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PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1898.
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AUVUMN.
Along the leaf-strewed paths I walk
lleoallfng summer days;
Not in a mood for human talk,
I ponder Nature's ways.
TIU Summer parted with her breath,
No Autumn s sun could shine;
, "There Is no life but cornea from death,
Said Plato the divine.
Then, Autumn ! deem not all thine own
The splendors which we see,
For had we not the Summer known
These splendors could not be.
We lore to see your banners red
Which Summer helped to weave,
A.na ev ry canvas summer spread
Thy gorgeous tints receive.
j At The AppetiteCure.
-A. Ilonltli DFLesozrt Comedy.
EI MARK
A piece of fiction fictiou with a
big F by Mark Twain the well
known humorist, which came out in a
late Cosmopolitan, has attracted no
little attention, not only for the
humor of which it ia full, but for the
. undoubted scientific fact to which it
calls attention. It is true that we
civilized Americans eat far tod" much,
and equally true that no small amount
of our disease is due to that habit.
This theme the great humorist has
clothed in the following attractive
form:
This establishment's name is Hoch
berghaus. It is in Bohemia, a short
day's journey from Vienna, and being
in the Austrian empire, is, of course,
a health resort. All unhealthy peo
ple ought to domicile themselves in
Vienna, and use that as a base for
making flights, from time to time, to
the outlying resorts, according to
need. A flight to Marienbad to get
rid of fat; a flight to Carlsbad to get
rid of rheumatism; a flight to Kalten
loutgeben to take the water cure, and
get rid of the rest of the diseases. It
is all so handy. You can stand in
Vienna and toss a biscuit into Kal
tenlentgeben with a twelve-inch gun.
You can run out thither at any time
of the day; you can go by the phe
nomenally slow trains, and yet inside
of an hour you have exchanged the
glare and swelter of the city for the
wooded hills, and shady forest paths
and soft cool airs, and the music of
tbe birds, and the repose and peace of
paradise. There are abundance of
health resorts, as I have said. Among
them this place Hochberghaus. It
stands solitary on the top of a densely
wooded mountain and is a building of
great size. It is called the Appetite
Anstallt, and people who have lost
their appetites come here to get them
restored. When I arrived, I was
taken by Professor Haimbergev to his
consulting room and questioned:
"It is six o'clock. When did yon
eat last?"
"At noon."
"What did you eat?"
"Next to nothing."
"What was on the table?"
"The usual things."
"Chops, chicken, vegetables, and
eo on?"
"Yes; but don't mention them I
can't bear it."
"Are you tired of them?"
"Oh, utterly. I wish I might never
hear of them again."
"The mere sight of food offends
you, does it?"
"More, it revolts me." -
The doctor considered awhile, then
got out a long menu and ran hi3 eye
elowly down it.
"I think," said he, "that what you
ueed to eat is but here, choose for
yourself."
I glanced at the list and my stomach
threw a handspring. Of all the bar
barous layouts that were ever con
trived, this was the most atrocious.
At the top' stood "tough, underdone,
overdue tripe, garnished with garlic;"
half way down the bill stood "young
cat; old cat; scrambled cat;" at the
bottom stood "sailor boots, softened
with tallow served raw." The wide
intervals of the bill were packed
with dishes calculated to insult a can
nibal. I said: "
"Doctor, it is not fair to joke over
such a serious case as mine. I came
here to get an appetite not to throw
away the remnant that's left."
He said gravely: "I am not joking;
why should I joke?",.
"But I can't eat these horrors."
"Why not?"
He said it with a naivete that was
ndmirable, whether it was real or as
sumed. "Why not? Because why, doc
tor, for months I have seldom been
able to endure anything more sub
stantial than omelettes and custards.
These unspeakable dishes of yours
"Oh," you will come to like them.
They are very good. And you must
at them.- It is the rule of the place
and is strict. I cannot permit any de
parture from it." ,
I said, smiling: "Well, then, doc
tor, you will have to permit the de
pa'ure of the patient. I am going."
lie looked hurt, and said in a
way which changed the aspect of
things:
"I am sure you wdnld not do me
that injustice. I accepted you in good
faith you will not shame that cm-
Yet all thy splendors but presage
The desolation near;
Tor Nature, though she did engage
You artist of the year,
Will send a rude and vandal band
Ere the new year is born,
Whose ruthless ravage through the land
Will blast what you adorn.
Harsher than Summer's seems thy fate;
For her thou didst caress,
And showed her as she lingered late
The utmost tenderness.
To thee, when summoned henee to leave,
No kindness will be shown;
For heartless Winter cannot Brieve
For all thy splendor flown.
Aaron Kingsbury in the Boston Evening Transcript.
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TWAIN.
fidence. This appetite cure is my
whole living. If you should go forth
from it with the sort of appetite which
you now have.it could become known,
and you can see yourself that people
would say my cure failed in your case
and hence can fail ia other cases. You
will not go; you will not do me this
hurt."
I apologized and said I would
stay.
The professor handed me that odi
ous menu.
"Choose or will yon have it later?"
"Oh, dear me,, show me to my
room; I forgot your hard rule."
"Wait just a moment before you
finally decide. There is another rule.
If you choose now, the order will be
filled at once; but if you wait, yon
will have to await my pleasure. You
cannot get a dish from that entire bill
.until I consent."'
"All right. Show me to my room
and send the cook to bed; there is not
going to be any hurry."
The professor took me up one flight
of stairs and showed me into a most
inviting and comfortable apartment
consisting of parlor, bedchamber and
bathroom. In the parlor were many
shelves filled with books. The pro
fessor said he would now leave me to
myself and added: '
"Smoke and read1 as much as you
please, drink all the water you like.
When you get hungry, ring and give
your order, and I will decide whether
it shall be filled or not. Yours is a
stubborn, bad case, and therefore I
shall be gratified if you will restrain
yourself and skip down to No. 15 and
begin with that."
Then he left me and I began to un
dress, for I was dog-tired and very
sleepy. I slept 15 hours and woke up
finely refreshed at 10 the next morn
ing. Vienna coffee! It was the first
thing I thought of that unapproach
able luxury that sumptuous coffee
house coffee, compared with which all
other European coffee, and all Ameri
can hotel coffee is mere fluid poverty.
I rang and ordered it; also Vienna
bread, that delicious invention. The
servant spoke through the wicket in
door and said but you know what he
said. He referred me to the bill of
fare. I allowed him to go I had no
further use for him.
After the bath I dressed and started
for a walk, and got as far as the door.
It was locked on the outside. I rang
and the servant came and explained
that it was another rule. The seclu
sion of the patient was required until
after the first meal. I had not been
particularly anxious to get out before;
but it was different now. Being locked
in makes a person wishful to get out.
I soon began to find it difficult to put
in the time. At 2 o'clock I had been
26 hours without food. I had been
growing hungry for some time; I rec
ognized that I was not only hungry,
now, but hungry with a strong adjec
tive in front of it. Yet I was not hun
gry enough to face the bill of fare. I
must put in the time somehow. I would
read and smoke. Idid it; hour by hour.
The books were all of - one breed
shipwrecks; people lost in deserts;
people shut up incaved-in mines; peo
ple starving in besieged cities. I read
about all the revolting dishes that eyer
famished men stayed their hunger
with. During the first hours these
things nauseated me; hours followed
in which they did not so affect me;
still other hours followed in which
I found myself smacking my lips over
some tolerably infernal messes. When
I had been without food 45 hours I
ran eagerly to the bell and ordered
the second dish on the bill, which was
a sort of dumplings containing a com
post made of caviar and tar.
It was refused. Uuring the next
15 hours I visited the bell every now
and then and ordered a dish tha(; was
further down the list. Always a re
fusal. But I was conquering preju
dice after prejudice, right along; I j
was making sure progress; I was j
creeping up on No. 15 with deadly !
certainty, and my heart beat faster
and faster, my hopes rose higher and
higher. j
At last when food had not passed
my lips for 60 hours, victory was mine
and Iwdered No. 15: ".. - 1
"Soft-boiled spring chicken in the ;
egg; six danen, hot and fragrant."
In 15 minutes it was there and the .
doctor along with it, rubbing his
hand's with joy. He said with great
excitement:
'It's a cure, it's x cure! I knew I
could do it. Dear sir, my grand sys
tem never fails never. You've got
your appetite back you know you
have; say it and make me happy."
"Bring on your carrion I can eat
anything in the bill."
'Jh, this is noble, this is splendid
but I knew I could do it, the system
never fails. How are the birds?"
"Never was anything so delicious
in the world; and yet, as a rule, I
don't care for game. But don't inter
rupt me, don't I can't spare my
mouth, I really can't."
Then the doctor said:
"The cure is perfect. There is no
more doubt or danger. Let the poul
try aloae; I can trust you with a beef
steak now."
The beefsteak came as much .as a
basketful of it with potatoes and
Vienna bread and coffee; and late a
meal then that was worth all the cost
ly preparation I had made for it. And
dripped tears of gratitude into the
gravy all the time gratitude to the
doctor for putting a little commoD
sense in me when I had been .empty
of it so many, many years."
In a second chapter the writer tells
how Dr. Haimberger stumbled across
the idea of his cure through a ship
wreck which stimulated the once fail
ing appetites of the ship's passengers.
SIWASH WITCHCRAFT.
A Missionary Saves an Indian Boy From
Death by Sacrifice.
Prospectors, hunters and mission
aries who have been among the Indian
tribes in northern districts of British
Columbia have from time to time
brought news of shocking barbarities
practised by the Siwashes in connec
tion with some incantations arranged
by the medicine men, or, as they call
them. "The Oo-oosh-tuck-yu." These
men have more power than the chiefs
of the tribes:
Recently the stipendiary magistrate
at Telegraph Creek received informa
tion from miners that a human sacri
fice was in contemplation in the vil
lage of the Tahantauis. An Indian
boy fourteen years old was to pub
licity meet a horrible death by order
of the tribal medicine man for bewitch
ing and causing the death of a young
squaw. The girl, who, it seems, was
a great favorite of the unfortunate
boy, took sick about a month ago with
what seemed to rational men malarial
fever. Afterward a rash appeared on
her face resembling smallpox.
-When the medicine man came he
thumped and squeezed the poor girl
and scratched her body with small
needles fastened to his finger nails.
She died soon after and relatives
thanked the medicine man for his ef
forts, though it was plain to the min
ers that his brutal treatment had
caused her death.
On hearing of the matter the magis
trate went to the Be v. Mr.Appleyard,
the Church of England missionary
working in the district, and together
they gathered the Indians on the
banks of the Tahltan and a big pow
wow was held. The boy, bound hand
and foot with ropes, was carried to
the meeting.
Mr. Ajjpleyard told the Indians thai
all who helped in slaying the boy
would be punished by death. This,
together with many other arguments,
finally brought the Indians around,
and the boy was given into the charge
of the missionary, who agreed to place
him in the mission school at Metlaktla
for three years and teach him the
English language, which, at the end
of his term, he could teach to his
fellow tribesmen, and help them to
get along in the world.
About a year ago an Indian boy was
mutilated and killed by the Tahantanis
Indians, near Telegraph Creek, by
command of a medicine man, who
accused him of having bewitched one
of the tribe., The one supposed to
have been bewitched had undoubtedly
died of natural causes, but according
to the Siwash view disease is never
caused except by evil spirits through
the medium of a living person.
They believe that any evil person
possesses the power t3 shoot into the
body, without detection, stones, sticks,
leather, bones and such things, an act
termed by the north aborigines
"minookeitl." They believe that any
such evil disposed persons can, by
stealing a portion of anyone's clothing
and putting it through a mysterioue
process, poison that part of the body
which . the garment had formerly
covered. The murdered boy was said
to have been guilty of the act, but in
reality his sole offense consisted of
stealing the painted straw hat of the
Iadian whom he was accused of hav
ing bewitched.
In the minds of his tribe he
doctored the hat, and the death of the
owner by poison resulted.
Tired of Being a Spectator.
Little Joe having been invited out
to dinner with his mother was com
manded not to speak at the table ex
cept when he was asked a question,
and he promised to obey the com
mand. At the table no attention was
paid to Joe for a long time. He grew
very restless, and his mother could
see that he was having a hard time to
restrain himself. By and by he could
stand it no longer. "Mothen" he
called out, "when are they going to
begin asking ma questions?" Weekly
Telegraph.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Some insects are in a state of ma
turity thirty minutes after birth.
Some scientists assert that the pur
est air in cities is found about twenty
five feet above the street surface.
The amount of silk produced by
each spider is so small that a scientist
somputes that 663,522 would be re
quired to produce a pound of thread.
An English physician has discov
ered a way of producing local anaes
thesia without the loss of conscious
ness or the use of ether or chloroform,
tie uses moderate currents of electric
ity frequently interrupted.
Professor Ramsey and Mr. Travera
have discovered another elemental gas
which they call xenon. It possesses a
spectrum analogous to that of argon,
but the position of the lines differs
entirely. It seems to exist in minute
quantities.
Dr. Earth of Koslin has made a
study of the effects of singing on the
action of the lungs and heart, on dis
eases of the heart, on the vocal appa
ratus, on the upper air passages, on
the ear, on the general health, on the
development of the chest, on meta
bolism, aud on tbe activity of the
digestive organs. Singing, he main
tains, is as good as any other form of
gymnastics, and it has the advantage
that it can be practiced anywhere or
at any time.
Hemcilicn for Plant Poison.
"I have tried a remedy for the bites
and stings of wasps, yellow jackets,
hornets, bees and insects generally
this season," remarked a Montgomery
county, Marybind, farmer, "which,
though new to me, has proved to be
very efficacious in the number of op
portunities I have had to try it, botb
on myself and my family and friends.
There is no way that I know of to
3top the inteuse pain that follows im
mediately after sting, but a careful
rubbing of the stung part a few sec
onds with the juice of any two plants,
herbs, leaves or grasses that may be
handy will shorten the duration of the
pain, and in many instauces prevent
the swelling which follows some stings.
It matters not what plant or herbs are
used. First apply one and then the
other. The theory of the cure is that
if the juice of one of the plants does
not neutralize the poison of the sting
the other will, and that if both fail if
tried separately they will work effec
tually as a combination. Poison oak,
or poison ivy, as it is most often called,
while an irritant itself, is the exact
opposite if applied as one of the parts
of the cure. Recently I knew of a
lady who, in a hurry to get weeds
for a painful sting of a wasp, used
poison oak first and then stramonium,
or deadly nightshade, either by them
selves, poisonous to a certain extent
under some conditions to many peo
ple. The combination had the effect
of stopping the pain from the sting
and doing no harm themselves, al
though under ordinary circumstance!
she was very susceptible to either.
Poisonous weeds are not necessary.
The juice from the tomato vine, the
cabbage plant, pea or beans, or, in
deed, auy two plants or vines, is pref
erable. It is the combination of any
two of them that seems to be specially
officacious in stopping the pain ant1
swelling." Washington Star.
A Fly-Catching; Scheme.
"Joe, I'm sadly afraid yoa have
been idling about in my absence, "
said a young and clientless solicitor,
just returned from his honeymoon, to
his office boy. "This typewriter hasn'i
been touched the whole time."
"Indeed, sir, I was working it only
two hours ago," replied the lad.
"Then how comes it that a spidei
has spun a web across its keys?"
asked the solicitor, pointing to a
flimsy network which almost covered
the keyboard.
"Why, sir, I caught that spider and
put him there myself," explained the
boy, after a scarcely perceptible pause.
"There's a fly buzzing about in the
works of the typewrite!', and as I
I didn't want to take the machine to
pieces to get at it, I thought the
spider dodge would serve. You let
him alone sir, and that fly will be
trapped in no time." Pearson's
Weekly.
f A Paper Craze in Japan.
Word comes from Japan that the
subjects of the mikado have started a
paper craze, and the highest ladies of
the land of the plum blossom are
ordering entire costumes of this novol
dress fabric. It is light and economi
cal. The big manufacturers are mak
ing quantities of paper dress materia)
in various' colors and nontearable
guaranteed to launder. There, are
dressmakers in the principal towns
who make a specialty of these paper
costumes, and they are doing an ex
cellent trade. When will paper cos
tumes reach America?
A Chilcl'B Marvellonn Karape.
A child who wandered away from
Burns Valley, Pa., was lost in the
mountains. When found she was in
the midst of wild animals and among
rattlesnakes, but she declared they
had made no attack upon her and that
she had subsisted among them by eat
ing wild berries. The hunting party
that found her killed twelve rattlero
near the rock where she was discovered.
DK.TALM AGE'S SEKMON.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: "Across the Continent" Spiritual
Thoughts Suggested While Viewing
Scenes of Majesty and ' Grandeur
Wrought by the Hand of God.
Texts: "Streams in 'the desert." Isaiah
x xxv., 6. "He toucheth. the hills and they
smoke." Psalms civ., 32. .
My first text means irrigation. It means
the waters ot the Himalaya, or the Pyre
nees, or the sierra JNevadas poured tnrouga
canals and aqueducts for tbe fertilization
of the valleys. It means the process by
which the last mile of American barrenness
will be made an apple orchard, or an orange
grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton planta
tion, or a vineyard "streams in the desert."
My second text means a volcano like Vesu
vius or Cotopaxl, or it means the geyser3
of Yellowstone Park or of California. You
see a hill calm and still, and for ages im
movable, but the Lord out of the heavens
puts His finger on the top of it, and from it
rise thick and Impressive vapors: "He
toucheth the hills aud they smoke!"
Although my journey across the conti
nent this summer was for the eighth time,
more and more am I impressed with the
divine band in its construction, and with
its greatness and grandeur, and more and
more am I thrilled with the fact that it is
all to be irrigated, glorlfledN and Edenized.
What a change from the time when Daniel
Webster on yonder Captoline Hill said to
the American Senate in regard to the centre
of this continent, and to the regions on the
Pacific Coast: "What do you want with
this vast, worthless area, this region of
savages and wild beasts, of deserts and
cactus, of shifting sands and prairie dogs?
To what use could we ever put these great
deserts or these great mountains, impene
trable and covered with eternal snow?
What can we ever hope to do with the
Western coast, rock-bound, cheerless and
uninviting, and not a harbor on it? I will
never vote one cent from the public treasury
to place the Pacific eoast one inch nearer
Boston than it now is." What a mistake
the great statesman made when he said
that! All who have crossed the continent
realize that the States on the Paclfle Ocean
will have quite as grand opportunities as
the States on the Atlantic, and all this
realm from sea to sea to be the Lord's cul
tivated possession.
Do you know what, in some respects, Is
the most remarkable thing between the
Atlantic and Pacific? It is the figure of
a cross on a mountaia in Colorado. It is
called the "Mount of the Holy Cross."
A horizontal crevice filled with perpetual
snow, and a perpendicular crevice filled
with snow, hut both the.- horizontal line
and the perpendicular line so marked, so
bold, so significant, so unmistakable, that
all who pass in the daytime within many
miles are compelled to see it. There are
some figures, some contours, some moun
tain appearances that you gradually make
out after your attention is called to them.
So a man's face on the neks fn the White
Mountains. , So a maiden's form cut in
the granite of the Adirondacks. So a city
in the moving clouds. Yet you have to
look under the pointing of your friend or
guide for some time before you can see
the similarity. But the first instant you
glance at this side of the mountaia in
Colorado, you cry out: "AcrossI A
cross!" Do you say that this geological in
scription just happens so? No! That cross
on the Colorado mountain is not a human
device, or an accident of nature, or the
freak of an earthquake. The hand of God
cut it there and set it up for the nation
to look at. Whether set up in rock be
fore the cross of wood was pet up on the
bluff back of Jerusalem, or set up at some
time since that assassination, I believe
the r Creator meant it to suggest the most
notable event in all the history of this
planet, and He hung it there over the
heart of this continent to indicate that
the only hope for this nation is In the
Cross on which our Immanuel died. The
clouds were vocal at our Saviour's birth,
the rocks rent at His martyrdom, why not
the walls of Colorado bear the record of
the Crucifixion?
I supposed in my boyhood, from its size
on tbe map, that California was a few
yards across, a ridge of land on which
one must walk cautiously lest he hit his
head against the Sierra Nevada on one side,
or slip off intc the Pacific waters on the
other California, the thin slice of land, as
I supposed it to be In my boyhood, I have
found to be larger than all the States of
New England and all New York State and
all Pennsylvania added together; and if
you add them together their square miles
fall far short of California. And then all
those new-born States of the Union, North
and South Dakota, Washington, Montana,
Idaho and Wyoming. Each State an em
pire in size.
"But," says one, "in calculating the im
mensity of our continental acreage you
must remember that vast reaches of our
public domain are uncultivated heaps of
dry sand, and the 'Bad Lands' of Montana
and the Great American Desert." I am
glad you mentioned that. Within twenty
five years there will not be between the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts a hundred miles
of land not reclaimed either by farmers'
plough or miners' crowbar. By Irrigation,
the waters of the rivers and the showers of
heaven, in what are called the rainy sea
son, will be gathered into great ressrvoirs,
and through aqueducts let down where and
when the peojde want them. Utah is an
object lesson. Some parts of that Terri
tory which were so barren that a spear of
grass could not have been raised there in a
hundred years, are now rieh as Lancaster
County farms of Pennsylvania, or West
chester farms of New York, or Somerset
County farms of New J ersey. Experiments
have proved that ten acres of ground irri
gated from waters gathered in great hydro
logical ba3lns will produce as much as fifty
acres from the downpour of rain as seen ia
our regions. We have our freshets and our
droughts, but in those lands which are to
be scientifically irrigated there will be
neither freshets nor droughts. As you take '
a pitcher and get it full of water, and then
set it on a table and take a drink out of it
when you are thirsty and never think of
drinking a piteberful all at once, so Mon
tana, and Wyoming and Idaho will, catch
the rains of their rainy season and take up
all the waters of their rivers in great
pitchers of reservoirs, and refresh their
land whenever they will.
But the most wonderful part of this Amer
ican continent is the Yellowstone Park. My
two visit there made upon mean impres
sion that will last forever. Go in by the
Honeida route as we did this summer and
save 250 miles of railroading, your stage
coach taking you through a day of scenery
as captivating and sublime as the Yellow
stone Park itself. After all poetry has ex
hausted itself concerning Yellowstone Park,
and all the Morans and Bierstadts and the
other enchanting artists have completed
their canvas, there will be other relations
to make, and other utorles of its beauty and
wrath, splendor and agony, to be recited.
The Yellowstone Park ia the geologist's
paradise. By eheapenlng of travel may it
become the nation's playground! In some
yertiQES of it l!5.?re gesta to fcetha anarchy
of the elements. Fire and water, and thi
vapor born of that marriage, terrific. Gey.
ser cones or hills of crystal that have been
over five thousand years growing! , In
places the earth, threbblng, sobbing, groan,
ing, quaking with aqueous paroxysm. At .
the expiration ot every sixty-five minutes
one of the geysers tossing its boiling watei
185 feet in the air and then descending intc
swinging rainbows. "He toucheth the
hills and they smoke." Caverns of pictured
walls large enough for the sepulchre of
the human race. Formations of stone in
shape and color of calia lily, ot heliotrope,
of rose, of eowslip, of sunflower and ol .
gladiolus. Sulphur and arsenic and oxida
of iron, with their delicate pencils, turning
the hills into a Luxemburg, or a Vatican
picture-gallery. The so-culled ThanatopsI
Geyser, exquisite as the Bryant poem it was
named after, and Evangeline Geyser, love- -ly
as the Longfellow heroine it commemo
rates. But alter you have wandered along the
geyserlte enchantment for days, and begin
to feel that there can be nothing more of
interest to see, you suddenly come upon
tbe peroration of all majesty and granduur,
the Grand Canon. It is here that it seems
to me and I speak it with reverence Je- ,
hovab. seems to have surpassed Himself. It
seems a great gulch let down into, the
eternities. Masonry by an omnipotent
trowel. Yellow! You never saw yellow
unless you saw it there. Red! You never
saw red unless you saw it there. Violet!
You never saw violet unless you saw it
there. Triumphant banners of color. In a
cathedral of basalt, Sunrise and Sunset
married by the setting of rainbow ring. c
Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals, and
Egyptian basilicas built ' before human
architecture was born. Huge fortifications
of granite constructed before war forged
its first cannon, Gibraltars and Sebastq
pols that never can be taken. Thrones on
which no one but tbe King of heaven and
earth ever sat. Fount of waters at which
the hills are baptized, while the giant cliffs
stand around as sponsors. : For thousands ,
of years before that scene was unveiled to
human sight, the elements were busy, and '
the geysers were hewing away with their.
hot chisel, and glaciers were pounding with
their cold hammers, and hurricanes were
cleaving with their lightning strokes, and
hailstones giving the finishing touches, and
after all these forces of nature had dona
their best, in "our century the curtain
dropped, and the world had a new and di
vinely inspired revelation, the Old Testa
ment written on papyrus, the New Testa
ment written on parchment, and this last
Testament written on the rocks.
Standing there in the Grand Canon of
the Yellowstone Park for the most part we
held our peace, but after awhile it flashed
upon me with such power I could not help
but say to my comrades: "What a hall this
would be for the last Judgment!" See that
mighty cascade with the rainbows at the
foot of it? Those waters congealed and
transfixed with the agitations of that day,
what a place they would make for the shin
ing feet of a Judge of quick and deadl
And those rainbows look now like the
crowns to be cast at His feet. At the bot
tom of this great canon is a floor on which
the nations of the earth might stand, and
all up and down these galleries of rock th
nations of heaven might sit. And what'
reverberation of archangels' trumpet there
would be through all these gorges and
from these caverns and over all those
heights. Why should net the greatest of
all the days the world shall ever see close
amid the grandest scenery Omnipotence
ever built?
I have said these things about the mag
nitude of the continent, and given you -a'
few specimens of some of its wonders, to
let you know the comprehensiveness of
Christ's dominion when He takes posses- -
sion of this continent. Besides that, the r
salvation of this continent means the sal-
vation of Asia, for we are ocly thirty-six -
miles from Asia at the northwest. Only "
Behrlng Strait separates us from Asia, and
these will be spanned by a grett bridge.,
The thirty-six miles of water between'these '
two continents tire not all deep, sea, bui, .-,
uave tnree islands, and theie. are also
shoals which will allow piers of bridges, '
ana ror me most oi tne way the water is
only about twenty fathoms deep.
as soon as you get in leiiowstone Park
or California you have pointed out to vou
places cursed with such names as "The '
Devil's Slide," "The Devil's Kitchen,"
The Devil's TnumD," "The Devil's Pul
pit," "The Devil's Mush-Pot." "The
Devil's Tea-Kettle," "The . Devil's Saw
Mill," "The Devil's Machlne-Shop," "The
Devil's Gate," and so on. Now it is very
mucn neeaea mat geological surveyor or
Congressional Committee or croup of dis
tinguished guests go through Montana
and Wyoming and California and Colorado
and give other names to these places. All
these regions belong to the Lord, and to a
Christian nation; and away with such
Plutonic nomenclature? But how is this con
tinent to be gospelized? The pulpit and a
unristian printing-press harnessed to
gether will be the mightiest team for the
first plough. Not by the power of cold,
formalisttc theology: not by ecclesiastical
technicalities. I sth sick of them, and the
world is sick of them. But it will ba .done
by the warm-hearted, sympathetic presen
tation of the fact that Christ is ready to
paraon au our Bins, ana neai an our
wounds, and save us both for this world
and the next. Let jour religion of glaciers
crack off and fall into the Gulf Stream and
get melted. Take all your ereeds of -all
denominations and drop out of them all
human phraseology and put in only scrip
tural phraseology, and you will see how
quick the people will jump after them, .
On the Columbia Elver we saw the sa
mon jump ejear out of the water in differ
ent places, I suppose for the purpose of
eettinc the insect3. And if when we want
to fish for men and we only have the4
right kind of bait, they will spring out
above the flood of their sins and sorrows
to reach it. Tht Young Men's Christian
Associations of America will also do part
of the work. They are going to take the
young men of this nation for God. These
instttulioDs seem ia better favor with God
and man than ever before. - Business men
and capitalists are awaking to the fact
that they can do nothing better in the way
of living beneficence or in last will and
testament than to do what Mr. Marqnand
did for Brooklyn when he made the Young
Men's Christian palace possible. These
institutions will get our young men nil
over the land into a stampede for
heaven, Thu3 we will all In some way
help on the work,- you with your ten
talents, I with five, somebody else with
three. It is estimated that to irrigate the
arid and desert lauds of America as they
ought to be Irrigated, it will cost about
one hundred mUiion dollars to gather the
waters into reservoirs. As much contri
bution and effort as that .would Irrigate
with Gospel Influences all the waste places .
of this continent. Let us by prayer and
contribution and right living all help to fill
the reservoirs. You will carry a bucket.
and vou a cup, and even a thimbleful
would help. And after a while God will
send the floods of mercy so gathered,
pouring down over all the land, ana sonvi
of us on earth and some of us in' heaven
will sing with Isaiah, "In the wilderness
waters have broken out, and streams in
tbe desert," and with David, "There ia a
river tbe streams whereof sshall make it' - 1
the s!2ht of Go,i." . Oh, lili UJ t-3 I'. :
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