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" *t. " 7 REV. DR.TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject of Discourse: "A Broad Gos* pel." (Preached at Des Moines, Iowa.) ill at: owme hiuu unu at'j riuu&e uuv (he ark."?Genesis vii., 1. We do not need the Bible to prove the Deluge. The geologist's hammer announces It. Sea-shells and marine formations on the top of some of the highest mountains of the earth prove that at some time the waters washed over the top of the Alps and the Andes. In what way the catastrophe came, we know not; whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe, God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was t,o be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three Cunard steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden times. The ship is done. The door is open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah: "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one human family embarked on the strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut, A great storm sweeps along the hills, and bends the cedars until all the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a dying world. The blackness of the heavens is* shattered by the flare of the lightnings, that look down into the waters, and throw a ghasthness on the face of the mountains. How ?trange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of rain plash ujiou the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest. Crash! go the rocks in convulsion! Boom go the bursting heavens. The inhabitants of the earth, instead of fleeing to house-top and mountain-top, as men havo fancied, sit down in dumb, white horror to die. For when God grinds mountains to pieces, and lets the ocean slip its cable, there is no place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tumble in the surf; while from its windows the passengers look out upon the shipwreck of a race, and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to the sea! I am no alarmist. When, on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equinoctial storm is coming, you simply state a fact not to be disputed. > either anil an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming, compered with which Noah's deluge was but an April shower; and that it is the wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went forth to Noah sounds iu our ears: 'Come thou and all thy house into the ark." "Well, how dul Noali and his family come into the ark? Did they climb in at the window, or come down the roof? No; they went through the door. And just so, if we get into the arte of God's mercy, it will be through Christ the door. The entrance to the ark of old must have been a very large entrance, j We know that it was from the fact that there were monster animals in the earlier ages; and, in order to get them into th9 ark two and two, according to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and very high. So the door into the mercy of God is a large door. W e go in, not two b* two, but byhundreds, and by thousands, ancl by millions. Yea. all the nations of the earth may go in, ten millions abreast. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is through the side of Christ?the pierced side, the wide-open side, the heart side?that we enter. Alia! the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour's side, expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. 0, what a broad Gospel to preach! If a man is abont to give an entertainment, he issues one or two hundred invitations, carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God our Father makes a banquet, and goes out to the front door of heaven and stretches out his hands over land and sea, and, with a voice that j penetrates the Hindoo jnngle and the Green land ice-castle, and Brazilian grove, and English factory, and Amercan home, cries out: "Come, for all things are ttow ready." It is a -wide door! The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the aoor-posts, so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on days of great rejoicing, So Christ, our King, comes and scatters the jewels of heaven. Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get into heaven through At" f Kn Put k<> imn MA* vtctivw ui mo uwi. uuu tic uuu obliged thus to go in. After having preached the gospel in Surrey Chap il, goin<r up toward heaven, the gate-keeper cried : '"Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let this man come in." The dying thief went in. Richard Baxter anil Robert Newtown went in. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America may yet go through this wide door .without crowding. Ho,every one!?all conditions,all ranks.all people. Luther said that this truth was worth carrying on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem; but I think it worth carrying all around the globe, and all around the heavens, that "'God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth iu Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.*' Whosoever will, let him come through the lar^c door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever, and then he said that he could move the world. Calvary is the fulcrum, and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by that power all nations shall yet > lifted. .Further: It is a door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted, or rolled on hinges; but this door of Christ opens both ways. It swings out toward all our woes; it swings in to worn luw rapuirea ui uravcu. it bwiugb ui iaj let us in; it swings out to let our ministering ones come out. All are one in Christ?Christians on earth and saints in heaven. "One array of the living God, At His command we bow; Part of the host liave crossed the flood. And part crossing now." Swing in, Oh blessed door! until all the earth shall go in and live. Swing out until all the heav.ens come forth to celebrate the victory. But. further, it is a door with fastenings. The Bible says of Noah: "The Lord shut him in." A ves el without bulwarks or doors would not lie a safe vessel to go in. When Noah and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were very glad. Unless those doors were" fastened, the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them; and they might as well have perished outside the ark as iuside the ark. "1 lie Lord shut him in." Oh, the perfect safety of the ark! The surf of the sea and tha lightnings of the sky may be twisted into a garland of snow and fire?deep to di-ep, storm to storm. darkness to darkness; hut oiu-o m tue arK, au is well. "God shut hiui in." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. He had his thousands to lend; now he cantiot borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York, and had branch houses in Boston, Philadelphia and New Orleans. He ownod four horses, and employed a mantoke -p the dust off his coach, Ehaeton, carriage and curricle; now he has ard work to get shoes in which to walk. The great deep of commercial disaster was broken up, and fore, ami aft, and across the hurricane deck, the waves struck him. But ho was safelv sheltered from the storm. "The Lord shut him in. "'A flood of domestic trouble fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted. The winds blew. The heavens are aflame. All the gardens of eartlily de. light are washed away. The fountains of joy are buried fifteen cubits deep. But, standing by the empty crib, and in the desolate nursery, and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forever, he cried: "The Lord gave, the lx>rd hath taken away; bles6ed be the name of the Lord." "The Lord shut him in."' All the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, tho outrageous profanities, the misdemeanors of twenty years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out: The boundless ocean t\f hia oin iiiiTiimii!?<I his soul. howling like a simooui, raving like an euroclydou. But, looking out of the window, he saw his sins sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heaven brought an olive-branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward heaven. " The Lord shut him in." The same door-fastenings that kept Noah in keep the world out. 1 ain glad to know that when a man reaches heaven all earthly troubles are clone with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family; there he will never hunger any more. Here he may lmve wept bitterly; there "the Lamb that in the midst of tha throne will lead him to living fountains of water, and God will wine away all tears from his eyes." Here he J may have hard wont to get a house; but in my I Father's house are many mansions, and redt ( j day never comes. Here there are death-beds,and | coffins, and graves; there no sickness, no l weary watching, no choking cough, no con suming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come up and luiock at the door, but no admittance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knoci' on the door, but no admittance. Safe | iorev r! All the agony of earth in one wave 1 dashiug against thy bulwarks of the ship of I celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on, ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord?"the Lord shut him in." 0, what a grand old door! so wide, so I easily swung both ways, and with such sure , fastenings. No burglars key can pick that i I?I. ou-or+hv a 1*1)1 rtf hull fan shove hjir-L- i I the bolt, i rejoice that 1 do not ask you to J come aboard a crazy craft with leaking hulk, ! and broken helm, and unfastened door; but an ark fifty cubits wide, and three hundred cubits long, and a door so large that the round earth, without grazing the posts, might be bowled in. Now, if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live, and die, and triumph, come i into the ark. Know well that the door that j shut Noah in shut the world out; and though, when the pitiless storm came pelting on their heads, they Iteat upon the door, saying: "Let me in! let me in!" the door did not open. I For 130 years they were invited. They exJ pected to come in; but the Antediluvians ! said: "We must cultivate these fields; i we must be worth more flocks of I sheep and herds of cattle; we will wait ; until we get a little older; wo will enjoy our old farm a little longer." But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The fouutains of : heaven were filling up. The pry was being ; placed beneath the foundations of the great j deep. The last year had come, the last month, the last week, the last day, the last hour, the ! last moment. Iu an awful dash, an ocean j dropped from the sky, and another rolled up I from beneath; and liod rolled the earth and sky into one wave of universal destruction. So men now put off going into the ark. I They say they will wait twenty years first. | They wiil have a little longer time with their j worldly associates. They will wait until they 1 get older. They say: "You cannot expect a i man of my attainments and of my position to I surrender*myself just now. But before tho storm comes. 1 will go in. Yes, I will, I know what I am about. Trust me." After j awhile, one night about twelve o'clock, goin<* j home, he passes a scaffolding as a gust of wind I strikes it.and a plank falls. Dea^h! and outside the ark! Or,riding in the park,a reckless vehicle crashes into him. and his horse becomes unmanageable, and he shouts, " Whoa! Whoa!" and takes another twist in the reins, and plants his feet against the dash-board, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down tho avenue that he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wreck of the crash his body is drawn, but his soul is not picked up. It fled behind a swifter courser into the great future. Dead! and outside the ark! Or, some night, he wakes up with a distress that momentarily increases, until he shrieks out with win. Tho doctors come in, and they give him twenty drops, fifty droj<s, sixty drops, but no relief. Is o time for prayer. No time to read one of the promises. No time to get a single sin pardoned. The whole house [ is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The pulses fail. The heart stons. The soul flies. Oh, my God! dead! and outside tho ark! I have no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark. The world laughed to sae a man go in, and said: "Here is a man starting for tha ark. Why, there will be no deluge. If there is one, that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha! going into the ark! | 'Well, that is too good to keep. Here, fellows, | have you heard tlie news? This man is going I into the ark." Under this artillery of scorn | the man's good resolution perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. The ypung man asks liimself: "What would they say at the store to| morrow morning, if I should become a ChrisI tian ? When I go down to the club-house they would shout: "Here conies that new Christian. Suppose you arc praying now. Get down on your knyes and let us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a touch. Will "not do ft, eh ? Pretty Christian you are.'" Is it not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of tbe kingdom of God' Whioh of thesescorners will kelp you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of tiiem will be there? In the day of eternity, will they bail you out? My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Cora? in through Christ, the wide door?the door that swings out toward you. Come in, and be saved. Come and be happy. "The Spirit and the Bride say, Come." Room in the ark! Room in the ark I But do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. "Come thou and all thou house." That means your wife and your children. You cannot drive tliem in. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark, he would only have scattered them. Some parents are not wise about these things. They make iron .Jules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat, as they would hold the child's nose and force down a dose of rhubarb and calomel. You cannot drivo your children into the ark. You can draw your children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. The cross was lifted, not to drive, but to draw. "If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me." As the sun draws up the drops of morning dew, so tho Sun of Righteousness exhales the tears of repentance. ' Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Be sure that you bring your husband and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if, when he' heard the raiu pattering on the roof of the ark, he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No; she went with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outward bound" for heaven, but your companion is unsheltered. You remember when the marriage-ring was set. Nothing has yet bccu able to break it. Sickness came, and ilia linger shrank, but the riug staid on. i tio twain stood alone above a child's grave, and the dark mouth of the tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes; but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days of poverty came, and the hand did many a hard day's work ; but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Sliall that ring ever be lost? Will the iron clang of the sepulchre-gate crush it-forever? I pray God that you who have been marred on earth may be together in heaven. Oh! by tho quiet bliss of your earthly home; by the babe s cradle; by all the vows of that day when you started life together, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in, and bring your wire or your husband with you?not by fretting about religion, or dtag-aonging tdem about religion, but by a consistent life, and by a compeling prayer that shall bring the throne of Goa down into your bedroom. Better live in the smallest house in Brooklyn and get into heaven than live fifty years in the finest house on Madison Square, and wake up at last and find that one of you, for all eternity, is outsiie the ark. Go home to-night; lock the door of your room: take up the Bible and read it together, and then rneel down and commend your souls to Him who has watched you all thesj years; aud, before you rise, there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel crying to angel: "Behold they pray!" But this does not include all your family. Bring the children too. God bless the dear children! What would our homes be without them? We may have done much for tb<>m. They have done more for us. What a salvo ror a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good-night C From our coarse, rough life, the angels of God are often driven batik; but who comes luiu uie nursery wnnoui leeimg mat angels are hovering around? They who die in infancy go into glory, but you are expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rings through all the corridors, and windings, and heights, and deplhs of your soul, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eternity. 1'0!" you say, "I mean to seo that they have goo 1 manners.'' Very well. "1 mean to dress them well, if I have myself to go shabby." Very goo 1. "1 shall give them an education, and 1 shall leave them a fortune." Very well But is that alir Don't you mean to take them into the ark? Don't you know that the storm is coining, and that out of Christ there is no safety? no pardon.' no hope? no heaven? How to get them in? Go in yourself. If Noah had staid oat, do you not suppose that his sons, bhwn, Ham, and Japhct, would have staid out/ Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and the probability is tliut your children will reject Hun. An account was taken of the religious condition of fauilies iu a certain district. In the families of pious parents, two-thirds of the children were Christians. In the families where the parents w?ro ungodly, only onetwelfth of ihe children were Christians. Responsible as you are for their temporal existence, you are also responsible for their eter| nity. Which way will you take them? Out into the deluge, or into the ark? Have you ever mado one earnest prayer for their immortal souls? What will you say in the I judgment when God asks: "whereis Georea. A RELIGIOUS READING. The Chambered Nautilus. (BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES?FROM ATi L ANTIC MONTHLY.) j This is the ship of pear, which poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main? The venturous bark that fling*, On the sweet summer wind its purple wings, In gulf enchanted where the syren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where tho cold sea-maid3 rise to sun their streaming hair. Its web of living gauze no more unfurl, or Henry, or Frank( or Mary, or Anna! Where are those precious souls whose interests I committed into your hands?" A dying son said to his father: "Father, you gave me an education, and good manners, and everything that the world could da forme; but, father, you never told mo how to die, and now my soul is going out in the darkness." Go home and erect a family altar. You may break down in your prayer. But nevoi mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelligibly or not. Bring all your house into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up' Is he so dissipatec that you have stopped counselling and praying? Give him up? How dare you give him upi Did God ever give thee up/ Whilst thou hasts single articulation of speech left, cease not t< pray for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on the beach at Hong Kong or Madras, meditating a return to his father's house. Give him up ? Nevei give lum up. Has God promised to hear thj prayer only to mock thee? It is not too late. In St. TauTs, Loudon, there is a whisperinggallery. A voice uttered mast feebly at on< side of the gallery is heard distinctly at thi opposite side, a great distance off. So, everj word of earnest pra}rer goes all around thi earth, and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark?not to sit down, but to stand in the door, and call until al' the family come in. Aged Noah, where ij Japhet? David, where is Absalom? Hannah, where is Samuel? Bring them in through Christ the door. Would it not be pleasant t? spend eternity with our families? Gladdei than Christmas or Thanksgiving festival wiV I>e the reunion, if we get all our family int<i the ark. Which of them can we spare out oi heaven? On one of the late steamers there were n father and two daughters journeying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffei some form of relief, and said: "You seem to be very poor, sir." "Poor, sir," replied the man, "if there's a poorer man than me a troubling the world, God pity both of us!" "I will take one of your children, and adopt it, if you say so. 1 think it would be a great relief to you." "A what?" said the poor man. "A relief.7' "Would it be a relief to have the hands chopped off from the body, or the heart torn from the breast? A relief, indeed! God be good to us! What do you mean, sir?" However many children we may hare, we have 110110 to give up. Which or our families can we afford to spare out of heaven? Come, father! Come, mother! Come, son! Come,daughter! Come, brother! Come,sister! Only one stop, and we are in Christ, the door, swings out to admit us; and it is not the hoarseness of a stormy blast that you hear, but tflie voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, saying: "Come thou and aJI thy house into the ark." And there may the Lord shut us in. TEMPERANCE. Wine's Work. I once was so happy, .light-hearted and free, No sorrow encompassed, no clouds could I see; But ah, ye deceiver, the rose tinted wine, Ye cruel heart breaker, why did you break mine. 1 once had a mother, so gentle and true, With love never failing, and meek eyes of blue; But ah, since the wine cup hath made me its slave, In sorrow and weeping, she hafeh gone to her grave. I once had a dear wife's caresses and love, But she, too, hath gone to the fair world above; Deep soitow was stamped on her innocent brow; Too lata, I'm repenting, shell never come now. I once had a daughter, the pride of my heart, I thought there was nothing could tear ua apart; But ah, 'tis the ruddy, the sweet flowing wine, That robs men of pleasure; it robbed me of mine. I once had a sister, with beauty and grace, The roses have faded, and pale is her face; But ah, ye cbceivcr. the rose tinted wine. Have taken mv darlings, and now I repine. ?Alice B. Butler. From ? Business View. WTiile principles of total abstinence readily recommend themselves to that flirt rlclnfr minlinftf] AYlfl WO |A/i bivu VI IUV/ .. ? manhood whose consciences are the trained regulators of their habits and acts, there remains an all too numerous class whose moral perceptions are not sufficiently acute to warn them of the dangers of the alcohol habit, simply because it is a sin against God and humanity. Even the considerations of personal health, backed up by the laws of physiology and endorsed by the honest scientists of every age, are forgotten or ignored in the fateful rush for a draught of the Lethean waters that deaden soul and sense, and obliterate every vestige of the God-like physical image. As a last plain, practical argument, there can be advanced the inducement that entire freedom from the use of stim ulants is, in American parlance, "gooa business." The life-insurance system, which has of late grown to be a leading commercial enterprise, has been obliged to consider from a purely business standpoint the effect of intoxicants on the duration of human life. A representative of an old and well-established company in Hartford, Conn., has recently stated that from a careful examination of their records, and by the calculation of an expert actuary, it has been found that even the moderate-drinker reduces his chances of life to a suicidal extent by the selfassumcd habits of tippling. The total abstainer at twenty years, has, it is found, a probabilityof leachingthe age of sixtyfour by rfMitinuing in the walks of a sober life, while the moderate-drinker at twenty can only look forward to a fifteen and a half years' lease of life under the rule of the despot Alcohol. Facts like the above, obtained from people with whom mortality is a matter of dollars aud cents, carry their own lessou. When life-insurance companies came into our commerce, the drink-habit was hardly considered by them. As its effects touched their pockets, they were aroused to inquiry, and soon no applicant was received who confessed to being intemperate. The line was soon after drawn at "habitual use," and it is only companies of questionable stability that do not insist upon accurate information as to the drinking habits of its would-be members. The authority above cited warrants the inference that if it were practicable these companies would even insist on total abstinence. It would certainly be greatly to their benefit 11 every man nicy nisurcu neither touched nor tasted of the invisible spirit concealed in the seductive beverages that slay their consumers with a Philistine hand. Recollect, then, that it pays, in a purely business way, to refrain and abstain from contact with a foe so aggressive and whose triumph is merelj ' a simple question of time. Total abstinence is of a verity "good business!"? i Witness. \ Wrecked istbe ship of pearl! And every chambered cell, Where its dim, dreaming life was wont to dwell, And the frail tenant shaped his growling shell, Before tliee lies revealed? Its inside ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil; Still, as the spiral grew, Ho left the past years dwelling for the new, Stole with soft step the shining archway through, i Built up its idle door: j Stretched in his last found home and know the old no more. I Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering fea, Cast from her lap, forlorn. From thy dead lip3 a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn I While on mine ear it rings Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: DUIJU LLI Jliiuio oiauoij iiiauaiuua, v .IUJ JVU?. As the swift season rolll Leave thy low-vaulted past Let each new temple, nobler than the last Shut thee from heaven with a dome mora vast, Till thou at length are free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting seal The Way to Give. As I was riding one Sabbath with a farmer to church, we fell into conversa* tion on the subject of giving. He was an elder in tho Presbyterian Church, a man between fifty and sixty years of age. Said he, "I give a tenth of all I make to the Lord. Every crop of corn, every load of hay, every dozen of eggs I sell, ] j keep account of, and one-tenth of the I profit goes to the Lord. It seems rather j hard at first; but all that is past long j ago. Now I have only to distribute I -u-! i. _i 1? ? r tn WilUl IS UirCllUjr ^JIVCII. X urn H-UV4J vu listen to any reasonable application, s^nd if I tliink it a good object, it is nothing but a pleasure to give. That tenth, ] have come to feel, belongs to God. ] never touch it. I should as soon thiink of spending my neighbor's money as that." About the same time I met the pas tor of this man. Said he, "That farmer is not only the largest giver, but the rao3t cheerful giver in my parish. I preach in two churches. He helps liberally in sustaining both, and tho money he gives is the least of the blessings ho bring3 to us." Some time after this I was conversing with a friend in Chicago, a young business man, on the same subject. "Yes," said he, "I determined when I wais a clerk, the first year that I earned anything for myself, that I would set aside a fixed percentage oi my mcomo ior ucnevolence. I made the resolution, and I have kept it." "Well, you began early," I remarked. "So I did," was the reply, "and it was well I did. My salary was small, and to give the proportion I fixed upon was hard; but there has never been a year since when it would not have been harder. A year or two after I went into business for myself; it looked as though every cent was needed for capital. I am afraid I shouldn't have commenced the system that year. But having resolved and made a beginning already, I waj ashamed te retreat. Then, the year after I was married. That year I should 1 have bested off, I am sure; if it had not | been for the habit, by that time pretty well settled. That carried rae through. Soon after came our big fire; then hard times, epizootics; in fact, almost every year, something to make that particular year a bail one to begin. Now, I always say to my friends, "Begin to give as soon as you begin to make; start early." I do not c r i:nly know what portion ot his income :ii<; young merchant gives. Probably a teulh; not less, I am suro. So liere in Cleveland. A young man just beginning his business life came to mp nlnnp n fi-w evnninfrs 9inee. and snid "I like this idea of giving a regular proportion, and I'm going to begin now. I think I'll give a tenth. This year that will be five hundred dollars. It looks like a good deal to give away; aud my business is growing; it will be more yet, I expect, next year; but it's the right way. Sly old Bib c-class teacher used to talk to us boys about it, and I'm going io lo it."?A'tluir Mitchell. D. D. They that are in God, being united to 1 him through Christ, can never by any power be separated from him. Death, that is the great dissolver of all other unions, civil and natural, is so far from untying this, that it consummates it; it conveys the soul into the nearest and fullest enjoyment of God, who is its life where it shall not need to desire aa it were from a distance; it shall then be at the spring-he;\d, and shall be satisfied i with His love forever.?[Archbishop i Leighton. I Qreat Question of the A<;e. | We have to look up and beyond to sec the full measure of our responsibility on this great question of liquor-seliing. i It is only a low, groveling nature that ; will consent to apologize for the traffic, i und belittle the Prohibition movement of > to-day.?Deinorest ' i Dr. N. 8. Davis, of Chicago, has not oncc during a half-century of practice prescribed alcoholic liquor. I OCEAN WOLVES. PERILS MET WITH IN A HUNT FOR MAN-EATING SHARKS. A Bloody Battle Off the New England Coast? Means Adopted to Entrap the Wary Monters of the Seas. The great number of sharks which inhabit the waters along our coast make it an easy matter to fish for them. Scarcely an ocean steamer or sailing vessel leaves our ports that is not followed by one or morn of the creatures, rpsidv to flavour whatever may be thrown overboard. The peculiar, cylindrical shape of the shark adapts it both for great strength and speed in the water. The pectoral fins are moderately devolopcd, and serve both as guides and propellers. In nearly every respect they answer the same purpose for the shark that wings answer for a bird. But the great tail is the shark's principal motive power ana its instrument of defence and attack. This immense weapon ia capable of delivering blows that would crush the life out of an ordinary animal, and the rapidity with which it is sometimes moved about in the water, when the creature is excited or wounded, causes great waves to rock to fro on the surface like a miniature whirlpool. A group of large sharks, when viewed from thfi dermic of an oman sfAamw. is a most interesting sight. Then the beauty of the monsters can be fully appreciated and the graceful actions of the younger members of the sportive crowd admired without fear. A piece of beef or pcjrk thrown into the water causes a commotion near the vessel's side that lends additional pleasure to the scene, and as the several dark forms rush rapidly toward the floating bait, you have a fair opporiunity of seeing the ravenous creatures eating their meal. If by accident one gets wounded in the fight for the morsel of meat, a battle-royal then occurs. The water is soon dyed to a crimson color and the foam is lashed about in a furious manner. The wounded shark makes a bold stand for his life, but his voracious comrades throw themselves unon the un fortunate member without ceremony, and soon rond limb from limb, leaving nothing but the bones behind, which the seabirds finally peck clean. For miles out at sea such a fight can be seen, and the noise created by the strong tails lashing the water sounds like the wheels of a ferry-boat, only much louder. In these mid-ocean battles whole schools of sharks are often engaged, and before the fighting is ended a dozen or more of the creatures have been destroyed and the rest gorged with their remains. When the appet ite of the school is satisfied they be. come content and the battle is stopped as if by mutual assent. Evidently the law of the survival of the fittest is carried out rigorously among the shark family, and "might makes right" appears to be their motto. The largest and strongest can resist the attacks the longest and make the weaker ones their prey. These inhabitants of the deep have l\n/\n rtrtllrtfl inn ?\rvi?A?\r5of nl n t 'f V?e% UCCII LUUUU, UVC XUUr^|ilV/piai.V>iT? vuu wolves of the ocean." Their habits and mode of attack are very similar to our Western wolves, and, like them, they always travel in flocks or schools. When far from the shore they become bolder in their actions, and will even venture to attack small craft singly when hard pressed for hunger. But ^hen confined in a bay they bccomc shy and cowardly. The shallowness of the water frightens them, and they shun the approach of man with as much dread as do our Western wolves when caught on some open prairie in broad daylight. But, if cornered, and their life threatened, they will sometimes turn upon their enemy with the fierceness of despair, and oiler a dosperate battle. They frequent the bays and the waters near the shore, however, in great numbers at certain certain seasons of the year, as mid-ocean offers a very poor feeding crround for them. To appease their vora cious; appetites they arc "compelled to be in constant activity, and it requires but a moment to gulp several smaller fish down their huge throats. They are never really satisfied with their meal, and will snap at anything that may float near them in the shape of "meat. This offers the fishermen great; opportunities, and every year they haul in hundreds of these fierce fish. Oil the New England coast, men go out every fall to hunt sharks. On clear days, when the surface of the ocean is comparatively calm, the animals are very abundant, and little dfficultv is experienced in hauling in from, eight to ten in one day. The bodies are brought ashore and sent to the mills that make fertilizers, and the teeth, after being extracted, are fashioned into deli a? -.1. i_ i.i. r cate ntue ornaments, slc iu guiu-, ioi ladies to wear. The beaches iu many places, after the summer season is over, arc strewn with bleaching sharks' heads which the summer visitors caught during their short sojourn near the sea, The sport attached to the work of hauling in the great monster is the principle inducement for hunting them. A large, strong whale boat is fitted out with all the necesssfi.ry appurtenauces and taken at a sufficient distance from the shore. A largo shark hook is then attached to the end of a rope and thrown overboard. The , bait used is sometimes beef, pork or clams. The shark is not particular about its diet, and it quickly swallows the luscious morsel, including hook, line and all. It then starts olf in another direction, reeling out the long rope as it does so, until the fishermen gradually checks ! its hondwav. and ultiniitcly brings it to a standstill. Then they begin to reel in on their end of the line,and in a short time boat and shark come so close together that they have an opportunity of scrutinizing each other. Like the codfish, the shark allows itself to be dragged through the water like a log, offering no resistance, nor making any splashing time. IJut when it is drawn close to the boat and its sharp eye catches the first glimpse of its deadly enemies, then it begins to manifest its displeasure in a v.-jy that is appalling to a greenhorn. It dashes hither and thither with the impetuosity of despair, churning the water into great billows with its strong tail, and ruakingthe whaleboat; rock up and down like a cockle i shell. But its efforts prove ot no avail; the heavy reel slowly winds around and draws it nearer to its fate. The executioner stands in the bow of the boat with his heavy club or axe and watches the i.ntics of the creature with sharp eyes, ready to administer the fatal blow as soon as the word is given. With a furious dive the huge monster dashes madly at the side of the boat, and then before the club can descend it retreats and rushes off in auot her direction. The blood, meanwhile, issues from its throat in a red stream, and colors the surrounding water to a dark crimson. A few sharp fins can be seen a dozen yards distant, approaching the scene of the combat slowly and cautiously. They have scented the blood of the wounded shark, and have hurried up to see the cause of the conflict. The sight of the men in the boat, however, kcepa . v.- v ^ - .. them at a respectful distance. Suddenly the great jaws of the captured animal dart out of the water close to the side of whale boat, and, before they can be shut again, a resounding blow from the man at the bow of the boat falls upon the great head. A dark film rushes across the glaring eyes, and a stream of blood bursts forth from the nostrils. The creature makes another desperate effort to close its jaws upon the boat, or anything in its reach, but the heavy blows are rained rapidly upon the round head, until the brains ooze out of the heavy cuts in the skull. A convulsive gasp runs through the largo mass, and witn a gurgle the animal rolls over dead.?Mail and Express. WORDS OF WISDOM. Ill sowers makes ill harvest. The boughs that bear most hang lowest. Life is half spent e'er we know what it is. Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities. Men's years and their fruits are always more than they are williug to own. The silent man may be overlooked now, but he will get a hearing by and by. Tf - ,T i. ii wi; uu uut Jianui uui^ciycc, tuo j flattery of others will not be able to injure i us. When the forenoons of life are wasted there is not much hope of a peaceful evening. The heart that is fullest of good works has in it the least room for the temptations of the enemy. Bad custom, consolidated into habit, is such a tyrant that men sometimes cling to vices, even while they curse them. Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practises them into an incarnate demon. "When two start in the world together, he that is thrown behind, unless his mind proves generous, will be displeased with the other. Life is never all work or sorrow; and happy hours, helpful pleasures, are mercifully given like wayside springs to pilgrims trudging wearily along. TVeH-Preserved Meat. The River Viloui, in North Siberia, is frozen a greater part of the year. In the cold season the natives follow its course to the South; and as spring comes on they return. It was during one of these migrations that an entire rhinocerous was discovered. The river, swollen by the melting snow and ice, had overflowed its banks and undermined the frozen ground, until finally, with a crash, a huge mas3 of mingled earth and ice broke away ana came thundering down. Some of the more daring natives ventured near and were rewarded by a sight wonderful in the extreme. A broad section of icy earth had been exposed, and hanging from a layer of ice and gravel was a creature so weird that at first they would not approach it. It hung partly free, and had evidently been unepvered by the landslide. From the head extended a long horn, as tall as some of the children, while behind it was another, smaller one. But the strangest feature of this curious monster was that it was covered with Tiair. At first, the astonished discoverers thought the creature was alive, and that it had pushed aside the earth, and was coming out. But the great rhinoceros was dead, and had probably been entombed thousands of years. The body was frozen as hard as stone, and the haircovered hide seemed like frozen leather, and did not hang in folds as does the skin of living species. Several months passed before the animal was entirely uncovered, and so perfectly had nature preserved it, that it was then cut up and the flesh given to tiie dogs. The news of this discovery passed from native to native and from town to town, until it reached the ears of a government officer. Heat once sent orders for the preservation of the carcass, but the flesh had already been destroyed; and now only its head and feet are preserved in one of the great museums of Russia.? St. Nicholas. Cochineal. Cochineal, as found in trade, is the dried body of the female cochineal insect, which lives on a species of cactus. During life it is about the size of a small lady-bug. It is rather long, compressed, equally broad all over, wingless and marked behind with deep incisions and wrinkles. It fastens itself upon the plant by means of a trunk placed placed between the forefeet and remains there till it dies. The sap of the plant provides this little animal with nourishment. The male insect resembles the fc| male only during the larva state. The mules, after passing through the pupa state, are winged. Their whole period of life is from two to three months. The cochineal msccts are gathered shortly before they lay eggs, and they arc then very rich in coloring matter. Only suflicient eggs are laid as may serve to reproduce the insect. The dead females arc also collected. They are killed with hot water or steam, and dried in the sun, in ovens or on plates. Tlicy have a brown, red. white or black color, and lose in the | drying two-thirds of their weight. After drying the cochineal is sieved. About 70,000 insects go to make a pound of cochineal.?Cultivator. A Young Merchant. Some odd facts are occasionally found fust, beneath a most commonplace surface. Happening in a large hat and cap establishment?wholesale?the other day, I inquired for the proprietor. A boy about eleven years old was pointed out to me. "I3ut I want to see the proprietor," I i said. "Iam the proprietor of this store j ?what can I do lar you?" exclaimed the | lad. And, sure enough, investigation proved that he was the actual owner of the establishment, and nominally the head of the firm. Ilis father had owned the store, but, having other business as well, and not wishing to carry them both in his own name, presented the hat and cap establishment to his eleven-year-old ! son, and placed the boy in 'Charge. Of \ course, the father still exercises general control, but the legal head of the firm, signer of checks, keeper of the combination of the safe and man of authority is the son, undoubtedly the )fouugcst wholesale merchant in Chicago.?Chicago Herald. TnvfAicnV Fnnmiod. A lie XVi VVIOV Q uuv?k>vv? Of all its foes there arc but two which the tortoise cannot escape. These are men and the boa-constrictor. Attack a tortoise, and it will draw itself within its shell, and keep quiet till danger passes. The jaguar can do nothing with it, for its jaw is not strong enough to break the shell. The boa-constrictor, however, swallows shell and all, and slowly digests the whole. The natives, of course, arc too many for the poor tortoiso. They can carry it off bodily and starve it out, or?which is their commoner plan?roost it in its shell.? Little Folks. THE HOME DOCTOR. J Serious Burns. I Wli<en a serious burn occurs, the clothes I must be removed as soon as the fire is ex- I tinguished. The first consideration 1 should be to get the clothes of without 1 pulling, as the least dragging brings the I skin too. The injured part should be - . thoroughly drenched with water, and the I clothes cut away. If any part of the gar- J ment sticks, let it remain. Dip cloths in j a thick solution of common baking soda 1 water, and place over the burnt surface, | bandaging lightly so as to keep them in a placc. As soon as a dry spot appears on J this dressing, wet it again by squeezing 1 some soda and water over it. As the saturating will exclude the air, there will be ^-'W no smarting. A rubber sheet, a piece of oil cloth, a gossamer cloak, or any water proof article can be spread on the bed with a blanket over it to receive the sufferer. Should the feet be cold, heat must be applied to them, and a little stimulant given if the pulse is weak. It is well to j have the bed covering warm and light. H A doctor should be called without much 1 deiay. A bum is serious in proportion J to the amount of surface involved. A -J deep burn is not as dangerous as a super- 1 ficial one twice the size. In severe burns | pain is an encouraging sign; it shows 1 there is still vitality left. Scalds may be - treated in much the same way. Sweet I oil may be poured over the surface and j covered with flour. Anything that ex- 1 eludes air will relieve nain. Patients suf- r- "-jsSB fering from such acciaents should have '-:< J concentrated, nourishing food, aJd aa much as they can take with ease. In or- j der to do the necessary repairing, nature j must have plenty of material with which J to accomplish. Only doctors should pre- 1 scribe opiates.?Health and Home. \ Health Hints. j Put hot flannel over the seat of neu- -1 ralgic pain and renew frequently. 1 Use buttermilk for the removal of tan and walnut stains and freckles. I A. roasted or boiled lemon, filled wliil6 j hot with sugar, and eaten still hot, just J before retiring, will often break up a " A few spoonfuls of soup, possessing j body, taken on an empty stomach, gives J it tone and prepares it to receive ac- j fcptably more substantial fare. i A simple remedy for neuralgia is to ap- j ply grated horse-radish prepared the j same as for table use, to the temple j when the face or head is affected, or j to the wrist when the pain is in the arm or shoulder. j What is pleasing in the mouth may j Y-a tVio Ti'nrat- thin or fnr flip fltnmflch. Fast eating is abuse of the stomach. 1 Chewing food well and mixing it with I the saliva of the mouth is the first step j to good digestion. ' Origin of Cinderella. Jjg There is no fairy tale that i3 better j known'or more loved by young readers than j the story of the poor little cinder girl, who j was so ill treated by her cruel sisters, had I juch a delightful god-mother, with a I magic wand, and was so lucky as to lose her pretty glass slipper only to gain a i prince, and become a princess thereby. ] Looking over an old book, we came j upon an anecdote that is said to have been j the origin of this favorite tale. Cinderella's real name, it seems, was Rhodope, and she 1 was a beautiful Egyptian maiden, who j lived 670 years before the birth of Christ, "1 and during the reign of Psammeticus, one of the twelve kings of Egypt. One day Rhodope ventured to go in bathing in a I clear stream near her home and meanwhile '- a| left her shoes, which must have been -J unusually small, lying on the bank. An f Tvnceln rv olwrA rhnnrftd to catch 1 6a8'6) f "^'"{1 ; , sight of the little sandals, and mistaking j them for a toothsome tid-bit, pounce! I down and carried off one in his beak. j The bird then unwittingly played the A part of fairy god-mother, for, flying " directly over Memphis, where King I Psammeticus was dispensing justice, it j let the shoe fall right into the king's lap. j Its size, beauty, and daintiness imftiediately attracted the royal eye, and thy king, j determined upon knowing the wearer of so cunning a shoe, sent throughout all his . ;.*|j kingdom in search of the foot that would j fit it. As in the story of Cinderella, the messengers finally discovered Rhodope, fitted on the shoe, and carried her in ;|j triumph to Memphis, where she became j Ihe queen of King Psammeticus, and the h foundation of the fairy tale that was to j delight boys and girls twenty-four bund red years later.?American Agricul- . Bismarck's Tassel With a Would-Be I Assassin. V "T nr+mnrrlinnrv ftSOane frnm j J,1/TWUJ J r- .. death," writes Bismarck,"partly to the solidity and hardness of my rib,and partly to the strength of my muscles. Biind had scarcely raised his pistol when I * , grappled with him,and got his right arm in a tight grip, which I never relaxed un- -3 til he was secured by a patrol of the ys guard. Of the five shots fired whilst we were struggling only this one (pointing ' to his side; took effect, for I had my wits . about me and managed to keep his pistol- S hand bent outward, except at the end of .:g| tussel, when he succeeded in turning the J barrel full upen my body. But the bul- ' ->a let, though it stung me so sharply that I thought it had gone clcan through me, , --:5a oniy tjiiiuceu uumj uu. ? "I "ran a much more imminent risk from the fair-play instincts of an honest Prussian guardsman than I did from that fooli-.h laa's revolver. You see he was a "/Jjg smallish fellow aud 1 am rather a big one. .Jfl Whilst we were wrestling, my hat fell off | and I suppose my bald head proved a J tempting objoct to one of the soldiers, j who ran up to see what was the matter, ^ hearing the reports of the pistol; for this . worthy fellow, perceiving a tall man, as he fancied, ill-treating a short youth, I clubbcd his rifle, and would assuredly | have brought the butt end down with a crash upon my bare pate had I not caught sight of his attitude in time to shout out : 'Ilold on! I am Bismarc k!' upon which he dropped his weapon in a much greatei 1 fright than even my own." ? BeattyKinadon. Living in a Blue Glass House. 7. Dnrinnr thf> hlnfi fflflss craze a few vears | ^"l *"b " o; *. %- ___ ago Mrs. Ruth Smith, of Bridgeport, Conu., gave the matter her serious atten- '% tion. Being a widow lady of wealth, ahe caused to bb built on the southeast corof her house a room composed entirely of blue glass, into which the sunlight streams during the entire day. Mrs. Smith wears blue glass spectacles, dresses in blue silk and has her meals J brought to this novel room on dishes of -'$ blue glass, where she eats, sleeps and lives. It is stated that she has not been out from her glass home nv-re than ten I minutes at a time in eight years, dur- j ing which period she has no* er felt a pain I or an ache of the slightest description. * I Her neighbors state that a |>erceptiblc .:M change has taken place in her features j during the period of her novel method of Jm living, and her wonderful perservation 3 liovo monv 1a unu gfj? UCUIUI IV'? iUU.M %W that there is more virtue in blue gltiss than the general public is willing to concede.?(Jhiatgo Herald. 1 3 _ -.J