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m?- - - . V - , " >mwwwwiwM)wiiroi ,1,11iwtEpaaj*a?fc?TEE ROYAL CHILD JOASlLi SERMON OF DR. 7ALMAGE IN PARIS, I SUNDAY, JAN. 12. ! i 5"fae t?ur;?alion of Athaliah?Xleiuarkablc ; / Preservation and Restoration of <J<>ash. God Will Never Allow Hi* Trrje I-iuo to Bo Kntirely Cat Off. Paris, Jan. 12.?The Rev. T. De Witt TaImage, D. D., of Brooklyn, preached in this city today. lie is making his way home, which he exEcts to reach in the early part of ibruary. Dr. Talmage"s text was: "Jehosheba. the daughter of King .Joram, sister of AliazirJi, took Joa?h the son of Ahaziah, and .scoie hiiu fr-^m among the king's sons which w.-re slain; and they hiu hhn, even Lim and his nurse, in the b.xlchamoer from Athaliah, so that be was ::ot slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord six years."?II Kings, xi, 2, 3. He suid: Grandmothers are more lenient with their children's children than they were with their own. At fo.-ty years of of age, if discipline bo necessary, clias x . %< c-.T-r.?.-f T~ tlirt I XlSCUiwIIt 15 USCU, wu.. oi .3 . > < i. L > , wt/ grandmothei*, looking- upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is cpologjtic and disposed to sub tiiuLe com'ectionery for whip. There is n^ihing more beautiful than this mellowing of old age toward childhood. Grand mother takes out her pocket handkerchief and wipes her spectacles an ! puts them on, ana looks down into the face of her mischievous and rebellious descendant, and says: "i don't think he meant to do it; let him off this time; I'll be responsible for his behavior in the future." My mother, with Ii:e second generation around her?a boisterous crew?said one day: "[ supj.ose they ought to he disciplined, bullc^a't do it Grandmothers are not tit to bring up grandchildren." i3ut here, in my text, we have a grandmother of a different hue. THE RESCUE OF JO ASH. I have within a few days been at Jerusalem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the Lite of the ancient tem$e and climbing the towers of the king's palace. Here in the text it is r>1f3 At.hsliah the cueenlv murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a kin jr. Her son was u king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the en tiro royal family, including her own grandchildren. The executioners' knives are sharpened. The palace is red with the b-yod of princes and prinevsses. On all shies are shrieks, and hands thrown up. and struggle, and deatii groan. 2\'o mercy! "Kill! Kill! But while the ivory ikttrs of the palace run with carnage, aad the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror, a Heet looted woman, a clergyman's wife, Jehosheba bv name, stealthily approaches the imperial nursery, seizes upon the grand-H /] rsi- o/-l oc r?c LAXvbU iiau. ?? v*~~? > v v caped massacre, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against lier, flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this Christian abuction. Get her out of the way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the young king and puts him down, sound asleep as he is, and unconscious of the peril that has !>een threatened; and there for six years he is secreted in that church apartment. Meanwhile old Athaiiaii smacks her lips with satisfaction, and thinks that all the royal family are dead. i civ v-CkO vii r> v T">" if. now time for young Joash to cjtae forth am?*iake the tin-one, and to push disgrraco-CTiid deash <?ld-AthaPJPWrahT The arrangements arc ail made yy for poliiical revolution. The military come i?iid take possession of the '.cmple, swear loyalty to the boy Joash and stand around"for his defense. See the sharpened swords and she burnished shields 1 Everything- is ready. Now, Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, j the coronet of government is pat on his brow, and the people clapped, and waved, and huzzaed, and trumpeted. ''What is that?"said Atha'iali. ""What is that sound over in the temple?'1 And she flies to see, and on Lor way they meet her and say: "Why, haven't you heard? You thought you had slain all the royal family, but Jca.-.;h has come to light." Then the queenly murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it totalis s, and cried until she foamed at the moutii: iou have no right to crown my grandson. You have no right to t;.::o the government from my shoulders. Treason! Treason!" While she stood there crying that, the military started lor her arrest, and she took a short cut though a back door of the temple, and ran through the royal stables; but the battle axes of the military fell on her in the barn yard, and for many a day, when the horses were bei.ig unloosed from the chariot, after drawing out yourg Joash, the licry rteeds would snort and rear pacing the place, as they smelt the place of tho carnage. THE LORD WILL PRESERVE HIS S "ED. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. "When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, an-'! when she is bad, she is apt to bo very I id, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She would exterminate the last scion of the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for embalmers and undertakers. She would clear the land of all God fearing and God loving people. She would put an end to everything that could in anywise interfere with her imperial criminality. She folds her hands and says: ''The work is done; it is completely done." Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church apartment are wrapped the cause of God, and the cause of good government Thai is the scion of the house of David; it is Joash. the Christian re* : T >. ,i?. p.?i. lUIIIU'I"; !v v'Uldil, LiiV i-ixViXVC V/i \ji\j\Xy it is Jou-h, the demolisner of Baalit;3h idolatry. Rock him tenderly; nursehim gently. Athaliah, you may kill all the other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternai defenses are thrown all around him. and this clergyman's wife, Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nursery, and will run up and d .uvn wi.ix him into the house of the Lord, and there she will hide him for sue years, and at the end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, iutl as poor a botch docs the wori'i always malce of extinguishing righteousness. Superstition rises up and says: "I v.-ill just put an end to pure religion." Doniitian slew forty thousand Christians, Diocletian slew ei^ut hundred and forty-four thousand Christians. And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all the ages, and the iiames hisseel, and the guillotine \ chopped, and the loastile groaned; but ' cyd tne ice5; or unrisuar.ity exienm- j nate it? Did they exterminate A-i^an, | the first British sacrifice; orZuingiius, j the Swiss reformer; or Jo'ai Oldcastle, j the Christian nobleman; or Abdallah, j the Arabian martyr: or An.ro Askew, j i t ii r'JCT ?n or Shrsdors, or- CranrW of ex "termination tbeH at the time vrhen tSaj Lad slain all the royafi| some Joash would 1 4 4*. ~ .1. wield a very scepter minion. THE IMPEIUSILXBI^BQIjL Infidelity says: ^'I'll just exterminate the Bible," and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on lire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible oui of existence. Thomas Paine said: ' J.n my 'Age of Reason' X have annihilated the Scriptures. Your Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and of churches.7' 0, how many assaults upon that Word! All the hostilities that have ever been crcated on earth are not to bo compared with the hostilities against that one book. Said one man, in his infidel desperation, to his wife: <;You must not be reading that B^ble," and he snatched it away frc ni her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child?the only child that God had ever iriven them?he pitched the book with its contents into tlio lire, and { stirred it with the tongs, and spat on it, and cursed it, and said: ''Susan, never have any more of that damnable stufr here!" How many individual and organized attempts have been made to exterminate that Bible! Have they done it? Have they exterminated the American Bible society? Have they exterminated the British and Foreign Bible society? Have they exterminated the thousands of Christian institutions, whose only object it is to multiply copies of ihe Scriptures, and throw them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated until instead o: cne or two copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten, and we pile them up in the corners of our SsKiintb srbnol rooms, and send frreat boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on in the work of extern)ini.uou, I do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium! Yea, if there should come a time of persecution in which all the known Bibles of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of light that blaze in our | pulpits and in our families extinguished?in the very day that infidelity and sin should be holding a jubilee over the universal extinction, | there would bo in some closet of a backwoods church a secreted copy of the Bible, and this Joash of eternal literature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would lly out the back door of the palace, one"! Vipj* rtavp.ass under the hoofs of the horses of the king's stables. You cannot exterminate Christianity! You cannot kill Joash! THE WE ATTEST ARM MAY SAVE. The second thought I hand you from my subject is, that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history is replete with stories of strangled monarchs and of young princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba, the clergyman's wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the imperial nursery and snatched up Joash. How she hushed him, lest by his cry he hinder the escape. Fly with him! Jehosheba, you hold in your arms the cause of God and good govern ment. Fail, and he is slain. Succeed, and you turn the tide of iho world's history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and his assassins there is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why iUUUH. v> (J spjuu VO.X Aix this bravery of expedition when Goa asks the some thing- of you and me? All around us are the imperiled children of a great King. They are Lorn of Almighty parentage, and will come to a tlirone or a crown, if permitted. But sin, the old Alhaliah, goes forth to the massacre. . iurderous temptations are out for tho assassination. Yalens, the emperor, was told that there was somebody in his realm who would usurp his throne, and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T. H. E. 0. D., aud the edict went forth from the emperors throne: ''Kill everybody whose name begins with T. H. E. O. D." And hundreds and thousands were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific in its denunciation. It matters not how you spell your name, you come under j its knife, under its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God, there is such a thing as delivering- a royal soul. "Who will snatch away Joash? This afternoon, in your Sabbath school class, there will be a prince of God?some one who may yet reign as king forever before the throne; there will be some one in your class who has a corrupt physical inheritance; there will be someone in your class who has a father and mother who do not know how to pray; there will be some one in your class who is destined to command in church or state?some Cromwell to dissolve a parliament, some Beethoveu to touch the world's harp strings, some John Howard to pour fresh air into the lazaretto, some Florence Nightingale to bandage the battle wounds, some Miss Dix to soothe the crazed brain, some John Frederick Oberlin to educate the besotted, some David Brainard to change the Indian's war whoop to a Sabbath son^, some John Wesley to marshal three-fourths i of Christendom, some John Knox to make queens turn pale, some Joash to demolish idolatry and strike for the kingdom of heaven. THE PRINCES IN TEE CRADLE. There are sleeping in your cradles by night, there are playing in your nurseries by day, imperial souls waiting for dominion, and whichever side the cradle they get out will decide the destiny of empires. For each one of those children sin and holiness contend?Athaliah on the one side and Jehosheba on the other. But I hear peo pie say: "what's ttie use of bothering children with religious instruction? Let them grow* up and choose for themselves. Don't interfere with their volition." Suppose some one had said to Jchosheba: "Don't interfere with that young Joash. Let him grow up and decide whether he likes the palace or not. whether he wants to be king or not. Don't disturb his volition." Jehosheba knew right well that unless that day the voud^ kins' "w"as rescued, he would never T>; rescued at all. I tell you, my friends, the reason we don't reclaim all our children from worldlings is because we begin too late. Parents wait until their children lie before they teach th rm the value of truth. They wait until their \ i : \ .--fAOM r4^ .AT* 4AAAM 4 h V,I_LXIVii VH OIH wti LJJLV^y LIIXVAJ. tlic iiupoi lance of righteous conversation. They wait until their children are all wrapped up in this world befoi'e they tell them of a better world. Too late with your prayers. Too late with your discipline. Too late with your benediction. You put all care upon your children between twelve and eighteen. "Why do you not put the chief care between four and nine? It is too late to repair a vessel when it has got out of the dry docks. It is too lair* to save JG&sh- tor PSPmus i ^Rcning royal | ^^^coronation. Can j sublimer work than i M^ai saving? That was whatj Bushed Paul 's cheek with enthusiasm; I that was what led Munson to risk j his life amid Bcrnesian cannibals: that i was what sent Dr. Abeel to preach un- ; dor the consuming skies of China; that j was what gave courage to Phocus in j the Third century. When the miii- j tary officers came to pat him to death ! " l 1 i._ I lor s saKC, ne pui-mcm iu ucu : that they might rest while he himself I went out, and in his own garden dug ; his grave, and then came back and ' said: *T am ready;"' but they were ; shocked at the idea of taking the life I cf their host. He said: "It is the will i of God that I should die,'' and he stood j on the margin of his own grave and i they beheaded him. You say it is a j mania, a l'oolhardiness, a fanaticism. ! Kather would I call it a glorious self abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction. the plucking of Joash from death, and raising him to coronation. god's altar the true refuge. The third thought I hand to you from my text is that the church of God j is a good hiding place. When Jehosheba rushes into the nursery of the king and picks up Joash, what shall she do with him? Shall she take 1m to some room in the palace? No; ^or the oilicial desperadoes will hunt through every nook and corner of that building. SHall she take him to the residence of some wealthy citizen ? No; that -citizen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. But she has to take him 1 r*i- . i ^ I somewnere. nears uiu vry ui iuc mob in the streets; she hears the shriek of the dying nobility; so she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, into the house of God, and then she pats him down. She knows that Athaliah and her wicked assassins will not boiher tho temple a great deal; they are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the worshipers year after year; there he will breathe the odor of the golden censers; in that sacred spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed, and he come to enthronement. Would God that we were as wise as Jehosheba, and knew* that the church of God is the best hiding place. Perhaps our parents took us there in early days; they snatched us away from the world and hid us behind the baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and the psalra books. 0, glorious inclosure! We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all the time, and we have seen the lamb on the altar and we have handled the phials which are the prayers of all saints, and we have dwelt under the wings of the chei'ubim. Glorious inclosure! When my father and mother'died, and the property 'was settled up, there was hardly anything left; but they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession, because they hid us in the temple. And when days of temptation have come upon mv soul I have gone there for shelter; and when assaulted of sorrows, I have gone there for comfort, and there I mean to live. I want, like Joasli, to stay there until coronation. I mean to be buried out of the house of God. 0 men of the world outside there, betrayed, caricatured and cheated of the world, why. do you not come in Liii. UU^xi WJO uiuauj UWA v* Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehoslieba today, and steal you away from your perils and hide you in the temple. How few of us appreciate the fact that the church of God is a hiding place. There are many people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge it everything, even the few dollars they give*toward it. They make no sacrilices. They dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher's bill, and they pay their doctors bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay every ho&y ^rd, and they come in at the last to pay JLord in his church, and frown as tbey say: "There, Lord, it. is; if you will have it. take it?now take it. take it: send me a. receipt in full, and don't bother me soon again!" seek godly society. I tell you there is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church-is. Where are the souls thai put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions ? one-tenth of their income? Where arc those who, having put aside that one-tenth, draw upon it cheerfully? Why, it is pull, and drag, and hold on, and grab, and clutch; and giviDg is an affliction to most people when it ought to be an exhilaration and a rapture. Oh, that God would remodel our souls on this subi'ect, and that we might appreciate the lousc of God as the great refuge. If your children are to come up to lives of virtue aud happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not get them the world will. Ah, when you pass away?and it will not be long before you do?when you pass away it will be a satisfaction rrair chilrlrpn in CThristian soni ety. You want to have them sitting at the holy sacraments. You want them mingling' in Christian associations. You would like to have them die in the sacred precincts. When you are on your dyiug bed, and your little ones come up to take your last word, and you look into their bewildered faces, you will want to leave them v*ter the church's benediction. I .on't care how hard you are, that is so. I said to a man of the world: "Your son and daughter are going to join our church next Sunday. Have you any objections?" "Bless you," he said, "objections? I wish ali my children belonged to the church. I don't attend to those matters myself?I know I am very wicked ?but I am very glad the^ are going, and I shall be there to see them. I am very glad, sir; I am very glad. I want them there." And so, though you may have been wanderers from God, and though you may have sometimes caricatured the church of Jesus, it is your great desire that your sons and daughters should be standing all their lives within this sacred inclosure. More than that, you yourself will want the church for a hiding place when the mortgage is foreclosed; when your daughter, just blooming into womanhood, suddenly clasps her hands in a slumber that knows no waking; when gaunt trouble walks through the parlor, and the sitting room, and the dining hall, and the nursery, you will want some shelter from the tempest. Ah, some of you have been run upon by misfortune and trial; why do you not come into the shelter? I said to a widowed mother after she had buried her only son ?months after I said to her: "How do you <ret along nowadavs?" "Oh," she replied, '*1 get along tolerably well except when the sun shines." I said: "What do you mean by that?" when she said: "I can't bear to see the sun shine; my heart is so dark tnat all the brightness of the natural world seems a mockery to me." 0, darkened soul, 0, broken hearted man. broken hearted woman, why do you not come into the shelter? I swing the door wide own. I swing it from wall to wall. Come in! Come in! You want a place where your troubles shall be interpreted, where your burdens shall be unstrapped, where your tears shall be wiped away. Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people. Give them a seat Tc-Vm-f). <~>t> yp<rf- ftiAir--A'P-5rrY soul* 2L BB5ey?rene.??Trii y < r nn?tBAaar^i r ? r- ra FlasL. sofne'light from your chandeliers upon their darkness. . "With some soothing hymn hush their griefs. 0, Church of God. gate of heaven, let mo go through ill All other institutions arc going tu f::il; but ihc Chureh of God?its foundation is the '"Rock of Ages, ' its charter is for everlasting years, its keys are held by the universal proprietor, its dividend is heaven, its president is God! Sure as thy tralli bhall last, rT* - V . ?: XO sua. 1 w y!\Cii The brightest glories earth can yield, And brighter bliss of heaven. God grant that all this audience, j the youngest the eldest, the worst, the ' besi, may tlnd their safe and glorious j hiding place where Joash found it?in the temple. An Automatic Ssiviags Tiank. A Liverpool man lias invented an automatic savings lank. When a penny or two halfpennies are pressed intotiie automatic bank the depositor pulls out a drawer and finds a printed ticket bearing u number in duplicate. He writes his name and address on the ticket, which he then presses into a cavity in the machine made to receive it, keeping the other half with the corresponding number. Thus, when those in charge of the automatic bank clear it of the tickets in order to enter them in proper form in their books, each depositor lias the duplicate of his ticket bearing his name and address. In this way absolute accuracy is obtained, and depositors are credited with the exact amount they have put into the machine. Each machine is capable of holding ?25 in pennies or half pennies, the coins being received in tubes, which arc so arranged ihat any attempt to pass base coins would bo very easily detected. No second penny cuu be received by the machine until the receipt for the first one has been duly removed by the depositor, i ?New York Telegram. Mrs. Mona Caird, who started the "Is Marriage a Failure?" business, has been studying Buddhism. There is a young giantess 6 feet 8 inches high, said absolutely to be only 12 years old, on exhibition in Loudon. She is a Don Cossack. The fast mail service between New York and San Francisco has been reduced to four days, twenty-two hours aud forty-five minutes. "What a fine thing old age is," said M. Augicr not long before his death. "One is surrounded with care, attention and respect. But what a pity that it lasts so short a time." A sturgeon fourteen feet long was j r>oTio-lit in Karvftmento river, near i Chico, last week. Instead of killing it the fishermen fastened a rope to the body and turned it loose in the river to get fat. They feed it on the entrails of salmon, and the captive likes the treatment. Little Jim T,vas but a few years old when there was a wedding in the family. The aged grandmother kept her seat during the ceremony. In telling1 about it afterward Jim said: "We all stood up and got married 'cept grand ma!" A novel advertisement appeal's in a Gloucester (Mass.) paper. It is from a property holder, and notifies a certain gang of hoodlums that he intends to assert his rights against annoyance. It also reminds the parents of hoodlum UliIi.Ui'3 tilUl# LLLCI U Cb JLV^^U.4 AWOJ.WHJ1bility for destruction of property, and closes -with the remark that if the police did their duty there would be no occasion for the advertisement. The farmers of the neighborhood of Hiawatha, Kan., arc burning corn for fuel, finding- it cheaper than coal. Corn is sold on the farm for twenty cents per bushel, while the average price of coal delivered at the farm ranges from twenty-one to twentythree cents per bushel. The Farmers1 alliance brought the attention of the farmers to tlfe relative prices of the two commodities, and advised that half the corn crop be used as fuel, thus advancing the price of the other half and saving money in their fuel bills. The farmers have begun to act on this advice. The construction of the canals designed to overcome obstructions in the Tennessee river at Muscle shoals has been completed. It was begun by the government in 1873, and nearly $4,000,000 has thus far been expended on the work. The opening of the canals v.i I give water transportation nine p? in the year from Chat1 rv Mississippi river. Luore charitable than inej. jdon street sweepers do not .. One of them on being asked i^r ; ?i opinion replied that it was no use asking ladies for a gratuity; they never did and never would give a poor man anything. Another said that a lady occasionally gave him a penny when her- p.urse was handy. And still another said he never heard of a lady even noticing a poor sweeper. The marvelous growth of the colonies is now a familiar story. Certainly nothing more remarkable has been seen in the history of the world. During the fift^r years succeeding the ac VCddiUU. VI AACX U.KXJ^OUJ', UIU <u va V erncd by the queen, exclusive of Great Britain, increased from 1,100,000 to 8,400.000 square miles; the European population of the colonies increased from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000; the colored population from 9,800,000 to 26,200,000; and the state revenues of possessions bevond the seas grew from ?24,000,000 to"?122,000,000a year. Z. T. Devore, a Parkersburg (W. Va.) merchant, owns a dog- of superior intelligence. The dog goes to the store with the mail every morning, and from it takes the mail addressedto the private residence to Mr. Devore's home. Kothing can divert him while attending to his duties as mail carrier, and he never makes a mistake in taking the letters to their proper direction. Ever\- evening he sees to it that the evening papers are taken to the house, and if by chance the papers should be missing, either by being1 blown away by the wind or carried off by the boys, the dog makes a raid into some neighbor's yard and hypothecates a paper, which he carries off home. The Do.serrinjj Poor. As superintendent of the Provident association, which seeks to relieve the distress of the worthy poor, I disagree entirely with the great mass of matter printed and preached about the mendicant class. This is all to the effect that hypocrisy and false pretense are tho rule among the destitute. This I deny. St. Louis has no mendicant class, and the hardest part of our labor is to hunt up and relieve the class of poor whom our organization de sires to benefit. The self respecting poor man or poor woman in dozens of instances that come under my notice every winter shrinks from asking alms until he or she has reached a state of destitution, that is pitiable, and which we never intend should be reached. They sell everything that will bring a coin before coming to us, and then in tears and trembling. Many of thenx, after awaiting for hours to jjluck u]> courage to tell their sad stories, would depart with the words ; unsaid if we did not look for just sncli.' people. We frequently issue reliei' tickets, which are returned but half used because the head of the famiiy has found work, and desires not to wit the bread of charity.? Rev. Edwacd Flacli in St Louis Globe-Democrat. J mi i wimrifrrnriuT irrifrrmnr? _? SOMETIME. Well, citlier you or I, After what*i*er is to say is said. * Host. see !'!:? < :':or die, Or 11tin usfth distance, of tUe <xher deadSometime. And you r i :nu.-t Lide Toor ty eyes aad faces \vu.c and '.vet With Life's urr-'ut grief. The* voiiin, sealed with siicaco, yet Sometime. Aril yy:i yl* i must lool: Into the oil er's srave, or far or near, And rvru!. as in a book, Writ it. tii'* dust, words w? made bitter here. r>oniciiri:c. for tot!: : - i.>r?i ilie way Wln-r v all: together, very soon; One in i.: ..;st s:i-ll stay, The ti shall see the rising moon? Sometime. Oh: fas;, fast friend of mine'. Lift un tif voice I love so much, and warnTo wring faint hands ami pine. Tell tne I may bo left forlorn, forlornSometime. Say I may i.iss through tears. Forever fuiiin;* and forever co.a. One ribbon from sweet years. One dear dttul leaf, one precious ring of gold? Sometime. Say you may think with pai:i Of so;:-- : i!.- ht grace, some timid wish to please. Some eager look, half vain. Into your heart some broken sous like these? Sometime. -Sarah :.L B. Piatt. A NEWSPAPER. Yes, sir; I give it to you straight, or I'm a Chinaman. Foolin*? No, no: I'm not. I'm not one to fool; I drove a bob tailed car too long for that! What with the grot-Jiies that put their fares into the kerosene lamp box and the crooks that try to got ofT ^without paying at all, and the old gents with principles tliat make the driver come in and collect "for I heir own good," and the young ladies, that will stop to kiss each other on the platform, and the old ladies that are afraid to get oil, and the boys that hitch on behind, and the old gents that are going to write to the papers, and the folks that want twenty-dollar bills changed, and the folks you run over, and the wagons that run into you, I tell you a bob tail car driver guts savage after awhile and don't feel like fool in'. I was savage thai day. There were two folks in the ear?a man and a woman?and'.uly one fare in the box. I'd rung and I'd shouted, but neither of them attended to me. I laid the missing fare to the man because of his looks. He was about as poverty stricken as I ever saw. Not your laboring man's poverty. A laborer out of work never looked like that. It was tramp's rags this fellow wore, and he had the hands of a tramp too. Under their dirt a tramp's hands are like the hands of a line gentleman? same reason, he don't work. This man's hands were clean, and his face wasn't bad; but it was more likely he was trying to beat me out of live cents than that the lady was. And if ho was a tramp he had money enough about him?they al ways have?and after I'd done my best from outbade, I stopped the car and went to attend to him. Thy minute I got hi I saw?what it seemed to me sort of queer I hadn't noticed before?the lady was a Sister of Charity. She wore a black bonnet and veil, and a white thing under it around her forehead and under her chin. Her hands were crossed in her lap. She was as holy and pure to look at as if she'd been an angel. I looked at her, and then I said to the man: "I want your fare.'" He looked at me?hungry eyes he had ?and says he: "I paid five cents into your box?isn't that right, driver?" ' All right, if you did it," said I. Then I went down toward the lady. It was my duty, but I found it hard to do. I stood before her feeling as queer as ever I did in all my life, and all I could say was: ' Madam, slrali I take your fare?" A * A or<?ju*Ai? -* ?> r* Knf 4- r\ OUU U1U uuu U.HO ?> ^/vmvvu w a paper somebody had left upon the seat ?a common newspaper. "Give it to him," I seemed to see her 6ay with her lips?and by "him" I saw she meant the tramp. Now, a paper left in the ear belonged to me, and I'm a man with a temper, and at my wages the price of a paper was something; so, what do you think, then, of my going and handing that paper over to that tramp, as meek as Moses? "Hers," says I, poking it toward him. "It isn't mine," says he. But my eyes were on the sister all the while. "The lady says you must take it," says I. Now, she hadn't said anything; she had only lifted her hand. "What lady?'' said the man, taking the paper. "The sister there," said L Then all of a sudden, while I looked at her. the seat the lady had been sitting on was ei lpty! She hadn't got up on her feet or moved. She just wasn't there any more, and I got out to my horses again as quid* as I couia. .uen ao go out of their heads from overwork, I'm told, and I began to think I was going out of mine. I did not dare to look back into the car until the man in?idc pulled back the slide and spoke. "Driver," he said, "give me your name and residence." "What for?" I asked. "No harm," said he. "Do you mean to try to get me into trouble?"' I asked, knowing that there were "spotters" about and making up my mind that this was one in disguise. "I .tried my best to get that lady's fare, but I couldn't be rough to a sister." "I saw no lady. What do I care about the fares?" said the man. "If you give me your name vou'll not be sorrv for it, I think." He spoke like a gentleman, for ail his clothes. "Oh, well, I'm not ashamed of my name?it's Jim Brown. This car is No. ?, and if vou want me you can find me!" "A1J nri;'. he saici; ana 1 sow mac lie fead f< ' paper qqm* ' was fastening it up in his coat, pinning it with a black headed pin. At the next corner lie got off. That night I went to Dr. , as kind a man as ever lived. I knew he wouldn't charye me for an opinion. I told him my story. "Now, doctor," I said, "if I'm Jooney, out with it!" "No, no, Jim," said he; "very sano men have optical illusions now and "I don't want any more of 'em," said X. Collecting fares of optical illusions don't pay." "I should say not," said the doctor. "But my opinion is that you turned your baclc a minute and that the woman got ofF without paying her fare. Probably she was not a real Sister of Charity. The city is full of frauds. She made you take the paper to the man to give herself a chance. See now?" I didn't see: but what can you do when folks are so sensible they can't believe anything? " "fwasn't like that?there she was and there she wasn't," said I. "That's how it was." "If it happens a^ain. eome to me aad I'll write you a prescription anil make vou a present of it." sai<l the doctor. So I tftanlred him Lindl" snct went j away, and it didn't b;i.pj>en ngain. And ' weolcs went along, and it was winter. \ | and as cold as Greenland, and pass- r- ; i gers more bothersome than I ever i ; 'em, when one day. standing in ui- i I stables, talking to Mike Gallagher, the old-fellow that w;ii-red the horses and - 1 . f .. IT- T ; cil v. ;> IIciv: jvav a'.-i c * ; vvwj , 1 heard my name called. i "You're wanted Jim." said some one.. ; and I went out into the street, and the man that had called me pointed to a gentleman?about as line a looking one as ever I knew?and he. the gentleman, walked up to me. 'It's your dinner time. i.-:i't it?" said he. "Y<'S, sir." said I. "I've got a few minutes left." "Come along, then." said he. He walked me into a restaurant close by the stables, and sai?t: "C;t!l for what you want," and I named i:. Then said he: "You don't remember me, Jim Brown?" "No. sir," said I. "You gave me a paper about six months ago,"' said he. "A newspaper. I asked your name." "Oh, oh!" said I. "Xo, sir, I didn't know you. I begin to see the likeness, but you?you" "I know." said he. '"I was pretty weil down on my luck, then. See here" 1..rv ,.nl?,frnniiil ]>i?j font n skin bless you, and took out of the breast pocket a newspaper?"read that," he said, pointing to where it was folded. I read it. This is what it said: "If Ferdinand Melrose will return home all will be forgiven by his dying father," and after that where he was tc inquire for "further particulars." "Well, I am Ferdinand Melrose," says the gentleman. "The bkick .sheep of my family. Long ago my stepmother made mischief between my father and myself. He forbade me his house, and I rather went to the bad. No matter for my story. Besides the fare you inquired about I had only a bottle of laudanum in my pocket. 1 was going to the Central park to take it. I should have slept myself out of life into eternity, and the city would have seen to my funeral if you nau not given mu luul x w the place mentioned, and found, as I expected, that money liad been left in a lawyer's hands to take me homo. When I got there I found that my stepmother had been dead three years, and that my father had been attacked by a disease that must be fatal. We were reconciled, and when he died I found myself a rich man. I had kept Jim Brown's address, and I feel that I owe him something." "Nothing at all," says I. "The lady? the sister?told me to give it to you." "What lady?" said he. "I'd like to know myself," said I, and then I told him my story. "It is strange," says he. "I could swear that I was the only passenger at the time. I felt so miserable and so shabby that I purposely waited for an empty car. And another thing is strange, Jim Brown," said ho. "We have a ghost in our family. A nun is said to appear now and then, ill ways to do good. And my father declared that while he was ill she appeared to him three times, always pointing to my portrait, which hung in his bedroom, and always conveying to him in some way that it was his duty to search for me. In fact, she was the cause of our reconciliation." I couldn't say anything. Neither of us spoke about the thing again; but when he insisted on starting me in the eating house line I wasn't fool enough to refuse, and, as you see, I'm not a bobtail car driver any longer. No, I haven't seen anything queer since that lime, and I can't say I'm anxious; but whether the lady was a ghost, or what the doctor called an optical delusion, it's certain that she only did good to all concerned. BI?ss her for coming! ?2Iary Kyle Dallas in Fireside Companion. JOURNALISM IN GERMANY. Some of the Things Which Make it Hn> morous for Outsiders. An amusing side of journalism in Germany comes to light when a nevrspaper is confiscated by the government for political reasons. That is, it is amusing to people who have seen the way the tiling is done?the owners or publishers of the confiscated paper don't look at the funny side of it The first copy of every newspaper must be sent to the "Staats An wait." or public prosecutor, who is the censor of the press. Herr Staats An wait, with the press laws before liirn, carefully reads the paper, while he sips his mug of beer. Iiis eye suddenly lights on a passage which criticises adversely an action or a remark of the emperor. He reads it through, and rereads it. and begins to <ret mad. "Donnerwetter noch ein mal," he says. "That must be stopped." 'He hurriedly draws a blue pencil line around the paragraph and steps up to his telephone. He asks central to connect him with the chief of police. When this functionary is at the other end of the 'phone, Mr. Staats An wait orders him to send a squad of police to the printer of the paper, forbid its further publication, and seize all the copies thereof he can lay his hands on. The chief answers "Jawohl," and repeats the order to his assistant. The assistant turns to his "sub" and transmits it to him, who in turn tells his 4'sub" what is wanted, and finally, after a long delay, several policemen start for the office of the paper in a hired fiacre. In Germany, when the police are engaged in any special work, they do not ride in the ordinary street cars, nor do they walk, but they must hire a fiacre or a coach. This adds sccrecy and dignity to the affair. When the policemen enter the publication office, they intimidate the frightened foreman into handing over all the copies he has in the place. These are taken down stairs and thrown into the fiacre. If there are very many of them, another fiacre is called. The printers must take the objectionable matter from the forms, and the police make "pi" of it. Usually these officers bear a warrant for the arrest of the editor. The German editor has been there before, however, and on the editorial page of most papers, right under the terms to subscribers, he keeps a name, say, "Johann Schmidt, responsible editor." And when there is any arresting to be done the police must wreak their vengeance on Herr Schmidt, who in most cases is some petty writer on the paper. When he isvin .jail for writing something which he didn't write, the paper pays him a good salary and looks out for his family. The liberal newspapers and socialistic publications always keep a couple of responsible editors on tap, and when number one is in the lockup the name of number two takes his place in the paper until, through some trouble with the police, number three begins his inning. This functionary is called a sitz redakteur, or seat editor. The seat refers to bis sojourn in a dungeon. The penalty of the law increases with each offense, and after the unfortunate editor has sat several times a new one is appointed, who starts in with the mild- J est punishment for the first offense. The reai editor usually gets wind of j the intended visit of the police and secretes several copies of the publication, j | When they arrive, and he has read their lttter of authoritv. he hands over I | the rest of the papers, which join their companions in the fiacre. The officers : ypflrf t/i->! *m fhft ^-nrg-n-fln-fc fan his^i* / i I re-it. YvTien they ilnish, the editor says: "Well, rceine Kerren. lam only a salaried vriter here. There stands tlie responsible editor." The police scowl at the speaker and march off the responsible editor. It t *Uof tll/i HftTrO. i rCt|UCiILlJ luab I,uu paper lias already been sent out and distributed throughout the city, in which case the police must travel around and get hold of ail the copies they can. They visit every reading room and cafe in the city, and cut the obnoxious paragraph out from paper on the files. In "V ienna there are TOO cafes, and one can imagine what a job it is to visit each one and look for the unfortunate newspaper. While the police are going- the rounds of the city, the editor is preparing a second edition omitting the article which provoked the wrath of the Staats Anwalt. In the center of the space this omission naturally creates the word "Confiscated" is usuallv inserted. A Berlin paper from which a speech had been taken out, read in the second edition: "The speaker mounted the platform, and began in a clear voice, 4 'Confiscated" In Russia publications are confiscated with greater regularity than they are issued. At the frontier towns the foreign newspaper mail is regularly opened and read. When the officials come across something which the/ think would lower Russia in the estimation of the reader, to say nothing of political utterances, they have a very effective method of doing away with it. A roller, made for the puri pose, is dipped in printer's ink and carefully rubbed over the paragraph, after which the paper is -wrapped and sent on to its address. Many a Russian reader of German and American publications has received his paper bearing the black mark. If the officials note that some one person is repeatedly receiving such forbidden articles, they report the fact to St Petersburg, and the person stands an unenviable show for Siberia.?New York Sun. THE AMERICAS. Comparative Areas of tile Central and South American Countries. Central and South America embrace an area a little greater than twice the extent of country in the United States and territories, and a poplation of about 50,000,000, or about one-sixth smaller than the population of the republic. Mexico cover's an area just about equal to that part of the United States east of the Mississippi river, exclusive of the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, and has 10,000,000 inhabitants. The five Central American repub lies of Costa Kica, (juatemala, tLonduras, Nicaragua and Salvador cover an extent of country about the size of the Gve states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, and have a population equal to both New York and Indiana. Brazil's area is somewhat greater than that of the United States, exclusive of A laska, and her population is about that of New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The Argentine Republic, with about half the area of the United States, has a population not quite as large as Pennsylvania. Colombia is nearly equal in extent to New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis consin, with a population probably a little less than that of New York state. Bolivia's territory is somewhat greater than that of the Atlantic states, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, and has a population about Indiana's figure. Peru is a little larger than the At Iantic states and Pennsylvania, and her population is about that of Illinois. Venezuela is larger than Peru by about as much territory as is embraced in New Jersey, and her population if about equal to Indiana's. Ecuador could contain Ohio, New York. Pennsvlvania, Michigan and II linois, but her population is not quite up to that of Siichigan alone. Chili's domain cut up would make states as extensive as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana. Her populatior is somewhat greater than that of Indiana. Paraguay is big- enough to include Ohio and New \ork within her bor ders, but her entire population scarce ly exceeds that of Cleveland. Uraguav is not quite as large a; Ohio and Indiana combined, and jtts' about the same number of inhabitant: as Brooklyn, N. Y. The Guianas are English, FrencI and Dutch colonies. British Guiana twice as large as Ohio, has just abou' the population of Cleveland. French Guiana, somewhat larger than Ohio has about as many inhabitants as To ledo. Dutch Guiana, nearly as larg< as Pennsylvania, has no more inhabi tants than Columbus. ? Cleveland Plain Dealer. Story of a Suit of Armor. If the story related by a Parisiar contemporary be true there is a mer chant in the French capital who has been singularly favored by capricious Dame Fortune under rather curious circumstances. The paper we refer tc relates that recently a wealthy Paris ian, a lover of antiquities and curiosi ties, purchased of the said merchant a suit of armor for the large sum of 300,' OUO francs, or ?iz,uuu. iseiorc it cam< into the possession of its present ownei the suit of armor had had a remark able career. It belonged originally, it is stated, to Francois I, and fel one day into the hands of M. d( Rothschild, vrho bought it for 2,50( francs, disposing of it later on ic Lord Ashburnham "for 25,000 francs. Years afterward the latter, in turn sold it to a London dealer in curiosi ties for 300,000 francs, he again pass ing it on to an English millionaire foi 425.000 francs. "W hen the millionaire it TTTcclnff nnnrinr?AH in f.Vtft miTlW of a lumber room, and the Louse, be ing afterward destroyed by fire, the eel ebrated suit of armor was found amonc the ruins and passed into the hands ol a dealer in old iron. It was unearthec in his shop not long ago by the Pari; merchant, who bought it at a merely nominal price and cleaned and restorec it, after which he was lucky enougl to find a purchaser willing to take ii off his hands, as has been said, for th( sum of ?12,000. So be did a remark ably good stroke of business when h< bougnt it of the dealer in old iron fo: a mereson<r.?London Times. Will Become :i Crkze. Some fellow has invented a toj wliistle -vliicli, being blown into, gives .be opening notes of '"Where Did You Get That Kat?" stopping short with the opening line in a mosl aggravating manner. The thing will, of course, become ;t craze, and as greal a nuisance as was years ago the pockel telegraph sounder, later the automatic cricket, or the wooden return ball, with its rubber, which everyone from first to second childhood seemed u have in hand.?interview in St. Globe-Democrat OOMJr'jLJtGT ?p nniTiu'iirm i innmn ti.i i SHOW THE TERRY HAN'FG ... . I ag as iri1 a ggg Piano* and Organs. 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