Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — Page 6

: THE REPUBLICAN. Gbom E. Marshall, Publisher. RENSSELAER - INDIANA

Tins pastor of a Baptist church in Norwich. N. Y., Sunday had among bis hearers a traveling minstrel troupe, whpitti he had especially in* vited to the service. It was a new experience for the burnt cork artists, ind it is said the fine sermon, full of charity and brotherly love, visibly effected some of them. !" . ... 1 < It strikes our traditional conceptions as little short of sacrilege that a locomotive will soon go puffing and shrieking through Palestine, landing you by palace car right within the sacred precincts of Jerusalem, where the worldly brakeman will yell out the hameof the station and the gong of some provident dis* penscr of sandwiches will jar upon your retrospective imagination. Yet to this pass is modern progress bringing us.

• The 40,000 French coal miners who are making a concerted protest against the hardships of life and the injustice of employers have really little reason to believe that flattering prospects are before them.. All that* has been written about the collieries of France and England for several years tends to show that seams are being worked out, and that miners must go deaper and endure more dust and heat. The fact that deeper mining will add to the cost of production does not improve the prospects that the miners of the future are to have better pay and shorter hours.. The work is hard and unhealthful, and the faithful toilers deserve the utmost consideration of the capital that employs them and every device that may mitigate the perils and discomforts of thei r service.

A significant indication of the changes in theideas and sentiments of the people of the South, and in the material condition of things throughout the Southern States, is contained in the incidental remark es a Richmond newspaper that •‘Many hundred young ladies are employed in the various factories of Richmond, and the number is daily growing.” Many Northern people still hold firmly to the belief that the woman who works for her living in the South is looked down upon and slighted, and that working girls and women are at a great social disadvantage there. That may have been the case at one time, but it is not so now. The item notes the refusal of a license to a bar-room in the neighborhood of one of the factories where the women are employed, for the reason that the city was determined to see that the environments of the women were “such as they have a right to expect.” Another interesting item is that statistics show that the South now has 1,200,000 more spindles than it had eleven years ago.

The recent street car strike at Indianapolis had an interest to people in all parts of the State. Its permanent settlement will be a relief to many who feared a fearful outcome. The settlement was due largely to the disposition of both sides to "let go.” It is not evident that the strikers gained a victory, however, nor even a compromise. Of the eight demands made of the company but one is positively known to have been granted, and this one at a time fixed by the company itself, namely, the reinstatment of the five discharged employes. Of the other demands none seem to hate been granted the wages were not increased, the non-union employes were not discharged, the badges for free rides were not restored. These were the a demands that were of vital interest to the brotherhood. The lesson that is to be gained from this strike is that strikes do not pay except as a last resort. The street car employe’s union at Indianapolis was a strong one, and the union sentiment of the city is also strong. The employes felt that with such a thorough organization there was no such word as fail. The result has taught them that failurir may come even with a strong organization. It is very generally regretted that their demands were not acceded to or gained by the strike, for all of them (probaby with one exception) seemed to be just. But they did not succeed, and they heed not be surprised if the great corporation becomes more arrogant in the future than it has been in the past—probably requiring the drivers 'to walk while driving.

THE GNAT.

Strain at a Gnat and Swallow a Camel. A Vlg»rou» Onslaught on Formalism and Hypocrisy—Dr. Talmage’s Sermon. ■' > Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn, last Sunday. Text. Matt, xxiii.. 24He said: A proverb is compact wisdorh: knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put thro'ugh a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text He means to set forth the ludicrous behavior of those who make a great bluster about small sins ;a»d nave no appreciation of great ones. My text shows you the prince of inconsistencies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water he is about to drink there is a grub or grandparent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve ' ppurs it through the seive in the broad light. He says: “I Would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this ,larvae be extirpated.” This water is brought runder inquisition. The experiment is successful. The water rushes through the seive and leaves against the side of the seive the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the insect and drinks the water in placidity. But going out one day, and hungry, he devours a “ship of the desert.a camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from po indigestion. He puts the lower jaw unde? the camel’s forefoot, and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel’s back, and gives one swallow, and the dromedary djse ppbars fore ver. Restrained out* a gnat, he swallowed a camel. = While Christ’s audience were yet smiling at the appositeness and wit V 4 His illustration —for smile they did in church, unless they were too stupid to understand the hyperbole —Christ practically said to them, “That is you.” Punctilious about

smull things; reckless abeut affairs of grefit magnitude. No subject ever writhed under a surgeon’s knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees under Christ’s scalpel of truth. There are in our day a great many •jt-mals swallowed, and it is the object of this sermon td sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in First, I remark, that all those minix \ers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the con ven ionalities of religi n, but put no particular stress upon metters tof vast importance. Church S 3, vices ought to be grand and soledit. There is no room for frivolity ia religious convocation. But there are illustrations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent auditory. There are men like those blind guides of the text *ho advocate only those things ir religious service which draw the corners of the mouth down, and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth ud, and these men will go to installations and presbyteries and to conferences and to associations, their pockets full of fine, sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and the drawled-out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. /Now, I say it is worse to sleep .n church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the st pidity of the speaker. In old age or from physical infirmity. or from Icing watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimesoverpower one; but n hen a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to give out the doxology or pronounce the benediction. Tne great fault of church service to-day is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an iritating gnat that may be easily strained out: the other is a i great, sprawling 'and sleepy-eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath-schools in all our Bible classes, in all Our pulpits, we need to brighten up our religious message with such Christian-like vivacity as we find in the text: I take down from my library the biographies ministers and writers of past ages, inspired and uninspired who have done the most to bring | souls to Jesus Christ, and I find that I without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elisha used it when he advised the Baalites. George Her bert, Robert Smith, John Wesley, George Whitfield, Jeremv Taylor, Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney* and all of the men of the past who have advanced the Kingdom of God concentrated their wjl and their humor to the of Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and 1 say to these voung theological students who cluster in these Services Sabbath by Sabbath, sharpen your wits as sharp as scimetersk and then take them into this holy, far. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip, and it is soon erased over, and a smile is vymetimes just as a tear. Th*, re L as mueh religion add I think a UtCle more, in-a spring morning Ahan in a starless midnight Religion werks without anyhumoror wit

in it is a banquet with a Side of beef and that raw, and no condiments and no desert succeeding. Again: My subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of* small sins, while they are reckless in regard to magnficent thefts. You will find many a merchant who, while hq is so careful that he wcuid not take a yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills fh,too much, would dispatch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company, in which, after awhile, he gets control of the stock and then waters the stock and makes SIOO,OOO appear like $200,000. He only stole SIOO,OOO by the operation. Many of ■the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men, engaged in such unrighteousness, that evening, the evening of the very day when he watered the stock, will find a wharf rat stealing an evening paper from the basement doorway, and will go out and catch the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: “I have been looking for you a long while; you stole mp paperfour or five times, haven’t you? You miserable wretch!” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out, “Police! Police!” That same man, the evening of the day in which he watered, his stock, will kneel with his family in prayer and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children good-night with an air which seems to say: “I hope you will all grow up to be as good as your father.” Prisons for sins insectile in size, but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for ,sins animalcule in*propertion, but great lenieney for a mastodon iniquity. .

It is time that we learn in America that sin is not excusable in proportion as it declares large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition position ahead and lackey behind. To steal a dollar is*a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel.

And men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their elevators and in their store houses they are fattening huge camels which they expect after a while to swallow. Society has to be entirely reconstructed on this subject. We are to find that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is great. - I know in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say, “Oh, what a class of frauds you have in the Church of God in this day,” and when an elder of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or a Superintendent of a Sabbath-school, turns out a defaulter, what display heads there are in many of the newspapers. Great Primer type. Five-line pica- “ Another Saint Abscounded.” Clerical Scoundrelism.” Religion at a Discount. ” "Shame on the Churches, while there are a thousand scoundrels outside the church to where there is one inside the church, and the misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in his “Paradise Lost,” while hecondemns Satan,gives such agrand description of him you j haye hard work to suppress your admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats, and this gulp-ing-down great iniquities like camels. The subject does not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likenesses; For instanoe all those people who, while they would not rob their neighbor of a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the public. A man has a house to sell, and he tells his customer it is worth $20,000. I Next day the assessor comes around and the owner says it is worth $15,000. The government of the United States took off the tax from personal ; income, among other reasons because J so few people would tell the truth. ; and many a man with an income of i hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he wus about to be handed over to the overseer pt the poor. Careful to pay their passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, telling the Custom house officer on the wharf, "There is nothing in that trunk but wearing apparel.” and putting ass gold piece in his hand to punctuate th* state ment.. - Desbribed in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of grammar, and who want all their languarge an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out ail the ' inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve - of literary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and ibnuendo and profanity And falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law »f the langu&ge and shock then* taste, and better let e ,T ery verb'seek in* vain for Its nominative, ao4 eve»Q noun for its government, au< w.-ery preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and paXictples atld pronouns get into a gr; «.d riot worthy of the Fourth War 3 election da\ than commit a moral inaccuracy. Bet>er swallow 1,000 than a camflL . pcCTQos ftlso ucscnaoc in

the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others, and have no alarm about their own great* transgressions. There are in every; community and in every church,' watch-dogs who feel called upon ta keep their eyes on others and growl.’ - The/are full of suspicions. They wonder if that man is not dishonest, if that man is hot unclean, if there is not something wrong about the other man. They are always the first to .hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the 1 first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed detectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exceptions, ' that those people whohave the most faults themselves are most merciless in their watching others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and hypereriticismS. They spend their lives iu hunting for musk-rats and mud turtles instead of hunting for Rocky Mountain eagles, always for something mean insteac of for something grand. They 100., at their neighbors’ imperfections through a look at their own through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them half so much as one fault ol somebody else. Their neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own imperfections are like camels, and they swallow them. But lest any might think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that we all come under the. divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question. Where shall I live now? geater than the question, Where shall I live forever? How shall I get more dollars here? greater than the question, How shall I lay up treasures in heaven? The question, How shall I pay my debts to man? greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the question, How shall I gain the world? greater than the question, What if I lose my soul? the question, Why did God let sin come into the world? greater than the question, How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? the question, What shall I do with the twenty or forty or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question. What shall Ido with the

millions of cycles of my post-terres-trial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said, “That doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t mean me, ” and with a ruinous benevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What poor preparation fdr a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth, as though a swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, -as though a minute were longer than a century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by the crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the question of the future, the oncoming, overshadowing future. O Eternity! Eternity! Eternity!

Mexican Leisure.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat. We live a poetic existence in Mexico. WcnevcFgct —in a - hurry.“Manana” (to-morrow) is the rule there. The climate is enervating and the people are delightfully indolent. One universal custom that is particularly charming is the daily siesta. Men and women of high and low degree indulge in it, and even the City of Mexico, which is rapidly becoming modernized under Ameri can influence, is notexempt from it. Go in any Mexican city bet ween the hours of 2 and 4 in the afternoon and you’ll think you are in a deserted village. Everybody is asleep. Eveq the dogs cease their yelping and the goats their bleating. Banks, stores and public offices are closed, and the man who would intrude on the sanctified stillness would feel like a savage. But after 4 o’clock the aspect of everything is changed. Business is resumed with renewed vigor and activity. Banks are kept open till 7 o’clock, and factories are not closed before 8. From 9to 11 o’clock we have supper, which is the principal meal of the day. Then it is that the dark-eyed senoritas array themselves in all the gorgeousness of the tropics and tune their guitars and mandolins for the evening's love-making. The soft tinkle of their stringed instruments makes the night air all the more sensuous, and the cabelleros are frantic with delight. We don’t go to bed before midnight, and | no one ever thinks of breakfasting! before 9 o’clock, x

A Mean Man.

St Louis Republic. “Yes,” said the society* 4ady the other night at a swell West End .affair, “I have Crossed the ocean eleven times.” I The smartkyoung man adjusted his inonocle and said: “Ah? Born abroad.” “No, indeed. Why do you ask?” “Because, if you were born'in this country and crossed the oevsn eleven times you would now be on the other side, dontcher know?” j| \ The lady figured a moment ofc the tips of her pretty fingers, btashed Lijr. nee*.

SALISBURY’S REPLY.

Willing to Renew the Vivendi in Certain Contingencies, ts Uncle Sam Will Ratify the Traaty apd Agree to Pay Damages to Poachers, if the Arbitrators Decide Against Him. 1 Lord Salisbury, under date of March 26, nade public on the 28th,' has replied as follows to Sir Julian Pauncefote, in reipoßse to Mr' Wharton's note of March 23. “In reply to your telegram of the 23d nst., notice has been given to owners of ‘hips sai'ing for Beringsea that the agreement at present under discussion between Great Britain and the United States as to

arbitration, and the one as to an intermeiiate arrangement, may affect the sealing m Bering sea. They have, therefore, notice of their liability to probable interruption, and will sail subject to that notice. The question of time is not, therefore, urgent. Inform the President that we concur in thinking that when the treaty has been ratified there will arise a new state jf things. Until it is ratified our conduct s governaUby thelatffeu&ge of your note jn the 14th ot June, 1890. But when it is ratified both parties must admit that contingent rights have become vested in the jther, which both desire to protect, "We think that the prohibition of seal* ing, if it stands alone, will be unjust to British sealers if the decision of the arbitrators should be adverse to the United States. We are, however, willing when the treaty has been ratified to agree to an arrangement similar to that of last year if the United States will consent that the arbitrators should, in the eventof a decisidh adverse to the United States, assess the damages which the prohibition of sealing shall have inflicted on British sealers during the pendency of arbitration, and in the syent of a decision adverse to Great Britain should assess the damages which the

imitation of slaughter should, during the tendency of arbitration, have inflicted on :he United States or its lessees. “As an alternative course we are also willing, after the ratification of the treaty, lo prohibit sealing in-the disputed waters, if vessels be excepted from prohibition which produce a certificate that they have riven security for such damages as the arbitrators may assess in case of a decision adverse to Grent Britain, the arbitrators to receive the necessary authority in that behalf. In this case a report of slaughter an the islands will not, in point of equity be necessary.”

“Her Majesty's government is unable to see any other than one of these, two meth)ds of restricting seal-killing in the disputed waters dering the arbitration which would be equitable to both parties.” A later note from Lord Salisbury to Sir Julian Pauncefote, March 26, says: “With further reference to your telegram of the 23d iust., I am not prepared to admit, as I gather that the President thinks that we have objected to the arbitrators having jurisdiction as to damages inflicted in the past by the party against whom the award is given. I only objected to her Majesty’s government being liable for acts they have not committed. lam ready to consent to a reference on this point on the following terms: “That in case the arbitrators should decide in favor of the British government that government may ask them further to decide whether the United States governernment has, since 1885, taken any action in Behring sea directly inflicting wrongful loss on British subjects, and, if so, to assess the damages incurred thereby; that in case the arbitrators should decide in favor of the government of the United States, that government may ask them to jleclde further whether the British government has, since 1885, taken action in Behring sea directly inflicting wrongful loss on the I nited (States, and, if so, to assess the damages incurred thereby.”

CHINESE SLAUGHTER.

Eight Thousand Rebels Put to Death by the Government. Five Hundred Burned Alive by the Troops —Detalla of a War That Means Bloodshed. According to advices received from Shanghai on the 28th the bloody engagement# between the imperial troops and rebels in northern China resulted in the slaughter of several thousand rebels The imperial army lost only five killed and forty-five wounded. Over eight thousand rebels were put to death with the sword and five hundred actually burned. A number of engagements are reported. A body of insurgents numbering three hundred was overtaken by the Imperialists at a place sixty miles Irani Kulun, and over one hundred of them were killed and three leaders were made prisoners. In a second engagement over fifty of the enemy were put to the sword and the remainder were obliged to retire to a Dawn shop, the strong walls of which made it an admirable place to defend. The Imperialists closed’ invested the building and killed over 150 of the inmates. Intelligence later reached the Imperialists’ camp that a force of the enemy comprising six hundred cavalry and eight hundred infantry had arrived with the object of coming to the rescue of their confederates. They were attacked in* front and rear by the Imperial forces and lost 400 men du-ing the battle. Those who escaped encountered another party of Imperialists who shot fifty of them and made a scote of prisoners. Another detachment of rebels were posted’ at Meiyhaokontze, to which place the Imperialists continued their march. The rebel detachment numbered about one hundred, of which sixty were killed and twenty made prisoners, among the latter the so-called leader of the vanguard, Li Hang Tsa, who was instantly decapitated. A still larger force of the enemy was posted in the Chien Chang dis< trict, where they had an encampment with guns filled up ip loopholes of the walls surrounding the villages. Churche 9 ot the naw creed served as outposts of the rebel army. An onslaught was made upon •.heir position, and after an engagement la. tingAwo hours, eight hundred out of a total of 1,3(d were put to the sword. Afeop l five hundred of the rest were burned alive, and, including stragglers, it is estimated that not less than 1,400 of th» eneifiy were killed on this occasion. A number of the adherents of the new creed were captured, including three leaders, who were instantly decapitated, y- , .....

WASHINGTON.

The Missouri Legislature has adjourned sine die. One.of the last acts of the House was to pass a resolution indorsing “the man of destiny, Grover Cleveland,’’ for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Assistant Secretary or the Trrevury Nettleton, has demanded the discharge o, Hon. W. E. Owen, Commissioner of Immigration. A clash of authority seetns to be at the bottom of the trouble, The Gatch bill, substituting comtyep'tion for prohibition in lowa, was .'•finitely postponed in the House Tue~ the Republicans favoring postpomn. ni , and the Democrats opposing.

The Senate Wednesday passed the Mississippi river improvement. bill, which carries with it an appropriation of 15,000.000, and also the bill appropriating 4L,'4 116 for the completion of the canal -and locks at the cascades of the Columbia river, Oregon. Senator Sherman emphatically denied, Friday, that he used money to influence his election to the United States Senat e from Ohio. He paid the hotel bills of his managers, w hich he regarded as a legitimate and necessary expense, but did not use money further than this. The President Thursday appointed Hon. Stanton J. Peelle of Indianapolis, as judge df the Court of Claims. Vice G-. WScofield retired. The court to which Mr. Peefle is appointed passes on claim* Against the Government, and on matter* referred to it by Congress. The salary!* 44,500. It- will not be necessary for the appointee to remove to Washington, though of com se his presnee there much of the. time' is necessary. The President on the,same date appointed Hon. John H. Baker of Goshen. U nited States Circuit Judge to succeed Judge Woods, promoted. The appointments seem to give yery genera! satisfaction.

POLITIGAL.

Ingersoll believes Mr. Cleveland will be nominated at Chicago. Cleveland is the choice of 90 per cent, of the Democrats of New Jersey.. North Dakota Democrats will* send a Cleveland delegation to the Chicago convention. . The Maryland Legislature has appropriated $60,(0.) for its exhibit at the World's Fair. Senator Cullum, of Illinois, says he is still a candidate for the Republican nomination for President. South Dakota delegates to the Republican National Convention have been instructed to vote for Harrison. Republican county conventions were held at Altoona, Blair county, Pa., Tuesday. Both conventions Indorsed the administration of President Harrison and in structed their delegates to work for hisrenomlnation. A call has been issued for a State convention of the People's party in Arkansa s The call concludes: “Eight years of Republican party rule bankrupted our State. Eighteen years of Democratic party rule has resulted in a plundered State treasury a convict lease law and an Arkansas force bill, disguised as an election law.”

ANOTHER BIG STEAL.

Allegheny, Fenn., Comes to the Front in Good Style. The Account! Said to Be 8350,000 Short The Books Very Loosely Kept. R. H. Gilliford, chairman of the audit? ing committee of the Allegheny councils, Thursday reported the result of the investigation of the accounts of the city officials. The report saye the accounts of the Mayor's office, market clerk, superintendent of water works and health office have been audited and a deficiency discovered of $350,197.20. In many instances it was not possible to find any account books whatever, and in a few cases the auditors were able to find clows which enabled them to trace items which should have been .included intlu: regular i.account books, and in almost every instance It was found that the city had been defrauded. The chairman places the responsibility on the city comptroller for not keeping a closer watch on the other officials, and characterizes the disclosures as a, shameless record of dishonesty. inefficiency an d disregard of duty. The investigations so far haye resulted n the imprisonment of Mayor Wyman and market clerk HaStlngs-for embezzlement. ,

Discovery of Coffee. _* London Telegraph. Once upon a time a poor dervish living in the deserts of Arabia noticed that his flock of goats returned home every evening in a state of unaccountable hilarity. The phenomenon puzzled him immensely, and he proceeded to try to discover the cause. He watched his goats one day and found them feeding on the blossoms and berries of a small tree. The dervibh seems,, to have been of an experimental turn of mind, for he decided that the best thing he could do in order to solve the mystery was to see if the berries .would have exactly the same effect on his own spirits as on those of the lower animals. So he made a heartyineal of the fruit and leaves of the shrub, and at once all anxieties and grief disappeared from hi&”mind and he became as jocund as his own goats. The SjJtory goes on to relate how his wile and friends failed to understand reason of this remarkable elevation of spirits, and roundlv accused the dervish of being intoxicated. In order to prove his innocence of this charge the offender could only produce some leaves and berriOofthe tree which had so mticfy exhilarated him. and request his accusers to try their effect. They ’thsted and became converted, and that was how people first took to ' drinking coffee.