Semi-weekly independent., February 01, 1896, Image 2

About Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897

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THE INDEPENDENT.
PLYMOUTH,
INDIANA.
PENGUIN BABIES QUEER.
They Cause Their Parents No laid of
Trouble.
You 'will notice that the penguin baby
Is very fat and looks as if ho might b.
extremely good for rating, but if you
could see father and mother penguin
just now you would liud them uncom
monly thin. Tho care of the baby Las
eo worn upon their minds, and tho
trouble of finding enough fish for three
to cat, that all .superfluous flesh, for the
time has vanished.
liaby penguin has a curious nest.
The mother tucks tho eg; away softly
nnd safely amou;' her warm feathers
and even moves slowly and with great
gravity over the cliffs, carrying the egg.
while father penguin goes lis.hing.Moth
cr penguin looks as fat during this timi
tis the baby does now, but when the egg
is hatched she goes fishing too, and
soon grows as thin as father penguin
himself. You notice the funny little
wings, just beginning to start on baby's
Shoulders. Well, mother and father
penguin have longer ones, but they are
8ti!l more like tins than wings. Nearly
all the time is spent in the water and
tins are more useful to them than
wings; when on laud these little half
wings are used as legs, and the birds
are- often mistaken for quadrupeds as
they run over the ground. They do not
eeem to be troubled with insomnia.
When asleep they can be kicked several
feet and never even wake up.
There is a variety called the jackass
penguin, from its habit of throwing
back its head and making a loud,
ht range noise that sounds like the bray
ing of that animal. The king penguins
have regular towns, where every inch
of ground is measured off in squares
for nests. The young birds are arrang
ed in a certain locality, the molting
birds in another, and tho clean birds
quite apart, from all these. So strictly
ii re they all divided that if a molting
bird should accidentally stray near
the clean birds it would be instantly
put out.
In the Falkland Islands and in Pata
ponia these birds abound. They are
also very numerous in certain islands
-of the Southern Pacific Ocean. On
some of them 0,000 or -IfUwO are con
stantly landing or going to tea.
Voting Idea.
How Two Thieves Were Caught.
In August last a thief entered the
house of Mr. '. W. Kemble, New
Itochelle, X. Y., took a large amount of
silverware, and made his escape with
out awakening any one. Doubtless lie
felicitated himself upon having made
ft. "good haul." Hut he "reckoned with
out his host." Mr. Kemble Is an artist,
and by means of his professional skill,
applied in a manner which no reader
Is likely to anticipate, the burglar was
discovered and brought to justice.
"When Mr. Kemble rose the next
morning, he noticed the print of a bare
!oot on the piazza, and on going through
the house found that it had been rob
bed. Forthwith ho made a careful
sketch of tho burglar's footprint. Cop
ies of the picture were sent to all the
Iolice stations in the county and in
New York City, together with a descrip
tion of the stolen property.
A man amed Itannon was by and by
caught trying to pawn the silverware
In a New York pawnshop, and was ar
rested, lie denied all knowledge of the
burglary, and told some plausible story
about the manner in which the silver
had come into his possession; but when
the police took off his shoe and stock
ing, and compared his foot with the
drawing of the robber's footprint, the
case was clear, and the man confessed.
Two months after the burglary he was
sentenced to Sing Sing prison for four
teen years.
This was not the first time that Mr.
Komble's pencil had served the ends
of justice. Two years ago his sleeping
.room was entered by a burglar, who at
the point of a revolver obliged the
artist to give up a gold watch and a
roll of bills.
When the villain had gone, Mr. Kem
ble drew a portrait of him from mem
ory, and as a result ho was soon cap
tured, lie, too, is in Sing Sing, and
hereafter burglars are likely to "light
fchy" of Mr. Kemble's dwelling.
A Tino Kemittcd.
Hear both sides before rendering a
verdict. Such is the lesson of a pleas
ant story related by the Washington
Star concerning a former police justice
of that city. The late Judge Snell was
fond of croquet, ami when not busy
-with his official lutios was often found,
'Aith mallet in hand, engaged In his
favorite game. One morning a boy
was brought before him, charged with
playing ball in the street. The police
man who had made the arrest swore
that ho had caught the b y in the act
"Fine the boy .1," said the Judge.
"This ball playing on the street must
be stopped."
The hoy's fattier was present, and
suggested to the Judge that he would
like to question the policeman a, Iitt'j:
before the line was Imposed, so Judge
Knell ordered the policeman into the
witness box again. After a. little close
questioning, the otlicer linally admitted
that the boys were playing ball in a
vacant lot, and this boy had knocke!
the ball out into the street.
"Make that line J?' Mr. Clerk," paid
Judge Snell; "the ease is not quite so
bad as 1 thought it was."
"ltut, your Honor," said the boy's
father, "not long ago up on l'Jth street,
I saw a game of croquet la which a
high court otliclal was engaged, and I
saw that otliclal spitefully knock his
opponent's ball clear across the street,
and "
"Take off that other $2. Mr. Clerk; I
dou't believe this boy was doing, wrou,
after all." And the Judge lay back !a
his chair and laughed heartily as ho
remembered what a whack he gave his
opponent's ball in the game referred to.
I'ncountcr in a Tree-Top.
Ignorance and a .cdrc to please h!s
employer got a (Jennan farm-hand in
New York State into serious difficulty
not long ago, according to a dispatch
to the New York Sun. His name Is
Herman Ozzero. He has been only a
short time in America, so that his ig
norance of American animals is noth
ing to his discredit, though it turned
out so great a disadvantage. He was
In the corn-lield, at work by himself,
when he heard a noise in a ma pie-tree
overhead, and looking up, descried
what he thought was tho most beauti
ful striped cat he had ever seen.
It must belong to his employer. On
zero thought. No doubt it had strayed
away from tho house. lie would catch
it, and so do Ids new master a favor.
So thinking, he took off his shoes and
started up the tree. Half-way up he
stopped ami turned his eyes upward.
There sat the animal, its strange, pretty
eyes fastened upon him. He noticed
that its tail was beating the limb with
a quick, nervous motion, but somehow
he attached no particular importance
to that circumstance.
Finally, after much labor, Ozzero
readied a large branch from which he
could reach the eat, and fixing himself
in a good position, he stretched out his
hand. lint he drew it back in a hurry,
terribly lacerated by the creature's
sharp teeth.
Now the man began to feel fright
ened. The animal's eyes were like balls
of lire. It was no pet, but a savage
beat well aide to defend itself, to say
tin least.
Still Ozzero did not wish to back out.
and making ready, he struck the beast
a terrific blow in the face with his list.
The next instant the infuriated crea
ture was upon him, and in a few sec
onds, which seemed to him an age, al
most rvery stitch of clothing was torn
from his body by the long, sharp claws
of his antagonist.
Ozzero was growing weak, but he
kept on pounding the beast, and linally
a lucky blow between the eyes knocked
it loose, and it fell to the ground.
How the man himself got down he
does not know. Some hours after
ward he was found lying unconscious
under the tree. In the doctor's ofliee,
the dispatch says, he "looked as if he
had been run through a thrashing ma
chine." The coon, which was killed shortly
after, weighed almost sixty pounds.
Heaver Families.
Ties of kindred seem to have little
force among animals, wild or domestic,
after the young are capable of looking
out for themselves, but beavers are
said to 1. an exception to the rule.
With them the family instinct remains
throughout life. A lady who lived in
Colorado more than twenty years ago.
at a time when all the streams in the
mountains Avere full of beavers, gives
her observations on this very point.
Two families of beavers took posses
sion of the Fountain Creek, close to
Manitou, and in a fortnight had felled
most of the largest trees. These were
eottonwoods, some of them two feet
in thickness. We were watching the
beavers with pride and delight as one
of the ornaments of the valley. When
the upper dam was finished, its makers
came down and helped those at the
lower one, who were slower at their
work. The two companies must have
been cousins, I suppose, for unless they
are kinsfolk, beavers never help one
another.
Serious Occasion.
The undertaker In a New England
town was requested, not long ago, to
send to the house of one of the summer
residents a small colli n in which the
children of the family were to bury a
pet cat.
The light pine box was given to a
darky boy, employed by the undertaker,
to carry to its destination. lie took it
carefully under his arm, and walked
slowly down the village street, with a
sense of the importance of the occasion
plainly to be seen on his small black
face. On his way he had to pass a
group of children, one of whom called
out to him:
"Say, '(Justus, what are you carry
ing under your arm V"
"Don interrup' me, chillun," said the
youthful Augustus, turning a reproach
fid gaze on the speaker and his com
panions; "don' you see I's a funeral";"
Slight Mistake. ,
Ethel had formed the very unbecom
ing habit of saying "Il'mV" when she
did not quite understand, and her aunt
had been teaching her to say 'Ieg
pardon" instead.
The following day she was overheard
talking with some of her little play
mates. "My auntie says you mustn't say
'H'm,' " she explained. "You must say
'Making powder.' "Youth's Compan
ion. Chinese Iturglais.
The Chinese burglar takes an Ingre
dient of his own, burns it ami blows
the smoke through the keyhole of the
bedroom where the master of the house
Is asleep. Tho fumes dull the senses
of the victim just enough to make him
helpless, while at the same time per
muting him to see and hoar every
thing that goes on In the room. The
only aididote against this charm is
pure water.
An Angling Fish.
The angler lish angles for his prey.
From the upper part of his head pro
ject two long tentacles, with lleshy ex
tremities, which wave about in the
water and attract small lish, that, ap
proaching and attempting to seize the
small bait, are themselves captured by
the angler.
When a man and wife talk to each
other, have you ever noticed the erl-
ous expressions on their faces?
HOW TO TAKE A CITY.
ABIMELECH A RASCAL, BUT
KNEW HOW TO FIGHT.
licv. Dr. Talmags Shows IIow (Jod
Sometimes Drive-, a Straight Nail
with a Door Hammer The ltesicucd
City of Sheehcm.
The Dessen.
In his senium for Sunday Lev. lr. Tab
mage t'k for his subject "The Pow r -'
Example." The text selected va s .1 ii. 1 ires
ix.. -I: "And Abiuieleeh took an :t. in
his hand and cut down a bough from the
trees and tool; it and laid it on his shoul
der g:il said unto the people that were
with him. What ye have seen me do make
hast ;;n,! do as I have done. And ail the
people likewise cut down eveiy man his
bough."
Abinielech is a name malodorous in
liiblo history and yet full of profitable sug
gestion. Dnoys are black and mi -onicly,
but they tell where the recks arc. The
make's rattle is hideous, bat it gives time
ly warning. From the pia..u of niy muii
iner home, night by night. I saw a light
house tifiecn miles away. nt placed there
for adornment, but to tell mariners to
stand off from that dangerous p. int. S
all tin inmb mud coar of moral danger 1
is maikel with Mul and Herod and It h -boam
and .Icelnd and A hiuielech. T!ee
bad people are mentioned in the Hilde im;
only as warnings, but because there were
sometimes (l.ishes of good conduct in their
lives worthy of imitation. öd sometimes
drives a very straight nail with a very
poor hammer.
Taking; a City.
The it y of Sheehem had to be taken
nnd Abinielech and his men were to do it.
1 see the dut tolling up l'mm their ex
cited march. I hear the shouting of the
captains and the yell of the besiegers.
The swords clack sharply on the parrying
shield, and the vociferation of two armies
iu death grapple is horrible to hear. The
batile goes uu day. and as the sun is
setting Abinielech ami his army cry. Sur
render'; to tin heahn foe. and. unable
long r to resist, the city of Shcehcni falls.
a:nd there are p..os of blood and dissevered
limbs, and glazed eyes, looking up beg
ghig'.y for mercy that war never shows,
ami dying soldiers, with their head on the
lap of mother or wife or sister, who have
come out fr the last offices f kindness
and affection, and a groan rolls across the
city, stopping not. because there is m spot
for it to rest, so full is the place of other
groans. A city wounded! A city dying!
A city dead! Wail for Sheehem. all ye
who know the horrors of a sacked town.
A I look over the city 1 an find only
one building standing, and that is th"
temple of the god P.crith. Some soldiers
outside of the city in a tower, finding that
they can no longer defend Shcchcin, now
begin to look out for ttieir own personal
safety, and they lly to this temple of
lteritli. They go within the door, shut it,
and they say, "Now we are safe. Abiaie
loeh has taken the winde city, but lie can
not take this temple of lteritli. Here we
shall be under the protection of the
gods." ) lteritli, the god. do your best
now for these refugees! I f you have eyes,
pity them; if you have hands, help them;
if you have thunderlolts. strike for them.
But how shall Abinielech and his army
take this temple of lteritli and the men
who are there fortified? Will they do it
with sword? Nay! Will they do it wi'h
spear? Nay! With battering ram. rolled
up by hundred armed strength, crashing
against the walls? Nay! Abinielech
marches bis men to a wood in Zalnion.
With his ax he hews off a limb of a tree
and puts that limb upon his own shoulder,
and then he says to his men, You do the
t.ame."
They are obedient to their commander.
There is a struggle as to who shall have
axes. The whole wood is full of bending
boughs', and the crackling, and the hack
ing, and the cutting, until every one of
the host has a limb of a tree cut down,
and not only that, but has put it on his
shoulder just as Abinielech showed him
how. Are these men all armed with tho
tree branch? The reply conies, "All
armed!" And they march on. Oh. what
a strange army, with that strange equip
ment! They come up to the foot of the
temple at lteritli. and Abinielech takes his
limb of a tree and throws it down, and
the first platoon of soldiers come up. ami
they throw down their bra uehes, and the
second platoon, and the third, until all
around about the temple of lteritli there
is a pile of tree branches. The Shechoir.it rs
look out from the window of the temple
uiMin what seems to them childish play on
the part of their enemies, ltut soon the
flints are struck, and the spark begins to
kindle the brush, and the llame comes up
all through the pile, and the red elements
leap to the casement, and the woodwork
begins to blaze, and one arm of llame is
thrown up on the right side of the temple,
and another arm of llame is thrown up
on the left side of the temple, until they
clasp their lurid palms under the wild
night sky, and the cry of "Fire!" within
and "Fire!" without announces the terror,
and the strangulation, and the doom of
the ShocheniiW s. and the complete over
throw of the temple of the god lteritli.
Then there went up a shout, long and
loud, from the stout lungs ami swarthy
chests of Abinu lei h and his men as they
stood amid tin ashes and the dust crying,
"Victory, victory!"
The TuctiCH Used.
Now I learn first from this subject the
folly of depending upon any one form of
tactics in anything we have to do for this
world or for (Iod. Iook over the weaionry
of olden times javelins, battleaxes, hab
ergeonsand show nn a single weapon
with which Abinielech amMiis men could
have gained such complete triumph. It is
no easy thing to take a temple thus arm
ed. 1 have seen a house where, during
Kcvolutionary times, a man and his wife
kept back a whole regiment hour after
hour because they were inside the house
ami the assaulting; soldiers were outside
the house. Vet here A hi llielech find his
army come up, they surround this temple,
and they capture it without the loss of a
single man on the part of Abiuieleeh, al
though I suppose some of the old Israel
it Nil heroes told Abinielech, "Volt nr,,
only going up there to he cut to picrs."
Yet you are willing to testify to-day that
by no other mode- certainly not by ordi
nary modes could that temple so easily,
no thoroughly, have been taken. Fathers
and mothers, brethren and sisters in Jesus
Christ, what tin church most wants to
learn this day is that any plan is right, is
lawful, is best, which help. to overthrow
the temple of sin and capture this world
for (Jod. We are very apt to stick to the
old modes of attack. We put on the old
style coat of mail. We come up with the
fdrarp, keen, glittering steel spear of ar
gument, expecting in that way to take the
castle, hut they have l.(ii spears where
we have 10. And so the castle of si:i
stands. (h. my friends, we will never
capture this world for (I od by any keen
saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances
of rhetoric, by nny sapping and mining of
profound disquisition, by any gutipowdery
explosions of indignation, by sharpshooi
ings of wir. by howitzers of mental
strength made to swing shell live miles,
by cavalry horses gorgeously caparisoned
pawing the air. In vain all the attempts
on the part of these ecclesiastical foot
soldiers, light horsemen :U11 grenadiers.
My friends, I propose a different style
of tactics. Let each one go to the forest
of ( bid's promise :;nd invitation and hew
down a branch and put it on his shoul
der, and let us all come around these obsti
nate iniquities, and then, with this pile
kindled by the fires of a holy zeal at: 1 th'
flames of ;i consecrated life, we will burn
them out. What steel cannot do lire may.
And 1 announce myself in favor of any
plan of religious attack that succeeds--any
plan id' religious attack, however rad
ical, however odd. however uniopu!ar.
however hostile to all the conventionali
ties of church and state. If one style of
prayer does ni;t do the work, let r.s try
another style. If the chmvh music of to
day does not get the victory, then let us
make the as-ault with a backwoods cho
rus. If a prayer meeting at half past 7
in the evening does not succeed, let e.s
have one as curly in ihiiinorning as when
the angel found wrestling .Jacob too much
for him. If a sermon with the three au
thorized heads docs not do the work, then
let us have a sermon with twenty heads,
or no heads at all.
(lospcl Truths.
We want more heart in our song, more
heart in our almsgiving, more heart in
our prayers, more heart in our preach
ing. Oil. for les of Abinielech's sword
and more of Abinielech's conflagration! I
had often heard.
There is a fountain tilled with blood
sung ariistically by four birds perched on
their Sun lay roost in the gallery until I
thought of .Jenny Lind and Nilssoa and
Sontag. and all the other warblers, but
there came not one tear to my eye, nor
one master emotion to my heart, ltut
one night 1 w.nt down to the African
Methodist meeting house in Philadclphi i,
and at the close of the service a black
woman iu the middle of the audience be
gan to sing that hymn, and all the audi
ence joined in. and we were floated some
three or four miles nearer heaven than I
have ever been since. I saw with niy own
eyes that '"fountain tilled with blood"--rod,
agonizing, s.icritb-ial, redemptive--and
I heard the crimson plash of the wave
as we all went down under it.
For sinners plunged beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.
Oh, my friends, the gospel is not a syl
logism; it is not casuistry; it is not po
lemies or the science of squabbles! It is
blood red fact; it is warm hearted invita
tion; it is leaping, bounding. Hying good
news; it is efflorescent with all light; it Is
luhescent with all summery glow; it is
arborescent with all sweet shade. I have
seen the sun rise on Mount Washington,
and from the TSptop House, but there
was no beauty in that compared with the
dayspring from on high when Christ gives
light to a soul. 1 have heard Pnrepa
sing, but there xuas no music in that com
pared with tho voice of Christ when he
said, "Thy sins are forgiven thee; go in
peace." Oood news! Let every one cut
down a branch of this tree of life -and
wave it. Let all the way from Mount
Zalnion to Sheehem be Idled with the toss
ing joy. tJood news! This bonfire of the
gospel shall consume the last temple of
hin and will illumine the sky with npoe.i
lyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came in to
the world to save sinners. Any new plan
that makes a man quit his sin and that
prostrates a wrong I am as much in favor
of as though all the doctors, ami the bish
ops, and the archbishops, and the synods,
and the academical gownsmen of Chris
tianity sanctioned it. The temple of
lteritli must conic down, and I do not care
how it comes.
Power of Kxample,
Still further, I learn from this subject
the iower of example. If Alnmelech had
sat down on the grass and told his men to
go and get the boughs ami go out to the
battle, they would never have gone at all,
or if they had, it would have been without
any spirit or effective result, but when
Abinielech goes with his own ax and hews
down a branch, and with Abinielech's
arm puts it on Abinielech's shoulder, and
marches on. then, my text says, all the
people did the same. IIow- natural that
was! What made Garibaldi and Stone
wall Jackson the most magnetic com
manders of this century?, They always
rode ahead. Oh. the overwhelming power
of example! Here is a father on tin
wrong road. All his boys go on the wrong
road. Here is a father who enlists for
Christ. His children enlist. I saw in
some d the picture galleries of Europe
that before many of the great works of
the masters the old masters there would
be sometimes four or five artists taking
copies of the pictures. These copies they
were going to carry with them, perhaps
to distant lands, and I have thought that
your life and character are a masterpiece,
and it is being copied, and long after yoQ
are gone it will bloom or blast in the
homes of those who knew you, and be a
t Jorgen or a Madonna. Iiook out what
you say. Look out what you do. Eternity
will hear the ih-Iki. The liest sermon ever
preached is a holy life. The best music
ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you
want others to serve (Jod, serve'him your
self. If you want others to shoulder
their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abi
mcleeh goes his troops go. Oh, Mart out
for heaven to-day, ami your family will
eoine after you, and your business asso
ciates will come after you, and your so
cial friends will join you. With one
hraneh e,r the tree of life for a baton,
marshal just as many as you can pat her.
Oil. the infinite, the semiomidpoteut pow er
of a good or bad example!
Concerted Action.
Still further, 1 learn from thi subject
the advantage of concerted action. If
Abinielech had merely gene out with a
tree branch, the work would not have
been accomplished, ur if p.M, twenty or
thirty men had gone, but when all the
axes are lifted, and all the sharp edges
fall, and all these men carry e;v h his tree
branch down and throw it alout the tem
ple, the victory is gained the temple falls.
My friends, where there is one man iu the
church of (Jod at this day shouldering his
whole duty there are a great many who
never lift an ax or swing a Itough. It
seems to me as if there were ten drones
in every hive to one busy bee, as though
there were twenty sailors Round asleep
in the chip's hammocks to four men on the
stormy deck. 1 a if there were
oOKX) w.on belonging to the reserve corps,
and only l.nui active combatants. Oh,
we all want our boats to get over to the
golden sands, but the most of ..s are seated
either in the prow or in the stern, wrap
ped in our striped shawl, holding a bi-handb-d
sunshade, while others are blis
tered in the le.a; and pull until the oar
locks groan and the blades bind till they
su.tp! oh, you religious sb.-t pv heads,
wake up! You have lain so long in one
place that the ants -and caterpillars have
begun to crawl over you! What do you
know, my brother, about a living gospel
made to storm the world? Now. my idea
of a Christian is a man on lire with zeal
tor iod. ami if your pulse ,.rdin.irilv boats
sixty times a minute v hi n von think of
. i
other themes and talk ab tut other themes,
if your pulse does not go up to seventy-fivo
or eighty when you come to talk about
Christ and heaven, it is because you do
not know the one and have a poor chorea
of getting to the other.
Which Side Are You On?
Supiio.se in military circles on the iimrn
ing of battle the roil is called, and out of
a thousand men only a hundred nun in
the regiment answered. What excitement
there would be in the camp! What would
the colonel say? What high talking tlu-ro
would be among the captains, and major
and the adjutants: Suppose word cam a
to head.pia rters that these delimpients ex
eusi d themselves on t he ground that they
had overslept themselves, or the r.iorn'.rig
was damp and they wire afraid of g. tting
their feet wet. or that they were busy
cooking rations. My frh n is. this is the
morning tho day of (iod Almighty"'
battle! 1 ) you not see tile troops".' Hear
ye not all the irumpits of heaven and all
the drums of hell? Which side ;nc you
on? If you are on the right side, to what
cavalry troop, to w hat artillery service, to
what garrison duty do you belong? In
other words, in what Sabbath s-de-ol do
you teach? in what prayer meeting do
you exhort? To what penitt ntiary do out
declare eternal liberty? To what alms
house do you announce the riches of heav
en? What broken bom- of sorrow havo
you ever set? Aiv you doing nothing? Is
it possible that a man or woman sworn to
be a follower of Jesus Christ is doing
nothing? Then hide the horrible secret
from the angels. If you are doing noth
ing, do not let the world lind it out. lest
they charge your religion with being a
false face. 1(, not let your cowardice and
treason be heard among tiie martyrs about
the throne, lest they forget the saio tity of
tiie place and denounce your betrayal of
that cause for which thev agonized and
died.
May the eternal (led rouse us all to
action! As for hivlcU'. I feel I would b
ashanosl to die now and enter heaven un
til 1 have accomplished something more
decisive for the Lord that bought me. Oh,
brethren, how swiftly the time goes byj
It seems to me as if the years had gained
some new power of locomotion -a kind of
speed electric.
One Safe Ifefuge.
Still further, I learn from this subject
the danger of false refuges. As soon as
these Shechemites got into the temple they
thought they were safe. They said:
"Jterith will take care of us. Abinielech
may batter down everything else. lie
cannot batter down this temple where we
are now hid." ltut very .soon they heard
the timbers crackling, and they were
smothered with smoke, and they misera
bly dutl. I suppose every person in this
audience this moment is stepping into
some kind of refuge. Here you step in
the tower of good works. You say. "I
shall be safe in this refuge." Tho battle
ments are adorned, the steps are varnish
ed, on the wall are pictures of all tho
suffering you have alleviated, ami all the
schools you have established, and all tho
line things you have ever done. I'p in
that tower you feel you are safe. ltut
hear you not the tramp of your unpar
doned sins all around the tower? They
each have a match. You are kindling
the combustible material. You feel tho
heat and the sutTiHition. Oh, may you
leap in time, the gospid declaring, Tly
the deeds of the law shall no tlesh living
be jus-titied!"
"Well," you Fay, "I have been driven
out of that tower. Where shall 1 go?"
Step into this tower of indifference. You
say, "If this tower is attacked, it will be
a great while before it is taken." You
fool at ease, ltut there is an Abinielech
with ruthless assault coming on. Heath
and his forces are gathering around, and
they demand that you surrender every
thing, and they clamor for your overthrow,
and they throw their skeleton arms in
the window, and with their iron lists they
beat against the door, ami while you are
trying to keep them out you see the torches
of judgment kindling, and every forest
is a torch, and every mountain a torch,
and every sen a torch, and while the Alps
and Pyrenees and Himalayas turn into a
live coal, blown redder and redder by
the whirlwind breath of a (Jod omnipo
tent, what will become of your refuge of
lies?
"Hut," says some one, "you are engag
ed iu a very mean business, driving us
from tower to tower."
Oh, no! I want to toll you of n (Jih
raltar that never has been and never will
be taken, of a wall that no satanic assault
can scale, of a bulwark that the judgment
earthquakes cannot budge. The Itible re
fers to it when it says, "In (bid is thy
refuge, and underneath thee are the ever
lasting arms." Oh. Hing yourself into it!
Tread down unceremoniously everything
that intercepts you. Wedge your way
there. There are enough hounds of death
and peril after you to make you hurry.
Many a man has perished just outside tho
tower, with his foot on the step, with his
hand on the latch. Oh, get inside! Not
one surplus second have you to spare.
Quick, quick, quick!
"Yes! The Die is Cast," has a romantic
history. It was written by Col. Paul
Pestel, of the Russian army, w ho. with
others, conspired against the Kussian
(Joveniinent In 1SLU The plot
discovered, he was arrested, imprison
ed, tried, and on July 11, ISüc. was
hanged. During the interval between
his trial and execution, he composed the,
words and music of this seii' and with
a. bit of Iron scratched them on the wall
of his cell, when the song was found
some years after his death.
The League of Ar'os, formed It. C.
1'Jl, was a combination of Argos, Co
rinth, Elea, Mnntinoa and Chalcidico
against Athens. It was designed to
curb tho power of the Athenians, hut
Its purpose was frustrated shortly after
by the unexpected incident of Athens
joining the league.
About the most dangerous deception
is self-deception.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Sidney lorte Ifemi ninccn t -St le and
Specialties for Spring.
Special ( on e . nn !-n e:
NcW Yofk. J;.Ji. U.".- The J;. s';i!i
open :idmirao!. I.r t v. nt v: y. ,u
I have cni,vned tin stjlcs - h-. '.. !
ties of two comments-, et I :.e vor w -.
many ce "(.:;( and lienliht-;! : . .to t.,
lighten labor and improve ta-'te. i :; vt
saw so many eiv.it i e interest- ! it a ired
at one time, or so many eec!!e;if -;-e, ;,;!
ties to the foje as there are i".s : .v.. A.
Madison Square niant ua-maker. who N
the highest authority in Lot;,. , i';i.
;:nd New York, think the pre-. ;;!' i -cin
e for Loci Sei.e st;. i s will i:i ..g,:r;i
:t reign of crinoline. Heaven kn :ws al
most any method of relieving v-o-uen u'
the present weighty draperies v i!: ', de
spite ihe perfect Ibdfern tipple, v. ;' '.,1:
about the feef and SWcep lh ; '( L
unwary microbes won!. I be gra'e'V'iy wel
comed. All things considered. r:,- !:.,..m
will be a health factor, and Jirni
who makes one of fenthenveigv l.raide I
wife i, take from spine und t -.n.i !i tic
1 riet icn ' o fashionable kit ts. !".! grace
fully preserving the cntour of tign'-e.
can soon count upon building !:
an. I retii it g t r. ; ; active labor. ;" : ' ! ': '
millions ju
In Mr. lied fern's t,i( tho.l ..f :;
fashionable - k i i t -. v. lveteen ha - .:;::!!
superseded !r;'id; :'.' an :".,'. pan"!
revered in at the hit side i; t
innovation. The r :a n ifaet n ;';. :' .1 n--w
Velvet binding hae r truck sUi 'to
of univefs-al i-i et;iren..-nt. I' r,r
grade and cotn.-s in all shad- ' is
the most capr i'-ioiody tint d .
It is o neat :ind stylish, s . - to .'p
ply. and outwar.-: : skirt made 1 ;.
the stronvest fab-ic; and ihe :!v .: in-hl.
heiit facing is ji; l,e thing ? -Vci T
contraction which iniiit (;. ' .:. 'o.t
ting on the si;!;', I,, ,j piping I se
cure the graceful rounding up ; '' '" hh-'i
1 1i" IloW c et billding is c ', , .- , ' . i. I"', .
best retailer hi every Auierh a r ; - 1, ai; ?
city sell N. V. It.. and it is ;. .. -nd.-d
by ladii " tailors and Ire-,. ... . :.t
(very conipa ss- ,, i;;t . I fo .-v r. !;;!( I
any ot, of my lady ft ader n. ' . re
mote from (hi ureat eei.T . --'.,'.!
a pretty little silver-plated pi". May. lor
her drop ;t line to the Karsli"! : ' .'!:!: .
taring Co.. of N. w York. :..i.:..ag tie-
merchant from whom she p-iroi, ;-..d !e-r
X. V. 1!.. or ll dealer w,h,, 1, . 1 .. 'l yet.
added it to Iiis st". ;.;, and she .s i ; ri c. iv.
further data concerning the . V. ahd
the preity little souvenir which I ';so f..e
my charcoal tablets. Murray's he
best, ami they are put up and i i to ail
druggists by A. J. Pitman. Xo. "' !;nr-iay
street. Xew York.
IMaid st Ickings for golfing. ; 'i.-.g a:-.
tennis ha ve long been iu brilliant "videnee,
but plaided stoi kings for home, visiting
and street toilets nre among imported
hosiery for spring at Lord A: T.iyii.r's. .
LaI;es who have tried them a in ecsta
sies over Hall's peerless dress ;tays. v b i.-h
have an over and under spring, and ad
just themselves to the figure .v:-h gbo
like precision. Iteing double, th 'y render
the seams taut and smooth as in a tailor-
made bodice. These stays an s;r trig and
durable as well as adaptive. A s. t of .0,0
dozen, costing twenty cents at re ail. will
do duty for sevral dresses, always re
taining their primitive shape and fresh
ness. In short, though they end ire long,
they never "make old bones." an I a gar
ment so stiffened retains it syniin try
long after the tirst gloss has worn from
the face of the fabric.
Having secure I tin best stays f.-r the
much bed rn period modern !odi e, the u xt
consideration is a corset which will keo
its shape under the friction of instant
wear. The II. V- (I. does. The :n ikers of
this perfect stay lead the lines in Ann ri
ctn corsets and are rapidly displacing
foreign brands in the oldest n: :vanti!e
houses.
Then is always "room at the t ip." and
in tin face of many rival soaps. 1 i iie-- and
physicians win have tested its merit from
every standpoint accord the palm of pref
erence to Sanador. This latest claimant
for commercial honors is made only of t he
purest ingredients. It stimulates skin
glands to healthy action, prevents impure
secretions, thoroughly cleanses the skin
and scalp ami recoups the depleted citicio
for the waste entailed by 'p-pient
bathing. ltesidos being antie;,ii it
is an ever-ready remedial f r alt
the disfiguring blemishes 'ha. femi
nine tlesh is heir to. What more can be
said, except that I will gladly send a sam
ple to my renders who. having proven its
merits as I have, can then order direct
from the S A N A I X It Me ii ai Com
pany. IO Yandewnter street. New York.
That reminds me to meiiiiei bora,
which, as a personal ch anser an i purifier,
is of tho greatest importance. Mrs. I13iz:i
II. Parker, of Kentucky, the well-known
writer upon household topics, ro.-oriiiiieiid
it for the toiiot a well as for th house
hold ami laundry, ami Mrs. Parker knows
exactly what she is talking ab eit when
she heads the list of practical aids to
labor with borax. Jty the way, if any
lady reader of This paper want- a good
cook book I can semi her one w hich. a 1
guide to many wholesome and excellent,
food preparations lias no etjual.
I will likewise send samples of 1''. m-w
cotton dross goods which are "tine a(
silk." if stamp be inclosed to pay return
tost a ge.
To mothers of boys ami girls ami babies
I will say that Itcst VV Co.'s beautiful
book of stylos for spring is just out. Pour
cents in stamps sent to me or ihe firm
will secure it to any lady iu lhi country
or Panada. SIPXL'Y PAIILP.
;: Aest One Hundred and pout t in h
street. New York.
Silent Cab Call.
One of the l:itc inventions in con
nection with the electric light is a si
lent cab call. Several clubs and h:
in London hae already been supidie.1
with this uofiil commodity. Tw
lamps tire supt nded outside the build
ing, one rod and tin other green, ami
by pressing a Knob in the entrance hall
one or the ither of the lamps can be lit
at will, 'flu' red light call u I'mti-
vli( tier, and the .ureen a 1kiii.m:ii.
It is impossible for any one who has
not seen it to imagine the extraordi
nary popularity enjoyed in Paris ly th
bleycle. It has usurped the interest
taken in horse racing, and seems likely
1 oust flu horse itself us a means nf
fashionable locomotion.
In Nebraska farms average PK) acres,
in Massachusetts Nt. ltut in proverbial
ly thrifty Holland the average is :ti
acres. Sovcntt on-twentieths of all the
farms In Holland are le.s than ,"0 acres.
In extent.