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The Yale Expositor.
J. A. Mkkzikb, Publisher.
YALE, . .
MICH
Isn't It about time to send one of our
biggest warships to Havana?
Even church goers ride In the To
ronto Sunday street cars now. Think
of that!
Even China Is making it warm for
Spain. AH because several Chinamen
have been killed in Cuba. Little thing
to make a big fuss about.
A "rainbow wedding" is one In
Tvhlch the bride wears white and her
maids wear gowns of assorted colors.
The groom well, he don't appear to
cut any figure whatever.
Imports cf shoddy Into this country
during recent years have been as fol
lows: 1830. 4.980,327 lbs.; 1S91, 1.1S5.
E91 lbs.; 1892, 262.992 lbs.; 1893. 233.370
lbs.; 1894, 143.002 lbs.; 1895, 14,000,054
lbs.; 1890, 18,671,109 lbs.
There Is a heart broken boy In Ohio.
He threw a 6tone at a playmate. The
6tone struck the carotid artery and the
playmate Is dead. All the boys should
reflect upon this. It Is remarkable
that with aTl the stone throwing by
boys there are not more fatalities.
They seem to forget that It was but a
etone that killed the mighty giant Go
liath. One of the most interesting features
of the present cotton situation, viewed
from a commercial standpoint, is the
gTowIng Importance of Egypt as an ex
porting country. In 1879, the first
year for which there arc official statis
tics as to the quantity of cotton ship
ped from Egypt, the total exports
were returned at 270,060,813 pounds,
whereas In 1895. the latest year for
which we have figures, the exporta
tiona amounted to 521,427,403 pounds,
or nearly double the quantity shipped
In 1879.
An Important experiment has been
raado on the New Tork & New England
railroad, which seems to establish the
fact that trains propelled by electricity
can be run on the tracks used for steam
trains, without lnterfererca with the
regular traffic. An electrical train was
run between Berlin and Hartford, a
distance of thirteen miles, on a regular
schedule, between two trains drawn by
steam locomotives In the ordinary way.
The power was conveyed by tho use of
a third rail In the center of the track,
and no intermediate feeders were used.
The distance was covered In eighteen
minutes.
Study of questions pertaining to the
tariff leads to the conclusion that there
is no east and west, no north and no
couth. In the sense of half a cantury
ago. In the period preceding the war
the east was the manufacturing sec
tion, the west was the producer of ag
ricultural products, and the south
yielded little but the crops peculiar to
that section. But conditions have
changed. Some of the greatest manu
facturing concerns are In tho west and
in the south. The varied industries of
a great nation are more evenly . dis
tributed than they were. The ldoal
tariff cf the future will be made in
recognition of the fact that sectional
interests are of much less account
than in the past. Beside being of Im
portance to makers of tariff schedules,
this fact 6hould be a matter of satis
faction to all citizens of the republic.
That -electricity is rapidly supplant
ing steam is evidenced bjr a report from
Hartford, Connecticut, under date of
May 25. It says: The new third rail
electric line between New Britain and
Hartford was opened for public traffic
yesterday. Two trains were put on by
way of a beginning, one starting from
Hartford and the other from New Bri
tain simultaneously. There were no
formal ceremonies, and but few people
were on hand to see the beginning of
what many think Is the end of the
steam locomotive. Public Interest be
gan to manifest Itself later, however,
and the trains were full both ways.
The distance is ten miiea, and the time
twenty minutes. This will be reduced
shortly, it is said, to fifteen minutes.
The western track of the New England
road, between New Britain anr Hart
ford, is still devoted to tho ordinary
trains, the eastern track alone .being
used for the electrie system. The elec
tric trains are run at half hour inter
vals, and midway in the line there Is
a turnout where the north-bound train
waits for the south-bound to pass. An
A-shapcd rail, which carries the electric
current, lies in the center of the track
raised free of the ties by blocks of
wood. Through this passes the whole
of the 500-volt current which propels
the ears. President Clark said today
that the New England Railroai com
pany is entirely satisfied with the test,
and that the motor-car must soon
supersede the steam locomotive every
where.
In a discussion of the social changes
In England during Victoria's reign, one
who had lived long is quoted as mak
ing this distinction: When he was
young, every young man, even if busy,
pretended to be Idle; now every young
man. if idle, pretends to be busy. This
se&nied to be progress to the clear-eyad
observer. Accepting the anaylsis, it
needs to be said, that if public senti
ment drives men Jnto a pretense of
working, it does not make the shame
of idleness less; it merely makes the
disgrace less repulsive to superficial 0t
cervera. .
HISTOKY OF A WHJSK.
THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP
TO DATE.
Political, ltellgioaa. Social and Criminal
Doing of the Whole World Carefully
Condensed for Oar Header Tbe Ac
cident Record.
Colorado Springs, Colo. The Zeno
bla gold mine on Bull Hill, after three
years of fruitless work, struck bonan
za ore, 2,880 to the ton.
Athens. It Is reported here that Em
peror William has sent a telegram to
the sultan requesting him to take
measures for the speedy evacuation of
Thessaly.
Buffalo, N. Y. Fire damaged the
home of Joseph Melenski in East Buf
falo, and his five children were fright
fully burned. Sophie, aged 10, died in
a hospital.
Collinsville, 111. M. M. Powell, a
young physician of this city, commit
ted suicide in his office by shooting.
Piano, 111. The Enterprise Manufac
turing Company of Sandwich closed Us
doors. Sheriff Shaftner of Dekalb
County taking charge. Many residents
of this city are Involved for small
amounts ranging from $100 to $5,000.
Newport News, Va. A cyclone
wrecked several houses and did much
damage to growing crops. Consider
able damage also was done to the small
craft lying at ar.ch.or In the James
river.
London. During a volunteer parade
at Liverpool the crowd, which num
bered 100,000 at least, overcame the
handful of police who were keeping
order. Thereupon the mounted police
charged the multitude and Injured
many, two, it is feared, fatally.
Saratoga, N. Y. Austin Smith, aged
IS of Sandy Hill, was killed while play
ing baseball. Smith was at bat when
Edward McGInnls pitched a curved ball
which struck Smith under the ear,
causing concussion of the brain and
almost instant death.
Harrisburg, Pa. Deputy Attorney
General Elkln has given out a state
ment to-night on the condition of the
state finances, in wh'ch he shows that
there 13 a deficit of $3,500,000 In the
state treasury.
New Orleans, La. Pickwick hotel,
cafe and annex. 119 and 121 Carondelet
street, and the building adjoining, oc
cupied by W. H. Moore, fishing tackle,
guns, etc , were gutted by fire, as were
also the two upper stories of the Pick
wick hotel. The total loss by fire Is
estimated at $100,000, fully Insured.
Idaho Springs, Colo. Nathan D.
Crane, an old-time miner, was killed
in the Way to Wealth mine by a cave
in. He was 70 years of age and a brother-in-law
of the late Jerome B. Chaf
fee. He leaves a widow In Adrian,
Mich., and a son In Kalamazoo.
New York Daniel D. Noble was ar
rested, charged with being implicated
in the robbery of Messenger Hlldebrand
of Ringler's brewery on Sept. 9, 1S9G.
The arreat was made on the confession
of James Dalton. who Is now in prison
on the same charge.
Deadwood, S. U. Colonel L. P. Stone
has asked permission from Sheriff
Plunkett to adjust the noose and spring
the" trap at the execution of Charles
Brown, the murderer of Stone's wife.
The sheriff has granted the request.
Kankakee, 111. Frank Booth was fa
tally stabbed by Tom Sweeney, whom
he had chaffed on account of his out-of-date
bicycle.
LaPorte, Ind. Michael Conrick, Pet
er Atloff and James Devlre, who plun
dered Lake Shore trains, were found
guilty and given sentences of from two
to fourteen years at Jeffersonville.
Peru, Ind. The Rev. Peter Bondy
died of heart failure, aged 78 years. He
was a full-blooded Miami Indiau, and
in early days was one of the leading
personages of the tribe. For fifty yean
he had been an ordained Baptist min
ister. Denver, Colo. The managers of the
international gold mining convention
received a letter from Private Secre
tary Porter conveying the regrets of
President McKlnley at his inability to
be present at the convention.
New Haven, Conn. On the an
nouncement of a 10 per cent general
rprfnrtinn of waees at the Worcester
Cycle shops In Mlddletown, Conn., 100
men went on strike. There was a re
duction of wages some time ago at tho
shops, which give employment now
to about 400 hands and to about 700
when running on full time.
Lansing, Mich. Auditor-General Dlx
has determined that the fctate tax levy
for the present year will be $2,379,907
and $2,012,227 for 1893. The state tax
es for the biennial period will be $690,
000 leas than for 1895 and 1896.
Nlles, Mich. Earl Carlton, a Royal
ton township farmer, was kicked by
a horse and , died.
Little Rock, Ark. John Ewing, 18
years, was drowned while bathing In
Fourche bayou.
St. Paul, Minn. Brigadier-General
James F. Wade, the new commander
of the Department of Dakota, has tak
en charge.
Wausau, Wis. Edward, the 17-year-old
son of J. W. Panabaker, was
drowned In the Rib river while bath
ing. Washington. The nenate committee
on International expositions, of which
Mr. Thurston is chairman, has decided
to recommend an appropriation of
$500,000 for the United States exhibit
at the Paris exposition in 1900.
Madrid. La Epoca says that the Cu
ban reforms are already in full swing.
Sioux City, Iowa. A trustee for the
stockholders of the defunct Commer
cial Savings Bank of Teeds, a Sioux
City suburb, has purchased the institu
tion at receiver'g sale. They Intend
paying all claims In full and think
they will have a balance to divide
among themselves.
Whltewright, Tex. Fire destroyed
Ave brick buildings. The loss Is $56,625,
.nsured for $34,070. Seven persons were
injured, those most seriously hurt be
ing H. C. Willis, overcome by heat, ond
W. J. Ashley, arm broken.
Decatur, Mich. Frank Evelsizzer of
Gratiot county was thrown from a
horse and killed.
Brazil, Ind. William Crawley, a
miner, was killed in the Nickle:Plate
mine while drawing pillars.
La Grange, Ind. Mrs. Luella Plat
ter of Auburn was working about an
open fire when her clothing ignited.
She died.
Wapakoneta, Ohio. Peter Tabler, a
farmer, was Instantly killed by light
uing in his house. His wife and chil-
dien were seriously Injured by the
shock. The house was destroyed.
Cleveland. Judge Walter C. Ong of
the common pleas bench was nearly
killed by being caught on his bicycle
between a wagon and a motor. He was
struck by the motor and crushed by the
life guard. Ills spine is badly injured.
A bemb wa? exploded Wednesday af
ternoon In the Strasburg statue on the
place de la Concorde, Paris. No dam
age was done.
A series of terrific thunder storms
struck Chicago Wednesday, destroying
life and property. One man was killed
by lightning, two died from the cf
fects of tho Intense heat preceding the
storm, and many were prostrated.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Arthur Scnn, 14
years old, while swimming In the river,
had a cramp and drowned.
Ashtabula, Ohio Fred Sayle, a Penn
sylvania railroad employe, of China,
Mich., was killed by cars at Lawrence
Junction, Pa.
Mexico, Mo. Mrs. Alfred Mason's
son was Accidentally killed while play
ing with a pistol. The mother went
crazy, and was taken to the asylum.
FOREIGN.
Berne, Switzerland The state coun
cil, by a vote of 26 to 17, has declared
in favor of the state acquiring the rail
roads of Switzerland.
Rome Giuseppe Verdi, the cele
brated composer, now in his eighty
third year, is seriously ill.
Paris. ihe Soleil says that a fresh
bomb was discovered Friday at the
corner of the Boulevard St. Denis anc
the Rue St. Denis. The find in pthei
Quarters is declared to be only a harm
less hoax.
Paris President Faure has consent
ed to act as arbitrator in the frontlei
dispute between the Central Americar
republics of Couta Rica and Colombia
Berlin. Admiral von Hollmann has
resigned the post of chief of the navj
department. Admiral von Tirpitz ha;
been appointed to succeed him.
Paris In a fight between Italian anc
French workuien at Barcarin twt
Frenchmen were killed. The distrld
U intensely excited, and the police are
taking steps to quell further disturb
ances. Madrid. A succession of cyelonet
and fierce hailstorms have destroyec
the crops and vineyards In the prov
inces of Valladoiid and Guadalajara
In the district of New Castile house.
have been flooded, hundreds of cattle
di owned and a number of lives lost.
It is announced on the authority oi
one of the royal physicians attendant
upon Queen Victoria, that "her majesU
is almost totally blind." No details
of tho sad news are available.
John W. Foster, tho United State
commissioner at St. Petersburg, start
ed for London Wednesday. It is un
derstood that his mission has beei
fcU(C3Sfully accomplished.
The Norway storthing unanimously
approved an address to the king In
Qvor of concluding treaties to estab
lish permanent courts of arbitration.
CRIME.
Davenport, Iowa. John Gugelhclmer
murdered his wife by mixing strych
nine with an eggnog and giving het
die drink. He then committed suicidt
111 the same manner.
Covington, Ky. Immediately aftei
family prayers Miss Amelia Baer, agec
22 years, went into parlor and cut hei
throat.
Milford, Pa. raul Herman Shultz,
found guilty of killing his wife, at
tempted to commit BUicido by strangu
lation, using a strip from a bed quilt.
He wa3 revived. He still refuses foou
?nd says he will starve himself to deatl
before the day of execution.
Elgin. 111. Miss Carrie Blsbce, a
seamstress at the insane hospital, was
shot three tlme3 In the head and breast
by her cousin, Mr. Bisbec. Mr. Bisbe
fled and has not been caught.
Duluth, Minn. John Promberger, lo
cal agent of the Delaware, Lackawan
na & Hudson River Road, was arrest
ed charged with the embezzlement ol
$1,100 of the company's funds.
Kokomo, Ind. 1 nomas McGovern
and John Gowdy, merchants, were held
up and severely beaten by highwaymen
while on their way home. Mr. McGov
ern is in a critical condition. The rob
bers secured only $11.
Decatur, Mich. Frederick Hall, aged
C5 years, hanged himself at Byron Cen
ter, Kent county, while insane.
Littlefleld.
Demur. Matl Adams, ex-clerk ol
the District court, who was found gull,
ty of the emblezzlement of county
funds, was sentenced to state prison
for five years. After tho discovery 01
$60,000 shortage in bis accounts he fled
to England, whence he was extradited
laet year.
Cbokab Ebin, the full-blooded Creek
Indian who murdered Laura Anthony,
was thot to death In retributive Jus
tice by his father, Riley Ebin, and hi
brother, Palko.
Columbus, Ohio J. Wctdey Benedict,
a farm laborer, blew off .is head with
a Ehotgun-near New Albany.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A QUEEN'S REIGN" LAST SUN
DAY'S SUBJECT.
breached at lleatrlca, Nebraska, from
tbe Illble Test. "What Wilt Thou
Qneen Esther?" Either, Chapter V.
Verne I If. Victoria Uae Done Soma
Good Thing
ma qu tiuou,
which was asked of
1 a queen thousands
of years ago, nil
Civilized nations
are this day asking
of Queen Victoria,
"What will thou
have of honor, of
reward, or rever
ence, or service, of
national and inter
national acclamation? What wilt thou,
the Queen of the nineteenth century?
The seven miles of procession through
tne streets of London day after tomor
row will be a small part of the con
gratulatory procession whose multi
tudinous tramp will encircle the earth.
The celebratlve anthems that will
sound up from Westminster Abbey and
St. Paul's Cathedral in London will be
less than the vibration of one harp-
string as compared with the doxologles
which this hour roll up from an na
tions in Draise to God for the beautl
ful life and the glorious reign of this
oldest Queen amid many centuries.
From five o'clock in the morning of
1S37, when tho Archbishop of Canter
bury addressed the embarrassed and
weeping and almost affrighted girl of
eighteen years with tho startling
words, "Your Majesty," until this six
tieth anniversary of her enthronement,
the prayer of all good people on all
sides of the seas, whether that prayer
be offered by the three hundred mil
lions of her subjects or the larger num
ber of millions who are not her sub
jects, whether that prayer be solem
nized in church, or rolled from great
orchestras, or poured forth by military
band3 from forts and battlements and
in front of triumphant armies all
around the world, has been and is now,
"God save the Queen!" Amid the in
numerable columns that have been
printed in eulogy of this Queen at the
approaching anniversary columns
which, put together, would be literally
miles long It seems to me that the
chief cause of congratulation to her
and of praise to God has not yet been
properly emphasized, and in many
cases the chief key-note has not been
struck at all. We have been told over
and over again what has occurred in
the Victorian era. The mightiest
thing she has done has been almost
Ignored, while she has been honored
by having her name attached to indi
viduals and events for whom and for
which she had no responsibility. We
have put before us the names of potent
and grandly useful men and women
who have Lived during her reign, but
I do not suppose that she at all helped
Thomas Carlyle In twisting his In
volved and mighty satires, or helped
Disraeli in Issuance of his epigram
matic wit, or helped Cardinal Newman
in his crossing over from religion to
religion, or helped to Inspire the en
chanted sentiments of George Eliot and
Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Browning,
or helped to Invent any of George
Cruikshank'a healthful cartoons, or
helped George Grey In founding a
British South African Empire, or
kindled the patriotic fervor with which
John Bright stirred the mas-ses, or had
anything to do with the invention of
the telephone or photograph, or the
building up of the science of bacteriol
ogy, or tho directing of. the Roentgen
rays which have revolutionized sur
gery, or helped In the inventions for
facilitating printing and railroading
and ocean voyaging. One is not to be
ercdlted or discredited for the virtue
or the vice, the brilliance or the stu
pidity, of his or her contemporaries.
While Queen Victoria has been the
friend of all art, all literature, all
science, all Invention, all reform, her
reign will be most remembered for all
time and all eternity as the reign of
Christianity. Beginning with that
Bcene at five o'clock In the morning, in
Kensington Palace, where the asked
the Archbishop of Canterbury to pray
for her, and they knelt down, imploring
D.vlne guidance, until this hour, not
only in tho sublime Liturgy of her Es
tablished church but on all occasions,
she has directly or indirectly declared,
"I believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son."
I declare It, fearless of contradiction,
that the mightiest champion of Chris
tianity today Is the throne of England.
The Queen's book, so much criticised
at the time of Its appearance, some
saying it was not skilfully done, and
some saying that the private affairs of
a household ought not so to have been
exposed, was nevertheless a book of
vast usefulness from the fact that it
showed that God was acknowledged In
all her life and that "Rock of Ages"
was not an unusual song in Windsor
Castle. Was her son. the Prince of
Wales, down with an illneis that baf
fled the greatest doctors of England?
Then she proclaimed a day of prayer
to Almighty God, and In answer to the
prayers of the whole civilized world
the Prince got well. Was Sebastopol
to be taken and the thousands of be
reaved homes of soldiers to be com
forted, she called her nation to Its
knees, and the prayer was answered.
See her walking through the hospitals
like an angel cf mercy! Was there
ever an exrlocfon of fire damp in the
mines of htttlcld or Wales and her
telegram was not the first to arrive
with help and Christian sympathy? 13
President Garfield dying at Long
Branch, and Is not the. cable under the
cca, reaching to Balmoral castle, kept
busy in announcing the symptoms of
the sufferer?
I believe that no throne since the
throne of David and the throne of Hez-
eklah and the thron of Esther has
been in such constant touch with the
throne of heaven as the throne of Vic
torla. From what I know of her habits,
she reads the Bible more than she
does Shakespeare. She admires ' the
hymns of Horatio Bonar more than
she does Byron's "Corsair." She has
not knowingly admitted into her pres
ence a corrupt man.- or dissolute wo
man. To very distinguished novelists
and very celebrated prima donnas she
has declined reception because they
were immoral. All the coming centur
ies of time cannot revoke the advant
1 ages of having had sixty years of ChrU
ciaa womanhood enthroned in tha
palaces of England. Compare her
court surroundings with what were
the court surroundings In the time of
Henry VIII., or what were the court
surroundings In the time of Napoleon,
In the time of Louis XVI., in the time
of men and women whose names may
not be mentioned In decent society.
Alas! for the revelries, and the worse
than Belshazzar feasts, and tho more
than Herodian dances, and, the scenes
from which the veil must not be llfied.
You need, however, In order to appre
ciate the purity and virtuous splendor
of Victoria's reign to contrast It some
what with the eehennas and the pan
demoniums of many of the throne
rooms of the past and some throno
rooms of the present. I call the roll of
the queens of the earth, not that I
would have them come up or come
back, but that I may make them the
background of a picture In which I
can better present the present septenar-
ian. or soon to be an octogenarian, now
on the throne of England, her example
so thoroughly on the right side that
all the scandal-mongers in all tho na
tions in six decades have not been able
to manufacture an evil suspicion In re
gard to her that could be made to
stick: Maria of Portugal, Isabella and
Eleanor and Joanna of Spain, Catha
rine of Russia, Mary of Scotland, Maria
Tersea of Germany, Marie Antoinette
of France, and all the queens of Enc
land, as Mrs. Strickland has put them
before us In her charming twelve vol
umes: and while some queen may sur
pass our modern queen In learnltig,
and another in attractiveness of fea
ture, and another In gracefulness cf
form, and another in romance of his
tory, Victoria surpasses them all In
nobility and grandeur and thorough
ness of Christian character. I hall her!
the Christian daughter, the Christian
wife, tho Christian mother, the Cnm
tlan Gueen! and let the Church of G'd
and all benign and gracious Institu
tions the world over cry out, as they
come with music and bannered host,
and million-voiced huzza, and the bene
dictions of earth and heaven, "What
wilt thou. Queen Esther?"
a e e
But as all of us will bo denied at
tendance on that sixtieth anniversary
coronation, I invite you, not to the an
niversary of a coronation, but to a cor
onation itself aye, to two coronations.
Brought up as we are, to love as no
other form of government that which
is republican and democratic, we, liv
ing on this side of the sea, cannot so
easily a3 those living on the other sids
of the sea, appreciate the two corona
tions to which all up and down the
Bible you and I are urgently Invited.
Some of you have such morbid Idea1,
of religion that you think of it as go
ing down Into a dark cellar, or out on
a barren commons, or as a flagellation;
when, so far from a dark celler, It is
a palace, and kistcad of a barren com
mons It is a garden, atoss with the
brightest fountains that were ever rain
bowed, and Instead of flagellation it Is
coronation, but a coronation utterly
eclipsing the one whose sixtieth anni
versary Is now being celebrated. It
was a great day when David, the little
king who was large encugh to thrash
Goliath, took the crown at Kabbah
a crown weighing a talent cf gold and
encircled with precious stones and the
people shouted, "Long live the king:"
it was a great day when Petrarch, sur
rounded by twelve patrician youths
clothed In scarlet, received from a sen
ator the laurel crown, and the people
shouted, "Long live the poet!" It was
a great day when Mark Antony put
upon Caesar the mightiest tiara of all
earth, and la honor of divine authority
Caesar had It placed afterward on the
head of the statue of Jupiter Olympus.
It was a great day when the greatest
of Frenchmen took the diadem of
Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. It was a great day when, about
an eighth of a mile from tbe gate of
Jerusalem, under a sky pallid with
thickest darkness, and on a mountain
trammeled of earthquake, and the air
on fire with the blasphemies of a mob,
a crown of spikes was put upon the
pallid and agonized brow of our Jesus.
But that particular coronation, amid
tears and blood and groans and shiver
ing cataclysms, made your own corona
tion possible. Paul was not a man to
lose his equilibrium, but when that old
missionary, with crooked back and in
flamed eyes, got a glimpse of the crown
coming to him, and coming to you, if
you will by repentance and faith ac
cept it, he went into ecstacles, and hl3
poor eyes flashed and his crooked back
straightened as he cried to Timothy,
"There is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness," and to the Corinthians,
"These athletes run to obtain a cor
ruptible, we an incorruptible crown."
And to the Thcssalonians he speaks of
"the crown of glory,"- and to the Pbil
ipplans he Bays, -"My Joy and orown."
The Apostle Peter catches the inspira
tion and cries out, "Ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away,"
and St. John joins in the rapture and
says, "Faithful to death, and I will give
thee a crown of life," and elsewhere ex
claims, "Hold fast, that no man take
thy crown." Crowns! crowns! crowns!
You did not expect, in coming here to
day, to be Invited to a coronation. You
can scarcely believe your own ears;
but in the name of a pardoning God
and a sacrificing Christ, and an omni
potent Holy Spirit and a triumphant
heaven, I offer each one a crown for
the asking. Crowns! Crowns! How
to get the crown? The way Victoria
got her crown, on her knees. Although
eight duchesses and marquises, all in
cloth of silver, carried her train, and
the windows and arches and roof of
the Abbey shook with the Te Deum of
the organ in full diapason, she had to
kneel, she had to come down. To get
the crown of pardon and eternal life,
you will have to kneel, you will have
to come down. Yea! History says
that at her ooronatlon not only the
entire assembly wept with profound
emotion, but Victoria was in tears. So.
you will have to have your dry eyes
moistened with tears, in your case
tears of repentance, tears of Joy, tears
of coronation, and you will feel like
crying out with Jeremiah, "Oh, that
my head were waters and mine eyes
fountains of tears." Yes, she was (hir
ing the ceremony seated for awhile on
a lowly stono called the Lia Fail,,
which, as I remember it, as I have
seen it again and again, was rough and
not a foot high, a lowly and humble
place in which to be seated, and if you
are to be crowned king or queen to
God forever, you must be seated on the
Lia Fail of profound humiliation. Af
ter all that, she was ready for the
throne, and let me say that God is not
going to leave your exaltation half
done. There are thrones as well as
crowns awaiting you. St. John shout
ed, "I saw thrones!" and again he
said, "They shall reign forever and
ever." Thrones! Thrones! Get re-idy
for the coronation. But I invite you
not only to your own coronation, but
to a mightier and the mightiest. In
all the ages of time no one ever had
such a hard time aa Christ while he
was on earth. Brambles for his brow,
expectoration for his cheek, whips for
his back, spears for his side, splke3
for his feet, contumely for his name,
and even In our time, how many say
he Is no Christ at all, and there are
tens of thousands of hands trying to
push him back and keep him down.
But, oh! the human and satanic Impo
tency! Can a spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel of
a child digs in the sand at Cape May
swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath
of a summer fan drive back the Medi
terranean euroclydon? Yes, when all
the combined forces of earth and hell
can keep Christ from ascending the
throne of universal dominion. David
the Psalmist foresaw that coronation,
and cried out In regard to the Messiah,
"Upon himself shall his crown flour
ish." From the cave of black basalt
St. John foresaw it, and cried, "On his
head were many crowns." Now do not
miss the beauty of that figure. There
is no room on any head for more than
one crown of silver, gold or diamond.
Then what does the Book mean when
It says, "On his head were many
crowns?" Well, It means twisted and
enwreathed flowers. To prepare a
crown for your child and make her
the "Queen of the May," you might
take the white flowers out of one par
terre, and the crimson flowers out of
another parterre, and the blue flowers
out of another parterre, and the pink
flowers out of another parterre, and
gracefully and skillfully work these
four or five ciowns Into one crown of
beauty. So all the splendors of earth
and heaven are to be enwreathed Into
one coronal for our Lord's forehead
one blazing glory, one dazzling bright
ness, one overpowering perfume, one
down flashing, up-rolling, out spread
ing magnificence and so on his head
shall be many crowns.
He Wa Alive.
The grenadiers of the famous "Old
Guard" will never be forgotten in
France as long as the memory of brave
men shall live in the national heart.
But some of them, at least, were as
bright as they were brave, as the fol
lowing trustworthy jjnecdote bears wit
ness: One fine morning, after peace
had been concluded between France
and Russia, the two emperors, Napol
eon and Alexander, were taking a short
walk, arm In arm, around the palace
park at Erfurt. As they approached
the sentinel, who stood at the foot of
the grand staircase, the man, who was
a grenadier of the guard, presented
arms. The emperor of France turned,
and pointing with pride to the great
scar that .divided the grenadier's face,
said:
"What do you think, my brother, of
soldiers who can survive such wounds
as that?"
"And you," answered Alexander,
"what do you think of soldiers that
can Inflict them?"
Without stirring an inch from his
position, or changing the expression of
his face in the least, the stern old gren
adier himself replied gravely:
"The man who did It is dead."
He Got the Gold.
Banks are so well able to protect
themselves that most readers will en
joy the following account of how an
unsophisticated customer secured a
Blight advantage over one of them. We
borrow the story from an English pa
per. A poor Irishman went to the of
fice of an Irish bank and asked for
change in gold for fourteen one pound,
bank of Ireland notes. The cashier at
once replied that the Cavan bank only
cashed its own notes.
"Then yould ye gle me Cavan notes.
for these?" asked the countryman la
his simple way.
"Certainly," said the cashier, hand
ing out the fourteen notes as desired.
The Irishman took the Cavan notes.
but immediately returned them to the
official, saying, "Would yle gle me gold
for these, sir?"
And the cashier, caught In his own.
trap, was obliged to do it.
If the landed surface of the globe
were divided and allotted In eaua.1
ehares to each of its huma.t inhabit
ants, it would be found that each would
set a plot of 2314 acres.