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I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVIXK'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Marriage for Worldly, Success Without Regard to Moral Character." Text: "And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Cannel: and th lHan was vry great, and lie had thre-- thousand sheep and a thousand goats."?18am- I nal. xxv.. 2. (My text introduces us to a drunken bloat I of large property. Before the day of safety deposits and government bonds and national banks peop e had their investments, in flocks and herds, and this man, Nabal, of the text, had much of bis possession in live stock. He came also of a distinguished family and had glorious Caleb for an ancestor. But this descendant was a stieak, a churl, a sot and a fooL One instance to illustrate: It was a wool raising country, and at the time of shearing a great feast was prepared for the shearers; and David and his warriors, who bad in other days sawd from destruction the threshing floors of Nabal, sent to him asking, in thistime of plenty, for some bread for their starving men. And Nabal cried out: "Who is David?" As though an Englishman had said: "Who is Wellington?" or a German should say: "Who is VonMoltke?" or an American should say: "Who is Washlneton?" Nothing did Nab.il give to the Ittarving men, and that night the scoundrel lay dead drunk at home, on 1 the Bible gives us a full length picture of him sprawling and maudlin and hopeless. Now that was the man whom Abigail, the lovely and gracious and good woman, married?a tuberose planced beside a thistle, a palm branch twined into a wreath of deadly toightshade. Surely that was not one of the matches made in hoaven. We throw up our hands in horror at that wedding. How did she ever consent to link her destinies with such a creature 1 Well, she no doubt thought that it would be an honor to be associated with an aristocratic family, and no one can despise a great name. Beside this, wealth would come, and with it chains of gold and mansions lighted by swinging lamps of .aromatic oil, and resounding with the cheer nf hinnnptprs RpAtari at tables laden with wines from the richest vineyards, and fruits from ripest orchards, and nuts threshed from foreign woods, and meats smoking in platters of gold, set on by slaves in bright uniform. Before she plighted her troth with this dissipated man she sometimes said to herself; ' ' How can I endure him? To be associated j for life with such a debauche I cannot and ' will not!" But then again she said to her* j self: "It is time I was married, and thi3 is a 1 eold world to depend on, and perhaps I might do worse and may be I will make a sober man out of him, and marriage is a lot- 1 tery anyhow." And when one day this rep- I resentati ve of a great house presented himself 1 in a parenthesis of sobriety and with an 1 assumed geniality and gallantry of manner, 1 and with promises of fidelity and kindness and self-aimegation. a June morning smiteu on a march squall, and the great souled woman surrendered her happiness to the 1 keeping of this infamous son of fortune whose possessions were in Carmel; and the 1 man was very great, and he had three thou-sand sheep and a thousand goats. ' Behold here a domestic tragedy repeated every hour of every day all over Christendom?marriage for worldly success without ! regard to character. So Mario Jeanne Phlipon, the daughter of the humble engraver of Paris, became the famous Mme. Koland of history, the vivacious and brilliant girl united with the cold, formal, monotonous man, because he came of an atfiumt 1 family of Amiens and had lordly blood in his veins. The day when through political revolution this patriotic woman was led to the scaffold around which lay piles of human heads that had fallen from the ax, and she said to an azed man whom she had comforted A3 they ascended the scatl'old: "Go first that you may not witness my death," and then undaunted took her turn to die?that day was to her only the last act of the tragedy of which her uncongonial marriage day was the first Good and genial character in a man, the rery first requisite for a woman's happy marriage. Mistake me not as deprecative of -worldly prosperities. There is a religious cant that would seem to represent poverty as -a virtue and wealth as a crime. 1 can take Jou through a thousand mansions where God i as much worshiped as he ever was in a cabin. The gospel inculcates the virtues which 1 tend toward! wealth. In the millennium we will all dwell in palaces.and ride in chariots,and ait at sumptuous banquets, and sleep under rich embroideries, and live 4<)0 or 50u years, j Jor, if according to the Bible, in those times .a child shall die 100 years old, the average of human lifo will be at least tive centuries. The \rhole tendency of sin is toward poverty, and the whole tendency of righteousness is toward wealth. Godliness is profitable for the life that now is as well as for that which is to come. No inventory can be made of the .picture galkries consecrated to God, and of sculpture, and of libraries, and pillared magnificence, and of parks, and fountains and " gardens in the ownership of good men and women. The two most lordly residences in which I was ever a guest had morning and evening prayers, all the employes present, and all day long there was an air of cheerful piety in tho conversation and behavior. Lord Kadstock carried the gospel to the Russian nobility. Lord Cavan and Lord Cairns spent their vaction in evangelistic service. Lord Congleton became missionary to Bagdad. And the Christ who was born in an eastern 'Caravansary has again and agrin lived in a palaces It is a grand thing to h ive plonty of money, ana horses that don't comi ol vou to take the dust of every lumbering and lazy vehicle; and books of history that give you 4k glimpse of all the past; and shelves of ^poetry to which you may go and ask Milton -or Tennyson or Spencer or Tom Moore or Robert Burns to step down and spend an evening with you; and other shelves to which you may go while you feel disgusted ?'th ftia rVioma rvf tha wnrlrl Artel ?clr Thnrlr. erav to express your chagrin, or Charles Dickens to expose the Pocksniffianiam, or Thomas Corlyle to thunder your indignation; or tho shelves where the old goppel writcre ?tand ready to warn and cheer us while they ri doors into that city-which is so bright noonday sun is abolished as useless. There is no virtue in owning a horse that takes four minutes to go a mile, if you can own one that can go ma little over two minutes and a half; no yirtne in running into tho teeth of a northeast wind with thin apparel, df you can afford furs; no virtue in being poor when you can honestly be rich. There are names of men and women that I have only to mention and they suggest not only wealth but religion and generosiiy and Kilanthropy, such as Amos Lawrence, James nnox, reter Cooper, William E. DoJge, Shaftesbury, Misa Wolf and Mrs. As tor. | A recent letter says that of fifty leading business men in one of our Eastern cities and of the fifty leading business men Of one of our wee tarn cities three-fourths of "them are Christiana. The fact is that about all the brain and the business genius is on the siHe of religion, lnnaeuty is incipient insanity. All infidels are cranks. Many of them talk brightly, but you soon find that in their mental machinery there is a screw loose. When they are not lecturing against Christianity they are sitting in barrooms squirting tobacco juice, and when they get mad swear till the place is sulphurous. They only talk to keep their courage up and at beat will feel like the infidel who begged to be buried with his Christian wife and daughter, and when asked why he wanted *uch burial replied* "If there be a resurrection of tue good, as some folks say there will be, my Christian wife and daughter will somehow get me up aud take me along with them." Alec may pretend to ueapi.se religion, oui> they are rank hypocrates. The sea captain was right when he came up to the village ou the sea coast, and insisted on paying $10 to the church although he did not attend himaelf. When asked his reason, he said that lie had been in the habit of carrying cargoes of oyatara and clams from that place, and he .found since that church was built the people "Wero more honest than they used to be, for before the church was built he often found the load when ho came to count it a thousand clams short Yes. Godline-s is profitable ior both worlds. Most of the great, honest, permanent worldly suc< cssas are by thc-sd "Who rsverenco God and the I!ib!a But what I I do say is that if a man have nothing but ?o^ial position and financial resources, a woman who puts her happiness by marriage In his hand re-enacts the folly of Abigail when she accepted disagreeable Nabai, "wboM possessions were in Uarmel; and the man w** very great, and he had three thou- ' jauci sheep, ana one thousand goats." If ( here be good moral chara ter awom- j toiniod by affluent circumstances, 1 congratulate you. If not, let tho morning lark f'.y blear of the Rocky Mountaineajfle. The sao riflce of woman on the altar of social and financial expectation is cruel and stupendous. I sketch you a scene yon have more than once witnessed. A comfortable home with nothing inoro than ordinarj* surroundings. | but an attractive daughter carefully and | Christianly reared. From the outside worJd ] comes in a man with nothing but money,unless you count profanity ana selfishness and foniiness for champagne and general recklessness as part of his possession. He has hia coat collar turned np when there is no chill in the air but because it gives him an air of abandon, and eyeglass, not because he is nearsighted but because it gives a classical appoarane?, and with an attire somewh it loud, a cane thick enough to be the olubot Hercules and clutched at the mid lie, his conversation interlarded with French phrases inaccurately pronounced, and a sweep of manner indicating that he was not born like most folks, but terrestrially landed. By arts learned of the devil bo insinuates himself into the affections of the daughter of that Christian home. All the kindred congratulate her on the almost suspernaturalprospects. Reportscomein that the young man is fast in his habits, that he has broken several young hearts, and that he is mean and selfish and cruel. But all this is covered up with the fact that he has several houses in his own name, and has large deposits at the bunk, and more than all, has a father worth many hundred thousand dollars, and very feeble in health, and may any day drop off, and this is the only son, ana a round dollar held close to one a eye is largo enough to shut out a great desert, and how much more will several bushels or , dollars shut out. ? ' rru The marriage aay cornea arm gu?t. xuo wedding ring was oostly enough, and the orange blossoms fragrant enough, and the benediction solemn enough, and the wedding march stirring enough. And the audience shed tears of sympathetic gladness, supposing that the craft containing the two has 'sailed off on a placid lake, although God knows that they are launched on a Dead Sea, its waters brackish with tears and ghastly with ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface and then going down. There they are, the newly married pair in their new home. He turns out to be a tyrant. Her will is nothing, his will everything. Lavish of money for his own pleasure, ho begrudges her the j ponnies he pinches out into hor treint>li:%; palm. Instead of the kind words she lefo behind in her former home, now there are complaints and fault findings and curses. Ho is the master and she the slave. The worst villain on earth is the man who, having j captured a woman from her father's home | and after the oath of the marriage altar has j been pronounced, says, by his manner if not in words: "1 have vou now in my power. What can you do? My arm is stronger than vours. My voice is louder than yours. My fortune is greater than yours. My name is mightier than yours. Now crouch before me like a dog. Now crawl away from me like a reptile. You are nothing but a woman, anyhow. Down, you miserable wretch!" Can halls of moasic, can long lines of Etruscan bronze, or statuary by Palmer and Powers and Crawford ami Chantry and Canova.can galleries rich from the jK-ncil of Kierstadt and Church aud Konset and Cole and Cropsey, could flutes played on by an Ola Bull or pianos lingered oy a. vjonscuuih., vi wiw warbled by a Sonntag, could wardrobes like that of a Marie Antoinette, could jewels like those of a Eugenie make a wife in such a companionship happy? Imprisoned in ? castle! Her gold bracelets are the chains of a lift-long servitude. There is a sword over her overy feast, not like that of Damocles, staying suspended, but dropping through her lacerated hoart. Her wardrobe is full of shrouds for deaths which she dies daily, and she is buried alive, though buried under gorgeous upholstery. There is one word that souuds under the arches and rolls along tho corridors, and weeps in the falling fountains, and echoes in the shutting of every door, and groans in every note of stringed and wind instrument: "Wool Woe 1" The oxen and sheep in olden times brought to the temple of Jupiter to be sacrificed used to bo covered with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on the horns and flowers on the neck. But the floral and ribboned decorations did not make the stab of the butcher's bnifa j<?a Haaihfnl. ?.nd all the chandeliers you hang over such a woman, and all the robes with which you enwrap her, and all the ribbons with which you adorn her, nn 1 all the bewitching charms with which you embank her .footsteps are the ribbons and flowers of a horrible butchery. As to show how wretched a good woman may be in splendid surroundings, we have two recent illustrations, two ducal palac?3 in Great Britain. They are the focus of the best things that are possible in art, in literature, in architecture?the accumulation of other estates, until their wealth is beyond calculation andtheir grandeur beyond description. One of the castles has a cabinet set with gems that cost $-.500,00;), and the walls of it bloom with Hembrandts and Claudes and Poussins and Guidos and Raphaels, and there are Southdown flocks in summer grazing on its lawns and Arab steeds prancing at the doorways on the "first open aay at the kennels. "From tho one castle the duchess has removed witn ner cniiaren i>ecause she can no longer endure the orgies of her husbaud, the duke, and iu the other castle the duchess remains confronted by insults and abominations in the presence of which I do not think God or decent society requires a good woman to remain. Alas for those ducal country seats I They on a large scale illustrate what on a smaller scale may be seen in many places, that without moral character iu a husband all the accessories of wealth are to a wife's soul tantalization and mockery. When Abigail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly drunk, as she comes home from interceding for his fortune and life, it wa3 no alleviation that the old brute had possessions in Carmel, and "was very great, and had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats," aud he tho worst goat among them. The animal in his nature seized the soul in its mouth and ran off with it. Before things are right in this world gc;. teel villains are to be expurgated. Instead of being welcomed into respectable society because of the amount of stars and garters and medals and estates they represent, they ought to be fumigated two or three years before they are allowed without peril to themselves to put their hand on the door knob of a moral house. The time has come when a ; masculine estray will De as repugnant to gotxi society as a feminine estray, and no coat of arms or family emblazonry or epaulet can pass a Lothario unchallenged among the sanctities of home life. By what law of God i or common sense is an Absalom better than a Delilah, a Don Juan better than a Messalina? The brush that paints the one black must paint the othqr black. But what a spectacle it was when last summer much of "watering place" society went wild with enthusiasm | over an unclean foreign dignitary, whose name in both hemispheres is a Bynonym for profligacy, and princesses of American society from all parts of the land had him ride in their carriages and sit at their tables, t hough they knew him "to be a portable lazaretto, a charnel bouse of moral putrefaction, his breath a typhoid, his foot that of a Satyr, and his touch death. Here is an evil that men cannot stop but women may. Keep all such out of your parlors, have no recognition for thera in the street, and no more think of allying your life anil destiny with theirs than j ffAm AfoKf" tvnnlrl onn<b'llt to nass I tho honeymoon with an Egyptian plague. | All that nionoy or social position a bad tnnn j brings to a woman in marriage ia a splendid I desnair, a gilded horror, a briiliaut agony, a j prolonged death, and the longer the uiuri'.jl union lo3t> the more evident will bo the fact that she might t<ettor never have been born. Yet you and I have been at brilliant weddings, where, before the feast was over, the briilegrooinis tongue was thick,and his eyes glassy, and his step a stagger as ho clicked glasses with jolly comrades, all going with lightning limited express train to the fatal crash over the embankment of a ruined life and a lost eternity. Woman, join not your right hand with such aright hand, Accept from such a one no jewel for linger or ear lest the sparkle of precious stone turn out to l>e the eye of a basilisk, and let not the ring come on the finger of your right hand lest that ring turn out to be one link of a chain that shall bind ur>n in nnvflr ending caDtivitv. In tho name ! of rtod and heaven and homo* in the natno of all time aud all eternity I forbid the bans! Consent not to join ono of the many regiments of women who have married for j worldly success without regard to moral character. If you are ambitious, oh woman, for noblo a (Dancing, why not marry a King/ And to that honor you are invited by the monarch of heaven and earth, and this day a voice from the skies soun In forth: "As tfio bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride so shall thy God rejoico over thee.*' I>ot Him put upon tdeetne ring or nis ruyui uiamn^o. u an honor worth reaching after. By repentance ami faith you may come into a marriage with tho emperor of universal dominion, and you may be an empress unto 5od forever, rnd reign with hini in palaces that tho con- j turie>i cannot crumble nor cannonades do- j moiish. Hi^h worldly marriage is not necessary for I woman, or marriage of any kiml in order to j rour happiness. Celibacy has been honored by the be<t being that over lived and his grentost apostle, Christ and Paul. AVhat nieher honor could single life on earth have? liut what you need, ob woman, is to he n(Hanced forever and forever, and the bands of that marriage 1 am this moment here and now ready to publish. Let the angels of heaven bend from their galleries of light to witness while I pronounce you one?a loving God and a forgiven soul. One of the most stirring pnssage? in history with which I am acquainted tells us how Cleopatra, tho exiled queen of Egypt, won the sympathies of Julius Cc?it\ th9 eonrisror, until he bscama the brides-room and she the bride. Driven from hor throne, she sailed away on the Mediterranean sea in a storm, and when the large ship anchored she put out with one womanly frieud in a small boat until she arrived at Alexandria, where was Cajsar, the great genKnowing that she would not be permitted to land or pass the guards on the way to Ca*sar's palace, she laid upon the bottom of the boat some shawls and scarfs and richly dyed upholstery, and then lay down upon them, and her friend wrapped her in them and she was admitted ashore in this wrapping of goods, which was announced as a present for Caisar. This bundle was permitted to pass the guards of the gates of the Ealace ami was put down at the feet of the ioman General. When the bundle was unrolled there rose before Caesar one whose courage and beauty and brilliancy are the astonishment of the ages. This exiled queen of Egypt told the story of her sorrows, and he promised her that sne should get back her throne in Egypt and take the throne of wifely dominion in his own heart. Afterward they * ' fKof. f.ha raaae & triuinpuui wur m a ua< ?Uv pictures of many art galleries hare called Cleopatra's Barge"' ana that barge was covered with silken awning, and its dcck was soft with luxuriant carpets, and the oars were silver tipped, and the prow was gold mounted, and the air was redolent with the spicery of tropical gardens and resonant with the music that made the night glad as the day. You may rejoice,oh woman,that you are not a Cleopatra, and that the one to whom you may be affianced had none of the sins of Caesar, the conqueror. But it suggests to me how you, a soul exiled from happiness and peace, may find vour way to the feet of J .Jl , * the conqueror or earcu mm ??.*. may be a dark night of spiritual agitation?in which you put out, into the harbor of peace you may sail. an*l when nil the wrappings of fear and doubt and sin shall be removed you will be found at the feet of Him who will put you on a throne to be acknowledged as Hit m the day when all the silver trumpets of the sky shall proclaim: '"Behold the bridegroom cometh,'' and in a barge of light you sail with him the river whose source is the foot of the throne and whose mouth is at the - - ? * ?!il a... sea of glass mingiea wim uio. TEMPERANCE. Pare Lips. Pure lips for the children Whom fathers shall bless; Pure lips for the children Whom mother* caress. Pure lips for the children, ^ With never a stain UI rum, or touacuu, Or language profane. Pure lips for the children, The nope of the land, Who shout in glad chortu The praise of our Band. Mary D. Chell is. Immediate Abstinence. The Rev. J. W. Hornby, M. A., late chaplain of C'lcrkenwell Prison, England, read a paper before the International Congress of inebriety, entitled "Observations of Inebriety." from which wo quoto the following: Al * {*% r% VtAffnn rv/\ojfinn "A prJ.VHl UllK1UI 13 All a l/VVI/OA pvjiuivu tban any one ols? to s?e whether or not there is truth or wisdom in the idea carefully promoted by not a few doctors, and eagerly caught at and (.reached by their patients, that an habitual drinker, or even habitual drunkard, must Imj 'let down by degrees.' An ordinal y perusal of the papers would prepare one to believe the fact that at any moment our prisons must contain thousands of living contradictious of this common and populai fallacy. Years of drinking may have preceded the momentary crime that brings on a man many years of penal servitude: anothoi may be hardly sober when admitted for his three or six months for an assault committed I when drunk, and yet at once his drink ii | stopped, except in a few cases of incipent i delirium tremens, when (in some prisons, not j all) a little alcohol is given until the fit hai passod away. Why, even in cases of pria I oners who have been opium eaters 01 chloral drinkers, and have a far stronger I and more abiding crave than that the I " ' * ! I M RBvenu^?mces in Mame^SffntTlethe State . ... ...- . >1. ..! V " - " "" 1 triUUVttl Jf IU tliCtb yjk iiun Aiuiuy.^mi o, u? vuw revenue of the former State is so small it is not profitable to support a separate office. It is said tho sale of liquor* in the House restaurant, Washington, D. G\, is carried on in the most open mauncr.and in direc t violaiion ot a joint rule which strictly forbids such >ale uniler penalty of forfeiture of privilege. Thero i9 in Japan a temperance association whose members are firmly pledged not to use even a drop of alcoholic liquor until all the waters of the earth change to the same drink. This society publishes a paper called The Temperance. The Supreme Court of the State of Missouri has dwided the local option law of that State as legal. This establishes prohibition in thirty-four of the fifty-one comities, and 11 of the 18 towns and Cities that liave voted on tho question. Of ttventy-six cases on the criminal calendar for tbie Decciulwr term of tbs? U. S. 1'ourt at Madison, Wis., sixteen were for idling liquor to Indians, one for taking whisky on an Indian reservation, and one for selling liquor w.tliout iioonse. Since tha Smrtwna C'ou- t rendered its devision relative m tho constitutionality of the prohibitory lu-.vs of Kansas and Iowa, tho kcoloy Brewing Co. of Chicago, biw initruciod its brokers to buy no more Itarley jrowu in or shipped from theso States. RELIGIOUS BEADING. Little by Little. Stop by stop the Alpine climber Presses upward sure and slow, Till his feet are firmly planted In the realm of endless snow. Blow on blow the sculptor fashions Roughness into symmetry, Till the dark rock gleams with brightness In its new-born majesty. Touch by touch, the picture groweth Into beauty, life, and light. Till a wondrous revelation Bursts upon the raptured eight. I I Stroke by st.roke the clock aye ringeth Welcomes lo eternity, Adding warning unto warning, To the heart in me and thee. Word by word the book ia written With its tale of woe or weal, Till the throbbing thoughts like musio Through the trembling spirit steal Wave on wave the wild tide creepeth Farther on and up the shore, Till the stranded boats are floating Free and buoyant as of yore. Such is life in all its phases, Little things make up the great, , Therefore scorn them not, but make them Stepping-stones to heaven's gate. ?{Rev. W. J. Matharus, in Lonaon Freeman. The Knowledge of Christ. The knowledge of Christ f? a flower that never fades; carry it in your boeom and it will fill your lire with fragrance. It is a light that cheers the darkest night; the longer it burns the brighter it grows, and fierce winds only make it shine more clearly; it turn* a hovel into a palace, makes a rough road smooth, is easily carried, and costs nothing The knowledge of Christ is a parse full of gold; it will pay your way in I all the strange places of life, and fetch you I comforts more choice than any fouua in I kings'houses; it will open gates closed to | the wise of this world, and, unlike earthly ! treasures, the more you spend the more j you have. It is a well whose crystal stream j makes all around beauiiful and pure, re- ! freshes the weary passer-by, never knows j the drought of summer, and from life's morning to its latest eve flows steadily, carrying jny and song throughout its course. It is a sunbeam from paradise, a smile from the face of God, the song-book of saints, the harp of angels, tho Bible of the New Jerusalem, the key of heaven's treasury, and the passport into tho presence of the Tf molr/w rfllnViAwa /\r? ofnrm.plnilflQ transforms tears into pearls, and thorns into apple trees, and causes the desert to blossom as a rose. It makes tbe heart larger than a kingdom, richer than a bank, brighter than a palace, and happier than a grove in which a thousand birds are singing. Get this knowledge above all thinp, increase it, teach it, live it, and prize it above rubies, for it is your happiness.your glory,and your life. ?{Rev. John Macpheraon. A Remarkable Experience. 1 have been preaching in Essex this week, and I took the opportunity to visit the place where my crranarather preached solongj and wnera i spent my earnest uays. ??txinesday was to n. e a day in which I walked like a man in *> dream. Everybody seemed bound to recall some event or other of my childhood. What a story of Divine love and mercy it did bring before my mind 1 Among other things I sat down in a place that must be sacred to me. There stood in my grandfather's manse garden, two arbors made of j yew trees cut in sugar-loaf fashion. Though I the old manse his given way to a now one, ! and the old chapel nas gone also, yet the yew j trees flourish as aforetime. I sat down in , the right-hand arbor and bethought me of ! what had happened there manv years j apo. When I was a young child staying with my grandfather, there came to preach in the village Mr. Knill, who had been a missionary at St. Petersburg, and | a mighty preacher of the Gospel. He came I to preacn ror the ix>ncion Missionary society, j ana arrived on a Saturday at the manse. He was a great soul-winner, and ho soon spied out the bov. He said to me, ''Where do you sleep? for I want to call you up in the morning.' I showed him my little room. At six o'clock he called me up and we went into the j arbor. There, in the sweetest way, he told ] me of the love of Jesus, and of the blessedness of trusting In Him and loving Him In our childhood. With many a story he preached Christ to me, and told me how good God had been to him, and then he | prayed that I might know the Lord and | serve Him. On Mondav moraine be did ns on the Rah- j bath, and again on Tuesday. Three times he i taught me and prayed with me, and before j Ie had to leave, my grandfather had come j ack from the place where he had gone to j beach, and all the family were gathered to lorning prayer. Then, in the presence of ! icm all, Mr. Knill took me on his knee and j lid, "This child will one day preach the * a?pel, and he will preach it to the great ! lultitudea. I am persuaded _that he will j peach it in tbe chapel or Rowland mil | . -here (I think he said) I am now the minis- j ;r." He spoke very solemnly, and called ipon all present to witness what he said, j ' ben he gave me six-ponce as a reward if I j i rould learn the hymn: "God moves in a mysterious way f His wonders to perform." ( 11 was made to promise that when I 1 reached at Rowland Hill's chapel that hymn j ! should be sung. Think of that as a promise j fromacbildl Would it ever be other than i "jm idle dream? Years flew by. After I bad j rgun for some little time to preach in Lon- 1 Ion, Dr. Alexander Fletcher nod to give the I annual sermon to children in the Surrey I 1 'hapel, but as bo was taken ill, I was asked ] ; h a hurry to preach to the children. "Yes," ( [ said, "I will, if the children will sing 'God I noves in a mysterious way.' I made a [ Dromise long ago that it should be sung." ] A.ad so it was; I preached in Rowland Hill's ! I (hapel, and that hymn was sung. My 1 ! motions on that occasion I cannot describe, j Still that was not the chapel which Mr. Knill I , p tended. All unsought by me, the minister j ; it Wottonunder Edge, which was Mr. Knill'a | ] rummor residence, invited mo to preach ' here. I went on tho condition that the con- 1 KregUUUU WUUIU lltliu uuu luuvmiua UIJIT { Serious way"?which was also done. After . bat I went to preach for Mr. Knill himself, iwho was then at Chester. What a meeting pre had I "God moves in a mysterious way i His wonders to perform." L After more than 40 years of the Lord's [loving kindness, I sat again in that arbor! LNo doubt it Is a mere trifle for outsiders to J pear, but to mo it was an overwhelming 1 uoment. The present mimsuT or oiamixmrn | neeting-hou.se and tbe members of his family, including bis son and his grandchildren, . Esrere in tbe gardes, and I could not help nailing tbem together around that arbor, 1 Iwhile I praised the Lord for His goodness. ] One irresistible impulse was upon me: it was [to pray God to bless those lads tbat stood . [arounamc. Tbe memory begat the prayer. p-[C. H. Spurgeon. j I A weak mind is like a microscope, which < magnifies trilling things, but eonnot receive i great ones.?[Chesterfield. If our religion is not true, we are bound to < phange it;if it be true, weare bound to prop- , Jtgaie it.?Arcnoisuup rTuuieijr. The best and noblest lives are those which ; are set toward high ideals. And the high- ' est and noblest ideal that any man caq have ' is Jesus of Nazareth.?{Almerson. < Heaven is tho day of which grace is the i dawn; the rich, ripe f-uit, of which grace is i the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court?{Dr. Gutl* ' riei |M i Prohibition Prohibits. Bon for Cg Wine and Spirit Circular give* i honest and conc'tisive testimony as to the re . suit of prohibition in Maine which we com mend to all pei-nons and papers mm u v i<j i prove the contrary. In a recent issue it say*"During the year of its existence the asso ciation has given most iini>ortnnt. ai?l u. Rhode Island, Michigan and Texas, and the result of the election in th<se States hnx ixvn to give a check to tho prohibitory movement that is of priceless importance to this business as well as to the general good of thv community. If tlie amendment hud l*en carried in Michigan and Texas nud these States reduced to the unhappy condition of Maine, tho tide would have swept over the West and the South, and the (?> i > l*st portion of the trade would havn l.iwi iMUuled j bjr millions. For the result **? !*r directly J . end indirectly muinly indebtod to tlio ass-wia i J tioa and no paim should be spared to v'ou- j ' tinu? its existence and iacvetew iw ' aoaa." ... .. _ < A MAN'S BITE. THE AWFUL SUFFERING IT EVTAILED ON THE VICTIM. Racked With Ihe Torturing Spasms and Convulsions that Attend Hydrophobia?How a Cure was Effected. A recent Jotter from New York to the Cincinnati Enquirer says: Because one dog in a million is vicious, turns up his nose to water and perhaps is tortured into a delirious state, it is nonsense to con* demn all the other dogs in the world. A real rabid dog is as rare as the genuine hydrophobia is in man. While thousands recover from do<?-bites without anvthincr woise than temporary inconvenience, yet j it is an established fact that the bite of a man, which is not thought to be danferous, is more to be dreaded than the ite of a dog without rabies. Taken case for case, the dog-bite will heal more rapidly, and there will be fewer constitutional disturbances. The bite of a human being is very troublesome. The recovery from such a wound is always of a lingering nature, and seems to go along on ita own responsibility, without regard to the remedies used. Death sometimes follows from human bites given while the owner of the teeth was in an inteuso passion, a condition resembling some stages of rabies in the dog. The miscroscope, advanced chemical experiments and the intelligence of investigators have discovered many things ; that a few years ago were thought to be \ unknownable, but with all tho increase in knowledge and the facilities for inenjtirmtinn fViA V>rr1rrmhnHir> nmsrm rn ?J?r r -~ mains as much a mystery as ever. The effect of inoculation has been carefully studied to determine, if possible, the resemblance of the symptoms to those which follow the uso of well-known poiBons, but the hydrophobic poison stands alone. It has symptoms common to all ! poisons, and a few others which belong ! to it alone, but it is as mysterious and unknown in its nature as in its action. Tho effect of the bite of a human being is well shown in the case of Agustus Spencer, admitted to Bellevue Hospital as a patient. Spencer is a machinist and got into a row with a fellow-workman about a cirl who showed a nreference for Spencer. During the melee Spencer was I thrown down, and his assailant, who had wrought himself into a passion, bit off the end of his nose and fastened his teeth 90 firmly in the neck that the jawa had to be pried open with an iron bar. Spencer suffered severe pain from the bites?much greater than is usual in more extensive lacerations. The wound in the neck was directly over the carotid artery, and if the teeth had been a trifle longer it would have been severed. Spencer went to a neighboring drugstore, where the wounds were cauterized and dressed. He was confined to his house for several days, and then went back to his work. The neck wound appeared to be healing well until about two weeks after the injury, when it became the seat of an active lmflammation. me necK swelled and the wound had a livid appearance. The nose did not seem to be a9 much affected. There wag a sensation of numbness in the neck, which soon included the whole head, and gave the impression to Spencer that his head was off his shoulders. He became apprehensive, and got an -idea that something terrible was going to happen, and hfe would have to suffer greatly. His face wore the look of utter despair that is common to people suffering from melancholia. He was unable to sleep for any length of time, and when ho would fall into a doze he would wake suddenly, gasping with terror at some horrible uream. He complained all the time of a terrible twisting pain in the nape of the neck. He suffered from nausea all the time, and frequently vomited a green, offenssve fluid. Though he had these and many similar symptoms, the nature of his malady was not suspected until a spasm in the throat followed an attempt to drink water. Repeated trials with different fluids produced the seme eCcct, with the exception that the spasms were more inteuse aud covered a longer period. In a few hours after the spasms began Spcncer was in such a nervous condition that the slightest motion anywhero in theroomwouldprodp.ee convulsions iu j the facial, thoracic and abdominal musL-lca. A Head from the infernal regions 1.1 1^-1 41 V- ...t. I coiuu not iuuk. wurj>u uiiiu nu uiu nuuu bis face wns distorted. All theso conditions pointed to hydrophobia, r.nd us there was no history of a dog bite in the case, it could only come from the bite of the man, and this was remarkable, indeed. His sufferings dethroned his reason and made him a raving maniac, and he was taken to the Hospital, biting, snapping, howliDg and spitting like a maa dog. His face was alternately red md white, and his eyes seemed to bo bursting from his head. He was constantly calling for some one to kill him, and his strength was so great that he could only be controlled by puttin sr him in a strait--'ackct. The BDasms Lasted about fifteen minutes, and* each one was followed by a greater collapse, and it was only a question of a little while when the patient would die if not iclieved. I-achesis, hyoscyamus and , stramonium were given in large dots, bolide chloriil nod opium, without having any perceptible effect. Dr. Uobb, one of the consulting physicians of Bellevue, heard of the case : and hastened to the hosp tal. It was just ! i -i i - i?a i?_ LUe CXlUUCtt llfcu IU1I^ y^ju iwiwug for. lie is an expert on hydrophobia, md believea that he can cure any case, | qo matter how far it has advanced. The patient was on the edge of death, but Dr. Robb had him put in an ambulance ind driven rigidly to a Turkish bath establishment a few blocks away. He i bad a spasm on the road, and come out 3f the horrible paroxysms more dead than ; alive. Before he was in another spasm 1 tie was in a temperature almost hot 1 enough to boil the flesh. He did not I sweat. He was given a hypodermic injection of ammonia diluted,and it set all 1 hl,n vital nrornn<i rrninrr nfc n livelv rate. ' ^ D ~ J Ihe pores flew open and the sweat poured jut iu little stream?. A spasm camc and it was so terrible that it did not seem possible that the patient would survive it. But lie did. and wheu the spasm ' :ame again it was not so strong as before, 1 md did not last so long. Exhaustion is < nhat kills patients with this disease,and ' Dr. Hobb fought this with larce quan- 1 tities of whisky. In a littlo wnile the 1 patient got so that his skin could bo ! touched without producing a convulsion. 1 ind he was given a vigorous rubbing by l he attendants. The less wero rubbed 1 until they bled. The sweatings cou- < tiuued, and in about an hour the spasms ' bccame so mild that they amounted to 1 little more than quiverings of tho 1 nuscle*, and the patient became oon- 1 icious of bis surroundings. He asked ! for a drink, and swallowed a quart 1 it lukewarm water without any ' troublo. The temperature was slowly ; < reduced to eighty-five degrees, and the j1 patient was kept in the room for six j i ioura. By this time there wero uo H tpaams, and tho patient was wrapped up J i and returned to tfce hospital. lie wu [ weak, and even now can only just about lift his head. The whisky has been kept up regularly with a light diet. There have been no spasma. Dr. Robb is satisfied, that hydrophioba can bo cured with ammonia, whisky and heat. The only drawback ia that the casa did not result from a dog-bite, but every one who saw the case admits that the symptoms could not have been worse if the patient had been bitten by a rabid dog, and it is generally conceded that if this patient could bo cured there is no reason why hydrophobia from the bite of a dog could not be cured with the samo treatment. Rnssiau Excitability. There is great excitability about a Russian. Ho loses his head upon the slightest provocation. If you ask a drosky driver the second tim? how much his charges are he becomes excited and talks so loud and fast that people in the next block run to see who is hurt. I was driving one day down the principal street in St. Petersburg with a member of the Privy Council. The carriage went at a rapid pace, as carriages usually do there. Directly we heard a great noise behind us. We looked, and the people for 200 yards in the street and on the sidewalks in our rear were standing still and looking and vollinrv of lia T acLrorl rrtrr ^iofinrvnicko/^ J \* ?W U?t *. u?rtvu lit J UMVlUgUlOligU friend what the matter was. He replied that he did not know. Our carriage rolled on at the same rapid pace. We didn't stop. Finally the confusion became so great that the people in front of us began to stop and gaze at us. The workmen who were putting down the Nicholson pavement on either hand stopped and yelled at us. Again I asked my friend what the trouble was, saying we were making a sensation. He looked around again, and sure enough, the whole great, broad street was full of people directing their ! voices a tour carriiige." They pointed at us-and made exclamations that even the j native beside me could not interpret. Five mounted policemen now turned ( into the street and began to ride us down. They cricd: "Stoi, stoi!" which , means "stop." Now my friend turned 1 pale. He asked me if my passport had 1 been returned to the hotel, with the ] chief's signature, his leave for me to , .A. T 1 J i.1 A. Si. ^ J 1 i. 1 iiay. i repneu mac it nau ueuu seut iu the officer, but that as I had not re- 1 ceived it I did not know if it was all right. j 'I expect," said he, ' 'that these officers are after you," and ho called to the ' driver to stoi." When the officers came alongside I unconsciously raised up, ready to be i taken into custody, ana looked to see which one had the handcuffs. "See there!" exclaimed one of the mounted gendarmes. My friend and I looked at the side of our horses, expecting to see evidences of crime, and saw a pull-back strap hanging loose. The driver got down and* buckled the strap, the officers rode back, we drove on, and business was resumed again on the street.?Kansas City Journal, _ A Story of Jesse James. "Now that I am on the subject of trotting," said Secretary Hall, of Detroit, in the rotunda of the Merchants' yesterday, "I am reminded of au incident that took place in 187o at the Kansas City meeting, i 'HI 1 1.1 I mere were aeverui uiuuauuu jjcupic tuugregated in the vicinity of the ticket office when suddenly a band of men rode into the inclosure and began discharging firearms apparently right into the crowd. As they expected there was a general scattering, and ere the people collected their senses the tickct man had been overpowered and his cash box, containing about $1,200, taken away by the members of the shooting party, who turned out to be members of the Jesse .Fames gang. Rewards were offered for the detection and arrest of the perpetrators, but nothing ever came of it. The next summer, one day while traveling along the road towards Independence Mission, I met a single horseman and we soon became engaged in conversation. We did not exchange cards or names, but rode along into the town on pretty good terms, and a few moments after we separated I learned that my companion 1 was none other than the notorious Jesse ' James himself. It was his crowd that had robbed my ticket seller a year be lore, UlIS 1 U1U QUI It*<juyU1/,C UIUl uo uuu of the participants. Among the people it wa? the general impression, and I have never heard it contradicted from u rclia- , blc source, that Jesse James scorned to cnact the role of a highwayman when a single person was concerned, but took a 1 delight in frightening large crowds when in search of booty. His men knew that ; shooting over the heads of the spectators would alarm them fully as much and create more of a panic than by killing people in cold blood, and henro their forays wero always attended with a great , deal of noise but little violence towards ( their victims."?St. Paul Globe. ? , A Female Animal Charmer. \ Tipton County, Tennessee, has a phenomenon in the person of a young laily who has remarkable power over animals. She is able to conquer, and ride, in a moment's time, horses and mules that no one el?e has ever been able (o handle. The most savage dog in the neighborhood quails before ana never offers to molest her. Squirrels and birds cornc to her in the woods and cat from her hand, and many times she has been known to pick up a rabbit in Ihe path. She says that from infancy she has had this remarkable power over \ wild animal?, but only wiihin the past g fow years was she aware that she wa? < also a "horse tamer." She says she is j not conscious of putting forth any effort 1 4l.:a linn Kut it in?t "nomnq natural." 1 IU IUJB * V J?WW 4 The ouly explanation that she can offer is that she lias an intense sympathy and ' love for wild birds and animals. In re- ( eard to horses she is perfectly fearless, ] and by their animal instinct they must t know it. These, she says, are the only J] rcasous she can give.?Cincinnati Tele- ;i /ram. i] ?? ij First U90 of Torpedoes iu Naval Warfare. 'r Francis Edgar IShepperd is said to have * ijeen the fir3t man to use the torpedo in 0 naval warfare. He came of an old North c Carolina familv. and was a graduate of * :he Naval Academy. Jle resigned when ' lis State seceded, and eutered the Con- [P federate Navy. Twenty-live years ago ;c Shepperd, then a Captain in the Con- * federate Xavy, blew up the United States junboat Cairo with au old-fashioned ixed torpedo fastened to the bottom of , ;he Mississippi. Lieuteuaut-Commander, ig low Rcflr Admiral, Thomas 0. Self ridge, c was in command of the Cairo. He and :tl lis men were badly 6hakeu, but no ono ;a R-as killed or seriously injured. Captain it Jhepperd, who was lying on the bank 'a watting the explosion, made up his B nind then and there that that was a fc cowardly way of fighting, and that ho a ,vould not have any mora of it. H? lever used ano.her torpedo. Ilo died recently In Georgetown, and was buried j icar Philaielphm.?Xtc York Man. 9 7 CURIOUS FACTS. Abomt ono person in 400, according to the Jeweler*' TT?Wiy, wears a glass ey$ ** Linen was first made in England i& 1353, and only worn by the luxurious. Chinese chronology is founded OB their observation of eclipses over 4,700 years ago. ! A Hartford coin colleotor has a cento piece of the United States coinage oft 1799, which Is considered to be worth1 nearly $300. Files as implements of hand icraf tines*. (UO ui Ort! ijr un^ai, ugiu^ moutioned In the Old Testament (1 Samuel,! xiii., 21) 1093 B. C. A young girl in North Adaiaa, Mass. has seven grandparents Mving. She hat one great-grandfather, two great-grandmothers, two grandfathers, and two grandmothers. Kr-Secretary Holcomb, of the Ameri-, can Legation at Pekin, says that oat of; the 400,000,000 inhabitants of the Chinese Empire, fully 300,000,000 spend lea? than $1.50 a month for food. A Georgia man had a pure white hen.' Recently she began moulting, and every white feather that dropped out was re-1 placed by a black one, and now she if clad in deep black from bill to taiL A farmer of Saline county, III., lost * calf a long time ago, and recently, inj draining a piece of swamp land on hi* farm, he discovered the animal's body, lying under water and completely petrified. Hundreds of English sparrows are being dragged from their nests or roost* beneath the cornices of the high build* ings ia Columbus, IncL, by large flocks of screech owls, that carry them away and devour them. ? The first record we have of .coal la about three hundred years before the Christian era. Coal was used as fuel in England as early as 752, aud in 1234 the Brat charter to dig for it was granted by Henry III. to the inhabitants of Newcastle-on-Tyne. A flock of blackbirds that must have been nearly two mile9 in length, was ?een by the passengers on a Pennsylvania Railroad train recently. The birda were so numerous that they darkened tuu ot\j iv? a icn miuuwoj hum tented a most novel spectacle. The Hon. George Weat, the well known paper maker of Ballston Spa.,; N. Y., recently received from Ohina a1 sheet of paper made from the web of tha "sacred white spider." It ia almost at light and transparent as any spider's web,1 and on it is printed clcarly and beautifully in English about 8,000 words of the story: "How Midshipman Coppleston was presented at the Court of Pekin.w i How to Make Kaleidoscopes. V- ''' $? "How do we make kaleidoscopesT * " J T ill ~1 1? . uome mis way uuu 1 win suuw jruu. The speaker, a thin-faced German, long engaged in manufacturing kaleidoscopes, lea the way into a email store. At ft work bench extending the entire length of the shop many girls were busy. "The tirst young woman,"said the manufacturer, "wraps the black paper about the glass reflectors that produce tho optical illusion. These strips of glass, i when thus arranged and fastened together, form the oody of the kaleidoscope. The next girl simply inserts the United reflectors into tne pasteboard cover and then passes the octagonal pasteboard to her neighbor. Number three adjusts the brass ring which secures the glass discs at the end. Between the discs, or plates, are placed the scrape of colored glass, the beads and various trinkets which tumble about as the kaleidoscope is revolved, and when reflected by the mirrors form themselves into ever-shifting mathematical figures. The other young women arc armed with hammers to break the colored glass into fragments. We obtain the colored glass from the waste scraps purchased very cheaply of stained glass manufactories. The kaleidoscopes retail at soventy-flve cents each. We can make six gross a day of this kind, and about twenty gross of the five-cent kind. The finest factoiy is in Providence, Rhode Island. Carpet designers get many of their patterns from the kaleidoscope."?New York Mail and Express. "Coming"?"Here"- -"Goae." Two belated Thespians who found themselves stranded m a Western towa with but $16 joint capital and 4,000 miles from home, conceived a plan of in? creasing the slender fund. They billed the town on Monday with the simple poster: "He is coming?Thursday Dlgnc." fly rveuuesuujr everj uungu of tho worst show town in the West was agog with curiosity, and when on Thursday morning the posters went out: "He is here!" there was a rush for th# Town Hall, and half the house was sold. On Thursday night these two worthies were on hand, one selling tickets in the box office and the other taking them at the door. There was not even standing room at 8 o'clock, as the partners, dividing the spoils, started for the depot to catch the 8:15 oxpress for the East.; Before going they left word with the it age hands to raise the curtain at 8:80, ind lower a specially prepared whit* nuslin drop. The muslin drop unfoldea before the expectant audience. It bore ;hese words: "He is gone.*?Brooklyn Eagle A Greenback Done In OIJ. A fac-simile of a two-dollar bill is at* xacting a good deal of attention from itrollers through the Fifth Avenue Hotel corridor, where it is displayed. It is a ierfoot imitatioa of the genuine, and jears the signatures of B. K. Bruce and. llr. Wyman. It is painted on a black background. The original belonged to Chief Clerk L'arr of the hotel, who pulled it out of lis pocket one night about throe weeka kgo, and jokingly told young Proctor a Sew York artist, that he could mak9 noney if he could paint greenbacks. Proctor at once accepted the challence, tnd last week completed the task. The texture of the paper has been al J -a --.l nost exactly rcprruuucu, uuu iuo vinu?? hat come in a bill after it has boea tucked ,way in dozens of pccketbooks *ro leverly traced across the canvas. The test criticism made of Mr. Proctor's rork is the frequent comment from casuul ttssera-by that it is merely an original leverly worked over in oils.?Neio York 7raj)hu\ All Draw Life from the Country. mi 1?nnrfiftrv nf tJin f/lirnd me luuuujr to i44v ?. ? ? .. nd the towns arc the nurseries of our itics, 6ays Bill Arp in ihe Atlanta Contitution. It is just so every whore. Whan farmor gets rich enough to go to town, io tfoes, for the town nas good school* ad churches and society. When a town, uevchjint gets a little ahead, ho gets amlitioua, and want# to get rich with more iaority. He btoomes a little uppity and ligity. and so moves to the city. Juat o with lawyers and doctors, and eveQ| he preachers are not proof against higt| alarfea and beautiful churches.