SWEET IDOLATRY.
JVep In a dreamy, ancient wood.
Whcll once mighty temple stood
la grandeur 'mid the fertile lands,
A ruia centuries old nnw stnnds.
IU emmblcd walls 'neath mosses green
Ho tli irk ly buried scarce 'tin seen.
Its ctlumns fnnen to decay;
It gfandeur long since passed away.
Amid this wreck, triiimpbant still
O'er lime, which thus hath worl.cd its
will
Apon thia temple, enrved in atone,
An a'lrient idol stands nlone;
Sits pensive on its granite throne,
With lichens thickly overgrown.
On ei her side the forest dunk.
With tangled brake and creepers runic.
Bars miy seeking to intrude
Upon the idol'a solitude.
Above twines many a leafy limb
To firm a covering for him.
Bclort. e'en at its granite hate.
A pool flinga hack the idol's face.
Afwl llftm tfmpn niHa Hnnn if . 1
rue irately lotus rears its head.
1
j There, in its dream v solitude.
4 A thousand years the god hath stood.
.A thoosand yenrs, rach summer through,
ITbe Ictus' heart hath proven true;
Hath breathed the fragrance of its lore
j To please that stony face above.
f """ '
While stands the image in the grove.
iThat loyal flower will prove ita love,
JThougn vain its efforts to beguile,
tit aye will strive to win the smile.
7 V fata true love hath often known
)To wa.ite its sweetness on a stone.
I Arthur J. Burdick, in Los Angeles Herald.
! JONES'S LITTLE GAME?
By Peirce B, Hummel.
IF
Oil the first time In life lie
found himself in tho country.
Tlio express train from which
lie had lust nlltrhleri ilvt-inriloil
into n. were speck on the horizon, lenv-
'ing nil j surrounded ty .1 vast Wilder
1I0S 4.
I Jones wus it city man: lie worked on
a. high stool In a cutititliig limine, lie
had gathered r the woods
from tile trees in C'entnil Turk; but no
one would have ever guessed by his
conversation that .Tones was not truly
turnl, for he always took cure to men
tion rotation of crops and new farm
machinery and other topics pertaining
go the gentle art. From the pages of
an agricultural weekly ho stocked his
jmlnd with rich stores of Informal Ion,
4ut of which his imagination construct
ed alluring pictures of rural hlis.
Sometimes he strolled through the
".commission markets, regaling his eyes
with the sight of prize pumpkins and
inhaling the fragrance from the newly
opened barrels rf apples. Sometimes
.jhe attended the theatre, where domes
j tic dramas of farm life were presented
in which the old folks gather In the
front yard, and the prodigal son re
) turns from the Klondike and pays off
itho mortgage to slow music end ini
;;mense nppln-use.
Sometimes he slipped away to an
jagrlcultural fair to catch a sight of
blue-ribbon cattle and to chat with the
.rustics, If occasion offered, about 1ip
inewest thing in labor saving niacbln
jery, of which they happeued to
know nothing. All this time Jones
knew nothing of the country at first
Uinnd and It looked like a great waste
lot energy to his friends to see blm eon
"jtinuully dreaming of what might nev
.'jer be his; but.they did not know what
pleasant fancies of plowed fields and
; home-grown vegetables beguiled away
:.the long hours at the ledger. They did
?not know the satisfaction be took in
fwalklng out Into the middle of the
paved street and looking up between
the tall buildings at the blue sky the
iunly natural object In sight.
But least of all did they know that
Jones, had a wife with vast social am
bitions. Mrs. Frances Fleweller
jJoncs, as she styled herself, longed to
nout-do people of teu times their means;
:thclr two daughters were figuring on a
Jcouple of noblemen already. Tapa
.Jones had only one way of suppressing
these unnatural rind dangerous long
ings, and that Was to threaten to pull
riip stakes and move the entire estab
lishment to the woods.
J At the mere mention of farming,
catalogues of cheap European tours
and Invitations to swell social func
tions disappeared like magic. The
household resumed the even tenor of
its way, and endeavored to look de
wntly happy over one thousand a year.
J Not that Jones was a brute; for he
.was a very passive, obedient sort of
twentieth century husband, acquiesc
ing in everything reasonable, and per
fectly willing to walk while his wife
rode in au automobile if it could be
'arranged.
But one Saturday afternoon Jones
J came home and found tho house turned
topsy-turvy. Ills wife was waiting
i for him at the head of the stairs.
j "Philander, dear!" She used thfs
juame exclusively for raising money;
I rhil was guflleient for all other occn-
sions. "Philander, you'll have to rake
i together enough to buy something new
Jfor Evelina; she's fretted herself sick
3 over her old ball dress, and the two
i young noblemen arrive to-morrow."
j "If that's the case I guess I'll have
J to, look at some farm property, moth
1 tr,'; Jones observed very seriously,
I "Never mind the farm Just now,
I Philander! we need your help; I've
I almost completed arrangements for the
automobile, and as for the yachts "
I "I don't feel equal to it at all," said
Jones, examining his empty pockets.
!"You must really excuse me this time."
i "Philander!" cried his wife, bringing
1 down her foot somewhat emphatically.
But it wail too late; Jones was hur
riedly Jamming a few things into
2 valise.
f He notified his family of his future
nruoreuuouis ami then struck out for
the station, expecting to reach In two
hours the farm he bad seen advertised
In the morning paper.
Heretofore Jones had always soothed
their unquiet longings by merely sub-
""""K lu additional farm pane
Or Wl'ltlmr tn !,. o ...
- o:ieiry ui agricul
ture for Information relative to early
gardeu truck. He was sorry hi little
ruse wa played out, having doubtless
Intended to go on dreaming of the un
tamed Joy of couutry llviug to the end
of the chapter.
Now that he fiuim! i,im..ie i,. iu-
t - ii iiua..i i j i iuT
ltllld of bla fires me h.
S whether to be disappointed of not. Tho
"""'" wa laden with the dried
fruit of autumn, it had been smoky
In the city the afternoon he left. Here
till was very quiet and peaceful, with
nothing to break tho stillness but an
occasional chirp or Ihu souud of falling
nnts. Jnnrs was not nn avi!:it r.nd Ii"1
had no eye for the picturesque. T'.i
sslg zag fence and the tangled iim".
brush jarred upon his nice sense of
order and regularity. At the end of
four miles lie was conscious of nothing
except that the roads were abominably
muddy, thnt the tall weeds wero wet.
and that be was tired and hungry and
wished he hadn't come.
It was still a mile to the farm which
was advertised to be sold, and he
longed to turn back; but he recollected
the yacht his wife wnuted to buy on
time payments, and tho automobile ahq
had In view, and the thought drove
him forward there wan no chance to
retreat.
"How d'ye, parJner!" said tin fann
er, who found Jones vainly i.-yiug to
locate the front gate by th? dim twi
light. "Is this the place that is adver
tised?" naked Jones, resting against tho
fence almost exhausted.
"I ca'calntc It Is. Be yon fror.i tha
city?"
"I be," said Jones, dropping into tha
dialect of the place.
"Then jou'd better come t the
hotme." The whole family set about
making him at home. They took It for
granted that be had come to stay
awhile. They opened some new pre--serves,
and got out the softest nnd
most yielding of feather beds.
After two days Jones was surfeited
with fresh air. wholesome food and
simple, unaffected country manners.
He inwardly rebelled against brown
sugar In Ills coffee, white butter, nnd
feather beds, and the only institution
he fully endorsed was the hard elder
barrel. He was shocked at their Ig
norance of steam plows and costly
fertilizers. About the only satisfac
tion he got was In telling the feats of
famous horse trainers he hud Been.
The neighbors came in to listen with
open-mouthed astonishment. They put
Junes down as n remarkable man. but
the next day the oldest aud laziest
horse on the farm ran away with him,
and made him the laughing stock of
the neighborhood.
Jones was mad enough to go boiiu',
hut that day his wife wrote a letter im
ploring him to come back, explaining
that the horrid man wouldn't sell l',u
yacht or the automobile on time.
Jones answered with nn eutliusiar
lle prose poem on the delights of fum
ing. Jones was a small man. and he
often found some ilIsnimut:itio:i nec
essary In dealing with his Glrou;,'
minded wife.
Every day brought Its trials. Tin
farmer attempted to "learn" hint to
plow, but gave it up. Junes had fre
quently alluded to the rough-shod agri
culturist as a clod hopper, but after bo
had watched his Instructor nnd then
tried a furrow or two himself, lie niadj
up ills mind never to consider any
body awkward again.
That evening a letter from his wife
announced the engagement of the eld
est daughter to their well-to-do grocer
of tier in ii n extraction and further stat
ed that the other girl had a "steady"
who was saving his money.
Jones congratulated himself 01 his
diplomacy.
"Things couldn't have turned out
better; 1 still have my old position as
bookkeeper, aud I reckon I uc.iln't be
afraid that the girls' beaux will look
down on me. But what about buying
the farm?"
lie approached the owner while :iur
rouuded by his numerous family.
"You've got the best farm In i'.ie
State," he said, "and you are very rea
sonable In everything. You don't claim
It's the ("ardcu of Kden, but you ought
to. You've got the homestead shaded
by a spreading elm ami the duck poud
near by everything Is as complete as
ti chronio. I'd like to buy you out, but
the fact is i haven't got the money."
"Why, we ain't no notion of selling
mister!" said the farmer In an inj.ireJ
tone.
"I'm glad of It, sir; but what about
your advertisement';"
"Pshaw! Ave only advertised for full
boarders."
"I see," said Jones, with a sigh of re
lief. "1 must have stumbled 0:1 tha
wrong farm, but I'm blamed well rat
ified. What's your bill?"
"Well, beiu' as the puppy ct tip your
patent leathers, we'll call It four dol
lars If you're willing."
"Whatever you say," said Jones,
counting out the money quite e.igeriy.
"I've got a hundred dollars, at least,
out of the deal."
Jones had a great deal to tell when
he reached bis Hat that evening. The
two young men, who came right regu
larly now, greatly nil mi red the speci
mens of mammoth fruit he bad
brought home.
"You seem to have entirely regained
your good Iniuior, ' said his wife, pick
ing the last burr off his coat tails.
"The country Is the only plaeo for a
change," he said with a sigh.
"And what about buying tho farm?"
his. wife asked nervously.
"Why, the fool farmer won't sell."
"Oh!" she said simply, but the ex
pression on her face showed she was
greatly relieved. Waverley Mugua.ua.
Gonerul BulUr'a DUIIuctlna,
After the buttle (.f Culeuso, say
Itlchard Harding Davis, lu Every
body's Alagazlue, General Buller raised
a very pretty point, and aroused an in
teresting discussion by promulgating
tho theory, that the soldier who Initi
ates deserves more credit than the one
who simply obeys orders. In bis of
ficial report of the battle he rucom
mended for the Victoria Gross rue
three otltcers who had voluntarily rid
den forward to endeavor to save the
guns, but withheld a like recommesf
dation from one of hi own staff, who
at bis command bad made exactly the
same attempt. General Buller ex
plained that though all four bad shown
equal courage, he wa forced to "dif
ferentiate" in bestowing honor be
tween the three who had volunteered
and the one who bad done what he
bad been ordered to do.
The oldest son of the Duku of Corn
wall aud York and "Princess May,"
now uches of Yorx, wa burp on
June 28, 1804, at White Lodge. Thia
villa wa built by George I. on lislug
g.'ouud In Itlcbiuoud Park, not far
from Sheeu Gate. The baby Prince
wa christened Edwurd Albert, Chris
tiuu, George, Andrew, Putrlek, David,
but lu tha family circle 1 kuosvu us
Prluee David or "Davy."
rmn amt badtta ifT??Trr
WORKINGS CF THE ENGLISH CONST!.
TUTION MYSTERIOUS AND VACUE.
The Iti'lnllnns t'.etwren I.'lng anil Psrlln
ment. King nnil Cabinet ami Cabinet
nnd l'nrllament The Urltlsh govern
ment Hits Tlirea FnnilMraentat ltnles.
The English Constitution Is ho mys
terious a thing, fearfully and -wonderfully
vague, that Its operations aro
rather bard to follow. The present Is
a good opportunity for explaining and
Illustrating the relations between the
King nnd Parliament, the King and
tlie Cabinet aud the Cabinet and Par
liament. These relations were not es
tablished In it day. or by any ore act
revolutionary or legal but as the re
sult of long centuries of friction, com
pronilseaiHl.idJustnient. Wehnvet.i go
back to the revolution of lftSS to tlnd
the shifting of the centre of gravity
from the King to the House of Com
mons. Until that time cabinets were
secret committee of the King, or Of
the King's favorite advisers. The
Ministers did not form a united body,
nnd the sovereign could remove any
one of them at will without consulting
the others. The King might have a
policy, and so might Parliament, but
the Cabinet could have none, and
each Minister -wan responsible to the
King for his discharge of certain spe
cial duties. In the words of Macau
lay, "there was parliamentary govern
ment, but. there was no ministry."
The triumph of Parliament over the
arbitrary monarchy In 10SS did not
settle the Cabinet question on Its pres
ent basis, but. It laid the foundations
for 'the solution of the mighty prob
lem. Tins royal power having been re
duced to a mere shadow, the Cabinet
had to become the executive agent
of the rent governing body Parlia
ment. And this Is what It has been
since tlie last vain attempts to keep It
In Mime sort of subordination to the
crown.
One of I he best English expounders
of constitutional law says that this
"ancient and ever-altering Constitution
Is like an old man who still wears
with attached fondness clothes in the
fashion of his youth; what yon see of
him Is still the same, what you do not
see is wholly altered." How true this
is will appear from a comparison be
tween the letter of tho law and tho
practice, which cannot be upset with
out destroying the whole British sys
tem. Tho English law, authorities
agree, docs not know of such a body
ns the Cabinet, nnd there Is no provi
sion requiring the King to appoint
Ministers acceptable to tlie Commons
or to dismiss such as have lost the
support of that body. Resignation af
ter an adverse, vote Is not demanded
by law. In fact, no feature of the so
cn'pyd parliamentary system of gov
ernment is expressly established by
statute.
Yet for a long time the British Gov
ernment has rested upon these three
fundamental principles:
1. That thi Cabluet shall be com
posed of Ministers bound together by
tics of party or policy to give force
nnd effect to a certain political pro
gram me.
. That the Cablii'-t shall bold olHce
no longer than they can control n ma
jority of the House of Commons, but
shall resign after u ik-feat on any
party question.
a. That the leadership of the Cab
inet shall he vested In the Prime Min
ister, and that, be, not the King, shall
have the right to select and remove
his associates.
These principles were settled dur
ing the reigns of the first two Georges,
and it is interesting to call attention
to tho last attempt nt overthrow-In;?
them In favor of royal discretion.
This attempt was made In 1.S33 by
AVillliim IV. Dissatisfied with the
Melbourne ministry the King dis
missed It in a letter to the Premier,
declaring that ho had no confidence in
him. Peel was then asked to form a
ministry, though tha House of Com
mons bad u liberal majority. He re
luctantly consented, and tried to carry
on the Government. After four ad
verse votes ho resigned nnd expressed
himself thus: "According to the prac
tice, tho principle and the letter of the
Constitution, a Governuwut should not
persist in directing tho national af
fairs after a loyal uttompt contrary to
the decided opinion of the House of
Commons, even when U possesses the
conlldence of the King aud a majority
in the House of Lords."
The Conservative party Itself In this
way formulated the principle of par
liamentary supremacy, nnd It has oecn
respected ever since.
It had full play under Victoria. The
so-called "bedchamber episode" Is a
curious Illustration of the cxtcut to
which the ministry has encroached
upon tho pcraoual rights of tho sover
eign. In IS:;'.) Peel, iuvlted to form a
ministry, informed the Queen that sho
would have to dismiss the ladles of
her court, Including those of the bed
chamber, because they belonged to the
rival parly. Quruii Victoria declined
to accede to this request, characteriz
ing It as "contrary to usago and re
pugnant to her feelings." Peel refused
to accept office on these terms, and
tho Melbourne ministry wus continued
in power.
Two years later tho (Juoen hnd to
yield, and tho mistress of tho robes
was made dependent on ministerial
changes, wbi'-o a few personul attend
ants were allowed to continue 'in their
appointments without regard to poll
tics. The Cabinet ha been called a
"buckle which fastens the legislature
to the executive." In origin It belong
to the latter, in function to the former.
The Klug must take such Ministers as
can control a majority of the Com
mons, and this majority Implies a
majority of tha voters. It 1 tha pop
ular majority, therefore, which de
cide which purty shall carry on the
Government and whut policy shall pre
vail. The King muy use personal Influ
ence with the Ministers, but he can
enforce, no policy contrary to the pop
ular will. The Cabluet cannot serve
two masters, and the ministry gov
ern without Interference from tho
crown. The ancient system of checks
and balances has practically disap
peared. Tho executlvo and legislative
power are fused or united lu tho Cab
inet, which takes its orders from tho
piirliuuti'iu.iry majority, lu tha word
of nn American writer on the British
Constitution, Hannls Taylor, "the
gradual nnd silent process of change
has been fully worked out through
which the mediaeval monarchy has
been flnnlly transformed Into the her
editary republic, In which, under the
ancient nnd still useful forms of the
throne and the regalia, the English
people la Kln."-Chlcago Tlmes-Ucr-ald.
CURIOUS FACTS.
An oak tree of overage slzi with
700,(KH leaves lifts from the earth into
the air 'ibj.it 12.1 tons ut water during
the five mouths It Is in tenf.
Vlcksburg. Miss., report a recent
fall of 10,'JU Inches of rain lu thirty
six hours. The fn!l in t wentv-four
hours was 7.03 luches. which wiis the
heaviest since the beginning of the
Weather Burau records there, lu Sep
tember, 1872.
A writer lu the American Automo
bile calls attention to the fact that In
the archives of the city of Anvers,
France, under the date 1473, it Is re
corded that one Gllles do Bom was
awarded the aunt of "25 lbs. d'Artols"
to recompense him for his donation to
the city of a carriage moving about
by mechanism.
In Japan the stranger wonders nt tho
crowded appearance of the tombstones
In cemeteries. It is the custom to
bury tho dead lu a sitting posture.
The coffins nre nearly square, and it
Is possible to bury more of them In a
given space than of the oblong cas
kets. Many of the attendants at fun
erals nre clothed In white.
The use of hats dates from the
reign of Charles II. of France, who, on
entering Itouen lu 144!) wore a hat of
red velvet, with a plume. The fashion
was adopted not only by men, but by
women, who previously had work
hoods. For many years priesis were
forbidden to wear them, ami were
compelled to use the "chaperon," or
hood of cloth.
iJtirin.n the recent restoration of St.
Marlin'd Church nt Vevcy, Switzer
land, n primitive edifice was discovered
a few feet below the floor of the build
ing. In shape it somewhat resembles
a church, but the style of architecture
Is quite foreign to Europe and bears
traces of Oriental source. The walls
and foundations of the relic are In a
remarkable state of preservation, and
the structure Is believed by experts to
be one of the earliest buildings lu
which stone was employed.
Not a Huccessful Type-Setter.
It is often said that one difference
between men nnd women Is that with
men second thoughts are best, while
women nre more likely to lie right
when they act or speak upon the
first Impulse; but there are some
things which even clever women can
not do perfectly without some prelim
inary practice.
A lady whose husband Is the editor
of a very small country paper said to
him one day: "Type-setting looks so
easy, 1 know I could do it Just us well
as anything. Let me help."
Although the editor Is his own fore
man aud compositor, he didn't accept
this offer at once. But ids wife v.-as
in tlie olllce nlone when a wedding no
tice was brought In.
"O!" she said, gleefully, "I'll Just set
this up and slip it In the form, and
won't George be surprised when he
sees It in print?"
It therefore appeared as follows In
the next Issue of the paper:
iiiaUUIED: at Hclr.st ciliicrh, on
wenday Sep! 0 B0S1 Mr ! Jnbo jacknos
to mi'S ku ly nnltt.u? the Cersm Gy
was Scffroni by Itevv.mll Decen Inn
the resence oF a large numcr of
FKeldsn of the gnuoy couple & v.-as
a Bellyy joyful Occasino. Mr. nnD
nirsH will Be at Home to the.r frl.s nt
2x IlaPt TrueS Vycre lu hut wne reay.
Tit-Bits.
Malinnlson Itestored.
Mnlmnlson, tho old chateau near
Paris once occupied by the first Nn
poleou and bia discarded wife, Joseph
ine do Benuharnals, has now been com
pletely restored, thanks to the munifi
cence of M. Osiris. The residence was
badly damaged during the Gorman In
vasion nnd also during the commune
of 1871. For yenrs It was In a dilapi
dated condition, but tho restorers have
done their work well. The grand salon,
decorated long ago by Percier and Fon
taine, has been successfully treated by
M. Jambon, who obtained ninny valu
able bints from au old water color
drawing of the rooms In the possession
of one of Fontaine' desceudauts. M.
Osiris hits given over Malmaison to
the State, which will have to provide
the furniture and hangings, and to
turn the palace Into a museum of Nn
polcoulc relics. Paris Correspondence
lxmdon Telegraph.
Killed a Lively 000-Vouud Rear.
A number of bears have left tracks
in the vicinity of King & Wolfonl's
sawmill. In Nevada County, during the
past month. A large trap was set re
cently, and so that tho trap could uot
be taken away it was anchored to :i
tree. Several nights ago one of tliu
animals got hi foot caught, and in its'
powerful efforts to get away mana 'ctl
to loosen tha trap from tho tree aud
took it away with him. Bruin was
tracked iuto a deep canyon, nnd (hero
they found liliu, apparently in great
pain. Tho men called to Georgo Gels-
endorfer, and the latter camo with n
gun and soon ended the bear's suffer
ings nnd also Its life. A the carcass
was so heavy only the hindquarters
wero taken, together with the hide.
The animal was black and is estimattd
to have weighed in the neighborhood
of 000 pounds. Gran Valley C;i
Tidings.
A l'-ed Cross Tax on Tiekota.
The Itussluu authorities have Im
posed a stamp tax ou passenger tickets
for the bcWfit of tho Society of tho
Bed Cross, which care for the sick
and wounded. The tax amount to
about two and oue-hulf cent, and Is
required on nil first aud second class
tickets which cost two rubles (i.(K!) or
more, and third class tickets which
cost eight ruble ($4.12) or more, which
latter are not more tluiti two per ccut,
of the whole number of third-class
tickets. No fourth class tickets pay
this tax. It Is estimated that the Led
Cross will fact about fl25,0t)0 a year
from this tax.
1 SAILORS AND KNIVES.
Norwegians Kali! to lie Most Addicted to
the Use of Cold Sleet.
I "I wonder why It Is," said a cot i on
ampler who prides himself on his
close observation, "Hint tho Italians
have acquired such a sinister reputa
tion as knife fighters. Tho facts don't
, bear It out. I have been knocking
i around the wharves for a good many
yenrs and have seen plenty of fighting
among sailors, roustabouts and desper
ate men of nil kinds, colors nnd nation
alities, and never but once did I see
nn Italian use a knife. Even then the
weapon was thrust Into his hands by
n companion, after lie had started
blithely Into the melee with n stick.
"As far as my observation goes, the
people most addicted to cold steel lu
the settlement of their little differences
are Norwegian sailors. The most for
midable knife wlebler I ever met in
my life belonged to that class. He
was a big. yellow-hnlred, rather mel
ancholy looking chap, who came here
on a Liverpool tramp and invested
some small savings in a lodging house
not far from tho old fruit wharves, 1
got acquainted with him soon after bo
set up In business and took quite a
fancy to the fellow. I, ike tunny sea
faring men of his nationality, he was
passionately fond of music, and
strange to say, be bad heard nearly oil
the great singers nnd was familiar
with most of the famous operas, al
though he was otherwise uneducated
and could barely read and write. I
sized htm up as a gentle, simple-minded
giant, nnd labored under thnt delu
sion until It was rudely dispelled by a
tragic episode of which I chanced to
be an eye witness. Three drunken sea
men dropped Into his place oun even
ing "with the avowed intention of rais
ing a row, and one of them set the
ball rolling by kicking over the stove.
Instantly my Norwegian friend leaped
over a little counter, at the same time
drawing au elgbt-lnch dirk from
somewhere In the back of his neck,
and went to work on the trio. The
fracas occupied possibly half a min
ute, at the end of which time the
sailors had disappeared and every
thing In the room was more or less
spattered with gore. I never learned
bow badly they were hurt, but there
certainly was some promiscuous carv
ing while the row lasted. Later on,
the lodging-house keeper showed me
how he carried his knife. He kept It
In a sheath sewed to the Inner side of
bis vest, just under the collar. It
seemed an outlandish place for a
weapon, but lit! could draw It, like
lightning and. ns he remarked, it was
apt to be overlooked in a search. He
also gave nn exhibition at dirk throw
ing, nt which some sailors become as
tonishingly proficient. He would hold
the blade open on bis right palm, the
point to the left, and launch it through
the air with a sudden. Indescribable
swoop. At a dozen feet away he could
strike n circle six Inches In diameter
with unfailing accuracy, but with all
Its dexterity there was something so
barbarously uncouth about the performance-
that It made my ldood run
cold to watch hlni. He got inro several
kali? fights afterward, and his fond
ness for thnt diversion eventually led
to bis departure between suns. If be
were still here I think I would select
some other Illustration for my re
marks." New Orleuns Times-Democrat.
The Glni lnt Kpnrli.
The leading geological dlscoveiy of
the nineteenth century lias been the
establishment of the recent occurrence
In the north temperate zone of a gla
cial epoch. It Is of In liu it o Importance
geologically to Ienru thnt not so long
ago, us geologists reckon time, the
greater part of Europe and North
America was burled under lee. In
short, wo have learned something
about our "Ice age." There are few
regions lu our own country In which
the evidence of former glaciers Is not
now visible.
Twenty thousand years ago, there
fore, geologists believe, the zona In
which we live was so Bwamped with
Ice that the existence of animal br
vegetable lite would plainly have been
Impossible, and the Implications of this
are ns important as the fact itself.
Thus It become plain that the rela
tive climates of different sections of
the globe correspond to no fixed stand
ard. The arctic circle was once mild
and temperate, tho present "north tem
perate zone" formerly a solid cake of
Inhospitable ice. Greenland, It should
be noted, is nt present passing through
Its "ice age."
The ice period lu our own quarter of
the globe, of which you may see evi
dences in the "glacial striae" visible
on rocky surfaces in so many sections.
Is roughly computed to buvo lasted
some H0.000 yeurs. This makes our
vegetable nnd animal life seem of stir
prslngly recent orlgiu iu compurlsou.
New York World.
Bllrrors and Mnruls.
According to tho Indianapolis Sen
tinel, it is said the recommendation of
the Legislative Investigating Commit
tee for an appropriation of $50 to buy
small looking-glasses for the inmates
of tho State Industrial .School for Girls
was caused by the discovery that they
have not been permitted to have any
tiling of the kind.
Under the rule of the superintendent
girls lint! children found with a bit of
broken looking-glass In their posses
sion received a largo number of de
merit, marks, this evidence of worldly
vanity being considered Injurious to
their moral welfare. Tho voluntary
surrender of a bit of broken looking
glass jy a girl who had accidentally
found it was construed us evidence, of
moral progress nnd rewarded by num
erous merit marks. As a result tho
girls cleansed their faces and crimped
their hair by polished surfaces of tlu
or wood, though the crimping of tho
hair wus also punished by demerit
marks. Protests by some of the mau
ngers against these rules were of no
avail. .
As the Legislature Committee docs
uot see any moral menace to the girls
lu the use of a little looking-glass It is
probable tho rule will bo chuuged.
Klualrlc'lljr to Uirece.
The steam railway which connects
Athens with Piraeus, the principal
Greek port, will bo converted intb i u
electric Hue. Tho line I about seven
miles in length and Is used only for
passenger traffic. All the electric
equipment required lu the reconstruc
tion of thl liue will be imported.
CHRISTIAN HEROISM.
V.r. falinngf Sa;, Tiio.c Who Bear
Scars Shall Be Recompensed.
Men Are Not Ashamed ol Scars tint In
Rattle for Their Conntryuod
W1U Honor Them.
tCopyriirht t1.1
Washikctow, D. C.-In this discourse
Dr. Islmatteprsisest'hristmii heroism and
tells of great rewards. The text is Gala-
. ? Ti 17t bear in my body th mark
of the Lord Jesus."
,W hear much about crowns, thrones,
victories, but I now tell the more quiet
t.ory of scars, honorable ard dishonorable,
there are in all parU of the world people
bearing dishonorable soars. They went
into the battle of sin and were worsted,
and to their driug day they will have a
aacnhcation of body or niind or aoul.
It eannot be hidden. There are tens of
thousands of men and women now conse
crated to God and living holy lives who
were once corrupt, but they have been re
generated, and they are no more what
they once were than ruhesenee is emacia
tion, than balm is vitriol, than nooday is
midnight. But in their depleted physical
health or mental twist or style of tempta
tion they are ever and anon reminded of
the obnoxious past. They hare a memory
that is deplorable. In some twinge of
pain or some tendency to surrender to the
wrong which they must perpetually resist
th'y have an unwholesome reminiscence.
Ihev carry acars, deep scars, ignoble scars.
Hut Paul in my text shows us a scarifi
nation which is a badge of honorable and
elf-aacnhcing service. He had in his
weak eyes the result of too much study,
and in his body, bent and worn, the signa
ture of ecourgings and shipwrecks and
maltreatment by mobs. In my text he
shows those scars as he declares, "I bear
in my body the marks of the W.l Jesus."
Notice that it is not wounds, but scar,
and a scar is a healed wound. Before the
scar is well defined upon the flesh the in
flammation must have departed, and right
circulation muat have been restoied, end
new tissue must have bc-n f irmed. It is
a permanent indentation of the flesh it
cicatrix. Paul did well to show these
scars. They were positive and indisputM
ble proofs that with q11 hi bodv, mind
and soul he believed what he s.iid; the
were his diploma, showing thnt he had
graduated from the school of hardidiip for
Christ; they were credentials proving his
right to lead in the world's evangidixaiion.
Men are not ashamed of scitra got in
battle for their country. No American is
embarrasfed when you ask him, "Where
did you get that gash uerosa your fore
hciid!' and he can answer, "That was
from a sabre cut at Man Juan." When
vou ask some Gerinau. "Where did you
lose your right arm?" he is not ashamed
to pay, "I lost it at Sedan." When you
ask nn Italian, "Where did you lose your
eye?" he is not annoyed when he can an
swer, "I suffered Hint in the lust battle
under our glorious Garibaldi." Hut I re
mind you of the fact that there are scars
not got in war which are just as illus
trious. We had in this country years ago
an eminent advocate who was called into
the Presidential Cabinet as Attorney-General.
In midlife he was iu a Philadelphia
courtroom engaged in an important trial.
The attorney on the opposite aide of the
case got irritated and angry, and in most
brutul manner referred to the distin
guished attorney's disfigured face, a face
more deeply scarred than any face I ever
saw. 1'he legal hero of whom I am speak
ing in his closing argument said: "Gentle
men of the jury, when I was a little child
I was playing with my sister iu the nurs
ery, and her clothes caught tire, and I ran
to her to put out the fire. I succeeded,
nut I myself took fire, and before it was
xtiuguished my face was awfully burned
nd as black as the heart of the scoun
drelly counsel on the other side of the
cast who has referred to my misfortune."
The eminent attorney of whom I speak
carried all his life the honorable scar of
bis sister's rescue.
A young college student in England
found all the artistic world in derisive pur
suit of William Turner, the painter. The
young graduate took uj his pen in some
respects the most brilliant pen that was
ever put to, paper and wrote those five
great volumes on modern painting, the
chief thought of which was his defense of
the abused painter.
The heroic author by some was sup
posed in his old days to be cyntcul and
tuult rinding, and when 1 saw him a little
while before his death he was in decad
ence, but I know that over his face and all
over his manner were the scar of heroic
defense.
In the seventies of his lifetime he was
suffering from the wounds and fatigues of
the twenties. Long alter he had quit the
battle with author's pen and paiuter's
pencil ho bore the scars of literary mar
tyrdom. But why do we go so far for illustration
When I could take right out of the memo
ries of some whom I address instances
just appropriate? To rear aright for
God and heaven a large family of children
in that country home was a mighty under
taking. Far away from the village doctor,
the garret must contain the herbs for the
cure of all kinds of disorders. Through all
infantile complaint the children of that
family went. They missed nothing in the
way of childish disorders. Busy all day
was that mother in every form of house
work, and twenty times a night called up
by the children, all down at the same
time with the same contagion. Her hair
is white a long while before it is time for
now; tier anoulders are bent long bufore
the appropriate time for stooping.
Spectacles are adjusted, some for close
by and some for far off, years before you
would have supposed her eyes would need
re-enforcement. Here and there is a short
grave in her pathway, this headstone
bearing the name of this child and another
headstone bearing the name of another
child. Hardly one bereavement lifts its
shadow than another bereavement drop
one.
After thirty years of wifehood and
motherhood the path turns toward the
setting sun. She cannot walk as far as
he used to. Colds caught hang on longer
than formerly. Some of the children are
in the heavenly world, for which they
were well prepared through maternal
fidelity, and others are out in this world
doing honor to a Christian ancestry.
vrnen ner lite closes and the neighbors
gather for her obsequies, the officiating
clergyman may find apnropriate words in
the last chapter of Proverbs: "Her price i
far above rubies. The heart of her bus
band doth safely trust in her, so that he
hall have no need of spoil. She will do
him good, and not evil, all the dav of her
life; she stretcheth out her hand to the
poor; she is not afraid of the snow for her
household, for all her household are
clothed with scarlet. Ber husband is
known in the gates when he sittoth
among the elden iu the land; her children
arise up and call her blessed; her hus
band also, and he praiseth her. Many
(laughters have done virtuously, but thou
exwllest them all."
Then after the Scripture lesson is read
let all come up, and before the casket i
closed look for the last time at the scar
of her earthly endurance.
She never heard the roll of a gun car
riage or saw a banner hoisted upon s parr
pet, bnt she has in all the features of that
dear old face the marks of many a conflict
scars of toil, scars of maternity, scar of
self-sacrifice, scars of bereavement.
Hh is a heroin whose nam has never
been heard of ten miles from the old
homestead, but her name i inscribed high
up among the enthroned immortals.
People think they must look for mar
tyrs on battlefields or go through a history
to find burnings at the stake and torture
on rack when there are martyrs all about
a. At this time in this capital sity thus
are scores nt men wearing themselves out
In the DubUe service. .
In ten years they will not have a
healthy nerve left in their borlv. In com
mittee rooms, in consultations that involve
the welfare of the nation. unnVr the
weiitht of great reanonncbi'ities. their vi
tality is blng subtracted. In a'most eery
yillare of the country vou finrl ,,me bro
ken down 8tate or National officii.
There is a woman who lias suffered do
mestic iuj'itic of wlrch the is no cog
nizance. 8he ssvs nnlhinr about it. An
tnnuiaitor's machine of tort"re cnu'd not
wrinit from her tha storv of r!nntic woe,
Kvcr since the dnv of orsnue b'oiim md
lonn white vi' nh hs none her ful' t:itv
and rer-ived f"r it hs-hncs anH Msme
nnd ncirVct. Tho fart-inre rmv. that "-as
sioro?i to be a s'en ef snmli i sfT.r
tou, haji turned out ta be one link of t
enain of borrihte serviturfp. A wreath of
nettle and nightshade of brightest form
woulrt have been a more accurate nronhe
ey. There are those who find it hard n
believe that there is such a place a hell,
but you i could go rieht out in anv eommn
rnty and find more than one hell of domes
tic torment. There is no esrsne for tha
woman but the grave, and that, compared
with the life she now lives, will he an ar
bor of jasmine nnd of the h;;' umnrr bird
song poured into the ear of the honey
suckle. 8rars! If there be none on the
brow showing where he struck her arriv
ing home from midnight carousal, never
theless there are scars all up and down
her injured and immortal soul which will
v 1rf"1""n"'"1 n the day when there
shall lean forth for her aven?ement the
live thunderbolts of an incensed God.
When we see veteran in anv land who
has lo.t limb in battle, our sympathies
are stirred: but. oh. how msnv have in
the domestic realm lost their life and yet
are denied a pillow of dust on which to
slumber! Keller enlarge your roll of mar
tyrs; better adont a new mode of count
ing human sacrificationa. A broken bone
is not half as bad as a broken te?rt.
There are many who can in th same
sense that Paul uttered it say. "I bear in
my body the marks of the Lord Jesus"
that is for the sake of Christ and Hi
came they carry scars which keep their
indenture throuili all time and all eter
nity. Do you think that Paul was accur
ate when he said that? If vou have stud
ied his career you have no doubt of it. In
his youth he learned how to fashion the
hair of the Cilician goat into canvas, m
ouiet trade, and then went to college, the
President of which was Gamaliel, an in
stitution which scholars sav could not have
been very thorough because of what ther
call Paul's imperfect command of Greek
syntsx. But his history became exciting
on tho road to Damascus, where he was
unhorsed and blinded. His conversion was
a convulsion. Whether that fall from the
horse may have left a mark upon him. I
know not. but the mob soon took after
him and flogged and imprisoned and mal
treated him until he hnd senrs more than
enough to assure the trulhfulnes of his
utterance, "I bear in my body the mark
of the Lord Jesus."
All ye who bear in your bodv the mark
of the Lord Jesus, have you thought what
use those marks will be in the heavenly
world? What source of glorious reminis
cence! In thnt world you will sit to
gether and talk over earthly experiences.
"Where did you get thnt sciir?" saint will
sny to (mint, nnd there will come back a
story of hardship nnd slruirgle nnd perse
cution and wound and victory through
the grace ox the gospel.
"Where did yo-i got time mark?" sny
another snirit to lixieniug spirit, nnd the
answer comes: "That is a reminder of a
great bereavement, of a desolated house
hold, of a deep grave, of nil the heart
strings at one stroke snnpned altogether,
liut you sec it is no longer a Incerntion.
for the wound ii.is been healed, and my
once bereft spirit is now in companion
ship with the one from whom for awhile I
whs separated."
"Where did rou get that lon?. deep
senr?" snys another iiinnortnl to listening
immortal, nnd the answer comes: "That
was the awful futigue of a liietime strug
gle in ai-tcmpting amid adverse circum
stances, to achieve a 1 velihood. For
thirty years I wus tired oh. so tired!
Hut you see it is a healed wound, for I
have found rest nt last for body and soul,
the complete rest, the everlasting rest
that I heard of before 1 came here as the
rest that reruaiuctb for the people of
God."
Some one in heaven will snv to Mnrtyr
John llogcrs, "Where did you get thst
-:nr on vour foot?" and the answer wilt
come, "Oh. thnt wns a burn 1 suffered
when the flames of martyrdom were kin
dled beneath me." "lenutius. what is that
mark on your check?'' "Oh, that was
made by the paw of the lion to which I
was thrown by tho order of Trajan."
tSome one will say to Paul, "Great apos
tle, that must have been a deep cut once
the mnrk which I see on your neck."
And Puul snys, "That was made by the
sword which struck me at my beheadmcnt
on the road to Ostia." Hut we all have
scars of some kind, and those are some of
the things we will talk over in the heav
enly world while we celebrate the grace
thnt made us triumphant over all antag
onism. Now, what is the practical use of this
subject? It is the cultivation of Christian
heroics. The most ot us want to say
things nnd do things for God when there
is no dagger of getting hurt. We are all
ready for easy work, for popular work,
for compensating work, but we all greatly
tiecd more courage to brave the world una
brave satanic assault when there is some
thing ugrressive and bold and dangerous
to be undertaken for God and righteous
ness. And if we hnppen to get hit what
an ado we make about it! We all need
more of the stuff that martyrs are made
out of. We want more sanctified grit,
more Christian pluck, more holy recklesa-
iiess as to wtmt the worm may say and do
in any crisis of our life, lie right and da
right, and all earth and hell combined can
not nut you down.
The same little missionary who wrote
my text also uttered that piled up mag
nificence to be found in those words which
ring like battleaxes on splitting helmets:
"in all these things we are more than con
querors, through Him that loved us, for I
am persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels nor principalities nor powers
nor things present nor things to come nor
heiirht nor (tenth nor snv other rrt-ntnre
shall be able to separate us from the love
of (Sod, which is in Christ Jtius our
Lord."
How do Vol! like thst. von cowsrit wtii
shrink back from aggressive work, end if
so much as a splinter pierce your flesh cry
out louder than many a one torn in auto-da-fe.
Many a soldier has gone through at
long war, been in twenty battles, led a
regiment up a hill mounted by cannon and
swept by musketry, and yet came homo
without having been once hit and without
mark upon turn. But it will not be so
among those who pass in the grand review
of heaven. They hnve all in the holy wars
been wounded, and all bear scars. And
what would the newly arrived in heaven
do with nothing to show that he had ever
been struck by heman or diabolic weap
onry? How embarrassed and eccentne
such a one iu such a place! Surely he
would want to be excused awhile from the
heavenly ranks and be permitted to de
scend to earth, crying, "Give me another
chance to do lomethine worthv of an im
mortal! Show me some post of danger to
be manned, some fortress to he nini-mrit
some difficult charge to make. Like Leoni
das at Thermopylae, like Miltiades at Ma
rathon, like Marlborough at lilenheim, like
Godfrey at Jerusalem, like Winkelried st
Kempach gathering the apears of the Aus- ' '
triun knight into his bosom, giving his
life for others; show me some place where
I can do a brave thing for God. I cannot
go back to heaven uutil somewhere I besr
in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus."
My hearer, mv reader, quit complaining
.about your misfortunes and disappoint
ment and troubles and through all tune
and all eternity thank God for scats.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Mnurlcc Thompsou, the novelist, died
In Crnwrordsville, lud.
King Kihvard VII. pursued his law
studies up to the lust of li!s prince
hood. Marconi thought of the wlrc'.cKS tide
graph at nineteen and hud It working
ut tweuty-tive.
Henry Wnttersou began buslnens af
ter the Civil War ou $jO obtained by
pawning his watch,
General Miles has been nnnnlmously
elected President of the National Cpl- ,
tul Automobile Club.
At the cud of his present term Mr.
Cockrell, of Missouri, will have becu a
Senator thirty yenrp.
Kdwln A. Abbey, whom .lie London
Athenaeum Club has honored with
membership. Is n I'liiliidelpblnii.
Senator Piatt has given up bis hotel
suite in New York Cily. which lie hnd
occupied for tweuly-elght years.
Colonel PI inner, wlw commanded
a Mafcking rspcilillnii, wears a mono
cle nnd mingles "1'leaac" aud "'1 bank
you" with ids orders.
Jerry (Simpson is to go Into tl.e live
stock and cominlsxitiii biis'iu -s la
Wichita, Kim. He m,vn that l c h:'
quit 'Politics for i ll ti:...'.