Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1889 — Page 6

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1889.

AN UNDELIVERED SER3I0N.

THE TABERNACLE FIRE INTERFERED. On tb Subject of "Th Sarins Look Dr. Talma Had Prepared an Eloquent Discourse The Charth Destroyed by Fire Early Snnday Morning;. Owing to the destruction of the Brooklyn tabernacle by firo at an early hour Sunday morning, Dr. Talmage did not preach. As, however, he had his sermon prepared, he consented to its publication. His sermon on "The Saving Look" text, Hebrews, xii, 2, "Looking unto Jesus" is as follows: In the Christian life we must not go flip-shod. This world was not made for us to rest in. In time of war you will find around the streets of some city, far from the scene of conflict, men in soldiers' uniform who have a right to be away. They obtained "a furlough and they are honestly and righteously off duty ; but I have to tell you that in this Christian conflict, between the first moment when we enlist under the banner of Christ and the last moment in which we thout the victory, there never will be a single instant in which we will have a right to be -ofT duty. Faul throws all around this Christian life the excitements of the old Roman and Grecian games those games that sent a man on a race with such a stretch of nerve and muscle that sometimes when he came up to the coal he dropjed down exhausted. Indeed, history tells us that there were cases where men came up and only had strength just to grasp the goal and then fall dead, 2ow, says this apostle, making allusion to those very games, we are all to run the race, not to crawl it, not to walk it but "run the race set, before us, looking unto Jesus," and, just as in the olden times a man would stand at the end of the road with a beautiful garland that was to be put around the head or brow of the successful racer, so the Lord Jesus Christ stands at the end of the Christian race with the garland of eternal life, and may God grant that by His holy spirit we may go run as to obtain. The distinguished Welli'ton, the chemist, was asked where his laboratory was, and the inquirers expected to be shown Rome large apartment filled with very expensive apparatus, but WeIliton ordered his servant to bring on a tray, a few glasses and a retort, and he said to the inquirers: "That is all mv laboratory. I make all my experiments with those." Xow, I know there are a great many who take a whole library to express their theology. They have so many theories on 10.UK) things, but I have to say that all my theology is compassed in these three wonls: "Looking unto Jesus." And when we can understand the hisrht, and the depth, and the length, and the breadth, and the infinity, and the immensity of that passage we can understand alL I remark, in the first place, we must look to Christ as our personal savior. "ow, you know as well as I that man is onlv a blasted ruin of what he once was. The re is not so much difference between a vessel rorainj: out of Liverpool harbor, with pennants living and the deck crowded with good cheer and the guns booming, and that Käme vessel driving against Img island coast, the drowning passengers ground to pieces amid the timbers of the broken-up steamer, as there is between man as he came from th bands of God, equipped for n. grand and glorious voyage, but afterward, through the pilotage of the devil, tossed, and driven, and cru.-hed, the eoat of the near future strewn with the fragments of an awful and eternal shipwreck. Our body is wrong. How easily it U ransacked of disease. Our mind' is wrong. How hard it is to remember and how easy to forget. The whole nature disordered, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot wuund, bruises, putrefying sores. "All have tinned and come short of the glory of God." "By one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and so death has passed upon all men for that all have sinneL" There is in Brazil a plant they call the "murderer" for the simple reason that it is so poisonous it kills almot everything it touches. It begins to w ind around the root of tha tree, and coming up to the branches reaches out to the ends of branches, killing the tree as it goes alone. When it has come to the tip end of the branches the tree is dead. Its seeds fall to the ground and start other plants just as murderous. And so it is with sin. It is a poisonous plant that was planted in our soul a long while ago, and it comes winding about the body and the mind and the soul, poisoning, jxioning, poisoning killing, killing, killing as it got s. "ow, there would be no need of my discoursing upon this if there were no way of plucking out that plant. Itisamot inconsiderate thing for me to come to a man who is in financial trouble rnd enlarge upon bis trouble if I have no c'leviation to or.'er. It is unfair for me to t ome to a man who is sick and enlarge upon his dise ase if I have no remedy to oiier. Lut I have a right to come to a man in financial distress if I have financial reinforcenu" nt to ollVr or a sure cure to proj'Oso. I'.I'Ssd rx- God that among the mountains of or.r sin there rolls and reverberates a song of salvation. Louder than all the voices of Ixmdago is the trumpet of God's deliverance, sounding: "Oh, Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself, but in me is thy help." At the barred gatos of our dungeon the conqueror knocks, and the hinges creak and grind at the swinging open. The famine struck pick up the manna that falls in the wilderness, and the floods clap their hands, saying: "Drink, oh, thir.-ty soul, and live forever!" and the feet tbat were torn and deep cut on the rocky bridle-path of sin now come i::to a smooth place, and the dry nMers t-raekle as the panting hart break's through the water brooks, and the dark j.ight of the soul begins to grow gray with the üiornini? yea, to fiame from horizon, to horizon. The batteries of temptation ilcneed troubles that fought against us captured and made to ßght on our side. Mot a result of any toil or trouble on our part, hut only as a result of ''looking unto Jesus." "Hut what do yon mean 'looking unto Jesus?" someone inquires. I mean faith. "What do you mean by faith ?" I mean believine. "What do you mean by Itflieving?" 1 mean this: If you promise to do a certain thing for me, and I have confidence in your varacity if you say you will give me such a tiling and I need it very much, I come in con fidnce that you are an honest man and will do what you say. Now.the Lord Jesus Chri-t Fays: "You arc in need of pardon and life and heaven ; you can have them if you come and get them." You pay: "I can't come and ask first. I am afraid you won't give it to me." Then yon are unbelieving. But you say: "I will come and ask. I know, Lord Jesus, thou art in rarnest about this matter. I come asking for pardon. Thou hast promised to give it to me, thou wilt give it to me, thou hast piven it to me." That is faith. Do you see jt yet? "Oh," says some one, "I can't understand it." No man ever did, without divine help. Faith is the gift of God. You say: "That throws the responsibility ofT my should rs." No. Faith is the gift of God, but it comes in answer to prayer. "All trt ifWIons is my LmU, Hi ruut be loved anl yet aiw 4 ; Hu worlb if ail the nai'on ko w. ' ' Sure lb wiiol eartb would lore him, too. I remark again that we must look to Jesus as an example. 'ow, a mere copy

ist, you know, is always a failure. If a painter goes to a portfolio or a gallery of art, however exquisite, to get his idea of the natural world from these pictures ho will not succeed as well as the artist who starts out and dashes the dew from the grass and sees the morning just as God built it in the clouds, or poured it upon the mountain, or kindled it upon the sex People wondered why Turner, the famous English painter, succeeded so well in sketching a storm upon the ocean. It remained a wonder until it was found out that several times he had been, lashed to tho deck in the midst of a tempest and then looked out upon the wrath of the pea, and coming home to his studio he pictured the tempest. It is not the copyist who succeeds, but the man who confronts the natural world. So if a man in literary composition resolves that he will imitate the smoothness of Addison, or the rugced vigor of Carlyle, or the weirdness of Spenser, or the epigrammatic style of Ralph Waldo Emerson, he will not succeed as well as that man who cultures his own natural style. What is true in this respect is true in regard to character. There were men who were fascinated with Lord Byron. He was lame and wore a very "large collar. Then there were tens of thousands of men who resolved that they would be just like Lord Hyron, and thev limped and wore lrM collars, but they did not have any of his genius. You cannot successfully copy a man whether he Is bad or good. You mav take the very best man that ever lived and try and live "like him and you will make a failure. There never was a better man than Edward Payson. Man- have read his biography, not understanding that he was a sick man, and they thought they were growing in grace because they were growing like him in depression of spirit. There were men to copy Cowper, the poet, a glorious man, but sometimes slIHct'vl with melancholy almost to insanity. The copyists got Cöwper's faults, but none of his virtues. There never was but one being fit to copy. A few centuries ago He came out through bumble surroundings and with a gait, and manner, and lehavior different from anything the world had seen. Among all classes of people He was a perfect model. Among fishermen, He showed how fishermen shonldact. Amongtax-gatherers, He showed how tax-gatherers should act. Among lawyers, He showed how lawyers should act. Among fanners, He showed how fanners should act. Among rulers. He showed how rulera should act. Critics tried to find in Hisconversationorsermons somethingunwise,or unkind, or inaccurate, but thev never found it. They watched Him, oh, how they watched Him! He never went into a house but they knew it, and they knew how long He staid, and when He came out, and whether He had wine for dinner. Slander twisted her whips, and wagged her poisoned toncrue, and set her traps, but could not catch Him. Little children rushed out to get from Him a kiss, and old men tottered out to the street corner to ep Him pnss. Io you want an illustration of devotion, behold 1 1 im w hole nights in prayer. Do you want an example of sufierir;, see Ills path across Palestine tracked with blood. I o you w ant an example of patience, see Uim abused and never give one sharp re tort. To you want an example of industry, see Him without one idle moment. Do yon wa:it a specimen of sacrifice, look at His life cf sc It-denial, His death of ignominy II issepulcherof humiliation. Oh what an example! His feet wounded, vet He submitted to the journey, Iiis back lacerated, and yet He carried the cross. Struck, He never struck back a lain. Condemned, yet He rose higher than His calumniators, and with wounds in His hands, and wounds in His feet, and wounds on his brow, and wounds in His side, lie ejaculated: "Father, forgive them ; thry know not what the)- do." Ah my brethren, this is the pole by which to s't your compass, that is the headland by which to steer, that is the light by which to kindle your lamps, that L the example we ought !1 to follow. How it would smooth nut the roughness in our disposition, and the world would be impressed by the transformation and would say: "I know what is the matter with that man; he has been with Jesus and has learned of him." Alexander was going along with his army in Persia and the snow and ice were so great that the army halted and said: "We can't march . any furthcT." Then Alexander dismounted from his horse, took a pickaxe, went ahead of his army, and struck into tho ice and snow. The soldiers said: "If he can do that we can do it," and they took their picks and soon the way was cleared and the army marched on. So our Lord dismounted from His glory, and through all icy obstacles hews a path for Himself and a path for us, saying: "Follow me! I do not ask yon to go through any suffering or fight any battles where I do not lead the way! Follow me!" Again I remark that we are to look to Christ a3 a sympathizer. Is there anybody in the house to-day who does not want sympathy? I do not know how anybody can live" without sympathy. There are those, however, who have gone through very rough paths in life who had no divine arm to lean on. How they got along I do not exactly know. Their fortunes took wings in some unfortunate investment and flew away. The bauk failed, and they buttoned up a penniless pocket. Ruthless speculators carried off tno fragments of an estate they were twenty-five years in getting with hard work. How did they stand it without Christ? Heath came into the nursery and there was an empty crib. One voice less in the household. One fonntain less of jov and laughter. Two hands less busy all day long in f port. Two feet less to po bounding and romping through the hall. Two eyes less to loam with love and gladness. Through all that house shadow after shadow, shadow after shadow, until it was midnight. How "did they gt through it? I do not know. They trudged the greal Sahara with no water in the goat-skins. They plunged to their chin in the slough of desjKjnd and had no one to lift them. In an unseaworthy craft they put out into a black Luroclydon. My brother, my sister, there is a balm that cures the worst wound. There Is a light that will kindle up the worst darkness. There is a harlor from the roughest ocean. You need and may have the Savior's sympathy. You can not get on in this way. I we your trouble is wearing you out ImxIv, and mind and soul. I come on no foofs rrnmd to-day. I come with a balm that can heal anv wound.;' Are you sick ! Jesus was pick. Are you weary? Jesus waa weary. A re on persecuted. Jesiis was persecuted. Arc von bereaved? In1 not Jesus weep over Lazarus? 'Oh, yes, like a roe on tho mountains of Bethcr Jesus 'cornea bounding to our soul to-day. There is one pasKio of scripture, tvery word of which is a henrt-tbrob: "Come unto me.-all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give von Test." Then thero Ii another passage just as pood: "Cost thy burden on the Lord and He will sustain thee.",. Oh, there are green pastures 'where the heavenly shepherd leads tho wounded and nick of the flock. '.-. , '.. ' A Slight Difference. ' (Trotb.f '; ' Donsbyfa candidateV "Well, Jonsby, I am in tb hands of my fnenda." JoTKiby (a bankrupt "I am slightly diflerent, Donsbj; I am In the hands of ray credit's..

Journalism In CMon. Ixnl-io Echo.) The Pekin Gatefie wwrl (hat 100 of Its editors bave been beheaded. The journal in qnestion claima to have Leen in existence for 1,000 years.

THE SHORT-HMD CLASS.

NINTH LESSON THIS MORNING. Our Popular Coarta of Ten Lciioni EoJoyed by Many An aiy, Practical Coarit In the Pitman System The Ninth Lesson. Prepared especially for Trne Skmthw. hjr Prof. Eldon Moran of St. Lotus, author of tho "Reporting style" pries of stenographic instruction books. Copyrighted. Troper names are so numerous that a vocabulary of them could not be well memorized; and this would bo unnecessary, 6ince the practical writer may read

LESSON IX. KtT TO M.ATB 0. ! Hay aV.e evtl civil fleeces 6belf devU Msjel. 2 Trice breezes trump catcher glimmer trainer exaggerate distress. 8 Spry sober suffer over thrice pressure measure cigarette. 4 PtnF spine above brain stiff strain enff rlown. 6 Flown thine !s:!rii ozone fhine hen explain sustain. 6 PiDes rhanre density lonesome extensive behavior reference sifter. Translate Ls 7 to 15. rXPl.ASATtOX. A mall hook at the Ifjinnlng and on the cirel td4 of a Btem, Indicates that I ls lo be added; tg. play, er'U, L 1. A hooic on the opposite side Indicates r; ej. price, trump, L 2. These hooscd stems are ca'.lcd double consonants. A circle on the r side of straight letters implies r; see rpry, tobrr, L 3. In order to bring the book on tho left sido (to signify r), , r, and lAare reversed; see crcr, thrice, etc. L 8. A circle may be written within a book. See eicll, di$tr$, ivjer. When tho r-hook is prcSicd to m, or n, the fem ls shaded; see gtur,mr, trainer, L 2. Jt ar.d are called initial hoofcs; the and n hooks, which occur at the end of letters, are called final. F is attached to ttralght ttniu only, and is written on the circle side, as in p"J, L 4. . This book is used for also, as in cbot. The n-hook is put on the opposite side of straight letters, and is also attached to curves. See Ls 4 and 5. A circle written on the n hook side of a straight letter at the end of words, implies ; . pine, chance, (but not density) L 8. All these hooka should be small and light Exercize Black blamo claim rloo frtobe plcdce total prray grow breuk pry dray loker pry trail cry drill keeper phrase favor Friday throw strike stray spree sample cough crave bluff grove strive prieve pain stain bean bonediue twine taken iura bench lone m;no fine abstain expense distance Sentences, i. Every roe nas its prickles. 2. Kvery path has Its pnddle. .1. Variety is the very splr of lif. 4. For the upricnt there are no laws. 5. All cruelty springs from weakness. C Wise Judges aro ve of each other. 19

COi't Kl.n . fc.ü. ALL Klollf KtsLK THE LORE OF CORNWALL ANTIQUITIES AND SUPERSTITIONS. Mr. Wake man's Final Article) on Kins; Ar thur'n LuU Cornmli Cnstoius Illustrations of Long Continued Mysticisms of the Ilerolo Fast. Helstov, Cornwall, Oct. 10. Copyrighted. Souvestre, who did so much to preserve the interesting traditions and reveal the pleasintr characteristics of tho people of Erittany, aptly says that traditions if not true as to facts, are always eo ns to sentiments. Applying this test to Cornwall, it would prove the riches-1, and but partly-worked, field for the archfcolopi-st and antiquarian of any portion of the British isles. There is abundant proof that an important commerce existed in tin between the peoplo of the extreme western Cornish coast and the Phcenicians from Gades, a colony on the western Spanish coast, more than 1,100 years before töe Christian era; while the mort celebrated British archreologists believe that Cornwall was "actually colonized while the rest of the island was yet a desert, and even tho opposite continent of Gaul, and the greater part of Europe, was uninhabited." Evidences of exceedingly remote prehistoric activities aro everywhere apparent in western England, and their numbers and intereet increase from tho boundaries of Devon through Cornwall to Land's End. These consist of cromlechs, those rude forms of pagan burial memorials scattered with such profusion throughout Ireland; huge uninscribed monoliths of such remote ago that their mystery has not 3et been unraveled; duns or forts of tremendous earthen circles; cliff castles in countless numbers upon the hights of the overhanging granite and slate of the sublime Cornish coast; immense alighttnents and avenues of stone similar to the marvelous stone chevaux de friso before mighty Dun Engus upon lonely AVanmore off the western Irish coast; cave dwellings, the hrst homes of men ; and the hut and beehive structures, those tiny and first examples of architecture illustrating the earliest development in man of home and the habitation longing and effort which first raised him, in habit, above the wild beast with which he struggled for mastery. Indeed everywhere one may go in Cornwall are found evidences of that extreme antiquity which bo impresses and at times appalls tho student in Ireland; and coming to a later period one cannot escape the proof that the first Celts of Ireland and the first peoplo of Cornwall were not only of common ftock, but for centuries were, while pagans, a peonle of common language, customs and interest So, too after the introduction of Christianity in Ireland, during that period of peerless Christian zoul and missionary sacrifice, one cannot but lecome convinced that Cornwall as a relifdous dependency of Ireland became tho seat of a wondrouslv nourishing Christian community ; one which in time even ignored Koman tradition and discipline, celebrated Easter as with the Greeks, and insisted on its origin as from the patriarchal seat at Jerusalem. English eccl. siology and hajriolojry do not like to admit this; but Yankee aa I am I could 6hov that three-fourths of tho oldest and beat known hamlets, towns and places of antiquated renown in Cornwall, cither to-day boar the namett, or oripinaily derived their names from the zealous Irish inisnionaries who malo Cornwall a Christian instead of a pagan land. In tho interweaving of paganism and Christianity there vaa undoubtedly lar ecclesiastical sanction entertaine! toward many of the superstitious practices of tho Damonians, tho ancient Cornfch people. Long isolation from the remainder of progressive England, and the retention of a distinct language, the Cymric division of the Celtic, to within but little over a century since, fostered the clan theory of society and left countless legends, superstitions and customs arnongthisntolid, thoiiph singularly impressive and sentimental people. Whatever Wesley and Whitfield, with the railway, the newsp'aper and tho telegraph, may have done in altering the every-day lives of the Cornish folk, no power has yet been able to banish the endeared wraiths of the mysticisms and rnyjtenes of a lependarily heroic past. To-day, as firmly as five centuries since, the inner heart of the Cornish man still clings to

ily invent sufficiently intelligible outlines for the most difficult of them. The halving principle, circles, loops and other adjunctive signs should be employed more sparingly than when writing common words. Marks of punctuation are used only to a limited extent in actual reporting. The semi-colon is usually indicated by a space of an inch or more, the period by a small cross. The notes are taken at verbatim speed; little opportunity is allowed for punctuating, the only practical method being to leave spaces to correspond with the speaker's pauses, and insert the proper marks aiterward when transcribing. Numlera are expressed in the usual manner, that is by tho Arabic numerals 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. There is no pressingneed for

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h 7 P iLU. his "droll'' or tale of giant, hobgoblin and fairy with acsrressive-defensive tenacity; and a few of these are interesting by tho way of illustration. Bellerian wasformerly the name of Land's End, as also the name of a mighty eiint who made it his home. Cormoran built St. Michael's mount, but was slain by the redoubtable Jack, the giant-killer, lloliburn of the Cairn defended ordinary mortals airainst other giants than himself. The Giant of Xancledey principally subsisted upon little children. The giant Trehiggan frightened bad children into virtuous lives, and dined off the incorrigible ones, which he usually fried on a fiat rock by his cave door. " The riant Blunderbus, killed by little ,Tom ll.ckathrift with a cart-axle, was tho embodiment of 6ur!y laziness and cruel preed. The giant Wrath, terror of the coast, walked out to 6ea a dozen miles or so, and, fastening the fishermen's boat to his girdle, strolled leisurely back to lm cave to serve his prisoners up for food at will. Gopnacrog lost the kingdom of Cornwall to a Trojan ciant, Corineus, in a wrestling match. Thunderbone walked tho land everywhere inspiring terror by his awful" ugliness. While the mighty Bolster, whom Cruikshank endeavored to depict, was so hu20 that lie could stride from SL A trues Beacon to the top of Cam Brae, a distance of 6ix miles. This was the amorous giant who while nearly killing his wife from overwork, was makinp love to good St. Agnes, who, to rid herself of his importunities, persuaded Bolster, as a test of affection, to bleed himself to death in an attempt at Chapel Borth to fill a hole, which had a secret outlet to the sea, with blood let from a vein in his massive arm. To all Cornish folk these monsters still live in fireside tales, and the numberless monuments to a pagan past scattered over the rocky tors and wild moors, such asthe cromlechs, monoliths and other rude stone monuments, arc the household goods and pastime implements of this vanished but not vanquished race. The legends of Cornwall are so strance, varied and many that an attempt to give the reader of "a newspaper article the faintest idea of their ceneral character cannot be made. But Cornish fairies raa' safely be surmised as the "small people,'' the ':brownies," the "spriggans," tne "buccas," or "knockers," and tho "pixies," "piskies," or "pigsies," as the latter are variously termed. The first are the souls of the Cornish-folk of thousands of years ago, condemned to haunt the earth until til they are one bv one transformed into ants when they Mill disappear. They aro not unfriendly, are Bhy and demure and have been known to perform many kindly offices. The "brownies" are dear, delightful household elves, happy in all good, and sorrowing over all evil. The schoolmaster is Baid to bo inimical to these gentle Cornish spirites and they are fast disappearing. The "spriggan" is held to be the fairy representative of the olden giant. He Ls rude and sometimes vicious. He haunts the old stone monuments and if Cornish peasants are to bo believed it is dancrerous ground about these haunts when the "spripsans" return for their periodic debauches, when tons of rock are still bowled through the air, over the beetling crags and across the dreary moors. Tho "pixy" is a joker and mischief-maker of the worst sort, lie delights in all sorts of mad pranks, but to his credit, bo it said, like that little ereen joker of Irish fairy mythology, the leprechaun, his mischief is chiefly expended upon mortals noted for their neighborhood meannesses, avarice and greed. The "knockers" have their haunts exclusively in the mines. Various theories are advanced as to their origin. They are souls of "Finicans" ( I'ha'nicians) or Jewish daves, or Cornudi miners killed in the mines, with invisible picks and mallets still soundin; or "knocking" for the best "pitches" or lodes. But woe to the miner who oflend3 them. So alonjr down this line of Cornish wraith, mystery and portent como boundless troops oi superstitions. Volumes tnicht le filled with them. Here are a few: Nobody will cross Two-Stiles, a lane in Crowan parish, nt ni?ht for fear of meet inpr tho devil. A child "passed throuph" the body of a live ash sapling, split near the trunk and held open lor that purpose, will recover from dirteasc. Bullock calves are still burned in remote CornLsh farming districts to drive evil spirits from the herds. If you will walk around the old abandoned sep'ulcher in Crowan church-yard nine times, exactly at midnight, you may meet and make any snrt of terms desired with the evil one." There are a score of holy wells still remaining in Cornwall whose waters possess almost miraculous power. ?t. Cuthbert's well is sought for the cure of "rickets" in children v;ho aro bathed in it the first three Wednesdays in May. No child ever christened in Ilodmth well has been hanged. But the well of St Keyno is secretly sought by many of the Cornish folk for its extraordinary power of giving to either husband or wife", w ho first arinks

any different method of expressing numbers, since the present method is as short as short-hand itself. This is ehown by the fact that a column of figures can bo written as fast as the numbers are called olf. The reporter when pressed writ's a larger hand than at other times. hkme fersons take this as an evidence that a arge hand is the most rapid. It Proves just thecontrary. The really skillful stenographer when writing at high speed will be attained ultimately, only by writing the characters near each other, cultivating a neat style, and writing as small a hand aa practicable. A pood, fine-pointed, short-nibbed gold pen of medium size is the best for reporting purposes. It should be more or less elastic, depending on the writer's lightness of touch. Good writing fluid is preferable to ink.

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of its waters, permanent marital mastery. Hence the old lines: If the husband of the gift'd well Stisll drink before his wife, A happy man hrnceiorth is b For he shall bo roaster for life. But if the wif shall drink of it first, Ciod be!p the busbaud then '. etc Taking off the hat to a magpie wards away bad luck, o miner will permit whistling in a mine, as it offends the "knockers;" while fishermen would throw a man overboard who would whistle at sea after nightfall. Killing the first butterfly of the seapon brinjrs pood luck. If the limbs of a corpse remain flexible, another member of the deceased's family will shortly die. A black cat's tail passed over a child's sore eyes nine times will effect a cure. The croak of a raven over the house bodes death. Children born in May are may "cheta" and will never have luck; a "perjurer will never aprain see the color of the sunlight; a milprive, or adder-stone, will prove an antidot"! to the poison ofthat reptile. Atmidnight on Christmas eve all the oxen of Cornwall may be found on their knees in the attitude of adoration. If one touches a lofran or rocking-stone nine times at midnight, be instantly becomes a witch. In the fishing hamlets if a fish be eaten from "head to tail," all the fish will be driven from the coasts. And you are no true Cornishman if you will not assert that the shipwrecked dead "hail" or call aloud their names above the roaring of the storms along the coast. The entire disappearance of the Cornish language has occurred since tho reijrn of Elizabeth. The centennial of the last sermon preached in Celtic at Landewedneck (the white roofed church of St Wednack) was celebrated in 1878. Even at the beginning of this century divers old folk could be found who were constantly moaning, "Cornoack ewe all no cea ver yen pöble younk;" "Cornish is all forgot with tho younu people." Consequently the Cornish dialect is still rich in expressions wholly without meaning to one unwilling to patiently observe, delve and study, lüverv elderly person is called "uncle" ör "aunt' the latter shortened to "Ann." Mother is "mawther;" father is "fayther." All intimate acquaintances are "Cousin Jack, or Jan;" and nearly every conversational Query, or answer, terminates with "you as: "Wer tha(thee) gaw'n, you?" "T' Mas coro bv day', you." The "yep!" Cjf the rapid American man or boy, meaning "yes," or anything else, has its counterpart in the universal Cornish "Unce!" terminating in an inverted whistle. It means, assent, doubt, surprise, or anything else at that moment in the mind of the iistener. "0v nrry, cheel vean?" means, "How are vou, friend?" The "clacker" is tho toneue; and a "crowder" is a fiddler. " 'Ow do ee fadge?" is "How aro you pettine along?" "Hoozy" is hoarse;" "I' facks," is "in faith; "a brave courant," a splendid time; "good havage," is takinsr gin and treacle; and "A knaws tin," (he knows tin) is the highest compliment a Cornishman Is capable of conceiving. Among a people of such antiquity, isolation, meager and sharply-defined pursuits there cannot but be found two striking characteristics. One is their extraordinary clannishness and loyalty to each other; and the other, an obstinate clinging to old and prized customs. The monument to the great Camden iD Westminster Abbey will not stand so long aa his own famous couplet, written three centuries since: By Tre, Roa, Pol, Lon, Caer mnd Lon, You may know the most of Cornish men." He might also have added places, for nine-tenths of the names of Cornish f daces, as well aa of individuals and famiies, contained, or still contain, these roots and prefixes. Tre, answering to the Faxon tun, means an inclosure; Bos, a heath: Pol, a pool ; Caer, a defended place, and Ten, a head. All this filtering through antiquity, and people's folkore, in time became something of a ohibboleth. shortened finally to "Tre, l'ol and Ten," further intensified and treasured by the Cornish national toapt of "Tres, Pols and Pens One and All!" Then to still further intensify tho feeling of national indivisibility, along in the reign of James II, came tYe famous ballad of "Trelawne," one electrifying quatrain of which will be roared forth in fireside, social and political song as lon as a Cornish miner, with a voice, is left "above grass" to do it. Tho origin of the song was the incarceration and prosecution for seditious libel of tho archbishop of Canterbury and six other bishops, in 1CS3, because they refused the reading of of a royal declaration of indulgence for lilx rty of conscience. The good Bishop Trelawney was one of these ofienders. lie was a Cornishman besides. Instantly all Cornwall rang with "And will thev grorn Tre, Tol nd Pen, And bhall Tr Uwnejr diet There's twenty thousand underground Will know the reason why' And this shout ot the wild "twenty thousand" tamers of Cornwall had more to do

than all else with the acquittal and -victorious return of Trelawney and his peers. With such loyalty to each other, never failing of expression at home, and, if possible, more admirable and faithful in the sturdy and prized groups that may be found thousands of miles from their loved homes in the copper mines of the Saperiorregion, in thesilverminesof Colorado, or in thesdilling pits of Australia, it is not surprising tbat such a people cling tenaciously to the strangest of olden customs. I would like to write fully of these; but I have only space to name a few of thoe which occur to me as the most interesting. In 6ome districts a pail of cider containing roastfd apples is taken into the orchard and drank to tho good health of the apple trees, which are thus waissaled. On nearly all farms notice is given that harvest is ended by "crying the neck." A small sheaf of the best heads of wheat is gathered by some old man, who, as he raises it aloft three times is greeted by the reapers with great cheers and jolhtv, "after which some kissing of the girls and other harmless frolicking are indulged in. A comfortable apple market in sustained on Allenday before Halloween at St. Ives from the sale of apples for apple-pics to be hidden under pillows by Jads and maidens on Halloween night." "Forty-day," or Flora day has for centuries been observed in this old town by all manner of musical frivolities, gathering of flowers and fruit blossoms and dancing in and out of houses throushout the entire day and evening, in which festivity old and young, rich and poor, alike radiantly join. "Vagrum Fair" or vagrant fair, is a sort of wild midnight hullabaloo of boys and men with clubs, bells and whistles in which traveling wild-beast 6hows, passing from one town to another during Whitsun' week, are received and escorted from one hamlet to another, and the clubs are carefully preserved as trophies of a sort of defensive and protective idea of most ancient origin. Mav day, as through other portions of England, is "watched" for all night and ushered in with all manner of shrill musical instruments. At St. Ives on Shrove Tuesday processions of boys demand and secure pan-cakes and ha'pennies at all houses where they may apply; while at Penzance, and indeed at" nearly all villages of west Cornwall, on the eves of the festivals of St John and St Teter, the ceremony of lighting tho fires and carrying torches through the streets has for centuries been observed, and is unquestionably a remnant of the pagan Irish la na Bealtina, or the day of Baal fires. Edgar L. Wakemax. At Itoftt. Dedicated to the "Union Soldler" who Died in Confederate Prison. Ko detd march re-echoed ita mournful note, Ai their bodies were borne to the grave: Ko bugle was sounded, no volley waa fired. As la the cold clay they were laid. Ko honors were shown thm, no martial tread Of comrades after their bier; Ko star-apingled banner to cover their head, Ko food one to shed a last tear. Ko father or mother to view the sad face Of him who once was their pride; Ko sister or brother to fondly embrace Those at rent on the lone hillside. Ko fla? lowered at half-mast, no signal to show That death Lai been on its round; Ko oration delirered. no friend to portray The record of tbosa in the mound. Ko more shall the trampet tbelr alterably sound; Their laut "muster roll" baa been signed; Ko more the "all's well" from their lips shall resound, For tbeir last resting place to them is assigned. Ko commotion distnrbs them, for Mlcntljr they lie In the undisturbed home of the dead ; Ko sorrows assail them, no hf art-broken sighs. For death's mantle o'er them is spread. At ret they now lie, their troubles are o'er, Ko more on the plains they shall tread; The last call to arms they proudly obeyed ,. As to hearcn their pure souls have fled. Indianapolis, Oct. 15. (James Doiux. Too Little For th Jab. Detroit Free rress. "I'm perfectlj willing to do any aort of work, ma'am," he arcned, aa elie held the door open. "I don't ask you to give m a meal for n o thine." "You'll earn it, will yon?" ehe asked. "Certainly I will. All I ask for ii the opportunity." "Are you particular about the work?" "Not in tho least. Set me at any blessed thin?." "Very well. I've rot a hired girl who has been running the house for a week or eo, and I haven't the moral couraee to discharge her. Come in and work her out" "Let me see her, ma'am. I'll go to the back door and size her up." lie was gone about two minutes, and when he came back he nearly carried the aide crate otT its hinges in his hurry to pet thronen. He didn't even stop in the front yard, but as he kept on he turned his face to the crack in tbe door, and said: "Thank you very kindly, ma'am, but I mess I ain't hungry and can make these old clothes do me till next spring!" The Forg-eir'a I'en. Pall Mall Garet te. I was talkinjr with n treasury official on the subject of forpery. "Did it ever occur to yon," said the official, "that a former has half his work done when he can Ret hold of the identical pen with which the owner of the signature habitually writes? A great many men, bank presidents and the like, use the same pen for their names only for a year or two without chance. A pen that has been used by a man in writing his name hundreds of times and never used for anything else, will almost write the name of itself. It gets imbued with the spirit of the signature. In the hands of a fairly good forcer it will preserve the characteristics of the original. The reason for this is that the point of the pen has been ground down in a peculiar way, from being used always by the same hand and for the same combination of letters. It would splutter if held at a wrong angle or forced on lines against its will. It almost guide the sensitive hand of the forger when he attempts to write the name." He Had II-r There. K. Y. Sun.1 She was late in motioning to the conductor to stop the car, and wa therefore carried half a square beyond the crossing. "ir, ia this the way you attend to your busines?" she demanded ai she stood on the step. "I stopped aa aoou as you motioned," he replied. "Hut you were gazing alon;: the street You oueht to ( reported to the manager." 'Yea'm." "Hut I will let it ro this time." "Yes'm." "But let it be a warning to you in the future." "Yes'm." "You didn't seem to be much afraid of being reported," observed a p&aaenger as the ear moved on. "Well, no," replied the conductor, ai he oftly chuckled down below his Adam' apple, "bbe'e the manager'! divorced wife, you know." Hot Witter For Wrinkle. N. Y. Snn.l A verj beautiful, thoiiKtV do loncer youthful, society woman owes the preservation of her charms to a little habit she has of lying down when dressed for tbe evening with a cloth wrunrfoutof hot water pressed closely over the entire surface of her face, and allowiner it to remain there half an hour. All the wrinkles re, ehe claims, praoothed out of her face by this process, which is in striking contrast to the way the average woman flies Into clothes for an evening's outing, hurries the crimp all out ot her hair while the carriage waits, covers her hot, tired face with polka dots of powder in her hatte, tugs on her gloves acd is oil'. ' Touch a Keener fena Than 51 cht. Tid iU. Cnm?o "Let rue pre you a bit cl advice, Dolley." Hol ley "Well, what ia it?" Cumo "Kever stroke a mustache when it's down." -J Turning the Table. Darlington Free Fre-w. Blobson See here, Pumpsey! Yonr dojr baa got one of my hen in his mouth. Pumpsey That's so, by gracious! If she breaks any of his teeth I'll sue you.

IS "QUEEX ANNE" GOING OUT

BUILDING AN INEXPENSIVE HOME. A Uw Coet Cottnc With Some Attractive) Colonial Features Materials FinishColors Accoiuuiotlfitione How to Build It nnd at What Coat. New York, Oft. 17. Copyright. That the BO-callM Queen Anne Myle of a reinfect uiv will nt lon retain "pular favor Li a very pafc prediction. Its extreme popularity forcbolcs its carlv decline. Kverv tMal wave must rorcle. It will lx a matter for congratulation, indeed, if th extravagances of tyro designers do not hrbi this so-called rty lo into ositive disreputtv Already a not iccahlft nimüVr of client : ir.slmct the architect not to give, then Queen Anne exteriors. Such clients are pleased with colonial features, a rule. 1-J IPERSPECTIVE VIEW. which is regarded an indication that the colonial is growing in favor. This developing preference most gratify all people of good taste. The well defined features of the colonial ftyle are ?f classic origin and cannot be improved. "When, the disigncr attempts pomethina ftrikir.r with it he gets away from it entirely. The design given herewith is regarded, as a fair example, the designer h ing limited to low cost. Tho colonial features may be paid to be confined to the windows, but the windows are eo truly colonial that they dominate the whole exterior. The following is a somewhat detailed description of this design: Size of Structure Frott (width), 32 feet ; depth (side), 44 feet. FinST FLOOR. Ilight of Stories Cellar, 7 feet; firstEtory, 9 feet; second-story, S feet. Materials for Exterior Valls Foundations, brick or stone; first-Ptorv, clapboards and singles ; 6econd-story, shingles ; roof, shingles. Interior Finish All rooms finished with white plaster and soft-wood trim. All woodwork to be treated with wood-filler and finished with hard oil, showing natural colors. Fxterior Colors Fntirc body and gables painted a "colonial" (medium shade of) yellow; all trim, such as Mater-table, veranda and balcony rails, all molding, brackets, window and door frames, painted white. Outido doors treated BMiiiiai!j3fr! SECOND FLOOn. with wood-filler and finished with oil, showing natural colors. Roof ehingles, oiled. Accommodations All the rooms and their sizes, the pantries and closets are shown by the plans given herewith. There is a cellar under the main house, and tha garret is floored to provide storage room. If preferred, the h:ill may lie enlarged by including the reception roöm. If preferred, the eitting-room may be used .is a Inrdroom, in which case the reception room should be connected and be used as a dresöinz-room. It is an easy matter to convert the smallest bed-room" on the second floor into a bath-room. Cost In the vicinitv of Now York City, 2,20U. 'Ii. W. SiiorrnLU f-ollcttnde, Merchant TrveW.) "Madam," said the conductor, "that doj; will have to co into the baggage car, aud that boy can't ride for half fare." "But. air." "Sorry, madam, but the company's rules are strict." "l'erliap we caii arrange it. Can't I pay full far lur Fido w Iiile Willi Roes and aita ia the Imlage car. FiJo'a health ii fo delicate that I am afraid to Lave. Lim out of my care." An 111 Wind, tX. Y. Sun. Easterner "flow are t Lines out yonr way? I suppece the debt on the church has been wiped ont Ion atro?" , Western Miniater (sorrowfully) "Yea, long tiro." "Hut you don't er m rt rv r.lad about it." "No: the same cyclone that ipel out th debt wiped oat the cliurch, too." Tin Madern Rubel. Farli I'Uaro. Une of the Tisitcrs to the Eiffel tower has expressed hia sense of its hiebt. "I would tnrow myself down frotr the top," he w riles, "l.ut that I am afraid of dying fro-a hunger betöre I reach the bottom." The receipts of the Li-el tower company for the week ending Sept. 17 amounted to 382,076 frunea. which brings tha total sicco Mar 15 to 4.754.317 franca.

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