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The Yale Expositor.
J A. Mekzies, Publisher.
YALL
Mien
A "corn conference" is to be hell In
Chicago. Agriculturists have been in
vited, but the chiropodists were over
looked.
The proportion of blind people in the
world is 800 to every 1,000,000, but if
blind pigs in Hyde Park are counted
these figures will not do.
Some Parisians hate the Jews so
much that they refuse to pay their
debts to them. They 6eem to think
they are ruined by cheap Hebrew
labor.
Those Chicago dental students ap
pear to have revived the Cadmean le
gend. When they threw teeth in the
street a host of fully armed policemen
suddenly sprang up.
The Jockey Club and other superior
Bociety having rebuked the prince of
Wales because of his loyalty to Mrs.
Langtry, the two ought to go off to
gether and pull the wool of oblivion
over their faces, the same to remain
there for forty days and nights. We
do not say that they will do so, mark
you! for they have been hardened
against rebuke by years of contempt
for it
It ought to be understood that there
Is no substitute for the enforcement
of the law against murder. As long as
the murderous spirit exists and is not
adequately restrained weapons will be
found with which to commit a crime.
Legislation against concealed weapons
may or may not be useful, but it is
entirely inadequate. We must punish
the men who use weapons,, of whatever
kind, unlawfully.
Mr. Smalley will perhaps have things
bo arranged presently that every new
comer will be born in England. Not
that it is a disgrace to be born in
America; but one has to waste so
much time growing up and making the
money necessary to go to England and
die. Meanwhile the evacuation of the
country by men who are ashamed of
It will proceed as rapidly as possible.
Smalley ought to get his passport.
The editor of a Nebraska paper says
he has "reached the slope on the other
side of life," but never yet has he seen
a woman with a frost-bitten ear, and
never yet has a bonnet been built so
as to keep the head warm. Other men
have noticed that women dressed for
the party have ridden miles in the
coldest night without a particle of the
discomfort felt by their warmly
dressed escort. These are curious
facts, the scientists apparently do not
know how to account for them.
Those who are studying the wheat
situation are interested in the fact that
the world's available wheat supply on
February 1 was 152,000,000 bushels as
against 173,000,000 bushels a year ago.
Wheat is now commanding the highest
prices In years and indications are
that it will reach much higher figures
before the new crop is harvested. The
Chicago wheat syndicate is disposing
of its holdings at fancy prices, and
when this stock disappears, the re
sources of the country will be severely
taxed to meet the demand. The Chi
cago market advanced three cents last
week, and it is expected that all rec
ords for high prices will be broken be
fore the deal is closed.
"This part of the garden is the gov
ernment tangle." The speaker laugh
ed at the mystified looks of her guests.
"Each year my father, a voter, re
ceives from our congressman three
puny grape-vines, one or two currant
end raspberry bushes, a few packages
of aster, marigold and pumpkin seeds,
and a pint of wax beans. They are
thrown in here and left to live or die,
s they please." For like sarcastic
recipients this government annually
appropriates one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars; nevertheless, a care
ful review of the department reports
fails to reveal a single case of benefit
to agriculture from the free distribu
tion of plants and seeds.
We are glad to see that the "co-eds"
of the University of Michigan have un
dertake To? reform the male students.
It shows that woman is acquiring con
fidence "with her advanced education.
It has ndt been unusual for one young
woman fo undertake to , reform one
young man, but until now we have not
heard of a case where an attempt was
made to round up several hundred
young men and make one wholesale
reform Job of the whole batch. How
ever, we wish the girls success. Wer
sincerely hope that they will be able
to banish tobacco from the Institution,
but we have our doubts, still. Just as
a proof of their earnestness, they might
Intimate that they are willing to have
chewing gum and candy go with the
tobacco.
No. As director of the mint O. E.
Roberts will not pass his time punch
ing out quarters with a hand stamp.
He will leave that sort of thing to the
hired man while he answers the fool
questions about finance which- people
ask the government.
When Sergeant Koomler, the private
noldier, asked for more grub, the pToper
thing would have been for the cook to
get. a rope around his ankles in true
Fort Shrridan style and haul him over
(he coal. A. court martial js too mild
tor suclib-HlIaln.
SCIENTIFIC POINTERS, i
CURRENT NOTES OF DISCOV
ERY AND INVENTION.
IMcylUta Hall a Recent Invention wilt
Joy It 1'rewnU tit Camp from
mowing Out A l'arla Uspoalllon
Woutler.
Growth of tha Aluiulnlnm Industry.
LUMINIUM Is now
rb0C4 Demg Droaucea m
-,'V "-"T I large and increas-
l Vif I ine nuantlties. A
few years ago the
manufacture of this
metal ; on a com
mercial scale was
regarded as almost
beyond the range
of possibility.
Those who predict
ed it were considered dreamers, and
capital shunned Investment in such an
enterprise. Steadily, and so quietly
that most of us have hardly been con
scious of the fact, a new "white metal"
has won its way to a place in the In
dustrial world which, if not that to
which the early enthusiasts had as
signed it in their dreams, may yet be
fairly called a firm foothold. To all
intents and purposes the history of alu
minium begins with the Invention of
the processes which made possible Its
use in the arts on a large scale. In
America this has been accomplished
since 1SS6, and all that was done in
Europe prior to that date by way of
popularizing the knowledge and use of
the metal is rendered insignificant by
comparison with the results since
achieved. The closing years of the
century are witnessing a remarkable
development In the manufacture and
consumption for Industrial purposes of
this wonderful new metal. Indeed, it
has been possible for a single genera
tion to see the blr.h and the success
ful growth of the entire aluminium in
dustry. In the United States alone in
the year 189G the amount of the crude
aluminium produced exceeded 1,300.00)
pounds one-third of the world's total
output.
The Effect of Foe.
Accidents due to the obscuration of
objects by fog are so common that
scientists are making a study of ab
sorbent power of fog as regards lights
of all kinds. It appears that London
fog absorbs 20.8 per cent of the light
from an Incandescent burner, while the
ordinary gas flame loses but 11.1 per
cent. The incandescent light contains
more blue, and thi3 Is readily absorbed
by the fog. Red lights are much more
penetrative than blue, and as the gas
light contains far more red than the
electric. It is much more valuable as
a light for use In very heavy fogs. It
Is a fact familiar to every one that
when the sun shows through mist, it
is of a deep red color. This is ac
counted for by the fact that the blue
rays are entirely absorbed, leaving
only the red with Its much more power
ful quality of penetration.
A l'arla Expoalilon Wonder.
At the exposition of 1900, in Paris,
the palace of war and of the navy will
be a remarkably Interesting and orig
inal building. The design of the young
architects to whom the contract has
been awarded, Messrs, Umbdenstock &
Auburtln, i3, according to the Scien
tific American, very novel and beauti
ful. The building is designed to show the
great transformation that has taken
place in the navy during the last two
centuries. Accordingly, at the left ex
tremity of the building ' they have
placed the poop of one of the Immense
galleys that formed the fleet of Louis
XIV., with its antique guns, its blue-and-gold
trimmings, its royal flags and
its sails and rigging.
This ship enters the palace and after
passing through all the changes that
shipbuilding in the last two centuries
has made possible emerges on the right
of the palace a modern armor-clad,
steel-turreted fighting boat, with re
volving .guns and a huge smokestack.
The structure will be one of the mar
vels of the great new century show.
aivapenrted Animation.
Experiments are to be tried upon liv
ing creatures of various sorts for the
purpose of ascertaining Just how far
suspended animation can go with safe
ty to lfe. It is a well understood fact
thft certain animals hibernate, and a
number of these are to be collected and
placed under the most favorable condi
tion for experiment. They will be con
stantly watched to note the tempera
ture at which consciousness leaves
'Vm. The statement has been made
tV.t men" In the polar regions have
been frozen In Icebergs and have re
covered when the Ice melted. This has
been discredited, but a number of
Scientists are confident that such sn ex
periment could be carried successful
ly. It Is thought possible to chill tho
m
mm
mm
body so that It will remain In a torpid
state for a month or more. The female
polar bear hibernates during the en
tire winter, but the male is always out
nnd on the alert for food. Animals
that hibernate are usually very fat at
the beginning of cold weather, but
come out In the spring extremely thin.
The faculties are dormant during this
period. Indeed certain creatures may
be deprived of some portion of their
members without apparent pain. A
bat was examined after having been
In the torpid state for some time, when
it was found that its wings wore
broken. It was apparently dead, but
after being held in the hand for a few
minutes it began to move uneasily, and
upon recovering was found to be vi
cious in the extreme, snapping and bit
ing everything that came within its
reach. The woodchuck and hedge-hog
are among the most perfect examples
of hibernating animals. If disturbed
In the ne3t which they have prepared
for themselves, they may roll about
like balls without showing any signs
of consciousness. These creatures,
however, are very sensitive to shocks.
A slight blow of an axe upon the tree
In which they have made their homes
Is often sufficient to kill them, and on
one occasion a hedge-hog died merely
from rolling a little distance and stak
ing against a log. The fanatics of In
dia permit themselves to be burled
alive, as Is supposed, and manyof them
have been known to remain for a long
period In what is to all Intents and
purposes a grave. The question arises
whether there Is a scientific reason for
all this; and if so by what theory can
these conditions be accounted for, and
how can they be produced at will.
Illcy llata Hall It With Joy.
Nearly every wheelman has had trou
ble with his lamp blowing or Jarring
out, and has often wondered whether
it was possible to make it stay lighted
The little device shown In the accom
panying cut Is the result of Just such
a conjecture, and has been tried on a
number of lamps In this city with good
results. It is simply a piece of wire
gauze of the proper fineness and shape
which cushions the flame from sudden
draughts of air and prevents its being
blown off the wick. With the shield
In place it is possible to turn the wick
down low enough to prevent the lamp
from smoking, the consumption of oil
being also much smaller. The attach
ment can be placed on any lamp by
the purchaser, and has already been
patented.
Kvolved from Garbage
The garbage of a great city Is worth
a fortune every year, If properly util
ized.' In St. Louis, Mo., the refuse Is
placed In enormous vertical cylind?is,
surrounded by steam Jackets, which
evaporate the seventy-five to eighty per
tent of water in the garbage. The fat
ty substances are dissolved, and as the
result of a number of processes a fer
tilizer is produced which is worth from
nine dollars to twelve dollars per ton,
the demand exceeding the supply. One
of the purest and best soaps of the
country was made of garbage grease
before cotton-seed oil entered the field.
It is now proposed to light London by
electricity for nothing. It now costs
that city $1.08 (4s Sd) to get rid of a
ton of garbage. A combination of boil
ers and other apparatus has been de
vised that can burn the garbage a
twenty-four cents (one shilling) per
ton, and generate steam sufficient to
run enough dynamos to light the en
tire city. London can thus save 3s 8d
on each ton, and, In addition, illumin
ate its city without cost: Garbage, by
a machine called the "dust destructor,"
Is converted Into clinkers, which can
be used for roadways, n artificial stone
for sidewalks, and as sand for mortar
and cement. In Paris the Invisible
particles of Iron, worn from wheels and
from the shoes of horses, are rescued
by passing powerful magnets through
the sweepings.
la Thera Such a Dlaeaaa aa Hydrophobia?
When doctors disagree and acknowl
edged authorities fall out and wrangle
over Important points, or on matters
that affect human life and safety. It
is useless for the lay mind to struggt:
with such subjects. One medical asso
ciation and a great many competent
authorities have decided that there Is
no such disease as hydrophobia. Now
the "Lancet" announces that the only
safeguard against this disease is to
keep dogs muzzled. Surely this must
be an unnecessary precaution, if there
Is no such disease to combat. The
public will watch with a great deal of
Interest the outcome of a dispute upon
a question that so closely concerns (he
safety of a large number of families in
all quarters of the globe.
Don't think for a minute because yot:
owe your life to the doctor that lis
will take It In payment of his uuu
bill.
TALMAttE'S SEliMON.
HE PREACHES TO THE NEWS
PAPER PROFESSION.
And Incidentally Telia About tho Good
I'upera In the Country Tow-na nnd
C'ltlea, and the Wicked l'apera of t!io
Greater title.
Express, rail train and telegraphic
communication are suggested if not
foretold In this text, and from it I
start to preach a sermon in gratitude
to God and the newspaper press for
the fact that I have had the opportuni
ty of delivering through the newspaper
press two thousand sermons or religi
ous addresses, so that I have for many
years been allowed the privilege of
preaching the gospel every week to ev
ery neighborhood in Christendom, and
In many lands outside of Christendom.
Many have wondered at the process by
which it has come to pass, and for
the first time in public place I stau
the three causes. Many years age, a
young man who has since become emi
nent in his profession, was then study
ing law In a distant city. He came to
me, and said that for lack of funds he
must stop his studying, unless through
stenography I would give him sketches
of sermons, that he might by the sale
of them secure means for the comple
tion of his education. I positively de
clined, because It seemed to me an
impossibility, but after some months
had passed, and I had reflected upon
the great sadness for such a brilliant
young man to be defeated In his am
bition for the legal profession, I under
took to serve him; of course, free of
charge. Within three weeks there
came a request for those stenographic
reports from many parts of the con
tinent. Time passed on, and come
gentlemen of ray own profession, evi
dently thinking that there was hardly
room for them and for myself In this
continent began to assail me, and be
came so violent in their assault that
the chief newspapers of America put
special correspondents in my church
Sabbath by Sabbath to take down such
reply as I might make. I never made
reply, except once for about three min
utes, but those correspondents could
not waste their time and so they tele
graphed the sermons to their particu
lar papers. After awhile, Dr. Louis
Klopsch of New York systemlzed the
work into a syndicate until through
that and other ryndicates he has put
the discourses week by week before
more than twenty million people on
both sides of the sea. There have been
so many guesses on this subject, many
of them inaccurate, that I now tell the
true story. I have not Improved the
opportunity as I ought, but I feel the
time has come when as a matter of
common Justice to the newspaper press
that I should make this statement In
a sermon commemorative of the two
thousandth full publication of sermons,
nnd religions addresses, saying no
thing of fragmentary reports, which
would run up into many thousands
more.
There was one Incident that I might
mention In this connection, showing
how one Insignificant event might in
fluence us for a lifetime. Many years
ago on a Sabbath morning on my way
to church in Brooklyn, a representa
tive of a prominent newspaper met mo
and said: "Are you going to give us
any points today?" I said,' "What do
you mean by 'points?'" lie replIeJ.
"Anything we can remember." I said
to myself, "We ought, to be making
points' all the time in our pulpits and
not deal In platitudes and Inanities."
That one Interrogation put to me that
morning started in" mo the desire of
making potnt3 all the time and nothing
but points.
And now, how can I more appropri
ately commemorate the two thousandth
publication than by speaking of the
newspaper press as an ally of the pul
pit, and mentioning some of the trials
of newspaper men.
The newspaper is the great educator
of the nineteenth century. There Is no
force compared with It. It Is book,
pulpit, platform, forum, all in one. And
there is not an interest religious, lit
erary, commercial, scientific, agricul
tural or mechanical that Is not within
Its grasp. All our churches and schools
and colleges and asylums and art gal
leries feel the quaking of the printing
press.
The institution of newspapers arose
in Italy. In Venice the first newspaper
was published, and monthly, during
the time Venice was warring against
Solyman the Second In Dalmatia, it
was printed for the purpose of giving
military and commercial Information
to the Venitlans. The first newspa
per published In England was In 15S3,
and called the English Mercury. Who
can estimate the political, scientific,
commercial and religious revolutions
roused up in England for many years
past by the press?
The first attempt at this Institution
In France was in 1631, by a physician,
who published the News, for the amuse
ment and health of his patients. The
French nation understood fully how
to appreciate this power. So early as
In 1820 there was In Paris 169 Journals.
But in the United States the newspa
per has come to unlimited sway.
Though In 1775 there were but thirty
seven in the whole country, the num
ber of published Journals is now count
ed by thousands; and today we may as
well acknowledge it as not the re
ligious an secular newspapers are the
treat educators of the country.
But alas! through what struggle the
newspaper has come to Its present de
velopment. Just as soon as it began
to demonstrate Its power, superKItlon
and tyranny shackled it. There Is no
thing that despotism so much fears and
hate9 as the printing press. A great
writer in the south of Europe declared
that the King of Naples had made it
unsafe for him to write on any subject
savo natural history. Austria could
not bear Kossuth's Journalistic pen
leading for the redemption of Hungary.
Napoleon I., wanting to keep his Iron
heel on the neck of nations, said that
the newspaper was the regent of kings,
and the only safe place to keep an
editor was in prison. But the great
battle for the freedom of the press was
fought in the court rooms of England
and the United States before this cen
tury began, when Hamilton made his
great speech in behalf of the freedom
of J. Peter Zenger's Gazette In Ameri
ca, and when Erskine made his great
speech in behalf of the freedom to pub
lish Palne's "Rights of Man" in Eng
land. Those were the Marathon and
the Thermopylae where the battle was
fought which decided the freedom of
the press In England and America, and
all the powers of earth and hell will
never again be able to put upon the
printing press the handcuffs and the
hopples of literary and political des
potism. It Is remarkable that Thomas
Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration
of Independence, also wrote these
words: "If I had to choose between
a government without newspapers, and
newspapers without a govern: ent, I
would prefer the latter." Stung by
some new fabrication in print, we come
to write or speak about an "unbridled
printing press." Our new book ground
up In unjust criticism, we come to write
or speak about the "unfair printing
press." Perhaps through our own In
distinctness of utterance we are report
ed as saying Just the opposite of what
we did say, and there is a small riot
of semicolons and hyphens and com
mas, and we come to write or talk
about the "blundering printing press,"
or we take up a newspaper full of so
cial scandal nnd of cases of divorce,
nnd we write or talk about a "filthy,
scurrilous printing press." But this
morning I ask you to consider the Im
measurable and everlasting blessing of
a good newspaper.
I find no difficulty In accounting for
tho world's advance. What has made
the change? "Books," you say. No,
sir! The vast majority of citizens do
not read books. Take this audience,
or any other promiscuous assemblage,
and how many histories have they
read? How many treatises on con
stitutional law, or political economy, or
works of science? How many elab
orate poems or books of travel? Not
many. In the United States the people
would not average one such book a
year for each individual! Whence,
then, this Intelligence, this capacity to
talk about all themes, secular and re
ligious; this acquaintance with science
and art; this power to appreciate the
beautiful and grand? Next to the Bi
ble, the newspaper, swift-winged and
everywhere present, flying over the
fence, shoved under the door, tossed
Into the counting house, laid on the
work bench, hawked through the cars!
All read it; white pnd black, German,
Irishman, Swiss, Spaniards, American,
old and young, good and bad, sick and
well, before breakfast and after tea,
Monday morn.'ng, Saturday night,
Sunday and week day. I now declare
that I consider the newspaper to be the
grand agency by which the gospel 13
to be preached, Ignorance cast out, op
pression dethroned, crime extirpated,
the world raised, heaven rejoiced, and
God glorified. In the clanking of the
printing press, as the sheets fly out, I
hear the voice of the Lord Almighty
proclaiming to all the dead nations of
the earth, "Lazarus, come forth!" and
to the retreating surges of darkness.
"Let there be light!" In many of our
city newspapers, professing no more
than secular information, there have
appeared during the past thirty years
some of the grandest appeals in behalf
of religion, and some of the most ef
fective interpretations of God's govern
ment among the nations.
One of the great .trials of the news
paper profession is the fact that they
are compelled to see more of the shams
cf the. world than any other profession.
Through every newspaper office, day by
day, go the weakness of the world, the
vanities that want to be puffed, the
revenges that want to be wreaked,
all the mistakes that want to be cor
rected, all the dull speakers who want
to be thought eloquent, all the mean
ness that wants to get its wares noticed
gratis In the editorial columns In order
to save the tax of the advertising col
umn, all the men who want to be set
right who never were right, all the
crack-brained philosophers, with story
as long as their hair and as gloomy as
their finger-nails, all the Itinerant
bores who come to stay five minutes
and stop an honr. From the editorial
and reportorlal rooms all the follies
and shams of the world are seen day
by day, and the temptation is to be
lieve neither In God, man, nor woman.
It Is no surprise to me that in your pro
fession there are some skeptical men.
I only wonder that you believe any
thing. Unless an editor or a reporter
has in his present or in his early home
a model of earnest character, or he
throw himself upon the upholding
grace of God. he may make temporal
and eternal shipwreck.
Another great trial of the newspaper
profession Is the diseased appetite for
unhealthy intelligence. You blame the
newspaper press for giving such prom
inence to murders and scandals. Do
you suppose that so many papers would
give prominence to these things If the
people did not demand them? If I go
into the meat market of a foreign city
nnd I find that the butchers hang ep on
the most conspicuous hooks meat that
is tainted, while the meat that is fresh
and savory Is put away without any
special care, I come to the conclusion
that the people of that city love tainted
meat. You know very well that If the
great mass of people In this country get
hold of a newspaper, and there are in
it no runaway matches, no broken-up
families, no defamation of men In high
position, they pronounce the paper
insipid. They say, "It is shockingly
dull tonight." I believe It is one of the
trials of the newspaper press, that the
people of this country demand moral
slush Instead of healthy and Intellectu
al food. Now, you are a respectable
man, an Intelligent man, and a paper
'comes Into your hand.. You open It,
and there are three columns of splen
didly written editorial, recommending
some moral sentiment, or evolving
some scientific theory. In the next col
umn there is a miserable, contemptible
divorce case. Which do you read first?"
You dip into the editorial long enough
to say, "Well, that's very ably writ
ten," and you read the divorce case
from the "long primer" type at the top
to the "nonpareil" type at the bottom,
and then you ask your wife If she
has read It! Oh, It is only a case of
supply and demand! Newspaper men
are not fools. They know what you
want, and they give it to you. I be
lieve that if the church and the world
bought nothing but pure, honest,
healthful newspapers, nothing but
pure, honest and healthful newspapers
would be published. If you should
gather all the editors and the reporters
of this country In one great conven
tion, and ask of them what kind of a
paper they would prefer to publish, I
believe they would unanimously say,
"We would prefer to publish an elevat
ing paper." So long as there Is an in
iquitous demand, there will be an In
iquitous supply. I make no apology
for a debauched newspaper, but I am
saying these things In order to divide
the responsibility between those who
print and those who read.
Another trial of this profession Is the
fact, no one seems to care for their
souls. They feel bitterly about it,
though they laugh. People sometimes
laugh the loudest when they feel the
worst. They are expected to gather up
religious proceedings, and to discuss
religious doctrines in the editorial col
umns, but who expects them to be
saved by the sermons they stenograph,
or by the doctrines they discuss in the
editorial columns? The world looks up
on them as professional. Who preach
es to reporters and editors? Some of
them came from religious homes, and
when they left the parental roof, who
ever regarded or disregarded, they
came off with a father's benediction
and a mother's prayer. They never
think of those good old times but tears
come into their eyes, and they move
through these great cities homesick.
Oh, if they only knew what a helpful
thing it is for a man to put his weary
head down on the bosom of a sympa
thetic Christ! He knows how nervou3
and tired you are. He has a heart
large enough to take In all your In
terests for this world and the next.
Oh, men of the newspaper press, you
sometimes get sick of this world, It
seems so hollow and unsatisfying. If
there are any people In all the earth
that need God, you are the men. and
you shall have him, if only thi3 day you
Implore his mercy.
A man was found at the foot of Ca
nal street. New York. As they picked
him up from the water and brought
him to the morgue, they saw by the
contour of his forehead that he had
great mental capacity.' He had entered
the newspaper profession. He had gone
down in health. He took to artificial
stimulus. He went down further and
further, until one summer day, hot and
hungry, and sick, and In despair, he
flung himself off the dock. They found
In his pocket a reporter's pad, a lead
pencil, a photograph of Bome one who
had loved him long ago. Death, as
sometimes It will, smoothed out all the
wrinkles that had gathered premature
ly on his brow, and as he lay there hi3
face was as fair as when, seven years
before, he left his country home, and
they bade him good-bye forever. The
world looked through the window of
the morgue, and said. "It's nothing but
an outcast;" but God said It was a gi
gantic eouI that perished, because the
world gave him no chance.
Let me ask all men connected with
the printing press that they help us
more and more in the effort, to make
the world better. I charge you In tho
name of God. before whom you must
account for the tremendous Influence
you hold in this country, to consecrate
yourselves to higher endeavors. You
are the men to fight back this invasion
of corrupt literature. Lift up your
right hand and swear new allegiance to
the cause of philanthropy and religion.
And when, at last, standing on the
plains of Judgment, you look out upon
the unnumbered throngs over whom
you have had influence, may it be found
that you were amongst the mightiest
energies that lifted men upon the ex
alted pathway that leads to the renown
of heaven. Better than to have sat in
the editorial chair, from which, with
the finger of type, you decided the des
tinies of empires, but decided therm
wrong, that you had been some dun
geoned exile, who, by the light of win
dow iron-grated, on scraps of a New
Testament leaf, picked up from the
earth spelled out the story of Him who
taketh away the sins of the world. In
eternity. Dives Is the Beggar! Well,
my frlends.wewill all soon get through
writing and printing and proof-reading
and publishing. What then? Our life
is a book. Our years are the chapters.
Our months are the paragraphs. Our
days are the sentences. Our doubts
are the interrogation points. Our imi
tation of others the quotation marks.
Our attempts at display a dash!
Death the period. Eternity the perora
tion. O God, where will we spend It?
A thinking man is the worst enemy
the Prince of Darkness can have Car
lyle. Truth and facts always agree. Ec
ror and lies are associates.