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CANNOT CHEAT GOD.
HE WILL WEIGH OUR ACTS WITH PER
FECT BALANCES.
Ojiportuiiltit-'M Slinll lie MermnrccJ
AsraiiiBt Sins Dr. Tnlmajje Snys We
Shall lie Held PerMOiiallT Itenponal
ble For Our Shortcoming;.
Copyright, Loui? Klopsch, ISS9.
Washington, May 21. In these days
of moral awakening this pointed ser
mon by Dr. Talwage on personal re
sponsibility before God will be read
with a deep and solemn interest; text,
Daniel v, 27, "Thon art weighed in
the balance and art fonnd wanting."
Babylon was the paradise of archi
tecture, and driven ont from thence
the grandc-ht buildings of modern times
are only the evidence of her fall. The
bite having been selected for the city,
2,000,000 men were employed in the
rearing of her walls and the bnilding
of her works. It was a city CO miles in
circumference. There was a trench all
around the city, from which the ma
terial for the building of the city had
been digged. There were 25 gates on
each side of the city; between every
two gate tower of defense springing
into the fckies; from each gate on the
one side, a street miming straight
through to the corresponding gate on
the other side, so that there were 50
streets 15 miles long. Through the city
ran a branch of the river Euphrates.
This river sometimes overflowed its
banks, and, to keep i't from ruining the
city, a lake was constructed into which
the.6urplus water of the river would
run during tbe time of freshets, and
the water was kept in this artificial
lake until time of drought, and then
this water would stream down over the
city. At either end of the bridge span
ning this Euphrates there was a palace
the one palace a mile and a half
around, the other palace seven and a
half miles around.
The wife of Kebnchadnezzarhad been
born and.bronght up in the country,
and in a monntainons region, and she
could not bear this Cat district of
Babylon, and to, to please bis wife,
Nebuchadnezzar built in the midst of
the city a mountain 400 feet high. This
mountain was bnilt cut into terraces
supported on arches. On the top of
these arches a layer of flat stones, on
the top of that a layer of reeds and
bitumen, on the top of that two layers
of bricks closely cemented, oh tho top
of that a heavy Eheet of lead, and on
the top of that the soil placed the soil
so deep that a Lebanon cedar had room
to anchor its loots There were pumps
worked by mighty machinery, fetching
up the water from the Enphrates to
this hanging garden, as it was called,
so that there were fountains spouting
into the sky Standing below and look
ing up, it must have seemed as if the
cloud's were in blossom, or as though
the sky leaned on the shoulder of a
cedar. All this Nebuchadnezzar did to
please his wife Well. Ebe ought to
have been pleased I suppose she was
pleased If that would not pleaEe her,
nothing would There was in that city
also the temple of Belus. with towers
one tower the eighth of a mile high, in
which there was an observatory where
astronomers talked to the stars. There
was in that temple an image, just one
image, which wculd cost what would
be our $50,000,000
Ionziil Wanting.
Oh. what a" city! The earth never
saw anything liko it, never will see
anything like it, and yet I have to tell
you that it is gi-inn to lo destroyed.
The kin-.; avd his l ' inces are at a feast
They arc all intoxicated. Pour out the
rich wine into the chalicesj Drink to
the health of tho king! Drink to the
.glory of Babylon! Drink to a great fu
ture! A thousand lords reel intoxicated.
The king seated upon a chair, with va
cant look, as intoxicated men will
with vacant look stared at the walL
But soon that vacant look takes on in
tensity, and it is an affrighted look,
and all the princes begin to look and
wonder what is tho matter, and they
look at the came point on the wall, and
then there drops a darkness into the
room that puts out the blaze of the
golden plate, and ont of the sleeve of
the darkness there comes a finger a
finger of fiery terror circling around
and circling around as though it would
write, and then it conies up and with
sharp tip of flame it inscribes on the
plastering of tho wall the doom of the
king: "Weighed in the balances and
found wanting." The bang of heavy
fists against the gates of the palace is
followed by tho breaking in of the doors.
A thousand gleaming knives strike into
1,000 quivering hearts. Now death is
king, and he is seated on a throne of
corpses. In that hall there is a balance
lifted. Gcd swung it. On one side of
the balance aro put Bclshazzar's oppor
tunities, on the other side of the bal
ance are put Belsbazzar's sins. The sins
come down. His opportunities go up.
Weighed in tho balances found want
ing. No Perfect Balance.
There has been a great deal of cheat
ing in our country with false weights
and measures and balances, and the
government, to change that state of
1 things, appointed commissioners whose
business it was to stamp weights and
measures and balances, and a great deal
of the wrong has been corrected. But
still, after all, there is no such thing as
a perfect balance on earth. The chain
may break or some of the metal may
be clipped or in some way the eqnipoise
may be disturbed. You cannot always
depend upon earthly balances. A pound
is not always a pound, and you may
pay for one thing and get another, but
in the balance which is suspended to
the throne of God, a pound is a pound
and right is right and wrong is wrong
and a soul is a soul and eternity is eter
nity. God has a perfect bushel and a
perfect peck and a perfect gallon. When
merchants weigh tiieir goods in the
wrong ivay. then the Lord weighs the
Roods again. If from the imnerfect
Measure the merchant pours out what'
pretends to be a gallon of oil, and there !
is less tha.e a gallon, God knows it, and
he calls cpon his recording angel to
mark it, "So much wanting in that
measure of oil." The faTmer comes in
from the country. He ffas apples to sell.
He has an imperfect measure. He pours
unt the apples from this imperfect
measure God recognizes it. He says to
the recording angel, "Mark down so
many apples too few an imperfect
measure." Wo may cheat ourselvg,
and we may cheat the world, but vie
cannot cheat God, and in the great day
of judgment it will be found ont that
what we learned in boyhood ot.Ecb.Qgl
i3 correct; that twenty hundredweight
makes a ton. and 120 solid feet make a
cord of wood. Xo more, no Ics. and a
religion which does not take hold of
this life, as well as the life to come, is
no religion at all.
Vte!Kli Principles.
But, my friends, that is not the style
of balances I am to speak of today;
that is not the kind of weights and
measures. I am to speak of that kind
of balances which weigh principles,
weigh churches, weigh men, weigh na
tions and weigh world. "Whatl" you
say "Is it possible that cur world is to
be weighed?" Yes. Why, yon would
think if God put on one side of the bal
ances suspended from the throne the
Alps and the Pyrenees and the Hima
layas and Mount Washington and all
the cities of the earth they would crush
it. No, no' The time will come when
God will fit down on the white throne
to see the world weighed, and on one
side will be the woiid's opportunities
and on the other side the world's sins.
Down will go the sins and away will
go the opportunities and God will say
to the messengers with the torch:
"Burn that world! Weighed and found
wanting'"
So God will weigh chnrches. He takes
a gieat chuich. That church, great ac
cording to the worldly estimate, must
be weighed. He puts it on one side the
balances and the minister and the choir
and the bnilding that cost its hundreds
of thousands of dollars He puts them
on one side the balances. On the other
side of the scale he puts what that
church ought to be, what its consecra
tion ought to be, what its sympathy for
the poor ought to be, what its devotion
to all good ought to be. That is on one
side. That side comes down, and the
church, not being able to stand the test,
rises in tho balances. ' It does not make
any difference about your magnificent
machinery A church is built for one
thing to save souls. If it saves a few
souls when it might save a multitude
of souls, Gcd will spew it out of his
mouth Weighed and found wanting!
A .llnlmlj- to tie Cnreil.
So we perceive that God estimates
nations. How man- times he has put
tho Spanish monarchy into the scales
and found it insufficient and condemned
itl The French empite was ilaced on
one side of the tcales, and God weighed
the French empire, and Napoleon said:
"Have I not enlarged the bonlevards?
Did I not kindle the glories of the
Champs Elysees? Have I not adorned
the TnileriesV Have I not bnilt the
gilded opera, house i" Then God weigh
ed the nation, and be put on one side
the scales the emperor and the boule
vards and theTuileries and the Champs
Elysees and the gilded opera house, and
on the other side he puts that man's
abominatiens, that man's libertinism,
that man's selfishness, that man's god
less ambition. This last came down,
and all the brilliancy of the scene van
ished. What is that voice coming up
from Sedan i Weighed and found want
ing! But 1 must become more individual
and more personal in my address. Some
people say tbey do not think clergymen
ought to be personal in their religions
address, but ought to deal with subjects
in the abstract. 1 do cot think that
way- What would you think of a hunter
who should go to the Adirondacks to
shoot deer in the abstract? Ah, nol He
loads the gun; he puts the butt of it
against his breast, ho runs his eye along
the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then
crash go the antlers on the rocks! And
so. if we want to le hunters for the
Lord, we must take sure aim and fire.
Not in the abstract aro we to treat
things in religious discussions. If a
physician comes into a sickroom, does
he treat disease in the abstract? No.
He feels the pulse, takes the diagnosis,
then he writes the prescription. And if
wo want to heal souls for this life and
the life to come, we do not want to
treat them in the abstract. The fact is,
you and I have a malady which, if un
cnretl by giace, will kill ns forever.
Now, I want no abstraction. Where is
the balm? Where is the physician?
Striking? n Bnlnnce.
People say there is a day of judg
ment coming. My friends, every day is
a day of judgment, and you and I to
day are being canvassed, inspected,
weighed Here are the balances of the
Eanctuary They are lifted, and we
must all be weighed Who will come
and be weighed first? Here is a moral
ist who volunteers He is one of the
most upright men in the country. He
conies. "Well, my brother, get in get
into the balances now and be weighed."
But as he gets into the balances I say,
"What is that bundle you have along
with you?" "Oh;"' he says, "that is
my reputation for goodness and kindness
and charity and generosity and kindli
ness generally 1" "Ob, my brother, we
cannot weigh that! We aie going to
weigh you you Now btand in the
scales you, the moralist Paid your
debts?" ."Yes," yon say, "paid all
my debts." "Have you acted in an up
right way in the community?" "Yes,
yes." "Have yon beeu kind tothepoor?
Are you faithful iu a thousand relations
in life?" "Yes." "So far, so good. But
now. before yon get out of this scale I
want to ask jon two or three questions.
Have j our thoughts always been
right?" "No." ou say; "no." Put!
down one mark. "Have you loved the !
Lord with all your heart and soul and i
mind and strongtb?" "No," you say
Make another mark. 'Come now, d
frank and confess that in 10,000 things
you have come short, have yon not ?"
"Yes." Make 10,000 marks. Comenow,
get me a book laige enough to make
the record of the moralist's deficits. My
brother, stand iu the scales, do not rly
away from them. 1 put on your side
the scales all the good deeds yon evei
did, all the kind words yon ever ut
tered. But'on the other side the scales
I put this weight which God says I
must put there on the other side the
scales and opposite to yours I put this
weight, "By the deeds of the law shall
no flesh living be justified." Weighed
and found wanting!
Creed AVoii'f Save.
Still, the balances of the sanctuary
are suspended and we are ready to
weigh any who come Who shall be the
next? Well, here is a formalist. He
conies and hu gets into the balances,
and as he gets in I bee that all his re
ligion is in genuflections and in outward
observances. As he gets into the scales
I say. "What is that you liavo in thie
pocket?" "Ohl" he says, "that is o
Westminster assembly catechism." I
say: "Very good. What have yon in
the other pocket?" "Ohl" he says,
"that is the Heidelberg catechism."
"Very good. What is that you have
under your arm, standing in Ihjs.bal-
ance of the sanctuary?" "Oh!" he
says, "that is a church record." "Very
good. What are these books on youi
side the balances?" "Oh!" he says,
"those are 'Calvin's Institutes.' " "My
brother, we are notweighing books, we
are weighing you. It cannot be that
yon are depending for your salvation
upon your orthodoxy. Do yon not know
that the creeds and the forms o religion
are merely the scaffolding for the build
ing? Yon certainly are not going to
mistake the scaffolding fcr the temple.
Do-you not know that men have gone
to perdition with a catechism in their
pocket?" "Brit," sajs" the man, "I
cross myself often." "Ah 1 that will not
save you." "But. " says the man, "1
am sympathetic for the poor." "That
wili not save-yon." Says the man, "I
sat at the communion table." "That
will not save you." "But," says the
man, "I have had my name on the
church record." "That -will not save
you. " "Bnt I have been a professor of
religion 40 years. " "That will not save
yon Stand there en your side the bal
ances, and I will give you the advan
tage I will let yon have all the creeds,
all the church records, all the Christian
conventions that were ever held, all the
communion tables that were ever built,
on your side the balances. On theothei
side the balances I mnst put what God
says I must put there. I put this 1,000,
000 pound weight on the other side the
balances. 'Having the form of godli
ness, but denying the power thereof. ' '
Weighed and found wanting!
Two Great (Inextionx.
Still the balances are suspended. Are
there any others who would like to be
weighed or who will be weighed? Yea;
here Cornea a worldling. He gets into
the Ecales. I can very easily see what
his whole life is made up of. Stocks,
dividends, percentages: "buyer ten
days," "buyer 30 days." "Get in, my
friend, get into these balances and be
weighed weighed for this life and
weighed for the life to come. " He gets
in. 1 find that the two great questions
in his life are, "How cheaply can I buy
these goods?" and "How dearly can 1
sell" them?" I find he admires heaven
because it is a land of gold, and money
mnst be "easy." I find, from talking
with him, that religion and the Sab
bath are an interruption, a vulgar in
terruption, and he hopes on the way to
church to drum up a new customer!
All the week he has been weighing
fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice,
weighing coals, weighing confections,
weighing worldly and perishable com
modities, not realizing the fact that he
himself has been weighed. "On youi
side the balances, O worldling! I will
give yon full advantage. I put on youi
side all the banking houses, all the
storehouses, all the cargoes, all the in
surance compani .,. all the factories, all
the silver, all the gold, all tho money
vaults, all the safe deposits all on youi
side. But it does not add one ounce,
for at the very moment wc are congrat
ulating you on your fine house and
upon your rrincely income God and
the angels aie writing in regard tc
your soul, 'Weighed and found want
ing!' "
But 1 must go faster and speak cl
the final scrutiny. The fact is, my
friends, we are moving on amid aston
ishing realities. These pulses which
now are drumming the march of life
may, after awhile, call a halt. We walk
on a hair hung bridge over chasms. All
aronud ns aie dangers lurking, leady
to stuing on ns from ambnsh We lie
down at night, not knowing whethei
we shall arise iu the morning.- Westart
out for our occupations, not knowing
whether we shall come back. Crowns
being bnrnisbed for thy brew or bolts
forged for thy prison Angels of light
ready to shont at thy deliverance oi
fiends of darkness stretching out skele
ton hands to pull thee down into"ruin
consummate!
Before the Jltde.
Suddenly the judgment will be heie.
The angel with one foot on the sea and
the other foot on the laud will swear by
him that liveth fore'ver and ever that
time shall be no longer- "Beheld, he
cometh with clouds, and every eye shall
see him. " Hark to the jarring of the
mountains. Why, that is the setting
down of the scales, the balances. And
then there is a flush as if from a cloud,
but it is the glitter of the shining bal-.
ances. and they aro hoisted, and all na
tions aie to he weighed. The unforgiven
get ill on this side the balances. They
may have weighed themselves and pro
nounced a flatteiing decision. The
world may have weighed tin m and pro
nounced them moral. Now they are
being weighed in God's balances the
balances that can make no mistake. All
the property gone, all the titles of dis
tinction gone, all the worldly successes
gone. There is a soul, absolutely noth
ing but a soul, an immortal soul, a uev
;r dying soul, a soul stripped of all
worldly advantages, a soul on one side
tho scales. On the other aids the bal
ances are wasted Sabbaths, disregarded
sermons, 10,000 opportunities of mercy
and pardon that weie cast aside. They
are on the other side the scales, and
there God stands, and in the presence
of men and devil, cherubim and aich
augel ho annonucf-s, while groaning
earthquake and crt'ckling conflagration
r.ud judgment trumpet and i-verlasting
storm repeat it. "Weighed and found
wanting!"
fn the Sculcfl.
But, say some who aro Chiistians
"Certainly you don't mean to say that
we will have to get into the balances?
Our sins are all pardoned, our title to
heaven is secure. Certainly yon are not
going to put ns in the balances?"
"Yes, my brother. We mnst all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, and
on that day you aie going to be weigh
ed. Oh, follower of Christ 1 j on pet into
the balances. The bell of tlie judgment
is ringing. Yon must get into the bal
ances. You get in on this bide. On tho
other side the halauceswo will placo all
the opportunities of good which yon did
not improve, all tho attainments in
piety which you might have had, but
which yon refnsed to take. We place
them all on the other side. They go
down, and jour soul rises iu the scale
You cannot weigh against all tho--o im
pel f fictions. Well, then, we must give
yon the advantage, and on jour side the
scale we will place all tho good deeds
yon have over done, and all tho kind
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all the consecration of your life, all the
holiness of your life, all the prayers of
your life, all the faith of your Christian
life. Too light yet 1 Come mighty men
of the past and get in on that side the.
scales. Come, Payson and Doddridge
and Baxter, get in on that side tho
scales and make them come uown, that
this righteous one may be saved. They
come and they get in the scales. Too
light yet! Come, the martyrs, the Lati
mers. the Wyclifs, the men who suf
fered at the stake for Christ. Get in on
this side tho Chiistian's balances, and
see if you cannot help him weight it
aright They come and get in. Too
light I Come, angels of God on high.
Let not the righteous perish with the
wicked They get in on this side the
balances. Too light yet! I put on this
side the balances all the scepters of
light, all the thrones of power, all the
ciowns of glory. Too light 3 et! But
just at that point, Jesus, the Son of
God, comes up ,to the balances, and he
puts one of his scarred feet on your'
side, and the balances begin to tremble
(rum top to bottom. .Then be puts both
of his scarred feet on thu linlniires. and
the Christian's side comes down .with a
stroke that sets all the bells of heaven
ringing. That rock of ages heavier than
any other weight 1
V Glorious Hope.
But says the Christian, "Am I to be
allowed to get off so easily?" Yes If
some one should come and put on the
other side the scaie.s all your imperfec
tionsall your envies, all your jealous
ies, all your inconsistencies of life, they
would not budge the sc.ile- with C'lnist
on your side the scales. Uo tree! There
is no condemnation to them that are in
Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison
honses opened, sins pardoned. Go freel
Weighed in the balances and nothing,
nothing wanted. Oil. what a glorious
hope! Will you accept it this day?
Christ making up for what you lack.
Christ the atonement for all your sins.
Who will accept him ? Will not this
whole audience fay: "lam insufficient,
I am a sinner. I am lost by lea'-on of
my transgressions, but Christ has paid
it all. My Loid and my God, my life,
my pardon, my heaven Lord Jesus, I
bail thee!" Oh. if you could only un
derstand tho worth or that sacrifice
which I have represented to you under
a figure if yon could understand the
worth of that sacrifice, this whole au
dience wonld this moment accept CBrist
and be saved.
We go away oil or Dack into history
to get some illustration by which we
may set forth what Christ has done for
ns. We netd not go so far. 1 saw a
vehicle behind a ranawayhoiso dash
ing through the sheet, a mother and
her two children in the carriage. The
horse dashed along as though to haul
them to death, and a monnted" police
man, with a shout clearing the way and
the horseat full 11111. attempted to seize
those rnnaway horses to save a calam
ity, when liis own heuse fell and rolled
over him. He was picked up half dead.
Why were our sympathies .-o stirred?
Because he was badly hurt and hurt for
others But I teli jon today of how
Christ, the Son of God. on the blood
red horse of sacrifice, came for our res
cue and rode down the sky and lode
unto death for our lec-no. Aro not your
hearts tonched? That was a sacrifice
for you and me O thou who didst rido
on the red Kjrse of sacrifice, come and
ride through this world on the white
horse of victory 1
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"But did nut the neighbors send jon
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poor commissioner of the widow whose
boaie and belongings had been totally
deslroyid three nights litfoie by the re
lenthss llaiiies
"Yes. sir. "'w'jlb the reply "Mrs
Cleaver, aciom the ntreut. sent me :i
beautiful drawn work doily with her
caid. and Mi.- Hushington. in tho next
block, a very pi"tly cut glass knifo and
fork 1 est ' -Dotiuit ITu-n Pi ess
Then (teorie SnliMiileil
"1 could uevcr see anything great in
your trip across the Rubicon. " said
Washington "Now. when 1 crossed
tho Delaware. 1 had to contend with a
groat mass of ice.'
"Yes, " replied CVsar. "but look at
tho 1 isk I ran of meeting 11 frost when I ,
reached the other nidc. "
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The professor was the center or a group
of intei-Loted townspeople. Ho was in the
drug store and wn.s smoking his nftcv sup
per cigar, the while telling i;l'nut the geo
logical formation of the country, the coal
strata and how they dipped hero and
there. Tho professor was a mighty inter
esting story teller, and when ho opened
up on paleontology, dynamics, geognosy,
petrography and litliolocy you wero just
bound to lay down your parcels and listen,
the professor made things so interesting.
He had been telling about boring for oil
and things, and at last little old man in
a patched yellow overcoat and a big red
muffler stepped up and said:
"SVuso )e, mister, but I hear ynn all
tellin about wells an tilings, did you ever
hear of n blowin well? Our that done
nothin but blow ir d.ij- an night?"
"Yes," answered tho professor beaming
ly, his mind on gas wells, "I have."
"Well, I had one onct," said tho old
party with the red inufller. "It was over
yero aorost tho river, 'bout eight miles."
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sor quickly. "I didn't know tliero was
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about it. What's your name?"
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man, "is Hill Bodine. 'Long 'bout two
years lx-fo' wahtimo si feller come by my
place one day with a hosa auge.r A boss
auger's ono that is bored into tho ground
by .-f boss walkin round in a circle. He
ast me do I want a well dug, an I an
swers I do. So I give him an ole Testis
pony I had to dig tho well When he got
down 'bout CO foot, th.-ir was n bust of
wind Com the well, an up comes the augor.
Iho well began to blow, mi as the feller
didn't fetch nothin but wind of course he
didn't get the pony.
"As I said," continued the" old fellow as
we all scrunched up to hear the story, "it
was 'long 'bout two year befo' thu wah.
Folks como for miles to hear that well
blow, an we was till pretty well steered
up, then 'long comes a coniick, an that
skeers us up some more"
"Alonjj comes whtt?" asked the pro
fessor. "A enmick in the sky, with a long tail
of lire."
"Oh, yes. I see," said tho professor.
"Well, everybody thought tho worl' was
comin to an eeuu." said the old man.
"An jist 'hour thnttimt 'lnns comes n
brc-h fire preacher an starts a revival. Al
most eerybody j'incd nieelin, they was
thet skcercd. An in tho eo'se of time 'long
comes the wall, an wo all j'ined thet.
Well, so long."
Kite minutes after ho had gone every
one, .".nd particularly tho professor, re
membered that thu old man nail not told
us what had become, of the blowing well.
Thu nest morning the professor drove
across thu river and out to thu farm on
which t' j old man bad said tho blowing
well had buen bond A big young farm
er met Mm at tho K-ite.
"Where's thu blowing well on this
farm?" asked thu professor.
The farmer stared at him awhilo and
then said, "Ain't no blowing well on this
ycrc farm.
"Don't Bill Bodine Iho here?" a-kcd
the professor
"U.-t to live here. Llres fo' miles fud
de.c :iluug on thu old Steve'son place," an
sweiid the farmer.
Thu piof.s-ur kept on, and tthen ha
cumc to iho old Stuvensou platu ho saw a
bnmll, hungry, ajert looking woman iu
thu jard feeding u largo lioek of chickens.
"Is this wheru Mr. Bodine lives?" asked
tho professor.
"Ho do," slid tho hungry little woman.
"I'm Mrs. Bodino. Hill's down yon kill
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r' Where's that blowing well I heard hlra '
tell about?" asked the professor.
"Lan o' massy, you heerd of thet well. .
Why, that was long befo' wahtimes," she I
answered. "It was the flrinet well I over j
see. It jest blowed an hollered all the ,
time. You could hear it holler over a half 1
mile away, but wo got ust to hearing it, '
an it didn't worry us none. Why, you I
could hoi a cornstalk over thet well, au
the win' would blow all the leaves off 'n It 1
quicker'n you could say 'scat.' An when ,
a hen would und'tako to fly crost it tho 1
hen jest natur'ly como out unfeathered, to
say nothin of bein blown about 200 feet
in tho air. One night I lay in bed thinkin. I
Id worked so hard all day, fer it was hog
killin time an I bed to take caro of the
chiddlins an things, till I was wore out,
so's I couldn't tJeep none. Outsldo in the
yard tho well w;is blowin away, an it set
mo to thinkin. 'S'pose,' slid I to myself,
'that blame ole blowin well should take a
notion to back up an take to suckin in
'stead of blowing out.' And I jest lay an
tluuttrlir ,.f tli.it: till mnrnl nr n tllPliinrfl
tin. ,,i,i 11.C ,, v,,w 11 uk. hJ jntav v u.i
take to suckin in? Then I thought of the
young tins an the chickens, an I was
T lwt,..,lr !,.-, .....m.. if ....- 'nn.n If ,lt,l '
plumb skecred to death When mawnin
came, I jest kep' the young uns indoors,
an I said to Bill: 'You've got to fix thet
blowin well 'fore I let the young uns out.
S'pose it was to take to suckin in 'stead
of blowin, wvhnr'd we be at?' jest like thet,
I said it to Bill, an ho knowed I meant
ev'ry word of it. Waal, Bill he went an
cut down n young Cottonwood tree, an he
skun it off till it was sliek an white, 'nen
ho ups an jams it right down into the
blowin well little cud fust, an it "stuck
thar good an tight. Then he built a stag
in au got up with a maul an driv' it in
till it wouldn't go no fudder. After that
ho cut it off clost to thu ground, 'nen he
covered it with dirt an troniped it down.
That's tho last of the blowin well. Insido
of a hour idl tho neighbors was over to seo
what mado the well stop blowin an what'd
become of it. 'It jest natur'ly closed up
tight,' said Bill, 'an 'twon't blow no mo'.
Reckon it's taken to blowin down.' An tho
folks went away, an that's tho last wo
heerd of tho blowin well. I almos"done
forgit all 'boivt it tell you mentioned it.
Reckon wo nono of us could fin' it now."
And Bill Bodino never knew that ho
had a gas well on his farm. There is no
doubt ho would havo found it out, how
ever, had he mo about it smoking and
lighting maiccs. But Bill didn't smoke.
Albany Telegram.
Tnttoolun and Snake Bttea.
It really begins to look as if there were
nothing new under the sun. Whilo scien
tific minds aro discussing tho antitoxin
scrum treatment of disease as if it were a
new thing, tho pcoplo of ancient Burma
aro calling attention to tho fact that for
centuries tho material they have used in
the common custom of tattooing has been
an efficient antitoxin for snake bites. Tho
tattooed Burmese regard tho bites of poi-sonou-,
snakes as harmless. This, at least,
is the statement of a gentleman from Bur
ma, who brings testimony to bear in cor
roboration of ins singular statement. Scientist.-,
might well give this matter their
ettention. Leslie's Weekly
A CABLE TERMINUS.
FARALLONES AS THE FRISCO END OF
HAWAIIAN LINE.
Itockj- nul Jlnrreii InIiiiuIh TiYentr
fonr Miles Ont 8'roai (he fSolilen
Gnlr IIss HuntliiK the Only Indus
try Tlie Home of ra Onllw.
ISiii-eial Correspondence.!
San Fsaxcisco, May 17. The failure
of the Fifty-fifth congress to do any
thing for- the Hawaiian-Ran Francisco
Pacific cable did not by any means kill
the project. It is still a topic of interest
and comment here, and the people of
the Pacific slopo are entirely confident
that its construction will not be long
delayed.
It is proposed to make the Farallone
islands, or rather the southernmost one,
the cable station for this end of the line.
In fact, this is the most available island
'r
sf
AN KGG IIUSTKItOF THK FAIIALUINE ISLANDS.
on the California coast for. a cable sta
tion. The Farallone group is composed
of .six rngged islets standing ont 24
miles from the Golden Gate. Tho Span
ish word Farallone signifies "pointed
islets in tho sea. " This gronp is in a
direct line with the Hawaiian Islands,
and this is the first land, or rather point
of rocks, the traveler sees as he nears
the golden shores of California from
acros the P.icific.
The southernmost island, which is
also the large.it, stands out abont a
mile from the others of the group;
hence this one is most likely to be se
lected for tho cable lauding. This is
land, or South Farallone, extends about
one mile from east to west and is 340
feet in iieight. It is a broken and wa
ter worn rock of angular peaks, pos
sessing bnt little soil and consequently
very scant vegetation. However, it has
the advantage of a small beach, where
landing is easily made.iind an open de
pression which is also utilized as a
landing. The other islands aro not so
favored. This island is used by the gen
eral government for a lighthouse sta
tion and by scores of sea lions, murres,
sea gulls and other bird", with n large
sprinkling of jack rabbits, who mako
this bleakisland their borne. '1 he light
house keepers and their families aro the
onlv inhabitants except tho egg .poach
crs, who visit the island to rob the
nests of these birds for tho San Francis
co markets. With a cable station tho
population of the island wonld increase
and a village gradually spring up.
Very few pleasure seekers or travel
ers or even citizens of Sau Francisco
havo visited these islands. This is
owing to the Jack of regnlar communi
cation. Tho tugs that go ont to the
Farallones tako only their crows and
pilots who go to eteer in tho incoming
ships, and tln-o tugs seldom land at
the islands. They lay off, or go ont far
ther and wait for a vessel. As soon as
one is spied, tho rival tugs start out at
the top of their speed liko a privateer
tearing down on a prize merchant ship.
Should the islands bo made the cable
station regular communication wonld
ffiEDHAlfej '
pViiERpl
cjf 1 f!' M
If'DrBerce'
(PSbsJI
IT ENDED HER TROUBLE.
" I never courted newspaper notoriety,
vet I am not afraid to speak agood word
for your ' Favorite Prescription ' and
' Pleasant Pellets.' Over a year ago I
suffered terribly for nearly four weeks
with prolapsus and weakness. After
using one bottle of ' Favorite Prescrip
tion ' and one of ' Pellets,' I was a well
woman. I have taken no medicine
since and have had no Symptoms of ray
former trouble," Mrs. K. A. Bender,
Keene, Coshocton Co., Ohio.
be established, no doubt, and the next
thing in order would be a hotel for
tourists. The living would be-high (340
feet), with no end of eggs in all styles,
fish and rabbits, mutton (grown wild)
and sea lion steaks. Fishing is also good,
and the visiting tourist could vfe with
the sea lion in this sport, only that the
noble sea lion catches fish as a matter
of business. Occasionally some poachers
have visited the islands aru caught
lions for purposes of exhibition. The
lion is lassoed while asleep npon a rock
and after being hauled in is placed in a
water tank for shipment.
Tho visiting tourist would find any
number of murre and sea gulls, and
while he is prohibited from shooting
them he would take some satisfaction
in the sight of a "fine shot." No one
could miss if the gun is pointed up
ward, as they aro as thick as mosquitoes
in Florida.
Of all tbe birds on the islands only
the eggs of the murre and the sea gull
are eaten. The eggs of the murre are a
favorite dish and in great demand at
the San Francisco restaurants, where
they find a ready sale and quick con
sumption. The gull also eats murre eggs
and in the raw state. While the eggera
are gathering them in, hundreds of gulls
eoar aloft and swoop down upon the egg
gatherers, take up an egg in each claw
or in the beak and are soon up and al
most out cf sight. Some of the eggers
say that a gull will toss up an egg.and
catch it in his beak as it comes down
and swallow it, as if he were practicing
at jugglery. But this is probably a
"fake" story. It is, however, true that
a number of them will attack an egger
if he revisth when they claim a part of
his spoiLs. The murre is not good to eat,
though Italian fishermen find no diffi
culty in digesting the meat. This bird
feeds on jellyfish and sea grass. Shags
and parrots'are also nnmeicns on these
islands. All of the islands are covered
with these birds, bnt tlw largest, or
south Farallone. seems to be their gen
eral headqnnrters. The birds are not
enumerated by numbers, but reckoned
by acres. .1. M. Scani-axd.
"A FVi-idle Strnnser."
In St. Paul's churchyard, in Alex
andria. Va., is a marble tombstone
bearing this inscription :
To the memory of a female strangflr:
How loved, how honored once avails thee not;
To whom related or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone. remaiiis of thee.
'Tis all thou "art, and ell tho prond shall be.
This strange inscription raised much
conjecture. Ths facts, as nearly as
known, are that in May, 1816. a man
and a beantiful girl, accompanied by a
valet, arrived at Alexandria in an Eng
lish vessel. They shunned every one.
Five months afterward the girl died.
The husband staid long enough to erect
a monument, left a snm of money to
repair it and then sailed away and was
never heard of again. Several novels
have been "founded npon this sad and
toman tic incident
A Wonderful Age.
Mr. Broadbrim This is a wonderful
age, a wonderlnl nge.
Mr. Gotham Indeed it is. Africa is
being opened to commerce and civiliza
tion, France, England and Germany
are slicing np Cnina, tbe arctics are be
ing fully explored, the southern states
are becoming great uiaunfaetnring cen
ters, and New York is to have rapid
tran&it. New York WeeLIv.
Heredity.
'I see," remarked the Sanioan, "that
we are described as a dark coinplesioned
race in the geography."
"Certainly."
"Well, it may not be always so If
this uncertainty continues and we keep
on trying to turn pale, I blionldn't be
surprised if wo were all blonds in a
generation crtwo." Washington Star.
TIis Cure that Cures
Coughs,
Golds,
Grippe,
Whooping Cough, Asthma,
Bronchitis and Incipient
Consumption, Is
The German remedy"
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