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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "The Veil of Modesty." Text: The Queen Vashti refused to come. ?Esther i., 12. If you will accept my arm I will escort you into a tbroae room. In this fifth sermon of the series of sermons there are certain womanly excellencies which I wish to commend, but instead of putting them in dry abstraction, I present you their impersonation in one who seldom, if ever, gets sermonic recognition. We stand amid the palaces of Shushan. The pinnacles are aflame with the morning light. The columns rise festooned and wreathed, the wealth of empires flashing from the grooves; the ceilings adorned with images of bird and beast, and scenes of prowess and conquest. The walls are hung with shields, and emblazoned until it seems that the whole round of splendors is ex hau8ted. Each arch is a mighty leap or Architectural achievement Golden stars, shining down on glowing arabesque. Hangings of embroidered work, in which mingle the blueness of the sky, the greenness of j the grass and the whiteness of the sea foam. Tapestries hung on silver rings, wedding together the pillars of marblQ. Pavilions reaching out in every direction. These for repose, filled with luxuriant couches, in which weary limbs sink until all fatigue is . submerged. These for carousal, where Kings drink down a kingdom at one swallow Amazing spectacle! Light of silver dripping down over stairs of ivory on shields of gold. ptoin a/1 t? n ?Kln cnnonf. roH flTlfl I * iw* a vi oiaiuru iiiai uic( ouuotv ivv* * ?? night black, and inlaid with gleaming pearl. Why, it seems as if a heavenly vision of amethyst, and jacinth, and topaz, and chrysoprasus had descended and alighted upon Shushan. It seems as if a billow of celestial glory had dashed clear over heaven's battlements upon this metropolis of Persia. In connection with this palace there is & garden, where the mighty men of foreign lands are seated at a banquet Under the spread of oak, and linden, and acacia, the tables are arranged. The breath of honeysuckle and [ frankincense fills the air. Fountains leap up i into tne light, the spray struck through with I tainbows falling in crystalline baptism upon flowering shrubs?then rolling down through channels of marble, and widening out here and there into pools swirling with the linny tribes of foreign aquariums, bordered witn scarlet anemones, hypericums, and many colored ranunculus. Meats of rarest bird and beast smoking up amid wreaths of aromatics. The vases filled with apricots and almonds. The basket piled up with apricots, and dates, and figs, and oranges, ana pomegranates, Melons tastefully twined with leaves of acacia. The bright waters of Eulajus j filling the urns, ana sweating outside the rim in flashing beads amid the traceries. Wine from the royal vats of Ispahan and 3hiraz, in bottles, of tinged shell, and lily shaped cups of silver, and flagons and tankards of solid gold. The music rises higher, anr) I-? 1? * - ? -'J?? ? ~ uu wuu iovcury ui^iiKS uut into wiiuer transport, and tb? wine has flushed the cheek and touched the brain, and louder than all other voices are the hiccough of the inebriates, the gabble of fools, and the song of the drunkards. In another part of the palace Queen Vashti Is entertaining the princesses of Persia at a banquet Drunken Ahasuerus says to his tervante: "You go out and fetch Vashti from that banquet with the 'women, and bring her to this banquet with the men, a?d let me display her beauty." The servants Immediately start to obey the king's command, but there was a rule in Oriental society that no woman might appear in^ public without having her fate veiled. Yet here was a mandate, that no one darn dlsoute. da- ; thanding that Vashti come in unveiled before the multitude. However, there was in Yashti's i soul a principle more regal than Ahasuerus, more brilliant than the gold of Shushan, of more wealth than the revenue of Persia, i which commanded her to disobey the order i of the King; and so all the righteousness and holiness and modesty of her nature 1 rises up into one sublime refusal. She 1 ays: " I will not go into the banquet . unveiled." Of course, Ahasuerus "was ] infuriated; and Vashti, robbed of her po- i sition and her estate, is driven forth in : poverty and ruin to suffer the scorn of a nation, and yet to receive the i applause of after generations, who J ehnll tnca ^?*?I' 1 : * iow ulv auiuii v iui.i uiai uj i tv < kingly insolence. Well, the last vestige of i that feast is gone; the last garland has faded; the last arch nas fallen: the last tankard has been destroyed, and Shushan is a rufn; but as long the world stands there will be multitudes of men and women, familiar with the Bible, who will come into this picture < gallery of God and admire the divine portrait of Vashti the Queen. Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacrifice, Vashti the silent In the first place, I want you to look upon Vashti the Queen. A blue ribbon, rayed with white, drawn around her forehead, indicated her queenly position. It was no small honor to be queen in such a realm as that Hark to the rustle of her robes! See .the blaze of her jewels! And yet, my friends. it is not necessary to nave palace ana regal robe in order to be queenly. When I ^ee a woman with stout faith in God, putting her foot upon all meanness, and selfishness, and godless display, going right forward to serve Christ and the race by a grand and glorious service, I say: "That woman is a queen," and the ranks of heaven look over the battlements upon the coronation: and whether she come up from the shanty on the commons or the mansion of the fashionable square, I greet her with the shout: "All hail! Queen Yashti." What glory was there on the brow of Mary, of Scotland; or Elizabeth, of England; or Monroraf Af Pron/vj Ar PotKorino r\f Rna. sia, compared with the worth of some of our Christian mothers, many of them gone into glory??or of that woman mentioned in the Scriptures, who put her all into the Lord's treasury??or of Jephthah's daughter, who made a demonstration of unselfish patriotism? ?or of Abigail, who rescued the herds and flocks of her husband??or of Ruth, who toiled under a tropical sun for poor, old, helpless Naomi??or of Mrs. Adoniram Judson, who kindled the lights of salvation amid the darkness of Burmah??or of Mrs. Hemans, whj poured out her whole sole in words which will be forever associated with hunter's horn, and captives chain, and bridal hour, and lute's throb, and curfew's knell at the dying day??and scores and hundreds of women, unknown on earth,who have fiven water to the thirsty, and bread to the ungry, and medicine to the sick, and smiles a fha ^l'o/v^nro rroH fhoti* fAAtctxinc hftflfH along dark lane, and in government hospital, and in almshouse corridor, and by prison gate? There may be no royal robe?there may be no palatial surroundings. She does not need them; for all charitable men will unite with the crackling lips of fever struck hospital and plague blotched lazaretto in greeting her as she passes: "Hail! hail! Queen Vashti." Among the queens whom I honor are the female day school teachers of this land. I put upon their brow the coronet. They are the sisters and the daughters of our towns and cities, selected out of a vast number of applicants, because of their especial inteltelectual and moral endowments. There are in none of your homes women more worthy. These persons, some of them, come out from affluent homes, choosing teaching as a useful profession: others, tlnding that father is older Vio ncnH tn h<v and that hisevesierht and strength nre not as good as once, go to teach- j ing to lighten his load. But I tell you the j history of the majority of the female teach-: ers in the public schools when I say: "Father | is dead." After the estate was settled, the family, tint were comfortable before, are thrown on their own resources. It is hard for men to earn a living in this day, but it is harder for women?their health not so rugged, their arms not so strong, their opportunities fewer. These persons Alter tremoungjy going mrougu uo oiucm of an examination as to their qualifications to teach, half bewildered step over the sill of the public school to do two things?instruct, the young and earn their own bread. Her work is wearing to the last degree. The management of forty or fifty fidgety and intractable children, the suppression of their vices and the development of their excellencies, the management of . rewards and punishments, the sending j of so many bars of soap and fine tooth combs on benignant ministry, the breaking of so many wild colts for the harness of life, sends ner nomeatmgnt wean, neuralgia, uu- i strung, so that all of the weary people in ] your cities for five nights of the week, there are none more weary than the public school teachers. Now, for God's sake, give them a fair chance. Throw no obstacle in the way. If they come out ahead in the race, cheer (hem. If you want to smite any, smite the male teachers; they can take up the cudgels for themselves. But keep your hands off of defenceless woman. Father may be dead, but tLoraare enough brothers left to demand and see that they get justice. Within a stone's throw of this building ^ there died years ago one of the principals of our public schools. She had been twenty-five years at that post. She had left the touch of refinement on a multitude of th? young. She had, out of her slender purse, given literally hundreds of dollars for the destitute who , came under her observation as a school teacher. A deceased sister's children were ; thrown upon her hands, and she took care of [ them She was a kind mother to them, while j she mothered the whole school. Worn out with nursing in the sick and dying room of one of the household, she herself came to die. j She closed the school book and at the same t time the volume of her Christian fidelity: and ! when she went through the gates thgy cried: | "These are they who came out of great tribu- j j lation, and had their robes washed and made [ white in the blood of the Lamb." Queens are all such, and whether the world acknowledges them or not, Heaven acknowledges them. When Scarron, the wit and ! ecclesiastic, as poor ns he was brilliant, was i I -i ?. i. lr j. v,? I I ?UUUU to Ulttli jr UJ.IXH.'. uo iuaiuinuvii, uo ni? i asked by the notary what he proposed to j settle upcn mademoiselle. The reply was: ! "Immortality! The names of the wives of j kings die with them; the name of the wife of I Bcarron will live always." In a higher and I better sense, upon all women who do their I doty God will settle immortality! Not the immortality of earthly fame, which is mortal, but the immortality celestial. And they shall reign forever and ever! Oh, the opportuitv which every woman has of being a queen! The longer I live the more I admire good womanhood. And I have come to form my opinion of the character of a man by his apDreciation or non-appreciation of woman. If a man has a depressed idea of womanly character he is a bad man, and there is no exception to this rule. The writings of Goethe can never have any such attractions for me as Shakespeare, because nearly all the womanly characters of the great German have some kind of turpitude. There is his Mariana with her clandestine scheming, and his Mignon of evil parentage, yet worse than her ancestors, ana his Theresa the brazen, and his Aurelia of many intrigues, and his Philina the termagant, and his Melina the tarnished, and his Baroness, and his Countess, and there is seldom a womanly charac- j ter in alL his voluminous writings that would be worthy of residence in : a respectaoie coai ceuar, yet, pici/- ( ured, and dramatized, and emblazoned-j till all the literary world is compelled to sae. No, no! Give me William Shakespeare's idea ! of wrfman; and I see it in Desdemona, and j Cordelia, and Rosalind, and Imogen, and Helena, and Hermione, and Viola, and Isabella, and Sylvia, and Perdita, all of them with enough faults to prove them human, I bnt enough kindly characteristics to give us j the author's idea of womanhood, his Lady j Macbeth only a dark background to bring j out the supreme loveliness of his other female j characters. Oh, woman of America! rise to your opportunity. Be no slave to pride, or "world u- | ness, or sin. Why ever crawl in the dust | when you can mount a throne? Be queens | unto God forever. Hail Vashti! Again: I want you to consider Vashti the ' , M.J TT-J ,.1 3 A ' E VOliea. nau MieapiJcaini iwiuio ixuusuuci ua i and his court on that day, with her face un- j covered, she would have shocked all the deli- j cacics of Oriental society, and the very men who in their intoxication demanded that she | come, in their sober moments would have j despised h?r. As some flowers seem to thrive I best in the dark lane and in the shadow, and | where the s in does not seem to reach them, i so God appoints to most womanly natures j a retiring and unobtrusive spirit. Go:l once in a while does call an Isabella to a throne, or a Miriam to strike the timbrel at the front of a host, or a Marie Antoinette to quell a French mob, or a Deborah to stand at tne front of an armed battalion, crying out: "Up! up! This is the day in I which the Lord will deliver Sisera into thy | hands." And when women are called to sucb j outdoor work, and to such heroic positions, | God prepares them for it; and they have iron | in their soul, and lightnings in their eye, and j whirlwinds in their breath, and the borrowed strength of the Lord Omnipotent in their right arm. They walk through furnaces as though they were hedges of wild flowers, and j cross seas as though they were shimmering j sapphire, and all the harpies of I hell sink down to their dungeons art j j the stamp of their womanly indigna- | , tion. But these are exceptions. Generally ; T-v 1J 4.1 l.~ tV,,. | JLrurvtSB wuuiu raiuw ujumj m gai mcuv iui vno | ? poor boy; Rebecca would rather fill the j j trough for the camels; Hannah would rather j v make a coat for Samuel; the Hebrew maid 1t would rather give a prescription for Naa- t man's leprosy; the woman of Sarepta would j, rather gather a few sticks to cook a meal for j v famished Elijah; Phoebe would rather carry | c a letter for the inspired Apostle; Mother Lois | s would rather educate Timothy in the Script- 0 ures. ' When I see a woman going about her v daily duty?with cheerful dignity presiding c at the table; with kind and gentle, but ! firm, discipline presiding in the nurs- | a ery, going out into the world with- j a out any blast of trumpets, following j t in the footsteps of him who went | j about doing good?I say: "This is Vashti j T Wltn a veil on." duv wnen x sot) a wuiiiau j of unblushing boldness, loud voiced, with a u tongue of infinite clitter clatter, with arro- ? gant look, passing through the street* with a ^ masculine swing, gayly arrayed in a very ^ hurricane of millinery. I cry out: "Vashti a has lost her veil?" "When I see a woman ? struggling for political preferment, and re- r jecting the duties of home as insignificant, [ and thinking the offices of wife, mother ana daughter of no importance, and trying to t force her way up on into eonspicuity, I say: t "Ah, what a pity! Vashti has lost her veil!" j When I see a woman of comely features, J and of adroitness of intellect, and en- > dowed with all that the schools can { do for one, and of the bieh social < position, yet moving in society with snper- -i eiliousness and hauteur, as though she would ] have people know their place, and an unde- j fined combination of giggle, and strut, and rodomontade, endowed with allopathic quan- j tit'es of talk, butonly homoeopathic infintesi- t mals of sense, the terror of dry goods clerks | and railroad conductors, discoverers of sig- j nihcant meanings in plain conversation, , l prodigies of badinage and innuendo?I say: | f,Vashti has lost her veil." | i But do not misinterpret what I say into a ! ' depreciation of the work of these glorious j ] and divinely called women who will not be I t understood till after they are dead, women like Susan B. Anthony, who are giving their , life for the improvement of the condition of | their sex. Those of you that think that \ women have under the laws of this country < an equal chance with men are ignorant of i the laws. A gentleman writes me from i Maryland, saying: Take the laws of this state. A man and wife start out in life full | of hope in every respect; by their joint efforts, ( and, as is frequently the case, through the , economic ideas of the wife, succeed in accumulating a fortune-, but they have no children; they reach old age together, and then the husband dies. What does the law of this State do then'i It says to the widow: "Hands off your late husband's property; do not touch it; the State will find others to wnom it wm givetnat; out you, tne wiaow, must not touch it, only so much as will keep ] life within your aged body, that you may live to see those others enjoy what rightfully should be your own." And the State seeks the relatives of the deceased husband, whether they be near or far, whether they were ever heard of before or not, and transfers to them, singly or collectively, the estate of the deceased husband and living widow. Now, that is a specimen of unjust laws in j all the states concerning womanhood. In- I stead of flying off to the discussion as to whether or not the giving of the right of voting to woman will correct those laws, let mo say to men. be gallant enough, and fair enough, and honest enough, and righteous enough, and God loving enough to correct these wrongs against women by your own masculine vote. Do not wait for woman suffrage to come, if it ever does come, but so far as you can touch ballot boxes, and Legislatures and Congresses begin the reformation. But until justice is done to woman bv the laws of all tho States, let the women of America take the platforms and the pulpits, and no honorable man will charge Vashti with having lost her veil. Again: I want you this morning to consider Vashti the sacrifice. Who is this that I see coming out of that palace gate of Rhushan? It seems to me that I have seen her before. She comes homqle-s, houseless, friendless. trudging along with a broken heart. Who is she? It i-i Vashti the saerafice. Oh, what a change it was from regal position to a wayfarer's crust. A little while | ago approved anrl sousrnc ior; now none so noor as to acknowledge her acquaintanceship. Vasliti the sacrifice. Ah, you and I have seen it many a time. Here is a home empalaced with beauty. All that refinement, and books, and wealth can do for that home has been done: but Ahasuerus, the husband and the father, is taking hold on paths of sin He is gradually going down. After a while he will flounder and struegle like a wild beast in the huuter's net-?further away from God, further away from the right. Soon the bright apparel of the children will turn to rags; soon the household song will become the sobbing of a broken heart. The old story over again. Brutal Centaurs breaking up the marriage feast of Lapithre. The hcitfsg full of outrage, and crueltv, and abomination, while tradgine forth from the palace pate are Vashti and her children. There are homes represented in this house this morning tha'. are in danger of such a breaking up. Oh Ahasuerus, that you should stand in a home, by a dissipated life destroying the peace and comfort of that home. God forbid that your children should ever have to wring their hands, and have people point their hands at them as they pass down the street, and say, "There goes a drunkard's child." God forbid that the little feet should ever have to trudge the path of poverty and wretchedness. Gcd forbid that any evil spirit, born of the wine cup or the brandy flask, should come forth and uproot that garden, and. with a blasting, blistering:, all consuming curse, shut for ever the palace gate against Vashti and the children. Oh the women and men of sacrifice are zoing to take the brightest coronals of heaven! This woman of the text gave uo palatial residence, gave up all for what she considered right. Sacrifice! Is there anything more suDtime ? a steamer cauea rne rrairie Belle, burning on the Mississippi river. Bludso, the engineer, declared he would keep the bow of the boat to the shore till all were off, and he kept his promise. At his post, scorched and blackened, he perished, but he saved all the passengers. Two verses of pathetic postry describe the scene, but the verses are a little rough, and so I changed a word or two: Through the hot black breath of the burning Jim Blnd-o's voice was heard, And they all had trnst in his siabborness, And knew he would keep his word. And snre's yon're born fhey all got off Afore the smokestacks fell; And Bladso'a ghost went up above, In the smoke of the Frame Belle. He weren't no saint, bnt at Judgment I'd rnn inv chance wtth Jim, Longside or some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shake hands with him. He'd seen his dnty, a dead enr? thing, And went for it there and then, And Christ Is not going to be too hard On a man that died for men. Once more: I want you to look at Vashti the silent. You do not hear any outcry from this woman as she goes forth from the palace gate. From the very dignity of her nature rvAii lrn f K nfft ntl'll Ka n/\ ff < am ?uu i/ucio "Hi uu ii \j vi/ULCiani/ii. Sometimes in life it is necessary to make a retort; sometimes in life it is necessary to resist; but there are crises when the most triumphant thing to do is to keep silence. The philosopher, confident in his newly discovered principle, waited for the coming of more intelligent generations, willing that men should laugh at the lightning rod, and cotton gin and steamboat?waiting for long years through the scoffing of philosophical schools, in grand and magnificent silence. Galileo, condemned by mathematicians,and monks, and ccrdinals, caricatured jverywhere, yet waiting and watching with tiis telescope to see the coming up of stellar j fVirt xfnwi ,'M flA,'. , ceuJLUi tcmouw, *? uuu uiiu suaia 111 uucii i courses would fight for the Copernican sys?ra; then silting down in complete blindness nid deafness to wait for the coming of the generations who would build his monument ind bowat his grave. The reformer, exeirated by his contemporaries, fastened in a jillory, the slow fires of public contempt .turning under him, ground under the cyliniers of the printing press,yet calmly waiting 'or the day when purity of soul and heroism >f character will get the sanction of e^gfch Hid the plaudits ot heaven. Affliction, en- j luring without any complaint the sharpness ! >f the pang, and the violence of the storm, I md the heft of the chain, and the darkness >f the night?waiting until a divine hand.I (hall be put forth to sooth the pang, and iush the storm, and release the captive. A | ivife abused, persecuted, and a perpetual i sxile from every earthly comfort?waiting, [ vaiting, until the Lord shall gather up his lear children in a heavenly home, and no I joor Vashti will ever be thrust out from the j )alace gate. Jesjis, in silence, and answer- i ng not a word, drinking the gall, bearing lie cross, in prospect of the rapturous con- [ { ;ummation when? f e Angels thronged his chariot wheel, t And bore him to his throne: ^ Then swept their trolden harps and sung c The glorious work is done. An Arctic explorer found a ship floating 1 ( lelplessly about among the icebergs, and j ? ;oing on board he found that the captain | f ;vas frozen r>t his log book, and the helms- I i aaa was frozen at the wheel, and the mem ot* j j he lookout wera frozenin their places. That ^ eas awful, but magnificent. All the Arctic | \ ilasts and all the icebergs could not drive j j hem from their duty. Their silence was : c auder than thunder. And this old ship of a | . rorld has many at their posts in the awful j t hill of neglect, and frozen of th& world's j s corn, and their silence shall be the eulogy i c f the skies, and be rewarded long after this J ^ weather-beaten craft of a planet shall have j i aade its last voyage. ( I thank God that the mightesfc influences . ,re the most silent. The fires in a furnace of | . , factory, or of a steamship, roar though i { hey only move a few shuttles or a few | , housand tons, but cne sun tnat warms a. t rorld rises and set3 without a crackle, or j. aintest sound. Travelers . visiting Mount j Etna, having heard of the glories of sunrise j j. in that peik, went up to spend the night j j here and see the sun rise next morning, but j T vhen it came up it was so far behind their | j mticipatiom tfauey actually hissed it. The j c aightiest influences to-day are like the ilnnotnrv cr-d-Ajn_/>runT>lf>h4>l V Silent. Don't ] lias the sun! 0, woman! does not this story of Vashti :he queen, Vashti the veiled, Vashti the sacifice, Vashti the silent, move your soul? My sermon converges into the one absorbing i ioiie that none of you may be shut out of the 1 mlace gate of heaven. You can endure the j lardships, and the privations, and the J iruelties, and the misfortunes of this life, if : rou can only gain admission there. Through J ae blood of the everlasting covenant you | 50 through those gates, or never go at nil. When Home was besieged the daughter of j its ruler saw the golden bracelets 011 the left irms of the enemy, and sho sent word to them that she would betray her city and surrender it to them if they would only give her those bracelets on their left arms. They accepted the proffer, and by night this daughter of the ruler ot the city opened one of the gates. The army entered, and keeping their promise, threw upon her their bracelets, ind also their shields, and under the great weight she died. Alas, that all through the , ages the same folly has been repeated, and for the trinkets and glittering treas- ' ares of this world men and women .wing open the portals of their immortal 1 soul for an everlasting surrender, and die 1 under the shining submergement. Through the rich crace of our Lord Jesus i Hhinef mov *rnn h? onfthled to imitate tha I example of Rachel, and Hannah, and Abi- i gail, and Deborah, and Mary, and Vashti. i Amen! Prohibition Enforced. The number of convictions for the viola- [ tion of the prohibiotry law at the recent ses 3ion of the Superior Court, and the amount ol fines and imprisonment imjxjsod on the con- < victed, indicate that the county and munici- 1 pal officials, the court and the jury have ] faithfully performed their duties. The fact9 s s:;ow that the law can be enforced, and the beneficial influence is very apparent to all who look at things impartially. The amount j of liquor selling and drinking is much less i than where the law is not enforced. While the amount purchased out of the State and j sent to individuals, for their own use, through tlie express and other agencies of transport, ( may Le considerable, it is very mm n less , than has been represented, and the amount \ of drinking very far less, and the drunken- j ness much less, than when prosecutions were 1 4. V i.~ i IIIJL ^UtLTiWlUll) IIKIMU. AliO Itl ?Y 13 VIUJ J agency in the promotion of temperance, but it is oovious to all thoughful citizens that to . rely ou that alone is a very grave mistake. Moral suasion, right instruction in the homo, ! in the schools, in the press, in the pulpit, the correct education of public opinion?these combined are more powerfully effective than ' the law, and the aid of these can alone rendei the law practically successful. Those who say the law must do everything are just as 1 wide of the mark as those who maintain that ' the law has b_>en a failure. All honorable ' and effective influences and agencies need to ' lie invoked and kept constantly in operation ' against the drink and drunkard evil, one ol 1 tl.of olliir.fc iwli'vi.lor.lc n,,,l mumties.?Augusta (Me.) Journal. Alcohol as a Mcdicino. Dr. N. S. Davis, of Chicago, in a late letter 1 to the President of the Maryland State Tem- I perance Alliance, Mr. Higgins, writes: 1 "It is many years since I altogether aban- | doned the use of all forms of alcoholic drink ' in the treatment of disease, anil with positive I benefit to my patients. In regard to substi- I tutes for family use in emergencies, spirits camphor, aromatic spirits of ammonia, tea, | coffee, are almost always at hand, and are j more efficient for all the proper purposes for | which alcoholic liquors are usually resorted i to in families." l A bill has been introduced in the New Jersey Legislature providing that on the peti- I tion of one-tenth of the voters in any county, I the question of the sale of liquor shall be i submitted to a popular vote in that county. i TEMPERANCE. The A B C of Drink. A is the Alcohol?deathlike its grip, B the Beginner who "just takes a sip." C the Companion who urges him on, D for the Demon of drink which is born. E the Endeavor he makes to resist, F for the Friends (?) who so loudly insist. G for the Guilt which he afterward feels, H for the horrors that hang at his heels. I his Intention to drink not at all, J for Jeering that follows his fall. K is his Knowledge that he is a slave, L for the Liquors his appetites crave. M the convival Meetings so gay, N is the "No" which he tries hard to say. O for the Orgies which then come to pass, P for the Pride which he drowns in his glass. Q for the Quarrels that nightly abound, R for the Ruin that hovers around. S for the Sights which his vision bedims, T fo.* the Trembling that seizes his limbs. U for his Usefulness, killed in the slums, V is the Vagrant he swiftly becomes. "W the Waning of life nearly done, X his Extinction, regarded by none. Youth of the nation, such weakness is crime: zealously turn rrom the tempter in time. ?K E. Kidder, in lemperance Banner. , A Glimpse Into the Near Future. The sensation of the hour is the very rapid and effective way in which Prohibition nai been brought to its culmination. This terrible evil and poison of alcohol, which has proved a blasting, blighting, and withering curse that has fastened its poisonous fangs on a large proportion of the human family; this poison that has been for centuries nurtured dnd cherished as one of the best gifts toman, and has become the very embodiment of good cheer and the highest evidence of civilized life?and this, too, while bringing in its train all the misery and wretchedness to which hu manity is liable?now stands exposed in its true character. Like some evils attending our most exquisite pleasures, it was supposed that only an immoderate use, or, rather, an undue indulgence, was the cause of all the bad consequences that flowed from it. But Science comes in with her exquisite touch of truthfulness, and lo ! this supposed elixir of life in its very nature and essence is proven to be the most obnoxious enemy of mankind?n malignant poison to be shunned as one of the most pestilential fevers or contagious dis eases, and the curse of all curses. A few words of intelligent explanation, " few definite illustrations of how, when ana where this poisonous compound was pro duced, and what its inevitable and final effects are on the human system, and th' whole civilized world stands aphast, a horror 6eizes hold of the mind and intelligence o. the people, and everybody assumes an atti tude of heroic opposition to its further use. and even to its toleration, among the remedial antidotes for human ailment. Pro hibition is decreed and echoed by the wholt people all over the land. The' cry is raised with an earnest, determined zeal that wil not'be restrained by any selfish or mercenarj opposition from interested parties, nor wil tbey brook delay. The best interests o society and the sanctity of home are pre claimed as a full and complete justification for its banishment, extermination and com plete annihilation. Such is the dominant sway, of public opinion. Like a fast-moving avalanche,once in mntinn nnt.hino> r>nn cfnv its nnwnrH urn ^ress; but disintegration and destruction follow the commingling of its opposing forces, and from the chaos Prohibition rises above the ashes of the enemy as an olive branch, presenting a new and advanced jivili/ation to bless the world with a glorious future, a purified religion, moral progress aational prosperity, and happy homes every svhere.?W. Jennings Demorest. Prohibition at Washington. The temperance people havo determined, if >ossible, to make tne District of Columbia an ixperimental garden in which to propagate heir notions of moral and social reform, rhe Prohibition bills are being pushed with a jood deal of enthusiasm before the comtnit;ees of the two housea The Senate District Committee has proceeded so far as to send Senator Piatt's bill to prohibit the manuacture and sale of spirituous and intoxicatng liquors tothe District Commissioners for nformation as to the extent and character of he liquor traffic here for the past five years, rhe bill provides that at the expiration of exsting licenses none shall be issued for the sale >f any kind of liquor to be drank on the )remises?not even cider?and it forhidseven he giving away of liquor, except on the precription of a regular physician to a regular Iruggist, and records of all prescriptions are o be delivered to the District Commissioners. tVine for sacramental purposes can only be jbtained on a certificate, in writing, of the Dastor, and it can be delivered to no other jerson but the pastor. The penalties are heavy hies and imprisonment. The bill, of course, vill not at pre-ent become a law; its oppolents are skilled enough in obstructive tacics to prevent its passage. But it will cause nconvenience to a good many public men lere before it finally reach s the* pigeon-hole n which it will sleep the sleep that knows no vaking. There is no subject ns to which pubic men exhibit so little moral courage as that >f prohibition.?New York Fost. A Help, and Not an Injury." In view of all the facts can it not be most ruthfully said that prohibition not only does lot injure but is a very great help to any own? Before Des Moines had Prohibition it lad seventy saloons, now it has none, and ret, notwithstanding adverse circumstances t expended in 1887 for public and private im>rovements over four millions and a-half of lollars, transacted a wholesale, manufacuring and miscellaneous business of over 5fty-six millions of dollars, and raised its jopulation from about forty-six thousand to >ver fifty-one thousand; it has not received >ne dollar of bloorl money from saloons, and s by far the most prosperous city in Iowa. 'If that is the way Prohibition kills towns," ;hen every town cursed with saloons may veil pray for a similar death.? Independent. national \v,u u. liuiletln. Dr. McGlynn has been chosen president of ihe Brooklyn (N. Y.) Central Temperance Alliance. Washington, D. C., has twelve W. C. T. [Jnious and nine Loyal Temperance Legions and Bands of Hope. New Haven, Conn., has 42o licensed saloons; 233 of the licensees are of Irish birth, 111 are Germans, 5<i are Americans, ind the rest are not classified by nationalities. The Hope and Help Mission for women, started one year ago by the W. C. T. U., of Washington, D. (J., has proved a success ind far exceeded the expectations of its projectors. Mrs. Fannie M. Leiter, estate Superintenlent of Scientific Temperance Instruction, for the W. C. T. U., recently addressed the pastors' meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on the subject of her work. Mrs. Cleveland's first reception of the season was attended by the most prominent people in social and political life. On this occasion ao liquors were to be seen, but iced water was served from a large stani by one of the ?CII UOilCl o. The Turks, who are Prohibitionists by 3rder of the Koran, are working to abolish aloons kept by the "Christians" in Constantinople. All drinking places within 230 feet rro.n the houses of Turkish worship have )een ordered closed, and the police are enforcing the decree. In his annual message to the Legislature, 3overnor Larrabee, of Iowa, declared that the enforcement of the Iowa prohibitory law una iieen so emcieub in reuucmg mmc iu?u ;ie recommended the consolidation of judicial iistricts, so as to reduce the number of judges from 44 to 40. The Travelers' National Abstainers' Union, tvliose membership ischioily among traveling .bowmen, recently celebrated its seventh anniversary at York, England. This society was organized in 1S80 with forty-four members, and now numbers 5,208. Mr. P. T. Barnum is an honorary member of the Union. Dr. Benjamin Ward Richardson has been jiving a series of eight lectures at the Memorial liall, London, under the auspices of the l.'nitid Kingdom Band of Hope Union. In the last address, which was in some respects x summary of the course, speaking of the physical degeneration produced by alcohol,ha aid it was fortunate its use h:id been coniined to inan, or wo should bavo had no auimal tameable, workable or edible. Mr. Robert Graham, of New York city, lias, with great care, ascertained the following facts: "Preceding the presidential election of 1884, there were held in New York city 1,002 political conventions?congressional, assembly, aldermanic, primary, etc. In these political meetings the country is largely governed. Two hundred and eightythree of them were held apart from saloons, ninety-six next door to saloons, and gix hundred tad thirty three in saloon#." * * 4 EELIGIOUS READING. ^Xhe Scripture Cannot b? Broken. No equal has the word of God To meet all human need; Who leans on other staff or rod Shall find a broken reed. In words like these, when sight is dim, What comfort may there De: "In perfect peace Thou wilt keep him Whose mind is stayed on Thee." To him whose hope He would inspire He says, "If ye believe, What things soever ye desire, Ask, and ye shall receive." The man by sin or sorrow prest May trust His loving word, AnH fmm nvorv hiirHon rnot if cast upon the Lord " It is not always sure release, But strength is given in this: "For weakness that disturbs thy p<sace My grace sufficient is." To think such words for me may be! His tenderness to prove; 'The love with which I have loved thee Is everlasting love." "If called in dark, divided sea, "Midst roaring waves to stand, Thou'lt find the cloud that covers thee The shadow of mine hand." "The cup of trembling that was filled With fiery dregs and pain, Tbou, weary one, the tempest stilled, chalt never drink again." "The hungry, thirsty, anxious soul, Fainting, distressed, astray. Cries to the Lord, and finds the goal, Led forth by the right way." And thus it reads from page to page, Gracious, and good, and pure. What other word of any age Shall "thro' all time endure'*" So precfous Is this fund of truth, So filled with every good, If" mnotD oil nro'ifa rtf en era f\i? rnlith 'Tis love, 'tis light, 'tis'food/ ?(.Christian Intelligencer. Helping Tbuw In M?rd. There can be no greater happiness, says th? Central Christian Advocate, than to help those who are in need; and the world is full to overflowing of such opportunities. There are always some not far away from us in ip ed of bread and tbe commonest charities of life to whom we may minister of our abundance and have God s Messing on our well-doing. The highest record that one can make is, "He went about doing good." There are various kinds of well-doing that fall into this general classification, but we may do God's work in one as wjll as in another. Whichever, therefore, presents itself in the providential order should be accepted as demanding our attention, and with such cheerfulness-as-to win the confidence oC those to whom' wo administer. For when it is evident that such work comes from the heart and is done for Christ's sake there can be-no argument against it. God's care of the needy comes largely through human instrumentality, and we are tx> be the willing iustru rents of it. VaU? .of IsiuMfite. The example of ft godly man is a living standing memento to all around him of Christ, death and eternity. Piety of a high grade not only removes objections, hut wins esteem. The irreligious sometimes talk as if they considered Christians over-scrupulous when they stand upon their principles and refuse to yield a sinful compliance with, the spirit and practice of the multitude,, when really they think no such thing. When they see a Christian truly consistent in his conduct, their hearts are constrained to- do him homage; yea to do homage to the religion he a professes. In consistent personal reiigion there is something so intrinsically loving and winning thut the most wicked profoundly respect and venerate it. However far men may, in heart and' life, depart from God, their reason andi con- I science will always- condemn their course, and with awe and admiration approve the conduct of those who follow Christ fully. Would you then inspire the unconverted, ! with the highest appreciation of your religion? Would you win hearts for the Mas- i ter? Then away from the dust of selfseeking, and put on the shining gar- , ment< or salvation, in mis way your i piety will become converting, because it is attractive. Personal religion not only re- < moves objections, but is the most powerful j appeal to the consciences of the unbelieving. Tho consistently religious man says to the ungodly, more eloquently and urgently than all others: "We are journeying unto the place of which the Lord said, T will give it < you. Come thou with us. and we will do thee good."?[Chicago Watchman. Practical Tracfalnfpt of Cbri?l. _ One of the practical teachings of Christ is that His followers "be given to hospitality." Now, Christian hospitality is not only the entertainment of those personal friends of ours who are congenial and delightful to us i personally and for themselves alone; but tho glad and cheerful entertainment of servants j end disciples of Christ for His sako, as they may have need and we opportunity. The I story of the good woman who prevailed with I her husband to build the chamber on the ; wall for the entertainment of the prophet, I ' though he was not a popular man at the ! timef and the many words of Christ con- j 1 cerning receiving a disciple or a prophet in | the name of a prophet and a disciple, ought j to start a new train of thought in "the minds j of those of us who have neglected this j gift. We would humbly suggest to : our readers to think over this matter, and j the next time an opportunity comes to them to extend hospitality to one another in the ! name of Christ embrace it heartily,and show forth the loving kindness of that Lord who does not forget that He was a stranger in the earth Himself, and so delights to honor those who have a gracious care for strangers who are in need of entertainment. Let those guests whom you receive on a society or personal basis be who or what they may; but when you extend hospitality in the name of Christ look for the aneel who may be in dis guise, or at least give entertainment as unto an angel in disguise and your guest will probably prove to be one.?[N. Y. Independent. "Eben>czer." How many years have you lived? Has God been very good to you, leading you day by day, protecting you by night; leading you in green pastures and beside still waters; or, because the way must needs be rough, helping you overall obstacles; because the waters of trial are about and around you, are they parted so that you can go through dry-shod? When you ask for daily bread,is there manna for your hunger and water for your thirst? Tr ' l-H lilioo nt *!? floM J2EIS XltJ VYIIU tlUl/UtO LUU aiiiw ... with beauty, not clothed you, 0 ye of little | saith? Are there falling all around you the I fhowers of blessing? Are you thankful that ' she same loving care that forbids even a tparrow to fall to the ground without His knowledge has you in such keeping that not the slightest harm can come to you. that no trouble can assail, except as Ho wills? When Samuel prayed unto God for help against the Philistines when they were about to go to battle, and the assistance was given | so that the enemies were smitten before I them, Samuel took a stone and set it up, and j called it "Eben-ezer," saying, "Hitherto hath tho Lord helped us." You may not have set up a "stone of j help," but is there an Ebon-ezer in your j heart? And if God has Helped you minerto, i is nob the samo assistance waiting for you in j tho future? There cannot be even a doubt J of that, for even in such gentlo tones as only : the dear Lord knows how to use we hear tho j precious words: "Fear not, little flock; I am with you even to tho end of tho world."? [Christian at Work. Large chairs and long-backed sofas may be protected and often brightened by a scarf tidy of grass linen or pongee ?ilk. decorated with ft border of roots or crackle-work, done in gold wire, The drapery is about as artistic, and certainly as durable, as anything in tbe fancy-work line, since the linen laundries well, and the design ia work?d from a stamped pattern. The Weak Fentnre in Labor Unions. What the working classes of the United States need and demand is the hire education. The laborer is worthy ' of bis higher wages.? Buribtfa ? 1 T I ? ~ THE BABY KING. AN INFANT IN ARMS THE RULER OF SPAIN. Alfonso the XIII.?Born a King? Crowned When Fire Days Old?The Homage He Receives. The youngest King in Europe is Alfonso, of Spain. This royal baby was born a Kin", for his father, Alfonso the Twelfth, died some months before this youthful occupant of the Spanish throne opened his little eyes on the woild iathe royal palace at Madrid. It was near noon on the 7th of May, 1886, when the church bells of the Spanish capital rang out the news to the people that a new Xing had come to take the place of the one who only a short time before had been laid in the tomb at the palace of the Escurial. There was great rejoicing in Madrid, and crowds gathered in the square where the royal standard was hoisted in honor of the event, while in all the churches prayers were offered for the baby King and his young, widowed mother. Meanwhile in the palace an ancient Spanish ceremony was taking place. The courtiers and nobles, in glittering uniforms and splendid costumes, were assembled in the great hall, and the tiny new-born King, lying on a cushion rich with lace and embroidery, was solemnly carried round to receive their admiration and homage. Before Alfonso's birth it had seemed probable that his oldest sister, Mercedes, would be Queen of Spain. Indeed*. she had been proclaimed as such at the time of her lather's death, but the arrival of o> baby brother .changed all her prospects; for it is not the oldest child of a King, but the oldest son who inherits the throne, and Mercedes is now only her Royal Highness the Princess of Asturias, and sister to the Kin#. As she was but five years old when the little King was born, she could not realize what graveresponsibilities were removed from her pathway through life. The Queen-mother, Christina, was Regent for Mercedes during the very brief time that the little maiden was Queen, and she now holds the same position for her baby son, and will represent him at the head of the nation until he is old enough to understand the duties of a King. Queen Christina is not yet thirty years old, but she is wise and discreet, io a on/1 1 r\TM n or mnfhof in Viot* three fatherless little children. When the infant King was five days old the christening took place. The ceremonies were of great magnificence, and all the grandees of Spain were present to do honor to the baby monarch. He received the name of Alfonso in memory of his father and a long line of illustrious Kings of Spain, and is known as Alfonso the Thirteenth. Leon, Ferdinand and many other n#me9 were given him. and one of them is Pascual, as in the Spanish calendar Pascual is the patron saint of the little King's birthday. This royal baby's home is in the palace at Madrid,, but all the palaces in Spain are his by right of inheritance. In the {iot summer months he goes with his mother and his little sisters, Princess Mercedesand the Infanta Maria Theresa, to-La Granja, a beautiful palace situated in a fragrant pine forest among the mountains, about forty miles from Madrid. La Granja is an ancient royal faoMonoo Tf xrhnilt in t.hi* pnxlv n?rt of the eighteenth century by Philip the Fifth, who was the first Bourbon King of Spain. The pretty boy, who as yet knows nothing of life except to nestle in his mother's arms and receive her loving caresses, has a stormy past behind him, and many enemies who threaten the peace of future. A dispute concerning the right to tie throne has been going on in the Spanish royal family for more than fifty years. In 1833, when Ferdinand the Seventh. the great-grandfather of little Alfonso, died, he left no Bons. and his oldest daughter, Isa- I bella the Second, ascended the throne- I Ferdinand had a brother named Carlos, j who, believing that a woman should not be allowed to rule Spain, declared himself King. A strong band of adherents grew up nrouna mm. wuo were caueu Carlists; and although his branch of the family has never succeeded in gaining i possession of the throne, the struggle | for kingship has been passed down from father to son, and much blood has been ' shed in battles between the armie3 of the rival parties. The affection of the Spanish people is Btrong for Alfonso and his young widowed mother, but the Spaniards are a turbulent and restless nation, and fond of intrigue. They are not to be tru3ted, and the lot of the poorest boy in America is better and happier than that of this baby King who lives in the midst of ! desperate ana Diiter eueuii.es.?nur^cr ?| Young People. A Famous Marble. A Raleigh, North Carolina,corresponds i dent of the St. Louis Qlobe-Demo.-rut gives some interesting reminiscences in regard to Canova's celebrated statute of Washington, which was ordered by the State of North Carolina in 1815, completed in 18*20, brought over to this country by the frigate Macedonia, and 8laced in the rotunda of the Capitol at laleigh with impressive ceremonies. It was considered by many altogether the i finest artistic representation of Washington in the world. The correspondent recalls its fate to mind: "In 1830 workmen one windy day were on the roof of the O fnrrnion fnr hoatinpr solder? V/upnui tr wjuiMMw.v. ?? 0 , ing irons. A spark from the brazier of coals was blown into the wood-work and soon the building was in flames. Nothing could be done cxcept save some of the records. People who looked through the doors leading to the rotunda could i Don only see the curling flames, and | then, as a gust of wiurl blew them aside, ! the statue, still white and grandly calm. ! Presently, with a crash, the roof and i rotunda walls fell in. In and instant1 the statue was a wrerk. As soon as possible the ruins of the building were cleared away. The statue was so cal- j cined by the fervent heat that much of it crumbled to powder at a touch. The head was never found. It was long believed, however, that it had been stolen, i ? /T?~A it ana large rewaius were uwuu * The fragments were stored away in an j outhouse. Years later, when the present, stately Capitol was completed, they were put a closet. They have remained until now. The torso is in fair preservation and is less calcined than any other portion. The carving is inimitable. Turning over a slab, the soft dust of years was rubbed off,and there was revealed a marvellously carved Roman sword and its j belt, while below, in a sweeping script, I was the inscription:"A.Canova faciebat, J Rom;c, 1820." The fragments of this once superb work were last week Wednesday placed in the State museum. Next to acquiring good friends, the beat acquieitiou is that of good books. ; _* ' >" .'-." *<48 . ; *: r* r- d *1 * :.%l ' WORDS OF ffJSDOtt. A laugh is worth a hundrid groans in ?tfy market. life is all sweetness in childhood'? sappy days. The man who is hopeless of a home it a mined man. Be not simply good, but be good for something. Character, good or bad, has a tendency to perpetuate itself. Shelley says that time but stains the marble radiance of eternity. Friends are like melons: To find one good you must a hundred tiy. The generous heart should scorn 8 pleasure that gives other* pain. * * Talents are matured best' in solitude, but character in tempestuous seas. Learning without thought is Iat^r lost, thought without learning is perilous. , Strength is like gunpowder, to be effective it needs concentration and aim* Happiness is a ball, after' wliich w run, and we push it with our feet? when it stops. - b'*K~ Most people would succeed in small, things if they were not troubled with, great ambition. Make it the interest of others to be ^ your friends. Command honors as well aa bestow them. i* 1 rfiin *! men are Dorn wira two eyes anu uuo tongue in order that they should see twice u much as they say. ;K J*A Bonnet That Saved Two Lives. * uThe biggest piece of luck ever saw," once said Allan Pinkerton, the > detective, to a correspondent of the Albany (N. Y.) Argut, {'happened tp at . raw Scotchman and his wife that lkne^ This- Scotch fool had been a chartist; a, price was set on his head; he had^a- ? sweetheart, Joan Carfrae, a bookfolder'sr apprentice, and a lass, that bad caught his heart Winding chartist songs, who.-> married him with his head all but in the noose; and some friends shipped them by[ stealth to Quebec, he as a ship's coopefc and she as a cook on the bark Kent, ' April 9, 1840. On May 8 the Kent- was wrecked on Sable Island, but the crew and passengers were saved by the aidreif 'iJ friendly Indians, who took everything'' that came ashore. The cooper and wife: finnllir rrnt frftltl tVlA Cif fr.hfi WTBf>k td* Fisherman'? Village in a small boat; and from there by a fishing smack to ASpy bay, wherS the Unicorn^ of Quebec,J changed mails with the Britannia, one' of the first steamers across the Atlantic. ~' They were helped from here t6 Montreal/, , ^ where the cooper got work-heading beef^ barrels, and the couple soon, got . to. . housekeeping famously in onp.roqin. . But members of the Coopers' union con-. . fidentiallv told him this job would shut down at a certain.date, and so he impulsively decided on going to the thriv- . '/J ing little city of Chicago. After buying their ticket* they had no money left. The steamer was to leave that very afternoon. The cooper's little bit of a wife . came -and confessed that she had criminally ordered a bonnet at the. milliner's; that it could not be got for the. charges; and pitifully pleaded tlat' lliey wait lUI tuc UCAb UUUV| a , VWA f-t later, that the money might be yarned,and the precious bonnet secured- The Scotch cooper roared like a mad bull, but finally consented. They got the .. bonnet; but that husband made that wife's life little short of a hell till"?and. . here Pinkerlon roared the- startled, passengers out of their dozings? "new? came in a few days that the boat they would have ta';en, had it not been for that lucky bonnet, blew up, and eveiy soul on board was lost! "I tell you that little song-singing wife has had her way about bonnets ever since!" chuckled Pinkerton. "For that little Edinburgh girl was my Joan !, ?and that fool cooper that ran away from the Queen^ officers was me?" ? The Woman Man-Eater in JCentnoky. Very few people in Louisville know that a Fiji Islander, a genuine man-eater, lives in their midst, but it is so. She.? -i. . for it is a woman and nameless?is-a very strange-appearing character, and it ia wnrhh a loner walk to take a peep at her cannibalship. "Spotty Johnny," as the man-cater has been called, may be found at any hour of the day or night at the little cottage of Patrick Cain, an. engineer on the Newport News and Mississippi Valley Railway. She never * goes farther away from home than the immediate neighborhood in which she lives, and i? quite as inoffensive a person,. thought not quite as beautiful perhaps, as one would care to meet. "Spotted Johnny" was brought to thi3 country ra 1872 from the Fiji Islands, along with a small band of her people, by Forepaugh of circus fame. She ran ' 1 ? nrliila fllO cllATV away irom uui waptma ???? was- in Pottsville, Pa., and no one knows how she got to Nashville, where.the was finally discovered doing drudgery, the only sort of work she seemed capable of, for a family that had taken the fantastic and repulsive outcast in out of the cold. An effort was made by the , circus people to rcclaim her, but Johnny did not like the idea, and expressed her- > self so forcibly that her friends sent the circus men about their business. At this time Johnny ate raw meat with avidity, and cared for little else. Now she is a vegfltarian, and scarcely ever touches meat, though she eats fish. She wears clothing just as any one else in her position would. She is very much devoted to Mri Cain's children, and they are equally fond of her. The family with whom the escaped cannibal bad taken refuge in Nashville, removed to a distant city, leaving Johnny with Mr. and Mrs. Cain, who were then living in the Tennessee capital. This was more than five years ago. At first Mrs. Cain's children were much afraid of their strange servant, but this was soon conqured by ihe mildness of her manner aud her simple devotion. Her intelligence ia of a very low order, and she is able to perform only the plainest labor. The children of the neighborhood, and some of the older ones, too, lor taut matter, stand considerably in awe of the strange l:eing, but as she seldom leaves the house, and interferes with no one, but little is ever seen or heard of her.? Chicago Herald. Buffalo Farming. Much has been written about the terrible loss of life in the Northwest during the recent blizzard being due to the scarcity of buffalo robes, which contribute the only defense against the rigors of that country. It is true that a buffalo robo or coat is now ucyona me reach of those with slender purses, and it is true that for certain purposes the buffalo hide and fur are superior to any others. This leads me to the suggestion that if some of the great cattle kings of the West would giro up raising cattle and go into buffalo farming they would find it ai immensely profitable business. Not only would every hide obtainable find a ready sale, but the meat would find a market in the cities, and the refuse of the carcass could be made into tha dozen articles of profitable commerce that the steer sow affords,?Qfole-Democrat*