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. ,