Earlier text: WINE, AND THE LORD'S SUPPERJOHN CALVIN MOSS AND MRS. MOSS.
Of all the stories told by Samuel Smiles in his book, "Self Help," I think that of Palissy the Potter is the most thrilling. I admire most heartily the pluck of Palissy in fighting down every difficulty in the way of securing the glaze on his pottery ware. For want of fuel to feed his furnace he destroyed his wife's furniture. I do not blame him one bit. Poor woman, she was hardly to be blamed, however, for not relishing this sacrifice to the cause of art. I commend the modesty of Palissy, who would not assume even the title of potter until he had achieved notable success in his loved employ. I am reminded of the plucky and persistent Palissy as I read the story of Mr. and Mrs. Moss, and their discovery of the process of engraving known as the Moss system. It is through its aid that our magazines are enabled to furnish many of their beautiful illustrations. The story of this brave couple is told in the Woman's Magazine, from which the following is an extract:— Mr. Moss had been called John Calvin by his mother, who destined him for a minister. But he became an engraver. When a lad he delighted to be in his father's carpenter shop rather than spend his time in boyish sports; in his study of heads of birds and animals, in his desire to be a portrait painter, in the persistent study of chemistry and natural philosophy, while teaching or type-setting, and finally, in his advance as a photographer, learning from books and by experiments, rather than taking his knowledge second-hand. Through all these steps he came to his life-work—a photo-engraver—and the first to achieve complete success in producing engravings directly from the photograph. While reading an account of some experiments made by Professor Grove, in which he tried to produce engraved plates by etching out the daguerrean image, but having failed to get his etchings deep enough to be of any practical value, it occurred to Mr. Moss that by using Professor Grove's method, he could etch through the daguerreotype plate, and then change the plate to another solution, which would act upon the copper, and would not act upon the silver, and by this means get the required depth. He told his wife of his plan. "Why not try it at once? and I will help you." "But I have no galvanic battery, and there is none to be had in this place; besides, I cannot spare the money to buy one, if there were." "Can't you make one yourself?" "If I only had some copper and zinc plates, I have all the chemicals, but there is no such thing for sale nearer than Pittsburgh." She disappeared for a few moments, and returned with their copper kettle and zinc wash-board. "They will do," the husband said, "but oh, my! how your mother will scold if we cut them up; they are almost new." "Leave that to me. Mother is out, and we will get the battery made before she comes back." So they went to work, bringing the sugar-bowl and the tea-pot into requisition for battery cells, and soon had the battery completed. The scraps of the kettle and the wash-board told the tale to the amazed mother-in-law, but "she didn't scold just then. She couldn't." The two children were two happy in their experiments—the "scold" died out before it was uttered. That night the appliances were slipped into their sleeping-room, and in stocking feet they pursued their work. Before morning they produced their first plates,—all bad but one little patch, that Mrs. Moss declared was "just beautiful." Some time after this they moved to Philadelphia, where type-setting earned the bread, and the evenings gave time for continued experiments. Mrs. Moss would purchase and mix chemicals during the day, and they would work together at night. Sometimes success seemed so near all the time would be given to experiments, and want would compel the sacrifice of their household stores. Nearly all was gone at one time but a feather-bed—a gift from Mrs. Moss' mother, which they had resolved never to part with. He said, "If I only had a few dollars success would be sure." Mrs. Moss soon came in with ten dollars. "Why, Mary, where did you get that?" "I heard our washwoman say she was saving money to buy a feather-bed; so I sold her mine," adding with a merry laugh, "feather-beds are unhealthy, anyway. We will pick out a soft board; it will make us grow straight." There is one characteristic thing about the lives of these good people. It was always "we." Writing to a friend, Mr. Moss relates this incident:— "It is only just to say that without the assistance of my wife, it is very doubtful whether I should have succeeded. She became quite as enthusiastic in the matter as myself. My other relatives had lost all hope of my ever succeeding, and did all they could for many years to dissuade me from pursuing it further. On one occasion, we had been baffled for several weeks over a certain difficulty. We had tried everything to overcome it, in vain. There was one experiment we had tried that seemed faultless in theory, but it too failed in practice. My wife insisted that we had not given it a fair trial. We were in a state of almost perfect desperation, as we were working on a real order, which would bring us $40, and the time for delivery was past due. For several nights we had scarcely slept. It was two o'clock in the morning, and I sat down upon the bed in a complete state of exhaustion, and fell asleep; but my wife determined to stay up all night and repeat the experiment that she declared had not been fairly tried. Late in the morning I awoke, aroused by the sun shining in upon my face. My wife had not slept at all. "Though pale and haggard, I saw that she was smiling and very happy. She had taken our last few pence to buy a good breakfast—a hot loaf of graham bread, coffee—with milk in it—and a quarter of a pound of butter. The butter and milk were luxuries we had not seen for many a day. "I knew by her looks that she had succeeded, and did not want to eat until I knew just how; but no, I must eat my breakfast first. Hot graham bread with good butter, oh, how delicious it tasted! and the coffee was to me like the nectar of the gods; every sup seemed to give me new strength. When I had eaten to my satisfaction, she took from her hiding-place some plaster moulds—perfect. She had repeated the experiment several times to make sure that it was not all a delusion. We finished up the order, and got the $40, and were rich again. Had not that experiment succeeded, the 'Moss process' might never have been heard of, for it was really the only way in which that part of the work could be successfully done. It was the last link necessary to make the chain complete." "But it makes a world of difference about the kind of man a woman helps," says one, and truly. All the work of Mrs. Moss was like holding up a ladder, steadying it with strong hands, and pointing to the sunlight above. She knew the "kind of man" that was climbing. Here is a bit of proof:— In the spring of 1860, while Mrs Moss stayed with her little boy at her mother's, Mr. Moss went to Philadelphia to seek employment, always bearing in mind his one individual work of making engravings from photographs. Of over seven hundred members of the Printers' Union, less than three hundred had employment. His search for work was unavailing. Going out of a printing office one day where he had applied without success for work, he saw an old hand-press standing near the door. He went back525 and asked the proprietor if they had any work to do on that hand-press, assuring him that he was accustomed to that kind of work. The proprietor was very busy, but walked to the press and pointed to a small poster that was ready to be printed, and walked away. The press was in a "fearful state of neglect, roller dried up, and there was no ink." Mr. Moss went to work, cleaned and soaked the roller, scraped a little ink from some old cans, a boy near showed him where to find paper, and the "job" was presently done. The proprietor liked the young man who could master difficulties, and gave him a place to work. In a week a test case came up. The forms of type had to be taken to another office to be printed. This was usually done by a porter on a wheelbarrow. The case was urgent and the porter was not at hand. Mr. Moss volunteered. A sneer went round, and jokes filled the air. One man said, "If you do that we will lose all respect for you, and work you out of the job." Mr. Moss said, "Benjamin Franklin often trundled a wheelbarrow on that street; I do not consider myself better than he." Great excitement prevailed, some of the printers declaring they would not work with a man who thus demeaned himself, but the proprietor took a bold stand and decided that in future each must take his turn in wheeling the forms to the press-room, or leave. None left. Securing their respect, Mr. Moss also won their friendship. This incident happened prior to Mrs. Moss' heroic experiments and all night's devotion to the plates. It was in 1863 they moved to New York, which has since been their home. They did not win success all at once, but every failure brought wisdom, and fulfillment gave courage. From a stock company to a co-partnership, they passed to the "Moss Engraving Co.," in 1880, with John C. Moss as president and superintendent, Mrs. Moss as treasurer, and their son Robert as assistant superintendent, and now have the largest establishment of the kind in the world.—N. Y. Observer. HERE AND THERE.
By Alice Cary
HERE is the sorrowing, the sighing,
Here are the clouds and the night,
Here is the sickness, the dying;
There are the life and the light. Here is the fading, the wasting,
The foe that so watchfully waits;
There are the hills everlasting,
The city with beautiful gates. Here are the locks growing hoary,
The glass with the vanishing sands;
There are the crown and the glory,
The house that is not made with hands. Here is the longing, the vision,
The hopes that so swiftly remove;
There is the blessed fruition,
The feast, and the fullness of love. Here are the heart-strings a-tremble,
And here is the chastening rod;
There are the song and the cymbal,
And there is our Father and God.
—Alice Cary. PROBABLY in no country in the world is the consumption of meat any greater or more general than in the United States. We are a nation of meat eaters, and not only so but we are exceedingly careless of the quality of the flesh which we consume; if the meat is tender and sufficiently fat, the average American asks no questions, and in fact he counts as his enemy anyone who would say aught to destroy his relish for his juicy steak or appetizing roast. So long as the meat "tastes good," most people do not care to know anything about the animal from which it is carved; and hence in most of our cities rigid inspection of animals to be slaughtered for food is not insisted upon. Is it any wonder then that unscrupulous dealers market immense quantities of meat which is utterly unfit for food? There is probably not a city in the United States in which meat is not sold every day that is utterly unfit for food, because of the diseased condition of the animals which have been slaughtered to make it. Occasionally the subject is agitated, and a few head of cattle, sheep, or hogs are destroyed, but the whole thing is soon forgotten, and people keep right on eating their meat and asking no questions because of sheer indifference. Some two years ago it was discovered that diseased cattle were being shipped into San Francisco and there slaughtered for food. We believe that a few head were destroyed, but does anybody suppose that the same thing has not been done since? Certainly it has; there is not a city in the Union where it is not the regular practice of dealers to sell meat that they would not think of eating themselves. The following from the St. Louis Republican throws a little light upon the methods of the cattle men in St. Louis and Chicago, and it is certain that things are not one whit better on the Pacific Coast:— "In the absence of proper inspection laws, the traffic in diseased meat is carried on openly as a legitimate business. Not only are the injured and sick cattle (from ten to twenty a day) in the East St. Louis yards sold for consumption, but it is stated on the authority of one of the parties to the transactions, that car loads of cattle known to be affected with the fatal and infectious Texas fever, are sold at a discount to be shipped to Chicago and there made into dressed beef for the markets controlled by the Chicago syndicate. No matter how foul or infectious the disease with which the animal is afflicted, it finds ready sale, and loose inspection makes it easy to dispose of its meat to the unsuspecting consumer. Our local columns give enough and more than enough of the disgusting details of the traffic to leave no doubt that its evils are increasing, and that the existing system of inspection is altogether ineffectual to check the "inspection 'on the hoof'—that is, before the animals are slaughtered—and the abattable, large cities, might not completely be the same evils, but they would certainly be the open sale of diseased animals for food. Indirectly the system of inspecting the living animals would restrict the Chicago syndicate in its efforts to control the beef market of the country, though, of course, no State or city could legislate with such an end directly in view. The power in the States to inspect food and to prevent the fraudulent sale of articles unfit for food is unquestioned, and when there is reason to believe that such fraudulent sale is carried on systematically on a gigantic scale it is time to call in the police." Yes, it is time to call in the police; and it is also time to leave off wholesale meat eating and to learn to live on the fruits and grains so bountifully provided by a beneficent Creator; but there is little hopes of the American people doing either, to any very great extent. Occasionally the laws, such as we have, may be invoked to punish here and there a dealer in dressed disease, but our laws are too lax, and as a people we are entirely too easy-going to deal out the full measure of justice to such offenders, and too much given over to appetite to refuse that which suits our taste, even if it is unwholesome. SOME prejudice has existed against this excellent grain food, on the ground that it is productive of skin disease. The whole thing is wholly without foundation, as will be seen from the following point of James C. White, M. D., Professor of Dermatology, Diseases of the Skin, in the medical and surgical department of Harvard University:— "Oatmeal forms an article of breakfast of a large proportion of the inhabitants of the Northern United States and Canada. For this purpose, it is raised here in vast quantities, and is also imported from Scotland. It is eaten in the form of porridge and cakes chiefly, with the addition of milk, cream, sugar, molasses, or butter. "It is commonly believed to be 'heating,' to be the cause of eruptions, and is often abstained from under this fear, by those who have skin diseases. Is there any foundation for this belief? I know none. It is eaten by vast numbers of people from infancy, who never exhibit the slightest disturbance of the skin; and the cutaneous affections, in the causation of which it is so often regarded as a probable factor, are those of the most common occurrence among all classes and races, including those who never use it. "I have for years sought for an explanation of this prejudice among my patients who entertain it, but I have in no instance found a reason why any individual should hold it. I have repeatedly looked for some effect, removing it from, and adding it to, the dietary of patients having affections which it is supposed to influence; but I have never seen the least ill result from its free use. It seems to be entirely harmless in itself. I have never been able to find that it has any value above other cereals in the world, but it is unnecessary to speak further of it here." ONE cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.—Goethe ANOTHER relic of the far-away past is also reported to have been discovered in Palestine; this is no less than the Pool of Bethesda, which Mr. James Glaisher, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund, writes to the Times to say that Herr Conrad Schick has found. Recently certain works of Algerian monks revealed a large tank cut in the rock, with twenty-four steps leading down into it, and now Herr Schick has discovered a "sister pool, lying end to end, sixty feet long, and of the same breadth!" If, therefore, each side of the twin pools had a portico, and there was one in the wall of separation, we get the pool with five porches, which Bethesda had. Thus one after another are sites mentioned in Holy Writ being verified.—London Nonconformist. —Famine prevails at Epirus, Albania. —The Pope is said to be in very poor health. —An American man of war has been ordered to Port-au-Prince, Hayti. —It is now thought that Stanley is near Suakin, Egypt, with a large force of men. —It is said that $7,000,000 is annually invested in Florida by the Northern tourists. —A resident of San Francisco was burned to death on the 10th inst. in White Pine County, Nev. —Charles Crocker, one of California's millionaires, died at Monterey, this State, on the 14th inst. —A fire in Cayenne, French Guiana, on the 16th inst. destroyed property to the value of $2,000,000. —The revolution at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, has been successful, and a new government has been formed. —Destructive brush fires were reported in the neighborhood of Kingston, Canada, under date of August 16. —August 16 a Mexican boy aged 14 years shot and fatally wounded another boy, 2 years his junior, near Fresno, Cal. —A severe wind-storm in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio on the 12th inst. did great damage to telegraph wires. —Yellow fever is said to be spreading in Florida, and many people are leaving the State, to escape the disease. —It is stated that the crops in parts of Iowa and Dakota are poor this season, and that farmers are discouraged. —The picture gallery in the wing of the University of Niagara, N. Y., was destroyed by fire recently. —The Indian trouble has again broken out in the Territories, and one day recently the troops to the number of 105—45 on one side and 60 on the other—were engaged in a pitched battle, in which 2 were killed and 5 wounded. —August 13 the Stevens Steel Works, near Swansea, Wales, were suddenly closed, and thousands of men thrown out of work. —At the beginning of the present century St. Louis was a village of less than a thousand inhabitants, now it has nearly 500,000 souls. —Ten horses, valued altogether at $100,000, were killed on the 13th inst. by a railway accident on the Erie road at Shohola, N. Y. —A large petition has been sent to the President from Dakota asking him to favor the admission of that Territory at an early day. —A woman and two children lost their lives in a burning cottage at the Mount Tabor camp-grounds, near Newark, N. J., on the 15th inst. —Montreal was visited by a very severe thunderstorm on the 17th inst. The damage to property was very great in both city and country. —A Dane in Chicago who has been eighteen years in America, has been pronounced a leper. The man came from a leprous section of Denmark. —August 14, thirty Russian convicts en route to Siberia made a desperate attempt to escape. Eleven were killed, ten wounded, while only six escaped. —A new Catholic Church at Coleman, Wis., collapsed on the 16th inst., killing one man and injuring seven others so severely that they will probably die. —An old woman who posed as a witch in a Mexican town was recently murdered by a man whose children she had threatened for the purpose of extorting money. —Whisky and a loaded revolver killed two men at a dance near Guiderock, Neb., on the 17th inst. As is frequently the case, the whisky hurt the men who did not drink it. —About 2,000 girls are employed in the silk mills at North Hudson, N. J., and every week some of them are enticed away to a life of shame by flashily dressed women from New York. —Great excitement was created at the Newport Steel Mills, just across the river from Cincinnati, on the 17th inst., by the discovery of seventeen dynamite bombs in a pile of scrap-iron. —Owing to the non-receipt of wages the Albanian garrison at Metzers revolted recently and sacked the town. The soldiers burned ten houses, plundered the shops, and killed a number of Christians. —The Puget Sound fishermen have formed a Salmon Trust, and fixed the price for the season at seventeen cents per fish. Last year the price was ten cents. The fishing season opens September 1. —A large dynamite bomb, containing enough of the explosive to demolish an entire train, was found on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad tracks at Sixteenth and Halstead Streets, Chicago, on the morning of the 14th inst. —August 16 a mob attacked and killed nearly a score of negroes at New Iberia, La. The killing was done, it is claimed, in the interests of good order in the community. Such outbreaks are, however, a disgrace to any community, and the people of the South cannot afford to thus take matters into their own hands and slaughter people by the wholesale, even if they are bad characters. —Hot weather has seriously injured the grape crop in some parts of California. This will probably not reduce the yield of wine much if any, as grapes are not absolutely necessary for the manufacture of wine in this State. "Cherry juice," an abominable combination of drugs, made in San Francisco, is cheaper and sells nearly as well as the genuine article. —Sunday, August 12, there was a Hebrew wedding in Fall River, Mass., and in the evening the guests, to the number of over thirty, indulged in dancing; the noise attracted the police, who arrested the entire party for dancing on Sunday. The bail commissioner being absent, the whole party were compelled to spend the night in prison. The affair is very justly regarded by many as an outrage. —One of the most terrible weapons ever invented is the new French, or "Lebel Rifle." Recent experiments made on dead bodies show that bullets fired from this rifle will pass through bones at a distance of over a mile without making a fracture. Wounds made by bullets from this gun would be very small and exceedingly hard to heal, as it would be impossible in most cases to trace the course of the bullet. —For some time past a commission appointed by the President under authority of Congress, has been trying to persuade the Indians in Dakota to sign a treaty providing for the sale of millions of acres of their reservation. They refuse absolutely to do anything, and it now looks very much as though the government must steal the land outright or let it stay as it is for the present. —Wealth in the United States increased during twenty years from 1860 from fourteen billions to forty-four billions. In England something like the same marvelous increase begun with the year 1846, and these two countries are now the wealthiest in the world. —Cardinal Lavigere, of Brussels, has announced his purpose to form a committee to organize an armed volunteer expedition to the Tanganyika country, Central Africa, for the suppression of the slave trade. The estimated cost is 1,000,000 francs, and the Cardinal invites subscriptions for a fund to defray the expenses. —About one-half of the vineyards in France have been destroyed by phylloxera, and although many experiments have been made and a large amount of money expended to discover some way of exterminating the pest, the prize of $60,000 offered some years since by the French Government has not yet been awarded. —The president of the great Western Whisky Trust recently testified before a congressional committee that the output of the trust is 40,000,000 gallons of spirits, of which 15 per cent, or 6,000,000 gallons, is used as a beverage, 8,000,000 in the arts, and the remainder, or 26,000,000 gallons, in manufactures and in wine fortifying. —According to the report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the strikes and lockouts in this country from 1881 to 1887 caused a loss to employers of $34,000,000, and to employees of $67,000,000, a total of $101,000,000, with a balance of $33,000,000, against the employees. Fifty per cent of the strikes were failures, 10 per cent partially successful and 40 per cent successful. —Part of the subjects of the emperor of Morocco are in a state of revolt, and not long since sent delegates to the emperor to treat for peace, his majesty promising them safe conduct. The promise was, however, violated, and the delegates were executed. The rebels then desired that Prince Muley be sent to receive their submission. The prince went with an escort of 200 men, and the insurgents ambuscaded and massacred the whole party, including the prince. —August 14 the steamer Geiser was in collision with the Thingvalla off Sable Island, about 150 miles from Halifax. Five minutes after the collision the Geiser went to the bottom. Out of eighty-six passengers aboard the ill-fated vessel seventy-two were drowned, and of a crew of fifty persons thirty-three shared the fate of the majority of the passengers. The Thingvalla was badly disabled, but was saved from sinking by her water-tight compartments. Later reports put the total number lost at 117. —There is considerable interest in New York over the question of reducing the time between that port and European ports. The quickest passage on record was made in May by the Etruria, of the Cunard line. The Etruria's time was six days, one hour, and forty-five minutes. So far the Umbria, another Cunard steamer, has been the Etruria's only rival for speed, but now a new vessel, the City of New York, belonging to the Guion line, is to be pitted against the fast Cunard steamer, and the result will be watched with a great deal of interest. —The Conference of the Young Men's Christian Association of the world convened in Stockholm on the 15th inst. —Three hundred and fifty auxiliary troops under the command of Italian officers have been destroyed by Abyssinians. The killed included all the officers. —The self-supporting missions of the M. E. Church in Chili, South America, have recently been reinforced by the addition of sixty ministers to their corps of workers. —The Swedish missionary at Castle Garden, New York, says that "there are 600 Swedish Lutheran congregations in America, comprising fully 125,000 members. This body has general control over the Scandinavians in this country." —The African Methodist Episcopal Church, whose General Conference was recently in session at Indianapolis, reports a membership of 403,351, and the total amount of money raised for all purposes during the year 1887, as $1,064,569. —The Pipe of Peace, published in the interests of the Indian school at Genoa, Neb., says that missionary statistics show that the Christian tribes have, in proportion to their means, given more for religious purposes than any other class of men. —Almost $800,000 worth of Mormon church property has been already turned over to the United States under the act of disincorporation. The whole of this sum goes into the school fund of Utah Territory, and, strange as it may seem, will be used largely in paying Mormon teachers. —The receipts of the American Missionary Association for the first nine months of the present fiscal year, to June 30, were $214,434, an increase over the same months last year; but calls upon the Association have been many. —Reports have been generally circulated in the papers within a few months since, to the effect that the firmans by which the Turks had permitted the mission schools had been revoked. While some of the schools are closed, active persecution is still maintained. Appointments.
By William Covert
CAMP-MEETING AT INDIANAPOLIS, IND.
The annual camp-meeting and State Conference for Indiana is to be held at Indianapolis, September 11-18. It is to be preceded by a workers' meeting of one week, beginning September 4. The place of meeting is in Bruices Grove, situated in the northeast part of the city, near to the L. E. & W. R. R. and Thirteenth Street. The Massachusetts and College Avenue street-cars reach within three squares of the place. Reduced rates on the railroads can be secured by paying full fare for a ticket to the city and procuring from the agent where you buy the ticket a Central Traffic Association Certificate. This certificate will be countersigned upon the grounds by W. A. Young, and will then entitle you to purchase a return ticket for one-third fare. This is to be a meeting of great importance to the cause of present truth in the State. Elder G. I. Butler, president of the General Conference, and other leading workers of the denomination, are to be present. The officers of the Conference, the Tract and Missionary Society, the State Sabbath-school Association, and the American Health and Temperance Society, are to be elected in connection with this meeting. It is also the design to dedicate the new meeting-house owned by the Conference, located on Central Avenue, in the city of Indianapolis. A full attendance of all friends of the cause in the State is desired. WM. COVERT,
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"The Abiding Sabbath and the Lord's Day." A review of the $500 and $1,000 prize essays. By Elder A. T. Jones. Pamphlet, 175 pages; price, 20c. Pacific Press Publishing Company, Oakland, California. Of this pamphlet the Herald of Gospel Liberty (Disciple, Dayton, Ohio) says:— "The prize essays contain the best thought on the question that can be given. The quotations are ample for an appreciation of the essays, while the review is both candid and able. The pamphlet is well worth its price to parties interested in the Sunday question." MARVELOUS YO SEMITE VALLEY.
"IN THE HEART OF THE SIERRAS." By J. M. Hutchings. One of nature's most sublime creations is the Yo Semite Valley. Human language is impotent to describe its grandeur. Selected gems of beauty here and there may be delineated, and salient features portrayed; but the sublimity of its grand entirety can only be absorbed by frequent personal vision of its mighty walls and waters. This inoculation J. M. Hutchings has acquired by a life's residence in this abysmal wonder of the world. With his morning and evening breath for over a quarter of a century he has inhaled the inspirational grandeur of this world's greatest wonder; and now in this book he gives us a right royal setting of his impressions. There does not live a writer who could do this service better. With him it is a work of love, and his entire being is bound up in this volume. Fortunate California to have within her borders the crowning, regnant natural wonder of all the earth! and again to be congratulated with having one of her own citizens competent to best tell the story of its sublimity! No other curiosity of the nations has ever had so capable and sincerely earnest a chronicler of its qualities and merits as the Yo Semite has in Hutchings. All that is interesting in its history, commanding in view, attractive in outline or quiet beauty, and romantic in its mythological lore, is contained in this pretty volume. The illustrations are profuse, commencing with the earliest traditions of the valley, and pictorially tracing the incidents of the valley and visitors to the present day. Some of the sketches from the easels of world-famous painters are reproduced herein with great artistic excellence, which will bring to the distant reader as clear an impression as art can furnish of the massiveness and supernal dignity of the grand originals. Besides a narration of the incidents connected with the valley's discovery, settlement, and progress, this book contains a guide to all trails, waterfalls, lakes, cascades, and outside points of interest. The Big Trees, too, come in for a graphic description, and well they deserve it, for "Not any prince
From all that proud old land
Beyond the sea, ere bore his crown so loftily
As these bear the rich coronal of leaves
With which His grace has crowned them."
In mechanical execution this superb volume is a triumph of the bookmaker's art. Esthetic taste combined with a publisher's skill, and the union of utility and attractiveness make this book a most desirable gift for the holidays approaching. It is a work complete and of permanent authority; for after such an author-essay, so perfectly gleaned, and so fitted by fortune, Hutchings's history will be standard. IN THE HEART OF THE SIERRAS
By J. M. Hutchings
This new work is a complete historical and descriptive summary of the wonderful Yo Semite Valley and Big Tree Groves. The author, Mr. Hutchings, is an old pioneer, and has for more than 20 years resided in the Valley. He took the first sketches of it that were ever taken, and was the first to make its
MARVELOUS GRANDEUR KNOWN TO THE WORLD. The work is complete in one volume of nearly 600 pages, and is illustrated with over 150 illustrations, 28 of which are
BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE ARTOTYPES. These artotypes are the most charmingly characteristic of any illustrations ever produced, and are perfectly true to life, having been photographed from nature. Sold only by subscription. Agents wanted everywhere. For prices and terms,
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AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF CHRIST," "SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF PAUL," "BIBLE SANCTIFICATION," AND OTHER POPULAR WORKS. THIS volume presents the most wonderful and intensely interesting history that has ever been written of the great conflict between Christianity and the Powers of Darkness, as illustrated in the lives of Christian martyrs and reformers on the one hand, and wicked men and persecuting powers on the other. Beginning with our Lord's great prophecy given while viewing Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, in which he outlines the history of the whole dispensation, it sketches the fulfillment. It pictures the siege and overthrow of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the Temple. It calls our attention to the bitter persecutions of the Christians in the first centuries, and notes the rise and growth of the Papacy. It gives a clear description of the character and influence of the Waldenses, who, through centuries of persecution, maintained their integrity, and continued their missionary efforts previous to the great Reformation. Brief and life-like sketches of the lives of the Reformers, and the perils through which they passed, are given, including Wycliffe, Huss, Jerome, Knox, and others.