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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUKNAL. SUNDAY, AUG-USTf 5. 1888 TWELVE PAGES.
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READING FOR THE SABBATH.
Lfiton fr Au;aU 12, 1888
Tut Pat ofAtoximint. Le. xri, 1-16.
Golden Txt Without shedding of blood is no re
mission. lleb. ix, '2-.
Mon. Ler. xvi. 1-16 The Day of Atonement
Tae. Lt. xxiii. 2ti32.. The day a Sabbath
Wed. Heb, ir, 1-16 Oar atoning High 1'riest
Thu. Ileb. t. MO Our sympathize High Priest
li. Kom, 1-18 lienefits of atonemeat
gt. Krb, ii. 1-17 Fullness of atonement
an. Psa, eiii, 1-22 Atonement celebrated
Following the erection of the Tabernacle ara
several chapters that ara evidently designed to
adueate the people as to the exceeding Bin ful
ness of sin in God's sight, and that God rea aires
holiness of heart and life. All this is & prepara
tion for the one great day of their year, when
the glories of Gods provisions to save man from
bis sins are made specially prominent. The idea
of atonement runs throneh the whole ritual, but
on the Day of Atonement it is the one thing
that is accented in the most impressive and Tar
led ways.
God wanted a holy people. The idea of elean
and unclean animals was designed to keep the
people separate from the other nations, until the
vision of Peter showed that this restriction was
no longer desirable (Acts 10. 23.) The laws con
cerning leprosy, and those concerning mial and
private habit, were intended to el era. the idea
of cleanness and holiness. The nations owe
very much to "the health cods of Moses."
But in spite of all the care taken throughout
the year, and the daily sacrifices offered, yet
there was so much of imperfection and fault in
their best services that God ordained "an atone
ment for the holy sanctuary, atonement for
the tabernacle of the congregation and for the
altar, for the priests, and for all the people"
(Lev. xti, 33.) Hence, the striking and peculiar
ritnal of the Day of Atonement. The very
mercy-seat and the floor in front of it were
sprinkled with blood to cleanse and hallow the
place, for whatever man touches he defiles (19.)
The day selected was the tenth of the seventh
month (tishri). that is. as Edertheim says,
'When the sacred or Sabbath of months had
Just attained iu completeness." This day was
also designed to prepare the people for a proper
celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles on the
loth of this month, and as a peonle accepted
nd owned of God they celebrated their thanks
giving festival.
Special Application.
L There must be some plan of reconciliation
between a holy God and sinful man. This work
the Son of God undertakes by his own death.
Having died for man, having given his life for
oars, the Seripture truth of the golden text is
of the deepest import Christ is both sacrifice
and priest.
, 2. In the services of the Day of Atonement
we have the root ideas of each of the great
Christian theories of the atonement. And it Is
doubtless true that each one of them is neces
sary to a larger and true understanding of the
objects of Christ's death, and of the way it se
cures the divine reconciliation.
TIIKEE THEORIES 07 THE ATOX EilKNT.
1. Expiation of Sin Suffering and dying on
account of transgression illustrated in the death
of the sacrifice in man's behalf.
2. Removal of Sin With the expiation comes
a removal of oar sins. The Lord graciously re
moves the sense of gnilt and sets the captive
soul at liberty. And it uses its liberty to love
and serve God.
3. The Moral Influence The divine sacrifice
becomes like a sun of light and heat on a dark
eold world, quickening it into life and beauty.
The reflex influence of the cross is to awaktn
very noble feeling
Jeans Christ.
Dr. Young.
Never passed before the imagination of man.
and never but once alighted on this earth, so
heavenly a vision. Onee in all human history
we meet a being who never did an injury and
sever resented one done to Him, never uttered
an untruth, never practiced a deception, and
never lost an opportunity of doing good; gener
ous in the midst of the selfish, upright in the
midst of the sensual, and wise far above the
wisest of earth's sages and prophets; loving and
gentle, yet immorably resolote: and whose il
limitable meekness and patience never once for
sook Him in a vexations, ungrateful, and eruel
world. If the New Testament had contained
only the character of Jesus as it unfolded itself
in His intereoursa with men, it had deserved a
place among ail human pro 'notions; it bad
been a rain of spiritual wealth and a fountain
of holy influence unknown to every other re
gion, and to all ages of time.
Avoid Discussing Sermons.
Parish Visitor.
"Avoid discussing sermons raising a wind to
blow away the seed." Thsse ara golden words.
Would that all Christians would remember
them! How often a harsh criticism has de
stroyed the effect of a sermon that otherwise
vrould have blessed the hearer! "I thought it
was a good sermon." said a young girl, ''till I
heard them talk about it at home." Who can
tell the harm snch talking doesf How quickly
will Satan take advantage of the effect it pro
daces to snatch away the seed! "Avoid discuss
ing sermons." . Listen to them, pray over them,
but never by a hasty expression of your opinion
undo their work on the souls of others.
My Father's House.
"Let not your heart be troubled.' then Ha said,
"31y Father's home has mansions large and fair;
I go before you to prepare your place;
I will tetnrn to take you with me there.
And since that hour the awful foe is cb armed
And life and death are glorified and fair;
Whither He went, we know the way we know
Ac l with firm steps press on to meet Him there.
Mrs. IL B. btowe.
Religious Notes.
Let this be your constant maxim, that no man
can be good enough to neglect the rules of pru
dence. Fielding.
Never speak well nor ill of yourself. If well,
xnen will not believe you; if ill, they will believe
a great deal more than you say. -Eastern Prov
erb. There are now eight mission vessels cruising in
the English Nortn sea, each a combination of
church, chapel, temperance hall, dispensary and
lending library.
He sometimes wants oar ear our rapt attention.
That He some sweetest secret may impart;
Ti always in the time of deeoesc silence
That heart finds deepest fellowship with heart.
The Madras Mail gives the following propor
tion of criminals to the ponnlation. of South
India: Hindus, one in 417: Mohammedans, one
In 723; Christians, one in 2,500.
The Churchman estimates that the amount of
eapital which has disappeared in New York eity
alone in profitless ventures of Church (Protest
ant Eoiseopal) journalism has exceeded one
quarter of a million dollars.
The United Presbyterian Church, of Bellevue,
Pa., haa divided on the question of using fer
mented wine for communion. The twenty-six
who favored unfermented wine have withdrawn
and organized a new society.
Rev. Dr. W. M. Barrows, who has been one
of the most efficient secretaries of the American
Home Missionary Society, has resigned his work
in that capacity in order to re-enter the pul
pit. The city of Kochi, Japan, was occupied only
two years ago by the Presbyterians, and now
there is a Presbyterian Church of over 200 mem
bers. The gain in the whole of Japan for the
last two years, says our informant, has been 77
per cent.
How fast we learn in a day of sorrow! Script
ure shines out in a new effulgence, every verse
seems to contain a sunbeam, every promise
Stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard
to be understood become in a moment plain.
IL Bonar.
You may assuredly flod perfect peace If you
are resolved to do that which your Lord has
f plainly required and eontent that he should
ndeed require no more of you than to do jus
tice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with
him. Ruikin.
If we know of a kind act which wa might,
bat do not interyd, to perform; it wa be aware
that our moral health requires theabandonniat
of some pleasure which yet we do not intend to
abandon. bre is cans enough for the loss Of all
ipiritaai power. P. P. Cobbe.
To conquer hate.
And in its place to cherish love unfeigned,
Forgiveness and forgetfulneis of wrongs,
No precept bat the perfect law of Christ,
No teacher bat the biased &oa of God
Could e'er instruct mankind.
Kmi words prodnee their own image in men's
souls, aod a beautiful image it is. Tcey soothe,
and quiet, and comfort the hearer. They shame
him out of Lis s-ur, morose, unkind feelings.
We have not yet begun to use kind words in
inch abundance as they ought to be used. Pas
cal. The presiding bishop of the Protetnt Epis
copal Church is about to celebrate his jubilee. It
was on Sept 2. 1S3S. that John Williams was
rdained a deacon iu Christ Church, Middle
towo. Conn., bv Bishop Brownell, whom be haa
since succeeded both us bishop of Connecticut
and as presiding bishop,
Neer gi?e away to melancbolr. Nothing
encroaches more. 1 fight against it vigorously.
One great remedy is to take short views of life.
Are yon happy! Are you likely to remain so
till this evening, or next month, cr nxt year)
Then why destroy ill Then why destroy pres
ent happiness by a distant misery, wbicu may
sever come at all, or you may sever live. to see
11 For every lubste&Ual grief has twenty
shadows, and most of them shadows of your
own making. Sidney Smith.
Warden Hatch, of the Michigan State prison,
at Jackson, said in a discussion at the Prison
Reform Congress in Boston: "Nothing can real
ly be done for the improvement of prisoners un
less the Christian religion is taken in the prison.
If Christ is good for anything in the world He is
good in prison. He does more in the Michigan
prison than all the discipline.
It is seldom borne in mind that without con
stant reformation that is, without a constant
return to the fountain head every religion,
even the most perfect, nay. the most perfect on
account of its very perfection even more than
others, suffers from its contact with the world,
as the purest air suffers from the mere fact of
its being breathed. Max Muller.
According to the Boston Pilot New York is one
of the strongest Catholic cities iu the world. It
has 75 parish churchei. 40 chapels, 300 priests,
200 brothers. 2, COO religious women, 40,000 pupils
in Its colleges, academies and parochial schools,
and 15,000 poor or sick or orphaned cared for in
its homes, hospitals and asylums. Fall $30,000,
.000 are invested in Catholic churches and institu
tions, and there are 800,000 Catholics within the
city limits.
'When Robert Brace was marching to meet
Edward, and came within sight of the glittering
enemy, the command passed down the line,
'Kneel down, every one;' and with closed eyes
earnest prayer was offered to God for direction
and success. They rose uo only a handful to
conquer the English. Let the order 'Kneel
and pray pais down the lioe to every Christian
man, woman and child. Having obeyed, let us
rise up to labor. We are our brother's keeper."
The Independent contains the following inter
esting statistics of the leading churches in the
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A COFFIN FOB A BED.
The Qoeer nesting Tlaceof m Man Whose Life
TVs BUeTatedby nia Betrotbed'a Death.
Fhilsdelphfa Record.
Robert W. Deal, who had gained local and na
tional renown by nightly making hia bed in a
coffin for the last twenty years, will soon be laid
in bis peculiar couch for the long last sleep. The
poor fellow died last night.
"Bob," as he was familiarly known, resided iu
Frankfort, where his eccentric ways and odd
little figure were familiar to every resident of
the place. He was a sufferer from asthma, and
on that account sought his repose in the
sepulchral resting place. His bed-room
was the loft over the undertak
ing establishment of E. N. Allen, at
Ko. 10 East Sellers street, Frankford, and the
coffin-bed lay in the center of the room. Bob
was a beneficiary upon the undertaker's charity,
and bad for years done odd jobs around the
place for his board. He had occupied this coffin
every night aince he came to Mr. Allen, except
when his asthma was so bad that he was com
pelled to sit up during the night.
lie was & quaint little man, about fltty-three
years old, with piercing black eyes, and curling
black hair that was fast turning gray. He came
of one of Frankford s first families. His father
was once the leading Democratic politician of
the town, and an extensive builder. He built
all the original buildings at Frankford Arsenal
more than half a eentnry ago. He gave all his
children, Robert included, a liberal education,
and brought them up in luxury. The under
taker's shop used to be his father's stable, and
tbe loft he made bis bed in was in his boyhood his
pigeon-house.
A romance of love twined around the life of
this little man,with his stooped shoulders and
peculiar ways. His lady-love died many years
ago, and Bob often repeated some of tbe son
nets of which she was so fond. It was thought
that poor Bob never fully recovered from the
blow caused by her death, and the walls of the
work-shop of the undertaker have numerous
acrostics and poems of Bob's composition writ
ten noon them. He was a mathematician of
some pretensions and a fine penman. Mr. Allen
had known Bob from boyhood, and being
familiar with bis sad history Indulged him in all
his whims. Bob complained tbe last few days
of feeling unusually bad, and he died in under
taker Allen's office last evening.
A visitor to Mr. Allen's shop one night some
wteks ago found that gentleman seated in bis
office. "Come with me." said he, taking up a
lantern and leading tbe way uo-stairs, "and
will show you Bob; he is in his bed now." Fol
lowing Mr. Allen up the steps leading to the
loft, the light exposed to the visitor long rows
of coffins ranged around the room. One of ex
tra large size lay upon the floor, and from with
in it came deep labored wheezing. The lid was
well drawn up and nothing inside could be seen.
"Hello. Bob. are you inT said the undertaker,
and the lid began to elide slowly downward with
a creaking sound. Ahead poked up, and then
a man sat upright. It was Bob. He answered:
'Yes. what do you want? and then, seeing a
visitor, sank back and again drew tbe lid over
him. "Bob's got it a little bad to-night," said
Mr. Allen, alluding to bis asthma, aod he pulled
down tbe trap leading to the loft and left Bob
to enjoy his sleep till morning.
LOO CABIN ROCK.
How the Name Came to lie Given to st Rock
In New Hampshire.
Granite State Tree Preis. Lebanon, N. II.
Those who have occasion to go out on the Mer
iden road frequently must have noticed a large
bowlder on tbe slight elevation just across the
way from what is now best known as the Kinne
place, about a mile south of this village. At
the time of the Harrison and Tyler campaign
this farm was owned by Major Dan Storrs,
father of the present Dan Storrs. He was an
ardent Whig and am enthusiastic admirer of the
hero of Tippecanoe a man who never did any
thing by halves. Beside this rock he built a log
cabin, where he bad his cider barrel, coon
skin, spinning-wheel, etc The Major's
voice was often heard ringing out
from his log cabin in the face or
passers-by the songs of the period. It was a
trifle annoying to some of his "Loco-foco" neigh
bors, as the Democrats were then called, and
one morning tbe cabin was fonnd in ruins. Maj..
Storrs a brother of tbe famous Abolitionist,
Rev. George Storrs, who was mobbed a few
years before by a pro-slavery mob at Sanborn
tonwas the man for the emergency. The
cabin was rebuilt, of course, and at night a
string was Etretched around it and extended
across the road to Major Storrs's room, and at
tached to a string of sleigh-bells. The present
Dan Storrs, then twenty-four years old, loaded
the old gun with shot, just all it would bear, and
the Major had it by his bedside
with the window open. His opportunity
came at last, for he was awakened by tbe jing
ling of tbe sleigh bells, acd seizing the gun he
discharged it in the direction of th cabin,
which was considerably peppered. He was
probably the most injured nan himself, for the
gun "kicked" prodigiously, but the cabin was
never afterwards disturbed. Tbe story is told
by William P. Gallup, of Indianapolis, now on a
visit to the home of bis boyhood, and an inti
mate friend of Benjamin Harrison, and is con
firmed by the man who loaded the' gun. A Har
rison flag ought to swing to tbe breeze from Log
Cabin Rock. If any survivors of tbe besiegers
are left they might as well own up now, show
their sears and "shake bands across the bloody
chasm." The old flint-lock was not loaded to
kilL We can almost imagine we hear to-day
the familiar voice of Major Storrs echoing back
across trie "narrow stream" which "divides the
heavenly land from ours the religious and the
political songs of his period; for he was an, ar
dent a Christian as politician.
A Summer Girl and Her Clothes.
Seagirt Letter.
After bath, luncheon and a drive there Is
dressing for dinner. That has grown of late to
be an important affair, by the wiy, for there is
a greater show of gowns and diamonds than
ever before. Ons charming youog woman from
Brooklyn is the possessor of twenty-one trunks,
and she haa worn a different costume at every
meal since her arrival. She rejoices in the
ownership, among other things, of seventeen
parasols, each designed to matcn some special
toilette. Trey were made at her own order to
harmonize with her dresses.
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"Written for the Sunday Jonrnal.
August.
Already from tne ravished plain.
Where lately stood the bearded grain,
" Tho testy katydids cemplain;
And frotn the roadside, aba low-strewn.
The mantis pipes his shrill bassoon
The livelong August afternoon.
The locust, with his breezy call.
Flings from the poplars, dan atd tall,
Ilis challenge o'er the garden vra'l:
Acd in the prove a murmur dwells,
Like water Mowing over shells. .
Or changes rung on far-oil bells.
The drone of beetles and of bees.
Of myriad wings in silent trees,
lias lulled the perfume-burdened breeze,
Whose fitful gusts of ml?nonette
And wild sweetbrier scatter yet
Their pungent odors of regret.
Abng the fences lie the sheep,
Acd in the water brooks, knee-deep.
The lazy tattle stand asleep;
While lumbering oxen down the lane
Heave out of sieht the creaking wain.
And leave to solitude the plain.
Now loves the weary sense to own
The beetle's melancholy drone.
In summer's soothing monotone;
Whiie whispering aste s gently nod
To hollyhock and golden rod
Alone with Nature and with God.
Eflwin S. Hopkins.
Written for the Sunday Journal.
Echoes from Erin.
Across the "Purple mountain." I hear a bugle call.
And down the rocks, liko water, the echoes leap and
fall.
One aote alone can startle the voices of the neaks.
And waken songs of Erin, whene'er the bugle speaks.
They call, and call, and call.
Until the voices all
Ring down the dusky hollow-, and in the distance fall.
Methinks, like Purp!e mountain, the past will some
timos rise,
And memory's call awaken its echoing replies.
Within the tower of Shandon again the bells will
sway,
And follow, with their ringing, the Lee upon its way.
And chime, and chime, and chime
Where ivy tendrils climb.
Till bells and river mingle to sound the silvery rhyme.
Again the daisied grasses beside the castle walls
Will stir with softest sighing, to hear the wind's foot
falls; And through the moss-grown abbey, along KElarney's
shore,
The melodies of Erin will echo evermore.
And roll, and roll, and roll,
. Till spirit bells shall toll
The music of the uplands unto the listening soul.
Annie J. Fellows.
KlLULEXrT, Ireland.
Written for the Sunday Journal.
An Alpine Valley.
Oh. happy valley, at the mountain's feet.
If half your happiness you could but know!
Thonsrh over you a shadow always falls.
And far above you rbe thoe heights of snow,
So far, your yearning love you may not speak.
With rosy flush, like some high sister peak.
Yet you mar clasp its feet iu fond embrace,
And gaze up in its face.
And sometimes down its slopes a wind will come,
And brings sudden, noiseless sweep of snow
Like a soft greeting, from those summits sent
To comfort you below.
What raoret Love may cot ak too great a boon.
Enough to be so near, though cast so low.
Think that a sea had rolled between you twain,
If careless Fortune had decreel it so.
And you could only lie, and look across
To distant, cloudy heights, and know your loss,
And see some favored valley, fair and sweet,
Heap flowers at its feet.
Albion Mary Fellows.
CHAU, Switzerland.
Says Grover.'
Alr-"0ld Yirginny.M
Savs Grover: "111 go to a foreign shore
To get my salt, I say;
American wells may all go dry
And the workingmen get no pay.
But the workmen draw their eyelids down.
And nothing green display;
And they re whooping it up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison everyday.
Says Grover: "111 go to Canadian ports
To get my lumber, I say;
You tnay pull the teeth of American saws.
And the ax you may throw away."
But the woodmen laugh in ghoulish glee,
And the sawyers work away,
And they're whooping it up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Says Grover: "I'll go to a foreign land
To get my wool, I sav;
American sheep may die in the field
And the farmers get no pay."
Bat the farmers smile a knowing smile
To their children at their play;
And they're whooping it up,
They're whooping it up
For Harrison every day.
Savs Grover: Til go to the English mill
To get my iron made:
American wheels may all stand still
And the mill-hands go to the shade.'
But tbe fires burn and the chimneys smoke,
. And the anvils ring, I say;
And they're whooping it up.
They're whooping it up.
For Harrison every day.
Ssys Grover: "I'll save the Nation's gold;
I'll veto this pen sif) bill.
The veteran old may sagged go.
And his children 4-ngry stul."
But the Nation frc-ns at the unkind word,
Frowns at tbe ta uit, I say;
And we're whooping it up,
We're whooping it up
For Harrison every day. .
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Midsummer Nlht.
Mother of balms and soothings manifold.
Quiet-breathed night, whose brooding hours are
seven.
To whom the voices of all rest are given,
And tho se few stars whose scattered names are told,
Far off beyond the westward hills outrolled.
Darker than thou, more still, more dreamy even,
The golden moon leans in the dusky heaven,
And under her one star, a point of gold.
And all go slowly lingering toward the west,
As we go down forgetfully to our rest.
Weary of daytime, tired of noise and light.
Ah, it was time that thou shouldst come, for we
Were sore atbirst and had great need of thee.
Thou sweet physician, balmy bosomed night.
A. Lampmto, In August Scribner,
THE LADIES' TAILOR.
lie Discourses on lligh Art In Woman's
Dress and the Mysteries of the Wardrobe.
New York World.
"It is a good deal more trouble to fit a lady
than yon would imagine. said a fashionable
ladies' tailor, as he sat in his elegantly furnished
ofiSce and motioned to bis servant to bring a
chair for bis visitor, "because, yon see, ladies
are very peculiar. I have been in this busi
ness for years, and bavt bad dealings with every
kind of lady In this country and iu Europe.
How are ladies measured? Well, first
tbey take o2 their outer waist,
leavine their neck and arms bare. Then the
fitter measures them from the eollar to the waist
in the back, the width of the brefc is taken at its
widest and narrowest parts, tbe front from tbe
base of the throat to tbe waist, next from the
tinder arm to tbe waist, and then the size of the
throat is taken. After that we take the measure
ment of the bust, waist and hips. That done,
the inside length of the sleeve is taken, and the
circumference of tbe biceps. The measure of
the skirt is next taken, up, down and around.
Then we have three fittings first in the rough,
second with more perfect linings and lastly
when everything is completed.
"Who does the fittiogP
"Men and women. Some ladies will be fitted
by none but men. Tbey don't seem to like
women about them. Some don't like the idea
of wearing so few clothes aod allow men to han
dle them. Fitting is a rather embarrassing
thing at times, let me tell you. Then women's
vanity keeps a great many from allowing men to
III tb em, esoecially where the figure is not well
rounded. Most of tbe ladies wear skin-tight
web undergarments, which show all the out
lines and yet are not immodest. Good fitters
practically command their own prices. Tbey
wors oniy during tne seasons, wnich are very
Short here, and they make $4.0U0 to $3,000 a
year, iney are born fitters, just as men are
born poets and orators."
"How do you 'make up a poor flgurel
"That's an art. For instance, a lady will come
I 1 - 11 !.t
"Bo is as iuiu as a ran, wun no oust, no arms.
no shoulders. We have to use cotton wadding
to supply her deficiencies. That's where a good
fitter comes in. A bungler would make her look
lumpy, but an artist in bis line turns her out a
model. Then suppose a big fleshy lady comes
aloog. She has an immense expanse of breast. Of
course that must be broken. We usually break
the bodice into four lines by a rever of tbe same
cloth. our eye can only travel from one line
to tbe other, and before it has passed arouod all
of them tbe mind forgeta to notice the expanse.
A perfectly plain bodice is very trying, except
to a perfect figure. In tbat event, of course, it
only sets it off. It is not often I advise plain
fronts, co few can stand them.
A Whole Family Flops.
Pittaburz Pitcatch.
One of tbe latest flops to Harrison and Mor
ton rAtiks eomes , from the Sonth Side, a nd is
somewhat of a stunner to tbe Democracy on tbat
siae oi me river.
Tlw - ffil .
Auese persons are i nomas .iinrray, an ex
councilman in tbe Twenty-sixth ward, and his
six Doys, all or whom have announced their in
tention to support the Republican ticket at the
coming election, aiurray is well known in tbe
ward, and has always been a Democrat of the
most nncouvmcible kind, but sats no cant go
for tbe free-trade mess offered by the party of
. r tt
(irover ana inurman. ineyare an puaiiers,
and are employed at different mills on that tide.
D1KDS A? IU) A It I) KItS.
Feathered Pets in Vacation TimeThe Case
Given by Fanciers.
Philadelphia Record.
"If that bird should die I think its owner
would die, too,' said a bird-dealsr yesterday
while discussing the merits of a canary that bad
been left to board with him during the summer.
Around tbe store were cages of various kinds,
each containing a bird that bad been left by its
owner, who bad gone off to enjoy their vaca
tions. Tbe business of caring for birds in the
summer is one of tbe most profitable in the fan
cier's line. The charges range from $2 to $10 per
month, according to the attention required.
Tbe fancier has all the facilities at hand
and can look after the bird better than its
owner in most cases. Continuing his story, the
bird man said: "Why, just think, when tbe
girl left here three weeks ago to go to Newport
she instructed me to write her a postal card
every Cay telling ber how the bird was. Of
course it is all nonsense, for I can take care of
it better than she could; but then, I suppose,
she is anxious and wants to bear about tbe little
fellow. She has to pay for her anxiety, thoueb,
beeause I charge for the time spent in letter
writing in addition to earing for her 'darling,
as she calls it."
In a long wire cage next to the canary sat an
unassuming bobolink whose musio was very
sweet and thrilling. He did not seem to envy
his neighbor's pretty feathers, but occasionally
sent forth a burst of song that in richness and
volume could not be surpsssed, and then was
quiet for some time. He belongs to ex-Mayor
Smith, who is out of the city.
The silent jackdaw in the next cage looked
lazy and sluggish, as though he had the spring
fever, and bad no cordial song with which to
greet tbe visitor, but his bright plumage at
tracted attention and he was consciously proud
of it.
In a rough-looking cage beneath the jackdaw
was a brood of young parrots, looking much like
so many spring chickens, and tbey cactied to
eaeh. other in high glee, while the proud mother,
who was quartered in the next cage, looked on
with approbation. These belonged to a young
blood of West Spruce street, whose fancy rues
in tbat direction.
Tbe noisiest boarder in the place was a poll
parrot that was reared in a lively house on
South Twelfth street. Tbe fane'er hung the
bird out at the front door to get tbe fresh air,
bat it did not remain outside for many hours.
When a nice, prim-looking lady passed, Polly
cried out: "Miss Lucy, here's your mash."
That did not attract any especial attention. A
couple of dudes passed the door, and Polly sa
luted them with: "More wine, boys; hurry girls.
This expression did attract some attention, but
when tbe wicked bird called after a young girl:
"Miss Manie, front parlor," that ended the fnn.
Apolicemaoof the district happened to know
Polly, and when he received a greeting like
"There'll be a raid; run, girls," he called tne at
tention of the bird man to his boarder and ad
vised him to give it a place inside tbe door if he
wished to be saved from annoyance and disgrace.
Tbe advice was taken, ana the misconduct of
the parrot was such that even in the store he
caused the proprietor to blush. Polly was finally
sent to the top of the house, where he was vir
tually a prisoner. a
The fancv of the owners of the birds runs to
'expensive cages, and there were plenty of silver-
plated homes for tbe canaries. People do not
bother now when summer comes. Tbey just
hand their birds over to the fancier and save
themselves much trouble.
ONE OF KEELY'S SECRETS.
A Remarkable Story from London Theoso-
hlsts.
Philsdelpbia Press.
The latest issue of the Theosophical Publica
tion Society (7 Duke street, AdelphL London,
W. C) is an elaborate paper on "Keely's
Secrets,1 by Mrs Bloomfield Moore, wherein
the "etberio force" is identified as "dynas
pherie" force, and one phase of it considered in
its relations to tbe cure of disease. The secre
tary of the society, R. Harte, in an enteresting
introduction of the pamphlet, relates the follow
ing curious anecdote:
"A short time ago the mining world in Amer
ica was seized with an inexplicable excitement.
The values of gold mines in particular suddenly
rose. Presently it leaked out that a syndicate
of the long headed and wealthiest mining capi
talists were quietly buying op all the cheap and
apparently worthless gold 'mines tbey could
hear of, and the people at once concluded that
something was up. Then everyone of a
speculative turn very knowingly began to
buy worthless gold mining shares at ever-increasing
prices, and when the little speculators
had gorged themselves to tbe full extent of their
financial capacity tbey asked: "What nextF
No one knew exactly what he was after, and ev
eryone looked to the syndicate for the next
move, but the syndicate, smiling, put its hands
in its pockets and whistled! After the fever
came prostration. The small fry had not, like
the syndicate, bought to hold, so they got first
uneasy, then alarmed, and finally panic-stricken.
"A few weeks before tbe panie occurred
twelve solid men, millionaires, met by appoint
ment in a certain laboratory in Philadelphia to
witness an exhibition of the disintegration of
quartz by a new method. They were mining
magnates, who had a tremendous interest in
getting the gold out of quartz rock aulckly and
cheaply. Tbe inventor obliged them by simply
touching some blocks of quarts with a little
machine he held In his hand, and as be touched
each block it instantly crambled into atomic
dust, in which the specks of gold it had con
tained stood out like bowlders in a bed of sand.
Then the twelve solid men solidly said: "Mr.
Keely, if you will in the same manner disin
tegrate some quartz for us in its natural place
we will eaeh of us give you acbeck for dol
lars. So off they all went to the Katskill mount
ains, and there the twelve solid men pointed
oat a reef of quartz on tbe side of a mountain
as solid as themselves, and Mr. Keely took out
his little macnioe and aaid: 'Gentlemen, please
take tbe time.' In eighteen minutes there was a
tunnel in that quartz mountain eighteen feet
long and four and a half feet in diameter.
Then Mr. Kely quietly returned ' to Philadel
phia with his checks in his pocket, and the
twelve solid men went from New York to Sen
Francisco to gather iu the seemingly 'worthless
stock' of mines long disused because of the
working expense, thus producing the disastrous
effect upon tbe mining world which we have
just seen. All these men bound themselves to
secrecy, and this is the first time that this inci
dent has been , made publicl How was tho
quartz disintegrated? That is one of Kerji'sy
secrets."
Toilet Keel pes of Ancient Egypt.
Womsn's World.
Curious hair receipes, occur on some of the
papyri, some of which are very absurd. One to
prevent tbe hair from turning gray directs tbat
a salve should be made from the blood of a black
ealf cooked in oil; in another tbat of a black
bull is preferred for tbe same object: evidently
tbe color of the animal was to pass through the
sl ve into the hair. In another place we read of
the tooth of a donkey dipped in honey being
used for really strengthening the hair; and the
ingredients for an ingenious compound are given
for iojuriog tbe hair of a rival, and tbe counter-
remedy to be used by those who think their
hair-oil has been tampered with by a suspicious
friend. Cakes of some composition which ab
sorbed oil were always placed on the heads of
the guests at feasts, and from them the oil grad
ually trickled down through the hair. A most
disagreeable practice this may seem to us. but
to them it appears to have given great pleasure;
and with tbe Egyptians as well as with tbe He
brews, oil was symbolical of joy and gladness.
Rouge and other coloring substances were used
by women of Lgypt to enhance, as tbey tnought.
thoir beauty; tbe eyes had often a green line
ucderneath tbem: tbe lashes and eyebrows were
penciled in black; aod, as in modern Egypt the
nails were always stained red with a prepara
tion from tbe henna plant, in our museums
we can see tie little pots and vases formerly
filled with these unguents and colors, and tbe
pencils tbey used witn tbem, as well as various
sorts of combs aod hair-pios; of the latter there
is a very prett v set in the museum at Boulak
single pronged wooden pins with jackal-beads.
stuck into a cushion in the form of a turtle.
whish was evidently one of tbe favorite dress
ing-table orname uta belonging to the deceased
lady.
All these little essentials of tbe toilet were
placed io tbe to.mbs by the loving hands of
friends and relations for the use ot tbat spirit
ual body, which they believed required all tbe
adornment tbe lady had loved upon earth.
Notwithstanding Ibe elaborate care lavished
by the Egyptian lad.V on her personal adorrv-
ment, she adopted a simplicity of dress suitable
to the climate in which she lived. Except for
t'.e wig, tbe head was ntiually uncovered, with
sometimes a colored!, nana - tied round it
The queens of ten wore the vulture head-dress.
but this was more as an omciai ornament than
as a covering. In common life also tbe women,
both of high and low da vre. went barefooted.
though tbey had sandals to vear wbeu tbey were
In fall dress. 'IVse s.n1:s were made of
papyrus, or palm fiber, or of leather; they had
straps to pass arouod the foot an: between the
toes, and in gome a piece of tb f ole was turned
up. and bent over the toe to protect them; in
later times some of the leather sandals had
sides to tbem. which causes them very much to
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