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Maximas. I hold Hm great who, for love's sake, Can give with generous, earnest will; Yet he who takes for love's sweet sake I think I hold more generous stilL I bow before the noble mind That freely some great wrong forgives; Yet nobler is thoane forgiven "Who bears that burden well and lives. It may be hard to gain, and still To keep a lowly, steadfast heart; Y'et he who loses has to fill A harder and a truer part. Glorious it is to wear the crown Of a deserved and pure success; He who knows how to fail has won A crown whose lustre is not less. Great may be ho who can command And rule with just and tender sway; Yet is diviner wisdom taught Better by him who can obey. "? ai ?1.. .1!. r? iiiesse<i are tuey wuu me ivr uim i o Ajul earn the martyr's crown of light; Yet he who lives for God may t>e A greater conqueror in his sight. ?Adelaide 1'roctor. RELIGIOUS READING. Revelation by Degrees. eternal God i.s never in a hurry. A gradual development is the divine order. J Keveiation is not a Jonah's gourd, rising ?p in the night; rather it is like the oak, Tor it takes ages to grow. The old preach- , ens said, "Jlevelafciou began in Eden, had I its centre point at Calvary, and has its end In Eternity." The Old Testament j runs into the New; it is a whole; they ( harmonize. We read that in Heaven they have the song of Moses and of the Lamb, for these songs harmonize. The harmony of the songs they sing there is a proof of how well they harmonize here. There is a gradual development; and this runs through all the works of God. First there was chaos. The world did not reach its present state in a few years. It has taken many ages for the world to become as we see it to-day?its lields | covered with flowers; its woods tilled with the singing of birds and butterflies with rainbow-tinted wings lloating through the summer air. One glory made way for another. Man was created in due timo. Creation 1 is a growth. A flower does not open and ' grow up in a day. First the stem, then the bud, and then the flower. Man is not born full-grown-, his is a gradual growth, a gradual development. Yet man must play through his programme in a few years, or death will step in and stop him; but God has all ages for his plans. A thousand years with him are but as a day. We find the same gradual development in intellectual and moral things. We grow step by step. Education grows slowly?line upon line, precept upon prccept, a little at a time. First a picture book, then a book with pictures and a little reading; and we must ever noiu-a higher book before the child. It is so in J revelation. There were 4000 years between the first Adam and the second Adam. God was powerful enough to have brought them close together. Why not have placed the garden of Gethsem- . ane close to the garden of Eden? Why I should not the Saviour's feet have trodden J the earth in the first century? Thus we ; see the God of our redemption and the Clod of the world is one and the same. j There is the same slow and gradual j progress. Our haste aud our little reck- j onings are as nothing to God; he is ' never in a hurry?he sees the end from the beginning. The march of the Israelite mi?rlit. h.-Lve takmi onlv a few months from Egypt to Canaan; but God led i tbem by a path that made the journey | occupy forty years. Christ lived thirty years before he worked one miracle. Peter wanted to go out at once to preach (how great the need of it!), but Jesus > said, "Tarry ye at Jerusalem." "Tarry." ' Redemption is slow, even as the rocks and hills were slowly prepared for man's habitation. Thank God, it was so! Why? A full-orbed redemption would have overwhelmed us. God holds himself back because of our weakness. We could uot bear a vision of his splendor. If/N/ino Ann /"loir ^Sl^AMT mA tllTT JTIUSCO 0<llu V/l IV U(U J iiiu v?j j glory." God placed hiin in a cleft of the I rock; lie could not bear a full view of I God's glory. Thank God for the cleft j in the rock. How weak we are in j presence of heavenly splendor! Remera- | ber Daniel says that on beholding the \ vision, "there remained no strength in me"?he had lost his breath. John, on seeing the "seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of them one like unto the Son of man," "fell at his feet as dead.." We cannot bear a full revelation of God's glory. The Bible is not yet exkausted of all its teachings and truths. "Our little systems have their da}-, Thev have their dav and eease to be: They aro but broken lights of Thee, ATi.l Thou, 0 Lord, art more than they."' ?liev. Oman Uavics. If thou hast not mercy for others, yet be not cruel unto thyself. To ruiuiuate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and to be acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep 110 more; for injuries long dreamt on take away all rest; and lie sleeps but like Refill us, who busieth his head about them.?Sir Thomas Browne. A lesson comes home to every preacher and every teacher, in a fact rceorcleU by Dr. Vincent in his "Personal Memories of General Grant." The first knowledge the Galena preacher had of liis hero hearer, was when a strange face, away from his home, looked up to him, with the words: "I hear you preach, Mr. Vin^niwlMr T 1 i in and my name is Grant." Even then the full import of these words did not enter the preacher's mind. He may have felt that his lifld was a small one; that his congregation was not one of commanding influence. And had lie been asked to pick out the most important member of his charge, he would not have thought to name the unpretending parishioner, who greeted him in the hotel office at Dubuque that Sunday morning. Yet that was in the winter of 1859-60, on the very verge of those events which lifted that quiet church goer into a sphere of world-wide eminence, llow easy it is to undervalue our privileges of influence! How easy to fail of apprehending tlie possibilities of those who are committed to our charge!?Sunday-School Times. The Chicago Intcr-Occan says: "The prosent Congress will be called upon to regulate the liquor-traffic at the national capital. There are thirteen hundred saloons in Washington, and they entail a heavy tax upon the people, while the saloons escape paying any just portion of it. The iiccnsc-m'.c should be quadrupled and one-half the saloons closed." It should be the business of Congress not to "regulate" on the "high-license" or any o*ier plan of liquor-traffic in the national capital,but to it. DR TALMAGE'S SERIN. DUTIES OF WIVES TO HUSBANDS. The seventh in the series of Dr. Talmage's i sermons on the "Marriage Ring" was i preached upon the subject of the "Duties ! of Wives to Husbands." The text was: "The name of his wife was Abigail, and she was a woman of good understanding and of a beautiful couuteuanco." ?I. Samuel, xxv., y. The ground in Carmel is white?not ' with fnllpri snow, but the woul from the backs of three tlioasaud sheep, j for they are being sheared. And I | hear the grinding of the iron blades together i and the bleating of the flocks, held botween ! the knees of the shearers while the clipping , goes on. and the rustic laughter of the work- ! men. Nabal and his wife Abigail preside j ' over this homestead. David, the warrior, j J sends a delegation to apply lor aid at this ! 1 prosperous time of sheep-shearing, and Nabal ! 1 pereuiptoi ilv declines liis request. Revenge j j is the cry. Yonder over the rocks come David and four hundred angry men with one stroke j to demolish Nabal and his sheep-folds and j J vineyards. The regiment march in double ; quick and the stones of the mountain loosen j 1 and roll downasthe soldiers striko them with > 1 th >ir swift feet, and the cry of the commander { is Forward! Forward! ; Abigail, to save her husband and his prop erty, hastens to the foot of the hills, bhe is j ' armed not with sword or spear, but with : h r own beauty and self-sacrifice, and when David sees her kneeling at the base of 1 the crag he cries to his storm of men, "Halt! , Halt!1' aud the caveous echo it, "Halt! j Halt!" Abigail is the conqueress! One j woman in the right mightier than 400 men in j the wrong. A hurricane stopped at the sight ! J of a water-lily. A dew-drop dashed back i Niagara. By "her prowess and tact she has ' ! saved her husband and saved her home, and j ' put before all ages an illustrious specimen of ) 1 what a wife can do if she bo godly and pru- 1 1 dent and seif-sacriticing and vigilant aud de- j 1 --^* ^.-3 of lior liiKhnnH nni! h'.v I < > VJL\T\4 UU tUW liitVlVdWJ w* **V* u W. I . tractive. As Sabbath before last I took the responsi- I 1 bility of telling husbands how they ought to j 1 treat thv'ir wives, and though I noticed that ( 1 some of them squirmed a little in their pew, ; ' they endured it well, I now take the re- ; sponsibility of telling how wives ought to ! treat their husbands. I hope your domestic alliance was so happily formed that while 1 married life may have revealei : in him some frailties that you did not tus- i 1 pect, it has also displayed excellencies that j 1 more than overbalanced them. I suppose j J that if I could look into the hearts of a hun- ; ' dred wives here present ;.nd ask them where j 1 is the kindest ana best man they know of, and J they dared speak out, ninety-nine out of a I 1 iiunareu 01 tnem \\ouiu say ui tae uiiiei enu < of this pew." Though sometimes you may j 1 have snapped each other up a little quick, I ! thiuk the most of you are as well paired as a j 1 couple of whom I have read. The wife said 1 to her husband: "I have ma le up my mind 1 to be submissive notwiths.anding all the mis- ' fortunes that have come upon us." They had 1 lo?t their children, he had lost his health, and 1 hence the income of his profession, and the : WLfe had temporarily lost her eyesight "Yes," said the husbaud. "we ought ! ta be submissive. Let mo see what ; we have to submit to: First,we have a home; we can submit to that. Then we have each other; we can submit to that. Then we have | , food and raiment; we can submit to that Ihen we have a great many friends; we can \ ; submit to that. We have a heavenly Father | to provide for us?" "Stop! Stop!" said the ! 1 wife, "I will talk no more about submis- j 1 sion." I I hope, my sister, you have married a man as Christian and as well balanced as that. ' But even if you were worsted in conjugal ! j bargain, you cannot be worse on tnan tms > Abiga 1 in my text. Her husband was coarse j ! and ungratelul and inebriate, for on the very i ! evening after her heroic achievement at the j foot of che hill where sho c aptured a whole j ' regiment with her genial and strategic behavior, she returned h<,me and found her j husband so drunk that she could not j J tell him the story, but had to I 1 postponed it until the next day; so, my sister, { I do not want you to keep saying within 1 yourself as I proceed. ''That is the way to | treat a perfect husband," for you are to re- j member that no wife was ever worse swindled ! than this Abigail of my text. At the other end of her table sat a mean, selfish, snarling, contemptible sot, and if she could do so well for a dastard how ought you to do with that ! 1 princely and splendid man with whom you j are to walk the path of life. First I counsel the wife to remember in ! what a severe and terrific battle of life her j husband is engaged. "Whether in professional i or commercial or artistic or mechanical life \ your husband from morning to night is in a i ' Solferino if not a Sedan. It is a wonder that ! your husband has any nerves or patience or ! suavity left. To get a living in this next to ! the last decade of the Nineteenth Century is a j ' straggle. If he come home and sit down pre- j occupied you ought to excuse him. If he do | ; not feel like going out that night for a walk or entertainment remember he has been out ] ; all day. You say he ought to leave at his place of business his annoyances and come home cheery. But if a man has been betrayed by J a business partner or a customer has jock- ! ' eyed him out of a large bill of goods,or a protested note has been flung on his desk or somebody has called him a liar and every thin^ has gone wrong from morning till ' nignt, he must have great genius at forgetfulness if he do not bring some of tfce perplexity home with him. When you tell mo he ought i ! to leave it all at the store or bank or shop, ! ; you might as well tell a storm on the Atlantic ! to stay out there and not touch the coast or j ; ripple the harbor. Remember he is Dot ' overworking so much for himself as he is I overworking for you and the children. It is 1 the effect of his success or defeat on the 1 homestead that causes him the agitation. The most of men after forty-five years of age live not for themselves but for their families. They begin to ask themselves anxiously the question: "How if I should give out, what wouid become of the folks at nome? Would | my children ever get their education? Would i my wife have to go out into the world to earn i bread for herself and our little ones? My I ' eyesight troubles me, how if iny eyes should j 1 fail? My head gets dizzy, how if I should j drop under apoplexy?" I'be high pressure of \ \ business life and mechanical life and agricul- \ , tural life is home pressure. Some time ?go a large London firm decided j that if any of their clerks mix- j rial on a salary less than I 1"if} ri/Minrlc tVint. S7.VI n vnnr lift shnnlfi lift 1 discharged, the supposition being that the t m tation might be too groat for misappro- i pr.atiou. The iarpe majority of families in Amurica live by the utmost dint of economy, and to be honest and yet meet one's family ' ex| en-os is the appalling question that turns the 1 fe of tens of th msatuls of men into a , : martyrdom. I>et tho wife of the ovcrbourne 1 andechaus'el husband remember tb'.s, and j do not nag him about this and nag him about j that, and say you might as well have no bus- | . I and, when the fact is he is dying by inches j ; thit the home may be kept up. i charge also the wife to k.'ep herself as at- j ( tra tive alter marriage as she was before 1 ma: ria^:e. The reason that so often a man ceases to love his wife is because the wife j ceases to be lovely. In many cases what elabo- i ration of toilet before marriage, and what I recklessness of appearance after. The most | disgusting thing on earth is a slatternly | woman. I mean a woman who never combs j j h< r hair until she goes out or looks like a < fright until somebody calls. That a man mar- j ' ried to one of these creatures stays at home as little as possible is no wonder. It is a j J wonder that such a man does not go on a | whaling voyage of three years and in a leaky i ship. Costly wardrobe is not required, but, o)i, woman, if you are not willing, by all tl at ingenuity of refinement can effect to make yourself attractive to your husband, you \ ought not to complain if he seek in other society those pleasant surroundings which you 1 deny him Again I charge you, never talk j to others about the frailties j of your husband. Some people have a way in banter of elaborately describing to others tno shortoominfrs or unhannv exceutrieities of a husband or wife. Ah, the world will find out soon enough all the defects of your comSanion; no need of your advertising them, letter imitate those women who,having made i mistake in affiance, always have a veil to j hide imperfections and alleviations of con- j duct to mention. We must admit that there are rarecas^ where a wife cannot live longer ! with her husband, and his cruelties and out- | rage- a e the precursor of divorcement, or j se> arat:on. But until that day corner keep | the awful secret to yourself. Keen it from ev?r7 bein1* in the universe except the <Tod to whom you do well to tell your trouble. Trouble only a few years at mo:-t,and then yen go up on the other side of the grave and say: Oh Lord, I kept lha marital secret. Thou knowest how well I kept it, and I thank thea that the release has come at last. Give me some place where I can sit down and rest awhile from the horrors of an embruted earthly alliance before I begin the full raptures of Heaven. And orders will be smt out to the usher angels saying; "Take this Abigail rightup to the softest sent; in the best room of the palace, and let twenty of the brightest angels wait on her for the next thousand years!" Further, I charge you let there be no outside interference with the conjugal relation. Neither neighbor, nor confidential friend, nor brother, nor sister, nor father, nor mother have a right to come in here. The married gossip will come around and by the nour reu | you how she manages her husband. You tell her plainly that if she will attend to the affairs of her household you will attend to yours. What damage some people do with t&eir tongue! IS'ature indicates that the tongue is a dangerous thing by the fact that it is shut in, first by a barricade of toeth and then by the door of the lips. One insidious talker can keep a whole neighborhood badly stirrerl up. The apostle Peter excoriated bhess busy bodies in other people's matters, and St. Paul, in his latter to the Thesmloniaus and to Timothy, gives tbom a sharp iig, and the good housewife will be on the r?n!,-nn<- f--?r +vi?ti an 1 n?'*e" r?*t,nrn their el's a id treat them with coldest frigidity. Fop in.snasuu Letter Keep house as soon as possible. Some people are opposed to them, but I thank God for what are :ailed flats in these cities. They put a separate home within the means of nearly all the population. In your married relations pou do not need any advice. If you and your husband have "not skill enough to got lion? well alone, with all tho a lvi ce vou can import you will get along' worse. "What you waut for your craft on this voyage is plenty of sea room. I charge you also make yourself the intelligent companion of your husband. What with those floods of newspapers and books there is no excuse for the wife's ignorauce either about the present or the past. If you have no more thau a half hour every day to yourself you may fill your mind with entertaining and useful knowledge. Let the merchant's wife read up on all mercantile* questions and mechanic's wife on all that pertains to his style of work, and the professional man's wife on all the legal or medical or theological or political discussions of the day. It is very stupid for a man, after having been amid active minds all day, to find his wife without information or opinions on anything. If the wile knows nothing about what is going on in the world, after the tea hour has passed or the husbaud has read the newspaper he will have an engagement and must go and see a man. In nine cases out of ten when a man docs not stay at home in the evening unless positive iutv calls him away it is because there is nothing to stay for." Ho would rather talk ivitk his wife than any one else if she could talk as well. I charge you, my sister, in every way bo make your home attractive. 1 have I not enough of practical knowledge about house adornment to know just what makes the difference, but here is an opulent bouse containing all wealth of bric-a-brac, and of musical instrument, and of painting, and of upholstery, and yet there is in it a chill like Nova Zombla. Another house with one-twentieth part of the outlay and small supply of art and cheapest piano purchasable, and yet as you enter it there comes upon body, mind and soul a glow of welcome and satisfied and happy domesticity. The holy art of making the most comfort anl brightness out of the means afforded, every wife should study. At the siege of Argos Pyerhus was killed by the tile of a roof thrown by a woman, and Abimelech was slain by a stone that a woman threw from the tower of Thebez, ind Karl Montfort was destroyed by i rock discharged at him by a " 11- - e rn i woman irom tno wans 01 iouiuuse. i>uk without any weapon save that of her cold, :heerless household arrangements, any wife may slay the attractions of a home circle. , ;A wife and mother in prospered circumstances and greatly admired, was giving her chief time to social life. The husband spent his evenings away. The son, fifteen years of ago, got the same habit, and there ^as a prospect that the other children, as they got old enough, would take the same turn. One day the wife aroused to the consideration that she had better save her h us ban I and her boy. Interesting and Stirling games were intr<> dueed inio the house. The mother studied up interesting things to tell her children. One morning thosou stud: "Father, you ought \ to have been home last night. We had a grand time. Such jolly games and i such interesting stories." This went on from night to night, and after a while the husband stayed in to see what was going on, and he ( finally got attracted and added something of his own to the eveninsr entertainment, and t he result was thai the wife and mother saved her husband and saved her boy and saved herself. Was not that an enterprise worth the attention of the greatest woman that I ever lived since Abigail, at the foot of the j rock, arrested the hundred, armed warriors? ' Do not, my sister, bo di.zzied and disturt>ed bv the talk of thosa who think the homo cir- j lie too insignificant for a woman's career, | and who want to get you out on plat frrrms and in conspicuous enterprises, j There are women who have a special outside mission and do not dare to interpret me as derisive of their important mis- 1 sion. But my opinion is that the woman who can reinforce her husband in the work of life i and rear her children for positions of useful- ) ness is doing more for God and the race and ! her own happiness than if she six)ke o:a every great platform and headed a hundred great | enterprises. My mother never made a mis- ) sionary speech in her life and at a missionary ! meeting i doubt whether she could have got | enough courage to vote aye or no, but she ! raised her son John, who has been preaching j the gospel and translating religious literature j in Amoy, China, ior about forty years. Was j not that a better thing to do? Compare such an out) witn one 01 tnese aie- i away, attitudinizing, frivolous, married co- | quettes of the modern drawing room, her heaven an opera box on the night of Meyerbeer's "'Robert ,!e Diable," the ten commandments an inconvenience, taking arsenic to improves her complexion and her appearance, confused result of belladonna, bleached hair, antimony and mineral acids, until one is compelled to discuss her character and wonder whether the line between a decent and indecent life is, like the equator, an imaginary line. What 'the world wants now is about 50,000 old-fashioned mothers, women who shall realize that the highest, grandest, mightiest institution on earth is the home, it is not necessary that they should have the same old-time manners of thei country farm house or wear the old-fashioned cap and spectacles and apron th it her glorified ancestry wore, but I mean the old spirit which began with the Hannahs and the mother Lois and the Abigails oi' scripture days and was demonstrated on the homestead ?vhere some of us were reared, though the old hous3 long ago was pulled down and its occupants scattered uever to meet until in the higher home that awaits the familes of the righteous. "VVhilo there are more good and fa.thtul wives and mothers now than there ever were, society (ins got n wrong twist on this JUWJVVV Uliu I/UV/IO U1U IUIIU^UV'AJ abroad that would inake women believe that their chief sphere is outside instead of inside the home. Hence in many households children instead ! 3f a blessing are a nuisance. It is card erase ' versuschild's primer, carriage versus cradJe, ! social popularity versus domestic fidelity. Hence infanticide and nnte-nntal murder so onimon that all the physicians, allopathic, hydropathic, homeopathic and eclectic are trying out in horror and it is t m3 that the pulpits joined with the medical profession in echoing and re-echoing the thunder of Mount Siuai which says "Thou shalt not kill,'' and the Hook of Revelations which says "All murderers shall have their places in the lake which burnoth with fire and brimstone." And the man or the woman who takes life a minute old will as certainly go straight to hell as the mau or woman who destroys life forty years old. An;l the wildest, loudest shriek of the judgment day will lie given at tho overthrow of those who moved in the high and respected circles of earthly society yet decreod by their own act as far as they could privately affect it, tho extermination of the advancing generations. Mighty God! Arrest the evil that is overshadowing this century. I charcre vou, my sieter, that you take your husband" along with you to heaven/ Of course this implies that you yourself are a Christian. I must take that for granted. It cannot be possible that after what Christianity Jias done for woman and after talcing the infinitely responsible position you have assumed at the head of the household that you should be in a positi >n antagonistic to Christ. It was not a slip of the tongue when I spoke of you as being at the head of the household. We men rather pride ourselves as being at the head of the household, but it is only a pleasant delusion. To whom do the children go when they have trouble? When there is a sore finger to be bound up or one of the first | teeth that needs to be removed to make way ' for the one that is crowding it oat, to whom | does the child go. Far whom do children i cry out in the night when they get frightened at a bar! dream? Aye, to whom does the husband go, when he has a business trouble too great or too delicate for outside ears? "VVe, the men, are heads of the household in name, but you; oh,wives! are the heads of the household in fact, and it is your business to take your husband with you into the kingdom of (rod and see that house pre pared for Heaven. You can do it! Of cou-se God's almighty grace alone can convert him, but you are to Be the instrument. Some wives keep their husbands out of heaven and others garner them for it If your religion, oh, wife, is simply the joke of the household, if you would rather go tc the theatre than the prayer meeting, if you can beat all the neighborhood in progressive euchre, if your husband never sees you kneel at the bedside in prayer before retiring, if the only thing that reminds the family of your church relations is, that on communion day you you get home late to dinner, you will not be able to take your husband to heaven, for the simple reason that vou will not get there yourself. But I suppose that your religion is genuine, and that the husband realizes there is in your soul a divine principle, and that though you may be naturally quicker tempered than he is, and have many imperfections tuat distress you more than they can auy one else, still you are destined for the skies when the Drief scenes of this life are over. How will you take him along with you? There are two oars to that boat?prayer and holy, example. "But," you say, "he belongs to a worldly club, or h9 does not believe a word of the Bible, or ho is an inebriate and very loose in ms names." >v oat you ten me me snoivs that you don't understand that while you are at the one end of a prayer the omnipotent God is at the other end, and it is simply a question whether Almightiness is strong enough and keeps his wqrd. [I have no doubt there will be great conventions in Heaven called for oelobrative purposes, and when, in some celest'al assemblage the saints shall be telling what brought them to God, I believe that ten thousand times ten thousand will sny, "My wife." I put bes:de each other two testimonies of men concerning their wives and let you see the contrast. An aged man was asked the reason of his salvation. With tearful emotion he said: "My wife was brought to God some years before myself. I persecuted and abused her because of her religion. She, however, returned nothing but kindness, constantly manifesting anxiety to promote my comfort and happiness, and it was her amiable conduct when suffering ill-treatment from me that first sent the arrows of conviction to my soul." The other testimony was from a dying man: "Hnrriet, I am a lost man. You opposed our family worship and my s ecret prayer. You drew me away into temptation and to * * * ? j.-x? t -u-i: nfgiocc every rengiuus uuuy. x ueuwve my fate is sealed. Harriet, you are the cause of my everlasting: ruin." As you stood in the village or city church, or in your father's house, perhaps under a wedding bell of flowers, to-day stand up, husband and wife, beneath the cross | of a pardoning Redeemer, while I proflaim the banns of an eternal marriage. Join your right hands. I pronounce you one forever. What God hath joined together let neither life, nor death, nor time, nor eternity put asunder. "Witness men and angels, all worlds, all ages! The circle is an emblem of eternity, and that is the shape of the marriage rinjf. POPULAR SCIENCE. A butterfly?a creature supposed to live at most onljr two or three days?was last year kept alive in a glass cage in .England for 121 days, its age at confinement being unknown. A well-known writer tells of seeing thousands of small fish migrating across land from one lagoon to another, in tropical America. He says they moved as deliberately and as unconcernedly as though they had been accustomed to the overland route all their lives. Experience on French railways has shown that the double poppy is the best plant at present known for cansolidating, by the interlacing of its roots, the loose soil of an embankment. The usual grasses and clovers develop slowly, but the double poppy grows enough in two weeks to give some protection to the slone. and within three or four months I T ( t its roots, ten or twelve inches long, retain the earth far more firmly than those of any grass or grain. With a lens made of rock salt it may be possible to photograph in the dark! The Photographic Nem states that Abncy has succeeded in preparing plates which are sensitive to the rays lying beyond the red end of the spectrum?the dark heat rays?and with such plates U9ed with a rock salt lens there should be a possibility of photographing bodies which possess a ! high temperature, although that tempera- | ture may be far below that needed to render them self-luminous. TViprp r>nn hp. lit.fclfi doubt th: t the Dike vv"* " ~ - i is decidedly an exception to the rule that fish have little or no intelligence. Even the size of his brain is worthy of respect. Its proportionate size, as compared to the rest of the body, is as 1 to 1,300; in'the shark, whose intelligence has so often been vaunted, it is only as 1 to 2,500; while in the tunny it is but as 1 to 3,700. The only thing that dulls the pike's intelligence is his greed; but even this may perhaps only be caused by an overweening oonfidenee in his own gastric ! juices. Like many other voracious ani- j mals, to swallow seeihs to be his only joy; palate he has little or none. A new American process for rapidly drying timber, hides, wool, grain, and other substances surcharged with moisture, has been attracting considerable attention in England. It is called the cooldry air process, and consists in passing through the chamber containing the moisture-laden material a continuous current of furnace-dried air having a tcm{)craturc between eighty and ninety degrees Fahrenheit. The moisture is absorbed by the air in so remarkable a manner that oak logs arc reported to have been tin ished in nine days, although natural dry- | ing would have required three or four j years. The temperature is so moderate that delicate fibres, fabrics and chemicals tre not injured. Fifty Years Ago. A stray copy of the Christian Advocate and Journal and Z ion's Herald gives a strange glimpse of the world in 1832. It is dated August 10. Cholera raged in New York, and carried off one hundred persons a day. A subscriber in Edinburgh, Scotland, complains of the postal authorities, who fo detained his papers that seven copies came to him at once, for which he was charged ?1 lis. lOd. postage. A little colony had daringly departed for "the remote river of Oregon,11 by way of Vera Cruz and Acapulco. The report or a fight in Texas stands under the heading "Foreign Intelligence." T ie puper has seven, allusions to "the ent? j rise of modern times;" and condenses a report re.-entlv published by Congress "on the use of steam-carriages on common roads." A new vehicle is -i ,.a ?r nn?;,i?nfc U-UOUl lJJUU, HI tiiU U1 WUltU attlilUUb-i from explosion are impossible; and the report closes with the statement that "railroads, except in very peculiar situations, are behind the age," and the ''decided opinios" that "those who embark capital in constructing them will be gnat losers." But the changes indicated arc not all secular. The contributions received by the treasurer of the missionary society during the preceding week weiv $53.27(1), and among other articles j r pared for the edification of the devout is one entitled "To Pious Dealers in Ardent Spirits."? Christian Advocate. K . . v*; > .y ' Temperance department." Touch It Never. Children, do you see the wine In the crystal goblet shine? Be not tempted by its charm. Children, hate it! Touch it never, Fight it ever. Do yon know what causeth woo Bitter as the heart can know? 'TLs that self-same ruby wine Which would tempt that soul of thine. Children, hate it! louca it never, Fight it ever. Never let it pass your lips, Never even let the tips Of your fingers toucn the bowl, Hate it from your inmcst souL Truly hate it! Touch it never, i Fight it ever. Fight itl "With God's help stand fast Long as life or breath shall last. Heart meet heart, and hand join hond^ Hurl the demon from our land. Oh, then hate it! Touch it never, Fight it ever. Barnin? and Bumming. It is said a drunken wretch, tortured by, fear that relatives would get his money, in a drunken craze cast $40,000 of United States bonds into the nre, ana exulted in the non-explosive, but expensive blaze. Too bad! too bad! And yet his burning it was not so bad as bumming it, either to himself or the world. Oh, the tragedies of drink! "What ties of affection, obligations of duty, pledges, promises, hopes, expectations, are being constantly consumed in the fires of drunken debauch. What a sad and significant commentary on poor human nature that we read with a shudder the loss of a paltry sum of money, and contemplate with practical indifference the ruin for time and eternity wrought in countless homes.?Beacon. Extent of the Liquor Traffic in Europe. ( It is not the highest compliment to the boasted enlightenment of our age that its ruling and controlling spirit is what the i Christian World fitly styles "the Demon ririnlr " Wo wflll know thp. insolent and arbitrary domination it exercises over parties and politics and municipalities in our own country. In England it mercilessly overthrew the best administration Great Britain has had for its presumption in proposing to help out its treasury by taxing the drink. And on the Continent it is spreading its power and strengthening its hold upon the people, whom it rules with a rod of iron. Lord Granville recently secured from th e British consols over the Continent a series of reports in regard to the extent of the liquor traffic that attracts the attention of sober and humane people. They show that Englishmen are the beer drinkers, Frenchmen the winc bibbers, and Germans the spirit drinker8 of Europe. In Norway and Sweden the consumption of spirits is growing less. In Holland legislation has reduced someurlinf fho nnmhpr nf rlram shons. which "**ww 1"I in 1878 was one for every ninety inhabitants. In Switzerland, however, they are increasing three times as fast as the population, ancl in Austria in a large degree. In Denmark drink is largely in* creasing the number of criminals and suicides. Belgium, which has not nearly doubled its population in fifty years, consumes threefold the quantity of spirits, and has a drink-sliop for every dozen men. North Germany drinks five times , as much spirits as England. What a fearful exhibit do the civilized nations show of the deplorable increase of the use of the greatest foe to their social and material prosperity I?Illustrated Christian Weekly. Fathers and Mothers, Take Warning* A few years ago there lived in an inland town of this province a wealthy merchant; a benevolent, Christian mau? deacon of the chjirch, and teacher of the Bible class in the Sabbath school. He brought up a family of healthy, intelligent children; but, as they came of age, all showed a strange liking for alcoholic drinks. Of his three sons, one is dead.; theothers are confirmed drunkards. The father, discouraged, neglected his business and failed. One of his daughters married well, but found it impossible to let the curse alone. She became so besotted as to be the victim of delirium tremens. Only about three weeks ago, disgusted with herself, and probably feeling onr> of the attacks cominsr on she commit* ted suicide by taking a large quantity of laudanum. She left two boys and a heart-broken husband behind her. And now, fathers and mothers, what was the cause of this misery? A lady brought up in the same family tells me it was the custom to keep beer in the house at all times, to which the whole family had ac- , cess. The stronger liquors were also kept for special occasions. The children helped themselves to the beer and pilfered the other liquors. She tells me that she herself acquired so strong a taste for it that she found great difficulty in breaking off the habit, but being younger, and thus forewarned, broke the habit before it was too late. The story is an actual fact, and points its own moral.? Montreal Witness. Temperance Xotes. Treating upholds the whole liquor business, robs the children, ruins the man, destroys his friends, and breaks a derote,) wire's heart. Be kind and friendly, but never treat. Break this cursed custom. An international conference has been l-.-'UI :it Antwerp against the abuse of alcoholic drink. Important statements j were made by French, English, and Ger- I man doctors, who proved that alcohol is more destructive than cholera or war. A federation is to be formed to diffuse ini formation on the subject. r v_ . -/VSii ' r r THE HANDKERCHIEF THE HISTORY OF THIS NOW INDISPENSABLE ARTICLE. No Handkerchief Among the Ancients?First Used in Italy? The Chinese and Japanese Handkerchiefs. mi -! r ~ ^e "u.? i ne msiory ui cvurj^ mtuac ui numau clothiug has been written over and over again with one exception?the pockethandkerchief?an indispensable part of modern dress. History is silent as to its use among the earliest races, whether Indians, Egyptians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, Persians. As for the Greeks and Romans, they had no pocket-handkerchiefs in our sense of the word, but merely a cloth called "sudorium," to wipe perspiration from the face. Various Latin writers tell us that in Rome the orators in the tribunes and the poets in their public recitations made use of this "sudorium," which was usually carried in a fold of the tunic or loosely tied around the neck. Pliny in his "Rhetoric" even describes how the orator should make the most effective use of it. The Roman historian, Tacitus, relates ' ? A nnnln'J T?.m_ JU U13 AUUUIO I.11UK ?.uv, iimpcror Nero boasted he had never had in the theatre to wipe the perspiration from his face! With the dandies of Athens and Rome it was the fashion to carry one such "sudorium" in the hand and another in the girdle, but these were never used as we use pocket-handkerchiefs. Sueh a use would have been deemed a gross breach of good breeding, and even cleanline.ss, for the Greeks and Romans had a profound respect for dry noses, and only children and old people were allowed to blow their noses in public. Any lady who appeared with a pocket-h::ndkerchief in her hand must have renounced all her suitors, and even all claims to respect. Husbands could divorce wives who had the infirmity of needing a pocket-handkerchief. Plautus relates that in Rome a man, before taking a wife, made a point of ascertaining if she was endowed with a nose not likely to give rise to "unpleasant consequences," and Juvenal records a case in which such "consequences" actually led to a divorce. About the beginning of the seventh century, in the Decretats of St. Isidore, archbishop of Seville, we find it ordered that every monk should be provided with a "facialis" (face-cloth), though it is doubtful whether the monks used this as a pocket-handkerchief. The famous Alchin, the trusted counselor of Charlemagne (804), speaks distinctly of a cloth called "facitergium," which the clergy carried at their left side, and with which they wiped eyes and nose during the performance of their services in church. Nevertheless, these cloths seem to have heen intended rather for ecclesiastical state and show than for ordinary use. The sensible habit of carrying pockethandkerchiefs began in a country of which cleanliness is not usually considered the strongest point?Italy. The Emperor Fredrich II., of Hohenstaufen (1209-50), with his passion for regulating the minutest details of private as well as public life, found time to attend to this matter. He ordered one of hia Sicilian steward.*} to give all the young nririo and r>hi r<m of the estate "duos faciolas de panno liaeo," which can only mean pocket-handkerchiefs. The noble ladies of the middle ages used to give their knights and champions not only scarfs and bows, but also handkerchiefs embroidered with heraldic arms. Hence these gradually became so costly i that we find sumptuary laws diiected | against them in the sixteenth century. ' About the same time the Italian passion for perfumes began to prevail in Germany also. Fashion required that handkerchiefs, like gloves, should be perfumed, the scented waters used for this purpose serving at the same time for beautifying the complexion. In 1560 Jean Nicot, French ambassador at the court of Portugal, presented Queen Katharine de Medicis with the first tobacco leaves ever seen in France, and this event must be considered as marking an epoch in the history of the pocket-handkerchief, for with the introduction and suread of snulf it became indispensable. But though used in pri vate it was not till long afterward tolerated in public. The Empress Josephine is supposed to have done more than any other great lady to give the handkerchief its present social status. She had the misfortune to have very bad teeth, and to conceal this defect used to hold a delicate lace handkerchief as much as possible in front of her mouth, when engaged in conversation. The ladies of the court naturally followed her example, and it was thus the elegant and useless toy gained the place which it now holds in a lady's toilette. The Chinese hnve a solution of the pocket-handkerchief problem altogether different from the European. They carry in their pockets little silken cloths, each of which is used once, and then thrown away. The Japanese follow the same custom, though substituting for silk little four-cornered pieces of paper,of which they carry a supply in their wide sleeves. There is a common but mistaken nosion that in Turkish harems the "throwing of the handkerchief" to an ndalisque is the pasha's mode of showing his preference for her. Intlie old days the lady would probably not have known what to do with the gift; nowadays she might consider it a mean sort of present. Beside this, if any p.'isha had ventured thus | openly to show his reference to any one member of his harem in presence of I the rest, they would probably have made things very unpleasant for him. The likeliest explanation of the phrase is that the day after the marriage the pasha sends to his bride a "morninggift,"and, as in Turkey they use neither caskets nor chests, the presents?usually ornaments? are wrapped up in a handkerchief often of the finest material and workmanship. It is curious to note what prominence the once despised pockct-han kerchief has now attained. The Moniteur de VArmee in 1877 describes in detail a handkerchief for soldiers designed by the retired commandant, Perrinon. On a brightly-colored ground were delineated rl 5 ftprpnt weanons. with clcar and elabor ate instructions for using them, and rules of military tactics. The highly practical notion of combining cleanliness with instruction was carried out by the minister of war, in 1882, when he caused a somewhat similar handkerchief to be made for the use of the array. The ingenious Americans have turned the pocket-hand kerchief to its very latest use. For some time there has been published in the United States a newspaper, printed on cotton, called the Pocket-Haiulkcrchicf, its name sufficiently explaining its object.? From the German. In New York it is becoming customary to use umbrellas as a shield against the glare of the electric lights on clcai nights. *? fa THE MISSISSIPPI. Groat Wanderer! Unknown the past When with strong hand the rod of Natom r smoto The rock that gave thee birth. At last The tiny lakelets of the North o'erflowed And pas:ent streamlets blubbling free, , United in one mighty band and swept With flow majestic to the sea. i In Vain Wyoming's Tetons tower I Their glacial peaks by Titans high upreored Dissolve, and thy resistless power O'er peaceful valleys scatters their remains Or bears tharn to the Gulf to aid The coral rear foundations for new lands, With the magnolia's bloom arrayed. The Ice King only curbs thy might, Till blazing suns on wings of Spring His rei?n o'erthrow. Then gorges blight Tiie mighty forests, and before their walls >: ) The worlcs of man are crushed like shellfc j.-s Tumultuous floods their awful vengeance sat* On the show victims of thy dells. . y'jj Thy branches like the elm outspread; From out the pinelands of the distant North# From the fax Western watershed, And from the Alleghenies' wilds remote Incessant tributes flow to thee; V Nor pause thy currents in the Gulf, but warmed. Sween on ward to the Arctic sea. ?William. HoteaBallon, in Oraphio. ' % PITH m POINT. Slf Transported/or life. The man who vmarries happily. A rapt expression?That of the ham* j mered pugilist.?PucL "When Ad:im gotjjnp in the morning it' never took him long to dress.?Merchant' Traveler. Pennsylvania allows a man to marry his mother-in-law, but he doesn't.? V Courier-Journal. \<]r'MgH A friend asks a remedy for cold feet, Make them stay on the other side of thai , v lio/l ITn.yf-Fiyy/l tat """ ? v ? - ? The ups and downs of American life ^ are well exemplified on the toboggan ^ slide.?Detroit Free Press. Last summer the Tories gave Ireland .;M an inch, and now thsy have got to take a Parn-ell.?Lowell Courier. It is worth noting that Ajax defied the lightning before the Jersey brand discovered.?New Haven News, 1 A rule that works both ways?When ?' p a fleet goes out on a cruise, fhe crews go out on the fleet.?Pittsburg Chronicle. '4 "Kerosene oil is going up," says an exchange. Undoubtedly; so is the stove, so is the hired girl.?New Haven News. A student of human nature says anything can be sharpened. Put a lead V; ; v' pencil in a woman's hands and see.? Binjhamton Republican. There are one hundred different kinds >i.'; of cheese made in France. But there is one made in Germany that can outrank ^jj*j them all.?Evansville Argus. .... l. fifl Worth, the dress-maker, may not be rag? long remembered after his death, can't be denied that few men have mftdir more bustle in life.?Boston Courier. "My usual luck!" exclaimed Biggs. 5^ "I bought an accident policy, and new it is almost run out, and I haven't so much as stubbed my toe.?Boston Transcript. . "What to Do with the Dead" heads aa ^ article in the Canandaigua Messenger. Make them advertise. That will put ^ life into them if any thing will.?Dansvill* A Troy business house advertise "Collars and cuffs. Full wedding fits." We are surprised. We better of Troy civilization.?Jfotf Graphic. -;'q. Customer?"Can't you give 109 mm&> thing to take the redness out' of nose?" Druggist?"Go in front. Bacfc here is where we put the redness on a 'M man's nose."?Siftings. "Haste makes -waste," says the proverb, but the man who buttons his waistcoat over a bay window, will tell you that haste had no hand in making his \ waist.?Commercial Bulletin. "Will you carve?" asked the landlady .V"?1 of young Sawbones, who is in college. ' 'Certainly; where is the body??I mean, bring on the meat," correcting himself as r) best he could.?Tid-Bita. ' !* We often feel peculiar, As through this world we range; But of all our funny feelings Perhaps the one most strange Is that we know when wita vigor We shoot one foot in the air To break ths ribs of the bull-dog That jumps and isn't there. 4 You can accomplish almost anything xM # ;n j. .1.. iL- M witn a man 11 you win tatte mu preuau tion to give liim a good dinner. A man, ' ^ it will be observed, resembles a horse in r..this regard. A horse is ungovernable until you put a bit in his mouth.?Boston Transcript. .'rajjg HIS LITTLE SCEHME. The man with six daughters he wished were all wed "Woi ked gleefully early and late, At time* when he ought to have been in his bed. Constructing a patent front gate. "This now ought to catch 'em," soliloquized he, "Or elsa I'm a precious old dunce: A great scheme for trimming the family tree! Six couples can swing here at once." ?Tid-Bits. How to Keep Out the Noise. There are a multitude ofsufferers from the noise of their neighborhood wno endure what amounts to agony, exciting their nerves to abnormal action and their ->) ]>ulse to fever heat, when it would do no injury to use a simple means of obviating the whole thing. The clangor of ma^ chinery, the ringing of bells, the cries and laughter, the yells and roars of one hundred or less children at recess or at *%i ball playing, the passing of heavy drays ?all or any of these, and other things, are sometimes fatal to the health of the invalid and to the work of tlie thinker. Often it is utterly impossible to move into a region where no heavy drays pass, no bell ringing is allowed; and then there is hardly a region to be found not invaded by the whistle of the steam engine, or where boys do net shout at their games; and even where there,are no cocks to crow, or dogs to bark, or birds to sing at unseemly hours before dawn, there is always some other sound to torture the sensitive ear. If, now, the sufferer will take a bit of spermaceti ointment of about the size of a pea, tie it up in a small square of fine linen and place it deep in the <ar, working it round till it takes the shape of the orifice, leaving the end to hang out, not a murmur of sound can be heard; the at mospherc is sweet and serene, the nerves are quite at rest, all exasperation is subdued, and when the noise is over, or the necessary season of quiet, has been had, the little pluircan be removed, the murmur of the world allowed to return, and no harm is done.?Arqonaut.