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VOL. IV.
REV. DR. TALMAGK
HIE BROOKLYN DlVlXE'S SUN
DAY SERMOJf.
Subject: "Suicide."
Text : "lie drew out his swor I an I wonl.i
have killed himself, supposinsr that the pris
oner had been fla.l. But Paul crieJ with a
Joud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm."
Acts xvi., 27, 28,
Hers is a would be suicide nrrestal In his
deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, an 1 a c
cordinsr to the Roman law a bailiff himself
must Pu.Ter the punishment due an escaped
prisoner, and if the prisoner breaking jail
was sentenced to bo enduntfeoned for thred
or Jour years then the sheriff must ba en;
dungeoned for three or four years, and if
the prisoner breaking jail was to have silT
lered capital punishment then tha sheriff
must suffer capital punishment.
" The sheriff had received especial charga
to keep a sharp lookcut for Taul and Silas.
The government had not had confidence in
bolts and bars to keep safe these two clergy
men, about whom there seemed to be Borneo
thing strange and supernatural.
Sure enough, by miraculous power 1 hey
are free, Slad the sheriff, waking out of a
sound sleep and supposing these ministers
have run away, nnd knowing they were to
die for preaching Christ, nnd realizing that
he must therefore die, rather than go undef
the executioner's ax on the morrow and
suffer public disgrace resolves to precipitate
his own decease. But before the sharp,
keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could
strike his heart one of the uuloosaned
prisoners arrests the bla lo by the command,
"Do thyselt no harm.'
In olden time, and where Christianity
had not interfere i with it. suicide was con
si lered honorable an I a sign of courage.
Demosthenes poisoned himself when told
that Alexander's emassalor had demanded
the surrender of the Athenian orators.
Isocrates killed himself rather than sur
render to Philip of Macedon. Cato. rather
than submit to Julius Ctesarj took his own
life, and a:ter three times his woumJs had
been dresstd tore them open and perished.
Mithridates killed himself rather than sub
mit ic I'ompej-. the conqueror. Ilaunibal
destroyed his life by poison lrom his ring,
considering life unbearable. Lycurgus a
suici !e, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster
of Moscow Napoleon always carried with
him a preparation of opium, and one eight
his servant heard the ex-amperor arise, put
something in a glass and drink it, and soon
after the groans arouse all the attendants,
and it was only through utmost medical
skill he was resuscitate! from the Stupor of
the opiate.
Times have changed, and yet the Ameri
can conscience needs to be toned upon the
subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper
in the last moith that did not announce the
Eassago out of life by one's own behest!
'efaulters, alarmed at th? ilea of exposure,
quit life precipitately. Men losing large
lortunes go out of the 'frorld because they
cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrat
ed affection, iomestic idelicity, dyspectio
impatience, nnger, remorse, envy, jealousy,
destitution, misanthropy, are "considered
sufficient causes for absconding lrom this
life by Paris green, by laudanum, by bella
donna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by
leap lrom the abutment of a bridge, by lire
arms. 'More cases of "lelo de se" in the last
two years-of the world's existence. The evil
is more and more spreading.
A pulpit . not long ago expressed some
doubt as to whether, there was really an3
thing wrong about quitting this life when it
became disagreeable, and there are found in
respectable circles people apologetic for the
crime which Paul in the text arrested. I
shall show 3-ou before I get through that
suicide is the worst of all crimes, nnd I shall
lift a warning unmistakable. But in the
early part of this sermon I wish to admit
that some of the best Christians that have
ever lived have committed self destruction,
but alwaj-s in dementia and not responsible.
I have no more doubt about their eternal
felicity than I have of the Christian who
dies in his bed in the delirium of typ'ioid
fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is
very great, I charge all those who have had
Christian Jriends under cerebral aberration
step off the boundaries of this life to have
no doubt their happiness. The dear Lord
took them right out of their dazed and fren
zied state into perfect safety. How Christ
leels toward the insane you may know from
the kind way he treated the demoniac of
Gardara and the child lunatic, nnd the po
tency with which ho hushed the tempests
cither of sea or brain.
Scotland, the land prolific of intellectual
giants, had none grander than Hugh Miller,
groat for science and great for God. He
came of the best Highland blood, and ho was
a descendant of Donald K03-, a man eminent
for his piety and the rare girt of second
sight. His attainments, climbing up as ha
did from the quarry nnd the wall cf the
stonemason, drew forth the astonished ad
miration ot Bucklaud and Murchison, the
Bcleutists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian,
and held universities spellbound whilu he
told them the story of what ho had seen of
God in the old red sandstone.
That man did more than any being that
ever lived to show that the God of the hills
is the God of the Bible, and ho struck his
tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until
he brought geology and theology accordant
in divine worship. His two book, entitle 1
"Footprints of the Creator" and the Testi
mony of the P.ocks," proclaimed the banns
Of an everlasting marriage between genuine
science and revelation. On this latter book
he toiled day and night, through love ef
nature and love of God, until he could not
sleep, and his brain gave way, an 1 he was
found dead with a revolver by his side, the
cruel instrument having had two bullets
ono for him and the other for the gunsmith
who, at the coroner's inquest, was examin
ing It and fell dead. Have you any doubt of
the beatification of Hugh Miller after his hot
brain had ceased throbbing that winter night
In his studj- at rortobello? Among the
mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of
heaven .
No one ever doubled the piety of William
Cowper, the author ot those three great
hymns, "Oh. For a Closer Walk With God !"
""What Various Hindrances We Meet !"
"There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood"
William Cowper, who shares with Isaac
Watts and Charles Wesley the chief honors
of Christian hymnology. In hj-poehondria
he resolved to take his own life and rode to
the river Thames, but found a man seated on
some goods at the very point from which he
expected to spring and rode back to his
home and that night threw himself upon his
own knife, but the blade broke, and then he
hanged himself to the ceiling, but the rope
parted. No wonder that when God merci
fully delivered him from that awful demen
tia ho sat down and wrote that other hymn
just as memorable ;
God moves In a mysterious wy
His wonders to perform.
Be plants His footstep In the sea
And rides upon the storm.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And scan His work In vain.
God Is His own interpreter.
And He win make it plain.
While we make this merciful and righteous
allowance in regard to thosa who were
plunged into mental incoherence. I declare
that the roan who in the use of his reason,
by his own act, snaps the bond between his
body and his soul goes straight into perdi
tion. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi.. 8,
"Murderers shall have their part in the lakfl
which burneth with flre and brimstone;"
Revelation xxii.. 15, "Without are dogs and
sorcerer and whoremongers ani murder
ers." You do not believe the New Testa
men'.? Then perhaps yon believe the Ten
Commandments, "Thou shalt not kill."
Do you say all these passages refer to the
taking of the life of others?, Then I ast yoi
if you ar4 not as responsible Jor your own
life as for the life or others? GoJ gave you
a f-peeial trust in your life. He made you
the custoJian of your life as he mala you the
custodian of no other life. He gave you as
DUNN, HARNETT CO., N C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23,1894.
weapons with which to defend it two arms I
to strike back assailants, two eyes to w itc"i I
i'jr mansion an a natural love of life which
Ought ever to be on the alert. Assassination
of others is a mild crime compare 1 with the
assassination of yourself, becanso in the
latter case it Is treachery to na especial
trust, it is the surrender of a castle you wero
especially appointed to keep, it is treason to
a natural law, and it is treason toGo J added
to ordinary murder.
To show how God In the Bible looked
upon this crime I point you to the rogues
picture gallery in somo parts of the Bibif,
the picture! of the people who have com
mitted this Unnatural crime. Here is the
headless trunk or Saul on the walls of Bith
shatn Here is the man who chased little
David ten feet in statue chasing four. Here
is the man who consulted a clairvoyant,
witch of En lor. Here is n man who,
whipped iu bat tip; instead of surrendering
his swor 1 with dignity, ask his servant to
slay hlm4 and when the servant declines then
the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the
earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and
he throws his boiy on it and expires, the
coward, the' suicide! Here is Ahitho,phel,
the Maehiavelli of olden times, be:rayin his
best friend, David, in order that he may be
come prime minister of Absalom and joining
that fellcw in his attempt at parricide. Not
getting what he wanted by change of politics
he takes a short cUt out of a disgraced life
into the suici le'a eternity. There he is, the
intrrate !
Hero is Abi:nelech practically a suicide.
He is with an army bombarding a tower,
when a woman in the tower takes a grind
stone from its place and drops It upon his
head, and with What life he has left in a
cracked skull he comman Is his afmor bearer,
"Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say
a woman slew me." There is his post mortem
photograph in the book of Samuel. But the
hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr.
Donnd 3ays he was a martyr, and we have in
our day apologists for him. And what won
der in this day When We have it book reveal
ing Aaron Burr a9 a pattern of Virtu, and
in this day when Wj Uncover a statue to
George. Rand as tne benefactress of litera
ture, and in this day when then are be
trayals of Christ on the part of some of His
pretended apostles a betrayal so black it
makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white !
Yet this man by his own hand hung up for
the execration of .all the ages, Judas Iscariot.
All the good men and women of the Bible
left to God the decision of their earthly ter
minus, and they could have said with Job,
who had a right to commit suicide if any
mail ever had what with his destroyed
property, and his body all aflame with insuf
ferable carbuncles, and everything gone
from his home except the chief curse of it
a p -stiferous wife and four garrulous peo
ple pelting him with comfortless talk while
he sits on a heap of ashes scratching his
scabs with a piece of broken pottery, j-et
crying out in triumph, "All the days of my
appointed time will I wait till my change
come."
. Notwithstanding the Bible is against this
evil nnd the aversion which it creates by the
loathsome and ghastly spectacle of those
-who' have hurled themseives out
of life, and notwithstanding Christ
ianity is against it and the argu
ments and the useful lives andthe illustrious
deaths of its disciples, it is a fact alarming
ly patent that su'oide is on the increase.
What is the cause? I charge upon intidelity
and ag nosticism this whole thing. If there
be no hereafter, or if that hereafter bo bliss
ful without reference to how we live and how
wo die, why not move backtbe foldingdoors
between thi3 world and the next? And when
our existence here becomes trouble ome why
not pass right over into Elysium? Put this
down among your mo3t solemn reflections
and consider it after you go to your homes
there has never been a case of suicide
where the operator was not either demiMited,
and therefore irresponsible, or an intida'. I
challenge all the ages, and I challenge the
who o universe. There never has been a
case of self destruction while in full appre
ciation of his immortality and of the fact
that that immortality would be glorious or
wretched according as ho accepted Jesus
Christ or rejected Hirr.
You say it is business trouble, or you say
it is electrical currents, or it is this, or it is
that, or it is the other thing. Why not go
clear back, my friend, and acknowledge that
in everj ease it is the abdication of reason or
the teaching of infidelity which practically
says, "If you don't like this life, get out of
it, and you will land either in annihilation,
where there are no notes to pay, no persecu
tions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you
will land where there will be everything
glorious and nothing to pay for it." Iuftdili
ty always has been apologetic for self immo
lation. After Tom Paine's "Age of Reason"
was published and widely read there was a
marked increase of self-slaughter.
Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Montaigne,
under certain circumstances, were apolo
getic for self immolation. Infidelity puts up
no bar to people's rushing out lrom this
world into the next. They teach us it does
not make any diffrence how you live here
or go out of this world, you will land either
in an oblivions nowhere or a glorious some
where. And infidelity holds the upper end
of the roue for the suicide, and aims the
pistol with which a man blows his brains
out. and mixes the strychnine for the last
swallow. If infidelity could carry the day
and persuade the majority of people that it
loesnot made any difference how you go
out of the world you will lanl safely, the
rivers would be so full of corpses the lerry
boats would be impeded in their progress,
and the crack ot a suicide's pistol would bo
no more alarming than the rumble of a street
car.
Ah, inlldelity, stand up and take thy sen
tence ! In the presence of God and angels
and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip
blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek ecarred
with lust, thy breath foul with tho corrup
tion of tho ages! Stand up, satyr, lilthy
goat, buzzard of tho nations, leper of the
centuries ! Stand up, thou monster infidel
ity, part man, part panther, part reptile, part
dragon, stand up and take thy sentence I
Thy hand is red with the blood in which
thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the
human gore through which thou hast waded.
Stand up and take thy sentence ! Djwn with
thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and
groans ot families thou hast blasted, and roll
ou the bed of knives which thou hast sharp
ened for others, and let thy musio bo tno
everlasting miserere of those whom thou
hast damned I 1 brand the forehead of inll
delity with all the crimes of self immolatiou
for the last century on tho part of those who
had their reason.
My friends, it ever your life through its
abrasious an 1 it3 molestations should seerr
to be unbearable, and you are tempted to
quit it by your own behest, do not consider
yourselves as worse than other?. Christ
Himself was tempted to cast Himself from
the roof of the temple, but as He resisted bo
resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our
wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life in
stead of death. People who have had it
worse than you will ever have it have gone
songful on their way. Remember that God
keeps the chronology of your life with as
much precision as He keeps the chronology
of nations.
Why was it at midnight, just at midnight,
the destroying angel struck tho blow that
set the Israelites free from bondage? The
430 years wero up at 12 o'clock that night.
The 430 years were not up at 11. and 1 o'clock
would have been tardy and too late. The
430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the de
stroying angel struck the blow, and' Israel
was free. And God knows just the hour
when it is time to lead you up from earthly
bondage. By his grace make not the worst
of things, but the best ot them. If you must
take the pills, do not chew them. Your ever
lasting rewards will accord with your earthly
perturbations, just as Cains gave to Agrippa
a chain of gold as heavy as had been his
chain of iron. For your asking you may
have the same grace that was criven to the
Italian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the
darkest of dungeons, dated his letter frooi
"the delectable orchard of the Leonine pris
on." There is a sorrowless world, and it is so
radiant that the noonday sun is only the
lowest doorstep, and the aurora that lights
up our northern heavens, confounding as
ironomers as to what it can be, is the wav
ing of the banners of the procession come
to take the conquerors home from church
militant to church triumphant, and you and
I have 10,000 reasons for wanting to go
there, but wo will never get there either by
Self Immolation or impniteney. All our
sins slain by the Christ who came to do that
thing, we want to go in at jut the time
divinely arranged, and from a couch divine
ly spread, and then the clang of the sepul
chral gates behind us will be overpowered
by tho clang of the opening of the solid
pearl before us. O God, whatever others
may choose, g.vo me a Christian's life, a
Christian's Ueath, a Christian's Lurial, a
Christian's immortality!
RELIGIOUS READING.
A WISH.
tjHelen Thorneycroft Fowler.
When the world to thee is new.
Whe its dazz ing dreams deceive thee
Ere they pass like morning dew
Faith retrieve thee 1
When the glory fades away,
When of light the clouds bereave thee,
When the shadows mar the day
Hope relieve thee !
When despair's destroying breath
Come at eventide to grieve thee
With the bitterness of death
Love reprieve thee !
When the bells at curfew toll.
When the lingering sunbeams leave thee,
When the night o'erwhelms thy soul
God receive thee !
The Quiver.
THE POWER OF THE BIBLE.
The Rev. Robert Newton of England, when
on a visit to this country a few years ago,
'advocated nt an anniversary of the American
Bible Society, the cardinal principle of that
nobb institution, the circulation of the
scriptures without note or comment.
Illustrative of the sufficiency of the Bible
to convert the soul, with God's blessing on
its perusal, he related the following anecdote:
A woman considerably advanced in years,
who had heard unmoved irom Sabbath, to
Sabbath, the thunders of Sinai, and the af
fecting appeal of Calvary, called one day on
the pastor of the church which she attended,
and to his astonishment and joy, apprized
him that she had found "the pearl of great
price."
To his probing question she gave clear and
satisfactory replies ; and he was convinced
that the work was the Holy Spirit's. In
tracing the changes to its source, he asked
her under which sermon of his she had been
converted. "Sermon !" she cried, it was no
sermon that converted me, it was the text.
Before you had well begun your sermon I
was a converted sinner. The Lord carried
this truth home to my heart with mighty
power; and I dwelt and dwelt upon his own
blessed words until I found peace and joy in
believing. The precious text was, "For God
so loved the world, that he gave his only be
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him.
should not perish, but have everlasting life,
John 3 : 16. Blessed le God for his unspeak
able gift.
I have read many interesting accounts of
the conversion of souls in solitary places by
the simple reading of the Bible ; but a few on
the desert ocean, where the voice of the liv
ing teacher was not ; and these facts thould
stimulate us to more systematic and untiring
efforts to circulate the Book of Life. The
duty is imperious ; the encouragement great :
and the rewards through grace such as
"eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man," to con
ceive. DIVIXE COMMUNION.
There is no possible way of finding comfort
amid the providences that come to us in life
but in intimate and habitual commmunion
with God. Much as we may desire to avoid
providences often of an afflictive and dis
ciplinary character, our heavenly Father sees
it wise to administer his government over us
in a manner that often h:des his love to our
human thought. Doubtless in this way he
would keep us from pride and vanity, impress
upon us our absolute dependence upon his
guidance, instil a deeper religious conviction
in our minds, perfect more fully our ideals of
true life and clarify our vision of spiritual
things. But theoriz'ng thu?, as we often do,
how few accept his way with unruffled com
posure, rejoicing that we ate in his hands!
Such blessed rest in God comes to us only
through one well-trodden path the path of
holy prayer. We do not mean an approach
to the mercy seat merely at stated times and
in formal utterances, but a constant drawing
near to him in the silent depths of devotion,
in the soul's unuttered supplication, in the
hourly spiritual contact of the human with
the divine heart. But this power to pans
amid conflicting uncertiantics, and let God
give light upon the path in his own good time.ia
not the product of human philosophy. This
ability to wait until he shall solve the problem
belongs only to souls that are constantly
closeted in his presence. Helping him to de
cide difficult questions is one of his ways ol
"rewarding them openly.'' And who will
say that this is not a rich reward for obeying
oar Lord's command. "Enter into thy closet?"
Can anything "surpass such comfort as is
found here? Toiling, weary pilgrim, wher
ever thou art found, enter into the enclosure
of prayer, and abide very near to him who
"seeth in secret." Oh, what safety is here!
Christian Advocate.
UNTIL HE FINDS IT.
A pleasant incident is recorded of General
Garibaldi. One evening he met a Sardinian
shepherd, who had lost a lamb out of his
flock, anl was iu great distress because he
could not find it. Garibaldi lecame deeply
interested in the man, and proposed to his
staff that they should scour the mountains
and help to find the lost lamb. A search was
organized, lanterns were brought, aud these
old so'diers started off full of eager earnest
ness to look for the fugitive. The quest was
in vain, however, and by-and-by all the sold
iers returned to their quarters.
Next morning Garnbaldi's attendant found
the general abed and fat asleep, long after
his usual hour for rising. The servant
aroused him at length, and the general rub
ied his eyes and then took from under his
bed eoverings the lost lamb, bidding the at
tendant to carry it to the shepherd. Gari
baldi had kept up the quest through the night
until he had found the lamb. This illustra
tion helps us to understand how Jesus Christ
seeks lost souls iu the world of sin, continu
ing the search long after others have given
it up, seeking until he finds. Rev. J. R.
Miller, D. D.
DELIVERED KBOM TEMPTATION.
When Werdell Thillips was a boy fourteer.
years of age, in the old church at the North
End, Boston.he heard Lyman Beecher preach
on the theme: "You ielong to God." He
went home after service, threw himself on
the floor of his rooin, with locked doors, and
prayed : "O God, I belong to thee : take what
is thine own. I ask this that whenever a
thinz t? wrong it may have no power of
tern ptation over me; whenever a thing be
right, it may take no courage to doit," From
that day on, he testified that whenever he
knew a thing to be wrong it held no tempta
tion ; and whenever he knewa thing to be
right, it took no courage to do it.
Prayer is s mighty an instrument that no
one ever thoroughly mastered nil its keys.
Thev sweep along the infinite scale of mail's
wants and of God"s goodness. Hugh Mill-r.
If you will never drink your first
glass, all the subsequent ones won't
hurt you.
SCIENTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL.
Soft music has a hypnotic effect.
Milk is about eighty-seven per cent,
water.
London has street car lines eighty
feet below the surface.
Canary birds are greatly subject to
pneumonia and pleurisy.
A scheme is on foot to utilize the
current of the Bosphorus to illumni
nate Constantinople, Turkey.
The great artesian well at Passy,
one of the suburbs of Paris, llows
steadily at the rate of 5, GOO, 000 gal
lons a day.
By an English invention camel's
hair, cotton plant and chemicals are
being substituted for leather in ma
chinery belting with considerable suc
cess. A caterpillar in the course of a
month will devour 6000 times its own
weight in food. It will take a man
three months to eat an amount of food
equal to his own weight.
In the country surrounding Caracas
there grouB a Strange plant called the
moon flower. Its petals remain closed
during the day, but at night, when
the moon is shining, they open and
nod twenty times to the minute.
In the manufactures of Great Brit
ain alone the power which steam ex
erts is estimated to be equal to the
manual labor of 4,000,000,000 of men,
or more than double the number of
males supposed to inhabit the globe.
One of the best bandages for wounds
is made from the inner bark of the
"punk" tree. It is pounded with a
hammer until it becomes soft and
feels like velvet. Its astringent prop
erties caused the lips of a wound to be
drawn together.
Plants often exhibit something very
much like intelligence. If a bucket
of water during a dry season be placed
a few inches from a growing pump
kin or melon vine the latter will turn
from its course, and in a day or two
will get one of its leaves in the water.
The latest thing out is a pulseome
ter, by which the life insurance ex
aminers can tell to a fraction the ex
act condition of an applicant's heart
beat. An electric pen traces on pre
pared paper the ongoings, baitings,
and precise peregrinations of the
blood, showing with the fidelity of
science the strength or weakness of
the telltale" pulse.
It appears that the cheese mite un
dergoes a metamorphosis, passing
through a "hypopus" stage. The mite
originally soft and easily killed by
heat or exposure, in this stage sud
denly become, hard and able to en
dure great changes and also to live a
long time without food ; it is also then
provied with special adherent organs,
so that attached to insects it can be
widely distributed, though exposed to
the most adverse circumstances. .
A Danish chemist has invented a
new agent of destruction which revo
lutionizes entirely the present modes
of warfare. A peculiarly constructed
gun discharges a certain chemical
which turns to vapor as soon as it
strikes the air. This vapor has such
an effect on the risible muscles that
the enemy breaks into loud laughter.
The mirth is so violent that the sol
diers are unable to handle their weap
ons and fall easy victims to their an
tagonists.
Grave of a Hero.
The grave of Sam Houston Js lo
cated in a little cemetery at Hunts
ville, Texas, and according to a writer
in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, it is
greatly neglected. "One would cer
tainly expect," says the writer, "that
a monument or shaft would mark the
spot where lie the bones of the great
statesman and patriot. Not so, how
ever. An unpretentious marble slab
is all that tells of his last resting place,
and there was not a grave in the en
tire cemetery of neglected and for
gotten graves that has received less at
tention than that of the great com
moner. The slab, on which was in
scribed simply his name, the date of
his birth and death, was ready to fall
into the sunken grave. There was no
guard or rail around it, and the plank
fence which surrounded the i.ilent city
was ready to topple over ' and decay.
Huntsville is a small village of a few
hundred people, where one of the
penitentiaries of the State is located.
It is distant some ten or twelve miles
from the main line of the Internation
al and Great Northern Railroad, and
is reached by a spur. There has been
a proposition before the Texas Legis
lature several times' to remove the
bones of Huston to Austin, the State
capital; and erect a monument over
them, but it has been defeated every
time on constitutional .grounds.
They will probably remain there for
all time unless something is done in
the way of popular subscription. The
city of Houston has agitated the sub
ject of removal again and again, but
it all ended in talk."
Miuers Superstitious.
Miners in all parts of the world have
many odd superstitions. The mines
of Germany are supposed to be
haunted by little old men, not over
two feet high, dressed as miners.
Sometimes they are malevolent and
sometimes otherwise. Goblin miners,
known as ."knockers," inhabit the
mines of Wales. They make strange
noises, and the tapping of their picks
can be heard in ore lodies not yet
repn'hed by the human workmen. The
dreaded Ladder Dwarf is a malicious
hunchback of frightful appearance
who kicks out the rungs of ladlers in
mines just before an accident occurs.
Vegetables growing in mines are be
lieved to have talismanic virtues. In
Sardinia an ancient leatl mine has been
deserted and permitted to fill up with
water for dread of a small and veno
mous species of spider that inhabiU
it. Washington Star.
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CARPENTRY FOR BOYS.
. A Broomstick Table.
Very few boys might think that
three broomsticks, a square and tri
angular piece of board and a few nails,
if used in the right places, would pro
duce a table.
Saw the sticks from three old brooms
of the same size, making the cut close
to the broom, obtain a square and a
triangular piece of board ; the square
one should be twelve inches ani the
triangular one twelve inches on a side.
With a bit the size of the large end
of a broomstick, bore three holes in
the under side of the top or square
board at an angle, so the legs will
stand off at the bottom, fasten the
sticks in these holes and nail .or screw
them seeurelj'from the top with screws
pa ssed through the broomsticks; se
cure the triangular piece half way be
tween the top and the floor to form a
sort of undershelf, and, with a coat of
paint the finished table will look like
l.he illustration.
A thorough fOXi ESSiO!?.
"Herbert." she said, "tell me
one thing, and tell me truthfully.
Were you ever intoxicated?'-"
'"Well," replied the young' man.
"I was air-tight on.-e."
' What do you mean ?'
" I had a tooth pulled and tools
taughing gas." Washington Star.'
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hoei at m reduced price.
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