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???1? ?1?' REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN* PASTOR'S SUNDAY SERMON Subject: "American Seamen." Text: "Behold also the ships?James iii., iv. If this exclamation was appropriate about 1860 years ago. when it was written concern ing trie cruae nsmng smacKs tnac saiiea ajskb Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age which has launched from the dry docks for purposes of peace?the Arizona, of the Guion Line, the City of Richmond, of the Inman Line, the ?gypt, of the National Line, the Germanic, of tne White Star Line, the Circassia, of the Anchor Line, the Etruria, of the Cunard Line, and the Great Eastern, with hull six hundred and eighty feet long?not a failure for it helped lay the Atlantic cable, and that was enough glory for one ship's existence?and in an age which for purposes of war has launched the screw-sloops like the Idaho, the .Shenandoah, the Ossippe, and our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and tne Dunderberg, and those which have already been buried in the deep like the Monitor, theHousatonic,the Weehawken and the Tecumseh, the tempests ever since sound- | ing a volley over their watery sepulchres, and the scarred veterans of war shipping that have swung into the naval yards to spend their last days, their decks now all silent of the foet that trod.them, their rigging all silent of the hands that clung to them, their | port-holes silent of the brazen throats that once thundered out of them. If in the first century, when war vessels were dependent on the oars that pad- I .died at the side of them for propulsion, my ' text was suggestive, with how much more emphasis and meaning and overwhelming reminiscence we can cry out as we see the Kearsage lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keep their nands off our American fight; or as we see the ram Albermarle,of the Confederates, running out and in the Roanoke, and up and down the coast, throwing everything into confusion as no other craft ever did, pursued by the Miami,the Ceres,the Southfield. the Sassacus, the Mattabesett, the Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louisiana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels all trying in vain to catch her, until Captain Cushmg, twenty-one years, of age, ana his men blew her up, himself and only one other escaping; and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the Richmond, and the Monongahela, with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows forever free to all Northern and Southern craft, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that I cannr t suppress if I would, and would not if I could: ''Behold also the ships." At the annual decoration of graves, North aird South, among Federals and Confederates, full justice has been done to the memory of those who fought on the land in our sad contest, but not enough has been said of those who on ship's deck dared and suffered all things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea, help me in this sermon! So, ye admiral-:, commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokers, mess mares anu seamt-u wi tui iialul-s, iaj u?j > uiu own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand out toward sea. Let all land lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four bells! Never since the sea fight of Lepanto. where three hundred royal galleys manned by fifty thousand warriors, at sunrise, September 6, 1571, met two hundred and fifty royal galleys manned by one hundred and tw'enty thousand men, and in the four hours of battle eight thousand fell on one side and twenty-live thousand on the other; yea, never since the ' day when at Actium, thirty-one years before Christ, Augustus with two hundred and sixty ships scattered the two hundred and twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained universal dominion as the prize; yea, since the day when at Salamis the twelve hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by five hundred thousand men, were crushed by /IHAAIto IACO fhon a thinH nf fKof V* 1 tvRO niiu itoj vuou u VUMU W*. I/UUV ivivv, yea, never since the time of Noah, the first ship captain, has the world seen such a miraculous creation as that of the American Navy in 1861. There were about two hundred available seamen in all the naval stations and receiving ships, and here and there an old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast,greater' than the wbole coast of Europe, and, besides that the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi, and other great rivers, covering an extent of two thousand more miles, were to be patrolled. No wonder the whole civilized world burst into guffaws of laughter at the seeming impossibility. But the work was done, done almost immediately done thoroughly, and done with a speed and consummate skill that eclipsed all the history of naval architecture. "What brilliant achievements are suggested by the mere mention of the name of the rear admiials. If all they did should be written, every one. I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. But these names have rewived the honors due. The most of them went to thsir graves under the cannonade of all the forts, navy yards and men-of-war, the flags of all the shipping and capitals at halfmast. But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval heroes who have not yet received appropriate recognition. "Behold also the ships.'' As we will never know what our national prosperity is worth until we realize what it cost, I recall the unrecited fact that the men of the navy ran especial risks. They had not only the human weaponry to contend with, but the tides, the fog. the storm. Not like other ships could they run into harbor at the approach of an equinox, or a cyclone, or a hurricane, becarsj the harbors were hostile. A miscalculation of a tide might leave them on a bar. and a fog might overthrow all the plans of wisest commodore and admiral, and accident might leave them, not on the land ready for an ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea, as when the torpedo blew up the Tecumseh in jauoue rsay, ana neany an on ooara perisnea. They were at the mercy of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Such tempests as wrecked the Spanish Armada might any day swoop upon the guadron. I?o hiding behind the earthworks. >o digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of retreat. Mightier than all the fortresses on all the coasts, is the ocean when it bombards a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and Confederate dead are the bodies of most of those who fell on the land. But where those are who went down in the war vessels will not be known until the sea gives up its dead. The Jack tars knew that while loving arms might carry the jnen who fell on the land ana bury them with solemn liturgy. < and the honors of war, for the bodies of tho9e who dropped from the ratlines into the sea or went down with all on board under the stroke of a gunboat there remained the thark and the whale and the endless tossing i>f the sea which cannot rest. How will vou And their graves for this national decoration? Nothing but the archangel's trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few of them have been gathered into naval cemeteries of the land and you will garland tlie sod :that covers them, but who will put flowers on the fallen crew of the exploded Westtleld and Shawsheen, a:id the | suxuten ooutnneia, ana me >v inueiti ?con,. Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatening from above, torpedoes threateninc from beneath and tho ocean with its reputation of six thousand years for shipwreck lying all V -around, am I not right in saying it required a special courage for the ftavy? It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel going out through the Narrows, sailors in new rig singing: "A life on the ocean wave, A home on the rolling deep!" the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships, the decks immaculately clean, and the guns at Quarantine firing a parting salut). But the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it comes out of that engagement, its decks red | with human blood, wheel-house gone, the | cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and destroyed furniture, steering wheel broken, smokestack crushed, a hundred-pound Whitworth rifle shot having left its mark trom port to starboard, the 1 shrouds rent away, ladders splintered j and decks plowed up, and suioke-biuskened ana scaiaea corpses lymg among inose wuo are gapping their last gasp far away from 1 home and kindred, whom they love as much as we love wife and parents and children. Not waiting until you are dead to put upon your graves a wreath of recognition, this hour we put on your living brow the garland of a nation's praise. Oh, men of the Western Gulf squadron, of the Eastern CJulf squadron, of the South Atlantic"'squadron, of the North Atlantic squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific squadron, of the W est India squadron and of the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of our churches. Accept the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our way we would get you not only a pension but a home and a princely wardrobe, and an equi j page and a Lanquet while you live, and after your departure a catafalque, and a mausoleum ot sculptured marble, with a model of the I ship in which you won the day. It is coni sidered a gallant thing when in a naval fight the flagship w.th its blue ensign goes ahead up a river or into a bay, its admiral standing in the shrouds watching and giving orders. But I have to tell you. Oh veterans of the ! American navv! if vou are as loval to Christ as you were to the GovernI ment, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you I of which Christ is the admiral, and" He I watches from the shrouds, and the heavens ; are the blue ensign, and He leads you toward I the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth I and hell cannot damage you; and ye, whose | garments were once red with your own blood, shall have a robe washed and" made white in the blood of the Iiamb. Then strike eight bells' Hieh noon in heaven! With such anticipation, O, veterans of the American navy! I charge you bear up under the aches and weaknesses that you still carry ! from the war times. You are not as stalwart j as you would have been but for that nervous I strain and for that terriflic exposure. Let every I ache and pain, instead of depressing, remind | you of your fidelity. The sinking of the Weei hawken off Morris Island, December 6, 18Gi>, was a mystery. She was not under fire. The sea was not rough. But Admiral Dahlgren from the deck of the flag steamer Philadelphia, saw her gradually sinking, and finally she struck the ground, but the flag still floated above the wave in the sight of the shipping. It was afterwards found that she sank from weakness through injuries in previous service. Her plates had been knocked loose in previous times. So you have in j nerve, and muscle, and bone, and dimmed ! eyesight, and difficult hearing, and shortness I or breath, many intimations that you are gradually going" down. It is the service of twenty-three year's that is telling on you. Be of good cheer. We owe vou ju3t as much as though ycur life-blood haa gurgled through the scuppers of the ship in the Rea River expedition, or as though you had gone down with the Melville off Hatteras. Only keep your flag flying as did the illustrious Weehawken. Good cheer, my boys! The memory of man is poor and all that talk about the country never forgetting those who fought for it is an untruth. It does forget. Witness how the veterans sometimes had to turn the hand-organs on the street to get their families a living. Witness how ruthlessly some of them have been turned out of office that some Dioat or a politician mignc tatce ineir place. Witness the fact that there is not a man or woman now under thirty,years of age, who has any full appreciation of the four years' martyrdom of 1861 and 1S65 inclusive. * But while men may forget, God never forgets. He remembers the swinging nam mock. He remembers the forecastle. He remembers the frozen ropes of that January tempest. He remembers the amputation without sufficient ether. He remembers the horrors of that deafening night when forts from both sides belched on you their fury, and the heavens glowed with ascending and descending missiles * of death, and your ship quaked under the reroil of the one hundred pounder, while all the gunners, according to command, stood on tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concussion shatter hearing or brain. He remembers it all better than you remember it, and in some shape reward will be given. God is the 1 PAM APft T*rKA utm ul an uiaoi/ci a, cuiu ivi muoo nuv uv their whole duty to Him and the world the pension awarded is an everlasting heaven. Sometimes off the coast of England the Royal Family have inspected the British navy manoeuvred before them for that purpose. In the Baltic Sea the Czar and Czarina have reviewed the Russian navy. To bring before the American people tne debt they owe to the navy I go out with you on the Atlantic Ocean where there is plenty of room, and in imagination review the war-shipping of our tnree great conflicts?1776, 1812, and 1865. Swing into line all ye frigates, ironclads, fire-rafts, gunboats, and men-of-war! There they come, all sail set and all furnaces in full" blast, sheaves of crystal tossing from their cutting prows. That is the Delaware, an old Revolutionary craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur. Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore Hull commanding. There is the Chesapeake, commanded by Captain Lawrence, whoso dying words were: ' Don't give up the ship;" and the Niagara, of 1812, commanded by Commodore Ferry, who wrote on the back of an old letter, resting on his navy cap: " We have met the enemy and they are ours." Yonder is the flagship Wabash, Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the flagship Minnesota, Admiral Goldborough commanding; yonder, the John Adams, Admiral Stringham commanding; yonder, the flagship Philadelphia, Admiral Dahlgren commanding; yonder/ the flagship San Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding: yonder, the Carondelet, Admiral Wat he I commanding; yonder, the flagship Black Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding: yonder, , the flag steamer Benton, Admiral Foote commanding, yonder the flagshij; ! Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut commanding. And now all the squadrons of all departments, from smallest tugboat to mightiest man-of-war, are in procession, 1 decks and rigging filled with men who fought i on the sea for the old flag ever since we were a nation. Grandest fleet the world ever saw. Sail on before all ages! Run up all the [ colors! Ring ail the bells! Yea, open all the port-holes! Umlimber the guns and load and fire one great boardside that shall shake the continents in honor of peace and the eternity of the American Union! But I lift my hand and the scene has vanished. Many of the ships have dropped under the crystal pavement of the deep, sea monsters swimming in and out of the forsaken cabin, and other old craft have swung into the navy yards, and many of the brave spirits who trod their decks are gone up to the Eternal Fortress, from whose casements and embrasures may we not hope they look down to-day with joy upon a nation in reunited brotherhood ' At this annual commemoration I bethink that most of you who were in the naval service uurmg our lace war are now in the afternoon or evening of life. With some of you it is two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock, six o'clock, and it will soon be sundown. If you were of age when the war broke out, you are now at least forty-eight. Many of you have passed into the sixties and the seventies; therefore it is appropriate that I hold two great lights for your illumination?the example of Christian admirals consecrated to Christ and their country, Admiral Foote and Admiral Farragut. Had the Christian religion been a cowardly thiug they would have had nothing to do with it. In its faith they lived an'' died. In our Brooklyn navy-yard Admiral , Foote held prayer meetings and conducted a revival on the receiving ship North Carolina, and on Sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the chaplain with religious exhortation. In early life on board the sloop of war Natchez, impressed by. the words of a Christian sailor, he gave his spare time for two weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that declared openly: 4 "Henceforth, under all circumstances, I will act for God." Hi3 last words, while dying at the Astor House, New York, were: ''I thank God for all His goodness to me." When he entered heaven he did not have to run a blockiuic, for it was amid the cheers of a great welcome. The other Christian admiral will be honored on earth until the day when the fires from above shall lick up the waters from beneath and there shall be 110 more sea. "Oh, while Atlantic's breast Bears a while Bail. While sailor's flzht for right And sweethearts wall, Men will ne'er forget Old heart of oak. Farragat, Farrasut. Thunderbolt stroke!" According to his own statement Farragut I was very looso in his morals in early manhood and practiced all kinds of sin. One day he was called into the cabin of his father, who was a ship-master. His father said: | "David, what are you going to be, anyhow?' j He answered: "I am going to follow the sea." "Follow the sea, said the I father, "and be kicked about the world and die in a foreign hosi pital?" "No,*1 said David, "I am goin?r to command like you." "No," said the father; "a boy of your habits will never command anything," and his father burst into tears and I left the cabin. From that day David Farragut started on a new lift?. Captain Pennington, an honored elder of this church, was with I him in most of his battles, and had his intimate friendship, and he confirms, what I had heard elsewhere, that Farragut was good and Christian. In every great crisis of life lie asked and obtained the Divine direction. When in Mobile Bav the monitor Tecumesh sank from a torpedo, and the great war-ship Brooklyn that was to load the squadron turned back, he said ho was at a loss to know whether to advance or retreat, and he says: "I proved: 'Oh. God, who wonted man and fave him reason, direct me what to do. Shall go on?' And a voice commanded me: 'Go on,' and I went on." Was there ever a more I touching Christian letter than that which ho wrote to his wife from his flagship Hartford? "My dearest wife, I write and leave this letter for you. I am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, if God is my leader, and I hope He is, and in Him I place my trust. If He thinks it is the proper place for me to die, I am ready to submit to His will in that as in aLl other things. God bless and preserve you, my darling and my dear boy, if anything should happen to me. May His blessings rest upon you, and your dear mother, and all your sisters and their children." Cheerful to the end, he said on hoard the Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took : "It would be well if I died now in hnriiess." The sublime Episcopal service for the dead was never more appropriately rendered than over his casket, and well did all the forts of New York harbor thunder as. his body was brought to our wharf, and well diti the minute guns sound and the bells toll as in a procession, having in its ranks the President nt t.ViA TTnit-wl States and his cabinet, and the mighty men of land and sea, the old admiral was carried amid hundreds of thousands of uncovered heads on Broadwav, and laid on his pillow of dost in beautiful AVoodlavm, September 30,amid the pomp of our autumnal 1 forests. Ye veterans who sailed and fought under him. ta ke your admiral's God and Christ for J your God and Christ. After a few more conflicts you too will rest. For the few remaining "fights with sin, and death, and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray; "hang the sheet chains orer the sides. Send down the top-gallant masts. Barricade the wheel. Rig in the flying jib-boom. Steer straight for the shining snore, and hear the shout of the great Commander of earth and heaven as He cries from the shrouds: "To him that overeometh, will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God." Hoanna I Hosanna! HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. How to Cleax Dresses.?Get fin cents' worth of soap-bark from the druggist's, (about a teacupfnl). For one dress take half of it and steep in aboul one quart of boiling water for aboul half an hour or more; then strain through a cloth. For a silk dress, while the liquid is warm, take a piece of white flannel and dip into at intervals, and rub the silk ot satin with it till it seems cleansed. When done pull the material straight and hang it to dry; do not iron either the silk or satin. If the dress is very much soiled use clean liquor to rinse it, but do not use clear water for silk, or it will not stiffen up well. For a woolen dress, dip the part to be cleansed or the whole of it, if needed, into the liquor. This can be rinsed in the same after washing, or in clear, warm water. If very dirty put the dress to soak in a tub in the liquor, with more water added, before cleaning or washing. The wollen goods should be pressed before they are quite dry. "Water in which potatoes have been boiled will cleanse delicate-colored woolen or worsted goods. The dresa should be wet all over. Use no soap. Rinse in clear, warm water. Press while still damp. This will not. injure the most delicate colors. The liquor in which soap-bark has been steeped, when used cold, is excel lent for washing blue lawns that are I easily faded. It should be washed with more water than is used tor woolens.? Farm, and Garden. Recipes. Scotch Cakes.?Stir together 4 pounds oatmeal, 2 pounds wheat flour, 2 tablespoons brown sugar, -J teaspoon soda and 1| pounds lard, adding sufficient water to form a stiff batter. Roll thin, cut in squares and bake in quick oven. Candied Cherries.?Make a syrup of two pounds of loaf sugar and a cup of water, and boil until thick enough to pull. Then remove to the side of the range until it shows signs of granulation. When crystals adhere to the spoon drop in the cherries, carefully stoned, a few | at a time, allowing them to lie in the boiling syrup two minutes, and remove I to a sieve set over a dish. Shake gently, but long, and turn the cherries out upon a cool, broad dish. Meat a>*d Potato Puffs.?With two eggs, well beaten, mix a sufficient quantity of mashed potatoes to whip to a cream, adding gradually a ciip of milk. Then add flour enough to allow the mass being | rolled out into a sheet, cut this into squares, aqd in the centre of each lay a slice of beef or mutton, well seasoned : ? -j -~u A I Willi pepper HI1U sail, auu ijuiati i>u mustard or catsup. Lay on this a slice of ham of the same shape and size, fold the paste into a triangular turnover, Erinting the edges deeply, and fry in utter to a nice brown. Wheu done lay them on white paper for a moment to absorb the grease and Berve hot. ; To Prepare Tripe.?In the first I place, take some strong twine to sew it up, with stitches about half an inch long, then rinse it in three or four waters, take about two quarts of air-slacked lime and rub on to every part, and have ready a pailful of nearly scalding hot water and S pour on to it; turn it over a number of times so every part will come in contact with the hot water. In a few minutes it | I will be ready to scrape, which should be done with a dull knife. If any part refuses to yield, put on a little more lime | and hot water, rinse in two more waters [ then 'cut it open and rinse again. Cut it I in pieces six or eight inches square, and let it soak a few hours, then take each piece separately on to a meat board and scrape and pick off all the superfluous matter that may be on it, let it soak for ' " ^ 1 ^ " fl* a tt* o tnr auout HITCH UilJS, UliaiJglLlg IUU namt twice a day, and scrape and pick it each I morning. Boil eight hours, changing the water twice. Appearance of Motion in Paintings. The painter is also able to represent motion by taking advantage of the unconscious working of our preconceivcd impressions. Looking at a masterly marine landscape in the National Gallery at Berlin one day, I could almost see the Bhip rising and falling upon the waves, and the waves themselves seemed to be in motion as they swelled and swept by the vessel. The painter had seized a single instant in the succession, and had so represented it as to call out the idea of consecutiveness. The question arises, How is the artist to illustrate motion, as he often has to do, sav in such a case as mar Ul rujliuiy luiuiug num, iu we can at no instant distinguish the | single spokes, but see only a confusion of flying lines? It is clearly impossible for liim to give the exact appearance of motion. lie can only seize a given instant or stage, and so manage that it shall represent itself as the ellcct of the preceding stage and the cause of the following one: A sword-blow must be represented at a decisive ]>oint, not at a stage in the descent of the weapon, else the illusion will be destroyed; a pendulum in motion, not at the bottom of its course, where it would seem to be at j rest. In painting a galloping horse, no stage of the exact motion is reproduced. The instantaneous photographs have demonstrated that; and also that, if the artist should attempt a reproduction ot the kind, he would give any but the effect desired. He makes a more pleasing and probable picture, having, however, no counterpart in nature, in which he does no violence to her, but, as Schiller has said, "increases the nature that is in nature,''?Podular Science Monthly. TEMPERANCE. Signs of Prosperity. Where sputea grow bright; And idle swords grow dull; Where jails aro empty, And -where barns are full; Where field-paths aro N With frequent i'eet outworn, Law courtyards weedy, Silent, and forlorn; Where doctors foot it, And where farmers ride; Where age abounds, And youth is multiplied; Where noisonous drinks Are chased from every place; "W here opium's curse No longer leaves a traceWhere these signs are They clearly indicate A happy people And a well-ruled state. ?From ti e Chinese. A Story by John B. G?n>;n. A young man once advised me to advocate I pure moral suasion. At a meeting where this young man was present I said to the audiencc, pointing to him: "Some say we ought to advocate moral suasion exclusively. Now I will give you a fact. Thirteen miles from this place there lived a wore an who was a good wife, a good mother, a good woman." I then related her story as she told it: My husband is a drunkard; I have worked, ri1u i1uijct1, uiiu pi txy cv?r uuu jl ixaui\sov ??tv up in despair. Ho went away and was gone ten days. He came back ill with tbj small-pox. Two of the children took it, and both of them died. I nursed my husband through his long sickness?watched over liim night and day, feeling that he could not drink again,nor ever again abuse me. I thought he would remember all this experience. Mr. Leonard kept a liquor-shop about three doors from my house, and soon after my husband was well "enough to get out, Mr. Leonard invited him ia and gave him some drink. He was then worse than ever. He now beats me, and bruises me. ... I went into Mr. Leonardo shop Dne day, nerved almost to madntss, and said: "Mr. Leonard, I wish you would, not sell ray husband any more drink." "Get out of this," said he. "away with you. This is no place for a woman; cl'?r out."* "But I don't want you to sell him any more Jiink." "Get out, will you? If yc>u wasn't a woman I would knock you into the mic.dle of the street." ' But, Mr. Leonard, please don't sell my husband any more drink." "Mind your own business, I say." "But my husband's business ij mine," she pleaded. "Get out! If you don't I will put you out." I ran out ana the man was very angry. Three days after, a neigiioor came in ana Baid: "Mrs. Tuttle, your Ned's just been sent out of Leonard's shop so drunk that he can hardly stand!" "What! my child, who is only ten yea*8 old?" "Yes." The child was picked up in the street and brought home, and it was four days before he got about again. I then went into Leonard's shop ana said: "You gave my boy, Ned, drink." "Get out of this, I tell you," said the man. I said: "I don't want you to give my boy drink any more. You have ruined my husband; for God's sake spare my child," and I went down upon my knees, and tears ran down my cheeks. He then took me by the shoulders and kicked me out of doors. "Then," said I, pointing directly to my friend, "young man, you talk of moral suasion? Suppose that woman was your mother, what would you do to the ma:i that kicked her!" He jumped right of hin seat, and said: I'd kill him! That's moral suasion, is it? Yes, I'd kilT him as I'd kill a woodchuck that had eaten my beans." Now, we do not go as far as that; we do not believe in killing or persecuting, but vrm believe in prevention and Prohibition ?Prohibition Bombs. It Does Not Pay. It does not to have pay the mother and children of twenty families drossed in rags fcnd starved into the semblance of emaciated tcarecows, and living in hovels, in order that the saloon-keeper's wife may dress in satin, md her children grow fat and hearty, and live in a bay-window parlor. It does not pay to have ten smart, intelligent boys turned into hoodlums and thieves to enable one man to lead an easy life by selling them liquor. It does not pay. to give one man, lor a trifle, ft license to sell liquor, and then spend an tnonnous amount on the trial of Tim McLaughlin for buying that liquor and then committing murder under its influence. It Joes not pay to have one thousand homes blasted, mined, defiled and turned into hells of disorder and misery, in order that ane wholesale liquor dealer may amass a fortune. It does not pay to keep six thousand men in the penitentiaries and hospitals, and one thousand in the lunatic asylums, at the expense of the honest, industrious taxpayers, in order that a few rich capitalists may grow richer by the manufacture of whisky. A saloon keeper sold a drinking man one pint of new rum, making fifteen cer ts clear profit. The man under the influence of that pint of rum, killed his son-in-law; and his apprehension, confinement in jail, execu tion, etc., cost the county more than one thousand dollars? which temperate men had to earn by th? sweat of their brow. It does not pay! The loss sustained by society, moroily and financially, the sorrow and suffering, the misery and destitution, produced and augmented, and what is infinitely a greater consideration than all else, the destruciion of soul ana body, the inevitable result of using and trafficing in intoxicating liquors?these all attest the truthfulness of the verdict?it ioes not pay! Reader, it does pay to lead a temperate life; to be an honest and upright Citizen; to exert a pure and holy influence upon mankind and to honor God by a righteous use of all His gifts. We beseech you, then, for your own soul's sake, and for the sake of suffering humanity, "touch not, taste not, handle not, the unclean thing."?Saratoga Eagle. Liccnse in the Ifational Capital. The American, of Washinj^ton, mentions that the "Guardian League*' of that city recently employed a man to vfsit some of the saloons and pool-rooms, and ascertain how many minors were in them. It says: "The count was made during six consecutive niehta. The man who did the countiug is believed to be entirely reliable, and the figures which he furnishes are startling. Tuesday night he visited seven places, an-1 fouud twenty-seven minors, of whom seven were girls. Some of them were drinking and some were drunk. Wednesday night live places were visited, and nine minors were found, of whom three were girls. Most of them were under the influence of liquor. Thursday night five places were visited and thirteen minors found, of whom three were girls. Friday night seven places were visited and thirty-one minors found, of whom five were girls. Saturday night eight places were visited, and eighty-six minors were found, all of whom were drinking and playing pool, cards, and crap except eight. Sunday night four places were visitiid, and one hundred and two minors were found, most of whom were drinking and playing pool. Total places visitmi. thirtv-six: total number of minors found, two hundred and sixty-eight, o? whom eighteen were girls." The national capital is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress. With such a state of things as the above extract shows in connection with the liquor saloons of Washington, it is obvious that, at least so far as the District of Columbia is concerned, the drink question is an important, urgent national Suestion. .These, demoralizing saloons, the estroyers of manhood and girlhood are tho nation's saloons.?XuiUnuil Advocate. "Prohibition Does Prohibit." According to the testimony of the Governor of Iowa, it appears that .Prohibition does effectually and satisfactorily prohibit in eighty out of the ninety-nine counties of that State, and is partially enfored in the sections expected from the general statement. This means that in the rural regions the practical abolition of the liquor trallic can bo maintained, but that in the cities and larger towns, notably along the Mississippi River, the law is more or loss a dead letter. This seems to be tho general experience with prohibitory legislation. It is the story that comes from Kansas, Maine, and Ktiode island, and was the experience of Michigan. In the latter State the result of the recent election seems to have brought about a general determination to revive the local option law, and this will result in confining the liquor traffic practically to less than a dozen counties. In Georgia, under a local option law, 110 out of 137 counties have declared for Fro- , hibition, one of these being Fulton, in which Atlanta, the largest city in the State, is situated. The local option feature of the Illinois license Jaw also works well, having resulted in a large curtailment of the bar-room business in the country.?Philadelphia Telegraph. RELIGIOUS READING. RecoricOed. Till I learned to love Thy nam^ Lord, Thy grace denying, I was lost in sin and shame, Dying, dying, dying.' Nothing could the world impart, Darkness held no morrow; .In my soul and in my heart, j sorrow, sorrow, Borrow. When I learned to love Thy name, 0 Thou meek and lowly, Rapture kindled to a flame? Holy, holy, holy! Henceforth shall creation rin& With salvation's story. Till 11 i ;o with Thee to sing, Glory, glory, glory! ?Pboebo Cary. What Does Sin Menn! Does sin always mean anguish, and fear, and remorse? No. not always? not always. Only as long as the light of God is within the soul, and the voice of God speaks to the man. That light may he put out. Thai voice may be silenced. And then a man shall come to laugh a wild, untronbled laugh at these things, flight and wrong have ceased to mean anything. Love is lust, and truth is but a name; and purity is but a hypocrite who wears a white robe, and friendship is only the disguise of selfishness. Oh, better a thousand times the- madness that raves at the memory of sin, than that. The eye that sees the truth is put out, the ear that hears the voice of God, is stopped. Then the soul can go untroubled, unbardencd. There is a life on earth so dark, so cold, so dead, so 'unconscious, so incapable of any moral sense, that I would sooner crave the very fires of hell to create within rae some sense of right and wrong, than" sink into that worst of deaths, that deepest of damnation. No, no indeed, that path cannot lcacl up to this blessed' ness,?[|Iev. Mark Guy P.earse. Con*fcrntlnn itnil Ulin'lnoii, The essence ol true manliness lies in living a life of true consecration to God. Loyalty to our noblest impulses, loyalty to our highest reason, loyalty to tha clear intimations of conscience, are synonymous with entire and ceaseless devotion to the holy will of God. That three-fold loyalty is necessary to the cultivation of our highest manhood. We have no means of developing now the heroism of the days of chivalry. The heroism which was fostered, in the midst of imminent dangers, in eras of martyrdom, or times of civil war, cannot be our;). But one kind of heroism is possible to us all?that of standing by God's truth, God's work, Gods day, and God's redeeming Son, no matter what may be the consequences to ourselves. All, whether saint or sinner, believer or infidd, are agreed that we have hu- I inanity at its climax in tlic life of Jesus of Nazareth, and in that life we see the will of the Christ entirely subordinated to the will of his father, nay, the complete blendinff of tbe two wills in one. We see in that life a righteousness and a burning hatred of sin which caused bad inen to shrink from his presence, a gentleness and bcnevolcnce which attracted little children to his side, and a holiness and mercifulness which caused penitent men and women to kneel at Tlis feet in blissful agony of woe mingled with hope. Yet, great as He is, "the holiest among the mighty, the mightiest among the holy," lie is our example, our su???r?mnio Oh thnt wff enuld pet ^/ICUIO WAUlU|/tV? - ?,, o - the young men of this generation to believe that New Testament Sainthood is perfect manliness! There seems to be an idea prevalent that to be an out-and-out Christian, to carry our religion into the business and into the family, as much as into the i chapel and the class-room, to give up all J sins, all idolatries and all questionable j things, about which wc have grave doubts, not to be forever clamor- j ing for our supposed "rights" and keeping a sharp eye on "number one," not to spend half our time in rubbing up to a fine polish our miserable reputation and self worship; but to go all lengths with Christ, and for Christ,?it seems to be thought by some that such a course will make a man feeble and effeminate, and unfit him for a nineteenth century business life. But is it so? No; it is at the devil's caricature of holiness you have been looking, not the Bible portraiture. Open the great Book! Read the life of Samuel, judge and prophet; read the story of Joseph, first the slave, tben the ruler of Egypt; read the account of Daniel, the praying, prime minister of Babylon; read Isaiah and John the Baptist, nnd the tender, mighty and immortal Paul; were these men weaklings, incomplete developments of manhood??[The King's Highway. ) ight like a good scldier; and if thou sometimes fall through frailty, take again greater strength tfcau before, trusting in thy more abundant grace; and take heed of vain pleasing of thyself and of pride.?Thomas a Kempis. Social science brings to our view branch of the divine government and the methods of divine grace. These wc do well to know, these wc must know, but . t r ;Q mnro m/vicnrprl tne Heart m v wist m by the 11 than is the love of a parent by he civil relations ha holds to his child. ?iPres. Bascomb. "Sin Against tlio Strength of Youth." j Unless one positively sees the thing done, the young child's glass filled as a thing of course, the father or the mother sitting by I unconcernedly, or peradveuture rather eager than otherwise that the child shall become | acquainted with the use of wines as a part of social custom and eminence?unless, we say, one sees it done, it is difficult to believe that parents so foolish and so short-sighted can be in the world, or that Providence will intrust to such the tender little souls and bodies that they are doing, even although unconsciously, their best to tarnish and destroy.?Harper's Bazar. Governor Martin says Kansas would to-day give 103,000 majority for prohibition if again j submitted to the popular vote. t ! CHINESE MONEY. A CHAPTER ON THE COINS AN? CURRENCY OP CHINA. The Only Native Coin a Copper PIppp?MinM fnr f'nininrioah ?Foreign Money Used? j Banking in Chiua. I Tlie only native coin of China is a copper piecc called tsien; it is thin and circular, rather more than an inch in diameter, with a square hole in the middle for the convenience of stringing. This is stamped with the Chinese word meaning current, and the name of the province where it is made. Mints for coining cash ?as all small money is called?are established in each provincial capital, undef the direction of the Revenue Department of the government. The coin should consist of an alloy of copper, 50 parts; zinc, 41?; lead, and tin, 2 parts: and its standard weight should be 58 grains troy, but it has been reduced and debased so that those pieces now in circulation are generally under 30 grains in weight, and are mainly composed of iron; and in spite of laws and penalties, a large proportion of the coins now current are coined by private individuals. The value of this coin, if pure, is about one and a third cents of our coinage, bnt the rate of exchange for the , debased specimens usually current in China varies in different provinces at from 900 to 1,800 for a silver dollar. The curious fact that neither silver nor gold have ever been coined to any extent in China is accounted for by S. Wells Williams in his comprehensive work on the Chinese Empire, "The Middle Kingdom," by the statement that the Government is not strong enough to restrain counterfeiters, and not honest enough, on the other hand, toissue pieces j of uniform standard far a series of years till it has obtained the confidence of its subjects." Dr. Williams thinks that the extension of foreign relations will in time lead to the issue of a sound national currency. There have been two attempts during this century to issue silver coins: ?ome of the value of a tael?about $1.50 ?were coined at Shanghai in 1856, and in 1835 there was a large coinage of native dollars, weighing, 417.4 grains, at Fuhkien and Formosa td pay the troops, but these pieces were either melted or counterfeited to such an extent as soon as they appeared that in a short time they were wholly out of circulation. At present the medium of trade in the open ports is the forergn dollar, which is imported in great quantities from Mexico and the United States, and tnese are used in all of the important operations of commerce throughout the empire, but are soon converted Into ingots, to suit the curious national preference. Tho mamam rvrv? /Mif f nn r>o ^ItAm pui&uu [JttjJiiq tiium uui siuuqw tuciii with a peculiar die, and after this has been done several times the character of the coin is injured, and the pieces are then taken to be melted, refined, and cast into ingots of bullion, which weigh from five mace (about seventy-five cents) ' to fifty tael3 (about $75) and the larger pieces are stamped -with the district magistrate's title where they are made, and the date, to verify them. (3old bullion is cast into bars like cake* of India ink in shape, each worth about $15, or hammered into thick leaves. The silver ingots, called sycee, in a pure state, are from ninety-seven to ninety-nine per cent, pure silver, but they are often debased, and dollars are often counterfeited, so that all classes engaged in trade have biieir uiuuejr luspcuieu. UY rc^uiai CAI aminers, called shroffs, who, by practice, become so expert that by the sight alone they can decide on the degree of alloy in a piece of silver, though usually they employ touchstone j needles to aid them. All taxes and duties are paid in svcee of ninety-eight per cent, fineness, and the revenue department licenses bankers to receive the money, and pays them a small percentage for becoming responsible for the purity of all the bullion that they take in. Bank* ing in China is carried on by private parties altogether, since no charter or warrant from the Government would insure any confidence with the people. Private bankers, however, pay certain taxes to the Government. All these banking houses issue notes, but over-issue is checked by the supervision of clearinghouses and by general lack of confidence ?founded on long experience of the trick in ess of human nature?which restricts the circulation of notes always to the town and often to the street or neighborhood in which the bank is situated. This curtailed circulation ferves a i good purpose in checking counterfeiting ] of the bills, a9 in most cases a doubtful 1 t bill can be referred directly to the bank 1 whose name it bears. Such is the general j apprehension of spurious notes, however, that both law and custom in most cities * give the person receiving a bank-note a claim for a full day upon the person pay- 1 ing it to him, to be reimbursed should 1 the note prove counterfeit. ITong Kong ] bills, however, circulate on the mainland ] to very remote districts. In the 1 Southern provinces of the empire i dollars circulate generally, and bank notes are quite unknown. Twice in f Chinese history the government has tried the experiment of a paper currency. The ^ Mongol dynasty of .the thirteenth ccn- , tury issued an enormous amount of papei j money. The great Kublai Khan, who < at?rtf>d t.Tip snVipnift of hiivintr treasuie with money that cost him nothing1, thought that he had discovered the high* est secret of alchemy and in his reign ot thirty-four years issued $624,135,500. His successors continued this manufac ture, but at last the people began to object to the sclicme and popular discontent waxed to such an extent durinj? IOC years of "fiat money" that the Mongul kings found themselves expelled from their native land in 13G8. The new rulers were obliged to issue notes for a time to carry on the business of the court, but soon ceased to do so, and papei money was entirely superseded by coi* about the middle of the fifteenth century. The Mautchu dynasty, which came into power in 1645. never issued any government paper until 1852, during the Tai-ping rebellion. This currency, however, being known to have no basis of credit or funds, never circulated t outside of the capital.? Mer-Occan. i, Garibaldi's Widow. i A correspondent writing from Italy c says: "I was passing through Turin a b few weeks ago and had the good fortune c to be taken bj a friend to visit the b Widow Garibaldi. Her home is situated c in a modest and quiet street; the hum ]( from the leading thoroughfare can be but ^ indistinctly heard. Ilcr little sitting c! room is full of memorials of her beloved husband. The cabinets contain many a: medals, crosses and orders, while the b walls, on the occasion of my visit, were ji hung with flags of historic renown. The ti old lady appears to be wrapped up in a; memories of the past, and her conversa- p tion, turning on the career ol' the dead, h bore, as was natural, a melancholy it tinae." .... | ( NIGHT. I stand where the moon's pale silver Lies dreaming on the sea, Across the waves in trembling lines Of glittering filigree, And where from heaven's far-off heighW x ne stars iook aownon me. The dense black foids of sleeping wares, With slumberous, lengthened swells, The crescent curve of murmuring sands Dotted with gleaming shells, And floating past in hollow tones A ghostly sound of bells. Far out a dusky vessel swings, At anchor safe she rides, And swaying chains clank mournfully Against her shadowy sides. Secure in Ocean's arms she rests, Rocked by the pulsing tides. The moon goes slow]j up the heights Above the milky wayPale Dian of the silver bow, Who searches for the day; Up, up through dusky midnight leagues; Past flying cloud-shapes gray. And overhead Orion waits To usher in the dawn, When sheer a-down the sable steeps The lingering stars have gone; And still, like silent soldiery, TVia travoo maAn anH nn Oh, night, as thou art beautiful, Oh, night, as thou art grand, Speak to my soul in whispers her* Beside this quiet strand; What means thy solemn mystery That broods o'er sea and land? ?Ernest McOafisy. PITH APPOINT. Out of season?an empty pepper box. To make a Roman punch, call him * liar.? Winnipeg Siftings. Kings ransom?"when their subjects got after them.?Texas Si/tings. One can always take pains by eating green cucumbers.?Boston Gazette. About the worst examples a boy meets are those in the arithmetic.?Puck. It is meet and drink that is depriving many a family of food.?Omaha Bee. Many are the men who would rather dye than have gray whiskers.?Merchant' Traveler. " It is permissible to call Welsh news* papers "The Prints of Wales."?Drake's Magazine. When is a frame bouse not a frame house? When an earthquake makes it rock.?Washington Critic. Among the Zulus young people fight and get married. Here they get married and tight.?Texas 8if tings. All men try to get the earth, but the earth gets them. This is not a joke; it is the grave truth.?Washington Oritic. Old lady?"How often does this elevator come down?" Elevator boy?' 'Between the up-tripe, ma'am.?Tid-Bits. A man who hunts rats may be called a ratter, but a woman who hunts moths i$ not necessarily a mother.?Springfidi Union. , In the matter of speed there is a great similarity between a flash of lightning and a bit of unfounded gossip.?SL Albans Messenger. A lawyer may not be at all fastidious in dressing, but no one likes to come out in a new suit any better than he does.?? Merchant Traveler. The rope-walker is not ordinarily a despondent individual, but be seldom lives long after losing bis position.? Duhith Paragraphs. Poetic Daughter?"Ah! would that I had the wings of a dove." Practical father?"H'm! get the legs they're much better eating."?Tid-BHt. At the primary school. Teacher? "Victor, tell me what animal it is that is most susceptible of attachment to man." Scholar (after reflection)?"The leech, monsieur.?French Paper. Tired Reporter?"Mr. Shears, the man you sent me to interview got mad." Abl? Editor?"He did?" "And choked me." "Ye powers!" "And kicked me dows stairs." "Thelow-livingscondrel! Spell his name wrong."?Omaha World. Sick Husband?"Pid the doctor say that I am to take all that medicine?" Wife?"Yes, dear." Sick Husband? "Why, there is enough in that bottle to kill a mule." Wife (anxiously)?"You had .better be careful, John."?Boston Herald. "What makes Mr. Pottleton so unpopular, I wonder? He'<j a good looking young man and quite inteligent." "Yea but he writes poetry." "Well that isn't % crime against society, is it?" "No. But he insists on reading it to you, too." ?Town Topics. Tommy (who wants to prove things ihat he hears)?jMother, do you think our oig dog Lion would save a little girl'a ife if she fell into the water? Mother? [ dare say he would, dear. Tommy (en;husiastically)?Oh, then do frow Topey n.?Harper's Young People. The fourth finger of the left hand hu rom the earliest date been used as a vedding ring fiDger. The ancient belief vas that a nerve in , this finger a J:?1.1? rnv.? vent Uiruutljr iu iuc ucan. mo nodern belief is that the nerve leads lirectly to the pocketbook, and Strang* o say, after the ring is bought, tha nodern terminus of that nerve is often ighter than the ancient one ever could lave been.?Jeweler's WeeUy. "here is a man in our town, and he is wondrous wise. Vhenever he writes the printer-man he dotteth all his i's; Lnd when he's dotted all of them with great sang froid. and ease, le punctuates each paragraph, and crosses all his t's. Jpon one side alone he writes, and never roll* his leaves; Lnd from the man of ink a smile, and mark "insert" receives. Lnd when a question he doth ask (taught wisely he has been,) lo doth the goodly two-cent stamp, for postage back, put in._ _ at. josepn aeraia. The Picnic, the Beautiful' Picnic. Now let us to the woodland hie, whers rees their verdure wrap, for spring no ongcr lingers in old burly winter's lap. n picnic garb we'll amble forth and sit ieneath the trees, and have our hides all hopped and hacked with stings of bumle bees. We'll gaily don our linen oats, and thin seersucker pants, and sit eside the gurgling stream, while o'er us rawl the ants. We'll swallow picnio imonade, to moisten down our grub, 'hich people make by soaking one heap lemon in a tub. The guileless :mon we shall eat, devour the clammy pie, ad sit on bowls of custard while a tear edims our eye. We'll tip the mustardt 1 the jam, "the pepper in the tea, and j with all our might to show that w& re filled with glee. Then let us to th? icnic hie, our basket in our hand, and omeward come filled up with woe and :aves and dust and sand.?Atchinvm Kas.) Gl/jbe. ? JL