, sweetbreads, etc., 1700 dozen «\ggs and fourteen barrels of oysters - and clams. The 1700 dozen of eggs packed in cases would cover a consid erable area, as shown in our engrav ing, while the 1000 bricks of ice cream would require 100 tubs to hold them. Of table butter there would be taken on hoard 1300 pounds, while the 2200 a at jur, each -.s item alone . eight and a half ,;KS' stores. To this also ail 350 pounds of yeast and iids of oatmeal and hominy, .er the head of liquids the most •ortant item is the 400 tons of .rinkiug water, -n-liose bulk is ade quately represented by the circular tank shown in our engraving. This is supplemented by 12,000 quarts of wines and liquors. 15,000 quarts of beer in kegs, besides 3000 bottles of beer. Last, but not by any means least, Is the supply of forty tons of ice. Of course It Is not to be supposed that all of this supply will be con sumed on the voyage. There must be a margin, and a fairly liberal margin, of every kind of provision. Moreover, the extent to which the larder and cel lar are emptied will vary according to the conditions of the voyage. In tempestuous weather, where the trip is a succession of heavy gales, and the dining room table? are liable to be practically deserted for two or three days at a stretch, the consumption will be modified considerably. A Canoe That Folds Up. Among recent inventions, the porta ble canoe is receiving notice in sport ing circles in Europe. The middle sec tion, which folds so as to form a trunk-like box, with convenient han dles, receives the two hermetically closed ends, the oars, etc. The oar can be unscrewed into two parts and singly stowed away in the "trunk." The length of the boat is about thir teen feet, and it can easily be carried overland by two men.—New York Herald. Authors and Publishers, The immense competition among younger publishers and the hawking round of books to the highest bidder by the literary agent has made pub lishing a less reuumerative pursuit than formerly; and I have in my mind's eye a number of publishers whose houses are less magnificent than those of at least a dozeu authors whom i I could name.—Sphere. aS. § .e Waves of X JOCCOCCOOOCCOO .ttle settlement just out oity of San Francisco where «r —I ~ I "CARTOWN," SAN FRANCISCO. the large majority of the structures were onee street cars. It Is located at the ocean beach ou the shore end of Golden Gate Park. There are perhaps fifty of these car dwellings In the little settlement, many of them fitted out with considerable elegance and numer ous conveniences. They are arranged upon a general plan affording their occupants the widest view, all fronting the sea. Streets intersect, at right angles, and plank walks are laid so as to give pedestrians access to their homes 'without wading through the deep sands. Few of these cars have been adorned with a coat of paint. The exteriors are generally intact, and the conspicuous signs denoting the route over which the cars once perambulat ed are not obliterated. Some methods are used in the adornment of these eurioMS resents. Many of them are covered with vines, most have galleries extending 1 around tlie front and sides. The roofs of soma are nrransrert as lookouts, and awnings drop over the window* Tbere .-.lsiderable space for storage lie. low tlie oars, while other cars acquire additional room by little extensions.. In some Instances one car is raised above another, and sometimes the cars are laid upon other buildings, fans giving an extra story. The platforms of th« cars are often transformed into balconies and bay windows with tho aid of the carpenter and glass fitter, aud afford points of observation pro tected from She cold winds, besides giving exten&aj view of sea and land. The arrangement of ih? interiors of these dwellings is highly ingenious, the necessities of tho case requiring tho utmost economy of space, the aver age sleeping car suggesting a model. Half a dozen persons have been nt night accommodated with lodgings la CAKTOWN" SKTJCWAPeI\ | one of them. Ventilation is always assured. Wliilu there aie many families per manent residents of "Cartown," the larger number occupy the "vehicles" as others do the houseboat, giving op portunities for original methods of en tertainment and diversion lor them selves and friends. Confined and re stricted as these dwellings art, there I* compensation in the fresh ocean breezes which here Mow rigut from file sea, besides the enjoyment of a health-giving environment. History and romance have been ransacked ia A "CARTOWN" HOME. providing names for these car "villas" suitable to the facetious idiosynera cies of the various owners. In "Car town," the "Villa Miramar" anil "Chateau Navarre" adjoin tlie modest restaurant and more conspicuous bar. There are many kinds of trades pur sued in liiis odd settlement, restaur ant:; and bars beiug most numerous.— Scuutilic American. Primitive Writing Materials. Among the North American Indians picture-writing on stones, horn aud buffalo robes was common, but bark was also largely used. Then much writing has been done on bone. Pre historic man used it, of course, for his imperfect picture-writing, and tho Koran was first written on shoulder bones of mutton, and kept in a chest of one of Mohammed's wives. Something akin to hone is ivory, and writing on ivory, us early a practice as writing on bone, lias persisted to the present day among Oriental na tions, for the reason that ivory is a beautiful and expensive material, fit ted for the reception of important ceremonial writings. The edicts of the Roman Senate were written on plates of Ivory. These plates were called "libri elephant." by way of acknowl edgement to the elephant who had pro vided the article. Tho Eskimos, too, in their cooler climate, have used walrus ivory for records of hunting and fishing expedi tions. Their bone implements also are covered with such picture-writing. Boston pays $106,000 a year for Its school janitors. DR. TALMAGES SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Sin in High Place*— The Same Law of lClßht and Wrong Should Ap ply to Both Klch and Poor—Fasclna tion of Fraud. [Copyright liK)l. 1 D. C.—ln this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that there is a ten dency to excuse brilliant faults, because they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be applied to high places and low; text, Daniel iv ( 33, "The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar, and he was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen." Here is the mightiest of the Babylonish kings. Look at him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or successors. Hanging gar dens, reservoirs, aqueducts, palaces, all of his own planning. The bricks that, are brought up to-day from the ruins of Baby lon nave his name on them, "Nebuchad nezzar, son of Nabopolassor, king of Baby lon." He was a great conqueror. He stretched forth his spear toward a nation, and it surrendered. But he plundered the temple of the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Merodaeh, and compelled the people to bow down before it, and if they refused they must go through the redhot furnace or be crunched by lion or lioness. Bo God pulled him down. He was smitten with what physicians can lycantliropy, and fancied that he was a wild beast, and he went out and pas tured amid the cattle. God did not ex cuse him because he had committed the sin in high places or because the trans gression was wide rosounding. He meas ured Nebuchadnezzar in high place just as he would measure the humblest captive. But in our time, you know as well as I, that there is a disposition to put a halo around iniquity if it is committed in con spicuous places, and if it is wide resound ing and of large proportions. Ever and anon there has been en epidemic of crime in high places, and there is not a State or a city and hardly a village which has not been called to look upon astounding forg ery, or an absconding bank cashier or president, or the wasting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. I propose, in carry ing out the suggestion of my text, as far as I can, to scatter the fascinations around iniquity and show you that sin is sin and wrong is wrong, whether in high place or low place, and that it will be dealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar. All who preach feel that two kinds of sermons are necessary —the one on the faith of the gospel, the other on the mo rality of the gospel—and the one is just as important as the other, for you know chat in this land to-day there are hundreds of men hiding behind the communion tables and in churches of .le.sus Christ who have no business to be there as professors of re ligion. They expect to be all right with God, although they are all wrong with man. And, while I want you to under stand that by the deeds of the law 110 tiesh living can be justified and a mere honest life cannot enter us into heaven, 1 want you as plainly to understand that unless the life is right the heart is not right—grace in the heart and grace in the life. So we must preach sometimes the faith of the gospel and sometimes the mo rality of the gospel. It seems to me there has not been a time in the last fifty years when this latter truth needed more thoroughly to be pre sented in the American churches. It needs to be presented to-ilav. Look upon all the fascinations thrown around fraud in this country. You know for years men have been made heroes of and pictorialized and in various ways pre sented to the public, as though sometimes they were worthy of admiration, if they have scattered the funds of banks or swallowed great estates that did not be long to them. Our young men have been dazed with this quick accumulation. They have said: "That's the way to do it. What's the use of plodding on with small Wages or insignificant salary when we may go into business life and with some stratagem achieve such a fortune as that man has achieved?" A different measure has been applied to the crime of Wall 6treet from that which has been applied to the spoils which the man carries up Rat alley. So a peddler came down from New Eng land many years ago, took hold of the money market of New York, flaunted his abominations in the sight of all the peo ple and defied public morals every day of his life. Young men looked up and said: "He was a peddler in one decade, and in the next decade he is one of the mon archs of the stock market. That's the way .to do it." To this day the evil influ ence of that pro Hi "ate financier has been felt, and within the past few weeks he has had conspicuous imitators. There has been an irresistible impres sion going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money is to earn it. The young man of flaunting cravat says to the young man of humble apparel: "What! You only get 81800 a year? Why. that wouldn't keep me in pin money. I spend SSOOO a vear." "Where do you get it?" asks the plain young man. "On, stocks, enterprises, all that sort of thing,' you know." The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board, has to wear clothes after they are out of fashion and deny himself all luxu ries. After awhile he gets tired of hi.i plodding, and he goes to the man who has achieved suddenlv large estate, and he says, "Just show me how it is done." And he is shown. He soon learns how, al though heiß almost all the time idle now and has resigned his position in the bank or the factory or the store he has more money than he ever had, trades off his old silver watch for a gold one with a flashing chain, sets his hat a little further over on the side of his head than he ever did, smokes better cigars mid more of them. He has his hand in. Now, if he can es cape the penitentiary for three or four years he will get into political circles, and lie will get political jobs and will have something to do with harbors and pave ments and docks. Now he has got so far along he is safe for perdition. It is quite a long road sometimes for a man to travel before he gets into the ro mance of crime. Those are caught who are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the sheriffs and constables would onlv leave them alone a little while they would steal as well as anybody. They might not be able to steal a whole railroad, but they could master a load of pig iron. Now, I always thank God when I find an estate like that goto smash. It is plague struck, and it blasts the nation. I thank God when it goes into such a wreck it can never be gathered up again. I want it to become so loathsome and such an insuf ferable stench that honest young men will take warning. If God should put into money or its representative the capacity togo to its lawful owner, there would not be a bank or a safety deposit in the United States whose walls would not be blown out, and mortgages would rip and parchments would rend, and gold would shoot, and beggars would get on horseback, and stock gamb lers would goto the almshouse. How many dishonesties in the making out of invoices, and in the plastering of false labels, and in the filching of custom ers of rival houses, and in the making and breaking of contracts. Young men are in doctrinated in the idea that tlie sooner they pet money the better, and the get ting of it 011 a larger scale only proves to them their greater ingenuity. Thore is a glitter thrown around all these things. Young men have got to find out that God looks upon sin in a very different light. And remember that the man who gets his gain by iniquity will soon lose it all. One moment after his departure from Ufa he will not own an opera house, he will not own a certificate of stock, he will not own one dollar of Government securities, and the poorest boy that stands on the street with a penny in his pocket looking at the funeral procession of the dead cheat as it goes bv will have more money than that man who one week previous boasted that he controlled the money market. So there has been a great deal of fasci nation thrown around libertinism. So ciety is very severe upon the impurity that lurks af.'und the aheys and low haunts of the town. The law pursues it, smites it, incarcerates it, tries to destroy it. You know as well as I that society be comes lenient in proportion as impurity becomes affluent or is in elevated circles, and finally society is silent or disposed to palliate. Where is the judge, the jury, the police officer that dare arraign the wealthy liber tine? He walks the streets; he rides the parks; he flaunts his iniquity in the eyes of the pure. Sometimes it seems to me as if society were going back to the state of morals of Hercufaneum, when it sculptured its vile nesn on pillars and temple wall anil noth ing but the lava of a burning mountain could hide the immensity of crime. At what time God will rise up and extirpate these evils upon society I know not nor whether He will do it by fire or hurricane or earthquake, but a holy God, I do not think, will stand it much longer. I be lieve the thunderbolts are hissing hot, and that when God comes to chastise th<s community for these sins, against which He has uttered Himself more bitterly than against any other, the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will be tolerable as compared with the fate of our modern society, which knew better, but did worse. We want about 10,000 pulpits in Amer ica to thunder. "All adulterers and whore mongers shall have their place in the hell that burneth witli fire and brimstone, which is the second death." It is hell on earth and hell forever. Wo have got to understand that iniquity on Columbia Heights or Fifth avenue or Beacon Hill is as damnable in the sight of God as it is in the slums. Whether it has canopied couch or eider down or dwells amid the putridity of a low tenement house. God is after it in His vengeance. Yet the pulpit of the Chris tian church has been so cowed down on this subject that it hardly dares speak, and men are almost apologetic when they read the Ten Commandments. Then look at the fascinations thrown around assassination. There are in all communities men who have taken the lives of others unlawfully, not as execu tioners of the law, and they go scot free. You say that they had their provocations. God gave life, and He alone has a ricrht to take it, and He may take it by visita tion of Providence or by an executioner of the law, who is His messenger. But when a man assumes that divine preroga tive he touches the lowest depth of crime. Society is alert for certain kinds of mur der. I>' a citizen going along the road at night is waylaid and slain by a robber, we all want the villain arrested and exe cuted. For all garroting, for all beating out of life by a club or an axe or a slung uhot, the law has quick spring and heavy stroke, but you know that when men get affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of others great sympathy is excited. Lawyers plead, ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribeif, and the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him a new trial is called on throueh some technicality, and they adjourn for witnesses that never come and adjourn and adjourn until tha community has forgotten all about it, and then the prison door opens and tha mur derer goes free. Now, if capital punishment be right I nay let the life of the polished murderer go with the life of the vulvar assassin, Let us have no partiality of gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do not let us float back to barbarism, when every man was his own judge, jury and executioner, and that man had the su premacy who had the sharpest knife and the strongest arm and the quickest step and the stealthiest revenge. He who wiU fully and in hatred takes the life of nu» other is a murderer, I care not what the provocation or the circumstances. He may be cleared by an enthusiastio courtroom, he may he sent by the Gov ernment of the United States as Minister to some foreign court or modern literature may polish the crime until it looks like heroism, but in the sight of God murder is murder, and the judgment day will so reveal it. Now, do not be fascinated by the gla mor thrown over crime of whatever sort. Because others have habits that seem bril liant, but yet at the same time are wicked, do not choose such faults. Stand inde pendent of all such influences. Put your confidence in the Lord God. He will ba your strength. "Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord." Cultivate old fashioned honesty. This book is full of it. Old fashioned honesty such as was spoken of by Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer. You may not know he was descended from the Highlanders. Dr. Livingstone said that one day one of the old Highlanders called his children around him and said: "Now, my lads, I have looked all through our family line. I have gone back as far as I can, and I find that all our ancestors were honest people. There doesn't seem to be one rogue among them, and you have good blood. Now, my lads, be honest." There are hundreds of young men who have good blood. Shall I ask three or four plain questions? Are your habits as good as when you left your father's house? Have you a good ticket in your pocket? Have you a Iraudulent document? Have you been experimenting to see how accur ate an imitation you could make of your employer's signature? Oh. you have good blood. Remember your father's prayers. Remember your mother's example. Turn not in an evil way. Have you been going astray? Come back. Have you ventured out too far? As I stand in pulpits looking' over au diences sometimes my heart fails me. There are so many tragedies present, so many who have sacrificed their integrity, so. many far away from God. Why, my brother, there have been too many prayers offered for you to have you go overboard. And there are those venturing down into sin, and my heart aches to call them back. At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you have seeu men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out farther and farther, and you got anxious about them. You said, "I wonder if they can swim?" And you then stood and shouted: "Come back! Come back! You will be drowned!" They waved their hand back, saying: "No danger." They kept on wading deep er down and farther out from shore until after awhile a great wave with a strong undertow took them out, their corpses the next day washed on the beach. So I see men wading down into sin farther and farther, and I call to them: "Come back! Come back! You will be lost; you will be lost!" They wave their hand back, say ing, "No danger; no danger!" Deeper down and deeper down until after awhile a wave sweeps them out and sweeps them off forever. Oh, come back! The oae farthest away may come. "Oh," you sav. "you don't know where I came from. You don't know what my history has been. You don't know what iniquity 1 have plotted. 1 have gone through the whole catalogue of sin." My brother, I do not know the story, but I tell you this: The door of mercy is wide open. "Though your si-is be as scarlet, l.iey shall be as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall ne as wool." Though you have been polluted with the worst of crimes, though you have been smitten with the worst of leprosies, though vou have beer, fired with all evil passions, this moment on your brow, hot with ini quitous indulgences, may be set the flash* ing coronet of a Saviours forgiveness.
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