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T" RELIGIO US~READ The Sower's Prayer. Lord, I go forth to sow, Do Thou no forth with me, I do so long to-day To do some work for Thee! There will be weary so lis. Laden, anil sore opprast; Help me to drop this s.-ed,? "Come unto Me and rest." There will be anxious ones, "Who heavy burdens bear; Oh, may tt ey hear Thy voice,"Cast upon Mo thy care." There will be many more Covered with stains of sin, Standing outside Thy door; Oh may 1 lead them iu! My Lord, I need Thy strength, 1 feel so very weak; Sometimes it is the barde-t woi One word for Thee to speak. B;;t, Lord, I come to Thee, Oh, strengthen me, I nrav; Help rue to speak Thy Word And l'eel whate'er I say. Prepare the ground for me, Break up each stony heart, And whin the seed is sown, Thy quickening grace impart. Unless Thou bless Thy "Word, And water earth's dry soil, Useless is all my care. Fruitless is ail my toil. Then, hcAV mo. Lord, I pray, Thv presence may I feel; Work Thou upon the souls With whom I have to deal, The Fatal Church Raffle. The Golden Censer gives a st this subject as follows: As the prison bolts tur .ed on the minis looked sadly on the prisoners ii strange garments, and thoughl more and more anxie'y of his He had come to see a young man congregation, convicted of forgen heart broken parent? had begged visit the prison, hoping the peace gospel might reach even his gloon As the minister kindly greeted h ? youth scarcely replied, but gazed sort of defiance. He began givi mother's tender message, with the est ail the church fel his welfare. At last the broke out. "Did you know yc what did it?" What have I dom plied the pastor, striving to und the strange language. "I began t inocc " rntnrnivl thfi VOUth. St AUWO, t J 1 I very loud, "in your Sunday schoc when they first set up raffling, an gold ring in a loaf of cake. Just cents, too, I got a whole box of I was pleased with my luck, and afterwards for chance. Somet gained and sometimes I lost. M must have for lotteries. I was ha k with excitement, so I used other names, and here I am. Don't ] church come blubbering arouc They may thank themselves, raffling is what did it! It ruined Forward Along the Whole I For some time past men of larg< ual outlook have been expressin faith that the fullness of the time hand, in which the conquest world for Christ is to be speedy following extract from Dr. Arthi son, in i ne nospct in m.u j^anu emphatic utterance of this hope: The fullness of the times has sun for the last great crusade aginst th of darkness. Everything is pr tially ripe and ready. Nearly fc missionary societies inclose the g] their golden network. The walls tions lie flat, and challenge us t from every quarter, and move t and at once, and take the very i ard centres of Satan's dominion Word of God may be had in evei ing tongue, and the miracle of B reversed, and the miracle of tecost crystalizcd into perm: The coffers of disciples contain so vast that a tithe of it would all the funds for a world's cvai tion; and the numbers of disciple: vast that a tithe of them would gi missionary to every one hundred population of the globe. Tim space are practically annihilated, nations are neighbors. And, ir tion to all, from out the shining j a luminous an I leading Provident out the trumpet voice of God, I us "go forward!" What opportunity and what i tion! We need only orgauizati< consecration to carry dismay aud to the allied powers of hell. 1 Carey's grand motto of 1792 sho emblazoned on the banners of a that gathers all her hosts for on< resolute and overwhelming charge pect great things from God; t great things for God." All nrou sierns are appearing which indie him who watches, that a more i to us era is at hand than historic p chronicled, or artistic pencil eve: tratcd. When sobriety ends and dninl begins, in the legal aspect, is ai esting but somewhat difficult y determine. A writer in the Albai Journal, in a very interesting arti on the "Legal Aspects of drinks, ers, and Drinking," says: "A being called upon to dctinc in ai ance case what was meant by that a man had ^always been sol temneratc. verv wisely concludc such a thing could not* be said who, although usually sober and I ate in his habits, yet occasion dulgcs in druuken debauches sometimes end in delirium trc He added that "to say that a mai temperate does not necessari ply that he is in the habit < ting drunk." One of the reforms in the interest of good govei should be inaugurated in this c and which was proposed not I0112 the ltaiian Parliament, is that u electors should forfeit by drunl the right to vote and hold office, liminary to this it is very import settle very definitely what tutes intemperate e. A drunk gineer, pilot, or stage-driver is qi fit to be trusted with the rcspon which attaches to his position. E electors, in whose incompetent may rest tuc cicsuny 01 a scaic or arc yet more dangerous. In such scrvicc and electoral reform total i ers, at least, need have no fear of deprived of their votes.?Nat Adv. Prof. Wilkens, Superintendent Washington Home, Chicago, says year the liquor drank by the seems to have been more adulterat ever b.'fore. The more saloonhave to oay for their license th they adulterate their liquor." A National Temperance camp-n under the auspices of the Nation.' perance Society, will be held at Grove, N. J. commencing July i continuing five days. George W Edward Cars well, and Mrs. Ei McLaughlin willl be among the sj fflG-[DR. IMAGE'S SERB THE GENUINE HARDSHIPS OF WORKING CL ASSES. Text; "So the carpenter encourage goldsmith, and he that smooiheth will hammer him that smote the anvil.?1: xli, 7. You have seen in a factory a pie mechanism pass from hand to hand and room to room, and one mechanic smil and another flattens it, and another < it, and another polishes it until the w done. Smithery comes'in, carpentry < in, four or five different occupations ployed. Thus was that of the making < idols in olden time, and that is what thi . refers to. "The carpenter encourage* go'dsmith, and he that smcc with the hammer him that smote anvil." They came together and they suited about their work, and they pit for each other's welfare, and they we full sympathy. They Wt re in a bad bus for the making of iiiols is an insult U - ? ???TV.4. T 1 ! JL/Ora AlimgDlj'. duo i u.hv uui/u^uu vi men engaged in bad work may cheer and each other, most certainly all trades, a] cupations that are doing honest work c to cheer and help ea-h other on the The Bible goes to the very last minutu tells us how many dollars Solomon ' for his horses. It tell us in teronomy what kind of a roof ought to have on our house. It plauds the Israelitish spinsters for industry and ingenuity. It gives us s mens of ancient needle-work, leather ma tanning establishment, pottery, brick city water works, ship building, and pi itself iu sympathy with them all. But orv on 'ew men rt'a'i<:e the hardships outside of ? J v i own trade or profession, hvery man's heavy ^en j3 the heaviest, and every woman's ter, he is the hardest. So I find people ever) i their : who think they have got into the w b with I trad0'01" occupation, nnd the artist ;ays: , i if I wpre only a lawyer;" and the la errana. | says: "Oh, if I were only an artist." of his j the banker or merchant comes hom T. The j night, his head hot with comme h:m to I agitations, and he says: "Oh, if I nf flip ! only a mechanic, then I could lie down ii i 5le6Pi a healthy mind in a healthy b ay cell. | Here I can't sleep." At the very tim< im the mechanic is saying: "Oh, if I were 01 with a ' merchant. I could be beautifully appa the ' 9vei7 d&y< aucl I could give my children ? I liant opportunities, and I could move i i inter- I other sphere." Each man understmdin It in annoyances and the hardships of his ow i boy i cupation and having no full appreciate | those in other trades or businesses. Now ? j beauty of our religion is that it teachc e> re* ! that God is sympathy with all trades urstand j with all mechanics, with all toilers, whi he bus- , with brain, or hand, or foot. I )eakin<* Pose ^is morning in this series , f ? ! sermons which I am preaching v -j11"' ' shall continue on following Sabbath n d hid a , ingS to preach on the great labor agita for 25 to speak about the genuine hardships o \?i? i mrvrfcinp- classes. "V on mav not beloi . ." I these classes, and yet you are bound as C svcni in (,)an men an(j women be sympithetic lmes 1 ! them, and you are bound as nolitical e. oney I - mists to come to the rescue. There was ] ilf mad ' ing more beautiful in the life of Lord Shf folks' I bury than when, an old man, he said ii , , ! presence of an audience, his eyes full of t let the "Ladies and gentlemen, as I feal ole id me. rre?ping on me and I know I must sooi Their I do not want to die, because I cannot be me p> ; leave this world while yet there is so 1 I misery utialleviated." I So sa.'d that man.the master of large esl Lord Shaftesbury, and no wonder that1 ; spirit- a presentation was made to him in a pi ? rrrcat ' a few y?ars before his death, the v ? ? : 'n5 classes London shouted until they s 13 , hoarse with enthusiasm for Lord Sh: of the j bury. There is great danger that the . The ; perous classes of America, because of soi ?. 1 k?/1 af. hiva cnif! lv ir fier-! L"~ """w ?.? ??~ , ? I false friends of labor during the last > 1S an or three months, shall come to the | elusion that all this agitation dy come hullabaloo about nothing. Do e power i ?? on that tangent. You v oviden- : Dot sukmit, nor w<>u>d I submit without i smn and tremendous protest to some ol lUrscore oppressions which are b?ing practiced i lobe in J the working classes of America to-day. of na- i may do your duty with your employes,1 0 move here declare that the mishtiestand the la .j business firm in America to-day is ( ogetner y0Ujre, Grind & Co. Look, for instanc capitals the wrongs practiced unon the womanlv i. The ! ers of this country. They have mndi rv lead- { strike. They have not "lifted their v< ibol is Men have cried aloud for their rights r> women are dying by thousands, dyin Pen- i inches. The last labor report just out inence! tains a few sentences that I wish to ] wealth ' showing whnt female employes en lure: fnmlcb I "Poisoned hau ls and cannot work. .to sue the man for fifty cents." lgcliza- . Another: "About four months of the s are so can bv hard wortc earn a nctie more ive one j three dollars per week." of the I Another: "She now makes wrappers a 3 dollar per dozen. Can make eight wrar e ,aud I per dav/" and all | Another: "We girls in our establish! t addi- ' have the following fines imposed: For v >illar of ' 'n? y?ur hand', twenty-five cents. Ei j a piece of bread at your loom, one dc :c rings Also. for taking a drink of water, and n adding othor trifling things too numerous to i tion, twenty-five cents." inspira- Some of the worst villains of New ' and Brooklyn have these women in theii * J?" i ploy. They beat them down to the last defeat Bnd then try to cheat them out of that rVilliara j woman must deposit one dollar before aid be Kets the fabric on which to work, and in church cases wben the work is brought back it: fi . jected, an insignificant fault exagger " f "a ' I the wages refused and the one dollar de : iiX- not returned. The Women's Prote it tempt Union of New York exposed this fact nd the I young woman who had been living on sti ate to t*on wa^es found a bettvr place to wor ' ' | she resolved to change, and she went t nomen- her wages that %vere due. She entered the < en ever of her employer, and he greeted her by r illus- ing: "You "are going to leave, are 3 She said: "Yes; I can get better wages I have my invalid father and mother to port, and I have to go, and I have comc vonncsa mtf wo era? " TVm man 1 nnVorl Ha tern anrl i inter- nothing for a long while. Then she i >oint to ''Areyou not going to pay mef' "Yes," 11 v T nn he, "I'll pay you," and he kicked her d ;v stairs. I never swore a word in ray life iclc up- when I read that incident I felt in my si Drink- stirring that was far from devotii l court Women getting two-thirds, or getting l insur- ^alf a3 muc'1 T)ay as men 8et f?r doin; _. " same work?doing it just as well, per saying < doing it better, vet getting less compensa. ber and Beginning with the government at Wasl ;d that ton, women in the national employ, in nf nne government offices getting $000 for c work for which men pet $1,800, The v temper- 0f oppression rolling over tho necks of a ally in- multitude of women. Some of the la which commercial e-tablishments pushing off mens " death and darkness st ores of women be< ' of unrighteous wages. Large commc , . establishments accessory to these c ly lm- They know it. Is there a God? f t~rr\ f 4l?nitA o Tu^lffn^anf 2 ( /i lun o uw a x/a,y vi ; uu^miciiu; ? which ?f the largest commercial establishment rirnent' GotNrise* "P to avenge the wrongs of v * ' ing women?will be swallowed ( ountry, quicker than ever South American e a<;o in quake took down a city. God will take \ run ken oppressors between the m stones of ienness wrath and grind them to powder. By pre. law of fairness or justice do female pi . , " pals of schools in some of the cities get ant to nn(j ma]e principals, for doing the same consti- of work, get $1,1550. Oh. the groan of wo en en- hood comes through this day's sunlight, lite un- ctT that of those who are sud< sibilit v buried out of lifo, but a slow, grin ' J awful wasting away. Sixty-five thou run ken sewing girls in New York and Broo hands Look at the blanched chcek. Look a nation pinched fa-e. Look at that hunger-s i ? c;v:'i countenanc e. Hear that hard, dry. ha" , . merciless cough. Look at the prom lostain- stoop in the shoulders. I once presided being mesting of sowing women in the cit Tern. Philadelphia while I was pastor in that There was a great audience. There gentleman there who made grand sp? of the but the mightiost addros made that uTl " was by a sewing wc ; ims wjj0i uninvited, came up the victims of the platform, and throwing aside , , faded shawl, with a shriveled arm h ea tnan a thunderbolt of eloquence into that and keepers until their souls trembled as she spoke < the hoiTors of her own experience, e more take your stand at six or seven o'cV the morning in New York at the corr the street and see the workingwomen leetino- their work. Some of them with no I . ? 3' fast, some of them with only a few ci em" left from the night before, and chewing Ocean crumbs as they go along the street, jo j do they not ride? Thev cannot afTon > five cents for the car. You wanttoknov . Bain, Latimer and Ridley looked in the fire? ]_ r at that woman's face, in a worse marfcyi 111 J dying a more agonizing death. Ask leakers, much she gets for making a course .. n i flVT and she will tell you six cents and find her 11 N thread? My Lord and my God, have m .Ulli upon the workingwomen of New York Brooklyn. I speak thus fully of the wrc the sufferings of the female employe these cities because no one else speaks, T3IE they do speak I have not heard their \ for some time. Ah! we understand the ferings of masculine employes better. March, in Missouri, a colored man came my room to made the fire. I s "Sam, how much do the people d tha ijero for wages." He said, "they get ten 1 .the lars a month." "Have you a fam: iaiah "Yes," said he, "a wife and hildren." dollars a month! One hundred and tw re of dollars a year to support a family on! from only a little door open, that,to an awful s les it, all "over this land, nor th, south, east hisels west. It is not a hullabaloo about noth ork is There are awful outrages being enacted. ;omes you are not, because of some unwise th em- that have been said and done, to over of the these things and forget these things, a text First of all, there is the hardshin of p i the leal exhaustion. There are athletes* itheth start forth in the morning at six or s< the o'clock, do their work and return at ui con- fall, and they are as fresh as when 1 inned started. There are men so constructed re in they can turn their bade on the shuttle, o iness, the rising wall, or on the force after a d j the work, and go whistlinc: all the way he lat if But they are the exception. I have* not I help that when the factory bell taps for six o'c II of- the most of the workmen wearily put the I l? nnof elooro onrl f.Viotr ern linmn rncr\ wav. I thev will ba ch9?ry and make their h u It ! bright and entertain their children, and paid I they sit down and in five minutes l)eu- jound asloeo because fagged out, be we mind and soul, and they ap- In the morning only half res their t and there will be no rest for that man's bi ;peci- no real, pood rest?until he gets in that: king, row spot which is the only complete rest kiln, i the human body, I think they call it the gri roves 1 Oh, workingmen and women of Amir verv I whether you hear my voir e, or in some o tliefr I way the discourse shall come to you, lei bur- j say, if toil has frostel the color from 3 task I cheek, if the snontaneity has gone oui r day ! vour laughter, if hard work has subtra I ? < ?A. _ 3 ti. . r rong I tue sprint irom your stop unu w iuswb i "Oh, 1 your eye, let we say it will ivyer I soon be over. There is coming And | great holiday. Oh that home, e at | no long walk to get to it. Oh, that bi ircial I and no besweating toil to earn it. Oh. i were deep well of rapture,and no heavy bucket i and draw up. To-morrow, above tho hiss of ody. furnaces and above the groan of the founi 3 the and above tho rattle of the shuttles, hei aly a voice, not the voice of a taskmaster, not reled voice of a mnster, but the voice of ar bril- sympathetic God. I wish the weary men n an- I women of America would put their he 5 the I down on the pillow stuffed with the di n oc- | from the win^s of all (rod's promises, Tl on of | remaineth rest for all the people of ( \ the j How many tired people are 1 here here to-< is us A thousand? More than that. Two tl men, j sand tired people? More than that. Tho sthor I all of you were the children of luxur pro- | ease, more than that. There is a woman i of ! her head bowed. Why? Ask her. "( ot>.1 I cha oivc "it; hna Vimmi ViarH nwlr frtr r lorn- and as she bows her head, or puts hef far ition, her handkerchief, she says: "Oh. Lord, f the I ever get rested?will I ever pet rested f lg to tired are you, sister, mother? So very ti Ihris- "Oh," says someone, "all this is ? with through with: with the invention of :ono- sewing machine all the hard work of noth- nee:llo disappeared." No, no. Thoust iftes- of people are dyinp amid sowing machi 1 the Tho needle has killed more than the swears: But who can take the statistics of wo L ape crushed under the sewing machine?b< idie, crushed now? A Christian man pasf ar to through the streets of New York saw a hi nncli of a good deal of destitution. He wen1 and there was a woman with a sick cl bates, and he was telling her what a pood wot when i she ought to be. and how she ought to h ublic I faith in God. "Oh, sir." she said. "I hav< fork- God. I work from Monday morning to ! were i urday night, and I find no rest. I never 1 iftes- J anything that doe? my soul any goo l pros- | haven't any bonnet to wear to cliurcl ne of Sunday. I sometimes kneel down to pi y the but I get up very quickly, and I saj two niy husband: _ -My dear, there's coa- need of my trying to pray, it don't do is a good. And I ain so distracted I can't pra not J can't pray.' And then, sir. to po right rould I from year to year and know there is notl I lirirrVinV><Mirl nnrl. tr? km this littln the | getting thinner and thinner, and mv i anon ! man almost broken down, and to feel that You j are not setting any nearer God, but all but I ] time getting further and further away fi nreifi Him. Oh, sir, I wish I was ready tod 3rip, I May God have mercv on the working cla ;o, at of America. The awful groan comes toil- dav through American society. 3 no Then the}' arc the hardships that come fi jices. privation of taste and sentiment. There , but working people who have beautiful hon <r bv i but you know they are the except' in. con- j most of the working classes live in (. ram read, apartments, and thoy live where they do | want to live, but where they have to live, Had i can think of but few things more distress | than for a woman to have a fondness for year ! for pictures, for sculpture, for music, than j beautiful skies, for glorious sunsets, and I never be able to raise a dollar for an orate tt>ne and never be able to buy her way to jpers country where she can see the blue expo of the heavens an I hear the birds sing, pent never have a picture, while sonu-ti rash- men of affluence have works of art for wl ting they have no appreciation, and thoy 1 )llar. their libraries by the squa-e yard, and lany pictures they have on their walls are mi men- able daubs that tho artists are glad to get of their studios. Yet I know men and woi Fork who will reign in the Kingdom of Hea rem- finally as artists who caunot have ag cent, picture, aud they cannot hear a sweet sou The and they cannot plav upon a beautiful m > she cal instrument. Oh. ye who are so hinde some iu your taste aud your sentiment, let is re- tell you to look up. The King atod, babylon nad a hauging garden that posit excited the admiration of the centut ctive You have a better hanging-garden than tl .. ^ All the heavens are to be yours, for tney i'rva. long to your father, aud what belong! k so y?ur father belongs to you. All these o eet prehensions and these oppressing surroi office S3 ot tb? working classes are powerfi described by one of the English writers w rOU> he says: and "^? k? a P?or n,an'3 child and look throi sup- ^6 rails of the playground aud envy ric . boys for the sake ot their many books, i said >'.et t0 l^00!ne<lto ignorance; to be appi " . tice 1 to some harsh stranger and feel fore frnm a TYinf.hpr'Q tAnHprnp^ an own- sister's love: to work when very wearr i hut wor^ when the heart is sick and the hea< a sore; to sej a wife or a darling: child wast anal' i away and not be able to get the best adv onlv i hope that better food or purer r tjjg i might set her up again, and that food haps i caunot buy, that air you must ne ti0!, hope to breathe; to be obliged to let her liin^: to come home from the daily task some ei i the ' 'nS an(* see ^cr Nuking: t0 sit UP m;?h loin" 1 k?P? to catch again tbo.se precious words rheoj have heard could you liave affordei vasf j stay at home all day, but never hear their r^esj : have no mourners at the fuueral and even h into i to carry on your shoulder through the m< ause I streets the light deal coffin; to see hud< Trial ! *ut0 a promiscuous hole the dust whicl >vils so dear to you and not venture to mark Wili sPot by planted flowers or lowliest st( Some some bitter winter or some costly spring ;s?if i barter for food the cloak or the curious "< i ?i nnmmpntftriGs /0rk- ! -uiu* ui uuo ii vx'...???? 3o\vn which you pride yourself as the heirloon arth- a ^ruKa^ family, and never be able to red tii'ise ' ,t:. toie-l tlms you are getting old, notb jjjs j laid aside and present earnings scarce s what 1 c^ont: to change tiie parlor floor for the rinci- ! st0T> auc* the top story for asin^battic, i $S25 wou 'er "h t change will be next." kind .* ',ave a "r0,xt 'uauy beautiful fiov man- S*ven to mB' hut the most beautiful boac nof a I ever had giveu was last week?three fl Jenlv I ers auc* three or four leaves?around diinr ' houqu?t the words: "Thank you, froi sand ' workingman." If you are here to-day, I th klvn. 1 y?"- T t the I ^0,vi I cannot spend any more time truck morn'u? *n talking about the hardships kin" the working classes, for I have two or tt attire wor(^s grand and glorious good ch at a i ?"0 's' t'iafc a'* these sorrows are going tc v 0f alleviate 1 and extirpated. How, I can ! 1 now sav, but .just as certainly as there were *u Heaven, a God of justice and love ?clies merc.V. all these wrongs ar>3 going t< . , ' | righted. Politicians cannot do it, worl , " j organizations cannot accomplish it, but Ltn' i Lord God Almighty will do it. In some \ j hor ' ' helieve Ho will soon do it. url<d i * want to encourage you also bythe thou lienre ' that the greatest hindrance against all tei jut of ' tation and against all evil is plenty to You When a man commits a crime where does >"k in ' r?lice detective go to find him? Not a ier 0j > the dust of factories, not amid the men 1 p,0 ft i have on their overalls, but among the pe )renk- wh? stand with their han'ls in their poc unilK ' 'n front of the saloons, or the taverns, or | restaurants. I saw a poo! of water in in?30 i country and I said to it: "Thou f 7 j filthy, slimy thing, what does all this me? i tne , says the pool of water, "Ihavastop ! hero, I am goin<; to stay hore." But I si h ?? I the water: "Did I not see you dance iu room, j gunimer shower?" "Oh, yes," says' the wa shixt^ ' came down from God shining like an v " 'y", y'<. '' X' own eel." I say to the water: "Did ercy i not see you drop like a gun and into a casket of genu and. tumble >ngs, orer the rorkT' "Oh. yes. I went, over cliff s of and through mmdow." Di'l I not sef you or if busy with the shutt es and ihi grist nil-sP oice "Oh, yes. I used to work fcr ray livinr, but suf- I have stopped, and I a n gom* to stay here. Last I am disgusted with the shuttles and tho grist into mills, I am going to stoo. Accursed cf God | said: am I and shunned of man. and I am going to get stop." Thank God every cay if you hare dol- hard work. It is the mightiest preventive ily?" against all evil. Sin, the old pirate b?ar- ! Ton down!on those ve^ls that have sails idly I enty flapping in the wind. The arrow of s,u han It is tough work to got through the leather of u cene working apron. Make the anvil, make the and rising wall the fortress in which you can hides ling, and from which you shall fight down the and temptations of this life. Thank God mornings in?, noou and night, Sunday and week day, look if you have plenty to do. Another enconraging fa;t is that your hvs- children are probably to have better opporwho tunities than those brought up in luxury. 5ven Peonle brought up in luxury find by t welve ght- yeirs of age thov are goin<: to be wealthy they and there is no struggle ant I sometimes they that fro out into dissipations and they are m iny of r on them useless to society. There are b isiness lay's men to-day grasoing, grasping, grasping, )me. what for? To get enough money iced to spoil their children. Fifty years fatherlock ing up. Tho hoys scattered it in five years, arm The lord of prosperity and luxury, he may Ived pass out of the gata and go into dissipation ome and die. The son of tho porter at the gate vet 1 Pirn9 his trado. trots a good physical consti are tution. starts out and wiiiS great success. >dy, mo is that man to-dav standing in some rise mighty place for God and the truth? te:l, His mother lai<l him under the shadow of a tree while shj spread the uar" hny. Tho mightiest men to-day, in State *or and National Legislatures, tire those who ate ave. < out 0f jron spoons and drar.k out of coarsest Ya' earthonware, and every step in life has been ther a forced march. Thank God that you have < me plenty to do. It is going to be a great thing r?ur for you and a great thing for your children, k Trouble is not going; to dam age you if you 7ted pUt your trust in God. The clipper likes a stiff breeze. Ths sledgea'l hammer does not hurt tde iron it oounds ? into shape. Trouble is the b=?st hone for an<> sharpening keen razors. E.obort Burns was read a shepherd. Prideau swept out at Exeter that College. GifFord was a shoemaker, and for the son of the toiling man and woman there the js large moral and worldly success if ha trusts fry, God and keeps busy. ar a I cheer all workingmen also by the fact 1 that they havo so many riore opportunities i nil for information than wen5 afforded ;o their and predecessors. Why, Plato paid $1,:J00 foi sads one book. Countess of An iou paid 200 sheep awn for one book. Gerome ru ned himself finan' jjere cially by buying one copy of Origen. Jod. But " hear now tho printing presses go,, lay? the cylinders of tho Appletors. the liou- Harp?rs, tho Lippincc>tts, the Petermgh sons, the Ticknors, an l you can l>uy for ions fifty cents more than Beniamin Franklin vith knew. Every workm^man in Brooklyn hai )h," a newspaper or a book. Pas ung aloug at nieht-1 ne." fall the workingman sees abook in tho window o in and it is five dollars, s > exquisite is the bindwill ing. "Oh,"' he says, "I wis a I could have that So book." Just wait for a fow months and yon red ? will get all tho value of thr t book,all the readCone ing of that took in pamnh'e;? for ten centa. the Put ten boysi of the common schools of Brook tne ]yn on one bench ana tea or tne oia pnuosy inds phers on another bench ri;ht onposite, and nes. tho boys could examine tte old philosophers, ord. and the old philosophers could not examine men the boys. Here comes no an old philosopher jjng and he says to a lad of seven years: sing -'What is "that?" "Tht.t is a railroad." mse "What is "hat?" "That is the telegraph." ;in, "What is uliat?" "That is the tele phono.71 i>lQ, And after i<; is all explained to him, he says: nan "Well, I guess I'll cjo back to mv pillow of iave dust. I am bewildcre 1, my hrad is Intraed." >no Oh, thank (rod, working men and women of Sat- America, that ycu have so many opportune lear ties of information. ThajkGod. And it is * I no more true for you than it is for those in i on other profusion-, other occupations, other ray, business rron?thank God that all those r to trials are preparative for Heaven. ' Deh >ld, no I bring yon glad tidings cf great jojr,'- that any Christ, tho car xjnter cf Na^xroth. is the y, I workingman's Christ. you get His lovo on into your heart and ynu can sin? on ling the wall amid the hailing of the storm, and oue in the shop amid the sh-ving of tho piano, >oor and in the mino anid tin plunging ;wo of tho crowbar, and on the ship's ce'k just the before you'-limbtho ratlin?. Christ counts rom all your rlrons of sweat. He who counts tin ie!" hairs of tho head founts ;he drops of sweat. ?ses Are you weary? Ho will givo you rest, Are tuis you sick! He will give yan hea.tti. Are you cold? He will wrap around you the warm rom mintle of His everla<tin^ lova And are then it is all introductory and prefaies. tory. Sea thaso bright ono3 before The tlie throne. ' See." you say, "they pj'l must bo the royal family of Heaven.'' Thc-y not dress like princes, they walk like princes. I they are prince.?. None oL' the common pe> 5>ng pip anions them. Ah! voa make a mistake, art, you make a mistake. That bright spirit beior fore the throne toiled a* hard as she could on yet eirth and earned only tvo shillings a day. rio, That bright spirit before the throne -why,he the toiled amid the Egyptian brick kiln;;, mse That bright spirit Ixfore the throne? au^ why, h:T drunken father turned I?0.3 her out into the midnight cold and sl:e froze int"? heaven. That great array bofore the throne, who aro r,hey< Why, some of ttl0 them came up from the Birmingham mill', ser" some from Lowell carpet factories, and they out are so radiant now, I vish you could heir 11611 their song. Tliev sing in su' h perfect accord ve" as though they had been all eternity prao'??d ticinj. If you could only hear thoir song, why, ,n4> it would make the pilgrim's burden so light, usl" it would make the pilgrira's journey so short. :red J wiiat i3 that sweet song, and they tell m? mo it is the song of the ransomed working h?I people. And theu an angel comes up and 9^ points to them and says: "Who are they? "iej!* who aro they?" and a voice answers: "These are they who came out c f great tribulation De* and had their robes wast ed and. made white s t0 in the blood of the Jjunb. Hallelujah! &. Amcn!" illy -htu Drink, .Crime and Pauperism. ^ General Stewart L Woodford, in un her address at the anntnl meeting of the *en Massachus(:tt9 Law-and-Order Leagi.e, iver held in Bouton recently, said: and *9 conscie ice that you mxist i is touch, it i3 moral fo::cc that you must 'j??. crcate. Think of the cost of this traffic air to the St:ite. Durin ? a term of seven ver Jears as prosecuting lcwyerin the federal die; service at New York City, I seldom, Un duriuS those seven ye:irs, knew a case of vou criminal violation of law by violence and ri tn force of arms that w;is not either con- : iave ceivcd or committed or aggravated by j lle5 ^1C usu intoxicating liquor. I have ! ? is been present when thi chairman of the ! >ner boiird thdt examines jails and poorhouses ; to and asylums of New York went through those places; anil I know it i.* the simple ft of testimony of thoughtful, truthlul people .:n that liquor, in some form or other, is reuffl sponsible for three-fourths of the crimes of violence, is responsible for threefourths of the pauperism, of the State of [S New York." ^3 France's Drink BilL 111 ,a The following item from a London ank paper carries its own comment: In the current number of the R.tue des JDdUX iree Mondea there is an article on alcohol by M. Jules Kochard, wl.o present:} the folnot lowing budget as representing the direct; is 5 and indirect taxation which France -mand . ^ ^ 3 be poses on itself in the course of a year m. honor of alcohol: uQd vay Price of alcohol consuried ?3,G3'.)27!! . Value of days1 work los t 38,510,840 [^p- Cost of treatment 2,833 680 do- Cost of lunacy 95,853 the Loss by 3i;icidos 12(5,800 Cost of criminals 355,780 who sple kets Total ?42,550,231 the in other word,the drink bill of France, etid direct and indirect, annually faots up to in?" $227,750,120. pad ' y' Jj? A base-ball reporter puts down more to? strikes than any military in this great an- and glorious country.?Sporting Life. v' r ' " 1 . *; ; TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. B A Dangerous Ox. HUM I knev ?i old man who raised a big ox; He ate a great deal, but worked not a stroke. Men put him in pound as tight as a box, A Juc And laid on his neck a great iron yoke; Figi They fed him whole fields of the best of the corn, But he pushed like the de'il with the point of bis horn, And oft from his pound and his keepers he broke. , Mr. he pic With his hoad toward the ground, t/ie pave- ajiy ment he'd take, bin for And away he would rush through the 1118 Iac thick-crowded street: a greal The barriers and bars to check him he'd Armoi break, M an, And hook at whatever he'd happen to hodv t meet. The gutters ran red with the blood that he comer! shed, ital U .Ind many lay mangled, and wounded, and warde dead , , He hai From the push of his horns or the crush of his feet. tQem* Of this ox and his owner the neighbors all wa3 8 spoke, would Of his pound, and his keepers, and his vie- and so tims forlorn. and cli Some said he was good because of his yoke, batb And some, hewas bad because of his horn; * Some argued has pound men higher should ?^oc j And some that the ox deserved to be killed, as smo Aod other some spoke of the market for At 7 A corn. that T The bars were quite heavy, but then it was found, of fellc As the owner paid taxes and bought up the day an C01*Ilt CBQ fil That "reputable men" would open the pound ? Aud send out the ox with the terrible horn, wan* When some would complain of their terror and pain, And curse the great ox, and the pound, and , the grain, They were laughed at as cranks and hooted ?PC with scorn. the mo the ri A wise man at last, with this foolishness flurjnc vexed, i A Bible well-worn from his side-pocket t ?1 drew. He "Hear, neighbors," he said, 'Til read you a ince w text njjj'.] Which tells with the owner and ox what to < do." He read, and the ox, with his horns and his bones, "Saj Was crushed with a shower of merciless >n hav stones; were ti And the owner went down as a murderer, j* , too. iay?Joel Sxvartz, D. D., in Temperance Ad- ?sion vocate. , "It Dharle: The Omnipresent Curse. <tpj( Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, in a fldencc recent specch in the United States "No Senate, presented in a striking light tho bilL"raagnitude of the drink-evil. We quote the following: 'It must be conceded that the use of onane intoxicating?that is to say, of poisonous came t ?liquors jib a beverage is the chief source <'^a' B.nd immediate cause of more hurt to so-1 ? jg (. ciety and to individuals than auy other I "gir one agency that can be named. The into hi War of the Rebellion cost us fewer lives rules a <#Bu and less treasure year by year during its ??C( term of death and devastation than the j any ru nation has sacrificed annually to the j time n Moloch of alcohol during the period ' Port*?i which has elapsed since its close. Pcsti- ^ lcnce has not slain 00,000 victims iu any aiong ( one year since the settlemont of this the wi country. If cholera and smallpox com- 'hind bined should sweep away 100,000 of our j countrymen in a season the nation would I piea3e organize as one vast funeral procesion : here a and hang the heavens with the emblems j jac^ ra of despair. Famine is with us unknown, | or at least unnecessary, and whenever it I own exists is a crime either of the victim or of j Un6 (JD -i i i i- I tfte community, ana not an excusauie i misfortune in any case whatever; but in i other civilized lands starvation, even one of during the last fifty years, has occasion- | fcry he ally taught mankind that the terrible j# this c< word cannot yet be dropped from the | Northi human vocabulary as descriptive of an evil, liability to which is extant among "Washi men. marrie "Yet it may safely be said that sinco er's sh the battle of Waterloo, now the. full period of the life of man, there has boon no jjV ODe year in which the combiued suffer- butche ing and pecuniary losses inflicted upon m,en 1 the Caucasian race by war, pestilcnce, and famine has equaled the total of de- ^on go( struction chargeable to alcohol in the by the anr<->n lnnco of time. Rnvond this the societv ?v? ? ?J curse of alcohol has been not intermit- "uce tent and occasional, but perpetual and .' inexorable, and I think, on the whole, visitin; Increasing like the everlasting and un> the da yielding pressure of gravitation and de- the ex .. ladies pravity. ; r . went "I hazard nothing m appealing to 0Ughiy the consciousness of every one who lis- dictate tens to me to attest that he has seen more society of evil flowing from this than from any ^acT'ii other one came during his whole life- Q*e ^ time; and I should hardly fyil if I as- the wa lerted that the personal sorrows and af- lady, a fliofinna hp Tins mnsf. to bewail I Society imong friends, kindred, and the com- ^ munity where lie may dwell are traceable "But \ the same omnipresent c^rsc." with i . _ Madan: Co6t of Spirits and Beer. sirloin The profit on thu sale of whisky by re- Letter. tail is enormous, says an exchange. There are in a barrel of whisky thirtyone gallons. At retail there ore 04 ' drink* in a gallon, and 1,984 drinks in a barrel; cost per gallon, say $2.50. This for yoi makes the cost of 31 gallons $77.50, and "Pei ------- . "what 1,984 dnnKs at iu cents a arun ?i? I $198.40. Deduct the cost, $77.50, and y?"1^ it leaves of profit for one band of whisky, nrmorj $120.90. If a saloon-keeper caa sell 4 carryin barrels a month he receives $483.00, and tool and for the year $5,803.20. Takeout ? for'expense?, $1,500, and it leaves a net 8COut profit of $4,303 20. an)-boc For a barrel of ale of 31 gallons the scut to cost is about $8. In a gallon the num- r S"JPP( . m this ber of drinks will average 18, at 5 cents gCr j10] a drink; this is 90 cents a gallon, or all ove $27.90 a barrel. Deduct the cost of m9* beer, $8, and it leaves of profit $19.90 a think ] it woul barrel, or on the 11,000,000 of barrels, at ^on 5 cents a glass for beer and ale, of $275,. sions f: 000.000. being ^ The cost to the people of the Uuited ., States for distilled and fermented liquors pjc must be some $800,000,000 a year. This of rai is an enormous sum for drink! And not won't} a dollar of this vast expenditure adds anything to the physical, mental, or ?<\y( moral well being of our family, but have t( creates misery and evil beyond the power a"d he of any pen to describe or uny ima^ina- . , s*al ; ? ltbcga tion to conceive. eafeun The old Moravian town of Salem, N. You se C., has not permitted any liquor to enter of intc; the place for 100 years. It is the banner *ias !ltt . ?. . some c temperance town of the country. - - UDGET OF W. bloatei OROUS SKETCHES FROM SfJ?*' VARIOUS SOURCES. vidiDg every 1 ~ go do^ [ffe of Character?He Had the soldier ares?An Offended Conductor to clea ?Tenderloins Versu^ Sir- street loins?The Bad Boy. was til soldier Armour prides himself on the men qj( ks oat to do his work, and natur- x. He no doubt believes himself that aQ(j :ulty in reading faces contributes mjte a t deal to his money-making power. ir gets down to business at 7 a. mo^ d while he does not require every0 be on hand at that hour, carJy fQr ^ 3 are appreciated. There is a cap- (janjei] illow in the office who was re d for this very thing not long ago. an<j 1 been out all night; so mnch of wju ^ jht, at any rate, that at dawn it gjppi pj 1 question whether a cat-nap 0f n't be more fatiguing than restful, ?tj he decided to clear up his head ne f, *an out his body by a Turkish ^ieularf It was 6 o'clock when this sober- jeg ^ > process was over, and not 7 a f'amn c when he turned up at the office on a ^ oth as silk and fresh as,a daisy. the fftn] irmour came in. His eye fell on t,yye urldsh bath young man. managi y," said Armour, "you re the kind nQ >w I like to see. You just goto- t>oar(je d get the best suit of clothes you man ad, and charge 'em to the old ^ja caD -Chicago Mail. than a, il era inn He Had the Figures. they ^ 3tood on the postoffice steps with ^ee'f aE n letter in his hand. He began at ^ uth and slowly turned pale until tra(je , ms of his ears lost color, and qjj ^ ; this process he was tearing the think nto fine bits. gav Ho, Charlie!" called an acquaint- ma"c'ke, ho came up; "what's new?" might nothing." realize w does married life hold out?" a Qhjn, imph!" r, old boy, let me congratulate you t^e grc ing such a taother-in-law. We mean a liking about it in the office yester- onen fc That spread she got up on the oc- honest never cost less than $175." woald cost $200?an even $200," said ^eng f0 9. "No 1 she give you the figures in con- can>t ? x ,, our boi , but the caterer just sent me the gufc j , -Detroit Free Press. clock 1 _ fish. 1 An Offended Conductor. tl^e an was bounding around in a car cask ? w Dakota road when the conductor trade ^ hrough. clock." a you tell me." said the man, with jn? ; show of sarcasm, "whether this someth >n the track or not?" _ ail(j c0] I" replied the conductor, reaching f00(j f( a pocket, "here is a volume of the say?? ud regulations of this road." ??jq-0 t what do I want of it?" it j3 ok it over and sec if you can find s0 j g, le saying that I must spend my an(j g0 inning along side of the train re- after d; y its position to the passengers. a.brac there is anything in that volume SUpper, impels me to go humping myself p0ie an >n the prairie and yelling tnrougn *are f0 ndows: 'Four wheels off now I' or trucks dragging on the ties!' or propof 2men, the ba<rgage car has just jj. ^ into the ditch 1' or 'passengers will p^ea!;ai remain seated while we turn off ?ow^ fl nd scoot acro83 the prairie after a tacked ibbit 1' Look over them rules, sir, jnform, e if you find any of these directions. -yyurz]j don't,in the future please take your serva^( nervations on the wheels."?Eatd- whethc '?* ) BdL by thi tnderloins Versus Sirloins. ut twenty-five years ago, when nej<-riib the diplomats came to this coun- jn ?^a(^ brought a man cook with him,and rca,^nc >ok, by the buying of land in must g vest Washington, got a very com- before .e competency. He had a daugh- fowi3 ^ id one of the corner butchers of wap1 ngton falling in love with the girl, ^ *' d her. After marriage the butch- pfj^e3> op was carried on for some time, [heritis the city suddenly took a jump youno. direction of the cook's property, shorts itcher's wife became wealthy, the were j. tr's shop waa closed, and the two carae j] jegan to live a life of elegant parrot . They bought a fine house, and ^.ag aIs xt thing was to get into Washing- j^ovem ;iety. They succeeded, I am told, keeQ it butcher's wife paying $5,000 to a k0jjc a( queen, provided she would intro- wrjS? ai her into society. The agreement wjtha' ade, the money pr\ssed. Her card afc ut upon the army officer's wife's 8ympt0 g list, and within a year or two reCOyer ughter of the cook and the wife of ^he onl -butcher was one of the leading di9e.tse of Washington. A few years iaborin by, and her position now thor- tablishi established, she began to try to dmhrin i as to who should come into the in which she moved. Speaking , )oor but blue-blooded family who other d st come to Washington, she said fieiv.ails y to Mrs. Admiral Blank, who, by infcren y, is a very elegant and well bred caseg Q, ,nd who has spent a lifetime in here: "I don't know about these , Society is growing so common. iust draw the line somewhere." The ( vhere'r" returned the lady Admiral the seas a smile of sarcasm; "where, eastern le, shall we draw the line. At the about 1 or the tenderloin?''?Washington por a d ings sh 500 to i The Bad Boy. than gv r," said the bad boy to the grocery most < she made a customary call, ''let same t re half a pound of raisins and wait the Tor ir pay till I draw my pension?" ago. in osion!" said the grocery man, banks c are you giving me? What are from 20 ing to get a pension for?" than f kling horses for the cavalry at the Helena r during the Milwaukee riot and depth c _ itAnnii " cowl tVi? hntr Trmnen Ui(l\CU LSwitLftO, SU4V4 W?*V Wj J c a salt pickle out of a barrel. 4,I the top wn at the armory every day, and ords of he cavalry would come in from a the last [ would hold horses, and when I lines, t ly wanted a panful of baked beans face of "the armory I had to carry them, as man; Dse there ain't a better bean carrier topogra town, but there is too much dan- nent w< ding hordes. I have got wounds stations r my feet, where horses stepped on ?Dr. ( I asked the Governor if he didn't [ could get a pension, and he said Oil [dn't do any hurt to make applica- The He said people had asked for pen- servant rom the government for less than i3 kno walked on by horses." house a >11, let me give you a pointer," break. ,e grocery man as he covered up houses kle barrel, and laid a piece of a bar paveme Iroad iron on top of it. ''You sages w jet no pension and you won't get These s ins. But where is your pa? He childre: showed up for ten days." It is thi 3 don't know where pa is, but we the Chi ilegraphed to several places to try fellow, ad him otf, but we can't find him. comes rted for the woods just as soon as and sic n to rain dead Polax, and he is sleepers less he has run against a tree, s nokin, e, pa has been taking a good deal with th rest in the labor question, and lie jug con ended all the meetings and drank ment, t eer, and he has told the men in air is fc ?. \f '?U: . ii, i . v loons that all they had to do wag J up and make the fur fly, and the ''j i capitalist would ciy ' penuk,' and | anything. He was in favor of di- 1 up all the money in the country I thirty days. He told the Polax to J tvn to Bay View and then the 1 s would run. When they started 1 n out the soldiers, pa got in a car to ride down there, cause he I ed working his jaw. Whon the 9 s fired on the mob, and the crowd 1 to run,' pa crawled under the seat 1 car, and just then the off mule be- 1 kick the tin dashboard of the car fl thought it was artillery or dyna- I nd he began to pray and ho g I out of the window and run. The I slled and pa thought it wuz after -fl id he whooped it up pretty lively 1 it man, and passed the Milwaukee i just as the police was clubbing I b there, and pa got hit, of course, I kept running. Ma thinks he I Dp when he gets to the Missisiver. cause pa never was very fond fl gracious, I am sorry your pa has fl said the grocery man. "'Not par- I y because he owes me for grocer- fl 51 always hate to see the head of fl y leave such great responsibilities fl y. Now you will have^to support 1 lily, won't you?" 1 11,1 suppose I shall have to do the fl ng," said the boy. "But ma is yjaj ich. She has already got two 'fl rs. and I can work a meat market jj iat I am acquainted with for liver. fl i livor in mr>r/? rlifTArpnf w?ua .1 lybody. She's foo'.ed tfce board- 9 ee days on liver, and they think -M ive had spring chicken, a la mode S id spring lamb with mint sauce. J| ve got sis hens and I am going to / ny roller skates off for a rooster. ings are not as bad as you would 4 with a big head like mine to plan. 'M >w would you like to trade a good :'.mj el for a Chinese god? Ma said I' trade off the Chinese god if I could M on it. We haven't got no use for sse god when pa is away." ? on't wan't any Chinese ?od," said S >cery man, "but there is nothing bout me, and you'll find that I am Jj >r a trade or anything to help an a boy out of trouble. Now, how a vnn liko to tradn a, counle of VOUT r a likely setter pup?"* pc," said the boy, decisively. "We se a pup in our business, 'cause "JgH irders won't touch sausage no how. rill trade you an elegant eight-day ? for some dried apples and a cod- 'A SVhat you say?" ill, dried apples and codfish are J said the grocery man, "but I will 9 ou wooden clothes-pins for the You could go around town washvs and trade the clothes-pins for ing, or sell them them for cash, ; aie here with your money and buy :4| pr the boarders. What do you ? clothes-pins," said the boy. "But :tticg along toward dinner time, uess I will borrow your fish pole <9 catch a fish for the borders, and inner I will bring over some brie- ' = I and trade you for something for ,'m " and the bov shouldered the d went out whistling: "Who will J| r mother now."?Peck's Sun. 9 ,'aling Diphtheria by Chickens. s been known for some time that nts, pigeons, turkeys, domestic , ,nd the like were liable to be at* I by dipthtcritis. A medical journal 9 i us that Professor Gerhardt, of urg, has carried out a series of ob ans for the purpose of determining S r the disease may be communicated : i means, and has come to an tive conclusion. In September, J, GOO fowls were sent from the orhood of Verona to Nesselhausen, len, where there is a great fowl fl establishment. Some of them ave been affected with diphtheritic I they started, and in the end 1,400 M lied of it. In the summer of last 000 chickens were hatched from I collected from many different H OiA wci'Aa anu tucu uu wu ui|w ~ HS i manifested itself among the 9 chickcns, and so badly that in a 9 ime they all died. Five cats that 9 ept in the establishment also be- I I of the same malady and died. A 9 that hung in a cage in the house 9 o attacked, but recovered. Last 9 ber an Italian hen, which had 9 painted" about the jaws with car- V :id by the keeper, bit the man's 9 nd foot. Presently he became ill 9 smart fever, considerable swelling 9 : wounded parts and all the 9 rasof trumatic diphtheritis. His y was very tedious. This was not I y case of the transmission of the 9 to men. Two-thirds of all the 9 g persons employed about the es- B nent became ill with ordinary M iritis, and one man conveyed the 9 >n to his threo children. It is 9 loting that during all this time no 9 iplitheritic cases occurred at nes- m en or in the neighborhood. The B ce seems obvious that all these B riginated with the sick fowls. B Ocean Valleys. B deepest valley on the bottom of B i ha< been found near the north- B extremity of Dampier strait, B 20 miles north of New Guinea. - l s^yjBI istance of six leagues the sound- -i^B owed a depth varying from 30,- B il,G00 feet, or considerably more , r'B| e miles. Another sea abyss of al- '.fl ;qual depth, though not of the fl eidth, has been discovered near B npnnn nf tVirt Virfrin nrpViinfil the West Indies. The submarine Hj >f Newfoundland sink abruptly H 0 fathoms to a depth of more H our miles, and southwest of St. H a vast basin maintains an average H )f 21,000 feet. Yet Commander lan, of the Prussian navy,reminds H ographers of the sea that the rec- H ill soundings and dredgings of H ; MO years represent only dotted raced* here and there over the sur- fll an immeasurable area,and leaving S y unexplored interspaces as if oui BB iphy of the North American conti H jre "limited to the lines, or rather H i, of the American railway system. H 1 inn town's Sloenincr Placcs. B bulk of Chinamen employed at H s in San Francisco sleep in what B wn as Chinatown, leaving th? flj t nightfall and returning at day- .H These men sleep in lodging H or hotels. Under the wooden nts of the streets are narrow pas- H ith tiers of shelves on one side. helves are the beds on which the a of the Celestial Empire repose. |fl ese lilthv, dark placcs which giv? H naman such a bad name as a dirty The only light of these dem H from the entrance, close to which H le by side stands a fire. Tht B i often spend an hour or sc H| g tobacco or opium, and so, what e cooking apparatus, the dirt fall- H tinually down through the pave- |H he opium and tobacco smoke, th? ml as it can be. H9