Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Page 7

TALMAGE’S SERMON.

THE PREACHER POINTS A MORAL IN THE'CYCLONE. God Sends the Cutting Blast to Teach an Important! Leeson —If There Were No Adversity, We Would Not Kaotr the Joy of God's Protection. Blasted by Winds. In his discourse last Sunday Bek Dr. j Talmage pointed opt the consolation." which the religion of Christ extends to all who are in trouble and specialty to such as are in deep misfortune or suffering from bereavement. He chose as his text Exodus x., 13; “And the Lord brought an east wind upon the laud all that day and all that night.” The reference here is not to a cyclone, but to the long continued blowing of the wind from an unhealthful quarter. The north wind is bracing, the south wind is relaxing,, but the east wind is irritating and full of threat.- Eighteen times 1 dobs the Bible speak? against the east wind. Moses describes the thin ears blasted by the east wind. The psalmist describes the breaking of the ships of Tarshish by the east wind. The locusts that plagued Egypt were borne in on the east wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah was shattered by the east wind, and -in all the (i.OOO summers, autumns, winters, springs, of the world’s existence the worst wind that ever blew is the east wind. Now, if God would only give us a climate of perpetual rior’wester, how genial and kind and placid and industrious Christians we would all be! But it takes almighty grace to be what we ought to be under the east wind. Under the chilling and wet wing of the east wind the most of the world’s villainies, frauds, outrages, suicides and murders have been hatched out. I think if you should keep a meteorological history of the dgys of the year and put right beside it the criminal record of the country you would find that those were the best days for public morals which were under the north or west wind, and that those were the worst days for public morals which were under the east wind. The points of the compass have more to the world's morals and the church's piety than yo.u have yet suspected. Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, eminent for learning and for consecration, when asked by one of his students at Princeton whether he always had full assurance of faith, replied, “Yes, except when the wind blows from the east.” Dr. Francia, dictator of Paraguay, when the wind was 'from the east, made oppressive enactments for the people, but when the weather changed repented him .of the cruelties, repealed the enactments aud was in good humor with all the world. Winds to Guard Against. Before I overtake the main thought of my subject I want to tell Christian people they ought to be observant of climatical changes. Be on your guard when the wind blows from the east. There are certain styles of temptations that you cannot endure under certain styles of weather. When the wind blows from the east, if yon are of a nervous temperament, go not among exasperating people, try not to settle bad debts, do not try to settle old i > disputes, do not talk with a bigot on religion, do not go among those people who delight in saying irritating things, do not try to collect funds for a charitable institution, do not try to answer an insulting letter. If these things must be done, do them when the wind, is from the north, or the south, or the west, but not when the wind is from the east. You say that men and women ought not to be so sensitive and nervous. I admit it, but lam not talking about what the world ought to be; I am talking about what the world is. White there are persons whose disposition does not seem to be affected by changes in the atmosphere, nine out of ten are mightily played upon by such influences. O Christian man, under such circumstances do not write hard things against yourself, do not get worried about your fluctuating experience. You are to remember that the barometer in your soul if only answering the barbmeter of the weather. Instead of sitting down and being discouraged and saying, “I am not a Christian because I don’t feel exhilarant,” get up and look out of the window and see the weather vane pointing in the wrong quarter, and then say: “Get thee behind me, satan, thou prince of the power of the air; get out of my house; get out of my heart, thou-, demon of darkness horsed on the east wind. Away!” However good and great you may be in the Christian life, your soul wi|l never be independent of physical condition. I feel I am uttering a most practical, useful truth here, one that may give relief to a-great many Christians who are worried aud despondent at limes. Cause of Spiritual Depression. Dr. Rush, a monarch in Aiedicine, after curing hundreds of eases of mental depression, himsplt fell sick and lost his religious hope, and he would not believe his pastor when the pastor told him that his spiritual depression was only a consequence of physical depression. Andrew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William Cowper, Thomas Boston, Doivid Brainerd, Philipp Melanchthon were mighty men for God, but all of them illustrations of the fact that a man’s soul is not Independent of his physical health. An eminent physician gave as his opinion that no-man ever died a greatly triumphant death whose disease was below the diaphragm. Stackhouse, the learned Christian commentator, says he does not think Saul was insane when David played the harp before him, but it was a hypochondria coming from inflammation of the liver. Oh, how many good people have been mistaken in ’regard to their religious hope, not taking these things into consideration! The dean of Carlisle, one of the best men that ever lived nnd one of the most useful, sat down and wrote: “Though I have endeavored to discharge my duty as well as L could, yet sadness and melancholy of heart stick close by and increase upon me. I tell nobody, but I am very much sunk indeed, and I wish I could have the relief of weeping as I used to. My days are exceedingly dark and distressing. In a word, Almighty God seems to hide his face and I intrust the secret hardly to any earthly being. I know not what will become of me. There is doubtless a good deal of bodily affliction mingled with this, but it is not all so. I bless God, however, that I never lose sight of the cross, and, though I should die without seeing any personal Interest in the Redeemer’s merits, I hope that I shall be found at his, feet. I will thank you for a word at our leisure. My door is bolted at the time I am writing this, for I am full of tears.” What was the matter with the dean of Carlisle? Had he got to be a worse man? No. The physician said that the state of his pulse would not warrant his living a minute. Oh, if the east wind affects the spleen and affects the lungs and affects the liver, it will affect your Immortal soul. Appealing to God for help, brace yourself against these withering blasts and destroying influences, lest that which the psalmist said broke the ships of Tarshish shipwreck you. Trials Cannot Be Evaded. But notice in my text that the Lord controls the east wind, “The Lord brought the east wind.” He brings it for especial purpose; it must sometimes blow from that quarter. The wind is just as important m the north wind, or the south

wind, or the west wind, but not so pleasant. Trial must come. The text does ; not say you will escape the cutting blast. Whoever did escape it? Especially who that accomplished anything for chuiteh or state ever escaped it? ■ I was in the pulpit bP John Wesley in London, a pulpit where he Stood one*day and said, “I have been charged with all the crimps in the catalogue except one—that of drunkenness,” and a woman arose in the audiefte arid said, “John, you were drunk last night.” So John Wt’sley passed under the flail. 1 saw in a foreign journal a report of rine of George Whjtetiekl’s sermons—a sermon preached 120 or l§o years ago, It seemed that the reporter stood to trike the sermon, and his chief idea was to caricature it, and these are some of the" reportqriai" interlinings of the sermon of George Whitefield. After calling him by. a nickname indicative of a physical defect in the eye it ’ goes on to say: “Here the preacher clasps his "chin on the pulpit cushion. Here he elevates his voice. Here he lowers his voice; holds his arms extended; bawls aloud; stands trembling; makes a. frightful face; fv.rns rip the whites of his eyes; clasps jliis hands behind him; clasps his arms ground him and hugs himself; roars aloud, halloos, jumps, cries, changes from crying, halloos and jumps again.” Well, my Mother, if that good man wont through all that process, in your occupation, in your profession, in your store, in your “shop, at the bar, in the sick room, in the editorial chair, somewhere. yog will have to go through a similar process. You cannot escape it. Kents wrote his famous poem, and the hard criticism of the poem killed him—liferally killed him. Tasso wrote his poem entitled “Jerusalem Delivered," and it had such a cold reception.it turned him into a raving maniac. Stillingfleet was slain by his literary enemies. The frown of Henry VIII. slew Cardinal Wolsey. The Dilke of Wellington refused to have the fence around his house, which had been destroyed by ag excited mob, rebuilt, because he wanted the fence to remain as it was, a reminder of the mutability and uncertainty of the popular favor. God’s Purpose;’ And you will have trial of some sort. You have had it already. Why need I prophesy? I might better mention a historical fact in your history. You are a merchant. What a time you had with that old business partner! How hard It was to get rid of him! Before you bought him out, or he ruined, both of you, what magnitude of annoyance! Then after you had paid him down a'certain sum of money to have him go out and to promise he would not open a store of the same kind of business in your street, did he not open the very same kind of business as near toyotr as possible and take all your customers as far as he could take them? And then, knowing all your frailties and weaknesses, after being: in your business firm for .so many years, is he not now spending his time in making a commentary on what you furnished as a text? You are a physician, and in your sickness, or in your absence, you get a neighbornig dbetor to take your place in the sick room, and he ingratiates himself into tfie favor of that family, so that you forever lose their patronage. Or you take a patient through the serious stages jot a fever, and someday the impatient father or husband of the sick one rushes out and gets another medical practitioner, who comes in just im-time to, get the credit of the cure, Or you are a lawyer, and you come in contact with a trickster in your profession, and in your absence, and contrary to agreement, he moves a non-suit or the dismissal of the case, or the judge on the bench, remembering an old political grudge, rules against you every time he gets a chance and says with a snarl, “If you don’t like my decision, take an exception.” Or you ate a farmer, and the curculio stings the fruit, or the weevil gets into the wheat, or the drought stunts the corn, or the long continued rains give you no opportunity for gathering the harvest. Your best cow gets the hollow horn, your best horse gets foundered. A French proverb said that trouble comes in on horseback and goes away on foot. So trouble dashed in on you suddenly, but, oh, how long it was in getting away! Came on horseback, goes away on foot. Rapid in homing, slow in going. That is the history of nearly all your troubles. Again and again and again you have experienced the power of the east wind. It may be blowing from that direction now. My friends. God intended these troubles and trials for some particular purpose. They do not eome at random. Here is the promise, “He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.” In the Tower of London the swords and the guns of other ages are burnished and arranged into huge passion flowers and sunflowers and bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything so hard as steel could be put into such floral shapes. I have to tell you that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most piercing sorrows of this lifemay be made to bloom and blossom and put on bridal festivity. The Bible says they shall be mitigated, they shall be assuaged, they shall be graduated. God is not going to allow you to be overthrown. A Christian woman, very much despondent, was holding her child in her arms, and the pastor, trying to console the woman in her spiritual depression, said, “There, you will let yofir child drop.” “Oh, no,” she said, “I couldn’t let the child drop.” He said, “You will let the child drop.” “Why,” she said, “if I should drop the child here, it would dash his life out!” “Weil, now," said the Christian minister, “don’t you think God is as good as you are? Won’t God, your Father, take as good care of you, his child, as you take enre of your child? God won’t let you drop.” Why Bitter Winds Blow. I suppose God lets the east wind blow just hard enough to drive us into the harbor of God’s protection. We all feel we can manage our pwn affairs. We have helm and compass and chart and quadrant. Give us plenty of sea room, and we sail on and sail on, but after awhile there comes a Caribbean whirlwind up the coast, and we are helpless in the gale, and we cry out for harbor. All our calculations upset, we say with the poet: Change and decay on all around I see. tOh, thou who changest not, abide with me! The south wind of mild Providence makes us throw off the cloak of Christian character and we catch cold, but the sharp east wind of trouble makes us wrap around us the warm promises. The best thing that ever happens to us is trouble. That is a hard thing perhaps to say, but I repeat it, for God announces It again and again, the best thing that happens to us is trouble. When the French army went down into Egypt under Napoleon, an engineer, in digging for a fortress, came across a tablet which has been called the Rosetta stone. There were inscriptions in three or four languages on that Rosetta atone. Scholars studying out the alphabet of hieroglyphics from -that stone were enabled to rend ancient inscriptions on monuments and on tombstones. Well, many of the handwritings of God .in our life are indecipherable, hieroglyphics. We cannot understand theta until we take up the - Rosetta stone of divine inspiration, and the explanation all comes out, and the mysteries all vanish, and what was before beyond our understanding now is plain in its meaning as we read, “All 'j things work together for good to those j who love God." So we decipher the hiero- ! glyphlcs. Oft, my friends, have you ever I calculated what trouble did for David? I It made him the sacred minstrel for all ' ages. What did trouble do for Joseph?

Made him the keeper of the corn cribs of Egypt. What did it-do for Paul? Made him the great apostle to the gentiles. What did it do for Samuel Rutherford? Made his invalidism more illustrious tha& robust health. What did it do for Rich-* ard Baxter? ./Save him capacity to write of thd*“Saint’s Everlasting *Rest.” What did it do for John Bunyan? Showed him the shining gates of the city. What has it done for you? Since the loss of that 'child your spirit has been purer., Since the loss of that property you have found out that earthly investments are insecure, Singe you lost your health you feel as never before a rapt anticipation of eternal release. Trouble has humbled you, has enlarged you, has multiplied your resources, has equipped you, l has loosened your -grgsp from this worls and tightened your grip on the next. Oh, bless God for the east wind! It has driven you into the harbor of God’s sympathy. Thia World Insufficient. Nothing like trouble to show us that this world is an insufficient portion. Hogarth was about done with life, and he wanted to paint the end of all things. He put on canvas a shattered bottle, a cracked bell, an unstrung harp, a signboard of a tavern called “The World’s End” falling down, a shipwreck, the horses of Phoebus lying dead in the clouds, the moon in her last quarter and the world on fire. “One thing more,” said Hogarth, “and my picture is done.” Then hq added the broken palette of a painter. Then he died. But trouble, with hand mightier and more skillful than Hogarth’s, pictures the falling, failing, moldering, dying world. And we want something .permanent to lay hold of, and we grasp with both hands after God and say, ‘The Lord is my light; the Lord is my love; the Lord is my fortress; the Lord is my sacrifice; the Lord, thALord is my God.” Bless God for your trials. Oh, my Christian friend, keep your spirits up by the power of Christ’s gospel! Do not surrender: Do you not know that when you give up others wjll give up? You have courage, and others will have courage. The Romans went into the battle, and by some accident there was an inclination of the standard. The standard upright meant forward march; the inclination of the standard meant surrender. Through the negligence ofThe than who , carried the standard and the inclination of it .the army surrendered. Oh, let us keep the standard up, whether it be blown down by the east wind, or the north wind, or the south wind. No inclination to surrender. Forward into the conflict! Music of the Skies. There is near Bombay a tree that they call the “sorrowing tree,” the peculiarity of which is it never puts forth any bloom in the daytime, but; in the night puts out all its bloom and all its redolence. And I have to tell you that, though Christian character puts forth its sweetest blossoms in ’the darkness of sickness, the darkness of financial distress, the darkness of bereavement, the darkness of death, “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” Across the harsh discords of this world rolls the music of the skies—music that breaks from the lips, music that breaks from the harps and rustles from the palms, music like falling water over rocks, music like wandering winds among leaves, music like caroling birds'among forests, music like ocean billows storming the Atlantic beach, “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” I see a great Christian fleet approaching that harbor. Some Of the ships come in with sails rent and bulwarks knocked away, but still afloat. Nearer and nearer the shining shore. Nearer and nearer eternal anchorage. Haul away, my lads, haul away! Some of the ships had mighty tonnage, and others were shallops, easily listed of the wind and wave. Some were men-of-war and armed of the thunders of Christian battle, and others were unpretending tugs taking others through the Narrows, and some were coasters that never ventured out into the deep seas of Christian experience, but they are all coming’ nearer the wharf —brigantine, galleon, line of battle ship, longboat, pinnace, war frigate—and as they come into the harbor I find that they are driven by the long, loud, terrific blast of the east wind. It is through much tribulation that you are to enter into the kingdom of God. You have blessed God for the north wind, and blessed him for the south wind, and blessed him for the west wind. Can you not, in the light of this subject, bless him for the east wind? Nearer, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee. E’en though it be a cross That raiseth me, Still all my song shall be, Nearer to thee.

Beware of the Tight Collar.

“Headaches, eyeaches? Don’t wonder. You are undergoing a mild form of strangulation. Look here,” and the physician, who in a twinkling had sighted the foundation of his patient’s trouble, gave a vicious tweak at her board-like throat environment “This fashion,” he continued, “has put more of your sex upon the ail list than any other of your dress absurdities. There hasn’t a woman come into my office for over a year whose neck wasn’t confined in this tortuous way. I have traced more than one case of congested blood at the base of the brain to this collar fad. “It is responsible for red noses, bad skins and other forms of repressed circulation. “Now, I cannot insert my finger between your collar and your throat, and 1 yet you wonder why you are having so much trouble with your head and eyes. “Rip up your high collars, my misguided young lady, and tell your dressmaker not to put another bit of binding about your throat. When you do this, I’ll vouch for the headache's departure.” The shirt waist girl is a trig little body to look at, from her neatly belted waist to her spick and span linen choker. .It Is half an inch higher, If possible, this stiffly starched collar, than the one she wore last year. It has crept up just as close as it could at the lobesot her ears, and she wears it In sublime Indifference to Its discomfort But the time of reckoning is coming. When the drop in throat stock arrives, and It is only a question of time before It is heralded in Evedom. oh! what a wailing there will be over departed throat beauty! The high collar will have left Its traces in criss-cross lines, discolored skin and ugly neck circles. Then there will be a grand bustle for mafijage, for cream baths and like remedies. And the woman who has bravely gone about during the high collar period in waists with old-fash-ioned, turned-away throats, will thank her lucky stars that she had the good sense to keep out of the movement.— New Orleans Picayune. There are some women who can't speak to a man without getting a trader note In their voices, A

THIS IS THE MAIDEN ALL FORLORN.

Miss Democracy—Oh my, but men are scarce In Chicago this summer. Um afraid I shall have to go to Europe. There’s no encouragement here for a Party like me.

"DOUBLEFACED” DEMOCRACY.

Charge Republicans with Lack of Principle Which They Practice. The Democratic clamor for a gold standard is of suph recent date that we may well Inquire whence its origin. It was not the Democratic policy of 1892, when the platform of the Democratic party, adopted at Chicago on June 22, 1892, read as follows: We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the country and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal or charge for mintage, but the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value, or be adjusted through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as shall insure the maintenance of the parity of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts; and we demand that all paper currency shall be kept at par and redeemable in such coin. We insist upon this policy as especially necessary tor the protection of the farmers and laboring classes, the first and most defenseless victims of unstable money and a fluctuating currency. This is a strictly bimetallic platform. It was the choice of the Democratic convention of 1892. It calls for “both gold and silver as the standard.” It calls for “the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal.” The Democratic, party has never authorized any change from this desire for a bimetallic standard, upon which it elected a President and a majority of both branches of Congress. Yet the Democratic administration has entirely repudiated its party’ platform, and a handful of Eastern Democratic papers, also utterly regardless of the Democratic platform, clamor for a gold standard exclusively. What Is It that has caused this “double-faced” dealing on the part of the Democrats? Was the platform of 1892 a mere .“double-faced” affair Intended to catch the votes of the West, while secretly trucking to the gold standard ideas of Wall street? Certainly it was. Yet we hear the “dou-ble-faced” Democrats howling about the financial views of Republicans, who have never been such advocates of bimetallism as the “double-faced” Democrats were, and as a majority of them are at the present time. Trade for Farmers —HOPS

One Pound of Hops,Would Buy How much Sugar?

Loa* of Reciprocity. In 1895 we bought from Latin American countries $246,582,000 worth of goods, admitting nearly 92 per cent, of them to our markets free of duty. We sold to those countries only $148,101,000 worth, every pound or yard of which was taxed by those countries at rates from sto 100 per cent. The balance of tAde against us with those countries we paid In gold, to the amount of $103,000,000. Lea* Money About. *’■ In June, 1892, before the present administration assumed office, the per capita circulation of money in the United States was $24.44. A year later, after the present administration’s assumption of power, It had fallen to $23.87, a loss of 0.57 per capita. At the beginning of this month, It was only $21.65, a loss tn circulation of $2.22 since 1893, and a lofts of $2.79 per capita since the protection period of 1892. How Figure. Talks,with woolen manufacturers do not bring to light an encouraging situation. The consensus of opinion seems to be that It is not now a question of figuring profits, but of figuring losses.— Wool and Cotton Reporter. Foreign Home Market? This foreign market, for which every tariff idealist and every Democratic free trader longingly sighs, is only

mythical in the present condition of our country. We should capture the home market first, and get full control of It, before we seek the foreign market. Wo cannot command a foreign market until we can control our own.—Hon. Wm. McKinley. Capturing the Markets. The exports of wheat from the United States for the past week were the smallest of any week since wheat sold at $1 a bushel. Since the fall of 1893 there has been a. general trend downward in our shipments abroad, while those of "Russia and Argentine have been gradually increasing.—Wall Street Daily News. What Americans Want. Uncle Sam ought to charge enough for the privilege of coming into his markets to yield him enough to pay all the expenses of the Government, with a handsome surplus each year to apply to the extinguishment of the national debt. Less than this should satisfy no true American.—Times-Herald, Chicago. Consumption of Corn. Bushels Year. per capita. 1892, McKinley protection SOBS 1895, “Tariff Reform” 16.98 Democratic loss of corn market per Capita of population.... 13.35 The Poverty Party. The Democratic party is the party of the poor.—New York Herald, Nov. 10, 1892. So “poor” in fact that the Herald had to collect and distribute free clothes in the following year. A Good Beason Why. Mr. Cleveland’s election will mean an end of squandering.—New York World, June 20, 1892. Because his tariff for deficiency only has given him nothing to squander. Exports of Cheese. Year. r Pounds. -1892, McKinley protection... .82,100,221 1895, “Tariff Reform” 40,800,934 Democratic loss to farmers. .41,299,287 Democratic Prosperity. Manufacturing failures, during twen-ty-three days of April, amounted to $4,602,556 in liabilities against $3,614,736 last year and $2,687,220 in 1894. A Strops Cambine. Work and wages is the workingman’s issue in this campaign.- San Francisco Call.

GROWTH OF GREAT CITIES.

Increase in. Population More Rapid in Europe than in This Country. It is a mistake to suppose that only American cities show phenomenal growth. Take Paris for instance. According to Dr Albert Shaw, in hls work upon “Municipal Government In Europe,” the population of Paris, now nearly 3,000,000, was only 600,000 at the time of the revolution, a hundred years ago. London, with a population to-day of 6,000,000, had then less than a million. Glasgow, now the second city in Great Britain, with a population of 900,000, had less than 25,000 In 1750 and only 75,000 at the beginning of this century. The population of Manchester, when it was granted a municipal charter in 1838, was only 250,000, It being a -city smalldr than Cleveland to-day. Fifty years ago Birmingham had 180,000 inhabitants. Liverpool, Sheffield, Bradford, Leeds, are, as great cities, entirely modern. Lyons, the largest town in France apart from Paris, with a population of 450,000, had only 100,000 at the opening of the century. Leipzig has doubled in population in the last twenty years, and so has Munich, both growing at a much higher rate than American cities of corresponding size. Hamburg is an interesting city to consider in this study of population, because It can be so well compared with Boston. The population of the two cities in 1875 was almost exactly the same, Hamburg 348,000, Boston 342,000. In 1890 Hamburg had 569,000, and Boston 448,000. Hamburg had gained more than 200,000 in fifteen years, and Boston only a little more than 100,000; yet Boston’s growth has been considered remarkable. In 1870 New York was a more populous city than Berlin. In 1880 Berlin had outgrown New York, and In 1890 it still maintained the lead, having 1,578,794 pepole against New York’s 1,515,301. Chicago's relative gain has been high er; but Berlin In the past twenty-five years has added as many actual new residents as has Chicago.

Machine Made Matches.

The Diamond Match Company, which Is getting possession of the markets of the world, by reason of its making matches cheaper than any other country, has for years paid out big money for Improved machinery.. One of Its factories at Barberton, Ohio, has. eleven machines which produce 177,940,800 gross of matches ready for the market in otie day, with 104 girls, 86 men and 76 boys. By the English process the best factory In the world outside the Diamond, to turn out this vast amount would require 8,000 hands,

HOW DESERTS ARE BEAUTIFIED.

Seed Carried by Various Means to the Desolate Spots of Earth. The terrible eruption of Krakatoa, In the Suuda Strait, in 1883, furnished the opportunity for illustrating the ease with which nature can replant witii vegetable life a district that has become completely desolated. The vol-canic-eruption was one of the most destructive recorded in history, the loss of human life being estimated to exceed 100,000. df the thirty-five volcanoes on and near the Island of Java twenty-six. were in violent eruption at the same time. The center of.disturbancelwas the Island of Krsrkatoa, which emitted molten lava and burning ashes in such abundance that every living thing, whether animal or vegetable, on the island was destroyed, and an observer from a ship which approached close to the land declared that the whole Islanu was red hot. Four years from the date of the eruption the island was visited by an eminent naturalist, who found that the ashes and lava had cooled to such an extent as to permit the beginnings of vegetable life, and on making a closer examination he discovered that , during the brief space of four years nature had stocked the island with 246 different kinds of plants. There are many seeds which seem, by their formation, to be specially designed for transmission through the air, and of these several are quite as good illustrations as the thistle. The seed of the common dandelion, a plant to be seen on every common, has wings which will carry it away on the very slightest breath of air. The wings are very slight filaments, radiating backward from the seed, so that when the latter finally lodges it falls tip first, in the most favorable position for taking root. Country children in’the United States often find amusement in blowing the seeds from the stalk and watching to see how far they will go before falling to the ground, but whenever there is even a moderate breeze the experiment is uniformly a failure, as the fleecy seed fly out of sight and are gone in an instant, and the next season a dandelion springs up in somebody's lawn where the plant was never seen before. The common tumble weed is another example of the winged seed. The plant grows in a woolly bunch which when dried is easily separated from the stalk and a light breeze sets the ball rolling over the ground to scatter its seed wherever it goes. The seeds of many ferns and microscopic plants are so constructed as to be readily lifted and carried away by the wind, while some of considerable size are provided with an elaborate arrangement for aerial transportation. The common maple is an example of the last kind, for projecting from its large head is a membrane closely resembling in size, shape and general appearance the wing of the locust. When the seed is separated from the tree, even If the air be still, it does not fall diiectly to the earth, but by its peculiar construction acquires in falling a spiral motion that takes it several feet from beneath the starting point, and when a brisk breeze is blowing one of these winged seeds has been known to twirl through the air for six miles before its journey came to an end and it sank to the ground, there to germinate and start a maple grove—St Louis Globe-Democrat

Another Car.

The New York Tribune reports an unusual Incident in connection with a recent trip of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from New York to Boston by special train. The train, It appears, left New York shortly after midnight, and somewhere on the way the conductor received a dispatch which read, “Stop at Westerly to take on D. R. car.” To a railroad man “D. R. car” means “drawing-room car.” When the train got to Westerly, therefore, It stopped, and the conductor looked round for a drawing-room car. There was none In sight, and he waited to make Inquiry about It. Nobody around the station had seen any drawing-room car. As soon as the train stopped a man who bad been waiting at the station got on board and took a seat In a smoking compartment. When he had been seated there for a few minutes the conductor came In. “Conductor,” said the man, “why doesn’t the train start?” “Why," said the conductor, “I have orders to stop here for a drawing-room car, and I can’t find it. You have just got on; did you see any drawing-room car around here?” “No,” the new passenger answered, “I haven’t seen any.” “Well, here is the dispatch,” said the conductor: “Stop at Westerly to take on D. R. car.” “Oh.” said the passenger, “that does not stand for ’drawing-room,’ that stands for ‘doctor.’ lam Dr. Carr. I have been called suddenly to attend an important case in Providence, and the train was ordered to stop here for me.” The train went on.

Freak Reptile.

One of the most Interesting creations of nature is the luminous centipede, a curious combination of lizard, snake, and natural electric light plant. It Is about one and one-fourth inebea long, Its body Is very narrow and appears to be in sections. In consequence of this peculiar formation the creature appears to move sideways except when frightened. Then the natural electric light plant feature appears, and with an almost Instantaneous wave-like motion, beginning at the tail, the color of the reptile change* from orange to a greenish phosphorescent shade. Then, sparkling like a tiny streak of green light, the creature darts away to a place of refuge. When one of the pair la in search of Its mate the color grows a bright yellow, but at will the centipede can resume Its darker color, and then. If lying close to the grain of a piece of wood. Is hardly noticeable.--8t Louis Post-Dispatch.

Lawn Tennis.

Lawn tennis was Invented by Major Walter Wingfield, who brought out the game, under another name, In 1874. The first public game was played in 1875.

New Woman Embezzler.

A woman clerk In the Memphis postoffice has been arrested for embezzling $3,000. No business Is a success unless It is profltabl* during the dullest time*.

RECORDOF THE WEEK

- * INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLjD. New Use for Bloodhound* —Peculiar Effect Corn Produced by a Storm—Mary Smith Will Get Her Share of Her Father’* Estate. ' Bloodhound* Find a £o*t Baby. A new use? was found for bloodhound* at Kokomo Saturday. The 3-year-old child of Marion and Mrs. Scott, of Chicago, on a visit, wandered Sway from the house and became lost. Several hours’ search failed to reveal the whereabouts of the lost baby, when Dr. Bell offered to return the child unharmed to the parents by the use of his bloodhound* that are used to run down criminals. The ferocious beasts were put on the trail of the baby, and with a twenty minutes’ run overtook it beyond Kokomo Junction, more than two miles away. The child was returned safely to the distracted parents. The dogs, instead of offering to harm it, served as protector* until the attendants arrived. Duel in Lebanon Street*. Wallace Riley, for many year* a prominent resident of Lebanon, was killed instantly Monday morning by Thomas Allen, a stock buyer. Alien’s son, aged 17, had been keeping company with Riley’s daughter, aged 24. On account of the difference in the ages of the young people, both fathers objected to their marriage, but the couple succeeded in securing a marriage license Friday evening and were married. Immediately after the marriage they left for Putnam County, and remained there until a telegram advising them of the tragedy called them home. When Miss Riley failed to come home Friday night her father set out to learn the cause. He soon heard of the marriage. He denounced the elder Allen a* helping on the marriage. The men met on the streets Saturday afternoon. Riley said: “Defend yourself! One of us is

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going to die!” Riley pulled his revolver. Allen said he was unarmed, and the two repaired to Hooton’s hardware establishment in search for a weapon for Allen. They were finally separated before any blood was shed. Monday morning Riley was on the streets early, and was loud in his claims that he was after Allen. Riley was just coming out of the postoffico room when Allen drove up in his carriage, alighted and passed in. After getting hi* mail he started to leave the postoffice, when Riley accosted him with drawn weapon. Like a flash Allen drew his pistol and the fifing began. Riley fired two shot* and Allen four. When the smoke cleared away Riley was lying in the postoffice door, and Allen’s son, who witnessed the affray from his father's carriage, had received a severe wound in the right side. Allen was arrested and is in jail. Both men are wealthy and influential. Riley has cut a prominent figure in politics for many years. Missing Daughter I* Found. Mary Smith, after many years’ and whose whereabouts were unknown to her family, has returned to Kokomo to claim her portion of her father’s estate. Fifteen years ago Miss Smith, daughter of a wealthy farmer, married against the will of her parents, and for this was driven from home and memory, being entirely ostracized by relatives. The marriage was an unfortunate one. In three year* she was deserted by her unworthy husband. Abandoned and friendless, she placed her two infant children in the orphans’ home, and being in poor health, she was cared for at the county poorhouse. On recovering, she left the poorhouse, wandering away no one knew where. That was ten years ago. Three week* ago the father died. It was found necessary that the missing Mary should be found, if alive, to sign the papers and prove heirship to the $40,000 estate. She was located at Valparaiso, this State, where she was engaged as dishwasher at a college restaurant Corn Cooked During the Storm. near Anderson cause local scientific men to arrive at the conclusion that the electrical condition of the air during the tornado was different from what it has ever been. In certain sections the corn is brown and dead, and can be reduced to powder by rubbing between the hand*. It is blistered as though subjected to * most terrific heat. The theory advanced is that there were electrical currents in the air that were brought in contact the ground by the wind, and that they were so hot as to blister the growing corn. The matter has attracted a great deal of attention. All Over the State. The State convention of the Catholic Temperance Association adjourned at South Bend. Indianapolis was chosen a* the next meeting place, June 1,1897. The following officers were elected: Spiritual director, Rev. Father P. P. Cooney, C. S. C. Notre Dame: president, Patrick Mahoney, Logansport; first vice-president,» Rev. Father Schnell, Terre Haute; second vice-president. Rev. Father Rudolph, Connersville; third vice-president. Mis* Long. Lagro,; treasurer, John G. McCaffrey, Logansport; secretary, fohn Hagerty, South Bend; State organizers, Rev. James A. Burns, C. S. C., Notre Dame, and William Heffernan, Washington; delegates to national convention at St. Louis, John Shannon, Notre Dame, and D. P. Downs, Terre Haute. An epidemic of black diphtheria I* raging at Schererville. In the family of John Boney one child is dead and the death of four more is expected hourly. Wednesday morning the children were apparently well and in a few hours were deathly sick. Disbarment proceedings were instituted Iff Anderson against Prosecutor Scalar, ex-Deputy Prosecutor Doss and Attorney G. R. Call. Call is charged with bribery. Doss with accepting bribes, and prosecuting the State, and the prosecutor 3ith acquiescing in the action of the exosecutor, who was at the time hi* deputy. .F. C. Donald, chairman of the Central Passenger Association of Chicago, state* that roads of the Central Passenger Commit lee will, for the Grand Army encampment, sell excursion, ticket* tn St. Paul at the rate of 1 cent per tulle, by all lines of the committee, plus SB, basing fare from Chicago to St. Paul, op Aug. 30, 31 and Sept. 1. Tickets will be for' continuous passage in both direction* and good to begin going journey only oh date of sale. This subject to ticket condition* established by St. Paul-Chicago line*. Thi* means the rate of 1 cent per tfiile is granted to Chicago, and th* round trip thenoff to St. Paul is SB, which 1* less than 1 cent per mile. >

THOMAS ALLEN.