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vvffliTOR SHERIM'S Bill1 His Proposed Compromise on the ! Silver Question. The Government to Issue Certificates for Silver Bullion. Sen a to? John Sherman maile something of ! & sensation by introducing in the United States Senate on the 28th anew financial proposition. It is apparently intended as a compromise. Judging by the comments passed upon it, says a Washington dispatch to the 1 New Y ork World, it could command a ma- j jority vote in the House and possibly in the j Senate. It is hardly probable, says the dis- ; patch, that the President would approve of i any such measure. The bill as introduced by j Mr. Sherman is as follows: Be it enacted, etc.. That the coinage of the ' Silver dollar provided for by the first section | of the act to which this is an amendment be ' discontinued from and after the passage of this act. Section 2. That the secretary of the treasury is authorize ! and directed to purchase j from time to time silver bullion in bars, not less than nine-tenths fine, at the market price thereof, not less than 2,000,000 ounces, Troy, per month, nor more than 4,000.01)0 ounces troy per month and shall issue : in payment therefore coin certificates ! of the" United States in denominations j of not less than $10 each, corresponding with the denominations of the United States notes, and the bullion so purchased shall be retained in the treasury for the security anil payment of the same, and the amount of such certificates at any time outstanding shall not exceed the cost of the bullion purchased by such certificates, ami the certificates thus issued shall be receivable for customs. taxes, and all public dues, and when so * ? - 1 - 1 4-1 , 4-~ I receivea may oe reissueu: uuu me seaciai > of the treasury shall redeem in coin the said certificates on their presentation for redemption at the o3ice of tlie assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York in gums not less than *ol). Sec. 3. That any holder of standard silver dollars or gold coin of the United States or } gold bullion, at its mint value, may deposit j the same with the treasurer or any assistant j treasurer of the United States in sums not less than $10 and receive coin certificates therefor similar in denomination and legal effect to the certificates provided for in the preceding question. The coin deposited for j or representing the certificates shall be re- \ taiDed in the treasury for the payment of the i same on demand. r To a World representative Senator Sher- 1 man said: "The provisions of the bill are j plain and speak for themselves. I believe it is a good measure or I would not vote for it. It is not perhaps exactly what I might have wished, but I believe it is the best for the country." "Have you any idea how the bill will be received; what chance it has of becoming a law?'' "Not the least in the world. I have discussed it with a great many people, but I do not question whether a bill will pass or not. If the measure is a good one I iutroiuce it." "Was an exactlv similar measure ever pro _ ji / t posea in congress; "I cannot say. The question has been discussed in a hundred different ways. I believe the World has opposed a continuance of silver coinage and 1 l>elieve it favors a paper circulation ba<ed on gold and silver. Well, these are exactly the propositions contained in the bill." "What allowance is made in your bill for fluctuations in the value of silver?'' "The government takes the chances. IS issues certificates in payment for the bullion. If silver increases in value the government gains accordingly. If it declines, the government loses." "What will, in your opinion, be the effecS 1 of this measure if adopted?" "I think it will maintain silver on a par with gold." Mr. Sherman said further that he was not | an enemy of silver or of gold. We could not I 1 have too much of them. He did not know j how the bill would be received by the business men of .New York. He had not as yet pre- \ pared a speech on the silver question anil would not say wnetner ne mtenaea to or not. He did not know that the bill would at tract enough attention. In answer to a ques- ; tion as to whether he had been correctly quoted of lat? as saying to a friend that ho ] would not speak on the silver question because the people of Ohio were in favor of sil- 1 ver coinage, he said: "I do not know all I may ] ha^e said on the subject at various times, but; 1 I certainly never said that. That is not my ' wav of doinc: business." ] LIVING A CENTURY. ? William Waterman, 100 years old, lievs at Oshkosh. Polly Wilcox, of Hope Valley, R. I., has j just celebrated her centennial birthday. Harrisonville, N. J., boasts of two cen- i tenarians, Bartholomew Coles and Michael ] Potter. I Christopher Mann*, of Independence, ] Mo., disd recently aged 111 years. He was born in Virginia in 1774. Benjamin W. Bowdie's old slave, Nathan, died recently at his home in Talbot county, ] Mississippi ,aged 107 years. > After living a century, Mrs. Elizabeth i Thomas was killed recently while walking on : 4-I.SV of Pfinrfliiop P^TlTl I 1 ilic xaui u mu xtvwuiugj a vuu. t Among the celebrants of the lODth birthday 1 of Jane Wilson, of Edgecomb, Me., were her 1 sister, aged ninety-four, and her three daugh- ] ters, the eldest eighty-one years of age. ' Probably the oldest minister in the world j is Thomas Tenant, of Vineyard township, Arkansas. He was born in *1771. He is an . itinerant Methodist preacher. j At Wilson Creek, N. C., Mrs. Susan Phil- ( lips died receutly just as she was closing a ( century of life. She had thirteen children, j sixty-three grandchildren, and sixty great 1 grandchildren. i One of the most forcible and effective ' shouters in th;: Methodist church of Brown's ' bridge, Forsyth county, Georgia, is old i Auntie Snroggins, who has enjoyed religion 1 for 94 years, and ii; now 104 years old. < ? ? THE MARKETS. new york. 4 \ Beef cattle, good to prime I w Calves, com'n to prime veali G (ft ID Sheep 3^(5 Lambs G (8 7 Hogs?Live 3^(5 5 Dressed, city 3^(9 4 Floor?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 Go (3 4 25 i West, good to choice. 4 00 @ 5 40 Wheat?No. 2. Red 89 @ 89}? Rye?State G3 @ GO Barley?Four-rowed State... @ 85 ? TT 1 nivw.* aft ,-A ' VU* II V.J LJAl. ?? UOV, UJiA-iUo >XM Oats?White State. .. 43 (5 43)^ Mixed "Western 36%@ 38 | Hay?Med. topr. Timothy.. 91 (# 95 Straw?No. 1. liye 80 (9 85 Lard?City Steam 6 20 @ 6 40 Butter?State Creamery 33 (db 34 Dairy 26 (5 28 West. Im. Creamery 18 (5 30 Factory 11 @ 18 Cheese?State Factory .. 7 (9) 9}4 Skims 6% Western 7 (6 9 Eggs?State and Penn 23 @ 24 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 2 75 @ 3 00 Lambs?Western o 65 @ 4 00 Steers?Western....' 4 60 (a) 5 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 3 65 (dt 3 TO Flour?C'y ground n. process 5 25 @6 50 .Wheat? No. 1, Hard Duluth 1 Com?No. 2, Mixed New (S Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 40 (d Barley?Two-rowed State.... ? (cj ? , 1 BOSTON. .Beef?Ex. plate and family.. 10 80 (311 00 Hogs?Live 4 ? 43? i ' Northern Dressed.... 5 (S ; :Fork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...l0 50 @10 75 i Flour?Winter Wheat pat's.. 5 60 (3 5 65 \ Corn?High Mixed 50 (5 51>? ( 'Oats?Extra White 42 (5 43 Rye?Slate 67 (d 70 ! WATEF.TOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 6 00 (# 6 37% ' Sheep?Live weight 3 @ 4^ 1 .Lambs 4}^@ 5 1 Hogs?Northern, d. w 4}*(& PHILADELPHIA. __ | Flour?Fenn. ex family, good 4 25 @ 4 50 J .Wheat?No. 2, lied 0U%@ 90% I Rye?State & 75 Corn?State Yellow 52 ^ 53 ] Oats Mixed 40 @ 41 ] Butter? Creamery Extra Fa 20 ? 22 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.- 11K? 14 Bli. TitlAGE'S BERMOfT Clandestine Marriages asd Escapades. Rav. Dr. Talma-rc's third of a series of discourses on ''the Marrirge Rincc" was preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle from the following text: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eateii in secret is pleasant, but ho knoweth not that the dead are there.''?Proverbs ix., 17. I The preacher said: The Garden of Eden ! was a great orchard of fruit bearing trees, and there was large, round, ripe fruit, bushels and bushels: but the horticulturist and his j wife who had charge of the place got a hank- | cring after the fruit of one tree simply be- ; . * ?^fnH-iricr n bad streak i L'iillSC lb ??W XV* *.'*** v*?- .-VV?. - in human nature so that sometimes children will want a thing: simply because they aro forbidden it. If there be a company of visitors in a house where, there are twenty rooms and they may enter all tho rooms save one. they have more anxiety to see what is in that one mom than in the other nineteen, although that one room were a garret and all | the others were picture galleries. If in a district of mineral springs there be twenty fountains of water, but the proprietor has fenced in one well for his own use,the visitors are more anxious to taste of the water of that one well than to drink of the other nineteen. Solomon discovered this principle in human nature and the disastrous result of it, and so he wrote in my text: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but he knoweth not that the dead are there." j In this series of Sabbath morning sermons I on "The Marriage Ring," I want this morning to aim a point blank shot at clandestine marriages and escapades. That ship coming up through the "Narrows" of New York harbor lias on it all the evidences of tempestuous passage. Salt water mark to the top of the smoke-stack. Mainmast, foremast, mizzenmast twisted off. Jib-slieets and lee bow lines gone. Captain's bridle demolished. Bulwarks knocked in. Lifeboats off the davits, j Main shaft broken. All the pumps working | to keen the ship from sinking before it gets to j wharfage. That is the institution ot marriage. God grandly and gloriously built it and launched it from the banks of the Euphrates and it floated out on the seas for the admiration and the joy and the happiness of. all nations; but the waves of freeloveism have struck it on one side and the waves of Mormon ism have struck it on the other side, and the hurricanes of libertinism have struck it from all sides until the old ship needs repairs in evenplank and beam and bolt and spar and sail and clamp and stanchion and transom. In other words, the notions of modern society must be reconstructed on the subject of the marriage institution. "When those notions in regard to the institution shall be reconstructed, and the institution shall be put back just as God built it, the world will be far on toward resumption of paradisaical conditions. Does any one ask the uso of a course of sermons like this? The man or woman who asks such a question either demonstrates ignorance or guilt. New England, by many considered the most moral part of this country, has 2,000 divorces a year. Massachusetts, the headquarters of steady habits, one divorce to 14 marriages. The State of Maine, by many suDooscd to be almost frigid in its proprie ties, 478 divorces in a year. In Vermont the swapping of wives is no rarity. In Connecticut there are women who boast they have been divorced three or four times. Moreover, our boasted Protestantism is more lax than Roman Catholicism on this subject. Roman Catholicism allows only one excuse for divorce, and that the excuse that Christ admitted. Protestantism is admitting everything and anything as an excuse. In proportion as Protestants are numerous and dominant in a community, divorce is prominent. I have all the facts for the substantiation of that statement, and I ask you under such consideration if Protestantism does not'need some toning up? Aye, this sacred and divine institution of marriage is being defamed and caricatured by clandestine marriage and escapades. You hardly take up a morning or evening newspaper but you see the announcement of such an occurrence, and where there is one case reported there are fifty not reported because it is to the interest of all the people to hush these things up. There is not an hour of the night but its victims are climbing down ladders and crossing from State to State to get to a place where there is greater laxity of law, and holding the reception six months after marriage, for the first time announcing the marital union which took place half a year before, ministei-s of religion, officers of the law, justices of the peace, mayors of cities willingly uniting in bolv marriage runaways from other States and neighborhoods. The coach box and the back seat of the princely landau in flirtation, relegrams flashing across the country for the arrest of absconding school misses who jtarted off with an armful of books in the j morning and took rail train to meet their affianced. The snowdrifts of two weeks ago. [ read, buried some of them. Thousands of people in a marriage, the banns of which have never been published. Precipitate conjugality. Bigamy triumphant. Marriage a joke. Society blotched all over with putrefaction on this subject w hich none but almighty God can arrest. "We admit that there are cases of clandestinely and escapade that are justifiable because of parental tyranny or domestic conditions. There are parents vvho are monomaniacs on this subject and would keep their sons and daughters in celibacy, and prohibit things which are all right. There are parents who through absurd family ambition demand that tho candidate for marital preference shall have an equipment of fortune, or have qualifications which they have no right to expect, or which are simply impossible." Children, in marriage are to please themselves and not their parents. Given good morals, means of support, appropriate age. equality of social position, and parents have no right to prohibit a marital union which seems deliberate and a matter of the heart. If the hand offered in marriage be bloated by dissipation, if the life of the candidate be one of debauchery, if he has no means of support, if the match seems every way un02-2? ~ on^ r\T*rvfiacf. onrl nrincr Ill/ LU ut? iiiauc, ^ivuiuii/ttuu the opinion of others to reinforce your own opinion, and put all lawful obstacles in the way; but do not join that number of parents who through plutocracy of domestic crankiness have caused so many elopem ents. I have known of a few cases where marriage has occurred under the fiery protest of parents and the denunciation of the community, and yet the marriage has been under the blessing of God, for the results have been beautiful and positively Edenic. Rov. Philip Henry, a man distinguished all through Christendom for piety as well as wisdom, said to his children while diseussing this subiect: "My dear children, please go and please yourselves and you will not displease me." iDuring our civil war a company had assembled in Charleston. South Carolina, to witness the marital union of Lieutenant De Rochelle and Miss Anna, the daughter of exGovernor Pickens, and just as the ceremony was about to l>e solemnized a bombshell fell through the roof, wounding nine of the guests aud the bride dropped dying. She was put upon a sofa, and there she lav wrapped in her whito wed? ' - ' 41.^1 Q1I12C roue, iicr ut'truuifu tvut-ciAd^ ao iiv?i oiuc, and in two hours she oxpired. And there havo been as bright marital unions as that proposed which the bombshell of unreasonable and outrageous parental indignation havo wounded ami .scattered and slain. But while I admit ail this,l have to declare that ninetynine out of the 101), aye, 1)1)1) out of the 1,000 of all clandestine marriages and escapades mean ruin for this life and ruin forever. A young woman might just as well go out on an East river dock and jump oft' expecting her safety, thinking she could swim to the other shore, or be picked up by ferryboat, as to attempt it. In the case I speak of the one that jumps into the river may be able to swim to the other shore, and there is a possibility sh? may be picked up by a ferryboat, but the probabilities are all against her. Take the newspaper accounts of escapades and clandestine marriages for the last ten years, and you cannot show me ten where they did not mean poverty, abandonmeut, disgrace, police court, divorce, death and hell. "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret | ic, "l?0L-nnf 1-1,if. l,n U-nnwpt.il not that I lO |71UUOUUV) MUW "W the dead are there." Satan presides over the escapades. He introduces the two parties, ho gets them to pledge their troth, ho appoints a placo for their meeting, he shows where they can find officiating minister or 'squire, ho points out to them where they can got railroad tickets, ho puts them on board the express train, and when they are going forty miles the hour Satan jumps of? and leaves them in tho lurch, for, while Satan has great genius for getting people into trouble, he has no genius for getting them out. Satan induced Jonah to start for Tarshish when the Lord told him to go to Nineveh, but provided no better landing place for the recreant prophet than middle of the Mediteranean sea. j a?mamman??g?e Truant marriages are to bo deplored in the first place, because they are almost always projx)sed by bad men. I think there is hard> ly an exception to this in all your acquainl tanceship. If a man has a good character he I has something to refer to. He can say: ! "There is a list of the people that live in my | village or neighborhood, or city; if you want ! to know about me ask them." But the hero of I anescapade is almost always a bigamist, or j libertine, or a drunkard, or a defrauder, or a I first-class scoundrel of some sort. He : has no reputation to lose. He has been j in prison before, and he rather likes boarding at public expense. He may dress in the i height of fashion and be cologned and pomaI turned and padded and diamond ripged and | flamboyant cravated until he bewitches the I eye and intoxicates the olfactories, but he is j a double distilled extract of villany, moral j dirt and blasphemy. Beware of him! "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is 1 1 ~ * 1 - 1? *- flio rtan/l pleasant, our ne Knuwem uuu umu ~?? , are there." I think that the modern novel has much to do with many escapades. "Would a woman sit up half the night reading a novel in which the hero and the heroine became acquainted in the ordinary way and conducted their friendship in the ordinary style until after a while, with the consent of parents a day was appointed, and in the midst of a group of kindred the vows were taken? No, no. It must be flight and pursuit and narrow escape and drawn dagger, and ending in sunshine and parental forgivennessand bliss unalloyed and gorgeous. The idea of the escapade is planted in woman's mind by the cheap novel. Ten cents' worth of unadulterated perdition. And again, fugitive marriage and escapade are to be deplored because they almost always imply woman's descent from one grade of society to another if the man be the equal, or if he be the superior there is no temotation to escapade. In nearly ali the cases it is the descent of a woman from one grade of societv to another. Observe this inexorabie law. If a man marry a woman beneath him in society he may lift her to any eminence of prosperity to which he may climb, but if a woman marries a man beneath her in society she always goes down to that level?always. There are no exceptious. It is a law inexorable. Now, there are not many women who can afford to debase themselves, it. ,,?+ a stpfA rvf this American Y CO tllUi O AO UW M Ik/VMVW Union which does not furnish us an instance where some woman brought up in affluence and amid all luxuries unites her fortune with some man who can make three dollars a day if ho keeps busy. Now, there are a great many men who ore as happy as a prince on three dollars a day, bnt a man undertakes a big contract when with an income of three dollars a day he attempts to support a woman who is brought ud in a home that cost $20,000 per annum. That conjunction of practicality and extravagance, that marriage of ox and eagle, almost always has this history: The first year they are happy because its odd, it is romantic, and it has the applause of people who love outlawry. The .second year they settle down into a perfect dislike for each other. The third year they apply for divorce, or more probably the man becomes a drunkard or the woman a blackened waif of the street. "Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but he kuoweth not that the dead are there." Fraudulent espousals and sneaking exchange of single life for married life are to be deplored because they are always in defiance of parental wisdom and forethought. Most I parents.are wrapped up in the welfare of the j child. If they oppose vehemently a marital union, in nearly all the cases it j is because they see for their i daughter' in that direction only j wretchedness. And yet there are those | who scoff and deride any such protest on the i part of parents. They "do not realize that ' parents had keener appreciation of the com- j plete domestic demolition that comes from al- i coholism in a young man; they do not realize j that parents have keener appreciation of | what a complete idiot a woman is who mar- j ries a man who has not brains or industry to support her. There is no bureau of statistics that can tell how many women there are sup- j porting themselves aud their hus- i bands. If a husband became j an invalid,it is beautiful to see the wife uncom- j plainingly with needle, or pen, or yard-stick, I or washing machine support the home. But these great lazy masculine louts, who stand , around in a community with their hands in their pockets, letting the wife with her weak arm fight the battle of bread, need to be regurgitated from society. When parents see these things, thewire right in putting down the brakes of sucn a long train of coming disaster. They have too often seen the gold ring that was put upon the bride's finger at1 the altar turned into the iron link of an iron chain of domestic servitude. What a farce it is for a man to take a ring which he stole from his grandmother's cupboard, and at the altar put it on the finger of the bride, and he not a cent in the world, saying: "with " ?T il J J ?11 i mis ring i ILleu IVCU, nuu miu tin uir T?vfHU1J goods I thee endow!" It is astonishing that there are so many women who will marry men without knowing anything about them. No merchant or merchantess would sell a hundred dollars' worth of goods on credit to a 1>erscn whose trustworthiness was not estabished. No man or woman would buy a house and lot on which there were mortgages and leases and judgments uncanceled. Yet there are every hour of the day and every hour of the night women entrusting their happiness in hasty marrrages to men who are encumbered with liens and judgments and first mortgage and second mortgage and third mortgage of evil habit. In nearly all the cases of escapade it is the leaping over the barrier lifted by parents in their good common sense and forethought. ; "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but ho knoweth not that the dead are there." I do not wonder so many parents under such circumstances in conjugating the verb in question pose from the subjunctive mood to | the indicative mood, from the indicative mood to the imperative. Fugitive marriage is also to be deplored be*A 11-- j i..*? i i.i a. cause it is generally m u'jcepuuu, uuu tuui< is a vice corroding aud damning. You must deceive your kindred, you must deceive society, you must deceive everyone but God, and Him you cannot deceive. Marriage is too important a crisis in life to be decided by sleight-of-hand, or a sort of ."jugglery which says: "Presto, change! Now you see her and no v.' you don't." Wait until circumstances change. 'Better wait for years. Time will remove obstacles. The candidate for marital preference may get into occupation, or trade or profession where he can achieve a livelihood, or his habits may change, or inexorable parents may be promoted to celestial citizenship! Wait until the right time comes. Have an hour appointed, stand at the end of tke best room in tne house, a minister of religion, before you challenge the world if tlioi' L-nnw nnv rpaenn wliv t.tm fwnin chniild not be married, that they state now that objection or forever hold their peace, and then starting out with the good wishes of neighbors and under the halo of the divine sanction. "When you can go out of harbor at noonday, all flags flying, why try to run a blockade at midnight. In view of all this I charge you, if any of you are engaged in clandestine correspondence, to quit it. If you are accustomed to clandestine meetings at ferry, or on street, or at the corner of the woods, or at the skating-rink, or at the house of a mutual friend, stop those meetings. Do not havo letters come to you uuder assumed names through the postoflice. Do not use terms of endearment at the beginning of letters and at the close, which you havo no right to use. Engage in no correspondence | that makes you nervous lest someone by mistake open your letters. That young lady is ! on the verge of p?ril who gets letters she (Iocs not show her mother. If you havo sensible parents, if your father and mother are not tools, take them into your confidence in all matters of the heart. They will give you more good advice in one hour tliau all the world can give you in five years. They have done so much for you, they have prayed so much for you, they aro all wrapped up in your interests. Get their advice. They are the first friends you ever had?you will never have any better friends. And let parents revise and review their opposition to any proposed marital union and see whether that opposition is real- | 1 y fouuded on soino genuine wish for the child's welfare, or whether it is some whim, or notion, or prejudice, or selfishness string against the law of nature and trying to make Niagara run up stream. Mr. Pitt, prinio minister of England, was always saying wise things. Sir Walter Farquhar called upon him one day in great perturbation! Mr. Pitt asked him, "what is the matter/' "Oil," said Sir Walter, "my daughter is about to be united in marriage with a man far beneath her rank." "Well," said Mr. Pitt, "is he of a respectable family?" "Yes." "Is he of good habits?" "Yes." "Is he of every way estimable character?" "Yes." "Then, my dear Sir Walter, make no opposition." The advice was taken aud the result was as happy as happy could be. Let all ministers of religion and all officers of the law decline to officiate at clandestine marriages and dec Una to date marriage certificates back as all of us are ask >d to do, and decline to leave the date of a marriage c^rtift OOMBmKflDniMBaMatfHBaBBaSMMMMB cate blankdest it be erroneously filled up. In the State of New York let us have a law passed which will make it here as necessary I as in other States that a license be issued before a couple can be united in holy marriage, and then let the announcement be made beforehand in the newspapers, just iis in New England it used to be announced beforehand, and is now in some ports of the country, in <he churches, so if there be any lawful protest it may be presented in time, and we not be swinging buoys over rocks after the ship nas struck and gone down. And here I might as well break the romance of escapade by quoting a dozen lines from Robert Pollock, tne great Scotch poet, in which he describes the crazed | victim 01 ail escapaae: "Yet had she many days of sorrow in the world, But never wept. She lived as always and carried in her hand some withered stalks She gathered in the spring; When any asked the cause she smiled and said they were her sister's, And would come and watch her grave wher she was dead. She never spoke of her deceiver?father mother, home or child, Or heaven or hell or God. But still in lonely places walked and gazer upon the withered stalks and talked U them, Until wasted and the shadow of her youth, with woe too wide to see beyond, she died." But I turn an intenser light on this whole subject, We have one thousand five hundred lights in this building, and when in the evening services, by electric touch they are kindled, it is almost startling. But I put this whole subject of clandestine marriage and escapade under an intenser i* 1 A Vr" - *?_e _ i nji'iic. mo neatiiigut oi u iuv.umuw?ou w rible if you stand near enough to the tracks to catch the glare as it passes, as it sweeps around the horseshoe curve of the Alleghanies, or along the sides of the Sierra Nevadas. How far ahead, how steep down, how high up it flashes, making instantaneous revelation of mountain peak, and wild beasts hieing to their caverns and cascade a thousand feet tall in white terror, clinging to the precipice. But under an intenser light, swifter and more tremendous, and more sudden, even under the headlight of an advancing judgment day when all the secrets of life will come out 1 plant this subiect. I quote an overwhelming passage of Scripture and put all the emphasis on the word "secret." ''God shall bring every work into judgment with every secret thing, whether it be good 'or whether it be evil." Oh, what a time it will be wten the cover is lifted off of every home and off of every heart. Iniquities that were so slight they escaped all human detection will on that day be as well known as the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah unless the sins have been for Ctirist's sake forgiven. All the fingers of condemnation will point to it. Tho archangel of wrath with uplifted thunderbolt will stand there ready to strike out. All the squeanishness and prudery of society which forbid almost the mention of certain themes will be past, and the man who was unclean and the woman who was impure will stand under a * A--- At . i.1 1 Jignc Drignter taau a tuuusauu jiuuuuuy ouua ?the whole story written on scalp and forehead and cheek and hands and feet, the resurrection body all aflame and dripping with fiery disclosure, and voices sepulchral and voices infernal and voices celestial will cry: "Unclean, unclean, unclean!" All marital intrigues, all socret thoughts and all secret action as plain as if all the trumpets spoke it, and all the lightnings capitalized it and all the earthquakes rumbled it. Ohl man, recreant thy marriage vow; Oh! woman, in sinful collusion, what then will become of thy poor soul? Better repent and give up your sin and turn to God. Pardon for the chief of sinners if you ask in time?I say, if you ask in time. Oh, I leave you to guess what will be the chance of that man, who, on earth lived in clandestine relations, on the day when the very Christ who thought so much of the marriage relation, that He com pared it to His own relation with the church, shall appear at the door of the great hall of the last assize, and all the multitudes of earth and heaven, and hell shall rise up and cry out from the three galleries; "Behold, the bridegroom cometh!" POPULAR SCIENCE. Muller, a German chemist, has fed animals ten weeks with dry and with steeped unground Indian corn. The former showed an average increase in weight of nearly seven pounds more than the latter. If we assume a moderate area and depth of that portion of the globe covered by the ocean, the quantity of salt that it contains is estimated at six times the volume of the Alps. Unlike coal, the supply of which is being gradually exhausted, marine salt is absolutely inexhaustible. The first archajopteryx, the fossil remains of the oldest-known bird, which seems to form the "connecting link" between birds and reptiles, was discovered in the lithographic slate of Solenhofen in I861. Another specimen, recently found in the same locality, has been sold for .$0,000 to the Berlin museum. i ne interesting uisuuvcr^ uuo uuuu made in Switzerland of a bright-green moss growing on calcareous rocks 200 feet below the surface of Lake Leman. No other moss has been known so far under water, and how chlorophyl?the green coloring matter?could have been so richly developed in a place so remote from the light is a jiroblem. Somebody says in a London paper that the highest velocity yet imparted to a cannon ball is 1,025 feet per second, equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. The velocity of the earth at the equator, due to rotation on its axis, is 1,000 per hour, or a mile in 3.6 seconds; thus, if a cannon ball were fired due west and could maintain its initial velocity, it would beat the * ' A 4"V* r? suq ill us apparent juuiiicj? aiuuuu mv, earth. Tlie denticulated sting of bees, wasps, and hornets, says M. Carlet, of Grenoble, is charged by poison secreted by two glands. The secretion of one of the glands is acid and that of the other is alkaline. The poison only produces its customary effects when both of the fluids are present in the wound, but the poison, however, is ncid in reaction. Wasps and hornets inject the venom by means of a vesicle with contractile walls. In bees the poison bag is not contractile, and there is a kind of poison that works in the fang like a syringe, so that the syringe is charged and emptied at each stroke of the syringe. The humming of telegraph and telephone wires, so often heard, is generally considered to be caused by the wind. Mr. R. W. McBride, of Waterloo, Ind., who specially studied the matter lor several years 011 Jiis private wire, which had a strong gift of humming, is satisfied that the wind is not the agent; for he found the sound more likely to be heard on a dry, clear and calm evening than at any other time. lie is also convinced that the sound is not produced by electricity, for he could detcct no signs of that agent when the humming was going on, while at times when the wire was evidently charged there was no sound. Climate, the lancct points out, was fully appreciated by the Roman physicians of the early ages as a remedy or prophylactic. Thus in the terrible plague that swept Italy in 188, the Emperor Commodus, at the instance of his medical advisers, quitted Rome, where the ' mortality was heaviest, for Laurentum, I on the Latin shore. The dense laurel : groves, from which the place took its j name, emitted an odor which seemed to j antagonize the pestilcnce, and suggested to the Roman physicians the inhalation of aronutic essences as a preventive for those who could not leave the city. The passage in Ilerodian (I., 12) from which these facts are taken, is of much interest ; to the historian of medicine. " ~7; ' ,W. -V : I White as Snow. From morning until evening He sought for peace and restRest for a weary spirit. Peace for a troubled breast; But vain was all his seeking From dawn till set of sun: His sins lay heavy on him, And comfort there was none. Then, in the gathering twilight, He knelt him down in prayer, And the stars shone in upon him, And smiled upon him there; And while he told his Father Of sin as black as night, The pure white snow fell softly And hid the earth from sight And when, in bitter sorrow, He looked into the night. Behold, the earth shone brightly, WimitmvwI ir? ifo mKo nf w V* i 1 ?? IU 1.VU A VW Vii T* &AAWV i And the promise come to cheer him And bring him peace: "Although Your sins may be as scarlet, They shall be white as snow!" ?George Weatherly, in the Quiver. RELIGIOUS READING. Sam Jonea on Riches. I'd rather have for my son a good simple-minded, God-serving boy, who could go along and plow his corn straight, and live an upright life, than be the father of the most talented man that ever lived, if he was a dissipated, red-nosed drunkard. I'd rather have an honest fool than a bright rascal. Hagar said: "Give me not riches lest I be puffed, neither give me poverty lest I be poor and steal." Ah, how envious we all feel when some millionaire dies and the will is read; he leaves to this one a million and to that one a million, and the other hundred millions he divides between his two dear sons, who will probably buy a palace in hell with it. I'd rather have the heritage my sainted lather left .ne than all the riches ever claimed by man. He didn't leave me a dollar, but he said: "0, my poor, godless, wicked, wayward boy, promise your father that you will meet him in heaven." When you die your wite won't sup a $1000 bill into your shroud and say: "Take this to pay your tolls across the river of Death," and your son won't say: "Father, you leave me half your money, and you take the balance." 0, no; you'll just die and leave every penny of it behind. And about your children. Brother, you can't say that the boy you love will not die a drunkard; and, sister, you can't say the girl you love will not marry a drunkard. It is becoming a common thing for daughters to disobey the counsels of their parents. I hear that in some parts of New York they have to lock up their girls every night to keep them from stepping off before morning, with possibly the coachman. B&b Ingersoll, the enemy of God, child of Satan, has attacked everything in heaven and earth, but you never heard him say aught but good of his mother. He never did that, and no man with the instincts of a man ever did. In the schools of to-day, at the fireside, in public and in private, the great lesson taught to children is how to make money, how to get rich. I'd rather be a beggar and enjoy God like a prince than be a prince on earth and a beggar for God's mercy in hell. Another thing: When you are dead and gone your children will talk about you. They will say: "Why, father did this, and mother did this, and I can do a. 11 Tf i i, _ ~ J ~ it, 100. li a mull nas money ne c;iu uu as lie pleases. He can go up to heaven (r down to hell, or he may run along on the dead level if he doesn't slip off and g> down. The Fruits of the Change. Mr. Abel Benson was a moral, upright man, and one who gained friends among the good and wise because of his excellent disposition and intelligent mind. Said the pastor of the church Mr. Benson attended: "I became deeply interested in the man, and was often pained to see his disregard of the Sabbath. He would go out from a Sabbath morning service to take a pleasure ride, and if his business at all called for it, he would engage in it upon the Lord's day." After a few years Mr. Benson became a Christian and united himself with the church. And now the change in his outer life showed the change within his heart. At one time some of the machinery in his place of business needed repairing, and he went to a certain man to have the work done. "Now," said he, <fhow long will it take you to do what is required?" "Well, let me see," replied the other, thoughtfully. "I can have it done by Monday night by working all day Sunday." "Not one minute's work on it upon the Sabbath!" answered Mr. Benson, earnestly. "My men will have to be idle a little longer. But now I believe God means what He says when He bids us 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.' I formerly thought it was /ight enough to labor on that day, but not now. My opinions are all changed." Ah, here was fruit; the Holy Spirit, who cannot err, had taught the man. Reader, has your profession of religion been attended with a change of life? "By thfeir fruits ye shall know them," and if the fruits do not appear, there is reason to think the tree is not really alive. Ask that God may make the change affect the whole character, and that your good works may glorify Him. Tliere is only one kind of joy in which the soul is interested, and o*f which I never become weary. This is the joy and y\cc which the testimony of our adoption by God brings with it. Oh! ye who are afar off, believe it, there arc, yea, there are in the life of the faithful Chrisnan, not only minutes and hours, there nre days, months and years, which ho would wish prolonged to all eternity, and he would not be weary of them. There is a richness in these periods and a fulness in them, a life and a stillness, an activity, and a deep repose, and a shadiness which fills the whole soul and which no one can adequately understand, but one who has felt them.?Tholuck. He that uses many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in | his own ink. There :u*e to-day in the United States 150 newspapers and magazines published by men of color. The newspapers arc issued weekly and the magazines quar terly. The most conspicuofts anil influential of these publications is issued in New York, and has a weekly circulation of 0,000 copies. A good houskceper has two thorough house-cleanings every year, one in the spring and one in the fall: a good farmer, two thorough barnyard cleanings at about I the same tim* ' iMMBSkaBBBmDHBHHHHHMMMnHBn TetroleuiwellsT HOW THEY ARE IiOCATED AND WORKED. Testing New Territory by the "Belt Theory" ?Erecting a Derrick Above the Well-hole?Boring for Oil?Use of Torpedoes. Prospectors in selecting a promising spot to test new territory are often inU .1 1 _ 4-V. ? r* /J uueiiceu uy a "ueit mcwij*, mou aur vauced by a man named Angell. In a general way .his idea has been verified by experience. It proceeded upon the hypothesis that oil lies in belts or pools having a northeast and southwest trend, sometimes called the "forty-five degree line." In districts known to be oil-bearing the wells are frequently located near the boundary of the owner's property. The 'object is to drain as much of his neighbor's oil as ' possible, for there are no partitions in the subterranean chambers corresponding to the lines of surface ownership. The driller's motto is "first come, first served," hence there is generally a race to see who shall first tap nature's till. When the exact spot for the well has been determined upon, a well-hole is dug about fifteen feet in depth, and if solid rock is not reached, a wrought iron pipe eight to twelve inches in diameter is driven down to it. Above this is erected the "derrick," a pyramidal structure of heavy timbers, generally seventy-two feet in height. At each side is located a fifteen to twenty-horse power engine, which operates a walking beam to which is attached a heavy cable and the drilling ap JJU1ULU3. This consists of four parts. The up- | per one is called the "sinker bar," about eighteen ^feet in length; next come the "jars," seven feet in length; then the "auger-stem," about thirty feet long, of three and one-fourth inch cold rolled steel; and finally, at the end of this is a "bit" three feet in length. Thus equipped, steam is turned on, and the ponderous weight of 2,000 to 3,000 pounds, alternately raised and dropped, as in a pile-driver, drives the bit into the rock at the average rate of sixty to one hundred feet daily. After drilling for some time the tools are hoisted and a fresh bit is inserted. Meanwhile a "sand pump," or "bailer," a cylindrical tube with valves opening inward, is dropped down the nole to remove detritus or water. A "casing" is fitted snugly to the walls of the well to 1 J- ? i. ? ? . J ?.?!? AM 1(1 WArtflO KGep out me waiei j uuu w ucu ii< 10 uv,w.osary to pump the oil, the well is tubed. The tube is about two inches in diameter, around which a rubber packer is inserted just above the oil and gas bearing rock. This cuts off the escape of the gas, forcing it up through the tube, and causing the well to flow. The bore of the well varies from eight to six inches, and its depths varies with the geological formation, averaging perhaps 1,200 to 1,500 feet, and sometimes. reaching 2,500. The cost of a well naturally depends upon its location, depth, and character of rock. The owner generally erects the derrick, engine, and tank, at an average expense of $1,500, and then contracts with a driller to furnish the tools and sink the well. This charge will probably average sixty cents per foot. It is perhaps safe to say that wells in the larger fields average in cost from $2,500 to $3,000. Torpedoes, which were first introduced about 18G5, were received with distrust, but are now in general use, and have become a necessary part of the equipment of a well. They are cylindrical tubes, varying in size, but generally eight inches in length and four in diameter, containing fluid nitro-giycerine. These torpedoes are carefully lowered into the wells and nvnloded bv droDDincr a twenty-pound cast iron weight upon them from above. The explosion shatters the wall, giving a greater exposure of surface to draw oil from, thus stimulating the wells and increasing their production. Though this treatment hastens the exhaustion of a well, it is believed by many that the amount of oil obtained exceeds what would be otherwire procured. At first only five or six quarts of nitro-glycerine were introduced, but now it is no unusual' thing to employ 120 to 200 quarts of glycerine, equal to 3,240 to 5,400 pounds of gunpowder.?Harper's Magazine. Binding gf Human Skin. I Following the example of Mr. Joseph Zaehnsdorf, who lately bound two Elzevir editions in human skin, another London binder has executed an order to incase a copy of Hans Holbein's "Dance in tVip R'imp <*hastlv inteoil ui jutatu *i* VMW <?.?. 0 v u ment, certainly a very appropriate covering for this work These are not the only instances, however, in which the casing of the "human form divine" has been utilized. In the library at Mexboro house, near Methley, Yorkshire, there was formerly two books, Sir John Check's "Hurt of Sedition" and Braithwait's "Arcadian Princess," both bound in the prepared skin of Mary Bateman, "the Yorkshire witch," who was executed early in the beginning of this century for murder; but these were among those which disappeared during the cataloguing of the library for sale, when one of the former carls of Mexb'jrough was in difficulties. Yet another instance. "When the writer was last in Paris ho was shown a small book by a dealer, who solemnly avowed it was bound in a portion of the skin of the notorious Louvet de Couvray. and which he valued at 1,00(3 fraucs, aiid for authentication of which he produced along pedigree.?Pall Mail GazeVe. Stepping Stones to Success. Learn your business thoroughly. Keep at one thing; in nowise change. Always be in haste, but never in a hurry. Observe system in all you do and undertake. Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. One to-dav is worth two to-morrows. Be self-reliant; do not take too much advice, but rather depend on yourself. Never fail to keep your appointments, nor to be punctual to the minute. Never be idle, but keep your hands or mind usefully employed, except when sleeping. Use charity with all; be ever generous in thought or deed; help others along life's thorny path. He that ascends the ladder must take the lowest round. All who are abovo were once below. Think all you speak, but speak not all you think; Thoughts are your own, but words are so no more; Where Wisdom steers wind cannot make vou sink; Lips never err when once she keeps the door. ?Somerville Journal, j i New York physicians say the opium j habit is alarmingly on the increase in that city. : ?? 0 ? ? I - ? ... TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. | What Are We Going to Do? V ^ What are we going to do, sweet friends, In the year that is to come. To baffle that fearful fiend 01 death Whose messenger is rum? Shall we fold our hands and bid him pass, As he has passed before, ,* Leaving his deadly-poisoned draught At every unbarred door? What are we gping to do, sweet friends, Still wait for crime ana pain. Then bind the bruises, ana heal the wound, And soothe woe again? T U-T_ _ /? j I'll _i_ _ i a 1 _ .Lieu me nena son torture tne weary wue, Still poison the coming child, Still break the suffering mother's heart, Still drive the sister wild? Still bring to "the grave the gray-haired sire, Still martyr the brave young soul, ' Till the waters of death, Lute a burning stream, O'er the whole great nation roll; And poverty take the place of wealth, And sin and crime and shame Drag down to the very depths of hell The highest and proudest name? I Is this our mission on earth, sweet friends, In the years that are to come? If not, let us rouse and do the work Against this spirit of rum. There is not a soul so poor and weak, In all this goodly land, But against this evil a word may speak, And lift a warning hand. And lift d warning hand, sweet friends, \ With a cry for home and hearth, Adding voice to voice, till the sound sweep, ' Like rum's death-knell, o'er the earth, And the weak and wavering shall hear, And the faint grow brave and strong, And the true and good, and great and wise Join hands to right this .wrong. Scientific Temperance Instruction in Public Schools. Thanks to the efforts of the crystalized mother-heart of the nation, the "W. 0. T. U., thousands of teachers have commenced the systemetic teaching of scientific temperance to millions of pupils in' public schools. The work is new and surrounded by environments caused by; ignorance , prejudice and misrepresenta-' tion. All this makes mistakes easy, but' fatal. Never was there more need of guidance by Divine wisdom, never was' * . there a louder call to prayer. On the " ^ first Monday in September, commencing in far east Maine, and following the sun in his course to ''where rolls the Ore- .'; gon," the school-bell marshaled into ; . rank a procession of school children stretching across the continent. Let its notes be also a call to prayer, to every mother, every lover of children in America; prayer that all the teachers may be taught of God and endued with that consecrated common sense which avoids mistakes and chooses the wisest and best methods. Let all parents show their interest in this work and their personal sympathy with the teachers who are striving to teach temperance to children. . Teachers will meet opposition and ridia?1a fwnm A11I? finomioa? cViAltT VUl^/ liVUl VU1 VUUIUlWf UUV IT . t you, as parents, stand by them; encourage their hearts; strengthen their hands, they will have great need of courage as well as of wisdom, and that grace of the lips which shall make their words like - '% 4'applesof gold in pictures of silver." In view of the fact that this special editorial "we" has spent her life in public school work, it may not be considered out of place for her to suggest here some general principles which should govern in temperance teaching. 1. Commence with simple, well-known. effects of alcohol, like the staggering gait " and uncertain movements, explain these physiologically. 2. Proceed from undisputed effects, *. ; | gradually, to those not so generally acknowledged. 3. State no fact for which you cannot give unquestionable authority. 4. Avoid personal and political allusions. vf.j 5. Remember your work is not to teach the evils resulting from dram selling, but the physiological effects of dram-drinkand the use of narcotics. 6. It is entirely within your province i to studv 'the effects of the drink habit " . upon the industries of the State, upon crime, pauperism, insanity, idiocy, etc. 7. Adapt your teaching to the age and intelligence of your pupils. 8. Proceed systematically and review thoroughly. 9. Fix the fundamental facts in the minds of even little children. You do not know how long they may be with you.?Exchange. . v The Master Vice. There is a prevalent belief that the consumption of beer and light wines, as well as the tempcrance agitation, has diminished the quantity of liquor consumed; but this is not so. Rccent figures show that the consumption of liquor in the United States has far outstripped the growth of population. The number of ! crallons of liauor consumed vearlv has in creased as follows: 1840, 71,000,000; ' 1850, 94,000,000; 1800, 202.000,000; 1870, 283,000,000; 1880, 503,000,000; 1883, G55,000,000. While the popula^" tioa has only trebled in the last forty rcar3, the consumption of liquor is nearly ten times greater than it was in 1840, and the amount of money expended in its purchase shows a still greater proportional increase. The annual expenditure for liquor now exceeds $800,000,000. These figures are appalling, and every father of a family should do all in his power to socially discourage and legally prevent the^use of intoxieating drinks. It is the master vice of our age and country.?DemorcsVs Monthly. ' A Sure Cure. We have heard of various cures for drunkenness recommended for persons | who are trying to cure themselves of j drinking habits. Some of them are very I bitter and bad to take. Here is one, however, which is to be recommended at all times, which is sure to cure if the person has the will to stick to it. It i3 recommended by a doctor, and has an alj most unpronounceable name. The doc' tor says he has been keeping it for a quarter of a century. It is Don'tdrinkalcoholatallatall. Will you remember it? ?Banner. ??> r