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The Washington Lobbyists.
A great deal is said and written about
the "Washington lobbyist which is pure
imagination. The lobbyist of to-day is
not the Sara Ward. The day has gone
past in Washington when a vote can be
purchased for a dinner. Dinners are too
plentiful and votes are too scarce for
such an excliangc. The dinner of to-day
is oftentimes used as a vehicle for the
exchange of views by the friends of any
particular measure. The lobbyist first
secures his game, and then draws them
'together where, after the guests have
Btowed away several bottles undor their
honorable jacket, the chances of the success
of the undertaking are discussed
end various plans suggested that will
tend to improve them. The dinner is
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lobbyist, but he uses it guardedly and
without ostentation. A very prominent
lobbyist here, who is reported to be worth
a cool half million, keeps a sort of bachelor's
hall in a fashionable neighborhood.
His house is magnificently furnished,
and the rarest taste has been expended
in its adornments. Some of the
pictures are said to have cost
fabulous sums. Here he lives like a
prince and entertains his congressional
friends in royal style. For the past ten
/years his card parties have been the talk
of a certain portion of the town. Occasionally
a game of draw poker ;s played
here in which the stakes run up to large
amounts, but the host is ahvay3 careful
that his guests do not lose too much at
the table. He is one of the best card
players in the city, but he seldom wins,
uf he finds that one of his guests is losing
too much to another, he invariably plays
tto that the unlucky one will win from
him VipfnrA hp Ipftvos the table. He uses
cards as an attraction and an amusement,
and takes care th. it nothing shall transipire
which wouid even lend the color of
suspicion that his house is a place where
gambling is the chief source of revenue.
This man is what >s culled a ''bear lobbyist."
If he tried he could probably
<do but little toward the success of any
^particular project, but anions his fellows
lie is said to be able to give any scheme
a black eye in case he is not properly
'"seen," so to speak. His power with
Congressmen is entirely i egativc.
A scheme involving the expenditure of
imoney out of the public treasury must
jpass his gaze and meet his approval provided
there is-a job in it, otherwise he
will set his dogs on it. He is shrewd
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ikill a measure than it is to force it
through Congress.?Bo3to/i Traveler.
From Coach-Box to Pulpit.
The Rev. and Mrs. Swan Carl Franzene
tave. left Ardmore for their new home
in Minnesota, where Mr. Franzene will
labor as a missionary among the Swedish
isettlers. Their recent wedding has
unade public the history of a romantic
courtship. The bride is the daughter of
ithe late Charles Kagler, of Ardmore, for
imany vears State senator from Mont
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ithe Lutheran Church and Publication
(Society. Her sister is Dr. Annie Ivugler,
.now a missionary in India and recently
assistant resident physician in the female
department of the Norristown Insane
asylum. While Miss Florence was still
a schoolgirl (pupil of the Friends'school,
at Fifteenth and Race streets) she formed
the acquaintance of the coachman of Dr.
D. Hayes Agnew, who spends his summers
at his country place, near Ayimore.
This coachman was a Swede of ordinary
education, not at all, in the eyes of the
"world, the prop.y; mate for a young ladv
of Miss Kugler's position, education and
prospective fortune. Nevertheless, she
declared her determination either to
marry the coachman or go with her sister
^ as a missionary to India.
The young lady's relatives and friends,
of course, opposed- the match. The
coachman was too sensible to imitate
Hulscamp and resolved that if the girl
could nQt come down to his level he
would rise to hers. Accordingly he reVkirt
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coachman and catered upon the studies
required for the Lutheran ministry. During
his theological course Miss Florence
patiently waited. At last the young
Swede's efforts were crowned with success.
He was ordained, all opposition
gave way and Ardmore was entertained
with a pretty wedding in the Lutheran
church. As the demand for Lutheran
ministers to labor among the Swedish
emigrants in the West is largely in excess
of the supply, the young missionary
has every opportunity to keep his present
position and become useful if not also
eminent.?Philadelphia Times.
An Art or Shadowing.
"Shadowing/' says a Chicago detective,
"is the most difficult and the most
scientific work in my profession. If a
man is well shadowed for two weeks so
much can be discovered concerning his
habits, his associates, his inclinations,
Becret acts, in short, of his inner life,
that almost a perfect biography of him
Cau be written. Every man does many
Characteristic things when he thinks lie
is alone that he never would do in company,
nnd the shadow learns a man's true
character by witnessing his natural life.
Wore people than you imagine have been
lhadowed for the information of both
friends and enemies. Nearly every man
in Chicago prominent in bu3iness, politics,
or religion has been shadowed, and
there is somewhere filed away a document
that would make the eyes of the subject
open could he read it.
"Every man connected with a bank,
from the president down, is shadowed.
Large business firms get periodical reports
on the private lives of trusted employes.
I suppose Marshall Field can
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his store whether they drink brandy or
mead, smoke cigarettes or opium, play
penny ante in a friend's parlor or faro in a
gambling house.
"I know that the head of a well-known
detective agency in Chicago has' been
Bhadowed bv nearly every other agency,
and they all have his record.
("It is hard work to shadow a man.
You have to get up an hour earlier than
he does in order to get your breakfast
and lay for him at his home. You follow
him to his office, to lunch, on his business
rounds?everywhere. When he is on
the street you never take your eyes off
him, and I tell you this makes your head
flWim. 1 OU ioiiow mm numu iu supper,
End down tcwn again in the evening,
tyou note everybody he speaks with aud
every lady to whom he bows. You must
ptav with him till he goes to bed, and
then write out your report before you get
to sleep.
"Men are oftenest shadowed when
they are in trouble, and they rush here
and there, talk to scores of men, enter
scores of places, and get up early and go
to bed late. A good lively subject will
Sead the shadow a wild and merry dance,
and two weeks of it will wear a good
toan out."?Chicajo News.
Butternut wood is largely used for
miking shoes to wear in breweries and
other damp placcs.
Less than one-third of the earth and
b debris that covered Pompeii so long remains
in place.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
He benefits himself who doeth good
j to otners.
{ The way to keep money is to earn it
: fairly and honestly.
It is error only, and not truth, that
! shrinks from inquiry.
i The investigation and pursuit of truth
] is the special duty of man.
I Our acts make or mar us; we are the
| children of our own deeds.
j It is a great blindness and a great
j misery to seek rest where it is impossible
to find it.
[ A rule for living happily with others
j is to avoid having stock subjects of disi
putation.
j It is as hard to satirize well a man oi
avmoo on tn nraise avcII a
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I man of distinguished virtues.
' A snob is that man or woman who is
j always pretending to be something better?especially
richer or more fashionable
?than they are.
Misfortune is not always misery. A
mau can possess an unrutHed m:nd and a
contenicd heart in the midst of the most
untoward circumstances.
It is a deep working out of love to say
or do from true love that which may
cause the object of love to manifest hate
to us and yet to love him in spite of his
hate.
Let there be in every man's life a time
for silence and for holding his tongue,
of keeping it back, like David, eveu
from good words, even though itbepaiu
nad grief to him.
The Miseducation of Elephants.
I The huge performing elephant, Em'
press, lately ki.led a watchman in the
j winter quarters of Forcpaugh's circus n
j Philadelphia, completing, so far, a tally
of three men killed, aud more than a
dozen meu and women woun led. We
desire to call attention to two facts.
Empress, with this record of victims,
was a performing elephant; Jumbo,
whose docility aud very good nature
was a proverb, so far as American experience
of him went, was not. These
facts entirely coincide with the scientific
fact that the elephantine train, which
is practically non-convoluted, is not
adapted to the comprehension of the
sort of tricks exhibited in the circus.
I This, acrain, is proved by the extraordi
nary difficulty experienced in educating
an animal noted for its almost human intelligence
in some directions above a line
of conduct wholly foreign to its nature.
It is an established fact that in such
directions as ro.id building, engineering,
and even attack and defense the elephants
sagacity shows itself spontaneously;
on the other hand, in the range
of circus tricks only the most atrocious
cruelty can succeed in teaching the animal.
Perfected education is continuously
practiced; the whole nervous system
is deranged,.and a memory of the wrongs
endured and suflerings inflicted may
well tend to establish a misanthropy
that is always smouldering and may at
any time break out. Elephantine tricks
are difficult; in the language of good
old I)r. Johnson the spectator may well
I wish thev were impossible. Nor have
they any justification. "When one goes
to the circus it is not to see the teacher.
?The oulv excuse for keeping a beast in
captivity is that it serves to educate the
public iu zoology. But a trick elephant
is abnormal and ron-instructive, it is
ten parts trainer and only one part
elephant. Mr. Bergh and his sympathizers
could do nothing more sensible and
humane than address themselves to the
indefensible folly of miseducating elephants.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
Italian Industries in the Metropolis.
The humble sons of Italy in the manu- j
facture of macaroni and vcrmicilli have
almost a monopoly in New York. Floui
and saffron are the principal ingredients
of these edibles and the component parts
are cut into small pieces or threads like
worms (vermicelli) by forcing the mixture
with a piston through little holes
in the end of a pipe. The kneading ol
the flour is done by a wooden pole attached
to a part fixed in the ground and
worked up and down as a lever, under
nnn nnrl nf wViiph llfiqfn is lll.TPOfl.
The dough is sometimes piled up and
after being trodden, is rolled by a
rolling-pin in the ordinary method.
Subsequently this paste is forced through
an iron arrangement full of holes. The
largest rolls are macaroni, the second
largest vcrmicelli and the smallest fedclini.
The flour generally used in Minnesota,
as it approaches in quality to
Italian flour, full of gluten or starch.
The saffron used at present is -wholesome
vegetable matter.
The Italians who arc seen in Crosby,
Mott, Elm and Baxter streets, carryiug
bags of dilapidated boots and shoes, are
far from being paupers. They get thirty
cents per 100 pounds for these apparently
worthless soles, and thus do they support
the body, mainly by indulging in
native wine and the manufacture above
referred to. The Italian, fortified with
these two articles, can save money on
A maviAan *trs\ills3
small CUlUIll^), nuci&au aiugiitiiu ?tvmi\*
starve. The Italians who arc a grade
above the la/.zaroni or beggars, take the
world very easy, and travel as they say.
con commodo?i. e., at a "convenient"
rate of speed.
"Where do they sell the old shoes?"
Mostly in Newark, where the leather is
burned to make prussiate of potash,
which by the way, has almost driven
Prussian blue from the market. Of the
five firms in the United States manufacturing
prussiate of potash, two are
located at Newark.?New York World
Baseball Statistic %
The amount of wood consumed in one
year in making bats is almost incrediblc.
It would make 131,479 hoe-handles,
o27,34;> ax-helves; or, converted into
toothpicks, wTould supply every freelunch
fiend in Chicago, St. Louis and
Cincinnati tor years to come. The loss
to agricultural interests and mechanical
industries by the employment of ablebodied
men in baseball service is enormous,
and at the lowest calculation may
be put down at $23,470,345 per annum.
The expenditure of muscular energy in
one hotly contested game alone has been
estimated to be sufficient to break two
tons of stone, saw five cords of wood, cu
hoe seven acres of ground. The employment
it directly or indirectly gives
4-/-v +Viq ti'nrlno on^ -nrnfoeeinnc mildf not I
however, be overlooked; for, as nine oul
of ten baseball players get broken noses,
sustain severe internal injuries, or lose i
their teeth, the surgical and dental professions
would regretfully look upon its
decline.?Richmond Baton.
A rat gnawing a hole, complained thai
while there were so many holes in the
world there were none where he wanted
one. "You have the choice," was the
reply, "to go where there is a hole, or
to make one where you want it."
The total number of cattle sent out
from Ireland last year was about 834.000
head, some 700,000 of which went to
I England, and the rest to Scotland.
FERRETS AS RAT-CATCHERS.
How the lively Little Animals are
Trained lo Kill Kodents.
"If you want to clear a house or vessel
of rats, nowadays," said Rat-catcher
and Vermin Exterminator Tsaacsen to a
reporter for the Mail and Express, "you
mustn't depend on cats. They.arc too
slow and old fashioned for this kind of
work, and like everything else that is j
antiquated, they are bound to go.
"What has taken the place of the cat? ]
"Why, the ferret to be sure. It is the I
only sure-pop remedy for these pests. A
few years ago ferrets were only used for ,
amusement in rat baits and things of ,
that sort, but now ferret raising has be- I
come a regular business, which is grow- i
( innf all the time. Last year over 2,000 | j
ferrets were sold in this city, and this
year I am raising over 3,000 myself, and
several fanciers are devoting much time
and attention to improving the breed."
"Do they require special training?"
"Bless your soul, of course they do.
In the tirst place they are probably the
stupidest animals that were ever created.
The only thing about them that seems to
be common to all is pluck, and an obstinacy
like that cf a bulldog. When they
once get their teeth in the carcass of another
animal, or even a piece of meat,
you cannot make them let go without
almost killing them, so great is the
strength of their jaws and neck, which,
after half a minute or so produces stupefaction,
and then their jaws will relax.
They will, of course, naturally fight a rat
or any animal when they see it, but the
difliculty is to train them to hunt for
rats."
"Mow is that done?"
"The best way is by imitation. We
take young ferrets about six months
old. :is recruits, and put tnem wun aD i
older ferret, which ha3 been trained to 1
enter rat-holes without any coaxing J
being required. The younger ones will j
follow the example of the experienced (
hunter, and when they have become 1
used to the sport they enjoy it and will
usually take to rat holes as a duck to \
water. It often takes a good many (
weeks, however, to make them proficient j
in the work, and sometimes we have to <
give it up. Once in a rat-hole they never
leave it until every rat his been driven
out or killed. The old animals which i
have been carefully trained and have
shown exceptionally fine points are very |
desirable for the purpose of 'working in'
the young ferrets, ana are very vaiuaoie.
I That animal in the cage," he continued, ,
pointing to a small-sized brown-striped 1
ferret, apparently differing in no respect ;
from the others in the room, "is one of '
the finest rat-catchers I ever had. I j
would not take $30 for her. She is three j
years old, and has an unlimited amount ?
of pluck, requiring no coaxing to start
on a foray. Beside this her chief point J
is her small size, which you will observe ;
in comparing her with the other ferrets I
near by. This enables her to follow th? \
rats through the smallest crevices with
out difficulty, when a larger ferret would ,
be obliged to give up the chase. She has i
been in a great many fights and the princi- :
pal danger has been the possibility that J
in a contest with a number of large rats (
she might be overpowered aud Killed, j
for when a rat is cornered he will show 1
as much fight as a ferret. Her pluck has ]
always saved her, however. When sho 1
is used for rat hunting, we always put a j
larger animal with her for protection, for
two ferrets can get away with any number
of rats without difficulty. 1
"It sometimes takes several days, or a
week even, to clear the rats out of a (
building. The rats are smarter animals, i
and can scent ferrets as soon as they i
are brought into the house, and will *
leave it at once if there is any way of ]
escane. It is therefore necessarv to keep <
the ferrets in the house some time, so ]
that the rats gradually lose their fear ?
when they find they are not attacked, '
and will return to their old haunts. A j
couple of ferrets can clear the largest i
warehouse of rats in one night if they <
can get at them. But even if they are \
not all killed the remainder will seldom
return to the house which has once been j
ransacked by ferrets, for several months i
at least. Many owners of large drygoods <
j houses keep ferrets in their cellars all the 1
time, in the same way as they would !
keep a cat, which is a continual i
protection against these destruc- i
tive pests. In hunting rats 1
on board ship great care must be taken
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day I lost several valuable ferret9 in ]
making such an experiment. The rata
collected in the bow of the vessel, and |
when the ferrets attacked them they (
went overboard in a body, pouring in a 3
stream out of one of the hawselioles. i
The ferrets went after them of course, 1
and were drowned. Put a big rat in a '
room with a ferret and he will always j
back up in a corner and defend himself i
to the last. You cau alway3 bet on the
ferret though, for he is bound sooner or j
later^o fasten his teeth in the neck of his (
antagonist. "Where a siugle ferret is ?
placed in a stall with a large number of c
rats the latter will crowd together in a 1
corner and try to hide under each other. T
This makes it very easy work for the j
ferret, but reverse the operation, and put s
in a solitary rat with three or four fer- i
rets, and they will leave the rat entire 8
and fight with each other for the prize. J
I have known ferrets to kill each other t
in fighting for the possession of a choice |
morsel which neither is willing to share i
with the other. 1
"How much will a trained ferret \
bring?" t
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courae, the better trained animals will
bring higher prices. They are usually ?
sold in pairs because two will hunt bet- a
ter together than a single one. (
"Great care is to be used in haudling c
ferrets on account of their vicious habit *
of biting everything that come3 in their ^
way. The size of the enemy makes no c
difference, and they will hang on to the \
I lip of a dog until they have been literally
chawed to pieces. If they become
t used to a person, however, who takes c
I carc of them they will not bite him un- s
| less provoked by rough treatment." e
In order to exhibit their strength and c
tenacity of grip, Mr. Isaacson attached a ?
small piece of raw meat to the end of a ^
pair of tongs and lowered it into a cage a
where three of the animals were scuttling t
about. As soon as they caught sight of v
the morsel they all jumped for it with |
the ferocity of tigers. As soon as they c
had obtained their grip he drew the t
struggling and writhing bunch out of F
the cage, and let tbem hang suspended ?
for several minutes. Then taking the r
smallest one by the body, he removed
flin tniiffQ nn<l lot it, sunnort the weight t
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of the other two, none of them showing 8
the slightest disposition to let go, al- J
though they soon ceased kicking and t
clawing when they found themselves c'
without support. ?
"They would hang on this way for an *
indefinite length of time," said the rat- f
catcher, as he proceeded to remove his s
pets by squeezing their necks until they c
gasped for breath, and finally opened s
their traplikc jaws, and were dropped 1
one by one into their box again.?Neu \
York Mail and Express t
There are only eleven theatres in the 1
entire State of Virginia. i
1 TALMAGB'S SERMON.
POSTHUMOUS OPPORTUNITY.
The text was from Ecclesiastes xi., 3:
"If the tree fail toward the south or toward
the north, in tho place where the tree falleth
tbero it shall be."
"There is a hovering hope," said tue
preacher, "in the minds of a vast multitude
that there will be an opportunity in the next
world to correct the mistakes of this; that if
we do make complete shipwreck of our earthly
life it will be on a shore up which we may
walk to a palaco; that, as a defendant may
lose his casa in the Circuit Court and carry '
it up to the Supremo Court or Court of Chancery
and get a reversal of judgment in hia
behalf, all tli3 costs being thrown over on
the other party, so if we fail in the earthly
trial, we may in the higher jurisdiction of
eternity have the judgment of the lower
:ourt set aside, all tho costs remitted, and
we be victorious defendants forever. My
abject in this sermon is to show that common
sense, as well as my text, declares that such
in expectation is chimerical. You say that
the impenitent man having got into the next
rt?r\r?M onrl cooiixy fhft #113 A.<t.PT*. will M fl. Tft
suit of that ditasier, turn, the pain the cause
af his reformation. But you can find ten
thousand instances in this world of men who
have done wrong and distress overtook them
suddenly. Did the distress heal them/ JN'o,
they went right on.
" 'You must stop drinking,' said the doctor,
'and quit the fast life you are leading, or
it will destroy you.' lhe patient suffers
paroxysm after paroxysm, but under skilful
medical treatment he begins to set up, begins
to walk about the room, begins :o go to
Business. And, lo! he goes back to the same
;rog shops for his morning dram and his
avening dram and the drams between. Fiat
iown again. Same doctor. Same physical
anguish. Same medical warning. Isow the
illness is more protracted, the liver is more
stubborn, the stomach more irritable and the
digestive organs are more rebellious. But
after awhile he is out again, goes back to the
same dram-shopg, and goes the same round of
sacrilege against his physical health. He sees
that his downward course is ruining his household;
that his life is a perpetual perjury
against his marriage vow; that that brokenhearted
woman is so unlike the roseate young
wife that he married, that her old schoolmates
do not recognize her; that his sons are
to be taunted for a lifetime by the father's
drunkenness, that the daughters are to pass
into life under the salification of a disroputablo
ancestor. He is drinking up their happiness,
their prospects for this life and perhaps
for the life to come. Sometimes an appreciation
of what he i3 doing comes upon
him. His nervous system is all in a jangle.
From crown of head to sole of foot he is one
aching, rasping, crucifying, damning torture.
Where is he? In hell on earth. Does it reform
him? Alter a while he has delirium tremens,
when a whole jnugle of hissing reptiles let out
on his pillow, and his screams horrify the
neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, crying:
'Take these things off of me!' As he sits,
fale and convalescent^ the doctor says: 'Now
want to have a plain talk with you, my dear
fellow. The nexc attack of this kind you will
have, you will be beyond all medical skill
and you will die.' He gets better and goes
forth into the same round again. This time
medicine takes no effect Consultation of
physicians agree in saying there is no hope.
Death ends the scene. That process of inebriation.
warning and dissolution is going on
in all the neighborhoods of Christendom.
Pain does not correct. Suffering does not
reform. What is true in one sense is true in
ill senses and will forever be so, and yet men
are expecting in the next world purgatorial
rejuvenation. Take up the printed reports
Df the prisons of the United States and you
will find that the vast majority of the incarcerated
have been there before, some of them
four, nve, six times. With a million illustrations
all working the other way in this world
psople are expecting that distress in the next
state will be salvable. You cannot imagine
any worse torture in any other world than
that which some men have suffered here and
tYilXlUUL UllJ DaiUvfli JT UVIIOUVJUCIIUOI
' Furthermore, the prospect of a reformation
in the next world is more improbable
than a reformation here. In this worla the
life started with innocence of infancy. In the
case supposed the other life will open with all
the accumulated bad habits of many years
upon him. Surely, it is easier to build a
strong ship out of new timber than out of an
}ld hulk that has been ground up in the
breakers. If, with innocence to start with in
this life a man does not become godly, what
prospect is there that in the next world,
starting with a sin, a seraph should be
avoluted? Surely the sculptor has more prospect
of making a fine statue out of a
block of pure white Parian marble
than out of an old black rock seamed and
tracked with the storms of a half century.
Surely upon a clean white sheet of paper it
is easier to write a deed or a will than upon a
sheet of paper all scribbled and blotted and
;orn from top to bottom. Yet men seem to
think that though the life that began here
comparatively perfect turned out badly, the
next life will succeed though it starts with
i dead failura 'But,' says some one, 'I think
ive ought to have a chance in the next lite,
because this life is so short it allows only
small opportunity. We hardly have time to
turn around between cradle and tomb, the
wood of the one almost touching the marble j
3f the other.' But do you know what made
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LUe ancient cieiuge n net/essay r ?n naa tuo
longevity of the antediluvians. They were
worse in the second century of their lifetime
than in the first hundred years, and still
worse in the third century, and still worse
all the way on to seven, eignt and nine hundred
years, and the earth had to be washed
and scrubbed and soaked and anchored clear
DUt of sight for more than a month before ic
could be made fit i'or decent people to live in.
Longevity never cure3 impeniteney. All the
pictures of Time represent him with a scythe
to cut, but I never saw any picture of Time
with a case of m/Jicines to heal. Sensca says
that Nero lor the lirst five years of his public
ife was set up for an example of clemency
ind kindness, but his path all the way descended.
until at sixty-oight he becani3 a sui:ide.
If 81)0 years did not make antediluvians
any better, but only made them
vorse, the ages of eternity could have
10 effect except prolongation of depravity.
But,' says some one, 'in the future state evil
urroundings will be withdrawn and elevated
nfluences substituted, and hence expurgation
md sublimation and glorification.' But the
ighteous, all their sins forgiven, have passed
>n into n. beatific state, and conseauentlv the
insaved will be left alone. It cannot bo ex)ected
that Dr. Ddff, who exhausted himself
n teaching Hindoos the way to Heaven, and
3r. Abeel. who gave his life in the evangoli?tion
of China, and Adoniram Judson, who
oiled for the redemption of Borneo, should
)e sent down by soms celestial missionary
ociety to educate those who wasted all their
sarthly existence. Evangelistic and missiontry
efforts are ended. The entire kingdom
>f the morally bankrupt by themselves, where
ire the savable influences to come from I
}au one speckled and bad apple in a barrel
>f diseased apples turn the other applo3 good?
>an those who are thomselves down help othirs
up ? Can those who have themselves
ailed in the business of the soul pay the debts
>f their spiritual insolvents ? Can a million
vrongs make one right ?
" Poneropolis was a city where King Philip
>f Thracia put all the bad people of his kiuglom.
If any man had opened a primary
chool at Poneropolis I do not think the parmts
from other cities would have sent their
ihUdren there. Instead of amendment in the
fther world all the associations, now that the
rood are evolved, will be degenerating and
lown. You won id not want to send a man to
i cholera or yellow-fever hospital for his
lealth, and the groat Iaziratto of tho next
vorld, containing tha disoased and pla^uatruck.
will be a poor pla?e for moral rocovry.
If tin surrou iditig^ iu this world were
rowded of temptation, tho surroun lings in
ho nsxt world after tiio righteous have
rissed up and on will be a thousand percent,
mre crowded of temptation. Tho (Sunt of
Miat?aubrinnd mub his little son sleep at
light at the top of a castle turret, wliere tho
vinds howled and where spectres were said
o haunt the pla?e, and while tho mother and
isters almost died with fright the son toll?
is that tha process gave him nerves that could
jot tremble and a courage that never falered.
But I don't think that the towers of
larkness and the spectral world swept by
Sirocco an 1 Euroclydon will ever fit ono for
,ho land of eternal sunshina I wonder what
s tho curriculum of that college of Inorno,
whore, after proper preparation by the
iins of this life, the candidate enters, passing
m from the freshman elass of depravity to
ophomore of abandonment, and from soplionore
to junior, and from junior to senior,
ind day of graduation comes, and with
liploma signed by Satan, tho president,
md other professorial demoniacs, attestng
that the candidate has been
one enough under their drill, he passes
lp to enter heaven. Pandemonium a pre
narative coarse for heavenly admission I Ah.
my friends, Satan and his cohorts have fitted
uncounted multitudes for ruin, but never
fitted one soul for happiness. Furthermore:
It would not be safe for this world if men
had another chance in the next If it had
been announced that however wickedly a
man might act in this world he could fix it
up all right in the next, society would be terribly
demoralized and the human race demolished
in a few years. The fear that if we
are bad and unforgiven here it will not be
well for us in the next existence, is the chief
influence that keeps civilization from rushing
back to semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism
from rushing into midnight savagery,
and midnight savagery to extinction; for it
is the astringent impression of all nations,
Christian and heatlion, that there is no future
chance for those who have wasted this. Multitudes
of men wno are kept within bounds
would say: 'Go to, now; lot me get all out of
this life there is in it Come gluttony and
inebriation, and uncleanliness, and revenge,
and all sensualities, and wait upon me. My
life mav be somewhat shortanftd in this w.irld
by dissoluteness, but that will only make
heavenly indulgence on a larger scale the
sooner possible. I will overtake the saints at
last, and will enter the heavenly temple only
a little later than those who behaved thf-mselves
here. I will on my way to heaven take
a little wider excursion than those who were
on earth pious, and I shall go to heaven via
Gehenna and via SheoL'
"Another chance in the next world means
free license and wild abandonment in this.
Supposa you were a party in an important
cas? at law, and you knew from consultation
with judges and attorneys that it would b3
tried twics and the first trial would ba of little
importance, but that the second would decide
everything, for which trial you would
make the most preparation, for which retain
the ablest attorneys, for which b3 most anxious
about the attendance of witnesses? Yoa
rtnf ?11 flta efpnco iir\An. fViO tfinl
VVUUIU puu au bug a uigoo u^wu vuv ww^wuv* > ? ?*
all the anxiety, the expenditure, saying,
'The first is nothing, the last is everythiag.'
Give the race assuranco of a second an 1 more
important trial in the subsequent life, and all
the preparation for eternity wou'-1 be postmortem,
po3t-funeral, post-sepulchral, and
the world with one jerk be pitched off into
impiety and godlessne3?. Furthermore: Let
me ask why a chance in the next world, if
we have refused innumerable chances in this?
Suppose you give a banquet and invite a vast
number of friends, but one man declines to
come or treats your invitation with indifference.
Yoa, in the course of twenty years,
give twenty banquets, and the same man is
invited to them all and treats thom all In the
same obnoxious way. After a while you remove
to another house, larger and better,and
you again invito your friends, but send no invitation
to the man who declined or neglected
the other invitations. Are you to blame?
Has he a right to expect to be invited after
all the indignities he has done you? God
in this world has invited us all to the
banquet of His grace. He invited
U3 by His Providence and His
Spirit 305 days of every year since we knew
our right hand from our'loft. If wo declined
it every time, or treated the invitation with
indifference, and gave twenty or forty or
fifty years of indignity on our part toward
the banqueter, anl at last bespreads the banquet
in a more luxuriant ana kingly place,
amid the heavenly gardens, have we a right
to expect him to invito U3 again, and have we
a right to blame him if he does not invite
us?
"If twelve gates of salvation stood open
twenty years or fifty years for our admission,
inrl nh t.hA anrl nf that time thev are closed.
can we complain of it and say: 'These gates
ought to be open again. Give us another
chance.' If the steamer is to sail for Hamburg,
and wo want to get to Germany by
that line, and we read in every evening and
every morning newspaper that it will sail on
a certain day, for two weeks we have the advertisetnetitbefore
our eyes, and then wo go
down to the dosks fifteen minutes after it has
shoved off into tne stream and say, 'Com9
back. Give me another chance. It is not
fair to treat me in this way. Swing up to
the dock again and throw out the planks and
let me come oh board,' such behavior would
invite arre3t as a madman. And if, after
the Gospel ship has lain at anchor before
our eyes for years and years and years, and
all tho benign voices of earth and heaven
have urged us to get on board, a3 she might
sail away at any moment, and after a while
she sails without us, is it common sense to
expect her to come back ? You might a? well
go out on the highlands at Navesink and hail
the Aurania after she had been three days
out, and expect her to return, as to call back !
an opportunity for heaven when it once j
has spad away. All heaven offerel us j
a? a gratuity, and for a lifetime we refuse to !
" * - * ?' *- *?--?! ~ P I
t*?il?6 lty El 11'A DQRn rusa UH ul uauy- |
vah's buckler demanding another chance.
There ought to he, there can be, there will be
no such thing as posthuraou3 opportunity.
Thu3 our common sense agrees with my text: J
If the tree falls toward tha south or toward j
the north, in the place where the tree falleth
there it shall be.' You see that this tree lifts
this world up from an 'unimportant way station
to a platform of stupendous issues, and
makes all eternity whirl around this hour.
But one trial for which all the preparation
must be made in this world, or never, never
made at all. That piles up all the emphasis
and all the climaxes and all the destinies into
life here. No other chancel Oh, how that
augments the value and the importance of
this chance! Alexander with his army used
to surround a city and then would lift a great
light in token to the people that, if they surrendered
before that light went out, all would
be well, but if once the light went out then
the battering rams would swing against th3 1
wall, and demolition and disaster would fol- i
low. Well, all we need to do for our present
and everlasting safety, is to make surrender j *
to Christ, the king and conqueror, surrender i 1
of our hearts, surronder of our lives, surren- j ,
1? - ? A nJ Iiq lraana ft orpflat [ *
C19r Ol OVBrjr uuuifc. au>a ~
light burning?light of Gospel invitation,
light kindled with tha wood of the cross and
flaming up against the dark night of our sin
and sorrow. Surrender while that great light 1
continues to burn, for after it goes out ,
there will be no other opportunity of making '
peace with God through our Lord Jesus <
Christ. Talk of another chance! In the time
of Edward the VI., at tho battle of Musselburgh,
a private soldier, seeing that the earl i
of Huntley had lost his helmet, took off his
own helmet and put it upon the head of tha
earl; and the head of the private uncovered, J
he was soon slain, while the commander ,
rode safely out of the battle. But in the
our case, instead of a private soldier offer- j
ing helmet to an earl, it is a king putting his (
crown upon an unworthy subject, the king '
dying that we might live. Tell it to all points 1
of the compass. Tell it to night and day.
Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell it to all
centuries, all ages, all millenniums, that we
have such a magnificent chance in this world
that we need no other chance in the next.
"A dream: I am in the burnished judgment
hall of the last day. A great white throne is
lifted, but-the judge has not yet taken it.
*TT| ?*?i-.'- T
VV H1IG W0 are waiULlg iur Ilia amvai x uoai
immortal spirits in conversation. 'What are
you waiting here for?' says a soul that went
up from Madagascar to a soul that ascended i
from America. The latter says: 'I cama i
from America, where for forty years I heard
the gospel preached and the Bible read and 1
from the prayer I learned in infancy at my .
mother's knee until my last hour I had gospal
advantages; but for some reason I did not ]
make the Christian choice, and I am here j
waiting for the Judge to give me a new trial
and another chance.' 'Strange,' says the t
other, 'I had but one gospel call in Madagascar,
and I accepted ,it, ani I do not need
another chance.' 'Why are you here?' says <
one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one i
who had groat brain and silvery tongue and
sceptres of influence. The latter responds; 1
'Oh, I knew more than my fellows. I mas- y
tered libraries and had learned titles from
colleges, and my name was a synonym for {
eloquence and power. And yet L neglected t
my soul, and I am here waiting for a
'ontfj tho nnflfif Hift fflpllla ]
11U umi, MUlUll^U,
earthly capacity, 'I knew but little of worldly j
knowledge, but I knew Christ and made him
my partner, and I have no need of another
chance.' Now the ground tromblos with the t
approaching chariot. The great folding doors t
of the hall swing open. 'Stand back!' cry
the celestial ushers. 'Stand back an I let the c
Judge of quick and dead pass through.' He
takes the throne, and, looking over the
throng of nations, he says: 'Come to the
judgment, the last judgment, the only judgment!'
By one flash of the throne all the
history of each one flames forth to the vision
of himself and all others. 'Divide!' says the
Judge to the assembly. 'Divido!' echo the '
walls. 'Divide!' cry the guards angelic.
And now the immortals separate, rushing
this way and that, and after a while there is 1
a great aisle between them and a great vac- j
uum widening and widening, and the Judge, turning
to the throng on one side, says: 'He *
that is righteous let him be righteous still, ! j
and ho that is holy let him be holy still;' and j
then turning toward tho throng on tho oppo- j 1
site side, he says: 'He that is unjust let him j ]
bo unjust still,' and then lifting ono hand
toward each group he declares, 'If tho tree 1
fall toward the south or toward the north, t
in tho place where tho tree falleth there it .
shall be.' And I hear something jar with a ]
great sound. It is the closing of the book of
judgment. The Judge ascends the stairs behind
the throne. The hall of the last assize
is cleared and shut. The high court of eternity
adjourned forever."
TEMPERANCE TOPICS.
"II It Was Not for tUo Drink.'*
'Tis close upon the midnight chimes,
The fire is burning low,
My eyes are blinded so with tears
I cannot see to sew;
I'm faint and hungry, and I fain
Would eat a crust of bread,
But I must leave it till the morn,
The children must be fed.
I sent them early to their bed,
Their hunger to forget,
And stole to see them as they slept.
But still their cheeks Were wet.
I little thought five years ago,
That wo to this 6hould sink?
And we might all ba happy still,
If it was not for the drink.
We hive but rags upon us now,
Our clothes are all in pawn,
And one by one the things I loved
For rent and food are gone.
There's nothing but my shadow now
Across the empty space
Where our old clock stood, year after year,
With its round and cheery face.
I used to like to hear it tick,
And to see the hour draw on
That brought ray Joe again to me
When his day's work was done.
But when I hear his footstep now
My heart begins to sink;
Yet he would be so kind and good
If it was not for the drink.
I'm thankful that your mother's lot
Can never rest on you,
My Lizzie with the flaxen curls,
A i ur..?
Aim eyes su iui?U auu uiuo.
There seemed no bitterness in death,
As I stood beside your grave,
For the Heavenly Shepherd had stooped
down,
The weakest lamb to save.
You'll never cry again, my child,
With hunger or with cold,
For the sound of weeping is not hear'
In the city all of gold.
Yet still I miss your little face,
And the tears fall as I think
I might have had you with me still,
If there had not been the drink."
Ohl sometimes when I'm sitting here
I wish that 1 were dead,
And resting in the quiet grave
My weary heart and head;
But then again I look around
On Johnnie and on Kate,
And call the wish back as I think
Of what would be their fate,
Without ray hands to wash and mend
Without my hands to strive
To earn a little bit of bread
To keep us just alive,
For it's very, very seldom now,
That I hear Joe's wages chink
But he would bring them all to me,
If it was not for the drink.
Ah me! it is a bitter grief
To feel one's love and trust
Have leaned upon a broken reed,
And built upon the dust I
This bruise is sore?but, ohl my heart
Is sorer still to know,
And try to hide, whose hand it was
That struck the cruel blow.
For the drink has got that hold on Joe,
That he can't tell wrong from right;
He's dark and sullen in the morn,
But he's worse, far worse, at night.
And wicked words he often says
That make me start and shrink?
But they would never pass his lips,
If it was not for the drink.
I feel ashamed to go to church,
Though a comfort it would be,
For the folk would think I came to bog,
If they my rags should see.
'Tis very long since I have had
A gown that was not old,
And my bonnet has been soaked with rain,
And my Sunday shawl is sold;
And so I have to stay at home,
And silently to pray
That God would pity my poor Joe,
And take bis sin away;
While ho sits sleeping heavily
Without the power to think;
Yet he would think, and he would pray,
If it wasndt for the drink.
It makes me mad to see the man,
Who sells the curse go by
With his glittering rings and chain of gold,
Holding his head so high.
'Tis hard to see his wife and girls
In silks and satins shine,
And to know the money that they spend
Should some of it be mine.
And I'm ready oftentimes to wish
That all the drink could be,
With those that make and those that sell,
Flung down into the sea;
For almost all tbe country's woo
And crime would with them sink,.
And men might have the chance for good,
If it was not for tfee driuk.
?A. L. Westcombe.
Effects of moderate Drinking on
Health*
"Wc ask any candid inan, does the use
of intoxicating drinks as a beverage do
any good under auy circumstances? I
could give the views of the ablest and
best physicians on this point and they
ill concur in the opinion that the habit
ual use of distilled liquors in any case,
whatever, is wholly unnecessary; that
they neither supported the human body
igainst the morbid cffects of heat or
cold, nor rendered labor more easy or
more productive; that there were many
articles of drink and diet not only safe
ind salutary, but in all respects more
favorable for the purposes aforesaid?
that a great portion of the most obstinate,
painful, and mortal maladies which
ifflict the human body, were produced
by distilled liquors; that the use of
them was not only destructive to
health, but tended to degrade us as
intelligent beings; that a very large
proportion of human misery arising from
poverty, disease, and crime were produced
by the use of fermented and
distilled liquors, and that a total and
universal abstinence from all such
liquors, whether in the shape of wine,
beer, cider or spirits, would greatly contribute
to the health, happiness and
prosperity of the humau family, and
that they might bo discontinued entirely
ind at once with safety.
That alcohol should be classed with
Dther powerful drugs, and that when
prescribed medicinally it should be done
tvith the most conscientious caution and
>vith the gravest sense of responsibility,
md that we are of the opinion that the
lse of alcohoiic liquor as a beverage is
oroductive of a large amouut of mental
ind physical disease; that it entails disused
appetites and enfeebled constituions
upon the offspring, and that it is
he cause or a large percentage of the
:rime and pauperism of our large cities,
md of the country.? Good Templar.
Alcohol a PoI*on?
J. S. Nowlin, M. I)., in the Nashville
^Tenu.) Cumberland Presbyterian, writes:
"Alcohol is poison to the body. It
njures the mind, and transmits its baneful
influence to the progeny of its lover.
No ouc at this day who has looked into
;he effects of alcohol deuics that it is a
poison?slow, certainly, but ncvertheess
sure. The peculiar direction the
poison may take depends upon the
imount, the rapidity with which it is
.ntroduccd, the length of time it is kept
jp, and the susceptibility of the person.1
*r- V;
A FAIRY FANCY.
A dainty, tiny fairy q\jpen
Came to me last night in a dream,
And told me of garden fair, J
And of a red rose .blooming there. ; .3
Then told I to the fairy queen
Of a sweet girl that I had seen,
With laughing eyes and waving hair,
And rosy-cheeked and young and fair.
"Why, I know," cried the fairy quean,
The lovely girl that you have seen;
Her bright cheek is my garden fair,
My own red rose is blooming there!"
?Malvin Revilo, in Courier Journa,
religious' reading.
My Prayer.
What is my prayer to-night? A meek, sab- -3
missive heart is what I crave,
A heart from pride set free, from passion clean,
A life true, constant, brave, wherein is seen
Likeness to Him who came our lives to save;
But dftre I ask ? Obedience' price in suffering, -j]
A r>r? T linifo mna nnrl biihaj ?mIti/tU T - "i
jl uavo jujo auu ncuouica r/ui?,u i v?uuv? \ lose,
My heart so closely holds them. -Can I bid
Thee choose
For rae, and wait thy will, unfaltering?
And I would see tlio shining ol thy l'aco,
But shall I find it in a servant's place ?
My pride rebels, my human heart is weak
To take upon itself the life I seek;
One only thing I ask, for this alone I pray,
Lord, make mo willing to be holyr wilUng t?
obey. ?Selected.
Christian Certitude.
Christianity is self-evidencing ; it
carries its own evidence with it to the \
mind and heart of the sincere and
earnest man. As it is not a mere idea r j
but a living reality, not merely a fact
of the past but a present power, it impresses
itself upon the conscientious
man by its very nature. As it is not
merely doctrine concerning divine* 7;^
truth, but the actual revelation of the
truth itself; as it is the divine reality m
personally manifested by the living,
present Saviour of men, it is not de- >3
pendent upon the conclusions of any . ^
processes of reasoning in a discursive ~;|
understanding, or upon the ever pro- J ^
gressive movements of science. As it is .
not a mere inference from a past his- S
torical fact, but a living, present,
abiding power operating on human
nature, and becoming, wherever
men yield to its impres- :?*
sions, a matter of experience in ^
consciousness, it produces, in addition
to the historial faith, in which there . ^
may be many doubts, an experimental
faith which shuts out all further question
of reality, and produces inner
certitude of truth. It has historical
faith, but it is not dependent upon
the removal of all historical doubts, 3
does*not need, for the validity of Its
claim, to wait and see what historical
criticism may accomplish. If Christianity
like other religions were separable
from the person of its founder, it might
be obliged to rest entirely upon,
such grounds, might have t<r be
proved, beyond all possible doubt, from
historical evidence, mig"ht have to
meet all claims of science and phil- |
osophy, before it could produce living /
certainty in the soul. But Christ is
not the mere founder oE a religion. jJ.;
He is that religion itself. Christianity
is inseparable from his person. He is ~ .-;J|
the present, living reality in our re '
TJ. 1_ 1 ? t 1 3 _ Tl 2 ? 3f.
ugion. it is ouiy uecauae ue is. it is
not only because he once was, but because
he is now. It lives only because
he lives. It lives not only because
he once lived, but because
he now lives. It will be always only '-'M
because he will ever be?because
"he was, and is, and *is to
come." Other religions might exist
even if their founders were unknown,
or after they had been forgotten, but
Christianity is nothing without Christ.
And as it is Christ himself in contact
with men through his word and spirit,
and is thus a living reality actually
operating upon them, they may have
actual experience of his saving power,
a real consciousness of his gracious
presence, and consequently the knowledge
which is inseparable fro^ conscious
experience, and this is ceititude
of faith.
When the writer, bidding farewell
to his friends on leaving the Seminary
r v. ? ?v.?
iui ma liiao uiiaiyc, butti> gicuu mau,
Thaddeus Stevens, said to him:
"Young man, if'l were going out to >
preach as you are, I would not try to
prove the gospel, I would just try to
preach it." The writer thought at the
time that possibly this might be a
sneer. But the experience of nearly
half a century has taught him, that
that astute mind more probably meant
to express the great truth that the
gospel does not need to be proved?
that it is self-evidencing, proves itself;
and that ho meant just what Luther
indicates when he declares that "where
the gospel is preached there will be
believers." The writer has become so
deeply impressed with the truth and
importance of the recognition of this
self-authenticating power of Christianity
that he would say, as the result
of nearly fifty years of experience, to
every young minister, do not be too
much concerned about the fate of the
gospel; it will take care of itself and
mainf-uin it_? PYist.pn^ft. Don't snfind
your time and strength in finding
proofs and erecting guarantees for the
gospel; but preach it, preach it with
personal certitude of its saving power ^
and with perfect codfidence in its efficacy,
and you will not fail to lead
many souls to faith in Christianity?
to experience its power and to realize
the certainty of its truth.?Prof. S.
Sprecher, in Lutheran Quarterly.
"What others did I can do," was the
mental exclamation of an unconverted
man on reading a tract published by
the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
and given to him by his pastor. The
tract is entitled HI w ish I were a
Christian." He said, "others had become
Christians, and by the grace of
God what others did I can do." He
f A Qnd f"A
IJCgUll lillilJ CUmu^A J ccr ymjf cu*u vv/
pray for a revival. Early iQ the following
winter a work of grace was ^
experienced, and he and his son were
amoDg the first to confess Christ. He J
set up the family altar, to the joy of J
his wife, and the good of his children, M
ascribing his conversion, under God, 1
to that tract. This occurred in a con- m
gregation in the Presbytery of West fl
Virginia. The pastor had received fl
tracts from the Board for free distri- fl
bntion, and this was one of the many
good results. The tract was given at
the funeral of a prominent elder of
the church, whose place in the elder-.
Bhip will soon be filled, it is expected*
by him who received the tract, and
who, through its influence, was converted.