Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1893 — Page 12

12 THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13. 1893-TWELYE PAGES.

ST. PAUL'S CONVERSION.

DR. TALMAUU FINDS LESSORS I THE I'Ensix'iTon's kxpkkil:.cu. It I Often N-erjr for ft. Man to Full In Order to Itlir A ten lit. to Go Throngh the Valley of llnmlllnt Ion Ilefore Preaching;' BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Dec. 10. The Rev. Dr. Tu Image, v-ho lectured In this city yesterday, having epokcn during the week at Nashville. Memphis and other cities, preached here this forenoon to a large audience under the auspices of the baptist church. The subject was, Unhorsed." and the text chosen was Acts ix. 3-5: "And as he journeyed he came n-ar Damascus, and suddenly there shlned round about him a lig"ht from heaven, and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul. Saul, why persecutes t thou me? And he said, who art thou. Lord? And the Lnrd said, I am Jesus whom you pf rsecuttft." The Damascus of MMe times still p-tand-, with a population of 135,000. It was a gay city of white and glistening architecture, its minarets and crescents and tlortifs playing with the linht of the morning sun; embowered in groves of olive and citron and orange and pomegranite; a famous river plunging its brighness into the scene; a city by the ancients styled "a pearl surrounded by emeralds." A group of horsemen are advancing upon that city. Let the Christians of the plact? hide, for that cavakade coming over the hills is made up of persecutors, their leader email and unattractive in htmie respects-, as leaders sometim-js are Insignificant in j-erson witness the duke of Wellington and Dr. Archibald Alexander. Iut there is something very intent in the eye of this man of. the text, and the horse he rides is lathered with the foam of a long and quick travel of 12Ö miles. He urg-s on his steed, for thote Christians must ! captured and silenced, and that rel'gion of the cross must be annihilated. Suddenly the hordes shy off and plunye until the riders are precipitated. Freed from the riders, the horses bound snorting away. Yuu know that dumb animals at the sight of an eclipse, or an earthquake, or anything like a supernatural appearance, sometimes become very uncontrollable. A new un had been kindled in the heavens, rutting out the glare of the ordinary Bun. Christ, with the glories of heaven wrapped atout him. looked from a cloud, and the splendor was insufferable, and no wonder the horses sprang and the equestrians dropped. Dust covered and bruised, Saul attempts to gel up, shading his eyes with his ha mis from the severe luster of the heavens, but unsuccessfully, for he is struck stone blind as he cries out, "Who art thou. Lord?" And Jesus answered him: "I am th1 one you have been chasing. He that whips and scourgt-s those Damascene Christians whips anl scourges me. It is not their back that is bleeding it is mine. It is not their heart that is breaking it is mine. I am Jesus whom thou perse-cutest." lie IV1I to Illse Aunln. From that wild, exiting and overwhelming scene there rises up the greatest preacher of all the ages Paul, in whose behalf prisons were rocked down, before whom soldiers turned pa'e, into whose hand Mediterranean sea captains put control of thir shipwrecking craft, and whose epistles are ,the avant courier of a resurrection day. 1 lean from this scene that a worldly fall sometimes precedes a spirtual iirlifting. A man does not get much sympathy by fulling off a horse. People say he ought not to have got into the saddle if he could not ride. Those of us who were brought up in the country remember well how the workmen laughed when, on our way back from the brook, we suddenly lost our ride. When in a grand review a general toppled from the stirrups. It became a national merriment. Here is Paul on horseback a proud man. riding on with government documents in his pocket, a graduate of a most famous school, in which the celebrated Dr. Gamaliel had be?n a professor, perhaps having already attained two of the three titles of the school rab, the first; rabbi, the second, and on his way to rabbak. the third and highest title. I know from his temperament that his horse was ahead of the other horses. But without time to think of what posture he should take, or without consideration for his dig-nity, he is tumbled Into the dust, and yet that was the best ride Paul ever took. Out of that violent fall he arose into the apostles hi p. So it has been In all ages, and so it is now. You will never be- worth much for GM and the church until you lose j'our fortune, or have your reputation upset, or in some way, somehow, are thrown and humilated. You must go down before you go up. Joseph finds his path to the Egyptian court through the pit Into which his brothers threw him. Daniel would never have walked amid the bronzed lions that adorned the Babylonish throne If he had not first walked amid the real lians of the rave. And Paul marshals all the generations of Christendom by falllnf-; flat on his face on the road to Damascus. Men who have always prospered may be efficient servants of the world, but will be of no advantage to Christ. You may ride majestically seated on your charger, rein In hand, foot In Btlrrup, but you will nver be worth anything spiritually r.ntil you fall off. They who graduate from the school of Christ with the highest honors have on their diploma the seal of a lion's muddy paw, or the plah of an angry wave, or the drop of a stray tear, or the brown scorch of a persecuting fire. In 999 cases out of 1.000 there is no moral or spiritual elevation until 'there has been a thorough worldly upsetting. Ilrnve Mm for Christ. Again, I learn from the subject that the religion of Christ is not a pusillanimous thing. People In this day try to make us believe that Christianity is something for men of small caliber, for women with no capacity to reason, for children in the infant da3 under six years of ape, but not for stalwart men. Look at this man of the text! Do you not think that the religion that could capture such a man as that must have some power in it? He was a logician; he was a metaphysician; he was an all conquering orator; he was a poet of the highest type. He had a nature that could swamp the leading men of his own day, and hurled against the sanhedrln he made It tremble. He learned all he could get In the school of his native village; then he had gone to a higher school, and there mastered the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected himself in belles lettres, until in after years he astonished the Cretans, and the Corinthians, and the Athenians, by quotations from their own avwhors. I have neveT found anything in Cyftrlyle or Goethe or Herbert Spencer that could compare in strength or beauty with Paul's epistles. I do not think there Is anything in the writings of Sir. William Hamilton that shows such mental discipline as you find In Paul's argument about Justification and the resurrection. I have not found anything in Milton finer In the way of imagination than I can find In Paul's Illustration drawn from the amphitheater. There wa3 nothing in Robert Emmet pleading for his life, or In Edmund Burke arraigning Warren Hasting In Westminster hall, that compared with the scene In the court room, when 'be

fore- robed ofnclala Paul bowed and began his peech, saying, "I think myself happy. King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day." I repeat, that a religon that can capture a man like that must have some power In It. It Is time you stopped talking as though all the brain of the world were opposed to Christianity. Where Paul leads, we can afford to follow. The Worltl'a Talent for (krltl. I am glad to know that Christ has In the different ages of the world had in his discipieship a Mozart and a Handel in music; a Raphael and a Reynolds In painting; an Angelo and a Canova in sculpture; a Rush and a Harvey In medicine; a Dlackstone, a Marshall and a Kent In law, and the tiny will come when the religion of Christ will conquer all the observatories and universities, and philosophy will, through her telescope, behold the morning star of Jesus, and in her laboratory see "that oil things work together for good." and with her geological hammer discover the "Rock of Ages." Oh, instead of cowering and shivering when the skeptic stanus before you and talks of religion as though it werv a pusillanimous thing instead of that take your New Testament from your pocket and show him the picture of the intellectual giant of all the ages prostrated on the road to Damascus whlla his horse Is flying wildly away, then ask your skeptic what it wa that frightened the one and threw the other? Oh, no. it Is no weak gospel. It is a glorious gospel. It is an all conquering gospel. It is an omnipotent gospel. It Is the power of Ood and the wisdom of God unto palvatlon. Again. I learn from the text a man cannot become a Christian until he Is unhorsed. The trouble Is. we want to ride into the kingdom of God just as the knight rode into castle gate on palfrey, beautifully caparisoned. We want to come into the kingdom of Cod in line style. No kneeling down at the altar, no sitting on "anxious" seats, no crying over sin. n begging at the door of God's mercy. Clear the road, and let us come li all prancing in the pride of our soul. No, we will never get into heaven that wa; . We must dismount. There Is no knight errantry in religion, no fringed trappings of repentance, but an utter prostration before God, a going down in the dust, with the cry "Unclean, unclean!" a bewailing of the soul, like David from the belly of hell a going down in the dust until Christ shall by his grace lift us up as he lifted Paul. Oh, proud hearted hearer, you must get off that horse. May a light from the throne of God brighter than the sun throw you! Come down Into the dust and cry for pardon and life and heaven. '1 lit I'rmorntor Redeemed. Again, I learn from this scene of the text that the grace of God can overcome the persecutor. Christ and Paul were boys at the same time in different villages, and Paul's antipathy to Christ was increasing. He hated everything about Christ. He was going down then with writs In his pockets to have Christ's discipl f arrested. He was not going as a shHiff goes, to arrest a man against whom he had no spite, but Paul was going down to arrest those people because he was glad to arrest them. The bible s.tys, "lie breath, d out slaughter." He wanted them captured, and he wanted them butchered. I hear the click and clash and clatter of the hoofs of the galloping steeds on the way to Damascus. oh. uo you tnink that proud man on horseback can et er become a Christian? Yes! There Is a voice from heaven like a thunderclap uttering two words, the second the same as the lirst. but uttered with more emphasis, so that the proud equestrian may have no doubt as to wil ls meant: "Saul! Saul!" That man was saved, and he was a persecutor. And so God can by His grace overcome any persecutor. The days of sword and hie for Christians seem to have gone by. The bayonets of Napoleon pried opn the "inquisition" and let the rotting wretches out. The ancient dungeons around Rome are today mere curiosities for the travelers. The Coliseum, where wild beasts used to suck up the life of the martyrs wh'.ie the emperor watched and Doha Paulina sat with emerald adornments worth C".000.000 sesteces. clapping her hands as the Christians died under the paws and the tooth of the lion that Coliseum Is a ruin now. The scene of the Smithfield fires is a hay market. The day of lire and sword for Christians seems to have gone by, but has the clay of persecution ceased? No. Are you not caricatured for your religion? In proportion as you try to serve God and be faithful lo Him are you not sometimes maltreated? That woman finds It "hard to be a Christian, as her husband talks and jeers while she is trying to say her prayers or read the bible. That daughter linds it hard to be a Christian with the whole family arrayed against her father, mother, brother and sister making her the target of ridicule. That young man finds it hard to be a Christian in the shop or factory or store when his comrades Jeer at him because he will not go to the gambling hell or other places of iniquity. Oh, no, the days of persecution have not teased, and will not until the end of tlie world. But, oh. you persecuted ones. Is It not time that you began to pray for your persecutors? They are no prouder, no fiercer, no more set in their way than was this persecutor of the text. He fell. They will fall if Christ from the heavens grandly and gloriously look out on them. God can by His grace make a Renan believe in the divinity of Jesus and a Tyndall In the worth of prayer. Rolert Newton stamped the ship's deck in derisive indignation at Christianity only a little while before he became a Christian. "Out of my house." said a father to his daughter, "if you will keep praying." Yet before many months passed the father knelt at the same altar with the child, and the Lord Jesus Christ Is Willing to look out from heaven upon that derisive opponent of the Christian religion and address 1 -n not in glittering generalities, but, calling him by name: "John! George! Henry Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou?" The Chief of Sinner. Again, I learn from this subject that there is hope for the worst offenders. It was particularly outrageous that Saul should have gone to Damascus on that errand. Jesus Christ had been dead only three years, and the story of his kindness, and his generosity, and his love filled all the air. It was not an old story as it Is now. It was a new story. Jesus had only three- summers ago been in these very places, and Saul every day In Jerusalem must have met jeople who knew Christ, people, with good eyesight whom Jesus had cured of blindness, people who were dead and who had been resurrected by the Savior, and people who could tell Paul all the particulars of the crucifixion Just howJesus looked in the last hour. Just how the heavens grew black In the face at the torture. He heard that recited every day by people who were acquainted with all the circumstances, and yet in the fresh memory of that scene he goes to persecute Christ's disciples, Impatient at the

1 time It takes to feed the horses at the Inn. not pulling at snaffle, but riding with loose rein faster and faster. Oh, he was the chief of sinners! No outbreak of modesty when he said that. He was a murderer. He stood by when Stephen died and helped In the execution of that good man. When the rabble wanted to be unimpeded In their work of dc-fdroylng Stephen and wanted to take off their coats, but lid not dare to lay them down lest they be stolen, Paul said, "I'll take take care of the coats." and they put them down at the feet of Paul, and he watched the coats, and he watched the horrid mangling of glorloua Stephen. Is it a wonder that when he fell from the horse he did not break his neck that his foot did not catch somewhere In the trappings of the saddle and he wu not dragged or kicked to death? He (Unserved to dv? mifv rfral-ly, wretchedly and forever, notwithstanding all his

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There may be some here who are captive of their sins as much as the young man who said In regard to his dissipating habits: "I will keep on with them. I know I am breaking my mother's heart, and I know I am killing myself, and I know that when I die I shall go to hell, but it is now too late to stop." An KiicoiirnKlng IOxnmplc. The steed on which you ride may be swifter and stronger and higher mettled than that on which the Cicllian persecutor rode, but Christ can catch it by the bridle and hurl it back and hurl It down. There Is mercy for you who say you are too bad to be saved. You say you have put off the matter so long; Paul had neglected It a great while. You say that the sin you have committed has been among the most aggravating circumstances; but that was so with Paul's. You say you have exasperated Christ and coaxed jour own ruin; so did Taul. And yet he sits today on one of the highest of the heavenly thrones, and there Is mercy for you, and good days for you and gladness for you, if you will only take the same Christ which first threw him down and then raised him up. It seems to me as if I can see Paul today rising up from the highway to Damascus, and brushing off the dust from his cloak, and wiping the sweat of excitement from his brow, as he turns to us and all the ages, saying, "This a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief." Once more. I learn from this subject that there is a tremendous reality in religion. If it had been a mere optical delusion on the road to Damascus, was not Paul just the man to find it out? If it h ul been a sham and a pretense, would he not have pricked the bubble? lie was a man of facts and arguments, of the most gigantic intellectual nature, and not a man of hallucinations. And when I see him fall from the saddle, blinded and overwhelmed. I say there must have been something in it. And, my dear brother, you will find that there is something In religion somewhere. The only question is, where? There was a man who rode from Stamford to London, ninety-live miles, in live hours on horseback. Very swift. There was a woman of Newmarket who rode 1,000 miles in l.Ooo hours. Very swife. But there are those here. aye, all of us are speeding on at tenfold that velocity, at a thousandfold that rate toward eternity. May Almighty God, from the opening "heavens, nash upon your souls this hour the question of your eternal destiny. and oh. that Jesus would this hour overcome you with his pardoning mercy as he stands here with the pathos of a broken heart and sobs in your ear: "I have come for th. I come with my back raw from th-- beating. I come with my feet mangled with the nails. I come with my brow aching from the twisted bramble. I come with my heart bursting for your woes. I can stand it no longer. I am Jesus whom thou persecutest." Tili: FLOW ER OF MUERTY. They bloom again when winter's gloom Is past; The leaves of next year bud where fell the last; The northern gales, the frosts, the ice and snow But plough the ground on which new violets grow. The yellow grass that now insults the eye Contains the hopes of next year's tapestry. And on the barren, brown and shaggy bush Returning spring will makel the roses blush. All nature, seeming dead, but sleeps Until the springtime 6un Its clumber breaks, Anl with a new and grander foliage crowns The tree that In 'the forest moans and frowns. Anrl thus In ages, engrulfed by night An humble flower grew and struggled to the light; And when each winter's blasts were overcome It raised its crown more proudly toward the sun. Through nations' storms and mankind's tempests, still That flower blooms on, o'er moor, and dale, and hill. Until humanity and God at length agree To hold as sacred e'er that Flower of Liberty. PAUL H. IGNATIUS. Increase nt Compound Interest. At the birth of his son a father placed at interest at 6 per cent, the sum of $1.000, and each year Invested all the Interest at the same rate. When the boy was twenty-one years old he found himself the possessor of J3.393.S6. Reing a young man of pluck and energy, and anxious to try his hand In unaided competition, he told his father to keep tha money and he would take his .chances with the poor boys of his acquaintance. When the son was fifty years old the father notified him that his fortune had grown to over $18,420, using round numbers. At seventy the father called his son's attention to his fortune of over 559,000, and since the son had received the rewards of hla Industry he did not Mill take possession of the fortune. The father soon after died, and in his will required his executors to keep the principal and Interest loaned until the son ahould receive It or be removed by death. The latter lived to a good old age, and on his son's onehundredth birthday, besides the accumulation of a busy and prosperous life, was Incumbered with a fortune of $39,300. Kansas Farmer. A Smart School. A facetious schoolmaster asked the class in arithmetic, "If 5Mr rods make a perch, how many will make a pickerel?" At which a smart boy responded, 'Please tell us first. If two hogsheads make a ripe, how many will make a meerschaum?" N. Y. Ledger. Map rt ihm United States. A large, handsome map of the United States, mounted and suitable for office or home use, Is Issued by the Burlington route. Copies will be mailed to any address on receipt of 12 cents in postage by P. S. Kustls, Gen'l Pass, agent, C, 13. & Q. R. R., Chicago, 111.

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SOME FOREIGN MISCELLArfY

INTERESTING FACTS FROM DIFFERE.T EtnOPKAX COUNTRIES. Th Population of Rnssla Coal In Europe Railroad Bridges There The VlnfB-K of France The Telephone In Sirltcerland Carlsbad.

The population of Russia, Including. In Europe and Asia, about one-sixth of the entire land surface of the globe, has Increased in an, extraordinary degree during the greater part of the past century and during the present one. In 1722 she had only 14.000,000, while at present she has In round numbers 123,000,000 inhabitants. The increase of her population during various Intervals of the period stated was as follows: In 1722 she had 14.000.0W; In 176. 19,000,000; In 1795. 36.000.000; in 1S15. 43.000.000; in 1554. 68.tW0.0OO; In 1872, 86,000,000; in 1SS6. 113,000,000 and now. in 1S93. she har, 125,000,000 Inhabitants. As to the last named number, Russia in Europe, Poland and Finland Included, haa 98.000.000 of them. The Increase referred to of the population of Russia is caused by a high birth rate existing there. In consequence of early marriages among the peasants, although the death rate la also high in that country, particularly in some parts of It. Yet the number of the births there is now annually 1,500,000 larger than that of the deaths. The abolition of serfdom in Russia was favorable to the Increase of the birth rate there. Serfdom was abolished in Russia in lStl. after it had existed for 270 years in that country. . It may be added yet that also emigration from and immigration into Russia takes place. Yet the numbers of the emigrants and immigrants are comparatively small. The latter chiefly come from Germany and Austria. Conl In Europe. The aggregate production of coal In Great Britain, Germany, France and Belgium increased In the following manner from 1S6Ö to 1891: Production in 1863, 150,000,000; In 1875, 212,000,000; in 18S5. 270,000.000, and in 1S91, 325.000,000 tons. Thus the production of coal In the four countries named increased more than 116 per cent, during the period stated of twenty-five years. In Germany the increase was largest. From 28.000,000 in 1SC5 her production rose to 94.000.000 tons in 1891. France produced 26.000,000 tons in 1S01 or 11.50;),000 more than in 1SÖ5. Annually consuming 36,000,000 tons she does not produce all the coal she needs. Tha production of Belgium, that was 12.000,000 tons in 18f,5, rose to 20.000.0DO in 1M. Belgium is by far the smallest of the four countries named. Great Britain has always been the chief coal producing country of Europe. She produced 9S.000.0OO tons in 1S65 and 1S5.000.0oO in 1S91. which numbers were larger than those of the aggregate production of Germany, France and Belgium in the same years. Austria-Hungary has alo made great progress in the production of coal, her present production being about 26.000,0fM) tons annually. Russia, too, comprising fuMy one-half of Europe, produces a considerable amount of coal. Coal, for heating and lighting purjtoses, is an inestimable boon of nature to man. Ilnilrond Bridge In Europe. An iron railroad bridge across the Vistula river at Forden, a town of Prussia, Germany, that is the longest railroad bridge of that country, has junt been finished. It is one of the longest railroad bridges of Kuro-v. Its construction has lasted two years and a half and it costs 8,000,000 marks (($2.000,000). The bridge has eighteen spin:-, five above the water and the rest above the level banks.- The former are 100 meters (323 feet) and the latter 62 meters (203 feet) wide, measured from the middle of one pier to that of the next. The most improved kind of iron for building purposes, to the weight of 11,000.000 kilogrammes (24,2r.0,S20 ponnd.-O has been used for the construction of the bridge. It is an interesting fact that the latter has exactly the same length as the most fashionable street, Unter den Linden, of Berlin, the German capital, namely 1,223 meters (4,347 feet). The following railroad bridges of Europe have the greatest length: Tho bridge across the Danube river at Tchernavoda, Roumania. 3.850 meters (12,631 feet); it has not been quite finished yet, but is still building; the bridge across the Tay river at Dundee, Scotland. 3,200 meters (10.499 feet): the bridge acros the Firth of Forth at Queensferry, Scotland, 2,334 meters (7,854 feet); the bridge across the Waal river at Momlyk. Holland, 1.47o meters (4.S23 feet); the bridge across the Volga river at Sysran, Russia, 1,433 meters (4.718 feet); the bridge across the Vistula river at Fordon, Germany, described above, 1,325 meters (4 347 feet): the bridge aerossthe Vistula river at Graudenz, Germany, 1.092 meters (3.583 feet); the bridge across the Vistula river at Thorn. Germany, 971 meters (3,1S6 feet), and the bridge across the Vistula river at Dlrschau, Germany, 785 meters (2,576 feet). The Vintnare of France. The time of gathering grapes in France commenced this year in the vicinity of Bordeaux on the 24th of August. Dry weather, moderated by sufficlently strong night dews, during the months of July and August, thus by more than one month accelerated this year the vintage of the district referred to. In the neighborhood of Vendome, Department of Loire-et-Cher, the vintage commenced still earlier. Some of the wine-growers thero from early bearing vines, grafted upon American plant, (adopted there on account of the damage done by the insect phylloxera to indigenous plants), gathered grapes even on the 3d of August, while others, cultivating indigenous vines, commenced their vintage on the 12th of August. New wine, therefore, could be had there on the 15th of August. For several centuries only the last days of August were known as the earliest dates of the vintage of France. In 1637 It commenced near Veuve, Department of Loire-et-Cher. on the 2tith of August, and in 1556 near Vendome on the 2Sth of that month. During the present century this year was only the second when grapes were gathered in France In August. In 1822 the vintage of that country commenced near Vendome on the 2Sth, and near Bordeaux on the 31st of August. In 1816, when the weather of France was quite different from that of the present year, the vintage there commenced on the 2Sth of October. The cultivation of the grape-vine Is a very important branch of the agriculture' of Franoe. The quantity of wine prorjeed there during tha laat vintage is estimated at 35.000,000 hectoliters (924.695.000 gallons). The greater portion of the wine produced in France Is consumed by her own people, although a great quantity of it is exported. Champagne, as la well known, Is one of the most famous of French wines. Of late years the production of wine In France has been reduced in consequence of the damage done to her vineyards by the Insect phylloxera. In 1S69, before that calamity, the wine produced by France amounted to 70,000,000 hectoliters or 1,849,000,000 gallons. The Telephone In Svrl t serlnnd. There Is, considering her size, no country of Europe where the telephone la ao much in use as in Switzerland. On th 1st of July of this year the num.- ; ) 7 '

ber of Swiss communities ronneeted by telephone was 154. while the number of subscribers there to Its use was 17.O00. In 1890 the annual subscription price for the uso of the telephone In that country was reduoed to 80 francs ($15.44). That fact is to be considered as the principal cause of the extensive use referred to of the telephone. Switzerland, the oldest existing republic in tho world. Is ene of the smallest countries of Europe. Her area Is only 15,931 square miles, and the number of her Inhabitants at the census taken in 1SS3 was 2.923.612. Carlxhnd. That famous watering place of Bohemia. Austria, was attended by 36.173 visitors, using Its waters for drinking and bathing purposes, during the late season, or by 187 persons more than during the season of last year. American and English visitors were not so numerous there this summer as formerly. Carlsbad is celebrated for Its hot Fprlngs, whose water contains a great amount of carbonate and sulphate of Btnla. Their temperature varies from 117 to 167 degrees Fahrenheit. The largest of them is the Sprudel, whost' water Is forced up to a hight of three feet from the ground. The total dally flow of the several springs of Carlsbad i3 estimated at 2.000,000 gallons. The season lasts there from April to October. J. G. HERTWIG.

THE OLD PIPE. (An aged smoker expatiates on the mystic influence of the weed.) It sits upon the mantel piece The relic of old times; And Its place within my presence Calls to mind the many dimes And the dollars spent upon it When a young man gay and free; But this self-same pipe has always Been the best of friends to me. In the first flush of yoLinn manhood. With my face toward the world With my hopes of life before me. And my schemes as yet unfurled; This old pipe was always by me, In my gain, or loss, or grief. Always bringing smiles for fortune. And for sorrow, sweet relief. With that pipe as my companion I could steal from worldly care Hold a wild and weird communion With the spirits of the air. Just as any withered beldam In the days of sorcery Might mount her trusty broomstick And go sailing off to be A partaker of those fiendi.sh rites Within a forest glade, Where his majesty (the devil Stirred the caldron with a spade. So my errant thoughts went roaming From the sordid scenes of earth To the airy realms of Fancy And a careless sense of mirth Would cover each affliction; And each trouble slowly died Into distance with the comfort Of that old pipe by my si-le. In the riper years of manhood, When oppressed with worldly cares When the harvest of my wild oats Was quite plentiful with tares. Still my old pipe stood beside me As a friend that never fled; Mitigating every trouble, Giving deepest Joy Instead. So in ae. the duller moments On the voyage to the tomb Are enlightened and enlivened By my pipe, and thus the gloom Of dark thougrhts disperses softly; And my eulogy shall b Only that my pipe my mistress Never falls to smile on me. FRANK W. BALLENGER. Richmond, Ind. Ivtiscllnh Weddlne Cuke. The Kns'.ish wedding cake is made in tiers, each tier of cake being topped hy a thick layer of almond paste, or marlran. as it It called. Hero is a London recipe for marzipan: One pound of ground almonds, one pound of fine sifted loaf sugar, the whites of two new laid eirirs and a few drops of essence of almonds. Mix the sugar and the ground almonds well together, then add, little by little, until the mixture assumes the appearance of a FtlfT paste. As some os3 contain more white than others, a little less than the whites of two t is sometimes sufficient, for the paste needs to be quite firm. Make it up into a thick block, and lit It dry very slowly la a moderate oven. Flenrlne nit Cut. And now the infants who have been nursing at the government teat until they have grown inordinately fat. are figuring up just how much their profits have been cut in the new tarif schedule, the masses are figuring just how much robber taxation they have had to pay. Practically free supar and free fjuinine give them some Idea of the amount they paid on the necessaries of life. Frankfort Crescent. THE BEST Your wife will wSmo r Anticipating the demand, special arrangements to supply

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Shirrer Plat "1 Attachments In bracket are all interchangeable into hub oa preaaar bat Fix Bobbins Feyen Necd!s, One Larpe Sorew Pnver, One Small .Screw Driver, One "Wrench, One Instruction Book. WARRANTY. is fully warranted for five yean. Ant

raft proving defective will be replaced free of charge, except ing needles, bobbins and shuttles.