WISHED HE WAS DEAD AND REV. DR. TALMAGE DOES NOT BLAME JOB FOR IT. In Addition to Boils, Bereavement, Bankruptcy and a Fool of a Wife, He Had a Raging Toothache--The Narrow Escapes of Life.

BROOKLYN, July 29.--Rev. Dr. Talmage has selected as the subject for his sermon for today through the press "Narrow Escapes," the text being tak-

en from Job xix, 20, "I am escaped

with the skin of my teeth."

Job had it hard. What with boils and bereavements and bankruptcy and a fool of a wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry. His teeth wasted away until nothing but the enamel seemed left. He cries out, "I am escap-

ed with the skin of my teeth."

There has been some difference of opinion about this passage. St. Jerome

and Schultens and Drs. Good and Poole and Barnes have all tried their forceps on Job's teeth. You deny my interpretation and say, "What did Job know about the enamel of the teeth?" He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old as the earth. The mum-

mies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found today with gold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solo-

mon and Moses wrote about these im-

portant factors of the body. To other provoking complaints Job, I think, has added an exasperating toothache, and putting his hand against the inflamed face he says, "I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for their soul. There was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel; but, as Job finally escaped, so have they. Thank God! Thank God!

With God's Help. Paul expresses the same idea by a different figure when he says that some people are "saved as by fire." A vessel at sea is in flames. You go to the stern of the vessel. The boats have shoved off. The flames advance. You can endure the heat no longer on your face. You slide down on the side of the vessel and hold on with your fingers until the forked tongue of the fire begins to

lick the back of your hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one of the lifeboats comes back, and the passen-

gers say they think they have room for one more. The boat swings under you; you drop into it; you are saved. So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after all get off--"saved as by fire."

But I like the figure of Job a little bet-

ter than that of Paul, because the pulpit has not worn it out, and I want to show you, if God will help, that some men make narrow escape for their souls and are saved as "with the skin of their teeth." It is as easy for some people to look to the cross as for you to look to this pulpit. Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians. You go over to the store and say, "Grandson joined the church yesterday."

Your business comrades say: "That is just what might have been expected." He always was of that turn of mind.

In youth this person whom I describe was always good. H never broke things. He never laughed when it was improper to laugh. At 7 he could sit an hour in church, perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the left, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though he understood the whole

discussion about the eternal decrees. He never upset things or lost them. He floated into the kingdom of God so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided.

To the Unconverted. Here is another one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept the nursery in an uproar. His mother found him walking on the edge of the house roof to see if he could balance himself. There was no horse he dared not ride, no tree he could not

climb. His boyhood was a long series of predicaments; his manhood was reckless; his midlife very wayward. But now he is converted, and you go over to the store and say, "Arkwright joined the church yesterday." Your friends

say: "It is not possible! You must be joking." You say: "No; I tell you the truth. He joined the church." Then they reply, "There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Christian."

In other words, we all admit that it is more difficult for some men to accept the gospel than for others.

I may be addressing some who have cut loose from churches and Bibles and Sundays and who have at present no intention of becoming Christians themselves, but just to see what is going on.

And yet you may find yourself escaping before you hear the end, as "with the skin of your teeth." I do not expect to waste this hour. I have seen boats go off from Cape May or Long Branch and drop their nets and after awhile come ashore pulling in the nets without having caught a single fish. It was not a good day, or they had not the right kind of net. But we expect no such excursion today. The water is full of fish; the wind is in the right direction; the gospel net is strong. O thou who didst help Simon and Andrew to fish, show us today how to cast the net on the right side of the ship.

A Few Questions. Some of you, in coming to God, will have to run against skeptical notions.

It is useless for people to say sharp and cutting things to those who reject the Christian religion. I cannot say such things. By what process of temptation or trial or betrayal you have come to your present state I know not. There are two gates to your nature--the gate of the head and the gate of the heart.

The gate of your head is locked with bolts and bars that an archangel could not break, but if the gate of your heart swings easily on its hinges. If I assaulted your body with weapons, you would meet me with weapons, and it would be sword stroke for sword stroke, and wound for wound, and blood for blood, but if I come and knock at the door of your house you open it and give me the best seat in your parlor. If I should come at you today with an argument, you would answer me with an argument; if with sarcasm, you would answer me with sarcasm, blow for blow, stroke for stroke, but when I come and knock at the door of your heart you open it and say, "Come in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and heaven."

Listen to two or three questions: Are you as happy as you used to be when you believed in the truth of the Chris-

tian religion? Would you like to have your children travel on in the road in which you are now traveling? You had a relative who professed to be a Chris-

tian and was thoroughly consistent, liv-

ing and dying in the faith of the gospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life and die the same peaceful death? I received a letter sent me by one who has rejected the Christian religion. It says: "I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old age to believe in something relative to the future and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. I am free to confess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is possessed by many whom I know. I am not willingly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing. What shall I do that I have not done?" Ah, skepticism is a dark and doleful land! Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If it be false, we are as well off as you; if it be true, then which of us is safer?

A Line Drawn.

Let me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confounded Chris-

tianity with the inconsistent character of some who profess it. You are a law-

yer. In your profession there are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the law? You are a doctor. There are unskilled and contemptible men in your profession. Is that anything against medicine? You are a merchant. There are thieves and defrauders in your business. Is that anything against merchandise? Behold, then, the unfairness of charging upon Christianity the wickedness of its disciples.

We admit some of the charges against those who profess religion. Some of the most gigantic swindles of the present day have been carried on by the members of the church. There are men in the churches who would not be trusted for $5 without good collateral security. They leave their business dishonesties in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion. Having concluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go out and take up their sins where they let off. To serve the devil is their regular work; to serve God, a sort of play spell. With a Sunday sponge they ex-

pect to wipe off from their business slate all the past week's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's life as a specimen of religion than you have to take the twisted irons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that we drew a line between religion and the frailties of those who profess it.

Hindrances to Piety.

Again, there may be some of you who, in the attempt after a Christian life, will have to run against powerful passions and appetites. Perhaps it is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and perhaps, while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel you that you must swear or die. I know of a Christian man who was once so exasperated that he said to a mean customer, "I cannot swear at you myself, for I am a mem-

ber of the church, but if you will go down stairs my partner in business will swear at you." All your good resolu-

tions heretofore have been torn to tat-

ters by explosions of temper. Now, there is no harm in getting made if you only get mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle these hot breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at.

There is no harm in getting redhot if you only bring to the forge that which needs hammering. A man who has no power of righteous indignation is an im-

becile. But be sure it is a righteous indignation and not a petulancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the soul.

There is a large class of persons in midlife who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they prided themselves on being a "little fast," "high livers," "free and easy," "hail fellows well met." They are now paying a compound interest for troubles they collected 20 years ago. Some of you are trying to escape, and you will, yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth." God and your own soul only know what the struggle is. Omnipotent grace has pulled out many a soul that was deeper in the mire than you are. They line the beach of heaven, the multitude whom God has rescued from the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this day turn your back on the wrong and start anew, God will help you. Oh, the weakness of human help! Men will sympathize for awhile and then turn you off. If you ask for their pardon, they will give it and say they will try you again; but, falling away again under the power

of temptation, they cast you off forever.

But God forgives seventy times seven --yea, seven hundred times--yea, though this be the ten thousandth time he is more earnest, more sympathetic, more helpful this last time than when you took your first misstep. If, with all the influences favorable for a right life, men make so many mistakes, how much harder it is when, for instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple into the roots of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of destruction! If under such circumstances he break away, there will be no sport in the undertaking, no holiday enjoyment, but a struggle in which the wrestlers move from side to side and bend and twist and watch for an opportunity to get in a heavier stroke until with one final effort, in which the muscles are distended, and the veins stand out, and the blood starts, the swarthy habit

falls under the knee of the victor--escaped at last as with the skin of his teeth.

In the last day it will be found that Hugh Latimer and John Knox and Huss and Ridley were not the greatest martyrs, but Christian men who went up incorrupt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall street, Water street, Pearl street, Broad street, State street, Third street, Lombard street and the bourse. On earth they were called brokers or stockjobbers or retailers or importers, but in heaven Christian heroes. No fagots were heaped about their feet, no inquisition demanded from them recantation, no soldier aim-

ed a spike at their heart, but they had mental tortures, compared with which all physical consuming is as the breath of a spring morning.

Peace of the Gospel. [?] in the community a large class of men who have been so cheated, so lied about, so outrageously wronged that they have lost faith in everything.

In a world where everything seems so topsy turvy they do not see how there can be any God. They are confounded and frenzied and misanthropic. Elabo-

rate argument to prove to them the truth of Christianity or the truth of anything else touches them nowhere. Hear me, all such men, I preach to you no rounded periods, no ornamental dis-

course, but I put my hand on your shoulder and invite you into the peace of the gospel. Here is a rock on which you may stand firm, though the waves dash against it harder than the Atlantic, pitching its surf clear above the Eddystone lighthouse. Do not charge upon God all these troubles of the world. As

long as the world stuck to God, God stuck to the world, but the earth seceded from his government, and hence all these outrages and all these woes. God is good. For many hundreds of years he has been coaxing the world to come back to him, but the more he has coaxed the more violent men have been in their resistance, and they have stepped back and stepped back until they have dropped into ruin.

Try this God, ye who have had the bloodhounds after you, and who have thought that God had forgotten you. Try him and see if he will not help. Try him and see if he will not pardon. Try him and see if he will not save. The flowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the flowering of Christ's affections. The sun hath no warmth compared with the glow of his heart. The waters have no refreshment like the fountain that will slake the thirst of thy soul. At the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the cool mountain torrent the hunter may be coming through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under his foot he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agony and falls

backward, its antlers crashing on the rocks, but the panting heart that drinks from the water brooks of God's promise shall never be fatally wounded and shall never die.

Uncomfortable Experience of the Crew of a Vessel with a Cargo of Bones.

The schooner Wallace [?] Boyd, Captain Godfrey, arrived here early yesterday morning from Montevideo with a cargo of bones, which were gathered from the plains of that locality, and the voyage will long be remembered by Captain Godfrey and his wife as well as by all the sailors. The ship became infested with scorpions, which arose from the cargo and penetrated every available quarter of the ship. The seamen's rest was disturbed, and for weeks at a time the unfortunate men dared not rest themselves in their bunks for fear of being stung by one of the creatures.

Every effort to rid the ship of the plague was unsuccessful, and even on

Monday night, while lying at the upper quarantine, the decks and cabins were alive with these creeping insects. Climatic changes had no effect whatever on them, and those of the crew who entertained the belief that they would disappear as the northern latitudes were reached were disappointed.

Captain Godfrey is at a loss to know how they found their way out from be-

neath the hatches, which on board vessels are regarded as even airtight, yet they arose in thousands and made life horrible on board the ship. Five and six times a day all hands were forced to change their clothing. When the vessel reached her pier yesterday, the sailors at once left, and nothing could ever induce any of them to again ship on a bone laden vessel.

Captain Godfrey said yesterday that they sailed from Montevideo Aug. 17, and up to the 5th of September no vermin appeared. The day in question was very warm and the atmosphere was heavy and damp. About noon around the main hatch large green bugs were

seen coming up from inside the comb-

ings, and toward [?] the ship's decks were alive. The next morning they found their way down into the forecastle and drove all the sailors out. The same night the after cabin was invaded. Since that time this unfortunate condition of affairs has existed, and the bugs were thrown overboard by the bucketful every day since. When the wind was blow-

ing fresh the air was full of the unwel-

come visitors, and in calms they lay torpid on the decks. The bedclothing, tablecloths, and even wearing apparel became full of the insects, but fortunately none of the crew was bitten by any poisonous insect.

Captain Godfrey says that the bones which he has on board were principally brought from the extreme upper regions of the river Plata in lighters. They were gathered from the plains, where they had probably been for ages. Many whole skeletons of horses, sheep and oxen are among the collection, all of which will be ground up at this port. While lying on the plains they no doubt became infested with these bugs, and the extreme heat of the vessel's hold drove them up on the deck.--Philadelphia Press.

The Question of Chaperons. In this workaday world, if women must be wage earners and bread winners, so far as they are concerned chaperons are impossible alike in England and America. In most factories, workshops and salesrooms, in America at least, the women are as carefully guarded against insulting approaches or degrading entanglements as they would be in their own houses. So, therefore, there is no reason in the world why in America we should, so far as these girls are concerned, bother ourselves as to whether they have chaperons or not. If there is danger to this class of girls in England because they cannot have chaperons, it might be well for those having the social condition of the mother country at heart to study the methods

almost universally in use in the United States, and, to the extent of adopting these methods, Americanize the working girls of England. But so far as the wealthy classes are concerned, either in Great Britain or the United States, there is no essential difference, nor likely soon to be any. The presence of older women in every company adds to the dignity and variety quite as much as to the decorum and propriety.--Harper's Magazine.

ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS. How the Writings of the Egyptians Were Preserved For All Time.

The clay of which the Tell Amarna tablets are composed differed greatly in different regions. Dr. Bezold says: "In color the tablets vary from a light to a dark dust tint and from a flesh color to dark brick red. The nature of the clay of which they are made sometimes indicates the countries from which they come. No. 1, a draft of a letter from

Amenophis III to Kallimmasin, is made of finely kneaded Nile mud. Others are of the dark red clay which is met with in the north of Syria. Five of Ribadda's letters are written on yellow clay which is common on the Syrian coast.

The tablets from Shubandi, Widya and Shuardata contain fragments of flint."

Of the shape of the tablet she says:

"The greater number are rectangular, and a few are oval, and they differ in shape from any other cuneiform docu-

ments known to us. Some are flat on both sides, some are convex on both sides, and some are pillow shaped. Compare the name given to such tablets by the Arabs, mekhadid or 'pillows.'"

The tablet, having been kneaded into shape, was inscribed while the clay was damp by the use of a wooden style and the obverse having been written the tablet was supported by some means while the back was in use. In the case of some cuneiform tablets, holes are found in the corners, which were made by pins of wood, on which they rested, so as to prevent the written surface from being obliterated while the reverse was being inscribed. But these pinholes do not seem to occur in the present collection.

Some of the letters are divided into paragraphs by ruled lines, which are, however, not always truly horizontal.

The royal letters, which are the most carefully written, have well shaped symbols in true horizontal lines, but many of the tablets from Syria seem to have

been hastily written and are often very crooked. The care, however, that was taken by the scribe is evidenced by the corrections which he has introduced of unfinished words, to which a syllable or more is added by insertions between the lines, while in other cases words, or even a whole line, have been erased by smoothing out the writing, other signs having been substituted, or in some cases the space has been left blank.

When, therefore, translators who have found difficulty in understanding what was written have supposed that the fault lay with the carelessness of the original scribe, we can only regard such a supposition as indicating the self suf-

ficiency which is a common fault among a certain class of modern scholars, who are convinced that if there be any error it cannot be their own.--Edinburgh Review.

English Funeral Etiquette.

There is one division of English eti-

quette which strikes an American as worthy of note, and that is in connection with the dead. On the day of a funeral every house in the immediate vicinity has the blinds lowered until the last carriage has passed. Every boy is taught to lift his hat as the hearse goes by, whether it be the funeral car of the noble or the pauper's hearse.

During the interval between the death and the time that the body is removed, often a week, no shouting must be indulged in by the children of the neighborhood, and no games must be played near the desolated home. The merest acquaintance sends a card by a servant bearing a message of sympathy, but there is no intrusion upon the mourners ex-

cept by the most intimate friends. Those who attend the funeral services always wear black gowns, bonnets and gloves, and all letters of condolence must be written upon black edged paper and in-

closed in an envelope to match.

English ladies do not go to the grave, though there have been some notable ex-

ceptions during the last few years in the cases of wives of prominent men. Their departure from the old custom is one of many indications that English women are preparing to take their rightful place in the world--that they are no longer content to be regarded as helpless crea-

tures--but may the day be far distant when they shall lose the gentle courtesy which is the charm of the English home.--New York Times.

An Interesting Calculation.

The age of a person and the month in which he was born may be discovered as follows: First you ask him to go to the other end of the room to prevent your

seeing what he is going to write. Then you ask him to put down the number of the month in which he was born and multiply it by 2, then add 5 to the sum, and multiply the latter by 50; add his age to the product, then deduct 365, and add 115 to the remainder. Suppose he is 49 years of age and was born in February, the computation might stand thus: Two multiple by 2 equals 4, plus 5 equals 9, multiplied by 50 equals 450, plus 115 equals 249. The last two fig-

ures indicate the age--viz, 49--and the first figure (2) February, the second month of the year. You simply ask the person to state the result of the calcula-

tion and then declare that he was born in February and is 49 years of age.

Experiment with this as often as you please, and it is sure to work, provided you do it correctly.--Exchange.

The Development of the Girl.

When a girl of sweet 16 appears on the street, she has a cute, pert way of walking and tossing her head as though she owned the earth and was going to the middle of the next block to get it. After she is 18 the world she owns is about as far away as the World's fair is to most of us, and at 20 she gives up all hope of getting it at all. By the time she is 25, poor thing, she has a faint, vague suspicion that there is a great deal of insincerity in the world, and the thing for her to do is to get a position and do something useful. After awhile she gets married to a man who is not at all the sort of man she dreamed of. Then she concludes she would be better off in heaven.--Washington (N. D.) Globe.

How Bees Work.

Bees are curious little animals. Before storing honey--in a tree, for in-

stance--they will clean the tree of all rotten wood and refuse. When this si done, they are ready for work, but a bee never begins business until he is thor-

oughly ready to carry it on, and then he never does it by halves.--Toronto Mail.

American buggies are superseding those of English make in London and Paris. The only light, graceful vehicles in Europe come from this country.

ODDS AND ENDS.

Some geologists consider madstones as fossil corals.

It sometimes costs more to keep up a big reputation than it is worth.

The flail mentioned in the Old Testa-

ment is still in use in Syria, Arabia and Egypt.

Buckets of plantain leaves are made by the natives of almost every tropical country.

So far as quantity is concerned, coal stands for 85 per cent of all the minerals extracted.

The hoe is the universal cultivating tool among all nations of central Africa.

Artificial ice was first manufactured by the use of chemical mixtures in the year 1783. The spade used by the Roman peasant during the empire was a wooden instrument tipped with iron.

The college young man naturally feels he should have some latitude after taking a degree.--Indianapolis News.

Columella says that Roman peasants leveled their grounds with a roller made of the trunk of a tree.

The report of the Michigan state board of health shows that more people die from consumption in that state than from any other disease.

A milkman's mule in Louisville returned to duty after a vacation of 12 months recently and remembered the door of every customer.

The earliest fanning mill or winnowing machine was invented in China, and in use there for centuries, while Europeans were cleansing their grain by casting it into the air on a windy day. It is said that the value of Peruvian bark was first discovered by the fact that sick animals in Peru were observed to gnaw the bark of a certain tree. Men

tried the same remedy with beneficial results, and quinine was given to the world.

The argand lamp was discovered by Argand, Jr., while Argand, Sr., was busy studying the problem of how to produce a good white light. The boy clapped the broken neck of a wine bottle over the dull red flame of the lamp and the work was done.

As early as 1660 Dr. Clayton distilled coal in a retort and produced gas, which he confined in bladders and was accus-

tomed to amuse his friends by burning this gas as it issued from the holes in the bladder pricked with a pin. This was 150 years before gas lamps.

English Sporting Words In Holland.

It is interesting to note that in Holland sport has so far developed that a new paper, De Athleet, is a well printed sheet, and has made its appearance in Amsterdam.

Due attention is paid to cross country athletics, and under the heading "Voet-

bal" prominence is given to the doings of English clubs in this country, while the matches of the Felixtowe club, which recently visited the Dutch, are very fully reported. England being the cradle of le sport, as the French say, many of the technical terms are unstranslatable.

Here are some English words in De Athleet: Cross-country, interclub race, champion, partners, captain, toss, goals, backs, half backs, goalkeepers, forwards, record score, return match, half time, short passing, corners, pacemakers, hand-

icap, cricket (which is also used for wicket indiscriminately), runs, lawn tennis, hockey, country (for county), pneu-

matic safety's, cycle, etc. Quaint adaptations, such as "handy artikelen" and "refereeschap," are to be found, and it is noteworthy that Dutch clubs are known by the names Excelsior, Quickstep, Sparta, Go Ahead, Quick, Olympia, etc.--Westminster Gazette.

A Life Saving Horse. The following circumstance occurred at the Cape of Good Hope: In one of the violent storms that often occur there a vessel was forced on the rocks and beaten to pieces. The greater part of the crew perished miserably, as no boat could venture to their assistance. Meanwhile a planter came from his farm to see the wreck, and knowing the spirit of his horse and his excellence as a swimmer he determined to make a desperate effort for their deliverance and pushed into

the thundering breakers. At first both disappeared, but were soon seen on the

surface. Nearing the wreck, he caused two of the poor seamen to cling to his boots, and so brought them safe to the shore. Seven times did he repeat this perilous feat and saved 14 lives; but alas! the eighth time, the horse being

much fatigued and meeting with a formidable wave, the gallant fellow lost his balance and was overwhelmed in a mo-

ment. He was seen no more, but the noble horse reached the land in safety.--Boston Herald.

Eating.

A common error of those who have to cater to the requirements of ailing people is the singular persistence with which they insist upon such people eating. Whether hungry or not, one should eat, is the cry. It is perfectly preposterous to advocate such a theory, because the moment that people take into their stomachs food that is not demanded by na-

ture that moment they are paying tribute to dyspepsia. It is not an empty stomach that demands food, but the stimulus of the gastric juices. When the stomach gets out of order, the secretion of gastric juice is stopped to a large extent, and to then try to force the stomach to work is like asking a man with a broken leg to walk. He can only make a stagger at it and is more than likely to add to his discomfort. An excellent rule is to eat only when you are hungry.--Washington Star.

Fills a Long Felt Want.

An inventor has patented a device for illuminating keyholes which promises to be a boon to persons out late at night. A recess in the door frame holds a tiny incandescent lamp, which is lighted by a push button. The light is sufficient not only to illuminate the keyhole, but to permit the late comer to select readily the proper key from his bunch.--Hard-ware.

Reading a Girl's Letter.

A caution to girls who write indiscriminately to young men was seen on one of our street corners the other day. A youth evidently not in the habit of receiving many letters was reading aloud to a companion a missive which any passerby could see was intended for "Dear Will" alone, but the other youth evidently enjoyed the contents as well as the reader.--Springfield Graphic.

Counting out Sundays and holidays, the people of this country work 300 days to produce $12,500,000,000 of wealth.

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