DIG INTO ANCIENT CRAFT.
T a n n c l W o r k e r s F in d H all o f Ship In
B r o o k ly n 's E x c a v a tio n .
Eighteen feet below the street level
tbe diggers of the Brooklyn tunnel
have come upon the hull of an old
ship, says a New York special to the
j Bt Louis Post-Dispatch. The rem
nants of the vessel must have been
where they have now been found for
Hop*.—It 1« natural for men to hope. at least 100 years.
Prom the beginning until now man haa
They are putting down a shaft at
always dreamed of the Golden Age. Furman and Joralemon streets to meet
Sometimes he had called It the Golden the tunnel, which Is being run out un
Fleece, and sometimes ne had called It der the East River from a point far
the Holy Grail — Key. N. M. Waters, more Inland than Furman street. The
Congregationalism Brooklyn, N. T.
l tunnel Is so far underground that It
Peace.— There are two ways o f get went under the old ship. The shaft
ting peace. One la to work on the struck the ship close to the side of the
thing nntll you come to an agreement, hull. The workmen first of all came
and the other la to say you do not to what appeared to be a black oak
care. Indifference la really the true floor. Chopping through It they came
explanation.— Rev. F. L. Patton, Con to the curved black oak ribs of a ship.
They would have found rock more
gregationalism Princeton, N. J.
Religious Liars.— The world Is full easy to dispose of. The timbers were
of religious liars, men who are like a as hard as stone Itself and were very
much harder to break up. They could
watch well made and wound, but
not be blasted and ay after ax was
whose face and dial hands point to
dulled In getting through them.
8:30 at 10 a. m. They were made right
Word got around In the neighbor
and wound right and keep going, hut
hood of the discovery of the ship and
they have never been set righ t— Rev.
a great horde of souvenir hunters de
F. W. Gunsaulus, Independent Chi
scended on the works and carried away
cago, 111.
chips. So very little of the ship was
In the Church.—There are Christians exposed by the shaft that not much
who are not church members and there can be learned of It, bnt It seems to
are church members wbo are not Chris be lying across the street with much
tians. What Is the difference? Well, of Its length running under the build
It Is the difference between character ings on the south side of the street At
and costume, between seemingly and the time the foundations o f these
reality, between facts and appear buildings were dug, so far as one can
ances.— Rev. B. Craig, Disciple, Den remember, there was ao trace of the
ver, Colo.
' old ship fount).
All sorts of romantic stories are be
Bln.— Sin Is the- most subtle and In
sinuating thing In the world. It Insin ing Invented to account for the pres
uates Itself so gradually and slowly ence of the ship there. Certainly the
into the habits and principles of men oak timbers are all fastened together
that they know not Its progress and with wooden pins, and ships have not
strength until the nature Is so corrupt been put together without metal for
as to be capable o f the darkest deeds. many a long year. Then, too, Furman
— Rev. J. W. Hill, Methodism Harris street was filled In 90 years ago, and
there was no ship there then, so that
burg, Pa.
tbe hulk must have sunk under the
Christianity In Politics.— Tnere Is no
mud before that time. The generally
occasion for forcing a distinctly Chris accepted explanation Is that when the
tian test Into political life, but there Brooklyn water front was merely a
la every reason for demanding that a swampy mud bank the hulk was run
sound and honest morality which Is In there and abandoned. It snnk un
fostered by It, and which Is now being der the mud and the piling In of re
stimulated by It, should be recognised fuse to make tbe bulkheads gradually
and honored.— Rev. J. 8. Lyon, Presby buried I t
terian, Louisville, Ky.
Life's Essentials.— I f you have char WOOING IN FACT AND FANCY.
ity, love and benevolence toward your
D ia lo g u e In N o v e la and R e a l L i f e P rfr
fellow man you possess all there is
ee n ta S om e D ifferen ces .
essential to eternal life. Love supplies
The “ Dolly Dialogue” style o f hero
the place o f all other virtues, or rather,
and heroine conduct their wooing In
embraces them all. Love, therefore, Is
this sort o f sparkling repartee:
the shortest, safest and surest route
Her— You're Just like allother men
to heaven.— Cardinal Gibbons, Roman —you want the earth!
Catholic, Baltimore, Md.
Him— I acknowledge It—you're all
Pastor and People.— The people the world to me, and I want you!
must be one with their pastor. H alf
Her— As a piece of real estate I may
a dozen decayed apples will ^poll a come higher than you can afford to go.
whole barrel. Six disaffected persons
Him— A t any price you'd be dirt
can disrupt a church. I f the pastor Is cheap.
behaving himself and la Indeed an ex
And In the old-fashioned novels like
ample to the flock, give him all the this:
liberty he wants.— Rev. Charles Her
Parmela— You must pardon my ig
ald, Congregatlonalits, Brooklyn, N. Y. norance, sir, If I appear to misappre
The Simple Life.—Charles Wagner hend the drift of your expression of re
la right In preaching the Gospel of gard; I can not but think, however,
the Simple Life. It Is a matter o f re that you presume too much in thus ad
joicing that bis appeals are awakening dressing me at so early a period of our
such general response. The genuinely acquaintance.
I-eonardo— Believe me, dearest ma
simple life Is always
the nearest
Christ’s life, and that means It Is the dam. when I say that If I seem too Im
closest union with God.— Rev. F. B. petuous It la only that the depth of
C’ herlngton, Methodist, Los Angeles, my feeling overcomes my natural re
gard for the conventionalities. Ah! do
Cal.
Rich and Poor.— Poverty Is a pro not turn aside, fair maid— my heart
lific mother of great men. Therefore and fortune are lying at your feet!
But In real life would not a phono
our ancient Jewish sages urged tnat
we be very cautious o f the children graph reveal something like this?
“ Why, Jack Peters, how dare you?”
o f the poor. The great hustlers In our
“ Aw, now, you're not going to get
colleges are commonly poor boys. Tbe
mad about It. are you? Honest Bade,
Idlers, the rounders and the sports are
I couldn't help It!”
abundantly recruited from the ranks of
"W ell. I'll have you understand that
tbe rich.— Rabbi A. Lyons, Hebrew. I--------”
Brooklyn, N. x.
“ Now, what's the use? You know
God's Message.—God never gives how I feel, and you've known It all
His complete and Anal message
any along, and you can’t bluff me. You
man at one time, never more than a love me, don't you? O ft that talk out
rough outline at first. The trouble and quit Jerkin’ away!” —Cleveland
with the conscientious man wbo sets Leader.
out to save souls and the traditional
It has happened that a man has
minister Is that he cares more for his
program than to follow God’s leading. amounted to more because be had
— Rov. W. D. Hyde. Presbyterian, do fond friends In hla childhood who
thought he had a talent fee anal*.
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Fooled.
A regiment of soldiers was drawn
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