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"The Ererl JstlDff Arms." FiJgrim on the road to glory, Pressing toward the Heavenly prize, 'Mid the ills that now disturb thee, 'Mid the dangers that arise; When the way is dark and dreary, Rugged, filled with vain alarms, "When perplexed, exhausted, weary, Trust "the Everlasting Arms." And when all below is closing, When thou dread'st the briny flood, When thou 'eel'st the waters rising Thou shalt find the promiso good. Timid Christian! venture on it; Bid farewell to all alarms; Tis enough that underneath thee Are "the Everlasting Arms." RELIGIOUS READING. Ask (he Friee. "Whenever I want anything I always j ask the price of it, whether it be a new i coat or a shoulder of mutton, a pound of ' tea or a ball of pack-string. If it ap- ; pears to be worth the money I buy?that is, if I can alford it; but if not, I ' let it alone; for he is no wise man who pays for a thing more than it is worth. But not only in the comforts of food ! and clothing, but in all other things, I ask the same question; for there is a price to a day's enjoyment as well as to a joint of butcher's meat. Kia linorf nn at. ! IliC C>|iUUUVajUl> OVsVO MVM> V VTA. V pensive baubles, but he does not ask their price; he is, therefore, obliged to . give them his houses, his land, his j friends, and his comfort; and these are fifty times more than they are worth. The drunkard is determined to have his brandy and gin and his strong ale; ! and he never makes the price an object, ' bo he pays for them with his wealth, his character, and his peace?and a sad bar- | gain he makes of it! It is the same with j others. The gamester will be rich at once, but ; riches may be bought too dear; for be who in getting money also gets the habit of risking it on the turn of a card or throw of the dice will soon bring 1 pounds to pence. The gamester puys for i his riches with his rest, his reputation ' and his happiness. Do you think, if the highwayman asked the price of ungodly gain, that he could ever commit robbery? No, never I But he does not ask the price, and foolishly gives for it his liberty, if not his life. Ask the price of what you would pos- | Bess, and make a good bargain. A little ! prudence will secure you a great deal of peace. But if, after all, you will have pleasure of sin, I pray you consider the price you must pay for it.?Evangelical j m 7. viiuTQnmun. The Power of a LlritiB Bible. ? Nowhere is it more true than in the Christian life that actions speak louder than -words. A young man had become an infidel, and would no longer read the printed Bible, but he could not help seeing the fruits of faith in the life of . another. "We quote from the Young Mai's Christian Magazine: "In his father's house a young lady resided, who was a relative of the family. Her fretful temper made all around her uncomfortable. She was sent to a Doaraing school, and was absent some time. "While there she became a true and earn est Christian. On her return she was so changed that all who knew her wondered and rejoiced. She was patient and cheerful, kind, unselfish and charitable. The lips that used to be always uttering cross and bitter words, now spoke nothing but sweet, gentle, loving words. Her infidel cousin George was greatly surprised at this. He watched her closely for some time, till he was j thoroughly satisfied that it was a real change that had taken place in his young 1 cousin. Then he asked her what had ? t nl . j I J l_: I caused tnis great cnaage. one iuiu mm it was the grace of God which had made her a Christian and had changed her heart. He said to himself, "I don't believe that God has anything to do with it, though she thinks He had. But it is a wonderful change that has taken place in her, and I should like to be as good as she is. I will be so." Then he formed a set of good resolutions. He tried to control his tongue and his temper, and kept a strict watch over himself. He was all the time doing and saying what ixe did not wish to do and say. And as he failed time after time, he would turn and study his good cousin's example. He would read this living Bible, and said to himself, "How does it happen that she, who has not as much knowledge or as much strength of character as I have, can do what I can't do. She must have some help that I dont know of. It must be as sne says, tne neip 01 uoa. i win sees j that help. He -went into his chamber i and prayed t? that God whose very ex- ' istence he had denied. lie prayed earnestly. God heard him, helped him, and he beeamc a Christian. Here is the great truth: Christ gives Himself to us. All that he is and has is ours. God has blessed us all with spiritual blessings in Christ. "All things are yours," cries the great Apostle, 4'Christ Jesus is made unto us wisdom and right eousness and sanctification and redemption." "Who will believe this? The moment faith takes hoM of this great truth, that moment all is ours. "We which believe do enter into rest." The secret , is faith. "The believer is called to livo by faith, to stand by faith, to walk by faith, and to overcome by faith." How simple the way of the Lord t The Baptist Total Abstinence association of England numbers in its ranks 1,171 ministers, 2,688 church officers, and 212 students, making a total of 4,071, having an increase of 355 over last year. ii you are iona or wine, you ougnt to ' abstain for your own sake, and if you are not fond of wine you ought to abstain for the sake of others.? Caiwn Farrar. The State, a Boston paper, says: "The policy of science on the saloon issue is the policy of moral cowardice," ? 1 TALMAGE'S SERMON. EVILS OF BOARDING-HOUSES AJN1J HUXELS. Rev. Dr. Talmage's eighth sermon of the series on the "Marriage Ring," related to the evils of boarding-houses and hotels, and was preached from the following text: "And Drought him to an inn and took care of him. And on the morrow, when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host and said unto him, Take care of him, and whatsoever thou expendeth more when I come again I will repay thee."?St Luke, x., S4. 85. The following is the sermon in full: This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan had found the unfortunate on a lonely, rocky road, where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers, and had put the injured man into the saddle, while this merciful and well-to-do man had walked, till they got to the hotel and the wounded man was put to bed and cared for. It must have been a very superior hotel in its accommodations for, though in the country, the landlord was paid at the rate of what in our country would be four A Adtr o T\nnMTT Kaincr i K in a yi UVC UUIiOlD O UttJ C* % day's wages and the two pennies paid in this case about two days' wages. Moreover it was one of those kind-hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guests, because the good Samaritan leaves the poor wounded fellow to his entire care, promising that when he came that way again ne would pay all the bills until the invalid got welL Hotels and boarding houses are necessities. In very aneicnt times they were unknown, because the world had comparatively few inhabitants and were not much given to travel, and private hospitality met all the wants of sojourners, as wnen Abraham rushed out at Mamre to invite the three men to sit down to a dinner of veal; as when Lydia urged the apostles to accept of her home as when the people were positively commanded to be g^iven to hospitality; as in many of the places in the East these ancient customs are pracfcrk-Hav But we have now hotels Dre Bided over by good landlords and boardinghouses presided over bv excellent host or hostess in all neighborhoods, villages and cities, and it is our congratulation that those of our own land surpass all other lands. They rightly become the permanent residents of many people such as those who are without families, such as those whose business keeps them migratory, such as those who ought not, for various reasons of health or peculiarity of circumstances, take upon themselves the cares of housekeeping. Many a man falling sick in one of these boarding houses or hotels has been kindly watched and nursed, and by the memory of her own sufferings and losses the lady at the head of such a house has done all that a mother could do for a sick child, and the slumberless eye of God sees and appreciates her sacrifices in behalf of the stranger. Among the most marvelous cases of patience and Christian fidelity are many of those who keep boarding houses, enduring without resentment the unreasonable demands of their guests for expensive food and attentions for which they are not willing to pay an equiva- J lent; a lot of crank}' men and women who ' are not worthyto tie the shoe of their queenly caterer. Tha outrageous way in which boarders sometimes act to tbeir landlords and landladies show that these critical guests had bad early rearing, and that in the making up of their natures all that constitute the gentleman and lady were left out. Some of the most princely men and some of the most elegant women that I know of to-day keep hotels and boarding houses; have given up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more freedom from domestic duties and more time for social life, and because they like the whirl of publicity better than the quiet and privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels and boarding-houses is for most people while they are in tram "ai, but as a terminus they are in many cases demoralization, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have Degun to disintegrate. There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to supjx>rt and direct homes of their own, have struck tent and taken permanent abode in these public estab 1 isomerics, ix is an evu wiae as cnrisienaom, and by voice and through the newspaper press I utter warning ana burning protest, and ask Almighty God to bless tne work, , whether in the nearing or reading. In these public caravan-series the demon of gossip is apt to get full sway. All the boarders run daily the gauntlet of general inspection?how they look when they come down in the morning, and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear, and what they do not wear, and how they eat, and what they eat, and how much they eat, and how little they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated, and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him?who is he? where did ne come from? how long is he going to stay? has he paid his board* how mucn does he pay? perhaps he has committed some crime and does not want to be known;. there must be something wrong about him or he would speak. The whole house goes "into the detective business. They must find out about him. Thev must find out about him right away. If he leaves his door unlocked by acrid ?nt he will find that his rooms have been inspected, his trunk erolored. his letters folded differ ently from the way they were folded when he put them away. Who is he? is the question asked with intenser interest until the subject has become a monomania. The simple fact is that he is nobody in particular, but minds his own business. The best landlords and landladies cannot sometimes kinder their places from becoming a pandemonium of whisperers and reputations are torn to tatters and evil suspicions are aroused and scandals started and the parliament of the family is blown to atoms by some Guy Fawkes who was not caught in time, as was his English predecessor of gunpowder reputation. TVio rpASAii ic t.Vint. wViila in nri vata homes families have so .much to keep them busy, in these promiscuous and multitudinous residences there are so many who have nothing to do, and that always makes mischief. They gather in each other's rooms and spend hours in consultation about others. If they had to walk a half mile before they get to the willing ear of some listener' to detraction, they would get out of breath before reaching there and not feel in full glow of animosity or slander, or might, because of the distance, not go at all. But rooms 20, 21, 22, 23,24 and Mere on the same corridor, and when one carrion crow goes "caw! caw I" all the other crows hear it and flock together over the same carcass. "Oh. I have heard something rich; sit down ana let me tell you all about it." And the first guffaw increases the gathering and it has to be told all over again, and as they separate each carries a spark from the altar of Gab to some other circle, until from the coal heaver in the cellar to the maid in the top room of the garret, all are aware of the defamation, and that evening all who leave the house will bear it to other houses until autumnal fires sweeping across Illinois prarie are less raging ana cwriff iVian tKof flnnia nf pnnenmino' ronnt.n. tion blazing a toss the village or city, 'fhose of us who were broueht ud in the countiv know that the old-fashioned hatching of eggs in the hay mow required lour or five weeks of brooding, but there are new modes now of hatching by machinery which takes less time and doos the work in wholesale. So, while the private home may brood into life an occasional falsity and take a long time to do it, many of the boarding nouses ana ramuy noceis anora a swuier ami more multitudinous style of moral incubation, and one old gossip will get off the nest after one hour's rooding, clucking a flock of thirty lies after her, each one picking up its little worm of juicy regalement. It is no advantage to hear too much about your neighbors, for your time will be so much occupied in taking care of their faults that you will have no time to look after your own. And while you are pulling the chick-weed out of their garden yours will get all overgrown with horse-sorrel and rnuBen stalks. One of the worst damages that comes from the herding of so many people into boarding houses and family hotels is inflicted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them up on the commons. While you have your own private house you can for the most part control their companionship and their whereabouts but by twelve years of age in these public resorts they will have picked up all the bad things that can be furnished by tne prurient minds of dozens of people. They will overhear blashemies and sea quarrels and gei precocious in sin, and what the bar-tender does not tell them the porter or hostler or bell-boy will Beside that, the children will go out into the world without the restraining, anchoring, steadying and all-controJling memory of a home. f From that none of us who havo been blessed t oi? such memory have escaped. It grips a ! man for eighty years if he live3 so long. It j pulls him back from doors into which he otherwise would enter. It smites him with contri- ' tJon in the very midst of his dissipations. As the fish already surrounded by the long wide net swim out to sea thinking they can go as far as they please and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after while the fishermen begin to draw in the net, hand over hand and hand over hand, and it is a long while before the captured fins beein to feel the net, and then they dart this way and that hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching the shore and are brought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of an etyly home sometimes seems to relax and let men out further and further from liod and furtiier aud further from shore, five years, ten years, twenty years, thirty years, but soma day they find an irresistible mesh drawing them back, and they are compelled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering, and though they make desperate effort to escape the impression and try to dive deeper down in sin after a while are brought clear back and held upon the Rock of Ages. If it be possible, oh, father and mother, let your sons and daughts go out into the world under the semi-omnipotent iaemory of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in a boarding-house or a family hotel you can cast no such glorious sanctity. Your children wiil think of these public caravansaries as an early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffee3 perpetually ATTArloefmr* pfuur AT< I aWJttUlIllg (lUU Xlicato xxx CToiiooumg xowwi? v* broil, the air surcharged with carbonic acid and corridors along which drunken boarders come staggering at 1 o'clock in the morning rapping at the door till the affrighted wife lets them in. Do not be guilty of the sacrilege or blasphemy of calling such a place a home. A home is four walls enclosing one family with identity of interest and a privacy from outside inspection so complete that it is a world in itself, no one entering except by permission, bolted and barred and chained against all outside inquisitiveness. The phrase so often used in law books and legal circles is mightily suggestive?every man's house is his castle. As much so as though it had drawbridge, portcullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret. Even the officer of the law may not enter to serve a writ except the door be voluntarily opened unto him. Burglary, or the invasion of it, a crime so offensive that the law clashes its iron jaws on any one who attempts it. Unless it be necessary to stay for longer or shorter time in family hotel or boarding-house?and there are thousauds of instances in which it is necessary as I showed you at the beginning?unless in this exceptional cas9 let neither wife nor husband consent to such permanent residence. The probability is that the wife will have to divide her husband's time with public smoking or reading-room or with some coquettish spider in search of unwary flies, and ir you do not entirely lose your husband it will be because he is divinely protected from the disasters that have whelmed thousands of husbands with as good intentions as yours. Neither should the husband without imperative reason consent to such a life unless he is sure his wife can withstand the temptation of gocial dissipation which sweeps across such places with the force of the Atlantic ocean when driven by a September equinox. Many wives give up their homes for these public residences so that they may give their entire time to operas, theatres, balls, receptions and levees and they are in a whip top spinning round and round and round very prettily until it loses its equipoise and shoots off into a tangent. But the difference is, in one case it is a top and in the other a soul. Beside this there is an assiduous accumulation of little things around the private home which in the aggregate make a great attraction, while the denizen of one of these public residences is apt to say: "What is the use? I have no place to keep them if I should take them," mementoes, bric-a-brac, curiosities, quaint chair or cosy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a thousand things that accrete in a home are discarded or neglected because there is no homestead in which to arrange them. And yet they are the case in which t.ViA Tv>nrl nf dnmftstin hanniness is set. "Sou can never become as attached to the appointments of a boarding house or family notelas to those things that you call your own, and are associated with the different members of your household, or with scenes of thrilling import in your domestic history. Blessed is that home in which for a whole life time, they have been gathered until every figure in the carpet, and every panel of the door and every casement of the window has a chirography of its own, spelling out something about father or mother, or son or daughter, or friend that was with us awhile: what a sacred place it becomes when one can say: '*In that room such a one was born; in that bed such a one died; in that chair I sat on the night that I heard such a one had received a great public honor; by that stool my child knelt for her last evening pi-aver; here I sat to greet my son as he came back from a sea voyage; that wa3 brother's cane; that was mother's rocking-chair. What a joyful and pathetic congress of reminiscences I Tho public residence of hotel and boardinghouse abolishes the grace of hospitality. Your guest does not want to come to such a table. No one wants to rim such a gauntlet of acute and merciless hypercriticism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be able to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shumanite in the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha, and to the widow of Zare{)hath in the perpetual oil well of the miracuous cruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Rahab in the preservation of her life at the demolition of Jericho because she entertained the spies, and to Daban in the formation of an interesting family relation because nf Voq onf/krfoinmonf. nf .TqoaK onrl fn VJ. iiU VUWi VMIUIUVUV VI VMWVI UilU W I Lot in his rescue from the destroyed j city because of his entertainment i of the angels, and to Mary and Martha and Zacehers in spiritual blessing because they entertained Cnrist, and to Publius in the island of Melita in the healing of his father because of the entertainment of Paul, drenched from the shipwreck, and of innumerable houses throughout Christendom upon which have come blessings from generation to generation because their doors swung easily open in the enlarging, ennobling, irradiating and divine grace of hospitality. I do not know what your experience has been, but I have had men and women visiting at my house who left a benediction on every room in the blessing they asked at the table, in the prayer they offered at the family altar, in the good advice they gave the children, in the goepelization that looked out from every lineament of their countenances and thtir departure was almost like a bereavement. The queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark had a royal cup of ten curves or lips, each one having on it the name of the aistinsuished person who had drank from it. And that cup which we offer to others in Christian hospitality, though it bo of plainest earthenware, is a royal cup and God can read on all its sides the names of those who have taken from it refreshment. But all this is impossible unless you have a homo of your own. It is the delusion as to what is necessary for a home that hinders so many from establishing one. Thirty rooms are not necessary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten, nor five, nor three. In the right way plant a J-qKIq aaiiaVi on/1 lrnifa or?/i fArlr on/1 o vauiu uuu V/V'u^u auu nuug (uiu ivi A UUU a> cup and a chair and you can raise a young nara li.se. Just start a home on however small a sr-ale and id will grow. When King Cyrus was invited to dine with an humble friend the king made the one condition of his coming that the only dish be one loaf of bread, and th? most imoerial satisfactions have sometimes banqueted on the plainest fai e. Do not be caught in the delusion of many .thousands in postponing a home uutil they can have an expensive one. That idea is the devil's trap that catches men and women innumerable who will never have any home at all. Capitalists of America! Build plain homes for the people. Let this tenementhouse system in which hundreds of thousands of the people of our cities are wallowing in the mire be broken up by small homes where people ran have their own firesides and their own altar. In this great continent there is room enough for every man and woman to have a home. Morals find civilization and religion demand it. We want done all over this land what I George Peabody and Lady Burdette Coutts did in England and some of the large manufacturers of this country have done for the villages and cities in building small houses at cheap rents, so that the middle classes can have separate homes. They are the only class not provided for. The rich have their Ealaces and the paupers have their pcorouses and the criminals have their je.ils, but what about the honest middle cl&ssejj, who are able and willing to work, and yet have small income? Let the capitalists, inspired of God and pure patriotism,- rise and build whole streets of small residences. The lar I borer may have at the close of the day to walk or ride further than is desirable to reach it, but when he gets to its destination in the eventide, be will find something worthy of being called by that glorious and impassioned and heaven-descended word "home." ?Young married man, as soon as you can, buy such a place even if you have to put on it a mortgage reaching from base to cap stone. The much-abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reckless man, to one prudent and provident is the beginning of a competency and a fortune, for the reason that he will not be satisfied until he has paid it off, and all the household are put on stringent economies until then. Deny yourself all superfluities and all luxuries until you can say: "Everything in this house is mine, thank God; every timber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every door sill. Don't have your children born in a boarding house, and do not yourself be buried from one. Have a place where your ch\ ldren can shout, and sing, and romp without being overhauled for the racket. Have a kitchen where you can do something toward the reformation of evil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dvspeptics. A Napoleon lost one of his great battles by attack of indigestion, so, many men have such a daily wrestle with the food swallowed that they have no strength left for the battle of life; and though your wife may know how to play on all musical instruments and rival a prima donna, she is not well educated unless she can boil an Irish potato and broil a mutton chop, since the diet sometimes decides the fate of families and nations. Have a sitting room with at least one easy chair, even though you have to take turns at sitting in it, and books out of the public library or of your own purchase,' for the making of your family intelligent, and checker boards and guessing matches, with an occasional blind man's buff, which is, of all games, my favorite. Rouse up your home with all styles ot innocent mirth and gather up in your children's nature a reservoir of exuberanc e that will pour down refreshing streams when life gets parched and the dark days come and the lights go out and the laughter is smothered into a sob. * First, last and all the time have Christ in your home. Julius Caesar calmed the fears of an affrighted boatman who was rowing > _ _Jr i un. 1 r-1 mm in a suurxn uy suiuug: du lung iw sar is with you in the same boat no harm can happen." And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strike your home all is well as Ions; as you have Christ the king on board. Make home so far-reaching in its influence that down to the last moment of your children's life you may hold them with a heavenly charm. At seventysix years of age the Demosthenes of the American Senate lay dying at "Washington. I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside and the old man eloquent after a long and exciting puDlic life, transatlantic and cis-Atlantic, was back again in the scenes of his boyhood and he kept saying in his dying dream over and over again: "Mv mother I mother!" May the parental influence we exert be not only poteniial but holy, and so the home on earth be the vestibule of our home in heaven, in which place may we all meet, father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather and grandmother and grandchild and the entire group of precious ones of whom we must say in the words of transporting Charles Wesley:# une iamuy we aweii m nun; One church above, beneath; Though now divided by the stream? The narrow stream of death; One army of the living God, To His command we bow; Part the host have cross'd the flcod And part are crossing now. TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. The Two Neighbors. There lived two neighbors in our little town, Both, in their way, of great and wide renown; One, fierce and warlike; peaceable the other, Trial to make of his dread foe a brother, One, king was called, and one the poor man's friend, Whidli led them, often, hotly to contend: Ana long the war was wagea, is raging swiu Which has the- greater power, the stronger .will. At last the people met, and sought intent to see If these two foes could dwell in unity. But, after earnest prayer and long debate Which served still more to aggravate the hate; Have now decided, every one and all, No more to tolerate King Alcohol, But to accept, and greeting true extend. To pure Cold Water, everybody's friend. ?Martha J. Hadley, in Boston Traveler' The Courage of His Convictions. In an address at Reading the other pr-fjnvprnnr Cnrf-.in hnmnrnnslv said: "Who ever knew an old soldier to refuse commissary whisky?" To his surprise a tall, gray-bearded man arose and answered: "Here's one." The governor was not so much surprised but that he could exclaim: "Then you must have been as dry as a graven image." The old soldier who was not afraid to make known his temperance principles is William H. K. Bush, of Reading. He served as sergeant four years in the war and was in twenty-two battles. He was a temperance man first, last and all the time. He organized a temperance society of twenty-eight members in his company, but after he returned from two months' imprisonment at Belle Isle he found that all but four had broken the pledge. He at once reorganized the society and built it up to sixty-eight members. Once there came an order that every soldier should have two doses of quinine in whisky every day. Sergeant Bush marched his company up to the surgeon's tent at "sick call" and the surgeon said: "Pour out a big one for the sergeant." But the sergeant answered: "I swore allegiance to Uncle Sam to fight, but not to drink whisky." The snrgeon was inclined to make a fuss, but the colonel backed up the sergeant and others of his company who refused the whisky. ""When the governor asked that question." said Mr. "Rush. "I thought it mv duty to stand up, and up I went."?New York Sun. "Repeaters." It appears that the House of Industry on Deer Island, near Boston, kept an accurate record last year of 9,0S4 men and women sentenced for drunkenness. This number actually appeared upon the records of the courts as 08,960 different persons. Each drunkard averaged over six commitments, and many of them were on record a score of times. The Tomb3 and other of our city prisons, from which drunken prisoners are continually seut to Blackwell's Island, could tell a similar story of drunken "repeaters." Short time sentences for drunkards and thousands of license? to liquor- i sellers suffice to produce these disgraceful and, to tax-payers, costly results.? Temperance Advocate. Mrs. Susannah Evans Peck has been appointed national lecturer and organizer for the department of youDg women's work of the National Women's Christian Temperance union. She is warmly and deservedly commended for the service bj> Miss Francis E. Willard and by Mrs. F? J. Barnes, the national superintendent of that department. The Christian Home, of New York, says: "Of the sixty-eight married men received in this Home during the past year, two-thirds of that number have been separated from their families on account of their drinking habits."' BILL NYE WRITES A LITTLE SCREED ON FINANCIAL MATTERS. The Currency Question and the Silver Dollar?Unhappy Lot of a Luckless Editor?Making an Aggressive Paper, It would seem, at this time, that while so little is being said on the currency question, and especially by the men who really control the currency, that a word from me would not be out of place. Too much talking has been done by those only who have a theoretical knowledge of money and its eccentric habits. People with a mere smattering of knowledge regarding national currency have been loquacious, while those who have made the matter a study have been kept in the background. At this period in the history of our country there seems to be a general stringency, and many are in the stringency business who were never that way before. Everything seems to be demonetized. The demonetization of groceries is doing as much toward the general wiggly palsy of trade as anything I know of. But I may say, in alluding briefly to fhp silvp.r dollar, that there are worse calamities than the silver dollar. Other things may occur in our lives which, in the way of sadness and three-cornered gloom, make the large, robust dollar look like an old-fashioned half-dime. I met a man the other day, who two years ago was running a paper at Larrabie's Slough. He was then in his meridian as a journalist, and his paper was frequently quoted by such widely-read publications as the Knights of Labor, at Work, a humorous semi-monthly journal. He boldly assailed the silver dollar, and with his trenchant pen he wrote such burning words of denunciation that the printer had to set them on ice before he could use the copy. Last week I met him on a Milwaukee and St. Paul train. He was very thin in flesh, and the fire of defiance was no longer in his eye. I asked him how he came on with the paper at Larrabie's ?1 1_ XT -* J ij. ?? OlOUg-a. Ql! saiu il mas uu uiuic, "It started out," said he, "in a fearless way, but it was not sustained.'1 He then paused in a low tone of voice, gulped, and proceeded: "Folks told me when I began that I ought to attack almost everything. Make the paper non-partisan but aggressive, that was their idea. Sail into every thing, and the paper would soon be a power in the land. So I aggressed. , "Friends came in very kindly and they would neglect their own business in order to tell me of corruption in somebody else. I'went on that way for some time in a defiant mood, attacking anything that happened to suggest itself. "Finally I tnought I would attack the silver dollar. I did so. I thought that friends would come to me and praise me for my manly words, and that I could afford to lose the friendship of the dollar provided I could win friends. "In six montns I toos: an unexpired annual pass over our Larrabie Slough Narrow Gague, or Orphan road, and withnothing else but the clothes I wore, I told the plaintiff how to jerk the old Washington press and went away. The dear old Washington press that had more than once squatted my words into the pure white page. The dear old towel on which I had wiped my soiled hands for years until it had almost become a part of myself, the dark blue Gordon press with its large fly wheel and intermittent chattel mortgage, a press, to which I had contributed the first joint of my front finger; the editor's cnair; tne samples of large business cards printed in green with an inflamed red border, which showed that we could do colored work at Larrabie's Slough just as well as they could in the large cities; the files of our paper; the large wilted potato that Mr. Alonzo G. Pinkham, of Erin Croners, kindly laid on our table?all, alll had to go. "I fled out into the great, hollow mocking world of people who had requested me to aggress. They were people who had called my attention to various things which I ought to attack. I had attacked those things. I had also attacked the Larrabee Slough NarrowGuagc railroad, but the manager did not see the attack, and so my pass was good. 4 'What could I do! "I had attacked everything, and more especially the silver dollar, and now I was homeless. For fourteen weeks I rode up the narrow gauge road one day and back the next, subsisting solely on J A.X. -J. J.1 the sample pecan meat iuul uac ucwsuu) puts in each passenger's lap. "You look incredulous, I sec, but it is true. ' I feel differently toward the currency now, and I wish I could undo what I have done. Were I called upon again to jerk the Archimedean lever I would not be so aggressive, especially as regards the currency. Whether it is inflated or not, silver dollars, paper certificates of deposit or silver bullion, it does not matter to me. "I yearn for two or three adult doughnuts and one of those thick, dappled slabs of gingerbred or a slat of pie with gooseberries in it. I presume that I could o o^othincrArJifnnal on the abuses of I VT&Al/Vs U UWUViMKg our currency yet, but I am not so much in the scathe business as I used to be. "I wish you would state, if you will, through some great metropolitan journal, that my views in relation to the silver coinage and the currency question have undergone a radical change, and that any plan whatever, by which to make the American dollar less skittish, will meet with my hearty approval. "If I have done anything at all through my paper to injure or repress the flow of our currency, and I fear I have, I now take the occasion to cheerfully regret it." He then wrung my hand and passed from my sight.?Bill Nye, in Boston Globe. Wealth of Principal Nations. The subjoined is the estimate given in Mulhiirs "Dictionary of Statistics." It is only an approximation, of course, but probably it is as near the correct truth as such approximations ever are: a?si fmooo.ooo Australia 4,950, (>00,000 Austria 18.060,000,000 Belgium 4,030,000.000 Canada 3,2.50,000,000 Denmark 1,830,000,000 France 40,300,000,000 Germany 31,G15,(HJ0,0!)0 Greece 1,055,000,000 Great Britain and Ireland 43,({00,000,000 Holland 4,0/55,000,000 ~ + a nnn n/v% Italy i-;,wm>,u?A/ Mexico 190,000, (XX) Norway 1,410,000,000 Portugal 1,885,(XX),()00 Spain 7,965,000,000 Sweden 3,475,000,000 Switzerland 1,620,000,000 United States 47,475,000,000 Baron Leon de Lenval, of Nice, has offered a prize for the best easily carried instrument for the use of the d eaf. It must be constructed on the principles of the microphone, and must be sent in before the end of 1887. MMHMMMaaaaMHaaiMli FACT?FOR THE CUBIOtfi The last slave was sold in Virginia m the spring of 1865 for a hundred head of ra.Mifl.cre nlantR w??0- r??w* It is said that the fat from wild ducks not only makes leather pliable but thoroughly water-proof. Mainsprings of watches break most frequently in the fall of the year, and watchmakers are said to put in more'new spriDgs in two fall months than in all the rest of the year. The ancient Roman ladies held large pear-shaped drop pearls in high esteem. They were fond of wearing two or three together as pendants for the ear3, or dangling from the rings of the fingers. It was customary among the Romans to erect altars, shrines and small temples on the spots on which religious rites in honor of the Lares Compitales, the deities who presided over cross-roads, were performed by the country people. An autograph letter by George Washington, which reveals some interesting fnrf-.o in his domestic history, has iust becni published. He pathetically writes of the running away of his colored cook and the trouble experienced in getting another. The newest Paris sport is snail racing. The race course is a smooth board, at the end of which is a lighted candle, toward which the snails begin to creep when the room is darkened. There are miniature hurdles on the course and a river, and the famous racing snails are handicapped with pellets of clay. When a European takes his dog out for a walk, according to the North China Mail, a Chinaman carries a cage, imprisoned in which is a bird, and when I / he sits down to rest he hangs the cage upon a tree in order that he may enjoy the flood of melody which is poured forth from the bird's throat. Once a shepherd, caught out upon the hills at night, built a fire under the lee of a pile of stones that he had tossed together. The heat ?split some of the stones, and in the morning the man saw within one of the cracks a piece of shining silver ore. That happened, in Peru and thus was discovered the mines of the Cerro de Pasco, which have yielded $400,000,000. An extraordinary aversion to horses was a peculiar characteristic of a Hungarian magnate recently deceased. He would not allow any animal of the kind to come upon his lands, so that visitors who rode or drove to see him had always to alight at his park gates. Trained deer used to draw his own vehicle for many years, but lately his carriage was drawn by a team of oxen. England's Broad Arrow. The property of the English crown has been marked with the broad arrow from times so early that no one now can tell when it was first used for this purpose, or what was its meaning. This usage remind one of the practice at Athens more than two thousand years ago to brand the captives taken in war with the figure of an owl as a mark of Athenian ?T? tlia noma manner Somf?Q UWliCli9iiiU. JLU 1>UV/ uurnu uiuuuv* NTMM.W branded her captives with the figure of a ship. A recent writer upon England speaks of seeing the mark of the arrow upon the backs of convicts employed upon the public works. He found this mark stamped upon the queen's property of every description, from castles, ships and big guns, down to a pieee of Liverpool bagging; and there is a penalty of two hundred pounds for removing it. The broad arrow has figured for a long time, and in many important matters. There is a small English property in this country which was secured to the crown by this mark before the Revolution, and which is still subject to the order of her majesty. Some time before the opening of the ? "iniyRr ill.? oimfrnrrrtfa /\f +TlP WflOP war iu 111Of luc Duiicjfvii} ui >uv 0 were sent through the woods of Maine within ten miles or so of the coast, to select such pines as were fit for masts to ships-of-the-line in the British navy, and upon these trees the broad arrow was cut. In 1778 or 1774, workmen were sent to cut the masts and prepare them for being hauled to the nearest port from which they could be shipped to England. On one lot about ten miles from Portion furn nf flips* larorft trees were cut. It ******* VMW O' was, however too late for the crown to secure its property. The feeling on the part of the colonists had become so hostile to the home government that none could be found to naul the masts to a landing, or to let their oxen for any such service. The English government was forced to abandon the trees where they were lying. In 1781 this particular lot of land was occupied for a farm, and a house was built upon it in a very substantial manner. For shingles and clapboards for the roof and walls of the house, the two masts were woijced up by hand where they lay in the wood. Of course both kinds of lumber were rived and shaved, for there were no mills near the place then. The shingles upon the roof have had to be replaced more than once, but the clapboards on thewalls ~ ? i ? -3 A!. remain sound to tne present, ana mis, too, without ever having been painted. The writer admits that this lumber was wrongfully appropriated, and he begs that the queen will graciously regard the house as her own whenever she may honor him with a visit. ? Youth's Companion. Hancock and the Militiamen. An army officer told me an anecdote of General Hancock about his love of dignity and discipline. He was in command of the train which brought General Grant's remains from Mount McGregor to New York. General Hancock and his staff were in the coach next to the last. In the rear car was a party of Pennsylvania militia officers, who were popping an occassional bottle of champagne and smoking quite sociably. General Hancock saw from his car what was going on in the rear. It did not comport with his ideas of the proprieties ~ c ~~ nn nnnnoinn nnfl Pftl lln?T thfi UI 3U au vtviwtvu, ? . Q conductor, he said: "Will you present my compliments to those gentlemen, with the request that they cease smoking?" In a few moments the conductor returned with the announcement that the convival officers returned their compliments with a peremptory declination to relinquish their cigars. "Where is the next switch?" asked Hancock. n a U?.i UrtlAtif 'J rarvlinrl fli4 '"iVUUUL/ liVU I1111C3 UC1UIT, conductor. ' When you reacli it, if the smoking in that car has not ceased, swiitch it on a side track and leave it. You may tell the gentlemen what I have said." In two minutes there was not a cigar to be see in the appending coach. Its occupants knew that Hancock meant just what he said.?Atlanta Constitution. A la3y who left" her false teeth in a glass of water one night daring a cold snap had them ruined by the freezing they got. MUCH FROM flTTLE.l| THE JUGGLERY OF COOKING IK BIG CITY HOTELS. Haw Various Dishes are Made from ,v| a Few Materials?Many Soups from One Kettle?A Cook's Confession. ;J?? The hotel population of Detroit aver- {'f. age ,1,000 persons daily. What do they ,'j eat? Everything that is good, the answer is. Oh, no, they don't knew what they eat, and the hotels, as a rule, don't intend that they shall. There is the bill of fare, it is true. It presents nine or ten courses at one of the best hotels. For dinner?soup, fish, boiled, roaat, cold : dishes, entres, vegetables, relishes, ; , ^ pastry and dessert. The dishes on it number as high as a hundred, and it is . ^ interesting, if not provocation to gustatory delight at the tables where they are , served, to consider them. First, soup. The basis of soup is the stock?colored with a little sauce it is consomme; add a few shreds of carrots and cooked peas taken from the vegetable department, and there yon hare your Julienne; some boiled grains of /V'3 KawIATT A lifflfi +V>iAlr<?ninr? on/9 VAN -**>' ^ i/ai icj auu a iivviw uuivavuiu^ t?uv? j w?? are favored with, barley souj>. Very :?||B simple? Yes, very. Is it oxtail? Bless ; ^ your heart, essence of beef to strengthen --'.rag and a few joints of oxtail, and you are served. Mock-turtle? Mock-turtle responds to a similar jugglery, only shifting it as to method, ana using some force, meat balls and a little of calves' brain. Chicken salad for one. No sooner said ' jM than ready?yesterday's roast of veal, its meat white and tender takes the place of chicken, and daintly cut into cubes, and fitted with the usual condiments, then stalks out before you a chicken salad, as ? irrecognizably such as if the poultry-yard tiad been drawn upon for it. . . ; It was in conversation with the chef of a well-known local hotel, whose ex- ^ perience in hotels of this country has been long continued, that a complaint waa morlo tft thfl writpf flVirmfr fhft rnnft. V: to deuce gameplayed by hotels upon their guests. "The bills of fare," said he, "are as untruthful as Tom Ochiltree, as unreliable as Goshen butter, and as curi- kn ous as a mule with fire ears. Take th? dinner I had to-day! Tomato soup; , '??? stock with strained tin tomatoes, brought to a boil, a trifle of thickening, baked ^ ^ white fish, a la chambord. Well, if anj guest can tell me what chambord sauce " T*2 is, he may know whether he got it or not. I know he he did not I first made a straight commonplace every- 33 day fish-sauce and put in a shred parsley, a few cubes of mushroom and a, little grated celery. The next dishes you see are plain enough. Leg ol mutton, jyj? caper-sauoe. Just rattled a few capers into the fish-sauce before I added th? parsley and mushroom, and then corned beef, the tongue, chicken, turkey, beef, mutton and so on are honest enough. However, we often use tailed mutton for roast. All |??j we do, suppose we have run out of roast mutton, or it appears on the bill and does not appear from the oven, slice up some boiled mutton, dip it into thick, brown gravy, and serve it with. brown gravy. The hotel guest does not mind, because he does not know. Cold HV&j mutton is often treated the same way. T: Just heat it a bit, put brown sauce over >is$ it, and serve. , "There's many a jumble in the business, I tell you. For instance: a bill fiirp offers both chicken and turkev 'I roast. Turkey will do all right. A good M carver takes chicken from turkey as well ' ;$j| as turkey. Did you ever notice that v. boiled chicken shows so regularly on bills ,Qp. of fare and roast does not? Well, you , can boil a chicken tender, but you can't roast nor quill him so. Speaking about Jj chickens reminds me that eggs are the vwjrf things to handle. A good cook ought , $[ never to waste an egg. He gets a bar- / & rel of eggs or a box from the best sources but there will be at least ten per cent of them stale and one or two per cent not good. None of these should be ^ wasted. Now you have noticed very jl often, I suppose, that poached eggs are frequently left off the bill that gives no end of omelets, jambon, with pastry, ionions, tomatoes, Spanish omelets, omelets au rhum, olives, fine herbs, celestin? and eggs scrambled, shirred, fried, panned' :1;] and boiled, but not poached. Thereaeoa ;"i ia fwonlt rxn 11 nnf 13 mat aa egg tuav xo iauw huju uv* *^ poach. You break the shell, drop the egg into hot water, and instead of coagulating nicely as it does if it is fresh it ' goes off in curdling masses, the yolk breaks and runs and your egg must be> fished out and tossed into the omelet ' <3 beater. But the other day Yankee ingenuity took the last prop from under the faith of the believer in poached eggs. < He has invented a material, which, put in the water before the egg is dropped, will make the stalest egg poach beauti^'"11" TIohtbo o(?rf ortnV of Mnmv I/Xl U11JT . iiV II ? Vjjjj VVVO ?V J , ,. Hill hotel in New York. H^,is now on $ the road selling this stuff, and you cnadepend upon it there will be poached eggs on nearly every bill-of-fare hereafter. K . Perhaps the kitchen is the least inviting place about a hotel. There are to be seen slatternly scullion maids whose inharmonious voices discordantly follow- : ing the eaten songs of the day,or quavering off into some tuneless ditty, go up with the mingled oders of the rangeCleanliness and order in a well regulated kitchen are necessary, but the degrees of cleanliness are as varied as that of that godliness to which the old saying gives it proximity. The cook, stem autocrat of the situation, rules with unbending firmness, and never unbends unless to wink at some more attractive maid or curse some dunsy waiter. These little excursions from his native dignity throw him into his shell once more, which he holds more closely than ever. The appetiteless rows of food uncooked, cooking, or cooked, are to be seen strewn in every direction in all the disorder which adds to its uninviting appearances, and such a picture is shown as to dull the edge of the keenest appetite, or leave without a gustatory desire the whims of the least discriminating palate.?New York Tri~ tune. ^^mmm I \< Some Definitions. A great undertaking?Burying the fafc woman. Changing the subject?Making an Englishman a citizen. A pretty plight?The maiden's yea. A killing affair?An English joke. Hanging fire?The chandelier. A great head?The cabbage. Beats the deck?The cabin. Level-headed?The snake. Very much cut up?Hash. A cast-off?The anchor.?Puclc. "That Hircnen Tree.'' Oh, woodman, spare that birchen tree, In youthful dayB it tickled me; And many a lick, and many a whack, The teacher did lay on my back* It taughtme what I ought to know, And showed me where I ought to go; And still I do delight to see, That good old fashioned birchen tree. ?Wake HubbelL