OR. TALMAGE'S [SUNDAY SERMON AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE. nie is 1 of aht- L. ject: “The Wrestlers” —The ' Coming When the Last Might» ithe World Will Be Granpled by © eousness and Thrown. Text: “We wrestle notagainst flesh ana blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of t is world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”’—Ephesians vi., 12. Squeamishpess and fastidiousness were never charged against Paul's rhetorle. In the war against evil he took the first weapon he could lay his band on. For il- lustration, he employed the theatre, the arena, the foot-race, and there was noth- ing in the Isthmian game, witht its wreath of pine Jeaves; or Pythian game, with its wreath of laurel and palm; or Nemean game, with its wreath of parsley; or any Romap circus, but he felt he had a right to put it in sermon or epistle, and are you not surprised that in my text he calls upon a wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plu- {ech says that wrestling is the most artis- tic and cunning of athletic games. We must mako a wide difference between pugilism, the lowest of spectacles, and wrestling, which is an effort in sport to put down another on floor or ground, and we. all of us, indulged in it in our boyhood days, if we were healthful and plucky. The ancient wrestlers were first bathed in oil, and then sprinkled with sand. The third throw decided’the victory, and many a man svho went down in the first throw or seec- ond throw, in the third throw was on top, and his opponent under, The Romans did not like this game very much, for it was not savage enough, no blows or kicks be- ing allowed in the game. They preferred the foot of hungry panther onthe breast of Callen martvr. In wrestling, the opponents would bow in apparent suavity, advance face to face, put down both feet solidly, take each other by the arms, and push each other backward and forward until the work began in real earnest, and there were contortions and strangulations and violent strokes of. the foot of one contestant against the foot of the other, tripping him up, or with strug- gle that threatened apoplexy or death, the defeated fell, and the shouts of the specta- tors greeted the victer. I guess Paul had ceen scme such contest, and it reminded him of the struggle of the soul with temp- tation.and the struggle of truth with error, and the struggle of heavenly forces against apollyonic powers, and he dictates my-text to an amanuensis, for all his letters, save the one to Philemon, seem to haye been dictated, and as the amanuensis goes on with bis work I hear the groan and laugh und shout of earthly and celestial belliger- ents: ‘We wrestle not against flbsh and bloed. but against principalities. against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” I notice that as these wrestlers advanced to throw each other they bowed one to the other. It was a civility, not only in Gre- cian and Roman games, but in later days, in alithe wrestling bouts at Clerkenwell, England,and in the famous wrestiing match during the reign of Henry IIIL., in St. Giles’ Field. between men of Westminister and people of London. Howeverrough a twist and hard a pull each wrestler contemplated giving his opponent, they approached each other with politeness and suavity. The genuflexions, the nffability, the courtesy in no wise hindered the decisiveness of the contest, Well, Paul, I see what you mean. In this awful struggle between right and wrong, we must not forget tobe gentlemen and ladies. Affability never hinders, but alwavs helps. You are powerless as soon as you get mad. Do not call rum-sellers murderers. Do not callinfidels fools, Do not call higher cerities reprobates. Do not call all card-playersand theatre-goers chil- dren of thedevil. Donoteay that the dance breaks through into hell. Do not deal in vituperation and billingsgates and con- tempt and adjectives dynamitic. The other gide can beat us at that, Their dictionaries have more objurgation and brimstone. We are in the strength of God to throw flat on its back every abomination that curses the earth, but let us approach our mighty antagonist with suavity. Her- cules, a son-of Jupiter and Alecmene; will by a precursor of smiles be helped rather than damaged for the performance of his “twelve labors.” Let us be as wisely strategic in religious circles as attorneys in court-rooms, who are complimentary to each other in the opening remarks, be- fore they come into legal struggle such as that which left Rufus Choate or David ’aul Brown triumphant or defeated. People who get into a rage in reformatory work accomplish nothing but the deple- tion of their own nerveus system. There is such a thing as having a gun so hot at the touch-nole that it explodes, killing the one. that sets it off. There are some reformatory meetings to which I always decline to go and take part, be- cause they are apt to become demonstra- tions of bad temper. I never like to hear a man swear, even though he swear on the right side. The very Paul who in my text employed in illustration the wrestling match, behaved on a memorable oceasion as we ought to behave, The translators of the Bible made an unitentional mis- take when they represented Paul as in- sulting the people of Athens by speaking of ‘‘the unknown god whom ye ignorantly worship.” Instead of charging them with ignorance, the original indicates he com- plimented tem by suggesting that they were very religious; but as they confessed that there were some things they did not understand about God, he proposed to say some things concerning Him, beginning where they had left off. The same Paul who «aid in one plage, “Be courteous,” and who had noticed the bow preceding the wrestling match, here exercises suavities before he proceeds practically to throw down ths rocky side of the Acropolis the whole Parthenon of idolatries, Minerva and Jupiter smashed up with the rest of them. In this holy war polished rifles will do more execution than blunderbusses. Let our wrestlers bow as they go into the struggle which will leave all perdition un- der and all heaven on top. Remember also that these wrestlers went through severe and continuous course of preparation for their work. They were put upon such diet as would best develop their muscle. As Paul says, “Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.” The wrestlers were put under complete discipline—bathing, gym- nastics, struggle insport with each other to develop strength and give quickness to dodge of head and trip of foot; stooping to lift each other off the ground; suddenly rushing forward; suddenly pulling buck- ward; putting the left foot behind the -other’s right foot, and getting his oppo- nent off his balance; hard training fordays and weeks and months, so that when they met it was giant clutching giant. And, my friends, if we do not want ourselves to betbrown in this wrestle with the sin and error of the world, we had better get ready by Christian discipline, by holy self-de- nial, by constant practice, by submitting to divine supervisal and direction. Do not begrudge the time and the money for that young man who is in preparation for the ministry, spending two years in grammar school, and four years in college, and three years in theological seminary. I know that nine years are a big slice to take off of a man’s active life, but if you realized the height and strength of the archangels of evil in bur time with which that young man is going to wrestle, you would not think nine years of preparation were too much. An uneducated ministry was excusable in other days, but not in this time, loaded with schools and colleges. A man who wrote me the other day a letter asking advice, as he felt called to preach the Gospel, began the word “God” with a €mall “g.” That kind of a man is not called to nraanh tha (Gnsnal Tllitarata man preaching the Gospel, quote for tholr OWA encouragement the scriptural passage, ‘Open thy mouth wide MH will fll fe.” Yes! He will fill it with wind. Preparation for this wrestling is absolutely necessary. Many year: ago Doctor Newman and Doctor Sunderland, on the platform of Bricham Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake City, Utab, gained the victory becausethey had so long been skilful wrestlers for God. Otherwise Brigham Young, who was himself a giant in some things, would have thrown them out of the window. Get ready in Bible ciasses. Get ready in Christinn Endeavor meetings. Getready by giving testimony in obscure places, before giving testimony in conspicuous places. Your going around with a Bagster’s Bible with flaps at the edges, under your arm, does not qualify you for the work of an evangelist. In this day of profuse gab, remember that it is not merely capacity to talk, but the fact that you have some- thing to say, that is going to fit yon for thestruggle into which vou are to do with a smile on your face and illumination on your brow, but out of which you wkll not come until all your physical and mental and. moral and religious energies have been taxed to the utmost and vou have not a nerve left, or a thought unexpended, or a prayer unsaid, or a sympathy un- wept. In this struggle between Right and Wrong accept no challengeon platform or in newspaper unless vou are prepared. Do not misapply the story cf Golicih the Great, and David the Little. David had been practising with a sling on dogs and wolves and bandits, and a thousand times had he swirled a stone around his head before he aimed at the forehead of the giant and tumbled him backward, other- wise the big foot of Goliath would almost have covered up the crushed form of the son of Jesse. Notice also that the success of a wrestler depended on his having his feet well planted before he grappled his opponent. Much depends upon the way the wrestler stands. Standing on an uncertain piece of ground, or bearing all his weight on right foot or all his weight on left foot, he is not ready. A slight cuff of his antagonist will capsize him. A stroke of the heel of the other wrestler will trip him. And in this struggle for God and righteousness, as well as for our own souls, we want our feet firmly planted in the Gospel—both feet on the Rock of Ages. It will not do to believe the Bible in spots, or think some. of it true and some of it untrue. You just make up your mind that the story of the Garden of Eden is an allegory, and the Epistle of James an interpolation, and that the miracles of Christ ean be accounted for on natural grounds, without any belief in the supernatural, and the first time you are interlocked in a wrestle with sin and Satan you will go under and your feet will be higher than your head. It will not do to have one foot on a rock and the other on the sand. The old Book would long ago have gone to pieces if it had been vulnerable. But of the millions of Bibles that have been printed within the las: twenty-five vears, not one chapter has been omitted, and the omission of one chapter would have been the cause of the rejection of the whole edition. Alas! for those who while trying to prove that Jonah was never swallowed of a whale, themselves get swallowed of the whale of unbelief, which digests but never ejects its victims. The inspiration of the Bible is not more certain than the preservation of the Bible in its present condition. After so many cen- turies of assault on the Book, would it not be a matter of cconomy, to say the least— economy of brain and economy of station- | \miatio: will a soul {:1rn to the Lord, even ery, and economy of printers’ ink—if the batteries now assailing the Dook would change their aim and be trained against some other books, and the world shown that Walter Scott did not write “The Lady of the Lake,” nor Homer ‘‘The Iliad.” nor Virgil = ‘“The Georgies,” ' nor Thomas Moore ‘Lalla Rookh,” or that Washing- ton’s “Farewell Address” was written by Thomas Paine, and that the War of tha American Revolution never occurred. That attempt would be quite as successful as this long-timed attack anti-Biblical, and then it would be new. Oh, keep out of this wrestling bout with the ignorance and the wretchedness of the world unless you feel that both feet are planted in the eternal veracities of the Book of Almighty God! Notice also that in this science of wrest- ling, to which Paul refers in my text, it was the third throw which decided the contest. A wrestler might be thrown once and thrown twice, but the third time he might recover himself, and, by an unex- pected twist of arm or curve cf foot, gain the day. Well, that is broad, smiling, un- mistakable Gospel. Some whom I address through ear or eye, by voice or printed page, have been thrown in their wrestle with evil habit. Aye! you, have been thrown twice; but that does not mean, oh! worsted soul, that you are thrown forever. I have no author- ity for saying how many times a man may sin and be forgiven, or how many times he may fall and yet rise again; but I have authority for saying that he may fall four hundred and ninety times, and four hun- dred and ninety times get up. The Bible declares that God will forgive seventy times seven, and if you will employ the rule of multiplication you will find that seventy times seven is four hundred and ninety. Blessed be God for such a Gospel of high hope and thrilling encouragement and magnificent rescue! A Gospel of lost sheep brought home on fhepherd’s shoul- der, and the prodigals who gotinto thelow work of putting husks into swines’ troughs brought home to jewelry and banqueting and hilarity that made the rafters ring! Jut notice that mytext suggests that the wrestlers on the other side in the great struggle for the world’s redemption have all the forces of demonology to help them: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, agains: powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Then I ean well believe that righteous- ness will aceept the challenge, and the two mighty wr.stlers will grapple, while all the galleries of earth and heaven look dosvn from one side, and all the f{lery chasms of perdition look up from the other side. . The prize is worth a strug- gle, for it is not a chaplet of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world, and a wreath put on the brow by Him who prom- ised, “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown.” Three worlds— earth, heaven and hell—hold their breath while waiting for the result of this strug- gie, when, with one mighty swing of an arm muscled with Omnipotence, righteous- ness hurls the last evil, first on its knees and then on its face, and then rolling off and down, with a crash wilder than that with which Sampson hurled the temple of Dagon when he got hold of its two chief piliars. Aye! That suggests a cheering thought, that if all the reulms of Demonology are on the other side, all tha realms of angel- ology are on our side, among them the Angel of the New Covenant, and they are now talking over the present awful struggle and final glorious triumph; talking amid the alabaster pillars and in the ivory pal- aces, and along the broadways and grand avenues of the great Capital of the Uni- varse, and amid the spray of fountains with rainbows like the “rainbow round the throne.” Yes, ali heavenis on our side, and the ‘‘high places of wickedness” spoken of in my text are not ‘so high as the high places of heaven, where there are enough reserve forces, if our earthly forces should he overpoawsered, or in cow- ardice fall back, to sweep down some morn- ing at daybreak and take all this earth for God before the city clocks strike ‘twelve’ for noon. And the Cabinet of Heaven, the most august Cabinet in the universe, made up of three—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost—are now In ses- sion in the King’s Palace, and they are with us, and they are going to see us through, and they invite us, as soon as we have done our share of the work, to go up and see them, a lebrate the final victory, that is more 4% come than to-morrow’ssun- rian. THE SHBBATH-SCHOOL- LESSOR INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 20. ioe —" Lesson Text: “Manasseh’s Sin and Re- pentance,’”” II Chronicles xxxiii., 9-16 —Golden Text: I John i., 9—~Commen- tary by the Rev. ID, M. Stearns. 9. ““‘So Manasseh made Judah and the in- habitants of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen whom the Lord had | | destroyed before the children of Israel.” | This is a su:xmary of the previous part of | this chapter concerning the sins of Manas- seh, who began to reign when he was twelve years old and years in Jerusalem. He shed innocent blood very much till He had filled Jerusalem from one end to another (II Kings xxi., 46). reigned fifty-five | He wrought much evil in the sight of the ! Lord to provoke Him to anger. think of the people of God acting worse than the heathen who knew not God, and even worshiping an idol, a carved image, in the house of God"where He had put His | What a contrast to | name and His Glory! the conduct of His father Hezekieh, who for the most part wrought good and right | and truth before the Lord His God (chapter xxxi., 20). have such a bad son? common story. and of Samuel and of David, But it is not an un- How could sinful King Ahaz, because of whose sins the | Lord brought Judah low (chapter xxviii., | « 19), have such a good son as Hezekiah? His mother’s name was Abi, ths daughter of | Zachariah (II Kings xviii.. 2), and to her possiply much 3 due. But Manasseh’s mother was Hephzibah (my delight is in her), and if there isanything in a name he, too, may have had a good mother (II Kings xxi., 1). Our Heavenly.-Father knows what it is to have rebeliious children (Isa. i., 2), and when He permits us to have rebellious children it is a ground of fellowship with m. 10. “And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to His people, but they would not hearken.” Oh, how often the Lord has te say concerning those whom He would love to bless that they would notlet Him, they would not listen to Him, they wouid not come to Him (Isa.xxx,, 15; Math. xxiii., 37; John v., 40). If we only would reeeive His word with meekness, yield fully to Him and be willing and obedient, how much o! heaven we might have upon the earth! How earnestly God cries to His people by His servants the prophets, as, for example, in Jer, {ii., 13, 14, ‘‘Only acknowledge thine iniquity; turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord, for I am married unto you.” See also Ezek. xviii., 30-82; xxxiii., 11, ete. 11. “Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns and bound him with fetters and carried him to Babylon.” Thus he found some reaping, for whatsoever a man sow- eth that shall he also reap, and they who sow the wind may reap the whirlwind (Gal. vi., 7; Hos. viii., 7). Afilliction is often the best thing that ean come to one who is wandering from God. God is not willing that any should perish, and if sinners will not listen to gracious words of love Ile will seek to win them by chastening, as He hus said in Job xxxiii., 29, 30. 8 12. “And when be was in affletion he be- sought the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.” It is often the case that only in as it is written in Hos. .v., 15, ‘In their affletion wilt they seek Me early.” It will be seen ono larger scale some day, for it is written in Isa. xxvi., 9, “When Thy judg- ments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness,’ Even the fearful judgments of Rev. ix. and xvi. are intended, if possible, to bring men to repentance.’ Jen Rev, ix.; 20, 21; xvi., 9,11. Pride and self will are boru in us as the re- sults of Adam's sin, the work of the devil, and all people are either Cains or Abels, the former proudly resisting God and His salvation, and the latter humbly confessing their sins and accepting His way of re- demption. The Pharisees when our Lord was on earth were of the line of Cain, re- ligious, but proud and hating God and His way. 13. ““And prayed unto Him, and He was entreated of him and heard his supplica- tion and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord He was God.” Manasseh was evidently a true penitent, and God’s ear is ever open to such. Itis always true for such on God’s part, “Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out’ (John vi., 37). It is written in I. Chron. v., 20, concerning some of Israel that they eried to God in the battle and He was entreated of them, because they put their trust in Him. Ezra saysin chapter viii., 23, “So we fasted and besought our God for this, and He was entreated of us.” As to the mercy which is with God for the greatest sinner who with true repentance turns to Him we need only consider the case of the pen- itent thief or of Saul of Tarsus. But who could be greater in sin than this son of Hezekiah? 14. “’Now after this he built a wall with- out tho city of David.”” The building of this wall and the placing of captains of war in the fenced cities does not imply any lack of trust in God, but is rather sugges- tive of keeping the Lord’s property for the Lord. In Canticlesiv., 12, the bride iscom- pared to a garden inclosed, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed; something kept solely for the owner. In Isa. Ix., 18, the walls of Zion are called salvation and her gates praise. 5 unless they are of God. 15. “And he took away the strange gods and the idol out of the house of the Lord.” As the children of God we are expected. to | put away frown us all tho works of the flesh | and to cleanse ourselves from all flithiness | of the flesh and spirit (Eph. iv., 22, 31; II Cor. vii., 1). Having received the Lord Jesus, we are looked upon as having died with Him and risen from the dead to walk in newness of life; dead unto sin, but alive | unto God, yieldud unto Him as His prop- erty for His uss exclusively (Rom. vi., 4, 11, 13). 16. **And ho repaired the altar of the Judah to Peace and Lord * * * and commanded serve the Lord God of Isracl. thank offerings are associated in the law | (Lev. vii,, 11, 12) and are in connection with the burnt offering, sin offering and other offerings (Lev. vii., 37). All offerings pointed back to Gen, iii., 21, and on to Cal- vary, for nothing can take away sin or make peace with God ,but the precious blood of the Lord Jesus, the antitype of all types, the substance of every shadow. He served God as no one else did, and we serve truly only as He lives and works in us. In Mannasseh’s case. asin the case of Saul of Tarsus, the grace of God was exceeding abundant (II Tim. i., 14). He is ever the same, full of grace and truth.—Lesson Helper. Juvenal; in one of his satires, cele- brated the British oyster 1,900 years ago, and ever since that day we have believed the luscious bivalve to be an invertebrate. It remained for a Vir- ginian to discover recently that it possesses a well-developed backbone He cuts out the vertebrae with an or- dinary pocket knife and exhibits them 10 any resolute, cock-sure oyster fiend who wants to bet on the belief of nine- teen centuries against the acidental fin de siecle discovery of a beadle. There is not a house in any civilized community that can be cdompared to the one built in Washington by Mr. Justice Gray. the giant of the Supreme Court. He designed it himself, and it was built according to his plans and specifications. When he came to move in it was learned that the structure did not contain a single closet. Jonsider the sons of Eli | In Zech. ii., 5, the Lord says He will be unto her & wall of fire round about. | Walls and protection of any kind are naught | Then + How could such a good father | discussion make ¢| CHILDREN'S COLUMN. DD VV VV VVVVTV The Tiny, Little Girl, Mother says she's awful bad, (iets 80 cross it makes her mad, Wants to know if I can't do Somethin’, little girl, to you: Thinks Ibett r whip you well, Saas you're good and bad a spell. I ain't home all day to see, <0 don’t know how bad you be, Eut 1 couldn’t bear to whip her, When I saw her sweet lips cur! For she’s such a very little, Such a tiny, little girl! “Wouldn't mind a word today!" — ’Spect that’s what her ma will say: “Just as bad as bad could be, “Cept in little spells, you see,” Mother teils me that there child Sets her sometimes almost wild. Won't I punish her a bit? Thinks she’s better after it. But I couldn't bear to whip her, When I see her sweet lips curl, For she’s such a very little, ; Such a tiny, little girl. Thinkin’ of her all day long, Witk her laughter and her song; Put your mother says it’s true Bad man’s got a-hold of you. Hew about it, little Miss, With the rosy lips to kiss? Couldn't punish her a bit, And that just clean settles it. No, I couldn't bearto whip her, When I see her sweet lips curl, For she’s such a very little, Such a tiny, little girl! —The Bentztown Bard, in Dath News. Hints for Shy Boys aad Girls, Bashfulness is only another name for sclf consciousness, and girls and boys are apt to suffer from it. When entering a room move slowly. The distance will seem twice as long to You if. you hurry. Aid try to get over the idea that every one is looking at you ov talking about you. This is not likely to be the case unless you i rubber is attached. When the card is returned he manages to substitute the inked card for the other. Immersing it in the water as deeply as the ink has been put on, he lifts the card from the glass with the inked side turned towards the lookers on. He shows it to them, taking care that it does not leave his hand, as the circumstance of its being inky on but one side will arouse sus- picion. With a spoon, on the bowl of which has been fixed a few particles of black anline dye, he slips out a few spoonfuls of the water into a saucer. The water in the spoon is instantly colored black. The next step is to borrow a ring from some one, pretending ‘that he means to drop it in the goblet. In- stead and apparently by accident he drops it into the saucer. Lifting the ring from the saucer and apologizing profusely, he says: “I will not attempt to drop the ring into the ink after all, as T do not care to stain my hand with theink. I will change the ink to water.’ He takes a handkerchief from his pocket-—it should be a large one—and spreads it over the goblet. Then he lifts the handkerchief from the glass, taking care to have grasped it in such a way that from the position of the cork under his fingers he knows he has hold of the string to which the This removes the [rubber from the goblet, and the water | times hie was very violent, ave particularly awkward or ungrace- | ful. Always speak in a low voice, but distinetly, and do not laugh or giggle with every remark you make. ultivate pleasant manners and al- ways treat your elders with respect, and most decidedly do not make fun of any one’s peculiarities. Take an interest in the conversation round you, and if you cannot make an in- telligent remark on the subject under none whatever. If the conversation is addressed directly i to you and you do not understand the subject, say so. You will be thought much more of than if you make ¢ stupid reply. You can always win the person’s approval by asking him to explain the subject to you. Jats and Owls. is shown to the audience. Something to Love, A French conviet,under sentence for life, was a troublesome prisoner. At and in the intervals of his violence he became so sullen that the wardens were al. ays on the lookout for trouble. One day they saw .a change in the man’s face. Its sullenness hal dis- appeared. The prisoner looked al- most happy. The ghost of a smile hovered about his lips. His eyes now and again turned downward, and it became evident that something was hidden in his breast. The wardens were uneasy. some weapon Had he concealed beneath his clothing with which he would seek to surprise them and regain his liberty? They must tind out. They watched their opportunity, and two of them suddenly fell upon him from behind, each seizing an arn. Then they began ty search him. They { found that for which they songht, but | it was not a knife nor other danzerous | weapon. It was nothing more harm- ful than a fine large rat. When it was discovered the distress of the prisoner was intense. He broke down utterly, fell upon his knees, and | in agony of fear and desperation cried, The bat is about two and one-half | inches long, and the body is rather like that of a mouse. Its wings are really a continuation of the skin round the body, ull except the head. Its ears are like those of a mouse, and the body is covered with short fur, the same color, tinged with red. With the lesser toes of its four feet it keeps the wings expanded, This little animal comes out about all gone from his face. dusk, and sometimesit is seen to skim | over the surface of a small piece of | | water. It feeds on gnatsand nocturnal The bat sleeps all the win- | insects. ter. There is one thing that renders the owls different from all other birds— namely, their eves are constructed to see better in the dark than in the light. Tt is not on the darkest nig’ ts that they see best, but in the ing and evening dusk. The white, or in the night when the barn door is “Don’t kill that! Beat me if yon like, chain me; but if IT may not keen him let my poor rat go free.” The stern guards moved to pity. They had never seen this man subdued before. Every trace of fierce- ness was gone. Instead of hurting the rat, they let it drop to the floor and disappear. Then the man rose and went to his work. The lignt had His jet was ayere lost to him. A few days passed, and then, while the convicts were at work in the yard, moving wood, the prisoner Jose felt something tickle his cheek. He turned morn- | ] i breast as before, barn, owl has such piercing sight that | head jailer, said, ‘‘Sir,if you will only shut and all light excluded it can see | the smallest mouse. The owl seldom issues from its retreat | in the day time, nor does it make any I man, with a glad smile, sound, but when it comes out in the dusk it is by no means silent. The screech owl makes a hideous noise, and some people when they hear it conclude that some great culamity is soon to descend upon them. Sometimes an owl will stay out un- til the morning light, not having had success in finding its prey. is too strong to enable it to to its retreat, and it takes refuge in a tree. Soon its enemies come tease it in every possible way,aud not knowing where to make an attack it keeps still, making ridiculous gestures with its head. The great horned owl is often taken for an eagle. It 1s brown, the horns being nothing but a few feathers ears. It has transparent eyes, en- circled by a yellow iris. —Trenton (N. J.) American. return Turning Ink Into Water. With a little practice any boy may learn to perform a few -simple tricks in magic. It is very easy to learn to turn a goblet of ink into a goblet of The light | . 2 | which he sold in order to buy dainties, quickly and uttered a cry of joy. There, on his shoulder, was the only friend be had in the world, his vat, which had found him out and come creeping up to his face. With eager hands he put it in his and turning to the let me keep this rat I solemnly prom- ise to submit to you in every way,and never to disobey you again.” The permission was given, and the returned to his work. Irom that day the dreaded convict was a new being. He became , the best-conducted man in the prison, | it shared his and | sticking up behind the | water, having artificial fish swimming | The fish can be cut ont of a piece of cork and colored. Ordi- nary house painter’s colors when al- lowed to dry will not come off in the water. Of course the goblet is not really filled with ink. Instead a piece of black rubber cloth has been placed about the inner surface of the goblet and the water then poured into it. To the rubber cloth a fine, white silk thread is attached. Tied to the end of the thread is a small piece of cork. The thread and the pieces of cork must be turned away from the aundi- ence. Naturally any one understands that these arrangements are made be- fore the goblet is brought before the audience. “I have here,” says the youthful conjurer, ‘‘a glass of ink.”” The boy of course keeps the glass at a distance in the liquid. from the spectators. or some keen eye | might notice the rubber. The boy takes several white cards from his pocket and holds up-one for the audi- ence tq look at, or he may pass it around for them to examine. One of the cards in his hand has previously been smeared on one side with ink, ‘at $1500. and his great strength and energy were used to help the governor. The rat was seldom away from him, meals and slept in his man’s spare time was little toys of bone bed, and the spent in making such as sugar and gincerbread for his pet.—Youth’s Companion. The United States Cavalry Officer, The pay of the officersis good, and in the case of the line officers better than that of any European amy. A second lieutenant of cavalry paid 81500 per year, a first lieutenant captain $2000, a ma or tenant-colonel $3000. a colonel 500. For every five years’ service up to twenty years an ofticer gets ten per cent.additi nal tothe pay of the grade in which he 1s serving, but no increase after twenty years’ service, so that he cannot get over. forty per cent. in- crease in any event, and he has to drop some of his longevity pay when Lhe Dhocomes a lientenant-colonel or colone!, as the maximum pay of a lieuntenant-colonel is fixed by law at $4000 per year and that of a colonel An officer has no perquis- ites whatever. He is given his quar- ters when in garrison, and is author- ized - to purchase his rations or supplies for his own use and that of his family from the post commissary at cost price to the government. He has to buy his horses, saddle and equipment, uniform, arms, furnish his own quarters, pay his servants, aud heat, light and care for his quarters at his own expense. He is allowed forage for his horses, and if they are killed in action the government will pay him their cost price if it does not exceed $160. If they die in ordinary service the loss is his own. The popular idea that an officer’s pay is his own and that the government supplies him with horses, arms, clothing and equipment, as well as furnishes his house and provides him with food is, alas! a pleasing fiction which the generous public hugs to its souf, but it has not the slightest foundation in fact. is $2500, a lieu- 1 " , at R1600, a | {EINE STATE NEWS COMEMSED LEAVE FOR THE SOUTH. Pennsylvania Meade Girls Disguised as Soldiers Ar- rested and Piaced In Ja: Volunteers Break Up at Camp The Fifteenth Pennsylvania ment struck its tents last week moved southward. Each man had three days’ travel rations and five days’ field rations. The long train was made up of three sections, the last one having a hospital car attached. While at the station some of the privates at- tacked an officer and one of them was stabbed. His name is Blueridge, and he is said to be a noted distiiler of moonshine in the Tennessee mnmoun- tains. The Fourteenth Pennsy.vania and the Ninth Ohio battalion left Camp Meade Sunday for Summervi.le. S. C. When the: Second Tennessee passed through Camp Meade two girls from Middletown were discovéred at- tired in soldier uniform on the train. They were going to follow ther soldier lovers to camp, but they were arrestad and placed in jail. The following pensions were last week: Jackson Daniels, 1 ville, Somerset, $8 to $12; Stenhen Ran- dall, dead, Platea, Erie, $6 to $12: Fen- ry Edwards Ginter, Emienton, $8 to $19; Patrick McNulty, Sharpsburg, $8 to $10: Peter Struble, St. Marys, Elk, $6 to $8: pith, Titus- ville, $8; Jri New Brighton, $10: Gregg. Philips- burg, $8; on, Weilsboro, $8; Stephen Reaver, §8 to $10; James Miller, Altoona, $6 to $8: Philip Trouman, Leota, Butler, $6 to $5: Au- gustus Hawn, Huntingdon, $8 $10; William = Snyder, McWilliams. Arm- strong, : $8 to $10; Jacob Koch, Belle- fonte, $10 to $12; George S. Adams, Al- toona, $6 to $12; Hugh McFadden, Rat- tigan, Butler, $12 to $17; John Dewalt, Scottdale, $6 to $8; ‘A. Starr, West Brownsville, $8; Noah Fink, South Bend, Armstrong, $6 to $8: William H. Freeman, Scottdale, $6; Thomas G. Kelly, Wexford, Aliegheny, $8; Char es Ii. Kerr, West Leisenring, Favette, $6; James McMurtrie, North Ciarendon, Warren, $8 to $10; Henry Hamma, Car- negie, $10 to $14; John M. English, Driftwood, $4 to $8; Thomas Thoiap- son, Hollidaysburg, $8 to $10: William H. Shaner, Sharpsville, $5 to $1C; Porter, Emlenton, $17 to $24: ick Wright, Myersdale minors of James L. King, Bt Sarah E. Guy, Jeannette, $8. "The recent discovery that found on Rough run, Winfield town- ship, near Butler, is suspectible of taksng a good polish and making an ex- ‘cellent quality of marble may lead to a new source of wealth in this county. In at least half of the townships of this county similar stone found, of- ten near the surface. Pittsburg parties are making an experiment with the stone, which promises to prove suc- cessful. . Jarney Gilmer, aged 65, was burned te death in his home at Columbia the other night. (‘oal oil had been sprinkled at different places in the liouse and the cork of a coal oil bottle was found near his body. Mrs. Law- rence, who lived in the house, ran past the first neighbor that entered. Gil- mer’'s head was burned from his body. The coroner's jury found a verdict of accidental death. lichard C., 13-year-old son of Rich-~ ard McMurray, was instantly killed at Altoona the other day by falling from a freight train, on which he was ste«i- ing a ride. He was on the lookout for a “policeman, and was walking from one side of the car to the other on the bumper, when he slipped and fell be- tween the cars. His head was com- pletely cut off and his left arm torn from the socket. Louis LoefHer, alias “Dutch Louis,’ wanted for shooting Officer Bowers, of the Pennsylvania railrecad, committed suicide by shooting Wednesday morn- ing in a barn at Beaver -station. "The barn was surrounded by officers, and rather than be taken Louis placed a revelver in his mouth and blew off the top of his head. Dennis Donnavan, a prosperous farmer, of Spring Garden Mills, near Newtown, was instantly killed a few days ago by being thrown from his wagon. His horses took fright at ex- cavations along the new trolley road. Workmen who witnessed the accident hurried to him, but he was found lying dead on the ground. Two prominent farmers of Jackson township, Butler county. died within a few hours of each other from the ef- fects of accidental injuries received a few days ago. They were James (Gal- laher, aged 39 years, for many years a teacher the npublic of county, and Daniel aged years. : Wilson Ringle, a Pennsylvania read engineer of Derry, and his son were hunting chestnuts when the boy ran into a den of snakes. His father investigated and discovered four huge rattlers and a blacksnake. He Killed one of the rattlesnakes. It had 10 rat- tlers. When about to start on a rabbit hunt Mauch Chunk the other morning, Harry Weaver, aged 20, stopped to talk regi- and Simon Miner, 0 A A. limestone is » schools Rape, in rail- | to his mother through a window of his home. His gun was accidentally dis- charged, and the young man fell dead, the left side of his head being blown away. Mrs. John Brady, of Madison, near Greensburg, wife of the first soldier in the Tenth Regiment who fell in the battle of Malate on July 31, has made application to the Government for a pension. Mrs. Brady has six children to provide for. Mrs. J. F. Cope, of Ellwood, has re- ceived word of the death of her aunts, Mrs. Leiard. of Wilmington, 11... who left a fortune amounting to about $40,- 000 to he aistributed among four heirs —Mrs. Cope, her father, uncle and aunt. The coroner's jury investigating the Exeter mine accident at Wilk=sharre, returned a verdict, placing the blame on Engineer Price and Brakeman An- thony. They had charge of the coal cars which fell down the shaft and killed eight men on the carriage. The home of Harper Johnson, near Greenville, was burned to the ground a few nights ago with all its contents. Mrs. Johnson and her two little chil- dren narrowly escaped with their lives. Tramps are suspected of setting it on fire. Mrs. John L. Beer, aged 73 years, of ireensburg, fell into an open grate last week and was burned to death. James Daley, aged 20, was shot through the right leg by his brother Nicholas, aged 12, a few days ago at New Castle. Nicholas was examining the gun and did not know it was loaded. Amputation may be necessary. Alfred L. Hench, a resident of Greenwood, near Altoona, was held up Ly a negro and two white men and re- lieved of $47.13 at the point cf a revol- Ver, A hand car on which eleven men were riding was struck by a train near Galetown, Potter county, and George Egard, one of them, was killed. From injuries received in heroically stopping a runaway, Wesley Kober died at Shawnee, Monroe county.
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