THE perplexity of the nations was one of the signs which Christ gave to His followers to indicate to them the time when His coming would be nigh at hand. This means a perplexity which would be present in all of them at the same time—a mutual perplexity, a dread which they would share in common. This may be brought about by fear of one another, the perplexity being in regard to what move each nation could make in order to preserve its own existence or insure it against attack from a stronger nation. But the cause of the predicted perplexity is not restricted to that, as has been shown by the world-wide manifestation of deep concern over the spread and power of Anarchy. The dread of it is greatest in those countries that inflict the most rigorous punishments upon its known adherents. The dread of it and the perplexity regarding it are increased by the fact that its adherents are not known in those countries save to one another; and that it is possible for most dangerous Anarchists to be servants, or apparent friends, in the households of statesmen, governors, kings, and emperors.
Wars and rumors of wars, the apparent necessity for haste in preparing for defense, the discontent of the people under heavy, grinding taxation, the necessity of finding markets for the industrial products of overcrowded manufacturing centers,—all these have been perplexing the nations with an ever-increasing power and persistence. The perplexity which Anarchy is causing is but heaping up the load which the world has been carrying, adding to the general perplexity. This is the age of perplexity; it is the age of distress of nations; it is the age of a universal dread of war; it is the age of violence; it is the age in which all these things are to culminate. That culmination comes with the second coming of Christ. Here are His own words in reference to these things and that event:—
“There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” Luke 21:25-27.
We are in the time there brought to view, as everything in earth to-day bears witness, and the coming of the Just One draweth nigh. As we look upon the perplexity and distress of nations, let us remember that God has faithfully warned us what it all means and what it portends. Then let us lay ourselves upon the altar of God, permitting Him to take out of our heart the anarchy that has separated between us and Him, so that when the opening heavens reveal Him, as soon they will, we can look up to Him as a loving heavenly Father, and fly to the shelter of His outstretched arms. That is the blessed privilege that is held out to-day to every son and daughter of Adam. To reject it is sorrow and death; to accept it is joy, peace, and life everlasting.
Current Events
THERE is a renewal of active opposition to American government in the island of Samar, one of the Philippine Archipelago, and plots for further massacres have been unearthed, one in which a priest and the presidente of a village were concerned. The massacre of American troops on this island has had a tendency to renew warlike demonstrations in other parts of the Philippines. This is causing some anxiety in official circles, and it is reported that no more troops will be withdrawn from the island for the present, but that 10,000 troops will be sent to the Philippines as soon as they can be despatched, and the 20,000 whose terms of enlistment expire in June next will be replaced by others before these leave the islands.
THE Church Times, the organ of the ritualists, has made a violent attack on King Edward for attending services at a Presbyterian church, whose services the queen had frequently attended. This paper declares that as the king is a Catholic prince, he ought not to be found worshiping in the company of the Presbyterians and conforming to a different religion in Scotland. This paper excuses the queen’s attendance at the Presbyterian church because of her known Jacobite sympathies, but declares that the king ought to know better than to follow her example. In this attack is again emphasized the inconsistency of a State religion.
DESPITE the reports which have gone in to the War Department from army posts urging the restoration of the army canteen, General Miles is reported to have taken strong grounds in favor of the anti-canteen law as it stands. The report states that he will oppose the restoration of the canteen.
CERES, the first discovered of the small planets occupying the space between the earth and Mars, was found by Piazzi on the first day of the nineteenth century. About one month ago the 456th one was located by an observer at Heidelberg.
REPORTS from China state that Russia has promised to return to China several districts of the province of Manchuria, withdrawing her troops from them gradually; but she does not agree to return the whole province. Eighty more Chinese mandarins have been sentenced either to death or life imprisonment for assisting the Boxers against the foreigners. China is now buying back from the powers large quantities of ammunition which the allied troops took from the Chinese during the occupation of Tientsin. The United States Government, through Secretary Hay, has asked the Chinese Government for a municipal concession in Tien-tsin, so that Americans may be on equal footing with the people of other nations in the matter of trade.
A DESPATCH from Paris states that the French Government has decided not to give the sultan more time in which to settle the Lorando claim, but to resort to all measures of coercion warranted by the circumstances. It is said that France has not heretofore pressed the claim on account of the fear that in the unsettled condition of the interior of Turkey, this pressure might result in the dismemberment of the Turkish empire. It is understood that the powers of Europe are again discussing the question of making a joint demand on the sultan for better government in the territory over which he rules.
M. SANTOS-DUMONT, who has made several unsuccessful attempts to win the prize of $20,000 offered at Paris for the first airship to leave the public park, encircle the Eiffel Tower, and return in thirty minutes, accomplished the task in his airship on October 19. The judges refused to award him the prize because he did not come down to the ground on reaching the park until forty seconds after the expiration of the time specified.
THE first exclusions under the order in relation to second class postal matter were made on October 16, when a long list of novels in periodical form were placed on the third class list, to pay one cent on each two ounces. These include such serials as “Seaside Library,” “Idle Hour Series,” “Munroe’s Library of Popular Novels,” “Sweetheart’s Series,” etc. The department announces that further lists of excluded periodicals will soon be issued.
THE great sugar trust is now accused of a scheme to have the entire tariff on sugar abolished for the purpose of destroying the American sugar-growing industry and concentrating in its own hands the entire sugar-refining and sugar-distributing business of the United States. The abolition of the tariff, it is claimed, would ruin the beet-sugar growers of the West and the cane-sugar growers of the South, and thus put an end to all competition with the trust.
A MOVEMENT has been started in Holland and Belgium for the purpose of bringing pressure to bear upon England in favor of South Africa by attempting to paralyze England’s shipping trade. The movement seems to be receiving encouragement from the Dutch and Belgian press. The idea is to issue notices to the dock laborers of Belgium, France, and Holland, calling on them to refuse to work for British ships.
A CABLE from Manila, bearing date of October 16, states that the worst typhoon in ten years has been raging there for several days. Miles of railroad have been destroyed, and large portions of North and Central Luzon have been submerged. Much damage was done to telegraph lines and government vessels also suffered. Twenty persons were killed in Manila Bay, and the town of Baler has been destroyed.
FAMINE conditions have been officially announced to prevail in a number of Russian provinces, and the government is preparing for a hard winter among the peasantry. Bread riots have occurred in several of the famine-stricken districts. In some of these riots the municipal buildings have been stormed by the hungry peasants, and in clashes between the people and the soldiers, many have been killed and injured.
IN connection with the post office frauds at Havana, Cuba, the Cuban court has returned indictments against Neely, Rathbone, and Reeves. The court recommends that each of these men be fined to the amount of $150,000, and that Rathbone be sentenced to imprisonment for twenty-five years, Neely for twenty-five years and six months, and Reeves for twenty-four years and six months.
A REPORT from Chicago states that the Morgan-Hill syndicate has purchased a controlling interest in the Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern railroads, and all will be under the operation of one management, controlling 18,000 miles of road, with a gross earning capacity of over $100,000,000 yearly.
A BOARD of officers has been appointed by the government to select a site for a fort and batteries on the coast west of San Francisco and south of the Cliff House, for the purpose of preventing an attack upon the city and forts from the rear, and to prevent vessels shelling the city from the sea.
BURGLARS entered the Chicago post office on the night of October 21 by tunneling under the building and drilling through the steel floor, and stole stamps to the amount of $74,610. The robbers left no clue.
SECRETARY HAY has declined the invitation of the New York prison officials to have a representative of the government present at the execution of Czolgosz.
A SHIPMENT of silver ore valued at $3,500,000 was recently landed at Galveston, Texas, from Chile and shipped to the Pueblo, Colo., smelter. It required 215 cars to transport the ore to Pueblo, the freight bill on the railroad alone amounting to $60,000. The shipment consisted of 4,800 tons.
THERE seems now to be a disposition on the part of both Venezuela and Colombia to accept the good offices of the United States in the settlement of their difficulty. Residents of the city of Panama are still in hourly expectation of attack from the rebels, who are within a few miles of the city.
ON account of riots in Seville, Spain, martial law has been proclaimed, and as the rioting is extending to other cities, it is expected that these also will be proclaimed under martial law. The queen regent has called an extraordinary meeting of the cabinet to deal with the disturbances.
A GRANITE monument was recently unveiled in Dundee, Scotland, to James Bowman Lindsay, the pioneer in wireless telegraphy, and the one who foretold in 1834 the general use to which electricity would be applied as a mechanical and lighting agent.
THE president of the Panama Canal Company has arrived in New York for the purpose of disposing of the Panama Canal to the American Government. Friends of the Nicaragua Canal see in this incident a scheme for the defeat of the latter project.
A REPORT from Washington states that the Isthmian Canal Commission will soon hand its final report to President Roosevelt, and that the estimate of cost of the Nicaragua Canal, according to the figures of that commission, will be $200,000,000.
ACCORDING to reports from London, Lord Kitchener has sent an urgent request for more trained mounted men for the South African campaign. Twelve more captured Boer leaders have been permanently banished from South Africa.
THE British Admiralty has ordered the construction of a battle-ship larger than any now existing. Her displacement will be 16,500 tons, and her length 425 feet. She will be the first vessel of what will be known as the King Edward class.
A DESPERATE fight occurred at Columbia University, New York, on October 15, between the sophomores and freshmen, in which many of the young men were badly injured. No reason was given for the fight except class spirit.
AN experienced mining engineer is reported to have discovered in Eastern Egypt the long-deserted mines of the ancient Pharaohs. This part of Egypt is reported also to be rich in other precious metals and stones.
CHICAGO labor unions are preparing to fight the court injunction against picketing non-union shops. They propose to go on with picketing and submit to arrest, for the purpose of testing the injunction.
YALE UNIVERSITY celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of its establishment on October 21. Hundreds of distinguished guests and members of the alumni were present at the ceremonies.
THE threatened strike of French miners is assuming a serious aspect. The miners are furnishing themselves with arms and ammunition, in anticipation of a collision with the soldiers.
ACCORDING to recently published statistics of Parliament, 6,566 British ships have been wrecked during the past 24 years, carrying down with them to death 40,797 persons.
A STORM on the Mediterranean compelled the French aeronauts to abandon their attempt to cross that sea in a balloon. They were in the air forty-two hours.
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER has given to the Barnard College, in New York, the sum of $200,000, on condition that that institution raise a similar amount.
ACCORDING to a despatch from Cuba, a movement of considerable proportion is now on foot there for annexation to the United States.
THE NAVY DEPARTMENT has prepared its estimate of the funds needed by that department for the ensuing year. The total amount is $98,910,084.
DURING the last year the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company has paid out the enormous sum of $971,867 to satisfy claims for personal injuries.
THE British Government continues to purchase thousands of horses in the American Northwest for the use of its army in South Africa.
THE NEW ENGLAND building at the Pan-American Exposition was destroyed by fire on October 19. The loss is placed at $100,000.
A RECENT report from the leper settlement on Molokai, H. I., states that the disease is slightly on the decrease in the islands.
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY is preparing to give a course in the languages and dialects of the Philippine Islands.
CHINA, through the agency of Li Hung Chang, is pressing Russia for the recession of the province of Manchuria.
A REPORT from Florida states that that State this year will market 1,200,000 boxes of oranges.
MARQUIS ITO, premier of Japan, was entertained by President Roosevelt at Washington on October 21.
THE APPLE CROP.
The general public has always shown alarm when any damage was threatened to the corn crop. Yet, according to a statement given out by the Independent, the apple crop is a very important feature. This statement places the value of the corn crop of 1899 at $629,210,110, the value of the hay crop at $411,926,187, the value of the wheat crop at $319,545,250, the value of the cotton crop at $305,467,041, and the value of the oats crop at $198,167,975, while the value of the apple crop for 1900 is given in round figures at $430,000,000. It will be seen that in point of monetary value the apple crop was second only to the corn crop.
GROWTH IN PLANTS.
By Frederick Griggs
“Consider the lilies, how they grow.” Here are the directions for the study of all plant life—consider how they grow. All life originates in God, with whom is “the fountain of life.” Ps. 36:9. He not only created everything, but He upholds everything by the word of His power—keeps it in life. We will often forget this unless faith is exercised. One reason why we are apt to forget Him so easily in our study, is because we can see so many of the things which go to produce life. Sunshine and shower, soil and care, can be seen, and we come to look upon these things which we see and which our hands handle, and forget that which is not seen—life. Life depends upon growth, and when growth ceases, life ceases. Here is one of the first and most important lessons which can be taught to a child. Life in the true sense only exists when the child is developing. He can be taught from plants that when he ceases to develop, then he is beginning to cease to live. The plants can thus continually spur him on to growth—mental and spiritual.
The growth of every plant depends to a great extent upon its environment. In the word environment should be included everything, from tree and rock, sunshine and shade, moisture and all animal life, to even a grain of sand. When the environment of a plant is changed, the plant itself is changed. This is seen in even the bark of a tree which, brought from a warmer to a colder climate, will become thicker. Color in plants will be heightened or lessened according to the amount of sunshine or shade. Many interesting and valuable experiments can be performed by transplanting plants, making the conditions radically different. Not only are these studies of environment as shown by changing the plant to a different soil, air, moisture, light, etc., valuable, but quite as much is the study of the same plant when growing naturally in these different environments.
There is a most beautiful lesson to be drawn from this study of environment and its effect upon an individual, whether that individual be a plant or a person. The lesson is this: The Lord, in judging an individual, takes into consideration the place in which he was born, or in other words, the environment by which he is or has been surrounded. He tells us this in the following words, “The Lord shall ‘count, when He writeth up the people, that this man ‘was born there.” Whether in Zion or Babylon, Palestina or Tyre, the Lord knows the influences which surround each person. He holds each responsible for all good influences. Not only that, but he holds parents responsible for the making of a helpful environment.
The study of reproduction in plants is intensely interesting to children. Each seed contains a whole plant. This can be seen very readily in some seeds, as for instance the bean, which when split open will reveal to the one who looks carefully, the outlines of the little plant with its stalk and leaves. After the bean has been soaked in warm water for several hours, the plant is much more readily seen in the seed. Many different kinds of seeds can be planted in a box of rich earth placed in a warm place, and then the plants pulled up and examined at different stages of their growth. It can then be readily seen how the young plant is fed from a portion of the seed, and how it manages to get its start in life.
Mariposa Lily.
This study can be carried on even in midwinter, and it often makes a very interesting study for the children, when they are confined inside the house by the inclemency of the weather. However, the proper study of plants in the winter, is that of their winter life. The effects of frost and freezing should be noted. The phenomena of growth is perhaps quite fully absent, tho in mild winters dandelions are often found in January and February. Generally speaking, however, the plants seem to understand that Jack Frost is a particularly active and wily foe at this time of the year, and do not care to heed the call of the warm days of a mild winter. The action of frost is shown most in the buds. The living parts of the buds are in their centers. Collections should be made and the buds examined. Note the number of buds which are alive as against those which have been killed. Note as to the sap in the twigs and the trees. Is there any between the bark and wood of a tree? Does the sap in a twig freeze?
In the study of plants the commonest things should be examined—wheat, corn, grass, pumpkins, and potatoes. Few children, and older people for that matter, can tell the difference when looking at their heads between spring and winter wheat, and yet a little observation will readily teach the same. Take potatoes—undoubtedly most people think that potatoes grow on the roots of the plant. But this is not the case. They grow on underground shoots or branches. These shoots grow out from the root of the potato plant. While the shoots or branches do not have leaves, the potato has leaf buds or “eyes.” It will be most interesting to wash the earth carefully away from a hill of potatoes without breaking off any roots, or the branches on which are the potatoes. There are a multitude of such observations which can be made, which will abundantly repay all effort.
Children do not care simply to look at plants. While they are great lovers of flowers, they soon weary of simply plucking and admiring them. But let them have a handful of flowers, and give them some colored crayons or a brush and paint with which to reproduce them, and their admiration is so long continued that it develops into a deep love. Children do not care simply to look at the structure of plants. They want as well to know their use or function. Together with the study of plants, as such, should be studied beautiful passages from the Bible and other writings which help to bring the child in love with plants. There are many beautiful little poems descriptive of plants which when read to children awaken a deeper love and reverence for the plant.
No parents should feel that they are too ignorant to take up the study of plants with their children.
The getting of facts is not the end of education; but the power to see and feel and love is. It must be remembered that this power of observation has to be acquired; but no one is too old to acquire it. Many a Sabbath day will be passed more pleasantly by the children if the parents take them for walks and talks through fields and by wayside. Little children can not see in the Sabbath day all those who are older do. But through right cultivation, a love for it may be acquired, so that they shall always “remember the Sabbath ‘day.” These Sabbath-day walks and talks are apt to be rather uninteresting and unprofitable if there are no week-day studies in the same direction. What one gains through his own senses is enjoyed much more than is that which has been told him. Let us then see and consider, and the Lord will give us understanding.
FREDERICK GRIGGS.
So. Lancaster, Mass.
KEEPING HOLD OF THE BOYS.
There were once two boys in a home I know, and after a few happy years one fell asleep in Jesus.
The two boys and their mother had always knelt together for the bed-time prayer, and each had offered a simple petition. The first night there were only two to kneel, the sobbing voice of the lonely brother uttered but one sentence: “Dear Lord, keep mother and me intimate.”
Said the mother, years after: “I consecrated my life to answer that prayer.”
Did she have to give up anything?—Yes, receptions and calls were secondary matters when the boy’s friends needed entertaining.
Embroidered doilies and hand-painted screens were of no account whatever beside the cultivation of intimacy with her boy and the answering of his prayer. “Always give me the first chance to help you, dear,” she would say; and she did. Whatever11was dear to his boyish heart found glad sympathy in her.
Perhaps mothers do not always realize how soon a boy begins to think toward manhood, and so they treat him like a child to be watched and scolded instead of helped and trusted.
This mother’s boy was just as active and self-willed as you often find. But she had a few rules that helped wonderfully. Shall I copy them for you?
1. I shall pray and work to be patient.
2. I will strive to “grow in grace and in the knowledge of God.”
3. No matter what happens, I will try to hold my temper and my tongue.
4. I will try never to scold and never to reprove or punish in anger.
5. I will listen patiently and tenderly to my boy’s side of a grievance.
You will notice that these rules are to govern the mother instead of the boy; and is not that the secret of success? Mother, do you want to keep your boy? Then control yourself. Not the fashionable attempt at stoicism that says it is not “good form” to display emotion, but the real holding of one’s self in hand.
Fashion would tie the mettlesome steed fast. Control harnesses him to life, and lets Christ hold the reins.
This mother’s boy made many a blunder; he had his days of waywardness and times of unreasonableness, but never a time when he was not sure that his mother was ready to listen, advise, and help. There were times when his impulsiveness made him sore trouble; but the first place he turned for help was to the tender, loyal “mother-friend,” and he was sure of comfort.
Do you think it paid? When she reads in the papers the theories on “How to get hold of the boys,” she thanks God she has never lost her hold on hers. And in the answering of the boyish prayer the mother has not only grown more and more intimate with him, but both have grown intimate with Christ. Mother, you have no “charge to keep” half so sacred as the heart of your boy. Are you true to your trust?—Christian Work.
LIFE'S HUMBLE TASKS.
By Mrs. Pauline F. Bolton
In the still, cool woods ere the sleeping wind
Awoke to stir its fern-leaf coverlid,
Or playfully toss the flowers, and send
Abroad the butterflies that all night hid,
Afraid to stir; and before the first
Bright shafts of golden sunshine, pierced the dim,
Cathedral aisles, a sweet bird awoke,
And sang with heart-felt joy its morning hymn.
Beneath, the hidden singer stood alone,
A broken-hearted man, with bosom bare
For the entering blade, who paused awhile
To gather strength, ere he, sin-cursed, should dare
Defy his God and die;—but the sweet song,
Like voice angelic, spoke to him of peace,
Of infinite joy and trust, and he found
From warring demons there a sweet release.
Despise thou not the humble tasks of life,
Nor shrink, because thy gifts are few and small,
And thy place far afield from busy mart,
And deeds too small for fame, from doing all
The Father asks thee. Not half the names
Engraved to-day in halls of fame will be known
When the books of heaven are opened; but those
The first shall be last when Christ shall crown His own.
San Pedro, Cal. MRS. PAULINE F. BOLTON.
MARRYING TO STAY MARRIED.
The following, from an article by Helen Dare, in the San Francisco Examiner, is worth reproduction. It is an account of an interview with an aged couple in this city who have recently celebrated their golden wedding. They have nine children. They were asked how they came to stay married so long. Here is the essential part of the wife’s reply:—
And I’ll tell you what I think about it. We staid married because we married for love, first of all, and because we meant to do right by each other. I made up my mind that my family and my home were entitled to my first attention; that any other interests took second place. My home is my heaven. I believe a woman should look after her own household for the sake of the comfort it brings to those in the home. It takes heart as well as money to make a home. I believe a woman should give her own children her personal care. I believe that she should win and hold the love of her children, instead of letting it go to hired servants. I believe a woman with husband and children doesn’t need clubs or missions. I am old-fashioned, and I may be wrong; but I can’t see how she can do her duty by both; and I think there are enough women without husband and children to attend to the clubs and missions.
And here is what the husband said:—
I’ll tell what I think of how we staid married fifty years. It never seemed anything but natural to us, altho I suppose it is out of the ordinary, now that folks marry and unmarry so fast. We staid married because that was what we married for. It wasn’t an experiment with us. We weren’t in a hurry to get married, and we weren’t in a hurry to get unmarried. We started out with the intention of sticking together until the end. Then we lived for each other, not each for himself. My wife took care of our home for the children and for me. I provided for the home, for her and the children. She was satisfied with what I could do for her, even if some other man could give more to his wife. I was satisfied with what she could do for me, even if some other woman was smarter—altho I never saw one that was.
But above all, a husband and wife should have no secrets from each other. That I believe is the most important thing when two people are suited to each other in taste and temper. Secrecy leads to trouble, and often to crime. If a man can not afford to give his wife as much money, or as fine clothes, or as big a house as she wants, he should tell her so. If he is in trouble, he should tell her so. Nor should a wife have secrets of any kind from her husband. Secrets lead to suspicion, and suspicion to misery. Of all people in the world, a husband and wife should be able to trust each other.
And they should have patience with each other—much patience. That is the way to stay married.
LATEST SCIENCE.
The Review of Reviews for September, 1901, gives an account in its current items of the Congress on Tuberculosis, recently held in London, in which were represented eminent experts on tuberculosis, among others Dr. Koch. In his paper Dr. Prof. Brouardel of Paris emphasized the drink habit as a prime cause of this disease. Dr. Dorenberg, another French specialist, in his paper, made an alarming report on the spread of tuberculosis in France, saying that one-third of all deaths there can be attributed to it.
He thinks that the frightful spread of this disease is due to the manner in which the French are taking to alcoholic drinks; wine has not saved them from strong drink. If alcohol, used by remote ancestors even, promotes tuberculosis, what sense in giving alcoholic stimulants as a remedy? We are told by other scientists that scrofula, erysipelas, leprosy, epilepsy, salt-rheum, and kindred diseases are the remote effects of syphilis in ancestors; also physicians generally concede that drinkers are more subject to filth diseases like cholera than total abstainers. Really, it looks as if scientists would be wise to take their attention for a while from microbes, bacilli, bacteria, mosquitoes, etc., and attack alcohol and lust, our worst health foes.—Pacific Ensign.
WHO BIDES HIS TIME.
By James Whitcomb Riley
Who bides his time—he tastes the sweet
Of honey in the saltest tear;
And tho he fares with slowest feet,
Joy runs to meet him, drawing near;
The birds are heralds of his cause,
And, like a never-ending rhyme,
The road-sides bloom in his applause—
Who bides his time.
—James Whitcomb Riley.
A TRUE HORSE STORY.
A REMARKABLE instance of equine sagacity was exhibited this morning which comes to us testified to by several reliable witnesses. Thomas Drummond, a teamster in our city, owns a horse which has been afflicted with lameness for two or three weeks past. This morning Mr. Drummond turned him out upon the common, hoping that fresh air and exercise would benefit the animal. Upon gaining his liberty, the crippled horse hobbled along on three legs direct to the blacksmith-shop of William Eager, entered the shoeing department and stood there holding up his injured foot, with his head turned and his eyes intelligently fixed upon Mr. Eager. This peculiar act on the part of a brute attracted Mr. Eager's attention, and induced him to examine the foot held invitingly up for inspection. The result of that examination was the discovery of a long nail driven into the frog, which was the cause of the lameness. Of course, Mr. Eager removed the nail. Mr. Drummond generally had his horses shod at Mr. Eager's shop, and the suffering brute undoubtedly reasoned that this was the place for him to go for relief. Equine intelligence, according to the common acceptation of the term, is not so rare, but when a horse deliberately concocts and executes a plan for relieving his injured foot of a rusty nail, he certainly can lay claim to a small portion of the reasoning faculties which are supposed to elevate the human race above the level of brutes.—Janesville (Wisconsin) Gazette.
JUST ONE WORD, BUT TOO LATE.
“MAMA, may I say something?” “You know the rule is that you must not speak at the table.” “But may I say just one word?” “No; but when papa has finished his paper, then you may speak.” (Papa finally lays down his paper.) “Now, what did you wish to say!” “I wanted to tell you that the water is running over the tub onto the floor in the bathroom.” This conversation teaches its own moral.
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By Prof. G. L. Abell
By Prof. G. L. Abell, Member of the Board of Directors of the Electro-Medical Society of San Francisco
Learn how to use the battery and treat yourself. Many diseases are quickly cured by the proper application of electricity. The course embraces the treatment of every organ and part of the body. The lessons are written in plain language and are illustrated. Course, five dollars. Send for circular. Address,
PROF. G. L. ABELL
School of Chemistry and Electro-Therapeutics
36 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal.
