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i CTPEDS. Where. Paul and Bar nabas Preached. 1)8. TALUAGB DISCOURSES OJ THAT HISlORIC IsLK. The Grecian ArchJpMago Afford tferiea of Sacred Landscapes J rem Which Vr. Talmas Draws a Thousand Thong-hta Dirine. ' - Brooklyn tabernacle wm crowded tt . overflowing by an audience Interested li ; Dr. Tal mage's series of sermons on wha' - se taw confirmatory of the scrlpturci ' during his tour from the pyramids t . the Acropolis.'; Dr. Tal m ago announce two texts, as , follows: Acts ixi, & "When" wel had discovered Cyprus w aft '"it on the left band; and Revelatlo 1, 9, John, was in the isle that It called Patmos. The eloquent preacher aid:- . Goodby, Egypt! Although interesting and instructive beyond any country tt all the world, excepting, the Holy Land, Egypt was to me somewhat depressing It was a post mortem examination ol cities that died four thousand years age. The mummies, or wrapped up bodies ol the dead, were prepared with referenc to the Resurrection day, the Egyptiani departing this life wanting their bodloi : to be. kept in as good condition as pos sible so that they would be presentable when they wore called again to occupy them. Bat if when Pharaoh comes tc resurrection he finds his body looking as I saw his mummy in the museum at Boulee, his soul will become an unwill ing tenant. The Sphinx also was to me m MAflltHllitv B(fltn iapira Alii of rock; of red granite sixty-two feel high and about one hundred and forty three feet long, and having the head oi man and the body of a lion. "We sat down in the sand of the Afri can desert to study it. With a cold smll It has looked down upon thousands of years of earthly history, Egyptian civili zation, Grecian civilization, Roman civili zation;' upon the rise and fall of. throne Innumerable; the victory and defeat of .the armies of centuries. It took three .Its red cheek. It is dreadful in its stolid Hy. Its eyes have never wept ' a tear.'; 'Its cold ears have not listened to the den of which I tried to weish last Sab- nam. us neart is stone, it carea not for Pl,lny when he measured it In tha first century. It will care nothing foi the man who looks into its imperturbable " countenance in the last century. But Egypt will yet come up to, the glow of life. The Bible promises it. The missionaries, like my fried, good and great Hr. Lansing, are sounding a roaur rection trumpet above those slain em-. yifv. men mil un iuiun ubuer uusepij at Memphis. There will be some other IIomi on the hunUi of the Nllii. Them ..will bo some other Hypathla to teach ?ood morals to the degraded. Instead ol a destroying angel to slay the firt-boru of Egypt the angel of the New Testa ment will shake everlasting life from his wings over s nation born In a . -Say. ...When, soon after my arrival in vEgypt, I took part in the solemn and ten der obsequies, of a missionary from our own land, dying there far away from the sepulchers of her fathers, and saw around her the dusky and weeping con gregation or those whom sue had come to "save, I said to myself: ; 'flere is self sacrifice of the noblest type. Here is heroism immortal. Here is a queen . unto God forever.' Here is something grander than the pyramids. Here is that which thrills the heavens. Here is a specimen of that which will yet save the world." OOODBT TO EGTPT. - Goodby, Egypt! This sermon finds us on the steamer Minerva on the Grecian archipelago, the islands of the New Testament, and . islands Paulinlan and Johannian in their reminiscence. What Uradshaw'a directory is to travelers ir Europe, and what the railroad guide Is u travelers In America, the Book of th. Acts in the Bible is to voyagers in th Oreclan, or, as I shall call it, theGospe' .archipelago. The Bible geography o; 'that region is accurate without a shadow .of mistake. We are sailing this morn .ing on the same waters that Paul sailed, . but In . the opposite direction to thai which Paul voyaged. He was sailing southward and we northward. With Aim it was Ephesus, Coos, Rhodes, Cyprus. With us it is reversed, and it Is, Cyprus, Rhodes, Coos, Ephesus. There Is no book in the world so accurate as the Divine Book. My text says that Paul left Cyprus on the left; we, going in an opposite direc tion, haye It on the right. On our ship Minerva were only two or three pas sengers besides our party, so we had plenty of room to walk the deck, and oh. -what a night was Christmas night of 1889 in that Grecian archipelagos-islands -of light above. Islands of beauty beneath! It is a royal family of islands, this Grecian archipelago the gown of the world's scenery set with sapphire and emerald and topzar and chrysoprasus and ablaze with a glory that' seems let down out of celestial landscapes. God evidently made up his mind that jusi here he would demostrato the utmost -that can bo done with islands for lui "beautlfitatlon of earthly scenery. The steamer had stopped during the might, and In the morning the 6hlp was as quiet as this floor, when wo hastened up to the deck and found' that we had anchored off the Island of Cyprus. In a boat, which the natives rowed standing up, as is the custom, instead of sitting down, as when we low, wo were noon landed on the streets where Paul and Uarnabas walked, and preached. Yea. when at Antloch. Paul and Barnabai got Into a Effht as ministers sometime "did, aul frOuctimes do, for they all hats linptrfociioiis enough to anchor theui tc this world till their work Is dona, I say when, because "Of that bitter con troversy, Paul and -Barnabas parted, Uarnabas came back- here to Cyprus, which .was his birthplace. Island, won derful for history! It has been the prise sometimes won by Porsla, iy Greece, by Egypt. ' by the Saracens, hy the Cru saders, and last of all, not by. sword but oy pen, and that the pen of tho keenest diplomatist of the century, Lord Beacons- j field, who, undor a loase which was as 'good at a purchase, set Cyprus among We went out into the excavations from which Dl Cesnola ' has enriched our American museums with antiquities, and vith no better weapon than our foot we stirred up the ground '. deep enough to get a tear bottlo in which some mourner shed his tears thousands of years ago, I and a lamp which before Christ was, bora j lighted the feet of some poor pilgrim on ' J.hls way. That island of, Cyprus naa enough to set an antiquarian wild. The most of Its glory Is the glory of the past, ndthe typhoid fevers that sweep its eoaat, and the clouds of locusts that often blacken its skies (though two ana 4 red thousand dollars were expended by ihe British empire in one year for the extirpation of these noxious Insects, yet failing to do the work), and the frequent change of governmental masters hinder CTPBCS WIIX TIT COMB TO GOD. But when the islands of the sea come io God, Cyprus will come with them, and the agricultural and commercial opulence which adorned it in ages past rill be eclipsed by the agricultural and commercial religious triumphs of the ges to come. 1 Why is the world so stupid that it cannot see that nations are pros-" pered in temporal , things in. proportion as they are prospered in religious things? (JodUness is profitable not only for indi viduals, but for nations. Questions of tariff, questions of silver bill, questions of republic or monarchy have not so much to do with a nation's temporal welfare as questions of religion,- Give Cyprus to ChrUt, give England to Christ, jive America to Christ,' give the world to ' Christ, and he will give them all a pros perity unlimited. Why is Brooklyn one of tho queen cities of the earth? Be cause it is the queen city of churches. " - Blindfold me and lead me into any city . of the earth so that I cannot seo a street or a warehouse or a homo, and then lead me into the churches and then re move the bandage from my eyes, and I will tell from what I see Inside the-consecrated walls, having seen nothing out side, what is that city's merchandise, its i'terature, its schools, its printing presses, . its government its homes, Its arts,' Its sciences. Its prosperity or its depression; nd ignorance and pauperism and on;- lawry. The altar of God in the church u the . high water-mark of the world's happiness. The Christian religion tri umphant, all other interests triumphant. The Christian religion -low down, all titber interests low down. v So I thought on the evening of that day wo stepped from the filthy streets at Larnacc, Cy " prus, onto the boat that took us back to the steamer Minerva, which had already ' begun to paw the waves like a courser. Impatient to be gone, and then we mo ed on and up among the islands of this Gos pel archipelago. ; " . ; - Night came down on land and sea and ' the voyage became to me more and more suggestive and solemn. If you are pac : tng it alone a ship's deck in the darkness and at sea is a weird place, and an active Imagination may conjure you, up almost any shape he will, and it shall walk the sea or confront him by the mokestack or meet him under the cap tain's bridge' But here I was alone on chip's deck in the Gospel archipelago,:! .and do you wonder , that tho sea :.. was' populous with the past and that down he ratlines Bible memories descended? Our friends had all gone to their bertha. "Captain," said I, "when will we ar rive at the Island of Rhodes?" Looking out from under his glazed cap, he re sponded in sepulchral voice, "About mid night" Though it would be keeping unreasonable hours, I concluded to stay en deck, for I must see Rhodes, one of the islands associated with the name of the greatest missionary the world ever taw or ever will see. Paul landed thdre, and that was enough to make It famous while the world stands, and famous io heaven when the world has become a charred wreck. ':;.-- Vi'OJIIJEBFUL HISTORY. ' This island has had a wonderful his tory. With six thousand Knights of St John, it at one time stood out against two hundred thousand warriors under "Solomon the MagnlGcont" The city had three thousand statues, and a Btatno to Apollo called Colossus, which has al- ways since been considered one of the seven . wonders of the world. It was . twelvo years in building and was seventy cubits high, and had a winding stairs to Ihe top. It stood flf ty-slgyears and then was prostrated by an earthquake. After lying in ruins for nine hundredyears, It was purchased to be converted to other purposes, and the metal, weighing seven h undred . and twenty thousand pounds, was put on nice hundred camels and car ried away. We wore not permitted to go ashore, but the lights all up and down the bills show where the city stands, and nlno boats came ont to take freight -and to bring throe passengers, jfet all the thousands of years of its history aro eclipsed by the few hours or days that Paul stopped there. , As I stood thereon the deck of the Minerva, looking out upon the placo where the Colossus once stood, I; be-i thought myself of the fact ' that tho' world must have a God of some kind. It is to me an Infinite pathos this Co lossus not only of Rhodes, but tho colossi in many parts of the earth. This Is only the world's blind reaching up and feeling after, God. Foundered hu man nature must have a supernatural arm to help It ashore. .'All the statues end images of heathendom are attempts id bring celestial forces down Inlohn man affairs. Blessed be our ears that ve have hoard of an' ever present God, and that through Jesus Christ becomes into our hearts and homes, and with more than fatherly and motherly in terest and affection he Is with us in all our v struggles and" bereavements - and vicissitudes. Rhodes needs something higher than tlu .Colossus, and' the day will come wh. n the Christ, whom t Paul was serving .when he sailed into the harbor of Rhodes, shall tako posses lion of that Island. , ? , t 4 ; ' As we move on up throegh this archi pelago, I am reminded of whataa'mpor-' . tant part the Islands have taken In the history of the' world,' '"Thoy"' are neces- sary to the balancing of the planet The two hemispheres' must have them. As you put down upon a scalo the heavy - pound weights, and then the small ounces and no one thinks of despising . she small weights so the continent are I the pounds ana tne isianas, aro mu - ouncea. A continent'; Is only a larger Island, and an Island only a smaller con tinent Something of what part : tho Islands have taken in the world's history you will see when I remind you that tho Island of Salamls produced Solon, and that the Island of Chios produced Homer, snd the Island of Samos produced Pythagoras,, and the Island of Coos pro iuced Hippocrates. " TIY. LONGED TO BBB PA.TMOS. Bat there' is one Island that I longed io see1 more than any other. .1 can ifford to miss . tha princes . among the .islands, bus I must, see the king of the archipelago. The on I longed tc. see It not so many miles In circumference as Cyprus or Crete or Paros.or Naxos or Bcio or MItylene, but I had rather, in thia sail through . the Grecian archi pelago, see that than all the others; for more of the glories of heaven landed there than on all the islands and contl nenta , since., the . world stood. ; As we come toward It I feel my pulses qulckon.' "I, John, was In the island, that Is called Patmos." It is a . pile of rock twenty-eight " miles in circumference, : v A few cypresses and Inferior olives pump a living out of the earth, and ono palm tree spreads Its foliage. . But the barren ness and gloom and lonellpess, of the' Island made It a prison for the banished ,. svangelist-'v . .. . ..j..; ' Domitian could not atand his ministry, " "tnd one day, under armed guard, that atinlster of the Gospel stepped from a tossing boat to these dismal rocks and walked up to the dismal cavern' which . was to be his home and the placo where should pass before him alt tho conflicts of coming time and- the raptures of a coming eternity, ; Is it not remarkable that nearly alt ; the great revelations of music and poetry and religion have boen made to men in banishment Homer and Milton banished : into blindness; Beet hoven banished into deafness; ' Dante writing his "Divlna Comedia" during the nineteen years of banishment,. from his native land; Victor '. Hugo ' writing his , "Les Misefables" exiled from home and country on the Island of Guernsey, and the bright visions of the future have 1 been given to those- who by sickness or sorrow were exiled from the outer world ,' Into rooms of suffering. Only those who have been imprisoned by very hard sur-. 'soundings have had great : revelations nade to them. So Patmos, wild, chill and bleak and terrible was the best island in all the : archipelago, the best place r In all the arth for divine relavatlons. Before a panorama can ' be successfully seen, the ri room In which you tit must be darkened, and In the presence of John wis to pass . such a panorama as no man ever before taw or ever will see. In ; this world, and 4 hence the gloom of hit surroundings was . a help rather than a hindrance. AH the surroundings of the place affected St John's Imagery when he speaks of heav - -n. St John, hungry from enforced ab : rtiuence, or having no food ' except that at'whlch; hfi appetite tevoned thinks of " heaydn; and "as the f amished man : Is apt so dream of bountiful -tablei covered vith luxuries, so St John says of the in habitants of heaven 4Thy shall hunger -" no more." -Scarcity of'frehrwater on Patmos and the hot tongue of .St John's . thirst leads him 16 admire heavon as he says, "They shall thirst no more." . St John hears the waves of the sea wildly dashing against the Irocks, and ach wave has a voice, and all the waves together make achOros; and tlfey remind him of the multitudinous anthems of beavehy and he says: ' "Tney are like the voice of many wateri.. One day, as he ' looked off upon the sea,' the water was cry smooth, at it is today while we sail -hem in the Mlnera4d they were 1 1 lr A it! m a n1 lha An nil crK t iMmfiH j " let them 'on, tire, ; ana . tbere " was a mingling jA r white light and Intense Came, and as St John looked out from his cavern botpo upon that brilliant sea he thought of the splendors of heaven and describes them "As a sea of class, mingled with fire." Yes, seated In the lark cavern of Patmos, though home sick and .hungry anilutoaded L with Do mitia'n's anathemas, St John was the most fortunate maa on earth because of he panorama that' passed beforo the mouth of that cavern. - ; ' . TUB PA.HORAMA PASSES. ' Turn down all tha lights that we may ' setter see it The panorama passer, and :o! the conquering Christ robed, girdled, t.rmod, the flash of golden candelstlckt . (.nd seven stars In hit right hand, can Rlestlcks and start meaning light held ' ' ap and light ' scattered And there passes a throne and Christ on it and the , scats broken, and the woes sounded, and dragon slain, and seven last plaguos iwoop, and seven vials are poured out; rnd the vision vanishes. And we halt a noment to' rest from the exciting tpectacle. Again the panorama moves o ' before ' the cavern of Patmos, and ' fobn the exlle'soes a great city repref tenting Vail abominations, Babrlon towered, palaced, templed, fountalnedv 'olfaged, sculptured, hanging gardens. . uddenly going crash! crash! . and the' pipers cease to pipe, and the trumpets -ease to trumpet and the dust and tho ' : 'moke, and the horror fill the canvas. rhlle from above and beneath aro voices enouncing, "Babylon is fallen,, is alien!" And we halt again to rest from ' he spectacle; - ; . :' -; " . Again the panorama, passes beforo tha ;avcrn of Patmos, and John the exile . , ces a mounted Christ on. a snow white, -harger . .leading forth tho cavalry ol heaven, the long line of white chargers galloping through the scene, the clatter ing of hoofs, the clinging of bridle bits, and the flash of spears, all the earth con' auered and alt heaven to Doxology. And we halt again to rest from the spectacle. Again the panorats masses before the cavern of Patmos, ana John the exile seot great, thrones ' lifted,' thrones of martyrs, thrones of apostles, thrones of prophets, thrones of patriarchs, and a throne higher than all on which Jesus el is, and. ponderous books are openod, their leaves turned over, revealing the oaaesof all that have ever- lived, tho good and the bad, the ronowtted and the humble, the mighty "and the weak, and at the turn of etery leaf the universe Is In rapture or fright and the sea empties lu sarcophagus of all the dead of the sunken shipping, and the earth gives way, and the heavens vanish, ' Again we test a moment from the spectacle. The panorama moves on before the -cavern of Patmos, and John the exile be holds a city of gold, and a river more beautiful than the Rhine or the Hudson rolls through, it and fruit trees bend their burdens on either bank, and all Is surrounded by walls in which the up holstery of autumnal forests,: and the sunrises and sunsets of all the ages, and ' the glory of burning worlds seem to be commingled. And tho inhabitants never breathe a sigh, or utter a groan, or dis cuss a difference, or frown a dislike, or weep a tear. " The fashion they wear Is pure white, and their foreheads are en circled by garlands, and they who were sick are well, and , they who were old . are young, and they who were bereft are. reunited. . And at tha last figure of that panorama rolled out of sight I think that Joha, most have fallen, back into hit cavern nerveless and . exhausted. Too much was It for naked eye to ; look at Too much was It for human strength to experience. un H -I r ; - L4.it wobdi or- hatpt christiass. My friends, I would not wonder If you should have a very similar, vision after swhile. , Yeu will be through with this world, its cares and fatigues and ttrng iles, and if jou have served the lord and have done the best yon could, I Should not wonder ' If: your dying bod were a Patmos. It often has been so. I was reading of a dying' boy' who, while the family stood around sorrowfully, ex pecting each breath would be the last srled:"t"Open ' the " gates! Open1 the gates! ' Happy! Happy! Happy!" John Owen, In hit last hour,1 said to his attend ant "Oh, brother Payne! the long wished for day has come at last!" : Rutherford, n the closing moment of his life, cried ont: "I shall sbiae, I shall see him : as he Is, and all the fair company with him, and shall have my large share. ' I . have gotten . the victory. , ia Christ . is , hold ing forth his arms to embrace me. - Now I feel! ' Now I enjoy! Now I rejoice! I feed . on manna. -1 have, angles' . food. My eyes will tee my Redeemer. Glory, glory dwelleth in Immanuet't land." Yes; ten thousand times In the history of the world hal the dying bed been made' a Patmos. . " , " : You tee the time will come when you -will,' oh, child of God, be exiled to your, last sickness as much as John was exiled to Patmoa - Yon will go into your room not to come out again, for God. is going to do something better and grander and hap pier for you than he has ever yet done 1 There will be such visions - let down to your pillow at God gives no man If he is ever to return : to this tame world. - The apparent feeling of uneasiness and rest lessness at 'the time of the Christian's departure, the physicians say. Is caused by no real distress. It Is an unconscious and Involuntary movement, and I thlnn In many cases It is the vision of heavenly gladness too great for-mortal endurance. It Is only heaven breaking in on the de parting spirit (" ; ., i ' . You see your ' work will be done and the time' for your departure will be at hand, and there will . be wings over you' and wings under you, and songs let loose on . the-, air, and your old ..- father ' and mother gone for years will descend Into the room, and your little children whom yon put away for tho last sleep years ago will be at your side, and their kiss will be on your foreheads, and you will see gardens in full bloom, and the swinging open of shining gates, and wilt hear voices long ago hushed. . - A SVPKBWAL raCT. In many a Christian departure that youhaveknown and Ihave known there was in the phraseology of the departing ones something ' that Indicates the reap pearance of those long deceased. It is no delirium, no delusion, hut a supernal fact -Your glorified loved ones will hear that you are about to come, and they will say In heaven: "May I go down to show that soul the way up? May I be the celestial escort? May I wait .for that soul at the edge of the pillow?" And the Lord will say: "Yes. You may fly down on that mission.', And I think all your glorified kindred will come down, and they will be in , the room, and al though those in health standing around yon may bear no voice and see no arrival from the heavenly world, you will seo and hear. ' And the moment the fleshly bond of the soul shall break, the cry will be: ""Follow met Up this wayp By this glided cloud, past , these : stars,', straight for home, straight for glory, straight for 3xir , - As on that day in the Grecian archi pelago, Patmos - began to fade 'but of sight, I walked to the stern of the ship that I might keep 'my eye on tho en chantment as long as I could,' and the voice that sounded out of heaven to John the exile in the cavern ot Patmos seemed sounding la s the waters that dashed against the side of our ship, 'Bhold the tabernacle of God with -men, and he will dwell with them; and they shall be his people and 'God himself shall be with them and be their God; and "God shall wlpaway all tears from their eyes, and. there shall be . no more death, neither sorrow nor. crying, neither shall there be any , more pain, for the former things aro passed away;" -'J ' ;" ' ' - Tub Scrips League newspapers, which gave a vigorous support to the People's party movement in the late campaign, is busy explaining now where the result of JtLclr'work couie in,, . - . : eciRNTiPto akd rsKFur. rhotograplm of the sunmre said to sliow tlmt the great luminary makes a com plvte revolution in 11 years. ' " An electrio expt?rt anys that no' Itgtit lniHlkHu found that wilt penetrate a fog hotter than the old oil lamp. Tho Manilla hemp plant, which is very similar to the banana, is found to thrive best in soil composed of decayed to3etablo matter. - . . The electrical r ilway between St Paul . ana Minneapolis u a uovtsrumeut mu ... route. Tho fh'ctric cara carry the 'mails so that deliveries are made in eath city every two hours. - By an arrangement of mirrors the pho tographer now take four different views Df one subject This enables his patrons .- to select the mout advantageous view of themselves at one sitting. . . , " ; " ; Humboldt calculated the mean level of ' North America to te 748 feet above tho sea. and he found that in 4,500,000 year, the whole of North America might bo black. The cloth b of a 'des! green, and worn down to the sea level. the overcoat it of .an . earth colon , In Nitrate of soda liae again been tried as a fantry and cavalry go into battle wearing . fertilizer of tomatoes. Tho result was a - fieij caps, Even when near at hiud a very marked increase of crop in every Russian regiment is hardly4 distinguish rase, ttie moat proiitable idcrease comuijr , tble By the . naked, eyeTfte Vefottn in from the use of nitrate alone. ' the German uniform thould . begin vvitf! ; White tar is one of thd latest inventions the abolition of the helmet and the, Intro or discoveries. It -.ill not become-soft auction of the field cap; waterproof, and under the suns rays in any climate, and with, a large, overhanging' crowttbm la expected to be used largely iu calking without front piece. For ! thepreaenl the deck seams of fine yachts. . , cloiefitting tightly belted coat with but . . Sir William Siemen's method of apply-"I tons. thoukl be subsUtut ' a locfee jsickel bag electric light to x grow flowers aud fruit by night or on cloudy days haste-en 3 ru ployed with gotnl succeas on bo rd a ' West Indian steamer to keep alive exotic - vines and other plants. John Londou Macadam, thoinventor Df the road tliat bears his name, labored for years to jwrfect his ideas, and, al- " tliough the English parliament voted hiin . ' f30,0b0, it hardly covered his outlay. - Ilia monument is the roads of Eug land." i . ' ... a;: j A handful of raw pig iron, weighing about five pounds, is worth five cents; it", would make about 6(1 tableknife ' bladea, : worth $13; convi-rted into steel watch iprings, there Would be about 110,200 of : Ihese little coils, which, at the ratt' of 'J tl.W a dozen, would be valued at $10 ( 670.83. L It has been shown tliat tlie Incandescent , ! electric light does l ot "smoke" the ceil- Ing, as has . been ; c .aimed, but-that the rmoky effect is due to dust. JlIw heated tamp causes a cure.it of heated air to rise, and the ; coii6chiui ,ce is, there is more ; dust deposited above tho lamp tliau any ; where else. .. ; ;' t- ' - 7 .' .' :C ' . V- ' A New . Hnmiwl.lre man whose cows iKjtheretl him by umping over fences fchoed his cows forward with horstshoetv r.nd he has had no furtlier trouble. He explains his method by saying tliat the v cows, sunised at Hudmg that tliey Imve a solid iiwtead of a split hoof, do not at-. lempt to jump, v; ' ' , The method of purifying wafrr, in- . vented by Dr. William Anderson and now' rmployed at Antwerp with success, con- Usts in passing the water through a ilowly revolving cylinder containing mw lattic iron in the form of scraps of filings. The estimated cost of purifying a million gallons in this way is about $1.50. If cloth can be n ule out of fine spun glass, it would seeai a simple matter to make it out of wv)od. This is now done by boiling striis of,Jine grained timber, M a whole gained or lost, by so extensive crushing them between rolls, carding tho a replacement of the native by; foreign filaments into parallel lines, as with ordi- elements in our population. But what nary textile material, and spiunhig them ' ever view may be taken of ttie pssV no into threads, from which the cloth can be rtne surely can be enough of an bptuiiiut woven in the usual way. Professor Lombroso. a student of crim (nalsr says , tliat out of 41 Anarchists whom he studied iu the Paris police offices, Bl, per cent showed the criminal typo of features. Of 43 ' Chicago Anarchists the percentage of wicked faces was 40, and that is about the percentage obtained from . the professor's researches among the political criminals of Turin. . The latest toilet arrangement is the in vention of a shrewd Yankee, who has concluded that people do not ' like to use the same soap in hotels and other . public places. He lias invented a nickel plated case, which is filled with powdered soap, and by pressing a button as much of this as is needed runs down into one's hand. It seems to work satisfactorily ART AND ARTISTS. Tho French government is spendin". 8,000 this year in the purcliase of worka of art at the two salons. ) w The ceiling painted by Carolus Duran for the Salle Marie ' do Medicis ' at hn Louvre is completed and open to'lhu public. -. St. Louis has begun active work for its equestrian statue to General Sherman. Of the $50,000 wanted the city will givu one-half, and by private subscription tho rest will be raised. . , . . , , Tn Mia Jiof 5fhv of thru Ttml rS-nsa a inn. cial archaological department is form- Ing, the mission of which will be to pre vent the vandalistic destruction of old monuments and works of art in time oil warfc';;... --v :V.v,.;i -: ' ii-'T , At Altorf, Switzerland, the .Tell Mon ument Commit teojB making every effort to press forward its work.- Four prizes of $035, $375, $250, and $100 have been offered for the four best plans for tlie monument. ' . : - -i-;. ' ; ' , Ladies' art clubs have not existed in Londou until the present year, when 30 lady artists formed themselves , into a Ninety-one Art Club chiefly for social rather jtlian exliibition purposes, although occasionally tlie works of members will bo placed upon the walls. Over lOO artists over 200 architects. tnd 1,000 students are waiting to lake ' J.s. r uiui- and possession of; the new - building to be erected in New York by the. American Fine Art Society. - On tlio ground floor there will be one large and three small galleries. - Bartlioldi has just completed two ffv male figures clothed in Aleutian costumes ior monument oi u am Delta at vuie ' A WM ' fnn So V......,1 ...2.1. d'Avray. : One is bowed down with grief while the other seems full of hoiie. They are intended to represent A Isaceaf id L-r raine seeking rtf ugo at the altar ot Franco. OCnBIANT'S GAT VKIFOItllTS fhejr Welt He Murks far XliuaUa'os French Itlflti. V ; A writer whom the VeutscH iWocTieiu Waff Introduces to its readers as a "cel ebrated and accomplished army officer,' has expressed himself at length agalnsl the present uniform of sha? 'German troop. : The radical fault of the njorin .IwAwa UMH f..e I A m... bVaA ivav skil fault haabeen aggravate tefoJd.jJ 'the introduction of tmoketm: powder. brilliancy of plialUidtal; helmeU tnd buttons will hereafter betray the. ap proaching enemy at a great distance. In a field of stubble Or on the highway the dark blue jackets and trousers are ftf striking contrast with" the "natural tur rounaings. ; me new, , unuoims W; uw Russinn army, introduced byj-War Min. later Wanuowsky, are devoid ofsverj-. thing (hat attracts the ye, and1 -by fasy the most practical ' of all uniforms in Europe." The blouse has hooks instead, of buttoua. and the', leather trimniu!f?rt aro with hooks and eyes. ... The cloth; ' should be dark and in harmony with some pre vailing color of nature. , : All adjuncts oi the uniform should be dark anu unpol ished. . White leather, metal, belt clasps. poliH,ied tteel scabbards, poUshect handles it aide arms, and the colors on the lances should be abolished or htddea The gay adjutant's sashes should be replaced with sashes in somber r colors. -j .These reforms are urgent, for in the next war the chances tP : ir!AfAiv will VvA iimtesiflltv 1ot'Mk In IH;,,f svevs j - wa naa f?vaas snBv i favor of the general who can most swkxms fully oonceal the movements of his troops. France and Russia recoguize .tliis fact, . and rejoico In the gay appearance jcf the Qerman army of tolay. v.. Tliese. sugges tions for reform Imve .been endorsed: by tlmost all Berlin, Frankfort, and Munich laities. ' 4. f '; 'MHW' r;.. ,r: - ' .. . .. '"" 1 " V h5 S - - Immlgratf tkd Da"nia(loa. -' Ttie American shrank from the indus trial coniietition thrust upon1 hhrf.'He . was unwilling himself to i engager In the lowest bind of day labor with these new elements of the population) he was even more unwilling to bring tons and davjgh l ! -- A . t , t , . a. J i . 1 "T ii ro in to me . worm io eowr idio inai sompetition. For the first -time, in out history the people of the free J3ta4ea be came divided into classes. Those chtsscs were natives anoT foreigners. Foreign immigration into this country has from the time it.firsf assumed large proiortious amounted not to a reinforce ment of, our population, but to a replace . ment of naUve-by foreign stock. 'Tliat j if the foreigners had not come the riath e element would Jong have Cited, the places el.-..?- --'".-.' ' . the foreigners usurped, I entertain, not a doubt; The competency of , the Ameri an stock to do this would 'be absurd tc question in the face of such a record m tliat for ,1790 to .1830, when wUie; native bora population increased 237 per cent Opinions may, differ widely on the question whether the United States have t contemplate without dread the fast rising flood of immigration now settling in upon our shores. . During tue past 10 years five and a quarter millions ef for eigners entered the ports of th Uniteo 3tates. Wo have no" assurance that thl ouiuber may not be doubled in the pur rent decade. Only a small part of . thes newcomers can read, while the" genera intelligence of .the mass is even, be low what might be assumed from suqh n statement. By far the greater part of them are wholly ignorant of our ineti tui tions, and, too often, having been brought tip in an atmosphere of pure" force, they have no sympathy with the political ideas and seutimeuts which uuderlie'ous - social organization ; often not eventhe capability of understanding them. What has just now been said would, of course, have been true in some degree) of the body of immigrants in any preceding period. But the immigration Of ' the present time differs, unfortunately, from that of the past in two important re spects. The first is, that the organisa tion of the European railway and Ue ocean steamship service is , now. such as to reduce almost to a , minimum the euergy, courage, intelligence, and pecun iary means reouired for immicratinn result which is teuding to bring to us no : longer the more alert and enterprising members of their respective communi -ties, but rather, the unlucky, the thrift les9; u the w6rtjlle8g The second characteristic of the Immi- gration of the present, as contrasted with that of the past, is that it is increasingly ; ; drawn from the nations of southern and eastern Europe peoples wbjch have got no great good for themselves out of the. - race wars of centuries, and out of the un ceasing struggle with the hard conditions of nature; peoples that have the least possible adaptation to our political Insti tutions and social life, -and (hat have thus far remained . hopelessly upon the lowest plane of industrial life,- - R"J8o broad and straight now is the chan del bv which thin i . conducted to our shores that there is no reason why every stagnant poordf.' Euro Sri ST' 7 01 V10 fA wo defets in the struggle for: exbtence, the lowest "degradation of human'" nature, should not be completely drained off into the United States. So long as any dif ' ference of economio conditions-remains In our favor; so long as the least 'reason - aDnar fop tha miseraLle.ith broken. the corrupt, the abject to think tha! they might be better off beretuan tttere, 11 . . ., . . 2 il .. not in the workshop then in the work house, these nuns, and Poles andBohe mians, and Russiau Jews, and south Ital ians will continue to come, and to come" I by.uiilUonj.-- Fancis A. AVuikcr. ' r
The Roanoke Beacon and Washington County News (Plymouth, N.C.)
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Dec. 11, 1891, edition 1
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