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^ OR TIME'S SERMON. THE EVILS OF GAMBLING. i Text: "Aceldama, that is to say, the field r?f hlfwl "?Aftts. i.. 19. The money that Judas got for surrendering Christ was used to buy a burying ground. The money being blood money, the ground .that was puri based was called in the Syriac Itongue Aceldama, the field of blood. Well, :I would like to write over all the race coftr^es ' where wageis are staked, and over all pool rooms, and over all gambliug saloons, and over all tables, public or private, where ir.en and women bet sums of money large or small, a word iucarnadined with the life of millions?Aceldama. The * ~ gamb'ing piactice is a stupendous evil, always existing, but sometimes it sweeps over the land in the shape of an epidemic, and never has the world been worse cursed with it tbau just now; all the neighborhoods, and towns, anJ villages and cities. It is an evil bra en, jauguinary, transcontinental, hemispheric. So:ne of you have passed into tne afternoon of life, and the shadows begin to lengthen, and the sky close with the glorv of the setting sun. But others of you are in the early pericd of life, and the morning comes down out of a clear sky, and the bright air is, redolent with spring blossoms, and the stream of life rolling Let ween lull banks gleams and glistens and makes music as it gees. Some of you are in commercial establishments, and your li.'e will be passed amid the excitements of tra'lic. Some of you are in mechanical arts to hammer and chisel your way through life, and great opportunities are open before yon. Others of y?u are putting on professional life?the armor is already buckled on. g But in whatever business, trade or profession you are engaged, or you are to be engaged in, the subject I present this morning is of personal importance. There is nut a man, woman nor child in this assemblage but has been touched by this evil, or wi 1 be touched by it, or will in some way be called to battle it. Gambling is tha risk ncof souiethiujr more cr leis valu able, in hope of wincing more than you hazard. The implements may le different, but the p-inciple is always the same. The dealing and shuffling of iards are not gambling unless stakes be put up, while on the other hand, without dice, without cards, without billiards, without ten pin alley, you may practice gambling. A man who lets on horses, bets on elections, bets on i ball playing, bets on anything?a man who deals iu what are called fancy stocks, a znan who goes into any transaction where there is no real foundation, but everything deponils upon what men call luck, is a gambler. An English writer says th it one-fourth of the business of London is a dishonesty, and I suppose tbat is true of all our cities.Anything' you propc S3 to get without giviug an e juivalent, in money, time, or skill, you get either by fraud or by gaming, by theft or by gaming. Do not associate gambling with some gan.e, or with some time, or with soi;e plave, or think it ma'tes any difference in the prinrlnlfi whftthpr it is n of winft or ? hnn dred shares of railroad stock. Whether you patronize auction pools or French Mutuals, or book-making, or whether you employ faro, or billiard, or roulette, or cards,thevery thing is dishonest because you propose to get a good for which you give no equivalent. All lotteries. all lottery tickets couiq in the same category. All fairs for the building of schools, or hospitals, or churches, conducted on the rattle system come under the same category. This is not a new s trite that has appeared in the world. It is a haggard transgr? ?sion that, wrapped in curses, comes staggering down through the centur.'e>. Before ? 1SS8 the French Government received large amounts of money every year from gaming table-. England to improve her harbors at one time instituted a lottery at the door of St Paul's Cathed.al. The Brit'sh Museum, the Westminister bridge, were partially paid for by such procedure. The ancient Germans sometimes actually put themselves up, and their families, as prizes, aud shaving lost the mme thev w?r? bnnnri hv thn?? wmkppthnn themselves. On Derby Day the House of Commons ad.'ouras, and most of them go out to bet and gamble. There are parts of this country thatreek with this evil. A traveler at the West said thit in a thousand miles of traveling in Western States, thera was mt a waking moment in whi h he was not in the presence otgambling. You can find something just suited to your taste and your capacity; not me:e'y "in the underground oyster eellar, or on a table covered with greasy cards behind a curtain, or m the smoking cabin of the steamer where men with rings in their ears instead of their noses wink iu unsuspecting travelers; frea drinks all around; butiu splendid parlor, in gorgeous club room, amid artistic arid architectured glory this evil goes on,and wherever it reigns, Aceldama, the field of blood. This >in works evil in the first place in unhealthy stimulation. Excitement is pleasurable ; a thousand voi< es in our nature cry out for excitement. The Chinaman finds it in smoking opium; the Persian in chewing hashheesh; the trapper in a buffalo hunt; the sailor in a squall; the inebriate in the bottle; the avaricious at the gaming table. While excitement is pleasurable and many kinds of excitement are healthful and righteous, look out for an agitation which hurls you back 1 into terrific .reaction, and which, like a rapt musician, in trying to bring out the tune, breaks down the instrument phye I on. God never ma le a man with nerves or brain strong enough to endure undamaged the exc itement of a gambler's life. No wonder so oftmen at the close of a play where they have been unfortunate have trie I to shove imaginary gold oT of the table. They Bat down sharp in intellect, they rose up maniars. Generally those who own gambling establishments are rollicking and obese ; but the cambler?look at him?thin, pale, nervous, exhau-ted. Intemperance puts its stigma upon the man, kicking him a slavering fool into the dit<'h, or seuding him up the street wh?re his family live with a drunkard's hiccough. But gambling does not so soon hang out its signal. You can only see the habit of the mau in the greed of eye, in the hardness of feature, iu the nervous restlessness, in the threadbare coat, in the squandered fortune. But he is on the road to hell, and no preacher's voica and no startling alarm, and no wife's entreaty will u;m nui aif.'u UIIII 1U uu> UWJIUU^ gaicm . JL 110 Infernal spell is on him, a giant is aroused ithiu him. anjJ if you wind around him a snip caoie it win i art lUe a ttoreaJ, and n. you wind around him a chain seven times ii will snap like rusted wire, and if you pile up in his vathway all Bible*, all sermons, all communion tables, and put on the top of them the cross of the Son of God, he will like a rce over the rocks leap into perdition. Aceldama, the field of bload. This sin als > works ruin in the fact that it is killing toa!l industries. You never saw a confirmed gambler who was industrious. The time not actually employed in gaming i9 spent in idleness or in dissipation, or in "roping in'' other victims. Wh vn a man is accustomed to gathering scores and hundreds of dollars in a little while he will not have much ratience with tame, honest work. "Why, said a merchant, "why should I bother myself here in su h a hard, tedious and annoying way to make $ "?<) when 1 < an make twice that in one ni^ht down at Billie'sF Ah! how this crime has dulled the MwvAnfA^o caw onH pnf. fchft hflllfis of fchft factory wheel, and broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow, and shattered with strange lighting the batteries of tho philosopher. What dull work plowing corn when in one evening in the village saloon the farmer makes and loses the price of a harvest. What dull work in the nonest round of business making ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred dollars, when in the same time you could make and lose the value Of a whole season's profits. Oh, how killing it is t> all industry. John Broalc was sent out from Bremen as an a?ent to England and the United States. After a while, his employers found out that there must be something wrong. Investigation was made. It was fouud out that he was a defaulter for $8.">,(KX>. He had lost $26,000 in Lombard street, London, He had lost $10,000 in Fulton street. He had lost $3,000 in New Orleans. Then he was arrested. Then ha was imprisoned. Then he escaped. Then he returned to gambling practices. Then he died a mania? in an asylum. Gambling is a pry that is already thrust under some of the commercial establishments of Brooklyn and New York, and after awhile down will come the whole concern, crushing reputation, home and immortal souls. **" inH what is more sad i 110 evil lssiu^cuuvao. MUM . ?. ? about it is that there are no consolations for "gambler when he suffers loss. If a man is .honest and fails, God pities and society commiserates: but will you tell me from what tree of the forest there ooze? a balm for the broken heart of a gambler? In the bottle where God keep3 the tears of His children, are there any tears of gamblers? Does the wind that blows health into the cheeks of the invalid and that cools the heated brow of the laborer, whisper any peace or consolation to the he? of the eamester? Ah, no, no! In Northui berland, Eng'and, there is a large esta who^e owner in three years?ha having i herited it?in three years got through wi it all. Coming down out of the saloon hn cnfc inti his carriare. start for home, turned back, want up to t saloon, put up his hon<63 and carriages, p up his house in town, played again, lost a went down, started on one of the back stre< homeward, met a friend, borrowed fro him ten guineas, went back to the saloo plaved a^ain and won, won again and a^a until he h*d twenty thousand pounds, tb lost and lost again and again, and die 1 a be gar at St. Pauls. There is no habit on ear so merciless as the gaming Inbif. It al?o works great ruin in the fact that is the source of multitudes of dishonesties . the worst cases the game itself is a chea How often it is there is a mark on the ba< of the card to indicate what isontheothi side of the card. How often there are d "captions iu the shuffling of the cards. Ho often it is with the dico that it is loaded wii platinum and doublets come up every tim How often it is some coadjutor win to his comrade and decides the game. Sora times the gaming house will introduce di< I Ilia rtlarapa flnri t.hlfc ? counts for the fact that ninety-nine out of huudred men who gi into gambling, ho we vi wealthy they were at the start, lose ever thing, and are poor, miserable nothings, n permitted even to sit on the steps < the door of the hous3 that they on oxned before they went into gambling. ] San Francisco a young man who had ju come from th9 mines, put down $30,000: great amount of money at different times : the pa-Tie evening he put upon the ace ai others came in and they Dlayed, and the tin went on. They patted him on the back ac told him he was a good player. He won aga and aga'n. Alter a while the tide turne and he lost aud lost, and the are wt revealing favorably to the bank, and son one rrtea: "Foul, to il."' But the controllei of the hous) presented their pistols and tt tumult was silenoed, and during the evenin $35,1)00 had been won by the bank. You ca that a game of chance? No chance about i But the dishonesties practiced at the gamin tal le are nothiug compared with the disho: est in > practi>ed in order to get the money 1 go on with these evil habits. The greed hand of gambling has again and agai snatched away the w.'d >w's mite and despoik the orphan's portion, or has sold a daughter virtue to get means to go on with the ii famy, aud has written the counterfeit sij nature, or has sunk the cargo or h) planted the dagger of a midnight^ a sassin. It blinds, it hardens, it rend it blasts, it crushes, it damns. How ^iati bank cashiers, how many trustees of fund have, through this evil, gone to disgrace, t incarceration, to suicide. It is within th memory of many people in this house whe | lor tbis purpose *4u,wu were WKeo irom Brooklyn bank. It is in the memory of man who are here that the cashier of the Cer tral Railroad and Banking Company, fo the purpose of carrying on gamblin practices, stole $10 J,003. It is within th [ memory of most in this house when from Wall street insurance company were take $180,COJ for carrying on gambling practices ! One of the saloons in London boasted that i ruine 1 a nobleman a day. But there are sa loons in this country, and there are gamblin houses and club houses where gambling is it dulged in that could make more infamou boast of having ruined a thousand noblemei men made in God's own image blasted foi ever. It is an accursed habit. The evil also goes ou it< ruinous way in th destruction of domestic life. Oh, this plow share has gone though so many families, an the wife sits in rags, and the daughter is ii disgrace, and the son c unes up to the sam imfamous practices, or takes a short cut t destruction across the murderer's seal fold. What are all tha caresses o children and a wife's devotion to a gam bier? How tamely-burns the fire on the dc mystic hearth. Hothins to win. nothin to lose, nothing to fillip the blood, noffifngti fire the imagination. He must zo out. Hi cannot stand it there. After all is gone thi family will go. He will pawn them. If i crown in Heaven were put in hi hand he would say: "Here, boys here goes one more game. I now throw ray crown in heaven!" Home! What is i home to a gambler? Something to cut, some thine to hmv something to scatter, some thins to blast Au only son, of splendid ed ucation, exquisite manners, brightness o promise, went to New Orleans. He h&< a large amount of money with him and tbev entice 1 him into gambling saloon and told him he was a splendid player, am lie won a lara[e amount of money; but tim went on and he lo?t all, and meanwhile hai got on him other bai habits, and when al was gone he sat down and wrote to his fathe and mother the? words "My beloved parents: You will doubtles feel a momentary joy at the recoption of thi letter from the cnildof your bosom,on whon you have lavishe 1 all the favors of your de dining years; but should a feeling of jo; for a moment spring up in your hearts whei you shall have received this from me, cheris] it not. I have fallen deep, never to rise Those gray hairs that I should have hoc ored and protected I shall bring dowi in sorrow to the grave. I will not curse m; destroyer, but oh, may God avenge thi wrongs and impositions practiced upon th unwary in a way that shall best please Hiir This, my dear parents, is tin last letter yo will ever receive from me. I humbly p'ra for forgiveneis; it is my dying prayei Before you receive this from me, tne col grave will have closed upon me forevei JLire to me is insupportable. I cannot, naj I will not s uffer the shame of having ruine you. Forget and forgive is the dying prayer c Your Unfortunate Sons" The father went to the postoftice. Ha gc the letter. He opened it. He began to rea and ha fell fo the floor. They gathere around him and thought he was dead; bi having brushed his cray lo-ks from his bro and fanned him he be^an to breathe, wish he had been dead, for what is life to m 4* ?*- - - ?? I hthan ant lamer wuea uis sua is ut?n ujroui >> ?j thing gees wrong in a gambling how they cry out: "Foul, foul!" but ove every gambling table in this lan and in all lands I cry: "Foul, fou infinitely foul!" Tha gift stores in ou cities administer to this evil. You shall hav a piano, or a watch, or a valuable piece o jewelry as a prize. Goods unsalable in an; otherwise may sometimes be disposed of i that way, and that babit has covere 1 th population with brass linger rings and ficti tiou-5 adornments, and is fast turning thi land into a nation of gamblers. Ever gift store on earth is administrate every hour of its existence to a gamblin practice. It is a fraud. Aceldama, the flel of blood. Many of tte churches of God ar not willing that the world shall have this si all to itself. 1 believe in church fairs. Ther are hundreds and thousands of churches ths never would have been built but for churc fairs. But a church fair conducted o the raffling principle is gambling; it is eccl< siastical gambling. At the close of som fair some valuable articles are not sole They raffle for them. Good Christian poop] go home with a prize, thinking it must be a right for Christian women did the embroic ery and Christian men did the raffling, an then the money is to go'to a newcommunio s^t. You might jmt as we'l have won wit the crack of a billiard ball or the to33 < the dice. Do you wonder that a churc which conducts fairs on the raffling prineip goes into spiritual pauperism. Satan say 'I built that church. I u pholstered th' church," and for once Satan t?lls the trutl This evil stops not at any indecency. In tl State of Maryland they had a lottery for tt purchase of a graveyard. Ths hab of betting is administrative to th eviL "I'll bet you $100. I'll b you $500. I'll bet you about thi I'll bet you about that" That is a con mon vernacular. Wh-n a man bets 1 gambles. The most inno -ent forms of amus meutare being subordinate to th s evi Almost all or the sinokin* rcoms in tl ocean steamers are gambliu^ saloous all d? long and all night long. They b how many miles will l;e run to-da how many miles to-morrow, about wh hour we will probably get to Quean town, about what hour tho pilot will con Ua r?ill rvnh his ri<rl ItlUUttlU, UUJUli f*UCliU7l U7 - ? 41* |<V4V Mt . - -?p foot on first or his left foot ou first. And have seen men goon the steaner with ploai of money, and when they got to Liverpo . they had to borrow money to get up to Lo don with. Do not ever bet. Whm a m: tells you something and yoa do not belie him. and he says: "I'll bet y>u S10C set him down as a liar. He is a liar and that way proposes to bolster up a S">rt of v racitv. It is a debasing pra 'tice. Bet abo nothing. Pay for what you buy, not lookii for a prize. For a slow, phlegmatic natui the gambling pra?tice may have no spe ;i temptation; but if a man be sanguine, if man be nervous, if a man be excitable, 1 him look out for this evil. A little while y may stay in the still waters, but you a coming to the abyss aud the hoat will thrown over, and you will cling to it wi fingers Upod tipped and nails percing t wood, until with white cheeks and the h< rors of a lost 9oul lifting the very hair frc irt the sralp, yoa will plunge w'lere no grap? m- pling hook will ever drag you out. ite Young nun, avoid tbis evil. If you in- have any ticket* in your pocket that th are suggestive of this evil, destroy thorn at when vou go home. There is not a young ed man in New York or Brooklyn but will be he tempted by this evil. There i3 hardly a ut young man in this house, or an old one who ,11, has not been tempted. It is so much so that ita lunoceut ana kmuiy ana neaicnrui amuse>m ments are becoming; affected. Now, I do not n, know a more healthful recreation than ten in pins. I have parsed mauy hours in ten pin en alleys and they have always been time the e- means of physical recuperation. I can th hardly think of any better form of amusement than a ten-pin alley. Yet you it know as well as I that some of thes3 places In | have been turned iuto gambling saloons, it. Husband, father; brother, son enter a ten-pin ;k alley for this ptifposo. Let th9 boy set up sr the pins at the othar en i of the alley. Give e- the gamester full swing. Now stand out of w his way. Roll the first. There.itstrikes. Down th poes his respectability. Stand back now, give e. him another change. Roll the second. There, ks he strikes down the last feeling of humanity, e- Give him full swing. Lot the gamester have ce full chance. Roll the third. It strikes. > Down zoes his soul. It was not the ten-pins a that fell-a soul, an immortal soul I Let Br ! me cive you in Drier tne niscory ot a y- ! gambler. Lured by friends He goes ttfplac* ot I where an honest man ought never go. Ha of ! sits down at the table just for the purpose of ce i being thought sociable, or whiling away the [n i time. They play. They play into Satan'i st hands and he takes all the tricks and both a the players's nils for trumos, he being a in sharper at any game. A small stake is put id ur> lust to make it interesting. Game after ie game is played, larger stakes and st 11 larger, lci until after a while they begin to move nervin ously on their chairs, and the brows lower and the eyes flash an! the lip3 more and 13 more compressed anl'the fist is clenched and ie the eyes like fire balls seem startiug from rg their sockets to see the final turn before it ie comes. If losing, paling with envy and ltr tremulous with unuttere I oaths cast 11 back red hot upon the heart; or t winning, with hysteric laugh, crying: g "Aha, aha! I have it!" A few years have i- passed on and he is the mere wreck of a man. to Befce he throws his first card now he puts y down the last relic of his wife, the marriage n ring that sealed the vows between then. He id plays. He loses. He sags back. He dreams, 's and in his dreams the past hours mo:k a- him with a great agony, and friends with g- eyes of fire and tongues of flame gather is around him and join hands to dance, with s. hellish chorus, chanting, "hail, brothar!" gt and kiss his clammy forehead, and their iy loathesomo locks flowing in serpents crawJ |g into his b">som and sink their sharp fang9 i0 and suck at his life blood, and coiling around l6 his heart pinch it with chills and shudders n indescribable. a That is you, oh young man, if yon come to y the terminus of that blasted road on which you have already started. May God help ,r you! Remember that this is a down grade, g that every s'eo adds swiftness to the moe mentum already gathered. On this a treacherous sea, oh how many have ? " ? xL. 1 q Jauncnea. cspuc huiks sirew tue iwa.-u, (< and everlasting storms howl up and t down and tosithe unwary craft into the Hell t. Gate. I have seen it with ray own eyes. I g have looked off upon the awful pla^e where t. men go down and I have seen and I have is heard the writhing and the hissing aud the i, foaming of the waters where men struggled and strangled and blasphemed God and died, the death stare of eternal e despair upon their face as the waters gurgled over them. To a gambler's death bed there d comes no hope. He probably will die alone, n His comrades in iniquity will not come to the e dwelling. His miserable soul will go out of 0 a miserable life into a miserable eternity. ' As his poor remaius pass the pla -e where he if was ruined his old comrades will look out of | t- the window and say :"There goes the old car- I h cass. Dead at last." But they will not rise I ar from the'r chairs. Let him down 6 now into the grave. Plant no tree B to shade it, for the long, deep, eternal a gloom is shadow enough. Plant no for-got1 me-nots nor eglantine to mark that spot, for s flowers were never intended to bloom on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sun} shine, for that would bs a mockery, but on 4 some dismal night when, no stars are out, and spirits of darkness come down horsed on ? the wind, visit the grave of the gambler! J HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. s Worms in Flower Pots, i In the use of lime water to destroy ? earth worms in the soil of flower pots, j some persons fear injury to the plants by r using it too strong, and therefore neglect to employ it altogether. It should 3 be understood that lime water will not ? injure plants. Ar.d by lime water is t_ meant water containing all the lime it f will hold in solution. This is a definite a quantity, and cannot be increased, no J1 matter how large an amount of lime in exc ess is used for a ceitiin quantity of ! water. The water will hold so much y and no more. After slacking lime in ? - in- I ? water it is allowed to seine, auu mcu (e the clear liquid is poured off: this is y lime water. The soil of a plant can be y saturated with it by pouring it on, or r. by immersing the pot in it for a time. This operation will destroy earth worms, r' or compel them to escape. ? FiVi's Floral Guide. >f To a Younjj Housekeeper. A One of the best rules ever given by a <1 mother to a daughter just about to begin it housekeeping was: "Always see every J part of your house from garret to cellar % at least once a day; the servants get to r. know this, and consequently they never ? throw things into corners, or leave unJ tidy closets." This is especially good I advice concerning the kitchen: Make a r point of opening pantry drawers, lifting a the washtub lids; take a look into the f refrigerator every morning, and see what y a difference it will make on the cook's ? neatness. A good mistress can always i. manage to do this while she* is giving is the day's orders, and in such a way as cr 4.^ mpl'a fonlinrrq- for ' lll't W VUCIIU l uo g*>* W , _ _ ? s me?and the best girls?are very sen| sitive about being watched, or rather at a having their ability to keep a tidy a kitchen doubted, ift the same time, the ? knowledge that her mistress is more than ^ likely to take a look into the refrigerator a at any time will greatly influence the )- putting away of provisions and keeping ? the waste-pan empty.?Uarj)er's Bazar. Id Kalsomine and Whitewash. i- Kalsomine fur walls and ceilings is a d wash made of whiting mixed with water 'jj and glue. It may be used white or tinted with dry colois. The wall should h first be washed with a sponge and warm le water, and uny crack? should be tilled s: with plaster Paris before the kalsomine 16 is applied. To prepare kalsomine dis^ solVe a quarter of a pound of white glue Ja in cold water, allowing it co sianu over it night. In the mornining it may he is heated gradually, until.pe fectly smooth. et Mix eight pounds of whiting with hot water, add the glue, staring all together. ,0 Should this be qui:o thick, add warm e- water until it becomes about the conil 3istency of cream. This h applied with " a kalsomine brush, a flat brush with a short handle. Should there be any durky, stained places they should be painted at with shellac before the ceiling is kalsolS* mined. Lime is a great purifier, and a coat of I whitewash on cellar walls or any walls . " "loon whitlnsnmA'smull .llld look. Dy givui a tiuuii) u Mv*vWw...Va 61 Ordinarily, whitewash is made by pourn" ing hot water over quick-lime. Care should be taken to u<e pleuty of hot , ii water at first, so that the lime may bcia come thoroughly slacked. Cold water e- may be added afterward to thin it if ufc ! necessary. A little blueing put in will ! give a cleaner white. When used in the iaj cellar it is sometimes a good plan to mix a t in a small quantity of coppem or caylet enne pepper; the>e are said to keep QU vermin away. When the whitewash is intended for outside work the addition ti, of tallow or grease is recommended in ho the proportion of a pound to a pailful >r- of whitewash. In this case dilute with j hot water. ! ? ? ? - ir ; "t' RELIGIOUS READING Not Lost. i The look of sympathy, the gentle word I Spoken so low that only angels heard, I The secret act of pure self-sacritice, I 1 u.. Kv KJ U3UVII UJ Ull'U, UUb liu&i IWCU IJ J UU?CAO UJ G. These are not lost. The happy dreams that gladdened all ot youth. When dreiams had less of 3elf and more c truth, The childhood's faith, so tranquil and t sweet, Which sat like Mary at the Master's for These are not lost. The kindly plan devised for others good, So seldom guesse 1, so little understood. The quiet, steadfast love that strove to wi Some wanderer fjrom the ways of sin, These are not lost. Not lost, O Lord! for in thy city bright Our eyes shall see the pa^rt by clearer lia;ht; And tiling? long hidden from oar gaze belo; Thou wilt reveal, and wo shall surely knot J njso are not lost. The lioat Closet. In the days gone by there was a plac and a time very full of blessedness. Yoi can remember the little room whose doo you locked while you guthered its still Hess and calm around you. You remem bef the chair before which you knelt What scene* of glory and of blessednes in your soul's life were witnessed there You remember that first time when ii the depth of your despair you sanl down nnd sobbed out your confessioi of sinfulness and helplessness, and when you hardly knew how, you looked i Jesus as your Savior. Then there canv to you, like the blush of morning, th dawning af hope in yoyr heart, the bur den uplifting itself, and a strange jo^ coming in that you never knew before, Your pra.rer was turned to thanks anc praises. The room became from tha hour very attractive. From gay companiei where smiles and laughter were aboul you and you were glad for the pleas ant fellowship, you sought it and founc it good to draw near to God. It was a sanctuary, very calm and peaceful. You remember that day when a grea joy came to you, a^d you knelt there anc took the joy to God while you praisec him for it. You remember that da] when your first real grief swept over yoi and in your tears and through your sob! you said, "Thou knowest all, help me!' The grenl; shadow was over you, and th< night and storm were around you, bui there in that room you seemed to hear i voice which you r cognized, saying, "Ii is I." It grew into a habit with you t( go thither, and the hour that you had selected seemed to have a low call tba you gladly answered, and you went in? it was to meet Some One there. If a any time you missed tho visit to the place of prayer, there was something wanting ah day. All thi;i was long ago. Of late it has not been so with you. You do not much miss the closet now. You can go througl all the doy and feel no special vacancy in your heart, except at times when there comes a sudden and sharp panq that makes you almost cry out for whal is lost. But that is only for a moment, the rush and the hurrying thoughts beai you on and away. You say youi p-nyers night and morning, you saj them hurriedly, but there is no hour and no place that now grows sweet and solemn in its sweetness becausc you find it good to draw near to God. The closed door and the silence do not now bring hallowed thoughts. Tho closel has rrnnp. Pnrhnnnthn rnnm is therft hill -? o 1 ? the prayers are away. The joys, the gentle comfort of those earlier days, the radiant openings of the Bible, the vistas sometimes narrowing in the distance toward the heavenly city where the homo eternal is, the hopes, the undefined yet pervading satisfaction and quiet rest? you can only say of them: "Blossoms of peace once In my pathway springing, Where is your beauty and your fragrance gone?" Perhaps you can remember?you can if jou try?when the closet began tc loso all that made it your meeting-place with God. You recall the growing reluctance to linger there, the effort which seemed necessary in making the moments go by, the more hurried prayers. Perhaps, were you willing to think of them, you could recall the reasons for all this and the ctusos; the subtle influences which came in and made this pervading change in a place which once was sc radiant and so dear.?Dr. Aikman in Obsei ver. It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be 3afc because of something that we felt or did twenty j cars ago.?Spurgeon. Yesterday is yours no longer; to-mormow may be never yours; but to-day is yours, and intho living present you may stretch forward to the things that a c before.?F. IK Farrar. The lurk goes singing toward heaven; but if she stops the motion of her wings then straightway she fal!?. So it is with him who prays not. Prayer is tha movement of the wings of the soul; it bears one heavenward, but without prayer we sink. Temperance News and Wotes. Petroleum V. Nasby says: "The beei drunkard is the worst' drunkard in the world, and his children aro the heavicsl and strongest." Alcoholic boveragei are destructive tc human life. Their effects upon the human system should Le taught in ever] school. Preachers and school teachers oVmnM Tinf Rp.t n bad examnle bv smokins or chewing.1^ Liq'ior-snloona in North Carolina where workmen wasted their money, ar< being converted into factories, when they cc.n make money. The largest sa loon in Haleigh ia now a shoe manufac tory, employing as many men as all th( saloons in the city did; another has beei turned into a furniture factory. Mrs. Skelton, a white ribboncr wh< devotes herself to laboring for the pro motion of temperance among the Ger mans, recently so woo the Germans o Omaha that they gave her permission ti speak on temperance in one of their lar^ beer garden1'. It was directly over th saloon, and the proprietor closed hi doors and came up, with his whole force to hear her lecture. JIany names wer added to the total abstinence pledge, an< a club of twenty subscribers obtainei for the German tcmperance paper put lished by the W. C. T. U. 7*r -v >.&*. <*7' ~1'EMPERANCE_DEPARTMENT. She Sails by the Stars. 6he is launched on the wave?the (rood ship Prohibition, The wave of humanity, boundless and free; Around her stanch gunwale in fierce ebulition The mad waters foam as she heads out to sea; ir "White floats her canvas, with brisk breezoa Tanning her, >' E traight steers her rudder, with strong sine wa manning her, *> Eafe shall her voyage be?cool courage planning her. "God aud our country," her watchword ehall be. What does she sail by, the ship Prohibition? How meet the breakers, the shocks and the n jars? . How s<ifely steer off the reefs of sedition? How shun the iceberg that shatters and mars? J ustico, her guiding star, shines through the darkest night, v Peace and prosperity lend her their lambent v light, Health, hore, and happiness shine on her ever bright, Truth is her compass?she sails by the stars. What does the carry, tbe ship Prohibition, Under her breastplate of strong iron bars? 11 What treasure rare does she hold in transir tion. Guarded by strong arms of veteran tars? Hope for the homeless, now weeping so wearily. * Help for the helpless, whose hands hang so s drearily, I Homes for the homeless?glad news, ringing a cheerily? She carries good tidings, who sails by the ? stars. l She is out on the sea?the good ship Prohibit ' tion, TV*a fcroAphprrms saa nf nnliHoftl wam 0 Sweet baby hands fold in childish petition, c fc'ad woman eyes watching her broad streaming bars; j Their souls' deepest sympathies seaward are ' wending, Their sad supplications in unison blending, 1 Their earnest beseechings to heaven ascendt ing, a "God speed the sailors who sail by the stars." - Ho! send out your pilot! the ship Prohibi1 tion Has sighted the land, coming back from the wars; Proud floats her pennant above competition, t Loud ringthe cheers from her jubilaut tars; 1 Arms are stretcl ed seaward from waiting hearts yearning, Souls lifted upward with high purpose burning. i Victory sails with her, homeward returning, 3 God's beacons guide her?she sails by the i stars! ?Mrs. Lide Merriwether. Just One Glass. * Boys and girls, you will very likely, j if you are in the company of those who I 'use wine or beer, be urged to take "just t one glass," and will be told that one ^ glas3 will not hurt any one. Don't be! lieve any such nonsense. One glass has r done more mischief and caused more trouble than you have any idea of! Let 1 me tell you how a sea -captain lost his ' family and all his earthly possessions just through one glass of liquor. He i owned a neat little vessel, and had four '> men sailing with him, one of whom was ' Tiio HrnfTinr fin nnn trin lift tonlr hl<l r wife and two children. One stormy ? night his brother was to stand watch, ' and foolishly enough, at the coaxings of 1 the seamen,took "one glass," they telling him that he could better perform his duties | on that very severe night. He was not accustomed to using liquor and it overJ powered him so that he fell asleep. The ' vessel took its own course, and when the | Captain awoke he found it was wrecked, i He took his wife and one of his little ones in his arms, she took the other, aud ! for hours they battled in the cold waves, | longing for day to break. After hours of suffering one of the little one was swept away by the merciless waves, and a little after the other one was carried away also, i That was bad enough, aud he hoped he might still have strength to get his wife to land. But she could not stand the e\*, posure nor endure the battling, and died just as he was ncaring shore. Bereft of i wife, children, and vessel, which was his 1 all?all because of "one glass" of rum. One glass may effect you when you are , in need of a firm hand and a clear brain, i These vou want always. Th.-n let drink ; alone.?Temperance Banner. i , Eradication. Dr. Felix L. Oswald, a well-known scientist, in an article upon the alcohol questiou in a late number of the Forum, says: "The friends of reform have at last recognized the truth that the 'temperate use' of alcohol is but the first stage of a progressive and shame-proof disease, and ' that, moderation and repudiation failing, we must adopt the motto of 'eradication.' We must direct our blows against the roots of the upas-tree; and there is no doubt that the sharpest, if not cheapest, tool would be the general enforcement of prohibition. The penalities of a severe proscriptive law would sap the basis of the poison-traffic by making its risk out weigh its profits, cspccsany tne pronts of catering to an ever-decreasing demand. For the very means used to evade those risks would alono diminish the perils of temptation to thousands of ' young men of that class owing their ruin I033 to innate depravity than to the evil influence of an obtrusive example. > The army of topers would die out from .. want of recruits wherever the causes ol r intemperance are limited to the temptai tions of the rum-shop with its garisb t splendor and its sham promises of social pleasures. A Significant Change. 1 The Lewiston (Maine) Journal men5 tions the recent launching of a fourmasted schooner, named "King Philip," at Camden, oa which occasion it says: e "A real Penobscot Indian tribe now in 1 Camp Camden, dres-ed in Indian costume representing King Philip, being descendants of that tribe, stood on the deck of :> of the schooner at the bow, and as soon - as she started broke a bottle containing - instead of rum, pure spring water from f Mount Hope and Bristol, Iihode Island, i in honor of the prohibition sentiment of c Maine and Rhode Island. About a e thousand people, it is sail, witnessed s the launching, including the owners from !, Taunton and Providcnce." If those e who sail the "King Ph lip" hereafter al3 ways use pure water and abjure the rum, & the chances for a prosperous future for I- the new vessel and the owners will be greatly enhanced. > _ .... - - .-,C ' POPULAR SCIENCE. i' Careful measurements of seventy human skeletons have shown the lowei limbs to be equal in only seven. It ap1 pears that a person's legs may differ id length from ah eighth of aa inch to an 1 inch and five-eights, without any deformity being recognizable. A Frenchman, Mons. Rohart, has disi covered that waste grease, like that of sheep's wool, very readily absorbs sulphuretted hydrogen and other sulphurcompounds, and that it will then form a cheap and excellent soap with alkaline carbonates. The operation is very rapid, requiring less than an hour; and further economy results from the fact that the alkalies do not have to be used in a caustic state. Imitation amber is being largely used in Germany for the mouthpieces of pipes, owing to the dearness and scarcity of the real article. From time immemorial amber has been chiefly found on the Konigiberg coast of Prussia, partly by dragging and partly by mining. The Palmnicken Mines yield about 3,000 cwt. annually, and large pieces of amber &QA nan lrilA/?fam YftrTA nA!in^o\ I piUUUUC fJUU' poi AltVgiMlU jsvituvAwy when taken from the mines. Most of this goes to Vienna, where the largest manufactory of amber mouthpieces exists. Much interest has been excited among engineers by the construction, under the direction of the Russian Government, of some locomotive cars of a special type for the Transcaspian Railway, and built so as to meet two difficulties, viz., the waterless character of a large section of tbe line, and the insignificant ordinary traffic. To meet the former the locomotive car is provided with tanks containing sufficient water to last seventy miles; and, as the waterless stretch from Michaelovsk to Kazantchik is about fifty .miles in length, this supply is amply sufficient under any contingencies that may occur. "With regard to the second difficulty, the locomotive is constructed with a car connected to it and capable of conveying eighty passengers. The locomotive c&ris warmed by the exhaust steam from the engine, by which arrangement an important economy in the'consumpI tion?Oi fuel results. A recent number of the Jtpan Weflcly i Mail contains a short account of a night ascent of the active volcano Asamayama. The party left Karnisawa in the afternoon, and cominenccd the ascent from the eastern side about sunset. The sky was perfectly clear, and the summit wa* reached an hour before midnight. The wind, blowing from the south, carried the sulphurous vapor away to the northward, and thus the ascent was made less uncomfortable. The party saw quite to the bottom of the crater, which presented the appearance of a furnace filled with glowing coals. The sound of the* roaring, hissing, and bubbling is desoibea as loud and awful. The walls of the crater are of a light brown color, and are composed of successive layers marked out with striking regularity like the seats in an amphitheatre. Allowing ten of these layers to each interval of twenty feet, the depth from the surface to the .^incandescent matter would appear to be 200 feet. The periphgry of the crater is about half a mile, although the Japanese calculate it at two miles and a half. Living Expenses in Berlin. Living is not expensive in Berlin, writes Albert Sutliffe, in the San Francisco Chronicle. Beer, the chief article of diet, can be had at from two cents to five cents a glass. Rhine and Moselle table wine, at from twelve cents to thirty cents or more the half-bottle. At thfl host hotels vou nav seventv-five cents for the midday breakfast and a dollar for the dinner, the wine being charged extra. The cuisine is French, with native peculiarities, but it has never the delicacy of tasto one finds in Paris' The waiters are willing and attentive, but not too handy in the performance of their duties. In the matter of eating, though the French cuisine came in with Frederick the Great, Voltaire and the Wat teau landscapes, the standard of excellence has not been well maintained. The American would prefer more beef and less veal. He can have a beefsteak if he desires, for which be pays twice as much as one of the same size would cost him in San Francisco, and it is not so good. For twenty-five cents one can have as good a meal in the city of the Golden Gate as for seventy-five cents in BerJip, whether he takes it at a pretentious hotel or in one of the so-called restaurants of the second-class in the Untcr den Linden, where they serve you on a rude table without a tablecloth; but the Moselle wine is better. The German appetite is more easily satisfied. It is perhaps as well. "When the German taste becomes luxurious they will want war even less than they want it now, and the chances are they will not fight their battle# so well. True and False Economy. Economy means the purchase and use of the very best articles, so as to get the very best out of them. A sick horse may be bought for a little money, to be of little or no use, a care on your mind, an expense to your pockt-t, and a bringer to you of nothing but worry. This is an extravagant horse. Competition, which seeks to lower the price of everything, is the death of trade. It cuts down lower and lower, until at last no profit is left any one. Then the factory stops. The workman has nothing to do. The bo33 fails, absconds or goe? into other ~ 1 I business. compeuuTu cuca( ) lauui uvci) not tend to make artists. It does tend to make imitators, copyists and counterfeits. A skilled aeedlewoman?one who took an artistic pride in her work?said tome, after a week's experience in one of New York's great retail bazaars, where scores of chcap dresses "in the latest style" were turned out daily: ''There is no encouragment in our work-shop for good, careful, painstaking work. The girl who can tush the most thread through the most yards of cloth, and turn out the most dresses in reality not much moro than basted together, is tho one best praised and best paid by her employer. When you buy such a cheap dress you encourage the making ol shams, imitations, counterfeits. You encourage work done without conscience, and only for cash. You discourage the doing of work in which should be pu* brains, skill, care, conscience and time. ?Prendre Mulford. A Peculiar Prejudice. A merchant doing a large business in this city, whose credits amounted tc milKons in a year, said that he always looked with suspicion on any applicanl for crcdit of the name of I), or S. ( which arc common family names), lie admitted that it was an unreasonable nrio-nnr nnlv from havin<? been JUUJUV*?VWj UiiWf.Q J c grossly cheated two or three times bj persons of these names. "But." said he, "I cannot help it. The introduction ol any person of either name brings to recollection the swindlers that cheated mt before, and for the time I seem to losi faith in human nature, and a\n disposed to make very severe terms with the applicant,'wiYfw York I>ry Golds Chivn icie< ?????n?ir I TWO OLD PEOPLE. Once he was twenty and she only ten, _ Bbe was a cnua, ne scarcely urma prime, youth seemed so long, and age so distant then, And noon came not, as now, ere morning time. But later on. they chanced again to meet, Aud he was thirty and she twenty now; "Why, he is old," exclaimed the maiden sweet, vAud passed with careless heart and cloudless brow. Ten years, (a weary ronnd) roll on again. Whose days and weeks, so like each other, pass, That, when they meet, 'tis he, with sadden i J*"1' J WhAnrioo In fnrn iiTVhxr aha t? rtlH ftlAflP* ...v...,,,..,..., . . , 1 But often on those tender April eyes, When hearts beat time to hidden melodies, "Why was I never loved?1' he asks?and grieves. ' "Why did I never love?" she asks?and sighs. And now, opprest with vain regret, they * say, As years wear on in ever-deepening gloom; ,. "Children, enjoy the sunshiae while you * may, And pluck the flower in its morning bloom." ?Alex. Hayes in Argosy. PITH AND POINT. Moves in the best society.?A fan. "Just like him."?His photograph. Home rule.?Wipe your feet beforff you come in. The first woman in the land?the first woman who was bom?Si/lings. Lawyers dress pretty well, notwithstanding the fact that they occasionally lose a suit. "I really believe my work is telling," remarked the society reporter.?Burlington, Free Press. - "Mark my words," said the pubHc speaker, and the stenographer marked them.?Boston Transcript. 'ryS It is said that bees possess the power of memory. So does the one that has ever interferred with them. Distance doesn't lend enchantment to the view when you are looking at a pretty girl.?Boston Courier. "What is celerity, Johnnie?" "Danno; guess it's something to put down hot aishes with."?St. Paul Herald. \ The greatest drawback to painting th? town red is that some of the color sticks to the painter's nose.?Philadelphia Call. A man called at the home for little wanderers in Boston the other day and wanted to know if they admitted undersized tramps.?Burlington Free Press. Who is rich? And who is happy? Who could be content with lass? Let us see?his name is?name is? Pshaw, we've lost the man's address I ?Washington Critic, . 4 "This way,gentlemen, to the American dwarf, to be seen only through a hundredfold magnifying glass; totally invisible to the naked eye."?Fliegends Blaetter. lie (with a view toward further ac quaintance with owner): "What s ,.fj? pretty little dog! He wouldn't bite me, would he?" Sne: "Ob, no, we give 6alt food only."?Tid-Bits. A physiologist says that "no man'? body is as strong as his appetite." This explains why the pile of victuals a tramo can eat is bigger than ihe pile of wood he can saw in a day.?Norrutown Herald. ' "Well, what do you think of the new neighbors who have moved in next door, Mrs. Pryerif" 4'I haven't had a chanc? to form an opinioo. They haven't had a washing hung out yet."?Boston Courier. Maternal instinct. Mamma (to Lucy, who has stumbled and smashed her doll's head)?"Don't cry, my dear; it can't be : | be helped." Luey?"Oh, mamma dearl you don't know how I feel: you've never lost a child."?Judge. A distracted Boston spinster' askfl: "Why are beaux so scarce?" They are not scarce. As a matter of fact, there are more beaux now than there erer were. But they are wild because they arc hunted se much.?BroMyn Eagle. .. , ;> Sir John Lubbock has tamed a wasp s> that he strokes its back and allows it to sit down on his hand. One of these days it will sit down hard and Sir John will wish he had spent his time in some mora useful sort of employment?Burlington Free Press. It is hard to surprise some country landlords. A Boston man had scarcely registered the name of Christopher Columbus at a village tavern in Wisconsin when the landlord reached out his paw and exclaimed: "How are ye. Chris? Bin expectin' ye ever since the year 1492!"?Detroit Free Press. A small boy surprised his teacher at one of the grammar schools yesterday by asking her how far a procession of the - * - * * 1J 4.Presidents of the Lmtea states wouiu reach if they were placcd in a row. On her expressing her ignorance he calmly announced: "From Washington to Cleveland."?Springfield, liepiiblicun. ONLY A BARBER. . 1?! The maidens saw him at the beach; , They thought ha was a lord, So handsome and so debonnair? By all he was adored. He's shaving bearded chins again, And also cutting hair, While chinning to his customers, Behind the barber's chair. ?Boston Courier. ?? vU' How a Famous Picture Was Painted. The circumstances under which Courbct painted his great picture, "La Vngue," arc described by a French writer, who went to ?ntretat to witness a storm. He says: "As 1 stood on tna beach, in the face of the tempest, the thunder of which was deafening, tha wind furious beyond description, and the waves in the midst of a last judgment, I suddenly heard a man say: 'Come and sec < ourbet; he is making something superb.' In a large room, without furniture, in a house on the cliff, looking out to sea, I found a big, fat man, dirtily clad, and holding a kitchen knife in his hand, with which he was putting large daubs of white paint upon a clean canvas. From time to time he went to the window and looked at the tempest. The angry sea came so near th:it it covered the house with foam and struck it with a force that threatened its destruction. The dirty, sandy water ran in torrents over the window and walls. On the mantel there was a bottle of cider and a lialf?i?ca N'mv and then Courbet Uiiuu. gtcw?? - ? took a few swallow-, and then returned to his work. And this was the way he painted the picture that has made so much noise in the world." Ue adds: ' On the same shore I one day saw a little old man painting on a little square piece of ranvas, softly and tranquilly, with hardly ft perceptible movement. He had long white hair, u soft voice, and a vmile upon his lipa. His name wa? Corot."?Baton Fait. * -