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A HELL ON EARTH.
UNSPEAKABLE WICKEDNESS OF
TURKS AND KURDS.
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1'he Clirnt!*n Women oftho Small Town*
of Aiiuculn Would lie Much Itetter Oil'
If Dead—Tliyir Treatment l« rrltil«
to Cout©ujj>late.
Van, Armenia, Juno 1 Tho prison
£n Van, where the Armenian prison-
ers ore confined, is located under the
shadow of tho city wall and at a point
where tho ground is so low as to re-
ceive the drainage of tho rest of tho
city. Like the other building's of the
city, it is built of sun-driad brick laid
in mud. The prison is a one-story
building and with no provison for
keeping it dry. The inner prison con-
sists of six long, narrow rooms, three
on each side of a common passagowuy
into which they open. Kach room is
12 feet wi'la and from 30 to 40 feet
long, has two windows at tho outer
end and two small windows and a
door at the inner end, opening into
the passage. During tho last winter
from thirty to forty men were crowded
into each of these rooms, sleeping on
tho floor, a row along each wall, bo
that if their feet were a little moro
than usually extonded tho rows would
interfere with each othor. Some-
times there were twenty-two men in
each row. allowing only about eigh-
teen inches for each person. The
live sraull cells mentioned are damp,
dark and entirely unwarmed in win-
ter. A prisoner, Karaken Paghesht-
zcan by name, wus kept in one
of those cells fourteen consecutive
months with foot fetters all the timo
and with hand and neck fetters much
of the time. Afterward he was ro-
moved to one of tho inner cells, which
are even worse than where ho now is.
Ho was .'logged on an average of once
a day. Apart from the actual butch-
ery oi Sassoun, the most painful
feature of the Armenian situation is
tho position of the Armenian women.
One cannot investigate this phaso of
the subject without feelings of rago
and horror over tho insults and out-
rages to which these poor creatures
are subjected. After tho most careful
personal inquiry tho correspondent is
able to state that in hundreds
of villages in Armenia there
is hardly one woman, old or
young, who is not from timo to time
m ado"the victim of the Kurds and
Turks. In all tho villages of Armonia
tho Christian women, both old and
young, are absolutely at the mercy of
their Kurdish and Turkish neighbors.
This is not tho case in tho larger
cities of Van, liitis, Moush and Erz-
roum, because in these cities the large
Armenian population is in itself a pro-
tection to the women, but in tho vil-
lages, where tho Armenians are in
tho minority, protection is not possi-
ble, and tho women are at tho
beck and call of any Kurd
or Turk who happens to tako
a fancy to them. Moreover this
stato of things is said to bo
jforvcvtlv' '/"oil known to the Turkish
government, ju = «... . mo
government to sell to tho highest
bidder tho tax privilege of these vil-
lages, the purchasers having tho
Ti<'ht to purchase all of tho taxes
from the people. In very many cases
the number of young Armenian
•wopien in a village has a great deal
todo with the price paid for the tax
privilege. When the public sale is
nude of tho tax privilege it is no un-
common thing for tho auctioneer to
calout in the market place, that all
ma. hear, that so many girls are
iivaublo in the village. When a man
hasurchased tho tax privilege of a
villi* he considers that ho has also
bou^l and paid for tho women of tho
villa,, and any attoinpt on tho part
of thcusbands, brothers or others
10 rent this interpretation of tho
law iboked upon as high troason,
punUblo with death. If tho Arme-
nian h object to this treatment of
the vAgii they aro beaten and driven
from | village and in many casos
Uillcui
VJi.1t Might lluvo Itenn.
W.'iiiTON, July IS.—The inter-
nal «|uo bureau has practically
compl the work of recording and
schcdfr tho returns received un-
der tlfeome tax act and very soon
will ifyy to begin tho work of re-
fundiie amounts paid beforo the
the 1"! declared unconstitutional.
The Vations for refunds, how-
ever, Inlng in very slowly. 2S'o
classi'.fc t0 determine the occu-
pation^ payors or the relative
umoUM by each state or section
of couiV(J been made thus far,
but i>ll\'om repeated handling of
the re', tolorably close estimate
of som'e principal deductions
which macio later can now be
stated. ar0) however, only ap-
proxitn .',.ora t|10 returtls made
it is ^lClhat fully orie-half of
the nuHjersons subject to tho
tax "i. i.Qturn whatever aud
this p'1U believed to be even
great'r ^t to the amounts of
the tax aggregate of
the re je represent about
''ax and hence about
-0)., calculated, would
have boc,d jf un who were
subject )ia^ sent in returns.
It i a 1'{\ that the first de-
cision o'ae court exempting
rents 1111 [\n J bonds from tho
opcratiof^ resulted in a
loss o. lu,uoo. So that had
tho liw as it originally
stood the from this ae-
cordtng tl0w made would
have a 1'^ ^,000,000 or even
$00,'' he proportion of
the tax ^ Lyu been borne
by cac i country only a
rough 1 s 'jow be made.
indi-
mid-
. . wid about two-
third" o und the west-
cl'u ea«h about
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"I Uu(t) I'll SWllif"
Pan \DKL.rniA, Pa., July 18.—iL
H. llolmes, alias Herman Mudgett,
has virtually confessed to the murder
of the two children whose bodies
were found in a cellar In a Toronto
house. It is learned at tho oftlce of
the district attorney that during a
two hours' interview Holmes had
with throe meiuUf's of the district at-
torney's statf, Holmes said: sup-
pose I'll swing for this." This is the
only remark dropped from Holmes'
lips which in any way tends to in-
criminate him. This is a practi-
cal admission of his guilt. Notwith-
standing Holmes' remarks his counsel
says he can prove an alibi in his
client's case. Ho says Holmes was
not in Toronto when the Pitzel child-
ren wcro murdered. This he says,
ho can prove by Mrs. Howard,
Holmes' third wife, who is at present
living with her mother in Franklin,
Ind. Tho authorities place but little
credence in tho alibi story and are
satisfied ho is tho murderer. Mrs.
Georgiana Howard, wife of Howard or
Homes, the insurance swindler, is at
the homo of her mother, Mrs.
Mary Yoko, in Franklin, lnd. In a
reported interview Mrs. Howard was
said to be quite busy getting ready
for a trip to Philadelphia in answer to
a tolegram from District Attorney
Graham. She received the telegram
at noon yesterday. Mrs. Howard
when asked about her knowledge of
the Pitzel children said: "Upon that
subject I have nothing to say." Sh
was told it was reported that she hat
been induced to swear that Iio wart,
was not in Toronto at the time
the Pitzel children were murdered.
She replied: "I decline to mako
any statement on that subject."
Mrs. Howard here interposed: "That
report is certainly not true." Mrs.
Howard said that sho was at Indian-
apolis part of last September and Oc-
tober when Howard aud tho Pitzel
children were there. Asked if she
know the Pitzel children, and that
I'itzel had disappeared, Mrs. Howard
said: "Why, I never knew that
there was such a family in existence,
and how could I know what bocame
of the boy? I never heard of the
Pitzel family until my husband was
arrested." "Did you ever see the
father of tho children?" "Yes, I
know him in Fort Worth, Tex., where
he worked on a business block which
Mr. Howard was building, but he
went under another name. 1 did not
know that ho had a family." Mrs.
Howard was asked what sho knew
about Howard having other wives,
and sho replied that she knew noth-
ing about it, but had heard it said
that he ha'1. Ilore Mrs, York ex-
plained that there is no evidence that
Howard ever married any other
woman than hor daughter and said
that her daughter and Howard
wero married in December and
the marriage certificate was in her
possession. Mrs. Howard also stated
that she and her husband had. lived
in Fort Worth from February to April,
1894, and after that almost every-
lyhrti", \J rir <?■!>"> —"" '
that she knew just where to stop
talking. She appeared to bo uneasy
that her mother would say something
that ought not to be said. Nothing
could bo obtained from her that
would indicate that she had any
knowlodgo of Howard's crookedness
and crimes or that sho is any other
than a devoted wife.
TALLAGES SEHMGIn.
"THE UNPARDONABLE SIN"
LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
"All Manner of Sin Shall no Iven
I'nto Meus but tin- Illiupliciuy of the
lloly ('.host (Shall Not lie Forgivi-u
t'Lto Alfiu"—Matthew l:i : Ul-tlW.
Memphis Tax fuse*.
Washington, July 18 The Mem-
phis tax cases filed in the United
States supreme court on assignment
of error in the decisions oi the su-
premo court of Tcnnesseo aro twelve
in number, there being one each on
account of the city of Memphis and
the county of Shelby against tho fol-
lowing named institutions: Planters'
Fire and Marine Insurance company,
Home Insuraneo company, Mercan-
tile bank, Mechanics' Saving bank,
Memphis City bank and Hank of Com-
merce. These concerns all claim im-
munity from taxation on account of
old charters granted to tho United
States companies, into which they
have come into possession, and some
of which were never utilized by the
companies to which they wcro granted.
Tho state denied tho existence of im-
munity claimed in all the cases and
brought suit to compel the payment
of taxes such as aro required to bo
paid on othor property. Tho claims
run back for several years and aggre-
gate several hundred thousand dol-
lars. The decision of the Tennessee
supreme court was favorable to tho
state.
'J lie re«i" 'iseom t0
cate tnat |aQd uqJ
die ttates
Ashland, O., July ]8.—Lato Tues-
day night four masked men went to
tho houso of "John Miblin, living a
few miles from this place, and on be-
ing refused admittance battered down
the door with a fenco rail. The men
then bound and gagged tho man and
his wife, and on failing to find the
amount of money they belioved to bo
hi the houso they tortured tho couple,
holding burning matches to their feet
and hands. The robbers secured $13,
all tho money in the house. Miblin
and bis wife, who aro both very old
and -Aiost blind, did not succeed in
leasirtTr thomselves until 9 o'clock
yesterday morning. No clue to tho
identity tho robbers.
Ar.BUQUEUQUK, N. Y., July 18.—
Looking like an animated picture of
Christ credited with performing acts
on a par with the miracles of the son
of God, Francis Schlatter, who claims
to have beon until two years ago a
shoemaker in Denver, >ias set wild
j tho Mexicans of tho territory just
! south of this city. They are hailing
j him as a special disciple sent from
I heaven direct to them to give eight
to the sightless, hearing to the deaf
and to relieve them of ali diseases to
which the flesh is heir. Yesterday
ho was followed about by h n ml reds
of Mexicans and Indians to pray of
him that he touch their hands and
mre thciu of their ailments.
EW YORK, July 1*.
18115. In his sermon
for to-day, Rev. Dr.
Talmage, who is
still In the West on
■js his annual summer
•—' tour, chose a subject
which has been a
fruitful theme ot
theological disputa-
tion for centuries
past, viz.: "The Un-
pardonable S 1 n."
The texts jylect'd wore: "All manner
of sin anil Blasphemy shall bo forgiven
unto men1, but the blasphemy against
the Holy ulhost shall not be forgiven
unto men. And whosoever speaketh a
word aga'.nst the Son of man. It shall
be fox-give.i him: but whosoever speak-
eth against tho Holy Ghost, it shall not
be forgiven him, neither in this world,
neither lis tlia world to come." (Matthew
12: 31-32.)
"He found no plaec of repentance,
though he sought it carefully with
tears," (Heb. 12: 17.)
As sometimes you gather the whole
family around tho evening stand to
hoar some book read, so now we gather
—a grout Christian family group—to
study this text; and now may one and
the same lamp east its glow on all the
circle!
You seo from tho tlrst passage that I
read that there is a sin against tho Holy
Ghost fcr which a man is never par-
doned. Onee having committed it, he
Is bound hand and foot for tho dun-
g.vons of despair. Sermons may be
preached tn Mm, songs may be sung to
him, prayers may be offered in hla be-
ll ilf: but all to no purpose. He Is a
ojiptlve for this world, and a d.ptive
for tho world that is to come. Do you
suppose that there is any one Tiero wiio
has committed that sin? All sins are
against the Holy Ghost: but my text
fpeaka of one especially. It Is very clear
(:3 my own mind that the sin against
the Holy Ghost was the ascribing of
the works of the Spirit to the agency
of tho devil in the time of the apostles.
Indeed, the Bible distinctly tells us that.
In other words, if a man had sight
given to him, or If another was raised
from the dead, and someone standing
there should say, "Tills man got his
night bj.- Satanic power; the Holy Spirit
did not do this; Beelzebub accomplished
It; " or, "This ms.n ralsod from tho dead
was raised by Satanic influence," the
man who said that dropped down under
tho curse of the text, and had com-
mitted the fatal sin against the Holy
Ghost.
Now, I do not think it is possible In
this day to commit that sin. 1 think
It was possible only in apostolic times.
But it is a very terrible thing ever to
say anything against the Holy Ghost,
and It Is a marked fact that our race
has been marvelously kept back from
that profanity. You hear a m.tn swear
by the name of the Eternal God, and by
the name of Jesus Christ, but you never
3-. "■ — *4 vj
Holy Ghost. There are those here to-
<Say who fear they are guilty of the un-
pardonable sin. Ilavfi. you such anx-
iety? Then I have to t"ll you positively
that you have not committed that sin,
because the very anxiety is a result of
the movement of the gracious Spirit,
%nd your anxiety Is proof positive, as
certainly as anything that can be dem-
onstrated in mathematics, that you
have not committed the sin that I have
been speaking of. I can look off upon
this audience and feel that there Is
salvation for all. It Is not like when
they put out with those life-boats from
the "Loch Earn" for the "Ville du
Havre." They knew that there was
not room for r.ll the passengers, but
they were going to do n* well as they
could. But to-day we man the life-
boat of the Gospel, and we cry out over
the sea, "Room for all!" Oh, that the
Lord Jesus Christ world, this hour,
bring you all out of the ffciod of sin, and
plant you on tho deck of the glorious
old Gospel craft!
But while I have said I do not think
It is possible for us to commit the par-
ticular sin spoken of In the first text,
I hjive by reason of tho second text t,o
call your attention to the fact that (here
are sins which, though tlicy may bo
portioned, are In some respects Irrevoc-
able; and you can find no place for re-
pentance, though you seek It carefully
with tears. Esau had a birthright given
him. In olden times It meant not only
temporal but spiritual blessing, one
day Esau took this birthright and
traded it off for something to eat, Oh,'
th* folly! But let us not be too severe
upen liim, for some of us have com-
mitted (he same folly. After he had
made the trade, he wanted to get It
bq.ck. Just as though you to-morrow
morning should take all your notes and
bonds and government securities, and
should go Into a restaurant, and in a
fit of recklessness and hunger throw all
those securities nn the counter and ask
for a plate of food, making that ex-
change. This was tho one Esau made.
He sold his birthright for a mess of
pottage, und ho was very sorry o-bout
it afterward; but "he found no place for
repentance, though he sought It care-
fully with tears,"
There is an Impression in almost ev-
ery man's mind triat somewhere in the
future thf>re will be a chance whfre he
can correct all his mistakfs. Live an
vro may, if we only repent In lime, God
Vlll forgive us, and then all will be as
r/ell as though we had never committed
tin. My discourse .shall come In colii-
jion with that theory. I shall show you,
my friends, as God will help me, that
there Is such a thing as unsuccessful re-
pentance; that '.here are things done
wring that always stay wrong, and for
them you may seek some place of re-
pentance, and seek it carefully, but
ncer find It.
I'elonglng this class of Irrev...-hie
ml'itakfs is the folly of misspent youth.
Wo may look back to our college days,
and think how we neglected chemistry,
cr geology, or botany, or mathematics.
Wo may be sorry about It all our day ■ I
Cah we ever g< t the discipline or the
advantage that we would have Vis.d hail
we attended to those duties In early
life? A man wakes up at. forty yfrars of
age and finds that his youth hat been
wasted, and he strives to get bach his
■arly advantages. Does he got t'aem
back—the days of boyhood, th* dtyj In
lege .under l.'s t'/ttner'i I
roof? "Oh," he s. > |'"f I could only j
get those t'm«t back again how I would :
improve them!" My brother, you wl'.l j
never get them back. They are gone, ,
gone. You mav be very sorry nbou' 1', j
and God may forgive, so that you may I
at last reu' liieaven: but you will never
get over ;>! • of the mishaps thai have j
come to youl soul as a result of your j
neglect of early diu.r You may try to I
undo it; you cannot undo it. When you j
had a hoy's aims, and a boy's eyes, and |
a boy's heart you ought to have attend-
ed to those tilings. A man says, at ll!ty I
years of ag?. "1 dr ish I could get over i
these habits of indolence." When did j
you get them? At twenty or twenty- |
five years of a go. You cannot shake |
them off. They will hang to you to the
very day of your death. If a young man |
through a long course of evil conduct |
undermln-'fl his physical health, and |
then repents of It in after life, the Lord
may pardon him; but that does not
bring back good physical condition. I
said to a minister of the Gospel, one
Sabbath, at the close of the service,
"Where are you preaching now?" "Oh,
lie says. "1 am not preaching. I am
suffering from the physical effects ot'
early eln. I can't preach now; I am
sick." A consecrated man he now is,
and he mourns bitterly over early «lns;
but that, does not arrest their bodily ef-
fects.
The simple fact Is t'.iat men and wo-
men often take twenty years of their
life to build up Influences that require
all the rest of their life to break down.
Talk about a man beginning lll'e when
he is twenty-one years of age; talk
about a woman beginning life when she
is eighteen years of age! Ah, no! In
many respects that is the time they close
life. In nine cases out of ten, all the
questions of eternity are decided before
that. Talk about a majority of men
petting their fortunes between thirty
and forty! The get or lose fortunes be-
tween ten and twenty. When you tell
mo that a man la just beginning life, 1
toll you he Is just closing it. Tho next
fifty years will not be of as much im-
portance to him as the first twenty.
Now, why do I say this? la it for the
annoyance of those who have only a
baleful retrospection?' You know that
is not my way. I sny It for tho benefit
of young men and women. I want them
to understand that eternity Is wrapped
up in thin hour; that the sins of youth
we never get over; that you are now
fashioning the mold In which your
great future is to run; that a minute,
instead of being sixty seconds long, is
made up of everlasting ages. You see
what dignity and importance this Rives
to the life of all our young folks. Why,
'n the light of this subject, life Is not
something to be frittered away, not
something to be smirked about, not
something to be danced out, but some-
thing to be weighed in the balances of
eternity. Oh, young man! tho sin of
yesterday, the sin of to-morrow, will
reach over ten thousand years, ay, over
the great and unending eternity. You
may, after awhile, say, "I am very sor-
ry. Now I have got to be thirty or forty
years of age, and I do wish I had never
committed those sins." What does that
amount to? God may pardon you; but
undo those things you never will, you
never can.
In this same category of irrevocable
mistakes I put all parental neglect. We
begin the education of our children too
late. Uv the time they get to be ten or
fifteen Jfce wake up to our mistakes and
try tofpniflicmt; triio ud habit, and
change' that; but It Is too late. That
parent who omits, in the first ten years
of tho child's life, to make an eternal
Impression for Christ, never makes it.
The child will probably go on with all
tho disadvantages, which might have
been avoided by parental faithfulness.
Now you see what a mistake that fath-
er or mother makes who puts off to late
life adherence to Christ. Here is a man
who at fifty years of age says to you,
"I must be n Christian;" and he yields
his heart to God, and sits In the place of
ayer to-day a Christian. None of us
pray
can doubt it. lie goes homo and he says
"Hero at fifty years of age I have given
my heart to the Savior. Now I must
establish a family altar." What? Where
are your children now? One In Boston;
another in Cincinnati; another in New
Orleans; and you, my brother, at your
fiftieth year going to establish your
family altar? Very well; better late
than never; but alas, alas that you did
not do it twenty-five years ago!
When I was in Chamounl, Switzer-
land, I saw in the window of one of the
shops a picture that Impressed my mind
very much. It was a picture of an ac-
cident that occurred on tho side of one
of the Swiss mountains. A company of
travelers, with guides, went up soine
very steep places—places which but few
travelers attempted to go up. They
wore, as all travelers aro there, fastened
together with cords at the waist, so that
If one slipped the rope would hold him—
the rope fastened to the others. Pass-
ing along tho most dangerous point one
of the guides slipped and they all start-
ed down the precipice; but after awhile
one more muscular than tho rest stuck
Ills heels into the lee and stopped; l>wt
the rope broke, and down, hundreds and
thousands of feet, the rest went. And
so I see whole families bound together
by ties of affection, and in many cases
walking on slippery places of worldll-
ness and sin. The father knows It, and
the mother knows It, and they are
bound all together. After a while they
begin to slide down steeper and steeper,
and the father becomes alarmed, and he
stops, planting his feet on the "Rock of
Ages," He stops, hut the rop« breaks,
and those who were once tied fast to
him by moral and spiritual influences
go over the precipice. Oh, there Is such
a thing as coming to Christ soon enough
to save ourselves, but not soon enough
to save others!
How many parents wake up In the
latter part of life to find out the mis-
take! The parent says, "I have been
too lenient," or "I have been too severe
In the discipline of my children. If I
had the little ones around me again,
how different I would do!" You will
never have them around again. The
work Is done, the bent to the character
Is given, the eternity Is decided. I say
this to young parents—those who are
twenty-five or thirty or thirty-five years
of age-.have the family altar to-night.
How do you suppose that father felt as
lie ieaie d over the couch of his dying
child, mi the expiring son said to him,
"Father, you have been very good to
ffie, Y'.u have given me a fine educa-
tion, and you have placed me In a fine
social position; you have done every-
thing for me in a worldly sen.ie; but,
father, you never told m« how to die.
Now I am dying and I am afraid.'
In this category of Irrevocable mis-
takes I place, also, the unklndness done
the departed. When X was a hoy my
mother used *• say to me sometime
"Du Witt, you Will b« sorry for that
when I am gone." And I remember jusl
how she looked, sitting there, wUI cap
t V spectacles, and the old Bible tn her
le.i : and she never said a truer thing
than that, l'or I have been sorry since.
While we have our friends with us, wa
say unguarded things that wound the
feelings of those to whom we ought to
give nothing but kindness. Perhaps tho
parent, without Inquiring into the mat-
ter. boxes the Clld's ears. Tho little
one, who has fallen In the street, comes
In covered with dust, and, as though tho
first disaster were not enough, she whips
It. After a while the child is taken, or
the parent Is taken, or the companion Is
taken and those who are left say, "Oh,
If we could only get back those unkind
words, those unkind deeds; If we could
only recall them!" But you can not get
them back. Yn;i might bow down over
the grave of that loved one, and cry and
cry and cry—the white lips would make
no answer. The stars shall be plucked
out of their sockets, but these lntluencea
shall not bo tain away. The world shall
die, but tilers sre some wrongs immor-
tal. The ino.nl of which is, take caro
of your frier. .Is while you have them;
spare the scoiding; be economical of tho
satire; shut up In a dark cave, from
which they thall never swarm forth, all
the words that have a sting tn them.
You will wUh you had some day—very
soon you w'.:l—perhaps to-morrow. Oh,
yes. Whll« with a firm hand you ad-
minister ph.'ontal discipline, also ad-
minister it, very gently, lest some day
there be a little slab tn the cemetery,
and on It cj.iseled "Our Willie," or "Our
Charlie;" ind though you bow down
prone In toe grave aud seek a place of
repentance and seek It carefully with
tears, you ■•an not find It.
There is another sin that I place In the
class of Irrevocable mistakes, and that
Is lost opportunities of getting good. 1
never come to a Saturday night but I
can see during that week that I havo
missed opportunities of getting good.
I never tvme to my birthday but I can
see that J. have wasted many chances
of get til'.;* better. I never go home on
Sabbath from the discussion of a re-
ligious theme Mtliout feeling that 1
mlftht hive done it in a more successful
way. Ilaw Is It with you? If you take
a cirtalj) number of bushels of wheat
and scatter them over a certain numbet
of acres of land, u expect a harvest In
proportion to the amount of seed scat-
tered. .M'd I ask you now, have tho
sheaves of more.I ami spiritual harvest
coi".'c,*p«n:led with the advantages giv-
en? Mow lias ll; been with you? You
may make resolutions for the future,
but pa.'ll. opportunities are gone. In the
long procession of future years all those
past moments will march: but tlie
archangel's trumpet that wakes tin
dead will not wake for you one of Hiobg
privileges. Esau has sold his birthright
and there is not wealth enough In the
treasura houses of heaven to buy It back
again. What does that mean? It means
that If you are going to get any advan-
tage out of this Sdb'oath day, you will
have to get It before the hand wheels
around the clock to twelve to-night. It
means that every moment of our life
has two wings, and that It does not fly
like a hawk, In circles, but In a straight
lino from eternity to eternity. It moans
that though other chariots may break
down, or drag heavily, this one never
drops the brake and never ceases to
run. It means that while at other ftasts
the cup may be passed to us and we
may reject It, and yet after awlilto take
It, tlie cup"b©«i'oru to thitt HCVftf
give us but one chance at the challco,
and, rejecting that, we shall "find nn
place for repentance, though wc a««k 11
carefully with tears."
I stand before those who have a glo.
rlous birthright. Esau'a was not so rick
as yours. Sell it once and you s/dl It
forever. I remember the story of thti
lad on tho "Arctic" some years ago—th«
lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed
Into the "Arctic" in the time of a fog',
and It was found that the ship must go
down. Some of tho passengers got off
In the life boats, some got off In rafts;
but three hundred went to the bottom-
During all those hours of calamity
Stewart Holland stood at tho signal gun
and It sounded across the sea, boom!
boom! The helmsman forsook his plno",
the engineer was gone,and some fainted
and some prayed and some blasphemed,
and tho powder was gone and they
could no more set off tho signal gun.
Tho lad broke in the magazine and
brought out more powder, and aguln
the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my
friends, tossed on the rough se.is of life,
somo have taken the watnlnp, have
gone off in tho lifeboat, and thoy are
safe; but others are not makltig ur.y
attempt to escape. So I stand at this
signal gun of the gospel, sounding t}ie
alarm, Beware! beware! "Now Is the
accepted time; now is the day of salva-
tion." Hear it that your soul may live!
fle Will Not Brewi Hisslf.
(Protu tlie Troy, N. V., Times.)
R. \V. Kdxvards, of I.anslnghurgh, wn-r
prostrated liy sunstroke during th# war
aud it has eutailed ou him peculiar aud
serious conxoqneneon. At present writing
.Mr. 10. is a prominent oflicer of Post Lyon,
O. A. R., t'ohoes, and a pu.it. aid-do-camp.
on the stall'of the commander-in-chief ot
Albauy Co. In an interview with a re-
porter, ho said:
"1 was wounded and sent to the hospital
at Winchester. '1 hoy sent me together
with others to Washington— a ride of
about 100 miles. Having no room in the;
box cars we wcro placed face up on the
bottom of Hat cars. Tho sun beat down
upon our unprotected heads. When I|
reached Washington I was insensible and
was unconscious for ton duys while in the
hospital. An abscess gathered in my ear
and broke; it has been gathering and"
breaking over sineo. The result of this 10t)>
mile rido and sunstroke, was, hoart dis-
ease, nervous prostration, insomnia and
rheumatism; a completely shattered sys-
tem which gave mo no rest night or day.
As u last resort 1 took somo l'lnk Pills and'
they helped nie to u wonderful degree. My,
rheumatism is gouo, my heart- '•tlnre,
dyspepsia, and constlputiom
gone und the abscess in I
stopped discharging and nij
us cleur as a lioil when liofori
though It would burst and my
tered nervous system is now ne
Look at those lingers," Mr. Kdw
"do they look us If there wus any'
tlsm theref" lie moved his llngei
nnd freely und strode about thoroi
young boy. "A year ago tlioso
were gnarled at tho joints and so si
1 could not hold a pen. My knees
swell np nnd I could not. straighten
out. My joints would squeak when I ml
"Iiauuot begin to tell you," said
Hdwanls, us ho drow u long breath, "
my feelings Is at present. I think if
lilted ten years right oil'my life und
mo prime mid vigorous ut forty-sove:
could feel no better. 1 was an old tn
and could onlv drug myself painfully aboi
the houso. Now I can walk oil! without an:
trouble. That In it.solf," continued Mr,
Ed urds, "would bo Niilllciont to givo nisi
cuusn l'or rejoicing, but when you come to
consider Hint. I am no long what you might)
call nervous and tlint my hourS is uppars
ently nearly healthy and that I can slooif
ulglits you muy realize why 1 may appear
to spoiik in extravagant | raise of Pinlc
Pills. These pills (pilot my norvos, takst
that aw I'ul pressure ironi my lioad und at
I lie Mime time enrich m> blood. There
soomod to be 110 circulation In my lowei*
limbs a year ago, my legs being cold and
clammy' ut times. Now tho circulation
there is lis lull and as brisk us at any
other part ot my body. I used to be so
light-headed ami dizzy from my nervous
disorder that I Irooipicntly fell while cross*
lug the Moor ot lily houso. Spring is coming
Children's fear of Anlmn?*.
So far as I can ascertain, facts o.re
strongly opposed to tho theory of In-
herited fear of animals. Just as in the
first months a child will manifest some-
thing like recoil from u pretty and per-
fectly innocent pigeon, so later on chil-
dren manifest fear In the most unlikely
directions, In the Invisible Playmate
we are told of a girl who got Into her
first fright on seeing a sparrow drop on
tiie grass neur her, though she was not
the least afraid of big things, and on
first hearing the dog bark In Ills kennel
said, with a little laugh of surprise, "Oil!
coughing." A parallel case is sent me
by a lady friend. Orio day when her
daughter was about four years old she
found hor standing, the eyes wide open
and filled with tears, the arms out-
stretched for help, evidently transfixed
with terror, while a small wood louse
made Its slow way toward her. The next
day the child was taken, for the first
time, to the "Zoo," and the mother, an-
ticipating trouble, held her hand. But
there was no need. A "fearless spirit"
In general, sho released her hand at the
first sight of the elephant, and galloped
after the monster. If Inheritance plays
a principal part In the child's fear of an-
imals, one would have expected tho
facts to be reversed. The elephant
should have excited dread, not tho
harmless Insect.—James Sully In Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
\ Dish Msdn Tliclr Fortune,
llrandade Is fresh cod boiled with
onions, garlic, white pepper, laurel
leaves and sage. It was brandude that,
under the tlrst Empire, laid the founda-
tions of the fortune of the Trols Freres
Provencaux. The thr'-e brothers, who
v.'fi'e all good cooks, brought with them
to Pails their recipe for brandude and
oth"r Provencal dishes.—London Tele-
graph.
Unbelief works overtime In trying
make a stone look like brefcd.
not imagine tho uimts.s ci
good, oviin if iWwantm'
anil I never le i better in my lile, und 1 uui
looking forward to a busy season of work.1'
It Miiikm ii 11 IMe re nee.
It is notlcud that oven u short resl-
donce in the United States makes u
marked chango in tho conditions and
standards of tho 'immigrant. .Scandi-
navian passengers sometimes revisit
their old homos ufter a sojourn in
this country. They usually take tho
steerage passugo on the eastward
voyage, but tliu second cabin on the>
return westward voyage. Tito eustn
ward steerage passage thoy 11 rid clean
und comfortable, but the recollection
of tho ill-smelling steerage of their
lirst trip to America drives them to
the second cabin. Those people as-
cribe tho difference between tho oust--
wurd and westward steerage passage
to the difference in the cleanliness ot
the immigrants that have lived in tho%
United States. It Is to be added,
however, that it: days not long ago
the number of westward bound pas-
sengers greatly exceeded tho nuinbor
oi Qiistward bound, und doubtless it
is tho cleanliest und most intelligent
of original immigrants who ure ubio
to revisit their old homes. Tho con-
dition of human beings shipped like
cattle is uot the same as those who
travel U>%^asure. ,
(
Vfll III* Kil.
General liooth, tho Sulvatlon Army
leader, in reviewing his work in this
country, lias many kind words to say
concerning tho newspapers. Ho did
ould do much
to, and cer-
tainly ho did believed thut it wantedM
to. The newspapers havo Changed
their opinion of Gen. Ilooth just us ha
has changed his oplon of tho newepa-
pers. The old idea that he wus a
wild-oyod fanatic, whoso solo object
was to gain notoriety, has been uban-
dotied, now that tho American pootilo
havo become moro familiar with Gen.
Looth's methods and objects, und
what ho thinks of America is best
shown by his act in applying for nut-
uralizution us u citizen of the United
States.
'I li« Oiny Survivor.
In IMoii a bund ot Sioux Indians
raided a little colony of settlers who
had built cabins on tho shore of Lnko
Okoboji, In Iowa. They massacred
all of the unfortunates except three
young girls, one ..< whom, idiss Abbio
Gut'dner, is still alive, the only mir-
vivor of ihe tragedy. Sho now has
a museum of Indian relics in tbu
identical cabin that was her homo ut
the time of the massacre. Miss
Gardner lias secured from the Iowa
legislature an appriation of for
u monument to mark the spot, und
it is to be dedicated with due cere-
mony.
• THMtfl.
Tho teeth of rats are kept sharp b>
a very peculiar provision of nature.
The outer edge of tho incisors i cov-
erei, with a layer of enumel us hard
us flint, while the under sido is muck
softer. The layers of enamel on tho
uni-'i side, therefore, wear uwu,
much faster tiiun on the upper su#
face, and a keen cutting edge is u
ways presented.
d
r.enty ..r /% ii|iI le,iii |h, at
J here were forty applicants for I
place of fuiminute mixer ut the \V
Chester arms works since the 1
mixer was killed by an expiosiVO
place is worth a week Bh
hours a day work. Wililuin L
ton got tho place. Hi* chief rc<Per
mondutlon is that he has not a I
tive in the world. The occuptilid.
c a cocci hazardous.
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