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RELIGIOUS READING.
Why?
With fuch a grovelling heart how shall 1
dare
Ask 1 h e, my Lord, to take Thy dwelling
the:e?
Because the Bethlehem stable Thou didst
share.
With restless passions, surging like a sea,
How eau I think to tind repose for Tnee?
Because Thy voice hushed stormy Galileo.
With guilt's defilement strained witnouc,
within,
How may I hope Thy clensing grace to win?
Because TIku saidst. "I have forgiven
thy bias."
With soul affect oris stony cold and dead,
What claim have I to plead for life instead?
Because in Joseph's tomb was laid Thy
head.
?Margaret J. Preston.
Two Kinds of Temptation.
Young people arc in especial danger
from temptation which may be classified
as the gradually destructive and the immediately
destructive; the former accomplish
their work slowly, but none
the less surely. Like the tide, they wear
away the most durable substance by constant
assault. Temptation to vulgarity,
to lying, to meanness, to a low, coarse
Ufe, arc like swarms of insects such as
strip the orchard of its foliage and blosBoms,
leaving it bare and desolate, or
like parasitic plants, which derive their
growth from the trees and plants about
them. Such are the sapping, exhausting
temptations of life that push their feeders
out to lay hold on human hearts?to
draw from goodness its vitality, and to
rob manhood of its strongest and noblest
elements.
Temptations which are immediately
destructive exist in frightful abuudance.
They are swift flying arrows, aud the fall
of so many weak natures shows how
?c tVinir nim Tr? nhanfre the
u?.uv>ij .o W"-." - ofigure,
they may be likened to the American
plant known by the botanical name
Dionea. It is endowed with strange destructive
capacity. It is a malignant
trap-like contrivance for the destruction
of insect life. At its summit are two
leaves joined together on one side and
surrounded on the other sides with sharp
sensitive bristles; It opens by day that
it may be prepared to close upon the
hapless insect that may even carelessly
brush against one of its slender spirals;
then suddenly closing it holds its prisoner
in an unyielding clasp, pressing
more and more closely together as the
inspct strangles vainlv to escape,
CO ? - till
at last the captive, worn
out by its exertions, falls dead in
a receptacle at the bottom of the fatal
interior. Then the plant again opens to
repeat its work of death. "Wherever
men and women seek toil or pleasure
these temptations spring up around
them, and once enfolded within their
power escapc is as impossible as it would
be through a wall of levelled bayonets.
Only one power is a protecting shield,
and that is divine. The One who can
invest us with this power is familiar
with all the arts, the seductions, the illusions
of temptation. He knows it in
the awful sweep of the malignity it inon/1
in thr* tnrriKlo sprint? of tllfci
? r- ?
disaster it effects, and from his own radient
throne he can bestow deliverance
upou him who will manfully struggle
for the mastery of self and the
world.
Trouble Docs Us UoSd.
It was a dreary day in midwinter, and
as we drove under the dripping Tennessee
evergreens, I said, "How dismal
everything looks!" Despite the flitting
birds and numberless natural rockeries,
spotted with orange and black, draped
with soft gray lichens, and made gay by
gorgeous mosses, it was dark and depressing.
There happened to be no
sunshine to illumine the d:izzle, and
make pearls of the raindrops. Then the
rough and tumble joltings, and the almost
impassable mud! "We were half
inclined to turn back and face homeward,
but we pressed on, for we wished
to visit an aged couple in the forest, and
the neighbors told us we would find the
old man pretty bad off. But there he
stood in the door of the tidy cabin,
leaning on his staff and welcoming us
with a cheerful smile. It is no task to
talk with a Christian almost home, about
his lively hope and the happy exchange
in prospect; a heavenly mansion for a
cabin of logs. We f poke of the release
of the soul from the crumbling tabernacle,
and the exemption from earthly
fliiflFWinrr and asked if rheumatism was
' among his ailments.
"Yes, madam, that is one trouble, and
my old lady there is right smartlj
afflicted with neuralgia."
"Indeed, in the head and face?"
"My eye, madame," she answered, "1
have lost the sight of one entirely."
"Ah! then, you cannot enjoy the
papers I have brought you, perhaps you
can see the beautiful pictures in them."
"Oh yes, madam, I cau read with my
other eye."
"Yes, mum, if you'll believe it," said
the husband, "she's up with the paper
and down with it, and up with it again,
till she's reading full one-third of the
day, mum, with her one eve."
"Well, I'm glad you can see at all,"
said I, "but you are afflicted."
"Yes, madam, but trouble does us
good. If I never had no trouble I
shouldn't know how to behave myself."
"You think uninterrupted prosperity
dangerous ?" I said.
tit- - ?j? ? 1,1 L t.:_i.
"It's, uiituaui, we nwuiu yvt iujju- |
spirited apd worldly-minded, and so
anxious a gettin' things together, we
wouldn't be thinking of what we had
ought to, so I reckon it's all right."
I reckoned so too, and was reminded
of that abler, apostolic calculator who
wisely reckoned, that the "sufferings of
this present time arc not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.?Merry's.
The soul of a true Christian is often
like the sea, the surface of which is often
so rough in storrr.s that it seems ail confusion,
while yet at the same time, deepdown,
there arc silent, placid deeps, untouched
an unditurbed by the noisy surface
troubles. So with the believer; to
the eve of mere sense his outward life
seem olten torn to pieces, and his mind
tossed to and fro like a bark at sea, but
deep down the peace of God reigns su- ,
preme in his heart. Ho cannot hush the I
surfacc commotion, but his faith is secretly
at rest in God. ? IK. Poole Rtlfern.
An Appropriate Text.
The minister was struggling to put on
a four-ply collar and the perspiration was
starting from every pore.
"Bless the collar," he ejaculated.
" Oh, yes, bless it. Bless the blessed
coilar!"
"My dear," said his wife, "what is
jour text for this morning's sermon."
"T- twenty - first verse f-fifty - fifth
Psalm," he replied, in short gasps. "The
w-woids of his mouth were s-smoother
than butter, but w-war was in his heart."
1 IMAGE'S SEE*
VOICES OF GARDENS ANI
FIELDS.
Text: " My l>eloved is uDto me as a clus
ter of camphirn in tho viueyards of -Lngedi.
?Song of Solomon, i., 14.
Solomon's Song has been considered by
many as fit only For moonstruck sen ti meu
talists, written by a voluptuary, th;; >tory ol
a man crazed by a fair maiden, neither fit foi
family prayers nor lor church. Indeed, we
must admit thut there xvi-ro years in Solomon's
life when h? had several hundred more
wives thau he was entitled to, but ho repented
of his sin, nud Uod c hose him t<> write
some of Uih l?esi things about t'hri-.t- that
have ever been written. Kesule that,
I think tho crili-ism of modern tim?w
upon the immodesty of the Bible twines wil.li
i>oor snaco from a century in which the writ
nigs of George Saud came to their fortietl
editiou, ami Christians cannot get to the
prayer meeting because they liavo tickets for
places of amusement so depiavcd that they
make "The Black Crook" resectable. I
think, however, as far as 1 cau see in my
stupidity, that there arc things turned out
upon the community to day that bill fair to
do more damage than the Song of Solomon.
Hear, now, one of his fresh and fair <lo
scriptions of Jesus. If I had twenty years
to preach ( would like to employ ten of them
[ iu bringing out to observation those representations
of Christ that have as yet bwn
passed by. Jdonotknow why the pulpit should
hover over a few types of Christ when
there are so many symbols of Jesus that have
never been discourse d upon. Why should wo
employ all our time in examining a few lilies
when the Bible is a great garden lille l with
fuchsias, and with daffodils, nud with amaranths,
and evening primroses for the close
I of life's duy, nun crocuses m mo root 01 me
snow bank of sorrow, and heartsease for the
troubled, un<l passiou-llowers phi tiled at. the
foot of a cross, and morning glories spreading
out uuder the splendors of the breaking
day? Some years ago I discoursed to you
about "the white hairs of Josus," and some
of the newspapers supposed it was a inert
faucy of tny own?the poor fools not buowing
that in Revelations, tho tirst and the
fourteenth, the Bible speaks of Christ: "His
head and His hairs were whito like wool ? a?
white as snow"?symbolizing (ho oteruity ol
Jesus.
Terrnced on tho side of tho mountain wGrw
the vineyards of Kngodi. Oh, they are sweet
places! From a shelving of tho mountain,
400feet high, waters camo down in beautiful
baptism 011 the faces of tho leaves; the grape*
intoxicate with their owii wiuo;nomegrunur.t*
with juices bursting from the rind; all
fruits, and llowers, aud aromatic woods-atnoDg
the sweetest ol these the cam phi 10
{>lant of the toxt. Its Mowers are in clusters
ike our lilacs?graceful,fragrant, symbolical
of Jesus: for "my beloved te uuto mo ns a
cluster of camuhiro from tho vinevards of
eclipse after el lipse has pa-sed over our soul;
but after awhile the Sun of Righteousness
poured His beams upon our hearts, and wo
cried: "The sun! the sun!" Beautiful dawn
in the straw of Bethlehem Khan! Beautiful
in His mother's shawl, a fugitive to Egypt!
Beautiful with His l'eet iu the Galileau surf!
Beautiful with the children liauging about
His neck! Beautiful in the home circle of
Bethany! Fairer than the sons of men; dayspring
from on high; light for those who sit
in darkness, rose of Sharon , lily of the valley
?altogether lovely! Oh! He is surh a sinpardoner,
such a trouble-soother, such a
wound-binder, such a grave-breaker, that the
faintest pronunc iation of His name rouses lip
the int ense of the garden, and all the perfume
of the tropics; w hile the soul, in ecstasy
of affection, cries out: "My beloved is uuto
me as a cluster of camphire from the vineyards
of Engcdi."
But how shall I talk of the sweetness of
Christ's pardon to those who have never felt
it: of the sweetness of His comfort to those
who have refused his promise; of the sweetness
of His face to those who have turned
their back upon His love I Now, a jjreat
many peoplo may think this is merely sickly
sentimental ism. Jonathan Edwards was a
cool mun. He was hatsh in some of his opinions,
he was never afflicted with any sentimental
ardor, and yet, when the name of
Christ was mentioned, it threw him into a
transport, l'aul was a cool logician,
wjiii nerves unsnaKen in me .mediterranean
sbipwre-k, a granitic nature,
comfortable with tho whole world against
him, shaking his fist in tho face of the governments
of earth and the forces of darkness;
yet tho thought of Christ thrilled him,
transported him, overwhelmed him. John
Knox was uubeuditig in his nature and hard
in some respects. The (lash of his indignation
made the Queen shiver and the Duchess
ijuake, yet he sat down as a little child at
tho feet of Jesus. St'lomoo was surrounded
by al! palatial splendor?his ships going out
from Ezion-gebor on voyages of tbroo years,
briuging tack all tho wonders of the world,
his parks afloat with myrrh aud frankincense,
and a rustlo with tress brought from
foreign lands: tho traces of his stupendous
gardens found by tho traveler at this day.
Solomon sits down at this pla^e to think of
Christ, the altogether lovely, and the altogother
fair: and whilst settled there comes a
breath of tho spices and aromatic woods, and
of the blossoms in through the pa!a?e window,
and he < rie< out: "M y beloved is uiito
me as a cluster of camphue from the vineyards
of Kng?*li"
Oh, rich and rare, erqui*ite and everlasting
perfume! l?et it in every poor man's
windows; plant it on every grave; put its
leave* under every dyiuz head; wreathe its
blossoms ior every garland; wa ve its Lrakohes
in f<--ery hom?: and when T nm nbrvit to die,
and my hand lies cold and s-tiir and white
Upon the pillow, let some plain and humiilo
soul comeuud put in mydj ing grasp thi-. I*viug
branch with cinders "of camphire fiom
ftlm ,'iiiAviir.la ..F l.\,,r,.,ll '?
It is many years now sinre T found the
Lord, and I must in your presence toll you
how good He has been to my soul. Often
since then 1 have given Him a hard thrust in
His sore side, but He has been patient with
me by day and by irght. It is tho grief of
my life that I have treated Him so badly,
but He hus novor let me go. I have seen no
wonderful sights, 1 have heard no wonderful
sounds, I have no marvelous experience; it
bas ln?en a plain story of |>aLiunce on 11 is part
aud of uuwortbinesson my part Some of my
dear friends bi-foxe me Lave bad inoie
rapturous experience. Christ to thorn has
been the eonn<|iierer on the white horse, or
tho sun of righteousness, setting everything
abla/e with ligbt; or the bridegroom, coming
with lantern and torches. To me it lias
been a very ouiet and undemonstrative experience.
It has been something very sweet,
but very still. How shall I describe it# 1
have it now: "My beloved is unto me as a
cluster of camnhire from the vineyards of
Eugedi."
U., 1 TU Jr. /.omr.^Jra
xjuw jl lujiioia luituat . jluio
plant of the text " as a synilwl of Christ in
the fact that it gives coloring. From tbe
Mediterranean to the Ganges the peoplo of
the East gathered it, dried the leaves, pulverized
them, and then used them as a dye
for beautifying garments or their own persons.
It was that fact that gave the camEhire
plant of the text its commercial value
i tho time of King Solomon?a typo of my
Lord Jesus, wlio beautifies and adorns and
colors everything Ho touches. I havo no
! faith in that maus conversion whose religion
does not color his whole lift*. It was intended
so to do. IC a man has the grace of (?od in his
| heart it ought to show itself in the life. There
ou^ht to be this "cluster of cainj hire" in tho
ln/l.rni? in flirt vnll Ap ffrtiWMmont cuMiriltnc
in the medical prescription, in the law book!
A religion is of no value to a merchant unless
- it keeps him from putting false labels on his
" goods; or to the plasterer, unless it keeps him
from putting up a ceiling which ho knows
will crack in six months; or to the driver,
. unless it keeps him from lashing his horses to
f eight miles an hour when the thermometer is
p at ninety; or to the farmer, unless it keeps
i him from putting the only sound pippins on
the top of the barrel; or to the shoemaker,
i uuless it keeps liim from substituting brown
. paper for good leather in the soles. In other
> words, the religion of Christ is good for
everything or it is good for nothing.
, The grace of God never afTe.ts us by
piecemeal. If tfie heart is changed, the head
i is changed, and the liver is chaugod, and the
spleen is changed,and the hands are changed,
i and the feet are changed, and the store is
i changed, and the house is changed,and every
VUIUg U * Ci nuitu nun I1CM ?u_y iuiiuuiru
comes to a complete anil radical change. Tlie
religion of the Lord Jesus Chr st is not a pot
of hyacinths, to be set iu a parlor bay window
for passers-by to look at and to be exi
amined by ourselves only when we hav?
company, but it is to be a perfume filling
all the room of the heart as "a cluster ol
i camphire from the viueyards of Engedi.'
l The trouble is men do not take their religion
with them. The merchant leaves it outside
the counter, lest it disturb the goods. Tha
housekeeper will not let her religion trail its
i robes in the kitchen on washing day. The
philosopher will not let his religion come in
amid the batterie.-, lest it get a galvanic
i sho.-k. But I tell you unless your religion
onea wihh vr>ii everywhere. it poes nowhere.
5"hat religion was intended to color all the
heart aud tho lifo.
i But, mark you, it was a bright color. For
i the most part it was au orange dye made of
this cauiphire plant, one of the most brilliant
of all the colors: and so the religion of Jesus
Christ casts no blackness or gloom upon the
soul. It brightens up life; it brightens up
i everything, 'ihere is no more religion in a
! funeral than there is in a wedding; no more
religion in tears than in smiles, David was
i no I ettor when ho said he cried out of the
i depths of hell than he was when he said
i that his mouth was filled with laughter
! and his tongue with singing. The best men
that I have ever known have laughed the
loudest. Religion was intended to brighten
up all our character. Take out the sprig of
[ cypress from your coat and put in 4'a cluster
| ot campiiire from the vineyards of Engedi."
, IMigion's "ways aro ways pleasantness, and
J all her paths aro |ieace." I have found it so.
lilt-re are nunureas in mis nouse wuu mtvu
found it so.
i 1 remark again, that the camphire plant of
the text was a symlml of Jesus Ch i>t bo!
causo it is a mighty restorative. You know
that there is nothing that starts respiration
! as soon in one who has fainted as camphor, as
we have it. JPut upon a s|>ongo or handkeri
chief, the effects are almost immediate.
! Well, this enmphire plant of the text, though
somewhat different from that which we
have, was a pungent aromatic, and in that
I respect it becomes a type of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who is the mightiest of restoratives.
I have carried this camphiro
plant into tbo sick room, after
! the doctors have held their consultation
and said there was no hope and nothing tnoro
could be done, and the soul brightened up
under the spiritual restorative. There is no
lever, no inarasnu*, no neuralgia, no consumption,
no disease of the body that the
grace of C?od will not help. 1 wish that over
every bo 1 of pain and through every hospital
of distress we might swing this "cluster of
camphire from the vineyards of Kngedi."
Christ's band is the softest pillow, Christ's
pardon is the strongest stimulus, Christ's
comfort is the mightiest anodyne, Christ's
salvation is tho grainiest restorative. It
makes a man mightier than his physical distress
Art thou wary? Art thou languid? Art
thou sore distressed
"Come with me," saith One?"and coming,
I e at rest."
Tf f nek Him to lwrnve mp. will he sav me
nay*
Not till earth and not till heaven pass awnjr.
Finding, following, keeping, struggling, "is
IIo s ire to bless?
Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs, answer?
yes!
Nero tarred and put pitch upon the Chri3tiuusof
Lis day, and then set them on lire,
that they might illuminate the night round
about the palace, but, while they were burning,
and the crowd beneath were jeering,
louder than alf the noise went up the song of
praiso and triumph f, o the dying martyrs.
John Bradford cameo.it in presence of the
instrument of torture that was to put him to
death and said: UI am a Christian now; I
have never bpen before." And so again and
again the lion of Judah's tribe has torn to
pieces the wild beasts of martyrdom.
This gra< e is also a restorative for the backslider.
Who do you mean by that J yon say.
I mean you who used to frequent the house
of God, but seldom go there now; you wbo
ouce used to pray, but never pray now; you
who once sat at the holy communion, but
take uot the Lord's cup now; I mean you
who once rejoiced in Christian society, but
now sit among srofTers. Backslider! Oh,
i what a suggOitivo word! Backslider! From
what have you slid back? You have slid
back from your father's faith, from your early
good habits. You have been sliding back from
Christ., from the cro.->s?sliding Lack from
Heaven. When a man begins to slide he
knows not where ho will go. You have beeu
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sliding back toward an unblessed grave,
toward a precipice, the first ten million miles
of which downward are ouly a small part of
the eternal plunge. You were, perhaps, professors
in the country; you have made shipwreck
in the town. It way be that the
club blasted you; it may be that fashionable
society destroyed you; it may be the kind
of wife whom you married. You have no
more hope for Heaven now than if
you had lived in Central Asia and never
heard of Christ aud the judgment. Oh,
where is that Bible you used to read' Where
is that room where you used to pray? What
have you done with that Jesus whose voice
you ouce heard? Oh. murdered hours! Oh.
masiacTid privileges! Oh, dead opportunities!
Wake up now and shriek in tuat man's
ear until he shall rouse himself from the horrible
somnambulism, walking, as he does, fast
as'eep, within au inch of hell. Oh, that he
miirht cry out now: "Golden Snbl.aths,
come back! Communion seasons, come back!
"W'ooiugs of the Holy Ghost, come back!"
But they will not come. Gone, gone, gone!
Soitow . will come, but not they. Oh, that
you might save the few remaining years of
your life and consecrate them to Christ! I
have seen sad sights?I have heard sad
sounds; but I tell you the ghastliest thing
outside the gates of the iJamnod is a backslider's
deathbed, Do you not feel like having
applied to your ?-o\il this divine restorative/
Do you not feel like crying out with
David: "Restore unto me the joys of thy
salvation?' For great sin, great pardon; for
deep wounds, omnipotent surgery; for d af
ears, a divine aurist; for blind eyes, a
heavenly oculist: for the d?ad in sxn, tha
upheaval of a groat resurrection.
hut in the heaves ily world we shall feel tho
chief restorative power of religion. This is a
planetof weeping we are living on. Wo enter
upon life with a cry aad leave it with a Jong
s:gh. If 1 could gather up the griefs of this au
dience and put them in one sentence and then
it. it wmi1>] innkrt cvervthinz between
here and the throne of Godshuddr and howl.
The earth is gashed di-ep with graves. As at
the close of the war, sometimes we saw a
regiment of one hundred and fifty men, the
fragments of th> thousand n eu that went
out, so, as I stand before you, I cannot but
realize the fact that you are the fragments
ivpiosentiug lumdreds of regiments of joyful
associations that have boon broken up forever.
Oh, this is a world of sorrow! But,
hlessod be God! there will l>e no sorrow in
heaven. The undertaker will havo to have
some oth.T busiuoss there. In the summer
time our cities will have bills of
mortality which are frightful?sometimes
in New York a thousand deaths in a week;
sometimes it has been two thousand in London;
but in that gVeat heavenly city there
will not l.e a single casj of sickness or death;
no: one black dress of mourning, but plenty
of white robes or joy: nannsuaiung 01 ??
coino, but uone of separ ation. Why, if ouj
trouble should attempt to enter Heaven,
the shining police of the city would
put it under everlasting arrest. If all
the sorrows of life, mailed and sworded
under Apollyon, should attempt t? force that
gate, one company from the tower would
strike them back howling to the pit Room
; in heaven for all the raptures that ever
knocked at tho gate, but no smallest annoyance,
though slight as a summer insect.
Doxology, but no dirge. Banqueting, but nO
"funeral baked meats. '
No darkness at all, no grief at all, no sick*
uess at all, no death at alL A soul waking
' up in that pla>j will say: "Cau it bo that
I am hero? Will my head naver ache a?ain?
Shall I uever stumble over a grave again?
Will I never say goodbyo to loved ones
again? Can it be possible that the stream is ,
past, tliat the bank is gained, that the glory
is begun? Show me .Jesus that I may
kiss His feet.'' When the cl' ckof Christian
suffering has run down it will never be
wound up a;;ain. Amid the vineyards of the
hnnvrmlv Kncidi. that will be restoration
withoutauy relapse. That will be day with- f
out any su 'reeding night. That will bo "the i
saints' everlasting rest."
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. I
What a Jfng Did. (
"Why is my home so shabby and old,
At every crsvice letting in cold, I
And the kitchen walls all covered with
mould?" I
If you'll allow me to be so bold?
Go ask your jug I
'Why are my eyes so swollen and red? t
Wheuce this dreadful j>ain in my head?
Where in the world is our nice feather bed.
And the wood that was piled up in the
shed!" <
Go ask your jug! I
"Why is mjr wife broken-hearted and sad?
Why are iry children never now glad?
Why did my business run down so Dad ?
a. xi 1.1 T 11 ? Jiw
?r uy m mj mwuguuj am x wtm-wg uiaur
Go ask your jug!
"Oh, why do I pass the old church door I
Weary of Leartaud sadly foot sore, |
Every moment sinking iown lower, ,
A pitiable outcast evermore?"
Go ask your jug I J
Boycott Strong Drink! (
If the timely and important message 1
of the official head of the Knights of j
Labor to 'boycott strong drink" could ,
be at oncc heard and heeded by every I
working raan and woman, in all depart- 1
ments of industry throughout the coun- j
try, a greit step forward would be taken ^
toward a practical solution of the other- i
wise difficult and confessedly dangerous
labor problem. Mr. Powderly affirmed J
a fundam?ntal truth when he declared:
1
"The firmest link in the chain of op- |
pression is the one I forge when I drown i
manhood and reason in drink." Other
wrongs there are to be righted undoubt- ,
edly, but the oppression which strong |
drink begets in wasting the substance )
and therefore increasing the helplessness !
and dependence of the wages portion of j
Bociety is great.r than that of any and
all other monopolies combined. There
is no waste at nil comparable with the
drink waste in the nation. '
The costly saloon system of the coun- !
try draws the lil'e-blood very largely
from workingmen. Of the 180,000 retail (
liquor-dealers and saloon-keepers work- I
i igmen chiefly are the supporters. It f
would probibly be below their actual re- ,
ceipts to estimate the annual income of |
these 18X000 saloon-keepers at an average
of $o,000 each. This would give the
enormous aggregate of$S)09,000,000 a year
paid to retail liquor-dealers only. Among
the very wealthy patrons of "wine and
liquor merchants" the trade in stocking
wine-cellars and providing other costly
liquor supplies is presumably largely
with the wholesale dea'ers, who are not
included in the above pccount. Among
the''wealthy monopolists" and ''bloated
bond-holders" of the period are notably
members of the "whisky ring" a:;d the
' millionaire brewers." Where do these
colossal fortunes come from? A careful
analysis would show that to a very large j
extent they have been contributed from ]
oftMiinffQ nf nrftflrmfrmon nnwiaftlv
tUU (/UlUlUgU V* II V/A 5 } M**l? WVIJ
expended in the 150,000, more cr leas,
drinking' saloons, of which they have
been the especial patrons.
Of course, no one can eat his cake and
have it too. Workingmen cannot pay
drink at:d tobacco b:lla aggregating hundreds
of millions of dollars and, upon
eight or ten hours a day wages even at
what would be considered advanced j
rates, have much money left to buy and
furnish homes, to clothe their families,
and educate their children. In his
"Worse than Wasted," based upon the
official census reports of 1880, and pub- i
lished by the National Temperance Society,
Dr. Hargreaves shows that the
wages paid in 1880 for all mechanical
and manufacturing industries wan $947,953,795.
lie estimates that during the
same period $733,816,495 were spent for
strong drink. This value of some of the a
manufactures for 1830 is given as fol- f
lows: Textiles, $437,502,299; articles
of wear, $482,047,461; boots, $196,020,481;
cotton goods,$210,950,383; woolen,
$160,606,72:1. It will be seen that the
aggregate value of all the bosts and
shoes and cotton and woolen goods combined
was nearly $2,000,000 loss than
the drink bill for that year. The value
of the food and food preparations for
1880 was about $964,335,000; not much
more than, if as much as, the cost, direct
and indirect, of strong drink to the
nation.
Could the worse than wasted millions j
be saved to workingmen and their fami- j
lies?and total abstinence would do it? I
it does not require an expert in political *
economy to see that legitimate business! ^
in other branches of manufactures and t
trade would inevitably be greatly bene- i
fited thereby. In the proportion that the
drink-traffic flourishes general btisines:;
prosperity must saner, jxot only is tne
money spent for drink worse than wasted; '
the akill and efficiency of workincrmcrt :
depreciate under the influence of ttm
drink, till finally thousands and tens oi
thousands become worthlesss, helpless,
dependent,andatax upon the public treas- *
ury. 13y all ir.eans let the labor watch* s
word and rallying-cry henceforth bu
"Boycott Sthong Dhixk!"?National <
Tcmperanee Adwaite.
Chicago papers are ciphering out the
cost of supporting their 3,500 liquor. 1
saloons. The city license is $500 each, \
or $1,700,000; Government tax $25 1
each, or $87,500; rent at $000 each, or f
$2,100,000; support of five persons, each <
$400, or $7,000,000; sundries at $200 I
each, or $700,000; first cost of liquor ,
$11,0:>7,500, making an annual total cf j J
$23,275,000. "VVho payd the bill/ <
The sixteenth annual convention of the
Catholic Total-Abstinence Union of '
America will be held in the University of j
Notre Dame, Indiana, on Wednesday and
Thursday, August 4 and o ne?t. ]
" AGRICULTURAL. I
rOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Snccessful Poacli-Growinff.
The conditions of success in peachjrowing
as concisely stated by "Michigan
Horticulturist," are:
1 An Alovntflrt lnonkinn that is not
lubjected to late frosts in the spring or
sa.:rly frosts in the fall.
2. A warm and moderately fertile soil
.hat is well drained by nature. Artificial
irainage may prove successful, but its
itility has not yet been fully demonstrated
in this region.
3. Thorough cultivation, without mature,
until the trees come into bearing;
;hen combine the two so as to supply all
ihe depletion produced in the soil by
jiowth of trees imd f.uit.
4. Never let a tree overbear.
5. Continue cultivation until tho close
jf the dry season every summer, even if
It continues until September.
Guineas on the Farm.
Guineas are profitable for the reason
.':.at they cost almost nothing to raise,
"hey prefer to seek their own food in the
ields, and seldom come home for food as
icng as they can find a supply for them
wives, as u ruie uiey uiiue, auu ji, is
just, therefore, to have the sexes equal,
rhe hen steals her nest, but cannot re,ain
from making a noise when she
:omes off, which betrays her to the
ivatchful faimcr. Guineas are valuable
farms where the range is wide,as they
ilestrcy a very large number of insects
sad do not scratch up seeds. In fact, a
[lock of twenty guineas will consume a
lumber of insects so large as to almost
jnpear incredible, as they are active and
!> ways searching. They also consume
;;rass and young weeds, as well as the
Beds of undesirable plants and grasses,
['he hens lay about 125 eggs a year, cspejially
if they are taken from her bofore
ihe begins to set. The flesh of a guinea
n rather dark, but juicy and of a "gamey"'
3avor. They may be raised to remain
near the hou-e by placing the eggs under
i.ens, and add a few chicks to the brood
tfhen the young guineas are hatched,
rhey will learn from the chicks and soon
lecotne tame and accustomed to the same
b.nb!ta as the chicks, growing up with
hem. The eggs require four weeks for
Qcubation, and are usually hatched
under hens in the poultry house.
m
rur luiiiuiucn.
Whether you plant your seed iii beds
mcl afterward transplant to rows or sow
four seed in the drill and afterward thin
jut, you should, in either case, have your
ground well manured, but deeply plowed
>r spaded. Spading is better for a small
sed. The tomato is not as voracious as
tome other plants, but it will not do
nuch without liberal "feed." Any good
nanure, such as stable, cow lot, fowllouse,
or a compost of all these, will answer,
or any commercial fertilizer will
loubtless do.
Having been liberally spread upon the
lurface before the ground is plowed or
pad3d, it becomes well mixed with the
loil when it Ss being prepared for planing.
A very common error is made by
roung and inexperienced farmers and
rardeners in supposing that manu'e will
3o the most good if applied directly to
;he roots of the plant. When this is done ;
t causes the plaut to "fire"'or "burn" ]
vhen hot, dry weather sets in.
Hence the necessity of having your
nanure thoroughly incorporated with the
loil before planting, because the soil? 5
nost soils at least?readily absorbs
noisture, and when the naturally dry
nanure is well mixed with the soil it too ,
jecomes moist, and is then available as ;
plant food. ;
A correspondent writes: "I sow tomato
>eed both in beds for transplanting and ,
ilso in rows or drills. The reason I
low tome in a bed is to insure against a
>ad stand in the drills. Another reason ,
s that when the plants in the beds are
ip four or five inches I pick out tbe most !
obust and plant in my select rows. I
lave a bed and a select row for each vari- ,
sty I plant; generally from three to four
cinds. The'next largest and best plants 1
[ use in filling up any vacancies that may '
>ccur in my drilled plants. Not many (
acancies occur, usually, unless the plants J
ire badly eaten by insects, and I have
jever yet been troubled to any great exent,
bv them. In fact, the large green
omato worm is the only enemy my jTlants
lave ever had, and he has never been '
lumcrous enough to do much damage. 1
"The select rows above mentioned are 1
hose from which I pick my table toma- j
;oes??. e., those for slicing and eating '
aw. I also select- the very best specinens
from these rows for seed.
"Tomato seed, like all small seed, 1
ihould be covered very shallow and not 1
lown too thick. Transplanting should '
>e done, if possible, on the afternoon of
i rainy day; the nearer the night the ]
>etter. The plants should stand from t
;wo and a half to three feet apart, in !
ows of that width. Like most other j
regetables they should be kept clear of i
veods and grass, and the ground should <
je stirred frequently with a hoe, garden i
>low or small horse plow.
Some tomato amateurs trim their vines 1
lown to only two or'three limbs, thus '
orcing the entire strength of the plant j
nto those limbs. This method gives few 1
cmatoes, but very large and luscious I
rim my selcct plants a little, but net to ;
ho extent that I have seen others do. I
:ut off from one-third to one-half the (
imbs, perhaps, and do not let the plants ,
jrow much over two feet high. This j
)lan gives me very large and fine fruit, ;
hough not quite so large probably as <
.,1*nmninflf iu fnllntt'Pfl
TJUUIC fOlJ V-IV.JU iw ?v..w ??%?, .
ITet the greater number of tomatoes more
han compensate for the slight difference (
n size."
(
Farm and Garden Notes.
Barbed wire make3 a good fence to
itop swine.
Remember that stock need an occasonal
relish of salt.
Cows ought to be milked with great
egularity for best results.
, A Texas paper says the use of quinine
imnimn fotrnr liiQ ro. I
Ul Utbt'lC 1U ov,vnmuin/u AVf VI uitw ?V
lulted satisfactorily there.
The advice to put a cow before calving
m short rations to prevent milk fever is ;
Dad. The food should ba regular, not ,
,'oiced.
Calves kept gaining vigorously through
he first year are worth at the end twice
is much as ethers that have been retarded
in growth.
In feeding you want to notice that
iomc animals are more dainty as to their
'hoicc than others. Their likes should
je respected.
Irregularity in salting will not conduce
to the laying on of flesh. Especially in
lairving will irregularity in salting show
in the Hiilk.
The best bred stock costs the most
iioney, but its produce brings a great
leal more than the produce of that which
Is badly bred.
Vigorous growth of plantaisthe best
anr-iinst. irvafiot snsmlpA and
[J I VIVV/K-VU t.Qv..?w.
' " . . ' ' " ' . . .- - " - lr . V "
timely cultivation comes iu a most effective
auxiliary force.
Trees in a cultivated field are troublesome,
but where thej are not numerous
they arid enough to the beauty of the
landscape to compensate.
Direct separation of the butter from
milk by means of electricity?a French
: ? ? 11 1.1 A.
mveuLiuu?la baiu tu ut* uuc ui uus imeai
patent French processes in dairying.
A soil but five inche? deep cannot be
worth as much as another that gives fiee
scope to the roots of plants to whatever
depth they may penetrate in search of
nutriment.
A second brood of currant worms usually
makes its appearance just as the
fruit begins to ripens, and it is quite as
injurious to the crop as the first if not
promptly destroyed.
Roots of plants that go by choice ten
or twelve inches in the soil, fail to brine
up full support when they are restricted
to four or five inches, by reason of impenetrable
earth beneath.
It is said that oalves begin to form
cuds and ruminate a? soon as they ere allowed
on the pasture, and three months
is soon enough to allow them to do so,
or the result will be scours.
Public water troughs, it is claimed,
are places at which infectious diseases
are spread; hence the water should always
ba flowing in them, instead of
turning it on only when wanted.
It is said that the best mode of using
sulphur about plants, in order to destroy
insects, is to sprinkle it on the ground
during a warm day, when it will prove
beneficial without injuring the plants.
Any farmer who can command an even
temperature below 60 deg., with cleanliness,
can make "gilt-edged" butter. If
j.u. <rn ~
tut; leujjjuraiurc hjuuucs i vj uug. uuuu^
transportation the gilt-edge becomes
guilt-edge.
A cold, damp soil, with a hard impervious
subsoil, is not suitable for a garden,
and before it can be properly utilized
should be well drained. For garden
purposes, if the tile drain has been
laid, the trenching system is best for
such soils. Any method that permits it
to rid itself of surplus moisture, and
allows the air and heat to enter, will be
beneficial.
The same care in the selection for seed
should be made as with the other plants.
Productiveness, maturity and form are
fully as important as size. All plants intended
to produce seed for another sea
son's crop should not only be selected
but planted away from other varieties.
Sweet corn growing in the neighborhood
of field corn will be ruined for seed the
succeeding year.
Moss on trees is a sign of low vitality
and poor culture. It is most common
on old tree3. Where thick it may be
scraped off and the bark washed with
weak lye. Then thorough manuring will
cause new bark to grow and no more
moss will appear. Rough bark on old
trees, if not overgrown with moSs, should
not be scraped off. It serves a valuable
purpose in some varieties for protection.
A smart tenm turning a good furrow
in spring, either stubble or sod, should
be able to turn over one and a half to
two acres. When larger days' work than
this are reported it is usually at the expense
of the team, or perhaps of the
plowing. So much depends on the character
of the work in fitting the land that
a poor plowman should not be tolerated,
however large a day's workhemay claim
to bo able to no.
Wheat should be fully five weeks from
the time the ears first appear before being
ready to cut. Oats will fully ripen in
four weeks after earing, and barley in
three. If thc-e periods are much
shortened it indicates that the grain is
hurried into ripening by hot, dry weather,
and it will likely be not very heavy.
But excessive moisture at earing time,
such as is common in England, is even
more injurious than drought.
Tt i? rliffimilfc to tro on a corn field with
teams and wagons without injuring the
crop more than any manure applied after
it is planted will benefit it. A dressing
of ashes and plaster when plants are small
is all the after-manuring possible. With
corn, however, more than with any other
crop, tillage is manure. Thorough cultivation
will develop plant food in any
soil fit to grow corn, and will be all the
more effective if the field has been
manured before planting.
Bathe the horse's shoulder with cold
water or brine as quick as the collar comes
off, before the sweat begins to dry, and
rub off the collars and saddle pieces with
i moist cloth. This will prevent sore
shoulders. All changes of food should
be gradual, but in proportion to the
WOTK. I'lCavilj lUACU lauatico Uiaau
3cmand3 on the stomach, hence, increase
the food after work begins, never in anticipation.
A horss fed up before he is
called to work gets soft and fat.
In growing hay for market it always
pays the best to grow a good quality. It
should not only be free from weeds and
small bushes, but also from all meadow
trasses. A few pounds of meadow grass
in a load of hny will often make a differ3nce
in price of several dollars a ton. It
is also very important that hay should bo
well cured, so that it will come out
bright and sweet; hiy cured so that it
will come out smoky i* hard to sell at a
greatly reduced price, especially if to be
FnH t.ft horses.
Some wreds are a sign of poor
farming, and some of rich soil. The
white or ox-eye daisy is, however generally
found on land that has been run
down so that clover and grasses will not
^row thickly enough to occupy the surface.
Making the soil rich is the remedy.
Of course the seeds, if in the land,
will germinate in rich soil, but more
valuable herbage will crowd it out. After
a few years of thoroughly good farming
little trouble is found from the ox-eye
daisy, however injurious it may hare been
at the beginning.
A hog is a very difficult animal to doctor.
It is obstinate, and when this takes
the form of refusing to eat it is almost
hopeless. The prcvalcnce of cholera
among swine makes hog-keepers naturally
suspicious of every disease, and if
one pig is sick, no matter from what
rnns/v no time should be lost in separat
ing the others by removing them at once
to a freJh pasture. If a pig is sick, look
to the issues in its forelegs. If these
nre closed they should be opened at
once. No hog can be healthy unless
these outlets for the removal of offensive
matter arc running freely.
Au Old Epitaph's Story.
Of course, thiuking of doctors and
their calling, one cannot forget that it is
their disagreeable duty to deliver a lecture
on the anatomy of many dead bodies
obtained in a "dark, unseemly way,"
and this is the excuse for reproducing an
epitaph from an old graveyard downtown
almost lost sight of:
The body snatchers they have come
And made a snat h at me;
It's very hard them kind of men
Won't let a body be.
Don't come to weep upon my grave
And think that here I be;
They haven't left an atom
(J? ray anatomle!
?New York Herald.
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THE HOME DOCTOB.
Eating Just Before Bed Time.
The ancient prejudice against eating
just before going to bed is strongly condemned
by modern science, experienco
having shown it to be unfounded. There
are exceptions to the rule, but few people
are injured and many positively bene-?
fitted by a slight repast before retiring.
A. glass"of milk and a biscuit or cracker
is better than any hypnotic drug to put
one to sleep, and in most case3 may bo
taken without fear of "nightmare" or
any other form of distress, tioing to
bed "on an empty stomach" is a good
way to invite sleeplessness and ultimate
Arrangement of the digestive organs and
general health. ? Cultivator.
Twelve Ways of Injuring the Health.
1. "Wearingof thin shoes and stockings
on damp nights and in cool, rainy
weather: "Wearing insufficient clothing,
and especially upon the limbs and extremities.
.; . ..
2. Leading a life of unfeeling, stupid
laziness, and keeping the mind in an unnatural
state of4excitement, by reading
trashy novels. Going to the theatres,
parties and balls, in ull sorts of weather v,
in the thinnest dress; dancing till in a
complete perspiration, and then going
home witnout sufficient overgarments
through the cool, damp night atr.
3. Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by nine bed rooms, without ventilation
at the top of ths window; and especially ,
with two or more persons in the same ;j
small unventilated bed room.
4 Surfeiting on hot and very stimulate
ing dinners; eating in a hurry, withov"
half masticating the food, and eating
hr>nrf.ilv hpforft tm'inrr tn bed. when th?
mind and body are exhaused by the toils
of the day and the excitement of tho
evening.
5. Beginning in childhood on strong
tea and coffee, and going from one step
to another, through chewing and smok?
ing tobacco and drinking intoxicating
liquors, and personal abuse, and mental
and physical excesses of other kinds.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion, and living th?
remainder of life in mental dissatisfaction,
cultivating jealousies and domestic
broils, and being always in a menttf. fer*
ment.
7. Keeping children quiet rby giving
paragoric and cordials, by teaching them
to suck candy, and by supplying them
with raisins, nuts and rich cakes; whoa ~
they are sick by giving them mercur*
tartar emetic and arsenic, under the mls?
taken notion that they are medicines and
not irritant poisons.
8. Allowing the love of gain to absorb
i oa aa 4-n looTTft nn finiA tA ftii
UUI OV Ut3 bV 4VHT V uv Vi*uw ??.
teud to our health; following an unhealthy
occupation, because money can
be made by it.
fl. Tempting the appetite with bitten
and niceties when the stomach says no,
and by forcing food into it when nature
does not demand, and even rejects it;
gormandizing between meals.
10. Contriving to keep a continual
worry about something or nothing; giving
away to fits of anger.
11. Being irregular in all habits of
sleeping and eating; too much, too many
kinns of food, and that which is too "
highly seasoned.
12. Neglecting to take proper care of
ourselves, and not applying early for medicinal
advice when disease first appears,
but by taking celebrated ouack medicine*
to a degree of making a arugshop of the
body.
llnnr tn Toll f!nnnti>rfpits.
The United States treasury department
has, of late years, adopted for bonds and
currency a peculiar paper described below,
and which is deemed a strongei
protection against counterfeiters than
that used by the Bank of England, which
has recently been dangerously counterfeited
in ?50, ?100 and ?500 notes.
As the first issue of greenbacks, which
were not printed on fiber paper, were
most dangerously counterfeited, but have
almost wholly disappeared from circulation,
therefore receive them with great
caution, or refuse them if in doubt about
their genuineness.
All other genuine greenbacks, gold
and silver certificates and later issues of
national bank notes are printed on tho
government fiber paper: the first kind
with the fiber distributed in short pieces,
localized with a blue tint, detected by
picking it with a pen; tho other witu
the fiber in two parallel threads, red and
blue silk, running lengthwise through
the note, seen by holding the note up to
the light. The public are cautioned not
to draw these threads out of the paper.
If in doubt about the genuineness of
any bank note in the report, refuse it
unlest printed or government fiber paper.
All national bank notes not in this report
are genuine, whether printed on government
Daoer or not.
The*counterfeit $10 and $20 silver
certificates are not printed on government
paper.
Some of the counterfeit $5, $10 and
$20 greenbacks (series of 1875) and $50
and $500 ("series of 1876) are an imitation
distributed fiber paper. Very danijerous.
These are aril the counterfeits oa
the new greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all twenties, flftieJ and
one hundreds on the banks in this report
unless printed on the government paper.
All genuine bank notes have brown
back and seal, have both kinds of tho
61>cr paper combined; while the counterfeit
$10, on the Third NatTonal Bank of
Cincinnati, Ohio, aud the photographio
??4* nn thn Firufr National
uuuucgiitib >ywj v?? ?
Bank of Milwaukee, Wis., have no fiber.
These two are the only counterfeits oa
the brown backs.
Better refuse all pieced notes. All
United States currency h iving a brown
3eal has the parallel threads or cables.
All United States currency printed since
1870 is on government fibre paper.
There are in circulation a great many
very dangerous counterfeit greenbacks,
dated 1875. All the genuine of that
date are on distributed fiber paper.?
Detroit Free Press.
An Angler's Paradige.
In Alaska the salmon jam the estuaries
and inlets so that the fish cannot move at
all. "I have seen," says a writer in the
American Angler, "the outlet ot Lake
Loring, wnicn is a nvuieiiwo mues long
and. two rods wide, connecting the sail
water with the fresh, so choked with
living salmon that if a plank were laid
across the'r protruding baoks a man couW
walk across dryshod. One can lift them
out with his hands until ho is tired. It
is almost impossible to thrust a spear or
a boat-hcok into the mass, and, of course,
a fish must come out whencvc* it is withdrawn.
Bears take their opportunity to
scoup them out with their great paws,
and when tlioy have regaled themselves
to satiety they retire to the adjacent
thicket for a dessert of berries, which
grow there in great abundance and variety.
Of course, a great mauy salmon
get into the lakes at every tide, but after
e:ich recession muititudes are stranded,
of which the lustiest flop back to thu
ocean, while the maimed and hapless re*
main dead on the denuded rocks.'' .
"v.
Eucedi."
1 will carry out 1 lie id' a of my tost, nnd in
the first place show you that this < nmpliirc
plant of the text was a symbol of Christ, because
of his fragramo. Jf I had a branch of
it, and should wave it in your midst, it would
fill the house with its rodolence. The camphire.'as
we have it, is offensive to some; but
the camphire plant of the text has a fia
granee gracious to all. The vineyards of
Engedi lathe 1 in it?1ha branches, the buds,
the blossoms dripping with sweetness, typical
of the sweetuess of Christ.
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a lxdiever'sear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
Aud drives away his fear.
The name of Ca\sar means power; the
name of Herod meaus cru e!ty; the name of
Alexander means comjuest; the uaino of Demosthenes
means eloquence; the name of
Milton means poetry; the name of Benjamin
West means painting: the name of I'hidias
meaus sculpture;thenan.eof I.Vetb.ivenmeans
music; the name of iToward means reform;
but the name of Christ means love. Jt is the
sweetest name that ever melted from lip or
heart. As you open an old chest that has
long been closed, the first thing that strikes
you is the perfume of the herbs
that wore packed amid the clothing; so there
aro hundreds of hearts here w hich, if opeued,
would fiiut oiler to you the name of Jesus.
Have you m t seen Him.' Through the dark
night of your sin has He not flashed upon
your vision; J3eautiful when He co:ne> to
save you. A little child wan. cryiug very
much during the time of the eclipse. It got
so dark at noon that she was afraid and kept
sobbing, aud could not be silence 1 until
after awhile the sum came out again,
and she clapped her hands and said:
"Oh, the sun! the suu!" Some of us
have been in the darkness of our sin: