Daily Wabash Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 23 August 1885 — Page 6

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TLe Bev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached, last Sunday in John Wesley's great church. "City Road Chapel," Loudon. Alter the hymn, "Jesus, Lover of^ My Soul," and a Scripture lesson from I. Samuel, chapter 17, Mr. Talmage annonnced his theme, "Unappreciated Services," and his text, from I. Samuel chap. 30, v. 24: "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be.thatJjarrieth by the stuff."

Twenty thousand people were present. The weather was beautiful, and the streets to"*'"e to the church were lined r-v^jritk vehicles and pedestrians. So enormous Vss the crowd that Dr. Talmage was compelled to preach

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lilted against his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are two hundred of these crippled and aged and wounded soldiers detailed to watch the^Jiaggagei Some of them, had bandage? across the brow some of them had their arm in. a and some of them walked on crutches,. They had fought in many a fierce battle for their country and their Qod. They are now part of the time in hospital, and part of the time on garrison duty, they almost ciy because they cannot go with, the other troops to the front. While these (sentinels watch the baggage the Lord walches these sentinels.

There is quite, a different scene being enactednio^ tlte distance. The Amalekites, b»Vf{fg/&vaged and ransacked and robbed whole Countries, are celebrating their succesB in roaring carousal. Some of them are "dancing on the lawn with wonderful gytation of heel and toe, and Bomeofthem are examining the spoils of victory—the finger rings and ear rings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the headlands, diamond starred, and coffers with ooronefc and carnelians and pearls and sapphires and emeraldg, and all the wealth of plate and jewels and deoanters, and the silver and the gold banked up on the earth in princely profusion, and the embroideries and the robes and the turbans and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The banquet has gone on until the banqusters are maudlin andlweak and stupid and. indecent and loathsomely drunk. What* time it is now for David and his men to swoop on them! So the Syrians were overthrown in their carousal by die Israelites. So Chedorlaomer and his army were overthrown in in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So our northern forces 'wen defeated at Fredericksburg because one of the commanders was drunk. Now is the time for David and his men to swoop upon these carousing Amalekites. Some of the Amalekites are hacked to "pieces on the spot some of them are just able to go,staggering and hiccoughing off the fiela, some of them crawl on camels land speed offin the distance. David and his men gathered together the wardrobes, tne ... jewels, and put tbems*'npm the backs of camels and in$o wagons, and they gather toilKir 'tlifi Sheep, and the cattle that had Been stolen, anaB^art back toward the garrisoA. Yonder they come! yonder they 'comeI The limping*men of the garrison come out and greet them with wild huzza. The* Bible says David saJuted them. That is, he asked them how they all were. "How is your broken araK\, is your fractured jaw?" ul'Sbie £93 stiffened limb been limbered?" not eat ai -yjj bad another chill?" "Are couldn'oTtaR better?" He sahited them, the borribircame a very difficult thing, experienced-.* ,),,

the spoilsof victory.

Recoveryyupo tto^n camels now.* Who eat around my bedsto Well, some selfish mdment to 1)6 ^y ,^aap tTMAiirM ousht

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or not pwWm "We did all the fightliffty whilfi these men stayed at home in theg&rito^ and we ought to have all the treasures." But David looked into the worn faces of these veterans who had atayed in the garrison, and he looked arom^aad saw how cleanly everything hadfi&h kept, and he saw that the baggagt irtt itU pafe,«nd he knew how that

Uiefle *dnnded ana crippled men would gUdbf ltnough have' bed! at the front if Uiev. naa been able, and the little general loon up from under his helmet ana says: "®0, np wt us have fair playand he rodkes up to one of these-men and he sa "HoH'ywtr hands together and tL. hands are held together, and he fills them withiilter. And he rushes up to another manwho was sitting away back and had BO idea of getting any of the spoils, «nd throws a Babylonish garment over him, and fill his hand with gold. And h« rushes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving God and hiB country years before, and he drives up eome of the cattle and some of the sheep |hat they had brought back from the Amnlnlritxij and he gives two or three of the cattlq and three or four of the^heep to thin poor- man, so ie shall always be fed. and clothed. He sett a man so emaciated and worn out and sick that he needs stimu^l*Et».and he gives him a little, of the wine that he Drought from the Amalekites. Yonder is a man who has no appetite for the rough rations of the army, and he gives him a rare morsel, from the

wialftlntish banquet, and the two hundred crippled and maimed and aged soldiers who flurried on garrison duty get jagt as much of the spoils of battle a* amr ot tfce two hundred men that went ta "As his part is that goeth doftt to^» battle, so shall his part, Ije •hat twrrieth by the stuff."

The impfeeuon is abroad that the Christian rewards joe for those who do couspicuous service in distinguished places—great martyrs, great patriots, great preachers, great philanthropists. Bat my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays at home and minds his own business, and who, crippled and nnable to go forth and lead in great movements and in the high places of the earth, does his whole duty just where he is. Garrison

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duty is an important and as remunerative as service at the front. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall W* party be that tarrieth by the stuff."

The Eatl of Kin tore said to me in a railroad, train: i"Mr. Talmage, when you get back to America I want you to preach a sermon on the discharge of ordinary duty in ordinary places, and then send me a copy of it." Afterward an English clergyman coming to my country brought from the Earl of Kin tore the same message. Alas! that before I got ready to do what he asked me to do the good Earl of I/intore had departed this life. But that man felt sympathetic with those who had ordinary duties to perform in ordinary places and in ordinary ways.

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his serine® in the church. Extraordinary enthusiasm prevailed. He said: a If you have never seen an army change quarters you have no iflea of the amount ofbaggage—twenty loads, fifty loads, a fe hundred loads of baggage. David and hip army were about to start on a doublequick march' for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekites.

So they left by til Brook Bespr their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who .shall be detailed to watch this stuff? There ore sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers, who are not able to go on swift military expeditions, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed tQ watch the baggage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to march thirty miles in a day and then plunge into a ten hours' fight, who is able with drawn

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when they hear the stories of Moees and of Joshua and of David and of Luther and ef John Knox and of Deborah and of Florence Nightingale. They say, "Oh, that was all good and right for them but I, shall never be

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law on Mount Sinai, I shall never be called to command the sun and the moon to stand stilly I shall never" be called to slay a giant, I shall never preach on Man Hill, I shall never defy the Diet of worms, I shall never be called to make a queen tremble for her crimes, I shall never, preside over a hospital." There are women who say, "If I had as brilliant a sphere as those people had, 16hould be as brave and as grarfd but my business is to get the children off to school and to huht up things when they are lost, and to see that dinner is ready, and to keep account of the household expenses, anu to hinder the children from being strangulated by the whoopingcough, and to go through all the annoyances and. vexatkjns of housekeeping. Oh! my sphere is so infinitesimal aid so insignificant I am clear discouraged." Woman, Goii places you

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and your reward will be just as great as that of Florence Nightingale, who, moving so often night by night

Lady of the Lamp be just as great as that of Mrs. Hertzog, whp built and endowed theological seminary buildings.- Your reward will be just as great as that of Hannah More, who by her excellent books won for her admirers Garrick and Edmund Burke and Joshua Reynolds. Rewards are not to be according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do, but according to whether you work to your full capacity, according to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphere where God hafi placed you.

Suppose you give to two of your children errands, and they are to go off to make purchases, and to one you give$l and to the other you give $20, do you re« ward the boy that you gave $20 to for purchasing more with that amount of money than the other boy purchased with |j Of course not. If God gives wealth or social position or eloquence or twenty times the faculty to a man that He gives to the ordinary men, is He going to give to the favored man a reward because he has more power and more influence? Oh', no." In other words, if you and I do our whole duty^and you have twenty tinies more talent than I have, you will get no more Divine regard than I willi Is God going to reward you because He "gave you moft? That would not be fair that would not be right. These two men of the text who fainted by the breok Besor did their whole duty they watched the baggage they took core of the stuff, and they got as much of the spoils, of victory as the men who went to the front. "As his part is that goeth down to the.battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."

There' is high encouragement in this for all who have great responsibility and little credit for what they do.. You know the names of the great commercial houses of these cities. Do you know the confidential clerks—the men who have the key to the safe, the names of the men who know the combination locks? A distinguished merchant goes forth at the summer watering place and he flashes past, and you say, "Who is that?" "Oh," replies some one, "don't you know? That is the great importer, that is the great banker, that is the great manufacturer." The confidential clerk has his week off. Nobody notices whether he comes or goes. Nobody knows him, and after awhile his week is done, and he sits down again at his de«k. But God will reward his fidelity just as much as he recognizes the work of the merchant philanthropist whose investments this unknown clerk so faithfully guarded. Business men know the names of the presidents and prominent directors of the great railroads but they do not know the names of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of the flagmen,'the names of the brakemen. These men have awful responsibilities, and sometimes, through the recklessness of an engineer or the Unfaithfulness of a switchman, it has brought to mind the faithfalriessof nearly all the rest of them. Such men do not have recognition of their services. They have small wages and much complaint. I very often ride upon locomotives, and I very often ask the question, as we shoot around some curve or under some ledge of rocks, "How much wages do you get?" and I am always surprised to find how little for such vast responsibility. Do you not suppose God is going to recognize that fidelity? The head of some railroad company going up at death to receive1 from God his destiny was no better known in that hour than was known •last night the brakeman who on the railroad was jammed to death amid the car-couplings. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."

Once for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the orean. The waves struck through the skylights and rushed 'down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the, boilers. It was an awful time, but by the blessing of God and the faithfulness of (he men in charge we cam^ out of the cyclone and we arrived at»nome. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that shi without thanking Captain Andrews, an when years after I heard of his death I was impeUed to write a letter of oondolence to his family in Liverpool. Every' body recognized the goodness, the courage, the kindness of Captain Andrews but it occurs to me. now that we never .thanked the engineer.

He stood away down in the darknfess amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer) but God recognized his heroism and his continuance? and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of eight as the captain who Btood on tb'e bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest As his part is that goeth dowh to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by. the stuff."

A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood every eventide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother with so many cares and anxieties should waste so much time as to be idly sauntering out evening by evening. It was found «out afterward that she went there to pray for her household, and while ^there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn,a famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: 4 "I lore to steal awhils away

From every cambering care, And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such unpretending yet everlasting service?

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boy who wants to go to college and get an education. The* call him a book-worm.. Whenever they find him—in the barn or in the house—he is reading a book. "What a pity it is,"-they say, "that Ed can not get an education f' His father, arork as hard as he will, can no more than support the family by the product of the farm. One night Ed has retired to bis room, and there is a family conference about hitn.

The sisters say, "Father, I wish, you would send Ed to college if you will, we will work harder than we ever did, and make our old dresses do.". The mother gays, "Yes, I will get along without any hired help although I am not as strong as I used to be, I think I can get. along without any hired help." The father says, "Well, I think by working nights I can get along without any assistance." Sugar is banished from the table, butter is banished from the plate. That family is put down on rigid, yea, suffering economy, that the boy may go to college. Time passes qti. Graduation day has come. Think not that I mention an imaginary case. God knows it happened. Commencement day has came, ana the professors walk in on the stage in their long gowns. The interest of the occasion is passing on, and. after a while it comes to a climax of interest as the valedictorian is to be introduced. Ed has studied sa hard and worked so well that he has had the honor conferred upon him.

There are rounds of applause, sometimes breaking iito vociferation. It is a great day for Ed. But away back in the galleries are his sisters, in plain hats and faded shawls, and the old-fashioned father and mother—dear me, she has not had anew hat for six years, he has not had anew coat far six years—and they get up and look over on the platform, a&d they laugh and they cry, and they sit down, and they look pale, and then they are very much flushed. Ed. gets the garlands, and the old-sashioned group in the gallery have their full share of the triumph. They have made that scene possible, and in the day when God shall more fully reward self-sacrifices made for others He will give grand and glorious recognition. "As his part is that goeth down to the battle,

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part be that tarrieth by the stuff." There is high encouragement in this 'subject, also, for those who once wrought mightily for Chirst and the church, but through sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced years caa net go to the front. These two hundred men of the text, were veterans. Let that man bare has arm and show how the muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the turban and see the mark of a battle-ax pull aside the coat and see where the spear thrust him.

Would it have been fair for those men, crippled weak, and old, by the brook Besorlto have no share in the spdils of triumph Do you]think my Lord is going to turn off His old soldiers because they are awkward and Worn? Are they going to get no part in the' spoils of victory? Just look at them. Do you think those crevices in the face are wrinkles? No they are battle scars. They fought against sickness, they fought against trouble, they foUght against sin, they fought for God, they fought for the church, they fought for the truth, they sought for heaven. When they had plenty of money their names were always on the subscription list. When there was any hard work to be don6 for God they were ready to take the heaviest part of it. When there came a great revival they were ready to pray all night for the apxious. and the sin-struck. They were ready to do any work, endure any sacrifice do* the most unpopular thing that God demanded of them. But now they cannot

further. Now they have physical inrmities, jiow their head troubles them. They are weak and faint by the brook Besor. Are they to have no share in the triumph? Are they to get none of the treasures, none of the spoils of conquest?. You must think that Christ has a very short memory if you think He has forgotten their services.*

Fret not, ye aged ones, Just tarry by the stufi and wait for your share of the spoils. Yonder they are coming. I hear the bleating of the fat lambs, and I see the jewels glint in the sun. It makes me laugh to think how you will be surprised when they throw a chain of gold over your neck and tell you to go in and dine with the King. I see you backing out because you feel unworthy. The shining ones coihe up on one side, and the shining ones come up on the other side, and they push you on and they push you up, and they say, "Here is an old soldier of Jesus Christ," and the shining ones will rush towards you and say, "Yes that man saved my soul," or they wil rush out and say, "Oh, y*s, she was with me in the last sickness." And then the dty will go round the circle, "Come in, come in, come up, come up we saw you away down there, old and sick and decripit and discouraged because you could not go to the front, but 'As his part that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."

There is high consolation, also, in this for aged ministers. I see some of them here to-day. They sit in pews in our churches. They used to stand in pulpits. Their hair is white with the blossoms of the tree of life. Their names are marked on Uie roll of the general assembly, or of the consociation "Emeritus." They sometimes hear a text announced which brings to mind a sermon they preached fifty years ago on that same subject. Tfiey preacheS more gospel. on $400 year than some of their successors preach on $4,000. Some Sunday the old minister is in a church, and gear by in another pew there area husband and wife and a row of children. And pfter the bene diction the lady comes up and says, "Doctor, you don't know me, do you?" "Well," he says, "your face is familiar, but I can not call you by name." "Why,'1 she says, "you baptised me and you married me and you buried my father and mother and sisters," "Oh,yes," he says "my eyesight isn't as good as it used to be." They are in all our churches—the heroes of 1820, the heroes of 1832, the heroes ef 1857. By the long grave trench that, cut through half a century they have stood sounding the resurrection. They have been 'in more Balaklavas and have taken more Sebastopols than you ever heapd of. Sometimes. they get a little fretful because they can not be at the front.' They hear the sound of the battle and the old war horse champs his bit. But the 60,000 ministers of religion this day standing in the brunt of the fray shall have no more reward than those retired veterans. "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." "As his part is that goeth down to the battle', so shall hispart be that tarrieth by the stuff."

Cpeer up, men and women of unappreciated services. You will get yeur reward, if not here, hereafter. 'When Charles Wesley comes up to judgment and the thousands of souls which were wafted into glory through his songs shall be remunerated, he will take his throne. Then John WeSley will come up to judgment, and after his name has been. mentioned in connection with the salvation of 'mil-

lions of souls brought to God through the Methodism which he founded, he will

take his throne. But between the two thrones of Charles Wesley, and John Wesley there will be a throne higher than either, on which sit Susannah Wesley, who with maternal consecration, in Epworth Rectory, Lincolnshire, started those two souls on their triumphant mission of sermon and song through all following ages. Oh, what a day that will be for many who have rocked Christian cradles with weary foot, and who patched worn-oat garments apd darned socks, and out of a small income made the children comfortable for the winter! What day that will bp for those to

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whom the world gave the cold shoulder and called them nobodies, and begrudged them the least recognition, and who, weary and worn and sick, fainted by the brook Besor 1 Oh, that will be a mighty day when the Son of David shall distribute among them the garlands, the crowns,, the scepters the chanots, the thrones.

And then it shall be found out that all $rho on earth served God. in inconspicuous spheres receive just as .much reward as those who filled the earth with uproar of achievement. Then they shall understand the height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the pillared and the domed magnificence of my text, "As his part is that goeth down to the battle^ so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff."

A Kentucky Inventor Gives an Exhtbitlon with His Flying Alachlne.

Cairo Speoial to the Globe-Democrat. It is not improbable that the solution of the great problem of- building a flying machine has been brought about by a Paducah, Ky., man, who yesterday, in the presence of several reporters and many citizens, attained at least some degree of success in the premises. Prof. Calvin A. Hayes is the progressive party who has caused the sensation, and, while the inner mechanism of the invention is not given to the public, its general outside appearance is not unlike a large army tent, the files of the tent representing the wings of the machine. The first was interrupted by a break in the wings. Later the guys were loosened, ihe wings flapped, ana the machine sailed forty ieet into the air, guided in various directions by the professor, finally landing safely near where it started, having made a tpur of a couple of hundred feet. The inventor claims he can come from Paducah to Cairo "as the crow flies" in an hour and a half.

Wilkins' Star Proverbs.

Whitehall Times. Many rule but few conquer. ,, Hobbies are hard steeds to manage.

Men clothed with vanity are kickproof. Tears of repentance form the rainbow of joy,

Character is to intellect what a bit is to a wild horse. It is becoming to be honest—but it is becoming rare

No man can fail unless he has attempted to succeea. Never yoke the past with ^the present for the future to drive.

Never ask a woman her age Sunless '^ou desire to witness her rage. Gray hairs command respect, where gray airs receive contempt.

Never tickle a mule's hind leg. unless the animal is thoroughly dead. Ten men remain honest through fear of man's law where one does through fear of God's law.

When a man despairs of success the devil will be on hand with words of encouragement

When Neptune desires to flirt with Mother Earth he gently waves- the sea across her bosom.

It is easy enough'to tell what you know about everybody else, but hard to tell what everybody else knows about you.

Creameries.

The American Dairyman thus summarizes the value of combining effort. We commend its remarks to all thoughtful farmers In a radius containing 500 little farms, on churning day, 500 womeij empty 500 cream-jars at 500 temperatures into 500'churns, and 500 small boys are kept from school or other work to con tinue their hatred, of the farm by 500 hour^of labor at those 500 churns. Then the 500 wometo work those 500 lots of butter into 5,Q00 little dabs, with 500 different flavors, colored 500 different shades of -1 les for 500 dif-

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work? Let. the farmers come together and start a joint stock company, put up a factory, with a good buttermaker and two or three men to help him, and then let these 500 lots of milk be brought to their factory and be made up .into one kind of first-class butter that sells as a uniform article at a'uniform price, and then let these 500 women and 500 boys go to work at something more profitable and something they know more about. If you can not get a good buttermaker, turn the creamery into a cheese factory. Anybody can make cheese or run a newspaper.

Raining Clams From a Clear Sky. Mamkato (Minn.) Dispatch to the. Chioago Tribune.

A curious shower occurred here'Monday. The weather was never finer and the sky was without a cloud at the time. Officer George E. Blake and A. H. Allen were standing on a corner, when suddenly a freshwater clam fell at their feet with great force* Thinking that it was thrown at them they paid no attention to it, and a second later six more fell perpendicularly, dropping about ten feet from them. Upon looking into the air they could see hundreds of. feet above, about as many more on their way down to the earth, and in a second more these, too, dropped to the ground. The dams fell with great velocity, and the shells were broken to pieces when picked up by bystanders, who soon gathered around. The clams were alive, and measured about four inches in length. This "clam shower" was also witnessed by a man named Chandler, vho corroborates the statements of Blake and Allen, and leaves no doubt of the truth of their statements. All of the parties witnessing the shower of these clamS are trustworthy men,

in the Broadside.

Chicago Hi "The struggles of the blanket-sheets to report the Grant funeral by the acre remind me of old times." remarked retired newspaper man." Years ago we used to do things just that way. I remember one occasion on which the paper I was on had an enormous account of some affair, but it was awkwardly written and shaped up, full of repetitions and botches." 'It's too bad that our report is so slovenly,' said I to the managing editor —one of the journalists of the old school. "'Too bad!' he echoed, 'what's too bad? I know it is wretchedly written, and full of repetitions nd jangles but, my dear boy, don't you see that it is so long nobody'll ever read through it and discover how poor it is? That's the science of journalism, my boy—make your articles so very big that readers will glance al the head lines and sav, "Splendid, splendid!'"

An American who saw a cock-fight in Mexico writes: "The bird that had swooned was bathed with cold water, its throat moistened by a wet feather, a cloth held over it to keep off the sun, and pieces of smoking wood put under its nostrils and over its comb. Thus stimulated, it resumed the fight."

Frederick Douglas is to be invited by the colored people of Boston to deliver an address at their Grant memorial meeting.

In the Western Reserve mflk sells for 1 cent a quart, and 12} cents a pound is a good price for butter.

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LIFE IN GOTHAM.

TRAPS FOE THE UlTWAET FEET.

Too Much Caution Sometimes—Wicfeedand Extortion at Coneyf?? Island, y.-f.-s.. -v

an'intended victim. Secretary ivy Whitney is an old New Yorker, familiar with the city's character-

The experiment was at once made. Joe was a good-looking, well-dressed fellow, with nothing in his aspect to suggest roguery. Whitney handed a crisp, new ten-dollar note to him, and he set out on his round. "I beg your pardon, sir, he remarked politely to General Dan Sickles, who was stumping around on a leg and a crutch, "but will you please give me one dollar for this ten," and he held the note so«close to Sickles' eyes that its genuineness ought to have been visible.

A half-sarcastic, half-angry 'grin came over the general's face, but he deigned no reply, and contemptuously turned away. The proffer was soberly made to "nine men, none being a witness of -the other's refusal, and every time with the same result. __ Nobody would buy ten dollars with one dollar. All decided on the spur of the moment that they were the object of a swindler's attention. The endangered note came safely back to

Whitney, and the group laughed over its adventure—save Sickles, who was called in to be leased for letting such a bargain slip.

Giddiness seems to be a common result of New York atmosphere upon the heads of the steadiest visitors. Morally solid old fellows, who would not go to see "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in their home villages, nor go further into a circus than the menagerie tent, are to be seen by the .hundreds in every Gotham theater audience these'sultry evenings. Three of the legitimate houses now open are devoted to comic opera or. burlesque, in which the costuming exceeds in indecency anything previously risked on the stage, and these three auditoriums are crowded every night, though the receipts had dropped, so low before the influx of tourists that in one case a closure was advertised. Two theaters are presenting dramas in \^Jiich the women wear skirts, and these two are nearly empty. Of course the vicious resoits are thronged, especially those which the lax. police of Coney Island permit to" keep their doors open on that curious piece of seashore. There is one spot down there that looks like a camp meeting, by reason of a grcap -of white tents but the shouts that make the night air vocal are not those of religious ecstasy, for they are the expressions of alcoholic hilarity. The canvases shelter bars, with private wine rooms at the rear, and small kitchens for the cooking of clam suppers. Positive novelties of deviltry are to be found here b}£ the earnest seeker. Girls are commonly hired to lounge in these places. In one establishment a handsome and richly though quietly dressed young woman enters, with thtf air of a stranger, and takes a seat at* a table. Her visit is so timed that a party of spendthrifts are present. She orders a bottle of champagne, and sits alone at a table to sip it. Pretty soon, as though on sudden thought, she vivaciously invited the company to drink with her.

I can't bear to spend my money like a nun in a cell," she cries. "You've all got to join me. Waiter, open another bottle."

Perhaps half a dozen men accept her invitation and then, of course, each has to buy a bottle, wjiich forces a sale of six quarts, at a cost to the proprietor of the two that the woman has ordered—for she is an employe of the establishment.

Let me say that the Coney Island, which I have already mentioned as thig week's great resort for strangers, ought to be named Extortionville. The ruling idea of everybody who does business there, from the keeper of a dime museum to the landlord of the big hotel, seeriis to be that nobody ever comes twice, and therefore the single grab ought to be at his entire wallet. The payment, of ten cents for admission to a show means simply an entrance of a fly into, a spider's, •web, where gift swindles and dice games await him to despoil. To take a seat at a table at either Brighton or Manhattan is to submit to a scarcely less nefarious robbery^ I mention these two places because they are the most pretentious on the island. Not only are the prices higher than those of the costliest New York restaurant, but the viands are almost invariably bad, and the service worse. My latest experience was with a luncheon, consisting of soup, roasted clams, a beefsteak, fried potatoes, celery, ice cream and coffee. Half an hour elapsed between the writing out of the order and the first symptom of its fulfillment in the form of some lukewarm soup, price forty cents and the portion would not have been sufficient for two had I been coupled with a companion eater, as the practice is in the most fashionable of the city houses. At Delmonico's, for instance, a couple can get a meal for little more expense than a single guest, and it is considered the proper thing to orders single -dish for two but the quantities on Coney Island forbid any such practice. The clams came next. There were only sixteen of them, instead of the two dozen usually comprehended in a roast, but there were plenty, for they were so over-cooked and so n&ariy cold that I could not eat them Their price was sixty cents. With an appetite not in the least abated, I waited expectantly for the steak. Knowing full well than any less pretentious kind would here be bad, I had ordered a porterhouse —price a dollar and a half exactly the same that no caterer in town would dare to charge more than a dollar for, no matter how daintily he could broil it, but which here was only passably palatable, owing to the «lowness of its transfer from the gridiron to my plate. The celery was thirty cents, the potatoes twenty, the ice-cream twenty-five, the coffee fifteen, and a bottle of lager beer—the bottle made especially small to hold a single lass—twenty cents more. The whole Jill was three dollars and sixty cents, with an addition for the waiter's tip, in case his bad work cut him out of that perquisite and that for a meal in no respect so good as can be bought at the fashioaable taMa d'hote places- in town for a dollar and" a quarter, claret included. Take a warning:. When you go to Coney Island do juBt as little eating as nature absolutely requires, and do it at a cheap lunch counter, reserving yonr money and. your

_te for the city. lusement is plenty on Coney Island,

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New York Letter. ...» We have had a city full of strangers this week. They came to see the Grantobsequies, and they stayed to view the town. Traps were set for the unwary and many were caught. The incarceration of 160 known pickpockets by the police saved many a wallet during the funeral Crowding, only to subject it to subsequent plunder by some less direct method. On the other hand, extreme caution was so general that the slightest attempt at casual intercourse was apt to be construed as the clever approach of a bunko operator npon an-intended victim. Secretary of tne Na' and is istics. He stood in the corridor of the Fifth Avenue hotel in light conversation with Secretary of the Interior Lamar, and the topic of conversation was a confidence robbery that had been perpetrated upon a guest of the house that day. Whitney maintained that, while some men were astonishingly gullible, the majority were unreasonably cautious. "To illustrate my point," he said, "let my young friend Joe Barnard, here, offer to give a ten-dollar bill for one •dollar, ana not a man in this corridor will accept the offers"

however, and the best of it is free, for it FIRE PROOF INDIANS, can be found in watching the crowds. The democratic end of the island is the

"lace for this, for there the boys and girls rom the Boweiy side of New York con-, gregate, Their ways are sometimes unique. Where they get their usages is a puzzle to me. The girls are apt to be rakish in attire, audacious in carriage and slangy in language and these characteristics are in the respectable ones as well as the dissolute. I saw. a custom, for example, which certainly has not yet reached the .belles, of Saratoga or Long Branch. It is a substitute tor kissing, and it consists in rubbing cheeks. The maidens meet They are rapturously glad to see bach other. Ordinarily, two girls thus situated crack their lips together resoundingly in a kiss that is noisier than emotional. The Bowery belles have for the time abolished purely feminine exultation. Their faces are put together, but not the mouths. The nose of one is slid back about to the ear of the other, and the conjunctive cheeks, held hard, are slowly wiped together until they part at the' corners of the months. The same operation, vigorously repeated' on the opposite sides of the faces, completes the salutation

Suicides,

New York San. It seems from statistics with respect to the subject, carefully gathered by the Insurance Chronicle, that the number of suicides in this country varies little from year to year. ^Reckoning from the first of March to' the end of February, the figures for the last three years are: 1882-3, 1,606 1883-4,1,409 1884-5,1,608.

These years are included in the period which has been marked by a severe business depression, commonly regarded as an efficient cause of self-destruction, and yet the' largest number of suicides in any single month occurred in Aiigust, 1882, when there were 212,- though at that time we were only hearing the faint rumble of the coming com' mercial and financial catastrophes. The total for 1884, when we were in the midst of the worst of the troubles, was not more than the total for 1882, when the business sky was comparatively clear. But it seems that after the financial panic in May, 1884, the life insurance companies xjomplained of a very considerable in.cre'asfe in the number of policies which were terminated by suicide. Still, the fact remains that 514 persons killed themselves during the comparatively prosperous summer of 1882, while the suicides during the black summer of 1884 reached only 383.

The causes of suicide in 1884-5, so far as they could" be determined, are thus classified: Business troubled*.1'. 174 Chagrin at parental discipline 24 Destitution 78 Dissipation .-.114 Election of Cleveland and Hendricks. 8 'Family tronble 214 Grief..-.-...'.. 39 Insanity 294 IJOVO trouble*. 87 Sickness 84 Undergoing or threatened with punishment'..'. ... 44

Little reliance can be placed on this table, however, for it is not possible to get the true causes of the self-destruction for publication in a large number of. cases. Families refuse to reveal them, and the suicides" themselves may leave behind them no reasons for their act, or may give 'false ones. But probably the majority of suicides in this country are due, more or less directly, to the use of stimulants.

Yet it is, startling to see how many children take their lives because of rebellion against parental and school discipline. For instance, a Chicago girl was so much cast down by a scolding from her mother that she destroyed herself with Paris green. ANew York girl swallowed rat poison because her father refused to allow her to go to a skating rink. An Illinois boy took poison in a sleeping car because he had been expelled from college.

The ages of those who committed suicide in 1884 ran from eleven years to ninetysix years. The chief methods used were, in 531 cases', shooting in 310, poisoning in 275, hanging in 155, cutting -the throat in 137, drowing. Besides these, 37 persons killed themselves by jumping from or standing in front of moving railroad trains, 25 by cutting arteries, 18 by jumping from heights, 11 by stabbing, 8 by burning, and one each by scalding and starving.

The suicides 'were engaged in nearly every kind of occupation, but the great majority were farmers, merchants a,nd laborers, through commonly it is supposed that the tendency to self-destruc-tioo is among men of strictly intellectual pursuits. But, in fact, suicide, like insanity, is less among those who lead sluggish lives in which .their intellectual faculties are not kept bright by use. New York, though the most populous of the- states, had fewer suicides in 1884 than Illinois—166 to 169.

Finally, the number of suicides in this country is

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Europe. Out of' the

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thousand cases of self-destruction which occur annually in Europe and the United States together, we furnish only about sixteen hundred.

The C'rect Card for Ladies. Katharine B. Foote in Good Housekeeping. Cards are now always engraved in round script. A married woman's card is two and one-quarter by four inches, is of the most approved style. In the right hand corner is the address. If she has a day when she receives it is printed in the left corner. An English fashion puts "West" or "East" after the name or number of the street but for American use it is an aflectation, as here it has always been used before the number, thus—1000 West Twenty-third. A card with the daughter's name is a trifle larger—siae two and one-half by four. A card with her husband's name and her own: "Mr. and Mrs. John Jones," is of the same size, or "Dr. and Mrs. Allen."

A gentleman's card, married or unmarried, is one and three-quarters by three and one-quarter inches in size, with his address, either house or club, in right? hand corner, and always prefixed by "Mr.," unless be is a military or naval officer, when his rank is named. A clergyman's card is one and three-quarters to three and a half inches in size, with th$ name of his church in the left-hand corner. A young lady's card, whether the eldest daughter, Miss Smith, or a youngest daughter, Miss Mary Smith, is two by three and a half inches in si«e, all engraved in round script If people are traveling and moving about, they have no address engraved on their cards.

Saratoga Village Religion.^ Told by Eli Perkins. Deacon Knapp has been the main pillar of the Saratoga Methodist church for over forty years. Every 8unday morning has found him'in the center pew of the old churchy One month ago the old deacon died. A few weeks after the pastor called on the deacon's son, Ben. Ben had not "experienced the wrath to come" like his father, and had left the old pew vacant. "Now, Ben," said the pastor, "for over forty years your father has occupied that same old pew in the center of the church. He has enjoyed my sermons all these years, and hope to see you in the same old pew."

Bui father and I are different," said Ben. "It would be harder for me to sit there than for father." "Why harder for you, Ben?" asked the cleVgyman. "Because," said B®p, "father, you know, was deaf."

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i-f-Peculiarities of ihe "Hashkawn" Dance of the Navajoea.

DenTer Special. .'tV-"-/ Mr. John.B. Sweet, who has receatly traveling in New Mexico and Arizona, gives an interesting and graphic sketch of the "Hash* awn Dance," which he had witnessed at one of the Navajo agencies. It took place in a large corral or inclosnre of an irregularly circular form, about forty paces in diameter. Its fence, abont eight feet high, was constructed of fresh juniper and pinon boughs. In the center was a conical pile of dry wood, abont thirteen feet which was to make the great central Around this, a few feet from the fence, a dozen small fires were burning for the comfort and convenience of the spectators, who numbered about 500 men, women and children, gathered here

What the Panama Canal May Do. Atlanta Constitution. Dr. Charley Pinckney, a man of fine learning and observation, opens up a stupendous suggestion. He asked the other day "Have you thought much of the physical effect of the Panama Canal "Not much." "Well, let me throw out a suggestion. The Pacific ocean is five times as large as the Atlantic. The rotary motion of the earth, acting on water near the equatorial line, of course, has a tendency to pile it up. The bulk of the Pacific being so much larger. than the Atlantic, is luted twenty-eight feet higher than the Atlantic. For the same reason, that of its bulk, it is about twenty degrees colder. Now imagine the effect of this enormous body of water, twenty-eight feet higher in level and twenty degrees lower in temperature, being poured into the Atlantic through the canal." "Why doesn't itseek it^Jevel below the cape?' ".Because that point of meeting is so far below the equatorial' line that the centrifugal force is not so great, and the levels of tlje two oceans are the same. Up about the Panama the difference in levels is great, and the immense volume of the Pacific will rush down into the Atlantic with terrific force." "And with what effect?" "That is almost beyond speculation. But suppose this mingling of the two oceans simply changed the current of the gulf stream. -That one change woql^ wipe out the cotton and rice industry,' making Geoigia many degree colder. These are speculations but the cold facts are as stated, audit is interesting to think of what will be theeffeot when this canal is cut, and the high immensity of the Paciflo is dropped fa the level of the Atlantic," 5

Where Our Wornrj* Gamble. New York Letter to Philadelphia NewS. There are seven gambling places in the city into which none '.mt females are admitted. Ail of them 'tre operated by men, whos6 wives or mispresses assist them in receiving their patrons. There may be many more, but th we seven I know of. One oil Fourteenth street is back of a .very fashionable* modiste's store, run by Hugh Simmons and Helen Davenport. This is patronized by the middle Mm' Another on Lexington avenue, not far from Twenty-sixth street, is a very quiet game, presided over by Phil Blood good and his wife, and so on down to one in Thompson street, run by a man named Sheekey, which is for the lowest class. The most aristocratic one is on Sixth avenue' above Thirty-fifth street run in the interest of Jennie Perkins and Norah Brooks, who own the one for gentlemen oh west Thiity-fourth street. Even young misses scarcely seventeen years of age are welcomed here. The game is only played in the day time. Hardly two years ago the wife of a prominent civil lawyer, whose office is in Wall street apd who lived in comfort and luxury on Madison avenae, near Fortyfirst street, became so Infatuated with this game that after pawning all her jewelry and rich garments during the absence of her husband, who was anraing the case in the Supreme court in Wash

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the various parts of the Navajo

country. The fire dance was the most picturesque and startling of all. 8ome time before the dancers entered I heard starnge soundr, mingled with the blowing of the buffalo horn. The sounds were much like the call of the sand-hill crane, and may. perhaps, be properly called "trumpeting," and jhey were made by the dancers constantly during the exercises. The noises continued to grow louder and come nearer, until we heard •them at the opening in the east, and in a moment after men having no more clothing on than a breech-clout entered. Every man bore a long, thick bundle of shredded cedar bark in each hand, except the leader, who carried four small fagots of the same material. Four times they all danced around the fire, waving their bundles of bark toward the flame then they halted in the east the leader advanced toward the central fire, lit one of his little fagots, and, trumpeting loudly, threw it over the fence of the corral in the east. He performed a hi mil

act at the south, the west and the

north, bnt before the northern brand was thrown he lit with it the fagots of his comrades. As each brand disappeared *ver the fence, some of the spectators blew into their hands, and made a motion as if tossing some substance after the departing flame. When the fagots were all lit, the whole band began a wild race around the fire. At first they kept close together and spat upon one another some substance of supposed medicinal virtue. Soon they scattered and ran, apparently without concert, the rapid racing causjng the brands to throw out long brilliant streamers'of flame over the naked hands and arms of the dancers. They then proceeded to apply the brands to their own nude bodies, and the bodies of their comrades in front of them—no man e^fr once turning around. At times the a$ dancer struck the victim vigorous blows with his flaming wand again he seized the flame as if it were a sponge, and, •creeping close to the one pursued, rubbed the back of the latter for several niomenta as if he were bathing him. In the meantime, the sufierer would catch up with some one in front of him, and in turn bathe him in flame. At times when a dancer found no one in front of him, he proceeded to "sponge" his own back, and might keep this up while making two or three circaits around the fire, or until he overtook some one else. At each application of the blaze the loud trumpeting was heard, and it often seemed as if a flock of a hundred cranes were winging their way overhead, southward through the darkness. If a brand became extinguished, it was. lit again in the central fire but when it was so far consumed as to be no longer held conveniently in the hand, the dancer dropped it and rushed trumpeting out of the corral. Thus one by one they all departed, and the spectators stepped into the arena, picked up the fascicles of the fallen fragments of Dark, lit them and bathed their hands in the flames as a, charm against the evil effects of fire. "Werethey not blistered? asked the reporter. "They were not hurt in the least," was the answer. "I believe they were protected by a coating of earth or clay paint. That however, did not make the effect any less strange. I have beheld many fire scenes on the stage, many acts of fire* eating and fire-handling by civilized jugglers, and many fire dances by other Indian tiibes, but nothing quite comparable to this. The scenic accessories were unique-. Demons scourging lost souls with the eternal fire.coula scarcely be pictured to look more awful."

ington, sent her baby and nurse to her sister^ at White Plains, to spend the day, and then deliberately sold all her household furniture to play. She lost, confessed to her husband,, who attempted to regain the money from Mrs^ Perkins, but she was obstinate, consulted a promit ettt firm of criminal lawyers on Center street, and the unfortunate husband, tearful of a public scandal, dropped the matter. This is not an isolated case.

Before the surrogate not long ago a contested will case was being tried, a daughter being the contestor, and evidence was adduced showing that she had lost $6,000 in this and other games in two years, and her father, knowing it, had simply left in trust for her use during lifetime a sum of money, the interest of which was to be paid to iter every month.

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Never Spoke as They Passed—General Butler Allude* to the Origin of the DHHcalty Between Them (n His

Memorial Address at Lowell^ Boeton Special.

General Butler's oration on Grant, at Lowell, contained several open threatsat-: the men and things he doesn't like. But there was only one sly little stab which only a few who are on- the inside could possibly appreciate. It was given in the course of his remarks on naval heroes,' and the failure to select them for conspicuous civil office. "This peculiarity of naval warfare," said General Butler, "struck with great force the man we honor, for he gives it as the result of his mature opinion that it is not a disadvantage to as great an admiral as Nelson not to be able to read and write." It was an apparently inoffensive remark, but Admiral Porter will understand. the allusion without the least difficulty. When Ulysses S. Grant was quite* young in his great career he was engaged in certain operations in -which a naval force bore a prominent part Admiral Porter sent a report on those operations to the navy department at Washington, in which be strongly condemned Grant's generalship in the: action. The report was marked "confidential," and was evidently intended only for private reading of a few high

officials of the government, but somehow or other it.got on to the files of the deportment Then several years after it was found and read by the then secretary of the navy, Mr. Robeson, who handed it to the man who had in the interval conquered the confederacy and was president of the United States. Grant read it and put it away in his desk in the White House. One day, not long afterward, Admiral Porter called to pay his respects to the president. The latter led the conversation along to naval matters and naval heroes, and finally got into the heart of the matter by remarking how: fortnnate it was for Nelson that "he couldn't read or write."

Admiral Porter didn't quite see the point The president thereupon said it saved him from recording any judgments upon other men which afterward preyed erroneous. Then, without further circumvention, Grant taxed him" with having at one time thought very poorly of his capacity as a soldier. The admiral denied ihe imputation with warmth, and profusely protested that he had always fully recognized the general's military genius, when Grant, opening a drawer in his desk, drew out the tell-tale document and said: Well, Admiral, yon don't deny that this is your handwriting, do you?" The admiral was dumbfounded and Grant indignant over his uncandid treatment in the matter, and intimated to him his wish that he would not trouble himself to visit the White House again while he. was president. The two men never spoke to each other again'.

Improving on His Wife's Method. Buffalo Courier. There is in this city a young Benedict who is so fortunate as to be wedded to a lady of rare beauty and attractiveness. Now this young Benedict had in all respects proved a model husband and had acquitted himself so faithfully on all occasions that his wife had confidence in him, and willingly intrusted the most sacred and important duties to his charge. So fully, indeed, did 6he trust him that on Wednesday last she started for the country to have a week's visit with a friend, and the last words to him before starting—having consigned the baby to the tender mercies of the nurse—were: "Georgie, promise'me to take good care of Fido. Don't let him overheat himself, and above all, bathe him regularly. You'll find the bath-tub in the parlor, the towels are in the linen-press and his comb and brushes are in the left-hand corner of my right-hand bureau drawer, and the cologne is on the shelf above. And be sure when you've finished to wrap him in his blanket and put him in the sunshine to dry, and if he c-c-catchra cold telegraph me." So sayingshe printed one last impassioned kiss oa Fido's nose, tearfully delivered him to her husband's arms, stepped into the carriage and was gone. On Thursday and Friday Georgie implicitly, carried out the parting instructions of his absent wife. He bathed Fldo, cologned Fido, brushed, combed &nd dried Fido. But yesterday morning when the scribe passed by their residence he heard wild yelpings and ki-yi-ings proceeding from the yard. Stepping up to the fence, he looked over and saw^an unusually fat pug,, now tumbling on the ground, now turning somersaults in the air and Irantically yelping the while. Some few yards on stood Georgie with his hands in his pockets and a smile of sweet contentment on his face. He was bathing Fido. He had chained him to a post and turned the hose on hitu,-

Badly Spelt Forgeries,.

8t James' Gazette. If liars shou.d nave good memories forgers sho'^1(j certainly be able to spell. To e^ioju-t on the profession of an utterer forged checks if you* are not quite certain of your ortjiograph is alway* rash. This is shown-by an interesting case at present occupying the attention of the Paris police. One of the banks has lately been defrauded by an ingenious gang of forgers. They used to get possession by 1 ome means of the signatures of certain of the bank's .customers, which they proceed to imitate with such skill that their checks were paid without question. They used even to write business letters to the manager. This betrayed them. It was noticed that the word "annuls" was mis-, spelt on one of the forged checks.- It was also noticed that the same misspelling occurred in a letter of Guinet, one of the suspected persons. The manager was struck by the coincidence, and M. Guinet was arrested and put on his trial. This simple story shows how necessary educ&> tion is, even in the easiest professions.

Trying to Improve the Watermelon. The Cook. Good watermelons are now abundant, and cheap enough to be within the reach of almost everybody. To enjoy this delightful fruit properly, select a dark green, fat one, with a yellowish spot where it has hugged mother earth. Put it on ice for twenty-four hours, cut a hole in one end of it, and pour a bottle of claret into the hole, plug it up, and put it on ice some more. Cut it In longitudial slices, bring it on the tabl-s surrounded by wild, flowers and other fancy fixings, and you will have a dish fit for the gods. Some luxurious palates, happily accompanied by means enough to gratify their gustatory whims, find one or two bottles of champagne emptied into the almost frozen melon in place of claret, a decided improvement But the man who can not like a good, ripe, sweet watermelon with*.' out wine, is deserving of much pity,