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DR. TALMAGB'S S KUM ON Jloroi'mntloH of ISvit Habits. ?.Whoo Kuall J uwKko, 1 will sock lt yoi ??ulu."-3'rov. Xi : ?Sb. WITH an insight into human nature Mich aa no othor man ever roached, Solomon, in my text, sketches tito men tal operations ot! one who, having step ped ABIDI'J Flt QM THU I* ATI I ot rectitude, desires to return. With ii wish for something hotter, he says: .'When shall I awako? when shall I como out ol* this horrid nighlmaro ol' iniquityV* Hut sei/.cd upon by un oradicatcd habib, and forced down-hill bv his passions, lie cries out: "I will seek lt jot again. 1 will try it onco moro." Our libraries aro adorned with an elegant lilcruluro addressed to young men, pointing out to them ail tho dan geis and perils of life-completo maps of tho voyage, showing all tho rocks, Mic quicksands, tho shoals. Hut sup pose, a mau bas already mudo ship wreck; suppose ho is already off tho track; suppos? ho bas already SOixo bi lroy, HOW Ki HK TU tl KT ll AU iv? That is a field comparatively untouch ed. I propose to address myself this evening to such. There aro those in this audience who, with cvory passion of their agonized soul, aro tcady to hear (bis discussion. They comparo them selves with what they were ten years ago, and cry out from thc bondago in which they arc incarcerated. Now, if there bo any in this house, como with au earliest purpose, yet feeling they aro beyond tho palo of Christian sympathy, and that tho sermon can hardly bo ex pected to address them, then, at this moment, I givo them my right hand and call them brother. .Look up. Them is glorious and triumphant hope for you yoi. J sound tho trumpet of Gospel de liverance. Tho Church is ready to spread a banquet?t your return, and tho h m archs of heaven lo fall into lino of bannered procession at thc nows of your emancipation. So far as Cod may help nie, I propose tb show what aro tho obstacle:* lo your return, ami how to surmount those obstac'.es. TllK I'lIlST DIl'l H.l'l.l V in tim way or your return is thc force of moro I gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which bringa down to the carib anything which you throw into the air, so lhere is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier to go down than it is lo go up; lt is easier lo dd wrong than it is to do right Cull lo mind tho comrades of your boyhood days-some of (.boin good some of them bad. Which most affect ed ?you? Call to mind tho anecdotes that you have heard in tho bist live or ten years --sumo of them aro puro and some of them impure. Which Ibo moro easily sticks to your memory? During the years of your life you have formed cor lu iii courses of conduct-some of them good, soma of them bad. To which style ot habit did you tho moro easily j ield? Ability friends, vye have to take but a moment of self-Inspect ion 10 lind out that there ls ni all our souls a forco of moral gravitation. Jilli that gravitation may bo resisted. Just as you may pick up from the earth some thing and hold it iii your band toward lieavon, just BO, by the power of Cod'a grace, a soul fallen may bo lifted, to ward penco, toward pardon, toward heaven, Force of moral gravitation in every ono of us, but power in Cod's grace lo overcome that force of moral gravitation. Tho next thing in tho way of your return is thc power nf evil h?bil, t know Ibero aro thoso who' say it ls very easy for them to givo up evil habits. I do believe them. Hero is a mau given to intoxication. Ho knows it is disgrac ing Ilia family, destroying bis property, ruining liiiu body, mind, and soul. If that man, being ail intelligent, man, and loving his family, could easily give up tlial habit, would he not do so? Thc fad. (hal ho does not givo iL up proves it. is hard to givo it up, Ii is a very easy Hiing to sail ddwn-slicam, the tide carrying you with great force; bul. sup pose yon turn Tilg I.'OAT Ul" STKKAM, is it HO easy then to row il? As long as we yield lo tho evil inclinations in our hearts and our bad habits, wo aro sidl ing down-stream; but thc moment wo try to turn, we put our boat in tho rap?is just above Niagara., and try lo row up stream. Tako a man given to the habit of using tobacco, as most of you do, and let him rcsolvo to slop, und lu; linds it very difficult. Twenty-one yearn ago I quit that habit , and 1 would as soon duro lo put my right hand in Mic lire as once lo indulge in lt. Why? Because it was such a terrible struggle to gol over lt. Now, lot a man be advised by bis physician tp give up the usc of tobacco. Ile goes around not knowing what lo do with himself. Ho cannot add tip a lino of ligures. Ho cannot sleep nights, 11 seems as if tho world had turned up side down. Ile feels his business is go ing lo ruin. Where bc was kind and obliging bo is scolding and fretful. Tho composure that characterized him bas given way to fretful restlessness, and lu; has become a complet? fidget. What power is it that bas rolled a wavo of woo over tho earth and shaken a por teril in the heavens ? Ho has triedlo stop smoking I After a while ho says, "1 am going to do as I please. Tho doc tor doesn't understand my case. I'm e. ol og back to tho old habit." A pd ho returns. Everything assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten. Tho world becomes an attractive place lo livo in. J lia children, seeing tho difference, hail tho return of their father's genial disposi tion. What wavo of color has dashed blue into tho sky, and greenness into the mountain foliage, and tho glow of sapphiro into tho sunset? What en chantment has lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul? Hp has gone back to smoking. Oh, the fact is, as we all know In our own experience, that HABIT IH A TASIv-MASTKIt; as long as wo obey it, it does not chas tino us; but lot us resist, and wo ibid wo ure to bo lashed with scorpion whips, and bound with ship cabio, and thrown b.d.o tl io track of j^BS?^^?M^dLu??r gormiuts. Dining tl;? war of 1812 there- was a ship set on Uro just above Niagara Fulls, and thou, cut loose from its moorings, lt came on down through the night, and tossod over tho Falls, lt was said to havo boon u scono brilliant beyond all description. AVell, thoro aro thousands of men on tho of ovil habit, coining down through the rapids, and through tho awful night of tempta tion, toward tho eternal plunge. Oh, how hard it ls to arrest thom! Hod only can arrest them. Suppose a mau, af tor ilvo or ten or tw?nty years ol' evil-doing resolves to do right. Why, all tho forces of dark ness aro allied against him. Ho cannot sleep nights. Ho gets down on his knees in the midnight and cries: "Goel help mol" Ho bites bis lip. Ho grinds Ids tooti). Ho clenches lus fist m a de tenu i nation to keep Ins purpose. Ho dare not look at the bottles in tho win dows of a wino store, lt is ono long, bitter, exhaustive, haiid-to-halid fight with an Inllamed, tantalizing, and mer ciless habit. When he thinks he is en tirely free, thc old inclinations pounce upon him like a puck of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the Hanks ol' ono poor reindeer. In Paris (here ls a sculptured representation of Bacchus, the god of revelry. Ho is riding ou a panther at full leal). Oh, bow sugges tive! Let every ono who is speeding on bad ways understand bo is not rid ing a docile and well-broken steed, but he. is riding a monster, wild and blood thirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolvo on a hotter life, and say: "When shall 1 awake?" but seized on by their old habits, cry: <!l will .try lt once more, I will seek it yet again!" Years ago, there were some Princeton students who were skating, and tho ice was very thin, and some one warned tho com pany back from the air-hole, and final* ly warned thom entirely to leave tho place. But ono young man willi brav ado, after all tho rest had stopped, cried out: "Ono round morel" Ho swept around, and went down, and was brought out a corpse My friends, Micro aro thousands and tens of thou sands of men losing their souls in that way. lt is the ono round moro. I have also to say that ir aman wants lo ; 'urn from evil practices, . . ' 'I KT Y ItKl'UI.SKS HIM. Desiring io reform, he says: "Is'ow, I will shako oil my old associates, and I will lind Christian companionship." And ho appears at tho church door somo Sabbath day, and tho ushergreets him willi a look as much as lo say: "Why, you here? You are the last man I ever expected to seo at church! Come, take this seat right down by tho door." Instead of saying: "Good morning; I am glad you aro hero. Come; I will give you a lirst-rato seat, right up by Ibo pulpit." Well, tho pro digal, not yet discourag< d, enters a prayer-meeting, and some Christian man, willi moro zeal than common sense, says: "Clad to seo you; tho dy ing thief was .saved, and I suppose there ls morey for you." TI IK YOUNO MAX, HISCU'STKI), chilled, throws himsolf on his dignity, resolved he will never outer into thc house of God again. Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about reformation, he sidos up by somo highly respectable man ho used to know, going down the street, and immediately tho respectable man has an orran I down somo olhei street. Well, tho prodigal, wishing lc return, lakes some member of a Chris tian association by tho hand, or tries to. Thc Christian young man looks al lilni, looks ht tho nilled apparel and Kui mark* of dissipation; instead of giving htm si warm grip of tl J hand, ho oilers him Hui tip ends of tho long lingers of thc left hand, which is equal to sirili'huj <i man iii the /neel Oh, how few Chris tian people understand how much force and gospel there ls in a good honest hami-shaking! Sometimes, When yoi have felt the heed of encouragement, lind some Christian man has taken yoi heartily by the bund, have you not fell thrilling through every Hine of youl body, mind, and soul au encourage mont that was just what you nee.led' You do not know anything at all ahou this unless you know when a niau trie lo rotiirn from evil courses of conduc ho runs against ?Krri.siON'S INN I'MKUAUI.K, Wo say of some'man, he lives a bloc] or two from the (dniren, or half a mil from the? church. Thero aro pe. plo ii our crowded cilios who live a tliousam miles from church. Vast deserts of Iii difference between them and tho hons of God. Tho fact is, wc must keep on respectability, though thousands am tens of thousands perish. Christ sa with publicans and sinners. Bul i I hero como to the houso of God a mai with marks of dissipation upon him people almost throw up their hands ii horror, as much as to say: "Isn't i shocking?" How these dainty, fastldi ous Christioni in all our churches ar going lo gol hilo heaven, I don't know unless they have an especial train o cars, cushioned and upholstered, cac ono a car lo himself. They cannot g wi tb thc great horde of publicans un sinners. Ohl yo who curl your lip of scorn ii tho fallon, I tell you plainly, if you ha been surrounded by the Samp influence: Instead pf sitting to-day amid the cii lured, and tho relined, and tho Chrii lian, you would have been a crouch lu wretch in stablo or ditch, covered wit (lilli and abomination. It is not bi cause you aro naturally any belter, bi because the mercy of God has proteo ed you. Who aro you that brought r in Christ lan circles and watched I Christisin parentage, you should bo ? hard on tho fallon? I think mon also aro often binden from return by tho fact that church aro too anxious about their nienibcrsh and too anxious about their elonoiniii Moil, and they rush out when they seo man about to glvo up lils sin and i turn to God, and ask him how he going to bo b.iplized, whether j sprinkling or immersion, and wi kind of a church ho is going to jeji Oh, my friends, lt is A 1'OOU TIMK TO TALK about ?'rosny tor hill catechisms, a Episcopal liturgies, and Methodist lo feasts, ?nd baptisteries to a man that coming ontof Min darkness of sin into I glorious light cit the Gospel. Why, reminds me PM a man drowning in LA sou, ami a life-boat puts out for ami tho man in tho boat says tojth? man out of tho boat: "Now, If Jget you ashore, aro you going to live o:|my street?" First got him ashore, and (hen talk about tho non-ossontials of rolltjon. Who cares what church ho joins, I' ho only joins Christ and starts for heaton? Oh I you ought to have, my brothel, an illumined faco and hearty grip for ivory one that tries to turn from his evil yay. Take hold of tjio samo book with lim, though bis dissipation shako tho mole-, remembering that "ho that converieth a sinner from thc error of his ways amil savo a soul from death and ludo a mul titude of sins." Now, I havo shown you those obrta cles because 1 want you to understand 1 know all thu dllllcultios In the way ; but I am now to toll you how Hannibal may scalo tho Alps, and how T1IH SI I ACIC T/ISS MAY DM UNlll V UTKO, and how tho paths of virtuo forsaken may bo regained. First of ab, my brother, throw yourself on Cod. Go to him frankly and earnestly, and tell him these habits you have, and ask Him if ibero is any help iii all tho resources of omnipotent lovo, to give it to you. Do not go with a long rigmarole peoplo call prayer, made up of "Ohs," and "Alis," and "forever and ever, amen !" Go to God and cry for help ! help I help I and if you cannot cry for hell?, just look and live. 1 remember, in the lalo war, 1 was at'Antietam, and I went into t ho hospitals after tho battle, and said to a mau : "Where aro you hurt?" Ho made no answer, but hold up his arm, swollen and splintered. I saw whore ho was hurt. Tho simple fact is, whon aman basa wounded soul, all he hhs to do is to hohl it up before a sympa thetic Lord, and get it healed. It does not lake any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh, it is no small thing, Wlieh a mau is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from lils ovil ways, to feel that God puts two omnipotent arms around him, and says : "Young man, 1 will s tanti by you. Tho moun tains may depart, and tho bills bo re moved, but I will never fail you." And then as tho soul thinks tho nows is too good lo bo true, and cannot believe it, and looks lip in God's face, God lifts His right band and takes au oath, an allidavil, saying : "As 1 live, saith thc Lord G?d, I have no pleasure in tho death of him that dieth." Blessed bo God for such a disciple as this I "Cut tho slices thin," said tho wifo to tho husband, "or tboro will not bo enough to go all around for the children ; eut tho slices thin." Blessed ho (?od, Ibero is . A FULL LOAF IOU KV KUY ONU that wants it ! Bread enough and to sparc. No thin slices al tho Lord's table. 1 remember when the Master Slroct Hospital, in Philadelphia, was oponed during Inc war, a telegram canto, saying : "Thero will bo three hundred wounded mon to-night; bo ready to tako caro of them;" and from my church Ibero went in somo twenty or thirty mon and women to look after these poor wounded follows. As they came, sonto from one part of tho land, sonic from another, no .ono nskfcd whether this man was from Oregop^or from Massachusetts, <or from MiRffll^ sola, or from Now York. There was a wounded soldier, and tho only ques tion was how to take oft tho rags tho most gently, and put on tho bandago, and administer thc cordial. And when a soul comes to God, Ho docs not ask where you carno front or what your ancestry was. Heuling for all your wounds. 1'drdon for all your guilt. Comfort for all your trouble?. Then, also, 1 counsel you, if you want io get back, to quit all your had associations. (INK UNHOLY INTIM.U V wdl lid your soul with moral distemper. In itll tb?; ages of thc Church lhere has not been an instance where a man kimi ono evil associate and was reformed. iJo homo to-day, open your . do.sk, take out loiter paper, stamp mid .-envelope, and then write a letter something like this: "My bbl companions; I slur) Mils tiny for heaven, t'niil I mn [?crsiiuik'il you will Joiii ino in lilli, Fiirewcll." Then sign your name, and scud tho lotlur by tito hist post. (Jive up your had companions or glyo tip beaven, lt' is not len bad companions thai, destroy ii man, nor live bail companions,' IJ?V? three bail companions, but ono. .What chance is thero for thal young mihi. I saw along tho street, four or live young men willi him, halting in front of a grog shop, urging him to go in, ho re sisting, violently resisting, until after a Whilo they forced him to go In? lt was a Summer hight and the door was loft open, lind 1 saw tho process. Thoy held him inst, and they put tho crin to his lips, (iud tiley forced down tho strong drink. What chance is there for such a young man? I counsel you also, seek Christian advice. JOvory Christian man is bound to help you. lt you find no. other human ear willing to listen to your story of struggle, como to mo and 1 will by every sympathy of my heart, and every prayer, and every toil of my hand, stand bosido you in tho struggle for reformation ; and as 1 hope io have my own sins forgiven, ?md hope to bo acquitted at tho Judgment seat of Christ, 1 will not betray you. First of all seek (tod, then SKKK CHltlSTlAN GOl.'XSKL Ci allier up nil tho oncrgios of body, mind and soul, atilt appealing to ?lptj for success, declar? this day, everlast ing war against all drinking habits, all gaining practice*, ?ill. houses ot flirt. Half-and-half work will amount- to nothing: il must bo a Waterloo. Shrink back now, and you aro lost. Push On, and you are saved. A Spartan genoral fell ?it tho very moment of victory, but he dipped his linger in bis own blood and wrote on a rock noar which ho was dying; "Sparta hus conquored." Though your st rtigglo to get rid of sm may seem to be almost a death strug gle, you can dip youiihiger in your own blood und write on tho Hock of Ages: "Victory through our Lord JOSHS Christi" Oh I what glorious nows lt would be for Homo of thosu young men lo send homo to their parents In tho country. They go to tho post-ofllco every day or two to seo if tboro uro any lot tors from you. How anxious they aro td libar I Nothing would please thom hali so much as tho nows you might sond homo to-morrow that you had given your heart to God. I know how it ir tn tho country. Tho night comes on. Tho cattlo stand under tho rack through winch bursts tho trusses ot hay. Tho horses just having frlskod up through tho meadow at tho nightfall, aland knee-deep in the bright straw that invites them to lie down and rest. Tho porch of tho hovol is full of fowl, their feet warm under tho feathers. In Tl I'M OLD PAUM HOI) SIS AT NKUIT no candi? is lighted, for tho Hames clap hands about tho great backlog, and shako the shadow of tho group up and down tho wall. Father and niothor sit thoro for half au hour, saying noth ing. I wonder what thoy aro thinking pf. After awhile the father breaks tho silenco and says: "Woll, I wondor whore our boy is in town to-night,V" And thc mother answers : '.'in no bad place, I warrant you ; wo always could trust him when ho was nomo, and since ho has been away Ibero havo so many prayers offered for him wo can trust him still." Then at eight o'clock for they retire early in tile country-it eight o'clock they kneel down and com mend you to that God who watches in country and in town, on tho land and on tho sea. Homo ono said lo a Grecian soldier : "What was tho proudest moment of your lifo?" Ho thought a moment, and said : THU PitOUDlSST M OM KN T of my lifo was when I sent word homo to my parents thal I had gabled the victory." .And tho proudest and most brilliant moment in your Ufo will bo tho moment when you can send word to your parents in the country that you havo conquorod your evil habits, by the grace of God, and becomo eternal victor. Oh I despiso not parental anxiety. Tho timo will como when you have noithor father nor mothor, and you will go around tho placo where thoy used to watch you, and lind them gone from tho houso; and gone from tho held, and gono from tho neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in tho churchyard, they will not answer. OKAO ! I)KA I) I And then you will tako out tho white lock of hair that wita eui from your mother's brow just before they burled her, and you will take tho cano willi which your father used to walk, and you will think and think, and wish that you had dono just as they wanted you to, and would givo tho world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity tho young man who has brought disgrace on his father's namo. God pity die youny man irho han broken his moll w's heart. Bet ter if ho had never been born-hotter if, in tlio llrsli hour of his lifo, instead of being laid against tho warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been cof fined and sepulchred. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of ono who has brought parents to ii sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the dismal cemetery, rond lng tho hair and wringing the hands, abd crying : "MothCrf mother!" Oh, that to-day, by all tho memories of tho past, and by all tho hopes of the futuro, you would yield your heart to God. May your father's God and your mother's God be your God forever. BK ATI NO HOT i 1S ? ? 11 Ii I). A Porcelain Servloo Thal. Was Qheup; nt Any Pri?e. Among tao various admirable pro dnotions of tasto willoh tho guests of liaron Rothschild never fail lo admire, is <i magniilcent service of porcelain, of singular beauty, elegance of shape and ilnish, and remarkable for tho artis tic richness of its paintings.. But thu way in which tho baron became pos sessed of il is worth relating. One day an old man, careworn, wrinkled, feeble, and apparently tot tering on tho vergo of ibo gravo, pre sented himself bo for? M. de Rothschild, Soliciting tho honor of an interview with thc famous banker. Tho aged visitor took from his bag a rich and beautiful plate, so splendidly wrought t hiit tho baron admired it exceedingly, amt became greatly del I gb tod with it. ..Sir," sai I tho. patriar. :' . k'\vill you buy this of mc? L have .> Whole sot,, ami if has struck mo that a service so beautiful cannot lind ii moro Utting placo than in thc mansion of the pei hue of tlnaiiciors." .Mt is indeed very line," said tho baron. "??ow much do you wain for tho service?" "Look you, sir," said tho old man "1 am bowed down with many years, and have not long to live. 1 am poor, lind wish to omi my days in compara tive comfort. Will, you in exchange for this valuable sot of porcelain, give mo nu Jncomo for lifo ol' 10.? fr?he* a mouth?"' Tho baron looked at the poor man, examined tho plato again] ana said; "Well, bo it so; hero is tho ilrst pay ment. Send mo tho service, and give mo your name. " Tho splendid set of porcelain was de livered tho same day to the baron, and a month afterward while ho was sea toil in his counting house, a man entered and asked for tho second payment o tho promised income. But thc man was young, scarcely '?0 years of age, of j a vigorous constitution and great mus etthtr development, and looked as if ho would livo for a hundred years. "But you are not tho mailt" exclaim ed tho astonished banker. "Excuso mc, baron," said he, "I am Indeed tho man." "But you appeared at least 80 years old," said tho baron. "I have wonderfully recovered," ol> sorved the man, "thanks to your gen erosity." Tho baron laughed heartily, and gave orders for tho pay meut of the money, exclaiming: "Ah, you aro an excellent comedian, and havo taken ino in thoroughly." "I am probably thu Ilrst who has done so," replied tho dow, politely Vowing to. tho millionaire. TUKUM aro some fond, foolish, tr/tist ing mon who will read over a recife for mince pie and then think they really know what lt ls matta-of. OltAND MOUNT SHASTA. A Skotoli of Tho Imposing ri lo. Between the great pines going np you seo tho religious domo of Mount Shasta, its snows and frowns so mixed that ono lows it nearly, with superstition* Shasta is ono of tho ilncst mountains in America, a naked domo of rock, ravel and porpotuul snow, mudo by ii oleano,. and having two sido piceos or transepts, tho whole mass ctn liding up in wliite and dun in cra/.y-qullt patches of triangles o? show and ovals of rocks and slides of loam and gravel above a skirt of Oregon pines, which aro of som " ur green, and seem theklrtloof a hugo, muscular, naked man, wearing ?1 clout of green, as bo kneels upon tho plateau ind surveys his brood of mound y peaks oxteuding around him in au amphi theater of 100 miles. Tliero is but ono Shasta, dud ho is u lOrhi-ono of tho boid range beyond tho Rockies, overlookintr tho Orient West. "There is tho West ; tliero is Europe, V says tho statue of Thomas bonton at St. Louis, pointing at tho uno timo west. . Tliero ia a county Of California called Shasta, and a range of mouhtalns be tween tho Sacramento river and tho sea ts called tho shasta ra'ngo. I t is only a night's lido or a sleep Of 840 miles be tween San Francisco and Mount Shasts, nd iii this ride you rise nearly ?5000 fcot to Sisson, in Strawberry valley, from which Mount Shasta's peak is still 10,885 feet higher, or above the sea 11, 140 feet. lt is 10,000 feet higher than tho Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton. This is tho power of Mount Shasta that it rises so grandly above everything lso--not Uko Pike's or (.hay's, ono of a argo family of mountains sitting around tho while tablecloth of tho skies. It seems tho highest when you aro at it, ind looks to bo inaccessible. Tho rail bad keeps winding around its baso as a wheelbarrow is guided around tho steoplos of a cathedral. It ls moro than twlco tho height of Motint Washington, iud is seven-oighths of tho height of Mount Plano. For 2000 feet tho snow slides drop Iowa its sides, frequently turning red. Then for 4000 feet lower tho inorganic mass stands like a vulcan amid his cin ders. M ext for 2000 feet one imp tho hrs where once tho lava licicod thc world. Yet it ls only twelvo miles from Sis son, on tho railroad, to Shasta's, top, md women bavo ascended it, and pant md grumblo in tho deed less than mon. liii four days tliero was carried up by while men and Indians a copper monu ment weighing .']">00 pounds, which can be seen 100 miles away, but no signal ofliccr can live on Shasta's top. Its pimples, 1500 feet high, aro Uko tho warts on Crom wolba head whoa Wars Uko cloud.-* that rl.SQ utraliisl the sun, Illili, ninku hhu (JTOIIUT sum? --mu grouter j?roiv. As I passed Shasta a great white loud was trailing from it Uko a pen non, called the "snow-banner , of Shasta." It was a palpitating, cloud like wild bird, failing for breath as it Hew, and holding tiptoe to tho peak, with its feet in snowdrifts, while its plumage blew outward and away. . Tliero is a butte, or mountain!! hump, near Shasta 0-500 feet high, but tho snows, like virgin belles at court, dis dain to coquet with it and keep-all their flakvR for Shasta. It, too. is a lino and stuck-up thing, quito solitary, but th miners call it only Shasta bullo, as tb idol's called Mr. Greene, when ho cor pareil himself to Shakespeare,, Shak pearo's call-boy. Coining up to Sba.' from tho south by tho tortuous can of tho Sacramento, you seo tho mountain vaguely, yet troniciu, but going from lt northward, as t omotivo turns often to seo it,. ? stands out naked as beforo bold tho tlomostiolly of the bea von?, turage plains of tho Kiamal! ing below bim like a covorh i way Thc Alps too often hide in ing dows of Lombardy, but ^ set in n sky as limpid as tho bl eye of a babe. ITow still it is, with that g mistakable scar of crater, a m miC wido, telling where hollolii and vomited its blood and flame1 er drunkenly for some spasms o ands of yearsl Wo have resolV hell is not, but thero is Shas somewhere must bo lire. Glorious relic of a timo \yji was not and Pan was playing v tools of Vulcan, tho molten Shasta ran away, spilling wost, to a rango of mountains, eae^ ing up to be like Shasta's making only tame miniatures' WI3ATJ1 simulo Forecast^ Service Uo Started.. A rag-peddler, who wi| Gratiot avenue recently, Hastings street when his h(J Tho usual munb?r of smart. soon on band with their one suggestion after tinothej in vain. Tho borso cou! pulled nor pushed, and as] ad big traill?, the crowd li very rapidly: .'What is it?" J md twelve, who pushed If circle, "balky hmso," tun "W hero's tho o vf mun, can't you start] "Xo, lie donn' st j ' "Wait a minute The lad ran up and pulled a ha bale itt a ?eed turned be cicai tho horse, stood, extended lils li; up his cars, Inf once ad va nco/ around tho e?; "lt's accoi| cd tho boil "When a iirc-cmokoj who is fe. root1 ball; all over Acioii an i natl poi ion ml ol wa j Stj Thero is un iinirV <?&\ai' weather wisdom in t-hoV/S^irl sure you that you caniV^ vj farmer anywhere who dav '?t?p^ eyo at tho clouds, or the []h~ whero and prophesy ythai.pl shall bavo fbi*''tho n.ox<7~ - , bouts. I only lack patioi(/itoe ' who seok to prognosticator*^ for weeks and months ni hod silly signs, or no signs at all1, _ J bibilah their reputations nsVTTll Weathor wisdom should bo seri/! carefully encouraged ; for to'J twelve hours ahead whether storm or clear weather, is U thousands of dollars in tbt singlo town. It is.by JJ scionco of cunning guess^ are signa abuiidtiul thuij careful observer, Hoi forecast which I liavoj and have vorilled: der clouds, expect a aro banked to tho ii? peet rai lit to tho sc<f rain if it no summc Watching anima] good way pf pi eleotric f>enso, posa makes thom apprf bo foro its appcaraij siblo olectric and af that causo physic; will bellow, aft Hons will oil tl ici uneasiness. Cati grass freely. S frisky, and'chase will strolch then! fe nco corners or bio. Peacocks fowl sqawk wor^ genoralstate of servablo in tho nj barns. Farbton and learn to gui bigly. Bilde aro evi tho weather, beforo a storij proportionate pressure neal up a terrible' landward, anl Swallows ski! Oro ivs are noj prink themsel ors, Cranes/ under their toms ato til restlessncss? low Hying ii Insects ail but they pointers, found, how? fashioned study of Swarms o? When spi wind in if If spideW ing a til morning^ oral, .spidj weathor, indicate l( break up| from hoi If tiley ?Storni rail