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w % SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Sessions. Eleventh Day.?On the opening day after he holiday recess the Senate was called to order by Senator Sherman, the president pro tempore, who, after prayer and the reading of the journal, laid before the Senate several papers, including the credentials of John W. Daniel, the newly elected United States Senator from Virginia, which were read and laid on the table Numerous bills ! were introduced, anions: them l?eing the following: By Senator Morgan?To substitute silver dollars in part in the place of gold J coin and currency in several reserved fluids : held in the treasury. By Senator Blair?To provide for the erection of monuments in this city to President Lincolu and General Grant* similar to the Washington, to cost $1,000,000 each; none but American citizens i are to be employed upon this work. By Mr. Logan: To provide for the adjustment of the accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanic <">'1 +Ytn uiirhf.hnilV lnw* n]sr? to IL"5 ai UiUiU! tau UVM4 ^ confer military rank on telegraph operators in the military service. Also to create a coinmission to inquire into the material, industrial anil intellectual progress made by the colored people since 1805.... A resolution offered by Mr. Hoar was at his request, referred to the committee on foreign relations, requesting the President to take measures for revising and extending our extradition treaties, so as to cover cases of embezzlement and other breaches of trust. In offering his resolution. Mr. Hoar made special reference to the number of defaulting bank officers who tried to escape punishment by flight to Canada. ....Upon motion of Mr. Sherman a marble statue of the late President Garfield, presented to Congress by the State of Ohio, and now in position at the capitol. was accented?Mr. Edmunds' Utah bill came up, and Mr. Hoar moved to strike out the section prohibiting the exercise of suffrage by women in Utah. After discussion the matter"went over to the next day. Twelfth Dat.?The chair laid before the Senate a letter from the postmaster-general complying with the call of a recent Senate reflation in respect to the appointment of pcstmastei-s in Maine alleged to have been procured through the influence of S. S. Brown, Chairman of the Democratic committee of the Sonate. After debate upon the matter by Messrs. Hale, Vest and \ oorhees, the communication, on motion of Mr. Hale, was referred to the committee on civil service reform.... Mr. Gray called up Mr. Beck's resolution of iuauiry regarding the payment of customs uuties in coin, | ancl the application of that, coin to the purposes of the sinking fund, etc. Mr. Gray said he would vote on it. Mr. Beck made a speech favoring the suspension of silver coinage, saving that if coinage were now suspended silver might begot to a proper relation with gold; and, in the opinion of the best authorities in the world, we had now got to a point in silver coinage beyond which it was dangerous for us to go... .On motion of Mr. Edmunds the Senate took up the Utah bill, the pending question being on Mr. Hoar's motion to strike out the section that would disfranchise the women of Utah. The vote on this motion resulted: Yeas, 11; nays, 37. The section disfranchising the women remains, therefore, a part of the bill.... Mr. Blair, from the committee on education and labor, reported favorably a bill to aid in the establishment of common schools?the same as the bill that passed the Senate last Congress....Mr. George introduced" a bill to prevent contraction in the currency and to increase the circulation of silver and silver certificate?. Thirteenth Day.?Mr. Voorliees offered as a substitute for Mr. Harrison's recent resolution regarding the late administration of the pension office a series of resolutions reciting various allegations made by the present commissioner of the fusion office against its former administration, and calling for an investigation in the truth of said allegations. After debate with Mr. Logan the subject went over for a day.... Discussion of the Ed rounds anti-Mormon bill was resumed. House Sessions. Twelfth Day.?Upon the reassembling of the House after the holiday recess the flood of bills introduced just before adjournment continued. In all, about i>00 bills were introduced during the day, among them being the following: By Mr. Cutcheon?A bill to reform the civil service and to preserve the constitutional distinction between the legislative and executive duties by the organization of a bureau of civil appointments. Mr. Long introduced a bill for the repeal of the Tenure of Office act and a bill providing that the principal officer of each * departmeut of the government be given a seat on the floor of the House. Mr. Buchanan introduced a bill for the repeal of the tax on tobacco and the manufacturers thereof: a bill creating a department of agriculture,and Mr. Mitchell's Senate bill for the retiring and recoining of the trade dollar. \ Mr. Beach introduced joint resolutions providing for constitutional amendments. One to.give the comptroller power to change the location or name of national banks and increase their capital stock. One to raise the statutes of limitations on debts of the United States. One to give the President the power to veto one or more items in the appropriation bills. One to provide uniform laws on marriage and divorce, and one to prevent the giving or loaning of the public money for private or corporation enterprise. A constitutional amendment proposed by 'mr- \f1> a rlrwr. nrnvidpc thnf. nrpqiripnfcifll electors shall be elected in every State on the third Tuesday in October, and that no other officers than Representatives in ConSess shall be elected on the same day. Mr. cAdoo also introduced a bill depriving of ~ the right of suffrage all polygamists or persons who are members of organizations that encourage other persons to commit bigamy. Thirteenth Day.?The call of States for the introduction of bills was resumed, 882 bills being introduced during the day, including the following: By Mr. Seney?To repeal the civil service act: to make share hoi- ' ders in national banks individually liable for { the debts of the bank; to retire trade dollars. By Mr. Foran?For the restoration of wages in the government printing office. By Mr. Little?Reqairing national banking associations to keep three-fourths of their required reserves in coin of unlimited legal tender, at least two-fifths of which shall oe in silver. ? By Mr. Kelley?For the further limitation of the coinage of tha silver dollar. It provides that until the free coinage of both gold and silver full legal tender shall be established at a common^ratio by the leading commercial nations of Europe in concert with the United States, the coinage of silver dollars shall be limited to $1,000 in coin during each and every year. By Mr. Scott ?To regulate the coinage of the silver dollar. By Mr. Curtin?To equalize the }>ensions of all utterly helpless pensioned soldiers. By Mr. Randall?Providing for filling vacancies in the office of President and Vice-President; also proposing a constitutional amendmeut giving the .President the power to veto specific items in appropriation bills. By Mr. % Tillman?For the free coinage of the silver dollar. Fourteenth Day?The rail of States was resumed, and the following bills and resolutions were introduced and referred: By Mr. , Goff, of West Virginia?To repeal the internal, revenue on- tobacco. By Mr. Price, of Wisconsin?For the creation of a commission on the subject of the alcoholic liquor traffic. By Mr. Gifford, of Dakota?For the admission of the State of Dakota. By Mr. Voorhees. of Washington Territory?For the admission of the State of Washington. By Mr. Pulitzer, of New York?Providing for the appointment of a board of commissioners for Sew York harbor. By Mr. Symes, of Colorado?For the unlimited coinage of the silver dollar. By Mr. Dunham, of Illinois?To establish a department of commerce. By Mr. Anderson, of Kansas?To prevent unjust discriminations by railroad companies, and to subject them to the control of States; also, prohibiting the use of railroad and other passes and of telegreph franks by members of Congress and the judiciary: also, to create the postal telegraph of the "United States The speaker announced the list of new House committers. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Juvenile "Mikado" companies already have .sprouted up. "U and I" is the title of a new farce pro du ed recently in Boston. Queer companies and queerer plays are tumbling all over the country. Patti is said to have lost $15,000 by not being able to keep her engagements in Holland. Mr. J. H. Haverly is now quietly managing a comic opera company in San Francisco. Fai're, the great, French baritone, is on the point of publishing a work on the art of singing. Mrs. Lakgtry has leased the Prince's theatre. London, for six months, and opens the new year with a new play. t ! ' ! The Lore of God. Glful in tho sunshine, All tilings lift their voices To tlio Giver oi good; And the whole world rejoices Because oi' the love Ot tiie Father above. Hearts sad with sorrow. And hands that are weary, Grow reattul in Gixl, And are hopetul and cheery; For ilia love will last, When till else ahull be past. Oh, wondeiful kindneas! j lis inconstant never, , And (Joes not yiow lired, j l>Uv endures all lcrever; Mo love is so strou^, Mo love lasls so long. Who knows I lis IbrgivenoM Will evermore render A tribute ol praise; lor llts love is so tender Tiittt words luil to show What our gratelul hearts know. Then let all His eliiidreu Rejoice wiiliuut measure; '1 he gieat love ol Uoit is our eulace anil treasure, btuee lie holds us dear V\ n.il is there to tear' ?Maiiamte Farninyham, RELIGIOUS READING. Do Kou Know Je*us ! I was walking hastily along a crowded street wnen my steps were suddenly arrested by a voice Oelnud me uttenug the words, "iiir, do you know Jesus?" For the tune aud place it was a strange question. It was hlgti noon, and many were hastening to the Exchange near by. it was in the centre of a biiay thoroughfare through which hundreus were pressing, each intent upon his own particular errand. In the midst of the temples of Mammon and of the lL " ^ 1 hnnrH thtt mings oi uis wuiauipcu, ? I strange thrilling question, 4,?>ir, do you Know Jesus?" Stranger still, I when I turned to see the person who uttered the words, 1 could not fix upon any oae of the nuinoers behind ine as the speaker. 1 did not i j see, either, to whom it had been | j spoken. If it had fallen from the ciear sky above me it could not have I had less of personality about it. The air had borne it to my tar, but from whom 1 could not discern; and the words, so unusual in that place and at that time, seemed to have become doubly strange, that their speaker had so quickly vanished. 1 turned ayvay and passed up the street, pondering over the question . which 1 had so mysteriously heard. I thought of the declaration of Jesus that "to know" him is "life eternal," and then I forgot the strangeness of the query in the sense of its overwhelming importance. I questioned <mrr nn,n annl ?TV?o?- fknn frr?, ? W Tft.'lllS." UIJ vnu ouLII, i/you uiuu anv ? ? the eternal life? I applied it mentally to those who passed me so hurriedly, eager in their pursuit of present good. One I reeognized as a shrewd and practical financier. He knew something of the secrets of the banKing-house. He understood the vast system of exchanges which spread over our country like a network. He coutd discourse fluently upon the crisis and its causes. Did he know JesusV If not, he had missed the highest knowledge. He knew not him in whom infinite treasures of wisdom and grace are found. I passed on further, and I saw a well-known merchant ascending the sttps of the Custom House. He was an adept in his business, thoroughly versed in all the departments of trade. He knew the value of commodities at a glance, and could predict the turn ol markets, and speculate wisely upon the changes in commerce made by the manifold changes of the times. He was an oracle in the counting-house and on 'change. But did he know Jesus? was my thought. In his cal cuiauons mis ne ever computed tne worth of Lis soul, or the value of Christ's sacrifice offered for its redemption ? Did he know Jesus as his Saviour, and heartily receive him as his sacrifice before God? If not, what was his acquired knowledge but a guide for a lew years, to be utterly useless when God should call him to give up his possessions on earth. Further on, I met another familiar face. It was pale,and an air of abstraction spread over it. The man oc science was conning some new problem, or pondering over some novel facts. lie knew the laws by which' the stars move and the waters flow. He had analyzed and combined until he understood many things in their elements, and the processes by which these elements were united in many different forms. He knew the history of the past, and could tell where the mountains had been built up and seas spread out. Did he also know Jesus? That is the great question. Header, do you know Jesus? Do you know his power to save from sin and the fear of iinnenriin? iudament? Do vou know " ? O J O v how free his mercy is? how full his grace? You must know him, or perish. You mu3t know him, or miss eternal life.?The Presbyterian. Men cling to Christ to-day as if it was but yesterday that He had died for them. When all other names carved on the world's records have become unreadable, like forgotten inscriptions on decaying gravestones. His shall en- i dure forever, deep graven on fleshy tables of heart. Ilis revelation of God is the lushest truth. Till the end of time men wili turn to His lite for the clearest knowledge aud happiest certainty of their Father in Heaven. There is nothing limited or local in His character of works. In hi3 meek beauty and gentle perfectness He stands so high above us all, that today the inspiration of His example and the lessons of hi3 conduct touch us as much as if he had lived in this generation, and will always shine before men as their best and most blessed law of conduct. Christ will not be antiquated till lie is outgrown, and it will be some time before that happens.?Alexander Maclaren, D. D. A pamphlet by Mr. John Abbey, which excited considerable interest in England when published a few years since, advocating the discontinuance of intoxicants on the harvost field, was widely circulated by a committee, and, | as a result of this effort, many'farmers have substituted a money payment for the former beer allowance, to the general satisfaction of masters and men. ( DR. TALIAGE'S SERIN. LONG LIFE. Text: "That thy days may ho lon? upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee." ?Exodus xx., 12. January 1SS0. Our old almanacs and memorandums thrown aside aud everybody impressed with the fact that we are opening a new volume in the history of time, and every sensible man and woman discussing the length or the shortness of human life. Fidelity to duty iu my text is represented as having much to do with the length of our stay on earth. By the mistakeof some of its friends religion has been associated in the minds of many with sick beds aud graveyards. The Whole subject to them is malodorous with chlorine and carbolic acid. They cannot pronounce the word religion without hearing in it tho -1J C 4.1. ~ AllH-Af* L'iipjjiujj; ui uiu uuisci vi uuu i/VJiuur> wuv ^uuwi . Now, all this has got to be changed. People are to understau<l that instead of religion being a hearse to carry out the dead it is a chariot in which the living are to triumph; that religion instead of being a subtraction from one's life is an addition; that it is sanative, curative, hygienic; that it is good for the eyes, good for the ears, good for the spleen, good for the digestion, good for the nerves, good for the muscles, good for our entile organism. Certainly we ought to come to some such realization as that. The time has come when we cease to associate religion with the day of our demise and talk of it as though it were something mortuary. How is it with the psalmist where he comes to speak of the religion of Jesus Christ as dominant in the earth? Does he speak of it as a mild sickness, as an emaciation, as an atfcick of moral and spiritual cramp? No. He speaks of it as the saving health, the saving health of all nations, anu God in another place promises long continuance in this world for the pious when He says: "With long life will I satisfy him." The fact is that men and women die too soon, i and it is high time that religion strike hands with medical science in the improvement of the world's longevity. Adam lived 1)30 years. Methusalah lived 1)69 years. As late in the history of the world as the reign of Vespasian there were forty-five people in his empire 135 years old. Coming on down to the sixteenth century Peter Vartan died at 185 years. 1 do not say that the conquest of religion in the world will take the race back to antediluvian longevity, but I do say that it will greatly improve the length of life. In Isaiah we are told that a child shall die 100 years old. Well, if a cliild is to die 100 years old} will you be surprised to hear that in that tune men and women may live 400, 500, GOO years? I pro- : nnsft tn show vou this moraine, as God mav 1 kelp me, that tho religion of Jesus Christ is the friend of long Jife, and I prove it in the lli-st place by the fact that the Christian religion makes the care of our physical health J a Christian duty. Whether we shall have early or late hours, whether we shall cat food digestible or indigestible, whether there shall be complete or incomplete mastication, are subjects which people are apt to relegate to the realm of whimsicality, but the Christian man takes the whoJe subject of physical health into the accountable aud the j divine. The Christian man says: "Here is my body. God has called it the temple of j the Holy Ghost, and if I deface its altars or mar its walls, or crumble its pillars, 1 am guilty of God-defyiug sacrilege." The Christian man reads God's caligraphy in every page anatomial and physiological. He says to himself: "God gave me this body for right and for noble and for great uses." My arms has 32 curious bones wielded by 40 curious muscles. My heart?3o0 pounds of blood I rushing through it eveiy hour. My heart, j beating 100,000 times every day. During those 24 hours my heart overcoming resistances amounting to 224,000,000 pounds weight? overcoming those resistances. My lungs, your lungs, taking in every 24 hours 57 hogsheads of air. And all this mighty machinery under the telegraphy of the brain. The Christain man says to himself: "Why, if I hurt my nerves, if 1 hurt my muscles, if I hurt my braiu, if I hurt any part of my physical or- j ganism I insult my God and invoke dire retribution; I cannot afford to do it." Why J was it that the Levites were told not to offer in sacrilice imperfect or diseased animals? It was to impress all the ages of tho fact that God would have us offer to Him our very best physical condition. Why did Paul send for his cloak to Troas? Why should so great and good a man as Paul be botherea about a cloak? Oh, he knew tbat with pneumonia and rheumatism he would not be worth as much to God and the church as he would I with respiration easy and foot free. No sensible Christian man would kneel down at night and ask for .God's protection and then keep the windows of his bedroom tight shut against the fresh air any more than he would go out on the East river and jump off ancl ask God to keep him from getting hurt. The whole question of physical nealth, the intelligent Christian lifts into the region of the accountable and tho divine. He says; "All this physical organism, all the nerves, the muscular, the bone, the brain, the cellular tissue, my entire organism, I must give to God and "answer in judgment as to what I do with-it. Smoking the nervous system into ~ fidgets. Eating off the coat of the stomach with wine, logwood and strychnine. Wearing thin shoes on a cold day so as to have the foot look delicate. Groaning about palpitations of the heart and sick-headaches, which in some cases may come from God, but in nino cases out of ten come from our own folly or the devil. How dare a man, how dare a woman deface this temple of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is the whispering gallery of the soul. What is the eye? It ix the observatory God constructed, with its telescope sweeping the heavens. What is the hand? An instrument so wonderful that when the Earl of Bridgewater in his last will and testament bequeathed $40,000 for essays to bo written on tho wisdom, power and goodness of God, found in the human hand his chief illustration?imlfifd devoted tho whole book to that one organ. The human body so wonderful that God has actually named His attributes after different parts of it. His omniscience ?God's eye. His omnipresence?Gods ear. HLs omnipotence?God's arm. The upholstery of the midnight heavens?the work of His Angers. His life-riving power?the breath of the Almighty. His dominion?the government upon His shoulder. How dare you and I maltreat such a divine workmanship? If I abuso my watch, and droo it on trie pavement, and wind it up at all sorts ot hours of the day and night, and ever and anon let it run down, and you take good care of your watch, and you keep it away from violent atmospheric changes, and you wind it up at the regular hour, which watch will last the longer and do the best work? Your com- j mon sense answers. Now, the human body I is God's watch. You see the face of the watch, and you see the hands of the watch, but the beating of the heart is the ticking of the watch, and you had better be careful how you let it run down. Agiun: religion, the Christian religion, is the friend of long life in the fact that it's a protest against indulgences and dissipations, which shorten and destroy the health. Bod men and women have short lives. That is a general rule. I know hundreds of good old men. I_do not know a dozen bad old men. w hy? They do not get out. i nac is a general rule. Lord Byron died at Missolongln, at thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa, his unbridled parous the horse on which he dashed out into t le desert. Edgar A. Poe died at thirty -eight years of age in Baltimore, aud the raven that alighted on the bust above his chamber door was delirium tremens. ''Only this and nothing more." Napoleon died a little after mid life, and his physicians said the only cause of his disease was excessive snuffing, the hero of Austerlitz, the planting of whose foot in the centre of Europe snook the earth, killed with his own snuff box! But you say: "Don't sometimes professors of religion go wrong? don't professors of religion sometimes get intoxicated, and professors of religion misappropriate funds,and professors of religion make complete shipwreck? Yes; but they always throw away their religion before they throw away their morality. Mark the chronology. They always throw away their religion before they throw away their morality. Because a man jumps overboard from a White Star Line steamer mid-Atlantic ?is that anything against the capacity of the White Star Line to take a man safely to Liverpool? Because a man jumps over the eunwales of his relisrion and coos flown novpr to rise, is that anything against the capacity of the Christian religion to take a man clear through safely? In the one case, if the man had stuck to the steamer it would have been the salvation of his body; in the other case, if he had stuck to his religion it would have been the salvation of his morals. There are people in this house to-day who would have been dead twenty-five years ago but for the life-giving quality and life-preserving honor of the Christian religion. You started life side by side with some other man. He had not the restraints of the Christian religion. You have had them. His body has been in Greenwood for years. The physician made it easy with his friends and said it was congestion of the brain; but the snalccs that crawled through the room and the blue flies that went over tho pillow showed what it was. You and he came side by side until you got to the golden pillar of the Christian life. You went to tlio right. He went to the left. That is the only difference j between you and him. The self-preservative power of the Christian religion! I tell you Christianity is the mightiest of all the friends of longevity. Again: the Christian religion is the friend of long life in the fact that it takes the worry out of our temporalities. It is not work that kills people; it is worry. When a man becomes a real, genuine Christian he not only makes over to God his affections, but he puts in His hands his family, his property, his reputation, his body, his mind, his soul? every th ing. Industrious he will be, of course, but he feels at the same time that God is managing. How can a real Christian | man worry about business when in an- i swer to prayer God tells him when to buy and when to sell, and if he gain that is bast, and if he lose that is best. I know scores of business men who are kept in complete equipoise by the grace of God, and all through the panics that have bothered other men and flung other men, they have been calm and imperturbed. Not because they had any stronger nerves than other men, but because they had God to help shem. Suppose you had a superhuman friend and he came to you and said: "Now, when you get into any kind of trouble draw on me; I control the" stock of thirty-five of the finest monetary institutions of this country. I can fall back at any moment upon $20,000,000*of resources. If you get in any business trouble, or any other kind of trouble, come to me. You shall have my name, my influence, my money." How much would you worry? Not much. You would say: "I'll do as well as I can and then my friend will help me through." Now, God promises more than that. He says: "look here, I own all New York, Brooklyn, London, St. Petersburg, Moscow?all the silver of Nevada, all the gold of Australia and California?all tho earth and all the heavens. Now, fall back ujxm me when you have any trouble. I Will see you through. And here I pledge you eternal and omnipotent fidelity." How much ought that man worry? Not much. Where is the lion that would dare to put its paw on that Daniel. Take the thermometer and put it in Shadrach's furnace and it will not go up to more than seventy-five degrees Oh, what a tonic, what equipoise, wha'j health, what long life in such a religion! But vou say: "Here is a man who asked God's blessing on a business enterprise and he lost $5,000. Explain that." I will explain.it. There is a factory and some of the wheels turn to the north and some turn to the south, and some work vertically and some work laterally. I go into the factory and I say: "Oh, manufacturer, your machinery here is a contradiction. Why don't you make all the wheels go one way?" He laughs at me and says: "Why I make them go this way on purpose. You go to our storeroom and see the carpets we are turning out." I go into the storeroom and I see tne exquisite work all this machinery is making though some of the wheels go this way and some go that way, and while I am admiring the work an old Scripture passage comes into my mind: "All things work together for good to them that love God." It does not make any different whether they work this way, or that way; they work together for good. So in regard to a man's reputation. Somebody says you are dishouest, somebody says you are a liar, somebody says you are stupid. During the course of one's life I think almost every man gets misrepresented and gets persecuted. Now, what are you to do? Fly about in excitement, fuming and fretting, trying to stop this and rushing in to get that corrected. Is that the way? No. Hear the - - ' ^? - i ? unu I VO1C0 OI IjrCKl SiiyiUg \A) ) uu; uu i vm i^uuui man, I am on ycur side." If God be for you who can be asainst vou? I will see you t&rougn. Don t worry.' If that broker on Wall street, who,a few years ago when he had lost all his money, sat down and wrote a letter to his wife telling her he was going to blow his brains out, had pulled out of his pocket instead of a pistol a well-worn new testament, there would have been one less case of suicide. Oh, business man! as near as I can tell about you, what you want is not chloral, not morpliine, but the soothing grace of God, and you can have it, and you can have it now. And again. The Christian religion is a friend of long-life in the fact that it takes all corrodin?rcare away in regard to our future existence. Every sensible man wants to know what is going to become of him. If yon take a rail train, you want to know into what depot it will run. If you go on board a ship you want to know into what harbor it will sail. If you tell me that you have no interest in your future existence I would in as polite a way as possible tell you I did notlbelieve you. Every person is interested in the question of future existence. Until I got that question of eternal destiny settled in my own mind, it almost worried me into unliealth. There are people, a great many people who think ana worry so much on these subjects, that if you would put all their worriment together it would amount to a martyrdom. I know people who are so afraid of the thought that tney worry themselves to death. iNow, lam going to try on you three or four experiments to take this strain off of your nervous system and to take this depression out of your soul. Experiment the first: When you go out of this life, whether you have been good or bad, whether you believed truth or error, you will go straight to glory. You say, "that's absurd. I can accept no such doctrine as that. I know that roads going in opposite directions cannot come out in the same place, and I know, my common sense tells me, that the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, the right and the wrong cannot be in accord and eternal amity. I reject your experiment." Experiment the second. When you go out of this life you will go into an intermediate state where you can get things fixed up, and you can repent there, and you can get converted there. "Absurd," you say, "I accept no such doctrine as that. I cannot postpone to a realm of which I know so little, or know nothing, questions that pertain to my life here and questions that may be decided here. A bird in the +WA in 4-Vktx VvticV* T haVA Jl.TI OTV liailU xo nrui uu inu iu vuv mivhai a w -r portunity now. I do not know about the intermediate state. I reject your experiment." Experiment the third: When you go out of this life that will be the last of you. The mind is only a superior part of the body, and when your life on earth ends you end. Extinct. Do not discuss what you will do in the future state. You will not do anything. When your earthly life ends your entire lifo ends. "Absurd," says some one. "There is something that tells me that I am immortal. My power to think says 'forever.' My affections say 'forever.' My capacity to enjoy or suffer says 'forever.'" Well, you have rejected three of my experiments. I have but one more experiment; and if you reject that I am exhausted. A mighty one on a knoll back of Jerusalem one day, the heavens full of forked lightning, and the earth with volcanic disturbance, looked with His pale and agonized face into the heavens, and said; "I take the sins and the sorrows of the world I in my heart. I am the expiation. Witness heaven and earth ana hell, I am the expiation." And the hammers I struck Him, and the spears punctured Him, and the clouds thundered "the wages of sin is death. Tho soul that sinnetn it snau aie. 1 will by no means clear the guilty." For half an hour there was silence. Then tho lightnings withdrew their sword into the scabbard of the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and the colors all shifted until they formed themselves into a rainbow woven by the falling tears of Jesus, and there was the blue that suggested the bruising, and there was the red that suggested the bloodshed, and there was tho gre>n that suggested the leaves of tho tree ot life which are for the healing ol' the nations, and there was the orange that suggested tho dawn of the morning, and along the line of the blue were tho words, "He was bruised for our iniquities," and aloug the lino of tho red I saw the words, "the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth as from all sins," and along the line of the green I saw "the leaves of tho tree of life which are for the healing of the nations,'' aud along the line of the orange I saw "the daysprinc from on high has visited us." And while l look the rainbow rose higher and higher as though it were retreating to a higher heaven, and it planted one column of color on one side the eternal hill, and it planted the other column of color upon tho other side of the eternal hill, and still rose higher and higher and higher until behold there was a rainbow around the throne. My friends, take this sacrificial religion. It is good for the body, good for tho soul, good for time, good for eternit}'. religion is sunshine and that is healthy. Religion is fresh air and bright water, and they are health. Any doctor will tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasing anticipation are hygienic. Take this religion and I promise you peace now and peace forever. What do you want in the next world? Ask for what you want and you shall have it. Orchards? Why, there are the trees of life bearing twelve manner of fruits and yielding fruit every mouth. "Water scenery? Why, there is the river from under the throne clear as crystal, and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do you want music? There is tha oratorio of the creation led on by Adam, and there is tho oratorio of the Red. sea led on by Moses, and there is the oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul, while the archangel with baton of light controls the one hundred and forty and four thousand that make up the orchestra. Oh,' is not this a healthy anticipation? It thrills me through and through and through, and you sometimes open the door of the sepulchre on this side. This morning I open the door on the other side. You often walk through the wet grass on the top of the grave, but now I show you the bottom of the orave. and I show vou the bottom has fallen out of it, and the long ropes with which the bearers let down tho dead lot them clear through into heaven. Oh, what a robust nnd healthy religion! It has a tendency to give you long days on earth, and it promises in the world to come eternal longevity. TEHPEEABCEJEPAHTMEHT The Tea Cents. Virtue is no doubt its own reward However bad fellows may mock it: But a man feels a recompense deeper at times If he had ten cents in his pocket ?Lynn Union. Virtue may have its own reward, But the recompense felt, we fear. Will be swollen eyes and an aching head, If he spends that ten cents for beer. ? Gorham Mountaineer. What L'usiiness idea Think. W. J. Spicer, superintendent of the Grand Trunk railway, in his circular to his employes of the road, saysr "You have the lives of the public and the 8afetv of nersons and nronertv entrusted i jt r w ? to your care, requiring at all times the utmost caution and vigilance in the performance of your duty. Men subjected to such temptations at any time are safe only as total abstaiuers. The "one gloss more" often has the effect of making a man careless, sleepy and indifferent to danger, if not worse, at a time when ho most needs to have his senses clear and wide-awake for his own and others' safety." The Central railroad of Georgia has a rule prohibiting the use of intoxicating i quors while on duty, and any employe known to use them will be dismissed from their service. Mr. Nelson, a distinguished insurance man, makes the following computations: "A total abstainer, 20 years old, has the chance of living till he is 64. A total abstainer at 30 has the chance of living till he is 64^. A total abstainer at 40 has the chance of living till he is 68}. A moderate drink_ er, 20 years old, has the chance of living until he is 35?. A moderate drinker, 30 years old, has the chance of living till he is 44$. A moderate drinker, 40 years old, has the chance of living till he is 51 J. Probable no business on the face of the earth is so mathematically correct as the insurance business. Its figures are not made up in the ; Interest of any church or party. They are not the result of any temperance 1 fanaticism, but simply from cold business calculation. The American Express company ha9 decidcd to dismiss any and every employe using intoxicating liquors. This is a purely business arrangement. A great corporation serving the public as a conveyor of goods finds that its service is impaired by any toleration of drinking habits among its employes. When will the greater' corporations, the city, the State, the nation, learn the same truth? Some of' the more important railroad companies will not permit their emnlovcs. whether on or off duty, to drink intoxicating liquors. The superintendent of the Chicago and Alton railroad, which has issued an order to discharge all employes wto drink, says whiaky has been found a foe of railroading. It has caused the loss of a great many lives and much money. Railroad managers have learned that a man who drinks is dangerous. What Sensible Women Like. Sensible women like sober men, and they have good cause to like them. Wives like sober hu3bands, because a sober man can be reasoned with. A sober man is more companionable than an intemperate man. Sober men havo self-respect, and self-respect is woman's great hold upon men. Sobriety means a comfortable home, a house of your own, good clothes for parents and children, evenings spent at home instead of in the barroom, good health and the enjoyment of life, and an elevatad view of human responsibility. A sober man is an honor to his wife and children; and people who despise a tippler, respect a sober man. A sober man becomes a pattern to the young, an ornament to society, a man in whom communities take pride and wish there were more like him. A sober man is appreciated by his friends and family, and even respected by his enemies, and his reputation and good qualities grow with hip years. On the other hand, the intemperate man shows in his indulgences a iarai,cusgraceiui weaicness 01 cuaracier; and as the habit of intemuerance grows * O upon him, he becomes. wretched, degraded, debased, and finally goe3 down to ruin, dragging his whole family after him. Temperance Notes. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, ex-postmastergeneral, said lately that there are 1,000,000 children in England who do not attend school by reason of the poverty of their parents. It may be added that in half of these cases drink is the cause of it. A military correspondent of the Daily Neia, now at Cairo, sends a report of a conversation he has recently had with Abdullah Bey Ismail, in the presence of Colonel Hay. Abdullah Bey says: "The law in the Soudan under the dervishes now is, that any man who touches spirituous liquors is to receive fifty j strokes of the kourbash every morning I for a week." j i ~~A FOE TO FAT. HOW TO HEDUCE ONE'S SIZE BY THE BANTING SYSTEM. The Kinds of Fooil to be Avoided? Not Quantity but Quality the Cause of Corpulence in People. New York is a great place in which to have friends and not see them for months. A Tribune reporter realized this the other day when he ran across a friend whom he had not met in a year. Bnt the fact of r?nt. lnpptinor rlwl not strike the newsnaner man so oddly as the change in the other's appearance. The friend was nearly five feet nine in height, about 30 years old. and apparently neither fat nor thin. He was a man whom one would call simply in good condition. That was singular enough, for only a year or so before the reporter had noted that his friend was unpleasantly and ungracefully stout. His fat seemed to settle in his waist and cheeks. Now he was plump?nothing more. "Changed?" the friend repeated after the reporter. "Yes, I should think so. Decent looking kind of spectacle now, although not pretty, of course! I'll tell you how I did it. I made up my mind I would no longer be so ungracefully fat, and determined to try banting. I had half starved myself before this, but it had done no good. I concluded, therefore, that it was not the amount of food I ate, but the quality, so I changed my diet and here I am." "What LSxthe process?" "I gave up sugar and all sweet things, bread, potatoes, beer and sweet wines, milk, butter and parsnips. That is, I did so at first. I ate dry toast, underdone beef, or any other kind of meat; any kind of vegetables except potatoes and parsnips, salads, fish, and, in fact, anything I pleased except what was forbidden. It was hard at first, of course, and I don't believe I could have had the nerve to give up sweet things and milk entirely, but I compromised. I took just enough milk and su^ar in my coffee at breakfast to make it palatable, and that little indulgence did not seem to hurt me. I lost flesh rapidly.' Here are the figures which I have in my pocket memorandum?net weight, for I weighed myself in a Turkish bath." This was the table: Before Bath. After. Sept. 5 147% lbs. 147 lbs. Sept. 12 115K 14454 Sept. 1!) 142# 141 % Oct 10 137# 130% Oct. 17 135^ "135 "You may think," continued the reduced weight, s,that 147? net, or say 160 with one's clothes on is not too much flesh for a man live feet eight and a quarter inches tall. That is true?if the fat were evenly distributed over one's body. But when it was concentrated in my waist and my cheeks it was very disagreeable. In fact before I began this system of diet I could not stoop comfortably to button my shoes; as I could not keep a valet that was a nuisance. By October 17, 1884. when as you see I had brought myself down twelve and a half pounds. I was entirely comfortable. Neither my cheeks nor my stomach were puffed out. I reduced my waistband two inches. "During this time I did not change my manner of life. I did not take much exercise anyway, neither do I take cold baths?both of which things are good to reduce flesh, I am told. I don't suppose I walked over three-quarters of a mile a day and my daily bath is of a moderate temperature. It was all in the quality of the food I ate." "What did you eat, anyway?" "For breakfast, as I say, I compromised on the coffee, and took dry toast, beefsteak, eggs in any shape, and fruit according to my taste. For luncheon it was generally cold roast beef, dry toast, and a lettuce salad with French dressing. For dinner any kind of soup, lish, underdone beef or mutton, with all vegetables except potatoes and parsnips; a salad with any kind of game; then fruit and a cup of black coffee, with just a bit of sugar in it. "When I had come down to 135 pounds net weight I was satisfied, and I have kept myself there ever since. Experimenting with different kinds of forbidden things convinces me that milk and sugar, bread and potatoes breed corpulence. Fat meat or butter, in my case, makes no difference; or, at least no great difference. And there are reasons for not following the regimen of Banting too closely. When I had brought myself down twelve and a half pounds in six weeks, from September 5 to October 17. I began to have neuralgia in my head. I had taken no cold and had not been worried. It occurred to me that it might be the change of diet. So I began to eat butter and fat meat in moderation. The neuralgia left me. Several times since I have tried a strict adherence to the svs tem, and the neuralgia has always returned. So now I eat butter and fat as I please. I also eat ice cream, or some other sweet thing, for dessert twice a week. But I weigh myself often, and when I tip the scales at 1361 net I drop the desserts entirely till I am back at 13o pounds.1' "A woman should always 'bant' under a physician's care, and a man should let J up on the severity of his self-denial as soon as he feels bad. Here, by the way. is Banting's table of what men should weigh when they are neither too fat nor too lean: Stature?Feet, inches. "Weight?Pounds. 5. 1 1:21) 5. 2 12t? 5. 3 IS! 5. 4 1?> 5. 5 14i 5.IJ 145 5. 7 14S 5. 8 ...155 5.!? 102 5.11 174 G.O 178 4'It seems to me that this is altogether too liberal an allowance of flesh, especially when it is not distributed evenly over the body but is concentrated near the waist. A short frame is not intended for heavy weights. Judging from my own case I ought to be heavier than I am. For a man live feet nine inches tall, Banting would allow 102 pounds. If I weighed 102 net I should be miserably uncomfortable. Hut Banting himself was so stout when he began to practice his system on himself that anything like these figures seemed to liim actually syl'ph-like. Why, the poor man's stomach was so big that he had to go down stairs backward lest lift should tip forward if he walked down in the usual way, and he had to bandage his knees to keep them from giving way under him. It took him a year to reduce his flesh forty-six pounds and his girth twelve and a half inches. Then he was so happy that he wrote a pamphlet for the benefit, of mankind. He did a great thing for us fat folks. And if he, with his live feet five inches of stature and his 202 pounds in weight, would not look ridiculous sitting upou a pedestal, I should propose a statue for this foe to fat." "FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The spleen was once thought to be the cause of laughter. y It was in the olden time customary to ratify an agreement by a bent coin. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,458 1-2 pounds troy, or 1.200 pounds avoirdu- ; |g pois. It is warth $361,810.40. Moles have been from time immemori- ? al regarded as ominous, and special at- :i\ ^ tention has been paid by the superstitious to their position on the body. " In Lincoln county, N. M., near the Pattos mountains, can-be traced what were once the walls of a large city. In- , j| side the walls are growing monster cedar ij| trees, said to be thousands of years old. ? Ordinary array signaling, by waving flags or torches, can transmit only ten words or so a minute, spelled out by letters; but an adaptation of the Morse telegraphic alphabet, now generally employed, has more than doubled this rate of speed. Professor Wagner publishes analyses in support of his conclusion that steamed 7$ potatoes are far more nutritious than boiled ones. In the process of boiling the vegetables, give up considerable portions of nutritious salts, while they also 3 take up more water than when steamed, and become proportionately weaker. The belief in the supernatural authority of monarchs is but a remnant of the long-supposed ''divine right" of kings to "} govern, which resulted from aconvic- .: ?. tion that they could trace their pedigrees ? back to the deities themselves. The notion is by no means confined to either civilized or semi-civilized tribes. The ig- ':4 norant serf of Russia believed that if tne -% Deity were to die the emperor would ^ succeed to his power and authority. The Hindoos say that chess was the invention of an astronomer who flourished several thousand years ago, and who was possessed of supernatural knowledge and acuteness. The Greeks claim that it was the invention of Palamedesto beguile the tedium of the siege of Troy. The Arab legend is that it was devised for the in- V:j! st ruction of a young despot by his tutor, a learned Brahmin, to teach the youth - -T how a king was dependent on his subioots for safetv. - > The business of painting* the huge Ijjj signs upon fences and barns which as- * sault the eye in all parts of the country is in the hands of a few contractors in New York and Chicago. One firm. spends from $10,000 to $20,000 a year id this way, paying from one and'a half , ! to two cents a square foot for the work. >. The bigger the sign the better. Many can be found reaching three hundred ; feet in length, and the biggest of all (at Newark. Ohio), is more than eight hundred feet long and contains only one * p WORDS OF WISDOM. Method is the very hinge of business, v|| and there is no method without punctu' Experience does take dreadfully high V |j school-wages, but he teaches like no A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches us to rely on kindness of others. Compliments of1 congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost one nothing but pens, ink, and paper. . y "Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. TTo +V?o + Vilnurc fho zinnia in nimrrpla hft has nothing to do with, has no right to ; complain if the sparks fly in his face. >. ^ 'Tis an ill thing to be ashamed of one's ' poverty; but much worse not to make /; use of lawful endeavors to avoid it. Good nature and evenness of temper will give you an easy companion for life; . ' ^ virtue and good sense an agreeable vy&l friend: love and constancy a good wife .. or husband. The best rules to form a young man are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions and value others that deserve it. Try to be something in the world and you will be something. Aim at excellence. and excellence will be attained. This is the great secret of success and eminence. "I cannot do it," never accomplished anything. "I will try" has wrought wonders. t A Washington Romance. The widow of General Morgan L. Smith died in "Washington recently. She was once a reigning belle, but during the last years of her life was knownI . as the "Queen of the Lobby." Some Y years ago a dark episode tarnished her mimo nnH slip lnst her social nresticre. A correspondent furnishes this queer incident in her life: There was an important railway case pending in the supreme court about 1877, if I remember correctly, the decision of which was expected to seriously affect the stock market, and so uncertain was its nature that it was worth millions to know in advance what it would be. Jay Gould, it was said, was the only man who had this information, and it was in his possession a week before the opinion was announced in court. How he got it was a mystery that many were excited about, and the justices of the court were much chagrined. The disclosure was afterward explained. The justice with whose family Mrs. Smith was so familiar wrote the nnininn mid had the manuscrint at his house. One afternoon when everybody was out Mrs. Smith called and was permitted to go to the library by the servants* to look at some books. It is supposed that by means of skeleton keys she opened the desk of the justice and made extracts from the opinion, which were at once sent over to Mr. Gould. It is said that lie paid her $50,000 for the information. and it was worth many times that amount to him. The truth of this story cannot be asserted, but there was a very abrupt termination of the intimacy between Mrs. Smith and the judge's family, and she was not received in society afterward. Very little has been known of her since. Her health was known to be poor, and people who formerly knew her have expressed pity when they saw her on the street, but her usefulness as a member of the lobby was over, and she was considered as having forfeited the respect of her friends. A New Sort of Jewel. The fashionable gem of the day in Paris is the otidja. The oudja is simply ii r ? :i cnariu xue virtue ox wunu nw m fact that it is as old as the pyramids. The oudja is made of a delicate parallelogram of gold or silver, in which is seen aii eve, elongated in form, from which falls a tear and divides into smaller drops. It serves as an ornament for charms, brooches, pins, and especially bracelets. A strange and inexplicable symbol, the oudja was nevertheless at once adopted , by people of taste and elegance. la Loudon it is creating a furor.?Jeweler*. Weekly. , ...