._7’ ;
«em. v. .. . ,t. v .
Fa,“ __ .
,uvero illness from extreme grief.
" fell into a state of syncope. which lasted
THE S
we SEE:
SOFT“ Nl‘llW ALK. t‘l LVN.
BURIED ALIVE.
some llonlblo Irv-Inner. 0! Parent.
sure Interment.
l That those supposed to be dead are
often only in trance like conditions is
evidenced by the numerous cases of re»
covery from apparent death on record.
The following instances of the dangers
of supposed death are related at random
from a note-hook. Some of these cases
may be found in Walker and Chadwick‘s
works on scpnlture; others in various
French and German periodicals:
“Cardinal Somaglia was seized with a
lie
so long that the persons around thought
him dead. Preparations were made to
embalm the body. The cmhalmer had
scarcely penetrated into 'the cardinal‘s
chest when the heart was seen to beat.
The unfortunate patient who was return-
in to his senses at the moment had still
an 'cient strength to push away the
knife of the surgeon. but too late. for
the lunghad been mortally wounded.
and the patient died in a most lamentable
manner.“
“Mr. IL. of l‘oitiers. fell suddenly
into a state resembling death. livery
means for bringing him back to life was
used without interruption. llis two
little flowers were dislocated. and the
soles of his feet were burnt; but. as
none of these procedures secured to pro-
duce any effect. they were on the point
of placing him in a collin. when some
one recommended bleeding from the
nrms and feet. and he. to the great as-
tonishment of all. recovered front his
apparent state of death. and declartd
that he had heard every word that had
been said. and that his only fear was
that he would be buried alive.“ '
“A frightful case of premature inter
merit occurred not long since at Ton-
-..aq -.. .. .. ..... .. .
tim. a man in the prime of life. blallou is;
afowshovelfuls of dirt thrown in his
grave. when an indistinct noise was
card to proceed from his eotlin. The
grave-digger. terrified beyond descrip-
tion. instantly fled to seek assistance.
and some time elapsed before his return.
A crowd collected in considerable nun»
born around the grave and insisted on
the coffin being opened. As soon as the
lid was removed it was ascertained be—
yond a doubt that the occupant had
been inferred alive. Ilia countenance
was frightfully contracted with the
agony he had undergone; and. in his
struggles. the unhappy man had farced
his arms completely out of the winding
sheet in which they had been securely
enveloped. A thvsieiau was on the
spot and opene a vein. .\‘o blood fol~
lowed. The sufferer from inhumation
was beyond the reach of medical art."
“In October. 1837. Mr. llechatups. an
inhabitant of Lyons. France. died at the
end of a short indisposition. Ilis obsc-
uies were ordered for the next day.
\ hen the coffin lid was about to be
nailed down at the funeral the corpse -
sat upright in its shroud and asked for
something to eat. The persons present
I
t
SHADUH'S ALL
Shadows all:
Ghmts of buried yestenlays.
Echoes of forgotten laya
Love that walks in sunny ways,
Through life‘s somber pal];
Dreams of glatlness'g'et to be.
Songs of summer leaves and son,
Music. too. o‘er land and lea,
Shmlows all!
Shadows all!
Thoughts of trouble. time anl years.
Hopes of mirth and pain oftears,
Anguish of unfounded fours.
That forever call;
“'aves of sorrow. tides of sin.
Jmtcr‘s prank. or laughter‘s din,
Fame that we are yet to win,
Shadows all!
Shadows all!
Life and death and leaf of spring.
Bud and flower and grave of king.
I‘oet‘s song of wounded wine.
Nun‘s 0f birds that fall;
Fear of future. dread of past.
Ilate of peanut. prtdt-of caste,
These. that neither fade nor last.
Shadows all:
—L'Iu tulr‘ (1'. "'flt‘lsfo-lt’.
A Jarannsr: mammal
isotrietlting like a harp in appearance.
The dinner was given at the lioyokan.
a clubhouse in the city of 'l‘okio. so
called from the abundance of maple trees
by which it is surrounded: koyo mean—
ing the red maple leaves of autumn, and
knit meaning house.
We took off our shoes at the door. and
those who ltad not been sullicicntly prov-
ident to bring with them a pair of wool
slippers. entered in their stocking feet.
We were at once greeted by our host
and hostess. ' Japanese ladies do not
often act the hostess at a dinnvr party.
but usually remain in the background.
Our friend. however. lltu'lllg traveled
considerably in America and Europe.
was a little advanced in his-ideas and
gave his wife a wife‘s place.
Several beautiful Japanese girls were
in waiting. \\ ho at once conducted its to
- .:-.... dirt~ (r n S
iltlur. “1.. I“ In on the y ccuud
l
touch them. than they coyly floated off
to the other side of the bowl. “'e tried
again. and again we failed: and once
again. but with no better success. At
last: our perseverance was partially re»
worded, and with a veni-vidi-vici air we
conveyed a few solid fragments to our
mouths. drank a little of the soup, and
then covering our bowl. as we saw others
do. we waited for something else to
happen.
In the meantime large china vessels of
hot w 'ttcr had been brought in and our
host kindly showed us their use. Empty-
ing his sake cup. be rinsed it in the hot
water. and then refilling it with wine.
presented it to a friend. who emptied his
cup. rinsed and refilled it in the some
way. and gave it in exchange for the one
he received.
The next course consisted of fish.
cakes made of chestnuts. and yams; the
third. of raw fish \\'llfll a very pungent.
sauce: the fourth. of another kind of
fish and ginger root. After this we
I were favored with music on the hinge—
.kiu. This is a hnrp like instrument
: giving forth a low \vicrd soon i. utterly
' music.
unlike anything 1 have ever heard called
The fifth course consisted of
: fish. ginger root. and "nori," a kind of
. seaweed.
Going out on the piaua adjoining. we '
saw in the distance the bav with its
calm blue waters. and w bite-winged
boats; and to the right .\lount Pugi. ‘lter
peerless head losing itself in ambient
clouds; while at our feet lay a bewil~
dcrtng maze of dwelling houses. shops
and temples.
The floor of the porch was polished
smooth as ntarblcmnd the patterns in the
lattice work were graceful combinations
of maple leaves.
As We re~cntcrcd the dining room our
first impression was that of a vast erupt \'
apartment. The only visible signs of
preparation for our coming were the
cushions upon which we were to sit. and
the hibachi or fire bowls. over which we
were to toast our fingers. We sat down
upon the mats. trying hard to fold our
limbs under tta‘a in Japanese. but our
attempts were for the most part verv
awkward. ~
Then came some introductions. “or
host had invited two friends to rucct us.
Mr. and .\lrs. .\‘uyita. .\lr. .\‘uyitt. l-cing
g a Japanese of ' the old school and vcrv
T tereruonious. bowed
were about to run away in terror. as .
from a phantom. but were reassured by
Dcchamps himself. who had happily re
covered from his legargic sleep. Due
care was bestowed on him. and he lived.
After his recovery he stated that he had
heard all that passed around hint with—
out being able to ni‘ake arty movement or
give any expression to his sensations.“
“A midwife of the commune of Paul
hall. France. was believed to be dead.
and was put in a coffin. At the end of
twenty-four hours site was carried to the
church. and from thcncc to the ceme-
tery. llut during its progress the bear~
era felt some movement in the coflin.
when they found the unfortunate woman
alive, She had merely fallen into a
legargy. She was carried back to her
home. but in consequence of the shock
. she received. only survived the horrib‘e
l}
p
warm.
MT...
3.
accident a few days.“
“At Bergerac. on the 27th of Decem-
ber. 1842. a man who suffered from con-
tinual want of sleep took a potion pre-
oeribed by a physician; the atient slept
sosoundly that hecould not wakened.
which caused so much anxiety that he
was bled, the blood flowing 'feebly drop
by drop. Finally he was declared to be
dead. At the expiration of a few days
the potion given to the gentleman was
remembered. and an uneasy suspicion
being entertained that the medicine
‘night have caused apparent death. led
the family to exhume the body. When
the coffin was opened the horrible fact
was ap rent to all present. "is dis-
torted limbs showed how powerful had
been his struggle. He had turned around
in his coffin and sufiered Iona.“
”Madam 1).. Rue Saint Jean. (‘acn.
France. appeared to expire after a long
illness on the nth or February. 1843.
The last functions of preparing the body
for the tomb were performed during the
night. On Thursday morning the coffin
was brought in. and as the two under-
taker: were placing the corpse in. it
awoke from a plofountl lethargy. Madam
Is now in a state of health which leaves
mu. to hope."
Dr. Gordon Smith. in his book on
“Forensic Medicine," states: “I was an
eye-witness of an instance in a celebra~
ted city on the continent where a poor
man. yet alive. was so‘emnly ushered
N the margin of the grave in broad day.
7 and whose interment would undoubtedly
have secured save for the interposition
of bystanders“
The daughter of Henry Laurens; first
president of the American Congress.
when an infant was laid out as dead.
When the window of the room was
for ventilation the fresh air- re-
vesl the suppoaed corpse. and restored
her to her family. This produced such
aprofound impression on Laurens that he
roads a will. in which he implored his
children to erernsto his bod as a solemn
duty. so great was his d of a living
interment.
In 1863. Martin Strong. of Twelfth
street. Philadelphia, was put in a coffin
for burial upon the death certificate of
Dr. Cunning. Mr. Strong still lives,
but mods a narrow escape—Cincinnati
Mint.
Water-y Wonders of Utah.
There is in the extreme north of Utah
.. magnificent subterranean reservoir of
(rut-class soda water, bubblia ‘and of~
forming out of the roun in such
quantities that all America might bosup~
In the extreme south. on the
road to Order-villa. is an exquisite circu-
lar lakelot that is always just full to the
Ini- with water as clear and as green as
Daryl. And wherever the water over-
Iowl the lake‘s edge it encrusts the
stud and the and the fallen
. vol upon it with a fine coating of
We. so that the brim is growing
‘31 and higher with tho inner-cap—
el buteertsia growth of a err-s1 reef,
and la the course of generations the lake
will boon-o accounted basis. -
‘
c
. doors were covered with paper.
low. so low that
his honorable nose quite kissed the door:
and rcmcmltctln.r that when we are in
Turkey we must do as the Turkcvs do.
we endeavored to salute hint in the »atnc
formal manner.
.\t length recovering our equilibrium
we resumcdour uld positmnmt the trials.
tried to look comfortable. and began In
study the details ofo :r surroundings. The
cushions upon which we sat were cot t red
“'llll beautiful dark-blue crepe relieved
here and there by branches of maple leaves.
the rich \lctober coloring makm‘“r a
striking but exquisite contrast with the
more soutbcr background. The mats
were marvelously line. and a) clean that
one might suppose our party the first
that had ever assrrub‘cd there.
At one end of the room just above the
toko union. or raised platform on which
all the ornaments of the room are placed.
was a kakcmono. or picture scroll. the
work of a celebrated painter named
banenobu. and very old. Un this plat-
form stood a large vase of brown wicker
work so woudrously fine that at a little
distance it appeared like an elegant
bronze. In this vase were branches of
flowering plum and cherry arranged as
only Japanese know how to arrange
flowers. The ceilings were panels of
cryptomeria. and without either paint or
varnish were beautiful enough for a
prince‘s palace.
This immense room was divided byE
sliding doors into three apartments. The
Here.
too. w as the prevailing pattern. for over
the rich brown background of the paper
were maplelcaf designs in gold and
silver. and above the doors were paint—
ings of maple branches with foliage of
scarlet, maroon. and cvcrv shade of
green. (in the opposite 'side of the
room was another raised platform. Ilere
also were two large rues. and in them
branches of flowering shrubs. some of
which wcre covered with lichens.
A :
bronze ornament of rare workmanship:
stood between. for which many a seeker Q
of curiosities would give hundreds of:
dollars.
and placed in front of us trays on which '
were tea and sweet-meats. In Japan the
dessert comes first. The trays wefe orna-
mented with carvings of maple leaves,
the tea-cups were inted in the same
nest n. and the ca es themselves were in
the s ape of maple leaves. with tints as
glowing. and shading almost as delicate
as though iutcd by the early frosts of
autumn.
v
After this we hard more music. this
time on the koto. The koto is also
The performer always wears curious
ivory thimblc-likc arrangements on the
tips of her fingers. and to my unedu.
cated car. the sorcalled music is merely
a noise which any one could make. We
were next favored with singing. This.
too. was low and plaintive. hearing about
the same resemblance to the singing: of a
European that the corttetalk fiddle of a
country schoolboy bears to the rich mcl-
low tones of a choice violin. This same
singing. however. is regarded as a great
accomplishment in Japan. The singer
on this occasion was a rare type of .lap~.
ancsc beauty. fair as a lily. with hands
and fee: so delicate and shapely that she
was almost an obicct of envy. llcr (‘Olf<
fut'c. like the etriffurtcs of all Japanese
women. was fearfu ly and wonderfully
m'tdc. llcr dress was of the richest
crepe. quite long and very narrOw.
opening in front to .display a gorgeous
l’ “““"-‘-“-i«l with square flowing slcevcs
that reached hill“)!!! \0 the floor. Her
05:. or girdle. was broad... stiff with
elegance. and probably cost more than
all the rest of the costume. The ntvs~
lcrics of the voluminous knot in which
it “as tied in the back I did not iretcnd
to unravel. Her face and hell: were
powdered to ghostly whiteness. and her
lips painted a bright coral; altogether
she looked just like a picture. not like a
real woman at all.
After this came another course con-
sisting of fowl and fish stewed together
in some incotupn-hcnsible way. There
was also an entree otf pickled fish. The
eighth course consisted of fish and a veg-
cgtahle simdar to asparagus; the ninth
of rice and pickled daikon. llice is the
staple dish. and. according to Japanese
I ustorn. is served last. The daikon is a
vegetable somewhat resembling a radish.
It glows to an enormous site. indeed it
is a common saying among vegetable
growers that one daikon grown in the
province of tlwuri. takes two men to :llfllllm. ““1
carry it. and that two Salsuma turnips
make a load for a pony. This Sounds
somewhat incredible. and yet it is stated
for a fact that a daikon was no: long ago
presented to the i'lllpt‘ful’ w llli‘ll tncas»
tired over s;v fez-t izt girth. 'l‘ltcsc morn
stcr turnips ate generally sound to the
core; and to the Japanese they are an
evcecdiug delicate and palatable ail-
ment. \\ 1th us the odor of them alone is
sufficient to condemn them.
Lust of all came tea. which was served
in the rice bowls without \\ ashiug them.
The ditmcr lasted four hours; and when
at the close we attempted to rise from
the mats. our limits were so stiff from
sittim.r too long in this uncomfortable
position that we could hardly move.
\Vc put on our shoes soon after. and
were then conducted round the grounds.
In the same enclosure was a summer
resthouse for titc'mikudo. \Ve looked
inside for the shoji. or sliding doors.
were all open. and we could see the
whole length of the house. Here. as in
only furniture. They were beautifully
fine. and the rooms though empty were
attractive.
After walking about for a little while
we went through a loner calisthenic exer-
cise of bows .and with warmest thanks
to our kind host. and hostess. ~towed
ourselves away in jimrikishas, and rode
off to our ho mes.
.
Thrs of course. is not a description of
an ordin try dinner in Japan. Indeed it
was a very extraordinary one given in
honor of a party of .\mcriCans about. to
return to the l‘nited States. The com-
mon people dine with very little formal-
ity. llrcad. beef. milk and butter are
unknown to them. They live principal-
ly on rice. fish. and vegetabl 3s. served
in very simple fashion; and they eat so
rapidly that dyspepsia is even more com-
mon in Japan than in Americm—JL J.
Ilolbrool‘. in Will: A tr ll‘e.
The Delights of Ilaaxlax.
The Detroit Tribune says that “peo-
gple who have been conscientiously op.
Soon beautiful serving maids entered
posed to capital punishment by hanging
because of the needles suffering it was
supposed to entail 'upon the victim of
the an": vengeance. will doubtless find
, their convictions on the subject con~id~
l
i
l
t
erablyshaken if they read the exten-
dwl’ pol-lull“! auel-ipitio‘l of an on»-
periment made by a corrageous English
jnvestigator.
“This delvcr into the curious phases
e ate some of the C‘kes and t of existence had long been possessed of
put some in our pockets to carry home. adesire to realize the sensations pro-
It is etiquette in Japan to take away a l “00d by hanging.
lle induced some
little of the confectionery. and paper is l sympathetic “39m“ ‘0 “Si“ him in 1‘33
often provided by the hostess in which g laudable experimentation. and accord-
to wrap it.
packages in their sleeves. but our
sleeves were not sufficiently capacious to ‘
be utilized in this way. I have been
told that at foreign dinners given to
General Grant in Japan. some of the
most dignified officials. in obedience to
this custom. put bread and cake, and
even butter and jelly, into their sleeves
to take home. ,
After our first course came" a long in-
terval during which we plaved games
and amused ourselves in various wave.
At the end of this time dinner was in-
nounced. Once more we took our places
on the cushions and silently waited,
wondering what would happen next.
Soon the churning waiters again appear-
ed pad placed on the floor in front of each
\‘IlllOf‘.a beautiful gold lacquer tray,
on which was a covered bowl of fish
soup, and a tiny cup of cake. Sake is a
light wise distilled from rice. and is of
about the strength of table cherry. A
_per bag containing a pair of elm
sticks also rested upon the tray; an
taking the chopsticks out. we uncovered
our soup and began to look around to
see how our Japanese friends were eat-
ing theirs. We slyly watched them for
a moment. It looked easy: we were
sure we could do it. and confidently at-
tempted to take up some of. the floating
morsels of so: but no soouerdid ts
The. native guests put their g ingly he was strung up to a convenient
rafter in abarn with a regulation hangs
man‘s noose about his neck.
“The sensations that followed be de-
scribes ecstatic and pleasurable in the
extreme. IIe fancied he was buoyantly
floating without exertion upon a sea of
mi. tinted with all the radiant colors of
the. rainbow. He saw in a transport of
indescribable delight that the new world
to which he had been transported was
“more beautiful than a poet‘s dream."
A lovely island of lorious emerald color
was from out the om of the ole-agin-
ous sea. from which came a burst of the
most delicious harmony—music of the
.divinest sweetness. As he a proached
the shore troops of beautiful female‘be-
inga came joyouslyt down to meet him on
the golden strandst Then he opened his
_eyea and found his (to-investigators vig-
orously engaged in pounding him in the
back. bouncing him up and down on the
hard floor. and otherwise endeavor-lug to
lure him back to the pronie dotalla of
mundane existence.
what annoyed at beingso hastily sum-
moned from his oily bath and the com-
panionship of the island beauties has no
ralueues upon the sociological value of
the ease. The exr’uriment was In ‘eand
the fact fully established that there is
nothing in hfehalff so enjoyable as being
.' “WU 3W3"
1m. utilities Stunt.
THE PLEIADI'S AND ORION.
Text: “Seek him that maketn the seven
slam and (‘rmrr.“—- \tnos v.. S.
Au-uutry farmer wro'e this text. Amos ‘
of 1““ on. Ile pluwel the forth and l
tlrroshtsl the grain by a new flirt-slung ma~ ‘
chirp-just invented. as fortnerlv the cattle
trod out the grain. Ile gathered the ftult of '
thesycamerc tree and scarified it \v:tlt an ‘
iron ninth just before it was getting ripe. as
it was nowssary and customary in that way
totnkefrom it the biltvrres». lb- was the
son of a poor shepherd and stutteretl. but be~ l
fogxrtltis stammertn; rustic the I’htlisliucs
and Syrians. and Hot ntcians. and Mualutcs.
and Amntoniles anvl Edonutes and Israelites
trembled. Moses was a law-giver. Daniel
was a prince. lsainh a . ourtier and David a
king. but Autos. the author of rrtv text. was
a Itiasanl. and. as might be suppxsed. nearly
ll hrs pnrnllelistus are pastoral. his prophecy
ftrll of the odor of pew-umwu‘ hay. and tho
rattle of locusts and the rumble of carts
with sheaves. and the roar of wild feasts
devouring the flock, while the ab -pperd came
out in their defonto He watched the herds
53““! and by night. inhabited a booth ‘
made out of Dustin u . that through those
branches he could sue the stars all pic-ht [one
find “naturtpo familiar with in...“ titan We
who have light roots to o tr houses and
hardly ever see the stars exmpt among the ~,
lnll brick chimneys of the great tow-n. :
But. at seasons of the year when l
the herds were in tspe‘ial danger }
he would stav out in thb open field
all through the darkness. his only shelter the
curtain of the ru ht bran-us. With its stellar
t‘lllllhlltb‘rlv‘s ant Nh't‘l‘t‘vl tassels of lunar
light. \\'bat :\ life of solitude all alone with
his hcrdst I‘nor Amos“ And at twelve
o‘clock at night bulk to the \\ :lves bnrk and »
the lions new and the bears growi and the
owls fe-whtt-tc-w boo and the serpents hiss. as
he unwittiufly steps too near \vttti-~ luovmg
through the thickets tit- Atuos. like other
herdstttcit. cot the habit of tut-lynx; the map
of the heavens lawuuso it was so much of the
lime spread out before ltlllt Ila noticed
some stars advancing an i others to elm; ;
Ilo east-tinted their dawn at. l Setting with ’
ccrtatu Seasons of tho year, He ha 1 a p r he
he read nultt by night and
: montu by mouth and year by _\t :tr tzu- p-em
3 of the Constellations \liY uely l‘lIAIlllllit‘. l-ut
, two rosettts of star. espwiallv ttll::lv‘l-‘l his
attention \\ htle scatnl nu t~t-- ;; rouu l or lvtrtg
on his back under tbs op=n ..»: ull nf tln nud-
! night heavens «the l‘ietrtdes l r .\t-volt Stars
and Orion. The fvl‘lln-r gl‘wtlr this rustle
pniphrt amounted \\ .th the s; rut; as it rises
about tho first of May. “I he i;\‘ft-l‘ he aux»
cia ed with lhewuttcr as it own-s lo the
Incl rd an in .‘anuarv. 'I‘tso I‘ll-laden or Seven l
‘ Stars count-vital w.f‘t all sweetness and it“ =
5(lriouthc herald of the tempest.
'lho an-
cients vet-N the more apt to sfu iv fl -\ pltysi-
ognuuty and juxtnpwsttton of the ls~.~r-..~ri‘_\~
; bodies locausc they lliuuglt‘ they ind a spa“- I
? ial influence uraur the earth.
_ nrtl p». ling-s
they \vcn- rtght. If the moth every few hours
lifts and l~ ts down the ltvles t f lll‘ A lln. to
: occur and the electric star-us of in»! \ear in
ride as fast as the oxen And. my
bearerswhyshonldvrec. tsdandloao
. our equilibrium in the s movement of
-. m-..—
Tbat he was sumo- .
. courses fight against Srsera!
all Japanese houses. the mats were. the l coincidpuilll that below the
that all notitms may read it.
‘ the sun bv all scientific admission effected tho
earth. why not the stars have pimp-«Thullnlo .
effect! And there are some Hangs which .
make me think that it may not have been all »
superstition which counts led them. demerits
Ind appearance of the heavenly “fits with :
grass! moral events on earth NA not a me- '
tour run on evangelistic errandou the first
Christmas night and dcstgnnu the nitrgh
cmlle of our Lord! Did not the tlnrs in their '
“Is it merely
dotructiou of 3
ersnlcnt tho mum was eclilnrl for twelve i
conm‘utive nights! I‘ld it trtcrel' happen so ‘
that a new star appearul in onstt-ltatiou 5
(‘axsiopeia and thou disarm-cared just lefore
King (‘harles IX.. of France. mo was re
“tonsil-lo for St. liarthulomewl massacre.
died! Was It without significant: that in tho
dny the lloman Empenu‘ Justin's“ war and
famine Were prenslod by the (ll-nu“ of the
sun. which for nearly a year are no more
light than the moon. although the-e worn no
clouds to obscure it! Astrology after all,
may have been something more tan a bril-
liant. heathonism. No wonder flan Amos 0!
the text. having heard these two nthems of
the stars. put down the stout. rolgh staff or
the henlsman and took into his bow-n hand
and cut and knotted fingers th- pen of a
prophet and adveed the retreat] l o of
us time to return to God. sayiu :“Seo ' hint '
that maketh the Seven Stamant )rion." i
This command which Amos ga-e 755 B. G ;
is just as appropriate for us 1&‘~5 o. D. i
In the first lace. Amos saw. u we must -,
see. that the bud who made the Notaries and ;
Uriun must be the God of order. It “snot
so much a star hero and a star tbre that im-
pressed the inspired herdsmen. lat seven in
one group and {our in the other :roup. He
saw that. night after night. and «sun after
season. and decade after deoadq they had
kept ste of light. each one in ifiown place;
a sister nod never clashing andnevor cou-
lustmg precedence. I-‘nuu the fine Hesiod
called the l'leiades the “seven (Ingmar: of
Atlas.“ and \‘irgil wrote in bi .itltioid of
“Stormv Orion“ until now. that have ob-
served tho ondor established for deir coming
and going: order written not. irunanuscrrot
that ma be pigeon-holes). but nth the hand
of the A mighty on the dome «if the alt no
Order.
sistont order! Sublime «doe. Omnipotent
order. Whats sedative :to ya and rnsto
whom communities and inattota sometimes
seem going poll-melt and will ruled by
some demon of hap-haxa nut in all direc-
tions mabadminisu‘ation 0 God who
keeps seven worlds in rig rcuit for 6.000
years can certainly to .‘p affairs of ills
ivi-luals an I na‘i ins and mntinenta in ad-
;uatmnt. We had sat ‘
or ponsant‘a int ’
text was right. If God
seven worldsof the Plo‘
chief worlds of Orion, prob-bl take
careofthooneworldwei I. 80 f feel
very much as my father one day when
we were going to the m mill to get a
grist ground. and I. a be seven years.
at in the bee pan the Visual:i
and oueyoks of oxen ran y with us a
along a labyrinthine road woods,
so that I thought every m t we would be
dashed to l?“ and I a terrible out-
cry of frig t and my fa turned to me.
with a face perfectlyeal anid."DoWrtt.
what are you crying a !
worldly events a pscial‘ Iy
lured that it is not nyokesf
that is drawing us on. but
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For vour placidity and comfort through the
Lord Jesus Christ I charge you, “Seek him
that maketh the Seven Stars and Orion."
Again Amos saw as we must see that the
God who made, these two groups of the text.
was the God of light. Amos saw that God
was not satisfied with making one star or two
or three stars. but he makes seven. and hav-
ished that group of worlds makes another
group—group after group. To the Pleiades
he at ds Orion. It seems that God likes light
so we'l that he keeps making it. Only one
being in the universe knows the statistics of
solar. lunar. stellar. meteoric creations. and
that is the L‘reator himself. And they have
all been lovingly christened. each one a name
asdistinct as the tram-s of your children.
“He tells": the number of the stars, be
calleth them all by their names " The seven
I’leiades had names given to them. and they
no Alcyone. Morope. Cohenoe, Electra. sm-
mpe. Tnygato and Main. But think of the
billions and trillions of daughters of starry
light that Gal calls by name as they sweep
by him with beaming bmvr and lustrous robe.
So fund is God of light, natural light. moral
light. spiriiual light. Again and again is
light harnessed for symlmlrzation—t‘hrist.
the bright and morning star; evangelimtion.
the daybreak; the nalemption of nations. sun
of rtghtetntsness rising with healing in his
wings. Uh. men and women. with a) many
sorrows and sins and perplexities. if 'ou
warrtligbt of comfort. light of pardon. lrzbt
of gumhlufli. in earnest prayer through Christ
seek him that maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.
Again. Arum saw. as we must see, that the
God who made those two nrchipeln of
stars must be an unchanging God. to
had been no change in the stellar- appearance
in this henlsmau‘s lifetime. an 1 his father. n
shepherd. reported to him that there had been
no change in his lifetime. And these two
clusters hang over the celestial arbor now
just as they were the first night that they
shone on lidenic bowels. the some as when
the Egyptians built the pyramids. from
the top of which to watch them. the same as
when the Chaldoans calculated the eclipses,
the same as when Elihu. according to
the “ark of Job. went out to study the au-
rora borealis, tho same under Ptolmaic sys-
tem anl t'opernican system. the same from
; Callsllla‘ltt‘s‘ to Pythagoras. and from Pytha-
goras to Herschel. Surely a changelm God
must. have fashioned the I’b-iadt-s and Orion.
Uh. what on anodyno amid the ups and
downs of life and the flux and reflux of tho
tides of prosperlty'lo know that we have n
i chanxeless (End. the some yesterday. to-day
and forever. Xerxes gnrlnn-ied and knighted
the steorsurau of his [mat in the morning and
hanged htm in the evening of the some day.
I-‘ifty thousand people stood around the
columns of the national capitol shouting
themselves hoarse at the presidential inaug‘
heal. and in four months so great were. the
antipntlues that a rutliau‘s pistol in a \\ ash-
iugtou depot expressed the sentiment of_ n
The world sits in its
chariot and drives tandem and the‘ horse
ahead is hunts and the horse behind ls an~
nthemn. Lord L‘obham, in Kiri: James‘s
2 time. was applauded and bad $11.0!) a year.
but was afterward .execrstfxll at‘rd livang“
. _ .j. r g. \'n ~ir.- «u. - -
3:513? tilt :II‘o'art“ ‘a‘t‘ o'r oath remained un~
buried for thirty days lx-causo no one would
do him the honor of shoveling him under.
The Duke. of “'ellington refused to have his
iron fence mended because it had lawn
broken by an infuriated populace in some
hour of political exert-pent and he left it in
» turns that. men might. learn what n tickle
’ thing is human favor But "the mercy of
E the Innl is fmm everlasting toeverlnsting to
them that fear him and his righteousness
: unto the children‘s children of such us keep
his covenant and to those who remember his
This moment
"*4; him that ruaketh the Saran Stars and
Urn-n."
Again Amos saw as we must see that the
God who made these two bra ‘kx-ts of tho ori~
ental nizht sky must b~ a God of love and
kindly warning. The l‘letados rising in May
: said to all the hordsmen and shepherds and
bust-audition: “Come out and enjoy the mild
weal her and cultivate your gardens and
fields “ Orion coming in winter warned them
to preymn- for tcmgest. All navigation was
NguEnI-al bythese two nstrstellatiorrs
“Hoist sail
for the sea an I gather merchandise from
other Linda“ Rut {Lion wzns the slur!“ aig~
ual an I s uvl: "Reef sail. make thiugssuug or
put into harbor. for the hurricanes am get-
ting raeir wings out.“ As \hi l’lciadrs were
the sweet evaugels of the spring. Orion was
lbs \varntu,r riddle: of t to winter; oh. now
Thom
. I to: the best. View of God I ever-
aro two kinds of sermons I never want to
mach »~ the one that presents God so kind. to
E indulgent. so lenient. sr ttrt‘sx‘ilo that men
may do what they will against him and thaw
lure Ills every law an-l put the pry of their
itupertmeuw and rebellion under his throne.
and \"lllld they arcspittin; in his face and
stabbing at lrls heart he takrw them up in his
arms and kISV‘At'S flier infuriated brow and
chesk. saying. “f If such is the kingdom of
haven.“ The other kind of sermon I never
, want to preach is the one that mots God
as all tire and torture and thunder-cloud and
with minor. pitchfork biasing the human
race into paroxysm of infinite agony. The
tort-ion that I want to preach and the sermon
I am now preaching believ'es in a God of love
and kindly warning. the God of spring
L and winter. the Gui of the I’ioiaden nod Ori~
You must Nnrxrnber that the winter is
just as intrrortant as the spring. het- one winter
pagrvrithout frost- to kill vegetation. and
ice to bind the rivers. and snow to enrich our
fields. and then you wrll have to enlarge your
hospitals and cemeteries “A [:I'toont‘hrist~
mas makes n fat gravevanl“ was tha old
proverb. Storms to purify the air. Ther-
mometer at ten dv‘gmzN starve zero to tone up
the system “member and Januar just. as
important as May and June. I to I you we
need the storms of life as much as we do the
sunshine. Them are more men ruined by
prosperity than by adversity. If we had had
our own way in life. before this we would
have been impersonations of solflshnm and
worldliness. and dngusting sin. and tied
up until we would have been like ulius
Ctl‘rlr. who was made by sycophants to be-
lieve that he was divine. not the freckles on
his fans were as the stars of tho tirruament.
One of the swiftost transatlantic vov
made last summer by the Etrurra was
cause she had a stormy wind abaft, chasing
her from New York to Liverpool. But to
those ng in opposite directions the storm
was a nfl‘eting and a hindrance. It is a bad
thing to have a soot-In ahnd pushi "
us back. but if an are God‘s children on
aiming toward heaven the storms of life will
only chase us the armor into the harbor. Oh.
I am so glad to believe that the monsoon:
and typhoons and mistrals and oirooeosof
land and son are n it unebainol maniacs let
loose upon unearth. but under divine super
vision. I am so glad that the God of the
Seven Stars is also the God of Orion. It was
out of Dante‘s sum-ring came the sublime
Divina Conundia. out out of John Hilton‘s
blindns- come Paradise Lost. and outofa
miserable infidel attack came the Bridgm
water Treatise in favor of Christianity. and
out of David‘s oxiio came of conso-
lation. and out of the suffon‘ of Christ
came the [usability of the rolemp-
tion, and out of your tiers-vernal your-pen
crushes
attentions. your pot-onion. your
may yet tome an eternal heaven.
Oh. what a nth-y it is that in the hat and
all up and down the Bible God induces an to
look out toward other worlds. Bible whom
may in Genesis. in Joshua. in Job. in the
:inlr‘r'ralqstne prophets, mnjor ‘a‘rfi minor. in
c n apnea ypse practi y ’ :
“Worlds! Worlds! \Vorids! Got ronyrufgr
vnern.” We nauameoncuo wot-unclean“
. “look there
moon under Christ‘s
Josh
2" says St. dohn. “at on
feet!” "Iqoktherot" aye
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up in than cramped apartments. tired if we
walk fifteen miles. when they some morning
by one stroke of wing can make circuit of the
whole solar system. and be back in time for
matins. Perhaps yonder twinkling consul
lotion is the residence of the martyrs. Pert-
hnps that group of eleven luminaries b the
celestial bomeof the eleven apostles. Per-
haps that sleep of light is the dwelltn place
of angels cheruhic. scrapbtc. archange it. A
intrusion with as many rooms as worlds. and
all their windows illuminated for festivity.
Oh. how this widens and lifts and stimulates
our expectation How little it makes the
present. and how stir ndotts it makes the for
him. How it eons es us about our pious
dead. that instead of being: boxed up and
under the ground. they have the range of as
many rooms as there are worlds. and wel-
come everywhere. for it is the father‘s harm
in which them are many mansions. Oh,
Lord (rod‘ of the Seven Stars and Orion. how
am I endure the transport. the ecstasy of such
a vision. I must obey my text and seek him.
I will seek him. I seek him now. for I call to
mind that it is not the material universe that
is most valuable. but the spiritual. and that
each of us has a soul worth more than all the
worlds which the inspired herdsmen saw away
from his botth on the hills of Tekon. I had
studied it- beforeJnit the cathedral at 0 nh'gne.
Germany. dever im me as it. did this
summer. It is admittedly the grandest
Gothic structure in the world. its foundation
laid in 124*. only twoor three years ago corn-
leted. More than 1‘- Itl years in building. All
‘unspe taxed for its ccurstructiou. Its chapel
of the maxi with precious stones enough to
purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St. Agnes
with master-pisses of painting. Its spire
springing 511 feet into the heavens la
stained glass the chorus of all rich colors.
Statues encircling the pillars and encircling
all. Statues above statues, until sculpture
can do no more. but faints and falls back
against. carved stalls am! down on vernents
over which the kings and queens o the out!)
have walked to cont‘asionnl; have and aisles
and transept and portals combining the
splendors of centuries: interlaced. interfoli-
ated. inter+olumnml randeur. As I stood
outside looking at the ( oublo range of flying
buttresses and the forest of pinnacles, higher
and higher until I almost reeled front dizzr' ‘-
nea. I exclaimed: “Great doxology in stone!
Frown prayer of many natioust“ But while
standing their I saw a poor man outta-r and ‘
beside his ,
put down his park and kneel
urden on the hard floor of that cathedral.
And tears of d- ep emotion came into my
cyesas I said to myself: “There is: :- rul worth
mom than all the material surroundings
That man vnll live after the last pinnacle has
fallen nnd not one stone of all that. catho~
drattal glory shall remain uncnnnbled. He
is now a lmrus in rags and poverty and
weariness. but immortal. and a son of the
Lord God Almighty, and the prayer he now
offers. the h amid many superstitions. I be-
ltevo God will hear. and among the Apostles
whose sculptured forms stand in the surround-
ing niches. he will at last. he lifted and into
the presence of that Chr ist whose anfierings
are represented by the (‘I'ut‘lIlX before which
he bows. and be raised in due tame out of all
his power-tie. into the glorious home built. for
git-its?“ built for us bv “Him who make“:
ven Sluts and Orion.“
WORDS OF “1500!.
Pride that dines on vanity cups on
contempt.
.\‘evcr contract a friendship with a
man that is not better than thyself.
We ought to attempt no more than
what is in the compass of our genius.
and according to our vein.
A friendship that makes the least
noise is very often the most useful: for
which reason we should prefer a prudent
friend to a zealous one.
To know the pains of power we must
go to those who have it; to know the
pleasures we must go to those who are
seekingr it: the pains of power are real,
its pleasures imaginary.
lie that does good to another man
does also good to himself; not only in
the consequence. but in the very act of
doing it; for the conscience of well~
doing is an ample reward.
Deep feeling is contagious “Fords
poured forth from burning hearts are;
sure to kindle the hearts of others.
Hearts that can stand everything else
are often melted by a tear.
Our great thoughts, or great afiec~
lions. the truths of our life. never leave :
“8.
Our consciousness. shall fol'ow rt whit her-
aoever that shall go. and are of their na
ture divine and immortal.
The very events in your lives which
seemed at the time most trying. most
vexing. most disastroug have been those
which were most necemary for you. to
call out what was good in you. and to
purge out what was bad.
Ll [e in Labrador-f
Summer is the Labradorisn‘s harvest
time. His hunting grounds are the seas
about his own coast and the shores of
Anticosti. This island. enveloped by
fogs. encircled by sunken rocks. swept
by hurricaneg and surrounded by furious
currents. is the horror of all mariners.
“'ithiu the last ten years. one hundred
and three ships and three thousand lives
have been lost on its treacherous shores.
A few years ago some Canadians made an
attempt to settle on it. intending to
make fortunes in fishing and hunting.
One was to be a sort of king. with
bears and gulls for his subjects. But
the scheme fell through. and the bears
are still sole lords of the island. During
the nine months of winter the Labra-
dorian is idle. In his rough board hovel
perched on a rocky ledge. with hurri-
canes howling around it. rocking it to its
foundations, and the trampling surf
thundering on the rocks beiow,he spends
his dreary days. Sometimes, weather per-
mitting. he and his friends have
social gatherings—collect at one mother‘s
honors, and there. steaming and jovial.
pan the evening in rude revelry. which
usually degenerate: into a general fight.
Then pandemonium reigns; the infuri-
ated partisans swear and about; the dogs
penned in a narrow space between the
oor and the and. engage in deadly
battles; the ‘ eof war causes the floor
to heave like the waves of the sea.
These dogs are a prominent feature of
Labrador life. They are the only means
the Labradorians have of traveling great
distances. for in the three thousand miles
of Labrador coast there is not one mile
of made road. andJnany of the inhabi-
tants have never seen a horse. and would
flee from one as a devil. Sled-dogs
sometimes make from ninety to one hun-
dred miles a day. but sledding has its
disadvantages—the quarrelsome temper
of the dog is known. “'hen two teams
meet, the tvvelvt.r dogs. by common con-
sent. dash at each other. less of
the whips of the men and the shrieks of
the women. and engage in afieree st ~
file. Sometimes they can be so ;
us when two dogs met who have a
long-cherished against each other
they fight till one or both he dead on
the snow. Sledding in Labrador is an
exciting method of locomotion.
With June comes the breaking up of
the toe: the air is filled with sudden re-
ports cauaed by the bursting of icebergs.
the fisherman hauls out his not and
launches his boat. and from the bastions
of the cliff the veterans watch the hori‘
zen for the first schools of mackerel.
Thus the brief summer begins, and for
three_ months all is life and bustle; but
with September comes- wintor. and all
Labradpr relapses into nine months of
theory unctivlty.—-Amaut.
SeatsinthsNewYorkStoekhebs-gs
are-owweflhmm They-lashes
varied during tbsp-tau yes-stru-
‘nmtosaam.
Surely they cannot serum“: from.
raiding—gasses"
Masses of deepsca coral. many tons in
weight. which were torn from ‘their
ocean bed by the volcanic Explo~l~rn in
Sunda Straits two years ago. may now
be seen two or three miles inland.
whither they were borne by the tidal
wave.
[The water in the gulf of IL-thnia is
reported to be falling quite rapidly. I Dne
proof of this is the fact that a large
stone on the Swedish coast now rhea
three feet above water at mean tide
wh le fifty years ago it was barely visible
at lowest tide.
Some experiments in London recently
showed that. the native English fishes
are unable to survive in water heated
much. if any. in excess of >0 degrees,
yet in the low country of india and Bur—
mah streams are filled with tish where
the water becomes fr 1m ten to tiltecn
degrees hotter than this every nooudsy.
In anew French apparatus the heir of
the sun falling upon mvtaiiic plates
tightly covering a thin layer ofa vozatéle
tiliuid, like ammonia. is combined with
the natural coolness of water to generate
power for pumping. With plates byving
a surface of forty s ptare yards sut it an
apparatus would hourly raise~ 71!: gal-
lons of water sixty-rive feet in warm
climates. and at Autcuil raises me: 13:»)
gallons per hour.
('iro Ferrari and \‘on llezold have ob-
scrved that very c\tcn~i\‘(‘ thunderstorms
are often attended at their rear by small
but well mazked depressi-tns, and that
the anterior margin of a thunderstorm
form the boundary bctvvcen a. region of
high pressure and one of low pf}~.~‘lll‘. In
the Countrv visited by the storm the ram
districts assume the form of c. lipses
whose major axes are almost parallel to
the direction of the storm. flail forms
long. narrow bands coinciding in direc-
tion with that of the prevalent wind.
Regarding typhoons the government
astronomer of [long Kongstatcs that the
signs of these phenomena in the l hina
seas are clouds of the cirrus typedosktng
like fine hair. feathers. or small white
tufts of wool train-ling from c tst to
north. a slight rise in the barometer.
clear and dry. but hot weather. and light
winds. These portents are followed by
a falling barometer. while the tempera-
ture rise-s still further. The air becomes
oppressive from increasing dampness. and
the sky presents a vapor-nus and threat-
ening appearance.
nralnlsg Ponds for Carp.
The carp culture in the highlands of
central France is a form of industry
which meritsa gooddeal more attentiorr
anti imitation than it has hitherto ob-
tained. (In that high plateau there are
bonds of all sizes, many of them large
Enough to be dignified by the more
grandiloquent name of lakes. but to the
country people they are one and all
"flange“ and nothing more. These
ponds are one of the chief sources of
wealth of the country. which is mostly
but poor soil for cultivation. as a great
part of it has recently been reclaimed
from moorland and heather; These
ponds are stocked with carp. and once
every three years agreat fishing takes
place. All the solebulied men of the
countryside are engaged for a certain
day in' October to meet at one
of the ponds; that on the highest
level being taken first. The thrices
of the pond are opened three days
previously and the water allowed to
run gradually ofi'. leaving the bed of
deep mad which seems to be one of the
necessaries of carp existence. When
there is only a thin rill of water left
trickling down the Centre of the erst-
while pond. the fishing begins. ”n all
sides the carp lie floundering. panting.
gasping on the expanse of mud; in some
places the fish are two or three deep on
top of one another. The number of carp
in these ponds is something quite extra-
ordinary; they do not seem to suffer in-
divadualiy from their great numbers. for
the fish are remarkably line and heavy.
The men wade through the mud. catch-
ing the carp by the gills. and flinging
them on the bank. There they are
weighed by men who have cone With
carts from the nearest town to buy the
fish. and after the weighing the carp are
packed among straw in the cartsasttght-
ly as poasible. “'hcn the carts are full
they return to the town. and the carp
are then placed in tanks. A carp takes
a good deal of killing. and. though be-
ing tightly packed in straw for a whole
day and jolted down bill for perhaps four
hours, may strike him as a novel experi-
ence, it does not do him the very least
harm; and as soon as he is released from
darance vile and placed in the tanks. be
resumes the even tenor of his way.—
Saturday Ruffle.
Dome of the Washington Capitol.
I heard the other day some curious
facts about the dome of the cnpltul at
Washington. It is said that there was
a statue of ancient Egypt called .\lcm~
non. which whispered sweet words of
melody to the sun as he appeared above
the horizon. and sang him to sleep every
night with weird lullalties. The grand,
haughty Goddess of Liberty on top of
the dome has a heart of bronze. but a
good heart for all that. and one filled
with true old Virginia courtesy. She
has not yet picked up enougu Courage to
attempt to do the prima donna act. but
every morning the good dame courte-
sies to the sun. and when he sinks in the
West she again courtesies. but without
turning around. Some time since Archi—
toct Clark suspended a plummet line
from the interior of the dome. and it was
found by actual measurement the lead
swung 4} inches, making a total dip out
of the perpendrcnlarof 3; inches. This
is caused by the alternate contraction
and ex usiou of the iron.
A l icrous mistake which occurred
last year may be mentioned in this con-
nection. The coat survey bad In charge
the surveying of the river from propsra.
tor-y to locating the fine for the reclama-
tion of the Potomac flats. The to of
the dome was taken as one point 0 the
surveyor‘s triangle in estimating certain
distances. The calculations thus arrived
at. were found to sodly differ almost
every day. and much arresting and per-
exed thinking upon the part of the
‘llinllt. engineers were indulged in be-
fore the dipping of the one was
brought to mind. After that the top of
the Washington monument did uncens-
iug duty as a nathematie guiding star.
—Bosfon Budget.
“The has the Old Dow Died Of."
In Scotland and the north of Ireland
this saying: is very common in the
mouths of the peasantry. though all who
use it may not understand its origin. It
arose out of an old song:—
Mwnsanokl mm. and Irs hd an old
cow.
And b I“ ‘ D her;
Sobbokoutw‘m plays! 1-- a
acre-...'°°:.~,..'-e-1c....= ....
0.93:1; good cow, «Strut h '
Theoldoow died “.Ilm_ ,and
when any grotesquely nah-chat, m
cmhnwtbemeoun peo-
El", “lbstlsfistusths cow
off—MW M
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