RELIGION IN POLITICS.
DR.
TALMAGE'S PRACTICAL SERMON
FOR PRACTICAL MEN.
tfhm tha Ballot lloi la Surrounded by
Corruption la tha Tint for the t'hrl.
tun to Work Harden! DanlrTi Ee.
tUnca.
Waco, Tex.. Aug. SI. -Dr. Tnlmage
today delivered the following discourse
on tlie text, "Then the king eonmmnj.
d. and they brought Daniel and cast
him Into the den of lions." Daniel
vi, 10.
Darius was king of rtubylon, nnd the
young uian Daniel was so much a fa
vorite with him that he mudu him
prime minister, or secretary of state.
iut no man could gain such a high po
rtion without exciting the envy and
Jealousy of the xoplo. There were
demagogues In Babylon who were so
appreciative of their own abilities that
they were affronted at the elevation of
this young man. Old Babylon was
afraid of young Habylon. The tullcr
the cedar the more npt It is to be riven
of the lightning.
These demagogues asked tho king to
make a decree that anybody that made
a petition to any one except the king
within thirty days should be put to
death. King Darius, not suspecting
any foul play, makes that decree. Tho
demagogues have accomplished all they
want, because they know that no one
can keep Daniel from sending petitions
before God for thirty days.
So far from being afraid, Daniel goes
on with his supplications three times u
day, and Is found on his housetop mak
ing prayer. He Is caught in tho net.
lie is condemned to be devoured by
the lions. Rough executioners of the
law seize him and hasten him to
the cavern. I hear the growl of the
wild beasts, and I see them pawing the
dust, and as they put their mouths to
the ground the solid earth quakes with
their bellowing. I see their eyes roll,
and I almost hear the llery eyeballs
snap In the darkness. These monsters
approach Daniel. They have an up
petite keen with hunger. With one
stroke of their paw or one snatch of
their teeth they may leave him dead at
the bottom of tho cavern. Rut what
a strange welcomo Daniel receives
from these hungry monsters. They
fawn around him, they lick his hand,
they bury his feet In their long manes.
That night he has calm sleep, with his
head pillowed on the warm necks of
the tamed lions.
SAVED BY GOD.
But not so well does Darius the king
sleep. He loves Daniel, and hates this
stratagem by which ho has been con
demned. All night long the king walks
the floor. He cannot sleep. At the
least sound he starts anil his flesh
creeps with horror. He is impatient
for the dawning of tho morning. At
the first streak of the daylight Darius
hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel.
The heavy palace doors open nnd clang
shut long before the people of tho city
waken. Darius goes to the den of li
ons: he looks in. All is silent. His
heart stops. He feels that the very
worst has happened ; but gathering all
his strength he shouts through the rifts
of the rock, "O Daniel I is the God
whom thou servest continually able to
deliver thee?" There comes rolling up
from the deep darkness a voice which
says: "0 king! live forever. My God
has scut his angel to shut the lions'
inouths that they have not hurt me.
Then Daniel is brought out from the !
j rrii 1 1 1 j. 1
den. The diMim$0Kes are burled into i
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1 il. tl -I. n . I -
uouoiu oi me uoh until ineir uesu was
rent, and their bones cracked, nnd their
blood spurted through tho rifts of the
rock, and as the lions make tho rocks
tremble with their roar they announce
to all ages that while God will defend
his people the way of the ungodly shall
perish.
THE CHIME OF SUCCESS.
Learn first from this subject that the
greatest crime that you can commit in
the eyes of many Is the crime of sue
cess. What had Daniel done that he
should be flung to the lions? He got
to be primo minister. They could not
forgive him for that; and behold in
that a touch of unsanctilled human
nature as seen in all ages of the world.
So long as you are pinched in poverty,
so long as you are running the gantlet
"etween landlord and tax gatherer, so
tig as you find it hard work to edu
te your children, there are people
who will say: "Poor man, I am sorry
for him. He ought to succeed, poor
man!"
But after awhile the tide turns in
your favor. That was a profitable in
vestment you made. You bought at
Just the right time,
good humored and
Fortune becomes ;
smiles upon you. '
JCow you are beini? in some deimrtment !
successful, your success chills ?o:ne one. ! orjjmry state is an overthrow of the
Those men who used to sympathize jiiusophical theory that a total vacu
with you stand along the street, and , y impossible; but the more letters
they scowl at you from under the rim i j0U liive to write, the more burden
of their hats. You have more money . j.ou imve to carry, the more miles you
or more influence than they have, and jmve to travel, the more burdens you
you ought to bo scowled at from under to lift, the more engagements you
the rim of their hats. You catch a i,..VB to meet, the more disputes you
word or two as you passed by tliein,
"Stuck up," says one. "Got it dishon
ostly," says another. "Will burst soon, j
ays a third.' Every stone in your new
jo a uuru. coci nwiio in ;vu. -- j
house is laid on their heart. Your
liorses' hoofs went over their nerves.
Every item of your success has been
to them an item of discomfiture and
despair. Just as soon as in any respect
IJou rise above your fellows, if you are
aore viHnnna if rnii nn more wise, u
jjou are more influential, you cast a
(shadow on the prospect of others. The
ad to honor and success is within
"each of the enemy's puns. Jealousy
Mys, "Stay down, or I II knock you
down." "I do not like you," said the
nowflake to the snowbird. "Why
don't yon like raeT said the snowbird.
"Oh!" said the snowflake, "you are
(roing np and 1 am coming down.
Young merchants, young lawyers,
young doctors, young tuech:uiics,
young artists, young farmers, at cer
tain times there were those to sym
pathixe with yoo, but now that
yi are becoming master of your
particular occupation or profession.
how is It now. vounff lawyers, young
tor, young artuta. young v-
now is it now! The created rim- ft,..
you con commit Is the crime of success.
DKCISIO.N OK CUARACTEll
Again. niy subject impresses me with
the yolle of decision of character in
ay department. Daniel knew that If
ho continued ,iii..-... .1
Ktfimi of the Ird he would be hurled
iiuouon nut Having set hi comiias
well he sailed right on. '
For tho lack of that element of de-
nsionof character so eminent In Dan
iel many men are ruined for this world.
and ruined for the world to coma A
rmat imu, at fortr rwmiof Rm ,
settled 111 anv respect. Iecause thev
have not leen able to make up their
iniinl. Perhaps they will an west
I erhups they will go oust. Perhaps!
they will nt. JVrhatM they will in,
mirrl. 1 -1 .1 7
north. Icrhaia they may go south. :
1 erhaM they will not. Perhaps they i
nay make that investment In real e" j
tate or in railroads. Perhaps thev will
not. Thev nro like n kt.nit.i.ktt 1,,. !
should go out of New York li.irlu.e
starting for Glasgow, and tho next day
should change for Havre de Grace, and
the next for Charleston, and the 'next
for Roston. nnd the next for Liverpool
these men on tho sea of ift), everlast
ingly tacking ship and making no head
way. Or they are like a man who
starts to build a house in tho Corinth
ian style anil changes it to Doric, and
then completes it in the Ionic, nnd is
cursed by all styles of architecture.
BTAUT KIUIIT AND KKKP 0.V
Young man, start right and keep on.
Have decision of character. Charac
ter is like the goldfinch of Tonquin; it
b magnificent while standing llrm. but
loses all its beauty In flight. How much
decision of character in order that these
young men may bo Christians! Their
old associates make sarcastic flings at
tiiem. 1 hoy go on excursions and thev
do not invito them. They prophesy
that he will give out. They wonder if
he is not getting wings. As he passes
they grimace and wink and chuckle,
and say, "There goes a saint."
Oh, young man, have decision of char
acter. You can afford in this matter
of religion to bo laughed at What do
you care for tho scoffs of theso men
who are affronted because you will not
goto ruin with them? When the grave
cracks open under their feet, nnd grim
messengers push tliein into it, and eter
nity comes down hard upon their
spirit, and conscience stings, and hope
less ruin lifts them up to hurl them
down, will they laugh then?
I learn also from my subject that
men may take religion Into their
worldly business. Daniel had enough
work to do to occupy six men. All the
affairs of state wore In his hands
questions of finance, questions of war,
of peace, nil international questions
were for his settlement or adjustment.
He must have had n correspondence
vast beyond all computation. There
was not a man in nil tho earth who
had more to do than Daniel, the secre
tary of state, and yet wo find him three
tunes a oay uowmg ueioro uod 111
prayer. Tliere nro men in
our day '
who have not a hundredth part of
Daniel's engagements who say they
are too busy to bo religious. They
have an idea somehow that religion
will spoil their worldly occupation,
that it will trip the accountant's pen,
or dull the carpenter's saw, or confuse
the lawyer's brief, or disarrange the
merchant's store shelf.
IMPERTINENT UEblQION.
They think religion is impertinent
They would like to havo it very well
seated beside them in church on the
Sabbath, to find the place in the psalm
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book, or to nudge them awake whtm i
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course; or iney wouiu line 10 leavo inn
the pew on Sabbath evening, as they
go out closing the door, saying, "Good
night, religion; I'll be back next Sun
day!" But to have religion go right
along by them all through life, to have
religion looking over their shoulder
whim they are making a bargain, to
have religion take up a bag of dishonest
gold and shake it and say, "Ha! ha!
where did you get that?" they think
that is an impertinent religion. They
would like to haven religion to help
them when they are sick, and when the
shadow of death comes over them they
would liko to have religion as a sort of
night key with which to open the door
i i... .i:..:..n r.ti... m
of heaven; but religion under other cir
cumstances they take to Iw an imperti
nence. Now, my friends, religion never
robbed a man of a dollar. Other things
being equid. a mason will build a bet
ter wall, a cabinet maker will make a
better chair, a plumber will make a
better pipe, a lawyer will make a better
plea, a merchant will sell a better bill
of goods.
I say other tilings being equal. Of
course when religion gives a man a new
j)eart jt ,(K.S m,t propose to give him a
. ew r to intellectuulize him. or
tn pi,,,,,,,,, a man's condition when his
have to settle, the more opportunity
yoll j,ave 0f being a Christian.
TnK busiest men the bkt met
. a tilousin,l irons in the
y() nave a TlloUNlllil ii'mw, in in"
j)ave a tilousan,l more oppor-
,.i serving God than if yon
Qn0 !ron m tlt, fire. Who so
b' M Christ? And yet who a mill
. . M 1(lIvf f he busiest men
lipn
All the persons convert
ed in Scripture busy at me nine oi
their being converted. Matthew at
tending to his custom house duties; the
Prodi-al Son feeding swine; Lydia
telling purple: Simon Peter hauling in
the net from the sea; Saul spurring his
horse toward I.iiua.ous. goingdown on
his law business. Husyl busy! Da"'''
with all the affairs of state weighing
,.u-n nrsm his soul, and yet three times
. ..c worsbii.ii.2 the God of heaven.
t ,;n I l.-.im
fn tn this subject that
, man may take rvligion mto hu
politic D;mi.-lha,l .Jl the.ftur. of
Jute on han.l yet Christian. He
could not have kept his elevated posi
tion unless lie had Nn a thorough
politician, an 1 yet ail me . .
m j:
e ym jield oo W c W
high toned rellgioua principle. He
Stood before that ago, ho Stands before
all ap"s. a Kyiimen of Onristlan
politician.
So there Imve been In our dnv and
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In the days of our father men as mil-
J"'"1 '" ,he 'rvil'e of ,u tlu ,mve
been eminent In the aerviiw nf tha
... hid K MHT UI WIMl 11 WICV llltVA
.7 7 . " mce 01 ,m
i 8,at0' " '"jamin F. Hutler,
T 7 , . N"W Yrk ,n th
1 m T i', ''" o Sl"'1' WM Jo,m
1 n . . ' S'"'1' '" Uoorge
ti"' of,, Mi;.,'I',"- wh was
1 wdore I r. lmglinys..u, of New Jer
'y' M,'n flMli"1 ' tho state, at the
I "l"u t'1"" faithful to God.
I 0LK "("'K " TIIK YOfNa MRS.
It b absurd to export that men who
lmve 'n iminersi'd in political wick-
.!.. .1 nr
el", M for ,lllrty "r forty years shall
00,1,0 to reformation; ami our hope Is
"u-n who are coming up.
tlmt tl,py '"lvo patriotic principle and
Christian nrincinle siile hv
i they come to the ballot box and enst
their first vote, aud that they swear ul-
, . . ' ""y"'
legianee to the government of heaven
as well as to tho government of the
Uuitod States. We would have Hunker
Hill mean less to them than Calvary,
nnd Lexington mean less to them than .
Uethlehem.
Rut because tliere uro bad men
around the ballot box is no reason
why Christian men should retreat from I
tho arena. The hist time you ought to '
give up your child or forsake your
child is when it is surrounded bv a
conipanv of Choctaws; and the hist
timo to' surrender tho ballot box Is
...l,. iu. . til, ,
when it Is surrounded by impurity and
dishonesty and all sorts of wickedness.
Daniel stood on a most unKipnlar
platform. He sttKKl firmly, though the
demagogues of tllfl day hissed nt him
...it.: i. i 1 iir
and tried to overthrow him. We must
carry our religion into our ixilitics. Rut
tliere uro a great many men who are in
favor of taking religion Into national
politics who do not sco tho initH.rtnnee
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of taking It into city politics, .us though
a man were intelligent alxiut tho wel-
fare of his neighborhood and had no
concern about his own home,
Religion would drive out all
personalities from politics. You have
a right to discuss men's politics nnd de
nounce their political sentiments, or re
ceive them, as you will; but you havo
no right to assail their private charac
ter, as is done every autumn. That is
not carrying religion into xilities. Now
you can always tell without asking, In
any contest, what candidate I will vote
for. It is always for tho man who is
most badgered, nnd most abused, and
most spit upon, md most howled at
You have a rkflit to contest a man's po
litical sentiments; you have no right
for baso political purposes to assail his
privuto moral character.
LION'S STKKOI!NI YOU.
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that lions cannot hurt a good
man. No man ever got Into worse
company than Daniel got into when ho
was thrown into the den. What n rare
morso' that fair young man would have
been for the hungry monsters! If they
had plunged at lit 1 11 he could not have
climbed into a niche beyond tho reach
of their paw or the snatch of their
I tooth. They came pleased all about
j him, as a hunter's hounds at the well
known whistle come bounding to his
feet.
You need not go to Nniiinlia to get
among lions. You nil have had them
after you the lion of financial distress,
tho lion of sickness, the lion of perse
cution. You saw that lion of financial
V .T ' 1 " ,, . ' 7 .
k: i. .1
euiiu, mm itrii.i-u until uu iiiu uuimn
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tiiu uu inv iiiui ,iiiiu i.i'iiiimiii a iiimmvi.
" UU U
is nostril lie scattered the ashes
j on the domestic hearth. You Uuve had
trial after trial, misfortune after misfort
une, lion after lion; aud yet they have
' never hurt you if you put your trust
In God, and they never will hurt you.
I They did not hurt Daniel, and they
: cannot hurt you.
The Persians used to think that
spring rain falling Into sea shells would
turn into penrls; and I have to tell you
that the tears of sorrow turn into
preeioiis gems when they drop Into
God's bottle. Yon need be afraid of
nothing putting your trust in God.
liven death, that monster lion whose
fton tu rliu urirlifft fiontilfOmr nnil u-lm
t , .g d y tllollfiamh of
1 . .
millions of the dead, cannot affright
you.
When in olden times a man was to
get the honors of knighthood he was
compelled to go fully armed the night
before among the tombs of the dead
' carrying a sort of spear, nnd then when
1 the day broke he would come fortli,
and amid tho sound of comet and great
' parade he would get the honors of
.knighthood. And so it will be with
ithe Christian in the night before
i heaven, as fully armed with spear and
helmet of salvation ho will wait and
' watch through tho darkness until the
' morning dawns, and then he will take
the honors of heaven amid that great
: throng with snowy robeo streaming
over seas of sapphire.
Brlira of tha Kraalior.
TKa ri'lica of a af-.i washed U-Jch are a
ilrange btut ut,re vou Up a bot
tle tliere a can licre a biisket -there a
box here an old hat or cap there a boot
or shoe here a great spike there a Lit
of rope here a piece of cabin gilding
tliere a bit of stout plunking. The sea
never rests. It brings in and it carries
out. The beach one day is sticking. The
next run of the tide cuts it full of runs
and ravines. One tide brings in a splin
tered fiar the next carries it far out to
sea. Where tliere is a great bed of oyster
and clam shells to prevent you bathing
today, there may be only smooth hard
packed sand to-morrow. Atlantic City
Letter.
To IK avoided.
Like repulsive features, awkwardness
harts a person's business. I shun, first
the man of slovenly person; second, the
totally unreliable man; third, the awk
ward, bunclinz man. Winters llowit
In Globe-Democrat. ;
i
A well known old Philadelphia gossip
was counting on her fingers tlie otlicrj
day fime of tlie fashionable pr-ojile whose
marriages were tlie rrault of runaway
inatclies, and in not a single instance had
they tamed out well Philadelphia
Tune.
GILL NYE AND 0URGLAR&
Ho Ihlukt They Aro Favor) Mora Than
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Bill Nvewrlu to The Now York WorlJ
h"u,St 'j1
lio.Ut JeslenluV I fiunl Ilia hu.liel I)
, J,, fl)rur.l,xl "letter, the following
n Iimi I reached tint
basketful
! !
ing vuluir
1 oi utlii.
I I'luafia-Aleni- Ith other K.MtUtiiIam
fiiHixM 111 nn rn iuuiii.in.in i-;.n uuw lieiug
niui!, in dew mute form of quiek and pAliiifi
death f 'l-niir miinleivni and ollii-r cruiitiula ho
limy h.iic In MirTi-r tho death penalty. Suva ef
fort denote; a reilned and cultlxiiM am-lety, 0110
tliatwuuMIn no ajr countenance the lUitoi
Injur)' even to the most nicked tluite that uuukeJ
Cl,.irittcu ou l!io elevalcd suttnii.
Aioti'i k'ihhI turn uWrTe another, and as by
Seme rlnaice eno nf thine uleo. Rood tntcnticned
fwple r:.uv, mi. I, rail unlucky ur, cuino In con
tact Bil l ivie of my irofiwion eti,.-nt,-isl In hit
re' Jl-f uiim'ii", you imiK1 most ivifultily fill a
Ion felt u:it if you would InvetmomequkKand
1 ort:uai to uiuti.-r li vk
t, n j;uril.-:- nn t.H ofteu IliiKi'niii; and lla-
f.,L Wh houid th.-re not he a reform In th.it
HkhiM you kimiiyii-iM your kwiiimo help
ZZl ft'W-'S
nmnv Dt-auuH.
NkwYobs, Fi b. SI, 14,
'''l'lyh'S lri -fly to the above, I will
I""0 V " U"r T' """"i" my
a favor ami went awuy dwipisimted,
,,rovidod I was aide to contril.uto to hi.
provi
wants nnil I'rovuloil ha went at it in the ri;lit
way. I have never JiiuiiksI on it Lurglar lie
bind bis back or taken advuiituo of my
gtv.it KtreiiKlli to do him up.
When a burglar is in my houwho is my
friicst. If be it illnis' to take things as bo
fiiiiNthom bo will linvo 110 trouble wilbnio.
But I U'lieve tlmt, n a cIiish, lurb-lnn are
already favored more than other usijilo,
liurhirs prvsimio too mtieb, I think. Be
cause they Imve frscntm and carte bhiiu'lio
to tho drawim? rooms of our best ixsinls. thev
! want tho rurtti and nmku themselves dc-
"e.'iilile. I do not wish to hurt tho feelings
ol 'iiy c..rr,..ident wvially if ho tak.
the iviivr re'il'irlv, but for one I am going
Jvmmw Li f.tering tbo Infant
; industry of American burglary as again t
tho vuiht bu,-Klr of l'tinio. Let us get
' our 1,ul',i,1B ,,"lu '')' ,1" ,m ""d i't
nF,i,0'l . 'r '.urglary take its chances
lneoniiietitionwithtlmtofeiretomonarclili.
. just weVf rvlUlllg w,a ,l;lV0 to do m
day. In tlio inennt une I do not roiose to do
anything in a newsiaier way that will look
lifc"auatt'iiit to retain tho burglar vote.
1 Ut, J1'0 l"J'ar nis,,le for t,he
way I doand the wavother workmsmeu do,
1 know that bur, lani claim thev are poorly
paid Uvausethi ir work ki'the'n up nights
to much, but iu'khii.t men have to work
I nights also, and unless they can rob a pros-
1 Jros burglar onoo m a w-aiw ttwy have
bard row to hoe.
And w hat Imve the burglars evor done for
Die that I slionltl now bo culled upou to ad
vance tlicir interests!
When thev bud no oilier place to ro, have
they not aiways felt freo to coma to my
bouse! Au I how have they rewarded lay
hospitality! When they went through my
house last ymr and found a condition of
things which would have moved tbo stoniest
heart, what did they do) They tolo a valu
able autograph album which bad boon sent
me to write in, nnd I hud it to pay for. They
took n valuable umbrella Inch I had bor
rowed a few years ago, and which I Intended
to return to tho owner after a while. They
ate somo cold rice and sorghum which bad
been set iisido for the una of other guests,
and then they left tho gate ocn to that cows
got in nnd ule up my hum lipiuia.
Now I am asked to use my iiillueuoe In the
direction of better sand bag facilities for
burglars mid a mora reliiiblo stylo of rapid
transit between tho tax payer and tha New
Jerusalem.
In years )ist I ill ndinit that I was run
' nlng for olllce a good dcul, and I had to do
' things that would retain the burglar vote,
, but now 1 um llrm in my convictions anil
j outspoken for n hat I believe to be right A
: man cugagod in trying to bo his own sue
' eessor in tho sirtfolio of justice of the pence
Is not a f ruo moral agent It U more or less
so iu ether olllc-s, but it is especially so with
a justice of the ieo,
I now prosise, with the help of tho Ameri
can people and an earnest, mnnly effort on
my lrt, to sluiko o(T the I urglar and como
out and tnko higher ground. Henceforth my
voice will bo beard in more or lew stentorian
tones in tho Interests of Immunity. Pros
perous burglary, which gets a second trial,
will Iw regarded tho same as less fortunate
petty lurvcny, which gets ninety days,
Burglars who may have voted for mo in
tho old days aro hereby notillcd that thoauto
graph album aud lima beans offset that ac
count, and that it is my earnest wish, so far
as it is in my jniwer, during the remaining
yours which may bo granted mo, to live
down and forget t ho dark and devious days
when I was in Hilitics. I lieliovo Unit easier
and more puinloss methods for the adminis
tration of capital punishment will soon bo
perfected, w hereby a mun w ho is executed by
the law will not be entitled to any more
glory of flowers than one who dies of pneu
monia. To tlmt end I am willing to work.
When that is accomplished I will devote my
halting jiowers to the furthoramelioratlon of
our race Hut the burglar bos no further
political claims on me.
Men who visit New York from a distance
desiring to purchase gnwnlmcka at forced
salo or to obtain gold bricks of those who are
coniicllcd to sell them for a niero song, will
always bo ameliorated so long as my good
right arm shull nut forget her cunning.
I am willing to do wliut I can for the pro
motion of science and the painless pulling of
burgluri, but this Li as fur as I would go
Moreover, I hope that our enrressiiidenee
w ill not continue any longer. Durglurswbo
pleased and entertained me when I was in
politics luivo long siiK-e cvused to do so. The
truth of the mutter is Unit while all other
professions have mode rapid progress, sili
tiro ami burglary are just where they wero
100 years ago.
Ono reason why burglary has not made
mora rapid utri'l'H I believe to bo becauno
burglars do not advertise. They rely solely
upon their insight and keen penetration. The
result is that burglars and burglary have
fallen off. I do not believe iu trying to help
a profession so abuuduutly ahk to help
Itself.
tanra Oeorg, my love for yoo
Oeorgo Enough, Laura, Jar; I
always be a brother to you, but Life.
rill
fare Water for Plant,
Persons whose plant mysteriously
sicken and die are warned by Dr. J. W.
L. Thudicum, in a communication to the .
London Society of Arts, that only pure
water must I u-d in watering tliein.
Impure ati-r breeds a sort of fungus at
t.ie riots, which soon destroys them.
Chicago Times.
The English army is in a state of dis
content because some London theatre
refuse to admit non-com missioned offl-.
een In uniform to those part of the bout)
where full dreas is required.
Lran Vrnr In Klurida.
NANAIE.
Tha word of the lad to the ana."
You umild know her If you aw bar
onee, foreier after,
Kim her liy her eyiv m true
And ln-r merry l4iiN'liter:
Kuoa her hy her ny month,
W h'-n the miiiU lute kiwusl hr,
Bi" nut from Ilia xvnled aonlh,
Saiiiiie, tloit'i my u.ter
In her hair of eheninut hrowa
Slllilli;tit die a liellli;;
In her eie ileiiiure, eunl down,
t'lipld lien e i-eMllng
Bavv yon mvu her. do you a'tHwet
You eoiilit not Imie iiiimmsI her;
Kenr tier llM a lliiiile klnm
Where Uive, the riuK-rtL kis,d herl
While UnfriiHthie. n.rf,sl Huv'r,
r mruiit fiMiin rnnii out ilieaea,
Btnr lilie e. llul host an hour.
'I lull Hie t'tllow Im iiii to ma
Bhe'i like lln-e. oh. fulr ami nweet!
Sun and wiiiiU have IiImmsI her;
But ihniitier fur. finm hm lo ttvU
Aueiiiouui, my kiKter!
-lluffulo Courier.
tmlde of WIimIv' Mnulh.
The grout Greenland whalo lias no
teeth, its baleen plates, or whalebone,
, biking their place. Along the center of
I the palate runs a strung ridge, and en
I faeli side of this there is a w ide Uepre
! lion, along which the plates are inserted.
I These are long and Hit, hanging free,
and are placed tranercly that is,
1 across the mouth, it h their sides parallel
I ..,.1 ,... .,,.,.1. ..ll Tl... ..,.1 ..
edge of the plales are of solid w hali'lsme,
but tl 10 Inner edges are fringed, lilting up
the interior of the mouth ami acting as a
strainer for the food, which consists of
the small swimming umllusks and me
dusa), or jelly lis! les. This w bale rarely,
If ever, swullows anything larger limn a
herring, shoals of these small creatures
being entangled in the libers of the ba
leen, the water which docs not esciiie
from the mouth being cxcllcd by the
blow holes. Though tho cavity of this
whale's mouth is large enough to contain
a ship's long bout, the gullet is not larger
than a man's list The lower jaw bus
neither buleen nor teeth, but lias large,
fleshy lips, within which the upper is re
ceived when the mouth Is closed. San
Fruncisco Chronicle.
Value uf Hand trailing.
I am acipiaintcd with a sculptor who
declined an important commission for a
statue solely becuuso he did not trust the
hand of the man who gave the order,
At tho time tho artist was considered
little less than a crank, Hut his bund
judgment turned out lo be correct after
all, for another sculptor, having under
taken the statue, had to carry his case
Into the courts in order to get payment.
One of these hand readers fell in love
with a young and Ismitifnl girl. Ho be
came betrothed to her, ulthough there
were some peculiar characteristics in the
lhave and touch of her lingers that ho
disliked. The matter weighed on his
mind. He w us a queer sort of fellow anil
plain spoken. "My dear," he said to her
ono day, "you uro a very lovely, estima
ble girl, and I hold you in the highest
affection, lint tho more I study your
hand tho less I like it. I um ufrukl we
cannot be happy together. Let us break
the engagement." They did. 8ho mar
ried another mun andeloied with a third
in less than four years. Ralph Edmunds
in Kate Field's Washington.
CntorMilo anil Ciiiiiitiiitlin.
A very impartial review of the Influ
ence of the climate of Colorado on the
health of consumptives sent there from
other states has upH'ared, the statements
mude being based on an analysis of a
hundred recorded cases iu which tho pa
tient bus U't ii under observation long
enough for the effects of his sojourn to
be determined. 1'ifly per cent, of all the
coses received so much benefit that they
were able to pursue their occupations
without serious inconvenience. Seven
teen per cent, were somew hat improved,
but had always to use certain precautions
and to limit their exertions. Many of
these returned to their homes. Seven
per cent, of all these cuses became worse,
largely becuuso of their own imprudence.
Twenty-six of all the cases died. Thus
two out of three received benefit from
their residence in Colorado. Nearly all
of those who wero entered as "worse,"
and niuo out of the twenty-six who died,
were doing well until some imprudence
caused a permanent relapse. New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Mow a Ijumi la Made.
First, the ruwhldo is cut In thin strip
as long us iHissiblo and half tanned with
the hair on. Then these strips are soaked
and stretched over a block. Then they
are braided into a rope, care being taken,
of course, to pull the strands ns tight a
possible. When the riatu (lusso) is made
it should lie buried for a week, ten days
or even a fortnight, in the sand. It take
up moisture from the ground without
getting hard. Soaking it in water won't
do, nor will anything else thut I know of
except, as I say, burying it.
When the riuta is resurrected It should
again ls left for a time stretched over a
bhs:k, w ith a weight to hold it taut. Then
the hair should be sundpaicrcd off the
outside, and w hen the riatu is greased
with mutton tallow nnd proHrly noosed
it is ready for use, Every vuquero thut
pretends to take cure of his apparatus
will bury his riuta aud stretch it every
six or eight months. San Francisco Ex
aminer. k Watch In a Stear'a Huimaeh.
Hamilton & Ilrannumuii, the butchers,
purchased a steer a day or two ago of
Squire John Henry lilose, a well know
resident of Tremont. When the steer
wa killed a silver wutch, in good condi
tion, was found In the stomach. Two
years ago a lalxrer on the farm hung his
vest on a rail fence. A silver watch was
In the pocket, and both vest and watch
disapiieared. It is believed the steer at
the garment and contents. The watch
is on exhibition at Tremont. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
AdamaKalljr ftttlm.
Old John Qui ik y Aduius left a definite
record here as a swimmer, and waa per
bail the lust of our presidents w ho swum
In the Potomac river as he would have!
done in the Charles river. I wonder
whether the people of Washington w ould
have any clear idea of John Quincy
Adams at the present time hud it not
been for this Independent habit he had
of going back of the White House to the
river margin and taking hi morning
twitn. Washington letter.
Iffi-cilte I'ulplt Work.
For effitive pulpit work a rested brain
Is the best of all immrsliute preparations.
Had I to choose between manuscript
with a weary head on my shoulders, and
a fresh head not a new one, of course
tod no manuscript, I would select the
head. Gcofi C Lorimer in The Writer,
WORKING WOMEN'S APPAREL
The l:iirlnt t( a Woman Who
II aa
itiMrtid llrralf fur Yare
"If you ate a working woman and
are ambitious to get on in whatever
I you may be doing, said one of tlie
most clever und successful of that
i class, "tliere is olio thing which
you must do, and that is dress well.
Simply from u business point of view,
you cannot utl'ord lo do otherwise.
Aside from the very direct and helpful
iulliienco the consciousness of being
well drevscd has uon the mind of any
woman, the fact of her being so in)
presses other pei-sons in her favor.
(imhI clothes give her an air of pros
htiIv that, in n working woman who
supplies her own needs, stands for
CimhI pay, and good pay means cana
lo work. More than that, the habit
of wearing good clothes implies a rec
ognition on the part of the wearer of
her own dignity and worth, which
others aro very quick to see ami ao
knowledge. It ought not to be true,
perhaps, mil it is true, thai there is a
quick instinct of consideration iu tho
minds of most men -and business life
brings most working women chiefly
'nto contact w ith men toward a well
dressed woman (hat doc, not manifest
itself toward an ill dressed, dowdy
looking creature, and so tho good
clothes give her a plcasantcr atmos
phere and easier couditious in which
to do her work.
"And us lor tho money side of the
question, 1 lirmly U'lieve thai my per
sistence in dressing well, even when 1
was desperately poor, has been worth
at least $5(U) a year lo me. b't me tell
you how 1 found thut out. 1 am not
by nature careful about theso matters,
but on that bitter day w hen 1 made
my lir-a venture out into tho world
in search of bread and butter tome
worldly wise instinct led mo to put on
the best gown 1 had. 1 went lo uu
editor to ask or work ns a fashion
writer for his weekly edition. A shabby
woman sal talking with him. Ho of
fercd her (13 a week lo do ball the
fashion worn. She took his oiler nnd
left. Then ho turned to me.
" '1 want todo the other hulf of that
fashion work,' I said.
"We talked a few minutes uboul it
and then he said: 'I'll pay you what 1
do the oilier woman, (13 a week.'
" 'I can't do it for that,' 1 answered.
'I couldn't live on (13 a week.'
"Ho looked tint over critically from
the top of my hcsl hut down to my
best French kid boots.
" 'No,' ho said bIowIv. after a bit,
'you look different, somehow, aud I'll
give vou ('.'(I a week.'
"Tlial was my lirslexpcricnce in the
benefit of being well dressed, and each
uccceding year has only added lo it."
iow tork Evening bun.
IllnU LOOt MIIm Imin Laud.
Every day wo see playing around the
ship and skimming up and down the
wave hollows companies of lovely little
terus and sea swallows, the latter no
larger than thrushes. Theso fearless
people of the air have not by any means
followed us from the laud, living, as
gulls often will, on the waste thrown
from tho vessel. They are vaguo nnd
casual roaiucra of the ocean, who, spy
ing the great steamship from afar, have
sailed close up to see if we are a rock
or an island, and w ill then skim away
again on their own free and boundless
business.
Yonder tiny bird, with purple and
green plumage, his little breast and neck
laced with silver, Is di stunt 1,000 miles
at this moment from a drop of fresh
water, nnd yet care no more for that
fact than did the Irish squire who
"lived twelve miles from a lemon." If
Ills wings ever grow weary It is but to
settle quietly on the bosom of a great
billow and suffer it for a time to rock
and roll him amid the hissing spindrift,
the milky, flying foam and the broken
sea lace, which forms nnd gleams and
disappears again upon tho dark b1oh's.
When he pleases a stroke of the small
red foot and a Is-ut of the wonderful
wing launch him off from the jagged
edge of his billow, und he flits past us at
100 knots an hour, laughing steam and
canvas to scorn, und steering for tome
nameless crag iu Labrador or Fundy, or
bound, It may be, homeward for tome
island or marsh of the fur awuy Irish
coast
Miirvclously expressive of power as it
our untiring engine, which ull day and
all night throlw and punts and pulses In
noisy rhythm under the deck, what a
clumsy, imerfect affair it Is compared
to the dainty plumes ind delicuto mus
cles which will curry that pretty, fear
less sea swallow buck to his roost. Lon
don Telegraph,
With Iaillnt Dtrinta Cut Loom.
Does going went work a radical differ
ence in a mini's character? Hardly. We
are all cut out of the same piece of cloth.
The western man is the eastern or the
southern man let lixise, with his lending
string cut. Hut the change of situation
create immense diversity in interests
and in spirit. One has but to take up
any of the great newspapers, say In St.
Paul and JIiinenolis, to lie aware that
ho is in another world of ideas, of newt,
of interests. The topics that most inter
est the east ho dot not find there, nor
much of its news. Persons of whom he
reads daily in the east drop out of sight,
and other crsoiis, magnates in politics,
packing, railways, boom up.
It takes columns to tell the daily his
tory of places which have heretofore only
caught the attention of the eastern reader
for freaks of tho thermometer, and he
hat an opportunity to read daily page
about Dakota, concerning w hich a weekly
paragraph has formerly satislled hit curi
osity, lk'foru he cun be aljeorbed in these
lively and intelligent newsiuiert he must
change the wholu current of hit thoughts
and take up other subjects, persons and
places than those that have occupied his
mind. He is in a new world. Charles
Dudley Warner in Harper'.
Wild Turkeys In A ait r la.
Wild lurkeyt have lately been accli
matized in Austria, though such a thing
baa hitherto been considered almost im
possible. From four hen turkeyt and
throe cocks, brought from the American
prairie, the colony has increased to
about 5b0 individuals. Arkansaw Trav
eler. Do Noi Apply.
Hie law allowing three days' grace on
note doe not apply to musician; they
must take up the notes at sight a they
Come due, or the whole will go to pro
test Dansville Ilrecze.
Dy a system of dry cold storage straw
berries can be kept for several month
with unimpaired freshness and solidity.
The latest English word In Pari l
"atniggforiifer," meaning on who hat
to struggle to get a living.
A Cnlleetlnn of Crowna.
The next room (to the throne room of
tlie Kremlin palace) contain probably
the finest collection of jewvls iu thb
world, even moru valuable than those of
tho holy synod, but not so rare and curi
ous. Here is au assemblage of crowns,
most of them coming from tho pulacv
where the thrones were stolen, and some
time worn by royal heads. The crown
of Poland, Kazan, (icorgln, Astrakhan,
Persia and other are more sjJciidid, be
ing covered with some of tho largest aud
most precious stones ever known
'crowns Usin crowns, oceans of pearls,
rivers of diamonds," as ono writer ha
expressed it. Heyond them are the an
cient crow ns of the czars, tho doublo one
for Peter the (ireat and his half witted
brother being the most curious, ami it
tits Is'fore a double throne, with a place
behind the clnisTv where their sister
6phin used to sit und prompt them what
to do und say on occasions of ceremony.
Tho costliest crown in the entire Col
I'Ttion wus made by the order of Peter the
Great for tho Swedish peasant girl who
tiecnino his wife and the Empress Cath
erine I, the mimlier of diamonds in
it U'liig 2, ."loll, nil of them large, llawlcs
stones of the first water, with the largest
nnd finest ruby iu the world as a ci-est.
The crown of Ivan the Terrible has somo
of the rarest stones, very large and per
fift turquoises and sapphires of greut
purity and value. In Ibis room is a
large casket nf solid gold, which contain
the code of the Czar Alexis, W, E.
Curtis in Chicago News.
Fight llelMn Wlialoa.
The cnnul schooner II. G. Ely, of
this city, George Moore, of Deluwure,
muster, has arrived with a cargo of
lumber from North Carolina. Mate
John Bennett rcorted thut when in
Chonieuke bay, oir 4'oint-no-Point,
on tho ufteruoon of March 17, with a
light breeze from tho westward, two
wliules wero seen tlrst on tho port
bow, distant uboul a quarter of a mile,
lashing the water into foam. As the
vessel drew neurer it wus teen that
ono was uboul thirty feel in length,
the other a little larger, and thut they
were engaged in deudly combat The
whales would rush at each other,
sometimes striking with their huge,
siiuure heads, but ofteuer dodging lie
blows, und the smaller seemed to have
tho bcsl of iL They sounded often,
and us often us they came to the sur
face they threw the wub?r fifteen or
twenty leet into the air from their
blow holes. When they came together
the blow sounded like the full of a
pilo driver, only not so clear, and the
thrashing of their tails threw the
wuter half masthead high. The crew
of the Ely watched the combat for
nearly hulf an hour, during which the
larger whale wus steadily driven to
ward the shore. Philadelphia Time.
CniifrvMlnnal lkagea.
The boys who serve as pages in the
house and scnuto are a lucky lot.
There nre 10 of them in tho senate and
83 in tho lower branch. Their ages
range from 9 to 13 veurs, aud they gel
(2. 60 per diem for their services,
which means about (800a yeur. In ad
dition to this regular stim-iid they
pick up a good many odd dollurs iu
the shape of gratuities from the tcna
torsunu congressmen whom they serve
with alacrity. They all weur knicker
bockers nnd are bright luds. Senator
Gorman, ex-Uongressmnii William L
Scott ami the lute Richard II. Town
tend all begun their curecrs in Wash
ington as u go boys, and there ia
probably tuo making of numurou
congressmen in the boy who are now
running errands for statesmen. Bos
ton Herald.
Cautanarlana Ran.
It I a significant fact that twelve of
the largest and oldest London life assur
ance companies, which hud, of course,
Issued policies only to the most carefully
selected, could produce front their list
but a single cose of centenurianisin. The
Instances alleged of persons reaching
their 120th, or even their 118th year, etc.,
may be set down a without exception
not authentic. The three to five year
over a hundred, w hich science indicate
as the iinturaL term of human life, ia
found to,be the period beyondwhich post
centenarians, even under the best condi
tions of attendance, nursing, etc., full
to go. Boston Heruld.
Ma Waa a Watch Vog.
"It is very singular about my dog,"
remarked a clerk iu the electric light
work to a friend.
"What about your dog? I haven't
beard."
"Why, I took him to the work with
me and he wo galvanized to badly I
nearly lost him."
"That's strange," remarked the friend,
"I thought It wot only wulches that
were galvanized by electricity."
"Well, he waa a watch dog." Detroit
Free Press.
Food nnd Fating.
If the food taken by the average man
were of lietter quality, and eaten with
less husle, he would probably be strong
er than he is now. If the average wom
an hums to cook better, the average
man of the next generation will be bet
ter physically and mentally than the av
erage man of today. D. B. St. John
Koosa.
The Coming American Girt
The prediction is freely ventured that
ia a result of the cosmopolitan mixing
of race in this country the American
girl of the future will be a brown haired,
durk eyed creature, smaller as a type
than the girl of today, but plumper and
let angular. Hall's Journal of Health.
To Perforata Earthenware
A method which ia said to be very
tatisfactory it recommended by Profis
tor Stuart as follows: Instead of a drill,
a toft copier rod or pie Is used in the
lathe, ll lieing fed with a mixture of pow
dered emery and linseed oil. The emery
Is embedded in the copjier by the fric
tion, and cut right through the hardest
material in a very short time. Sciontiilo
American.
Who Hvttlrd Kentneky.
Col T. W. Bullitt, of Louisville, gay
that it waa not Daniel Bonne who made
the pioneer settlement in Kentucky, but
an ancestor of hit own named Walker.
In proof of this assertion he shows a
hatchet with which the said Mr. Walker
blazed a path through the trocklesa
wood in 1749. Chicago Herald.
Can Do Nothing EIm.
Russell Sage say he keep on at stock
dealing because he doe not know what
else to do. He thinks New York supe
rior to Paris, and says Broadway is good
enough for him, and adds: "I'd rather
stay at 71 Broadway and guess on the
price of things than be anywhere else ia
the world." New York World.