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|r ; -?.Vr -. \ 0 GINSENG. A WORTHLESS ROOT THAT IB A CHINESE CURE ALU lffore Than 400,000 Pounds Gathered Annually in America For Export?Its High Price? Where It Is Found. One of the mysteries in the world of - T t I. ?? II oommerce is ginseug. u juu^ijcun mn? I ordinary man about ginseng, he will ask L you what you mean. If you tell hira | gmseng is an article of commcrce iu which a trartic of about a million dollars I a year is done by Americans, he will stare at you. If you tell him that it has been in certain place* of the world worth its weight m gold, he will probably state harder. If in addition to this you tell him that it is a vast humbug, and that it ^ is a very ordinary root of an American shrub, almost without a particle of any ? but imaginary value, he will concede that it is a strange article for traffic. Finally, 'when he learns that the populace of a ast nation, hixrh. ai.d low, consider it a I cure-all, and that it enters into every medicine for every ailment in that nation, ihe will only understand the matter when learns that it is the eccentric Chinese ^knrhom this in reality unimportant root ^Valuable. ^ fOhina, if a has a headache, PReng is the prcs riptlon. If his trouble is toothache, ginseng is the same remedy a^aiu. For all ills, from depression of spirits to a sore toe, ginseug I is the universal remeiy. Physicians and authorities of the civil;ized world give the assurance that in medicinal properties the root is almost jfinert?at the most, contains to a very nild extent tonic properties. None but fthe s'ngular and rice-eating Celestial can eel any effects from the use of it; but ( fcmoug the Chinamen of this country there is almost no consumption. The root is bought here by resident Chinamen for home export. They do not use it themselves, however, and inquiry from .these Celestial worthies has seldom 1 brought out any satisfactory statements ' ras to what ginseng is good lor. The belief amoug the home Chinese is mostly superstition. It is a sort of fetich, its powers are supposed to be occult, of the nature of magic. In China the belief isstill implicit, and besides the vast amount grown in that country, it receives all that America can upply, which is on the average 425,000 pounds a year. The American wholesale price is now $2 .25 a pound. The article is sent mostly 5 in a crude state, but carcfully cleancd. j A process of heat clarities it to a hard 1 1BUt>9iance, witn a puny-iiKu, peinuuu jelly. It is used there as a table delicacy ' by the rich. Ginseng in China is a Government 1 monopoly, and Prof. Lockhart, of Lon- 1 don, is the authority for the statement 1 that it is sold to privileged dea ers by J the Imperial Government of China, at its weight in gold. This is denied by some American dealers. But the value is still 1 high. The root is verv light and the I $2 .25 a pound, its wholesale pricc here, is enormous. 1 [There are certain single roots, espe- : cially of ceitain shapes, very rare, ] which bring from #25 to $100, and are ; only possessed by the wealthy class? j mandarins and others. ' And yet the wholes-lie price here is 1 slowly but always stearlily rising,and the 1 ridiculous fict is before us that the price 1 of this futile drug, used by nobody in ( this country, will in time become greater than that of opium itself, as the gradual but sure process of its extermination in America continues. The amount is lim- \ ited by the fact that it can not be culti- ? vated?only the wild kind is of commer- , Icial use, and this i9 becoming scarcer j, every year. J What, then, is ginseng? Ginseng is , the root of a shrub which has flourished ! s for ages in China. It is called in botany, j aralia quinquefolium, quinquefolium j meaning live-leaved, and its tive-leavcd j , twigs branch otf, to the number of three, ! ] from a smooth, rouud stem about a foot j ( ft happened that in 1709 a priest, one ( Father F. Fastoux, was diligently e:n- , ployed in making a map of Tartary. ] During this labor he saw the plant grow- < in<? in this mystic land, four leagues , I away from the kingdom of Corea, in the , spot where a Tartar village lay. The Tartars were full of the praise of ] the fabulous ginseng ami its wonderful j, powers, Father Fastoux becoming an J ] enthusiast also. He had missionary friends on the other side of the world, in ] Canada. To these the priest sent some ] of the rootandancxtollmcntof its prop- , erties as a cure for all human ills. Back in due time came the reply that the same , root was well known to the Canada priests and in full use by the Indians, j The American ginseng pcrnaps uincrs ; slightly from the Chinese, for there are; five or six varieties of the root, but it possesses all the external attributes of the celestial variety. The ginseng was sent at that time to Europe, and was then first introduced to the civilized world. Even at that date, in the last century. European savans rudely shuttered the illusion as to the root, and pronounced it j a'moat inert a3 a drug. It grows about the wild lands and farms of the Northwest an;l Northeast. I As cultivation ruins its flavor, it cannot j be made a regular industry, either in growth or collection. In 1800 its price \ OS /%Anfo > w*v> nnnnrl Tn 1 SU." I i WaS HUUUt v'J ICUVO j'wuau. au * w/ it had risen to CO cents a pound. Its I export now is 375,000 pounds. The bigge-t yield of all was in 18?il, when the export almost doubled; 1*00 had seen a gin.scng-collectingcraze,likeagold fever, j in the lake states, where the people left j their homes, camped for weeks in the : hills, raised the export of ginseng to j 6W,000 pounds, the high' st export ever j made, and rooted out the plant so that; it has been scarce ever since. At present' the best regions for it ato New York, j rennsyivama anu ui? pniuvamuic coming from New York, the poorest; from Minnesota, North and South Carolina. In short, all parts of the United ; States where the sugar maple grows were j originally its habitat. The root, the only valuable part of the i ginseng, is four or five inches long, and forked. The Indiau name for it, ''garent oguen," means legs apart. "Ginseng" means about the same. Its flavor is bitter and slight, and neither unpleasant nor delectable. Ginseng grows aloug the gre.it wall in I Chinese Tartary and Corea. Tbe American is the only other supply, exccpt Japanese. The Chinese think this poor, ancfwiirnot receive it. The Chinese ginseng mountains ate fenced in by Government, and patrolled ' by guarda.?C'ii aq> Tim s. | Quill toothpicks came from France. The largest factory in the world is near Paris, -whore there is an annual product of 20,000,000 quills. The factory was jtarted to make quill pens, but "when j these went out of use it was turned into I a toothpick mill. Wooden toothpicks j are made principally ip Michigan, Wis- j consin, Indiana and Ohio. I Arab Children and Their dames. If the little Arabs arc heathen, says a writer in W. yido'at, they are at least picturesque. In their ccrlorcd clothing, with their dusky skins, their Wack eyes, and their lithe, active bodies, they a;o ve:y picturesque. Hut, it mu6t bo confessed, they appearbestat a distance; for soap is not so fashionable among them ns might justly- be expected from the people of a country which manufactures the most cleansing soap in the world. In watching the children at play one soon notices that the girls do not -1 1 ? ? A rQ K hrtvfl always luive ? >^uvu viui?. u>?u ~~j~ arc not trained to be gentlemanly and courteous to their sisters, altough they treat their elders with a delightful deference aud respect. Littlo girls in the l ast are never welcome. When a baby is bom, if it he a girl "the threshold mourns forty days." So, in taking a glimpse at the amusements of the Arab children, we must be prepared to find that they are chieHy boys' games, in which the girls seldom participate. A little boy in America asked a person who had lived in Syria if the boys thero ever played base ball; and on learning that they did not, lie said: "Well, they can't have much fun there." It u very natural for the children of any country to imagine that the children in other countries amuse themselves in the same ways. And the number of games that ire in reality universal among children iu ail counti ies is really remarkable. For example, the Arab childen often play blind-man's-buff (they call it ghumniaida) and biz zowaia or pu?8 in-the-corner, and a g>me liko "button, button, who has got the button?" (which they play with a pebble,) and owal how ah or leanfrosr. aud eriileh or marbles. But there arc other games of which you probably have never heard?such as kurd raurboot, shooha joora, taiaya-taia, khatim, and the greatest and mo3t exciting of all games?the national game, it might perhaps be called ?jerecd. Finest Dissecting-Rooni In the World. The College of Physicians and Sur[fcous has the finest dissecting-room in the country, if not in the world, says a \'aw Vnrk mrr<!Snondent. It has forty table?. These are of modern design and simple in construction, consisting of an iron frame supported by four iron legs, upon which rests a slab of slate weighing two hundred pounds. An inch from :he margin of this slab is a groove half in inch in depth, intended to convey the drippings into an iron receptacle fastened to the head of the table. Five jtudents are assigned to each "cadaver," jo that with the forty tables two hundred nen are enabled to work at once. Five lours a day devoted to a subject will en- j iblc a gioup of students to dissect it completely within one week. Each student is assigned to work on i SDeciiied portion of the "cadaver" by a lemonst:ator of anatomy, and is re- I quired to dissect an entire body during the first year of his course. If he has Failed to pass a satisfactory examination be is again subjected to a similar task, until his knowledge of anatomy is proved. Strange as it may seem, some students icquire a fanatical fondness for this branch of their study, and are never so happy as when in the dissectiDg-room. Clad in a loose gown of calico, scalpel in hand, they seem to be in their element, iaughiDg and jesting merrily as they divide tendon after tendon, and separate nuscle after muscle, in their investiga/lonii nnri intrir.ita structure I -1VU3 VI WUV MVVJ/ MMV, ..... >f the humaa frame. Tlie Talking Dog. Credulity has not often been exempliied more funnily, a Paris correspondent says, than in a case which lias just corac )lf in a police court. The keeper of a public house told a long story of how a ;ustomer came into his place one day ind asked for a bock. his dog taking a seat beside his master and asking in a * ?af mo?fn? 1 Ult'C 1UI a jutuv vi aimself. The other customer, astounded it hearing a dog talk, recommended Donifncc to buy the animal and to rejhristen his placo "The Talking Dog." The complainant took the advice, and offered four hundred fiancs for the dog, cvho, on hearing the bargain, jcried out to lis master: 4,So you sell me, do you? rhen I shall not talk any more!" The inimal kept his word, and boniface could not get another syllable out of him. At last it dawned upon him that he had been made a fool of, and. happening tc meet the vender in the garb of an aeron* o foil. lif. trni'P him ill PUStodv. UCll UV U iiui) uv w v When the "poor player" was brought uf he confessed that he was a ventriloquist, but protested that he did not oiler tc sell his dog. On the contrary, the landlord insisted ou buying it, and, without uny incitement to do so, went up quickly in hi9 bids from two hundred francs to four hundred franccs, throwing in tht refreshment which had been given tc man and beast. The case was dismissed. Locomotion in Tok o The significance of events depends v?rv much on the moo& of their interpret ters. A few years ago there were nearly 80,000 jinrikishas plying in the streets oJ Tokio. Statisticians pointed to such n f-tate of affairs with uneasiness. They concluded that the times must be very bad indeed when so many persons devoted themselves to such a low and painful manner of earning a living. Now, the total numberof jinrikishas in the metropolis is only :)0,'I44. of which 7,213 .are single vehicles and 23,5:11 arc double. And what do the statisticians tell us? i Why, that this marked diminution is to ! be attributed to trade depression; that j there arc fewer people who can afford to | ride, and therefore fewer coolies to pull i 4^"*^ U'UJ/.linifAK wlflitf i IX1UIU ftUUIU. TT VI I4VI1 wv v-v*- . rect, there is one tiling that seems to I have been omitted from the calculation, ' namely, the eTe t of tram cars and river steamers. Both of these methods of locomotion are largely patronized nowadays. and the same may be said of the Procrustean vehicles euphemistically termed carriages, that ply far more briskly than they did half a dozen years ajjo. We hope the day is i ot far distant will rl icn nrw?sir altn. TV JL AT LI JIMliftwuiw ..... M..v . gether, though they &?e certainly one of the most convenient machines forgetting \ about in that ever were invented.? Japan Mail. The Miser and the ltill. On one of the islands of the Maine i coast there lived several years ago a man j noted for his miserly disposition, llow- j ever that may be, he beeamc quite j wealthy. One winter, during the session j of the Legislature, this poison had o - casion to visit Augusta. He stepped into j a restaurant for dinner and a waiter j spread before him the printed bill of j fare. The eyes ol tlie novice opened j wide as be quickly added the figures at the right of the page, indicating prices; then, springing to his feet, he indignantly cried: "What! all this to pay,and I hain't eat a mouthful yet?'' The outcome we arc not told, but on a subsequent visit the gentleman carried a pail of victuals tfith hita from home.?LacktMk Journal, v * ra . \ .. *.- ?' | WORDS OF WISDOM. Wo cannot expect perfection in any one. but wo may demand consistency ol every one. Think not thy own shadow longer than that of others, nor deliyht to take the altitude of thyself. Wickedness may prosper for a while; but, in the long run, he who sets all knaves at work will pay th m. Friendship improves happiness aud abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our griefs. The wis** nrove. and the foolish con fcss, by their conduct that a life of employment is tho only life worth living. Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is th< cause of many a man never becoming great. ' Certain thoughts are prayers. Thcrf Are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. The nerve that never relaxes, the eyt that never blanches, tbo thought that never wanders, are the harbingers ol victory. More Is felt than Is perceived,and more is perceived than can l>e interpreted, and lnw o'imlia InVhnr with it liiiubcat tlame than art can pile the fagots. Do to-day's duty, fight ti/-daj'?> icui^ tation and do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things which you cannot see, and could not uuders'.and if you saw them. It is not good to be angry even with those who may seem with malicious intent to assail our most cherished belief*. A. few burning weeds may produce smoke enough to hide the stars, but the stars are shining all the same. It is net wise to vex aud weary ourselves by angry denunr iations of the smoke which will soon pass off without our labor. The human mind is so constituted that whenever it sees au event it is obliged to i~r? ? "Ion nrVion if. RftM adflDta JUIUI auuov, M.JV ? , tion, it infers design. It is not necessary to know the end proposed, or who were ' the rurents. Wc do not know who built Stonehenge, or some of the pyramids, or what tlicy were built for; but no odi doubts that they wore the result ol j design. The "Highbinders" of Snn Francisco. Writing from Snn Francisco about Chinese criminals, a correspondent says: Among the hatchet-men wjll be found the di-spenve criminals who have fled from Canton or Hong Kong to escape imprisonment or decapitation, and who live hero by organized robbery and trihiita How nntent is the system may bo judged from the fact that several Chinese interpreters in the Federal and Criminal Courts in this city have resigned lucrative positions bccause they declared i that if they remained death would be the result. Their only offence had been thj honest translation of evidence which served to convict some highbinders. Id one case an interpreter waited until he had been shot at twice before he concluded to give up his office. The judge offered him a police body guard, but be sadly confessed that no protection would save him from the bullets of his enemy. The favorite weapons of the highbinder are tbe pistol and the knife. Nearly every Chinese servant who goes down to Chinatown at night, after his day's work is over, to gambling at tan or dominoes is "heeled" with a pistol, while most of the highbinders are veritable walking arsenals Thev select revolvers of heavy calibre, and many of them are no mean I sho;s, although, as a rule, many shots j arc fired in their melees in proportion to I the execution done. The two-edged j knife, worn in a sheath, is the weapoa | be-t adapted for a close encounter, and | many of these murderous weapons are i innocently concealed in a sheath which | iJiro />ir>a?rl fun Others are worn I tuvao ano c? viv?w?. ...... ?? in a leather sheath with brass mountings. A police officer and a liquor seller iu Chinatown have been killed with this' weapon within three years. One blow in i each case was sufficient, for the terrible i weapon with its razor-like edge penctrat- j ed the heart and evidently caused instant ! death. In both cases the murder was J done by unknown highbinders who cs* 1 caped. The Chinese also use a large J sword and a small iron bar covered with flannel or leather, when they anticipate a hand-to-hand encounter. They are partial to coals of mail, usually made of quilted cloth, with layers of paper betwi.pri which will turn an ordinary bul let or knife blow. One highbinder had | a coat made of fine steel bauds set in j leather, but when he came to don his j nrmor he found it so heavy that he could I not run. Hence he was forced to discard j what cost hiin several hundred dollars, I and the armor was afterward captured in a police raid. The property clerk's room at police headquarters in this city is full of specimens of curious Chinese weapons as well as opium layouts and other apnnratn>? nf Wealthy Men's fcoady Money. " It would be a pleasure to accommodate you, but the simple truth is I haven't $500 in cash in the world," said a Buffalo Cru'sus to the financial man ofs the lirm, who was seeking a purchaser fora gilted^ed $1,300 0 per ceut. real estate mortgage. Noticing an expression of iucrcdulity upon the faee of his caller, Cru'sus hastened to add: "It is a com- j mon mistake of those having small means to suppose that a millionuaire always has $")0,000 or more at instant command. It is only on rare occasions that most of us sec ^i.^OOO in currency at one time, and for two years I have never once had nnfi of mv own on hand. The men of great wealth arc as a rule men of large i business interests. We own blocks, cl- i evators, ships, telegraph, telophonc and nil road stocks, suburbun tracts and many other kinds of property, but none of these can be converted into cash at an hour's notice. Then, again, most of our real estate is mortgaged, because we are able to use ready money in such a manner as to realize more than 6 per cent. You would be astonished could you ! learn how large a load of debt some very wealthy Buffalo men are carrying. It i* usually the second generation of wealth that buys mortgages, government bonds and other securities which yield a mod | -- -3 t _ _ v ; ' erate income ana require ho locemg i after.''?Buffalo Exjtrm. mm The Consumption of Raisins. The I'uitcd States is the largest con- j sutiling country of raisins in the world, ' and reliable authorities estimate the con- j sumption _nt about 2,000,000 boxes of | about tweuty pounds each, which, at an j average of $'2 per box, shows an expenditure nf <t<t OOD OOO ner annum for one . article in the driixl fruit line. The ! anftmnt referred to represents say 1,000,U00 boxes Valencia, 750,(100 boxes California, 200,000 boxes Malaga and ! 100,000 boxes Smyrna. The rropot the world for the present season is .-stimatcd in round numbers at 0,500,000 boxes, about as follows: Valencia, u, 000,000 boxes; Malaga, 000,000;California, 750,000, aud Smyrna, 2,000,000. The shipments of Valencia raisins to the United States to date are 500,000 boxes.? Brooklyn Eagle, . i " ^ REV. DR. TALMAGE. | THK BKOOKIiYSr DIVINFT8 SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Tlio Coming Glorj." t [At the Brooklyn Tabernacle the Rer. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., announced ttat next Sabbath be would begin a course of eermona to the women of America, with practical bints for men. tbe following subjects among other*: l'he Women Who Have to Fight the liattle of I.lfo," Marriage for Worldly Success, without Reference to Moral Character;" "la Engagement aa Rinding at Marriage?" "Women Who Are Already Unconganlally Mar rien," "jnnuencFg rturoau lor iuc uenrumuu ui Women," "Wifely Ambition Right and Wrong," "What Kind of Men Women Should Avoid," 'Simplicity as Opposed to Affectation," "'Reformation In Dress," "Plain Women," "The Female Skeptic" and "Christian Housewifery."J Text: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the thingi which Ood hath prepared for them that love him."?L Corinthians, ii., 9. Eighteon hundred and eighty-eight. How strange it looks, and how strange it sounds! Nottonly is the past year dead out the century is dying. Only twelve more long breaths and tne old giant* will have expired. None of the past centuries will bo present at the obsequies. Only the Twentieth Century will see the Nineteenth buried. As all the years are hastening past, and all our lives on earth will soon be ended, I propose to cheer myself and cheer you with the glories to come, which shall utterly eclipso nil tlio gloriospast; for my text teiis us that eye hnth not seen nor K?o?vl arkvrfMnrr lilrn tVin nrlimnnincr smlftTl dors. The city of Corinth has been called the Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor the world beholds no such wondor to-day. It Btood on an isthmus washed by two seaa, the one sea bringing the commerce of Europe, the other sea bringing the commerce of Asia. From her wharves, in the construction of which whole kingdoms had been absorbed, war galleys with three banks of oars pushed out and confounded the navy yards of all the world. Huge-handed machinery, such as modern invention cannot equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side and transported them on trucks ncross the isthmus and sat them down in the sea on the other sido. The revenue officers of the city wont down through the olive groves that lined the bcach to collect a tariff from all nations. The mirth of all people sported in her Isthmian games, ana the beauty of all lands Bat in her theatres, walked her porticos and threw itself on the altar of her stupendous dissipations. Colnn.n, and statue, nnd temple bewildered the beholder. There were nrliitn nini>Kl? frxintnirid infn whlVh frnm apertures at the side, there ru9hod waters everywhere known for health giving qualities. Around these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone, thero were all the beauties of sculpture and architecture; while standing, as if to guard the costly display, was a statue of Hercules of burnished Corinthian brass. Vasea of terra cotta adorned the cemeteries of the dead?vases so costly that Julius Ciesar was not satisfied lintil he had captured them for Rome. Armed officials, the corintharii, paced up and down to see that no statute was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no bas-relief touched. From the edge of the city a hill arose, with its magnificent burden of columns and towers and temples (1.0(K) slaves waiting at one shrine), and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared with it. Amid all that strength onrl PnrintK ATlH dfinftd the world. Oh! it was not to rustics who had never seen anything grand that Paul uttered this text 1 bey had heard the best music that had come from the best instruments in all the world: they had heard songs floating from morning porticos and melting in evening groves; they had passed their whole lives among pictures and sculpture and architecture and Coriuthian brass, which had beenmolded and shaped until there was no chariot wheel in which it had not sped, and no tower m which it had not glittered, and no gateway that it had not adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul to stand there amid all that and say: "All this is nothing. These sounds that come from the temple of Neptune aro not music compared with the harmonies of which I speak. These waters rushing in the basin of Pyrene are ** xv# PannKito an/1 uuk |au tr? x ut?u okavuro v* Mcrcury are not exquisite. Your.citadel of Acrocorinthus is not strong compared with that which I offer to the poorest slave that puts down his burden at that brazen gate. You Corinthians think this is a splendid city; you think you have heard all sweet sounds and seen all beautiful fights; but I tell you eye hath not seen nor ear hoard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him." You see my text sets forth the idea that, however exalted our ideas may be of heaven, they come far short of the "reality. Some wise men have been calculating how many furlongs long and wide is the New Jerusalem; and they have calculated how many inhabitants there are on the earth; how long the earth will probably stand; and then they come to this estimate; that after all the nations have been gathered to Heaven, there willl bo room for each soul?a room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet wide. It would not be large enough for mo. I am glad to know that no human estimate is sufficient to take the dimensions. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard," nor arithmetics calculated. 1 first remark that we can in this world get no idea of the health of hoaven. When you were a child, and you went out in the morning, how you bounded along tbe road or street?you Lad never felt sorrow or sickness. Perhaps later you felt a glow in your cneek,ana & spring in your step,and au exuberance of spirits, and a clearness of eye, that made you thank Godj*ou wore permitted to live. The nerves were harpstrings, and the sunlight was a doxology, and tho rustling leaves wero the rustling of tho robes of a ?-eat crowd rising up to praise the Lord, ou thought that you Knew what it was to be well, but there is no perfect health on earth. The diseases of past generations camo down to us. The airs that float now upon the earth are like thos.? which floated above Paradise. They are charged with impurities and distempers. The most elastic and robust health r\f onrf.h nnmnRrwl with that which those ?X perience before Mhom the gates have been , opened, is nothing but sickness and emaciation. Look at that soul standing beforo the throne. On earth she was a life long invalid. See her step now, and bear her voice now. Catcb, if you can, one breath of that celestial air. Heali n in all the pulses? health of vision, health of spirits, immortal health. No racking coagh, no sharp pleurisies, 110 consuming fevers, no inexhausting pains, no hospitals of wounded men. Health swinging in th8 air; health flowing in all the atioams; health blooming on the banks. No headaches, no sideachea, no backaches. That child that died in the agonies of croup, hear ber voice now ringing in the authem. That old man that went bowed down with the infirmities of old age, see him walk now with the step of an immortal athlete?for ever young again. That night when the needlewoman Fainted away in the garret, a wave of the heavenly air resuscitated her forever. For everlasting years to have neither ache, nor pain, nor weaknei4^i?r fatigue. ?. " Eye hath not seen it, ear bath not beard it." I remark, further, that we can, iu this world, get no just idea of the splendors of heaven. John tries to describe them. He says "the twelve gates are twelve pearls," and that "the foundations of the wall are garnished with all manner of precioui stones." As wo stand looking .through the telescope of St. John, we see a blaze of amethyst, anil pearl, and emerald, and sar donyx, and chrysoprasus, and sapphire, a nwviinfain nf liirllt a rntfl IHI't of Color. U SCd of glass and a city like the sun. John bids us 'ook again aud wo see thrones thrones of the prophets, thrones of the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones of the apostle*, thrones of the martyrs, throne of Jesus?throne of (>od. And wo turn round to see the glory and it is throne*I thrones 1 thrones! John Iiids us look again, and we see the great profession of the redeemed passing: Jesus, on a. white horse, leads the march, and all the armies of heaven following on white horses. Infinite cavalcade parsing, passing; empires pressing into line, ages following ages. Dissipation trampling on after dia* 4!? '1'! ? af ir!nrr_ Km. I [HMISUMUII. VllUIJ' 111 w?v ?|..V? ? ri I rope, Asia, Africa, North and Soutti America pressing into line. Islands of t.'w sea, shoulder to shoulder. Generations bofore the flood following generations alter the flood, and as Jesus rises at the head of that great host and waves his sword in signal of victory, all crowns are lifted, and all ensigns slung out, aud all chimes rung, and a'l hallelujahs chanted, and some cry: "(ilory to God most high," and some: "Hosanna to the son of David;" and some: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain"?till all exclamations of en w ' v.": ' ' ' - ' rtearment and homage in the vocabulary or heaven are exhausted, and there comes up surge aftor surge of "Amen I amen I and amen!" "Eye Hath not seen it, ear hath not heard it." Skirn from the summer waters the brightest | sparkles and you will get no idea of the sheen or tiie everlasting sea. ir'ile up the splendor of earthly cities and they would not make a stepping stone by which you might mount to the city of God. Everv house is a palace. Every stop a triumph. Every covering tor the head a coronation. Every meal is a banquet Every stroke from the tower is a wedding bell. Every day is a jubilee, every hour a rapture and every moment an ecstasy. "Eye had not seen it, ear hath not heard it." I remark further, we can get no idea on ea? h of the reunions of heaven. If you have ever been across the sens and met a friend, or even on ncouaintance. in some strange city, you remeniDar how your blood thrilled, and how glad you were to see him. What will be our joy, after we have passed the sea a of death, to meet in tha bright city of the sun those from whom we have long been separated. After we have been away from our friends ten or fifteen years, and we come upon them, we see how dilferently they look. The hair has turned, and wrinkles have come in their faces, and wo say: " How you have changed! n But ob, whou we stand before the throne, all cares gone from tbo face, all marks of sorrow disappeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed laud, methinka we will say to each other, with an exu:tation we cannot now imagine: " How you have changed!" In this worid we only meet to jjart. It is goodby; goodby. Farewells floating in the a;r. We hear it at the rail car window, and at the steamboat wharf? c?oofihv. Children Usd it. and old aze an s were it. Sometimes we say it in a light way .-"goodby:" and sometimes with anguish in which the soul breaks down. Goodbyl Ah, that is ihe word that end9 the thanksgiving banquet; that is th>i word that comes in to close the Christmas chant. Ooodby; gcodby. But not so in heaven. Welcomes in the air, welcomes at the gate3, welcomes at the bouse ot many mansions?but, no goodby. That group is constantly being augmented. They are going up l'rom our circles of earth to joiu it?little voice3 to join the anthem?little hands to take hold in the great homo circle?little feet to dance in the eternal glee, little crowns to be cast down before the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two groups?a group this side of the river and a group on the other side of the river. Now there goes one from this to that, and another from this to that, and soon we will all ba gone forever. How many of your loved ones have already entered upon that, blessed place! If I should take paper and pencil, do you think I could put them all down? Ah, my friends, the waves of Jordan roar so hoarsely, we cannot hear the joy on the ether side when that group is augmented. It is graves here, and coffins and nearses here. A little child's mother had died, and they ccmtorted her." They said: "Your mother has gone to noavcn?don't cry," and the next day they went to the graveyard and they laid the body of the mother down into the ground; and the little girl came up to the verge of the grave, and, looking down at the boly of hor mother, said: "Is this heavenr1 Oh, we have no idea what heaven is. It ia the grave here?it is darkness here?but there is merrymakingyouder. Methinks when a *soul arrives some angel uakes it around to show it the wonders of that blessed place. The usher angel says to the newly arrived: "These are the martyrs that perished at Piedmont; these were torn to pieces at the Inquisition; this is the throne ~e 41? ;? T^,,? n ?4T Ut WLiu ?icuu uouwau, mu u uwuo> a am going to see Jesus," said a dying boy; "I am going tosee Jesus." The tnissionery said: "Yoa are sore you will seo Him/" "Oh! yes; that's what I want to goto heaven for.'1 "But," said the missionary, "suppose Jesus should go away from heaven ?whatthenf' "I should follow Him," saM the dying boy. "But if Jesus went down to bell?what then?" The dying boy thought for a moment, and then said: "Where Jesus is there can be no hell 1" Oh I to stand in His presence! That will be heaven! Ohl to put our hcnd in that hand which w%s wounded for us on the eros6?to go aroond amid the groups of the redeemed, and shake hands with the prophets, and apostles, and martyrs, aud with our own dear, beloved ones! That will be the great reunion; we cannot imagine it now, our loved ones seem so far away. When we are in-trouble and lonesome, they don't seem to como to ue. W6 go on the banks of the Jordan and call across to them, but they don't seem to hear. We ?ay: "Is it well with the child* Isifi well with the loved one*?" and we listen to hear if any voice comes back over iho water. None! nono! Unbelief sa^* "They are dead, and they are annihilatoi,? but, blessed be God. ws have a Bible that tells us different. We open it and we find they are neither dead nor annihilated?that +l?Acr oiAPfl eft miv>K ftli vp A3 rinw?fchflfc they are only waiting for our coming, and that we will join them on the other side ?f the river. Ob, glorious reunion! we cannot grasp it now. u Eyo hath not seen, nor ear neard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God bath prepared for them that love him." Oh, what a place of explanation it will be I I see everv day profound mysteries of Providence. There is no question we ask oftener than Why.' There are hundrods of graves in Greenwood and Laurel Hill that need to be explain/Hi. Hospitals for the blind and lamo, asylums for the idiotic and insan?, almshouses for the destitute, and a world of pain and misfortune that demand more than bvman solution. Ah! God will clear it all up. In the light that comes from the throne no dark mysterv can live. Things now utterly inscrutable will be illuminated as plainly as though the answer were written on the jasper wall, or sounded in the temple anthem. Eartimeus will thank God that he was blind; and Ijizarus, that he was covered with sores; and Joseph, that he was cast into * ,x ' ' ^ 1 a 1 ?!iL i-U ~ the pic; anu uaiuei, in it no ut'uuou tvim mo lions; and Paul, that ha was humpbacked; and David that h9 was driven from Jerusalem: nnd that invalid, that, for tw>ntv vporg he could not lift his head from the pillow; and that widow.that sho had such hard work to earn bread for her children. The song will be all the grander for earth's weeping eyes and aching heads, and exhausted hands, and scourged backs, and martyred agonies. But we can get no idea of the authem here. We appreciate the power of secular music, but do we appreciate the power of sacred song* There is nothing more inspiriting to me than a whole congregation lifted on the wave of holy melouy. When wo sing some of those clear OKI psaims anu tunes they, rouge all the memories of the ^pa-st. Why, some of tbein were cradle song5 in our father's house. They are all sparkling with the morning dew of a thousand Christian Sabbaths. They were sung.by brothers and sisters gone now?by voices that wore aged and broken in the music?voices none the less sweet because they did tremble and break. When I hear those old songs sung it seems as if all the old country meeting homes Joined in the chorus, and city church and sailors' bethel and western cabin, until the | whole continent lifts the doxology and the | scepters of eternity beat time to the music. Away, then, with your starveling tunes that ! chill the devotions of the sanctuary and make the people sit silent when Jesus is marching on to victory. When generals come back from victorious wars, don't we cheer them and shout "Huzza! huzza!'' and when Jesus passes along in the conquest of the earth, shall we not have for him on3 loud, ringing cheer? All bull the power of Jesus' name! Lei angei* prostrate fall, Brine forth the royal dialem. And rrnvrn him Lonl of ftlL" But, my frionds, if music on earth is so aweot, what will it be in heaven* They all know the tune there. All the best singers of all the ages will join it?choirs of white robed children, choirs of patriarchs, choirs of apostles. Morning stars clapping their cyra- I bals. Harpers with their harps. Great I anthems of God, roll on! roll on!?other empires joining the harmony till the thrones | are all full and the nations all saved. Anthem shall touch anthem, chorus join chorus, and all the sweet sounds of earth and heaven be poured into the ear of Christ. David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of the trumpet will be there. Germany, redeemed, will pour its deep boss voice into the song, and Africa will add to the music with her matchless voices. I wish wo could anticipate that song. 1 wish in our closing hymn to-day we mifirht catch an echo that slips from the gates. Who knows that but when the heavenly door opens ta<iay to let some soul through there may tnrth the strain of the jubilant voices unt.il we catch it' Oh. that as tin sonir <1roi? down from heaven, it might meet half way a son;? coming up from earth. Thev rise for the doxology, all the multitude of the blest! Let us riso with them; and so at this hour tho joys of the church ou earth and tho joys of the church in heaven will mingle their chalices, nnd the dark apparel of our morning will seem to whiten into tho spotless raiment of the skies. God grant through the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ we may all get there. Queen Christina has f jgned a decree regulating the manufacture and importation of alcohols into Spain, and prohibiting the manufacture ana sale of impure alcohols for drinking purposes. ' TEMPERANCE. The RumseIler'0 Prer. The ruraseller stands at bis counter and deals Out bis thief of the brain, and through it he steals From his victims the strength of their reason and will; And whde.they can stagger, haaella to them still, So long as their money drops into bis till With the coil of a serpent his victims he holds, And tighter and tighter be fastens tbe folds Of a pitiless passion that crushes the bones; And be hardens his heart at tbe sound of their groans. Because there's a hint of hard cash in tbe tones. He tbink3 of the wife who is sad and forlorn. He knows that her garments are faded and worn; He thinks of the children that blush to be seen, He knows they are wretched because he ismean But, oh, he i3 fatter because they are lean. He thinks of the scalding hot tears they have shed, He knows they have reason to wish they were dead; Because, by the devil's most deadly device, The husband and father is held in a vise, That he may have pleasure wnile they pay the price. He knows that his traffic makes paupers and thieves. Yet the price of their ruin he coolly receives; Then turns them adrift for his neighbors to feed, And to carry the cost of each criminal deed, Until all feel the grip of his terrible greed. A Pew First Principles 1. Prohibitory law has relation to the liquor traffic. From time immemorial the right of law to regulate, restrain or forbid | a traffic has been exercised. Our tariff laws are based on that right. All embargoes are a recognition of the right The laws relating to the traffic in poisons, in explosives, in tainted or adulterated foods, ana all Sundaylaws are an express declaration that law hasthe rigbb to interfere with a traffic which en dangers society's welfare, and to whatevei degree is necessary for the public safety. 'J. The evils of intemperance are not cou fined to the drinker. Grant that the drunkhtvI id roor.ftnolhlft frti* hia ftwn HofrrflHflf.inil anymisery; that his drinking is a voluntary act, and bis punishment tho penalty of nature . ?granting all that, there remains the fact that the tratlic in liquors is a source of ill numerable evils and dangers to society a' large, which includes all Innocent members a* well as the guilty ones, and of vast burdeu.upon all taxpayers. All law owes a debt ol protection to the weak?the women and children?when they are powerless to protect themselves. The saloon is a menace to th?hcalth and lives of these weaker members ol societv from which they are powerless ade quately to protect themselves. Taeir right . to leyal protection is recognized, therefore, by the law that makes drunkenness a crime, 1 and sales to drunkards and minors a crime. But these laws, while- they recognize that right, are proven wholly inadequate to protect it. o. When personal liberty inimnges on per sonal rights it mast be curtailed. All law. every statute framed from the days of Sinai down, is based on the truth behind the proposition. It is impossible to graot the right of personal liberty without assailing the very foundation of law, for all law is a curtailment of somo man's personal liberty in behalf of some other man's personal rights. Personal liberty means anarchy?the abrogation of all law. Noone has apersonal right to do what infringes on another man's personal rights. A man may, with some show of reason, claim the right to gratify his- private appetite for drink in a way that interferes with no one else. But he cannot claim as his right, for the sake of his private gratification, that law shall legalize and tolerate a public traffic that inflicts on others inestimable wrong. He may like taiuted meat, and, if it agrees with him, he may reasonably claim the right to eat it; but when ha claims, as a right, that the law shall legalize and uphold the sale of tainted meat in a public mart, for the sake of his appetite, he is going too far. Yet the wine drinkers of our day are committing this absurdity continually. 4. No law forbids an act for the sake of the man who wants to commit it, but for the sake of the man who would be wronged thereby. The idea that a prohibitory law is for the purpose of saving the man who drinks is an entirely wrong idea. Its purpose is to protect the innocent victims of nis drinking. The law against theft dees not have in view the salvation of the would-be thief, but the " ptofection of others in their property rights. Bo of all laws against vice. Their object is net to keep men from th? commission of sin, but to protect others from the consequences that would come from such commission. Here is an important distinction between the province of law and the province of the Gospel. The Gospel's aim is to prevent the commission of vice primarily for the sake of the man who is impelled to its commission. n ooIaaa ia nnfc nnlv on pflfV?p_fc. bllt A cause The very first thing it does is to present inducements to vice. It is a continual temptation. It is not merely a scavenger (as has been said), removing the weak, vicious and corrupt elements from society, but it is itself the cause and creator, in very large degree, of their weakness, viciousness and corruption. It takes the boy without a taste for liquor, and by its insidious attractions plants the seeds of an appetite that finally masters his will, deadens his affections and stifles his conscienca It is more than a conduit of evil; it is a fountain as well, and out of it come vice, crime, disorder, pauperism, insanity, idiocy, diseases, and political corruption that defeats justice, makes law a farco, debauches public conRplenra and threatens every institution founded on the intelligence and virtue of the masses. In view of these considerations, the moral right as well as the legal right of prohibitory law seems to us as unassailable ana as obvious as that of any law ever put on the statute J books. It is in no proper sense a revolution, j but an evolution instead. Every court in the | nation before which the question has come, including the Supreme Court of the United ( Stales, has decided in favor of the right of j the State to protect itself by a prohibitory i law. ljy the highest authority in the land, ! therefore, it is decided not to be an invasion of the "inalienable rights" guaranteed by the Federal Constitution. On the contrary, it is an absolute necessity to the protection of those right.?The Voice. Temperance Lecture in a Few Lines. The New York Sua gives a temperance * m? -Jsan**. Thfl lecruro 111 a iew uues, >u a insu> ? lecture is brief, and the lines are so few that they might be cut out by many a young man of bright prospects and pasted in the insida of his watch rase. Here tney are: "Whisky sometimes gets tho best of those who too recklessly play with it. This is the case with Mr. John J. Wilson, a lawyer, who recently walked into Justice Kildredth's court room at the Tombs and desired to be committed for contempt for so doing. When the Justice asked Mr. Wilson it he desired to be committed, he sflidi " 'Yes, 1 want to be kept away from liquor. It has been my ruin.' "It is not easy to deliver a more eloquent and pathetic temperance lecture than this. And after the poor victim has been confined in prison for a month the appetite for drink will control him as effectually as before he was locked up." A Duty for Americans. Tho Pall Mall Gazette says: "Tho attsn- I tion of the Woman's Christian Temperance I Union of the United States should be turned I | without delay to the statement made by Lord Onslow in tbo House of Lords. I/ord I Onslow said the attempt to establish an in[ ternational compact prohibiting thesile of strong drink to the South Sea Islanders had ! broken down, owing to tho refusal of the j United States Government to enter into the agreement. Our Government, therefore, reluctantly abandoned tho attempt, but held themselves ready to renew it the moment tho American Government showed a disposition to remove its interdiction on a Maine Law | for the Pacific. Clearly this is a case in which all the temperance people in the Stat?s I should be sot to work at once to bring tho j Government at Washington to a due sense ' of the enormity of its attitude in the South- j em ocas. A temperance movement has been in- , augurated in Hartford,Conn., which promises to effect a great reduction in the number of drinking places in that city. The manufacturers and workingmen have united in petitioning the County Commissioners against licensing the liquor dealers in the"vicinity of the factories. Fully $200,000 capital and two hundred workingmen an interested in the moraojttk i ..., i . : i& ^ ? : v; EELISIOTIS BEADING. * O.to of fh ?* Dm?<. h One of these days it will all bo over, ' Sorrow and laughter, and lose ana gain, 4 Meetings and partings of friend and lorar, Joy that was ever so edged with pain. One of these days will our hands be folded, -.. . One of these days will the work be don?i Finished the patterns our lives have moulded, Ended our labori beneath the sun. r j iSv One of these days will the beart-adw leav$ us, . .-* : \ On&of-these days will the burden drop; Never again shall a hope deceive us, Never again will our progress stop; Freed from the blitrht of the vain endeavor. Winged with the health of immortal llfei One ofthese days we shall quit forever And that is vexing iu earthly strife-. One of tb?9e days we shall know the reawo. Haply, of much that perplexes now; One of these days, in the Lord's good seaaooy Light of bis peace shall adorn tne brow. Blessed, though out of tribulation Lifted to dwell in His son-bright smile, Happy to share in the greatest salvation Well may we tarry a little while. Jimei Braiaard Tayloh. " . He was a graduate of Princeton and onlr twenty-?i^ht when he died, yet he did work that any man might envy. He got hold ot the idea that there was some.hing in this doctrine of the enduement of the Spirib Studying this subject, he became perfectly sure that the Holy Ghost might come upon him as upon the original dtsclplea So h? prayed) and his prayers were answered. Whenever he went out he stirred all with wjom he come in contact. Sinners used to fall before his preaching as grass before th? scythe. It wa? spontaneous. He could not help speaking to men ana his woras were mighty. There is one very beautiful incident in his life. One day he was out driving and he drew hia horse up to a wateringtrough. It so happened that another young man was doing the suae thing. While the horses' heads met in the trough, he turned to the young man and said, "I hope you lovo the Lord, it you don't I want to commend him to you as your best friend Seek biiu with all your heart" That was all; they turned and went their ways. But what was > v the result; The young man thus spoken to was converted, was educated for the ministry and went as a missionary to Africa. Said this missionary afterwards: "Over and over again I wished 1 knew who that man was who spoke to meat the wateringtrough. But I never knew till some one s?nt to me in Africa a box of books. I opened them saw a little black-covered book.opened it, turned to the title page, and there I saw a portrait?a beautiful face. 'Ah/ said I 'that Jo man That. io the man who t> reached the gospel to me at the watering trough; to him I owe my salvation.'" And that of how many more on the dark continent. What we want today is to -be filled with the Spirit* We are filled with so many other things? Dride, selfishness, ambition and vain glory, May the Lord enable us to empty our hearts and bave them filled as by a mighty rushing wind.?Dr. A. J. Gordon, * < . * ~ ' sis Victory. "In the world ye shall hare tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world." These were the last words of our Lord's last discourse; and ever after we feel their power in the actions, the bearing, and the words of Bis servants. They wreetle against the world and principalities and powers, but as men who are on the conquering side, r and who know that their Lord has already overcome these enemies, and triumphed over *. them in the cross. Therefore they also are "more than conquerors through Him that loved them," and they record their KwUafoAvni* {fl hfllll conviuuuu UUIIl nwuv.u ? of God overcometh the world; and this is ' the victory that overcometh the world, even [their] faith." In the Apocalypse this spirit is still mor? distinctly felt; for there the virtual victory become-* a visible victory, both for the Lord and his people. Every promise In the seven epistles is addressed to "him that overcometh;" and the- last epistle unites the victory of the servant with the victory of the Lord: "To him that overcometh willl grant to sit with me on my throne; even as I also >v.' overcame and am set down with my Father on His throne." When the prophetic visions are to. commence, the opening of the book. is represented as the resnlt of victory. The first vision repro- ' . sents one who poos forth conquering ana to conquer; and then, through all the changes of the conflict, wo have the anticipations and presages of final, victory. We are told of those ''who overcome by the blood of the Lamb;" we hear their shout of triumph, and see the palms in.their bands; until in tue iw. crisis tue- eonauerinz armies of Heavwj awirrp into sight, following the victor who has ''on His vesture and on His thigh a namewritten, Kirg of kings, and Lord of lords."?[From Bernard's "Progress of Doctrinet"? ' " --m Prevailing Prayer. The value of prayer cannot be overestimated. That we are invited to make oar wants known, and that the ear of our heavenly Father is open to our cry, is be? yond question Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that in every circumstance in life the Lord knows infinitely better than We do whether it will be for our best interest that our prayers should be answere l, or not. To > ^ onnnffti ?nH that say lime wo ?u sea vmoi lj vuwUC)U) we know as well, or better than the Lord, is to display conceit, ignorance, and pre- .. 7 sumption. No man has infinite wisdom, or infinite knowledee. but the Lord has both. Hence, it is both wise and prudent that every praver for temporal things should terminate with the phrase, ''Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done." It cannot be denied, this spirit will strangely modify our prayers, and will utterly destroy tho erroneous and absurd idea, that the Lord will give us anything wo ask for on the simple condition that we believe He will. No intelligent Christian could reflect upon this idea for one moment and theo desire that it should be realized in his ex? perie.ice. It would be presumptuously taking bis case out of the hands of his infinitely loving Father, and choosing to shape his own destiny. He coula not wish to direct the Lord and Instruct Him what He should do, but, on the contrary would himself be directed by tho Lord. B(a who expects the .Lord to wait bus uiuuiug, reverses the order of the divine government. In that case a poor worm of the earth takes the reins of government, and makes a servant of the Creator. In every prayer for any conceivable' earthly object, tne idea should be prominent that infinite wisdom alonu can determine whether the thing asked for is roally desirable, or not, and it is the part of wisdom in man to leave the decision, in every case, to Him who alone knows all things. No human being can know whether for ^ bim wealth is more desirable than poverty; ? j? Koffor tVion ?ir?knft<is. If tha UJ UUIlbU M 1/vvwu. providence of God leads either to the furnace of Are, or to the den of lions, or to honors and emoluments; wherever it leads is the best place in the world for a man to be, and It would not be wise in God to change that which is not best, at the dictation or solicitation of His creatures; and it u not an acc 01 wisaom in any one to ask, the Lord to do it. Even a superficial investigation will be sufficient to satisfy any unprejudiced mind that it would bn neither right, nor reasonable, nor Scriptural. for the Lord to give us anything we'aak of him simply because we believe He will, and the sooner the idea is discarded the better it will be for us all. Such an idea is subve^> sive of good government. It makes tb* Lord of heaven and earth subject to the , ' whims and caprices of poor, ignorant, fallen men, and it is as unreasonable as it is um crrintliral. wv* -I Tbo longer I live, thomore highly do I estimate the Christian 8abbath, and the more grateful I feel towards those who impress its importance the cpmiqiyjity,?[W^bstgj, Temperance News and KJtes. Dr. A. T. Schofield, of I/radon, compare* the moderate drinking of stimulants to sailing on the outer circle of a whirlpool, a some* what exciting, but uot a wise proceeding. r??uintimniit. lu vprv afrnno" In X 1 LMIIUI l/iuu nviivtwvu. ? ... 0 Colorado. Peublo, the sccond city in the State, lias an anti-saloon government, and many smaller towns have local option in full force. Among the inscription at the base of the drinking-fountain at Stratford-on-Avon,presented by George \V. Childs. of Philadelphia, in honor of the Queen's Jubilee, is the following from Shakespeare: "Honest water, which ne'er left man in tbe mire."? Timon of Athena. i