Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 May 1890 — Page 8

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MANY HARD FALLS.

Bet. Br. Talmaga Takes a Lesson Prom the Hanging of Haman.

It is on the Blaok Anvil of Trouble that Hen Hammer Oat their Fortune!—Many Hard Falls in Store for Us AIL

In the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Sunday morning, after tho preliminary exercises, which in this congregation at-.j considered as important as any of the others, Dr. Talmage preached from the text, "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that ho had prepared for Mor--lecai." Esther 7:10. Following is his sermon in full

Here in an Oriontal courtier, about tho most offensive man in Hebrew history, Haman by nnmo. Ho plotted for tho destruction of tho Israelitish nation, and I wonder not that in some of the Hebrew synagogues to this day when Haman's name is mentioned, the congregation clench their fists, and stamp their feet and cry, "Let his namo be blotted out!" Haman was prime minister in tho magnificent court of Persia. Ti.oroughly appreciative of the honor oonferred, he expects everybody that he passes to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the gate of the palace, the sorvants drop their heads in honor oT his office but a Hebrew, named Mordecai, gazes upon the passing dignitary without bending his hond or talcing off his hut. He was a good msiu, and would not have been negligent of tho ordinnry curtesies of life, but he felt no resDect either for Haman or the nation from which ho had como. But he could not bo hypocritical aud while others made Oriental salanm, getting clear down before this Prime Minister when ho passed, Mordecai, the Hebrew relaxed not a muscle of his neck, and kept his chin cloar up. Because of that affront Haman gets a decree from Ahnsucrus, the dastardly king, for the massacre of all the Israelites, and that, of courso, will include Mordejai.

To make a long story short, through Queen Esthor this whole plot was revoalod to her husban.i, Ahasuerus. Ohe night Ahasucrus, who was afflicted with insomnia, in his sleepless hours calls for his tecretary to read to him a few pa?ea of Persian history, and so whilo away tho aight. In the book read that night to tho kins an account was given of a conspiracy, from which Mordecai, tho Hebrew, had saved the king's life, and for waicb kindness Mordecai had never received any reward. Haman, who had been fixing up a nice gallows to hang Mordecai on, was walking outside tho door of the king's sleeping apartment and was callod in. The king told him that ho had Just had read to him the account of some one who had saved his, tho king's life, and he asked what reward ought to be given to such a one. SoLXoonceiled Haman, supposing that ho himself was to get tho honor, and not imagining for a moment that the deliverer of tho king's life was Mordesal, says: "Why, your Majesty ouzht ta make a triumph for him, and put a crown on him, and set him on a splendid horse, high-stepping and fullblooded, and then have one of your princes lead the horse through the streets, crying, 'Bow tho knee, hero comes a man who has saved the king's life I' Thon said Ahasuerus in severe tones to Haman: "I know all about your scoundrelism. Now you go out and make triumph for Mordocal, tho Hebrew, whom you hate. Put tho best saddle on the finest horse, and you, the prince, hold the stirrup while Mordecai eots on, and then lead his horse through the stieet. Mako haste!"

What a' sp'.'jtacle! A comedy and tragedy at one and the same time. There they gol Mordecai, who had been despised, now starred and robed, in the stirrups. Haman, the chancellor, afoot, holding tho prancing, rearing, champing stallion. Mord.cc li bends his neck at last, but It is to look down at tho degradod Prime Minister walking beneath him- Huzza for Mordecai! Alas for Haman! But what a pity to have tho gallows, rocontly built, entirely wasted 1 It is fifty cubits high and built with cure. And Haman had erected it for Mordecai,by whose stirrups ho now walks as groom. St ran gar and more startling than un.v romance, there go up tho steps ol the scaffolding, side by side, the hangman and Haman, tho ex-chancel-lor. "So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he prepared for Mordecai." so many year3 nave passed

ST8t» wo como to the practical suggestion that, when the heart is wrong, things very insignificant will destroy our comfort. Who would havo thought that a groat Prime Minister, admired and appluaded by millions of Persians, would have been so nettled and harrassed by anything trival? What moro could tho groat dignitary havo wanted than his chariots and attendants, and palaces and banquets! .ft'affluence of rjrcumstances can mako a man contented and happy, surely Haman should havo been con ton ted and happy. r*o fliiorde -ai'B rofusal of a bow takes tho glitter from tho gold, and tho richness from the purple, and tho speed from tho chariots. With a heart puffed up with every inflation of vanity and rovenge, it was impossible for him to bo happy. Tho silence of Mordocal at tho gate was louder than tho braying of trumpets in the palace. Thus shall it always be If tho heart is not right. Circumstancos tho most trival will disturb the spirit

It is not tho groat calamities of life that create tho most worriment. I havo seen men, felled by repeated blows of misfortune, arising from the dust, never despond'..ig. But tho mo3t of the disquiet which men suffer is from insignificant causes as a lion attacked by some beast of prey turns easily around and slays him, yet runs roaring through the forest at the alighting on his brawny neck of a few insects. You meet some great loss in business with comparative composure but you can think of petty trickeries inflicted upon you, which rouse all your capacity for wrath, and remain in you heart an unbearable annoyance. If you look Dack upon your life, you will find that the most of tho vexations and disturbances of spirit which you felt were produced by circumstances that wore not worthy of notice. If you want to be happy you must not care for trifles. Do not be too minute in your inspection of tho treatment you recoivo from others. Who cafes whether Mordecai bows when you pa3s, or stands erect and stiff as a cedari That woodm in would not mako much clearing in tho forest, who should stop to bind up •every little bruise and scratch he received in tho thicket nor will that man accomplish much for the world or the church, who is too watchful and appreciative of .petty annoyances. There ara multitude! •Oi people in tho world, constantly harrowed jbecauso Ibny pass their lives not in searching out Uim30 things which ore attractive and deserving, but in spying out with all their powers of vision to see whether they cannot find a MoniccaL

Ag^in: I iearn ,'rom tho life of the man uniler our notico ttiat worldly vanity and siv are very anxious to have piety bow before them. Hamnn was a fair emblem of Butire worldlings, aiu) Mordecc4 re-

presentative of unflinching godliness. Suoh wero the usages of society In anoient times that, had this Israelite bowed to the Prime Minister, It would have been an acknowledgment of respect for his character and nat on. Mordecai would, therefore, havo sinned against his religion harl ho made any obeisanco or dropped his chin half an inch before Haman. When, therefore, proud Haman attempted to compel an homage which was not felt, ho only did what tho world ever since has tried to do, when it would force our holy religion in any way to yield to its dictates.' DanleL, if ho had been a man of religious compromises, would never havo been thrown into the don of lions. He might have mado some arrangement with King Darius whereby ho could havo retained part of his form of religion without making himself so completely obnoxious to the idolaters. Paul might have retained tho favor of his rulors and oscapei martyrdom if ho had only been willing to mix up his Christian faith with a few errors. His unbending Christian character was taken as an insult.

Fagot and rack and haltor in all ages have been only tho difforont ways in w'uch the world has demanded obeisance. It was once, away up on the top of the temple, that Satan comm inded tho Holy One of Nazareth to kneel before him. But it is not now so much on tho top of churches as down in tho aisle and tho pew and pulpit that Satan tempts the espousors ol' the Christian faith to knool before him. Why was it that the Platonic philosophors of early times, as well as Tolaud, Spinoza nud Bolingbroko of latter days, were so madly opposed to Christianity? Certainly not because it favored immoralities, or arrested civilization, or dwarfed tho intolloct. The genuine reason, whether admitted or not, was because the religion of Christ paid no respect to their intellectual vanities. Blount, and Boyle, and tho host of infidels hatched out by the vile reign ot Charles the Socoud, as rcptilo) crawl out of a marsh of slime, could not kocp thoir patience because, as they passed along, there wJre sitting in the gate of tho church such men as Matthew, and Mark, and Luke, nnd John who would not bend an inoh in respect to their philosophies.

Satan told our first parents that they would become as gods if they would only reach up and take a taste of the fruit. They tried it and failed, but their descendants are not yet satistiei with the experiment. We havo now many desiring to be as gods, reaching up after yet another apple. Human reason, scornful of God's word, may foam and strut with the proud wrath of a Haman, and attempt to compel the homage of tho good, but in the presence of men and angels it shall be confounded. "God shall smite thee, thou whitei wall." Whoa science began to make its brilliant discoveries there were groat facts brought to light that seemed to overthrow tho truth of the Bible. The archaeologist with his crowbar, and the geologist with his hammer, and the chemist with his batteries charged upon the Bible. Moses' account of the creation seemed denied by the very structure of tho earth. Tho astronomer wheeled round his telescope until tho heavenly bodies seemed to marshal themselves against the Bible, as the sturs in their courses fought arainst Sisera. Observatories and universities rejoiced at what they considered the extinction of Christianity. They gathered new courage at ivhat they considsrad past victory, and pressed on their conquest into the kingdom of nature until, alas for theml they discovered too much. God's word had only been lying in ambush that, In some unguarded moment, with a sudden bound, it might tear infidelity to pieces.

It was as when Joshua attacked the city of Ai. Ho selected thirty thousand men, and concealed most of them then with a few men he assailed the oity, which poured out its numbers and strength upon Joshua's littlo band. According to previous plan, they fell back in seeming defeat, but, after all the proud inhabitants of tne city had been brought out of their homes, and bad joined in the pursuit of Joshua, suddenly Mmt orave man halted in his flight, and with his spoar pointing toward the city, thirty thousand men bounlod from the thickets as panthers spring to thoir prey and the pursuers were dashel to pieces, while the hosts of Joshua pressed up to the city, and with their lighted torches tossod it into flames. Thus it was that the discoveries of seience seemed to givo temporary victory against God »\nd the

Bible, and for a whilo tho church acted as -l.o

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There was found to be no antagonism between nature and revelation. Tho universe and the Biblo wore found to be the work of the same hand, two strokes of the samo pen, their authorship tho same God

Again: Learn tho lesson that pride goes before a fall. Was any man ever so far up as Haman, who tumbled so far downf Yes, on a smaller scale every day tho world sees the same thing. Against thoir very advantages men trip into destruction. Whoa God humblos proud men, it is usually at the moment of their greatest arrogancy. If thore be a man in your community greatly puffed up with worldly sue ess, you ha ire but to stand a littlo while and you will see him come down. You say, wonder that God allows thaS man to goon riding over others' heads and making great assumptions of power. There is no wonder about it. Haman has not yet got to the top. Pride is a commander, woll plumed and caparisoned, but it loads forth a dark and frowning host. Wo have the bost of authority for saying that "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit boforo a falL" The arrows from the Almighty's quiver aro apt to strike a man when on tho wing. Goliath shakes his great spoar in defiance, but the small stones from tho brookElah make him stagger and fall like an ox under tho butcher's bludgeon, fie who Is down cannot fall. Vessels scudding under bare poles do not feel the force of the storm, but those with all sails set capsizo at tho sudden descent of the tern.post.

Again: This Oriental tale reminds us of the fact that wrongs we prepare for others return upon oursevles. The gallows that Haman built for Mordocal became the primo minister's strangulation. Robespiorro, who sent so many to the giilotlno, had his own head chopped oft by that horrid instrument. The evil you practice on otherB will recoil upon your own pate. Slanders come home. Oppressions como homo. Cruelties como home. You will yet bo a lackey walking besldo tho vory charger on which you expected to ride others down. When Charles the First, who had destroyed Strafford, was about to be boheaded, he said, "I basely ratified an unjust sentence, and the similar injustice I am now to undergo is a sensible retribution for the punishment I inflicted on an innocent man." Lord Jeffries, after carcerating many Innocent and good people in London Tower, was himself imprisoned in the samo place, where the shades of those whom ho had maltroated seemed to haunt him so that he kept crying to his attendants: "Keep them off, gentleman I for God's sake, keep them off!" The chickens had come home to roost. The body of Bradshaw, Iho English Judge, who Uad been ruthless and cruel in his decisions, was taken from his splendid tomb la Westminster Abbey, and at Tyburn

bang ona ff&llowti from morning until night In the presence of jeering multitudes. Haman's gallows came a littlo late, but' it came. Opportunities fly in a straight I line, and just touch us as thny pass from eternity to eternity, but tho wrongs we do I others fly in circle, and howover the circle mav widen oat, thoy are sura to como back to the point from which thoy started. There are guns that kick!

Furthormoro, let the story of Haman tench us how quickly turns the whasl of fortuno. One clay, excepting the king, Haman was the mightiest man in Persia but tho next day, a lackey. So we go up. and so wo come down. You seldom find any man twenty years in the same circumstances. Of those who, in political life twenty years ago, were the most prominent, how few remain in conspiculty. Politioal parties make cortain men do their hard work, and then, after using them as hacks, turn them out on the commous todio. Every four yoars there is a oomploto revolution, and about five thousand men who ought certainly to bo tho noxt president are shamefully disappointed while some, who this day are obscure and pover-ty-stricken, will rido UDOU the shoulders of the people, and tako thoir turn at admiration and tho spoils of office. Oh, how quickly the wheel turns! Ballot-boxes aro tho steps on which men come down as often as they go UD. Of those who wore long ago' successful in the accumulation of property, how few havo not met wita reverses! whilo many of those who thou wore straitened iu circumstances now hold the bonds anl the bank-keys of the mtion. Of nil ficklo things In the world, fortune is the most ficklo. Every day she changes her mind, and woo to tho man who puts any confidenco in what she promises or proposes! She cheers when you go up, and Bhe laughs when you como down. Oh, trust not a momont your hoart's affections to this changeful world! Anchor your soul in God. From Christ's companionship gather your satisfaction. Then, como sorrow or gladness, success or defeat, rich or poverty, honor or disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours, and ye are Christ's, and Christ is God's.

Again: this Haman's history shows us that outward possessions and circumstances cannot make a man happy. While yet fully vested in uutiiority and the chief adviser of tho Persian monarcli, and everything that equipage and pomp and splendor of residence could do. wero his, he is an object-lesson of wretchedness. Thorj are to-day more aohing sorrows under crowns of royalty than under the ragged caps of tho houseless. Much of tho world's affluence and gaiety is only misery colors.

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tho only securities. The soul's happiness is too largo a craft tosail up the stream of worldly ploasure As ship, carpenters say, it dnws to much water. This earth Is a bubble, and it will burst. This life is a vision, and it will soon pass away. Timo! It is only a rip. plo, and it breaketh against the throno of judgement. Our days! They fly swifter than a shuttle, weaving for us a robo of triumph or a garment of shame. Begin your lifo with religion and for its greatest trial you will bo ready. Every day will be a triumph, and death will be only a King's servant calling you to a royal banquet. .In olden time tho man who was to receive the honors of knightbood was required to spend the previous night fully armed, and with shield nnd lance to walk up and down among the tombs of the dead. Through all the hours of that night his stoady step was heard, and, when morning dawned, amid grand parade and the sound of cornets the huaors of knighthood were bestowed. Thus it shall be with the good man'* ^oul in the night before heaven. Fully armed with shield and sword and holmot, ho shall watch and wait until tho darkness fly and the morning break, and amid tho Bound ot celestial harping the soul shall tako the honors of heaven amid the innumerable throng with robos snowy white stroamlne over seas of sapphire.

Mordocal will, only have to wait for his day of triumph. It took all tuo proceeding trials to mako a proper background for his after-successes. Tho scaffold built for hin makes all the more imposing and plcturesque the horse into whose long white mane he twisted, his fingers at tho mount-

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two misfortunes,

hard as flint to strike firo. Heavy and long-continued snows in tho winter tn signs of good crops next summor. So man? havo yielded wonderful harvests of benevo. lonce and energy, because they were a lona while snowed under. We must have a good many hard falls before we learn to walk straight. It Is on the black anvil of trouble that men hammer out their fortunes. Sorrows tako up men on their shouders and enthrone them. Tonics are nearlv always bitter. Men, like fruit-trees an barren, unless trimmed with sharp knives. They aro llHo wheat-all the bettor for ttu flailing. It required tho prison darknesi and chill to make John Bunyan dream. It took Delaware ice and cold feet at Valley Forge, and tho whizz of bullots, to mako s' Washington. Paul, when he climbed ui on the beach of Mollta, shivering in hi* wet clothes, was moro of a Christian th in, when the ship struck tho breakers. Prescott, tho hlstori in, saw better without hli eyes than he could ever have Roon wit! them. Mordecai, despised at the gate, is only predecessor of Mordocal, graudb mounted.

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for Participation In ttfe OtitiftouM,

The executive committe of the Hend ricks Monument Association, having se» lceted the date for the unveiling of the monument to be erected by it, on Saturday drafted the following: Totho Public:

The monument at Indianapolis in mem-, ory of tho late Vice-president Thomas A. Hendricks is now so near completion that, we have fixed Tuesday, the first day of July, as the date of the unveiling. Thorn will be an address by the Hon. David Turpie, United States Senator, and other appropriate observance of the occasions

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stroot at her apple-stand is happier thun t.he groat bankers. The mountains of worldly honor aro coverod wita perpetual snow. Tamerlano conquored half the world, but could not subdue his own fears. Ahab goes to bed sick because Naboth will not sell him his vineyard. Herod is in agony bocause a little child is born down in Bethlehem. Great Felix trembles because a poor minister will preach righteousness, temporence and judgement to

extend' to the societies, clubs and otlieri

organizations of the State and elsewhere^ a cordial invitation to be present aud participate in the oeremonies, and likewise! request the attendance of the gem ral public, and the neighbors, friends ain?i admirers of tho departed statesman. Gen Fred Knefler, of this city, has been desig-.. nated grand marshal, and organization*, intending to participate in the exerclsei are ro (uested to communicate with him.

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a strawbottom chair iu France that did not bo made at a later day. set more solidily than the great throne ON FREDERICK HAND, which the French kin£s reigned! Chairman Exeoutive Committee,

Were I called to sketch misery in its1 worst form. I would not go up the dark alley of the poor, but up the highway over which prancing Bucephali strike the sparks I with their hoofs and between statuary and

farks of stalking deer. Wretchedness is

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TAKING THE CENSUS.

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the delusion. It is not what we get, it is oxpected to close at the end of thirty dayss, what wo aro. Daniel among the lions is but the supervisors and special agents happier than Nebuchadnezzar on his throne. will be engaged some time after that! And when life is closing, brilliancy of world period. Every man, woman and child ist ^ri'oundjn=s

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and tho Athenian, between a bookless hut Y» an^ sood citizens should GOand a national library. The frivolities of operate with the federal government in .J life, cannot with their giddy laugh, echoing its honest endeavors. from heart to heart, entirely drown tho The government has no object in gath treniendous conscience

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voice of says: die, but I am immortal. One eternity shall drown time depth, but I am immortal. The that this censussha'l be fruitful of cert..m, earth shall havo a shroud of flame and the valuable information which it has becm heavens flee at the glance of the Lord, but impossible to glean in a private way.

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TSri ilia out we are to know all about our produo tions from the soil and factory, to ascertain! tho physical as well as spiritual oonditior.a ot our people, the ravages of disease, and a groat many other things which will lead politioal and financial economists to avoid many of the trials to which the human family is heir. By a strict adherence to the requirements of tho census laws, and a faithful co-operation on the part of the public, a fund of information will result whioh will be the greatest blessicg ever passed upon tho American people.

It will probably be two years from this timo before even the compendium of. the census is published so that the average citizen can see the result of this great work, but there will be bulletins- and advance sheets, whioh will enable health and other authorities Vo take charge of the oondltions within six months after the completion of the labors of the enumerators. The result of tho eleventh ouisas is expected to give the United States tho greatest boom throughout the world that it has ever had, and only people v/ho woiild sympathize with the enemies of our oountry are advising against a non-oo* operation with the government's agents.

In a flr» in a hard ware store at Luo&s Ohio, Sunday night, about ftfty pounds of dynamite whioh was in the store, exploded with disastrous results. Two men wort mangled beyond recognition. About 123 persons wore more or less injured, soma being merely skinned by the conoussion. The report of the explosion was heard five miles distant, and the shook was so great that nearly all the windows in Lucas won broken.

Bight persons, mostly children, were drowned ln a lake at Fall River, Mass., Sunday. Twelve persons embarked ln a eBiall row boat for a pleasure ride. The wind was high and tho boat soon became unmanagable. While trying to maki! shore the boat capsized, and but four ot the ploasure seekers succeeded in reaohln hore. Hgf

A well matured plan to permit th« Crooln prisoners to eaoape from tho Jolle^ penitentiary was discovered and frustrate! an the SHth, One of the guards was im plicated in the ffalr. AH necessary assistance was given the prlMnsca b) viivia outside.

ORIGIN OF TELEGRAPHY.

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A flyfltara That TTa» In Vogue Bo for* T*h« Day* of Christ.

Being wholly unknown to other peoples of their limes, we have no data on which to base a reliable history, of this peculiar race of men. Our antiquarians tell us that they built substantial cities that they were tillers of the-soil that they knew the principles of art that they had a written language and a religion that they had a commercial system and that they could send a message across the country with' the velocity of light.

A telegraph in prehistoric times,, as we look back upon it, seems certainly a myth yet it is after all the simplest thing imaginable. The writer did not claim for it tho elcctric principle of tho Morse telegraph. The electricity which Franklin found himself able- to control would have beeu totally unavailable in the hands of primitive puople.

The Mound-Builders' telegraphicsystem consisted of a chair, of large mounds, starting at Chicago, hence bearing across the country to Prairio du Chien, Wis., thence down the Mississippi to Arkansas, and onward in. a more or less straight line to tho terminus at the City of Mexico, then the Capital of the Aztec Empire. These mounds were built in the most suitable locations, so that a lire lighted at one point could be seen distinctly at the next, and thus that a signal-light could be hastily transmitted from one station to another over the thousands of milo» which separate the two terminal points of the line.

The signal stations are located ofton at a distance of many miles apart, perhaps a half dozen spanning a hundred, miles thus, as may readily be seen, a danger signal could be sent across, a State with the speed of light. Around these signal mounds are usually grouped thousands of a lesser size. ud sometimes a fortitication or other earthwork, indicating that a city of large size Had originally existed on th» spot. Thus at Toolesboro, la., in addition to one of the most remarkabictinqlosure tjurlhwtirks of- tHp r8'"- "vwtiur hw^cilnTi ol sigual station could have been secured than this. On the very brow of a great bluff overlooking the Mississippi: are located the eight huge conical mounds earth upon which the signal lires wure lighted, away back in another ago of the world's historv, telling a tale- of danger or festivity A light at this point would be instantly observed! at

Muscatine, the next station, twenty miles to the north, or Flint Hills,.- now Burlington, away iu tho hazy distance, thirty miles to the south, and thence could be transmitted from mnuud So mound, from station to stationi hundreds of miles in cither direction lliis telegraphic system employed by the mound-builders is the greatest wonder of the Western world. Nor is it a myth as so frequently originates in the fertile imagination of the- newspaper writer but the mounds and' earthworks are there to show for.themselves, and their purpose is self-evidfent. Now forests have grown up, so .that between ninny of the stations the line of obser.iiifjn is cut otr.hcnca tho-line is out of ''pair but students of arehasology assert. ami believe that. the. thousands of moiiiuU iu the loug line- from Chicago to Mexico CiLv were, beyoud a doubt, signal stations iu the iinst and original telegraph system.

A Sanitary Waflh-Hoase.

Albert Shaw has a most suggestive paper in the Vcntnry entitled "Glasgow a Municipal Study," from which we quote "Not the least important feature of the health department's worlt in Glasgow is. tho Sanitary Washhouse. A similar establishment should be a part of municipal economy of every large towu. In 1864 the authorities, found it neccssarv to sttpeiv lutend the disinfection of dwellings, and a small temporary wash-house was opened, with a few tubs for the cleansing of apparel, et*., removed from infected houses. For a time after tho acquisition of Belvidcro a part of the laundry of tho hospital was used for the purpose of a general sanitary washhouso. But larger quarters being needed, a separate establishment was built and opened in 1883, its costbein« about $50,000. This place is so admirable in its system and its mechanical appointments that I am again tempted to digress with a technical description. TI«o placo is in constant communication witli sanitary headqnarters and its coUqcting wagogs ipre on the road

ettify evStry mofrntngi The larger pat the articles removed for dtsiofeetioa and cleansing must bo returnedoa the same day, to meet tho necessities ol

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There was a system of telegraphy be- poor families. I vistcd the house on a tween tho sito of Chicago aud that of day when 1,800 pieces, from 25 differtho City of Mexico before the days of enl families, had come in. In 1887, Morse before Franklin's discovery be- I 6,700 washings, aggregating 980,000 fore the discovery of America by pieces, were done. The quantity, of Columbus—perhaps before tho days of course, varies from year to year with

Christ. Suoh are the assertions of a Chicago Tribune correspondent who asks consideration of his statements on the following basis:

Chicago was certainly tho Northern terminus of a telegraph line whose other oad was in Mexico,at so remote a period of the world's history that tho very name of the race that built it is baried in oblivion. It was not the Indians. The ancestors of old Tccumeeh and Hiawatha are moderns compared with the earlier race.

The tirst telegraphic system was employed some centuries ago by that curious race of people that built tho huge mounds of earth that are met with everywhere in tho Mississippi Vallev and down to tho Atlantic coast. Wo call the people of that age simply Mound-Builders for' want of a better name. The race- is dead. The last man of them had passed to his eternal rest long centuries before this land became tlx home of modern red men. lint the niighly works-of those simple people live after them.- We look upon their greal earth-works, and like Volney among his ruins- can only feel that to them is due our veneration. For them we must eutertoui at least a feeling of respect, being,, ae they are, the last remaining vestiges- of a race most remarkable and most interesting of all the men of earth, springing mysteriously iuto existence, living for centuries, .and finally disappearing as completely from the face of the* earth as though they never had been born.

the ainouut of infoctrious disease in the city. Tho establishment has a crematory, to whioli all household articles whatsoever that aro to be burued nfter a caso of infectious disease must bn brought by the vans of tho sanitary department.. Tho- carpet-denning machinery and the arrangements for disinfection by .steam-, by chcmioals, aud by boiling I cannot' here describe. "The department's disinfecting and whitewashing staiT is operated from the wash-house as headquarters. A patien* being removed to the hospital, tho authorities at once take possession of the house for cleansing am disinfection. It is a point of interest also that lb? city has provided a comfortable 'house of reception' of some ten rooms, with two or three permanentservants, where' families may be entertained for a day. or more as the city's guests if it is desirable to remove them1 from their: homes during tho progress of tho disinfecting and clothes-washiug operations. Tho houso is kept in constant use, and it is found a very convenient thing for the department to havo-at its disposal. "As net. results of the sanitary workof the Glasgow authorities may be mentioned the almost extinetio'iv ol some of the worst forms of contagion? disease, and a mastery of tho situation*. which leaves comparatively littlo fear of widespread epidemics in tho future, in spite of tho fact that Glasgow is-'a great seaport, has an unfavorable' climate, and has an extraordinary dense aud badly housed working population. The steady decline of the total death-rate, aud its remarkable rapid decline as regards those diseases at which sanitary science more especially aims its weapons, are achievement? which aro a proper source of gratification to the town council and the of&cere of tho health department."

An Anecdote of Sam Houston.

Houston was beaten for the Senate by Louis Wigfall, w"ho cut such a brilliant and yet inefficient figure at the. outbreak of the war. Old Sam Houston was asked what kind of a person this Mr. Wisrfall was who had succeeded to his place. Houston said: "Gentlemen, 1 know him well be is the most eloquent, brilliant fool in all Texas."

When Houston had been beaten by Wigfall it occurred to Iverson, of Georgia,who was not much of a man,to get up in the Senate and lacerate the old hero. He called attention to the fact that Houston had been repudiated by the people of his State, and said he hoped that would be t.hcfate of all mon who were traitors to the South.

The Senate thought nothing of Iverson, and every body was curious to know what Houston would say. The old man sat there whittling a piece of wood with a knife. Ho was six feet live inches high, held himself vory erect, was a remarkable actor and always impressive when he desired to be. Hardly anybody looked at Iverson, for his speech was felt to be in the light of an attack upon human nature. Sam Houston, the hero of Texas, tho former Governor of Tennessee, was down, and this little fellow misapprehended lie had a chance to injure him.

After Iverson concluded, Houston sat still a while till he concentrated upon himself the atteution of the Senate. He then rose, and, in a commonplace way, referred to his defeat. "It is true, gentlemen, that 1 am politically dead. There appears to be no breath in my life, as far as the miblic service rnrcl not think, however, that after my defeat the State of Georgia would bo the one to come and. taunt me with my disaster."

Here he changed his manner from the simple to the impressive, and there began to be sensibilities stirred up in every one around the Senate as ho continued: "Not the State of Georgia should have thought it necessary to attack me upon this tloor," said Houston, "for when 1 was a boy I shed my blood in Georgia for the people of that State when the tomahawk and, tho sealping-knife were raised against then). At. such a battle [which ho named] 1 was left among the slain, as it was supposed, and I always thought that Georgia at least would 'havo so'ino respect for my memory. But, gentlemen, this is not the first time that a dead lion has been kicked in tho face by the heels of a cowardly ass.."— Cincinnati Enquirer.

Japanese Sensitiveness.

trout John La^Farge's Jaoanese letters now appearing in the Century woquote the following: "The- Japanese* sensitiveness to tho bcautios-of the out--side world is something much moredelicate aud complex, and contemplative, and at the same time moro natural, than ours has eves been. Outside. of Arcadia, 1 know, o£ no other land whose people hang vorses on the trees, hj honor of thgir beauty where familues travel far before- tho dawn to-see-

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light touch tho new buds.

Where else do.the newspaper announce the spring blossoms? Wbero clso would bo possible tho charming absurdity of the story that W—-- was telling me of having sceu in cherryblossom time some- old gentleman, with oapacious sake gourd in hand tt-iud tig roll of piper in his girdle, (teat himself below the blossom show* «rg4 and look and drink, and drink and Miite verses, all Ijy himself, with no jjaJJery to holp him? If thore is con-.-mention in a tradition half oblifatorY,' and if wo, Western lovers of tlTe troa.^jfe do not quite like the Japanese retint^ viitnt of growing the cherry merely ioi its flowers, yet how doliciously ut vida-down from us, i»nd how charming "-"-i is the lovo of nature at the foundation'1 of the custom." sSW""'"""

"Who was that ringing at the front door last night?" The policeman.--V' --i" ••Whit dsn want?" "He wanted the baby to atou cryiuc.

He wanted It kopt him