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'' " ^ r THE HOME DOCTOR. Drinking1 at .tIea!N. By way of explaining ever-increasing frequency of ctyspepsia our tea party philosophers have had recourse to the strangest theories. The danger of water i drinking at meals, for instance, has been Absurdly exaggerated. Sipping hot and cold drinks by turns has certainly a ru inous effect on the enamel of our teetli; but if we would refrain from bolting our food smoking hot, a glass of fresh water between the first and second courses would promote instead of impeding digestion. The stomach very soon assimilates the temperature of the various ingesta, and is far less troubled by cold spring water, or cold milk, than by pepper sauces, or soups hot enough to appal a famished wolf. Instinct is a pretty safe guide in.such matters. It protests distinctly against the deglutition of scalding hot viands, and as distinctly recommends a draught of water during meals, especially of sweet oil or salted ftnfsj7 HAm* rn GroniitX Toe Nails. The most painful of the diseases of the nails, is caused by the improper manner of cutting the nail (generally of the great toe,) and then wearing a narrow, badly made shoe. The nail begining to grow too long, and rather wide at the corners, is trimmed around the corner, which gives temporary relief. But it then besrins to grow wider in the side where it was cut off; and a9 the shoe presses the fle3h against the corner, the nail cuts more and more into the raw flesh, which besomes excessively tender and irritable. If this state con tinues Ion? the toe becomes more ana more painful aDd ulcerated, the fungus {proud flesh) sprouts up from the sorest points. Walking greatly increases the suffering, till positive rest becomes indispensable. Treatment: We omit all modes of cutting out the nail by the root, and all other cutting or torturing operations, ?egin the effort at cure by simple application to the tender part of a small quantity of perchloride of iron. It is found in drug stores in a fluid form, though sometimes in powder. There is immediately a moderate sensation of pain, Constriction or burning. In a few minutes the tender surface is felt to be dried tip, tanned or mummified, and it ceases to be painful. By permitting the hardened, wood-like flesh to remain for two or three weeks, it can De easuy removed i by soaking the foot in hot water. A j new and healthy stricture is found firm and solid below. If thereafterjthe nails be no more cut around the comers or sides, but always curve in across the front end, they will in future grow only forwards; and by wearing a shoe of reasonable good size and shape, all further trouble will be avoided. ? Boshoick's Journah rnvallds' Food. As to cooking for invalids the great desideratum is to give nutriment in such form as the Invalid can most readily assimilate it. We have to consult the sick person's tastes largely in this, though the taste alone is not a safe guide. A dyspeptic, for example, is constantly craving things that cannot be taken with Impunity. A good many physicians and laymen declare that there is no nutriment in beef tea, but I have kept patients : alive for weeks on it. I prefer a broth or a soup to the extract of beef generally, for, as a rule, it appeals to the taste better. A bouilion, or a cup of ' *---< a-- ?i. t i.T a: i. 1... i L>eui tea. ib upt LU repei LUU putiuut uj its appearance, while a good consomme ioup attracts the eye. You want plenty of meat and bone, well boiled down, to make your soup; but in case you have - to use beef tea. it is best to make it your self. Take plenty of lean meet, cut into email pieces, and put it into a jar, or a jchampaign bottle with a little water. A jarisbestif you have one. Cover it, ' but don't seai it. If you seal it yon won't have anything left, for it will blow up. Make a slit in the cork to let ftie steam out. Place it in a kettle, or pot of water, and boil it five or six " bours. When you take it out your beef tea is in the bottle with the stringy remains of the meat. These fragments are tasteless and useless. Milk is another valuable food, - though it is sometimes necessary to . dUlnfo if of firof wifh wnfor in nrrlpr fn get the patient to take it. The only objection I know to pure milk is that it is constipating to some people, but by proper care there ought to be no trouble in giving milk to almost anyone. The great thing about feeding is to take such food as is suitable to a person's habits. The housekeeper should know the habits, especially of the invalids under " her care, and adapt their food to circumstances. Certain foods are commonly BUppo?ed to be laxative, which are not jproperly so. Oatmeal, for example, is thought to be so, whereas it is chiefly irritating, and while it is very rich in nutriment is not always a good food, because it is irritating. Figs are also called laxative, but it is only becausc of the seeds that irritate the intestines. Arrow root, on the other hand, is a true laxative. The true rule for the housekeeper to follow is to learn the true properties of the different kinds of food that she use3 and then adapt the supplies to the nece3 ? 8itie3 of the individual.?Dr. A. B. Mott. in New York Cook. A lawyer's Queer "Effects." A celebrated lawyer had different "effects" for every kind of case he was engaged in. Thus in a trial for breach of promise, where he was counsel for the plaintiff, he used to wear a very elegant pair of lavender kid gloves, sewed with black, typifying, I used to think, that although the deceived one's sorrow was undoubted, still it was subdued and ready to be consoled or comforted, either by damages or by substitution of another and more faithful swain for the miscreant who had blighted her youthful af: fections. I When proposing damages, he had a y habit of taking off his right hand glove and displaying a handsome diamond ring he wore and twirling it aTound his Artr?ni? oUnmofolu r\lo#^?i?rr tliA nloin oi/1 a UU^l, ftUVlUUl-V/lJ I'lUVi *-* Q I OIVAVJ I in front to look like a wedding ring, or I flashing the diamond into the eyes of the foreman of the jury until it made them blink again. In divorce cases or murders > black gloves were adopted, and iD mercantile cases blue spectacles. Envy whispered that he was not good at figures, and hated investigating them; so a limely attack of ophthalmia made it necessary for his junior to propound them tp the jury. He was certainly very great #ith the gentlemen of the jury.?Brooklyn Eagle. Hot Milk as a ReYivifier. The Medi'-al Record says: No one who, L fatigued with over-exertion of the body , or mind, has ever experienced the reviving influence of a tumblerful of milk heated as hot as it cnn be sioped, will willingly forego to resort to it because of its being rendered somewhat less acCeptablc to the palate. The promptness With which its influence is felt is indeed surprising. i VERY FAT PEOPLE. .Noma Persons Who Have Attained a Wonderful Avoirdupois. We have the evidence of Dr. Ashton concerning the late Mme. Victoria, the fat woman, who "was thin and delicate throughout her girlhood," that "many | persons of small bones attain an enor- [ mous size." The weight of Mme. Vic- j toria was prodigious?between 500 and rimin^a? hut t.hflrp exists the record V,VV of much larger persons, notably in the mother couutry, in two instances, a t least. The first of these was a Mr. Bright, the grocer, of Maldeu, in the county of Essex, who died in lToO, in his thirtieth year, at the net weight of 610 pounds, and whose death was considered by his neighbors as a happy release to him, and so much the more as he thought so himself. He came of a family which was noted for its great size and its correspondingly great appetite. The Mr. Bright in question enjoyed exceptionally good health, and at the age of twenty-two he took unto himself a wife, by whom he had five children. A most amiable mind was an inhabitant of his overgrown body. Indeed, amiability and good nature seem to go hand in hand with obesity, else wherefore the pertinency of the time honored adage, "laugh and grow fat?" The coffin in which he was buried was three feet six inches broad at the shoulders, and more than three feet deep. They had more trouble, probably, in getting the corp9c from the house in which he died to its dual resting-place than was experienced in the case of Mme. Victoria, for a way was cut through the wall and staircase of his house to let it down into the shop. It was drawn on a low-wheeled carriage to the church by twelve men, and was lowered into the giave by means of an engine fixed up on the church for that purpose, and in the presence of an immense number of curiosity-seeking spectators, who came from all parts of the country. After his death, if the bull may be pardoned, he was made the subject of ridiculous wager that five men, each twenty-one years of age, could be buttoned in his waistcoat. This wager was decided in the Black Bull inn in Maiden, where not only five but seven men were inclosed in the waistcoat without straining a button or breaking a stitch. But outstripping Sir. Bright was the famous Daniel Lambert, who at the marvelous bulk of 739 pounds died at Stamford on the 21st of July, 1809. Three years earlier he was on exhibition in London with an immense following. At this time he was 36 years of age, and his exhibition bill says that he was then 91 pounds heavier than Mr. Bright was, which would make him 707 pounds, so that in the three years which followed up to the time of his death he gained thirty-two pounds additional. Lambert died very suddenly, having gone to bed well 9t night, but expiring before 9 o'clock the next morning. He was a man who ate moderately and drank only water, which would seem to refute the Falstaflian theory that sack is conducive to obesity. Like all fat men, he was a fine singer and possessed an excellent tenor voice. Owing to the immense size of his legs the coftin in which he was buried had to be made in the form o f a case rather than in conventional coffin fashion, and it may have been the forerunuer of our modern burial caskets. It was of stout English elm,and its dimensions were six feet four inches long, four feet four inches wide ana two feet four inches deep. He died | on the ground floor of an inn, as he had j long been incapable of ascending a flight of stairs. Yet there was trouble ex| Derienced in getting the coffin from the house, and the window and a part of the wall of the room in which he died had to be taken down in order to make a | passage. The coffin, bv the way, was built upon two axle-trees and four cogwheels, and up these the remains of the great man were rolled into his grave in St. Martin's churchyard, a regular descent having been made to the grave by cutting away the earth for some distance. Dr. F. Daniel records the case of a young man of twent}r-two,who died from excessive obesity, weighing 643 pounds; and in the English Philosophical Transactions for 1813 there is mentioned the case of a girl of four years of age who weighed 256 pounds. A remarkable case is that of John Love, who was the apprentice of Ryland, a celebrated engraver of London, who was executed for forgery in the latter part of the last century. Love, who became terrified by the shameful manner of hi3 master's death, gave up the business he wa3 learning and returned to his native place in Dorsetshire. Being at the time exceedingly feeble and emacia ted, his friends, fearing that he was falling into consumption, applied to a physician, who recommended an abundance of nutritious food as the best medicine under the existing circumstances. Thus advised Love acquired a taste for the pleasures of the table, which he was soon enabled to gratify by his success in business as a bookseller. Suffocated by fat, he died in his fortieth year, weighing 3G4 pounds. Mme. Victoria was unquestionably the largest person of whom we have any record who died on this continent, but, while less by nearly two hundred pounds than was Daniel Lambert, we are at a loss to understand why she required a coffin so much larger. We have had '*many a good tall fellow" here in our own country, but none of them ever approached the lady in size. The largest man we ever remember to have seen in our own State of Massachusetts was the lato Hon. Myron Lawrence, of Belchertown, who in the old days had been styled <kthe Sheridan of the "Whig party." and who at the time of his death pulled down the scale3 at upward of 350 pounds. Here in Boston we have had some notable fat men, among whom might be mentioned the late Jailer Badlam, the late Dr. Moriarty, the late Thomas Morgan, who was the landlord of the old l'en Franklin, and the late John 11. Hall, the architect. There may be cases of extreme obesity within our midst at the present lime, but we know not of them. We do know ot several | who will pull down the scales in the vicinity of 259 pounds, but that weight i is a mere bagatelle. Some men have been successful in petting rid of their superfluous flesh. The most successful of these was, perhaps, a Spanish nobleman, the marquis of Cortina,a general of the duke of Alva, whoso body was in a condition of enormous obesity. By the excessive use of vinegar he so reduced himself that he could fold his skin about him like a garment. The duke of Alva flourished from 1508 to 1582, so it is evident that Cortina flourished in Shakspeare's time. Is it not possible that the great dramatist may have heard of him, and that he puts the result of his treatment into the mouth of Falstaff, who says: "Bardolph, am I not fallen away vilely since thia last action? Do I not bate! Do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs about me like an old lady's loose gown!''?Boston Herald. And now Chicago claims that pork is a brain food, being the product of thousands of Western Gens.?New York Newt. 1 TAIME'S SERMON.Is C8 ? er THE QUEEN OF SHEBA AT S JERUSALEM. Z in ti The text: "Behold the half was not told tc me." I. Kings?x., 7. ai Solomon had resolved that Jerusalem ai should be the centre of all sacred, regal and ti commercial magnificence. He set himself to ai work and monopolized the surrounding des- ni ert as a highway for his caravans. He built w the city of Palmyra around one of the prin- y< cipal wells of the East so that all the long lij trains of merchandise from the East were to obliged to stop there, pay toll and leave part oi of their wealth in the hands of Solomon's tl merchants. He manned the fortress Thapsa- f< cus, at the chief port of the Euphrates, and ol ?ut under guard everything that passed there, al he three great products of Palestine?wine, tl pressed from the richest clusters and cele- li brated all the world over, oil, whiGh in that b hot country is the entire substitute for butter n and lard, and was pressed from the olive le branches until every tree in the country be- tl came an oil well, and honey, which was the sj entire substitute for sugar?these three great r: products of the country Solomon exported, a and received in turn fruits and precious n woods and the animals of every clime. o. He went down to Ezion-geber and ordered La a fleet of ships to be constructed, oversaw U the workmon and watched the launching of d the flotilla which was to go out on more than " a year's voyage to bring home the wealth of a the then known woria. xie neara mat tuo ni Egyptian horses were large and swift and T long maned and round limbed, and he re- U solved to purchase them, giving eighty-five dollars apiece for them, putting the best of tc these horses in . his own stall and selling tho g< surplus to foreign potentates at great profit. J< Ho heard that there was the best of timber w on Mount Lebanon, and he sent out 180,000 ai men to hew down the forest and drag the bt timber through the mountain gorges to con- w struct it into rafts to be floated to Joppa, and ai from thence to bo drawn by ox-team twenty- ai five miles across the land to Jerusalem. He tt heard that there were beautiful flowers in Q other lands. He sent for them, planted them d< in his own gardens, and to this very day re there are flowers found in the ruins of that ai city such as are to bo found in no other part hi of Palestine, the lineal descendants of the is very flowers that b'olomon planted. He Ti heard that in foreign groves there were birds pi of richest voice and most luxuriant wing, ci He sent out people to catch them and bring a) them there, and he put them into his cages. ol Stand back now and see this long train of ai camels coming up to the king's gate and the c* i fi-oino fmm w.rrvnt.' crnIrl and silver and oK ui j jr-i o ? precious stones and beasts of every hoof and a] birds of every wing and fish of every scale, gi See the peacocks strut mid the cedars and the fl] h Tsemen run and the chariots wheel. Hnrk m to the orchestra. Gaze upon the dance. Not tt stopping to look into the wonders of the tern- 0i pie step right on to the causeway and pass up fo to Solomon's palace. Here we find ourselves w amid a collection of buildings on which the tr king had lavished the wealth of many em- m pires. The genius of Hiram, the architect, and of the other artists is here seen in the Q long line of corridors and the suspended gal- jo lery and the approach to the throne. Trac- CI eried window opposite traceried window. *< Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotos and (a lily and pomegranate. Chapiters, surrounded ai by network of leaves, in which imitation fruit oi se?med suspended as in banging baskets, tii Three branches?so Josephus tells us?three di branches sculptured on the marble, so thin ti and subtle that even the leaves seemed to w quiver. A layer capable of holding 500 bar- c< rels of water, on 60) brazen ox heads, which gi gushed with water and filled the whole placo tl with coolness and crystalline brightness and musical plash. Ten tables chased with chariot wheel and lion and cherubim. tc Solomon sat on a throne of ivory. At the b< seating place of the throne, on each end of b' Lt- - ? 1'"a? Wkv mw ffiflnrlo |v" lUd bWJ]JS u. uiaitiu uuu. IIU[, >11J 11 iv.mu, u, in that place they timmed their candles with b; snuffers of gold, and th^y cut their fruits tl with knives of gold, they scooj>ed out tbe bi ashi s with shovels of gold, and they stirred rj the altar-fires with tongue3 of gold. Gold a! reflected in the water! Gold flashing from ci the apparel! Gold blazing in the crown! tl Gold, gold, gold! it Of course the news of the affluence of that it place went out everywhere by every caravan A and by the wing of every ship, until soon the a streets of Jerusalem are crowded with curi- tl osity seekers. What is that long procession a approaching Jerusalem? I think from, the d pomp of it there must be royalty in the train, ir I smell the breath of the' spices which are m brought as presents, and I hear the shout of tl the drivers, aud I see the dust-covered cara- ^ van, showing that they are come from far vt away. Cry the news up to the palace ! The tl Queen of Sheba advances ! Let a!l the peo- ir pie come out to see! Let the mighty men of t< the land come out on the palace corridors! ri Let Solomon come down the stairs of the pal- h ace before the queen has alighted! Shake 1( out the cinnamon, and the saffron, and th<i a calamus and tho frankincense and pass it into n the treasure-house! Take up thj diamonds until they glitter in tho sun! e' The Queen of Sheba alights. She enters a: the palace. She washes at the bath. She si sits down at the banquet. Tho cup-bearera hi bow. The meats srnoke. The muMc trem- n bles in the hall and through tho corridors un- tl til it mingles in the dash of the waters from tl t-ha million c?.i Thmi risiw fpiilll l.hfl Vi. banquet and she walks through the eonserva- y tories and she gazes on the architecture, and w she asks Solomon many strange questions, h and she learns about the religion of the He- ai brews, and she then and there becomes a ser- ai vant of tho Lord God. She is overwhelmed, gv She begins to think that all the spices she L brought and all tho precious woods which at e tc intended to be turned into harps and psa'ter- st ies and into railings for the causeway be- 01 tween the temple and the palace, b1 and the $1S0,(M> in money?she be- ^ gius to think that all these presents a, amount to nothing in such a place, and she is j] almost ashamed that she has brought them, n and she says within herself: 'I heard a great n deal about this place and about this wonderful religion of the Hebrews, but I find it far g] beyond my highest anticipations. I must a add more than fifty par cent, to what ha3 ^ been related. It exceeds everything that I I "l'l TKo lioH' f.Via Hoi f war a. . ; UUlliU IIOVD DAJAH-IOU. i uu uuiij w?W ?? ? bl not told me. ^ Learn from this subject what a beautiful j thing it is when social position and woalth ^ surrender themselves to God. When religion ^ comes to a neighborhood the first to receive j, it are tho women. Some men say it is be- a cause they are weak-minded. I say it is because they have quicker perception of what u is right, more ard^ht alfecti?n, and capacity t] for sublime emotion. After the women have jj received the'gospel, then all the distressed u ani the poor of both sexes, those who have 8j no friends, accept Jesus. Last of all come the tl people of affluence and high social position, f Alas, that it is so! If there are those here n to-day who have been favored of fortune, or, << as I might better put it, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you expect to be ^ to the Lord, who blessed this queen of Sheba. *, Certainly you are not ashamed to be found j, r? flno finaan'c nnmnonv M I am glad that Christ has had his imperial s friends in all ages?Elizabeth Christina, ? queen of Prussia; Maria Feodorovna, queen j of Russia; Marie, empress of France; Helena, j the imperial mother of Constantino; Ardadia, p from her great fortunes building public (j baths in Constantinople and toiling for the ^ alleviation of the misses; Queen Clotilda, g leading her husband and 3,000 of his armed u svarriors to Christian baptism; Elizabeth of v Burgundy, giving her jeweled glove to a v beggar and scattering great fortunes among << the distressed: Prince Albert singing "Rock . i\ of Ages" in Windsor castle and Queen Vic- ti toria incognito reading the Scriptures to a a dying pauper. I bless God that tho day is ? coming when royalty will bring all its thrones v and music, all its harmonies and painting, all its pictures and sculptures, all its statuary and architecture, all its pillars and conquest, all its scepters and the queens of the earth in long line of advance frankincense filling the air, and tho camels laden with gold shall approach Jerusalem and tho gates shall be hoisted and the great burden of splendor shall be lifted into tho palace of this greater than Solomon. Again, my subject teaches me what is earnestness in the search of truth. Do you know whflre Shftbn. was? It was in Abvs sinia, or somo say, in tho southern part of D Arabia Felix. In either case it was a great 1 way oil' from Jerusalem. To get from tliore f to Jerusalem she had to cross a country infested with bandits and go across blistering ? doserts. Why did not the Queen of Sheba stay at home and send a committee to inquire B about this new religion and have the delegates report in regard to that religion and the wealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself and hear for herself. She could / not do this by work of committee. She felt j: she had a soul worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba and she wanted a robe richer than o any woven by oriental shuttles and she j. wanted a crown set with tho jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Put on the d >ic63. Gather up the jewels of the throne id put them on the caravan. Start jw. No timo to be lost. Goad on the imels. When I seo that caravan, dust-cov ei, weary and exhausted, trudging on iross the desert and among the bandits unlit reaches Jerusalem, I say: "There is an truest seeker after the truth." But there :e a great many of you, my friends, who do at act in that way. "iou all want to get le truth, but you want the truth to come ? you; you do not waut to go to it. There :e people who fold their arms and say: "I n ready to become a Christian at any me; if I am to be saved, I will be saved, id it 1 am to be lost, I shall be lost." A lan who says that, and keeps on saying it, il! be lost. Jerusalem will never come to du, you must go to Jerusalem. The region of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come i vou: you must go and get religion. Brine it the camels; put on all the sweet spices, all le treasures of the heart's affection and start ar the throne. Go in and hear the waters f salvation dashing in fountains all around bout tho throne. Sit down at the banquet? ae wine pressed from tSo grapes of the eavenly eshcol?the angels of God the cupearers. Goad on the camels; Jerusalem will ever come to you; you must go to Jerusaim. The Bible declares it. "The Queen of le South?that is, this very woman I am leaking of, the Queen of the South?shall ise up in judgment against this generation nd condemn it; for she came from the utterlost parts of the earth to bear the wisdom C Solomon, and lo! a greater than Solomon here." God help tne to break up the inituation of those people who are sitting own in idleness expecting to be saved. Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Ask nd it shall be given you; seelc and ye shall fid; knock and it shall be opened to you." ake the kingdom of heaven by violence, rge on the camels. Again, my subjoct impresses me with the ict that religion is a surprise to any one that its it. This story of the new religion in arusalem and of the glory of King Solomon, ho was a type of Christ?that story rolls on id on and is told by every traveler coming ick from Jerusalem. The news goes on the ing of every ship and with every caraVan, id you know a story enlarges as it is retold, id by the time that story gets down into te southern part of Arabia, Felix and the ueen of Sbeoa bears it, it must be a tremenjus story. And yet this queen declares in igard to it, although she bad heard so much id had her anticipations raised so high, the ilf?the half was not told her. So religion always a surprise to any one that gets it. be story of grace?an old story. Apostles -eached it with rattle of chain, martyrs deared it with arm of fire, death-beds have firmed wioh visions of glory, and ministers religion have sounded it through the lanes id the highways and the chapels and the T* Koo mif in hn QtnnA Wlt.h ICLICX-U CI A3. XV UUO MWli VUH AUWV wvv.av ..... lisel and spread on the canvas with pencil; ad it has been recited in the doxology of reat congregations. And yet, when a man rst comes to look on the palace of God's lercy, and to see tbe royalty of Christ, and le wealth of his banouet, and the luxriance ! his attendants, ana the loveliness of his tee, and the joy of his name, he exclaims ith prayers, with tears, with songs, with iumph: "Tha half?ihe half was not told e." I appeal to those in thia house who are hristians! Compare the idea you had of the y of the Christian life before you became a hristian, with the appreciation of that joy )u have now since you have lecome a Chrisn, and ycu are willing to attest before igels and men that you never in the days ! your spiritual bondage had any appreciaon of what was to coma You are ready toly to answer, and if I gave you an oppormity, in the midst of this assemblage, you ould speak out and say in regard to the disiveries you have made of the mere/and the race and the goodness of God: The half? ie half was not told me! Well, we hear a great deal about the good ma that is coming to this world when it is > he girdled with salvation. Holiness on the ;!ls of tha horses. The lion's niano patted j the hand of a babe. Ships of Tarshish ringing cargoes for Jems and the hard, dry, irren, winter-bleached, storm-scarred, lunder-split rocc breaking into ilo^ds of right water. Dejerts into which dromodaes thrust their nostrils because they were fraid of tho simoon, deserts blooming into irnation roses and silver-tipped lilies. It is le old story. Everybody tells it Isaiah told t-I? t_i.i . ?. u-..! frvl.l ? U Uli II IAJIU ill. JL QUI IUJU 111, VU4W ? Luther told it. Calvin told it. Johu [iltou told it. Everybody tells it, and yet? nd yet when the midnight shall fly hills and Christ shall marshall his great rmy and China, dashing her idols into the ust, shall hear the voice of God and wheel lto lino; and India, destroying her Juggsraut and snatching up little children irom a? Ganges, shall hear the voice of God and -heel into line; and vine-covered Italy and 'heat-crowued Russia and all the nations of le earth shall hear the voice of God and fall ito line; then the church which has been jihng and struggling through the centuries, abed and garlanded like a bride adorned for er husband, shall put aside her veil and >ok up into the face of her Lord, the King, nd say: "The half?the half was not told ie." Well, there is coming a greater surprise to 7ery Christian?a greater surpriss than ay thing I have depicted. Heaven is an old x>ry Everybody talks about it There is ardly a hymn in the hymn-book that does ot refer to it Children read about it. in leir sabbath-school book. Aged men put on leir spectacles to study it We say it is a arbor from the storm. We call it our home, ^e say it is the house of many mansions. We eave together sweet beautiful, delicate, exilarant words?we weave them into letters nci we speii ic out in rose ami my nnu aiimrath. And yet that place is going to be a irprise t?. the most intelligent Christian, ike the Queen of Sheba, the report has come > us from the far country and many of ushave arted. It is a desert march, but we urge 1 the camels. What though our feet be listered with the way, we are hastening to ie palace. We take all our loves and hopes id Christian ambitions as frankincense and ayrrli and cassia to the great King. We lust not rest Wo must not halt The ight is coming on and it is not safe out here 1 the desert I see the domes against the cy and houses of Lebanon, and the temples, nd the gardens. See the fountains dance in le sun and the gates flash as they open to it in the poor pilgrims. Send t he word up 3 the palace that we are coming and that re are weary of the march of the dosert The [ing will come out and say: "Welcome to lie palace, bathe in these waters, reclino on aese banks. Take this cinnamon and franklcense and myrrh and put it upon a censer nd swing it before the alter." And yet, my friends, when heaven bursts pon us it will be a greater surprise than bat. Jesu3 on the throne and we made like im! All our Christian friends surrounding s in glory. All our sorrows and tears ana ins gone by forever. The thousands of tiousands, the one hundred and forty and our thousands, the great multitudes that no lan can number will cry world without end: The half, the half was not told me." I tell you heaven will be a glorious suririse. Surprise at the throne, surprise at the ompanionship, surprise at the music, everlisting surprise. Oh, S3e those two souls beore the throne. They are a mother and her on. When that mother died and went up to lory she left a wandering boy. She said to tim in the last hour, "Meet me in Heaven." To mnrlfl nr> nrmniiiA Hfl WAnt richfe On. ''or twenty years he went on in sin, but on9 ay, memory, a gracious memory camo to is soul and he cried unto God and was foriven. and he turned into patli3 of righteous ess and he served the Lord,and then after a rhilo went up to the shining gate and he rent in, and now they meet, mother and son. Oh," she says, "what a glorious surprise his is. My poor lost boy. Praise the grace :iat saves the chief of sinners. The dead is live a;rain, the lost 19 found. Hallelujah! [allelujah! Come all Heaven and rejoice rith me." Blest are the saints beloved of God, "Washed are their robes in Jesus' blood, Brighter than ange's, lo! they shine, Their p,lories splendid and divine. My soul anticipates the dny. Would stretch her wings and soar away To aid the song, the palm to bear, And bow the chief of sinners there. The Boston Traveler says: A vessel ow lying in Boston harbor is called "emperance Bell. It must be a good emperancc craft, for the worst charge Lat could be brought again9t it is that he is generally "water-tight. A Deer journal says: Beer brewers in Lmerica employ an army of half a milion men; they have invested a quarter f a billion dollars in their business, and hey sell about one hundred and eighty aillion gallons of beer a year. _ , why? A baby came into tlie world one day, And the parents smiled in pride, As swift to the messages flashed away, Came greetings from far and wide. A liohv want nnfr. nf t.ho wnrkl rmo rncrhfi. "v? """ ?? ~ ?O 1 And the mother moaned aloud, For the stainless soul that had gained the light, For the form iu the pearl-white shroud. Oh? the mystery here, the problem deep? Philosophers pause awhile! Why do we laugh when we ought to weep And weep when we ought to smile? ?Nellie F. O'Neill, in Boston Courier. RELIGIOUS READING. Wilt Thou Go I Sweet and solemn lull the accents Of tho Holy Spirit's voice, As Ho gently pleadeth with us, Urging us to make our choice. "Unto Christ, to [Iim who loves thoo With a love thou ne'er ennst know, Unto Iliin Avho died 10 save thee Wilt thou go? Wilt thou go? ' Follow me, and I will guide thee Safe across ourth's desert plain, And lx>guile its dreary wnsteness With soil whisperings of his nnmo, Unto Him who wn'.ts to meet thee In the Hoaven's eternal glow, There to reign with Him forever, Wilt thou go ? Wilt thou no 1" "We will go," wo answer gladly, Blessed Spirit nt Thy call. Though tho r>?ad be fuil of danger, Thou wilt bring us safe through all Wo will fnllnw in llio nnth'.vfiv That alone our Master trod. Knowing that its narrow windiugs Lead ua surely up to God. "Wc will go," the world forsaking With its endless toil nnd strife, Into all tho peaco nnd gla jness Ol the resurrection life; Each new step our trust will deepen, In His mighty love and grace, Till at last, our journey over, We buhold Him faco to fuco. ? The Christian. Blood Will Tell. When, at a meeting of the General Association ot Illinois, the leader of a devotional service requested the sons of Christian mothers to stand, nearly every minister present rose to his feet. "Her children," says tho proverb, oi the virtuous woman, "arise up and call her blessed." Aristocratic pride of family is the just scorn of every true American. We want no "degenerate sons of noble sires among us.' We have enough and to spare of them, studying out for their seal-rings and coach-panels old family coats-of-arms, and taking airs on the score of some titled ruffian of lour or five centuries ago. There was truth ai well as wit in Saxe's saying that the line of one's ancestry, traced back, is quite apt to end in a cobbler's waxed end or a l A. nangmau a kuuu ]3ut the laws of heredity transmit something more than names, heraldic devices and vain conceit. Mysteriously and awfully they bear down legacies of character from parent to child. They steer the new-comer into the world, from before his birth, along the lino of endless destiny. Truo as it is that responsible moral action begin? only with the actor himself, it is no less true that proclivities starting from far back of such action, flow steadily down from age to age. "Though we are not to be judged foi the f in of Adam before us," said Prof. Swing, in a recent sermon, "a fearful judgment may comti on us for the sins of our children." As the traveler approaches the northern entrance of the Mt. Cenis Tunnel, he sees, emerging miles awaj and and above from among the snows, a silvery rill which his eye distinctly traces widening and deepening downward, till it plunges and roars as a resistless torrent at his feet. But only the Omniscient eye follows the stream of moral refinement or contamination that arose centuries ago and b^ars onward in its sweep the men and women of to-day. And every parent contributes to that stream. Every parent rises from the dead to live again in the i-- r vi. n,i rru? me UJL IJ13 UJ1WU. JLUCJ jjaOSlUIlilbC mother of Lord Byron stormed and raged in the wild career of the poet. The godly mother of the "Wesleys suffered and toiled for human welfare in the memorable years of her sons. A child has a right to be not onlj well-trained, tut, before the training can begin, well-born. It is of immeasurable moment not merely whal the parent does, but whal he is. For the depth and richness of nature, the moral force and effectiveness, which he ought to transfer to his child, aristi from behind his own will, in the verj core of his being. A deep, mature, well-rounded Christian charactei comes not from conversion alone Martin Luther become "the monk thai shook the world," not through repen tance and faith alone. He had inher ited the physical soundness, the brain and brawn, with which to stand tremendous strain that came upor him. And centuries of old Germac hardihood and valor were in the maD the stuff that was heroic long before i1 came to be Christian. The Teutonic fire that not all the legions of Ilomt could quench blazed up again in de fiance of papal Rome as well. Many a Christian father is left tc wonder that his boy resists his influence, because he has begun to wondei and grow anxious too late. He maj have become a father far back in th< years of his own ungodliness, wner pride, or impurity, or passion, or stub born unbelief, had the mastery in him How is his repentance long afterwarc to remedy his wrong to his child? A stream runs itself clear, it is said, ir four miles. But a cup of water taker from it where it is foul will be no les: foul for the purity a league or tw< below. But it may be that, evensinci the father's entrance on the Christiai life, the change has never yet strucL through him to renovate his whole na tare. And this evil nature, transferrer by the law o? heredity to the child contends against the precepts that th* father repeats in vain. The law of moral transmission ha: been mainly, thus far along the ages the channel through which corruptior I ,i?n4<v. v>o^ra flnu/or? rlnivn frnm crpn ULIU UDd L 11 11(1 < u 11V II uu uv 11 M - Q eration to generation, it was divinel; designed as a channel of blessing Grace may flow through it as well a: corruption. The noblest impulses an< proclivities of a sanctified character descending from sire to son, may in cline the infant will to righteousnes J and to Christ. Some slight foreglean of that may be seen in many a Chris tian home even now. And more am more as the tone of Christian charac ( ter rises, shall the law of heredity tun 1 from a curse to a blessing.?Advance. " A CLEVER DECEPTION. How Twenty-Four Soldiers Outwit* . ted their Sergeant. An exchange tells this story of a French sergeant to whom was intrusted the oversight of twenty-four soldiers, and who, doubtless, had a chance to find , out for himself the truth of Longfellow's statement that "things are not what they ; seem." In the building which the soldiers were to occupy there were nine rooms, so he arranged his men in the following manner, taking care to keep the center | room to himself, so that he could thus manage a sort of a warlike "puss in the corner": By this disposition 3 3 3 of his men, the brave sergeant had nine sta tioned on each face of the building, and so 3 3 flattered himself that \ it was guarded. By ] and by the soldiers grew tired, and not 3 3 3 seeing any signs of i danger, they knocked j at the door of the center room, and a9ked permission to alter the arrangement, so that they might have a little amuse- ^ mcnt. < The sergeant gave consent on condi- 1 tion that there should be always niae ] men on each side of the house, and then retired to re3t. About an hour afterward he went his 1 rounds, and found the men arranged 1 thus: i He counted care-f , fully. There were nine1 4 14 on each side, so he 1 went to bed again, ?? j quite satisfied with the j conduct of his men, 1 1 and little imagining that four soldiers had 3 gone for a walk in the I town, as you may see 4 1 4 < if you count the numbers in the plan adjoining. Not long afterward the truants re- 1 fnrnfid. brincrincr with them four friends, i J 0 o There were now twenty-eight men in the i building. For the second time the ser- , geant went his rounds and found the rooms occupied as follows: 1 "Nine on each aide," 3 2 5 2 he thought, "certainly ;I am a lucky fellow to , have such a trust1 [worthy set of men 5 5 under me." And yet 1 ;there were four more ?? soldiers than there : [were at first, and eight 1 2 5 2 'more than when he last iwent round. Truly, ' "things are not what they seem." J Soon after the sergeant had retired, < ( four more fresh soldiers came in, so the 1 number of the detachment was increased ' to thirty-two. Once more the vigilant 1 sergeant went round. Once more he 3 1 found nine on each side, and went back 1 to his room without suspecting mischief. Why should he be doubtful when there were always nine men on each side? By and by four more men came in, and the number in the building was raised to ( , thirty-six. The men[ i were at first afraid 17 1 , that they would bej 1 i found out, but after 1 , a little while they ( managed to arrange 7 7 ( , themselves so that the ; magic number should still be found on each oid??neither more nor 17 1 less. | j And so for the fourth time the sergeant ' counted, and was satisfied. Made bold by their 0 9 0 success in puzzling their leader, the men i agreed that half should leave the building, , 9 9 only eighteen remainling behind. "While . they were gone the serk igeant came round lor ,0 9 0 jthe last time and found jthc arrangement as , follows: 1 What more could a[ man wish? There were' 5 0 4 1 nine on each side, and! ' yet there were six men ?: ? less than at first, and > eighteen less than 0 0 ) when he last went I round. 1 It is easy to explain i i how the sergeant was 4 0 5 i deceived. The corner rooms are counted on both sides of the r house at once. The more there are in 1 r these rooms, the fewer there are in the i ' whole building, and the fewer there are ; . in the corner rooms the more there are . j in the house. _ . .. n -i Where England's nuiers uru DIUICUi I A place has been given in this list to Oliver Cromwoll. Strictly speaking, Cromwell was not a sovereign, but most . people will agree with Macaulay, thai "he was the greatest Prince that evei ruled England." His remains were dis- 1 honored when Charles II. came to the i throne, but there is no dishonoring hii ] place in history. William J., at Caen 103" ' William IL, at Winchester 11(K < Henry L, at Reading Abbay 113c Stephen, at Favtjrsham Abbey, Kent... 115-1 Henry II., at Fontevraud, Anjou 11SJ Richard L, at Fontevraud, but his heart was bequeathed to the citizens of Rouen lift ( John, at Worcester 12M Henry III., at Westminster Abbey 127i < Edward I., afc Westminster Abbey 1301 ( Edward II., at Gloucester Abbey 132' . Edward III., at Westminster Abbey.... 137' J Richard II., at Westminster Abbey.... 13ft $ Henry IV., at Canterbury 141; Henry V., at Westminster Abbey 142i * Henry VL, at Windsor 1471 f Edward IV., at Windsor 14Si Edward V., at Westminster 14S; t . Richard III., at Gray Friars. His bones j were notallowed to remain mere; mey were torn from his humble bed by ( Henry VIII., and his stone cofiin used f I as a drinking trough for horses at an inn in Leicester 14SJ ^ Henry VII., at Westminster.... 1503 ( 1 Henry VIIL, at Windsor 1541 1 Edward VI., at Westminster 1503 ' 3 Mary I., at Westminster 155S i Elizabeth, at Westminster 1(50;: j ' James I., at Westminster 102." ' B Charles I., at Windsor ll>4S , 1 Cromwell, at Westminster 1G60 , Charles II., at Westminster KISS 1 L Mary II., at Westminster Abbey MM - James II., at St. Germain, Paris 1701 i William III., at Westminster Abbey... 170- i Anne, at Westminster Abbey 171-1 , ' George I., at Hanover 1721 5 George IL, at Westminster Abbey 17M ] George III., at Windsor 1820 , 3 George IV., at Windsor 1831 William IV., at Windsor 1S3" 1 ? ?Leeds (England) Mercury. . 1 The Merry Old Wind. * f Oh, tho wind, tlio merry old wind, i Sends the ship flying over the sea, , L And it softly blows the scent of the rose J Up from tho meadow unto me. It whirls the leaves, the pretty gold loaves, ' In shining eddies along the Way, ( And sendoth tho brown nuts tumbling dowc 3 Where the sumachs staud in their fezzes ' a gay. Z But, oh, the wind, the merry old wind, < 3 That will open the violet by-and-by, Can nevermore be very solid with me, n For it's blown a hot cinder into my eye. 11 -Puck. TEMPERANCE" T0PIG3, A Bmjr Small Boy. 1 f know a small boy, a very small boy, Who's as busy as he can be, 1 Would you like to see himi Well, look thfe J That very small boy is me. rhey tell me a man is a boy grown up, And the man who is good and great, 9 fs the one who began when a very small boy To grow exceedingly straight. [ want to be good and great when a man, 1 And I think I have started fair, \ For I've faithfullv promised "never to drink, % Or smoke, or chew, or swear." 1 So, my friends, this b:>y, this very small boy, .-HSaH Who's as busy as be can be, '\<?i Wants help from his friends; will you look I this way? That very small boy is me. | ?Juvenile Temperance Reciter. 1 How Drunkards arc Made. j At a meeting in Philadelphia, during ^il the week of prayer, one of the speakers -J related this incident: A lad was approached by one of those dispensers of that which deprives men of ;heir property and destroys both body and. soul, who solicited him to come into [lis place of destruction and take a glass 5f lemonade. The boy hesitated, but oa being assured that he would get nothing : but a glass of nice, sweet lemonade, he iras induced to go in. Sure enough, he was offered and partook of what had been promised him and nothing more. This was repeated several times, till at . length, the trap having been set, it was % aow time to spring it. Accordingly, the ; rumseller began his work by dropphig in the glass of lemonade one drop of afpftnr* linrinr ln/?r#>an?nop ifc an fhiia ?' ' imperceptibly to form in the lad a taste for it. As the boy never paid for his drinks one of the old customers of the place asked the landlord why he so fav- * - ^ ored the boy. He replied by pointing ; J and saying: "Do you see that fine mansion upon the hill yonder? That belongs to the boy's father, and will probably | soon belong to him, and then in turn it _ VJ may belong to me." Fiendish! Horrible! Alongheadedf deep laid scheme to ruin a family and ' rnh them of their nronertv: for certainlv such a scheme, if successful could be looked upon &s nothing less than downright robbery, and as much a penitentiary offence as any other kind of rob. bery. And if there is any one place of greater punishment in the devil's kingdom than another, is not such an one entitled to share it? ; But are not all rumsellers alike in this , "3 respect? They do not care who is hurt, . who comes to grief, who suffers the pangs of hunger and cold, who goes to a home of sorrow and wretchedness, whose children cry for bread or whose wife is abused, or beaten, [or murdered, so they can fill their own coffers and live . on the fat of the land through their ill * j gotten gains. For the most of them take ' carc not to jeopardize their own property by indulging in excess in the nasty and destructive stuffs that they deal out to others. The Drunkard'a Children* What were they? Guess they were mirthful and their hearts were full of song, when with joy they watched at the gate for father's coming, and then, covering his face with kisses, their joy was complete. He thought of them when away, and was glad when he was to return. Then no cloud was over their childhood sky. They were so happy, when, with their hand in their fathers they walked with him, and seemed to Bay: "This is our good father." And they saw a smile of joy on their mother's lips when father came home looking so proud of his children. How is it now? They do not run out to meet him; in place of their wonted joy at his return, there is a sad, a melancholy look; instead of laughter and aongs there are tears and sobs, and in* stead of throwing their arms about him, they remain in another room, or sit quietly, for father comes?as a drunkard no w! He has no words of love for them, no caress of tenderness, no gifts reminding them that they have been in hi* thoughts during the day. And how can they be happy? Their sorrows are known; other children look at them, and iVkA*!! AAMMAnf TIlAtf 1 ATTO IU13 1 LIU it: uses lucii ounvn* iuv; aurv father, and say: "Never mind, mother, when we are grown you shall not lire this way; we will be able to help you." God pity them! Let all good people love them, and hate the traffic that has 3tolen a father's heart from these littla aces.?Iiec. F. W. Vinson. Think of Thia, WorklngmenA correspondent of John Swinton's Paper, the organ of the labor unions, sails attention to the claim of the brew;rs that they give employment to 500,">00 men. and savs: * 'Think of this, work ncrmen! Half a million men employed n destroying food, in rotting grain, etc., urning it into a poison that makes men lends, wives widows, children orphans, he industrious lazy, the intelligent mmbskulls, and sends women and chil* Iren to workjin place of men, thus filling he land with tnimpa and loafers for the [Yorkers to support. If it is true that ivery person who produces nothing jeneficial to society is no better than a pauper, then all labor employed making, handling, or selling such drinks is labor ivasted, and people so employed are paupers and makers of paupers. "The brewers, distillers, liquor, wine, ind beer dealers, are among the worst incmies of workingmen; the temperance jeople are their friends. The former 'ob them of their health, happiness and ife; the latter want to see every man. ivoman and child well housed, clothed lud fed. The objects of temperanco ire the abolition of poverty, crime, disease and premature death." Two hundred public houses in London were watched between the hours of D and 12 on a recent Saturday nijxht for the purpose of seeing how many persons * entered them. The count showed that they were visited by 86,603 personsmen, women and children?during the three hours.