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~ I ? ? BEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN DAY SKIOION. Subject: "Woman's Opportunity." Text: "So God created man in His own image, the image of God created He him; male and female crcated He them."?Genesis i, 27. In other words, God, who can make no mistake, made man and woman for a specific work,and to move in particular spheres?man to be regnant in his realm; woman to be dominant in hers. The boundary line between Italy and Switzerland, between England and Scotland, is not more thoroughly marked than this distinction between the empire masculine and the empire feminiue. So entirely dissimilar are the fields to which God called them, that you can no more compare them than you can oxygen and hydrogen, water and grass, trees and stars. All this talk about the superiority of one sex to the otner sex is an everlasting waste 01 inK ana speech. A jeweler may have a scale so delicate that he can weigh the dust of diamonds; but where are the scales so delicate that he can weigh in them affection against affection, sentiment against sentiment, thought against thought, soul against soul, a man's world against a woman's world/ You come out with your stereotyped remark, the man is superior to woman in intellect; and then I open on my desk the swarthy, iron-typed thunderbolted writings of Harriet Martineau < and Elizabeth Browning and George Eliot, i You come on with your stereotyped remark < bout woman's superiority to man in the item of affection; but I ask you where was there < more capacity to love than in John the < Disciple, and Kobert McCheyno, the Scotch- i man, and John Summerfield the Methodist, i and Henry Martin the missionary? The heart ( of those men was so large that after you had rolled into it two hemispheres there i was room still left to marshal the t hosts of heaven and set up the throne ( of the eternal Jehovah. I deny to man ( the throne intellectual. I deny to woman the 1 throne affectional. No human phraseology 1 will ever define the spheres while there is t aa intuition by which we know when a man r is in his realm, and when a women is in her ? realm, and when either of them is out of it e No bungling legislature ought to attempt to t make a definition, or to say: "This is the line u and that is the line." My theory is that if b a woman wants to vote she ought to vote, n and that if a man wants to embroider and * keep house, he ought to be allowed to em- a broider and keep house. There are masculine o , women and there are effeminate men. My c theory is, that you have no right to interfere I with any one's doing anything that is right- v sous. Albany and Washington might as well y decree by legislation how high a brown- t thrasher should fly, or bow deep a trout b should plunge, as to try to sock out the n height or the depth of woman's duty. The c question of capacity will settle Anally the t whole question, the whole subject. When a li woman is prepared to preach, she will preach, i and neither Conference nor Presbytery can r hinder her. When a woman is prepared tc J move in highest commercial spheres, she will S: have great influence on the Exchange, and fa oo boards of trade can hinder her. I want g woman to understand that heart and brain v can overfly any barrier that politicians may a get up, and that nothing can keep her back or I lump her down but the question of incapacity, o Tnere are women, I know, of most uudesir- G able nature, who wander up and down the country?having no homes of their own, or tl forsaking their own homes?talking about tl their rights; and we know very well that they n themselves are fit neither to vote nor fit to A Iraan VirmCA Thnir miwinn wdttu tft hfl tr> hll- tn it ilia to the two sexes at the thought of what f any one of us might become, ho one would tl want to live under the laws that such women c would enact, or to have cast upon society the n children that such women would raise. But d I shall show you this morning that the best ? rights that woman can own, she already has a inner possession; that her position in this f1 country at this time is not one of commisera- v fcion, but one of congratulation; that the > grandeur and power ot her realm have never yet been appreciated; that she sits to-day on n a throne so high, that all the thrones of earth F piled on top of each other would ? not make for her a footstool. Here is the t platform on which she stands. Away down t fttlnw it nr? the haliofc-boi and the Congress- ^ ional assemblage and the Legislative hall. ' Woman always ha3 voted and always will c vote. Our great grandfathers "thought they i] were by their votes putting Washington into s the presidential chair. No. His mother, by a the principles she taught him, and by the n habits she inculcated,made him President. It s was a Christian mother's hand droppiug the t ballot when Lord Bacon wrote, ana Newton y philosophized, and Alfred the Great gov- t erned, and Jonathan Edwards thundered of n judgment to come. How many men there o have been in high political station who would t have been insufficient to stand the test o to which their moral principle was put bad ? it not been for a wife's voice that encouraged I them to do right, and a wife's prayer that & sounded louder than the clamor of partisan- t hip! Why, my friends, the right of suffer- f age, as wa men exercise it, seems to be a u feeble thing. You, a Christian man, come ti op to the ballot-box and you drop your vote, s Right after you comes a libertine, or a sot? k the offscouring of the street?and he drops t his vote; and his vote counteracts yours. But v If in the quiet of home life a daughter by her e Christian demeanor, a wife by her industry, I a mother by her faithfulness, casts a vote in I the right direction, then nothing can resist it, t ' ? - i-t-.i. ?4- ?ill Vi tna me innuence in iuut< vum nm uuvu through tho eternities. t . My chi?f anxiety then is, not that woman t have other risrhts accorded her: hut that <5h?. T by the grace of God, rise up to the appreeia- } tion of the glorious rights she already pos- i Besses. This morning I shall onlv have tima t to speak of one grand and all-absorbing 1 right that every woman has, and that is to ( make home happy. That realm no one has ? ever disputed with her. Men may come home ] at noon or at night, and they tarry a comparatively little while; but she, all day long, i governs it, beautifies it, sanctifies it. It is i within her power to make it the most attractive place on earth. It is the only calm harhor in t.hi? world. Von know as well as I do. that this outside world and the business world, is along scene of jostle and contention. The man who has a dollar struggles to keep it; the man who has it not struggles to get it. Prices up. Prices down. Losses. Gains. Misrepresentations. Gougings. Underselling. Buy- ( ers depreciating : salesmen exaggerating. Tenants seeking less rents : landlords demanding more. Gold fidgetty. Struggles j about office. Men who are in trying to keep < in; men out trying to get in- Slips. Tumbles. Defalcations. Panics. Catastrophes. 0 woman 1 thank God you have a home, and ] that you may be queen in it. Better be there 1 coon wear v lcionu a uuruunu uonci w there than carrv the purse of a Princess. Your abode may be humble, but you can, by , four faith in God and your cheerfulness of ; demeanor, gild it with splendors such as an apholsterers hand never yet kindled- There are abodes in the city?humble, two stories ; four plain, unpapered room3; undesirable neighborhood ; and yet there is a man here this morning who would die on that threshold rather than surrendar it. Whv ? It is home. Whenever he thinks of it, he sees angels of God hovering around it The ladders of heaven are let down to that house. Over the child's rough crib there are the chantings of angels like those that broke over Bethlehem. It is home. These children may come up after a while, and they may win high position, and they may have an affluent residence; but they will not until their dying day forget that humble roof, under which their father rested, and ~ * ' ? -?i e:oforQ nlnvwi Elieir IllUUlfl Mtllg, anu wnu ?H?U. r?,? Oh, if you would gather up all tender memories, all the lights and shades of the heart, all banqustings and reunions, all filial, fraternal, paternal, and conjugal affections, and jou had only just four letters with which to spell out that height and depth, and length and breadth, and magnitude, and eternity of meaning, you would, with streaming eyes, and trembling voice, and agitated hand, write it out in those four living capital: H-O-M-E. What right does woman want that is grander than to be queen in such a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven cannot fly across that dominion. Horses, panting and with flanks ?rn not swift enough to run to the outposts of that realm. They say that the sun never sets upon the English empire; but I have to tell you that on this realm of woman's influence, eternity never marks any bound. Isabella fled from the Spanish throne, pursued by the nation's anathema; but she who is queen In a nome will never lose her throne, and death itself will only be the annexation of heavenly principalities. When you want to get your grandest idea of a queen, you do not think of Catharine of Russia, or of Anne of England, or Marie Theresa of Germany; but wneo you want to r : t get your gTanaesi iaea 01 a queeu, jruu uuiul i of the plain woman who sat opposite your father at the table, or walked with him arm- | in-arm down life's pathway; sometimes to the thanksgiving banquet, sometimes to the grave, but always together?soothing your petty griefs, correcting your childish waywardness, joining in your infantile sports, listening to your evening prayers, toiling for you with needle or at the spinning wheel, and on cold nights wrapping you up snug and warm. And then at last on that day when she lay in the back room dying, and you saw her take those thin hands with which she toiled for you so long, and put them together in a dying prayer that commended you to the God whom she had taught you to trust. 0, she was the queen! The chariots of God came down to fetch her; i nnrf ?a went in. all heaven rose up. You I cannot think of her now without a rush of tenderness that stirs the deep foundations of your soul, and you feel as much a child again as when you cried on her lap; and if you could bring her back ag tin to speak just once more your name, as tenderly as she used to speak it, you would be willing to throw yourself on the ground and kiss the sod that covers her, crying: "Mother! Mother!" Ah! she was the queen?she was the que>n. Now, can you tell me how many thousand miles a woman like that would have to travel down before she got to the ballot-box? Compared with this work of training kings and queens for God and eternity, how insignificant seems all this work of voting for aldermen and common councilmen, and sheriffs, and constables, and mayors, and presidents. To make one such grand woman as I have described how many thousands would you want of those people i>n <rr\ in f-.hn round of trodlessness. and fashion, and dissipation, distorting their Doay until In their monstrosities they seem to outdo the dromedary and hippopotamus, going as far toward disgraceful apparel as thoy iare go, so as not to be arrested oy the police ?their behavior a sorrow to the good and a caricature of the vicious, and an insult to that Sod who made them women and not gorgons; ?nd tramping on, down through a frivolous ind dissipated life, to temporal and eternal lamnation? 1 0 woman, with the lightning of your soul, i rtrike dead at your feet all these allurements j o dissipation and to fashion. Youriuimor- ; al soul cannot bo fed upon such garbage. ] Sod calls you up to empire and dominion, i fVill you have it? O, give to God your 1 leart: give to God your best energios; give i o God all your culture; give to God all your ( eflnement; give yourself to Him, for this rorld and the next Soon all these bright | yes will be quenched, and the9e voices will , e hushed. For the last time you will look ] ipon this fair earth. Father's hand, mother's < iand, sister's hand, child's hand will be no aore in yours. It will be night, and there ] rill come up a cold wind rrom too joroan, nd you must start. "W ill it be a lone woman j na trackless moor? Ah, no I Jesus will ome up in that hour and offer His hand, and le will say: "You stood by Me when you ' fere well; now I will not desert you when ou are sick." One wave of His hand and be storm will drop; and another wave of His : iand, and midnight shall break into midioon; and another wave of His hand, and the J hamberlains of God will come down from he treasure-houses of heaven, with robes astrous, blood-washed, and heaven-glinted, . a which you will array yourself for tne mar- . iage supper of the Lamb. And then with liriam, who struck the timbrel of the Red lea; and with Deborah, who led the Lord's lost into the fight; and with Hannah, who ave her Samuel to the Lord; and with Mary, rho rocked Jesus to sleep while there were j ngels singing in the air; and with Florence t ?ightingale, who bound up the battle-wounds \ f the Crimea, you will, from the chalice of j tod drink to the soul's eternal rescue. s One twilight, after I had been playing with 1 tie children tor some time, 1 ituu uunu upuu ( tie lounge to rest The children said, play < lore. Children always want to play more. Lnd, half a sleep and half awake, I seemed d dream this dream: It seemed to me that I ras in a far-distant land?not Persia, albough more than Oriental luxuriance rowned the cities; nor the tropics?although lore than tropical fruitfulness filled the earens; nor Italy?although more than Italian oftness fillea the air. And I wandered round, looking for thorns and nettles, but I ound none of them grew there. And I calked forth and I saw the sun rise, and I ? aid:_ ( "When will it set again; mm un OUU Mim | | lot. And I saw all the people in holiday ap>arel, and I said: 'When will they put on rorkingman's garb again, and delve in the nine, and swelter at the forge?" but neither he garments nor the robes did they put off. Lnd I wandered in the suburbs, and I said: 'Where do they bury the dead of this great ity?' and I looked along by the hills where I would be most beautiful for the dead lo leep, and I saw castles, and towns, ,nd battlements; but not a mausoleum, ior monument, nor white slab could I se. And I went into the great chapel of he town, and I said: "Where do the poor worship? where are the benches on which hey sit?" and a voice answered: " VV e have io poor in this great city." And I wandered ut, seeking to find the place where were the loveis of the destitute; and I found mansions f amber, and ivory, and gold but no tear nor igh did I see or hear. I was bewildered; and sat under the shadow of a great tree, and I aid: "What am I, and whence comes all his/" And at that moment there came rom among the leaves, skipping ? nortia nnH across 1 ;p lliO uunoij _ be sparkling waters^ a very bright and j parkling group; and when I saw their step I j :new it, and when I hoard their voices 1 | bought I knew them; but their apparel j ras so different from anything I had j ver seen I bowed, a stranger to strangers, Jut after awhile, when they clapped their lands, and shouted: "Welcome! welcome!" he mystery was solved, and I saw that time iad passed", and that eternity had come, and ( hat God had gathered us up into a higher < tome: and I said: "Are we all here?" and the ( roices of innumerable generations answered: , 3ere;" and while tears of gladness were rainng down our cheeks, and the branches of , ihe Lebanon cedars were clapping their j lands, and the towers of the great city were , :himing their welcome, we began to laugh, , nid sing, and leap, and shout: "Home! ( Home! Home!" ^ Then I felt a child's hand on my face, and . it woke me. The children warned to piay i ] more. Children always want to play 1 i more. I 111 i 1 FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The Polish people never swear in their >wn language, but always in Russian. During the recent Indian raid in Ari:ona the Apaches traveled fifteen miles >n tiptoe to hide their trail. A brass key, used as a sinker by a Yarmouth (N. S.) citizen, was carried away by a fish, and several days later was found in a lobster pot one mile away. An experienced hatter says one tall man buys more hats than any three short men. Doors and projections and roofs are destructive to tine hats on six foot mpn John Hawkins, an English navigator, in 1562, brought a cargo of African slave9 to the Western Hemisphere. Ten years before a few negroes had been sold in England. The Greek phalanx consisted of 8,000 men in a square battalion, with shields joined and spears crossing each other. TK/i \Tan<wlnni'iin ?!?*** woe C? vftT- AnO deep, with shields joined. The first General As=embly, Rhode Island, met at Portsmouth, May 19, 164G, established a code of laws, and erected an institution of civil government. Those taking part in this meeting were the collective freemen of the several plantations of the colony. T,..,n a., mfonf ..,1 1 > .*n, ifcii ILH.hii, It" to the throne of the Russians in 1740; but Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, usurped the crown in 1741, and imprisoned, during her life, Ivan, his father, mother and family. Ivan was kept in a dark room and finally murdered by his guards. Dr. Barr favors 100 years for the ten r i*i? 1...4, ?? u ^ lire UI lliC, UUl luarvco Iiicou V41? I3IUU3 . Boyhood, 10 to 15; youth, 15 to 25; manhood, 25 to 55; maturity, 52 to 75; ripeness, 75 to 85, and old age from 85 upward. Professor J. R. Buchanan places the attainable limits of longevity at 140, and he cites the fourteen people of that age found in Italy by a census under one of the later Roman Emperors. BELIGIOUS READING. Regret. If only we had loved them more, Our lost, whom never lovo can reach, Who thrill not at our tenderest speech, Nor answer, though our hearts implore. If only for one little day, One day of days, they could return, How would our grateful spirits yearn To lavish treasures on their way! Our feet to serve them, ah, how swift! Our hands how gentle! and our eyes How clear to see, should shadows rise; i Or rrriofc fhaiV (rlnHnACQ rift: w t>* " r">-" &?? Too late! Come back no vanished hours: But, living and beloved, there still Remain sweet friends. Be ours the will To strew their paths with thornless flowers. ?[Youth's Companion. Fitness for Service. It cannot be said that eminent fitness for sen-ice depends upon any single virtue, however necessary that particular excellence may be. As the whole heart must submit to God at the beginning, in order to obtain His par- ( don and peace, so our entire life must be molded under His hand for His service. That hand must be upon us constantly. New relations to others require fresh experiences on our own part. This is the way we acquire the ability to minister to their necessities. < We come near to needy souls by sorrowing as they sorrow, struggling as they struggle. In no other manner can v/e obtain for ourselves an answering show of sympathy, or find ready access to hearts bowed down be- ? neath the many weights of life. How often we hear from the lips of God's best workers a testimony to the value of needful preparation. One has said that the song had gone out of her life, the roses had faded ' to ashes; it seemed a desert place indeed. Turning one day the leaves of her Bible, her Byes rested upon these words: "Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest awhile." Lifting her eyes to heaven she ' prayed: "Lord, give me grace to come where thou callest, willingly; open my eyes to see Thee with me here; open my ears to hear all that Thou hast to say to me in this place , apart from the world." From that hour how blessed became that seemingly desert spot! No rosy path; no busy scene, no joyous companionsmp sne naa ever known had yielded anything that could com- , pare with the delights of that sweet seclusion with the Lord. Ihere sho heard, as never before, the precious things He has to say to His beloved; such hidden depths she sounded in his word; such sweet undertones of melody saarmed her in His promises; such deep j lraughts she took of living water; sach a satisfied soul she had: such a close aqnaintMice with Jesus she found. It looked like a . Jesert place still to friends, but to her it was 1 11 ;he fairest of gardens. She tarried in it foi uany months, till He who led her there said, ? * 6me out now into the busy worldano 1 *hen she came it was with better knowledge 13 )f her weak self and her strong Saviour, and . setter fitness for unselfish service because of ihoae days of resting "apart17 with the Lord. ? li Moraine and Jesus, " A Believe me, my friends, you and Ir as we ? jet older, get more practical. We come, as ;he saying is, more to the point. We want h ? know now our theories wear. It is not so y nuch a time for the criticism of styles of t ship-building as for the testing of the life* t >oat itself. And this I say without fear of s jontradiction, that Christ, and Christ alone, t ?n rescue aad redeem and save; that only he t ?n give peace and rest and joy on earth.beow, and then bring u? at last in safety to out I lesired haven. I am perfectly certain of one v ihing ? that the brightest countenances, ii ;he healthiest influences and the happiest u ives that I have ever known have been o Christian ones. "By their fruits ye- shall mow them," says our blessed Lord,, andt we t nay well say,, as the Psalmist said of the- d ting, "In thy salvation,, how greatly shall1 le rejoice;" and as he say?of the nation, too, v Happy art thou, 0 Israel; who* is- like unto s bee, O people, saved by the Lord, the shield' e >( thv helD. and who is the sword of thine ixcellency. Tho eternal God is thy refuge,, r md underneath are the everlasting arma t rhy shoes shall be iron and brass; ana as-thy lays,so shall thy strength be." The mornings )f life do not come, let us all remember; a second time; but they live in memory,, and ve can never hide them from ourselves in iie after-years though, "God can never for- , jive their iniquities and blot out all their ? ranserressions." Let our life mornings,then, * ye fufi of the golden sunshine of the pres^ snce and the love of God our Saviour, and: as * rou read these lines quietly and alone, do 5 rou, who are the fathers and mothers, make nore manifest to your children that your ~ jarly blessedness when you started on life's ourney together, was found alone in Christ, *ho has never forgotten nor forsaken you in ill life's journey through. And, you, young ? learted ones, be wise enough to take a ? >rother's counsel who comes to you with ' crip and staff after some years of pilgrimage 'or nis closing word is this?that the chief , joy of life is today to write and to speak of ihe dear Christ who made the morning of ife a journey in the sunshine, and whose jrace and mercy leave it now a pleasant ? picture in the memory, as filled with, the faithfulness of Christ to hi3 promise. "My joy no man taketh from you."?[Rev. W. F? Stratham in the Quiver. f ( The Old Man's l?jacy. \ *_ ->j l?" in V<ie lart ciflnwN snrftlv All utu xauu Xi*J >u ^ ?T v ifflicted, but patient and unmurmuring un- J 3er the hand of his God. He had long been 1 a servant of Christ, and now that he was old s md gray-headed, he did not cast him off. r His pastor called one day to sympathize 1 tvitli him, and in the course of his conversa- 1 tion expressed his sorrow at seeing him in so 1 much affliction. The old man admitted that * ;he Lord's hand was heavy upon him, and 1 then he turned his face to the wall, ana nei- r ther of them spoke for several minutes. The pastor felt that "the heart knoweth its own ' bitterness." The good man's case could only ' be reached by one more m'ghty, more skill- ' ful than he. By and by the old man broke the silence by 1 saying, "I have ten children, and not one of them is a Christian." That was the burden which weighed down his spirit in the dust before Goa. "But," said ho. "I do with that as I do with all other trouble, I roll it off upon the Lord, up yonder," he added, with a , kindling eye. "I shall look down and see them all converted. I shall not see it here? , but you will no doubt see it." The good man went to his rest, and the pastor treasured up his words. No doubt he felt it a solemn admonition for him to be faithful to those over whom he had influence. The nine who remained within the circle of his observation were all hopefully converted, and he had no doubt but the hnth also, of whom he had lost sight, became a follower of Jesus, so that all might meet their sainted father?an unbroken circle around the throne of God. Oh what a i legacy are such prayer and faith! Do you Riinnoso if their father had been a careless worldling, that these sons and daughters would all have entered into the kingdom of Christ? We should revere and bless tho memory of our pious ancestry. It is a higher honor to be "tho child of parents passed into the skies," than to be descended from kings and nobles. A pious old man used quaintly to express in nis family prayer the wish tlfcfc his descendants might all be goodly persons, < " - 1 ? onrl wntop rilflQ " It "ai> 1uj1? ??a 5* \j .tj was a remarkable fact, that his children and children's children, even down to the third and fourth generation, were, almost without an exception, pious people. Ah, if parents can leave no worldly store for their children, let> them not fail to leave them a rich legacy of prayers, prayers offered in faith for God's blessing upon them here and hereafter. L. L. One drop of sympathy sincere A lake of tears may calm; Tis oil upon the troubled waves,? t??.. ????? +1>a tm*aniaiic Knlm I UUI , jAJUJ IUU |JicviUUiJ . Save the Boys. A young man was led to the gallows. His broken-hearted mother went to Lid him farewell. He said: "Oh mother! I didn't want to kill him; I was crazed with drink. It was the saloon that did it. Tell the temperance people to be in a hurry!" * 1 ?fAcnmofoninArnnrft It lio uau oni_y wjuiiucti ivovu.v ? _ ( society when he was a boy, and ha t learned what a dreadful thing strong drink is, it is not likely he would have been in that awful position. The temperance people must hurry and get in all the boys and girls before they are ruined.?Temperance Banner. '1 he deterioration in the morale of British seamen caused by drinking habits has been emphatically dwyjt upon recently in England by the liigiit lion. A. J. Hundalla, M. P,, Into President of the Board of Trade, TEMPERANCE. A Child's Tear. "My home?yes, it's bright and clean, sir, And I'll tell how it came to pass ; It wasn't my work or doing at allIt's all due to that little lass. " I was going straight down to hell, sir. And all through the curse of the drink ; How I treated poor Mary, ray wife, sir, God knows I can't bear to think. " I didn't know as I loved her Till the wild dark night she died, When I found her lyin~ so cold and still, And that new-born child by her side. " The little lass, she has grown, sir? Last Juno she was eight years old ; And what she has been to me, sir, Can never on earth be told. " When a kid, there was no one to mind hei But a woman as lived next door ; And she being given to drink, too, Let her fall one day on the floor. ' And ever since, the poor creator' Has been lame with a crooked knee ; So I'd often lift her up in my arms To take her about with me. ' For I really loved the poor mite, sir, And her sweet little eyes of blue Was as blue and as bright as her mother's wor, And they looked me through and through. 1 One night I was off to the 'public'? I'd been drinking already?'twas late, And I took little May to carry her, But I couldn't walk quite straight. ' 'Oh, daddy, don't go!' she whispered, But I quickened niy drunken pace, And I said: 'Not another word, young 'un, n.. I'll <T117A Vrtn n elan in tha fftOfl ' r ? 11 was brutal, sir?I know It; But the devil was in me then, And when he gets hold of us with the drink We are only brutes?not m#n. ' And the little lass, she wor quiet, But I felt a hot tear fall; And it seemed to burn right into my hand, Though she wiped it off with her 9hawl. ' Straight into my soul it entered? It melted my hardened heart; So I said: 'I'll go home, lassie." That night I made a new start, Now, every morning and evening, I kneel, and with neart sincere I bless my God for saving a soul By the touch of a little one's tear-" ?The Quiver. Effect of Liquor Traffic on Waces. "Hard times" is a common cry now-aays, especially among mechanics and laborng men. IjOw wages is a common complaint, and trikes, lock-outs, etc., are the result* of his dissatisfied feeling among the workings nen. And yet is it a fact that the workingman i the greatest consumer of liquor ana the tauncbest supporter of the traffic and its a *a Kim fViof. t.ho genu*, tlDtl 11 vrc "did IAS rou ui*** iqoor traffic is largely the cause of low rages, and so-called depression in business,. ie would probably sneer and disbelieve the tatement. According to tbe Government figures, we irewed ana sold in the United States last ear 642,000,000 gallons of beer. If we assume hat eacfagl*? contains a half a pint (which hey do-not by a long shot), we see that we pent for beer, during a year of hard times, be enormous- sum of over five hundred and hirteen million dollars. For70;.768i00G' gallons of whisky we ?pent 480,000,000. These figures do not include rines made^ im the^ United States nor do they aclude the spirits, wines, ales, etc., imported ito this country. These amount annually to ver fifty million dollars. Add these sums together and we find that ce spent last year over one thousand million ollars for intoxicating liquor. But you- will say, What nas this to do with * rages/ These statements only show that men pend their money foolishly after they have arned itOne hundred: dollars spent in the goods lamed pays-to' the workingmen the proporion. stated below: Boots-and Shoes $20 17 (Clothing 18 34 Hardware-.*-...*... 23 77 Furniture 24 14 " 1 - ? 1" Hollnrs for 13 Ul/ II UU' spoiiuo UU*j iiui.v.. w. Iquors he has onLy paid to the workingman il.23; According, to. the brewers' and distillers' >wn figuers,. furnished to the census enumeritors-in 18S0| the total wages paid by them or one year was-only fifteen million dollars, Lndthis includod the wages of men not diectly employed in* the manufacture of the tccursed stuff. Now it is-pretfcy well known that men who pend their money for liquor do no spend a jreatdeaLfor food,.clothing, furniture, carjets, boots and shoesv If this money,one thousand million dollars, low worse thaa wasted in the purchase of iquor.was directedinto the channels of legitinate trade,, and would bo, as it ought to be, ind would if the saloons were closed, in tho nircha.se-of good; food, good clothing, furni;ure, etc..,. it would return to to the workingnan not less than $20J,OOO,OOO, instead of le6s ihan $15,000*000, as it now does. XT oil* t.hA fltnirM crjva*i avoc ?muu ujii> w ?0 0 bbove do not indole the wages of salesmen, >tc.? they simply mean the amount paid the vorkingmen for the manufacture. A liquor store that sells $300 worth of iquor per day would require but one or two )artenders; but a retail ary goods or bootand hoe store that sold that amount daily would equire the service of at least double the lumber of salesmen that the saloon dees. T. V. Powdcrly, Master Workman of the Cnights of Labor, says: "Close the rum hops, and there will not be au idle mill or ~u.-hnlo rnnntrv. an A. the nail av.1,'71 j ... oada cannot handle the business.* It is true, absolutely true. Close tile saoons; start the mills; spend the money for food, clothing, and comforts, and luxuries of ife, and there will be no hard times, no< depression of business, but sober men andhappy hpmes,?'Irish World. A Remarkable Appeal.. Nothing more stirring has appeared for a long time than the appeal that comes from the inmates of the Tennessee State-prison, at Nashville, in behalf of Prohibition. It is signed by 401 convicts, beginning with the name of C. F. Norton, and ending with that of Ben Morris, and runs in part as.follows: " We, the inmates of the State Penitentiary, knowing by observation,andconvinced by undeniable facts, that i:q lor is me cause of all the misery we endure, of all the hardships and privations wo subject those to dependent upon us, do hereby most earnestly ask that the voters of this great State may seriously consider the question before them and give their aid in word and deed to the cause of Prohibition. . . . We do not claim that every criminal act was perpetrated under the influence of whiskey; but we fearlessly assert that three-fourths confined in *" *? /1/vnmfnlI Hipa/tflv tD6S6 wans can uauc buou uuvwy or indirectly to that cause." The appeal is given to the public through the Chaplain, N. W. Utley, who certifies t!cat it was drawn up and signed in the exact form in which it appears by the prisoners themselves "without any dictation as to form or matter" upon his part "or the part of any other man outside the roll of convicts themselves." We know there is always some discount to be placed on such statements coming from criminals or drunkards or dead-beats. It is natural for them usually to exaggerate the part liquor has played in their degradation, making it a sort of scapegoat for their own sins and weaknesses. But allowing for all reasonable discount, this petition remains as one of the most cogent arguments ever put into form for the extirpation of the saloon. These men know their enemy and know his power. It is hardly coceivable that such an appeal does not come from their hearts. "'i? ? - fl/-. ! nf misAi-v ia nresflnted hprn VT UUb u. auvu vi ut.uv. j ? flowing through the swinging dours of the barroom! Poor wrecks upon the shores of time! In all the infinite eternity God has given them one life to live here upon earth, and only one, and they have made a hideous failure of that. Why? In great part?yes, in greatest part?because of the "open gates of hell," kept open by the license policy of the State, legalized by the Government, made part and parcol of organized society, and their profits shared in by the Christian ? IrtU fVmv rftpftivfl tImir community uuuu nmv.u seal of sanction. God pity us all for the hells upon earth for which we have been so long responsible! The saloon must go!?Voice. The London Grand Division of Sons of Temperance has ninety-two branches with over 4,000 members, and an accumulated fund of ?34,000. Its benefits range from 5s.. to ?1 per week during sj<;kR9SS, aod from, ?5 to ?50 at death, ! WOMAFS WORLD, ; PLEASANT LITERATURE FCflfc 1 FEMININE READERS. I Her Mamma Could Beat Them All. ? It is related that one of the little Arch- t duchesses, of Austria, was taken to a i circus where nothing amazed her and t very little pieasea ner. vn ner return j home the Emperor asked how she had en- g joyed the performance. " Oh, very well," t the young lady replied, "only mamma ^ docs everything the circus women did a <j great deal better. Why, I have seen her g jnmp through six hoops." It appears e that this is really true, and that the Em- t press has on more than one occasion given s a strictly private entertainment to her u intimates, in which she has surprised n them with feats rivaling those of the 3 most skilled circus riders.?Boston Jour- b nal g ' 0 Two Rich Cattle Queens. r, if ia? in Pnlnrnrtn wasthft v wife of the late John W. Iliff, who was tl known some years ago as the cattle king 11 of Colorado. Iliff left about 100,000 h head of cattle, and it is said that his 1c widow manages his estate as well as any w business man could. She went to Colo- ? rado as a sewing-machine agent, though o: she came of a wealthy family and could re have remained home doing nothing. She t< there met Iliff and married him, and I si doubt not the experience she obtained in connection with the sewing-machine aids her in the management of her fortune. Gnnnlrln/w r\f Aoifln fKo??o ia o raffia niionn *r ui 10 u vuw?v vjuwu 4ij in Texas, near Corpus Christi?Mrs. Rogers?said to be worth $1,000,000, ej and who has many times as much stock as Job had in his most prosperous days. .. Her husband is a preacher, but Mrs. Rogers manages the business. She sells the stock herself, buys all the supplies, tl and can ride a horse as well as any of the many cowboys whom she has in her pi employ.?Boston Traveler. Why She Wept. Not many years ago a foreign representative in this country spent, with his wife, some time in a large and fashion- P1 able hotel in one of our cities. This foreign official's wife, a stout lady who was unable to speak a word of English, s3 was extremely fond of her national dish, 11 a sort of pie made largely of giblets. The lady had great difficulty in get- is ting this dish make to- her liking, and ai frequently spent much time and earnest endeavor in the kitchen instructing the fc cook,, with a queer culinary pantomime, m what ingredients to put into> it. One day madame had succeeded in producing a pie exactly to> her liking, . and! had eaten of it at dinner with great enthusiasm. But after a time a gentleman noticed that she was weeping silent- U] ly as she sat at the table, while her bands w lay idle in her lap. Thifr gentleman, who wae a man of pi keenr sympathies, was- dieeply touched, w and. presently, when the lady's weeping had turned: into pitiful sobbing, he could 0| not refrain^from saying tc her husband: fc, "Pardon me, sir,, but?is madame ill? Ife she in> pain?" "It is-nothing?it will pas^said) the ^ offioiali b But the trouble- did not seem, bypass, and the- lady continued to shed tears, " and sob'hysterically. m fVio airmtmtViofin Grpnfclnmflll. was> still ??? a unable to restrain himself. c( "Pardon me once' more;" he- said, h< "but madame seems to be in great distress or grief. Is there anything; I tan Cl do? Pfay command me .. . CC "Ah! Do not trouble, air,."- satd the foreigner-, "it is zis only zat is ze-matter: Q1 madamo have 6aten-her pie until she- can eat no-more, and. she veeps *iz grief zat 3he may. not oontinue?"?Youth's- Gom- . pinion. jjj Murriage in Annami Marriage settlements- and dowries are ol lot recognized,.on.account of the diffi- hi iulties that might arise in case the mar- sj :iage is- dissolved. According to Anlaniite custom, the woman should not b jear the charges- of marriage^ because 0 v i_l.? ,1... 1 I inc CUKU3- IUU UQillU'Ul. ugi. uuouuuu uuu |,| ?ssooiate?. herself with. him. in: order to perpetuate his family, not forthe sake of a] lerow-n.. It is just for the husbaod, in ^ bis owji porsonal interest,, to furnish all ihat she and her children may. need; yet, iccording.to. another custom, frequently ? followed, the suitor whose character is . not well known should make several f1 visits to the family of his affianced, so as 19 to submit himself to. a kind; of testing, Dften very severe, wliich shall permit his a' --- nmAlinf f\F VlrfCL lrTlAwlfTP Oi ViUUU UIlU till; auiuuub vk *Vv.^v to be rated. This stage of the negotia- b tions sometimes lasts- for several years. Marriage is. usually contracted by inclination,. without money cousiderations m entering into the matter. The family is c< regarded as a moral union, and not as a c< Ousiness association. Hencc it is com- ft mon to see a wealthy family allied with a . poor one. It is considered that, when a ! u man marries a girl without fortune, but >v wisely brought up, she will be easily y, touched by the care he will take of her, c( and be obedient to his authority. Then, j it is not right to exact a dowry from a j girl whose education has already imposed j gj jn her parents large sacrifices ot time and ft| money, and who has, moreover, aban- ! j doned her family name to take that of a , 3tranger? so there is no dowry. The pa rents- give their daughter wnat mey i please, without the young man being al- ?c lowed to claim or stipulate for anything. 1D Sometimes they require him to make con- " siderable presents, which will be the sole property of the wife. It must not be 01 supposed that the condition of wives is j m the same in Annani as in Ch'na. The 1 al 3ix ceremonies of marriage arc, it is true, I ed nearly the same in both countries; but i while the Chinese wife has to keep her apartments, the Annamitc wife is treated as the equal of her husband.?Popular si Science Monthly. tl n Wives by the Shipload. a; It is one of the almost forgotten cu- sj 1 41?4. J riositiea ot early lanaaian maiui v mat | u about the your 1UC8 the Government of | tl France actually undertook to supply its - d discharged soldiers and other citizens i ci who had settled in Canada with, wives to i c< order, and on a scale befitting its own d magnificence, says the Toronto Globe, a Ships were chartered, and a consignment si of several hundred of demoiselles was j b shipped from the motherland for the j p choice and delectation of tho sturdy ad- ti venturers, who, having conquered a | u peace from rnc ucrcc nuiiw^ nga ,.. in a position to cultivate thoir owu as-i 11 signed ucres and sit down by their own i li peaceful firesides. fi The arrival sccae must certainly have s< been a memorable one to those who wit- a ncsscd it. Tli& collection, we arc told q by the old chronicler, "consisted of tall, 0 short, fair, brown, fat and lean." Each s of these has had no doubt their own pe- t culir trials, disappointments and sorrows, c for it is hardly conceivable ma* jony i o young damsels with high expectations j and, abun lance of eligible offers in their I Wn land would have volunteered to take ! i: the chances of such a foreign adventure, j t ?ven under the auspices of the French t 'Government or its royal hra -l. Kvon so c conjectuW frfes in vain to coflceive <tf fh< irguments tfnd influences the agents ol the Governraetft muv't have tttoughl to bear in ofdeT to induce these . poung women to the number of several { "Kindreds to bid farewell forever to1 e he land of their birth and all old friends j e ind associations, and go forth and take g he dark chances of happiness as wives of I lnkoown men, and disbanded soldiers at hat. Be that as it may, there they were. *j rhe matches were all arranged within the a hort space of less than fifteea days from ? he publication of the advertisements, fhe marriage ceremony was in each case J luly performed, and then the wedding : ;ifts were in order. The Governor-Gen- 11 ' ' * ?- i i- it- _ t r* i- S1 rai nimseii anaertooK me ueusuccut i ask, in the abscnce of a number of per- . onal friends and acquaintances to be put ^ ,nder contribution. His gifts were t( lirably practical and useful. They coir- gi istedof "oxen, cows, hogs, fowls,salted! a eef and some money." With these f| oodly stores the wedded couples set out n their homeward journey, and though egard for historical truth, or at least t( erisimilitude, forbids us to declare of u hem by wholesale that they were all _ * ~ Ul? J nappy ever inter,'' we may reaswunuiy ope that a goodly proportion of them at rast were reasonably so, especially since ^ e must believe that the personal and r >cial virtues of many an honest habitant _ f the present day have come down in di- ? ict line of heredity from a pair of ances- C( vt3 thus strangely broaght together and g lmmarily wedded. Fashion Notes. ? Black pearls are at present an English 6, tshion. Colored pearls are much esteemed for j egant jewels. a Shepherd's cheeks form the uppers of f< le fashionable walking boots. h Porcupine straw is a favorite braid for le front and brims of bonnets. c: Printed flannels make convenient and retty costumes for young ladies. ? Fancy hairpins are generally worn and >ntinue- to be ornamental and elabor- n ;e- CI The touTmrre is narrower, bet hardly jrceptibiy smaller, in the early fall fl rles. gl Belts made entirely of gilt braid are fe rliflh and ate-worn with white cos- lj imes. b Brier stitching- as well as feather "stitch *1 used on children's clothing, botb dresses no id jackets; m The gilt and silver braid trimmings c< >rm an attractive- garniture for tailorade costumos; ' ~j Violet wood is- used in a variety ot tides for the- toilet, and also^ for the indies of fans. ^ The sailbr jacket'with a- blouBe waist _ iderneath is-a favorite model to- wear ith a kilted skirt. ^ For children-the flannel ginghams have b roved most acceptable gowns, and have ft orn wonderfully well. h Large buttons enter into the trimming' e ; many fall costumes,- and' are of very ri ;auliful workmanship. ?' Thesoft warm'knitted1, silk: underwear P romises to take the place of the Jersey ~ eaves, as itris^healthiful. . A wide band of: velvet at'the foot ol' ^ le dress is one of the most attractive y odes of trimming for fall. e( Bengaline is.-yet a favorite- and: will p mtinue to be for full costumes- ol 0] javier cashmere and cheviots; cl Low cut shoes have an embroidery ol; k it jet beads and the more elaborate ones- ^ >st from eightto'ten dollars per pair; n The plain skirt has come to'Stay with- 0 it doubt and'is therefore oarcfiilly flh? hed and generally lined.throughout. " The morning costume to - be stylish; ? i TL-Viito rVmrtflftp ninth trimed' with right colored velvet; Yellow is-etylish.. The prettiest foot gear are the slippers- ft f dull kidiiirith'e darker sh&dfes* They- & ave a Moliere buckle and large bow of- a itin. I The prophecy is-that- leas- jewelry will I e worn on undress occasions- than ever. 0 nly with full: dress will diamonds- b<- ^ ermitted. ? The plush skirt which*: has been' worn J il the season with a variety, of: over 5 ressesis stillhelditoafi-a.oonvenienfcand: retty style.- ? The most- becoming plaids- are in , * * - *- --a 4-V\ A . foV\ cotcn Tartans-wLucn i?e auiuug t,uc g cs imported for fall wear; The corsagf ^ of plain'fabric. j Iiich and: handsome-florescent ribbons c reused for trimming evening costumes ii f wool orapes. Anything which lends- u rilliancy to the houso C06tume is-accopt- i ble. 1. Dotted woolens with figures in silk are i iuch likedi Hand-made embroidery to e >rrespond in color is. used to trim the d Acfnmoa xwhirh are- CQnLnosed of tTiia a ibric.. ' I Yokos laid in fine tucks- fro match) tlx a pper part of the hem-tucked sleeves- are f orn for the recent style in making J* Dung girls' waists for either wooieii 01 v jttoni fabrics. Pin: dotted linens are- used for gimpure r aists. worn by young ladies with Shin cirts of flannel or serge. The collar :d: cuffs are generous- and wide, and are iffly starched. Full skirts are worn by young girls, ^ idi aay drapery except a sash is rarely " :en?. This may be'full and wide and tie f u a double bow in- the back. It is of f( le- dress fabric. Gold braid trims- white costumes more ^ r less attractively as. it is used with judg- ^ eat. Too much gilt braid is vulgai ways, while a little disposed carefully g( akes an elegant finish. Sleep and Its Counterfeits. Thp Fronchm&a. whose long trance or fj ccp attracted extraordinary attention in ^ ie latter part of March and the begining of April, was commonly spoken of p } "the Soho sleeper;" but when we; ? leak of a man "sleeping" for severali ays or weeks consecutively, it is obvious- a, mt we do aot use the term in its oc* (j inary sense. We all know by expepic n icc what sleep is, and we cannot c9?;ive ourselves as sleeping for an in- C( elinite tiiae. Yet it is difficult to diaw pj line between normal and abwjrtiaal j] cep; the physiological condition merges Cl y insensible degrees into all kinds of athological states, known as lethargy, t, l tho , ;incch StUJH?r, curnu. , o sua! phenomena of dreaming we pass ft] kcwi3e into those of nightmare, som- u ambulism, hypnotism, ccstrcy, and the C1 kei Yet it is important sharply to de- ^ ne typical instances of the*e conditions, 1 * 1 in nn l 3 as to avoiu nopcica* mmuswn I ready obscure field oJf scientific in.v uiry, and though we. way for the 8a^6 f convenience occa&jonally use the twm : t leep in the wider since, yet thfi: dis- | inction between the various stages in- f hided under it wist bo kept pctsent to ur minds.?Papular Science Monthly, An orango tree will bear fruit until it! | 3 one hundred and fifty years old, and j here ari> recorded instances of orange i rees bearing when, five hundied years iM " ' " " * ' iM r. \S?j! ? 1 POPULAR SCIENCE. A sanitary engineer suggests the im* jortance of building on streets running lorthwest and southeast, or northeast ind southwest. Sunshine in all rooms at ome time in the day can thus be in* ured, with a great gain in healthfulness. Trichinae have been discovered in a hunan body which wot being prepared for .notomicul demonstration at the Univeritye?f Camerino. Tbc man had lived or m?oy years in a neighboring comaune, and died without the presence of he tridkin? being suspected. Peculiar aterest' attaches to the case for the reaon thafi i4t is Mid to be the first case of richinosi> ever observed in Italy. The fact is noted that, in climates , aving a difference of seventy degrees in emperatur# between the hot and cold easons, a railroad track of the length of 00 miles is tome 388 yards longer in ummer than io winter; that is, though 1 course the length of road remains tne ame, expansion forces the metal closer Tgether, making an aggregate closing p of space between the rails of nearly a ard in each milo, A. popular fallacy, according to Mr. A. V. Hare, of the Royal Society of Edinurg, is the belief that water from a ashing torrent is-safer for drinking puroses tlian water from a sluggish stream, jr the-reverse is realJy the fact. Sewage ontaminated water contains fewer oranisms after ten or twelve days than > iver water, for the reason that the licrobes* rapid growth daring the first cro or three days exhausts their food uppiy. rTTk<"k AkaAanAliAnd. A/ TV* AI AUC vuocirabivuo v? JL/i. xiauv^ vA lerlin, show that the effects of immoderte smoking; are seldom manifested be)re the smoker is thirty, but that the eart troubles most often begin between tie ages of fifty and sixty. Finer flavored igars bring about such troubles more -equently and.more- speedily than com* ion ones. It may be- regarded as ceriin that the injurious action of smoking oes not depend upon the amount of icotine, but upon'some a? yet unknown luse. -r -^?111 M. Grand 'Euty has- propounded" a leory that coal was- originally a liquid enerated by the decomposition of inirior vegetation in an1 atmosphere high- <j r charged with carbonic acid. The car- - Jy on of the jelly-like'mass- thua- formed, fter passing through) various transforations into asphalt), petroleum, bitulen, etc., finally assumed1 the- form of )al. The author citcs various facte con-~ ^ scted with the occurrenoeof coal^which, ' e thinks, are better' eocplainedi on his leorv than bv the uBual one. In the belief that modern" scionce am jmmand climate, Dr. B,. W. Richard>a proposes that British invalids be iverf, in their native isles, , the winter 1 vantages of tropical resorts. This he ' '< rould accomplish by establishing; winter omes, or health palaces,-, each to contain fty or more comfortable two-story ouses, enclosing a large square-of onzalental grounds, and provided withdibcaes, baths, gymnasia, amusement halls, tc. Flowerdined galleries,.giving long romenades, woula extend over the ouscs under glass roofs,s while- the cen* - r ml enclosure would be shut in by an immense arch of glass at a> great height flip orponnH finitabla.h?a4inff: and antilnting apparatus wouldi give an ^uable and adjustable temperatore-to all arts of the structure, and. any desired i?racter might be imported> to th? limate. Even cloudy days-need.not be Down, as electric suns could be made-to line at pleasure. In many places winter 39orts on a grander sGale might be reated by putting whole valleys undei jofs of glass, forming parks of.constant j* eauty and healthfulness. A Fashionable Nllfe-Towa. What a sight is Luxo?!. Turn; th? *ad as you will, you afe sure to- set , > ome picture altogether different; from ay thing you had previously, beheld, foi <uxor is "the metropolis- oJ: Thebes" lere the strange people of alliquartert . ongregate. It may be. considered; thi , rashionable town oftheModernNile: Th< ? - a_i?Yr-: ?*PlS lajority ot sight-seora- terminate' men Durney there, and.so>the natives make be most of their.opp?rt^nitie8^ to sell heir wares. The streets are of; never-, nding interest. One-gets the impresion that Luxor is the busiest-mart: in the rorld. Here are,Nubian,dancers- bead ellers; sieve makers; coppersmiths, whe >eat out their quaiatr vessels with the lammer; dealers it potterj.-,; marble utters who, seated iat:tne doora,, let you ' \ ato the secrets oi Arab tombstone lomenclature; bean breakers,, who, with luge mortars and, iron i pestals five feet on<*. stand in rows and,crush the beans nto a mass for: the baker*,; coffee breakrs, whose method iLi similar;, makers oi lonkey trappings; shoemakers, decortors of candles for use inith* mosque; Coran sellers; jewelers-; money changers nd?idlers. What;a.bedlami and Babel hey make! And.then, comes along the ocular street sprinkler with a sk.n of .< rater upon his back. As. he moves he urns from side to sidfc-ami scatters the ooling elementj.strike whonj it may.? 'cribner. What Pus* to Worth. It is a universally acknowledged fact lat cats lead a> hardi life- of it in thij rorld of dogs,, hoys* and bootjacks. It in be but poorconsoiatkm to the felines ) realize that they are now growing to e lowked upon.wiih more respect, but nly. by reason ofi'the- discovery that their idea are valuable-when separated from aeit- emaciated.bodies. According to. a contemporary, rags ol ' :lftctcd maltefia- aad tortoise * sluril are - *. Iready quite- expensive, and excellent natations ofjvawous furs arc madein this iftteriul. Taxidermists, too, are adver- ? .sing for kittens by the thousand to luff for ornamental purposes. At presnt the only punpese to which they areaplied in th&oouastry is the manufacture f carriage- robes* but vast numbers of 3em are sent to Europe, wlfccro they re in greato demand for coats, and hats, rcssing gowa linings and other gar* tents. The palls. come from all parts of the ountrv! They are gatherod by profeaional collectors, who supply them by he qwntity at regular sehoaule rates. A omm<>n cat skin is wort& five cents, a urc malteso ten cents, and a black one .veaty-five cents. The eheap kind must e dyed before making uip, but the black axli malt?8C are orettisc with their color iftltersd. A carriage robe of the best it fuc is Tvorth frow> forty to fifty dolirs. A Dakota Hotel Card. A Dakota liotc* card is reproduced by he Dakota Bell: rn,\v Hoyse. Mayville, Dakota. Accommodations" for 730 guests (during the year?two, at a time). Three elevators (can bd seen from front door). Hot aud wJd water cold water for guea*?proprietors always in hot w*W). Bells throuchout the house (ther wro throw out last year), Murtc at all me*ls (Chin muaio).