Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1891 — Page 7

KINDNESS.

tis a Spirit jphat will Change the PhsLse of Everything. mat n Great Word It is—What Can be Mlghtieh—Sermon by Dr. Talmage • at Brooklyn. •spev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: ‘Kindness. ” Text, Acts xxviii, 2. s#said: Kindness! What a great word bat is. ~lt would take a reed as long is that which the apocalyptic angel ised to measure heaven to tell the ength, the breadth, the height of hat munificient word. Itis afavorte Bible word, and it is early aunched in the book of Genesis, iaught up in the book of Joshua, em>raced in the book of Ruth, sworn >y in the book of Samuel, crowned n the book of Psalms, and enthroned n many places in the New Testanent. Kindness! A word no more fen tie than mighty. I expect it will trestle me down before ! get through vith it. It is strong enough to throw in archangel. But it will be well for is to stand around it and warm ourlelves by its glow, as Paul and his fellow voyagers stood around the fire >n the Island of Malta, where the Maltese made themselves immortal uWy text by the wav they treated hese victims of the sea. "The barjarous people showed us no little ftfldness.” Kindness! All definitions of that nultipotont word break down half vay. You sav it is clemency beniglity,generosity; it is made up of good vishes; it is an expression of benefcence; it is a contribution to the lappiness of others. Some one else says: “Why, I can give you a deflation of kindness. It is sunshine of he soul; it is affection perennial; it s a climacteric grace; it is the com jination of all graces; it is compassion; it is the perfection of gentle aanliness and womanliness.” Are pou all through? You have made a lead failure in your definition. It ;an not be defined. But we all know svhat it is, for we all feel its power, some of you may have felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast of rock as the ship went to pieces, but more of us save again and again, in some,awful stress of life, had either from earth or heaven hands stretched out, which “showed us no little kindness.” ' There is kindness df disposition, kindness of word, kindness of act, and there is Jesus Christ the impersonation of all of them. Kindness! can not affect it, you can not jlay it as a part, you can not enact t,vou can not dramatize it. By the jrace of God you must have it inside if you, an evei’lasting summer, or rather a combination of June and October, the geniality of the one and the tonic of the other. It cannot iwell with arrogance or in spite or -evenge or malevolence. At its first ippearance in the soul all these Amafekites and Gergishites and Hittites ind Jebusites must quit, and quit md quit forever. Kindness wishes every woman well, every child well, every bird well, every horse well, every dog well, every cat well. Give this spirt full swing and you would lave no more need of societies for jrevention of cruelty to animals, no *#re need of protective sewing women's associations, and it would dull every sword till it would not cut skin deep, and unwheel every battery till t could not roll, and make gunpowder of no more use in the world exjept for rock blasting or pyrotechnic jelebrations. Kindness is a spirit divinely implanted, and in answer to prayer, and then to be sedulously Cultivated until it fills all the nature with a perfume richer and more pungent than mignonette, and, as if you jut a tuft of that aromatic beauty jehind the clock on the mantel, or in some corner where nobody can see it,. you find people walking about E-'nr room looking this way and that, I you ask them, “What are you king for?” and they answer, “Where is that flower?” So if one las in his soul this infinite sweetness )f disposition its perfume will whelm jverything. Let us all pray for this spirit of cindness. It will settle a thousand juestions, It will change the phase )f every thing. It will mellow through md through our entire nature. It rill transform.a lifetime. It is not i feeling gotten up for occasions but jerennia! That is the reason I like jetunias better than morning glories, t’hey look very much alike, and if I should put in your hand a petunia md a morning glory you could hardy tell which was the petunia and which the morning glory; but the norning glory blooms only a few lours and, then shuts up for the day, while the petunia is in as Widejpread of glee- in 12 o'clock at noon, md at li o'clock in the evening as at lunrisc. And 11 kindness s not, spasmodic, it is not intermit2nt, it is not for a little while, but it rradiates the whole nature all Brough und dear on till the sunset of our existence. Kindness! I am Osolved to get it. Are you resolved ®gd,it? It does not come by haplazard, but through culturgunder the Divine help. without culture. .’lujUtt^'stalks grow without cudrire. But that great red rose imthe conservatory, its leaves jacked on lgaVes, deep dyed as hough it had been obliged to fight or its beauty and it V.i\s still reeking with tVj carnage of battle, that rose needed to be cultured and through hmg years lte floral ancestors were rvltured. Oh God! itnjlant k.n>icss in all otir souls and then give us grace to watch it, to jnrich it, io aeveldp it. ■■' Still further, I must speak of kindrtss a word. When you meet any

one do you say a pleasant thing or an unpleasant? Do you tell him of the pleasant things you have heard about him, or the unpleasant things? When he leaves you does he feel better of does he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tongue is caged in we /night take the hint that it has dangerous power. First it is chained to the back of the moifth by strong muscle. Then it is surrounded by. the teeth, of the lower Jaw, sd'many ivarybars; and then by the upper jaw, moye ivoty bars. Then outside of ,a,H are the two lips with the power of compression and arrest. And yet, notwithstanding these four imprisonments or limitations, how many take no hint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are laceration, scarification and damnation. There aye those, if they know a good thing about you and a bad thing, #ill mention the bad thing and act as though they never heard of the good thing. Now there are two sides to almost every one’s character, and we have the choice of overhauling the virtue or the vice. We can greet Paul and the ship’s crew as they eome up the beach of Malta with the words, “What a sorry looking set you are! Mow little of navigation you must know to run on those rocks! Didn’t you know better than to put out on the Mediterranean this wintry month? It is not much of a ship anyhow, or it would not have gone to pieces so soon as that. Well, what do you want? We have hard enough work to make a living for ourselves without having thrust on us two hundred and seventy-six ragmuffins. ” Not so said the Maltese. I think they said, “Come in! Sit down and warm yourselves! Glad that you all got off with your lives. Make youselves at home. You are welcome to all we have until some ship comes in sight and you resume your voyage. Here, let me put a bandage on your forehead, for that is an ugly gash you got from the floating timbers, and here is a man with a broken arm. We will have a doctor come and attend to this fracture.” And though for three months the kindness went on, we have but little more than this brief record- “The barbarous people showed us no little kindness.” Ohj say the cordial thing! Say the usual thing! Say thfe hospitable thing! Say the hopeful thiag! Say the Christ-like thing! Say the kind thing! I admit that this is easier for some temperaments than for others. Some are born pessimists, and some are born optimists, and that demonstrates itself all through everything. It is a cloudy morning. You meet a pessimist and you say: “What weather to-day?” He answers: “It’s going to storm.” and umbrella under arm and a water-proof overcoat show that he is honest in that utterance. On the same block, a minute after, you meet an optimist and you say: “What weather to-day?” “Good weather: this is only a fog and will soon scatter.” The absence of an umbrella and the absence of a waterproof overcoat show it is an honest utterance. On your way at noon to luncheon you meet an optimistic merchant and you say:. “What do you think of the commercial prospects?” and he says, “Glorious. Great crops must bring great business. We are going to have such an autumn and winter, of prosperity as we have never seen.” On your way back to your store you meet a pessimistic “What do you think of the commercial prospects?” you ask. And he answers: ■“’Well, I don’t know. So much grain will surfeit the country. -Farmers have more bushels but less prices, and the frain gamblers will get their fist in. here is the McKinley bill; and the hay crop is short in some places, and in the southern part of Wisconsin they had a hail-storm and our business is as dull as ever it was. You will fiud the same differences in judgment of character. A man of good reputation is assailed and charged with some evil deed. At the first story the pessimist will believe in guitt. “The papers said so, and that’s enough. Down with him!” The optimist will say: “I don’t believe a word of jt. I don’t think that a man that has been as useful and seemingly honest for twenty years could have got off the track like that. There are two sides to this story and I will wait to hear the other side before I condemn him.” My hearer, if you are by nature a pessimist make a special effort by the grace of God to extirpate the dolorous and the hypercritical from your position. Believe nothing against any body until the wrong-is established by at least two witnesses of integrity. And if guilt be proved find out the extenuating Circumstances, if there are any. And then commit to memory so that you can quote for yom self and quote for others that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians about charity that suffers lon/* ( and ts kind, and hopeth all things, and endureth all By pen, by voice, in public and in private, say all the good about people that you can think of, and if there be nothing good, tighten the chain of muscle on the back end of your Inngue, and keep the ivory bars of teeth on the lower jaw and the ivory bars of teeth on the upper jaw locked, and the gates of your lips tightly closgd, and vour tongue shut up. Furthermore, there is kindness' of action. That is what Joseph showed to his outrageous brothers. That is what Qnesiphorous showed to Paul in the Roman penitentiary. That is the spirit which fast night ten thousand mothers snowed to their sick children, coming to give the drink at the twentieth call as

| cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first cad! Suppose all thus assemblage and all to whom these words shall come by printer’s type should resolve to make kindness an overarching, undergirding and all-per-vading principle of their life and then carry out the resolution, why, in six months the whole earth would feel it. People would say: “What is the matter? It seems to me that the world is getting to be a better place to live in. Why, life after all is worth living. Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclosure against that man, and because he has had so much sickness in his family he i$ going to have the house for one year rent free. There is an old lawyer in that young lawyer’s office, and do you know what he has gone in sere for? WhVj he is helping to fix up a case that is too big for the young man to handle, and tho white haired attorney is hunting up previous decisions, and making out a brief for the boy. Down at the bank I heard yesterday a note was due and the young merchant could not jneet it and an old merchant went in and got for him three months’ extension, which, for the young merchant, is the difference between bankruptcy and success in business. And in our street is an artist who had a fine picture of the Rapids of Niagara, and he could not sell it, and his family were suffering, and they were themselves in the rapids, and a lady heard of it and Said, Tdo not need the picture, but for the encouragement of art and helping you out of your distress, I ‘will take it’—and on the drawing room wails are the Rapids of Niagara. Do you know that a strange thing has taken place ip the pulpit aDd all the old ministers are helping the young ministers, and the old doctors are helping the young doctors. and the farmers are assisting each other in gathering the harvest, and for that farmer who is sick the neighbors have made a bee, as they call it, and they have all turned to' help him get his crops into the garner? And they tell mo that the older and more skillful reporters, who have permanent-posi-tions on papers, are helping the young fellows, who are just beginning to tfy and don’t know exactly how to do it. And after a few erasures>and interpolations on the reporter’s pad, they say, “Now here is a readable account of that tragedy; hand it in and I am sure the managing editor will take it. ’ And I heard this morning of a poor old man whose three children were in hot debate as to who should take care of him in his declining days. The oldest son declared it was his right because he is the oldest; the youngest son said it was his right because he was the youngest, and Mary said it was her right because she better understood father’s vertigo, and rheumatism, and poor spells, and knew better how to nurse him, and the only way the difficulty could be settled was by the old man’s, promise that he would divide the year into three parts, and spend a third of his time with each of them. And neighboring stores in the same line of goods on the same block are acting kindly to each other. It seems to me that these words of Isaiah are being fulfilled when he says, “The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the hammer, him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the soldering. ” What is the matter? It seems to me ouwold world is picking up. Why, the millenium must be coming in. Kindness has gotten the victory.” ' Illy hearers, you know and I know we are far from that state of things. But why not inaugurate a new dis? pepsation of geniality? If we can not have a millenium on a large scale, let us have it on a small seme and under our own vestments.' Kindness! If this world is ever brought to God, that is the thing that will do it. You can not fret the world up, although you may fret it down. - You can not scold it into excellence, or reformation, or godliness. 1 And while we take this matchless kindness from God, may it be found that we have uttered our last bitter word written our last cutting paragraph, done our last retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful heartthrob. Aud it would not be bad epitaph for any of us if by the grace of God, from this time forth, we lived such beneficent lives that the tombstone’s chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our grave a suggestion from the text: “He showed us no little kindness.”, But not until the child of God has get ashore from the earthly storms that drove him on the rocks like Mediterranean Eurociydons, not until all the thrones of heaven are mounted, and all the conquerors crowded and all tho&arps and trumpets and organs of heaven are thrummed or blown or sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and ages are in full chorus under the jubilant swing angelic baton, and we shall for thousands of years have seen the river from under the throne rolling into the “sea of glass mingled with fire,” and this world we now inhabit shall be so far in the past that only a stretch of celestial memory can recall that it ever existed at oil, not until then will we understand whrVNehemiah calls calls “the great kindness,” and David calls “the marvelous kindness,” and Isaiah ealli*“the everlasting kindness” of God.

Happy Man.

“Ah, Jonesy, old man,” said Hicks as he and Jones walked home from the dub; “there's a light in the window for you. You married men -—*’ “By Georgt*, s 6 there is!” returned Jones. “Let’s go back to the club.” ’ I ....

RAILROAD TAXES GREATLY INCREASED.

Table* Showing the Former and Present Valuations Placed Ppon the Property rs Railway Corporations—Large Increases In Many Cases. The State Board of Tax Commissioners has completed its labors. The total inereasi in valuation of railroads over 1890 is $90,5,37,951; an increase of 129 3-5 per cent. Tip estimated increase in the valuation of telephone and telegraph properties is $1,230,000 The total increase in corporation assessments is $1,908,251, making an aggregate increase of valuations of these three . classes of $94,205,150. The grand total o) all taxable property in the State is $1.359,558.799, as agamst r sß43,4B3»466\jact year The increase will thus reach close to $500,060,000, and the State's revenue be increased from about $1,400,000 to $2,417,103.83. The following table will show the assessment* of the various railroads in the State, as compared to those of last year: ' u - railroads. , Increase Ste. „ , I Over 1890 Total Av. Total Av. As’ess'm’t per m As’ess’m't. P'r m. Attica, Covington & Southern 78,051 5,395 $ 140,837 10,215 $ 62 771 Baltimore & Ohio and Chicago 2,011,750 13,746 4,609,895 38,332 2 598*272 Bedford & Bloomfield 78,519 1,898 291,914 7,057 ’ais’acs Belt Railroad (Indianapolis) 530,880 43.947 2,910,000 304,712 2 379*12(1 Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago....: 35,710 5,213 82,440 12,035 ’46 730 Chicago & Erie 2,018,465 12,634 5.611.131 35.05 ft s sibmi Chicago & Calamut Terminal. 60,3581 9,759 74,880 10,401 gUiM Chicago & Indiana Coal. 1,418,770 8,620 4.451,355 27.063 3 032*585 Chicago & Grand Trunk 1,468,325 18,244 3,044,988 37.834 1 576 653 Chicago & West Michigan 241,277 7,001 410,680 11,918 169 403 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis.. 884.140 11,297 2,740,382 35,017 1 856*°92 Cincinnati, Lafayette St Chicago 273,155 11,500; 883,085 37,140 ’eoß*93C Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne.. Cincinnati <fc Southern Ohio River 29,235 ] 7,741 36,852 11,20! ’ 7 617 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan 250,880, 7,300 1,823,349 10,816 Clevel'd, Cinc’ti, Chicago & St. Louis • : ’ Indianapolis division ;.... . 1,437,340 17,143 2,998,856 35,757 1 560 71C St. Louis division.... 1,205,780 14,983 2,814,679 34,978 1*608*899 Chicago Whitewater division 276,075 4,434 j 558,550 - 8,971 382*475 Lawrenceburg branch 26,950 9,226 37,575 12.56? 8*625 Harrison ; Branch........... 7,200 5,832 10.160 12,555 2’ r 6n Columbus, Hope <fc Greensburg.. .... 187.580 7,725 384.487 16,285 207*907 Eel River. 846,176 8,544 1,667,785 16,860 82L609 Elgin, Joliet & Eastern - 146,699 6,882 476,930 22,520 330 330 Evansville Belt 25,820 5,802 79,450 17,854 , 53 670 Evansville & Indianapolis 563,965 4.125 1,713,254 12 645 1 149 °B<i Evansville <fe Richmond 293,020 3,.551 1,042,365 10.262 *749*345 Evansville, Suburban & Newburg 48,12 ) 4,424 154,185 14,145 105 865 Evansville <fe Terre Evansville. Terre Haute & Chicago.... 443,900 10,282 1,119,310 25,927 *675*410 Fairland, Franklin & Martinsville... . 272,290] 7,122 428,417 11.206 156’127 FortWayne, Cincinnati <L Louisville.. 773,580 6,027 2,246,747 17.481 1 473*167 Fort Wayne & Grand Rapids & Indiana... 631.790 11,890 1,016,326 19,136 384 536 Henderson Bridge Company 282,662 29,474 627,660 66,380 '344 998 Indiana Block Coal. * 68,320 5 371 155,724 12,242 87 404 Indiana, Illinois & lowa 189,493 3,848 405.505 8,235 216*012 indiana <fc Illinois 50uthern........... 110,000 3,437 338,050 10,581 ndianapolis, Decatur & Western...... 514,550 6,747 1,498,162 19,645 983*612 Indiana & Lake Michigan 116.605 8 188 ’ Indianapolis Union 579,0003,064,000 ’*"‘> 485 000 Indianapolis & Vincennes 736,550 6,299 2,456,654 21,011 1*720* IC4 Island Coal Branch, I. <fc V 57,960 4,047 174,930 14 741 116 970 Gosport Branch, I. &V• ■• • 16,720 4,000 52]907 12 275 36 187 Joliet & Northern Indiana 231.075 14,290 259,603 16,781 28*534 Kentucky & Indiana Bridge Company.. 59,800 ......! 206,230 .. 146*430 Lake Erie & Western.... 2,880,910 9,084 5.558,943 17,531 2,678.033 Lake Shore <fc Michigan Southern 4,356.530 28,485 8.141,325 52 516 3 784 795 i Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis 1,610,098 7,681 3,814,918 18*203 2*‘ > o4’B2o Louisville & Nashville. 431,334 15,225 795,831 27,668 * 364*497 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago - 3,861,131 8,531 9,490,015 21,023 5 628*884 Louisville, New Albany & Corydon.... 37,250 3,239 81,187 7,645 43*937 Louisville Bridge Company 80,000 240,000 ifo 000 ■Louisville <fe Jeffersonville Bridge Co 80,635 ’ Michigan Central 1,511,490 35,650 1,504,251 35,700 Michigan Air-Line 80,220 13.235 79,220 13 072 * Midland 252,950 3,418 518.045 6>28 265,095 New Albany Belt and Terminal.. 200,000 (OOOfi New Albany Highland ; 20,000 16,80 c I New York, Chicago & St. Louis 2,453,218 16,237 5,289.326 35,0241' 2,837,101 Ohio Valley. 24,348 5,742 ! 53,412 12,657' 29,054 Ohio & Mississippi...... 3,159,347 13,542 6,541,203 28.038 3,381,856 Orleans, West Baden & French Lick.... 94,240 5,3241 187,040 10 567 92 800 Peoria & Eastern, western division™, 719,035 9.1 r O, 2,434,938 30,981 1 715*903 Peoria <fc Eastern, eastern diyision 678,655 8,783 1,938,897 25,922 1 260 245 Peoria. Decatur & Evansville ... .7 293,114 7,771 659,381 17,480 *366,*267 Peru & Detroit 65,620 9 038 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. L. 8,432,400 13,030 22,656,370 35*010 14 234 078 Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago 5,738,200! 37,6K)j 10,903,070 71,4691 5*164*87C Rantoul.... 33,298| 4.0501 90,536 11,014 57.238 State Line & Indiana City 42,210 12,567 94.324 27,795 52 114 Sturgis, Goshen & St. Louis 119,345 4,654 285.351 11,121 186J106 Terre Haute & Indianapolis 1,740,107 23,030 2,920,257 36,451' 1,180,15« lerre Haute & LoganSpOTt.,:.....™™:. 1,140,628 6,247 t -2,821,476 15,454 1 680 845 Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City 1,182,210 6.906 | 2,638,480 15.411 1*456*27« Vernon, Greensburg & Rushville «49,890 7,653 1 545,7(X 12,251 *204*811 Wfbash. . 2,919,445 17,587 4,658,501 24,063 1,73»;06» White River (Kingan & Co.) 5,040 , 31,500 26^460 f ; Totals $69,762,676 $160,809,575 $90,557,95 4 * Michigan Central assessment reduced $7,239; Michigan Air Line reduced SI,OOO, RECAPITULATION i- r , . , Miles. Value. Main track.. f. 6,015.58 $127,149,232 Second track 159.37 2,901,180 Side-track..; ...1,490.96 6,646,355 Rolling stock ... n * 5,873,83 21,598,416 Improvements on right of way. 2,514,398 "Total valuation fur 1891 t;: ::: ........SIOO,-809^75

ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.

Terrible Remits of a Collision Between Greee and Italian Steamships. A collision has taken place off Cape Colonna, the most southern part of Attica, between an Italian steamer, the TaoromIna, and a Greek steamship, the Thessalia. The Taoromina sunk soon after the accidont, drowning her captain, some of her crew and many or her cabin passengersThe second officer of the Tacromlna and a number of her passengers, who were standing on the bridge when the collision occurred, were saved by the boats of the Thessalia. It is thought that at least one hundred persons perished. The damage done to tho Taoromina was so great that she sunk a few minutes after being struck by the Greek steamship. Most of the Taoromlna’s passengers were tn their berths when the vessels collided. Tho Thessalia was badly damaged forward, but, by keeping tho pumps going, thestoamer just succeeded in reaching Phaleron. The captain of the Taoromina remained on the bridge with the greatest coolness and sank witli the vessel. All the malls jyid a quantity of bullion were lost Several Englishmen were drowned. A Greek sailing vessel passing at the time saved sixteen persons and landed them on the coast.

FISHING.

The Proper Equipment for Thorough Enjoyment of the Sport, Life. Fishing requires- a philosophical disposition and a ready imagination. The former will enable the fisherman to endure black flies and mosquitoes, with which all fishing abounds, and the latter will enable them to think he is enjoying the sport. The equipment for fishing depends largely upon what kind of fish are to oe caught. It is not sportsmanlike to catch sharks with a trout rod, and something more than a deck of cards and a set of poker chips are necessary to lure the Restigouche salmon from his lair. , An alpenstock will be found useful

in pursuing mountain trout, and in deep sea fishing a diver’s suit is absotuteiy: ittdispeasable. ;—c,,,,.* It is wise not to tell the neighbors when you are going fishing. On your return they are likely to be curious and may be offended by your reticence. If, when trolling for bass, you should happen to catch one, do not get excited and upset the boat. You will get your clothing wet and the boatman will think you are not an experienced angler. _ You might as well have a good time while you’re away fishing. Your nose will be sunburned anyway. Mayonnaise sauce will be found a good bait for cold salmon. If you should chance to catch an eel you will find a pair of trouserstretchers useful in getting him off the hook. Fly-fishing for oysters is becoming more popular. A brown hackle is the best fly at this season. Care should be taken that the oyster, once hooked, does not run but to sea. Although the flesh of negro babies is the best bait to use in alligator fishing, publiq opinion *is rather against the practice. Experienced anglers rarely fish through the ice in August. As a sporting authority we incline to the old theory that tne best way to catch muscalonge is to put salt on their tails. | [-. f Wo are happy to say that the foiv mer practice of chasing bullfrogs across country with hounds is rapidly being abandoned. Baiting with red flannel is far more sportsmanlike. In whale fishing the best bait is a Jonah, and no party of whale fishers will start without one.

Beets tor Stock.

No succulent food U more greedilj eaten by pigs at any age than beets. Thej%nay be fed any timo from th« first thinnings during the growing season to the fully grown rooto in winter. They are especially valuable as a part of the winter food for breeding sows, and some beets should always be saved for that ournose.

THE HEROINES OF TONKIN.

A Splendid Tempi* Dedicated to Two Girls Who Won Enduring ain e. —), i Yjs A little -out of the City of Hanoi, in Tonkin, is a remarkably handsotne pagoda in which live twenty women. They seldom, leave their chosen heme, and they subsist upon the contributions of visitors and upon some small revenues which the temple receives from the government. Some of them are young and pretty, and in intelligence and attainments they are all above the common people. They are recluses, and their mission is to perform the work of the temple and to keep a light constantly burning before the life-size statues of two young women whose patriotic heroism is thus hbnored, and the memory of their achievements and martyrdom for their couutry kept alive in the hearts of the people, though they lived nearly nineteen centuries ago. Their career greatly resembles i that of Joan of Arc. In the year 36 of the present era,' Tonkin was suffering under the oppressive rule of China, who had driven her legitimate kings from the Tonkin was a Chinese province, ruled by Chinese functionaries, and the people groaned under a heavy yoke. Two young sisters, of noble ’ family, tamed Chin Se and Chin Eul, took advantage of the wide-spread discontent to stir up a revolt. Remarkable for their energy and bravery, and greatly admired for their bravery and splendid horsemanship, they placed themselves at the head pf a volunteer army, aDd drove the foreigners | pell-mell out o 1 Tonkin. For a time Tonkin was her own master, the sisters were idolized, and the people received them with acclamations and gratitude. The news traveled to Pekin of the disgrace two women had inflicted upon the Chinese arms, arid* the Emperor Koang Ti sent a great army under one of his most famous soldiers to teach Tonkin and her female generals a terrible lesson. _ When the army reached Tdnlcin the sisters and their warriors met the Chinese host on the frontier, and contested the ground step by step, performing prodigies of valor. The decisive battle finally took place on ,the outskirts of the capital. The Tonkinese at first had the best of the fight, but in the crisis of the battle some ol their generals passed over to the enemy. This treason gave the victory to the Chinese. The -two- sisters fell from their horses pierced with spears as they were leading a last charge in the vain effort to check the Chinese advance. The memory of their patriotism and feats of arms has been perpetuated in the_costly temple. Hich walls surround it, and only those can enter who have a permit Within are many carvings end paintings, done in the best style ol Tonkinese art, depleting scenes in tho brief but glorious career of the two sisters. A great couch is shown, which Is supposed to be similar to that upon which the sisters sat when they gave audiences. Specimens of ancioul weapons of warfare hang on the wails. There are life-sized paintings to represent the horses upon which the sisters rode, and one wall is entirely devoted to apaintingof the two elephants which always marched at the head of the army of the heroines. The statues of the sisters stand upon bases of stone, and they are richly robed in silks. Before them burns a lamp, and the recluses of the temple are very careful to keep the flame constantly blazing.

People With Horns.

Human freaks in all imaginable shapes are well known to the frequenters of the dime museums. However, notone person in 1,000, perhaps in 10,000, knows that human beings with horns like an ox or a unicorn have Jcequently been exhibited ip the cities of England and continental Europo during the past 500 years. The first of these rare specimens of the homo of whom an authentic written account has been preserved, one Piet Darnelo, was up before the town tribunal of Lisbon in 1306 on a charge of being an offspring of the devil. When born Piet had two horns grown from his head, one over his left ear about one and one-half inches in length, the other almost exactly in the centre of his forehead nearly three inches lcng. At first both were covered with a sou, downy fur like that onthie new horns of animals of the deer species, but this soon cracked and peeled off, leaving •horny excrescences which in the quaint language of the account ‘*did much resemble the spurs of ye male b-irne-yarde fowls.” The horn near the ear was immovable from the first, being firmly attached to the skull. The larger the forehead seemed only in the sxin, and could be pressed down until the point touched the nose without causing the owner the least apparent pain. At the age of three years the larger horn was removed. During that short time it had grown from less than three inches to nearly seven inches in length, and had given evidence of becoming permanently attached to the frontal bone. Within the year following % soft tumor appeared over the right ear of little Piet conforming in position almost exactly to that of the smaller permanent horn over the other ear, which hud at this time attained a length of near five inches. From the tumor there sprang a horn which grew with alarming rapidity for tbrec‘or~ftrar r months, or until it had grown to be about the length of the one over the left ear.

Asking Too Much of the Girls.

i. '>£ - * - . If a girl wore fe attempt to follow all tho secrets of health and beauty fourd in the ladies’ columns of tho magazines she would spend the entire night In bathing, brushing her hair, oiling her hands, donning old gloves and doing the host of other things recommended to be performed before retiring.

But it Doesn’t Pay.

The old saying that a man who minds his - own business will make money is not true. Charles Cochrane, a Canadian, has remained on his farm for fourteen straight years without leaving it, and has not spoken to a str&ugeiun all that time, and yet he is poorer than when he began.