V
A SONO OF LOVE,
I do believe her heart
I something still to mil ,
fihe I the one that hnl no art
Save love, thnt I to be.
f4lio it tho one who was so dear
An 1 caught mo with her golden hair !
My sweet remembrance makes
A melody of her I
Ko thrush thnt sinus In Ml tho brakes
Would I couM I, prefer!
Tor when she spoke, In Love's sweet way
All tho dear tlr l sang night on I day t
Frank L. Htanton, In Atlanta Constitution.
DR. PRESTON'S BROTHER.
Ar sister in
largo niaio surgi
csl ward of a well
knowu hospital
in tho north of
Kngland at the
timo wliea the
following acci
dent occurred :
A few tllOtltllH
previously one of
th use disastrous
colliery extdo-
pious, only loo common in our neigh
borhood, had taken lace, nud eight
of the men,' poor follows, nil badly in
jured, had been brought into tbo
Martin ward. Wo nil had a heavy
time of it, and our hon.su surgeon
never very strong had completely
broken down tiudtr tho strain of his
devoted attention to his patient.
He hnd tho HntiHfaetion of seeing all
tho canes (with olio exception) fairly
xtaited on the roml to convalescence
before ho, too, came on tho Hick lint,
nud was ordered absolute rest for sev
eral months. No mauever deserved a
rest more than he.
Hy Lis constant and unwearied
labors of love be had earned the bless
ing prououueed iu Aboti Don Adhom
a "Ono who loved bis fellow-men."
We all greatly missed his cheery pres
ence in tho wards, and felt small in
terest in the doctor who came as bis
"locum," feeling mire that no one
could take bis place.
Dr. Frestou, tho temporary bouse
surgeon, however, made n favorable
impression on his arrival and soon
fehowed that ho thoroughly know his
work. Ho had n iuiot, reserved man
lier, and wo bad worked together some
days before I learned anything moro
Hbout lnm. lheu mi accident, if there
is such thing, showed me tho real
man. One evening, on going bis
Touuds, I reported a new case, just
rouie in, to him. It was n man who
bad been found lying iu the load. He
bad evidently fallen against a curb
stone and had received a scalp wound.
Thnt he was a stranger iu tho town
was proved by some papers in his
pocket, showing him to have been dis
charged from a sailing vessel at Hull
ilnvg previously.
'ado out h' history
,'r.v
ft
u an expression I had not s4.,t
nee linfora Vow nf .... I
on his face before. "Very few of us
realize wuat those words mean, sister.
It means more than mere friendless
noss. It means a man's life without
any influence for good upon it no
restraint to keep him from Milking to
tho lowest depths ; no anchor to hold
liitu buck from sutlering shipwreck on
tho rocks which surround us all; some
Keen and some hidden ones more
dangerous than nil."
Ho paused, then turned round to
face me, and Hpoko moro quickly, as
it no wisuea to torco himself to say
something.
"To mo it is tho most painful sight
of all, because I am bnuutu 1 by the
feeling that somewhere in this "world
there now may bo a man w ho is friend
less and nlouo through my fault.
Every fresh face I see I think may bo
his. Every morning I wako with the
thought thut I may seo it before
night."
I looked at him with intense, inter
est. My womnu's instinct, which so
seldom errs, told me that ho had never
ppokcu of this to any ono before, and
thut it was a great relief to him to do
no now,
I longed to hear more. He seemed
to read tho syinputhy expressed in my
face and went on more quietly :
"I had a younger brother. Thoro
were only tho two of u. I was older
by three years, nud both in appear
ance and chiirui'ter wo were totally
unlike. Ho hud been spoiled by my
father, who ulways let lain havo his
own way, chielly, I fancy, on account
of the strong likeness he bore to our
mother, who died when we were qui to
vouiig. 1 was at Oxford reading lor a
degree previous to entering the hos
pital when my father die. I.
"My father had had a nasty full in
tho hunting Hold, ami was almost ut
tho last before I got to him. All his
affairs wero in perfect order, but ho
was anxious about Jack always his
first thought.
"You'll look after him, Tom," he
said. "1'rouiiho me you'll look ofter
him. If you promise, I know you
won't go back. A promise is a promise
with you, Tom ; 1 could always trust
jou."
"I did promise, ngaiu and again,
and God knows 1 meant to keep my
word, and my old father died quite
happy with my promise still sounding
ic his cars and his eyes resting to tho
last on his darling Jack. Ho never
uouotea mo for a moiueut. How
could he foresee?"
"I went back to Oxford, and Jack
i .i i. ....
vuini-n mo mi mo college. Unit was
tho mistake. At a disUuco if I bad
only seeu him now and then wo
might have got on well enough; but
ai my ciuow, always liursliuff into mv
room when I wanted to read, tilling
hi room with friends as noisy and
Jigin-uearteU as himself, spending
niouey recklessly on all sides. and
iuruiug everything I said iutoajoke
all this wa. a daily annoyance to
me. It grew intolerable. I bad no
sympathy at all with any of hia pur
suits and I grew more cold and re
served, until one day, exasperated
more than usual, I told him that if he
wanted to go to tho dogs he might go
by himself. Ilia temper was as quick
an mine. His tharp answer drew a
shsrper one from me, which roused
bim to a fury. 'You won't see me
again, no you noed not tronble your
bead about it. I can work for myself,'
and be was gone. Even then, sister,
if I bad gone after bim, I might have
stopped bim, but I was angry with
bim, and glad that lie was gone. As
glad then to hoar that he was gone as
I should be now to bear that once
again on this earth I might hope to
see his face. I live for that, and one
day it may como."
"And you never beard of bim
again?"
"No sound from that day to this.
Ho went without money, and he could
draw none except through me."
"Perhaps," I suggested, utterly at a
loss w hat to say, "he found some work
or" I began, rather hopelessly.
"No," ho replied, with a deep tone
of sadness in his voioo; "no; not one
of his friends ever heard of Lira
that's four no, Ave years ago. Five
years and night and day I think of
thoso words, 'You will look after Jack,
Tom?' "
Tho door opened to admit the
stretcher with a new case from the
surgery, and Dr. Frestou was in a mo
ment tho professional man, absorbed
in investigating tho extent of the new
arrival's injuries.
Itcfore leaving the ward he turned
to the bedside of the patient whose
friondless condition has led to our con
vernation. He took down the head
card to till up the details.
"Name, sister?"
"George Thomas."
"Age?"
"I b not know; ho looks about
forty ; but he is very weather -beaten ?"
Tho doctor glanced at the tanned,
scarred face, nearly hidden by ban
dages, nud utood hesitating, pen in
band.
"Occupation do you know?"
Sailor."
"No other particulars, sister?"
He laid tho card on the tablo and
wiped his pen carefully a methodical
and orderly man in every detail of his
work.
"I c.My found a few coppers and
theso da napers in bis pocket, I said,
showing tho contents of a pocket-book
much tho worso for wear. One crum
pled pieco of papor had the words,
"15 Black Wells Court, Hull," written
upon it, probably the address of his
lust lodging. 1 proceeded to unfold
another piece, anl found an old,
plain gold locket, worn thin and
bright ; one side was smooth, and on
the other was a monogram still faintly
legible, J. Jr.
I felt it suddenly snatohed from
my hands.
Dr. Freston had seized it. bh1
u. . . ..v U- 1
vt ,a the gas fall on, and gazed on
. . . . . . . . . .
tne locuet wnn eyes mac seemed to
pierce it through.
"Look, sister!" ho said, and bis
strong hand shook as ho held it toward
mo, "tncro can be no mistake. I re
member this locket so well. Jaok
gave it to my father with his photo
graph inside before he went to school,
and after father died Jack kept it. It
was an old joke of theirs to tako each
other's things, because they were
marked with the sumo initials. I
could swear to this anywhere, and I
seo quite clearly how it came here,
Jack met this muu at Hull, perhaps he
ciiinu oil' tho sauio boat, and if he was
hard up but ho must have Loon hard
up before ho would part with this, and
then it's not much use to any oue
else. No oue would give a shilling for
an old thing like this, but here it is,
and here's the address of where tho
man stayed. It's the llrst clue I have
ever hid, sister," and his face was
bright with hope. "Jack may be still
there ; I must go without losing a min
ute. I may catch him before he goes
on further. Is there anything else
you want mo for to-night?"
Ho was already near tho door. "No,
not to-night ; tho others are all very
comfortable; but do you not thiuk it
would bo worth while to ask this man
where ho got tho locket? It may not
have bctu in Hull at all, and you
would have the journey for nothing,
(iivo me tho locket, and I will ask
him."
He handed it to me without appear
ing to follow what I had said.
The idea of his brother beiug within
reach had taken such a hold of his
miud that he could hardly endure a
minute's delay before going off to
seek him.
I found this among your things,"
I suid to tho patient after Dr. Frestou
had gone. "Is it your own, or did
some one sell it to you?"
He looked up quickly and suspi
ciously.
"What do you waut to kuow fort"
ho mutterod.
"I only want to know whether the
man who owned this lint was with you
at his address in Hull."
He lookod at me sharply, and did
not answer for a minute.
"Yes," he said, slowly, "the man
who owned that was there when I was,"
and ho turned round, as if unwilling
to say more.
I had learned all I wished, and re
peated tho information to Dr. Fros
ton. "Thank you very much," ho said,
simply, "Good night sister; 1 may
not see you for a few days." lie was
already on tho landing.
"Good uight, Dr. Frestou, "Nbut 1
itouui it no neara mo. lie was hair
way downstairs.
jNext day ut. frestou s wor was
done by the junior surgeon, aud the
i ward routine went ou as usual.
T could find out nothing more of
No. 7's history, except that his real
age was twenty-eight. He looked at
least ton years older, ne was knocked
about a good deal in the world, he told
some of his follow patients.
His injuries proved to be very slight,
and on tho evening of the second day
ho was allowed to sit up for m short
time.
On tho day following, when it was
growing dusk, the door of the ward
opcnoJ, and Dr. Freston came quietly
in.
I saw at a glance that he hnd not
been successful in his search. There
was nothing more to be learned at
that address, he told me. The people
there remembered quite woll a man
who gave the name of Oeorge Thomas
sleeping there for ono night a week
ago, but they wero sure they bad no
other lodger at the timo. They knew
nothing whatever about the man. He
w as evidently very poor, but had paid
for what he had bad.
"I ought not to have built so many
hopes upon so slight a foundation,"
ho replied, with a poor attempt at a
smile, and a tono of weary sorrow iu
his voice. "I have waited so long
that I ventured to think that perhaps
at last ho" then, chocking hims?lf,
and with an effort turning his thoughts
elsewhere "but I am late, sister. I
must catch up my work. Have you
anything fcr mo to-night?"
"Will you sign No. 7's paper? Tho
wound was very superficial, and Mr.
Jones discharged bim this morning.
He is anxious to get on."
"I must speak to bim first; he may
be able to tell me something more,"
aud he turned towards No. 7, sitting
by tho fire, and for the first time he
looked hnu in the face the first timo
for fivo years, rather ; fori sow Dr.
Freston pnuso as if transfixed, and the
next moment be was at his brother's
side.
"Jack !" ho said, "Jock 1" and could
not say another word.
But that was all he bad to say. Jack
had been tho thought of his life, night
and day, for five years. And now Jack
was there, and hn held him fast, what
should bo say but repeat "Jack!"
again and again, until he could realize
that this was no dream, but rather tho
awakening to a better and happier life
than he had known before. Jack said
nothing at all. For one moment ho
had looked around as it wishing to
escape ; but if he would he could not.
And where in the world that ho bad
found so bard and merciless could ho
hope to meet tho warm welcomo which
strove to Hud utterances in his broth
er's happy eyes, which gazed ou tho
ragged figure be faro him as if he could
never look enough?
That is all tho tale. It gave tho pa
tients something to talk about for a
day or two, and was then forgotten
in the ward, at least. -
But there are threo people from
whose memories no word or act re
corded bore can ever be crTcoJ.. Nod
I name them? They an Dr. Freston,
Jaok, his brother, and myself, Tom
t roston e wite.
The Zodiacal Light.
Sometimes in the evening, some lit
tle time before and during twilight,
and also sometimes though rarer
beforo and during sunrise, a close ob
server mny detect peculiar fan-liko
streaks of darker aud lighter shading
across the sky. Those streaks, of
which the plainer ones may number
from four to six, together form a tri
angle with its base on tho horizon and
extending out at varying altitudes.
This uppearanoe still holds a rank
ns an uncxplaiuod phenomenon in na
ture. It occurs only occasionally.
There may be a tine illustiation on a
given evening, ami whiio there may be
a week of clear sunsets succeeding, not
a trace of the streaks will be visible.
From this it would seem that a par
ticular atmospheric condition must be
one of the factors in its production.
The assumption would be supported
by numerous analogies not necessary
to enumerate. In tho proper atmos
phere, then, let it bo assumed that tho
streaks are due to alternate lines of
shade and light. . Now, let something,
to some extent, obstruct the rays of
tho sun which has Bet, either au im
pediment in the distaut landscape or
au unseen cloud, the combination at
the proper auglo with the observer's
vision, aud it is probable that he may
approach a solution of tho long-stand
ing puzzle.
ihe fan-like appearance is such for
the same reason that tho lines in a
brick wall leading away from the ob
server mum to focalize to a center, as
do also railway tracks, seemingly como
together in tho distance. Thoso zo
diacal Hues are undoubtedly parallels,
as are linos of cloud ftreaks that to
our vision seem to point to a common
starting point.
It is moro thou probable that this
modest aud unobstrusive streaking of
tho clear evening sky has been un
solved because of its very simplicity.
It is probably ouly a modifloatiou of
what is commonly known as "the sun
drawing water. "--Pittsburg Dispatch.
Kcalth-liiviug l'erlume.
There seems to be, undoubtedly is,
something positively healtu-au d-nonr-ishtieut-aud
strength giving in the in
fluence of sweet and powerful per
fumes on the nerves a subtle some
thing yet unexplained. What we got
of most value iu the country, physi
cians and philosophers say, are the
sweet smells of grass and ttower and
tree. It is not chielly the spirits, the
nice hoi, in oologno that invigorates;
it is the essence or aromatio oils. The
delight that a rose gives to everybody
is due to some mysterious stimulus
the rose fragrance has for the nerves.
Half the delight in walking iu old
lanes in the country comes from the
invisible trailing streamers and float
ing clouds of flower iucenta in tho air.
Boston Transcript.
SERMONONSDICIDE.
SIN OF SELF-SLAUGHTER.
Discourse Brimful of Common Senas
and Rslla-lous Proof.
Trxt i "n drew out his sworl an I would
rmva killed himself, supposing that the pris
oner hnd been fled. Hut Taut cried with a
load voice, saving, Do thyself no harm."
Aetsxrl.,27, 28.
Hers is a would suicide srreatsd la his
oVndly attempt, tit wss a sheriff, snd ae
eorillngto the Romnn law a bailiff himself
mutt suffer the punishment da an escapmt
prisoner, nnd If the prisoner breaking jail
wss entened to bo endunirenned for throe
or lour years then tho sheriff must been
dungeoned for three or four ranrs. and If
the prisoner breaking jsll was to have suf-
iorM rnrmal punishment then ins saenn
mut suffer enpitnl punishment.
J no snerirr nnd receiver esneeiai ennrers
to keep a sbnrp lookout for I'aul and 811ns
The government had not had confidence in
bolts nnd bars to keep safe these two clersry
men, shout whom there seemed to be some
thing stranire nnd supernatural.
(tore cnougn, by miraculous power met
arn tree, snd the sheriff, waking our of a
found sleep nnd supposing these minister
havo run nwny, nnd knowing they were to
die for preaching Christ, snd realising that
he mu-.t ihere'ore die, rather than go under
the executioner's nx on the morrow and
lufftT public disgrace resolves to precipitate
his own droense. But bfore the sharp,
keen, glittering dagger of tho sheriff could
trlko his heart one of the unloosened
prisoners arrests the blado by the oommsnd,
''Do tbvsell no harm."
In olden time, and where Christianity
dad not Interfered with It, suicide was con
ilderiHl honorable and a sign of courage,
Demosthenes poisoned himself when told
ihnt Alexinder's embassador had demanded
'.he surrender of the Athenian orators,
(socrates killed himself rather thnn sur
render to Philip of Mneedjn. Cato. rather
jhnn submit to Julius Oiar. took his own
Nfe, nnd alter three tlmei tils wounds hnd
ei-n dressed tore them open snd perished.
Uithridate klllud himself r.ither thnn sub
nlt to I'ompey, the conqueror. Hnnnlbnl
lestroyed bis life by poison from bis ring,
tonsidiTing llfo unbearable. Lycurgus a
ml'-ile, Brut us a suicide. Afterthedisaster
f Moscow Napoleon always carried with
llm a preparation of opium, and one night
lis servant benrl the ex-emperor arise, put
tnmethlng In n glass nnd drink It, and soon
ifter tho groans arouse all the nttendnnts ,
tnd it was only tnrough utmost medical
iklll lie was resuscitated frotn the stupor of
toe opiate.
Tunes havo changed, and yet tho Amerl
nn conscience neads to be toned upon the
Si'.jiMUof suicide. Have you seen a paper
the lust mo ith thnt did not announce the
as:ice out of llto by one's own behest?
Defaulters, alarmed nt ibe Idea of exposure,
f nit life precipitately. Men losing large
mrtunes go out of the world because they
in uuot eudure earthly existence. Frustrat-
jd affection, uomestlo Infelicity, dyspectlo
lup itlince, anger, remorse, envy, jealousy.
Institution, misanthropy, are considered
mfllclent causes for absconding Irom this
Ite ty Pnrls green, by laudanum, by bells
lonna, by Othello s dagger, by halter, by
cap Irom the ahutmeut of a bridge, by Are
inns. More cases of "lolo dn so" iu the last
jwo years of tho world's existonce. The evil
s more and more spreading.
A pulpit not long ngo expressed some
loubt as to whether there was really' any.
'iiing wrong about quitting this llfo whon It
tnoame disagreeable, nnd there are found In
icapectnbleclrclrs people npologetlo for the
irlme which Pnul In the text arrested. I
ihull show you bo Tore. I get through thnt
nilclde Is the worst of nil crimes, and I shsll
Jft a ws.iving unmistakable, lint In the
.' part of this" sermon I'wntoh to admit
;hnt some of the best Christians tiiat have
irrr iivbu ubto vonimmeii son aeJtmction,
ut always In dementia and not responsible.
I have no more doubt about their eternal
lellclty thnn I have of the Christian who
Hi s la his bed In the delirium of typhoid
fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is
rery great, I chnrge all those who have had
Christian friends under cerebral aberration
itep off the boundaries of this llfo to have
lo doubt their happiness. The dear Lord
took them right out of their dazed nnd fren
tied state Into perfect safety. How Christ
eels toward the Insane you may know from
din kind way bet rent el thodumonlnu ot
?nrdara nnd tho child lunatic, nnd the po
:ency with which ho bushed the touiposts
lit her of sea or brain.
Scotland, the land prolific of Intelleetuil
(Inuts, had none grander than Hugh Miller,
rrent for soirnce nn t grent lor God. Ho
lumo of the lmt Hiirblnnd blood, and be was
i dt'sei'udiint of Pomtld lloy, a man eminent
for his piety and the rare gift of second
ththt. His attainments, climbing up ns ho
lid Irom the quarry and the wall of tbo
itoncmason, draw lorth tho astonished ad
miration ot llucklnnd aud Murchison, tho
icientists, and Dr. ChnlmeM, the theologian,
ml held universities spellbound whilo bo
:old thorn the story of wnnt ho had seen of
3od in tho old rod sandstone.
That man did more than any being that
iver lived to show that the (lod of the hills
Is tho Ood of tho lliblc, unJ he struck his
tuning fork on tho rocks of Cromarty until
no brought geology and theology accordant
In divlnu worship. Ills two books, entitled
"Footprints of the Creator" nnd the "Testi
mony ot tne Jtocks, proclaimed the banns
f an evor lasting marriage between genuine
telouce nnd revelation. Uu'this latter book
bo tolled day and night, through lovo of
nature and love of God, until be could not
leep, nnd his brain gave way, nni he was
found dead with a revolver by his side, the
cruel Instrument having had two bullets
one for him nud the other for the gunsmith
who, tit tne coroners inquest, was examin
ing It nnd full dead. Have you any doubt ot
the bentilleatlou of Hugh Miller alter bis hot
brnln bad censed throbbing that winter night
In his study nt I'ortobello? Among the
mightiest ot earth, among the mlghtiost ot
heaven.
No one ever doubled the pMy of William
Cowper, the author of those threo great
toynius, "On. For n Closer Walk With Go I !"
"What Various Hluiirauces We Meet !"
"There Is a Fountain Filled With Wood"
William Cowper, who shares with Isaaa
Watts snd Charles Wesley the chief honors
ol Christian hymnology. In hypochondria
he resolved to take his own llfo an1 role to
the river Thames, hut fouud a man seated ou
some goods nt the very point frotn wblcu he
expected to spring nud rode back to his
home nnd thnt night threw himself upon bis
own knife, but the blade broke, and then be
bunged himself to the celling, but the rops
fiarted. No wonder that when Ood merci
ully delivered him from that nwiul demen
tia be sat down and wrote thut other hvmu
lust ns memorable i
Ooi mom In a myatorloui sir
Hl wnntfr to .rfuriii.
Be lant. Hia ftotUt In tba sc)
Auu rltlea upon ta alorm
Sim I uulwltpf la nure to tr?
Anil aru ilia work III villa.
Ood la Hli own ltitiTio.
And Ha will iiiaau .1 plalu.
While we make t his meroilnl aud rig'uteous
nllowauce In regard to tbosj who were
plunged into mental Incoherence, I declare
tnut tne man who lit the usn of bin reason,
by his own not, snnps the bond between his
body and his soul goe straight into perdi
tion. Hliall I prove Iff llevelatlnn xxl.. 8,
"Murderers shall have their part In the lake
which burnetii with fire and brimstone;"
Revelation xxil., 18, "Without are doirs and
sorcerers and whoremongers and murder
ers.' You do not believe the New Testa,
meut Then perhaps you believe the Ten
Commandments. "Thou shnlt not. kill."
Do you say all these passage refer to the
taking of the life of others? Then I ask yoa
if you are not ns rctfonslhle tor your own
life as for the life of others? God irav you
a special trust In your life. He made you
the oumoJUu of your Ideas he made you Ib'i
eusioilan ol no ouer life. lie givs you as
Weapons wtlh which to defenl It two arms
to strike bnolc assailants, two eyes to watch
for Invasion and a natural love of life which
ought ever to be on the alert. Assisslnatlon
of other Is a mild crime compared with the
assassination ot yourself, because In the
latter cane it Is treachery to an especlnl
trust, It Is the surrender of a castle you were
especially appointed to keep. It Is treason to
a natural law, and it Is treason to Oo J added
to ordinary murder.
; To show how Ooi In the niblo looked
npon thb crime I point you to the rogues'
picture gallery In some parts ot the Bihie,
the pictures ot the people who have com
mitted this nnnitnrnl crime. Here Is the
headless trunk of 8iul on the walls of Bith
shan. Here Is the man who chased little
Dsvld ten feet la statue chasing four. Here
is the man who consulted a clairvoyant,
witch of Endor. ITere Is a man who,
whipped In battle, Instead of surrendering
bis sword with diunity, asks hi sen-ant to
slsy him, nnd when the servant declines then
the giant plants the hilt of the sword In the
earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and
he throws bis body on It nnd expire, the
cowsrd, the suicide! Here is Ahitbophel,
the Machlavelli of olden times, betraying hit
best friend, David, In order that he may be
come prime minister of Absalom and Jolnlnp
that fellow In his attempt at parricide. Not
getting what he wanted by ehsnire ot politic
he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life
Into the suicide's eternity. There he Is, the
In crate!
Here is Ablmolech practically a suicide,
fie Is with an army booibarding a tower,
when a woman In the tower takes a grind
stone front Its place and drops It upon bis
bevt, nnd with what lire he has loft In a
cracked skull he commands his armor bearer,
"Praw thy sword snd slay me. lest men say
a woman slew me." There Is his poit mortem
fibotogrnph In the book of Hamuel. Hut tho
tero of this group Is Judas Iscarlot. Dr.
Dnone says he was n mnrtyr, an 1 we have In
our day apologists for him. And what won
der in this day when we have a book reveal
ing Aaron Iturr as a pattern of virtue, and
In i tills day when we uncover a statue to
Gorge Band ss the benefnetress ot litera
ture, nnd in this day when there nre bo
trnk-als of Christ on the part of some of His
pr (tended apostles a betrayal so black It
nvfce the inlnmyof Judas Iscarlot white I
Yel this man by his own hand hung up for
th execration ot all the age,Judns Iscarlot.
A.II the good men nnd women of the Bible
left to Ood the decision of their earthly ter
mlsus, and they could have ssld with Job,
ho nnd a rignt to commit sntcldo it any
man ever had what with his destroyed
firorVrty, and his body all aflame with Insuf
ernKle carbuncles, and everything gone
from his borne except the chlot curse ot It
a pmtiferou wife and four garrulous peo
ple lotting him with comfortless talk while
he a lis ou a heap of nshes scratching his
cat with a pleo of broken pottery, yet
srytig out In triumph, "All the da)- of my
appolntod time will I wait till my chnngo
conio."
Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil nnd the aversion which It create by the
loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those
who have burled themselves out
ot life, nnd notwithstanding Christ
ianity Is against It and the argu
ments nnd tue utemi lives amine illustrious
deaths ot Its dlsclpb-s, It is a fnct alarming
ly pntent that suicide Is on the Increase.
What is tho cause? I charge upon Intidelity
and airnosticitm this wbolo ttitnx. If there
ne no nernalter, or ll tont nere.ifter bo bliss
ful without reference to how wo live and how
we die, why not move back the foldlngdoors
botweeu this world and the next? And when
our existence here becomes troublniome wny
not pass right over Into Elysiu n? Put this
down among your most solemn rcAVctlnu
and consider it after you go to your ho-nes
there has never been a en,) of suicide
where the operator was not oltlfr demented,
and therefore Irresponsible, or in tntl lel. I
challenge nil the nges, nnd I cnllongo the
whole universe. There never has been a
case of self destruction while It full appre
ninrlnn of his Immortality an tvf the fact
thnt thnt immortality would beiliorloui or '
Christ or rejected Hln
ou say it Is business trouble, or you snr
It is electrical currents, or It Is this, or it is
that, or It is the other thing. Why not go
clear back, my irlend, nnd acknowledge t list
in every case it is the abdication of rensou or
the teaching of Infidelity which practically
says, "If you don't like this life, get out ot
it. and you will land either in annihilation,
wnere there are no notes to pa), no persecu
tions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you
will land where mere will be everything
glorious nnd nothing to pay for it." Inlldeii
ty always has been apologetic for self immo
lation. Alter lorn raine s "Ago ot jteason
was published aud widely read thuru was a
marked Increase of solf-slauuhter.
Ilousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne,
under certain circumstances, were apolo
getic for self Itiimolatlou. Infidelity puts up
no bar to people's rushing out trotn this
world into the next. They teach us it does
uot make any difference bow you live here
or go out ot this world, you will land either
In au oblivious nowhere or a glorious some
where. And infidelity holds the upper end
ol the rooo for the suicide, and aims the
pistol with which a man blows his brains
out. nnd mixes tbo strychnine tor the last
swallow. If Inlldellty could carry the day
ami persuade the majority of people that It
does not made any difference how you go
out of the world you will land safely, the
river would be so full of corpses the lurry
boats would bo Impeded iu their progress,
and the crack ot a suicide's pistol would be
uo more alarming than the rumble of astraut
car.
Ab, Inlldellty, stand up and take thy sen
tence I In the presence ot God and angels
and men, stand up, thou monater, thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred
wit a lust, tby breath tool with the corrup
tion of the nges! Stand up, satyr, llltuy
goat, buzzard of the nations, leper of the
centuries I Htand up, thou mouster inlldel
lty, part man, part panther, part reptile, ptrt
dragon, staud up and take tby senteuce!
Tby hnud Is red with the bloo 1 in wblcU
thou bast washed, thy feet criuisou with the
human gore through which thou bast waded,
Stand up nud take tby senteuod 1 Down with
tbue to the pit and sup on the sobs and
groans of (amnios thou bast blasted, and roll
on the bed ot knives which thou bast sharp
ened for other, and let thy musio bo tun
everlasting miserere ot tbwt whom thou
hast damned I I braud the forehead ot Infi
delity with all the crimes of self Immolation
tor the last century on tho part ot those who
bait their reosou.
My friends, it eve; your llfo through Its
abrasions and Us molestation should seem
to be unbenrn'ule, an l yoit aro tempted la
quit it by your own behest, do not consider
yourselves ns worse thnn other. Christ
Himself was tempted to cost Himself from
the roof of the temple, but n He resisted so
resist ye. Christ oame to medicine all our
wounds. In your troubla I prescribe life In
stead of death. People who have had It
worse thnn you will ever have It have gone
songful on their way. Remember that God
keeps the chronolotry of your life with as
much precblou as lis keeps the chronology
Of nations.
Why was It at mldnlirht. Just nt mldnlvhr,
the destroying angel struck the blow that
set the Israelites free Irom bondage? The
4:10 years were up nt 13 o'clock that night.
The 4 '10 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'olonk
would have been tardy and too late. The
430 years were up nt U o'clock, nnd the de-
I stroyiugungel struck ibe blow, and Israel
was tree. And Ooi knows jut the hour
I when It Is time to lead you up Irom earthly
I bondnge. By his grace make not the worst
' olthiugs, but the best of them. If you must
take the puis, do not chow t hem. i our ever
lasting rewards wlllnocord with your enrtlily
perturbations, just as Cuius gave to Agrlppn
n chain of gold as heavy us hnd been bis
thnia of iron. For your usklng you may
nave tne same grace tnnt was srlvtn to tne
Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the
itHrkeet of duuireons, dated bis letter from
"tbedelectabla orchard ol the Leonine pris
on." There Is a torrowles world, and It Is so
radiant that the noonday sua Is ouly the
lowest doorstep, and in aurora that lights
tp onr northern heavens, eonfonnnJ
tronomers as to what It can be, IsthTi
Ingof the banners ot the procession' J
to take the conquerors home from u
militant to church triumphant, and tol
I have 10.000 reasons for wantim, ,
there, but we will never get there eltfcj
sen immolation or impenltency, ai
sins slain by the Christ who csme to 4,
thing, we want to go in at Just th,
divinely arranged. and from a couch 11,
ly spread, nnd then the clang of the J
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by the elnng of the opening of th, ,
pearl before us. O Ood, whatever ,
may cnoose, give me a Christian ,
rnristians ueatn, a christians bui
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MA J. GEN. SCHOFIELD.
The Man Who Holds the Highest FoiJ
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Alio cuuing or me regular a;
troops to the scene of the recent
road strike draws special at tenth
afaj. Gen. Schofleld, who hold.
highest position In tho army, ha;
tn authority second only to th;
President.
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John McAllister SchoflcM was!
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1831. Ho was graduated from
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1853 and was assigned to dut
South Carolina and Florida, lie
hold positions as a teacher Id
porta nt educational Institutions,
the opening of tho civil war b
tered tho volunteer service as M;
of tho First Missouri Volunteers
was appointed chief cf staff to (.
Nathaniel Lyon. lie held one
portant military position after
other, and In 1804 was asslgm
f,ho command of the Army of
Ohio. With Gen. .Sherman he
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Georgia, and when tho latter sta:
MAJ. Ol. SCHOrlEf.tV
for the sea Schofleld was in Ten:
seo. -Here and in other places S
Held showed himself a gallant sol
and won the admiration of all.
He was prctsont ut tho surrende
Johnston's army in 1805, and
charged with tho duty of carr.
out certain details of tho caplt
tlon. fcchoueld succeeded Ea win
Stanton as Secretary of War In I
and held that o.ltce for a year, w
be was appointed major general
the United States army. He is
present seQlpr major jwuftrl-J
will be retired next year, as he w
at that time reach tho ae limit.
IT COST $10,000,000.
George Gould's Hunting Lodes lo t
Catakltl Mountains.
George Gould's mountain luxum'
Furlough Lodge, cost $10,000,1'
and an expenditure of upward of J
000,000 a year U necessary to ma
tain it. Ihe lodge, which is loca
in the Catskill mountaids, stands
a 1,000-acro tract of very cxpens:
land. The tract is surrounded wi
a barbed wire fence ten feet hk
Within this inclosure is the ftn
pigeon warren In the world, and t
richest phcasantry. There is an i
mense deer park, a small herd
buffalo and foxes that run wild
the year around, Inviting visitors
shoot them.
To take care of this great sun
of game there are ten men em(lo
all the year around. And these
under the direction of a head gan
keeper, who Is personally rcsponsi'
mm
osnnos ootxu s shootiso box.
for a supply of things to lie shl
when Mr. Gould and his frk nds co:
up for a holiday. The winter supr
of borees is always seventeen, and v
summer supply twice that numbor.
The Russian dogs, with Czaraii
the famous foxhound, at the head
tho kennel, and tho kennels of
other rure, hurdy winter dogs, ha
their special keepers; and, all lo'
the place is kept on as largo a scat
and as luxuriantly as any royal estati
No one else on earth spends as turn!
on a shooting box.
History of Got ham.
At ono of the annual dinners of til
New England society of New Vori
at which Mr. lilalne and the hi
Governor Van Zandt, of llhode U
and, wero both guests, a little go'
naturcd chaff was lndu ired In as
the relative Influence of the llollanl
ers and Yankees In the settlemcu
and development of New York.
can give you the history of New Yor
In a sentence," said Van Zandt, i
whose veins coursed both Dutch an
Yankee blood. "The Dutch settle
New York, and the Yankees settle
ihe Dutch.
Tub only successful way to advc
tlso a newnpancr is to publish a coo
one.
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