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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: "Hunting for Souls." Taxr: "He was a mighty hunter before the Lord."?Genesis, x., 9. In our day, hunting is a sport; but in the lands and the times infest id with wild beasts, it was a matter of life or death with the people. It was very different from going out oil a sunshiny afternoon with a patent breechirviriAr to shoot reed-birds on tne Hats, when Pollux and Achilles and Diomedes went out to clear the land of lions and tigers and bears. My text sets forth Nimroi as a hero wlieu it presents him with broad shoulders and | shaggy apparel and sun-browned face, and I arm bunched with muscle?"a mighty hunter 1 before the Lord." I think he used the bow and the arrow with great success practicing archery. I have thought if it is such a grand thing and such a brave thing to clear wild beasts out of a country, if it is not a better and braver thing to hunt down and destroy thosa great evils of society that are stalking the land with fierce eye and bloody paw, and sharp tusk and quick spring. 1 nave wondered if there is not such a thing as - Gospel ivir wKioh threa who arp flvintf from UUUVJU15) WJ M?VM . w the truth may be captured for God and heaven. The Lord Jesus in His sermon used the art of angling for an illustration when he said: "I will make you fishers of men." And so I think I have authority for using hunting as an illustration of Gospel truth; and I pray God that there may be many a man in thi3 congregation who shall begin to study Gospel archery, of whom it may, after a while, be said: "He was a mighty hunter before the LordHow much awkward Christian work there Is done in the world! How many good people there are who drive souls away Irom Christ I instead of bringing them to Him! religious blunderers who upset more than they right. I Their gun has a crooked barrel, and kicks as it goes off. They are like a clumsy comrade who goes along with skilful hunters ; at the very moment ho ought to b9 most .quiet he is crackling an alder or falling over a log and frightening away the game. How few Christian people have ever learned the lesson of which I read at the beginning of the service, how that the Lord Jesus Christ at the well went from talking about a cup of water to the most practi? a it? ??? fKa wAmon^d cat religious iruins, wuicu nuu iw . aoul for God! Jesus in the wilderness was breaking bread to the people. I think it was good bread: it was very light bread, and the yeast had done its work thoroughly. Christ, after be had broken the bread, said to the people: "Beware of the yeast, or of the leaven, of the Pharisees!" So natural a transition it was; and how easily they all understood him! But how few Christian people who understand how to fasten the truths of God and religion to the souls of men! Truman Osborne, one of the evangelists who went through this country some years ago, had a wonderful art in the right direction. He came to father's house on6 day, and while we were all seated in the room, he said: "Mr. Talmage, are ali your children Christians?" Father said:-"Yes, all but De Witt." Then Truman Osborne looked down into the fire- I place, and began to tell a story of a storm that came on the mountains,and all the sheep were in the fold; but there was one lamb outside that .perished in the storm. Had he looked me m the eye, I^ould have been angered when he told me that story; but he looked into the fire-place, and it was so pathetically and beautifully done that I never found any peace until I was sure I was inside the fold, where the other sheep are. The archers of o'd times studied their art. They were very precise in the matter. The books gave special directions as to how the archer should go, and as to what an archer should do. He must stand erect and firm, his left foot a little in advance of his right. With his left hand he must take hold or the bow in the middle, and then with the three fingers and the thumb of his righ hand lie should lay hold of the arrow and affix it to the string?so precise was the direction given. But now cluinsy we are about religious work! How little skill and care we exercise! How often our arrows miss the mark! Oh, that we might learn the art of doing good and become "mighty hunters before tue Lord!" In the first place, if you want to be effe:tual in do'ng gooyou must be very sure of your ; weapon. There was something very fascinating about the arch ry of olden t'meg. Perhnts you do not know what they could with fHa K'?w nn.l flrmtv Whv ihft chief battles fought by t'le English Plantagemts j were with the Ion?: bow. Thy would talce 4he arrow of polished wood, aud feither it with the plume of a bird, and then it would fly from the bow-string of plaited silk. The broad fields of Agincourt, and Solway Moss, and Neville's Cross, heard the loud thrum of the archer's bow-string. Now, my Christian friends, we have a mightier weapon than that. It is the arrow of the Gospel; it is a sharp arrow; it is a straight arrow; it is feathered from the wing of the dove of God's spirit; it flies from a bo w made out of the wood of tho cross. As far as I can estimate or calculate, it has brought down four hundred million souls. Paul knew how to bring the notch of that arrow on to that bow-string, and its whirr was heard through the Corinthian theatres, and through the court-room, until the knees of Felix knocked together. It was that arrow that stuck in Luther's heart when he cried out: "Oh, my sins! Oh, my sins!" If it strike a man in the head, it kills his skepticism; if it strike him in the heel, it will turn his step; if it strike him in the heart, he throws up his hands, as did one of old when wounded in the battle.'crying: "Oh, Galilean, Thou hast conquered!' In the armory of the Earl of Pembroke, are old corselets which show that the arrow of th?? Ene-lish iisprl to co thrnnch the breast plate, through the body of the warrior, and out through the backplate. What a symbol of that Gospel which is sharper than a twoedged sword, piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and body, and of the joints and marrow! Would to Goi we had more faith in that Gospel; The humblest man in this house, if. he liad enough faith in him, could brine a hudred souls to Jesus?perhaps five hundred. Just in proportion as this age seems to believe less ana less in it, I believe more and more in in it! What are men about that they will no; accept their own deliverance? There is nothing proposed by men that can do anything like this Gospel. The religion of Ralph Waldo Emerson was the philosophy of icicles; the religion of Theodore Parker was a sirocco of the desert, covering up the soul wir,h dry sand; the religion of Renau is the romance of believing nothing; the religion of Thomas Carlyta is only a condensed London fog; the religion of the Huxleys aud the Spent ers is merely a pedestal on which human phil ^ophy sits shivering in the n'ght of the soul, looking up to the stars, 'offering no help to the nations that crouch and groau at the I ase. Tell me where there is one man who has rejoited that Gospel for Another, who is thoroughly satisfied, and helped, and contented in his skepticism, and I will take t le car to-morrow and ride ttvo hundrel. . miles to sea him. The full power of the Gospel has not yet been touched. As a sportsman throws up his hand and catches the ball flying through the air, just so easily will this Gospel after a while catch this round world flying from its orbit and bring iV back to the heart of Christ. Give it full swing, and it will pardon every sin, heal every wound, cure every trouole, emancipate every slave, and ransom every nation, l'e Christian men and women who go out this afternoon to do Christian work, as you go into ttie sunaay-scnoois and the lay preaching stations, and the penitentiaries, and the asylums, I want you to feel that you bear in your hand a weapon compared with which the lightning has no speed,and avalanches have no heft, and the thunderbolts of heaven have no power; it is the arrow of the omnipotent Gospel. Take careful aim. Pull the arrow clear back until the head strikes the bow. Then let it fly. And may the slain of the Lord be many. Again, if you want to be skillful in spiritual hunting you must hunt in unfrequented and secluded places. Why does the hunter go three or four days in the Pennsylvania forests or over Raquette Lake iuto the wilds of the Adirondack^? It is the only way to do. The deer are shy, and one '"bang" of the gun clears the forest. From the California stage you see, as you go over the plains, here and there a coyote trotting along, almost within range of the^ gun?sometimes quite within range of it. No one cares for tnat; it is worthless. The good game is hidden and secluded. Every hunter knows that. So, many of the souls that will be of most worth for Christ, and of most value to the Church, are secluded. They do not come in your way. You will have to go where they are. Yonder they are down in that cellar, yonder they are up in that garret. Far away from the door of any church, the Gospel arrow has not been pointed at them. The tract distributer and the city missionary sometimes just catch a glimpse of them, as a hunter through the trees gets a momentary sight of a partridge or roebuck. The trouble is we are waiting for the game to come to us. YV e are not good hunters. We are standing in Schermerliorn street, expecting that the timid antelope will come up and eat out of our hand. We are expecting that the prairie-fowl will light on our church-steeple. It is not their habit. If the Church should wait ten millions of years for the world to come in and be saved, it will wait in vain. The world will not come. What the Church wants now is to lift their feet from damask ottomans, and put them in the stirrups. We want a pulpit on wheels. The Church wants not so much cushions as it wants saddle-bags and arrows. We have got to put aside the gown and the kid gloves, and put on the hunting shirt. We have been fishing so long in the brooks that run under the shadow of the Church that the fish know as. and they avoid the hook, and escape as soon as we came to the bank, while yonder is Upper Sarariacand Big Tupper's Lake, where the first swing of the Gospel net would break it for the multitude of the fishes. There is outside work to be done. What is that I see in toe backwoods? It is a tent. The hunters have made a clearing and camped out. What do they care if they have wet feet, or if they have nothing but a pine branch for a pillow, or for the northeast storm? If a moose in the darkness steps into the lake to drink, they hear it right away. If a loon cries in the midnight, they hear it So in the service of God we have exposed work. We have got to camp out and rough it We are putting all our care on the seventy thousand people of Brooklyn who they say come to church. What are we doing for the seven hundred thousand that do not come? Have they no souls? Ara they sinless that they need no pardon? Are there no dead in their houses that they need | no comfort? Are they cut off from God, to go into eternity?no wing to bear them, no light J to cheer them, no welcomo to greet, them! I | hear to-day surging up from the lower depths of Brooklyn a grcaa that comes through our Christian asseaiblages and through our Cnristian churches; and it blots out all this scene from my eye to-day, as by the mists of a great Niagara, for the dash and the plunge of these great torrents of life dropping down into the fathomless and thun lering abyss of | suffering and woe. I sometimes think that ; just as God blottjd out the Church of Thyatira and Corinth and Laodicea, because j of their sloth and stolidity. He will blot out j American and English Chritianity, and raise ! on the ruins a stalwart, wide-awake, missionary Church, that can take the full meaning of "that command: "Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned." l remark, further, if you want to succeed in Gospel hunting you must have courage. If the hunter stand with trembling hand or shoulder that flinches with fear, instead of his taking the catamount, the catamount takes him. What would become of the Greenlander if, when out hunting for bear, he should stand shivering with terror on an iceberg? What would have become of Du Chaillu and Livingstone in the African thicket, with a faint heart and a week knee? When a panther comes within twenty paces of you, and it has its eye on you, and it has cnnoifed frvr t.hn fpnrfnl snrinc". " Steadv 7"""" r o' ? , there. Courage, 0 ye spiritual hunters! There are ' great monsters of iniquity prowling all around I about the community. Shall we not in the strength of God go forth and combat them' | We not only need more heart, but more back- j bone. What is the church of God that it should fear to look in the eye any transgression? There is the Bengal tiger of drunkenness that prowls around, and instead of attacking it, how many of us hide under the church pew or the communion table? There is so much invested in it we are afraid to assault it; millions of dollars in barrels, in vats, in spigots, in corkscrews, in gin palaces with I marble floors and Italian-top tables, and ! chased ice-coolers, and in the sti ychnine, and I the logwood, and the tartaric acid, and the I nux vomica, that go to make up our " pure " ! American drinks. I looked with wondering ; eyes on the "Heidelberg tun." It is the great liquor vat of German}', which is said to hold eignt hundred hogsheads of wine, and only three times in a hundred years has it been filled. But, as I looked at it I said to myself: "That is nothing? eight hundred hogsheads. "Why, our American vat holds four million five hundred thousand barrels of strong drinks, and we keep three hundred thousand men with nothing to do but to see that it is filled." Oh, to attack this great monster of intemperance, and the kindred monsters of. fraud and uncleanness, requires yon to rally all your Chritians courage. ; Through the press, through the pulpit, through the platform, you must assault it. Would to God that all our Ameri- I can Christians would band together, not for crack-brained fanaticism, but for holy Christ- I ian reform. I think it was in 179i? that there i went out from Lucknow, India, under the sovereign ,the greatest hunting party that was ever projected. There were 10,000 armed men in that hunting party. There were camels, and horses, and elephants. On some, princes rode, and royal ladies, under exquisite housings, j and five hundred coolies waited upon the I train, and the desolate places of India were j invaded by this excursion, and the rhi- I noceros, and deer, and elephant, fell { under the stroke of the sabre and bullet, j After a while the party brought back trophies worth fifty thousand rupees, having I left the wilderness of India ghastly with the slain bodies of wild beasts. Would to i God that instead of here and there a straggler going out to fight these great monsters of iniquity to our country, the million membership of our churches would band together and hew in twain these great crimes that make the land frightful with their roar, and are fattening upon the bodies and souls of immortal inen. Who is ready i for such a party as that?"' Who will be a ] miirhty hunter for the Lord. 1 remark again: If jou want to be success- | ful in spiritual hunting, you need not only to bring down the game, but bring it in. I 1 think one of the most beautiful pictures of j Thorwaldsen is his "Autumn." It represents a sportsman coming home and standing I under a grapevine. He has a staff over bis I shoulder, and on the' other end of that j staff are hung a rabbit and a brace of birds. j Every hunter brings Iiometne game. i>o one would think of bringing down a reindeer or whipping up a stream for trout, and letting ! them lie in the woods. At eventide the camp | is adorned with the treasures of the forest? beaK^and fin, and antler. If you go out to hunt for immortal soub, i not only bring them down under the arrow j of the Gospel,but bring them into the Church of God. the grand home and encampment we i have pitched this side ' he skies. Fetch them in, do not let them lie out in the open field. | They need onr prayers, and sympathies, and help. That is the meaning of the Church of Goa?help. Oh, ye hunters for the Lord! not only brinz down "the game, but bring it in. If Mithridates liked hunting so well that i for seven yeans he never went in-doors, what | enthusiasm ought we to have who are hunt- I ing for immortal souls. If Domitian practiced ] archery until he could stand a boy down in the Roman amphitheatre, with a hand out, the fiugers outstretched, and then the King could shoot an arrow between the fingers without wounding them, to what drill and what pravtice ought not we tc subject ourselves in ord^r to become SDiritu ll archers i and "mighty hunters heforethe Lord!" But | lot mc say, you will never work any tetter than you pray. The old archers took the 1 bow, put one end of it down basirle the foot, j elevated the other end, and it was the rule that the bow should- be just the size ! of the archer; if it were just his size, then he would go into the battle with confidence. Let me say that your power to project goOti in | the world will correspond exactly to your 1 own spiritual stature. In other words, the I first tning, in preparation for Christian work, j is personal consecration. ' Oh! for a closer walk with God, A calm and heavenly frame, A light to xhineupon the road That leads me to the Lamb." I am sure that there are some here who at , some time have been hit by the Gospel arrow. You felt the wound of that conviction, and you plunged into the world deeper; just as the stag, when the hounds are after it, i plunges into Scroon Lake, expecting in that way to escape. Jesus Christ is on your track today, impenitent man! not in wrath, but in mercy. Oh, ye chased and panting souls! here is the stream of God's mercy and salvation, whero you may cooi your mirst. otop mas cnase 01 Bin to-day. By the red fountain that leaped from the heart of my Lord, I bid you stop. There is mercy for you?mercy that pardons: that heals; everlasting mercy. Is there in all this house anyone who can refuse the offer that comes from the heart of the dying Son of God? There is a forest in Germany, a place they call the "deer leap"?two crags about eighteen yards apart, between, a fearful chasm. This is called the "deer leap," because once a hunter was on the track of a deer; it came to one of these crags; there was no escape for it from the pursuit of the hunter, and in utter despair it gathered itself up, and in the death agony attempted to Jump across. Of course, It feD, and was dashed on the rocla far beneath. Here is a ?ath to heaven. It is plain; it is safe, esus marks it out for every man to walk ' in. But here is a man who says: "I won't | walk in that path; I will take my ami way." He comes on up until he confronts the chasm j that divides his soal from heaven. Now, his . last hour has come, and he resolves tbaS he j will leap that chasm, from the heights of 1 earth to the heights of heaven, j Stand back now, and give him full swing, for no soul ever did that successively. Let him try. Jump! Jump! He misses the marl:, and he jroes down, depth below depth, "destroyed without remedy." Men! angels! devils! -what should we call that place of awful catastrophe? Let it be known for ever as '"TheSinners Death Leap." It is said that when Charlemagne's host was overpowered by three 3rmies of the Saracens in the Pass of Roncesvalles. his warrior, Koland, in terrible earnestness, seized a trumpet, and blew it with such terrific strength that the opposing army reeled hack with terror; but at the third blast of the truinjjet this instrument broke in two. I see your soul fiercely assailed by the powers of earth and hell. I put the mightier trumpet of the Goepel to my lips; and I blow it three i times. Blast the first?"Whosoever will, let | him come." Blast the Second?"Seek ye the : Lord while Ha may be found. "Blhst the third ?"Now is the accept}'! time now i? the day of salvation. "Does not the host of your sins fall back? But the trumpet does not, like that of Koland, break rrr two: As it was handed down to tw from the lips- of our fathers, we hand it down to the lips of our children, and tell them to sound it when we are dead, that all the generations of men may Know mat our God is a pardoning God',a sympathetic God, a loving God; and that more to Him than the anthems of heaven,more to Him I than the throne on which hesits.more to Him than are the temples of celestial worship, is the joy of seeing the wanderer putting his hand on the door-latch of his Father's house. Hear it, all ye nations} Bread for the worst hunger. Medicine for the- worst sickness. Light for the thickest darkness. Harbor from the worst storm. Dr. Prime, in his book of wonderful interest entitled "Around the World," describes a tomb in India of marvelous architecture; Twenty thousand men were twenty-two-year* in erecting that and the buildings around it Standing at that tomb, if you speak or sing, j after vou have ceased you hear trie echo com- , a uh t*. 1:1? i ?'n nv/m c* tiuigMb VI liTJ ICCt. 10 IS Ukf\j Hilt? other echoes. The sound is drawn out ia sweet prolongation, as though tUe angels of God were chanting on the wing. How many souls here to-day, in th? tomb of sin, will lift up the voice of penitence and prayer? If now they would cry unto God,the echo would drop from afar?not struck from the marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum, but sounding back from the warm heart of angels, flying with the news; for there is joy among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. Biting off Threads. Many ladies use their artificial teeth as eulwtitutes for scissors, and such use of them soon renders repair necessary. When told that they should not bite threads with them, they are surprised. But they should be taught not to use pvpti their nfitnr.il teeth for SUCh DUr poses. But few think that in biting off a thread the entire muscular force of the jaws in use is concentrated into the small space measured by the diameter of a thread. Besides, thread after thread is applied to the same place on the teeth, and thus the enamel is soon broken there. How to Boil Potatoes. . No doubt every woman who pretends to cook thinks that if there is one thing she can do well it is to boil potatoes; yet it is very rarely that one has the privilege of eating a palatable boiled potato. It is cither broken into scraps or hard at the centre. An evenly-boiled white potato is a treat. The New York Post contains the following recipe, which is worth trying: l,Let them be carefully rubbed with a hard brush, disturbing neither the eyes nor the skin. Select them of equal size, and put them in a saucepan, with a tablospoonful of salt, and sufficient water to cover them. When boiled five minutes pour off the hot water, and replace with cold, and half a teaspoonful of salt. The reason for this innovation is that, the heart of the potato being peculiarly hard, the outside is generally done long before it is softened. By chilling its exterior with cold water the heat of the first boiling strikes to the centre of the vegetable; the force gradually increases when the water boils again; by the time the outside has recovered from its chill, the equilibrium is restored, and the whole potato is evenly done. Potatoes must boil steadily, with the covers on, three-quarters of an hour, gently tested with a fork, if they be not cracked ; when done, drain them dry, put a clean cloth upon them, cover closely with the lid, and let the - > ? iii A. J: saucepan sianci unin me umuw is k?uj lo be served; then take out each one separately with a spoon, that they may not be broken in their floury state." Recipes. Tea Cakes.?Rub together four teaspoonfuls of butter and one cup of sugar, add one well-beaten egg, one teaspoonful of cream aud two cups of flour, into which has been sifted two table spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in small pans and cat while fresh. * Green Pea Soup.?Four pounds of beef, one half peck of green peas. Cut the beef into small picces and boil slowly for an hour and a half. Half an hour before serving add the shelled peas, season with salt and pepper and add a little thickening; strain through a colander before serving. Bkoiled Fresh Cod.?"When the fish is thoroughly Cleaned, wipe dry and split open from head to tail, and remove the backbone carefully; salt well and putin a cool place for an hour before cooking, as the flesh becomes firm by so doing; broil over a bright fire of coals; place the inside to the fire first, then when turned over skin side to the coals, all the juices are retained. "When thoroughly cooked, place on a warm platter, and dress with butter and bits of parseley. Mackerel are excellent when prepared and cooked in the same manner. Shoulder of Mutton* Broiled.? Place the mutton over a bright fire of coals; let it broil gently, placing the in. side to the fire first: cover it with a tin; when nearly done through turn it. Let it brown nicely; when it is done place it on a hot platter, sprinkle, .with salt and pepper, allowing about a teaspoonful of each; butter it freely; turn it once or twice in the seasoning; turn the inside down. Served hot, with boiled hominy or potatoes, it makes a nice breakfast dish. It is well to have the shoulder boned before broiling. A breast of lamb can be broiled in the same way. Stewed Rhubarb.?To one pound of rhubarb, cut in pieces of one or two inches in length, allow one-half pound of lnof cuornr and thft orated rind of a lem V O on. Have ready a large saucepan of boiling water, throw the rhubarb in and stir the pieces down with a wooden or silver spoon. Put the cover on, and for | three or four minutes it may be left, then the cover taken off; the rhubarb is not again left until it is done. It may be quietly turned in the sauce pan with the | spoon so as not to broak the rhubarb, j The moment it boils it softens, and in j three minutes or less time, according to i whether the rhubarb is old or youug, ; strain it off quickly with the cover tilted | on the sauce pan. Let it slip from the saucepan into a pie dish; sprinkle tho I loaf sugar and grated lemon over it, and 1 leave until cold. _ FOND 0F MUSIC. . THE INElilTENCE <W SWEET SOtrtfDS UPON ANIMALS'. How Two ETephants were ChaTiwrd and How Cats are Affected by Music?Dog? an Exception?8i?iging Fislies. That music has- a charm on the animal creation has long been knoivnr saysThomas J. Bowditeh,. in the Troy Times. The horse is particularly charmed with music, for "At the shrill trumpet's soun?d he pricks; his ear." and this fact is also'illustrated by music heard in circuses and other equestrian entertainments where the horse is affected in a lively and exhilarating manner by the performances of the band, often waltzing and prancing and keeping perfect time with the mhsic. The eccentric Lot-d, Holland, of the reign of William III., used to give his horses a weekly concert in a covered gallery especially erected for the purpose. He'maintained that! it cheered their temper. The- Arab' entertains his camel with musicr song? and fairy tales,, audwith the plaintive tones of his voice. Music is- appreciated by the elephantin a wonderful degree, and perhaps the most remarkable instance occurred at a menagerie in Paris in 18(>o, when a concert was given acd two elephants- were among the auditors. The .orchestra being placed out of Itheir sight, they could not perccive whence the harmony came.. The first sensation, was that of surprise; at one' moment thev erazed eauerlv at the spectators;, the next they ran at their keeper to. caress him and seemed to inquire what these strange sounds meant,, but at length perceiving that nothing was amiss,, they gave themselves- up to the impressions which the music communicated. Each new tune-' seemed to produce a change of feeling,causing their gestures and cries to assume an expression in accordance with it. But it wasstill more remarkable that after a piece had produced an agreeable effect upon, them, if it was incorrectly played,, their passions were aroused to an uncontrollable fury. Dogs are affected by music, bnt It is j difficult to determine whether agreeably or otherwise. Many naturalists believe it to be disagreeable to them, a fact that is strongly supported by the fact that if left to their liberty, they generally take flight with howls as soon as the music reaches their ears. In 1GG4, "Doggies that dance the morrice" were mentioued as acting in Ben Johnson's play of "Bur T7> ? ? off Of u dnm. ] tllUIUIIlU W ruviICj OUU ovuu Hivv.1 M VVIM pany of dancing dogs appeared at 9oiithwark fair called the "Ball of little Dogd." : The show bill said,: "You shall see one i of them, named Marquis of Gaillerdain, whose dexterity is not to be compared; he dances with Mme. Poncctte. his mistress, and the rest of their company, at the sound of instruments, all of them observ- 1 ing so well the cadence that they amaze everybody." At the close it declares that they have danced before the queen, : keeping perfect time to the music. Cats are said to mew loudly on hearing < the sounds of instruments. A noted singer of Paris once had a cat possessed of ; such an ability to detect a mu?i al im- i perfection that she never sang a piece in ; public until she had sung it to puss, con- < fident that she would please an audience i if her rendition was satisfactory to the i cat. The tiny mouse is charmed by the i whistle of the Alpine herdsman, will i abide in his hut ana come from its covert i to listen to his song. An officer confined < in the Bastile at Paris begged to be al- i lowed to play on his flute, to soften his i confinement by its harmonies. Shortly i afterward, when playing on his instrument, he was niucn astonished to see a i number of mice frisking out of their ] holes and. many spiders descending from ] their webs and congregating round him, < whi'e lie continued the music. When- j ever he ceased they dispersed; whenever j he played again they reappeared. He < soon hud a far more numerous audience, < amounting in all to about a hundred j mice and spiders. In the "Magazine of i Natural History" (1836) it is related how ] the steward of a ship, by playing some 1 lively tunes on a flute, bagged twenty s rats in about three hours. < aT?nn<r rAntilfls. the lizard shows, per- s haps tlie most remarkable susceptibily to i musical influences, lying first on his back, 1 then on his side and anon on his stom- i ach, as if desiring to expose every part 1 of his body to the effect of the sonorous i fluid which is so delightful to him. He < appears to be very refined in his taste, i soft voices and plaintive aire being his favorites, while hoarse singing and noisy J music disgust him. Birds are the true musicians of the an- | imal kingdom. ( They have a genuine j talent to learn and appreciate musical , notes and melodies. The mocking bird < is able to imitate all the minor sounds ( of nature. In his superb rendering of ? the song of the thrush he will pause to ] mimic the bark of a dog, the crow- j ing of a cock or the croaking of a wheel- ( barrow. A stranger in the South would j suppose that a magnolia grove was alive j with songsters, in which, in reality, was \ but a single mocking bird. The song of the brown thrush, in the opinion of < anrinKnri is linanm&ssed. exccot by the mocking bird. It pours out its melody without any regard whatever to tLe scientific properties of music, and the result is perfection. Some fishes sing. A noted fishy vocalist is found in the Anevent Scarus, which was noted for the powers of its vocal organs. Pliny embalmed it in verso as the king of fishes, and Ovid and Ossian have also sung its praise in song. Scleucus stated, with all good faith, that it was the only fish that ever slept, and yElian bestowed upon it the honor of being the best beloved by its fellows. "Wonderful tales are told of its power of intonatiou, and although it was in great demand for the table, the men were loth to take it in consequence of the wails and moans it gave vent to when captured. At other times, when free, its voice rose from the sea clear as a bell and ravishing in the sweetness of its melody. Mighty Big Roe. In Johnstown the base hall grounds are along the Oonemaugh river, and a great many balls are lost by being batted into the stream. During a rcccnt game i an entire dozen of regulation balls were 1 thus lost. A stranger standing on the < bridge near the company store had his < curiosity excited by seeing a number of spheres floating down stream, and asked a citizen what they were. Not wishing . to let local pride suffer, lie answered 1 nonchalantly: "Those? Oh, they arc J only fish roe." The stranger departed with an exalted idea of Cambria county fish.?Pittsburgh Dixpatelu The sale of roses in this country ' amounts to fully a million plants per year. A great deal of talent is lost to the I world for the want of a little courage, THE HOME DOCTOR. Bent Time fd>fta'tfa6. It fe test to bathe jiM before going to' bed, 99.ys- the London Lancet, as any dan- ] gcr of P itching cold is tfinifc avoided, and the complexion is improved by keeping warm for several hours aftsr leaving tha bath. A couple of pounds of bran put into a thini bag and then in the batb tub is excellent for softening tEe skin. It should be left; to soak in a small! quantity of water several hoars before being used. Sail a- Core- for Falling JTalr. "I am very glad of the opportunity given me by th?-query to thank "Note* ' and Queries' for tihe- recommendation oJ djy salt as a cure for falling hair. My ' hair had come out frightfully for several months, so that I dreaded touching: it wills a brush. Thinking that salt could ; do* no> harm, anywayr and remembering; the benefit always derived from sea air j amd bathing, I tried' itt,. andl was surprised' at tilie result, for after thus* application* ?putting it on at night and brushing: and. slaakinc: it out in: the- morning?not: one hair came out withi the most vigoiv ous- brushing. I have-used, itthree or four times a? week since the'middle of Novem>bar; flmdi notic-e a nercenfcible thickeninEr of my hair and no-disagreeable resultswhatever. The treatmonfcmight not be90> beneficial to every one; oft course, but I have- written this fully,, feeling that I could hardly say too much; ini praise of what has- been so suscessful. with myself.."? Boston Tranteevpt:. Kifimons in the Sick Room. The lemon is a fruit much: used in the' sick room,, and, many times,, unwisely. Lemonade' being a very refreshing and> agreeable-drink, is easily taken* in excessby persons- suffering from fevers, a fact which should not be forgotten. In typhoid fever, for instance, its-immoderateuse would be- attended! with danger, inducing, as-it might, additional derangemeat ia aa already inflamed intestinal mucous- membrane. Ini all inflammatory diseases of the stomach audi bowels lemonade should oaly be givea after the' attending physician has sanctioned its- use. During the past few years lemon juice- has become quite popular in the management of diphtheria from the supposed action on the membranous deposit"ini the throat. There have also been attributed to the juice marked virtues in the functional derangement of the liver, commonly called "bilious disorders.rr Some persons so affected have found benefit from its persistent use. The symptoms of others, however,, have been aggravated by it.?Boston Herald. * To Allay Vomiting. At this season of the year diseases oi which persistent vomiting is one of tha important symptoms are exceedingly common. In summer complaint especially, the stomach is often so excessively irritable that everything taken excites immediate vomiting. In such cases prompt measures of relief are required. The vomiting is then almost always attended with great thirst, and, as a rule, water or other drinks arc freely given by those who have the patients in charge. Where much is taken into the stomach, even if it be simply water, the vomiting is sure to persist. Therefore, the most important thing to do is /to give that organ opportunity to rest, for a time at least. Nourishment should be entirely dispensed with, if necessary, even for twenty-four hours. Experience has shown that such a privation is borne well by infants even less than a year old, 1 - *. - ? *1 lllU 11 IS ucrimuiv UCUCi luau w vuutiaue to give them food that is thrown up again as often as it is taken. To reluce the irritability of the stomach, and to allay the thirst as well, ice pellets are ldvised. If ice water is allowed at all, it must be restricted to teaspoonful doses. When it is proper to give nourishment, milk and limewater in equal parts is tha first to be given. That, also, should be limited to teaspoonful doses. One teaspooful may be given every fifteen or :wenty minutes. If it is retained, the interval between the doses may be 1 gradually shortened until such small juantities can be safely allowed every :wo or three minutes. Then the dose nay be increased to a dessertspoonful at :ong intervals, and, after a time, to a lablespoonful, then to a wineglassful, and jo on. By this method nearly all cases )f vomiting due to irritability of the itomach of recent origin can be allayed in from twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Under ail circumstances, even light food is forbidden in such cases for at least ""? *1?-.i ii.:?i ;nrec Qfiys uiitjr iiie vunuuu^ nua tcaacu, md even then it should be selected with ;xceeding care, and given in gradually ncreasing quantitcs.?Boston Herald. How Blood Oranges are Produced. Strolling about the neighborhood of ;he Quincy market, writes a Boston correspondent of the Iowa State Jtegsster, nyattention was attracted by the sign: "Blood Oranges, $7.50 a box," which 3ecorated the exterior of aa importer's ihop. I had always supposed that the alood oniugc was a freak of nature, to be ound semi-occasionally like a yellow fire : jracker in a pack of the Golden Dragona I jrand; but this, it seems, was a mistake, J tor the dealer assured me that the ruddy fruit was a distinct variety. i "It is artistically produced," he said, j ;<by grafting an ordinary orange tree with the pomegranate. The result is an J >range like any other, so far as flavor is concerned, but with red juice that ia 1 risible through the skin. It brings a lighcr price, because it is regarded as a curiosity. The people of Sicily cultivate it mostly. Yes, there are one or two queer rinds of oranges'4! know of. The pine- i ipple orange, which has something of the linn.innle flavor, is tindinjr its way into ! ;he market. Then there is the "naval j; )rangc," grown extensively in southern | California. It is considered particularly itie, and sells at corresponding prices. The most curious thing ubout it is the as;onishingly accurate imitation of the hunan umbilicus which ornaments the extremity farthest from the stem. It is rrom "this peculiarity that the variety j :akes its name. The nural oranges, by :he way, arc of the feminine gender, and j nave no seed at all. "I had a few" sweet lemons in stork the 1 jther day," added the dealer. "They 1 ire quite a rarity. People in this part of ' lie world have poor taste in tropical fruit, anyway. They will always pay ) nore for a red banana than for a yellow ! >ne, though the former is considered an ( nferior fruit where both are grown. The ime, too, is far more prized in tropical f countries than the lemon, but northern- ' Anlir rrnrwl fnr ninlrlino ;rs miutv ii. ? vinj ( ? ] Ahorse notices where he is going, and s oa the lookout for a linn foundation to . jut his foot on. It is an instinct with inn, therefore, to step over a prostrate < nan. Injuries caused by a runaway horse ( ire nearly always inflicted by the animal ' knocking people down, and not by stepping on them. In ploughing and planting a quarter iection of land near Bethany, 111., two , farmers killed 160 rattlesnakes, game Of I :hem big fellows, 1 TEMPERANCE. Slaking Liquor Selling Disgraceful, The other day news came that the Missouri Slasons were to enforce a rule excluding from iheir order all saloon-keeper*. The action of tUismost powerful of secrst societies, s?ple mincing Enatoi toe ivJiignwor i^arxir ancv au temperance societies, cannot but have a mighty inflmnce in the right direction. Yrttt cannot prevent nieu from sefiii^j liquor by making,the act disgraceful. It is a fact that* occupations the mest debased have always' been vrtllingly followed if the pecuniary re ward v?ere Large enough. But yotx can prevent young-men from associating with tnose upon wbom society has put its baa. When you mak? liquor selling disgraceful, you make the saloon even, leas respectable than it is at present-as a1 place of resort. What Killed! ilrtemtis Ward. James Parton, in writing of "Artemua Ward," gives the cau8e-o( his early death in these words: ''Wherever belectured, whether iai New England, California or London, there was sure to>be a knot of young fellows to-gather arourai him^ audi go home with him toliis hotel, order supper,, and spend half the nigjit in telling stories aiuii singing; songa. "To any man this will be- fatal m tirrssj fcut when the nightly carouse follows an evening's performance before-aniauxliiience, and iff succeeded by a journey the next day, the waste of vitality is fearfully rapid. Five years of suchia life finishedpeor Charlies Browne; "He was not a deep'drinker: He was net a mam of strong appetites: It was the nights wasted in conviviality which, his system needed for sleep that sent him to>his grave forty years before his time.'. "For' men of his'profession,. for all editors, literary men, and artists,, there- is only ona safety^? Teetotalisrru. He should have taken the advice of a stage-driver on; the plains', to whom he once offered! some whisky, and I commend it strongly to' every young man: i aon i arinK, i wont arinKiL ana. x uoa c jikb to see anybody else drink. I'm of the opinion of those mountains?keep' your top cooL They've got snow and I've gpt bcaine; that's ail.the difference.'" POwderly'S- AdviiCft. Terence V. Powderly,.Grand Master Workman of the Knights of Labor,, in, a recent speech at Lynn, Mass>, said: "Had 1 10,000,000 tongues and a throat for-each tongue, I would say to every man, woman, and child here; tonight: Throw strong drink aside as-you would an. ounce of liquid hell. It sears the- conscience,, it destroys everything it touches. It reaches into the family circle and takes-the- wife- you had sworni to. protect and drags- her down from her purity to that bouse from which, no. decent woman ever goes- alive. It induces the father to take the-furniture- from his bouse, exchange it for money at the pawnshop and spend the proceeds- in rum. It damns everything it touches. I haive seen it in every city east of the Mississippi river, and I know that the most, damning curse to the laborer is that which gurgles from the neck of the bottle. I had! rather be at the head of an organization 1 /in AArt Unnnnf AAtHIAflf1. "OVlIift, JLWfVW uuv, UVUCM, ?uum? men than, at the bead of an organization of 12,000^000'drinkers, whether moderate or any other kind. Every dime spent in the rumshop furnishes- a paving stone for hell. In one Pennsylvania county in a sing]* year $17,000,000 was spent for liquor, and it was estimated that i 11,000,000 of the amount came from workingmen. In this county a Knight of Labor assembly, the members of. which added much to the rum traffic, seceded from the order when asked for a certain assessment." "Why She Reftised. Yoo say you went to the party last night and you saw Mrs. Smith, an old friend,whom you had not seen since she and your sister were at school together. You had a very pleasant talk until supper, when you gave her your arm and took her to supper. When some one*came along with a few glasses of wine on a waiter and offered her a glass, you saw her shudder as she said "No! and you wonder why Mrs. Smith, who didn't used to be so particular about such things, not only rpfusftd. hut shuddered when she said "No! You cannot tell why! I can tell why. You went on with your talk, and a little flirtation, did you? I won't say you didn't. She was very gay,and seemed very glad to forget herself, did she? Very well, I am very glad that you gave her that hour of the evening. lean tell you where she went after the party was over. ' She went home?the latent person from the party. She was glad it was late,for her husband bad not come home. She sat and read for an hour and her husband did not come. She wrote for an hour and her hus- , band did not come. She sat at the piano for an hour but he did not come. At length, be- < tween 3 and 4 o'clock,there was a noise at the ( door, and two policemen held him in their arms. She knows them both well by this time. It happens so often that she knows every policeman on the beat. They bade her goodnight. She had locked her child's room that he might not abuse him. She took the abuse -I--"' L: 1? 1 I as llti lllUIg 111ILLM>11 UU UUO UCU. Uuc uiug^i i off his neck-cloth and coat, and sat there un- I , til he should fall into a stupid sleep. She is the woman who refused the glass of wine with a shudder. You thought she was gay and bright. I know her story because I am her minister. They have a sort of skeleton in the closet, which we are permitted to see and you are not. And when we see that skeleton, do you wonder that we sometimes say pretty sharp things about moderate drinking, and the temptations offered at parties??Bet?. E. i E. Hale. The License Train to Ruin. THE FOLLOWING IS THE CHARTER: "Licensed to make a strong man weak; Licensed to lay a wise man low; Licensed a wife's fine heart to break, And make her children's tears to flow. "Licensed to do their neighbor harm; ~ Licensed to foster hate and strife; Licensed to nerve the robber's arm; Licensed to whet the murderer's knife." REGULATION'S ARE AS FOLLOWS: If not prevented by the no vote or the intimidation of our customers by the temperance people, we shall run our train to ruin foi?? Tho rlnwn fro in lAAVAS ?l> XUiUVCU laiti AUU vtv > M v> ? Ciderville at 6 a. m. ; Portertown at 7 a. m. ; Beerville at 8 a. sl At this station two Bxtra cars will be added to the train to accommodate the 4 per cent, customers. Through tickets to Gallowsville can be procured on these cars by applying to the conductor who wears the Jarge overcoat. Leave Wineville at 9 a. m. This is the most popular station on the road. The train stops here for a short time to take on fuel. Leave Brandy borough at 10 a. m. ; Whisky City at M. This train is express from Whisky City to Ruin Depot. The train stops however to land passengers at Poorhouseville, Hospitaltown, Prisonburg and Gallowsville. We are sorry to state that the Sunday train is being tampered with so much by the fanatics that we cannot run regular trains on Sunday. N. B. -All baggage at the risk of the ownsr. Widows and orphans are requested not to trouble the directors with questions in reference to persons or property lost, as they are 1 aot responsible for accidents or loss of propr 3rty. notice. The directors and stockholders will hold & errand juunee over me city elections, uu men headquarters in Distilleryville, on the 25th. All stockholder are earnestly requested to.be present as business of great importance is to 1 be transacted in relation to the Yes vote in < the couuty towns. We have got the citiesall' right, but we must have the country towns ! ilso, or our stock will go down. Professor i Wellington has adopted a plan for us to ac- , ;ept which, if we accept* will aid us. very ' much anil that is this: We propose to get up j some spurious ballots something like this: "Shall licenses be not granted for the sale 1 >f intoxicating liquors in this town? JSo." ] Second.?"Shall licenses be refused for the , ?le of intoxicating liquors in this town? N'o." Third.?"Shall licenses be withheld for the >ale of intoxicating liquors iii this town/ 4 So." "Fourth.?Shall licenses be granted for ;hesaleof intoxicating liquovs in this State t NTo." We want the no in bold letters and thatn . ountry greenhorns, who know better than to Irink ourpo'son Iiquors.or ride on our train to ruin, will vote it ail right, and it wou't count, md in this way we will get license. Pei" order. Wm. Wholesale, President. James Retail, Vioe-President,. The ostrich, whioh hides its head in th% jand to escape a pursuer is? not more foolish 1 than themwi who takes tQ driuk to &-qwa trouble/ ' i RE LIG10 U S_R E ADING7 . A Little While, "What is this that He salth? "It is but a little while," And trouble and pain and death Shall vanish before His smile. "A little while," and the load 1 Stall drop at the pilgrim1 s feet, Whers the steep and thorny road Dotb merge in the golden street. But what is this tbat He saith? "A littJb while," and the day Of the servant that laboretb Shall be done forever and ay a fi^the truth that is yet wit old! 0 the song* that are yet unsung! O the sufferings manifold, < ^Ehd the sorrows that have no tongue! 4 0 the helpless hands held out, And the wayward feet that stray In thscdesolate paths of doubt And the sinner's Downward way! For a silence soon will fall On the lips that burn for speech, ' And the needy and poor that call Will forever be out of reach. "For the work that jvmuct do> Before (die coming of-death There remaiceth, 0 faithful few, But a little -while," Hesaith. The (Withering of the Safatr. The circumstances of'the- family of tfr? redeemed have' made it- impossible that they should ever yet- be- assembled together at their father's home; But mansions are now being prepared for them; and the time is - fixed when- there- shall be a final gathering of all the children of God. The hopo of this-gatheringriflmost powerful in its- present influenceupon their feelings-and'conduct. The solemn appeal of > the Apoatio to- the Thessalonians, "I. beseech you*, brethren, by the coming of. our Lord Jesu? Christ, and by ouvr gathering together unto Him," shows that; whatever mistakes were entertained-in connection with the Lord's advent, this,at least, was well unrtarafnnrl *n<1 rrrp^tlu rioo-ired "NVi* can we wonder, forj- besides- more- general reasons connccted.with the Lord's glory and the salvation of the whole family, there are some special reason* which greatly tendi to< brighten, and strengthen this blessed, hope Perfection will characterize- that gathering. The education of the saints will be perfected. They are ati school in this pcea- ^ ent world, and have of tea hard and difficult lessons to learn, the end and design of which tbey cannot always see. But while learning them they are unconsciously gaining; knowledge and experience and habits,, which fit them , t > glorify God in: the enjoyment of their future inheritance;. The time appointed of the Father will have to come. They shall no> longer be under tutors and governors-; their education will be finished.. The character and graces of the saints will be perfected. Who ever saw a. perfect character on earth, except in the person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? Abraham gave way to unbelief, Moses to passion, Job to impatience. Indeed, it is a common remark that the most eminent saints have failed in that particular, for which, on the whole, they were KVio m/\af ^iafinmnafiori TVia voo/la f\f U4JV UVJU V41t)ViU^U?UUUM? AMV nvvwi V* corruption in the heart stifle the graces of the Spirit, and the climate of this world does not favor their full development. Bet then all will be perfect; <svery saint will have- perfect joy, perfect peace, perfect gentleness, perfect goodness, perfect meekness. Who that mourns over present imperfections does not long for this- blessed period? Truly may each then exclaim: "Let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits," Union will characterize that gathering. Then tiuly will the children of God that are now scattered abroad be gathered together in on*. There is union among God's children now; but it is a__u_aion ? which is not openly manifested, and which seems often greatly interrupted. But -when the saints are perfected, ana the different members of the mystical body fitted for tbeir respective place are brought together, "the perfect man" shall be exhibited, and all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God. Then will the Saviour's prayer bo fulfilled; "That they all may be one ; as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be ono in Us; that the world may believe that Thou hast sent Me." It is well to strive after the realization of thi? prayer by all lawful and fitting means even now. Tho nearer wc approach to its realization the more wo shall glorify God. But why should we bo surprised that our eyes do not yet behold it? It is the union in glory for which our Sar. iour prays; evidently so from what our Lord adds in tho next verse; "And thfl glory which Thou gavest Me I have giren them; that they may be one, even a* We are one; I in them and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one.* ? [W. Cadman. Only ninety-five years liavo passed since the first English missionary went uut to carry tho gospel to the heathen, ind to day there are "Christian communities more thau three million strong, led by two thousand five hundred minsters of their own spcech." In India .l/^o CUTS A wrifflr in Tli* Qnnrtarlv I J ? ? -v J 3eviow, the last census showed ncarlj wo million Christians. Speaking of prohibition in Atlanta, Ga., !he Rev. VV. E. Tarpley, of that city, says: 'I know the law does prohibit. From what [ can see by close observation in some of the localities noted for drunkenness before prohibition, I have reached the conclusion that sther laws are as frequently violated as the Law forbidding the sale of intoxicants. I [irmly believe that nine-tenths of the liquor ilrank in Atlanta is purchased outside the city limits and outside the limits of the comity." For many years Atkinson, New Hampshire, has been without a saloon, and for tea years no money has beeu uwded for the support of ite paupers.