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RET. DR. TALMAGE. | THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- ! DAY SERMON Subject: "The Overthrow of the Monster." Text : 'He trill swallow up death in vie- ' ton/."?Isaiah xxr., 8. About eighteen hundred and fifty-three Easter mornings have wakened the "earth. In Prance for three centuries the almanacs ; made the year begin at Easter, until Charles ! IX. made the year begin at January 1st. In the Tower of London there is a royal payroll of Edward I., on which there ' is an entry of eighteen pence for four j hundred colored and pictured Easter | eggs, with which the people sported. | In Russia, slaves were fed and alms were dis- I tributed on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils | met atPontus, at Gaul, at Rome, at Achaia ' to decide the particular day, and after a con- J troversy, more animated than gracious, decided it, and now through all Christendom, in some way the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after March 21, is filled with Easter rejoicing. The Royal Court of the Sabbaths is made i ud of fifty-two. Fifty-oue are princes in the ! royal household, but Easter is queen. She I wears richer diadem, and sways a more J jeweled sceptre, and in her smile nations are irradiated. Unusually welcome this year be- | cause of the harsh winter and the late spring, she seems to step out of the snow-bank rather than the conservatory, come out of the j North instead of the South, out of the Arctic j rather than the tropics, dismounting from the . icy equinox; but welcome this queenly day, j holding high up in her right hand the : wrenched-off bolt of Christ's sepulchre, and ! holding high up in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries in Christendom. It is an exciting thing to see an army routed and flying. They run each other down. ! They scatter everything valuable in the track, j Unwheeled artillery. Hoof of horse on breast j f wounded and dying man. You have read j of the French failing back from Sedan, or Napoleon's track of 90,000 corpses in the 1 anow-banks of Russia, or of the retreat ! of our own armies from Manassas, or of I the live kings tumbling over the rocks of Be- i thoran with their armies, while the hailstorms of heaven and the swords of Joshua's hast struck them with their fury. In my text a It sopms that a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathered for hi3 host all the aches and pains nd malarias and cancers and distempers and epidemics of the ages. He marched them down, drilling thorn in the northwind amid the slush of '.empeats. He threw up barricades of gravemound. He pitched tent of charnel bouse. Some of the troops marched with slow tread commanded by consumptions, some in doublequick, commanded by pneumonias. Some he took by long besiegement of ?evil habit, and some by one stroke of the battle axe of casualty. With bony bands he pounded at the door of hospitals and sick rooms, And won all the victories in all the great battlefields of all the fire continents. Forward march, the conqueror of conquerors, and all ! the Generals and Commanders-in-Chief, and | all Presidents and Kings and Sultans and Czars drop under the feet of his war-charger. But one Christmas night his antagonist waa born. As most of the plagues and sicknesaes and despotisms come out of the East, it was appropriate that the new conqueror shoula come out of i tbesapie quarter. Power is given Him to i awaken all the fallen of all the centuries and j of all lands, and marshal them against the < black giant. Fields have already Deen won, I but the last day of the world's exist- | ence wm see me decisive oaisie. rv nea i Christ shall lead forth His two brigades, the brigade of the risen dead and the brigade I of the celestial host, the black giant will fall I back, and the brigade from the riven I sepulchres will take Him from beneath and | the brigade of descending immortals will take ' Him from above, and death shall be sw&l- : lowed up in victory. The old braggart that threatened the conquest and demolition of tho planet has lost his throne, has lost his sceptre, hug lost his ! palace, has lost his prestige, and the one word j written over all the gates of mausoleum and | catacomb and necropolis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on the lonely khan of the Arc- ' tic explorer and on the catafalque ot great cathedral, written in capitals of azalea and calla lily, written in musical cadence, written in doxology of great assemblages, written on the sculptured door of the family ault, is "victory." Coronal word, embannered word, apocalyptic'woYd, chief word of the triumphal arch under which conquerors j return. Victory! Word shouted at Culloden and ! Balaklnva and Blenheim, at Megiddo and Sol- | ferino, at Marathon, where the Athenians i drove back the Medes; at Poictiers, where I VUOJ too iuai wi Uiv w buo IUUIO KJL tuo Oola* I oens; at Sal amis, where Themistocles in | the great sea - fight confounded the ; Persians, and at tho door of the j Eastern cavern of chiseled rock, where Christ came out tl trough a recess and throttled the King of Terrors and put him I back in the niche from which the celestial Conqueror had just emerged. Aha J,when the jaws of the Eastern mausoleum took down the black giant "death was swallowed up in victory.n I proclaim the abolition of death. .The old antagonist is driven back into mythology with all the lore about Stvgian ferry and Charon with oar and boa't. Melrose Abbey and Kenilworth Castle are no more in ruins than is the sepulchre: We shall have no more to do with death than we have with the cloak-room at a Governor's or President's levee. We stop at such cloakroom and leave in charge of a servant our Overcoat, our oversnoss, our outwara apparel, that we may not be impeded in the ; Brilliant round of the drawing-room. Well, ] my friends, when we go out of this world we j are going to a king's banquet, and to a recep- j won ot monarcns. ana at me uwor 01 me wuiu i we leave the cloak of flesh and tho wrappings j with which we meet the storms of this | world. At'the close of an earthly reception, onfler the brush and broom of 'the porter the [. ?oat or hat may be handed to us better than | when we resigned it^and the cloak of human- | Sty will finally be returned to us improved i and brightened and purified and glorined, j You and I d? not w?_nt our bodtti returned : as tu5y are now. We Witnt to get flu 6* &Ii } their weakenesses and all their susceptibilities i to fatigue and all their slowness of locomotion, j They will bo put through a chemistry i of soil and heat and cold and changing seasons out of which God will reconstruct them as much better than they are now as the body of the rosiest ana healthiest child that bounds over the lawn at Prospeck Park is better than the sickest patient in Bellevue Hospital. But as to our soul, we will cross right over, not waiting for obsequies, independent of obituary, into a state in every way better, with wider room and velocities beyond computation; the dullest of us into companionship with the very best spirits in their very best mood, in the very parlor of the universe, the four walls burnished and paneled and pictured and glodified with all the splendors that the infinite God in all the i -i.u VW^rv' (k^t? u? uvcu uuio w mivuv. ? . This view of course makes it of but little importance whether we are cremated or sepultured. If the latter is dust to dust, the former is ashes to ashes. If any prefer incineration let them have it without caricature. The world may become so crowded that cremation may be universally adopted by law as well as by general consent Many of the mightiest and best spirits have gone through this process. Thousands and tons of thousands of God's j children have been cremated?P. P. Bliss and wife, the evangelistic singers, cremated by ( accident at Ashtabula Bridge; John Rodgers, j cremated by persecution; Latimer and i Ridley, cremated at Oxford; Pothinus, I and Blandida, a slave, and Alexan- I dcr, a physician, and their comrades j cremated at the order of Marcus Aurelius?at j least a hundred thousand of Christ's disciples . cremated?and there can be no doubt about | tiie resurrection of their bodies. If the world ; lasts as much longer as it has already been j ouut, tnere pernap3 may oe no room ror tne j large acreage set apart for the^resting-places, | dus iuat time aas 1101 uuu:o. a icuvj m i uuiu t yet, and the race need not pass that bridge 1 of lira until it comes to it. The most of us | prefer the old way. But whether out of j natural disintegration or cremation we shall get that luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcendent, magiiiiieeut, inexplicable structure called the resurrection body, you will have it, I will have it.. I say to you to-day, as Paul said to Aerippa: "Why should it be thouelit a Wiing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?" Ths far-up cloud, higher than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle fiiea what is it made of i Drops of water from the Hudson, other drops from the East River, !other drops from a stagnant pool out on Newlark flats?up yonder there, embodied ia a cloud, and the sun kindles it. If God can make such a lustrous cloud out of water drop3, many I of them soiled and impure and fetched from | miles away, can He not transport the fragi ments of a human body from the earth and out of them build a radiant body? Cannot God, who owns all the material out of which bones and muscle and flesh are made, set them up again if they have fallen? If a manufacturer of telescopes drop a telescope on the floor and it breaks, can he not mend it again so you can see through it? And if God drops the human eye into the dust, the eye which he originally fashioned, can He not restore it? Aye, if the manufacturer of the telescope by a change of the glass and a change of focus can make a better glass than that which was originally constructed, and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner oi the human" eye may improve its sight and multiply the natural eye by the thousandfold rf tha rOv-iirrupfinn AVA) UUUIUIULUU 1-VJi uro \J J. wuo AW WJ W. "Why should it be thought with you an incredible thing that God should "raise the dead?' Things all around us suggest it. Out of what grew all these flowers.4 Out of the mould and the earth. Resurrected! Resurrected! The radiant butterfly, where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross, that smites the tempest with its wing, where did it come from? A senseless shell. Near Bo rgerac, France, in a Celtic tomb under a block were found flower seed that had been buried two thousand years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted it, and it came up; it bloomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected. A traveler says he found in n mummy-pit in Egypt garden peas that had baen buried there three thousand years ago; He brought them out and on the 4th of June, 1844, he planted them, and in thirty days tney sprang up. buried three thousand years, yet resurrected. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead r Where did all this silk come from?the silk that adorns your persons and vour homes if In the hollow of a staff a Greek missionary brought from China to Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk market of many nations. The pageantry of bannered host and the luxurious articles of commercial emporium blazing out from the silk worms. And who shall be surprised if out of this insignificant earthly body, this insignificant earthly life, our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eternities. Put silver into diluted nitro and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No. Put in somo pieces of copper and the silver reappears. If one force dissolves another force organizes. ''Why should it bo thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The insects flew and the worms crawled last autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped. They have taken no food, they want none. Thoy lay dormant and insensible, but soon the south wind will blow the resurrection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Do you not think '1 ?-* - J J 1- C-" i i:? XJ/* iiiab uoa can uu as luuuu iur uur iaaaics ^ juo does for the wasps and the spiders and the , snails.' This morning at 4:30 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night, the day. In a few weeks there will be a resurrection in all our gardens. Why not some day a resurrection amid all the graves? Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A.trance is death followed by resurrection after a few days1 total suspension of mental ??wer and voluntary, action. Rev. William ennent, a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms?Rev. William Tennent seemed to die. His spirit departed. People came in day after day and said: "He is dead, he is dead." But thesoul that fled returned, and William Tennent lived to write out the experiences of what he had seen while his soul was gone. It may be found some time that what is called suspended animation or comatose state is brief death, giving the soul an excursion into the next world from which it cotnes back, a furlough of o ? a LTjrf LIKSUI 5 11UU1 l/UO tUUlUV,* of life to which it must return. Do not this waking up of men from trance, and this waking up of insects from winter lifeiessness, and this waking up of grains buried three thousand years ago, make it easier for you to believe that your body and mina after the vacation of the grave shall rouse and rally, though there be three thousand years between our last breath and the sounding of the archangelic reveille? Physiologists tell us that while the most of our bodies are built with such wonderful economy that we can spare nothing, and the loss of a finger is a hinderment, and the injury of a toe-joint makes us lame, still that we have two or three useless physical apparati, and no anatomist or physiologist has never been able to tell what they are for. They are no doubt the foundation of the resurrection body, worth nothing to us in this state, to be indispensably valuable in the next state. The Jewish rabbins had only a hint of this suggestion when they said that in the human frame there was a small bone which was to be the basis of the resurrection body. Perhaps that may have been a delusion. But this thing is certain, the Christian scientists of our day have found out that there are two or three suparfluities of body that are something gloriously suggestive of another state. I called at my friend's house one summer day. I found the yard all piled up. with the rubbish of carpenter and mason's work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. * The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone, and the paper-hangers were doing their work. All the modern improvements were being introduced into that dwelling. There was not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, although a month before when I visited that house everytlung was so beautiful I could not have suggested an improvement. My friend had gone with his family to tho Rnl v I.anH orno/>f i n cr nnmo back at the . end of six months, when the building was to be done. And oh, what was his joy when at the end of six months, he returned and the old house was enlarged and improved and glorified! That is your body. It looks well now?all the rooms filled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscle and bone and tissue and artery must be hauled over, and the old structure will be burnished and adorned and raised and cupolaed and enlarged, and all the improvements of heaven Introduced and you will move into it on resurrection day. "For ***e know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have pain and your soul not pity it? or your body have a joy and your soul not ra-echo it i or. chanzinir the aua*don, did your soul ever tiave any trouble" and your body not sympathize with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing influence? Or did your soul ever havo a gladness but your body celebrated it with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? surely uoa never intenaea two sucn gooa friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's" last Easter morning shall come tho soul will descend, crying: "Whereis my body J" and the body will ascend, saying: "Where is my soul?' and the Lord of the resurrection will bring them together, and it will be a perfect soul in a perfect body, introduced bjr a perrect tnrist into a perfect heaven. Victory! Do you wonder that to-day we swathe this house, with garlands? Do you wondor we celebrate it with the most consecrated voice of song that we can invite, and with doxologies that beat these arches with the billows of sound as the sea smites the basalt at Giant's Causeway? Only the bad disapprove of the resurrection. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffat, the missionary, preach about the resurrection, and he said to the missionary: "Will my father rise in the last day?' "Yes," said the missionary. "Will all the dead in battle rise;" said the cruel chieftain." "Yes," said flm miv*QiATiBrv uThpn " oniri fcha u*nr. rior, "let me hear no moro about the resurrection day. There can be no resurrection, there shall be no resurrection. I have slain thousands in battle. Will they rise (" Ah, there will be more to rise on that day than those want to see whose crimes have never been repented of. But for all others who allowed Chi ist to be their pardon and their life aud their resurrection it will be a J day of victory. The thunders of the last day will be ine salvo that greets you into harbor. The lightnings will tie only the torches of triumphal E recession marching down to escort you orne. The burning worlds flashing through immensity will be the rockets celebrating your coronation on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Wnere is death ? What have we to do with death ? As your reunited body and soul swing off from this planet on that last day you mil see deep gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes all through the valleys, and they will be the emptied graves, they will be the abandoned sepulchres, - with rough ground tossed on either side of them, and slabs will lie uneven on the rent hillocks, and there will be fallen monuments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will appreciate the full exhilaration of the text: "He will swallow up death in victory." "Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! . Praise to Thee by both be given Thee we greet thriumphant now, Hail the resurrection Thou!" TEMPERANCE. Cider and Beer. Harmless] Cider and beer? Now isn't it queer That men can oe fooled so; when every one knows That the river of death swallows thousands each year, And the springs of that river are cider and beer? Harmless? Ciderandbeer? I think it is queer. When boys are so sharp, and the stuff is so vile, j That they'll fool with the mocker, and find out too late That wine, beer, and cider are only death's gate. Now the cider and beer You have no need to fear If you'll boycott them, boys, and get up a strike, That you never, no, never, will help, or go near The places where men sell the cider and beer. ?E. J. Richmond, in Tcmpei anc Banner. Effects of the Liquor Traffic on Wages. "Hard times" is a common cry now-adays, especially among mechanics and laboring men. Low wages is a common complaint, and "strikes," "lock-outs," etc., are th? results of this dissatisfied feeling among the working men. And ye.'; it is a fact that the workingman is the greatest consumer of liquor and the stanchest supporter of the traffic and its agents, and if we were to tell him that the liquor traffic is largely the cause of low wages, and the so-called depres- i sion in business, he would probably sneer and disbelieve the statement. According to the Government figures, wo brewed and sold in the United States last year 642,000,000 gallons of beer. If 1 we assume that each glass contains half a , pint (which they do not by a long shot), we find that we spent for beer, during a 1 year of hard times, the enormous sum of over five hundred and thirteen million j dollars. For 70,763,000 gallons of whisky we i spent $440,000,000! i These figures do not include wines I made in the United States, nor do they ! include the spirits, wines, ales, etc., im- | ported into this country. These amount 1 annually to over fifty millions of dol- 1 lars! Add these sums together, and we find j that we spent last year over one thousand I million dollars for intoxicating liquor. But you will say, what has this to do ! O 4.1 .i.i A- 1? -1 v> iLLi nages? tucac &iabeuieuu> uuiy auuw that men spend their money foolishly, after they have earned it. One hundred dollars spent in the goods named pays to the workingman the proportion stated opposite: Boots and shoes $20 17 Clothing 18 $4 Hardware 23 17 Furniture 24 17 But if he spends $100 for liquor, he has only paid to the workingman $1.23. According to the brewers' and distil- | lers' own figures, furnished to the census enumerators in 1880, the total wages paid by them for one year was only fifteen , million dollars, and this included the ( wages of men not directly employed in 1 the manufacture of the accursed stuff. Now, it is pretty well known that the , men who spend their money for liquor . ' do not spend a great deal for food, clothes, furniture, carpets, boots and shoes. If this money?one thousand million dollars?now "worse than wasted" in the purchase of liquor, was directed into the channels of legitimate trade, and would be, as it ought to be and would if the saloons were closed, in the purchase of good food, good clothing, furniture, carpets, etc., it would return to the workingman not less than $200,000,000, instead of less than $15,000,000, as it does now. Nor would this be all. The figures ] given above do not include the wages of 1 salesmen, etc.; they simply mean the j amounts paid the workingmen for the ( manufacture. < A liquor store that sells $300 worth of 1 liquor per day would not require but one j or two bartenders; but a retail dry goods ] or boot and shoe store that sold that i amount daily would require the services ' of at least double the number of salesmen ( that the saloon does. j T. V. Powderly, Master Workman of < the Knights of Labor, says: "Close the < rum-shops, and there will not be an idle mill or factory in tho whole country, ^ and the railroads cannot handle the busi ness." ' It is true, absolutely true. Close the saloons; start the mills; spend the money ' for food, clothing, and the comforts and luxuries of life, and there will be no' 'hard_ ; times," no "depression of business," but sober men and happy homes.?Central Good Templar. 4,The Saloon is a Tiger." Rev. Dr. Crosby, in his spcech not long since on high license, asked the question of his audienee, if it would not be better to restrict a tiger to a certain locality than to give him the freedom of a whole city, whereupon a good brother replied with stentorian voice: ''Shoot him!" What the tiger, whose jaws reek ! with human gore, needs, is a good dose | of cold lead. Shoot him dead in his I tracks! Curtail his freedom by cutting off his tail just behind his cars! The saloon is a tiger whetting his appetite with fresh victims every day, and there is no adequate treatment for this monster but death physical, and death temporal, and death eternal. We believe the duty of government is to kill this saloon tiger on sight, to use the old simile: "Till he is as dead as a door nail," Here is our 1 hand for the extermination of this ravenous beast.? Cincinnati Liahtu 1 . ... . - ... ,- f RELIGIOUS READING. The Bubble at the Brim, Oh. see it gayly smiling. And lightly dancing up; How winsome and beguiling It peeps across the cup! Beware cr 'twill enchant you As it bjckons fro u the rim: "Come, kiss me. darling, can't you?'1 Laughs the bubbleat the brim. How tenderly it flashes, How modestly it flle3l It apes a maiden's blushes When dreams of love arise. It softly uings and glistens, Like the shining seraphim? But wee to him who listens To the bubble at the brim. Perhaps 'tis Beauty^ finger That fills the rosy glassy How sweet it is to linger, How hard it is to pass! 'Tis late 1:0 curse the revel When the lights are burning dim; You are liartered to the devil By the bubble at the brim. ?[Samuel Minturn Peck. Seek Joj fin Religion. Walking with Q-od one may have all other honorable pleasures also. Religion goes well with domestic happiness, and intellectual pursuits and improvements, and foithetic pleasures and all other real good. We shall never be able to get the highest good out of these lower joys until we know the Lord. lie will loud us to every fountain of living waters. But mere worldly good without Him is empty. Thcso lower pleasures flash and fade like the meteor. TfTl *_ ii. iL-i a. 1 L 1_ 1 i.. tv ny is 11 mas mose wno Bees iiajipiuc-ss in the world alone are forever flying from one pleasure to another? This winter there will be a craze for one kind of pleasure or amusement. Last wintef it was something else and next winter it will be something different again. Why this perpetual change? It ii because it does not take long to get all the sweetnesj out of these worldly pleasures, and then they aro dry and tasteless and something new must be invented. Tuere is a joy which is everlasting. It is the joy of the Lord. It sweetens and sanctities every other joy. In the possession of this joy may -every reader have "a Happy New Year."?[Pitts-* burg Advocate. How to iiet Faith. I hear a great many people say, "How am I to get faith? I would como to Christ, but I don't know how to get foifh " Tf. txrmils? faLrn mnnfVia on/1 IMIWUt A W II V U IN* VWIW (UVUWUU HIIV* years to get that. Now, I waa a loug time setting faith. I was anxious to work for the Lord, but I wanted faith. I wanted to get faith, but I went about it in the wrong way. I prayed for it and did nothing else. That isn't the way to get faith?to pray for it and neglect the Word of God The way to ;ret faith is to know who God is; and I never knew a man or woman that was well acquainted with God that wanted faith. Some one said to a Scotch wowan, "You are a woman o great faith." "No," she says, "I am a woman of little faith, but I have a ^reat God." Now would you just turn \ moment to the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John and the thirty-first verse: "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believiing, ye might have life through his name." Now the whole Gospel of Johnwa* written for one purpose. John took up tris pen, and he wrote that gospel that sve might believe ihit Jesus Christ was the Son of God, and that by believiug we might have eternal life. And so, injtead of praying for faith, and mourning because we haven't got faith, let us jtudy the word of God and get acquainted with the God of Israel, and hen we will have faith in him. You :an't find a man or woman that is acquainted with God but that has strong faith in God.?D. L. Moody. Rrllgtou Trifling. We are not afraid to be examined upon iny thing in the Word of God; but wc Iread a cavilling spirit. I, for one, be,ieve that the more the Word of God has seen sifted, the more fully has it been confirmed. The result has been the better understanding of its teaching, rhe pure gold has shone the more brightly for being placed in the crucible. But there is a habit which begins :hus: "I do not see this; and I do not inderstand that; and I do not approve of ihis; and I question that." It makes ife a tangle of thoirns and briers, where ten thousand sharp points of doubts are constantly tearing the mind. Thb Joubtlng state reminds one of the old lerpent's ''Yea hath God said?" If tho statement made had been the jpposite the gentleman had questioned ,t; for he is bound to doubt everything. He is one who could take either sidexnd efute, but neither side and defend. There are minds so constructed that they ;an act in every way except that of plain up and down. T.ieir machinery s eccentric; it would puzzle the ablest *>ngue to describe it. I like the oldfashioned conscwtices that go up and lown, yes and no, right and wrong, ;rue and false?the kind which are simple and need no great intellect to underitand their methods. We are growing 10 cultured now that many have becomo ike the old serpen t,?"more subtle than my beast of the field." T.ie new fashonod consciences act upon the principle 5f compromise and policy, which is no principle at all. T> each inquiry they inswer "Yes or no; what is the time of 3ay?" for it is yes or no according to the :lock, or according to the climate, or ? 1 '? I- ? i? IKA IwaaaKAQ more geuurany uccjruia^ iw buo u?<;\.vuva pocket, for so much depends upon that. Practically many arc saying: ''Upon which side of the bread is the butter? Tell us this, and then we will tell you what we believe.''?Rev. C. H. SpurQjeon. Here, in my opinion, lies one of the greatest secrets of practical godlines?, and the highest attainment in close walking with God?to come daily aud wa-h, an'l ye to keep as great a V}i!uc for this disc iv. ry of forgiveness, as if it were once only obtained and no more.? [Thomas Llalyburton (nbout 1G93). They, who like the thunder of a sultry day, Smite to restore, And they, who like the gentle wind, uplift The petals of the dew-, wet iiowers, aim a rue Their perfume on the air, Alike may serve Him, each with their ow/ gift, Making their lives a prayer. -?Wh!ttior? The Iowa Register says: li There's a whole temperance sermon in the reply ol a butcher who was asked for a dollar toward navinsr a temperance lecturer: L~ * w ' There's your dollar,' said he; ' I've sold more meat in one day since this I town went no-license than I used to in a week when we had saloons.' " Some Southern towns report an increase of 500 per cent, in trade in women's and children's clothing since the adoption of prohibition. J i ' '- x. A HORSE RANCH. m. /in nrvr/i A nnA*r%ri?i ati *T/\*ncif^ A utvurniv avwun r ur nunori BREEDING IX MONTANA. Itanch Life During Cold Weather? What a Horse Camp is Like ?Looking After the Animals?Hardy Horses. Writing from a ranch near Powderville, in Custer County, Montana, a correspondent of the New York Times says: The lay of the land, here is peculiar and would at once attract the attention of a man from the Eastern States. Generally it is hilly, but there are many perfectly level tracts, with an area of two or three miles, small steppes, as it were, and then there are curious cone shaped mounds entirely devoid of vegetation. These mounds have a certain precise regularity of form, and are from ten to twenty feet high, and some ten feet wide at the base. Within sight of the rauch are bad lands. When these ridges are seen stretching across the horizon they give an idea ol sieruuy, DUion some 01 muse apparouwjr barren lands the richest grasses grow, on which our cattlc feed and take on fat and substancc. The greater part of Custer County rises to an elevation of 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. The air is wouderfully dry and pure, and so excellent is it that lung troubles are quite unknown, and coughs and colds almost unheard of. What is good for a man is good for a beast, and, strange to say, wind-broken horses are never met with. Cold weather comes on gradually, and stays about three or four weeks. In the middle of the night and at daybreak the thermometer will fall to 40 degrees below zero. At mid-day, with the sun, the temperature rises rapidly, so that by 12 o'clock the thermometer will stand at from zero to 10 degrees above. You do not fuel the cold as much in Montana as in the New England or Middle States. It is a steady, dry cold. Dressed warmly, you do not care for it. With the least exercise you entirely forget how low down is the mer/Mir-ir Thia ir<>rtr hfta hfifin exneotional for J? r the continuance and depth of the snowfall. The severity rf the winter has made game very abundant, and more deer and antelopes have been killed than for many year previous. A herd of 200 antelopes paused within two miles of the ranch early this month, and I often see from the house what we call here white tail deer. This section of Mo ntana, I think, must become the great horse raising centre of this country. English thoroughbreds, Kentucky trotting stock, ana good blooded Clydes, Normans,and Pcrcherons can all live here through the winter on the open ranges. A. horse camp, as it is called in Montana, is generally inactive during winter. Pomp of stables does not exiiit. A small log house or "shack," built o( cottonwood logs, a storehouse, and barn, all constructed of logs, with a strong corral, make up a horse camp. In winter a man who is callcd a "horse wrangler" remains alone in charge of the animals. The horse wrangler only "keeps up" one or two horses, because horses ' ? * C. J l _ _ J thus Kept nave to oe ieu uu najr auu grain, both of which have to be hauled a long distance to the camp, and a horse breeder cannot afford to feed any more horses than is strictly necessary. In winter the horse wrangler rides over the range, where the horses are, and keeps count of them. Horses are more easily handled than cattle. During bad weather they seem to be more active, for cattle will do what is callcd "hump" themselves, hunching their backs caracl fashion, and so stand motionless .and take the storm, while horses will move about seeking shelter. The horse uses his feet and paws, up the snow to feed on the herbage, while the cattle push aside the snow with their noses. When there is a stiff crust of snow cattle will soon have sore noses, and be forced to stop feeding, whereas the horse will find something to eat all day ' nnn ovan nutflo orA 1UI1JJ. I\UU^C uuiaua auu vtwu w?vuv> Uiv i often fatter and in better condition after ' a winter of an ordinary kind than animals which, have been "kept up" during the same time. A good deal has been said about the poor cattle of the plains, but I have seen far sorrier stock turned out in the Spring when kept during the winter on a New England farm. Montana horses are rarely broken before they are four or six years old, and consequently ia-t longer than Eastern horses. Our animals are exceptionally hardy, and we often ride a horse 300 miles on a stretch, and all he has to eat is the grass he gets while grazing at night or wnile hi3 rider is preparing his own food. About thirty miles day in and day out these horses will stand without any 1 trouble. A horse is always broken to the 1 saddle, and then he goes naturally into 1 harness. It takes about two weeks to 1 break him thoroughly. Mares are seldom I ridden, all of them being kept for breed- ] ing purposes. The style of the cowboy may not be replete with grace, but no other rider in the world has a more certain seat or gi eater command of his horse. He uses the left hand, and the horses are trained to turn by the pressure of the reins on the neck. The slightest movement is at once understood by the horse. Montana is too far distant yet from i Chicago or New Yoik to supply the horse ' markets in those placcs now, because the cost of transportation is too high; but i the time will come when Montana horses < will be sent to the Atlantic coast. Today there is a big demand for horses in Dakota for farming purposes, and many of our animals are sold there. There is i a marked tendency among Montana i breeders to improve their stock. Every ' year better imported stock is coming, i Great attention is being paid to the production of aUarger form of horses. The i demand for a cross bctweeu the native < stock and a good foreign one is on the 1 increase. A cross between the Indian i and Cayuse and a well-bred stallion i makes the best horse for the ''cattle out- i fit " Tn the '-round ud" hard riding and 1 heavy saddles u?e<np a grchl many horses, and new and fresh horses are always wanted to replace old aud broken down ones. These small horses are cheaper, and even quicker than the larger breeds, and answer every purpose. The Percheron and Norman seem to be the favorite strains, and crossing them with native stock has for product an excellent all-round horse. Last ye.tr some very fine Kentucky blood was brought into the Territory. A good many horses found their way here from Oregon and some few from Washington Territory. When a man buys "a bunch of horses" it is hard to say where they come from. By a btiuch is meant any number from 50 to 300 head. A buyer has to take them as ' they come. Some few may be old and ' worn out, with some scrubs, but generally there are many good horses in the bunch and some in fine condition. Horses brought into the Territory, and sold in a buuch bring from $20 to $100 a head. A Cayuse is worth $20; a good cross, with fair blood and some size, $70; and a really prime animal, $100. Horse.? sold i in a "bunch11 are usually unbroken. j HOUSEHOLD HATTERS. A Presidential Breakfast. A standing dish for the White House morning meal, which was inaugurated bj n n i. ?.iT-jl i rnxuueat urauc, auu ui wuiuu uo waa inordinately fond, and which is relished by President Cleveland, is breakfast bacon and fried apples. The method of cooking the bacon and apples is to cut thin strips from a moderately lean piece of well cured bacon of the best quality and fry until brown and crisp. Take a dozen or more tart hard apples, greenings preferred; peal and slice into eighths; fry in some of the fat of the bacon until they are well browned. Place the mass on a flat dish over a strainer, and with a fork lay the strips of bacon comparatively dry upright around the fried applies. The fat strains from the apples and bacon. The apples are thus relieved from the excesssive richness of the bacon juice. A Warning to Honsekeepers. A writer in the New York Evangelism gives the following warning to house keepers: "I wish I could proclaim to everyone who does not already know it a thing that perhaps most everyone besides myself always knew, namely: That hot grease or oil will melt lead, will unsolder any soldered dish or vessel. I have lately learned this to my great danger and me uaugur ui my nome. I oung nousekeepers, beware! I, being a 'young housekeeper,' find that the rule is 'live and learn,' and, as not to know the latest thing I have learned may be the death and destruction to the unknowing, I hereby warn all not to heat fat or oil in any tin or any soldered dish. I did it, and had a flood of grease and fire. I escaped with only a terrible smoke, a slignt burn and a great job of cleaning up. One thing more, and never forget it: Soapstone will explode! It will; it did. I took my sonpstonc out of its dry wraps, and laid it atop of my stove. I sat close to the stove buttoning my shoes,when bang! went that soapstone, and it left the top of the stove in 1,000 atoms; in fact, it waa tflown to powder. The chimney was brickcd up, and-it all went that way against the bricks. Had it come my way, I had not been trying to warn you. Soon as I could move, 60 astounded was I, I ran to call the family. *1 thought it | -was a gun,' said one of the men; 11 heard it up-stairs.' All were surprised. Not one of us had ever heard that soapstone would explode; but there it lay. About one-third of it remained upon the stove. Now, dear readers, do be careful. Do not trust too far in soapstones nor in hot fat." Hints and and Suggestions. Grained woods should be washed with cold tea and then, after being wiped dry, rubbed with linseed oil. A simple plan of stopping bleeding of the nose has lately been advised. Grasp firmly the nose with the finger and thumb for ten or fifteen minutes; by thus completely stopping the movement of air through the nose (which displaces freshlv-formed clots'), vou.will favor the clot ting of the blood and will frequently stop hemorrhage. Hot lemonade, taKen just oeiore retiring, is a well-known remedy for a cold in its first stages. Everybody, however, ii not familiar with the lemon cure for an acute attack of hoarseness. For this purpose, first roast a lemon in the oven, turning it now and then, that all sides may be equally cooked. It should not crack or burst, but be soft all through. While the lemon is still very hot, cut a piece from the top, fill it with as much Bu^ar as it will hold and eat on going to The Auction Thleres. "I notice that Inspector Byrnes says nothing in his book about auction thieves," said a well-known auctioneer to a New >'ork Sun reporter. "Auction thieves!" "Yes. There are thousands of them in the city, and they are a big nuisance to us." "How does the auction thief work?" "His principal method is to damage goods, and buy them cheap in consequcnce. You see we always nave a lot of goods on exhibition, and it is impossible for us to watch them closely. The auction thief waits for a good chance, and then steals some essential part of an article. When the thing is sold he buys it cheap, bccause it is imperfect. Then he addsSthe missing part, and sells it again at the full price. They will steal the weights from a pair of scales, the pendulum of a clock, the grate out of a stove, | or anything which will cripple it." "Do you ever catch these thieves?" "Oh, yea; now and then. But what can you do to a man for stealing a few cents' wcrth? It wouldn't pay to prosecute him, so we just turn him over to a porter, and he gets of! with a good kicking. But they're a great nuisance, and I think I'll send the next one I catch to the Island." Palmetto Branches for Churches. Within a few years past, several New York florists have been importing small quantities of the sable palmetto from Cuba, which were eagerly taken by the New York churches and finally superseded the coacoa palms and the common evergreens, as they are reasonably cheap and quite as appropriate. The fashion spread, and florists generally in the larger cities began supplying the palmetto branches to the churches. The leaf is of Gne grain and is a beautiful dark green - ' j ' - - .1?J^ | wliile iresn, ana nas me uuvamuge ui ?vtaining its color longer than most plants of the same specios, bccause of the hard, woody^ character of its fibres, and consequent absence of sap. The Philadelphia Record says: "It is estimated that nearly 50,000 of these palmetto heads are used every year in tha Catholic churches of ftiat vicinity and in a few churches of other denominations. Most of the plants are now procurred from the Everglades of Florida and the swampy islands along the coast of the Oarolinas and Georgia, where they grow in abundance and are as much of a' nuisance to the natives as the briar weeds are to the farmers of the North. The work of supplying the palmettoes has originated a considerable iniustrv in Florida and the coast islands. The plants can be had for the gathering, j md their preparation for market furnishes jmployment to quite a number of persona it remunerative priccs. They are pur- , chased by shippers at Charleston and St. ' ! Augustine, who pay <hc gatherers about ( Lwenty-livc cents per dozen heads. They J are then shipped to New York, from J which point they are distributed all over , the East and West at a cost of from $3 to ( $5 per dozen heads to the purchaser, j One shipper alone in New York takes annually over 500,000 head. Mutual Regrets. He: My first wife was my pet, Much better she than yoc Her death I must regret. She; Oh, I regret it, too. ?Tid-Bits. I - IFthe stockade. A. CONFEDERATE CAPTIVE'S ADVENTURE IN PRISON. Five Thousand Prisoners Trying to Keep Warm?Digging: ? Tunnel to Escape?Why the Plan Failed. B-Ja . . ? ' m I made my entry into Camp Douglass, near Chicago, the 3d day of January, 1863, says ' 4Ex-Rebel" in the Detroit Free Preis} and I may be pardoned for the remark that it was a cold day for me in more senses than one. Two weeks previous to my debut in Chicago society I was in Arkansas, uniformed in the hap-hazard fashion of the Confederates of that period, and when I came to be railroaded up North and found the thermometer down to nine degrees below zero, I couUl hardly hold my teeth in my head. There were about 5,000 prisoners in the stockade, which was simply a board fence twelve feet high, and they were provided with rough shanties and stoves. A 38 Northern man would have kept comfortably warm in the quarters, but it was hard work for the prisoners to keep fingers and toes away from Jack Frost. * y?f% Indeed, there were many cases of actual suffering, though the Federal Government made the best arrangements possible. The trouble was at the camp Instead of at Washington. After a certain , y hour of the evening all lights must bd out and everybody in bed, and when tho stoves grew cold the frost and wind drove into the shanties at a hundred points. There were only six of us in the shanty to which I was assigned, while some held eight, ten, and twelve. We were within seven feet of the fence, and as we were all men from one regiment, and all captured at the same time, we felt that we could trust each other. The idea of an escape was broached in February, but it was the 15th of April when the first real move was made.' The only show was to tunnel under the fence and come out by night. There was a guard stationed on elevated platforms about tho enclosure by day, and at night a chain of sentinels walked rearular beats outside the fence. We cal- 'J.Ji ciliated on a tunnel not less than thirtj; feet long, and it was begun by taking up some of the flooring in the back ena of our shanty. Visits of inspection were held twice per week, but there was not 4 day in which some official was not liable Wm to come poking around. The floor of our shanty rested on sleeps ers clear of the ground. We could there-: fore stow away a great deal of the dirt under the floor. We worked only at night, and that in reliefs of two. We first went,down four feet, and then started off on a straight line for the fence beyond. We were almost at the fence before we had to carry any of the dirt out doors. ' ' ? We managed to scatter a quantity around ^ our house without exciting suspicion, and the rest had to be accumulated during the night and carried out in our pock- ets. It was slow work when we reached *>*3| tnat point, ana on two or inree amerens *$? occasions we came very near being exposed by officials dropping in on ui. % There were several rainy days about the time we were under the fence, and for a week our tunnel was full of water. When that soaked away we went at our worlt V.^ again, and on the morning of the 14th of May the last man to crawfish oat of the hole reported that our tunnel was well beyond the sentinels' beat and ready for the breaking of fhe crust. If we had had the making of the weather, we could not have planned for a better night. It was dark and misty, with every chance in our favor. During the afternoon we drew lots to see who . . 1 should go first, and it fell to me. We had \v>; nothinglo pack up, and the whole six of us had only eighty cents in money between us. It was planned that we should separate as soon as clear dt the 1 J ~ /v/ iiuiu, uuu eiiuu wi? iu uinc tuic \ji nuir self 03 best he could. That was a long afternoon, I can tell you, and even when it wore away and night came we had to wait many hours yet. Some were for going at 11 and others at 1 o'clock, but we finally moved at 11:15. We fastened tife door of the shanty and crept intoihe tunnel one after the other, and I was soon at the far end of it and digging upward. I - : was hard at this work when I felt the ground break through behind me, some one uttered a yell, and then came th? cry: ' 21*3 "Corporal of the Guard ? Post No. i3!" \.,:m This was repeated several times, and pretty soon the corporal and a couple of guards from the relief arrived. The sentinel on the beat, who was a big, heavy mail, had broken through into our tutt???1 on/1 iri fho fall Kan hrntpli hu) 1 PtfT. While I was held prisoner in the hole, the - i others crawled back, knowing that the jig was up. It did not take the corporal many minutes to discover the true'state of affairs, and then I was hauled out by the neck and made the butt of ridicule? When escorted back to the shanty, the five men were found fast "asleep," but were turned out and sent to the guardhouse to keep me company. We were reduced to half rations for thirty days, but no further punishment was meted out to us. A Persian's Chief Subject of Coniersation. ? -! i -- *_:i:? i ne Persians umve uue jjuici-muuig subject of conversation; that subject is their health. The pleasure of talking about the weather is denied by them; for, as eleven months out of the twelve _ v ^ are fine in Persia, the subject does not present sufficient variety. But a Persian, to whatever class of society he may belong, is never tired of talking about his ailments, real or supposed. In his eyes all Feringhis (Europeans) are doctors, and th European doctor is the very best of all. For many years at Shiraz there lived an old Swede who had walked into Persia in his youth. He knew nothing * . ht%+ firvdinflf oi meuituue uu uu oiikdi, ? that the natives constantly solicited his advice, he bought a few medical books and literally acquired a certain amount of knowledge by carrying out the good old principle of "Fiat experimcntum in corpore vili." Happily the Hakim Sahib also believed in the "vis medicatrix natural." As a rule his drugs were harmless. "I have different colored liquids,'* said he, "and as long as there is bread and water to be had I am never at a loss for a pill." The pills were floured for the common people and gilded for the rich. A.t seventy years of age the Hakim Sahib died. He held the position of physician to the forces of the province, and was - - . ? -~j deservedly respected ?y natives auu Europeans.?St. James's Gazette. Simple Test for Gold. Take a piece of fiiut and rub against it the metallic object to be tested, until the latter leaves a sufficiently marked trace upon the stone. Upon bringing the ^ flame of a sulphur match in contact with the spot, the latter will remain intact if it has been made with gold, but will disappear if the contrary be the ease.?IA Science en Famillt. > " 'iM !! ? ^ III I