Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The public d»bt statement for December shows a slight increase of the debt. Prof, Horsford, the noted chemist, died suddenly from heartdisease, atCambrldge, Mass., Monday, A combination of piano manufacturers has been formed at Jersey City, and a trust is likely to be formed. Dr. Alexander Shaw, Chief of the Horticultural Department of the World’s Fair, died at Denver, Tuesday, The cashlcrof the bank at Laurens, la., was held up by two men while alone in the bank. The robbers got 1500. A time lock on the vault of the Fourth national bank at Nashville, failed to work, Wednesday, and the door had to bo broken down. , -- Dr. S. 11. Buchanan, the defaulting treasurer of the Arkansas Insane Asylum, in a circular letter admits that he is $5,000 short in his accounts. He states that he spent themonfiy.inchureh'work. Theßoston Chamber of Commerce has adopted resolutions urging Massachusetts’s Senators and Representatives to use every effort to secure, the immediate repeal of the silvor-purchase act of 1889. A restless disposition has been noticed for-the last, few days among the miners at Coal Creek, Tenn. The State troops have been fired upon recently, and the military authorities are preparing for more trouble. Ellsworth Wyatt, of the Dalton gang, recently captured in 'lndiana and taken t.o Guthrie, O. T., escaped from jail at that place, Tuesday evening, while Salvation Army services wore being held in the prison. President Harrison lias issued a proclamation granting amnesty to convicted Mormons, placing them on their good behavior, and releasing them from further custody or survillance on condition that they refrain from polygamous marriages. During-the year 189 g, 18,293 vessels arrived at the port of New York. It is estimated that the aggregate assets of the Economites amount to $20,000,-, 000. A dam will be built across the Rio Grande above El Paso for irrigation y - .: - . Milwankoo. during the last two months, has suffered an aggregate loss bv fire of $5,<00.(03. Ex-Senator Palmer has sold his famous log cabin farm near Detroit to a syndicate headed by Senator McMillan. The price paid was *1,200,000. To obstruct the new U. S, pipe line tho Standard Oil Company recently purchased a small tract of brush land near Melrose, Pa., on the Jefferson branch of the New York, Lake Erie & Western road. Wash., Mrs - . Notfio Brnndage, wife of C. N. Brundage, a prominent real estate man, committed suicide in the room of Attorney S. R. Clute, at the Grandview hotel, as tho result of a com-, promising nowspaper article. The astonishing figures, $11,865,114.2:! is tho total mineral production for Colorado for 1892, giving totals of $2,012,002.92 in copper, $6,683,478.34 in lead, $13,161,111.96 in silver and $5,665,898.42 for gold. Up,to dato the cost of tho eleventh census has boon $7,200,C00, and Superintendnt Porter is now asking an additional appropriation of $240,000 to carry him from the 4th of March to the end of tho fiscal year. A young lady at Rochester, N, Y.. received at Christmas a unique souvenirno less than an embalmed human hand, upon one fingor of which was a golden ring which the lady admits to having given to a discarded lover whose whereabouts are unknown. Tho horrible gift threw the recipient into a fit of hysteria - The hand will bo buried. There is no moans of tracing out the sender. FOREIGN. Tho dervishes in southern Egypt are displaying renewed activity. • King Humbert has conferred high deco' rations upon President Diaz of Mexico, and tho Mexican minister at Romo. Afoer many years of outlawry Ramn Nouaro, one of tho most desperate bandits In Moxioo, Itas been capturod and will ha siiot. Fifteen hundred anarchists held a reunion at Barcelona, Spain, Sunday evening, Them was much incendiary talkTho authorities have not attempted to interfere, but have made extraordinary preparations to prevent an nprlsing. Two now discoveries aro agitating the medical world at Paris. The first is a treatment for nervous diseases by injecting beneath the skin a solution of phosphate of soda, The second is the result ol (he researches of an English physician on tho influonco of food on baldness. He lias arrived at the conclusion that the races of men having the finest hair are those living on starchy substances.

ABOUT LEGISLATURES.

Tho South Dakota Legislature met at Pierre on tho 3rd. The Delaware Legislature mot at Dover, Tuesday. Tho Governor discussed the tarill’ In his message. Tho Tennessee Legislature is combative. Two fights liavo already occurred before the session was two days' old. The Oregon Legislature convened at Portland, Tuesday, and tho Senato was organized by a Populist-Democratic fusion. The California Legislature met, Tuesday, at Sacramento. Republicans organized tho Senate; Democrats organizod the House. . J The twenty-eighth annual session of the Minnesota Legislature convened at St. Paul, Tuesday. Senator Davis will probably bo re-elected. Tho Republicans organized both branches of tho North Dakota Legislature at Bismarck on the 3rd. Senator Casey will protyibly bo re-elected. By a decision in a case involving four seats in the Kansas Legislature, the Supremo Court leaves tho Republicans one majority in the House, and that party will organize tho House, but on Joint ballot the Democrats will hold tho balance of power, providing no further action is taken In other contested oases now before the court '/Slip Legislature will convene next week. Twenty-four contests havo been filed against Republicans and seven against Democrats. Tho Nebraska Legislature met at, Lln-

- ( coin, Tuesday. An attempt to organize the showed on a strict party^vote—Republicans, 14; Populists, 14; Democrats, 5. The Senate adjourned. The House organized by electing James N. Gaffin, independent, Speaker, Democrats voting with the independents. The result of the day showed a combination of Populists and Democrats, and makes the re-election of-Sena-tor Paddock doubtful. The Legislature of Pennsylvania met, Tuesday. Gov. Pattison’s message, was read in both branches. Labor troubles claimed a larger share of his remarks, more especially the affair at Moorewood and Homestead. The cost of the former to the State was $35,350, and of the Homestead affair $430,056. The National Guard of Pennsylvania is highly commended,and also the work of the World's Fair commission. The Democrats and Populists in Montana have secured control of the House of Representatives, practically assuring the election of a Democratic United States will stand, thirty-six Democrats, three Populists and thirty-two Republicans. The threatened split in the Legislature is thereby avoided, and State legislation can now bo attended to. S, T. Hauser is in the lead for the Senatorial plum. "Tire New York Legislature convened at -Albany," - Tuesday noon, Wm. - Sulzer. oP New York city, was elected Speaker of the House. The Governor’s message was read and adjournment was had for one week. Governor Flower showed that the State has financial obligations of $450,000, and a balance in the treasury of $1,701,407, and announces the expenditures by the State on account of the Buffalo strike to have been $192,647. Gov. McKinley, in his message to the Ohio Legislature, which met Tuesday, shows a deficit of $69,888.32, and says that the revenues of the State will not justify appropriations equaling those of the past year. He advises that appropriations be kept within the estimated revenues, lays especial stress upon the necessity, for laws to protect street car passengers, and recommends liberal treatment of tho Ohio World’s Fair Commission. 1

SOUTHERN CHIVALRY.

Midwinter Pastime of Kentucky’s Leading Citizens. A Regular Pitched Battle—Few Escape Injury—Excitement Great and More Blood May Be Shed. Tho bloodiest fight in tho history of Magoffin county took place, Tuesday, one mile from Salyersville. There were eight or ten of the county’s best citizens engaged on each side, armed with repeating rifles and navy pistols, and the trouble. which had its inception in a trivial matter the day before, culminated in a pitched battle. John Davis was killed by a pistol shot, said to have been fired after he was disabled and disarmed. W. E. Deskins, constable, was fatally wounded by a shot in the right hip, the ball ranging upward through tire bowels. Montorville Dcskins, a justice of tho peace has not been found since the light. But he left a bloody trail on tho snow through a woodland near the scene of the tragedy, and is supposed to be fatally wounded. The gun which he is known to have been armedwith was found in tho woods. Shepard Cole, coroner of the county, received some terrible blows and may die- Brick Patrick .was shot through the bowels and is reported to be dying. W. T. Patrick, a brother of ex-Shcriff J. C. Patrick, received a rifle ball along tho side of his head and was at first supposed to be dead, but he has rallied. Reports aro conflicting as to the origin of the difficulty. No arrests have been made and more trouble is feared.

POLITICAL.

Chairman Carter, who is in Washington, s&ya that the Democrats, aided by the Populists, will organise the next Senate early in March. Henry L. Mitchell, of Tampa, was inaugurated Governor of Florida on the 3rd. The ceremonies were followed by a barbecuc in the court house square at Tallahassee. __ _ It is announced on reliable authority that Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, has been tendered the treasury port folio in President-elect Cleveland’s cabinet, and that he will accept the position. Investigation has proved that two of the Cleveland electors in Illinois are Ineligible. It is probable, however, that the entire vote of the State will be cast for Cleveland, as Republicans manifest no disposition to contest the right of the two disqualified electors to vote. At Helena, Mont., Monday, the Legislature convened, and the Senate was on ganlzcd, E. D. Matts, Democrat, being elected Fresidont pro tem. In the House the State Auditor was in the chair, and the roll call was completed, leaving out both contesting members from Choteau county. Democrats; on motion to proceed to the election of temporary chairman, Democrats objected, leaving their seats The remaining twenty-five Republicans and two Populists then organized by electing Matthews. Populist, Speaker, and other necessary officers, when they adjourned,

WASHINGTON.

The President, Wednesday, sent to the Senate tho following nominations: Goo. W. Bartcb, to be associate justice of Utah; Gil. A. Pierce, of Minnesota, to be Minister Resident and consul general to Portugal. Congress reassembled after the holiday recess, Wednesday, but there, were not enough members present to transact business In tho House. Senator Chandler introduced a bill in the Senate to prohibit unlawful military organizations, which he thinks will stop further operations by the Pinkertons, and also put a quietus on tho semi-military anarchist organizations. Senator Chandler also introduced a bill to restrict immigration. The State Board of Agriculture met at Indianapolis, Wednesday morning. Sixtysix delegates were present and the following members were elected to fill vacancies on the Board: First district V. K. Officer, Jofferson county; Sixth, W. W. Hamilton, Greensburg; Eighth, Chas. Downing. Hancock county; Ninth, J.M.Sankey, Terre Haute; Tenth, J. N. Davidson, Whitesville; Eleventh, M. S. Claypool, Mancie; Twelfth, Malcolm McDonald, Williamsport; Thirteenth, W. A. Maze, Sharpsvillo. s>'

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

Opening of the Fifty-Eighth Bi- - ennial Session. Jm. B. -Curtis, of Marlon County, Elected/ Speaker—Senator Griffith Protempore President of the Senate. TheTirty-eightb biennial session of the Indiana General Assembly convened at the State Capitol, in Indianapolis, Thursday. At 10:111 a. m., Secretary of State Matthews arose in the hall of the House, wrapped ttifee times with the oak gavel, and said: “In accordance with the power vested in me by the constitution of the Stato of Indiana, and as the time has arrived for calling to order of the Fifty-Eighth General Assembly, I now call this House to order.” Rev. Mr. Carstensen opened the proceedings with prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer the foil was~ialled and the oath was administered to new members by Judge Hackney. Election of officers being next in order, Representative Ader, of Montgomery, placed in nomination for Speaker, James B. Curtis, of Marion county, the Democratic caucus nominee. For the minority. Representative Haggard, of Tippecanoe, placed in nomination for the same position, A. C. Lindemuth, of Wayne. The vote on Speaker was: Curtis, 63; Lindemuth, 37. Mr. Curtis was escorted to the chair, and addressed the House as follows: “In tho vote of confidence which has been extended to me by my selection as your presiding officer, there has been given that assurance which carries with it the conclusion that my efforts will meet with: the support of the members. Many embarrassing circumstances will arise, but it is my hope that the people of Indiana will not be disappointed. Be you Republican or Democrat, let us show to the people of Indiana that its Legislature is a business body, capable of caring for the wants of the people in an economical manner, always considering the demands which cannot be ignored. Man is mortal and mistakes are common, therefore, if my judgment at any time seems to be wrong, judge not too harshly, but lend me that aid and-forbearance which will enable me to avoid future error. It is my hope to please the majority, and it is my sipcere wish to be fair to the minority.” The oath of office wasthen administered to Mr. Curtis by Judge Hackney. The oath of affirmation was at this point administered to Representative White, of Henry county. Minor officers were then elected as follows: Chas. E. Crawley, of Sullivan county, for Clerk, received 63 votes to 37 for Miller, of Hendricks, the Republican caucus nominee; John P. Carter, of Orange, for Assistant Clerk, was elected over Wm. Ennis, of Gibson, by the same vote. The organization was completed by tho election of the Democratic caucus-uominee, B. D.Glazehoak, Starke county, doorkeeper, over the Republican nominee, James A. Southard, of Clinton county, and the oath of office was then administered to Messrs. Crawley, Carter and Glazebrook.

The Senate was called to order at 10:10 a. m., by Senator Griffith, of Dearborn. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. Buchtel. The roll was called and the oath was administered to new members by Judgo Howard. Senator Magee, of Cass, was called to tlio chair. Senator McHugh, of Tippecanoe, placed in nomination for President pro tem., Senator Griffith, who had taken his seat in the body, being the Democratic caucus nominee, and ho was chosen by 33 to 14 for Senator Boyd, of Fountain, the Republican nominee. On taking the chair Senator Griffith spoke as follows: “Senators, for this renewed expression of your confidence I desire to thank you. I trust that during the present, session our relations shall be agreeable and harmonious. I trust that the interests of the State of Indiana will receive proper consideration at your hands. It stands us in hand to keen pace with the rapid progress in the march that has b<jen made by our sisterhood of States. I ask yon to contribute your part toward keeping Indiana in the front rank of the procession. We are now ready to proceed with the further organization of the Senate.” Representative Hindi appeared to announce that the House had organized. Senator Morgan, of Alien, moved that three clerks and eleven doorkeers, in addition to tho statutory number, be employed. Resolution adopted, and upon a motion to reconsider by Senator Magee, was laid on the table by a party vote. Senate adjourned till 2p. m. Tho organization of the Senate then proceeded. Senator Holland, of Ripley, placed in nomination for Secretary, Geo. S. Pleasants, of Switzerland, for the Democrats. For the Republicans, Senator Boord, of Warren, placed In nomination Geo. W. Boyd, of Fountain. Mr. Pleasants was elected. Joseph F. Freidman, of Dubois county, ,was chosen Assistant Secretary over Mark Sontag, of Vanderburg. Wm. F. Mannlx, of Allen, Doorkeeper, over Wm. H. Dubois, of Hamilton. The officerselect were sworn In. President Griffith declared the Senate of the Ftfty-elghth Assembly ready for business. Chair appointed Senators McHugh, Newby, Kern, Leyden and Loveland a committee oh rules. Senator Boyd offered a resolution that the Senate take appropriate action on the death of Gov. Hovey. Resolution adopted. Senator Boyd, Lyon and Smith were appointed to meet a House committee on the subject. A committee was appointed to inform the House that the Senate was organized. Gov. Chase was officially notified that the Senate was ready to hear any communication he chose to make. Senator Kopclko offered a resolution that Leo. Lefkovlts be appointed a page in addition to the regular number. Resolution was adopted by party vote. Other pages are Geo. Schley. Fred. French and O. Beck. French and Beck are sons of Sonators. House met at 10 a. m., Friday. Prayer by Representative Bransteer. Representative Sulzer offered a resolution to regulate sale of prison labor products, Referred. Rep. Johnson offered resolution denying peddlers, etc., privileges of the floor of the House. Carried. House took recess to await arrival of Senate for the joint session. Senate held session, Friday. Report of committee on mileage adopted. Each member Is allowed 20 cents mileage for one round-trip. Senate adjourned till Monday. House and Senate met in joint session to hear Governor’s message, which is given In another column. Message was read by Private Secretary Roberta. At the conclusion of message President Griffith announced the canvassing of the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor. Speaker Curtfa announced the vote: Matthews, 200,001; Chase, 253,088; Worth, 12,900; Templet&p, 23,d17. Nye, 200,384; Shockney, 2W.59*; Culbertson, 12,900; East, 22,072. President Griffiths declared

Matthews and Nye elected. Joint session adjouiined. * House reassembled. Representative Ader moved that 5,000 copies of the Governor’s message be printed. Ader. Sulzer and Passage were appointed a committee for that purpose. Speaker Curtis announced the committee on rules—Putnam, Rodibaugh and Haggard. House adjourned till Monday. tip/- LEGISLATIVE NOTES. The House Democratic caucus was held Wednesday night. Richard K*.Erwin, of Adams, presided. Chas. E. Crawley, of Sullivan, was nominated for Clerk by acclamation. The result of the vote on other officers was the nomination of John D. Carter, of Orange, for Assistant Clerk; and D. B. Glazebrook, of Starke, for doorkeeper. Senator Magee, of Cass, presided over the Senate Democratic caucus, Wednesday evening, and the nominations were by acclamation, as follows: Secretary, Geo. S. Pleasants, of Switzerland; Assistant Secretary, Joseph Friedman, of Duboi ; doorkeeper, Wm.T. Mannix. of Allen. Tho Republicans of the House and Senate held a joint caucus. Theodore Sheskhey, Of UhTon-CityTpresided, and the caucus was organized by the election of John Yaryan, of Wayne, permanent chairman. Separate caucuses were then held, and House Republicans made the following nominations: Speaker, A. C. Lindemuth, Wayne; Clerk. Scott Miller, Hendricks; Assistant Clerk, Wm. Ennis, Gibson; doorkeeper, Jame s A. Southard,Clinton. Senate nominations'were: Secretary, George W,Boyd, Fountain; Assistant Secretary, Mark Sontag, Vanderburg; Doorkeeper, Wm. A. Dubois, Hamilton. James B. Curtis, the newly elected Speaker, is the Democratic member from Marion and Shelby counties. Mr. Curtis is thirty-three years old, a graduate of Butler University, class of’Bo, and a member of the law firm of Morris, Newberger & Curtis. This is his third term as a member of the House. A. C. Lindemuth, who received the complimentary vote of the Republicans for Speaker, is a member of tho Richmond bar, and is a young man. He was a member of the House two years ago. The colored Democrats of Indianapolis have demanded recognition, and E. E. Cooper hopes to be an engrossing clerk. No contests for seats in either branch for the first time in thirty-two years. Peter Schaf, of Brookyille, is the oldest Representative. Forty years ago he was an Ohio river roustabout.

CHICAGO’S BIG ELEPHANT.

Chicago is to have a gigantic elephant. A syndicate backed by Frank Hall, will begin work on the new animal building, to be located near the fair grounds, in a short time. This steel mammoth will be 125 feet high to the ridge of the hack and 200 feet to the top of the “howdah.” The trunk will bo swung by machinery, the ears will flap, the eyes roll and the tail will wag. Within this trunk will be a calliope to simulate the beast’s roar. There will be two floors in this two-hundred-and fifty-thousand-dollar elephant—the main floor and grand promenade and dancing hall, with a gallery and the “stomach floor,” where will be located a great restaurant. The animal will be lighted by numerous windows and an abundance erf electric lights.

DELESSEPS CONFESSES.

And Ills Revelations Are Said to be Bather Startling. , Tfie charges against M. Baihut, who was minister of public works in the Defreycinet, have aroused great interest, largely on account of tho peculiar social career of M. Baihut, and his connection with the divorced wife of M. Armengaud. It is said that the acknowledgments made by M. do Lesseps aro of the most startling character and will create a sensation in America as well asinFrance. M. Tiburce Franqueville is conducing the examination of the accused with great skill.

PRIZE FOR PURDUE.

Tho award has just been made of the prizes offered by the Engineering News of New York, for the best graduating from any engineering course in any American college. The first prize goes to two graduates of the Ohio State University, the second to a graduate of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., and the third to two graduates from Sibley engineering school at Cornell. Two feet of snow fell at Bourbon,Thursday night. B. B. Thomas Is mysteriously missing from Richmond. A “spirit photographer” has been arrested at Indianapolis for obtaining money by false pretenses. Calvin C. Blizzar was killed at Lynn by a passenger train on the Big Four. Owing to the cold he had his head wrapped up and did not hear the cars till too late. Mrs. Kersling on trial at Knox for the murder of her step father at San Pierre last September, was sentenced to five years in the female reformatory. There were 6,850 chickens, 1,700 geese, 1,250 turkeys alive, and more than that number dressed, and 970,000 dozens of eggs shipped from Seymour to Indianapolis, New York and Louisville by only one firm the past year. This does not include the large amount used at home. There is immense excitement at Brownsburg over the appearance of a strange and formidable animal the name of which Is unknown. It was at first supposed to be a bear,but later it has been decided to be a member of the cat family, probably a lynx. It is ferocious, and does not hesitate to attack a dog or an unarmed man. Frank Hall, a prominent business man of Jamestown, attempted to climb over a freight train. The train started and then backed. Mr. Hall’s leg was caught between the bumpers, tearing the flesh from the leg between the ankle and Hie knee and breaking the small bone. He shouted for help, but no one was near. He tore his leg loose and dragged himself, to a fence resting on that till help arrived. He almost perished with cold. Young Author—-Is it true true that my poems have really set you dreaming. I am — ' Maud —Mercy, yes; I’ve gone to sleep every time I’ve tried to read them. “You must not be discouraged, George,” she said. “Papa may be abrupt, but his heart is as warm as ? a June day." “Yes," replied George, “I’ve noticed that his manner is very summary.’*—Washington Star.

DIVINE ORNITHOLOGY.

“0a the "Wings of the Horning.” “Behold the Fowls of the Air” and the teooni They Teach—Bird* In the \ n Scriptures—Dr. Talmage* Bery DOB. y. ‘Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “Ornithology of the Bible; or God Among the Birds.” Text; Matt, vi; 26“Behold the fowls of the air.” He said: There is silence now in all our January forests, except as the winds whistle through the bare branches. Our northern woods are deserted concert halls. The organ lofts in the temple of nature are hymnless. Trees which were full of carol and chirp and chant are now waiting for the coming baek of rich plumes and warbling voices, solos, duets, quartets, cantatas and Te Deums. But the Bible is full of birds at all seasons, and prophets and patriachs and apostles and evangelists and Christ himself employ them for moral and religious purposes. Most of the other sciences you may study or not study as you please. Use your own judgment; exercise your own taste. But about this science of ornithology we have no option. The divine command is positive when it says in my text, “Behold the fowls of the air!” Their nests have been to me a fasination, and my satisfaction - is that I never robbed one of thpm, any more than I would steal a child from a cradle, for a bird is a child of the sky, and its nest is the cradle. They are almost human, for they have their loves and hates, affinities and antipathies, understand joy and jjrief, have conjugal and maternal | instinct, wage wars and entertian I jealousies, have a language of their I own, and powers of association. The i dove, the robin, the eagle, the cormorant, or plunging bird, hurling itself from sky to wave s and with long beak clutching its prey; the thrush, which especially dislikes a crowd; the partridge; the hawk, bold and ruthless, hoverirtg head to windward while watching for prey; the swan, at home among the marshes and with feet so constructed It can walk on' the leaves ’of water plants; the raven, the lap wing, malodorous, and in the Bible denounced os inedible, though it has extraordinary headdress; the stork, the ossit.hn.t. aJwfliYS had a habit- of dropping on a stone the turtle it had lifted and so killing it for food, and Dn one occasion mistook the bald head of iEchylus, the Greek poet, for a white stone and dropped a turtle upon it, killing the famous Greek;

r —; ——— the cuckoo, with crested head and crimson throat and wings snow tipped, but too lazy to build its own aest and so having the habit of depositing its eggs m nests belonging ,to other birds; the blue jay, the : grouse, the plover, the magpie, the Kingfisher, the pelican, which is the caricature of all the featherd creation; the owl, the goldfinch, the bittern, the harrier, the bulbul, the Dsprey, the vulture, that king of Scavengers, with neck covered with repulsive down instead of attractive feathers; the quarrelsome starling, the swallow, flying a mile a minute and sometimes ten hours in succession; the heron, the quail, the peacock, the ostrich, the lark, the crow, the kite, the bat, the blackbird and many others, with all colors, all sounds, all styles of flight, all habits, all architecture of. nests, leaving nothing wanting in suggestiveness. David, with Saul after him and Hying from cavern to cavern, compares himself to a desert partridge, a bird which especially haunts rocky places, and boys and hunters to this Hay take after it with sticks, for the partridge runs rather than flies. Hezekiah, in the emaciation of his sickness, compares himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Job had so much trouble he could not sleep nights, and he describes his insomnia by saying, “I am a companion to owls. ’ Isaiah compares the desolations of banished Israel to an owl and bittern and cormorant among a city’s ruins. Jeremiah, describing the cruelty of parents toward children, compares them to the ostrich, who leaves its eggs in the sand uncared for, crying, “The daughter of my people is become like the ostriches of the wilderness.” Among the provisions piled on Solomon’s bountiful table the Bible speaks of “fatted fowl.” The Israelites in the desert got tired of manna and they had quails quails for breakfast, quails for dinner, quails for supper, and they died of quails. Would the prophet illustrate the fate of the fraud, he points to a failure at incubation and says, “As a partridge sitteth on eggs and natcheth them not, so he that gettetb riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall be a fool.” But from the top of the Bible fir tree I hear the shnll cry of the stork. Job, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, speak of it David cries out, “As for the stork, the fir tree is her house.” This large white Bible bird is supposed, without alighting, sometimes to wing its way from the region of the Rhine to Africa. But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird that is speckled. The prophet describing the church, cries out, “Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird; The birds round about are against her.” So it was then; so it is now. Holiness picked at. Consecration picked at. Benevolence picked at. Usefulness picked at. A speckled bird is a peculiar blriL and that arouses the antipathy of all the beaks of the forest. The church of God is a peculiar institution, and that is enough to evoke at-

tack of the world, for it l speckled bird to be picked at The inconsistencies of Christians an a btaquet on which multitedes get fat They ascribed everything you do to wrong motives. In migrating, the old storks lean their necks on the young storks, and when the old ones give dnt the young ones carry them on their backs. God forbid that a dumb stork should have more heart than we. 7 But we cannot stop tore. From a tall cliff, hanging over the sea, I hear the eagle calling unto the tempest and lifting its wing to smite the whirlwind, Moses, Jeremiah. Hosea and Habakkuk at times in tbeir writings take their pen from the eagle’s wing. God compares his treatment of his people to the eagle's care of the eaglets. Deuteronomy xxxii, 11, “As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreading abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings, wr the Lord alone did lead.” You whb are complaining that you have no faith or courage oil. Christian seal have had it too easy. You never will learn to fly in that comfortable nest. jLiiKe tin GftP* - ried us on his back. At times we have been shaken off, and we were about to fall he came under us again, and brought us out of the gloomy valley to the sunny mountain. Never an eagle brooded with such love and care over her young as God’s wings have been over us. When our time on earth is closed, on these great wings of God we shall speed with infinite quickness from earth’s mountains to heaven’s hills, and as from the eagle’s circuit under tne sun men on the ground seem small and insignificant as lizards on a rock, so all earthly things shall dwindle into a speck, and tne raging river of death so far beneath will seem smooth and glassy as a Swiss lake. The speed of a hungry eagle when it saw its prey a score of miles distant was unimaginable. It went like a thunderbolt for speed and bower. So fly our days. Sixty minutes, each worth a heaven, since we assembled in this place, have shot like lightning into eternity. The old earth is rent and cracked under tne swift rush of days and months and years and ages. “Swift as an eagle that hasteth to its prey.” Over flffy times does the old Book allude to the wing—“ Wings of a dove,” “Wings of the morning,” “Wings of the wind,’’“Son of righteousness with healing in wings,” of every wing.” rniat does it all mean? It suggests uplifting. It tells you of flight upward. It reminds you that you yourself have wings. David cried out, *‘Oh, that I had wings like a dove that I might fly away and be at rest!” Thank God that you have better wings than any dove of longest of swiftest flight. Caged now in bars as flesh are those wings, but the day comes when they will be liberated. Get ready for as-, tension.

Up out of these lowlands into the heavens of higher experience and wider prospect. But how shall we rise?, .Only as God’s holy spirit gives us strength. But that is Coming now. Not as a condor from a Chimborazo peak, swooping upon the affrighted valley, but as a dove like that which put its soft brown wings over the wet locks of Christ at the baptism in Jordan. Dove of gentleness! Dove of peace! But what a senseless passage of Scripture that is until you know the fact, which says, “The sparrow hath found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.” What has the swallow to do with the altars of the temple at Jerusalem? Ah,you know that swallows are all the world over very tame, and in summer time used to fly into the windows and doors of the temple at Jerusalem and build a nest on the altar where the priests were offering sacrifices. Yes, m this ornithology of the Bible I find that God is determined to imEress upon us the architecture of a ird’s nest and the anatomy of a bird’s wing. Twenty times does the Bible refer to a bird’s nest: “Where the birds make their -nest,” “As a bird that wandereth from her nest” —“Though thou set the nest among the stars,” “The birds of the air have their nests,” and so on. What carpenters, what masons, what weavers, what spinners the birds are! Out of what small resources they make so exquisite a home,curved, pillared, wreathed. Out of mosses, out of sticks, out of Hciens, out of horsehair, out of spiders' wed, out. of threads swept from the door by the housewife, out of the wool of the sheep in the pasture field. Upholstered by leaves actually sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cushioned with feathers from its own breast. Mortared together with the gum of tress and the saliva of its own tiny bill. Such symmetry, such adaptation, such such geometry of structure. Yea, Christian geology for you know there is a Christian geology as well as an infidel geology-—Christian geology comes in and helps the Bible show what we owe to the bird creation. Before the human race came into this world the world was occupied by reptiles and by all styles of destructive monsters millions of creatures loathsome and hideous. God sent huge birds to clear the earth of these creatures before Adam and Eve were created. The remains of these birds have been found imbedded in the rocks. How should Noah, the old ship carpenter, find out when the world was fit again for human residence after, the universal freshet? A bird will tell, and nothing else can. „ 0 •; -v*