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FOOT WEAR. , 1 THE GRE \T STRIDES MADE IX 1 SHOE MAKING. The Man of the Lapstone Has Be" j come the Shoemakinff Witch of ( To-day?Greater Cheapness , ?AKevolutioni/etl Trade. i If anything is more wonderful in the [ 1 history of shot-making than the rapid ! 1 progress of the art since the adoption of ! Q the McKay machines, in 1802, it is the " slow progress made by shoemakers dur- ! j ing the sixteen centuries that intervened s between the days of St. Crispin and the " later date. The old fashioned bench, ^ Still used by cobblers and small work- j men. and around which, when urchins, many now living but not old men have I watched the progress of their new shoes : j, with the conviction that shoemakers j were the most untruthful men in existence, must, from all evidence, have had a . ' Very remote origin. ^ Even yet the old-fashioned shoemaker lingers, though not by any means superfluous, on the stage. The sign of the golden boot has not yet quite vanished. n Scattered all over this city, and every ? Other city, may still be found numberless ' t Small shops which may now be called ; museums for most of the old-fashioucd I implements of shoemaking, and where j < the traditional shoemaker, leather aproned r and bare armed, still reigns. But the i j dignity of his calling has departed. He , must confine himself mainly to the recon- j struction of old shoes, practicing his art j in completeness in the meantime only I ^ during spare hours, when he may prepare j e for some chance customer, who will be captivated with the sometimes unhappy an entirelv hand-made pair of j shoes. A few large shops also, that pro-1" duce much of their work in their old * way, yet remain, but they are crippled 11 by the perpetual avalanche that pours j j down from the great factories and over- j j, whelms evervthing in its track. j t No industrial revolution was ever i more complete than the revolution which t has taken place in shoemaking during the , last twenty-five years. The cobbler we j hall always have with us; but the shoemaker has almost completely changed j his form. It is to be feared, too, that he is no longer entitled to claim the protection of his tutelar St. Crispin, for he has become the servant of a witch. And such a witch! Driven to its highest capacity, a single McKay machine has 8 been known to clap the soles upon 1,200 j c pairs of new shoes within ten hours, and j it takes 300 hands, working in great j c '**- -*1 lohnr.anv. I r part wim yet uuiti lu^cmuua ^ uig machines, to feed one of these in- s satiable stitchers, and clear away the j tables after it has finished. It will be j seen, therefore, that the McKay machine c is not only a witch itself, but that it is a . a boss witch. In the best-provided shops j the side stitching, heeling and even the j lasting are done by subsidiary machines, ^ and so also would be the cutting were it g not for the imperfections of the leather, j which demand the services of a practised j eye in selecting the parts that are fit for ^ use. Yet the work is done with so little . effort that a motor of single horse power ^ would drive a half dozen or more of the ( McKay machines at one and the same < time. | Who would believe that within a mile , .and a half of the City Hall, mainly, indeed, within a quarter of a mile of that , place, there are almost as many firms of j shoe manufacturers as are to be found in . either of the cities of Lynn or Haver- ^ hill! The statement would not be be- ^ lieved were it not possible to furnish the . figures. But it is quite possible. There ( are 186 firms in Lynn, 178 in Haverhill, and 172 in New York. In New York ( the factories are massed in Duane, Reade < and Warren streets, with a skirmish line \ extending northward to some distance , beyond Canal street. It should be said, j however, that about twenty-five of the j factories owned by New York firms are , located outside of the city, though main- ' ly in the vicinity. One is in Haverhill. , We have also what Lynn has not yet be- j come sufficiently aesthetic to appreciate. There are two factories in New York that give their attention almost excluflively to theatrical and operatic togs, and export to Europe. ] But Lynn will boast of the size of her , factories, and point to the annual value ! of her new shoes as evidence of her gen- ! eral superiority. It is certain that she i Voo enmn nrntfv larae factories. and can , ?~ I J O- / point to one firm that turns out 10,000 \ pairs of shoes each day. But there is a , firm in New York that produces shoes to j the value of about f1,000,000 annually, and there are others that run well up among the hundreds of thousands. Esti- , mates differ on the comparative value of the products of the two cities, but in this , respect we must concede to Lynn a long , lead over the metropolis. Judging from the report of goods shipped through Boston between the first of last January and last of August, and giving to Lynn her probable proportion of the total, her annual product cannot amount to much less than $25,000,000, while the annual product of New York is not estimated at more than $10,000,000. But New York, on the other hand, is the fine art centre. On the average one pair of tier shoes is worth two pairs of Lynn shoes, and her shoemakers are all fat and well-fed. The New York workmen do not work so fast as the Lynn workmen. One machine in Lynn turns out about 000 pairs of shoes a day, while in New York a single machine can only be lea up 10 a capacity of 300 pairs a day, the metropolitan shoemakers, apparently, being too fat. It has been said that the capacity of the shoe manufacturing plant in the United States is equal in three months to the market demands of one entire year. This may be true so far as the shoemaking machines are concerned, but it is evidently not true when the question of skilled workmen for feeding and operating the machines is involved. Say that the manufacturers in this city make 4,000,000 pairs o? shoes each year. That would be about the proper estimate on a valuation of $10,000,000. But there are 1,500,000 pairs of feet in New York city alone, and they would manage to get through with pretty nearly 4,000,000 pairs of shoes in one year, even were there no demand from abroad. It is probably true, however, that the number of firms engaged in shoemaking has not increased during the past few years, and in Lynn it has rather declined.?New Tork Sun. A Disappointment. Bobby (to young Mr. Featherly)?"I heard Clara tell ma that she was disappointed because you didn't call last Sunday night." "Young Featherly (in a tremulous whisper)?I say, Bobby, did your sister cay how disappointed she was's" Bobby (thoughtfully)?"I'm trying to think? Yes, she said she was agreeably disappointed."?New York Sun. Missiisippi has now seven creameries in the State. The first one was established in 1885. The Czar and His Adviser. Prince OrlofI was the most trusted adriser of the Czar, Nicholas I. He owed iis accession to favor to a blow of his 3st. While he was an aid-de-camp one )f the regiments had mutinied and the uzar, feeling that a look would reduce ;he men to obedience, stepped in front )f them, accompanied only by Orloff, ind asked: "Have you any complaint, iiy children? Whosoever has anything :o say to me, step forward." To his ?reat surprise several soldiers did advance, and one of them leveled his veapon at the Emperor. Orloff instantly itepped forward and struck the man icad with a blow of his fist. The iSmperor was gratified and Orloff rose, tep by step, until he became chief of the ecret police of the empire, an official be ore whom all classcs trembled. Yet the Smperor occasionally treated him like a choolboy. At one time, some secret nformation in regard to military affairs lad become public property. The Smperor, vexed at this, sent for Orloff nd received him in the utmost ill tern- , ier. "What have I a police for," he exlaimed. "Your Majesty must know that best.'' "Quite right; only I don't know what ;ood it is. And if you don't give me o twenty-four hours the name of the raitor who let out the secret, you are j ashiered." | "Oh." replied Orloff, quite calmly, : 'my police is so excellent that I do not [ equire twenty-four hours to give your Jajesty the name of the traitor." "You know him, then? You know rho it is?" "I know what I know, your Majesty, >ut I can only tell it at the Emperor's xpress command." "Igive you that command." "The traitor whom your Majesty is ooking for is Nicholas Paulowich, Em- i >eror of all the Russias, who always for- j ;ets, when he talks about state business, I nd especially military measures, in the J Cmnress's drawing room that all of the | adies of the court present have not only I wo ears each, but also brothers> cousins | nd relations in the army to whom they j ell everything they have heard. And very word the Emperor speaks spreads ike wild fire through the city." Orloff was not cashiered; doubtless the j Jmperor admired his courage in speak- i ng his mind.?YoutfCs Companion. Dakota's Indian Monnds. Professor Montgomery, of the Univerity of North Dakota, has recently disovered and opened five mounds about )evil Lake?and from his work in other ither parts of the United States and ?anada, and his knowledge of the reearch of others, he concludes he has lere found relics of the Mound Builder, ie has excavated thirty skeletons, several >f these too old and decomposed to be ireserved in proper shape, more than hirty implements, trinket and utensils, ncludiDg shell spoons, urns of earthen vare, stoues, pipes, bone knives, copper ockets, evidently for knife handles, laving several rivet holes, two large and >eautiful pearl ear-rings ornamented vith copper, one perforated tooth about line or ten inches in length, supposed to ie that of a walrus from the Arctic region, jne large flat piece of pipestone bearing ;he figure of a turtle cut on one side ana :he rude outline of a badger on the other, rarious other shells, charred wood, remains >f fruit probably intended for food; ilso of fishes and birds probably intended for the same use. Perhaps the most incresting mound found thus far was one ;he Professor calls a sacrificial mound, in jvhich, seventeen inches from the surface, ire wells easy found because of a lining >f lime about the sides and layers of bark )n the bottom. These are deep enough ;o hold bodies in a sitting posture, whose skeletons have been taken out, and birch njuketa with them, nicely stitched (tho thread gone of course) and containing hard seeds. The mounds are on undulating prairie lands, covered at this season of the year with gay specimens of the composite family which now blooms in ill its glory to delight and puzzle the botanist.?Hartford Courant. How Coffee Acts. Coffee act3 upon the brain as a stimulant, inciting it to increased activity and producing sleeplessness; hence it is of jreat value as an antidote to narcotic poisons. It is also supposed to prevent too rapid waste in the tissues sf the body, and in that way enables it to support life on less food. These effects are due to the volatile oil and also to a peculiar crystalizable nitrogenous principle, termed caffeine. The leaves of the plant likewise contain the same principle, and the inhabitants of the island of Sumatra prefer an infusion of the leaves to that of the berries. Its essential qualities are also changed, the heat causing the development of the volatile oil and peculiar acid which gives aroma and flavor.?Scientific American. Tlie Sense of Temperature. Dr. Goldschiieider lately presented and explained to the Berlin Physiological Society plates illustrating the topography of the sense of temperature. The sense of heat and cold was determined for the whole surface of the body, and arranged in a series corresponding to twelve degress of intensity. As a general result, it was found that the sense of cold is more extended than that of heat; that both senses are more developed on the trunk than on the extremities; that the sense of temperature is less acute in the median line of the body; that the distribution of this sense over the surface of the body is quite different from that of the sense of touch; and that the points of exit of the nerves possess little or no sense of temperature. Catching Man Eaters. This is the season of the year when the big man-eating sharks of "Dead Man's Shoals" are caught, says a Cape Mav (N. J.) letter to the Philadelphia Times. It takes a fisherman of nerve and strength to catch them. A large, stout cord, with a piece of chain extending up from the hook, is used, that the monsters may not use their sharp teeth to regain their liberty when once hooked. When they are brought to the surface a well-aimed shot Irom a rifle or a certain oripjir thrust puts the man eater to sleep, and then he is taken on shore, his liver taken out, from which a vitv odorous oil is extracted. The carcass docs for fertilizing the saudy soil of the Cape gardens. A Use For Fat IJeaux. Fat beaux are not so stylish As the dudes of the present day; And yet they're very useful In a certain sort of way; For when the fall is with us And the summer has gone by, Ah, 'tis then fat beaux como handy And as welcome as peach pie. They're invited in the parlor, Each one his story weaves, And they sit upon the lexicons And press the autumn leaves, i ?OoodaWs Sun. POPULAK SCIRKCR j A Sicilian has invented a method by which cremation is accomplished by j j means of electricity. It requires a dyno- | j mo like those employed for arc fights, j I It is stated that the effect of the intense heat is to vaporize the entire body. The military doctors account for the prevalence of disease of the heart in the French amiy as arising from the fatiguing duties imposed on rccruits at an age when, generally, the development of the | body is not in harmony with that of the heart, but either in advance of it or be- | hind it. In the latter case, there is i [ hypertnphy of growth; in the former, i insufficiency. Some curious results produced by ex- | ! nlnrlinrr mnrk-pf} lilorks of min-COttOn On I i flat plates of wrought iron have been de- J i scribed by Mr. C. E. Monroe. The gun- j cotton blocks- were placed with the let- ( tered side down, and the letters stamped i in relief appeared fn relief on the iron | i after the explosion, while on the other j hand, the letters depressed in the gun- ! | cotton were also depressed on the iron j plate. ! Experiments-are being made at Cap de ! la> Heve, near the mouth of the Seine, on J the production of electricity for light- i house purposes- by means of the force ob- ' ' tained by windmills. The system, if 1 successful, will, have the advantage of 1 , | costing only the puttingr up of the ma- j chinery. The whole question to be as- : certained is- whether a sufficient quantity ! of electricity can be stored to provide for the requirements of any particular sta- , tion when there is no- wind to move the t sails of the mill. > In a paper on "Indicative Plants," Dr. ( R. "VV. Raymond considers a connection t which is reported to exist between certain i plants and the metallic contents of the ( soil on which they grow. Among the J instances cited are the zinc-violet, of the 3 Calamine Hills of Rhenish Prussia and t Belgium; the lead-plant, believed by ' the American miners to grow only in ' localities containing galena; and the j oi'l.mrnlont tvViinh ia rprrnrrlprl fls a Slffn I t Jinn-fMuui, ? a ? of silver-ore. The theories on this sub- t I ject, if there be any, still lack the essen- ? tial elements of verification. , j Lieutenant Hovgaard, the Arctic trav- s L I eler who made the northeast passage I li with Nordenskiold, is already preparing * for his expedition to East Greenland next j summer. His ambitious purpose is, if t possible, to complete the exploration of | the northeast coast, join his discoveries j with those of Lockwood, and thus finally fl deteimine the outlines and extent of the ( great island. He also hopes to ascertain t if there is any truth in the story told f by East coast natives that far north a [ I strait runs clear across Greenland, cut- J ting it into two islands. If there is any [ I truth in this report, the western end of 1 the strait must join Melville Bay, whose [ shore line is very imperfectly known. ^ In a paper before a late meeting of the s , Seismological Society of Japan, Pro- ' lessor Dlimc iuenuooeu me aigus ui aiaim which the lower animals o;'ten show just before earthquakes. Ponies were observed to prance in their stalls half a minute before a shock last January. Proof has been found that pheasants 1 scream, and frogs suddenly cease their croaking, while geese, swine and dogs ! give the clearest indications of an ap1 proaching earthquake. It was suggested I that the animals are probably very sensiI tive to slight preliminary tremors, though in volcanic districts small aniI mals have been not only alarmed but I even killed by gases escaping just before I earthquakes. | Mr. T. P. White, in a communication I to the Chemical Society, gives a de! ciiledly negative answer to the question I whether the acids of canned fruits may ' not form poisonous salts with the tin. | He reports, as the result of his experiments, that "tin is entirely devoid of j danger when taken internally in any ! form that might arise from being in cont tact with fruits or vegetables." He bei lieves that the cases of accidental poisoning attributed to tin were due to solder 1 or~other impurities?arsenic, copper, or 1 lead. Professor W. Mattieu Williams > says that there need be no lead in the ! solder?that it is only put in for cheapness sake, and that tin makes a superior solder to any alloy. Therefore, all dan- : ger may be obviated by prohibiting the j use of any other solder than pure tin. M I Fish Preserved in Rock-Salt At the White Plains salt works, on the ] line of the Central Pacific railroad, be| youd Wadsworth, in sinking large pits or wells, many fish, perfectly preserved, I j have been found in the strata of rocksait cut through. The salt-field occupies 1 | what was once the bottom of a large lake. ' The fish found are of the pike or pickerel I species and from twelve to sixteen inches ( ! in length. No such fish are now seen in ' any of our Nevada lakes. The specimens j are not petrified, but are preserved in perfect form, flesh and all, as though they had been frozen up in cakes of ice. The salt works are located near the center of a basin, in which was once a lake thirty miles long by from twelve to fifteen miles in width, aud over three hundred feet deep in places, as is shown by the ancient water-lines on the bordering hills. The fish found imbedded in the layers of rock-salt are doubtless thou' sands of years old. After being exposed , to the sun and air for a day or two they become as hard as wood. At the time Jasoa Baldwin, now watchman at the Osbiston shaft in this city, was Superintendent of the White Plains works he found great numbers of these fish. In a pit 8 feet square and about 16 feet deep i dozens of them were found, there being ! sometimes five or six in a bunch. It was fouud that they could be eaten, but they were not very palatable, and it was necessary to soak them in fresh wa'cr for two or three days before attempting to cook them. ? Virginia (Xec.) Enterprise. Where It Originated. No phrase has been more often quoted I than the one "We left our country for : aur country's good," as aplying to erimii oals. It was only the other day that I learned the origin of the line. It appears in a prologue to a play called "The Ranger." This play was presented at Sidney, Australia, in 1795, and was the first theatrical performance c.\er given there. The parts were all taken by convicts shipped therefrom England, "and a convic t was the author. The prologue is a very clever piece of humoroas versification, abounding in hits upon the causes which brought the actors to the colony. How it ever fouud its way into general use I have no idea. ? Globe-Democrat. A Lake Disappears. At the foot of the mountain Eggishorn on the southern slope of the Jungfrau in the canton of Wallis, Switzerland, Lake Merjclen is located. Last year the people iutended to drain off its waters and use the dry land for agricultural pur poses. One night recently a shock of earthquake was felt in Wallis, and one morning the lake had disappeared and the inhabitants xnay now partition out the ground given them so very cheap. REV. I)K, TAIJIAGE. rHK BKOOKLV* DIVISK'S SUP DAY SIvK-MON1. Swba'ect of Dlscotip.ser "Free?race. Text: "Ye know the gre&e of ovrr Lor Jesns Christ, that, though lis icas rich, yt for your saJbesHe became pozr.,1-^-H Corii thiai?, viii., 9, Thafl all the worlds which oil' a cold; wii ter's night mal&? the heavens one great gllttc we inhabitantlwe is an absurdity. Pnilow jherstell us that many of these WorldStar ;oo hot, or too cold, or of too rarefied attnc iphere for residence. But, if not fit fo luman abode, tlkey may be fit for beings dil Wnf Pfr\ ttrx n^rll +sn A.iiH<A1trA0 W .WVliU U VIU UUU" OW|^l 1U1 IV UUlOVlf CO. TV ire told that tlheworld of Jupiter ischangini mtii it iB- almost fit for creatures like th luman race, and that Mars would do for th luman family with a little change in th tructure of the respiratory organs. But tha here is a great world swung somewhere, vos >eyond imagination,, and that it is the head [uarters of the-univerae and the metropolis o mmensity, and has a population in number rast beyond; all' statistics, and appointment >f splendor beyondthe capacity of canvas, o loem, or angel to describe, is as certain a he Bible is authentic; Perhaps some of the istronomere withi their big telescopes havi already caught) aglimpse of it, not knowinf vhat it is. We spell it with six letters an< >ronounce it) heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteei enturies ago; He was the King's son. It wa be old homestead of. eternity, and all it aatles were as old.as God. Not a frost hat ver chilled.the air. Not a tear had eve: oiled down the cheek, of one of its inhab tanta There had: never been in it a head .che, or a sideache or a heartache. Ther lad not been a funeral in. the memory of th ildest inhabitant. There had never in all thi and been woven a black veil, for there ha< lever heen anything to mourn over. Th >assage of millions of years had not wrinklec ir crippled or bedimmad any of its citizens Lll the people there weue-in a state of eterna dolescence. What floral and pomonic bright less! Gardens of perpetual bloom anc orchards in unending fruitage. Had som< pirit from another world entered and asked Yhat is sin? what is bereavement? what ii orrow? what is death? the brightest of tin ntelligences-would.have failed to give defini ion, though to study, tha question there wen ileoce in heaven, for kialf an hour. Th< '?aa aP mltAw T t?naolr V\.?rl V>rtnnro amnln i lUW UL TTUVfUU JL 0]^aa UUU UV/UVId| v?*>wmva aents, acclamations, such as no othoi 'rince, celestial or terrestrial, evei njoyed. As he passed the street, thi nhabitants to^k off from their brows gar anils of white lilies and threw them in thi vay. He never entered any of the temple eithout all the worshipers rising up and bow ng in obeisance. In all the processions o he high days ha was- the one wno evoked thi oudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walk ng in loving talk with the humblest of thi and, but at other times he took chariot, am imong the 20,000 that David spoke of hi vas the swiftest and most (laming; or, a vhen John described him, he took white pal rey with what prance of foot, and arch o leek, and. roll ot mane, and gleam of eye ii >nly dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. H vas not like otaer Princes, waiting for thi ather to die and then take the throne iVhen a few yea.s ago an artist in German] nade a picture for the Royal gallery repre enting Emperor William on the throne, ant he Crown rrince as having one foot on th itep of the throne, Emperor William ordere< he picture changed, and said: "Let th rrince keep his foot off the throne till eave it." Already enthroned was the heavenl; Prince, side by side with the Father. What i :ircle of dominion! What myrmidons of ad nirersl What unending round of glories Ml the towers chimed the Prince's praises )f all the inhabitants, from the center of th ;ity, on over the hills and clear dowa to th )each, against which the ocean of immensit oils its billows, the Prince was the aeknow] xlged favorite. No wonder my text say that "he was rich." Set all the diamonds c ;he earth in one scepter, build all the palade )f the earth in one Alhambra. gather all th pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all th values of the earth in one coin; the aggregat would not express his affluence. ^ es, Fan was right. Solomon had in gold ?680,0i 0,00 xnd in silver ?1,039,000,377 sterling. But : greater than Solomon is here. Not the mil] onaire, but the quadrillionaire of heaven. T iescribe his celestial surroundings the Bibl jses all colors, gathering them in rainbow Dver the throne and setting them as agate ii the temple window, and hoisting twelve c them into a wall from striped jasper at th trnse to transparent amethyst in the caps torn while between are green of emerald, an .now of pearl, and blue of sapphire,and yellow )f topaz, gray of chrysoprasus, and flame c jacinth. All the loveliness of landscape ii foliage, and river, and rill, and allencnanl ment aquamarine, the sea of glass mingle with fire as when the sun sinks in the Med terranean. All the thrill of music, instn mental and vocal, harps, trumpets, doxc logies. There stood the Prince, surrounde by those who had under their wines th velocity of millions of miles in a second, ric in love, rich in adoration, rich in power, ric in worship, rich in holiness, rich as God. But one day there was a big disaster in department of God's universe. A race faller A world in ruins! Our planot the scene c catastrophe! A globe swinging out into darl ness, with mountains and seas and island an awful centrifugal of sin seeming to ovei power the beautiful centripetal of righteou nens, and from it a groan reached heavei J J ??? .? Lun Kan*/) fKan OUULi a SUUllU uau ucrci uruu ucai u vuv> < Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an outer of distress or an echo of agony. At that 01 Croan the Prince rose from all the blissf L'ircurajacence and started for the outer gai and descended into the night of this worl Out of what a bright harbor into what roug sea! ,;Stay with us," cried angel after ang and potcnate after potenate. "No," sa the Prince, '*1 cannot stay; I must I off for that wreck of a world, must stop that groan. I must hush thi distress. I must fathom that way. I mu redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones ar temples, companions cherubic, seraphic,arcl angelic! Excuse this absence, for 1 wi come back again, carrying on my shoulder ransomed world. Till this is done I choo earthly scoff to heavenly acclamation, and cattle pen to a King's palacet frigid zone i earth to atmosphere of celestial radiance, have no time to lose, for hark ye the gros that grows mightier while I wait. Farewel farewell!" "Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesi Christ, that, though He was rich,yet for yoi sakes He became poor." Was thertfever a contrast so overpowerii as that between the noonday of Christ celestial departure and the midnight of h earthly arrival ? Sure enongh, the ange were out that night in the sky, and a specii ?oo nc/>n>+ hnf. all that was fro: I11CICU1 a^wu uo bavvtv, w.. other worlds, and not from this world. T1 earth made no demonstration of welcome, one of the great Princes of the world stej out at a depot cheers resound, and the bam play, and the flags wave. But for the arriv of this missionary Prince of the skies not torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plun fluttered. All the music and the pomp wer overhead. Our world opened forhim nothir better than a barn door. The Rajah < Cashmere sent to Victoria a bedstead < carved gold and a canopy that cost $750,00 but the world had for the Prince of Heave and Earth only a litter of straw. The crow jewels in tho Tower of London amount I f15,000,000. but this member of etern royalty had not where to lay his head. 1 know how poor he was, ask the camel driver ask the shepherds., ask jtfary, ask the thn wise meiT ~of the East" who arterwai came there, young Caspar and middle age Balhasar and old Melchoir. To know how po< he was, examine all the records of real esta' in all that oriental country, and see whi vineyard, or what house, or what field 1 owned. Not one. Of what mortgage was 1 the mortgagee.' Of what tenement was b the landlord/ Of what lease was he tl lessee? Who ever paid him rent.' Not owr ing tho boat on which he sailed, or the bea? on which he rodo, or the pillow on whish 1 slept. He had so little estate that in order I pay his tax he had to perform a miracl putting the amount of the assessment in fish's mouth and having it hauled ashor And alter his death the world rushed in I take an inventory of his goods, and the entii aggregate was the garments ho had won (deeping in them by night and traveling i thern by day, bearing on them the dust < the highway and the saturation of the se. Paul in my text did not go far from hittin the mark, did he, when he said of the inissio ary Prince: "For your sakeshe became poor The world could have treated him better it had chosen. It had all the meaus for mal ing his earthly condition comfortable. Onl a few years beforo when Pompey, the Gei eral, arrived at Brindisi he was greeted wit arches and a costly column, which celebrate the 12,000,000 people whom he had killed < conquered, and be was allowed to wear b ? trltttnpbai rotresintbe Senate TJw world? % applause for imperial butchetSy but buffet? for the Prince of Peace. Pknfcy of gold* chalice* for the favored to drinte otft of, b t our Prisce must pwt his lips to tb# backet he well by the roadside lifter lie hrnd begg< lor a drink. Poor# Bom in another mac : barn and eating at another man's tafcle, ar I crsiaing tlw lake in another man's fisbii " i smack, and buried in> another man's n?u? icuD* Four inspired' authors wrote of h I biography, ami innunwrable lives of Ch*i j have been published, but he composed h '' j autobisgraphy hi a most compressed vrfv 1_ I He saikl: "I have trodden the wit press alone." Poor in the estimatic | of nearly all the prosperous classe r : They called him Sabbath breaker, wii >. j bibber, tmitor, blaspheme*, and ransackf e the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to li y- to express flbeir detesShtton; JJ canthtntc no1 r , of only two well to do men1 wlw> espoused h i- | cause?Niccdemus and Joseph of Arimathei e- | His friends for the moatpartt were peopl g: : who, in that climate where ophthalnsy or ii e-; flammation of the eyeball sweep# ever an e anon as a scourge, had become1 blind, sic v ; people who were anxious- to- get well, an t l troubled people in whose - family Store wj 4* aArmo Ann /Inarl nr riving Tf' ha tinri on twiTN i at all it was empty, or we -would have- Sear ?.'j what was done with the content*at the pa 3 I mortem. Poor? Thepigeouan the dove-cot* s< Che rabbit in its burrow, the- silk wnrm in il r i cocoon, the bee in its hive, is'better provide i-1 tor, better off, better sheltered. Ay^ tl > ! brute creation has a home' ob> earthy wttt &-: Christ has not. jj- ! If on windy days the rtrttr j ' Gambol like a dancing ski? Not tbe lefts he lores his haror l.' On Ibe bosom of the cliff. 3 i s it almost witn eagle pinton O'er the Alps the chamois roam,. _ Yet he has some small doml'iion Which no doubt tie calls*hia home: B\it the Crown Prince of all heavenly dt g minion bad less than the raven, loss-thanitft 9 chamois, for he was homeless. Aye, in. tti a history-of the universe thereis no other ii 1 stanae of such coming down.* Whocamcour 0 the miles from the top of the- throne to tii 1 I bottom, of the cross? Cleopatra,, giving. banquet to Antony, took a pearl wort 1 ! $100,000 and dissolved it in vinegar an swallowed it. But when our Prince,, accorc j I ing to tbe evangelist, in his last hours- too > ! the vineear. in it had been dissolvod all tli j pearls of his heavenly royalty. Down unt j j thero was no other depth for him to toucl j J troubled until there was no other harass . I ment to suffer, poor until there was no otlie 3 i pauperism to torture. Billions of dollai 3 spent in wars to destroy men, whowill fui _ nish the statistics of the value of that pr< r cious blood that was shed to save us? "Y P Know rae grace or our Liorct Jesus unrlst 3 I thatir fcbougn he was rich, yet for your sate . ! be became poor." B I Only those who study this text in> trw s J places can fully reach its power-?the Hoi . . Land of Asia Minor and the holy land c f j heaven. How I should like some day to tak 3 a. drink out of Jacob's well, and take a sa . j on Galilee, and read the sermon on the Moui 0 j while standing on Olivet, and see the wild?) j ; nese where Christ was tempted, and be- som s ! afternoon on Calvary at about 3 olclocfc, tfc s j hoar at which closed the crucifixion, an _ j sit under the sycamores and by the side < f the brooks, ana think and dreamt and pra I about the poverty of Him. who came ou e" j souls to save. But you and I will probabl 8 be denied that, and so here, in, another coot sent and in another hemisphere-, and in scene u'. as different a# possible, we recount as we ; as we may how poor our heavenly Prince b< 1 came. And in the other holy land above v may all study the riches that He left behin j when He started for His-earthly expeditioi & Come, let us bargain to meet each other 1 j the door of the father's mansion, or on tt bank of the river just where it rolls froi - J under the throne, or at the outside gat ? i Jesus got the contrast by exchangiug th< [. world for this; we will get it by exchangin t. j this world for that. There aad then you wi , | understand more of the wonders of the grac I T ahH Taaiia Phmof opKa 4 *frVimiorVi V e | wa3 rich, yet for your sakes became poor." ? I Yes grace, free grace, sovereign gracx [. ! omnipotent grace. Among the thousands c 3 j words of the language there is no more queei ly word. It means free and unmerited kind 3 J ness. My text has no. monopoly of the wore e One hundred and twenty-nine times does tb e Bible eulogize grace. It is a door swung wid e J open to let into the pardon of God all tt j | millions who choose to enter it. q | John Newton sang of it when he wrote: ^ Amazing grace, how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! o Philip Doddridge put it into hymnolog e when he wrote: v ! Grace! 'tis & charming soand, a Harmonious to the ear; ,f Heaven with the erhoshill resound e And all the world shall hear. >, One of John Bunyan's great books is et d ! titled "Abounding Grace." "It is all of gra< v j that I am saved" has been on the lips of hui if ! dreds of dying Christians. The boy Samm a | was right when, being examined for admi tr ' sion into church membership, he was askec d | "Whose work was your salvation?" and 1 i- j answered: "Part mine and part God's." The i- the examiner asked: "What part did you di >- | Sammy?" and the answer was: "I oppose d God all I could, and he did tne rest!" 0; ie the height of it, the depth of it, the length < h it, the breadth of it?tne grace of God! M h i Fletcher having written a pamphlet thi ! nlnncn/l t-ha TTinor f>ia TTi'tict offered to com Dei I piccuou VUW ra j sate him, and Fletcher answered: "There i! j only one thing I want, and that is mei >? ; grace." Yes, my blood bought hearers, gra ?- ! to live by, grace to die by. Grace th, s, | saved the publican, that saved Lydia, th; r- j saved the dying thief, that saved the jaile s- . that saved me. But the riches of that gra i. j will not be fully understood until heave ?. | breaks in upon the soul An old Scotcl y man, who had been a soldier in one of tl ie I European wars, was sick and dying in oi ml of our American hospitals. His one desii te was to see Scotland and his old hom a. and once again walk the heather < h the Highlands, and hear the bagpip 'el of the Scotch regiments. The night that tl id old Scotch soldier died a youn^ man, souii te I what reckless but kind-hearted, got a cor j pany of musicians to come and play undi at the old soldier's window, and among the i ' struments there was a bagpipe. The instai ,d that the musicians began~the dying old ma h- J in delirium said: "What's that? what's tha ill ! why, it's the regiments coming home. Thai a j the tune; yes, that's the tune. Thank God, so , have got home once more!" "Bonny Scotlar a | and Bonny Doon" were the last words he u of tered as he passed up to the highlands of tl I better country. And there are hero to-ds m hundreds homesick for heaven; somebecau HI [ you havo so many bereavements, some b i cause you have so many temptations, son L13 because you have so many ailments; hom ir sick, very homesick, for the fatherland < , heaven, and the music that you want to he: jg now is the song of free grace, and the musi i'8 yon want to hear when you die is free grac jg and forever before the throne of God y< ils will sing of the "grace of our Lord Jes1 al ' Christ, who, though he was rich, for yoi m | sak^s became^ poor." le ; Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on If : pleasure excursion that ho came, for it w )s j all pain. It was not on astronomical explc is I ation; for he knew this world as well befo al | he alighted as afterward. It was not becau a ' he was compelled to come,for he volunteere le It was not because it was easy, for he kne e that it would be thorn, and spike, and hu ig ger, and thirst, and vociferation of angi of moos. For your sake3! Wipe away yo of | tears. To foreive vour wrons-aoine.io coi 0, j pantonsbip your loneliness, to soot tie yo :n j sorrows, to'sit with you by the new-ma rn grave, to bind up your wounds in the ug to battle with the world anil bring you home al last, kindling up the mists that fall on yo To dying vision with the sunlight of a glorio s, morn. For your sakes! No, I will chan ee that. Paul will not care, and Christ will n -j | care if I change it, for I must get into t >d i blessedness of the text myself, and so I sa jr | " For our sakes !" For we all have our tem te tatious, and bereavements, and conflici | For our sakes ! We, who deserve for our si 10 to be expatriated into a workl as much poor j0 than this earth as this earth is poorer lhi t0 | heaven. For our sakes ! ie j But what a fruitful coming down to tal us gloriously up. When Artaxerxes w 5t i hunting, Tirebazus, who was attending hii ie showed the King a rent in his garment. T to ' King said: "How shall I mend it?'' "Bygi e> ing it to me," said Tirebazus. Then the Kji u:?Knf i>nmm?nrW him nnv a ' gavi' Ullll lUO i VUV, U.... ..v. e. to wear it, as it would be inappropriate. S to the startling and comforting fact, while o ro Prince throws off the habit no not only i rj lows us to wear it. but commands us to we in it, and it will become us well, and tor the po 3f erties of our spiritual state wo may put < a. the splendors of heavenly regalement F ig our sakes! Oh, the personality of this i a- j ligion! Not an abstraction, not i f 1 arch under which we walk to behold elali If rate masonry, not an ice castle like th ic- ; which Empress Elizabeth, of Russia, ov ly j 100 years ago ordered constructed, wint i- with its trowol of crystal cementing the hu h blocks that had been quarried from t >d frozen rivers of the north, but a fathe; >r house with a wide hearth crackling a hear jj) welcome. A region of warmth, and inspir #d ttoU, Had lignt, ?otf cneer, attoef&lng we T S? can t^ke intoour hearts', and hoi"*es, atod busi5rt ness, Recreations, a*d Joys aiSi; sorrows, ut Not sA Onmanageabte' girt like Ihe galley o? presented to Ptolemy, wbich required 4,000 k1 iben to iXAt; and its draflg&t of water was so Oi i's tftcat thaff it could not cote? near the1 shore, id Mt something you can run up auy streata of A lg arcoyanee. however shallow. Enricbiaent o- now, enricnment forever. ill Right aboafcface! for you going in fllie T1 wrorig direction. While you are in a favoria able ^iood for it, enter into life; Here and1 " y just llow dedd'* everything tha? makes for ; i9 peace ctnd heareit. Aeassiz says that he has . )D. stood at one place irr the Alps where he could i Al a:, throw dchip into the water in one-cHrection, w and it wsuld roll on> into the German ocean, id! or he coiitd throw a chip into the water in Id ii another direction, and it would raach the ^ _ ; Black sea by the Danube, or he couldJ throw jg a chip in' another direction, and it? would -r. x enter the Alediterranean by the Rhone: How , Jbr apart t?te Mediterranean, and the Black j. ofca, and the German ocean! Standing tcPday <t?j j o? the Alps af Gospel privilege, you can'pro- < oAnl mirronta anil ft ,j? JC J UU1 OVIU iliW I'l^uv vun?mO| wuu *? (j w.1] roll on into the ocean of life, or project > ? it in the wrong.directloiK and it will roll into ^ the sea of deatne. But how far apart the two ^ distances! May- God' helpo> to appreciate < jt mor? and more- the momentous meaning of T1 9 of our text! The seven w?e men of Greece < J were chiefly known each for one apothegm; j Solon lor the sayi*g4 "Kne<w thyselfPer- Ai ianderfor the saying: "Nothing b impossible i, to industry;" ChHo" for the saying: "Con- N( aider tlte end;" Thalesfbr the'wyfng: "8ure- ' tyship is the precursor of ruinv" And Paul, distinguished for an thousand utterances, H< might well afford to be memorable for the 1 saying: "You know the grace of our Lord lie Jesus Christ, that; thtongh He vom rich, yet for your sakes became-poor, that ye through His poverty might benohi'* Ai j TEMPERANCE. * ia- Ot if The Last Gr1ass? ' lb A. merry crowd, a careless throngs . 101 j Where foaming glasses, jesttand songf J 81 1 Filled up the hours i There gathered rough and bearded men. ft' 1 And fair faced boys, within, that den. I- f Of Satan's-powers k I _ 10 l One came as often as the rest, . 11 jj To share the flowing wine-and jeat,. ,bU31j >, | With reckless ajic. s? As if pursued by fiendi-within, r >j He sought the place where drink and <Es s- b Soon banished, care; , r- | UP 1 i- ,j One night the usual gliss was- pouredy thus e Amid tne revel songs encored I do r,. !; By those who heard. >9. J The poison almost finds his lips? ( When from his hands the goblet slips o- ( Withoat.a word; prof Y f feesi ,f A muttered oath?a dOggei air? set s a. A sudden lull?a general stare? ' wish y. Then loua and clear Z "I a ? He spoke: "Fill me an other glass; , shou > My nerves are shaky^-let it pass? t. ha3 i & Here's to all her?.'r **' with ? He lifted up the gloss-again^ bare j. But set it down and faced the mea bus* Who sat. around. whic J " Boys," and his voice was hoarse with dread, c]ert " I cannot drink that glassy" he said? way ? A sudden,sound. Chri * Like smothered laughtei>-tben his face, ^eiv< u All stern and white,.subdued the place, ij_ic * All silence fell. * iE-n r? " I cannot drink it, fontbere lies a Within its depths a pair of eyes, < ^ ^ Like Heaven in helL * ie ?j cannot drink, itv tor there swims 31 A face above the foam that brims? B- The face of one 7 th "Whoseheart would ache to see me here; r, isi WhnoA hftart would break. I am so deal': I BojSy I am done? :e t whi< ie " Done with the-poison; here's my band; With God's help! mean to stand '? By all I say; >f And stand by her whose dear face lies rt } Between me and the revelries I leave to-day." L ?Emma Lyudau, in Detroit Free Prest. ie _ 8el'' ie grar ie A Fraud, Delusion, and Snare. a coi The liquor traffic stands as a confessed gp00 criminal before the great world. Its only apologists are the brewers, the saloon keep- ???l ere, and the daily newspapers. It fears Pro- rhe.' y hibition on the one hand and restrictive high are 1 license on the other. At least it pretends to ever fear the latter, raises a howl of agony that 8X0 1 the licenses should be placed at fl,000, in ?an Minnesota, for instance. The great dailies 01 Eoint to the howl, and say: "See what high T*"o< cense is doing; it is just the thing to gradu- ?* " ^ ally bring about the annihilation of the sa- c?48 j. loon, and any idiot that can't see it is a ( y wretched, meddlesome Prohibitionist, whose 80") g. opinions are not worth listening to." Thus onc 1. the matter is quiety and easily disposed of? ,ess> jq by the newspapers. However, they do have 0386 ,n to print news items, and here is one that ap- 501' 3 peared in the Chicago Tribune, an item that stop xj would not ba permitted on the editorial page, safe h by any means: P61"* "The big brewers of Winona, having r learned that only about twenty saloon-keepers To* aj would be able to take the new $1,000 license, "n18 1 u:t- """" ? na-ar nion to hfilo retail ven- not Q? lla*C U1V U|A>U U UW ? I - _ ijj ders ci liquors, and at the same time increase t re their own business. They propose that each Gra ce brewer shall take out licenses for four or fire and saloons, and as a result nearly all the present are i at saloon-keepers have made applications for r licenses nnder the new law, all expecting that ^ they will be among those favored by the >n brewers." jj. All temperance workers now agree that Quit 30 high license is a fraud, delusion, and snare. ^is . ie Now that science has removed the fallacies of *1.-1 .e the deceiver who so long has taught men that ?g jr 0 there is nutriment and strength in alcohol, he 3f has been compelled to take a new way to be- wa3 es numb consciences. A good name for hisplan ftii . ie would be 11 High Lie"?no "sense" about it, j0W( 3- and a great deal of lie 1 In Chicago, the nj,r n. friends of the Lie say that there would be can ?r double as many saloons were it not that it [j. costs $500 yearly to sell liquon Well, if the Dra, [it saloons could be any thicker than they are !i" in (over eighteen solid miles of them in Chicago), uaV( t J the schools and churches would have to move 's out to make room for them I Great is High stan j Lie, and the newspapers are its prophets, j: 1C1 You see what the Winona brewers are g t. doing to keep the saloons where they are in ' 1Q numbers I That is the method used in Chi- 1} tV cago. It's very simple; it is also a simple - - ,zo. eg matter to sumuieunj auUl^, ? 0. get back the money, and the miserable Lie a n(i ie on- Capital is the arch enemy here, and . d q. when one stands before the mighty buildings 0f called breweries, it is no wonder that the ? jj magnitude of the battle which must be . [c fought seems overwhelming. Capital is said , ,e to be timid; we wish beer capital was; its timidity is not apparent I Rather do we see ^ j 03 fear in the columns of the great dalies, that dare not attack evac'ons of the law practiced by the brewery capital. All advocates of the High Lie will tell you the object to be gained is the regulation of the liquor traffic; but if azjn the breweries combine to regulate the nura- ~ro^ " ber of saloons, and keep them running in the Jjot old numbers,what then? What other Business jjos is capable of such purchasing power? What wjj0 other business would think of thus setting was 1 men up in business?? Union Signal. ecj[y Drugged Beer. ur _ ceiv n. In a recent number of the Sanitarium, in hyp .. an article on "Drugged L'eer," E. H. Bartley, enoi M. D., Chief Chemist of the Health Depart- th0 rvf Ri-nnL-ivn invites attention to the ex- win ^ tensive and dangerous use of salicylic acid by teac brewers to prevent fermentation in their jty < Vf beer. He says: "Unless it be thoroughly wjtl cured and well cleared the beer will often not spoil, before it is consumed, by a process of nost v' fermentation or putrefaction. To avoid the ours necessary care in the manufacture, and the and keeping of the beer for a longer time, it has 0Vei P" become a practice among brewei's to add Veni salicylic acid to prevent this fermentation Gf ti J*3 after the beer is sent out." He says that I ijev< ? there can be no doubt that in large quantities | men it acts very injuriously both upon the digest- j j3 j ive processes and the kidneys, and adds: "In j piac V* its elimination the kidneys not rarely become j had acutely congested, or even inflamed, piving will I1' rise to acute Bright's disease." In the pres- ^ nc ence of such a danger, even if the alcohol mill ' also were not an irritant poison, the wise and safe thing to do is to let the beer alone.? ? ^ Rational Advocate. u.r Temperance In Finland. *" It is only three years since the first tem- . Gl perance society was formed in Finland, and Juve v" so rapidly has the cause progressed that al- grc8 511 ready in several towns the sale of spirituous Be or i liquors has been wholly discontinued. In some of h *e' ! distric ts the manufacture of brandy has been s qt 111 ! forbidden. In others it may be sold at whole- busi ?* I sale, but not at retail. The number of drink and a j shops has been so reduced that now there is H er j only one for every 570 of the inhabitants. No cr | liquor is allowed to be sold at the markets, H f pe : fairs, barracks, or in the neighborhood of 5 , schools orchurches.Theseresults.it is claimed, fj i have been attained, not by public meetings, ? y ( or blue ribbons, but simply by the moral a!*, a* 1 power of the associations, ' lEUGIOTTS BEADING. The Last Journey. rW otLer journey, oh my love I Otee more for us to share; gaiff across the blooming laud Together we shall fare. ^ le happ# days come back to me When tin* we went away; ^ re two, we only, side by side, That blessed wedding day. h me! how rapid were the wheels; How swift the radiant hours; ow dear thy shy and tender looks; How sweet the bridal flowers. ear after year we went again, But never more alone; 'ith little links of childish life That bound us to cmr own. ? dinging hands, the baby words, Uh? losses and the gain, le amxious, faithful mother heart ITm* solaced every pain. / ) mw? alone, yet dearer far T)iby* tonHfifost. solitude: le gathering of that flock beloved, The mother with her brood. id now'. How silent are thy lipe; How still without their smile: ) wordi of mine, no thought or thin* ' That silence shall beguile. )w close- those serious eyes are shot; The'white lids lift no more; > living look of love or peace, No glance at sea or shore. -t thon not here? Bo near, so far, rhy face I cannot see. ire, and yet hidden from my sight? DhGodl'hjow can it be? it long last Journey. She and I rogether, yet apart )meward and graveward; she at rest; [ with my breaking heart 1 ?[Rose-Terry Cook in Independent. Pray* Without Ceasing. le beautiful' balance between diligence in ness and fervency in spirit^ while^ serv ,ne JjOru, is IXl'UH miutiainu jju HHP juar from the Boek of Proverbs by Biabop y, of Iowa;: here Indeed' naav not the Christian lift lis heart to> Sod? Where ought he not to seek the strengthening from above! not necessarily mean in outward mani? ition, but in inward communion. For aple, a merchant once said to a faithful jyman, "Sir, I dont like your religious assors who come into my office with proons of godliness on their lips; I alwayl uch men down' as rogues. I suspect they to cheat mo." The clergyman replied, zree with you. Were I in your place I Id feel the same suspicion; for a man 10 business to come into your warehouse the language of godliness on his tongue i he comes to> purchase your silks and lain for your calicoes. He came on ness. Let him attend to the business on :h he came. But," continued the jyman; "let me remind you there is a in which his religion will actuate the stian in your counting housa You may liscern the principle, But you will per9 the result, not by his talking about rein, out of place,, but by his acting in con? litv with its precepts, neither seeking to advantage of you nor allowing you to advantage of mm; thus making It manithat while grace has sharpened nis judg? t it has subdued his selfishness; constraintiim in all his dealings with you to do to as he would have you do to nim. There e power of faith displaying itself in its timate influence, not in righteous profes* out of place, bat in righteous practice, :h is everywhere in place." Half Werk, Poor Work. is half-following Christ that is so difflA great danger will stimulate to ter courage than a slight one. You can S spirit enocgh to carry you through a j heroic deed more easily than throogb mmonplaoe one. Some people might oe I Christians if they set out to be better than are. They fail because they only hover it the'virtues instead of plunging right in. j would make good martyrs; but they poor confessors. They would be faithful i unto death in a persecution; but they not proof against sneers and grins. They bear a heavy cross manfully; out when ft ily a little one they want to fling it down. lbles. to them are like the deafening roar -affic- in a city office, which goes on uningly, and yet never disturbs tne clerk at leek: while if a boy began to whistle Ly at his side he would be distracted at ? The greater is easier to bear than the because they make preparations in one ' and not in the other. The whole is not roablesome as the part. It is not easy to half-way. They say that it is perfectly to carry a gun at half-cock, which u ectly true only when you have a perfect , Half-measures are dangerous measures, talf-promise is not to promise. To halfh is not to finish. Sins must be slain, wounded ; and they are not dead liey have only one foot in the grave, res must bloom as well as bud; virtues, like fruit, must be ripe, or they not worth keeping.?{Rev. C. T. Prioe. Paul and Prayer. ith Paul his prayers were themselvei e as mutni a part of his work for God as ^reaching the gospel or his suffering for truth'3 sake. And though in this as well 1 everv other part of his work, he?or ai ays. ,rNbt I, but the grace of God that in me"?labored more abundantly than vho either went before him or have fol? -.1 ?.. ? TT//ir>lr nf wifnoarinc fciT *1 II1 111 III IUO .... 1st, yet this, at least, is certain: that I only follow his example in his work for in proportion as I follow it in regard to fer. It is very profitable to consider how rh preparatory thought the Apostle must a given to his work before praying; how oust have considered the various circumces in regard to which the assistance and ction of God were needed for it; tha ial aid that he and others required: tha ial dangers and temptations and difflculto which it was liable. Thus I shall realbetter how truly prayer is itself work, only for God, but with God and in God. [ if I need a general rule for my continu* irection in "my work for Goa," let ma ember that the most general and tha t practical of all is that which St. Paul given us and exemplified in his own life: ntinue steadfastly in prayer, watching ein with thanksgiving. "-4EL Cotterili, Spnrgeon'a 111 nit ration. r. Spurgeon. in the July issue of his mag* e, the Sword and Trowel, hits well tha it faith required to accept some modern ons inplace of simple Scripture truth, ays: There is a quaint story of a giant, i had long fed upon windmills, and at iasi choked by a pat of butter; and, assur', his counterpart may be seen in the evo? mists of our day, who are unable to ren e the Bible account of the creation. Th4 othesis of our present philosophers art igh to tax the credulity of a monk of middle ages, yet many take down thee* i mil Is as pigeons swallow peas. Tha hing of revelation is fitted for the capao> a child, but our wise men are choked l such simple fare. IVe confess wo have enough faith to be an infidel, or an ag? ric, or even an evolutionist. We find ielves for once standing up for reason, demanding that our faith should not be -strained. We can believe what is r?? ed; for, sublime as it is, there is a kind uth-likeness about it; but we cannot be? 3 what we are now taught with such tredous authority; for, in the first place, it lot worth believing, and, in the next e, it looks so dreadfully like a lie that we rather not. No, thank you, dear sir, we keep to our bread and butter; our throat t yet adapted to the disposal of wind 3. Temperance News and Notes. it of 8,034 saloon keepers in the city of idelpkia there are only 470 Americans, eat Britain has 13,000 bands ci hope and nile Temperance societies, with an agate membership of 1,600,000. er-brewers in America employ an army alf a million of men; they nave inv sted iarter of a billion of dollars in their ness, and they sell about one hundred eighty million gallons of beer a year. jv. Howard Crosby says: It Is safe to es,te the receipts of the New York saloons SO,000,000 a year, one-half of which, at comes from the 150,000 men known as oring men." The destruction of the Dr-saloous alone would cute four-fifths of poverty In the country,