The Bryan Daily Eagle. (Bryan, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 122, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1897 Page: 2 of 4
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TA IMAGE'S SERMON.
RUIN AND RESTORATION. LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
"Tn Wat 1 l In th Might
llraok and Vlewad tha Wall suit
Tarard Hark and :ntrd hj
iat of th Vallav" .
tba
I
ff ct.4'ikIci
DEAD city I. more
Uggcstlve tlian
living city pt
Home than present
Home rulna rather
I than newly frescoed
cathedral. Hut the
brat lime to vlalt a
ruin la by moon-
light. The Colise-
um I far more fas
cinating to the
traveler after tundown than before
You may atand by daylight amid the
monastic rulna of Melroa Abbey and
tudy ahafted oriel and resetted atone
and roulllon. but they throw their
at r on f fat witchery by moonlight Some
f you remember what the enchanter
of 8cotland wild In the "Lay of the
Laet Minstrel:"
Wouldst thou view fair Melrose aright
Co visit 11 by the pale moonlight.
Waahlnrtun lrvlna describes the
Andalurdan moonlight upon the Al
hum bra ruin a amounting to an en
ehantnirnt. Mr text presciita you
Jerusalem In rulna. The tower down
The gatce down. The walla down.
Everything down. Nehemlah on horse
tack by moonlight lklnie uin t""
rulna. While he rides there are some
friend on fiot grlng with him. for
they do not want tho many burws 'o
disturb the suspicions of the people.
There people do not know t lie perret of
NchemliJi's hc.nt. but they are going
a a sort of body-guard. I bear tho
clicking hoofs of the borne on whlrh
Nehemlnh rides a he guldea It this
way and that. Into tbla gste and out of
that winding through that gate amid
the dehrla of once great Jerusalem.
Now the hors cornea to dead halt at
the tumbled masonry where he cannot
paaa. Now he shirs off at the charred
timber. Now he cornea along where
the water under the moonlight flashes
from the mouth of the brazen dragon
after whlrh the gut waa named.
Heavy-hearted Nehemtah! Hiding In
nd out. now by hie old home deso-
lated now by the defaced Temple now
amid the acara of the city that had
cone down under battering-ram and
conflagration. The escorting party
know not what Nehemtah nieana la
be getting rraiyT Have bl own per-
gonal aorrowa added to the aorrowa of
the nation unbalanced hi Intellect?
Ft ill the midnight exploration goea on.
Nehemlnh on horae-bark rldea through
the Bah gate by the toaer of the
furnarea. by the king' pool by the
dragon welt. In and out. In and out
until the midnight ride la completed
nd Nehemlah dlamounta trout bl
bone and to the amaied and con-
founded and Incredulous body-guard
declare the dead errrt of bl heart
when be aay: "Com row let ua build
Jerusalem." "What. Nehemtah. hare
you any money V "No." "Hare you
My kingly authority?" "No." "Ilae
rou any eloquence?" "No." Tet that
midnight moonlight rid of Nehemlah
resulted In the glorlou rebuilding of
the city of Jerusalem. The people knew
not bow the thing waa to be done but
with great enthualaim they cried out:
"Let ua rlae up now and build the city."
Some people laughed and said It could
Dot be don. Some people were Infuri-
ate and offered phyilr.il violence say-
Ing the thing ahould not be done. Uut
the workmen went right on atandlng
on the wall trowel In on band aaord
In tba other until the work waa glorl-
eualy completed. At that very time In
Greece Xenophon waa writing a his-
tory and Plato waa making philosophy
and Drmoathenr waa rattling bia
rhetorical thunder; but all of them to-
gether did not do o much for the world
a thl midnight moonlight rMe of
praying courageous hutucuick cloae-
nioutbed Nehemlah.
My ubjecl first Impresses me with i
the Idea what an Interne th:ng la church '
affection. Belie the bridle of that !
boree and atop Nehemlah. Why are i
you risking your life here In the nli:ht?
Your horte will atumtile orer theae
rulna and fall on you. Stop thli um'Iim
txposur of your life. No; Nehemlnh
will not atop. He at laat telli u the
whole (tory. He let ua know he waa
n exile In a far distant land; he wai
a. anrvant a cup-bearer In the palace
of Artaienei Ing!mnua and one
day. while he waa handing the cup of
win to the king the king aald to him.
"What la the matu-r with you? You
ax not alrk. I know you tuust have
some great trcubK What I the mat-
tar with you?" Tben be told the king
bow that beloved Jcrusalrtn wa
broken down; bow that bla father'a
tomb had been deaecrated; bow that
th Temple had been dishonored and
defaced; how that the walla were arat-
tered and broken. "Well." tsys Kin
Artaxerxe. "what do you want?"
"Well." aald the cup-bean r Nehemlah.
"1 want to go homa. 1 :it to fl v up
the grave of my father. 1 want to re- I
atore th" beauty of the Temple. I want j
to rrbull I the masonry of the city a all i
;ti-i!dea. 1 want passp r' " ''"'I ' shall
pit be hindered In my J .urm-v. And
besides that" a you v. ill find In the
context "I wnnt an i rder on the i.i.n
who keeps your fount for Ju t si much
timber na 1 may feed for C r-lni ; ; .1 1 n c
f the rlty." "How lo-m i-li'll )ou be
gone?" a.il l the ViX The I me of h-
fonre la arranged. In hot hade this '
fceemlr.g adventurer romea to Jcru-a- I
Jem and la my text we tin I him on
linraebark. In the midnight riding
nround th rulna. It la through the
pectarle of thta aeene that we dla-
cover th ardent attachment of Nehe-
mlah for aacred Jentalrm. whlrh In
nTl age baa been the type of the
Church of Col. our Jeruaalem. whlrh
we Jove Juat a much a Nehemlnh
loved bla Jeruealem. The fact la that
you love the Church of Coi ao much
that there I no pot on earth to earred.
unleaa It b jour own flrealde. The
church baa been to you ao much com
t .n.i f'lumlnat on th.H tncre
nothing that make you ao Irate aa to
bav It talked against. If ther bare
txwn time when you have been carried
Jnto captivity by tlrkneaa. you long-J
for th Chunh. our holy Jeruaalem.
tu.l a much a Nehemlah longed for
t n Jeruaalem. and the nrt day you
th Loid. V-hen the Tempi waa In
rulna like Nehemlah. you walked
around and looked at It and In the
moonlight you atood llatenlng If you
could not bear the vole of th dead
organ the paalm of the expired Sab
baths. What Jerusalem waa to Nene-
mlah. the Church of Ood Is to you.
Breptlra and Infldela may scoff at tho
Church as an obsolete affair aa a relic
of the dark ages a a convention of
goody-goody people but all the Impres-
sion they have ever made on your mind
against the Church of Cod I abso
lutely nothing. You would make more
aacrlflre for It to-day than any other
Inetltutlon and If It were needful you
would die In Ita defence. You can take
the worda of the kingly poet a be
aald: "If 1 forgot thee. O Jerusalem
let my right band forget her cunning."
You understand in your own experience
th patbo. th hom-slcknea tne
coursge. th holy enthusiasm of Nehe
mlah In bla midnight moonlight rtae
around th rulna of hi beloved JorU'
aalem.
Again. My ublect give m a aP-1
men of busy and triumphant sadness.
If there was any man In the world
who had a right to mope and give up
everything as lost. It wss Nehemlah
You aay "He was a cup-bearer In the
palace of fihushan and It was a grand
place. Fo It as. The hall of that
palace was two hundred feet square
and the roof hovered over tbirty-alx
inarblo pillar each pillar sixty f
hUh; and the Intense blue of the sky
and tho deep green of the forest fo
Inse. and the white of the driven snow
all bung trembling In tbu upholstery.
Hut. n.y frlemln. yuu know very weii
that Tne architecture will not put
down lome-slcknes. Yet Nehemlah
did not give up. Then when you aee
him going ainnr.g tln e desolati J
streets ai.d by tliene J.j'-'anl.eJ tow-
ers and by the torn-up grave of bis
father you uuld suppose that be
aoull bate been dishearten? d. arid
that be would have dismounted from
his horse and gone to bis room and
auld: "Woe U me! My father s grave
la torn up. The temple Is dishonored.
The walls are broken down. I have
no money with which to rebuild. 1
wish I bsd never been born. I wNh
I were dead." Not so says Nehemlah.
Although be had a grief so Intense that
It excited the commentary of bis king
yet that penniless expatriated Nehe-
mlah rouses himself tip to rehulld the
city. He gets his permission of ab-
sence. He gets bis passports. He has-
tens away to Jerusalem. Hy night on
horsebaik h ride through the ru'.us.
He overcomes the most ferocious oppo-
sition. Ha aroui.es the piety and pa-
triotism of the people and In leas
than two months namely fifty-two
day Jerusalem was rebuilt. That's
what I cull busy and triumphant sad-
ness. My friends the wholo temptation Is
with you when you bav trouble to
do Just the opposite to the Ix havlor of
Nehemlah. and that Is to give up. You
say: "I hav lost my child and ran ;
never smile apaln." You say "I have
lost my property and I never can re-
nalr my fortunes." You say "I have
fallen Into sin and 1 never ran atart
again for a new life." If Patau can
make you form that resolution and
make you keep It he bas rulne.l you.
Trouble I not sent to cruh you but
to arouse you to animate you to pro-
pel you. The blacksmith does not
thrust the Iron Into the forge and then
blow away with the bellows and th'n
bring the hot Iron out on lb anvil
and beat with stroke after stroke to
ruin th Iron hut to rrrpar It for a
better use. Oh that the lxird Cod of
Nchrmlah would rouse up all broken-
hearted people to rebuild. Whipped
betrayed ship-wrecked. Imprtaotiel
"aul went right on. The Italian mar-
tyr Algerlus sit In bis dungeon writ-
ing a letter and he dates It "From
th delectalile orrhard of the Leonln
prison." That la what I call trlutn-
phnnt sadness. I knew a mother whi
burled her babe on Krlday and on FaV
bath appeared la the house of Cod and
said: "t'.lva me a c!a': give tne a
Sabhath rrhool rlasa 1 have no child
now left me. and I would like to bate
a class of little children. Civ nie
real poor children. Civ me a class off
the ta. k street." T'.;at 1 say. Is beau-
tiful. That Is triumphant sadness. At
three o'clock every SahUath afternoon.
for years. In a bevutlful parlor In rhll-
adelphla a r.irlur pictured and slat-
uettcd thero were from ten to
taenty destitute children of the atreel.
Those destitute children received re-
ligious Instruction concluding wi'S
rakes and sandwiches. How do I know
that that ass going on for sixteen
years? I know It In this way. That
was the flrt home In J'hlladelphla
her I was called to comfort a great
sorrow. They had a splendid boy and
he had been droaned at Ung Urine h.
Th father and mother almost (Jol-
lied the b y and the sob and shriek
of that father and mother as they
hung over the coffin resound In my
ears today. There s enn d to be no use
of pravlng. for a hen I knelt down to
pray the outcry In the room drowned
out all the pravrr. lint the I.ord com
forted that sorrow. The did not for
r.t their trouble. If you shoul.1 go
. . ii. n
any a'ternnon into uun i inn joh
would find a moi.ti'ucn! with t'.:e word
"Walter" ln-'ill" 'I ui'. n It. nti l n
wreath of flesh llowi-rs aroui'd the
n.nre. 1 th.nk tl.i ; was iml an hour
In twi-nty years. vl:i'cr ir su'inrcr.
when there Was no! a WH.ltll of fie tl
t'i.rs nr. i. m l Wa'-cr's name. II it
lhe ChrtMi.ui moiher who s-nt th"-"
PT tii h.lll:C no rbll bft.
Hahhath afternoons mothered ten or
twenty of the ot o:ies of the sireet.
That Is beautiful. That Is what I rail
busy and trlumphaut sadness. Here
Is a man who has lost hi property.
He doe not go to bard drinking. He
does not destroy bis own life. He
come and say "Harnesa tn for
Christian work. My money a gone I
have no treasures on earth. I want
treasure In heaven. 1 havt a voire
and a heart to serve Cod." You ay
that that man has failed. H baa nut
falled-he has triumphed!
Oh I wish I could persu.il all the
people who have any kind of trouble
never to give up. I wish they would
look at the midnight rider cf th text
and that the four hoofs of that beast
on which Nehemlah rode might cut to
pieces all your discouragements and
hardships and triala. Civ up! Who
Is going to give up when on th bowom
of Cod b can bav all bl troubles
hushed? Ch up! Ncrtr think cf
glvliig up. Are you bom down wltb
poverty? A 1IUI child was found
holding ber dead mother's band In
th darkness of a tenement house and
some on coming iu th llttl girl
looked up while holding her dead
mother' band and aald "Oh I do
wish that Cod Lad mad more light
for poor folks." My dear. Cod will b
your light. Cod will b your ahelter.
Cod will b your horn. Ar you
borne down with th bereavementa of
life? 1 the bouse lonely now that tho
child 1 gone? Do not give up. Think
of what the old sexton said when the
minister asked him why be put so
much car on the little grave. In tho
cemetery so much mor car than on
th larger grave and th old sexton
said "Sir. you know that 'of such Is
the kingdom of heaven' and I think
the Savior la pleased when b tees
so much whit clover growing around
these llttl graves." Hut when th
minister pressed th old sexton for a
mora satisfactory answer the old aex
ton aald "Fir about thes larger
gravea. I don't know who ar th
Lord' saints and who ar not; but
you know air. It Is clean I'lfferent with
th bairns." Oh If you hare had that
keen tender. Indescribable sorrow that
come from the loss of
give up. The old sexton wa right. It
WYOKCE PROBLEMS.
BISHOP DOANE WRITES OF EX-
ISTING CONDITIONS.
InKCMts Some ItrmMllea for lis of th
Mint lanerua Kills That Is Ulstnrb-
lu-V roamtatlua or Huelaty All
IIiiiJ ii YtorM
m
be a matter about which pulpit and
press and people of Bound principles
ought to "cry aloud and not keep alienee."
C'C'IV-Asv 1
L.sssasrar W lvlsi lilABtl
V PIKIIaiKMr SI tsw
ii k night nev.
Hlshop 1 .line w ho
has attracted much
attention by reason
of bis freely voiced
opluluna In regard
to matrimony aud
divorce bos kindly
consented to write
for the New York
Herald over his
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.
QUITE A FAD AS APPLIED
FREIGHT CARS.
TO
upou the matter of divorce. Th article
of the blsliop Is aa follows-.
There Is no more burning question
In the world of morals and niunner
to-day In the rthlca of society than
the question of the frequency and fa-
cility of divorce. And this because
It louche foundations purity mar-
rlnrn family llf anil the nrlllieVttl in-
child do not f ; Tll. Jim ultles that
t nnv s.'tt Iitoi nl of the Question
Is all well with the I alms. Or. If you i re h Vlrl(y of fvi ..
have slimed. If you have sinned grlev- w ()f (la ra .(H..y
ouhly-slni.e l until yuu have been cast ' on tl. ..1.. T1. firt difficulty u
out by the Church alnni I until you
have been cast out Ly so. li ly do n it
give tip. I'crhaps there may he In this
houso one that rou 11 truthfully u'.ter
tho Inuieritntlmi of aiiothir:
puie as tliu snow but I
from heaven to
Once I w.u
fell-
Fdl like a snowflake
bell-
Kill to be trampled a filth In the
stre t
IVII to be scofle 1 at spit on and
b.-at;
Praying ritrr'.ng. wishing to die
Felling my soul to whoever would buy
Dialing In thauio fur a n.uistd of
bread.
Hating U living and fearing th 1
dead.
Po not give up. One like nnto the
Fon of Cod comes to you today say-
lug "Co and sin no more;" while ho
cries out to your assalluiits "Iet hi in
that Is without sin cast the first stone
st her." Oh! there Is no reason why
anyone In this house by reason of any
trouble or sin should give tip.
Are you a foreigner and In a strange
land? Neheuiah waa an exile. Are
you penniless? Nehemlah was puor.
Ar you boinesUk? Nehemlah was
homesick. Are you broken-hearted?
Nehemlah was broken-hearted. Hut
Just see him In the text rldlrg along
the sarrlhved grave of his father and
by the dnicun well and throiiKh th
fish gate sr I by the king's pool In
and out In and out. the moonlight
falling on the broken masonry which
throws a long shadow at which the
ttore wtil a. and at the same time that
moonlight kindling up the features of
thl mau till you see not only the
mark of sail reminiscent e but the cour
age and hope the enthiislaMn of a man
who knows that Jerusalem will be re-
bull. led. I pick you up today out of
your sins and out of your sorrow and
I put you against the warm heart of
Christ. "The ftrrnal Cod la thy M-
use and underneath ar the everlast-
ing arms."
1 bard to cure. Any attempt to seeur'
uniformity through the country In re
gard to illrnrce laws is of doubtful m-
islblllty ns well us of doubtful belief!'
jit cannot be done without an nnienl-
i n.ent of the ronHt itatlon. ami If It were
i done It would r nulrea lowering of the
; tone In Sta'.is which now maintain
! a a iTiiewh.it respiinhle standard In or-
' der to lift the lower and Imwr laws of
other Ftates to the piam- of a com-
j promise.
The other difficulty ran only be met
by the manufio ture and mitlntenane
I of n sound public r pinion and feeling.
! Marrlape must be lifted to Its triia an I
I actual position as not a civil contract
ibut a dlvlna mystery which primarily
I ran only be dissolved by the death of
one of the parties. The distinction be-
tween a setiarntlon and th divorce
ironj tne oonu oi marrinc- sim u i
a principle of common law must be In
recogntied and Insisted on. And the
only possible permission which ran le
extorted out of the Christian Scripture
should be cmphaaled vis . the putting
away or a wire for uniaittiruniess.
Th law of the state of New York.
MenilelMnha and t.Utt.
A good atory of Mendelssohn I re-
corded by Professor Max Muller In a
recent number of Contnnpolltan. In-
scribing a meeting of musicians be
rays:
I.lsit appeared In bis Hungarian cos-
tume wild and niiiKnlftoent. He toll
Mendelssohn that he had written aome-
thing si.x-lnl for him. He rat down
and awavlna rlrht and left on hla
music-stool played first a Hungarian
melody and then tbre. or four varia
tions one mure Incredible than the
other. We stixtd amat.'d and after
everybody had paid his compliment
to the hero of the day aome of Men-
detssohn'a friends gathered round him
and aald "Ah Kellx. now we ran park.
No one ran do that; It Is over with
us." Mendelssohn smiled and when
I.lszt came up to h.m. asking him to
play something he laughel and said
be never played n.iw; and this to a
certain extent was true lie did not
give much Wnt to pract Iking then but
worked chiefly nt coinprslng aud di-
recting his concerts. However I.lsit
would take mi refusal mid so nt lint
little Mendelsohn with his own
ihatnilng playfuttt" said "Well I'll
play but you limit proin se i:ie not to
be angry." And what did he play?
He sat down iinl played f rut cf ull
l.bt's Hungarian niel.il) and tln-n
one variation nfter another aa that no
one but MiiimH could hale toll
the ill Hereon.. We all trel-.mVd lent
I.ls't rlmuM be (rTc:ide I fur Mendels-
sohn could n.ii I e. p hlni'i lf from Im-
itation I.lfr.t's mnve::ietitK mid rap-
tii re. Ho a ever. Me:.de sobn man-
aged never to i ffei'il i -.an wi:i:aii oi
cbll.l. 1.1-zt IniiKln-d and nppliiii-led
ami adtnltte I that no one noi he him-
self could hae p rlornied s.n h a bra
vura.
Hrareetj a Manufarlurlna; ( onrrrn of
tlagiiltu'le 1 hat llon't I'lMsas. Thaiu--liitaiilnni
llrln(lu( Out Naw ltle. Iu
Th.lr t uuiliui tlou.
t it iUr ami I he lUrrrl.
Co.il.e. after url famous ns an actor
being without the r.en-a.ary ciah to
pay for a scut "in front" got In belilnd
the aceins one nlcht und hid blmstdf
a barrel "lie had for cuinpaiilons
two lure ciiiiun I. ills but the )outh.
not beln Initiate! Into tln niy-iterlos
of the i'i'P did r.'! suspi-et that can
non lialb; helped to make thunder In
barrel as well us In a twenty-four
pounder. The play was 'Macbeth' and
A Itavea er I (Ml I ran Ol.lj
The Umdon Kcho says: A contrib-
utor Informs ua that he has Just re-
reived Intelligence of the death of a
raven which bird bas been In the writ-
er's family for over a hundred year.
The bird was a pet when his father
was a child In IT'.' and had then been
Iu the possession of his grandfather
for some )ears. It Is well known that
the eagle raven swan and parrot are
each rentenarlans. An eagle kept In
Vienna died after a confinement of 111
ve.ira. and at Shelborne Is an oak
known as the raven tr-e. In which the
sam pa'r of raven are believed to
have netted for more than ninety
year. Fwjih upon the Thame about
whoa " there can lie but littlo
chance of mistake lnr they are an
nually "nhked" have Ut-n known to
survlvu Km )i.ira an.! More.
m
EIS1I0P D0ANI1
rrtivnl a Traasara.
Kor some time Harry Drown of lol.i
bas been carrying in his po ket a trade
dollar which some on passed upou
him. Tho other day be tossrj It onto
a counter revealing the picture of a
man. With Infinite pains som on
bad made the dollar Into a locket and
so skillfully waa the work per'ormed
that when closed no sign of a hlug
could be seen.
Iva
No ambition can take the place oi
love. The man or woman who has a
fine house rler.ar.t equipages and not
love Is to be pltl'M. The man or woman
who has no equipage but a baby car-
riage whore books are the dally prea-i.
wh.no dot h a are llcc turned but In
whose heart In love pee It pity from
no c:io.-l;cv. I.. Miiatl Abbott.
he
I
A t.iti.l ( hrlelUn.
A good ("h. ist uii it lie who lm
. . . i i... .
Kplrll OI Ji s- Hi noi.. ..ao i.i.iiu;e:4
'that spirit 111 lit. . iioii and beiief.
1 lie may liel.cv IMt or th..t Willi le-
Ip.ir l to the oricu an I rank of tl.
! Valium (aits of the Pible. So bo.;
I as he taK.s the gold rut of the iiui.n
j nnd wo:ks It up Into clma.ter. ho la
! tho true dl"'iplc of th boak - lie v. U.
A. llortou.
of
whbh are far better than they are In
muny state tinfoituiiately allow to a
court of competent jurisdiction the
right to dlisolve the niarrl.ice bonds
for two other cau'es. slid still more
unfortunately ullow tho ruurt which
protioutiKS the divorce discretion to
permit the remarriage of even the guil-
ty person. It Is dangerous work tam-
pering wl;h the divine protections and
prohibitions f a divine Institution by
attemptltg to make that legal wnun
Cod lorbld. Man s law cannot alter
Cnal's will. Human legislation cannot
chance divine revelation. The drift of
modern feeling and opinion on this
subject Is !rugbl with mischief and
misery.
I am very much struck with a recent
argument In favor of th theisry that
"unhuppy marrlagea ahould la easily
dissolved and remarrluges mad easy
and possible." Hase.l as It la upon th
theory that "the Institution of mar-
riage wss not establlahed by Jehova
uor by Christ nor by the apostles."
It Is a perfectly logical and consistent
conclusion. Hut to those who start
as Christian people certainly do start
from perfectly different premises the
I other conclusion Is equally logical and
'inevitable. If niairlai! Is not enly a
1 civil contract or a personal rgrer-
mctit but It an Institution of Cod un- j
der the law of the state blessed by i
the Chinch and In the Interest not
only of In llv I l.ial but of society. It
tnut follow that separation raniict be
n-. ur.-d b men and wm:ien st their
will tier lliir iu. flakes co.re. ted In
this way.
Perhaps thoe mistakes would be
often nu re avohhd If the tndlstolu'de
; character of marriage from th Scrip-
iiurul and eci lc-.las'lcal point of view
In the firat scene the thunder was re
quired to give due effect to the situa-
tion of the crouching wltehea. It waa
not long ere the J.iplter Totians of the
theater alias the property man ap-
proached and seize' the barrel and the
horror of the concej'.ed boy may lie
Imagined as the man proceeds! to rov-
er the open end w Ith a ple.-e of old car-
pet and tla It ran-f illy to prevent the
thunder from l-lni! spilled. Cook wns
profoundly and heroically silent. The
machine was lifted by the brawny
stage servitor and carried carefully to
the able sn-ne let In roiling the thun-
der should rumble before Ita rue. All
was ma le ready the w itches took their
place an.ld flame of rosin the thun-
der bell rang th barrel received It
Impetus with young Cooke and the can-
non balls the stage st'leken 1ml roar-
ing lustily to the amazement of the
thunderer who neglected to atop the
rolling machine which entered on the
stage and Cooke bursting off the car-
pet head of the barrel appeared Wore
th audience to the horrur of the weird
sisters and to the hilarity of the spectator."-
Somerville.
VK.KY large ship
per in tlu-se oiiys
must huv hi own
prtvntefrc Ight
car aay the Pen-
ny Press and the
won derful growth
of the special car
Idea can be demon-
strated any duy by
watching a through
freight train. It I
dollars to cents there will be anywhere
from one to a dozen speclul rar In the
string and the purposes they serve
r as varied as their ownership. The
dressed meat refrigerators are now so
well known ns to excite no Interest un-
less It bo the vague conjecture ss to
how many million of dollar are tiel
up therein for the number of these
traveling -o boxes It legion. PI reel ly
the op.isiti of the refrigerators are
the heater enrn. cleverly contrived to
k'1''1 the ci ll'enU at a fixed llcrree (f
Icmiirr.ttuio throiu'liout tl trip and
thcr.'foie Inv.il i.inle for i.hipplng fruit
ill col I we. iih. r. The !ic-ith:i! It dim-
ly oil f'mc-i. Tho'o quite a iiuni
h.-r of :. la! ln.it car c n.ipanlet
wi:l b o.n i.n.i oi'. lally i luipped for
Hie earri.u-.e of fruit nnd produce in
bull; mi! !hee c.ua are divided Into
ill.: I v cl:: x. mi- tl ns oi.iiiKe cars ca'a-
h if en-. i:o Ion . ii:s. iii.1 so on altr.o. '
.::.! : :il!i ly. 1 here In Ii pickle Hoe. S
ml - line i.i-tiil.e rl. r a I ecr lim t. nnd
;iiii.'t nf nil a chl ken or poultry
line thise latt- r ills In 11 X lllled I' ''
pernuiiHiit roopk ai.d f-e:ii: nnd
Wllti-ritlg flellltleS Intellilel for th"
safe hatidllug of foals of all kinds.
There re furniture cars buggy rart.
;h.lr Stock car. Ice cars plate plat
cars crockery cars nnd Indeed earn
for altnoit every known romnio II'"
manufactured In sufficient qtiantltlis to
make It worth while for the producers
to build their w :i roiivevances. As to
live stock cur then- me all kind"
from the pal n t. rr (table firs down to
the plain every-day sl.itte I affairs an I.
unlike most of the other special ve-
hicles the stock cars can be use! by
any shipper willing to pay the owner
a nominal sum for the rent of the car.
over and alnive the usual freight charge
Imiic by the railroads the ndvaii
tape gained being the unnh better ac-
commodations afforded by these spe-
cial cars than given In the regular
equipment if the rallwavs. In tank
cars there are v.irii'.ic 'or ticnrly
everything liquid. Petroleum Url.
cotton oil iiioi.isis acid tar elder
water and even whl l.y live a few of
the roninio-li' l carried Pi tanks now-
ndavs .! the F!. Louis Ilteiiiiig Joiir-
l:al. The owners of the e privato
errs get no dlie.-t l i-in fit fr :n tli'lr
use. The cuitetits must pay J-.m the
sanie freight charges as If carried In
rsllway company's cars but the one
great sdvantage lies In the f.vt that
a supply of enrs n a ly to I m l ran al-
wav be depended UMin. for the special
cars when empty are promptly scuit
home or to their point of origin an I
are not used In any other trade with-
out the owners permlton. Tho rall-
roads allow the oarers a trifling sum
fur mileage which serves to keep the
car In repair but hardly yield any
great revvnue to then. (if course
many of these special cars are built
tarauae of the special trade in which
serves to keep the cars In repair not
pay a railroad company to tie up money
In furnishing the equipment necessary.
As builders must ronform to the rules
of the master rar builders. th private
cars are as safe to run as those owned
by the railroad companies an! Indeed
many are supeilor to the averare cars
In general use. A western Inventor
has recently brought out a new Idea In
a car which looka like a tank but whl-h
revolve and can !e use I cither for au
open or closed car When the latter
Is desired the gitil are place! Inside
the tank turned half around and the
opening brought to the bed of the car
when the convevaiice bcvninra rain
ami burglar proof. The brilliancy of
the I lea ha not yet brought about any
overwhelming deire for a supply of
the odd vehicles on the part of the rail
way manager.
FACTS ABOUT MAHOGANY
Th naaatlral Wood Brvaght With Mack
Kffnrt In America
It will undoubtedly be new to many
that the vast mahogany forests of Nic-
aragua are controlled In Huston. Th
cutting and shipping of the Immenso
export from that country I a great en-
terprise In Itself to say nothing of
bringing the wood ber and manufac-
turing It Into lumber aay th lloston
Transcript One stuumer plies regu-
larly between this port and Central
America engaged In this trado. Klva
hundred thousand to 700000 feet la her
usual cargo. While tho ateamer la now
on her way to the lumber ports there
aie somewhere on the seaa bound to
Huston four schooners ludeu wltb ma-
hogany logn. Their cargoes are each
about 2.10000 to 300000 feet Employ-
ed In Nicaragua and the Culled Slate
of Colombia arc from 1.000 to 1600 na
tive workmen und lumbermen. The
aro under American bosse. The tree
from which mahogany furniture la
mado vary In age aud lx. When cut
they range In age from twnty-flv to
thirty years nnd some of them are
even seventy-flvo year old. I ney
average twenty-five Inches or more In
diameter am! run us large as forty
Inches or even more. Kor every ma-
hogany tree that Is rut two others ar
planted und thus the forests are prac-
1 1 .illy mio h icmIMc. Krom the time
II. nt the tr' It !;. d to the hour that
It in il l! ie ; olf the uteuiiu-r ut the llos-
ton i!c l.t- it mi eveiilful life for th"
li.ahota: I i". The tree Is rut Into
the pre . I th.i uu 1 then comes the
t .limit J.i u in-) to the f ia.it where It
1h taie;i on 1 aid the vi Is bo llld for
ll.ls poit. The gnalir part of the rut-
in:: l.i done during the dry season
wl.iiii In the ( lilted Stalls of Colom-
bia b (tint ahum pit ember 1. The na-
ticn nf that country ein to make
In Iter . miters and are better n lapted
to l.imlerli K than the Nuatagualis. Ill
Mi .ua; ..i the u a. on la ucrc lin gular
i.nd for Limbering In .s lo be de-
licti led ui on. After the trcu la rut It
Is hii'led to the nearest wa'.riway and
ra'led to the !. The logs are
l.aub'd by teams of l Ten flolll one to
six ii. Hi In N ku:. but often the
dii-'aliie It very lain h greater the
Journey fcoii.i l tuie taking two day.
T.ie roads conslat of paths through the
I (.lc-t that ure lint lil'm lest than
swamps and morasses through which
'he oxen and horses along
only uninials trained to
work would ever make uiiy prog
and Atia-ili an N usts wouil wallow
about perfe. tly helpless.
Kr.lh Mask.
I.ire::.-ii Hunter the New York
wri'er. has ren iilid to IMiiei- on I'ni-
versiiy his collection of ib-.t:h masks
run' i-' I ii ; ..i:- copies nnd probably
the l..i I ullit tin II of its sort III ex-
ltt in Several of the tiak are the
o!. i.:e. if the suliji -t among theni
n.a kt i.f I lean Sulft and Tl..o keray.
The ii .nti nam t are r pr-sl n-r In
tbi-M- loasks of Wa. li.n;!t.)n Llticuln
P.. 1. oi Webster. Heniy Clay John C.
Calhoun. Ccncrul Sbei man. Aaron
Purr the actor l:.v. (J.irrl.k. I'd-
tr.ii id Ke.in Uiwreie c Il.invtt John
Mi I'lilbr.igh I vii.it Pom icault and
Harry KUards; Martin Luther
tiiN-the Ilit'tlloven Melldelasnhn. i lay-
den; Mary (J ie. n of Scots. qii-en Kll-zin-th
Charles II . Kritlerick the
t;rMt. Pre lerii k Wlll'am IV. Nnpo-
Iihiii. N iiMilein III ; Mlrnbeaii nota-
pierre Murat Sir Thomas More Oliver
Cromwell Ko'.HTt Lruce llurke Strtt
Newton Sheridan Keats Coleridge
lAuresi'-e 'erne Wordsworth. Hums.
The collection will have a place In Ui
university llbraiy now being built.
The lleplh at I lie Ihras.
Pr. John Murray u.' the Challenger
rv.pi lllloll. le till w.i in tilas-; 1 a few
da) ami on the ib pt is of the ocean
'.. If U.I the
were leVI-lb-1
em lop do-
were more tnorougniy rec-ogiuseu n an
" """J' ! nom. And. at any rate. It Is a
A runner of lib .al cltlien. of !- fact that In
trolt. Mich. are al t to present to th. (n n)iny ()(h(r niUnrM
Salvation Army of ti.elr city a building ; M t) the consequences
valued at U.o.a. In appreciation of the of mUukl.maklng the best of them
army' work for th rell-f of the poor of lhat w. r4n t rU
and distressed during the past winter. pf an( hBr rulta.
It Is ld the whole amount incUcJ c(ihrr th city nor th stat of
has bet-n plelgi. ort I In thl matter a sinner
" 1 jpove all other Calllans. Our laws
At 1-a.t. I sre far better than the laws of most
Jark-"Hurrah. Manle! We ran get f the t.ites. And most of th dl-
married now. In Ion stock Is g.ung up' vrce that are rtured n;xm un-rlp-like
lightning." Mamle-"Oh Jack! tunil grounds are .vnre. by fictitious
Have vou some?" Jack -"No; but residence In remoto pla-e. The evil
)our father ha."- New York WorlJ. grow wcrae aa It goes west. Hut no
Pne 1 think can doubt the evil or
T.aea ..4 wd. the 'innumerable evil which It carrlc.
. . 1. it train a lowering the ton of
There are only i.lne different tone. " '
the human voice; but ther. ar. f Wtof u 0
IT.6j:.I.(M441 different aounda lnt '
nl'l'ethlllK like 1". ' f
laV.il of tt'.e c I'ltMI.'U't
! i'.- n the ocean oul-
whole earth to n d-ptli of two miles
Th" griMlcs' ib pill of the nerun ;
.'ouiid "a- In the Atlantic off the Vir-
gin Islmds. I: was '..'.'.j fntbom. or
about ll.'o f.-et lef.s thin six miles.
The tloriil'. anhmarlna t'ahlea.
The world's suba urine cable now
number more thau thirteen bundrel.
avordlng to th recent presidential
address ti the lotnon Institution of
Klectrbwl Ihirtneers. They bav an
aggregat length of lC.OOO nautical
111 lli-s over halt of them being lee
than five mile long while eight of
them exceed 2.000 mile. They repre-
sent a total expenditure of about 140..
0'Vo.oOO about aeventy-flv per cent of
which Is Hrltlah capital. A fleet of
forty-one repair ship Is maintained.
Tea sis ft tba a la ReaOlac.
A Krench statistician ha calculated
that the human ey travels over 2.000
vard In reading an onllnury novel.
The average human being I suprxssed
to get through 2.600 mile of reading.
In a lifetime.
Aa Arllsllr I'nnllng llavlr.
The mcxllfying of the temperature of
room has letnie an art but It prob-
ably has never taken a more orna-
mental form than that devlai-d by M.
Ilerre H-be a French sculptor and
tngtneer. M. Him he taking a hint
Irom the fact that pi pea currying
llqiieflitl gns iHt-ome r.tatej with
frtsvt ha constructed hollow metal
forms of animals etc. which are
chilled by the expansion In their In-
terior of ga s liquefied un er press-
ure. A coat of snow lio.ir-fro.tt gath
er on tin ir exterior even In waini
room nnd the snowy fUrirc gives a
cMi'iin it to the iiiMted atuiciephrre
of I it's un I feasts.
I llis t la.lits.
A man It makiiiit a f.il e claim for j
himself who mils hliilf a Christian !
while denying tho aun rnn'tiral ele-
ment In the lllbln a:i reserilng for
himself the rUht to rcjii't or accept
any portion of It. ns would any other
teaching which might be presented to
hlm.-Hev. Walter ("alley.
Tnasttn. a tratrllas.
When an P.ngiish 1 iiloni.it 1st of cote
was traveling In Sei 1 la some years ago
he waa entertained at a small town by
a mimic r f the local m.igiutea. The
pitiple of Serila are not nnnh given
to traveling nnd their Ilea of L'ng-
land and lis great nun are gained
il.lefty In III Im.iK Af'cr dinner a
strong broa l fai c. monk csllel for a
bumper and hicati Iu a solemn mat -tir-of-fact
way the following speech:
"Von are a gieat traveler In our eies;
for tume of us cu r went further than
our country's litult.i. The grevleat
traveler of your country that wc know
of was that woti lerful navigator of
York Hobliison Crusoe who. poor
man met with many and great diffi-
culties but by the blessing of Uod waa
at length re. torn! to hla native coun-
try his family aud his frlen.ls. We
tiust that the Almighty will watch
over you and that you may neverJn
the rourse or your voyages and travel
be thrown as waa your Illustrious
countryman on a desert Island.
llaahls la a Walt
A hoard on the aide of a house at
Forbes Mo. wus removed the other
day by the owner aa It appeared
warped. He found a hive In the wall
and l-o pound of honey. The bee
hud rnteriit through a knothole.
Th l t 1'awrrful I'sUwh
When snuk venom Is concentrated
by removing the albumen subsunco
and retaining the other two what la
left constitute the moat powerful
poison known to toxl-ology. It haa
been reckoned that a single thimbleful
of It suitably applied would be euough
to kill :a.OO0.
Staking a I'alr nf tl.tnla.
With the assistance of the latest ma-
chines a pice of bather run be trans-
formed Into a pair of bo.ua In thirty-
four minutes. Iti which time it pave
through tl"' hatn'a of slxty-thr pe
io and IVonch fifteen machlr.es.
A lliisurtllc llrs
"M it'.it) a. what U the bliyclo ladua-
try?"
"Well. It must l-c the way w all
have to hop around and wait on your
f n( her when he lakes a mil Ion to clean
hi wbe"!."-Ic!rolt Kre pre.
The llllile.
There I a Illble of the spirit and a
fllblt of the letter; It I tho latter
which ha been altogether too much
advocated and used. The Illble of the
letter bat lei to a blind ar.-eptance of
text taken wl.hout due consideration
of context aud origin. Hev. Ii A.
Hortun.
Koval l-oailnw Mlsslaw.
A Usoful charity called th London
piectac le Mission provide spectaclea
for neivllewotnen and other deserving
person dependent upon Uirlr eyesight
for a living. Last year 12 application
aara pjovldeil with pectarlea.
Mnaey Will Seals.
Money haa an evangvllxlna; power In
th hand of Christian a urely a It
baa a commercial value. Money niut
be luld at the feet of Jeu Christ for
th activation of a woTld.-Hcv. W. 0.
lwrtrldge.
Tb total Income of th Ixindon hoa
pI'jU la eloa upon 1600000 a ).
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