AT-TUE TAHKUy vCLE.
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DR. TALMAGt PREACHES ON VARl
t OUS KINDS . OF .PROCMGALS. .
Ik Cnw Th Ml Wu Aliuil Kaved Th
Portioned Criminal Th (imtly Morrow
That Ltmri . t li lu Repentitnc
BkooKLTN. .luue 31. Or TttluWKe's ser
i thin morn i iik wrh an appeal to young
Number of iheeconie to the Tab
rnacie Hervicen. tuauy of t hem from couu
try homes, where tbey received ChrisMHii
training, which. lu the temptation of city
life, ha been cast oif l)r TaliuaKe called
Jain nermon "The Homesick Soul." aud his
text was from Ibe parable of the prodigal
on. Luke zt 18. 'I will ari.se and uo to
ay father.'' ' 7
There Ut notbiug like hunger to take the j
nerxy out of a man. A huunry man can
toil neither witb pen, nor hand, nor foot.
There ban lieen many an army defeated,
not no much for lack of ammunition an for
lack of bread ' It was that fact tiiat took
the flreout of this young man of the text .
Storm and expoaure will wear out any
man's life in time, but buuger makenqnick
"work. The moat awful cry ever heard on
earth in the cry for bread A traveler tells
that in Asia Minor there are trees which
bear fruit looking very much like the, long
bean of our time. It is called the carab.
Once In a while the people reduced to
fleatttutioii would eat these caraba, but
jrenerally the curabs.'tue beans spoken of
here iu the text, were tbrowu only to the
wine, and tbey crunched them witb great
avidity Hm this young man of my text
-could not even get them witbout stealing
them " So one day amid the swine .troughs
he heginn to' soliloquize He says.' "These
mra no clothes for a rich man's son to wear:
this in no kind of business for a Jew to be
eagaged iu feeding swine. I'll go home,
J'll go home. I will arise- and go to my
father.''
I know there are a great many people
who try to throw a fascination, a romance,
halo about sin, but notwithstanding all
that Lord Byron and George Sand have
aid iu regard to it it in a nieao, low, con
temptible busiuens, and putting food and
fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniqni-"
ties that root aud wallow iu the soul, of
nan is a very poor business for men and
wonoeu'intended to be sous and daughters
f the lxnl A(mihty And ' when this,
yoang man resolved to go home it was a
ery wise thiug for bim to do, and the'
only question is whether we will follow
' him
. Satau promises large" Wages if ''we will
erve him, but he clothes bis victims with
rags. : and'' he1' piDCheft; them witb; hunger,
and when 'they start out to do better he
eta after them all the bloodhounds of per
litiou. Satan comes to its today and' he
promises all luxuries, all emoluments if
we will only serve him Liar, down with
thee to the pit! "The wages of sin is
death.'' Oh, the young man of the text
was wise wbeu he uttered the resolution.
I will arise and go to ray father." ' -
In the time of Mary the Persecutor, a
persecutor came to a Christian woman who
had hidden in her bouse for the Lord's
sake one of Christ's servants, and the per
Mentor said, -'Where is that heretic? The
Christian womu u said, "You open that
trunk, and yon will see the heretic ' - The
'persecutor opened the trunk, and on the
top of the linen of the trunk he sawaglass.
Heaid,-'There is no heretic here. ' "Ah,'.'
he said," "you look iu the glass,' anil you
will see the heretic'' " As 1' take up the
mirror of God's word today would that in
stead of seeing the prodigal son of the text
we might see ourselves our want, our
waudering, our sin, our lost cooditiou so
that we might be as wise as this young
nan was, aod say "I will arifle and'iro-to
ay father.'
1H SORROW ON K LONGS KOU. A KATHKIC
The resolution of this text was formed
In disgust at his present circumstances. If
this young man had been by his employer
set to culturing flowers or training viues
over an arbor or , keeping .account; .of .the
pork market or overseeing other laborers
be would not have thought of going home.'
if he hail bad his pockets full of money, if
he bad beeu able tosay. "1 have a thousand
dollars now of my own. what's the use of
my going back to my father's house? do
you think I am going back to apologize to
the old urnnf why he would put me on the
limits, he would not have going on around
the old place such conduct as 1 have been
engaged iu. I won't go home, there is no
reason why J should go home. 1 have
plenty of money, pleufy of pleasaut sur
roundings, why should I go home?" A hi
it was bis pauperism, it was his beggary
He had to go home.
Some niau comes and says to me: " Why
do yon talk about the ruined state of the
human soul1 why don't you speak about
the progress of the Nineteenth century,
' aod talk of somethiug more exhilarating'"'
It is fori thin reason A malt never wants
the gospel until be realizes be is iu a fain
lne struck state. Suppose I should come
. to you in your home and yon are iu good,
sound, robust health, aod I should begin
to talk about medicines, and about, bow
. much 'better this medicine is than that,'
and some other medicine than some other
medicine, and talk about this physician
and that physician.' After a while you
get tired, and you would say- "1 don't
want to hear altout medicines. Why do
you talk to me of pbysiciansf I never
have a doctor.''
But suppose ( come into your house and
1 find you severely sick, and I know the
medicines that will cure you, aud 1 know
the physician who is skillful enough to
meet your case. You say- "Briu on that
medicine, briug on that physician. I am
terribly sick, and I want help.' If 1 came
to you and you feel you are all right in
body, aud all right in mind, and all right
in soul you have need of nothing; but sup
pose I 1 have persuaded you tbat the
leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all
sickness; oh. then you say- "Bring me that
balm of the gospel: bring me tbat divine
medicament: bring me Jesus Christ.'.''
But says some one in the audience,
"How do you prove that we are in a ruined
condition by sin?" ' Well, 1 can prove it in
two ways, and yon,' may have your choice
1 can prove it by the statements of men er
by the statement of God. .Which shall it
bef Yon all' say, '"Let- us have the state
mentofGod." Well, he says in one place.
"The heart is deceitful above all things and
desperately wicked.' He says in another
-place, "What Is man that he should be
clean f and be which is born of" a Woman
that he should- be righteousf - He says in
- another place. "There is noue tbat doeth
jcood, no, not one.1 He says in another'
place, "As by one man sin entereth into
the world, ' and death by siu, and so
death-1' passed' upon alii .Tmeh, fop that
all have sinned1."; '' Well;") you siy. f'l.'ant
willing'' to: 'acknowledge . that, but! whjr
should i take the particular rescue that
you propose." This is the reason, ''Ex
cept a man be born agai n be cannot see the
kingdom of God.'' This is the reason,
""There Is one name given nnder heaven
mAM u, 'n w,Ktt .haw mov ha aa'A(l
mong men w hereby tbey may be saved
Then there a. -en tuotisamt voices here rea.i y
to nsv "Well. I am ready to act -apt this
Jos-dh1 I wonid ' like to, Imve-'
ore'" now soil 1 f ltd to work ' 1
? . hat a mere whim, an nn.fe
help of the.
this i divine jen
Let ine mv
fined louginx nmounts To nothing. You
must have a Vtmn, tremendous resolution
like this you iu. man of the text when he;
said,. "1 will arise and go to my father. '
THK AWii'NPINO MERCT OF GOO.
'Oh I" says some man, "how do 1 know ,
my father want me flow do 1 know, if ;
I go back. I would be received""' "Oh!'
says some man. "you dou't know where Ij
have been, vou don't know how far I have '
wandered, you wouldn't talk that way to
me if you knew ul the iniquities 1 have
the 'angels of God? , It is news. jit is' newsl j
Christ has found the lost.
Nor aofcele can their Joy contain.
But kindle with. hen fire; .
The sinner lost, is found, they sine.
And strike the sounding lyre.
Wbeu Xajteon talked of going into
Italy, they said "You can't get there.
U you - kuew what the Alps . were you
wouldn't talk 'about, it or think of it.
You can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps. - Tben ' Napoleon' rose
in .'his stirrups and waving his hand to
ward the mountains, be said, - "There
shall be no 'Alps." - That wonderful pass
was . laid out which lias been the won .
dennent of all the years since the won
derment of. all engineers. And. you
tell Die there' are such rabnntHins bf sin be-
tweeu your soul and Ood.' there is no i
mercy. ' Then I see Christ waving bis band:
toward the mountains. '. 1. '.hear .. hlm say.,'.
"I will come over the mountains of thy sin ;
and the bills of thy iniquity." There shall
be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps.
Again, I notice that this resolution of the
yoobji man of the text was' founded in sor j
row at his iriisliebavior - ' It was not' mere
physical plight. It was grief that he had
so maltreatud his father. It is a sad thing
after a father has done everything for a
child to have tbat child be ungrateful.
How sharper than a serpent's, tooth, it is.
To have a thankless child.
That is Shakespeare. 'A. . foolish son
is the heaviness of his mother." That is
the Bible. Well, my. friends, . have not
some of us beeu crnel prodigals? Have we
not maltreated our Father? And such a
Father! So loving, so kind. If he hail
been a stranger, if , he bad forsaken us, if
he' had 'flagellated us, if be bad pounded
us and turned us out of doors on the com
uions, it would not have been so wonderful
our treatment of him; but he is a Father
so loving, so kind, and yet how many of
us for our wanderings have never apoio
gized.' We apologize for wrongs done to
our fellows, but some of us perhaps have
committed ten thousand times ten thou
sand wrongs, against God and never apolo
gized. ' ' ' - !
,1 remark . still farther that this resolu
tion pf. the text was. founded in a feeling
fof homesickness. I don't know bow long
this young mau, how many months, how
many years he had beeu away from his J
father's house; ' but there is something in j
the reading of my text that makes me j
think be ..was homesick Some of you
know what that feeling is Far away from j
borne sometimes, surrounded by ' every i
thing bright and pleasant plenty of j
friends yon' have said, "I would give the i
world to lie -home tonight." Well, this,
young mau was homesick for his father's i
house. -I have uo doubt when be thought
of bis father's bouse be said, "Now, per
baps,. father jnay not be living." I
WAS THK. PRODIGAL'S MOTHER .DEAD?
We read nothing lu
in this story-this pari
verydy life-we read
able foundexl on. e
nothing -about -the mother It says noth
ing about going home to her.. I think she
was dead. I think she had died of a broken
heart at his wanderings. 'A diad never
gets over having lost , his mother.; Xoth
ing said about her here. . But he is home
sick for his father's house. He thought be
would just like to go nnl, walk aranpd the
old place.
lie thought he would just like i
to go and see if things were as they used
tJ hs f uiitf is m n r nftj huvintr isn i(Y
i.,- I,i.ii- w a b i i
at the door, and a .stranger has come. It
is the old homestead, but a stranger comes
to the door. He finds out father is gone
ami mother is gone, aud brothers and sis-
the text said to himself, "Perhaps father
may. be dead.''. Still be starts .to find out. ;
He is homesick.1 Are there any here today ;
homesick for God, homesick for heaven f
A sailor, after having been loug on the
-sea, returned to bis father's house, and his ;
mother tried to persuade him.uot ..to go
away again. . She saiil: "Now you had iiet- ,
ter stay at ' home. Don't go away; we
don't want you to go. You will have it a
great ileal better here," But it mode him '
angry. The night before he went away I
again to sea he heard his mother praying :
in the next room, and that mode him more i
angry ne went far out on the sea and a i
storm came tip, and he was ordered to very-;
perilous duty, and he ran up' the ratlines.
and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard i
the voice that he had heard in the next !
room. He tried to whistle it off. he tried
to rally his courage, but he could not
silence that voice be bad heard in the next
room, and there in the storm and the dark- :
ness he said:' O' Lord! what a : wretch 1'
baVe been, what a wretch I am. Help me
just now, Ixird God." And . I thought in
this assemblage today there may be some
who may have the memory of a father's
petition or a mother's prayer pressing
mightily upon the soul, and that this hour
they may make the same resolution I find
in my text, saying, "I will arise and go to
my father."
ILMJSTKATION OF THE KKSCUED BOY.
A lad at. Liverpool went out to bathe,
went out into the sea, went out too far, got
beyond his deptli and he floated far away.
A ship hound for Dublin came along aud
took him on board. ..Sailors are generally
very generous fellows, and one gave him a
cap and another gave him a jacket, and an
other gave bim shoes. A geDtleman pass
ing along on the beach at Liverpool found
the lad's clothes and took them home, and
the father was . heartbroken, the mother
was heartbroken at the loss of their child.
They bad heard nothing from him day
after day. and they ordered the . usual
mourning for the stQ event. But the lad
took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liv
erpool the very day the garments arrived.
He knocked at the door, and the father
was overjoyed, and the mother was over
joyed at the return of their tost son. . Oh,
my friends, have you waded out too deep?
Have you waded down into sin? Have
you waded from the shoref . Will you come
backf " When you come back,, will you
come"Th the'Vags' of vour sin, or will you
come robed in the Saviour's righteousness
1 believe the latter. Go home to your God
today f-' He is waiting for you. Go home!
:x- But 1 remark concerning this resolution.
it was' Immediately put into .execution.,:
r ine context says,- tie arose.' ana came, to
'his father." The ''trouble in nine hundred
and ninety-nine times ont of a thousand is
that our resolutions amount to nothing be
cause we make them for some distant time.
If I resolve to become a Christian next
J year, that amouuts to nothing at ali. If I
1 - T U . A ' V 1. !..; .AMA.w..
that amounts to nothing at alL- If 1 re--'
solve at the service tonight to.bacome a i
CbrSstiiMi, hat amount to nothing at iUL I
K resplve.arter I jgo.,bome today to yield
m h,eH" ; 10 L VPWK ;j
w. ail. . u7 uuj4 &IHU- ui .iraviubiuu tlUH 1
amounts to anything is. the resolution that
is immediately put into execution
There is a man who had the typhoid
fever f ie said: "Oh! if I could get over
this terrible distress! If this fever should
depart, if 1 could lie restored to health; I
would all the rest of my life , serve God.''
The fever departed. He got well enough
to walk around the block. He got well
enough to go over to New York and attend
i to business. He is well today as well as
! he ever was. .'.Where Is the broken vow?
, ,
man who said .long ago, "If. J
to the year . 1891.. by . that time 1
will have my business matters arranged.
and 1 will have time to attend to religion,
and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated
Christian.''
The year 1811 has come. January, Feb-
rnary. March. April, May, June almost
half , of the year goue.. . Where is your i
! broken vow? "Oh," says some man: "I'll
attend to tbat wheo I can get my charac
ter fixed np When I can get over my evi)
habits. I am now given tofttrongdrink,"or,
says the man, "I am given to nncleanness,"
or, says the man, "I am given to dishones
ty When I get over my' .present habits.
then ril.be a thorough Christian."- My
brother, you will get worse and worse, un-.t -
-Vnsi tafc.es. you iu nana.. .jNot the j
"Uhteous; .sinners, Jesus came J calL' : - ,
uaaubk ur ritouBAariiiAiwii, ; train uaiteu ana ne was taken out to tne.
Ohl but you say, "I agree with you on j penitentiary,. to which be luwi. been con
all that, but I . must put it off a little j detuned. . There was the third passenger,
longer." Do .you know there were many under far diiTerent circumstauces. She
who came just as near as you are to the ! was a bride -. Every hour was gay as a
kingdom of God and never entered it? I i marriage bell. Life glittered and beckoned.
was at (Cast Hampton and I went into the !
'cemetery to look uronnd. and in that
cemetery there are twelve graves side by i mau was there to welcome her to her new
sidethe graves of sailors. This crew, some home, and bis white locks snowed down
years ago, in a ship went into the breakers ' ujon her as he sealed his word with a ftt
at , Arnugansett. about three miles away. ' theirs .kiss... ... .. . . . ..
My. brother,' then preaching at East Hamp- Qnickly we fly toward eternity. We will
ton, had been at the burial. These men of i soon. be there Some leave this life- con
the crew came very near being saved, i - : demned. - Ob, may rit be with -us, thatv
The people from Auiagansett saw. the leaving this fleeting life for the next, we
vessel, and they shot rockets,' and they sent J may. Cud our Father. ready to greet us to
ropes from the shore, and these poor feU i our new home with him forever. That
lows 'got into the boat, and they pulled will be a marriage banquet! Father's wel
mightily for the shore, but just before they j cornel . Farmer's, . bosom! : , Father's kiss!
got to, the shore the rope snapped and the I Heaven! Heavenl .
boat capsbced and they were lost, their '
bodies "afterward washed up on the beach. jm Keeps Bis Place.
ou - ...u. i . i . u . i i : '
7.,f " " T "i
uceu wiu oi 11, uy my urutuer waeu taese
twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit
and be read over them the funeral service!
They came very uear shore within
shout- f
ing distance of the shore yet did not ar
rive ' on solid land. There are some men j'
who come almost to the shore of God's
mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be
only almost saved is not to be saved at alL
I will tell you of. .two. prodigals, the one
that got hock and the other that did not
get pack. In Virginia there is a very pros
perous and beautiful home in many re-
!Hv n"u'u?-.?uwr ffiito tbto merchant
buat uouie. . lie wmmerisLi very lar luwmil,,
They heard of him often, but.. be was al- ,
ways on the wrong , track. He would not.
go home. At the door pf .that . beautiful
home one night there was a great outcry.
The young man of the house ran down and
opened l he door to see what was. the mat:
ter. It was midnight. . The rest of. the
family were asleep. There were the wife
and the children of this prodigal young
man. The fact was he had come home and
driven theni- out. He ..said; "Out-of this
7""" . " "T CU'T"' 1 "'"I. "Yos. sir." said James not at all haught-
V-! V.J .iKy. . '. , .
The mother gathered them up aud lied.-...
The next morning the brother, the young I
.mau who bad stayed at home, went out to T-'
Bud this prodigal brother and sou. aud ,he !
came where he was, and saw the .
. yOUng
man ' Wandering Up and down in front of
the place where he had been staying, atid
the young man who had kept his integrity ;
ii .vT- V VVr, .' u ' " rZ !
all this mean?, What is the matter with
you?. Why do you act in this way?" The
prodigal looked at him and said:
ifi
! I? Who do you take ine to bef"
saia, .
! "You are my brother." "No,. I. am no?-1 i Recorder
! am a brute. Have you seen anything of ; .
I my wife and children?. Are they dead? IV i
; drove them out last night ia the storm.. 1
! am a brute. Jobn, do you - think there is
any help for uie . Do you think I will ever
! get over this life of dissipation t " He said,
; "Brother, there is just one thiug that will
: stop this." The prodigal ran bis finger
across his throat aud said-., "That will stop
it, and I'll .stop it , before night. Ohl my
' brain: I cau stand it no longer." That
prodigal uever got home. But will tell
t you of a prodigal that did get home.
j TWO KAN AWAY, BUT OKK UETDBXEO.
In England two young men started from
, their father's house and went down to
Portsmouth.
The father could not pursue
his children; for some reason be could not
.eave borne, and so be wrote a letter down j
to Mr.. Griffin, saying: "Mr. Griffin, I wish j
you would go and see my two sons. ..They i.
have arrived, in Portsmouth, and . they are!
going to take ship and going , away, from
home. I wish you would persuade them
back." Mr, Grifliu weut and he tried to.
persuade them back.- He persuaded one to
go. He went with very easy persuasion
because he was . very homesick already.
The other young man said;. "1 will not go.
l nave naa euougn or pome, i ll never go
home." - "Well." said Mr. Griffin, "then if
iffin ' ' V, n ,
yon won't gohomel'llgetyouarespectable.
position on a respectable ship." '.'No you
won't," said the prodigal; "No you won't.
I am going as a common sailor; that will
plague my . fai her most, and what will dor
most to tantalize and worry him will please
me best.' - -
Years passed on, and Mr. Griffin was
seated in his study one day when a mes-,
sage came to him that, there was a young
man in irons on a ship .at the dock a
young man . i condemned 1 to .death who
wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Grifliu
went down to the dock and went on ship
board. The young man said to him, "You
don't know me, do yon?" "No," he said:
"I don't know you." ""Why, don't you re
member' that young man you tied to per
suade to go borne, and he wouldn't gof"
"Oh, yes," said Mr. Griffin.- "Are you that
man?"' "Yes, I am that man,". said the
other. "I would like to have you pray for
me. I have committed murder, and 1 must
die, but 1 dont want to' go out of this
world until some one prays for me. You
are my father's friend, and 1 would like to
have you pray for me."
Mr. Griffin Went from judicial authority
to judicial authority: to get the young
man's pardon, ., He slept not night nor day.
He weut from. influential person to influ
ential person; until -some way he got tbat
young man's pardon. He came, down on
the dock, and as he arrived on the dock,
with the pardon the father came. He had
' heard tbat his son, under a disguised .name,
' had been committing crime and was going
to be put to death. So Mr. Griffin and the
father went on the ship's deck, and at the
very moment Mr. Griffin offered the pardon
to the young man, the old father threw his
arms around the son's .neck and the son
said- "Father, 1 have done very wrong and
f anT very sorry- twishl hail never Iwoken!'
yoarheext 1. 1 am very sorry,!' ,"0!siud ;
the VatEer, 'dou'l ' mention it. it don't
make any difference how It is all over. I
mjt. sou.' i be lUs-ed him j
AIM uiww. " Mii.CMiu lyiaaiM.uiiu, . . - I . .. - i
loday I otter, you the pardon of the gos j
pel-"-fuII: pardon, free pardon. 1 do not
care whut your sin has been. Though you
say you . have committed' a crime against j
God, aguiuat your own soul, against your
fellowui.-in. against your family, against
the day of judgment, against the cross of
Christ whatever . your .crime has. been,
here ..is pardon, full pardon, and the very
moment that you take that pardou your
heavenly father throws his arms around
about you'and says:-"My son, 1. forgive
yon.,, It is all right. ! You are o much in
my favor no-y as if you had never sinned.".
Ol there is joy on earth and joy in .heaven.
Who will take the father's embrace? '
THK MANIAC THK ' CRIMINAL ' AND TBK
' i . BKIOK. ..
There was a geutleman iu a rail car who
uw . m that .same car thri-e nxssemcers of
verv different circumstances The first
wax a maniac. He was carefullv im&rded
by his attendants , His. mind, Jike a ship
dismasted, was beating ; against a dark,
desolate coast, from which no help could
come. The train stopped., ami the man
was taken out into the asylum to waste
away, perhaps,, through years of gloom.
The. second .piissenger was a culprit. . The
ontraired law had seized on liini. As the
cars jolted the chains rattled. On his face
were crime, depravity and despair The
Her companion was taking her to his fa-
thers house. ' Tbe train halted- The old
There is a small
There is a small boy working in a mer
cantile establishment in this town who is
not likely to be banged while he stays In
VT . Vn.l- ...4 . K.. lnn,D ar.A
j vr ,u.. .k:.. . .
thu young mau it. would be rash to. proph
esy. - -:
vr..... t . i ..... . ... i. .i u,n.
, ' ... ..,,. .!,;.. i.ji.. :i
'ST.. ' " . '",' .7?'fiZi
was once in the senate gallery at Washing
ton when Koscoe Conkling sat down, met
aphorically speaking, ou a statesman from
Jimtowo or some other place. , Since that
has been Conkling-
esque, particularly when rebuking an em
ploye. Now the small, boy, who may be called
James, succeeded the other day in perform
ing some especially villainous action that
drew down upon bim the wrath of his em
ployer. So he was called into the presence.
The dignified marchant expanded his chest,
frowned aud proceeded to annihilate the
small boy with a look,. The small boy
would not annihilate. -' 1
"James!" said the merchant haughtily.
'1 wish you to listen to me.'
"las, sir," said, James. -
"This sort of thin won't do at all, sir."
"Yas, sir," said James,,
f- "There bid be no anolotrv for snch nro-
, n hMi. alrf" usul thnmar
'.,... T ..t :n l, ,
'I will not hear of an apology.
:,,
yils
said James, "but I haven't
made none."
rwg , ,, . - , i.,.., , .
yet discharged. Tha haughty merchant is
i,,. i.: w.-LVlar jAtiifmiUiflH. Vew York
UK Kid i ii
Sideways. .
: The iotroductiou of the style of riding on
horseback side saddle is attributed to Anna
of Hnliemia, consort of Richard I L She it
was, acconling to Stowe, -who originally
showed the women of England, how grace
ful lv and conveniently they might ride on
horseback sideways. - Another historian,
enumerating the new fashions of Richard
U's reign, observes; . . : - :
"Likewjse noble ladies then used high
i bead.-,, aud corsets and robes witb . long
J trains, aud seats on sidesaddles on their
' borses,'by the example of .the respectable
i Uueeu Auna. daughter of the king of Bo
j hernia, who first introduced the custom
i jnu the kingdom, for before women of
every rank rode as men.''
Stotbard, in his beautiful illustrative
picture of Chaucer's "Canterbury . Pil
riins." . untiears. according to the. above
, quoted authorities, to have committed an
i. anachronism in rl.:ciu2 the most consuicu
hous female character of his line composi
j tion sidewnyson her.steeiL That the lndyi
fought to have beeu depicted riding the
male fashion might have been , inferred,
t without any historical research on the sub
; ject, from the poet's describing her. as nav-
! . I r . . . . 1
1UK on uer iee& --a pair vi. spurrcs siuirim. i.
Detroit Free Press.
The Ureat Sun Drairon.
: It is the belief among ' both the ignorant
and the educated classes of China that
eclipses of the sun are caused by a great
dragon which attempts to devour the cen
ter of our solar system. An eclipse which
was visible in the Celestial empire occurred
at a time when the people were celebrating
the birthday of. the emperor.. .Now, ib is
the custom to celebrate such an event clad
in the best raiment that can' be afforded:
it is also customary to wear sackcloth and
go into mourning at the time of an eclipse,
at least until the sun has been .rescued
from the great dragon which sieks to de
Tour it. Here, indeed, was a dilemma. At
last Xhe emperor was . petitioned. He be
ing as. superstitious as his people,-ordered
his birthday ignored, and commanded the
people to go Into mourning nntil the sun
shall be "rescued." bt.- Louis Republic: 1 -
Jenkins Breaks Louse.
Miss " Fenderson is one of those lovely,
nymph-like maidens who seem the incarna
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is somewhat above medium height, with a
lithe, graceful figure, exquisite in its pro-.
portions, and n bearing of mingled ease
and dignity. -The clustering ttjcHis of- her
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The Gate City of the Inland Empire is situated at
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is a thriying, 'prosperous
ITS TERRITORY,,
It is the supply, city for an extensive and rich agri-
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THE LARGEST WOOL MARKET.
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: 1 : ITS PRODUCTS,
i The salmon fisheries are the finest on the Columbia,
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