The Weekly Ghraniele. j
THE DALLES, .
- - OREGON
FRIDAY, MAY 8. 1891
LOCAL. AMD PERSONAL.
Rev. Mr. T. W. Atkinson, of Dnfur,
was in the city Saturday,
Elder J. C. Baker of Hartland, Wash
ington was in the city Saturday.
Mr. Kay Davis, of Fossil, is visiting
friends and relatives in this city,
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. LaFrance, of Hood
River, made a flying visit to the city
Saturday
There are 5,130 Epworth League Chap
ters in the United States. Oregon has
22 of them.
J as. L. Easton filed his intentions to
become an American citizen, Friday at
the clerk's office,
Mr. Schmidt bought 810 bushels of
wheat Saturday, which was delivered at
the Wasco warehouse.
It is said the Farmers' Alliance and
prohibition will cut quite a figure
Iowa politics this year.
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Broyles and Mr,
and Mrs. Pratt, of Wamic, gave this
office a pleasant call Saturday.
The Saltmarsh & Co. stock yards ship
ped two card of mutton sheep to John
Parker, Victoria, B. C, Saturday.
Hon. W. H. Wilson left Saturday
in company with Judge Bradshaw, for
PrinevUle to attend court in that city.
Assessor Guild, of Union county, has
recently discovered over 80,000 acres of
land that have heretofore escaped taxa
tion.
Condon has laid oat a grave yard since
the Globe started there. We hope the
Qlobt won't be put in it, for it is a pretty
live paper.
Mr. Charles Gilgard died at his resi
dence in this city Thursday of consump
tion after a lingering illness of five
months.
We extend our congratulations to Mr.
W. L. Bradshaw in his good fortune of
the appointment of judge for this judic- J
lal district.
ine Wasco warehouse received two
loads of wool from Hay creek Friday,
and one from Sol. Houser's range Sat
urday morning.
The farmers' alliance is making rapid
strides in the Hood River section, and
from present appearances thev will
makes themselves known in 1892.
Two cars of beef cattle were fed at the
Saltmarshe & Co. stock yards Friday
They were brought from Shoshone
Idaho and are destined for the Sound
markets.
The state railroad commissioners will
begin their tour of inspection of the O.
K.4K. Co. 'a line of road Wednesday,
and if there is not some condemning
done it will be surprising.
Mr. A. Wintermier, of Burns, Harney
' county, formerly an old time citizen of
The Dalles, having resided here since
1858 until about two years ago, is in the
city visiting friends.
The Wasco warehouse received Fri
day forty-six sacks of wool from James
8. Wall, Esq. of CanyonCity Ifrfevery
nice, finefiberanH clean and is a fair
sample of the John Day valley wool, and
. always brings
the top price in this
market.
County Assessor Barnett is in the city.
He has finished the country across the
Deschutes and leaves tonight' for Hep
pner to attend a convention of Eastern
Oregon assessors.
Mike Diamond is moving a house on
Third street near the Catholic church,
rumor says, to make room for the new
church edifice to be erected soon. We
are glad to see this step taken as that
society is in ,need of a larger place of
worship and one that is in keeping with
their growth.
Miss rannle Horton of this city was
seriously injured by a horse belonging to
Mr. Mclnerney, which kicked her on
the side of the head Friday She lay
insensible sometime. Some ladies seeing
the occurrence, went to her assistance
and immediately called Dr. Hollister to
her relief. :
Justice Schutz issued a warrant in his
court Saturday for the arrest of one
Ben, who is charged with larceny by
bailee of $74. . Ben skipped out for
Pendleton where a telegram for his ap
prehension was on hand on his arrival.
Sheriff Catea will bring him back to this
city today. 1
The water, commission has the fence
nearly completed around the new. reser
voir. We are reliably informed that the
entire work of constructing and complet
ing the reservoir, together with trench
ingnd also the cost of the cast iron
pipe laid on and in the ground ready for
use did not cost the city to exceed $29,
000. ' This is much less than is generally
understood. ' '
A quiet wedding took place Friday
in Hood River at the residence of
the bride's parents Mr. and Mrs. A. S.
Blowers. The high contracting parties
were Mr. Charles Early, foreman of the
Oregon Lumber Company's Mills and
Miss Edith Blowers. The young couple
have the hearty good wishes of all, who
know them for a long, happy and pros
perous life.
Seufert Bros, have arranged for
the establishment of a telegraph office at
their fishery. They will employ the
operator and be to mil the expense of
construction and fitting up the quarters
for the office. As soon as the telephone
system is inaugurated in this city, which
is in contemplation, they will connect
their station with the general office in
The Dalles.
B. F. and L. C. Kelsy, of Kent, locat
ed in the grazing section of Sherman
county, are in town. They . are large
sheep raisers and report fine success in
their Jbusiness the past season, having
raised a lamb for every yew they have.
They only lost through the winter 17
head out of 5,000. -They report fine
prospects for crops if the season should
con tin ne favorable.
George E. Moore, of Bake Oven comes
in with the finest load of potatoes we have
ever seen in any country. He raised
them on his place and says it is the first j
load of farm products ever marketed here
raised in that country. He thinks as soon
as the railroad in contemplation is bnilt
that the products of that locality will be
OUR FRUIT PESTS.
An Interesting Letter on the Subject
From Former Now Zealander.
Portland, Or., April 30, 1891.
Mr. J. A.' Varney, Horticultural Inspec
tor for Oregon.
Deab Sib : Reading part of your re
port in the Evening Telegram of April 29,
I was much struck with its usefulness
and wish to make a few remarks,
About four years ago I was residing at
Kelson, a town in New Zealand, once
famous all over the colonv for its fine
fruit orchards etc., but now or I mean
then, sad to relate, all its former pride
in that respect has departed. The scale,
six various kinds, had destroyed every
thing and not satisfied with stopping
there, began on the hedges of English
hawthorn, and even attacking the forest
trees, taking the life out of the trees,
Well the government secured the ser
vices of a scientist there ; have forgot his
name, who came down and delivered
lectures at Nelson, on the scale, etc., but
he told them it was like fastening the
stable door when the horse had gone.
He gave remedies for the different scale
paracites, but he said it was too late for
two kind, thev were in the forests
already, advised most of them to burn
their trees up and replant, and attend to
them.. The codlin moth they had bad,
but that was their easiest -difficulty,
work of various kinds he said would re
duce that to a minimum, mentioned
many ways to reduce them, some were
bonfires at night, digging around the
trees, fowls in orchard, the introduction
and preserving of insect devouring
birds. SDravs. washes and many other
plans.
Having a few yonng trees in the ll
lamette vallev how sad it would be for
these pests to destoy everything. So
Mr. Inspector go for them that have the
scale, red-hot. Show them no mercy
Most of them are ignorant, but know
ingly, are far worse than highway rob
bers. Excuse me saying all this, but
there is a bright future for Oregon,
everything is in our favor if all put their
shoulders to the wheel.
Respectfully yours,
Alfred Whbetkb.
RESOLUTION OF COJfDOLENCE.
Passed
by A Co., at the
Dalles. Or.
Armory, The
Whebba8, The cruel hand of death
has suddenly and violently stricken
down our esteemed friend and comrade
Joseph Shoren. depriving his loved and
loving wife of her husband and protec
tor; his mother and brothers and sis
ters of a dutiful and affectionate son and
brother; and this company of one of its
most respected members, therefore be it.
Resolved That in the death of com
rade Joseph Shoren, "A" Company 3rd
Reeimeiit of Infantry. Oregon, National
Guards loses an honest, useful and honor -
demember and thereby suffers an lrrep-
arable loss.
Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy
of A Co. is hereby extended to the sor-
rowing widow and relatives ot our ae
ceased comrade in this glowing hour of
affliction.
Resolved. That these resolutions be
published in The Dalles papers.
'THE DEVOURING ELEMENT.1
Loss of The .Dalles Lumbering
Co.
Planing Mills, by Fire.
"The sleepers of our city were
aroused
by the
by the
at 3 o'clock Sunday morning
alarm of fire, and turned out
hundreds to wend their way up the
bluffs, back of the electric light plant to
where was seen the building of The
Dalles Lumbering Co.'s planing mill in
one solid sneet ot names, ine wnoie
structure was ablaze and the firemen
who were promptly on hand could do
nothing towards putting it out. In an
indescribable short time the building
was entirely consumed and proved a
total loss. The machinery was all de
stroyed and apparently nothing can be
saved. The total loss will be somewhere
between twelve and fifteen thousand
dollars There was an insurance of
three thousand dollars on the mill.
The planing mill is one of the neces
sities of The Dalles and we should be
glad to be able to state that it would be
rebuilt, but as yet no decision has been
arrived at bv the managers as to what
will be done.
Advertised Letters.
The following is the list of letters re
maining in The Dalles poetoffice, un
called for Friday, May 1, 1891. Per
sons calling for these letters will please
give date on which they were adver
tised :
Akers, C A Barnhart, George W
Chapman, m Chitty, J
Collier .Mrs Martha Day. E M
Erickson, C O (2) Enckson, Mrs Marie
Hembree, A L Henneck.MissStella
Howard, Tillie Jones, S b
Lane, Miss Annie Ledford, John M
Lyons, S H
Manlord, Misei-thel
Morgan, Ed
Murray, H E
Opperman, Henry
Phillips, Mart
Sheffield, F W
Smith, Edd
Worley, F A
Mclseal, John
Oudway, D K
Roland. J
Sicks, Wm
Wright, J W
imams, 1 nomas.
M. T. Nolan, P. M.
Good Horses.
The Grand Ronde Chronicle says that
on Monday last D. A. McAlister shipped
a car load of horses to City View race
course, Portland, consisting of sixteen
head, that was in all probability the
most valuable car load of horses ever
shipped from Grand Ronde valley. He
has refused $1550 for one, has also re
fused $1500 for two others, has been
offered $600 each for two others, and
would not take less than $300 for the
cheapest animal in the lot. The sixteen
animals are worth at least $10,000. .
Real Estate Transaction.
Frank Cann to Willian Black and
Helen Black, the S.Jg of the S.E.Jtf and
lots 1 and 2 of S. 33, Tp. 3 N, R. 8 E.
Consideration $450.
Mr. S. B. Adams has just returned
from a trip to Sherman county and gives
very flattering reports of the crop pros
pects. He says that never in his thirty
years' experience in this section of the
country has he seen anything to equal
it. Thousands upon thousands of acres
of wheat has been put in and as far as
the eye can reach, the fields stretch out
in one green mass of beautiful verdure.
The farmers are happy for they have
never had so promising an outlook. .
Five irrigation companies were organ
ized inside of two weeks at Pendleton. It
will not be many years before that entire
section is a vast garden, and the days
when it would produce' nothing but
bunchgrass and sagebrush will be a
memory only.
OUR NEW JUDGE.
A Short History of the Able Ua-ntleman J
who was Today Appointed. j
Mr. W. L. Bradshaw, of this city, who j
has just been appointed judge of the !
seventh judicial district to fill the vacan
cy caused by the resignation of Judge
Bird, is a man of splendid honest- and
integrity and excellent legal ability.
He was born in Putnam county, Mo.,
on the 28th day of September, 1858, and
is therefore in his 33d year. In 1865 he
came to Oregon, across the plains, and
has ever since been a resident of this
state.
After attending college at Corvallis,
for about two years, lie entered the St.
Louis Law school, where he graduated
in the class of 1881. He was admitted
to the bar of this state in the same year
and commenced the practice of law at
Lafeyette, in Yamhill county, going into
partnership with his father Col. E. C.
Rradshaw, who afterwards practiced law
in this city for a number of years.
When his father died, in the fall of
1888, Mr. Bradshaw tame up here to
settle his affairs, and was so pleased
with the city and country that he de
cided to locate in The Dalles, which he
did in January, 1889, forming a partner
ship with Mr. J. L. Story, with whom he
has continued the practice of his profes
sion up to the present time.
Since locating here he has enjoyed a
good and remunerative practice, and has
eatablished himself in the good will and
kind regards of the people of this city
and countv, as is shown by the strong
recommendations that were sent down
to governor Pennoyer in his behalf.
He will undoubtedly make a satisfac
tory iudee and reflect credit upon the
administration making his appointment
OIK NEW RAILROAD.
Engineer Norton is Finding an Excel
lent Grade.
A private letter received this morning
bv Mr. Hudson from Mr. Norton, gives
good views of the survey toward the
Fossil coal mines and as it contains
much of interest we publish it below :
In camp on summit between John Day
and Des Chutes Rivers, April 2o, '91.
T. A. Hudson, Eng., The Lalles, Or.
Dear Sib : We have had a very hard
week, the country was so rough, but have
found an easy grade and readily built
road way so far, and as we are now at
the top of the divide between John Day
and DesChutes the problem as to the
practicability of building a road is un
questionably solved. We can get a good
road with a maximum grade of 75 feet to
the mile, and I fully believe that with
the knowledge I now have of the.coun
try I can better this. Our heaviest grade
from DesChutes river here is 72 feet to
the mile, and the average not over 40.
We are all well but feeling tough today
For three days and nights we were with'
out our mess wagon, living on short
and Bieepinz bv a camp fire, and
. while we had to do thi8, it
rained nearly all the time, especially at
night, although up to then, we had had
no rain whatever. I feel proud of my
party, however, as in spite of cold, rain
hunger and the accomi anying trials not
a growl or murmur waa heard, and we
were a tired and footsore a crowd
ever you saw when we reacned camp
last night. Now, what a supper we all
did eat. I will tell yon all about it when
I see you. Give my regards to Col
Thornbury and Mr. Cooper, ami please
accept the same yourself.
Very truly,
R. H. Norton
The Boats to Be Rnnnlnr.
The river route between Portland and
The Dalles is to be reopened on the 11th
inst. The steamer Baker will run be
tween the Lpper Cascades and The
Dalles, connecting with the boat from
Portland by the portage railroad at the
Cascades. This movement will be
hailed with delight by the residents
along the middle river, and will also be
a convenience to travelers over the
Union Pacific, giving them the choice of
two routes from The Dalles and Portland,
A great many tourists avail themselvs of
the fine opportunity afforded by the
river route to see ths magnificent scenery
along the nver.
On (Saturday last a horse, owner un
known, was wandering about in the
neighborhood of the Gibson ranch with
a log chain attached to him and started
to run down bill towards the John Day
when he stood on the chain, fell and
broke his neck. The owner can have
the log chain by calling at the Monkland
postomce. Observer.
lBonthly meteorological Report.
United States signal service. Station. The
Dalles, Oregon, for the month of April, 18'J1.
Has -
2 a Ej2 Era. S
DATE. ?" -? 1 7
r o's
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1 42 58 27
2 4K 53 36
3 45 63 Ti
4 51 69 34
5 54 63 45 T
6 57 68 46 spkl
7 50 58 41
8 47 60 34
9 54 67 42
10 50 60 44
11 48 61 35
12 51 67 34
13..: 55 72 38
14 57 68 47
15 T 58 69 47
16 : 63 76 49
17 62 76 49
18 59 69 48
19. 59 68 50
20 53 64 42
21 57 71 44
22 60 66 53
23 50 58 43 .01
24 49 59 39 -
25 48 64 31
26 55 68 42
27 58 64 53
28 53 62 44
29 60 63 37
30 56 71 40
Totela 16.02 19.61 12.51
Mean barometer. 29.912: hiehest barometer.
30.395, on 2nd; Ion ext barometer 29.430, on 6th.
Mean temperature a3.3; nigncst temperature,
76, on 16th and 17th: lowest temperature. 27 on
the 1st and 3d.
Greatest daily range of temperature 35 on 4th.
ieasi aauy range oi temperature, 11, on Siin.
UlX TKMPERATU BE FOR THIS MONTH IK
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876... 50.50
1877. . .50.00
1878... 53. 00
1879.. 54.01)
1SS0. ..55.50
1881... 57. U0
1882. . .57.00 1887. . .52.00
1883. . .53.00 1888. . .55.30
1884.. 54.00!1889...54.09
1885. . .55.00 !180. . .52 90
1886. . .50.00 1891. ..53.30
Total deflciency
in
temperature during the
montn, .ub.
Total excess in temperature
since January
1st, 2.0 aeg.
Total nrerfnitation. 0.01: number of diTHMi
which .01 inch or more of precipitation fell, 1.
TOTAL PRECIPITATION (IK INCHES AND HUN-
DBEDTHS) FOB THIS MONTH IK
1872 1877... 1.21 1882... .53 1887... .46
1873 1878... .20 1883... 1.21 1888... .05
1874 1879... 1.34 1884... 1.33 18N9... .42
1875... 0.59 1880... 1.03 1885... .31 1890... .14
1876... 1.09 1881 .. 1.29 1886... .30 1891... .01
Total deficiency In precipitation during month,
0.71.
Total deficiency In precipitation since January
Int. 3.32.
Number of cloudless days, 13: partly cloudy
davs, 9; cloud v davs, 8.
Dates of frosts, 1st, 3d, 25th.
Solar halos on the 3d, 4th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 20th,
21st, 24th, and 29th.
Note. Barometer reduced to sea level. T indi
cates trace of precipitation.
SAMUEL. L. BROOKS.
- Voluntary Signal Corps Observer, f
A BRILLIANT RELIGION.
6ERMON
MAGE
DELIVERED BY DR. TAL
ON SUNDAY, APRIL 19.
"The Crystal Cmnnot Equal It" Job
xxtULj 7, the Eminent DWlne's Text.
Religion la Far Superior to the Crys
tal In All Desirable Qualities.
Nsw YORK, April 19. The eagerness to
hear Dr. Talmage's sermons at The Chris
tian Herald services on Sunday evenings
In this city continues unabated. As usual,
there was this evening a dense mass of
people waiting outside the Academy of
Music long before the hour for commence
ment, and every seat in the huge building
was occupied in a few minutes after the
doors were opened. Dr. Talmage had
preached to an immense audience in the
morning in toe Brooklyn Academy
of I
Music. His text was, "The crystal can
not equal it" (Job xxviii, 7).
Many of the precious stones of the Bible
have come to prompt recognition. But
for the present I take up the less valuable
crystal. Job, in my text, compares saving
wisdom with a specimen of topaz. An in
fidel chemist or mineralogist would pro
nounce the latter worth more than the for
mer, but Job makes an intelligent com
parison, looks at religion and then looks
at the crystal and pronounces the former
as of superior value to the latter, exclaim
ing, in the words of my text, "The crystal
cannot equal it."
THE STAB OF THE MOUNT AES.
Now, it is not a part of my sermonic de
sign to depreciate the crystal, whether it
be found in Cornish mine or Hartz moun
tain or Mammoth Cave or tinkling among
the pendants of the chandeliers of a palace.
The crystal ia the star of the mountain; it
is the queen of the cave; it is the eardrop
of the hills; it finds its heaven in the dia
mond. AmoDg all the pages of natural
history there is no page more interesting
to me than the page crystallographies. But
I want to show yon that Job was right
when, taking religion in one hand and the
crystal in the other, he declared that the
former is of far more value and beauty
than the latter, recommending it to all the
people and to all the ages, declaring, "The
crystal cannot equal it."
In the first place, I remark that religion
Is superior to the crystal in exactness.
That shapeless mass of crystal against
which you accidentally dashed your foot is
laid out with more exactness than any
earthly city. There are six styles of crys
tallization, and all of them divinely or
dained. Every crystal has mathematical
precision. God's geometry reaches through
It. and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or
it is a rhomboid, or in some way it hath
mathematical figure. Now, religion beats
that in the simple fact that spiritual accu
racy is more beautiful than material accu
racy. God's attributes are exact. God
law exact. God's decrees exact. God
management of the world exact never
counting wrong, though he counts the
grass blades, and the stars, and the sands.
and the cycles. His providences never
dealing with us perpendicularly when
those providences ought to be oblique, nor
lateral when they ought to ce vertical,
Everything in our life arranged without
any possibility or mistake. Jach lire
six sided prism. Born at the right time:
dying at the right time. There are no "hap
pen so's" In our theology. If I thought this
was a slipshod universe I would go crazy.
God is not an anarchist. Law, order, sym
metry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect
rectangle, a perfect rhomboid, a perfect cir
cle. The edge of God's robe of government
never frays out. There are no loose screws
in the world's machinery. It did not just
happen that Napoleon waa attacked with
indigestion at Borodino so that he became
Incompetent for the day. It did not just
happen that John Thomas, the .missionary.
on a heathen island, waiting for an outrit
and orders for another missionary tour,
received that outfit and those orders in
box that floated ashore, while the ship and
the crew that carried the box were never
heard of. The barking of F. W. Robert
son's dog, he tells us, led to a line of events
which brought him from the army into
the Christian ministry, where he served
God with world renowned usefulness. It
did not merely happen so. I believe in
particular providence. I believe God's
geometry may be seen in all our life more
beautifully than in crystallography. Job
was right. "The crystal cannot equal it."
THE TRANSPARENCY OF RELIGION.
Again I remark that religion is superior
to the crystal in transparency. We know
not when or by whom glass was first dis
covered. Bewis of it have been found in
the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of
it are brought np from the ruins of Her-
oulaneum. There were female adornments
made out of it three thousand years ago
those adornments found now attached to
the mummies of Egypt. A great many
commentators believes that my text means
glass. What would we do without the
crystal t The crystal in the window to
keep out the storm and let in the day; the
crystal over the watch defending its deli
cate machinery, yet allowing us to see the
hour; the crystal of the telescope, by which
the astronomer brings distant worlds so
near he can inspect them. Oh, the tri
umphs of the crystals in the celebrated
windows of Rouen and Salisbury!
But there is nothing so transparent in a
crystal as in our holy religion. It is
transparent religion. You put it to your
eye and you see man his sin, his soul, his
destiny. You look at God and you
something of the grandeur of his character.
It is a transparent religion. Infidels tell
us it is opaque. Do you know why they
tell ns it is opaque? It is bwause they are
blind. The natural man receiveth not the
things of God because they are spiritually
discerned. There is no trouble with the
crystal; the trouble is with the eyes which
try to look through it. We pray for wis
dom. Lord, that our eyes might be opened.
When the eye salve cures our blindness
then we find that religion is transparent.
It is a transparent Bible. All the mount
ains of the Bible come out Sinai, the
mountain of the law; Fisgab, the mount
ain of prospect; Olivet, the mountain of
instruction; Calvary, the mountain of sac
rifice. All the rivers of the Bible come out
Hidekel, or the river of paradisaical beauty;
Jordan, or the river of holy chrism;
Cherith, or the river of prophetic supply;
Nile, or the river of palaces, and the pure
river of life from under the throne, clear
as crystal. While reading this Bible after
our eyes have been touched by grace we
find it all transparent, and the earth rocks,
now with crucifixion agony and now with
judgment terror, and Christ appears in
some of his two hundred and fifty-six
titles, as far as I can count them the
bread, the rock, the captain, the comman
der, the conqueror, the star, and on and
beyond any capacity of mine to rehearse
them. Transparent religion!
PROVIDENCE IS PEIXOCID.
The providence that seemed dark before
becomes pellucid. Now yen find God it
not trying to pnt you dorvn. Now you un-
derstand why you lost that child, and why
you lost your property; it was to prepare
you for eternal treasures. And why sick
ness came, it being the precursor of im
mortal juvenescence. And now yon un
derstand why they lied about yon and
tried to drive you hither and thither. It
was to put you in the glorious company of
such men as Ignatius, who, when he went
out to be destroyed by the lions, said:
I am the wheat, and the teeth of the
wild beasts must first grind me before
can become pure bread for Jesus
Christ;" or the company of such men as
Polycarp, who, when standing In the midst
of the amphitheater waiting for the lions
to come out of their cave and destroy him,
and the people in the galleries jeering and
shouting, "The lions for Polycarp," re
plied, "Let them come on," and then stoop
ing down toward the cave where the wild
beasts were roaring to get out, "Let them
come on." Ah, yes, it is persecution to put
you in glorious company; and while there
are many things that you will have to
postpone to the future world for explana
tion, I tell you that it is the whole tendency
of your religion to unravel and explain
and interpret and illumine and Irradiate.
Job was right. It is a glorious transpar
ency. "The crystal cannot equal it."
I remark again that religion surpasses
the crystal in its beauty. That lnmp of
crystal is put under the magnifying glass
of the eryatadjograpber, and he seea in it in-
describable beauty snowdrift and splint-1
era of hoar frost and corals and wreaths '
and stars and crowns and castellations of j
conspicuous beauty. The fact is that '
crystal is bo beautiful that I can think of 1
but one thing in all the universe that is so I
beautiful, and that is the religion of the i
Bible. No wonder this Bible represents I
that religion as the daybreak, as the apple .
blossoms, as the glitter of a king's ban- j
quet. It is the joy of the whole earth. !
TOO MUCH TALK OF THE CROSS. j
People talk too much about their cross 1
and not enough about their crown. Do
you know the Bible mentions a cross but among the three crystals? The crystal at-twenty-seven
times, while it mentions a j mosphere would display our pollution,
crown eighty times? Ask that old man I The crystal river would be befouled with
what he thinks of religion. He has been a j our touch. The crystal sea would whelm
close observer. He has been culturing an ! us with its glistening surge. Transforma
esthetic taste. He has seen the sunrises of ; tion now or no transformation at all.
a half century. He has been an early riser.
He has been an admirer of cameos and
corals and all kinds of beautiful things.
Ask him what he thinks of religion, and he
will tell you, "It is the most beautiful
thing I ever saw." "The crystal cannot
equal it."
! Beautiful in its symmetry. When it
presents God's character it does not pre
sent him as having love like a great pro
, tuberauce ou one side of his nature, but
makes that love in harmony with his
j justice a love that will accept all
I those who come to him, and a justice that
j will by no means clear the guilty. Beauti
; ful religion in the sentiment it implants!
j Beautiful religion in the hope it kindles!
Beautiful religion in the fact that it pro
I poses to garland and enthrone and empar-
adise an immortal spirit. Solomon says
i it is a lily. Paul says it is a crown. The
Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed of
thesnn. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar.
Christ says it is a bridegroom come to fetch
home a bride. While Job in the text takes
up a whole vase of precious stones the
topaz, and the sapphire, and the chryso
prasus and he takes out of this beautiful
vase just one crystal, and holds it up unt il
it gleams iu the warm light of the eastern
sky, and he exclaims, "The crystal cannot
equal it."
Oh, it is not a stale religion, it is not a
stupid religion, it is not a toothless hag,
as some seem to have represented it; it is
not a Meg Merriles with shriveled arm
come to scare the world. It is the fairest
daughter of God, heiress of all his wealth.
Her cheek the morning sky; her voice the
music of the south wind; her step the
dance of the sea. Come and woo her. The
Spirit and the bride say come, and whoso
ever will, let him come. Do you agree with
Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck
it and wear it over yonr heart. Do you
agree with Paul and say it is a crown?
Then let this hour be your coronation. Do
you agree with the Apocalypse and say
it is a springing fountain? Then come
and slake the thirst of your soul. Do yon
believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foli
aged cedar? Then come under its shadow.
Do yon believe with Christ and say it is a
bridegroom come to fetch home a bride?
Then strike hands with your Lord the
King while I pronounce you everlastingly
one. Or if you think with Job that it is a
jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring,
on your neck like a bead, on your forehead
like a star, while looking into the mirror
of God's Word yon acknowledge "the
crystal cannot equal it."
THE TBAJfSFOBMATIONS OF RELIGION. .
Again, religion is superior to the crystal
in its transformations. The diamond is
only a crystallization of coal. Carbonate
of lime rises till it becomes calcite or ar
agonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes
-into cubes and octohedrons. Those crys
tals which adorn our persons and our
homes and our museums have only been
resurrected from forms that were far from
lustrous. Scientists for ages have been ex
amining these wonderful transformations.
But I tell you in the gospel of the Son of
God there is a more wonderful transforma
tion. Over souls by reason of sin black as
coal and hard as iron God by his comfort
ing grace stoops and says, "They shall he
mine in the day when I make up my
jewels."
"What," say yon, "will God wear jewel
ry?" If he wanted it he could make the
stars of heaven his belt and have the even
ing cloud for the sandals of his feet, but
he does not want that adornment. He
will not have that jewelry. When God
wants jewelry he comes down and digs it
out of the depths and darkness of sin.
These souls are all crystallizations of
mercy. He puts them on, and he wears
them in the presence of the whole universe.
He wears them on the hand that was
nailed, over the heart that was pierced, on
the temples that were stung. "They shall
be mine,"" saith the Lord, "in the day when
I make up my jewels." Wonderful trans
formation! "The crystal cannot equal it.
There she is, a waif of the street, but she
shall be a sister of charity. There he is,
sot in the ditch, but he shall preach the
gospel. There, behind the bars of a prison
but he shall reign with Christ forever.
Where sin abounded grace shall much
more abound. The carbon becomes the
solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it."
DO NOT GO ISTO PARTICULARS.
Now, I have no liking for those people
who are always enlarging in Christian
meetings about their early dissipation. Do
not go into the particulars, my brothers.
Simply say you were sick, but make no
display of your ulcers. The chief stock in
trade of some ministers and Christian
workers seems to be their early crimes and
dissipations. The number of pockets you
picked and the number of chickens you
stole make very poor prayer meeting rhet
oric Besides that, it discourages other
Christian people who never got drunk or
stole anything. But it is pleasant to know
that those who were farthest down have
been brought highest up. Out of infernal
serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of dark
ness into light. From coal to the solitaire.
The crystal cannot equal it.
But, my friends, the chief transforming
power of the gospel will not be seen in this
world, and not until heaven breaks upon
the soul. When that light falls upon the
soul then you will see the crystals. Oh,
what a magnificent setting for these jewels
of eternity! I sometimes hear people rep
resenting heaven in a way that is far from
attractive to me. It seems almost a vulgar
heaven as they represent it, with great
blotches of color and bands of music mak
ing a deafening racket. John represents
heaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three
crystals. In one place he says, "Her light
was like a precious stone, clear as crystal.
In another place he says, I saw a pure
river from under the throne, clear as crys
tal.
In another place he says, "Before the
throne there was a sea of glass clear as
crystaL" Three crystals! John says crys
tal atmosphere. That means health. Balm
of eternal June. What weather after the
world's east wind! No rack of storm
clouds. One breath of that air will cure
the worst tubercle. Crystal light on all
the leaves. Crystal light shimmering on
the topaz of the temples. Crystal., light
tossing in the plumes of the equestrians
of heaven on white horses. But 'The crys
tal cannot equal it." John says crystal
nver. That means joy. Deep and ever roll
ing. Not one drop of the Thames or the
Hudson or the Rhine to soil it Not one
tear of human sorrow to imbitter it. Crys
tal, the rain out of which it was made.
Crystal, the bed over which .it shall roll
and ripple. Crystal, its infinite surface.
But "the crystal cannot equal it." John
says crystal sea. That means multitu-
dinoiiHlv vast. Vast, in rupture. Rapture
vast an the sea, deep ns the sea, strong an
the Hen, tv-r chnnifiniz as the sea. Billows
of light. Billows of lieaiity, blue with
skies that wen. never clouded and ;reeii
with depths that were never fathomed.
Arcrii-s and Antarctic and Mediterraneans
and Athintics uml I'.icilics in crystalline
magnificence. ThivecrystJils crystal light
falling on n crystal river: crystal river roll
ing into a crysta.l sea. But "the crystal
cannot equal it."
HEAVi:S WK MUST HAVE.
Oh, "says some one. purtiti!! his hand
over his eves, "can it lie tn.it 1 who have
been in so much sin and trouble will ever
enme to those cryst.-ils"' Yes, it may Ik
it will lie. Heaven we must have, what
ever else we have or have not, and we itirie
here to iret it. "How iniicli must I pay for
ir" y . I say. You will pay for it "jutt on
mm-h as the coal pays- to liecome the dia
mond. In other words, nothing. The same
Almighty power that makes the crystals
in the mountains will change your heart
which is harder than stone, for the promise
is, "I will take away your stony heart and
I will give you a heart of flesh."
"Ob," says some one, "it is just the doc-
trine I want. God is to do everything, and
I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not ;
the doctrine you want. The coal makes
no resistance. It hears the resurrection
voice in the mountain, and it comes to :
crystallization, but your heart resists. The
trouble with you, my brother, is the coal ,
wants to stay coal. I do not ask you to :
throw open the door and let Christ in. I !
only ask that you stop bolting it and bar- j
ring it. Oh, my friends, we will have to j
get rid of our sins. I will have to get rid
of my sins, and you will have to get rid of j
1 your sins. What will we do with our sins
Give sin full chance in your heart and
the transformation will be downward in
stead of upward. Instead of a crystal it
will be a cinder. In the days of Carthage
a Christian girl was condemned to die for
her faith, and a boat was bedaubed with
tar and pitch and filled with combustibles
and set on fire, and the Christian girl was
placed in the boat, and the wind was off
shore and the boat floated away with its
precious treasure. No one can doubt that
boat landed at the shore of Heaven.
Sin wants to put you in a fiery boat and
shove you off in an opposite direction off
from peace, off from God, off from heaven,
everlastingly off; and the port toward
which you would sail would be a port of
darkness, and the guns that would greet
you would le the guns of despair, and the
flags that would wave at yonr arrival
wonld be the black flags of death. O, my
: brother, you must either kill sin or sin will
kill you. It is no wild exaggeration when
I say that any man or woman that wants
to be saved may be saved. Tremendous
choice! A thousand people are choosing
this moment between salvation and de
struction, between light and darkness, be
tween heaven and hell, between charred
ruin and glorious crystallization.
Jerry Bnilt Fortresses in Snssla.
Some extraordinary revelat ions have just
been made at St. Petersburg as to the man
ner in which certain frontier fortresses re
cently constructed, and, as it was sup
posed, strengthened, have actually been
built. It appears that even in this perilous
field of enterprise the jerry builder has
been reaping a rich harvest. At two sep
arate fortresses his frauds have been de
tected. A commission of revision on in
specting the walls of the celebrated strong
hold Novo Georgievsh, formerly known as
Modlin, and situated between Warsaw and
the German frontier, found that the newly
constructed outer walls were not more
substantial than those of a piece of theat
rical scenery.
A thin outer layer of half bricks con
cealed a hopelessly rotten fabric composed
of the veriest rubbish gravel, brick dust.
sand and chalk the whole being utterly
incapable of withstanding a cannonade by
guns of the smallest caliber. These facts
having been reported to the minister of
war, the chief constructor of the fortress
was arrested and tried by court martial,
but he escaped with so light a penalty as
dismissal from the service, it having been
proved that he suffered from a painful af
fection of the eyes. .The chief constructor
of the fortress of Doubno, the other strong
hold concerned, was not so fortunate. The
fortress was inspected by the Grand Duke
Nicholas shortly before his illness, and he
found the walls built so contrary to the
rules of military engineering that they
were incapable of affording any real de
fense against modern engines of war.
In accordance with the report which he
made to the emperor on the subject, an
order was issued that the whole of the
walls in question should be razed to their
foundations and rebuilt.' The chief con
structor solved the problem of his own
punishment by blowing out his brains,
and all his subordinates who were in any
degree responsible were sent to Siberia.
Every endeavor has, of course, been made
to keep these occurrences from the knowl
edge of the public, but the facts of the case
have come to hand through a thoroughly
trustworthy channel. Leeds Mercury.
For several years the sun has been in a
quiescent condition, his surface being com
paratively free from spots, and his promin
ences of comparatively infrequent occur
rence and insignificant proportions. The
great luminary has been passing through
his minimum sun spot period; for the spot
producing activity of the sun is governed
by laws that the close observation of the
last two centuries has interpreted, while
observers are still groping after the cause
of the spots themselves.
It takes about eleven years to complete
a sun spot cycle, though the intervals are
irregular. Each cycle includes a maxi
mum and a minimum period, which are
also irregular. The spots vary greatly in
number. During some cycles the sun's
face is never free from them; during others
it is un marred for days, and - even for
months. As the last maximum period oc
curred about . 1881-2, it is time to antici
pate a recurrence of solar activity, and re
cent observations show that the activity
has already begun.
Enormous fluctuations are taking place
on the surface of the sun, and will be fol
lowed for the two or three coming years by
spots of every variety. There will be normal
spots, consisting of an umbra and penum
bra, and spots irregular in form or gather
ed in groups. The sizes of the spots vary
from 500 miles to 50,000 miles or more, and
they are often large enough to be visible
to the naked eye. They may last for a few
days, or for weeks or months. Their dis
tribution is mostly confined to two zones
on the sun's surface, between 5 degs. and
40 degs. of latitude north and south.
Other signs of solar agitation follow in
the wake of the sun spots. Gigantic solar
eruptions, known as rosy protuberances,
rise from the sun's border, like tongues of
flame, sometimes to the height of hundreds
of thousands of miles. The earth bears
witness to the disturbed state of the sun,
for auroras flash in the heavens, magnet
ism reaches its greatest point of oscula
tion and electricity takes on its most brill
iant manifestations. Youth's Companion.
Graft Ben Butler.
Butler has a great law practice, and
many irons in the fire besides his bunt
ing factory, his granite quarries, and so
on and so forth. But much of his law
practice is made up of desperate cases.
such as those claims before the court of
claims which no one else will undertake,
and in which the compensation is all con
tingent upon success. Besides, like other
men with mauy irons in heating, he can
not' keep them all white hot. and loses
every now and then on one of them.
Then, ton, he is one of the most generous
and charitable of men. He lives on a
scale which seems extravagant to most
men, keeping up three or four establish
ments one here, one in Lowell, one in
Boston, and so on and treating all his
relatives and friends most generously in
all his dealings with them.
Bough and gruff as he sometimes seems,
his heart is tenderness itself, and his com
passionate ear and hand are always open.
He gives away a small fortune every year,
to say nothing of bis "thank you" practice,
which exceeds that of any other lawyer in
the United States, and probably in the
world. Naturally, with all his shrewd
ness, he is deceived by the designing, and
loses more money in this way than most
people give away. Unless his forthcoming
"Reminicences" yield a large sum, Butler
will not leave a large fortune behind him.
Philadelphia Record.
Punctuality.
When eight Quaker ladies had an ap-
pointment,.and seven were punctual, and
the eighth, being three minutes too late,
began apologizing for keeping the others
waiting, the reply from one of them was:
1 am sorry, friend, that thee should
have wasted thine own three minutes; but
thee had no right to waste twenty-one
more of our time, which was not thine
own."
Of Washington it is said that when bis
secretary, on some important occasion,
was late, and excused himself by Baying
his wfttch was too slow, the reply was:
You will have to get another watch or 1 1
another secretary." j
.Napoleon used to say to his marshals: j
"You may ' ask anything of me but i
tame." lew York .Ledger.
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