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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1886)
FOR MARRIED IEN ONLY. DR. TALMAGE ADVISES HUS BANDS CONCERNING THEIR DUTIES. The Great Responsibility Under taken When a Young Girl is Taken From Her Homo to Make a Household of Her Own. What a True Woman Gives-The Wife'3 Mortgage Oomplcto False Promises Only Too Often Held Out Marriage an AfFectional Bargain at Married Flirts. -A Eap Sjxclal to the Kansas City Times. HnooKtrx, X. Y., Feb. 7. The Rct. T. Do Witt Tnlmagc, D. D., preached to-lay In the Hrooklyn Tabernacle, the rifth of his scries of eermons on "The Marriage ltlng," the subject lieing "Duties of Husbands to Wives." Be fore the ternion lie explained the twenty-third chapter of Genesis, concerning Abraham's admiration for Sarah, her age, the only wom an's ngc mentioned in the lllble, implying that Inquisitivcucss on that subject was an im pertinence. The hymn 6ung was : Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Chrlstnin lore. To-day was moving day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. Once .1 year the pews are rented, and while many retained their old seats there were many changes seen to-d.iy. At the an nual rental Dr. Tucker paid $TB0 for the first choice of a pew, making his. rent come to $0OD; Mr. Kvcrctt paid $o35 for the second choice of a pew, making his rent about $700. The pre miums and rentals were lnrger this year than ever before, aud the Income will be about $31, 000. All the pews in the galleries except the four front rows, arc free, so that the church is conducted on the two plan;, the free and the rented, and no man-can uy he may not attend because he has uotjuejiienns. ISAAC Sr.CS TUB CAMELS COMIKO. The text of the sermon was from Genesis, xxlv., C3: "And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide, and he lifted up his eyes and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming." Following; is the sermon in full: A bridal pageant on the back of dromedar ies. The camel is called the ship of the des ert. Its swinging motion in the distance is suggestive of n vessel rising and falling with tint billows. Though awkward how Imposing these creatures us they move along, whether In ancient or modern times, sometimes carry ing 400 or 4,000 travelers from Bagdad to Aleppo, or from Bassora to Damascus. In my text comes a caravan. We notice the uoiselcss step of the broad foot, the velocity of motion, "the gay ' caparison of' saddle aud girJ-Uand awning, sheltering the riders from the sun, and the hilarity ot the mounted pas sengers, and wo cry out, "Who are they?" Well, Isaac has been" praying for a wife, aud it is time he had one, for he Is 40 years of age, mid his servant, directed by the Lord, has made a selection of licbekah, and with her companions and maidens she is on her way to her new home, carrying with her the blessing of all her friends. THE llltlHl! OIIKF.TS THIS GltOOM. Isaac is in the fields meditating upon lils proposed passage from celibacy to monogamy. And he sees a speck against the sky, then groups of people, and nfteriiv.hllo he ilnUs that the grandest earthly blessing that ever comes to a man is approaching with this gay caravan. The drivers ery 'Kneel" to the camels, and they kneel, and putting foot on the neck of the slooplng beast, the bride dismounts and greets the man who was as worthy of her as she was ot him. "And Isasu went out to meditate In the Held at the eventide, and ho lifted up his eyes and saw, aud, behold, the camels were coming." In this llfth discourse on "The Marriage King," having sjKikeu of the choice of a life time companion, I take it for granted, O man, that your marriage was divinely arranged, and that "the camels have arrived "from the right direction, and at the right time, bringing the one that was intended" for your consort, u Kebckah and not a Jenebel. I proceed to dis course as to how you ought to treat your wife, and my ambition is to tell you more plain truth than you have ever heard in any three quarters of'an hour in all your life. TIIU UUSnAXU'S OIIUAT IIIISPOXSWIMTT. First of all, I charge jou realize your re sponsibility In having taken her from the cus tody and eare and homestead In which she was onee sheltered. What courage you must have had, and what conlidenca In yourself to say to her practically: "I will be to you more than your father and mother, morn than all the friends you-ever had or ever can have. Give up everything-and take me. I feel competent to see you through life in safety. You are an immortal being, but I am competent to defend you and make you happy. However bright and comfortable a home you have now, mid though in one of the rooms fs the arm chair in which you rocked, and in the garret is the cradle in which you were hushed and the trundle bed in Yvhlcli vou slept, and in the sitting room are the fattier ami mother who have got wrinkled faced anil stoop-shouldered, niiddlm-eyeslghted in taking care of you, yet you will do 'better to como vt iili me." "I am amazed that any of us ever had the sublimity of Impudence'to ask such a transfer from a home assured to a homo conjectured and unbuilt. HOL.DXESS Ol" EVERY MAN. You would think me a vcrv daring and haz ardous adventurer if I should go down to one of the piers on the North river, and at a time when there was a great lack ot ship captains, nnd I should, with no knowledge of navigation, proiiose to take a steamer across to Glasgow und Havre, and say: "All aboard 1 Haul in the planks and swing out," and passing out into the sea plunge through darkness and storm. If I succeeded In getting charge of one, that would be the ship that would never lie heard of. But that is ttie boldness of everv man that proffers marriage. lie says: "I will navigate you through the storms, the cyclones, the logs of a lifetime. I will run clear of rocks and icebergs. I have no experience and I have no seaport, but all aboard for a vovago of a lifetime 1 I admit that there have been 10,000 shipwrecks on this very route, but don't hesitate I Tut! Tut I There now! Don't cry! Brides must not cry at the wo Idlng." WHAT A TUCE WOMAN GIVES. In response to tills, the woman by her ac tion practically says: "I have but one life to live and I entrust it all to you. My arm Is weak but I will depend on tho strength of yours. I don't know much of tho world but I rely on jour wisdom. I put my body, my mind, my soul, my tlrapj my eternity In your keeping. I make no reserve. Kven my name I resign and take yours, though mine Is a name that suggests all that was honorable in my father, aud all that was good In mv mo ther, and all that was pleasant In my brothers and sisters. I start with you on a Journey which 6hall not part except at the edge of your grave or mine. Jlutb, the Moabltess, made' no more tnorougn seii-aunegauuu man i matte when I take her tremendous words, the pathos of which many centuries have not cooled: 'Eu treat me not to leavo thee or to return from following after thee; for whither thou goestl will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; tbv people shall be my people aud they cod my god; where thou diest will I die and thero will I be burled; the Lord do so and more also If aught but death part thee and me.' Bide by ldo In lire; side by tide In the burying pound; side by side in heaven. Before God and man and with my Immortal soul In the oath, I swear eternal fidelity." woirrir or all vexeuatiox. o Now. nyr brother, how oucht jou to treat her I Unless you are an "Imrrate fhllnlto you willTat her well. ' 1 Ypuwjll treat her bettfv thu anyone In the uulvertc except your God; her nara will lure In it more music than In all that Chopin or Bach or Mn'lnborgcr com posed. llerejcs, swollen with three weeks of night watching over a child with scarlet fever, will be to vou beautiful as a May morning. After the last rose petal has dropped out of her cheek, after the lat feather of the raven's wlug has fallen from her hair, after across her forehead, and under her eyes, and nerostt her face there are as manv wrinkles as there are graves over Yvhlcli she has wept, you will be able truthfullv to say, in the words ot Solo mon's song: ''Behold", thou art fair, mv love! Behold thou art fair 1" And perhaps she may respond appropriately, lu the words that no oue but the matchless Bobcrt Rurns could ever have found pen or Ink or heart or brain to write: John Anderson, .mv jo, John, We clamb the bill thelther; And monv a canty day, John, We've had wl' ane auither. Xow wc maun totter down, John, But hand lu hand we'll go; And sleep theglthcr at the foot, John Anderson, my jo. THE WIFE'S COMPLETE FlllST MORTGAGB. If any one assail her good name ou will have hard work to control your temper, and If you should strike him down the sin will not be unpardonable. By is complete a surrender as the universe ever sa'. except that of the Son of God for your salvation and mine, she has a first mortgage on your Itody, mind and soul, and the mortgage" i foreclosed, and you do not more thorough! own your two eyes or your two hands that she owns you. The long er the journey Kebckah makes and the greater the risks of her expedition on tho back of the camels, the more thoroughly Is Isaac bound to be kind and indulgent, and worthy. Now, be hone-t and pay your 'debts. You promised to make her happy. Are you making her happy! You are an honest man in other things, aud Jeel the importance ot keeping a contract. If you have induced her into a con jugal partuershli) under certain pledges of kindness and valuable attention, and then have failed to fulfil! your word, you deserve to have a suit brought nguiust you for getting goods under fale pretenses, and then you ought to bo mulcted inn large amount of dam ages. rAI.SE 1I01T.3 HELD OUT. Review now all the line, beautiful, compli mentary, gracious and glorious things vou promised her before marriage, and reflect whether you have kept your faith. Do you say, "O, that "was all sentlmcntallsm and romance and a joke," and that "they all talk that wav 1" AVeli, let that plan be tried on yourself! Suppose I am Interested in western lands, and I illfyour mind with roseate speculation, and I tell you that a city is nheady laid out on the farm that I piopoe to sell you. and that a new railroad will run close by and havo a depot for easy transportation of the crops, and that eight or ten capitalists are going to put up line residences close by, and that the climate Is delicious, and that thi ground, high up, gives no room for malaria, mid that every dollar planted will grow up Yvlth a bush bearing $10 or $30, and mv speecli glows with enthusiasm until you rush oil with me to an attorney to have tho deed drawn and the money paid down and the bargain completed. You cau hardly sleep nights because ot the El Dorado, tho Elysium, upon which you are sonn to enter. DECEIVED 11Y OLOWISU 1'ItOMISES. You give up your home at tho east, you bid good bye to vour old neighbors and take the train, aud aitcr many days' journey, you ar rive at a quiet depot, from which you take a wagon thirty miles through the wilderness, and reach your new place. .You see, a man seated on a wet log In a swamp and shaking with the fifteenth attack ol chills and fever nhdnsk hjm who he is. He says': "I am the real estate agent, having in charge the property around here." You ask him where the new dejiot is. He will tell you that it lias not yet been built, but no doubt Yvill bo If the company get their bill for the track through the next legislature. You ask him where the new city Is' laid out. He says, with chattering teeth: "If you will wait till this chill is oil I will show It to you on the map I have In my pocket." You ask him where the capitalists are going to build their fine bouses and he says: "Somewhere along those lowlands out there" by those woods, when the water has been drained off." That night you sleep in the hut of the real estate agent, and, though vou pray for everybody else, you do not pray for me. " Being more for tunate than many men who go out In such circumstances, you have monev enough to get luck, and you come to me, and, out of breath in your indignation, you say: "You have swindled me out ot eveiy thing. What do you mean by deceiving me about that western property!" "O," 1 reply, "that, was all right, that was seiitlmcntali.'.iii and romance and a joke. "That's the way they all talk." ntOMlSr.S MADE TO HE KKI'T. But more excusable would I be in such de ception than you, O man, who by glow of words and personal magnetism, Induced a womanly soul into surroundings which yon have taken no care to make attractive, so that she exchanged her father's houe for the dis mal swamp of married experience treeless, llowerless, shelterless, comfortless aud god less. I would not be half so much to blame In cheating you out of a larm as you In cheating a woman out of the happiness of a lifetime. Mv brother, do not get mad at what I say but honestly compare the promises you made and see whether you have kept them. Some of you spent every evening of the week with your, betrothed be'foru marriage, and since then you spend every evening away, except you have Influenza or some sickness on ac count of which the doctor says you must not go out. You used to 1111 your conversation with interjections of adulation, and now you think it sounds silly to praise the one w bo ought to bo more attractive to you as the years go by, and life grows in severity of struggle and becomes more sacred by the bap tism of tears tears over losses, tears' over graves. CllUEL COLDNESS TO LOVED ONES. Compare the way some of you used to como in the houso lu the evening, when you .were attempting the capture of her affections,. and tho way some of you come Into the house In the evening now. Then what iwllteness, what distillation' of smiles, what graclousiiess, sweet as tho peach orchard lu blossom week ! Now some of you come In and put your hat on the rack and scowl, and say: "Lost money to-day!" and you sit down at the table and criticise the way the food Is cooked. You shove back before the others are done eating, and snatch up tho evening paper and read, oblivious ot what has been going on In that home all dav. The children are in awe before ithe domestic autocrat. Bubbling over with luii, yet they inuht be quiet, and with health ful curiosity, yet they must ask no questions. The wife hif had enough annoyance lu the nursery and parlor and kitchen to fill her nerves with nettles ami spikes. As you have provided tho money for food and wardrobe, y-ou feel you have done all required of you. Toward the good cheer und the intelligent Im provement und tho mot al entertainment of that home, which at the longest can last but a fcYV years, you ure doing nothing. You seem to have no realization of the fact that soon these children will be grown up, or In their spulchers, and will lie far removed from vour influence, and that the wife will soon end her earthly mission, and that house will be occupied by others, and you yourself will be gone. MAltUIAGE AN ATFECTIONAL J1AKGAIX. Gentlemen fulfill your contracts. Christian marriage Is an alfeetlonul bargain. In heathen lands a man wins his wife by achievements. In some countries wives are bought by tho payment of 60 many dollars, us so many cattle or sheep. In one country tho man gets on a horso and rides down where a group of women are standing and seizes one of them by the hair, and lifts her struggling and resisting on his horse, aud if her brothers and friends do not overtake her before she gets to the Jungle she fs his lawful wife. In auothcr the mascu line candidate for marriage Is beateu by tho club of the oue whom he would make his bride. If he cries out under the xwudlug he Is re jected. If he receives the blows uncomplain ingly she is his by right- Endurance and bravery nnd skill decide the marriage In bar barous lauds but Christian marriage Is a vol untary bargain In which you promise jirotec tlou, supjiort, eomianlnushlp and love. WHAT THE HON I CALLS OH. Business men have In their flre-proof safes a file of paper containing their contracts, and sometimes they take them out and read them over Ui sec what the party nf thn Unit mrt and thf TiartV of the secoud part really Jwund thetwelves to do. Different I mlpUtfra oX .tfHKlPU Mie- their own-jKsjullv ' form ol marriage ceremony, uui ii you utu forgotten that you promised at the altar of wedlock vou bad better bur or borrow an Epis copal prayer book, which contains the sub stance of all Intelligent marriage ceremonies, when It hira: "I take thee to 1h my wedded wife, to have and to hold this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer or for ioorer, in sickness and iq health, to love nnd to cherish till death us do part, according to God' holy ordinance, nnd thereto I pledge thee my troth." Would It not be a gixd idea to have that printed In tract form and widely distrib uted! nCSIIANDS OIVEN TO FLlltTINO. The fact Is that many men are more kind to ovcrylnnlv else's wives than to their own wives. They Yvltf let the Yvife carry a heavy coal scut tle lip stairs, and will at "one bound clear the width of a parlor to pick up some othtr ladv's pocket handkerchief. There is an evil which 1 have seen under the sun, and It Is common among men, namely, husbands in flirtation. The attention they ought to put upon thelrown wives-they bestow upon others. They smile on them" coylv and ukaucc with a maimer that seems to siiv, "I wlh I was free from the old drudge at tiome. What an improvement you would be on my present surroundings!" And bouquets are seiit and accidental meetings take place, aud late at night the man comes to his prosaic home whistling and hilarious and w'onders that the wife is' jealous. There are thousands ot men who, while not osltlve !y Immoral, need radical correction of their habits In this direction. It Is meanness Im measurable for a man by his Wiiavlor to say to hlsYvlfe: "You can't lielp yourself, and 1 will go where I please and admire whom I pleas:, ami I defy your criticism," i - Fi.htTs EiTiir.it Fitirns on iukes. Why did you not have that put In the bond, O domestic Shvlock I Why did you not have it understood before jou were pronounced hus band and Yvlfe, that she should have only part of the dividend of your affections, that'when. as time rolled on nd the cares of life had cra-ed some of the bright lines from her face, and given unuieldlness to her form, you Yvould have the reserved light to piy obeisance to cheeks more rubicund and figure llther and more, agile, and as you demanded the last iouiid of patience aud endurance on her part, jou could with an emphasis of an Edw.'n l'or rest or a Macreatly, have tapped the eccentric marriage document aud have said: "it's In thelMind!" If this modern Kebckah had un derstood beforehand where she was alighting, she would have ordered the camel drivers to turn the caravan backw-ard toward l'adauaram. Flirtation has Its origin either In dishonesty or licentiousness. The married man who indul ges in It Is either a fraud or a rake. However high up lu society such a one may be, and however sought after, 1 would not give n3eent piece, though It had been three limes clipped, for the virtue of cither the masculine or femin ine flirt. GOOD ADVICE IOIt MUMMED MEN. The most worthy thlugfor the thousands of married men to do Is to go home and apologize for past neglects, and brighten up their old love. Take up the family Bible and read the record of the marriage day. Open the drawer of relics In the box liislde'thc drawer, contain ing the trinkets of your dead child. Take up the p.ack of yellow-co'-rcd letters that were written ion you b.c..i one. Rehearse tho scenes of joy and sorrow in which vou hu-0 mingled. Put all thee-j thlujr, as fuel on tht altar, and bv a coal of sacred lire rokludlo tho extinguished light. It was a blast from hell that blew It out, and a gale from heaven will fun It Into a blaze. i c who have broken marriage vows, speak out ! Take your w Ife into all your plans, your sueccs.scs, your defeats, your ambitions. "Tell her everything. Walk arm in arm with her In places of amusement, and on the piazza of summer Yvatcring places, and up the rugged way of life, and down through dark ravine, and when one trembles on' the way let 'the of her be reinforcement. In no case pais your stif off as a single man practicing gallantries. Do nut, after you are fifty years of age, in la dles society try to look joutig-manuish. EXCOUltAGINO WIVES IN CIlltlhTIANlTY. Interfere not with your wife's religious na ture. Put her not iii that awful dilemma in wiiich so many Christian wives are placed by the!'- husband, who usk them to go to places or do things which count i them to decide be tYvcen loj'tilty to God and loyalty to the hus band. Rather than usk her to compromise her Christian character encourage her to be more and more a Christian, for there Yvill be times in your life when you will want the help of all her Christian resources; and cer tainty, when jou lemember how much Influ ence jour mother had over ymi, you do not want the mother of your children to set n less gracious example. It pleases me greatly to hear the unconverted and worldly hushuml sav about his wife. Yvith no idea that It will got to her cars: "Thero is the mo.-t godlv woman alive. Her gooiness H n perpetual rebuke to my waywardness Nothing on earth could CY'er induce her to do a wrong thing. I hone the children will lake after her Instead of after me. If there is anv heaven at all, 1 am sure she will go there," Aye. my blither, do you not think It would be a wise and safe thing for you to Join her on the road to heaven i You think you haY-e a happy home now, but what a home vou would have if you both were religious! What a new sacredncss it would give to our marital rela tion, and what anew light It would throw oa the forehead of your children. In sicklies, what a comfort! In reverses of fortune, what a wealth ! In death, what a triumph ! THE HIOII l'HIEsr OK THE HOME. God meant you to be the high priest ot your household. Go homo to-day and take the Bible on your lap and gather all vour family yet living around you, and those not living will hear of It in a flash, ami as ministering spirits will hover father and mother and children gone, and all your celestial kindred. Then kneel down, and if you eun't tlilnk of a prayer to oiler I Yvill give you u prayer, name ly: "Lord God, I surrender to thee mvself and my beloved wife and these dear children. For Christ's sake forgive all the past and help us for all the future. We have lived together here, may yvc llvo together forever. Amen and amen." Dear me! Yvliat a stir It would make among j"our best friends on curth aad lu heaven. Joseph II., the emperor, yvos so kind and so philanthropic that lie excited tho unbounded love of most of his subjects. He abolished strfdom, established toleration, and lived In the happiness of his people. One day while on his way to Ostend to declare it a free nrt, nnd while ut the head of n great procession, he saw a woman at tho door of her cottage iu dejection. TEACHING SELFISHNESS A LESSON. The emperor dismounted and asked the cause ot her grief. She said that her husband had gone to Oiteud t ) see tho enieror and had declined to take her Yvltli him, for, us he was an alien, ho could not understand her lov nl enthusiasm, aud that It was tho one great desire of her life to see the ruler for w hose klnduts and goodness and greatness she had mi unspeakable admiration; and herdlsapKilu ment lu not being abl to go and see him was simply unbearable. The Emperor Joseph took from Ills jHK'ket a box ilecoratdl with dia- moniis surioumiiug a picture ot Iiimscir aim presented it to her, ami w hen tho picture n--Y-caled to whom she was talking she knelt in reverenco and clapjicd her hands In gladness before him. The emperor took the mime of her husbaiid,uud tho place where ho might bis found ut Ostend, und had him Imprisoned lor the three days of the emporcr's visit, so that the husband, returning home, found that the wife had secu the emperor, white he bad not seen him. AltM AND AltM TO CIItUBT. In many families of this earth the wife, through the converting grace of God, has seen the"Kln2'lti HlabeaUtY,f,uriiI he-has conferred ujxjnhertho pearl of great price, while tho husband Is ati "alien from the covenant of promise, without God aud without hojw In the world," and Imprisoned In worlilliuess and sin. O, that that they might arm In arm go this day and see 11 1 in who is not only greater and lovelier than any Joseph of earthly dominion, but "high over all earth and air and sky.' Ills touch la life. His voice Is music. Ills smile Is Heaven. Don't Hut Too Jnich. According to a hygienic artlclo just publish ed In the London Jtanctt, ,the appetite Is a most misleading sensation, only remotely re lated to the actual demands of tho organism. If wc wily at more deliberately we should iind hulfjuur accuttomed ipuautlty of food suf ficient to wlhly the moat eager cravings of i auuger, aim ueuco tare ourselves I row uj peps la. A'rhlladelrilila raau has Invented something that Is said to'effectuill'prereat trousers frosa Daeglng at the Voce. ANCIENT ROMAN TOMBG. Two ScpiilcliiTM Thnt IhiYo Hcoit Veil ml 111 tlr Kternal City. Writinj; timler ihito of Jan. 18, :i Homo correspondent of The London Times savs: A iliscovcr- of liijrh inter est from historical, architectural, nrcliicologieal, anil oilier points of view lias jiKt bon mailu in very curious cir cumstances'. With the. tlilVoreneo of a couple of feet in tho tracing of a lino on an engineer's plan, extending over an area measuring two miles in length, it would have been lost perhaps forever. A inagnilieent main sewer (not un worthy, being compared with tho Cloaca Maxima), into which tho How from all tho drains and sowers of tho city will bo turned and carried for dis charge into tho Tiber at-: spot beyond tho basilica of St. l'tinl's outsido tho walls, is now in rapid progress of con st ruction. Tho Yvido deep trench for tho continuation of this lias jut been cut along that area. A few days ago tho workmen, while dressing tho left perdendieulur sido of tho Hitting, which passes near the re main of the Hmpoiium, laid bare tho front of an ancient tomb, facing exactly on the line. It is perfect in every re spect, excepting tho cornice, which is wanting. It stands at a depth of some twenty feet below the modern level, imbedded in the solid mass of accumu lation, which rises above tho upper part of it full ten fo:'t. As seen now, it looks like a part of a line architectural panel, set into the cleanly-dressed sido of tho trench. His of rectangular construc tion, measuring as it is about nine feet in height by fifteen feet in length; tho dado being formed of four courses of tufa blocks, standing on a projected 'base, wit li finely-wrought mouldings. In the middle of the faca is a single block of travertino, about threo feet in length by two and a half feH high, bearing an inscription, and on each sido of it live lictor's fasces, wrought in bas Velicf on tho tufa blocks. Tho inscrip tion reads: SEIt . SCI.t'lCIUS . Sen OALII.V . COS. rnn . ijCAiiit . xx.x. F. This Sergius Sulpieius Gallia, son of Sorbins, must have bjen the ramo who was consul in tho year 111 P. C, to gether with L. Aurclius Cotta, and grandfather of tho SulpiciousGulba who was sent by Ctesarat the opening of tho Gallic campaign in 68 li. C. against the Nantuates, the Veragri,.and tho Seduni, and who was great grandfather to tho emperor Galba. 'Sergius, who was eventually tho occupant of this monu ment (which, judging from its material.- ami stylo of construction alone, might be attributed to a still earlier date, ami (which, according to tho last line of the inscription, occupied a space measuring thirty Mpturo feet) received Spain as his province during his prfetorship in 1M 15. C, and committed unheard of atrocities against t no i.iisuaniaiis. tie was wealthy and niggardly, except when briliery and corruption required tin open hand ; but on the other side his memory is distinguished by tho high praise which Cicero bestowed on his talent as a speak cr.in calling him the lirst among the Hu mans whose oratory was what it should be. Ho was still living in tho year IDS li. C, when he spoke for the publican!, but that is the last record we have of him. It is curious that within littlo inoro than twelve months two sepulchers should have been found, distant from Dach other at the extremities of a diag onal line drawn across tho city, each in a perfect stato of preservation, with in scriptions illustrating the times of ono Df tho least interesting of tho Hist twelve Ciesars iiiitnely, the unfortunate I'iso, adopted by Galba as his successor, ;o be slaughtered with him on the forum i few days afterward, and afterward this tomb of an ancestor ho lived and nindo tho forum ring with his oratory wo hundred years before. Further, iach of these was discovered accident illy, and each at a depth far billow tho modern level. I believe it is tho inten ;ion of the archteological authorities to have tho stones of this tomb now dis covered carefully Utkon down, num bered, and removed before tho sower is ouilt, that it may by ro-erected and pro longed in ono of tho piazzas of tho new piarter rising in this locality. I may add that, in tho courso of tho auild'mg operation iu progress near tho ipot whoro this discovery has been made, an ancient road, with tho blocks of its basalt pavement in situ, was laid aarc. 'Along this, no doubt, rolled tho incessant trafllc between tho city and ;ho emporium and thn great warehouses ind granaries situated in this district. Among other remains of tho buildings jf twenty centuries ago laid baro, tho iito of tho Faculty of Medicine of that date, with an inscription bearing tho names of thirty physicians, members of tho. college, arranged iu tlireo columns, bus been found. Aji American "Woman's Retort. Tho brother of a duko not long ago paid his addresses to an American wo man of fortune who was disinclined to listen to liim. He persisted, however, till at a final refusal he got up from - his knees und exclaimed: Ohl" you can not understand us. Yon aro not made of tho same clay." Our country wo man remembered. his lordship's family history, andjeplied: t'No, indeed, I am not descended from u king, nor his mistress." Adam liadeau. She "Wanted a Japanese Kiss. There ate two little Japanese boys, about live years old, at tho .Inpancso village in Madison Square Garden, New York. They all'ord a great deal of amusement for visitors, being very jauntily dressed and wearing wooden slices. The other day a little American miss of about their age was greatly struck by their appearance and follow ed them about, wherever they went. Her mother called to her several timc$, but she followed on with infatuation, and when close to one of the little Japs she suddenly threw her arms about his neck and endeavored to plant, an Amer ican kiss on his lips. The horror-stricken mother nearly fainted. A Japanese relative was about to drag away tho in nocent, victim, but was spared the trouble as the little fellow stoutly re sisted tho kissing and actually pushed the pretty girl away. It is doubtful which was the more exasperating to tliu mother, the kissing attempt of her child or the refusal of the Japanese boy to submit to it. Her vexation had to I give way to the laughter of those who witnessed tho scene. Chicago Ledger. M. Pasteur. M. Pasteur is O.'J years old. He is a short, thick-set person, about live feet six or seven inches high, witli straight black hair, a little sprinkled with gray, and short-trimmed whiskers of the same character. Som? few years since, lie hail an attack ot paralysis which all'ected his left sido somewhat, so that the move ments of that sido were not its free as those of tho other. In soino ways ho reminds, ono of the late Gen. Grant. He is not. much of a talker; lias in general rather unemotional features, but hits a pair of kindly, dark eyes, with heavy eyebrows. From casual observation or without Miflieiont acquaintance, under peculiar conditions, one would never bo led to think that a man so apparently unemotional possessed a tenderness and emotional sympathy far beyond that of ordinary women. When babes or very young children displayed exceeding fright after tho first inoculation, when brought each succeeding day, one did not have to watch very closely to see the pearls of sympathy gather in the master's eyes. Dr. Hillings, in Medi cal 2'cws. WantedFrivolous Young Men "It's no use," a young lady recently remarked, despairingly; "thero aro no frivolous men any more, and it is quite useless to try to have parties. Nobody conies but the solemnly dudisli empty brains that it gives one cold chills simply to look at, and if onu of the fellows that is really interesting does stray into a ball or an assembly, ho has the air of having made a dreadful mistake, ami gets away as quickly as possible. Uvcry body is so dreadfully in earnest either for working or being a fop that thero isn't a good comrade left." The lively young creature has more to say in tho same stylo and to the snlna general pur pose, the burden of her complaint baing that th're were no soL-lety mm who seom.'d, as she phrased it, worth while, and that the individuals who were really worth while -whatever that mysterious formula may mean1 could not be dragged into those gay assemblies whither the belles of the town repair to criticise each other's dresses and to meet the opposite sex. Chicago Ledger. Life is too Brief. Life Is too brief It deems t'i ma To llht, full out or disagree; To fret the heart aud wusto one's time lu waning words or angry rhyme;" To mourn fond hopes before they Dec. To sit with folded lunula to seu Tho nether side continually: lteproach a hiiiIIu Is mirth n crime? Life Is too brief. Culm, kind, serene and peaceful be, And, growing passe gracefully, Accept time's kindly frost and rime, Tlie heart be merrv as u chime; Nor bullish Joy and Jollity I.lfu Is tco brief. !j JMiert Oyilen Fouler. The Frozen "Valloy of the Lena. Scieniilio mim have been perplexed for many years over tho phenomenon of n. certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. A Russian merchant in 1828 began to dig tliu well, but ho gavo up the task three years later, when ho dug down thirty feet and was still in solidly frozen soil. Then the Russian Academy of Sciencos dug away at tho well for months, but stopped when it had reach ed a, depth of JJ8L' feet, when tho ground was still frozen as hard as a rock, iu 1811 tho academy had tho temperature of tho excavation carefully taken at various depths, from tlicso data it was estimated that the ground was frozen to a depth of 012 feet. Although tho polo of the greatest cold is iu this prov ince of Yakutsk, not oven tho terrible, severity of tho Siberian winters could frcezo tho ground to a depth of GOO feet. Geologists have decided that tho frozon valley of tho lower Lena is u formation of tho glacial period. Thoy believe, in short, that it froze solidly then, and has never since had u chanco to thaw out." The Dog. Joaquin Miller has h great antipathy to dogs. Ho says tho Greeks aro tho only people who know what to do with ft dog. "They put him tit tho gates of hell." Hut thoy had a greater, antipathy to men. Thoy didn't leavo them ut tho' gates. They shoved th'eni huJ3oslon Toit. Badly Treated. a!r. Anderson Hradlcv thought that mercantile establishment in tho fndia; Territory could not fail to yield hand some piolits. He opened a store in tli Choctaw nation about two months age The other day lie returned to Littl Rock. His clothes were much worn am his manly physique appeared to have re ceived some sort of shock. "Why, Anderson," said a friend, "ya do not appear to bo enjoying yourself.' "No, I an: not boisterously happy." "What has become of your store ii tho Indian Territory?" "It's up there yet." "Has business been very good?" "Middling." "Ome. tell me what's the matter." "Well, I wasn't treated rightly. Whoi I went up f.iero I found a man wl wanted to sell his store. Ho offered th establishment at a very reasonable rate and as 1 had the cash I bought it. I re stocked the house and soon thought my self on the road to prosperity. Severs days afterward a man walked briskb into tho store and said: " 'My name is Fowler.' I shook hand with him, for ho looked as though h might become a good customer, and in vited him to sit down. 'Why did Pile leave so suddenly?' ho asked, mcanin; the man from whom I had bought tli store. 1 replied that I did not know He went behind tho counter and goinj up to the desk began to look over m; books, lie was a muscular fellow and was determined to treat him with po liteness, but I soon found it necessar; to say something, lie turned to mo am romarked: " 'As tho dull season is coming on! reckon I'll have to get along withou yon.' " 'What do you mean?' I demanded " 'I mean that I'll have to discliargi you. Files had no authority to biro am one. Ho might have waited until I go back.' " 'Will you plea'o explain?' said I. " 'I think, sir,' liu replied, 'that yov are the one to explain.' " 'I'll do so. This is my house, and " 'Your house?' " 'Yes, my house. 1 bought it o Files.' " 'Then Files sold something that dii not belong to him. This is my store Files was only a clerk.' "1 couldn't do anything. I wont b law, but lo.U tho ease. All my mono; was gone, and I- was in a strango conn try. 1 had to tramp away. I wouh tell you more, but Tiles is in town." "And you aro hunting him?" "Well, no, 1 am keeping out of hi way. Hu says that ho didn't chargo m. enough for the store, and says, so I m derstand, that ho proposes to get evoi with mo physically. I like a quiot life you know, and therefore shall not asso ciato with him." Arkansaw Traveler Double Fay But No Sinecure. Not many miles from Chicago livo.s t target man, who, for near y four years has played a little game admirable fo its boldness and ingenuity. The dutio of i target man, everyone must know are to keep constant lookout at th crossing of (wo railroads and to swinj tho red danger signal over ono track a tho approach of a train on tho otliot l'or ton years ono man has held tin position of day targotman, and hu ii still there. Four years ixo tho nigh man was killed, and tho day man, act ing under instructions, reported tin nainu of a man compotent to take do eeased's place. This man was accord ingly placed on the pay roll aitd, rccoiv cd lib salary regularly from tho pa car. The junction at which these met aro employed is merely a crossing on on tliu prairie. Thero is no house then beside the turgolinan's shanty, and, few Tods away. Ids humble dwelling A fow weeks ago it was accidentally dls covered that for four years ono man ha drawn two men's pay, and that tho nov man who was hired fouryear.s ago novo existed, save in tho imagination of th man who pretended to hire hlni. Hu tho targotman who drow two mon'. pay also did two men's work. For foil years he has lived in that littlo shunt; night und day. Not ten licur.s in al that time hits he been farther from tin crossing than the little frame lions where ho nto his meals. Twenty-fotu hours a day and DO.) days u year he luu been on the lookout for approaching lo comotivo head-lights and smokestacks Of courso. he could not have perfonnot such service as this without assistance but nil the assistance he had was that o an automatic signal rigged up by him self during a few of his many leistin hours. Stretching an old piece of tolo graph wiro half a mile up tho track ii each direction, ho drow it taut and alllx cd a connecting trigger tp tho surfaci of tho rail, bo that tho whcqls of ovcrj approaching engino would pull tho win nnd drop an old hat into his faco as In slept in his shanty. By this means Iu was enabled to socuro plenty of slooj botweon trains, and at the sanio time Lx suro of being awake and on duty when over needed. Kvery pay-day ho pro sentcd at tho car not only his order, bu that of tho Imaginary night targotman properly indorsed, and thus received tin pay for two men's work. Tho story it told upon tho authority of an ollloial o tho interested company, who add tb' tho question now is whether thn nam shall bo compelled to give up oneo.f hj salaries or be permitted to coUH'1fch littlo scheme It is admitted that kit duties have always been faithfully per formed. Chicaqo Herald. ,