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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1839.

CA3IP LIFE IX PALESTINE.

TARRYING IN THE LAND OF GALILEE. A Storm On Mount Tabor Stoned As a N azarine The Home of Teno On Galilee's Shore Capernaum, Tiberias and Nazareth. Nazareth, Palestine. Special. After a good night's rest within stone wall?, for the first time since leaving Jerusalem, I arose early in the morning that I iniht Bee "The Jocund God of Day stand tip-toe on the misty mountain top," or to be less poetical, view the glorious sunrise for which Mt. Tabor is famous. But, alas! I was doomed to disappointment, as the heavens were still biack and lowering with the continuation of the previous night's storm. However, no run was now falling, and after a hurried breakfast I bade adieu to the pood Father Alphonse and hastened away, hoping to make the descent of the mountain before a renewal of the downpour. Unfortunately we had gone but a short distance when one of the most terrific storms came on that I have ever witnessed, and in our elevated position among the clouds we were apparently not below it but actually in the midst of it. There was no thought of riding without danger of being fairly blown from the animals' backs, and we therefore dismounted and stumbled along down the rocky path blinded by the wind and rain, r.s we led the frightened horses. After rcoie than an hour of this unpleasant experience we reached the bottom as wet as the proverbial drowned Kit. The storm cleared away shortly after, but too late to be of any benefit to us and we were compelled to ride for the rest of the day's journey in our wet clothes. I was not quite so badly oifin this regard as my companions, as a heavy cloak or "burnouse" of coarse camel's hair protected the upper part of my body to a considerable degree, but Hill 1 w as sutJiciently damp, wet and disagreeable not to enjoy the situation. The children of the village of Deburieh, at the base of the mountain, added insult to injury by greeting us with a shower of stones as we passed, accompanied by jeering cries of "-Xozrani," or Nazarene. Deburieh is an ancient town of Zebulun, and is believed to have been the piece of residence of the prophetess Deborah, from whom it takes its name. Under the circumstances our ride to Tiberias by wav oi "Khan-el-Turrcrar and the Algerian colony of "Kefe Saht," was not an especially enjoyable one, although for the time, being the storm was not renewed, but jut as we were descending the hillsides to our destination, on the shores of the sea of Galilee, the rain began to come down furiously again, whereupon we hastily dismounted and took refuge in an Arab hut that chanced to be near by. There was no one present but an old woman, who glared at us with all the hatred oi Mahomrnedan fanaticism; refused to reply to our friendly salutations and finally commanded us to be gone. We tried to mollify her by a request for coifee and an offer of "backsheesh," but even that magical word had no effect on this true daughter of Islam, for we were hated Christians, and she did not want her filthy mud hovel polluted by our infidel presence. Not withstand, ng her protests, we held the fort, ifasoor and myself agreeing that if the worst came to the worst we could together lick any old sick Arab woman that ever lived. Finally, the fall of rain having sufficiently lessened, we departed amid the maledictions of our hostess, notwithstanding that I had thrown some of the silver coin of the realm at her feet as a solace for the contamination caused by our enforced presence. Arriving at Tiberias we found our tents and equipage generally in fneh a dampened condition that it was thoupbt best not to attempt to occupy them, and I again took refuge with the hospitable Franciscan fathers. Their niunastary hero is believed (without any apparent authority) to occupy the site of the hous-2 of Peter4 the apoetle, and my first act on arising in the mornicg was to take a swim in the sea just back of the monastery, where it is claimed the miraculous draught of fishes w.is made by "Simon Peter" at the command of the Savior, after the delivery of His sermon to the multitude that "pressed upon Him to hear the word of God" (Luke, v, i). Tiberias is quite modern, as compared with Jerusalem and the other famous cities of Syria, and it is not mentioned in the old testament, having only been in existence some eighteen hundred and seventy years, which is young for this part of the world. It is now, however, one of the fonr holy cities of thf Jews, the other three being Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed. Its inhabitants number 6ome four thousand perrons, two-thirds of whom are Jews, who are easily distinguished by their larga black hats and peculiar costumes and their long ringlets, with a curl combed down in front of each ear. The marriageable maidens of Tiberias go about with their dowries of silver coins strung from their heads around under their chins, serving as advertisr ments for their wealth as well as ornaments to their beauty, and, as Mark Twain has funnily remarked, some of them have accumulated as much as "nine dollars and a half," and are regarded as great matrimonial catches. The Sanhedrim was located here in the second century, and the city became the great scat of Jewish learnine and after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus and both the Mishna and Masorah were published here. The Hebrew cemetery i3 the buri.d place of the great räbbi lien Israel, the philosopher, Mairaondes, and some twenty-five thousand other Jews, it is Raid. One of the favorite local traditions is that when the Mess'ah comes H.3 will arise from the waters of Galileeand march from Tiberias to the holy city of Safed near by, at the head of His faithful followers. The celf bratf d seaof Galilee or Lake Tiberias, on the shores of which the city Btands, is sometimes referred to as the Lake of Gennesaret by which name St. Luke ppeaks of it, "and the "liahr Tubeiryeh," the name by which the natives know it. To call it a sea is something of a misnomer, as it is more properly a fresh-water lake. Nearly every pot amonz these venerated shores is fully identified with the life and works of Jesus.for it was in the country roundabout the sea of Galilee that He preached His greatest sermons and performed His most wondrous miracles. Chartering a boat manned by Arab oarsmen, I 6tarted at an early hour for a tour of the historic ea which is altogether some thirteen miles long by seven broad. Josephus once sailed over it against the Romans with a fleet of over a hundred war-ships, but the only craft of any kind to be found here now are two or- three poor fishermen's boat. The lake tili affords good fishing now, as it did in the days when Jf mi, walkirjjr by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, catting a net into the tea: for the were fishers. And he saith unto them, follow rce and I will make you fishers of men. Jfatlhew iv, 1?. During the day's tail mv boatmen rast their nets many times with pooi result", and I observed that it was literally "a cast" and after the same peculiar manner eaid to have been in vogue in the time of

"Simon called Peter." For the novelty of the experience of fishing in Galilee, I drppped a tine myself over the stern of the boat, and along in the afternoon besides had several fair shots at the numerous ducks that tly about the lake, although it eeemed almost sacrilege on these consecrated waters upon which we are taught that the Savior walked before His awe stricken disciples and whoe ttorm-tossed billows were stilled when lie "rebuked the wind and eaid uito the waves: peace be still." (Mark iv, .",0.) Sailing along the coast we made our first stop at the tumbledown village of "Mejdol" the "Magdala" of the scriptures and the birthplace of Mary Magdalene where the so-called house in winch she was born was shown ns. Oa tho opposite side of the lake from Magdala is "Khepsa" or "Gergesa" where at the command of Jesus Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine; and the herd ran violently down a cteep place into the lake, and were choked. (Luke viii, .15.) After skirting along by the "Land of Gennesaret" we stopped for luncheon at "Ain-et-Tin," or the "Fountain of the Fig Tree," after which we continued on to Tell Hum, the village which occupies the 6ite of ancient Capernaum. K very rock and stone abuut this ruined city is in some way associated with tho name of Jesu3, and there is no place in the world bo nearly connected with His general history, for, while Bethlehem was His birthplace, Nazareth the home of His youth, and Jerusalem the scene of His death, nearly all the great acts of His public life occurred about here, where bdnjr rejected ns a "prophet," "without honor," or following "in His own country" and city. Leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea-coast, in the borders of Zauulon and Nrphthalim. And we are told by that most accurate and reliable of the gospel chroniclers, St. Matthew, that henceforth it was "His own city" and that From that time Jcen. bepan to preach, and to say. repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matthew iv, 13-17. Here are pointed out the ruins of the "White synagogue" supposed to have been built by the good Centurion of whom the citiz -ns "said, "lie lovcth our nation and hath built us a synagogue" (Luke vii-.")i, beiug the place .where Jesus delivered His never-to-be-forgotttjn sermon in which lie said ....... ; . I am the bread of life; he that cometh to me stial never huntrer; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John vl, ?.)-5T.) Adjoining the synagogue are the remains of an old church said to cover the spot originally occupied by the honse of St. Feter, in which poor "Simon's wife's mother lav sick of a fever." (Mark i, ?0.) There are many reasons for believing that Jesus made this humble abode His home during His sojourn in Capernaum, although it is claimed that "His house," as spoken of by St. Mark, stood further back on the hill, but from a hasty examination of the gospels I can find nothing to sustain the belief that He actually possessed a personal residence here. On departing from Capernaum and in landing our boat we we re unable to net near to the shore, so that I was compelled to call the services of a stalwart Arab into requisition, who, throwing off his clothes, waded through the water with me perched unon his shoulders. Leaving the ruins of the sacred city behind us, we sailed on to the point where the river Jordan enters the lake and thence continued our circuit around the coast, touching at all the various places of interest. In the oil days six important cities Capernaum, Chorazin, Magdala, Tiberias, Pethsa:da and JV-ths.dda Julius stood upon tho shores of this lake, but now all are gone except Tiberias, and little is left of its former glory. Christ here, within sight of them all, thundered His anathemas against them "because they repented not," saying "Woe unto theo, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Pethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in yon, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, ther would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. Hut 1 say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidou at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, which art eiabed unto heaven, t-hait be brought down to hell; for if the mighty works, which, hare been done iu thee, had l-een Jone in Sodom, it would have remained until this day," (Matthew xi, 21-2.1) The curso placed upon these unfortunate cities seems to have been completely fulfilled, and only heaps of desolate ruins now remain to testify to their former renown. On our way back to Tiberias a strong wind suddenly came up that eave us a very poort idea of what this turbulent little sea might be capable of in the way of the storms for which it has always been famous. Upon landing I again -prepared to occupy my tent, which had been placed in position near the Greek monastery, but before night came on visited the hot baths south of the city and took a plunge in their steaming waters. They are believed to possess remarkable curative qualities, for which they have been renowned since the days of the Romans, Pliny making especial mention of them. The eea of Galilee was the end of my tenting journey toward the north, as instead of continuing on overland from there to Damascus, I had arranged my route so as to strike the Mediterranean coast at Caiffa, where, by taking steamer from there to Peyrout, I should be enabled to cut otl the long, tedious and uninteresting ride of some four or five days through the desolate country that lies between Galilee and Damascus after having Crr-area Philippi and the source of the Jordan. Therefore, on the following morning I began to retrace mv steps toward Mt. Tabor and Nazareth, this time going by the more interesting Kefr Kenna route. The day was clear and beautiful, and leaving Tiberias after an early breakfast we rode ud the steep hills that rise above the c'.ty, from the top of which wo bad a beautiful view of all the surroundings of Galilee and the far north, away into the biblical land of Dan. A short ride further on and the twin peaks of "Kurn Hattin" or the "Horns of Hattin" lift themselves out of the plain on our right. This is the traditional "Mount of Px-atitudes" where the Savior preached his wondrous sermon . on the mount where Seeing the multitudes, lie went up into a mountain ; und when He was set, his disciples came unto Him: And He opened His mouth, and taught thera. Matthew v, 2. It is claimed that the plain below the sacred mount was the scene of the miraculous feeding of the "ö,000" with "five barley loaves and two small fishes' (John vi, !). It was at the foot of Hattin that the final great battle was fought between the Saracens, led by Siladin, and their Nazareno opponents under Guy of Lußignan, last king of Jerusalem, when tho power of the crusaders in Palestine was forever destroyed. It was a grand but hopeless struggle that these brave Christian knights made as they gathered around their glorious Btan l.ird of the cross, so appropriately planted on this hallowed spot, and fought valiantly all the long day through until their bodies were piled in great heaps beneath it The chivalrous Saladin treated the unfortunate king with great courtesy after his enforced surrender, but with his own hand slew tho captive, Peynald of Chatillon, whose treachery had brought about the conflict. Continuing on our route, we arrived about noon at "Kefr Kenna." toll'ved to be the original Cana where theSavior changed the wafer into wine at the wedding in ' Csna of Galilee," when "both Jesus was called and Ilia disciples to the marriage" ( John iir 2). The Greeks have a church here built over the supposed site oi the Eacred . occurrence, and in

it exhibit one of the original "waterpots of stone" from which the micaclous wine was drawn. The Latins formerly controlled most of these venerated sites about Cana, but the Greeks, according to Father Alphonse, have recently taken possession of the most desirable of them by force. Just after passing the outskirts of the town my attention was attracted to a large crowd of natives that blocked tho roadway, and in response to my interested inquiries, I was informed by Sasoor that it Was a wedding procession engaged in celebrating the nuptial event. There were several hundred of them in the party, and just as we came up, quite a number had clasped hands cross the road and were engaged in singing a rude wedding chant, while they swayed their bodies to and fro in harmony. While I was musing on the strange coincidence of a wedding party at Cana, and longing for an opportunity of performing the feat of turning a little of the wine of the marriage feast into a thirsty man from Indiana, my Syrian horse, "Aman," apparently objected to something in the proceedings and inade a sudden and violent lurch forward that almost threw me from the saddle. Whether he resented not having been invited to the festivities and determined to take part in them of his own accord, or whether he objected to the painful attempt at 6inging that he was compelled to listen to, he didn't give me time to inquire, but he certainly did do his level best to make that particular marriage a failure. He danced about on his hind legs and jumped into the midst of the singers, knocking them over and scattering them right and left. He seemed to have an especial grudge against the bridegroom, who was gorgeously mounted on horseback, and after two rearing, vaulting efforts succeeded in tumbling him ingloriously in the dust In the excitement some one had made a frantic grab at my bridle reins, the only result beinz that one of them was jerked clean out of my hands. After that I was, of couree, powerless to control hira to the slightest degree, but managed to retain my seat, notwithstanding his mad plunges and cavortings, and after he bad succeeded in scattering the entire procession to his complete satisfaction, he galloped off madly down the road. I was rather glad to be run way with in this John Gilpin manner than otherwise, as I fear that I would have been incontinently hung,drawn and quartered had that Moslem mob ever been permitted to get possession of me." I have no doubt that they looked upon it as a scheme of the Christian opposition gotten up to break off the marriage, carry the election, or something equally vicious. My fiery, untamed steed finally exhausted himself after an exciting run of about a mile, when ho kindly stopped and allowed my retinue to overtake me, but I have never yet been able to understand the cause of his malevolent outbreak unless it was that singincr. Anyone who has ever heard an Arab sing can comprehend how even a horse might object to it. However, for the rest of the day's ride white-winged peace spread her wings over us and I fell upon his neck (again) and forgave him, and we reached Nazareth early iu the afternoon without any other lively experiences, and without seeing anything further of especial interest beyond passing in sight of the hamlet of "Meshhad," supposed to be ancient "Gath-hepher," the birthplace of Jonah the prophet Will E. English. Soliloquy of the Modern Hamlet. A tax, or not a tsz, that is the question : Whethe r 'tis better for the state, to suffer The "trmts" and "combines" of protected nabobs, Or, to repeal the laws by whirh they prosper. And by free imports end them ? To buy, to eil. Trade free; and by our commerce say we break The power by whirh these lords now hold us, And make men free; 'tis a consummation Devoutly tobe wished. To tradp to gain: To pain ! r reliance to fail ; ay, there's the rub ; For in the world's RTeet mart what ventures come. Er we have shaken off this robher tax We miit o nlow; there's the belief Born of superstition, that makes men think Prosperity only comes by payinj tax. Else who would tear a life of toil and can?, The oppressor's wrongs, the proud man's contamely, And drudge and sweat beneath the snmmer'i sun, To pay thh tax that others iuiht grow rich When he, himself, might his poor lot improve. With one small ballot? Who would these burdens But for the thought that foreign pauper goods. Of which we hear so much, would nil the ships Of European countries, from whose ports They'd quickly come, to glut our markets here. Closing our mills, and orring us to give Gold for goods; and leave our workmen idle? This thought alone makes havoc in our minis, .And makes ns rather i ear the ills we have Thaa choose the pathway that would give success. Thos. J. IItdson. Indianapolis. Sept. 23.

A Pnbile Disgrace. Hartford City Telegram. 1 It is alleged that Van Antwerp, Bragz fc Co., the Cincinnati school book publishers, paid the campaign expenses of Mr. LaFollette, the state superintendent of education. This, probably, accounts for his attempt to defeat the new school boob law. It is disgraceful that a man, elected, and sworn to enforce the laws, should be using his influence to brine: the laws of the state intor discredit. The people, however, know that LaFollette is owned, body and soul, by the school book trust, and his utterances will have but little weight Van Antwerp's Agent, Plymonth Democrat. State Snpt. of Publio Instruction LaFollette, general apent for the school-book monopoly firms, is still persisting in attempting to create discord in the schools of the state by continually shooting off his month against the Indiana 6chool-book law. The people of the state have no use for a school superintendent who advisea the school children to openly violate law, and ther will dispense with the services of Mr. LaFollette at the next election by a large majority. Charity. Time "Did Fido get his breakfast. James?'' "Yis, mum, Oi jrave him that pace o' mate that was on his plate." "Gave him that! Why, I saw atleasta dozen flies on it." "Well, Oi didn't know, mum. Oi didn't like to waste it" "Oh, you needn't have thrown it away. Yoa mfcht have piven it to some poor person." An Ilouest Law, Laporte Argns. The law is an honest attempt to furnish pood school books at a price that all children can fiord to pay, and it has the earnest support of all men who have not been bought or prejudiced by the finii.sj of plunderers. Give it h trial and if it does not worfc as it should it will then be time to amend it, hut the state should never allow itself to get into the conscienceless grip of the school book octopus again. Why Ilnriiiiristy Was Appointed. EvansTille Courier. I Bat this is not Ilornailav's first offense. lie has been known ns an all-round swindler for years, and Harrison could not have been ignorant of his reputation. The secret of Ilornaday's appointment is that he was one of the tools that Dudley tised in the campaign of last year to organize "the floaters in blocks of five." He was one of the "trusted men with funds," who bought the state for Harrison. . Preferred tho Other IMac. Time. St Peter "Well, sir, do yoa wish to come in?" American Politician "I don't know yet IIow's the Irish vote here." "The Irish vote? We have nothing of the sort here." "Well, you've sot a gall to ask me in there, then. I'll go down stcirs." Very Laudable. Time. . "Do you want to hire a man, mister?" "So, I can't say that I do. Ar you looking for a situation?" "Yes, sir." 1 hen 1 hope yott will set one. I like to see a man with aspirations toward a hire life."

SAMSON, THE STRONG MAN.

DISCUSSED BY THE REV. DR. TALMAGE. Cajoled by a Bart Woman the Giant Loses Ilia Strength How Other Women Lose Their Power and Influence A Good Sermon. After expounding the appropriate passages of scripture in the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday morning the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. IX, pave out the hymn: "So let nur lips and lives express The h !y gopd we profess; S let our works and virtues shine To prove tbe doctrine all divine." The subject of Dr. Tahnaqe's sermon was: "The b'horn Locks of Samson." He took for his test Judges, xvi, 5; "Entice him, and see wherein his preat strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail nzainst him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give thee everyone of us 1,100 hurftlred pieces of silver." The 6ermon was as follows: One thousand pounds, or about ?-,000 in our money, were thus offered for the capture of apiant It would take a skillful photographist to picture Samp?on as he realiy was. The most facile words are not supple enough to describe him. He was a giant and a child; the conqueror and the defeated; able to enap a lion's jaw, and yet captured by the 6igh of a maiden. He was ruler and 6lave; a commingling of virtue and vice, the sublime and the ridiculous; eharn enough to be caught in the most superficial Stratege rn ; honest enough to settle his debt, and yet outrageously robbing somebody else to get the material to pay it; a miracle and a scoffing; a crowning glory and a burning shame. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh; his arts bunched with muscle that can lilt the gate of a city ; takinp an attitude defiant of armed men and wild beasts. His hair had never been cut, end it rolled down in seven great plaits over his shoulders, adding to his fierceness and terror. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they must find out where the secret of his strength lies. There is a woman living in the valley of Sorek by the name of Delilah. They" appoint her the agent in the case. " The Philistines are secreted in the same buildinp, and then Delilah poes to wort and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of his strength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven preen' withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me I should be perfectly powerless." So sho binds him with the seven ereen withes. Then she claps her hands and says, "They come the Philistines!" and he walks out as thouph there were no impediment. She coaxes him again and say. "Now tell me the secret of your preat strength," and he replies, "If you should take some ropes that have never been us' d and tie me with them I should be just iike other men." She tied him with the ropes, clans her hands, and shouts, "They come the Philistines!" He walks out as easy as he did before not a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says: "Now, if you should take these seven long plaits of hair, and by this house-loom weave them into a web, I could not get away." So the houseloom is rolled up and the shuttle fiies bac kward and forward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a web. Then she claps her hands and savs: "They come the Philistines 1". He walks out as easily as he did before, dragging a part of the loom with him. Put after awhU f.he persuades him to tell the truth. He Bays: "If you 6hould take n razor or shears and cut otf this longhair, I should be powerless and in the hands of my enemies." Samson sleeps, and, that she may not wake him up during the process of shearing, help U called in. You know that the barbers of the East Lave such a skillful way of manipulating the head, to this very day they will put a man, wide awake, Found asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grinding against each other, and I see the Ions locks falling otf. The shears or razor accomplishes what preen withes and new ropes and house loo:n could not do. Suddenly she claps her hands and says: "The Philistines be upon thee, damson !'' He rouses up with a struggle, but his strength is all gone! Ho is in the hands of his enemies! I hear the proan of the piant as they take his eyes out, and then I see him staggering on in his blindness, feeinp his way as he goes on toward Gaza. . The prison door is opened and the piant is t hrnst in. lie sits down and puts his hands on the mill crank, which, with exhausting horizontal motion, goes day after day, week after week, month after month work, work, work ! The consternation of the world in captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza! Though strong as a piant, lookout for Delilah's sci.-sors. Samson, tho strongest man who ever lived, waa overcome by coaxing. gain, this narrative teaches us tho power of an ill-disposed woman. In the portrait gallery of bible queens we find Abigail, and Ruth, and Miriam, and Vauhti and Deborah, but in the rogues' gallery of a police station you find the pictures of women as well as men. Delilah's picture belongs to the rogues' gallery, but she had more power than all l'hilistia armed with sword and spear. She could carry oil" the iron pates ot Samson's resolution as easily as lie shouldered the pates of Gaza. The force that had killed the lion which one day plunged out fierce from the thicket utterly succumbs to the silken net which Delifah weaves for the piant. He who had driven an army in riotous retreat with the bleached jaw bone, smiting them hip and thigh with great slaughter, now falls captive at tho feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah in the bible stands in tho memorable company of Adah, and Zillah, and Pathsheba, and Jezebel, and Athaliah, and Ilerodias. How deplorable the influence of such in contrast with Pebecca, and Phccbe, and Huldah, and Tryphona, and Jeptha's daughter, and Marv, the mother of Jesus. While the latter glitter in the firmament of God's word like constellations with steady, cheerful, holy light, the former hoot like baleful meteors acros the terrified heavens, ominous of war, disaster, and death. If there is a divine power in the good mother, her face bright with purity, an unselfish love beaming from her eye, a gentleness that by pangs, and sufferings, and holy anxieties has been mellowing and softening for many a year, uttering itself in every syllable, .a dignity that cannot be dethroned, united with the playfulnesa that will not be checked, her hand the charm that will instantly take pain out of the child's worst wound, her presence a perpetual benediction, her name our defense when .we are tempted, her memory an unpushing well of tears, and congratulation, and thanksgiving, her heaven a palm waving and a coronat; then there is just as great an influence in the opposite direction in the bad mother, her brow beclouded with ungoverned passion, her eye flashing with unsanctified tire, her lips the fountain of fretfulness and depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, her name a dipgrace to coming cenenitions, her memory a signal for bitterest anathema, her eternity a whirlwind, and a suffocation, and a darkness. One wrong-headed, wrong-hearted mother may ruin one child, and that one chüd, grown up, may destroy a hundred people ard the hundred blast a thousand, and the thou

sand a million. The wife's 6phcre is a realm of honor and power almost unlimited. What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah to Lapidoth, was Zipporah to Moses, was Huldah to Shallum. Put there are, as my subject suggests, domestic scenes not so tranquil. What a curse to Job and Potiphar were their companions, to Ahab was Jezebel, to Johorarr. was Athaliah, to John Wesley was Mrs. Wesley, to Samson was Delilah. While the most excellent and triumphant exhibitions of character we lind among the women of history, and tbe world thrills with the names of Marie Antoinette and Josephine, and Joan of Arc and Maria Theresa, and hundreds of others who have ruled in the brightest homes and sung the sweetest cantos, and enchanted the nations with their art and swayed the mightiest of scepters, on the other hand the names of Mary I of England, Margaret of Fränce, Julia of Pome, and Elizabeth Petrowna of Kussia have scorched the eye of history with their abominations, and their names, like banished spirits, have gono shrieking and cursing through the world. In female biography wo find the two extremes of excellence and crime. Woman stands nearest the pate of heaven or nearest the door of hell. When adorned by grace she reaches a point of Christian elevation which man cannot attain, and when blasted of crime she sinks deeper than man can plunge. Yet I am glad that the instances in which woman makes utter shipwreck of character are comparatively rare. Put, Bays some cynical spirit, what do you do with those word? in Ecclesiastes where Solomon says: "Behold, this have I found, eaith the preacher, counting one by one to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found?" Mv answer is that Solomon had behaved himself with common decency and kept out of infamous circles he would not have had so much difficulty in finding integrity of character among women and never would have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my childhood I have heard speakers admiring Diogenes, the cynical philosopher who lived in a tub for going through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, and when asked what he did that for said: "I am looking for an honeßt man." Now, I warrant that that philosopher who had such hard work to find an honest man was himself dishonest. I think he stole both the lantern and the tub. So when I hear a man expatiating upon the weaknesses of women I immediately suspect him and say there is another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom left out. Still, I would not have the illustrations I have given of transcending excellency in female biography lead you to suppose that there are no perils in woman's pathway. God's grace alone can make an Isabella Graham, or a Christina Alsop, or a Pidelia Fiske, or a Catherine of Jiena. Temptations lurk about tho brightest domestic circle. It was no unmeaning thing when God set up amidst the splendors of His word tho character of infamous Delilah. Again, this strange story of the text lead me to consider some of the ways in which strong men get their locks shorn. God, for some reason best known to himself, made the strength of Samson to depend on the length of his hair; when the shears clipped it his strength was gone. Tiie strength of men is variously distribute 1. Sometimes it lies in physical development, sometimes in intellectual attainment, sometimes in heart force, sometimes in social position, sometimes in financial accumulation; and there is always a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every day there are damsons ungianted. I saw a young man tart in life under tho most cheering advantages. His acute mind was at homf) in all scientific dominions. He reached not only all .rugged attainments, but by delicate appreciation he could catch the tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the wave and the diapason of the thunder. lie walked forth in life head and shoulders above all others in mental stature. He could wrestle with giants in opposing systems of philosophy and carry off the pates of opposing schools and smite the enemies of truth hip and thigh with great slaughter. But he began to tamper with brilliant free thinking. Modern theories of the 60ul threw over him their blandishments. Skepticism was the Delilah that shores his locks off, and all the Philistines of doubt and darkness and despair were upon him. He died in a very prison of unbelief, his eyea out. Far back in the country districts just where I purposely omit to say there was born one whose fame will last as long as American institutions. His name was the terror ot all enemies of free government He stood the admired of millions; the nation uncovered in his presence, and when he spoke senates sat breathless under the spell. The plotters against pood government attempted to bind him with greeu withes, and weave his locks iu a web, yet he walked forth from the enthrallment not knowing he had burst a bond. Put from the wine-cup there arose a destroying spirit that came forth to capture his soul. He drank until his eyes grew dim and his knees knocked together and his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong dissipations ho went home to die. Ministers pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors chiseled the majestic form into marble, and the world wept, but everywhere it was known that it was strong drink that came like the infamous Delilah and his locks were shorn. From the island of Corsica there started forth a nature charged with unparalleled energies to make thrones tremble and convulse the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Germany, Italy, Austria and England rose up to crush the rising man. At the plunge of his bayonets bastiles burst open. The earth groaned with the agonies of Pivoli, Austerlitz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men elain in bis wars. Crowns were showered at his feet and kingdoms hoisted triumphal arches to let him pass under, and Europe was lighted up at tho conflagration of consuming cities. He could almost have made a causeway of human bones between Lisbon and Moscow. No power short of omnipotent God could arrest him. Put out of the ocean of human blood there arose a spirit in which the conqueror found more than a match. The very ambition that had rocked the world was now to be his destroyer. It grasped tor too much and in its effort lost all. lie reached up after the scepter of universal dominion, but slipped and fell back into desolation and banishment The American ship, damaged of the 6torm, to-day puts up in St. Helena and the crew goes up to see the ppol where the French exile expired in loneliness and. disgrace, the mightiest of all Samsons, shorn of his locks by ambition, that most merciless of all Delilahs. I have not time to enumerate. Evil associations, 6udden excesses, spendthrift habits, miserly proclivities and dissipation are the names of some of the shears with which men are every day made powerless. They have strewn "the earth with carcasses öf giants and filled the preat prison-house with destroved Samsons, who sit grinding the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out If parents only knew to what temptations their children were subjected they would be more earnest in their prayers and more careful about their example. No young man escapes having the pathway of sin pictured in bright colors before him. The first time I ever 6aw a city it was the city of Philadelphia I was a mere lad. I stopped at a hotel, and I remember in the eventide a corrupt man plied me with Lis infernal art. lie saw I was crccn.

He wanted to show me the sights of the towu. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald ; but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk. I made up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how he reeled his chair around in front of me and with a concentrated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul; but there were good angels ia the air that night It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the r.ll-encom-passing grace of God that delivered me. Beware! beware! O young man! There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but tho end thereof is death. If all the victims of an impure life in all lands and ages could be gathered together they would make a host vaster than that which Xerxes led across the Hellespont, than Timour led across India, than William the Conqueror led across England, than Abou-Bekr led across Syria; and if they could bo stretched out in single file across this continent, I think the vanguard of the host would stand on the be;ich of the Pacific while yet the rearguard stood on the beach of the Atlantic. I say this not because I expect to reclaim any one that has gone astray in this fearful path, but because I want to utter a warning for those who still maintain their integrity. The cases of reclamation of those who have given themselves fully up to an impure life are so few, probably'you do not know one of them. I have seen a pool many start out on that road. How many have I seen come back? Not one that I now think of. It seems as if the spell of death is on them and no human voice nor the voice of God can break the spell. Their feet aro hoppled, their wrists are handcutled. They have around them a girdle of reptiles bunched at the waist, fastening them to an iron doom; every time they breathe the forked tongues strike them and they strain to break away until the tendons snap and the blood exudes, and amidst their contortions they cry out: "Take me back to my father's house. Where is mother ? Take me home ! Take me home !" Do I stand before a man to-day the locks of whose strength are being toyed with, let me tell you to escape lest the shears of destruction take your moral and your spiritual integrity. Do you not see your sandais beginning to curl on that red-hot path? This day in the name of Almighty God I tear off tho beautifying veil and tho embroidered mantle of this old hag of iniquity, and I show you the ulcers and the bloody ichor and the cancered lip and the parting joints and the macerated limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, and I cry out, oh, horror of horrors! In the stillness of this Sabbath hour 1 lift a warning. Remember it is much easier to form bad habits than to pet clear of them ; iu one minute of time you may pet into a sin from which all eternity cannot pet you out. Oh, that the voice of God's truth might drown the voice of Delilah! Come into the ways of pleasantness and the paths of peace, and by the grace of a pardoning God start for thrones of honor and dominion upon which you may reign, rather than travel the road to a dungeon where the destroyed grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out VILKIE COLUNS

A Victim of tue Opium Habit His Will and Iii Children. All sorts of strange stories aro current about Wilkie Collins' life, and the innermost secrets of the novelist who sought, above all things, to shield himself and his home from the gaze and comment of his fellow-men are the topic of the hour. Edmund Yates set the ball rolling in a signed article in his paper, the London IVorld, in which he said: It was during the progress of the "Moonstone," I believe, that Wilkie Collins first acquired the baleful habit of taking sedatives, which ho continued more or less throughout his life. Excited beyond measure by tho constant nerve pressure created hv the necessity of having every thread of his story constantly within his grap; suffering under a sharp attack of rheumatic pout in the eyes; distracted at the same time by the serious illness of his mother, to whom he was devotedly attached, Wilkie Collins did na Coleridge, De Quincey and no end of others eminent in the fraternity had done . before him he sought and found relief in anodynes. On this subject I almost fear to write, less I should be 6uperted of exaggeration, but from what he himself told me, and from what I have heard from friends of even greater intimacy with him, I believe that about that period, and for the greater part of his after life, Wilkie Collins was in the habit of taking daily, and without apparently serious noxious effect, more laudanum not batleys, nor any other minimizing solution, but absolutely pure laudanum than would have sufficed to kill an entire ship's crew or a whole company of soldiers. The amount was, of course, arrived at slowly and by degrees. An actor who knew Wilkie Collins intimately remarked at his funeral: "I have seen Collins drink a wineglassful of laudanum at one swallow without effecting him in the least He sutiered some injury when still a young man which rendered it necessary that ho should take opium to kill the pain. Life would have been almost unbearable to him without it." In his will Wilkie Collins provides liberally for the three children whom he acknowledges his own. They were at the funeral with their mother, and one of the numerous beautiful wreaths which surrounded the coffin was from them, but they were not. among the chief mourners and kept out of view as much as possible. Tney never went near Wilkie Collins house and few people here ever heard of them. In his w ill Wilkie Collins refers to these children as his own, and leaves one-half of his estate, which, it is said, will not exceed SIOO.OOO, to be divided in their interest. The mother of these children was a housemaid in the employ of Wilkie Collins' mother, and was very devoted to her while she lived. The other half of Wilkie Collins' fortune goes to his housekeeper, Mrs. (iravs, while she lives, and to the novelist's adopted daughter, Mrs. Hartley, on her mother's death. This adopted daughter, the child of the housekeeper, had been a great pet of Collins for years, doing all his work as amanuensis. A Strong: Claim. Time. irr. Harrison "You my leave your papers, nd I will consider yonr eRe." Office Seeker "I have no papers, Mr. President." "No indorsement at all?" "No one." "Then what it your claim for office?" "1 am the man who writes all the poems about Baby McKee." fshe Will 1)1 Liter. Time. Al "Mary is a real nice girl what a pity bhe drinks.' Ed-"She? Ncvrr." "Ye, I saw her thi morning drink four goblets of ice water. It'll kill her." II a AVns Afraid. (Time. First Insane Asylum Keeper "I can't make that new patient do anything at all. I'd like to break hi head." Second Keeper "Well, why don't yer?" "He might be a reporter?" He Got It Hot. Time. She "I can't see, John, why you treat mother so coldly." The Brute "To preserve an average of the temperature between us." Verr Fond. Time.l F.alph 'Ts Doroinick fond of poultry?" Beginald "I think so; he has an egg-nog and an omelette for breakfast."

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