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H I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN Bj DAY SERMON. ^ Satyect: "The Star Wormwood, or gS Brilliant Bitterness." Sal Text: "There fell a great star from ^H?earen, burning as it were a lamp, and it H fell upon a third part of the rivers and H -upon the fountains of waters; and the name |So/ the star is called WormwoodRevelaSH tions viii, 10-1L jn Patrick and Lowth, Thomas Scott, MatH thew Henry, Albert Barnes and all the other EH commentators agree in saying that the Star Wormwood of my text was Attila, King of (V the Hons. He was so called because he was H brilliant as a star, and, like wormwood, he Ifl embittered everything be touched.. We have studied the Star of Bethlehem, and the MornH ing Star of the Revelation, and the Star of |9 Peace, but my subject this hour calls us to IH miTo affho Rfjir Wnrmwnnd. nnrt mv thema I might be called Brilliant Bitterness. A more extraordinary character history does not furnish than this man referred to in my text, Attila, the king of the Hans, j One day a wounded heifer came limping along through the fields, and a herdsman j followed its bloody track on the grass to see where the heifer was wounded, and went on back, further and further, until he came to a sword fast in the earth,the pointdownward as thongh it had dropped from the heavens, and against the edges of this sword the heifer had been cut. The herdsman pulled j up that sword and presented it to Attila. Attila faid that sword must have dropped i fmm the heavens from the arasp of the god ! Mars, and its being given" to "him meant 1 that Attila should conquer and govern the whole earth. Other mighty men have been delighted at be called liberators or the merciful or the good, i but Atti'a called himself and demanded that others call him the sourge of | God. At the head of 700,000 troops, mounted j on Cappadocian horses, he swept everything from the Adriatic to the Black sea. He put his iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for mercy, which ha bestowed not The Byzantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auction massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, the inhabitants were brought out and put into three classes. The first class, those who could bear arms, who must immediately enlist under Attila or be butchered; the second class, the beautiful women, who were made captives to the rt? tViirH r>ln? thn mrnl man nnrl women, who were robbed of everything and let go back to the city to pay heavy tax. It was a common saying that the grass never grew again where the hoof of Attila's horse had trod. His armies reddened the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage, and fought on the Catalonian plains the fiercest battle tince the world stood, 300,000 dead left on the field. vOn and on until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer; and, a cloud of du3t seen in the distance, a bishop cried: "It is the aid of Godand all the people took up the cry: v 44It is the aid of God." As the cloud of dust was Uown aside the banners of re-enforcing armies marched in to help against Attila, the scourge of God.- The most unimportant occurrences he used as a supernatural r? nun* unci after .three months of failure uo I-capture the city of AquiJeia and bis army had given up tne siege, the flight of a stork .and Tier young from the tower of the city was taken by nim as a sign that he was to capture the city, and his army inspired with the occurrence resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage by his bride lidico, who was hired for the assassination. his followers bewailed him not with tears but with blood, cutting themselves with knives and lances. He was put into three coffins?the first of iron, the second of silver, and the third of gold. He was buried jat night, an i into his grave were poured the most valuable coin and precious stones, -amounting to fhe wealth of a kingdom. The grave diggers and all those who assisted at the burial were massacred so that it would never be known where so much weaitn was -?ntombed. The Roman Empire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Koman .. Empire. He was right in calling himself a coarge, but instead of being the scourge of God he was the scourge of helL Because of his brilliancy and bitterness the commentators were right in believing him to be the star Wormwood ot the text As the regions he devastated were parts most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic my text is: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters: and the name of the star is called Wormwood" Have you ever thought how many embittered lives there are about us, misanthropic, morbid, acrid, saturnine? The European plant from which wormwood is extracted, - artemisia absinthium, is a perennial plant -and all the year round it is ready to exude its oiL Ana in many human lives there is a perennial distillation of acrid experiences, xee. there are some whose whole work is to ?hed a baleful influence on others. There are Afcfcil** nt th? hnm? or Attilns of the social -circle, or Attilas of the church, or Attilas of the state, and one-third of the waters of all -the world, if not two-thirds the waters, are poisoned by the falling of the star Wormwood It lis not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they Ret .great power, becomo overbearing. The more power men hare the better, if their power ba used for good. The less power meu have the better, if they use it for evil, Birds circle round and round and round before they swoop upon that which they are aiming for. Ana if my discourse so far has been swinging round and round, this moment it drops straight on your heart and asks the question: Is your life to others a benedic uon or an embitterment, a blessing or a -curse, a balsam or a wormwood? Some of you, I know, are morning stars, and you are making the dawning life of your children bright with gracious influences, and you are beaming upon all the opening; enterprises of philanthropic and Christian endeavor, and you are heralds of that day of fospelization which will yet flood the mountains and valleys of our sin cursed earth. Hail, morning star! Keep on shining with -encouragement and Christian hope. Some of you are evening stars, and you are cheering the last days of old people, and though a cloud sometimes comes over you through the auerulousness or unreasonablenew of your old father and mother, it is only for a moment, and the star soon comes out clear again and is seen from all the balconies of the neighborhood. The old people will forgive your occasional shortcomings, for they themselves several times lost their wuujuu TTucii yvu YUUUK auu lapped you when you did not deserve it Hail, evening star I Hang on the darkening ky your diamond coronet But are any of you the star Wormwood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal/ Are your children everlastingly pecked at/ Are you always crying, "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet and their laughter, which occasionally trickles through at wrong timas and is suppressed by them until they can hoM it no longer and all barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and cachinnation, as in high weather the water has trickled through a slight opening in the mill dam, but afterward makes wider and wider breach until it carries all before it with irresistible freshet Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now mako. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to hear one shout from their silent voices or one step from the still foot You will not any of you have to wait very long before your house is stiller than you want it Alas! that there are so many homes not known to the Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty to Children, where children are put on the limits and whacked and cuffed and ear-pulied and sensaieosly called to order and answered sharp and suppressed until it is a wonder that under men processes they do not all turn out Moiocs and Nana Sahibs. What is your influence upon the neighborhnnri the town op the citv of vour residence? I will suppose that your are a star of wih. What kind of rays do you shoot forth? Do you use that splendid faculty to irradiate the world or to rankle it? I bloss all the apostolio college of humorists. The man that makes me laugh is my benefactor. I do not thank anybody to make me cry. I can do that without any assistance. We all cry __?nougfo and have enough to cry about. God Fy-^-all skilful punsters, all reparteeists, all ^propounders of ingenious conundrums, all those who mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxtaposition of words. Thomas Hood and Charles Lamb and Sidney Smith had a divine and so have their successors < - - i-y J '' -V-.V" ' ' ' - tn tnese times. iaey stir into else acid beverage of life the saccharine. They make the cup of earthly existence, which is sometimes stale, effervesce and bobble. They placate animosities. They foster longevity. They slay follies and absurdities which all the sermons of all the pulpits cannot reach. They have for examples Elijah, who made fun of the Baalites when they called down fire and it did not come, suggesting that their heathen god had gone hunting, or was off on <t journey, or was asleep and nothing but vociferation could wake him, saying: "Cry aloud for he is a god; either he is talking or pursuing or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." They have an example in Christ, who with healthful sarcasm showed up the lying, hypocritical Pharisees, by suggesting that such perfect people like themselves needed no improvement, saj'ing: "The whole need not a physician, but they that ire sick." But what use are yon making of your witl Is it besmirched with profanity and unclean* ness? Do you employ it in amusement at physical defects for which the victims are | not responsible? Are your powers of mimicry I ><?ari ^ nnt mlip-ion in contempt? Is it a I bunch o/nettlesome invective? Is it a bolt I of unjust scorn? Is it fun at others' misfortune? Is it glee at their disappointment and defeat? Is it bitterness put drop by drop j into a cup? Is it like the squeezing of artemisia absinthium into a draught already distastefully pungent? Then you are the star Wormwooa. Yours is the fun of a rattlesnake trying how well it can sting. It is the fun of a hawk trying how quick it can strike out the eye of a dove. But I will change this, and I will supnos* fou are a star of worldly prosperity, lhcf you have large opportunity. You can encourage that artist by buying his picture. You can improve the fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing a higher style of fowl aud horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomological achievements in the orchards. You can advance arboriculture and arrest this deathful iconoclasm of the American forests. You can put +l,nfr & pi0C0 OX SCUIUIUR) U1UJ bUO UIIUD UL uuuu i public academy. You can endow a college. You can stocking a thousand bare feet from the winter frost. You can bnild a church. You can put a missionary of Christ on thai foreign shore, rou can help ransom a world. A ricn man with his heart right. Can you tell me how much good a James Lennox or a George Peabody or a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge did while living, Or is doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighborhood that has not glorious specimens of consecrated wealth. But suppose you grind the face of the poor. Suppose wiiep ? man's wages are due you maK~ hi ill wan ror lucm ue cannoc help himself. Suppose that because his family is sick and ho has had extra expenses he should politely ask you to raise his wages for this year, and you roughly tell him if he nronfji n Hotter nlftr.fi to po and Bet it. Sup pose by your manner you act as though he were nothing and you were everything. Suppose you are selfish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought to be Attila, and your last name Attila, because you are the star Wormwood and you have embittered one-third, if not three-thirds, of the waters that roll past your employes and operatives and dependents and associates, and the long line of carriages which the undertaker orders for your funeral in order to make the occasion respectable, will be filled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes as there are persons occupying them. The clumsy pall bearers may make the gates of your sepulcher quake by striking your silver handled cofnn against them, but the world will feel no jar as you go out of it. There is an erroneous idea abroad that liere are only a few geniuses. There are millions of tbom; that is. men and women wbo have especial adaptation and quickness for some one thing. It may be great, it may be sraal I. The circle may be like the circumference of the earth or no larger than a > 1_ tmniDie.- mere are muusujua ui ^cum^o here this moraine, and in some one thing you are a star. What kind of a star are you? You will be in this world bat a few minutes. As compared with eternity the stay of the longest life oa earth is oot more than a minute. What are we doing with that minute? Are we embittering the domestic, or social, or political fountains, or are we like Moses, who, when the Israelites in the wilderness complained that the waters of Lake Marah were bitter and they could not drink them, their leader cut off the branch of a certaia tree aad threw that branch into the water, and it became sweet and slaked the thirst of the suffering host? Are we with a branch of the tree of life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we can touch? Dear Lord, send us all out on thy mission. All around as embittered lives, embittered by persecution, embittered by hypercriticism, embittered by poverty, embittered by pain, embittered by injustice, embittered by sin. Why not eo forth and sweeten them by smiles, By inspiring words, by benefactions, by hearty council by prayer, by gospelized behavior. Let as remember that if we are wormwood to others we are wormwood to ourselves, and our life will be bitter and our eternity bitter. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only sweetening power that is sufficient. It sweetens the disposition. It sweetens the manners. It sweetens life It sweetens mysterious Providences. It sweetens afflictions. It sweetens death. It sweetens everything. I have heard people asked in social company: "If you could have three wishes gratified what would your three wishes be ?M If I could have three wishes met this morning I tell you what they would be. First?More of the grace of God. Second?More of the grace of Goi ThirdMore of the grace of God. In the door yard of my brother Jolin, missionary in Amoy, China, theqp is a tree called the emperor tree, the two characteristics of which are inau it always roundings, and its leaves take the form of a crown. Tf this emperor tree be planted by a. rose bush it grows a little higher than the bush, and spreads out above it a crown. If it be planted by the side of another tree it grows a little higher than that tree and spreads above it a crown. Would God that this religion of Christ, a more wonderful emperor tree, mi.;ht overshadow all your lives; are you lowly in ambition or circumstance, putting over you its crown; are you higli in talent and position, putting over you its crown. Oh. for more of the saccharine in our lives and less of the wormwood* What is true of individuals is true of nations. God sets them up to revolve as stars, but they may fall wormwood. Tyre?the atmosphere of the desert fracrant with spices coming in caravans to her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by the keels of her laden merchantmen; her markets rich with horses and camala, from Togarmah, ner uazaars uneu wita upnuistery irom Dolan, with emeralds and coral and agate from Syria, with wines from Helbon, with embroidered work from Ashur and Cliilmad. Where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets where once she stood, let the sea that rushes upon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration of all nations, let the barbarians who set their rude tents where onco her palaces glittered, answer the question. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Hundred-gated Thebes?for all time to b? the study of antiquarian and hieroglyphist her stupendous ruin spread over twenty seven miles, her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot the victories with which the now forgotten kings of Egypt shook the nations; her obelisks and columns; Carnac and Luxor, the stupendous temples of her pride. Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days, when the hippodrome rang with her 6ports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines and her avenues roared with the wheels of processions in the wake of returning conquerors?^ What dashed down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What hand} pulled upon the columns of her glory? What ruthles3nos3 defaced the sculptured wall and broke obelisks and left her indescribable temples great skeletons of granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair of wild beasts in her royal sepulchers, and taught the miserable cottagers of to-day to bu'ld huts in the courts of her temple*, and sent desolation and ruin skulking behind the obelisks and dodging among the sircophagi and leaning against the columns ana stooping under tbe arches and weeping in the waters which go mournfully by, a3 though they were carrying the tears of all ages? Let the mummies break Choir. Inn-* otllanrxa nnri mma 11 n tO ShlVPr In the desolation, and point to fallen gate3 and 3hattered statues and defaced sculpture, responding: "Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated righteousness and loved sin. Thebes was a star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." Babylon?with her 250 towers and her brazen gates and her embattled walls, the splendorof the earth gathered within her palaces, her hanging gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar to pie isa his bride Amyittas, who had been brought up in a mountainous country and could not endure the flat country round Babylon, those hanging gardens built terrace above terrace, till at the height of t - ' V;vx ; 400 twrf there were wools waving and fountains playing, the verdure, the foliage, the glory looking as if a mountain were on the wing. On the tip top a king walking with his queen, among statues snowy white, looking up at birds Drought from distant lands, and drinking out of tankards of solid gold, or looking off over rivers and lakes upon nations subdued and tributary,crying: "Is not this great Babylon which I have built#" What battering ram smote the walls ? What plowshare upturned the gardens? WThat army shattered the brazen gates? What long, fierce blast of storm put out this light which illuminated the world ? What crash of discord drove down the music that poured from palace window and earden grove, and called the banqueters to tneir revel and tho dancers to their feet? I walk upon the scene of desolation to find an answer and pick up pieces of bitumen and brick and broken pottery, the remains of Babylon; and as in the silence of the night I hear the surging of that billow of desola nrhinh mll? n7BP the snflno. I hear the wild waves saying: " Babylon was proud. Babylon was impure. Babylon was a star, but by sin she turned to wormwood and has fallen." From the persecutions of the Pilgrim Fathers and the Huguenots in other lands God set upon these shores a nation. The council fires of the aborigines went out in the greater light of a free government. The sound of the war whoop was exchanged for the thousand wheels of enterprise and progress. The mild winters, the fruitful summers, the healthful skies charmed from other lands a race of hardy men who loved God and wanted to be free. Before the woodman's ax forests fell and rose again into shies' masts and churches' pillars. Cities on the banks of lakes begin to rival cities by the sea. The land quakes with the rush of the rail car and the waters are churned white with the steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of western wheat meet on the way fabulous tons of eastern coal. Furs from the north pass on the rivers fruits from the south. And trading in the same market is Maine lumberman and South Carolina rice merchant and Ohio farmer and Alaska fur dealer. And churches and schools and asylums scatter light and love and mercy and salvation upon OO.OJO,000 of people. I pray that our nation. may not copy the crimes of the nations that have perished, and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood and like them we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will continue to advance until the world shall put on millennial era, and when Christ comes again He will set His throne somewhere between the Alleghenies and the Sierra Nevadas. But be not deceived. Our only safety is in righteousness toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord to this land, and break His Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have again and again coma to us as a people, and we learn a saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic, nor drought, nor mildew, nor scourge or locust and grasshopper, if the political corruption which has poisoned the fountains of public virtue and beslimed the high places of authority, making free government at times a hissing and a byword in all the earth; if the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme in the streets of our great cities, as though they were reaching after the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom, are not reDented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin; the pillars of our national and state capitals will fall more disastrously than when Sampson pulled down Dagon; and future historians will record upon the page bedewod with generous tears the story chat the free nation of the west arose in splendor which made the world stare. It had magnificent possibilities. It forgot God. It hated justice. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under the blow of calamity. It fell. And as it was going down all despotisms nf earth from the top of bloody thrones began to hout: "Aha, so would we have it." while struggling and oppressed peoples looked out from dungeon bars with tears and groans ana cries ui uawiu cupjuy j mo m.uiu ui mw? and the woe of those uniting in the exclamation: "Look yonder! There fell a great star from heaven, burning: as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters; and the name of the star ii called Wormwood!" Cl'KlOUS FACTS. Hatchets were first made in 1504. Printing was introduced into England J by Caxton in 1477. The first complete sewing machine was patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1846. [ After they have wound the silk from the cocoon the Chinese eat the chrysalis of the silk-worm. The Gauchos of the Argentine Re public are in the habit of hunting skunks for the sake of lh?ir flesh. A New England constable, who had great experience with tramps, says that e has never yet seen one with a bald head. The power of burning glass and of concave mirrors was known to Archimedes, and it is even asserted that by their aid he burned a fleet. Jumbo was the heaviest elephant ever brought to this country. .His live weight was ten tons. An average elephant weighs from four to five tons. Frank Epstein, a Chicago boy of sixteen, smoked sixty cigars in one day on a bet, and three days thereafter he was sent to the hospital a nervous wrack. Europe signifies a country of white j complexion; so named because the inhabitants there were of a lighter complexion than those of either Asia or Africa. A British shipmaster at New Orleans reports that while off the coast of Patagonia butterflies were blown aboard his vessel at a distance of 150 miles from the land. Annie Owens, a nine year old girl at Chester, Penn., jumped the rope 202 times at one trial. In a few hours after rTip wns TuifVi rnrnmlflinna nnrl died in great agony the next day. A Philadelphia doctor went hunting over in Jersey, got mixed in the swamp, and in struggling to free himself received scratches, wlrch, by poisoning him and producing erysipelas, brought him to death's door. A Minnesota man who lost his wife one year ago, lately made a bonfire of all his money and valuables?some $1200 in all?and claims that it was by direction of his wife's spirit, who further advised him to burn their two children and kill himself. A lemon was picked at L03 Angeles, Cal., the ?ther day, that weighed 3J pounds, wa3 6J inches long and 5 inches m diameter, ine tree on wnicn it grew bad but balf a dozen lemons on its branches, but the weight of the fruit bent them almost to the ground. A slight suspension bridge was built at Niagara Falls in 1848 and removed in 1854. A new suspenspion bridge, then the finest in the world, having a span of 821 feet, was completed in 1335. The great suspension bridge across Niagara Klver, from Niagara Falls to Clifton, Canada, was opened in 1809. A young lady and gentleman were married on the top of the Blue Mountains in Pennsylvania the o her day. They had a marriage license from the L/Ourt or ncnuyiKiu cuuuiy t?uu vvero m Berks County. The nearest point where the license was valid was the top of the mountains between the two counties. Prefers the Summer. There's fun in courting 'Midst the winter's sporting, When the sleigh's flying over the crusted snow And the fcol's are jingliug And the ears are tingling And the mercury's at zero or one below. But I think I'd rather Wait for warmer weather ! And sit in the wools on a grassy knoll, j "Where the flowers are springing And the birds are singing, And court her under her parasoL I ?Boston Conner. TEMPERANCE. New Departments, VT. C. T. U. Two departments qf work have been added to the World'? W. Q T. U., the department of scientific temperance instruction, and the department of prison and police work. Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, Mass., has been appointed World's Superintendent of the first, and Mrs. J. K. Barney, of Providence, R. L, World's Superintendent of the second, both these ladles being already Superintendents of the same departments in the National W. C. T. U. of America, and both having done excellent and most successful work in their respective departments. Views of Hon. P. T. Barnnm. I have lived nearly seventy-eight years In this world, and as the result of an experience larger than comes to most men, I have arrived at certain conclusions on the question i ij#_ J V* \jl uvn iaj atuaiu iuul me auu uaypiucoo. jm.t ideas are not probably new, others may have written in a similar strain, but they should possess some value from the fact that they have come tome at first hand and as the result of living. If a man expects to attain length of years he must live a life according to the laws of his being. You cannot coquette, you cannot play fast and loose with old Dame Nature. She will not be bribed, she refuses to be coaxed, she cannot be scared into gratifying your improper desires. She is forever dinning into your ears the fact that there is an eternal, immutable law, Cause and Effect. A man, then, had better make up his mind in a very early period of his career, that ha will not eat too much, and, according to my strict notions, he should never use intoxicating liquors or tobacco, particularly the former. A man should keep good hours. The gay fellows who sit up till 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning, "drinking wine and lager oeer," proDaujy wium mey are oaveiuiBui fun. The fact is, they are not having real enjoyment In believing that they are getting a full measure of enjoyment, they are the victims of an illusion: they see life through jaundiced eyes. By and by the scales will be taken off, life will be seen as it ideally is, the truth of the common sense, "old fogy" ideas about moderation will be demonstrated, possibly too late to do them any food. As it is written in the Scriptures: "I ave seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree: Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was .not; yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." It is a fact that "the way of the transgressor" of Nature 8 laws is always "hard." And one of the old philosophers has said: "Sensual Eleasure is pain covered with the mask of appiness. She strips it from her face and pavaald fVia fanfurea nf Hicanoa Hianniat.ilHa and remorse." I say nothing more on the subject of the personal habits of the man who wants to attain a long life. The sum and substance of all the advice that can be given on that point is that a man must avoid excesses; he must live rationally, according to the laws of hi? being. You cannot get two quarts of milk in a quart jug. You can only secure a certain amountof happiness in this world, and you can only secure it according to "good oldfashioned notions, founded on common sense, rirtue and morality. Millions havo tried their own foolish and vicious ways of reaching the goal, but tbe world has never reported that they have been successful? Epoch. Liquor-Drinking Baseball Players. Ferguson, the veteran umpire, player, and manager, vras full of reminiscences and base ball reform yesterday. Among other thinga he said: "I have watched closely the development of the baseball pbenomenons, and some of the men deserved the success they made, while others are out of their occupation except when carrying the hod or debauching in a gin mill. Look at Burdock, for instance; there is a wonderful plaver, and yet of what account is he to himself or to baseball? There is one of the greatest, if not the best infielder in the country. He cannot control his abominable taste for liquor, and consequently he is useless. The club owners have forgiven his tricks until they have lost all patience with him. He has been fined again ana again, and yet he will go rigbt off and do the same thing again. Now he appears to have been shelved at last, and in the interest of the game be ought not to be taken back again. Such practices ca?t a reflection upon every other player in the country. You read ?L L. a i.1 -m n a?Li- ? iu mo papci a ui. tmumur ui uuruix;* b t?capades, and people say: 'Oh, he's a ball player,' as if all ball players did such things. I have always been in favor of retiring men from the profession who cannot conduct themselves like true gentlemen both on and off the field. I was always opposed to reinstating those unfortunate players, Hall and Devlin, and although they had powerful friends, and every effort was made to have them taken back, better counsel prevailed and it was not done. Base ball is the sport of the people, and we must keep it clean and wholesome, or the foundation will be knocked from under it. Players are now paid good salaries, and young* men of intelligence and social position are daily entering the ranks. Let the loafers go, I say, and so will say every other true friend of the game. " Returning to Burdock, what do you suppose if that great second baseman would take care of himself he could be drawing as a salary to-day? Look at Dunlap with his $4500, and Johnny Ward demanding $5000. Burdock could get those figures with ease if he had only taken care of himself, and not muddled his brain with that manhooddestroying tanglefoot"?New York Sun. Gorman Student Beer-Drinkers. A writer In a late number of the Cornhill Magazine describes at length the German Kn$ipe, or beer-drinking club for German students. In some of the German universities these beer-drinking clubs have regular sessions, and the drinking is carried on wich much formality, and the quantity consumed is well-nigh incredible. "It is no uncommon thing," says this writer, "for a student to drink from twenty to thirty pints of beer in the course of a sinjrle club meeting. "What would appear quite impossible is accomplished in a way as disgusting as can well be conceived. "The difficulty," this writer adds, "is met by artificially creating a vacuum. The beer-honorable, full to bursting point, makes a momentary exit from the club-room, and sticks a finger m his throat The titillation of the uvula produces a result that may be better imagined than described, and the beery champion returns to his place relieved of his previous potations and ready for fresh ones." No young man can go through such drinking bouts in his college life and not deteriorate morally and physically. It is to that sort of "personal liberty" and general demoralization that we should drift rapidly in this country but for the temperance teaching which here obtains, and if the beer-makers and venders were allowed unrestricted sway. ?National Temverancc A dvocate. nurry up i Temperance brothers and sisters, hurry up! The great armv of outcasts, of helpless women and innocent children look to you for aid tc emancipate them from the worse than death in which they are now plunged. Agitate for "sweeter, purer laws." Already a broad streak of light is in the horizon, in the name of the Lord God Almighty, do not slacken one single effort for right, until the line o 1 dawn anall have broadened into the "tight of perfect day. The American saloon of to day stands at the bar of American civilization for its verdict. The testimony is in, and of such a nature that we no longer ask shall anything be done with the dramshop? but what shall b? done with it? Society has laws for its protection, and in the exercise of personal liberty you cannot oppose the good of society. The safety of the State and the protection of the pure is the demands of temperance reform.? Mrs. Man T. Lathroo. Great Temperance Building Project. The members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union propose to erect a building at Chicago which will be the headquarters of the organization for the United States. It will cost about #800,000 and will probably be located at the corner of Jackson and Quiney streets. A permanent lease of the grounds can be made for $o5,000 a year, and upon this land will be erected a twelve story structure, with a tower at the northwest corner surmounted by a bronze figure of the Siatine Madonna. About $250,000 of the stock has been subscribed, and it is ex pc< ted that the additional sum necessary will be raised by May 1, 1889, at which time it is proposed to lay the corner stone. Many Chicago capitalists have taken stock, and Miss Frances E. Wiilard has gone to the East for the purpose of enlisting the aid of local societies in the large cities. In a recent interview with a reporter, a leading New York liquor dealor said that whisky was the most dangerous liquor in the market; that it was more easily adulterated than any other spirits, and that it usually contained seven different substances, all dangerous to the health and life of the consumer. - k ' v ' RELIGIOUS EEADINP - Star of the Crou. Dark grows my way, my spirit dark But still the Cross shines on; The havened lights that led my bark Are gone. I drift upon an unknown sea, But still the Star shines on for ms, Jesus, my Star, My soul's bright Star, Shines on! Peace, soul, the shade of self forsake, For tbee the Cross shines on. Upon the skies divine shall break The dawn. Above the darkness of life's sea The Cross still lifts its Star for thee. Jesus, thy Star, Thy soul's bright Star, Shines on I I O Voice upon the Sea of Peace! 8tar of the Cross, shine on! 0 Light when earthly beacons cease, Shine onl My Guide, my Hope, my Surety, Star of the Cross, I'll follow Thee; Jesus, my Star, My soul's bright Star, Shines on! The new creation fills my view, Star of the Cross, shine on; So fills the sun a drop of dewShine on. 1 cannot know the ways afar, But evermore I'll trust the Star,' Jesus, my Star, My soul's bright Star, Shines on! ?rruiiiAn PnU The Promise of Hli Presence. We are not afraid to go alone on a journey for a strange place where we are sure that a friend will meet us at the end of the journey. The husband in a distant city telegraphs to his wife to come to him, and he will be at the station to receive her. She has faith in him. She sits amid strangers in the cars all day. She enters the depot filled with strangers at night. But there is one familiar face, there are the outstretched arms of love; the loneliness that faith cheered during the journey now ends In joyous fruition. But our blessed Saviour does not ask lis to go far away in the spirit world with the assurance that he will meet us byeand-bye. He comes down to the starting point of the strange journey. He takes us to himself the moment we enter the chariot of death. That terror of the unbelieving soul is the charioteer of Jesus for. those who trust in him, so there is no loneliness in this trying hour. It is as when a bridegroom comes for his bride, takes her in his arms, as she leaves the threshold of her old home, and Dears Der to toe new noma ce mis jinr i pared for her. Thtre is nothing sweeter in all the revelation of God's love than that, promise of his presence which removes the { loneliness of death,?[Interior. IToBdnrfal Growth of the Order of ! the Klar'i Danfhtcr*. In January, 1888, a circle of 10 ladles, consist .ng of Mrs. Margaret Bottoms, Miss I Hamerslev, Miss Dickinson, Mrs. Theodore Irving, Mrs. Payson, Mrs. Cortland dePeys- I ter Field. Mrs. Haggles, Miss Schenck and Miss Libby met in answer to Mrs. Bottome's ! invitation to discuss and arrange some plan which should unite all Christian women in one grand sisterhood of service. Adopting the system of Edward & Halt's "Ten Times One" club constituted themselves a "Central Ten," around which should crystallize other tens of workers, not assuming any authority or responsibility over them, but simply to form a nucleus around which they might cluster, and from which might radiate encouragement, advice and guidance. Of the various names proposed for tbe order tnat oi the King's Daughters, suggested by Mrs. Irving, was most favorably received, and finally adopted; tbe badge of tbe order was selected in the small silver cross tied with the royal color; the watchword chosen was the simple "In His Name" of the apostles of old, and the mottoes of action selected were: "Look forward and not back." "Look ont and not in." "Look up and not down." "Lend a band." Tbe society as organized had no constitution and no code of laws save tbe one general regulation that whenever any reasonable request should be made "In His Hame" It should be granted without question ordelay. Since the Immense growth of the order it has been deemed expedient to constitute the central 19 on executive committee, or advisanr board, with Mrs. Bottome as president It was also decided as the society increased that tbe formation of bands of Tens was impracticable, and that a "Ten" might comprise as many members as was deemed advisable by its leader. Leaving the essential lihartv of the Tens in the choice of work and method of its accomplishments, the great variety of inquiries and views concerning minor details nas neceesi a tod the drawing up of a constitution, which is soon to be published, and tbe compilation of. a certain amount of printed information, which may be obtained, together with the badges, of Miss G. H. LiDby, 18 Washington place. New York City. Never was less said or written, and never so few pises made for any work, as the dosign of the society wqs to move silently and steadilv, and to secretly accomplish its purpose of bridging the chasm between the rich and the poor, and to unite all women engaged in any kind of good work In such n way as to secure to each the sympathy and co-operation of alL Yet from almost every &tate in the Union, and from the most remote countries over tbo sea?India, Australia and New Zealand?from people in every waik in life, from pastors of churches, matrons of hospitals, teachers of schools, leaders of 5>hilanthropic societies, presidents of coleges, from the belles of Fif.h avenue and tho street gamin of tbe Bowery come tidings j of the continued organization of ten3 upon tens of King's Daughters, until 8600 silver J crosses have been sold ani 10,000 members have enrolled their names among the King's Daughters, although the society has been organized only two years. In January of this year a branch organisation was established, known as the King's Sons, and through their efforts already a 1 missionary chapel has been builded in the | city of Baltimore, whose rector is to be supported entirely by the King's Sons. As for the kind of work accomplished by this remarkable sisterhood, it is too varied and extensive to be recorded in detail There are Tens that visit the sick, Tens that supply the hospitals and homes with flowers, Tens that support foreign missionaries, Tens that sing and Tens that sew, Tens that endow beds in hospitals, Tens that provide pleasant country homes for deserving poor, and Tens that simply "bridle their tongue" and "endeavor to five in love and charity with all men" all "In His ilame." The King's Daughters are found in greater numbers in the cities and larger towns than in the rural districts, and in the west and south they are more abundant than in the east, owing to the previous establishment of Edward E. Hale's Ten Times One Clubs. The rapid growth, harmonious unity, ceaseless activity, varied and unique charities, and sympathetic co-operations of this society are said to be unparalleled in the history or any organization known. Within two years it has girdled the globe with the gleam of its silver crosses "In His Name." Whilst you are upon earth, enloy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven. If a king should give you the keeping of a castle, with all things belonging to it, orchards, gardens, eta, and bid you use them; withal promise you, after twenty years to remove you to the court, and to make you a Privy Councillor; if you should neglect your castle, and refuse to eat of those fruits, and sit down, and whine, and wish you were a Privy Councillor, do you think the king would be pleased with youf j A Norel Temperance Society. A little over a year ago a commercial was the curse of his class, as of all business men, and having read Dr. E. E. Hale's book, "Ten Times One Is Jen," started the "Commercial Temperance League," adopting for its motto "Lend a Hand." Each member wears a button badge bearing the letters C. T. L., and there are two pledges: 1. To drink no intoxicating liquors. 2. To get ten others to ioin the League. This organization has a ready grown until it numbers several thousand. Leagues have been started in Bobton, with Dr. E. E. Hale as its leader, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, East Saginaw. St. Louis, Indianapolis, and are being formed in many plac s. A system of correspondence has been begun whereby each branch reports monthly to the Cabinet Ten, located in i this city.?New York Tribune. vV . , . ' .f:'.V WATCHMAKIMG. DELICATE OPERATIONS REQUIRING GREAT JUDGMENT. That Part of the Work of Making Timepieces Which Can Only Be Done By HandSprings and Dials. The Globe-Democrat prints an interesting description of the various operations required in watchmaking. After tracing the steps in which machinery is needed the article continues: The watch is now ready for finishing, and the machinery disappears. Brain, intelligence ana judgment are necessary irom tnis on, ana as this cannot be given to machinery, man must do the work unaided except by hand tools. The watches, with all the marks complete and in place, held by the tiny screws, are delivered to this room, still in the trays in which they have been carried since the entire train was first collected in separate pieces. The men in this room are jewelers. They pick each watch to pieces, put in springs, try the main spring for uniformity,- and if it has not force enough send the train back to be remedied or the spring to be hardened, as the case may be. If the movement is too fast the trouble is remedied by puttingin a weaker spring. While the men in the finishing department are skilled in their trade, the work is not confined on one watch to one man. Each man does one thing alone. If the man who tries it for the motion is satisfied with it he passes it on until it reaches the workmen who nut on the dial and hands. This, too, is delicate work. The dials must go in ju3t so, the hand* must not strike the dial and mnst nof come in contact with each other. This, too, looks easy, but it requires a very correct judgment of space to do it properly. Theljist hands through which the watch goes before it is pronounced ready for the market is the adjuster's. The real adjustment consists in weighing the screws and different important parts of the watch. Each has a certain weight, and each a weight of other parts to go with it The combination is determined by running the watch. It is then timed and started off, being Watched for an hour. If it runs uniformly it is then placed on a rack, in trays of ten, and remains there for twentv-four hours. If | it runs fast or slow it is sent back to the department in which the faalt occurred, i and it is thero remedied. The making of springs and dials is really separate from the watch industry, [ but some factories make everything that goes into the watch, and so these. The [ making of the hair spring is-really the most delicate operation about the manuj facture of the watch. The wire is re! ceived in spools, and is nothing more than a round thread. This is run between hardened steel rollers and flat| tened, and being wound on the' roll is then drawn between diamond .dies, which give the required thickness and width. i The spring must be of exactly the same j width ana thickncss, and before being , used is tested on a register which marks down to one two hundred and fifty thousandths of an inch. To show to what fineness this measures, a hair placed beX Al__ A AA ?~A , iween uie jaws utai&cu tuu ucgicce auu moved forward half an inch registered 865 degrees. Of course, every one knows that a hair varies in thickness, but that it should be bo exactly measured Is a surprise; and when it is remembered that the hair spring of awaing of a watch cannot vary even so much as the variance in a hair from the. human head, the delicacy.of the operation will be emphasized iu the imagination. The wire is received in lengths of 1500 yards, and in this entire length must not vary three degrees, or one-thirtieth of what a hair varies in half an inch. The spring is then cut into lengths of twelve inches, and these are wound, four at a time, and very quickly, the tool resembling a large penholder, and turning from the end into the shape of a spring, and of seventeen coils. The wire is hardened but winds very easily, and is removed from the winder in copper boxes. ThA mftinnnrinstt heme larce. a six tejn{h to an eightE of tin ji^ch wide, I00I5 much easier to make, but in reality they give much more trouble. The steel is received in sheets four inches wide, and is afterwards split and cut in lengths and widths desired by machine. The work after this is all by hand. The grinding is done with a sliding iron or stone, and entirely by elbow grease, on two springs at a time, the springs bein<* stretched tightly between braces, holding either end. They are then tempered on a gas iron in a fiddle bow, and afterward polished by hand. The coiling is a simple operation, as is also tacking the clamp at .the end, when the springs are tied up in bundles of a dozen, each spring twenty-six inches long, ready for use in the factory or shipment to the jewelers. It has always been a problem how to cheapen the cost of the mainsprings, but j the very cost of the diamonds necessary for a die has always been an obstacle that ! could not be overcome. The Illinois i company, however, now hss under construbtion a new machine which, it is hoped, will do away with hand labor. The dial is made on a copper plate, the enamel or porcelain being tilled in, the dial plate then being sent to the furnace ana submitted to a very high degree of heat, which melts the enamel, runs it over the plate and burns it in. It is then sent to the printer. A great many people have an idea that the figures and designs on a dial are painted with a brush. Such a presumption is very far from the fact. The paint is put on in rough dabs around tne edge, or where the figures will strike. This is then placed in a machine, perfected within the last six months, which stamps the figures and heavy part of the border, marking the hours exactly, and working automatically. All the ink then left on is on the figures and borders, but instead of the ooen blocks representing minutes, the paint adheres in a solid black block. This machine works out about 1000 dials a day, though its capacity could be increased. The plate then goes to a second machinc, called the minute machine, which marks out the minutes in blocks, taking out the surplus black. The very light lines, such as the cross of X and the end liucs of the letters are then drawn by hand, aud the plate goes to the furnace, where the letters and figures are enameled into the porcelain and become a part of it. Even after the black is stamped and dried on it can bo wiped off with a slight brush of the finger, but after coming from the furnace the oulv way to get it off is to cut it out and take ? ???1- _ ?-!il% :< A m o n \i lliC pUIUUUUU Willi Jt. 4*. u*?u; dials are ornamented with figures comparing artistically with many steel engravings, costing all the way from $5 to $100 for the ornamentation alone. Says an imaginative statistician; "11 Texas were a circular lake and-France a circular island, the island could be anchored centrally in the lake out of sight of land, twenty-two miles from anj point on the encircling shore." WfiiCy ^p~3t '^-I^Wzfy-: %&?9 ' ; * -, " . .-'-v' '; : POPULAR SCIENCE. j ??? { Possibly the" windmill dynamo might be adapted to domestic lighting purposes. Cavendish in 1766 discovered hydro* gen; and between 1774 and 1799 Priestley discovered oxygen, azote and nitron# gas. As a wood preservative naphthaline it now largely used in Scotland, its action being to destroy all albuminoid compounds in the wood, leaving it dry and clean to handle. At a station near toe month ot the Seine a windmill is made to drive a dj Hamo, the electricity produced being stored in suitable batteries, and afterward employed for lighting beacons to .' guide the seamen. An Englishman has invented a brake by which any person in a compartment can turn a lever and stop the train. At the same time a white disk will appear outside of the compartment to notify the conductor in which carriage thebtake has been used. a neigim entomologist nas produced the numerous color-varieties of certain coleoptera bj chemical mean^ though ho 'v does not claun that his process is that of nature. Alkalies and acids give color* varying from brown through red to yel- ^ low, and calcic chloride and heat yield all the tints from green to violet. Henry's Lake, amid the Rockies in J Nevada, has two floating islands. One of them is about 300 feet in diameter. A willow thicket thrives in the centre, interspersed with small aspens and dwarfed ^ pine?. These little trees catch the wind and it is wafted about the lake, which t\Afl AM n?/lA A f nt>A11^ flAltMa CM?f Alt J* mas au uiuu ui ai/vu? auiwy dviuuo Several yeais ago the Bod and Gun ;?s Club, of Portland Oregon, imported"* few Chinese pheasant and set them loose on Protection Island. The pheasant* have sinck multiplied until the island is well stocked witn them. The birds are about thp size of a common prairie chicken, with a long tail, and their plumage is remarkably beautiful. Experiments show that centipedes with eyes only perceive at a distance the existence of an obstacle placed in their track, which reflects a good deal of white light, and Plateau thinks that this perception is due to the sensitiveness to ? light of the skin and its outgrowths: Moreover these creatures do not distinguish the form of objects, thongh. some kinds seem to perceive marked move* ments of bodies. The depth to which wave action ex* tends has been differently estimated, but it varies from 70 feet to 130 feet, aft shell fish which are known only to live at these -.1, depths are thrown upon the?horedaring . heavy gales, aod it has been ascertained that shngle is moved in a depth of 80 feet. For all practical purposes, however, so far as harbor works are concerned, it is found that there is little movement of materials under 18 feet to 20 feet below low water, the foundations of break-waters hitherto constructed not having been disturbed below these levels. An examination was recently made by the chief engineer to the Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, of the condition of the piles of the 8outh Bassein Bridge, some of which have been : i ; down for twenty-live years, and exposed during this" period to the action of sea water. Specimens wpre cut; from e#h pile that was considered likely ?o be corroded, and, from an examination of . r.fk tanse, it was concluded that the greatest corrosion in cast iron piles exists close to low water and. does not extend to. any considerable depth below it, a conclusion , which also applies to bolts and braces. . ^ After twenty-five years' exposure in. s salt water way the piles are in very good condition, and corrosion has only occurred in nlaces which are eaailv accessible for repairs and renewals. A Lazy Vagabond's Rich Find. Three years ago Frank Martin was a* worthless and lazy a vagabond as could we.l be produced?one of those who never missed a meal or paid a cent He resided at aplace called Era, in Alturaa County, Idaho Territory, had no occupation, and sponged his living from , k'8 brother^ whjjhad a small ranch apj kept the post office by the roadside. One day Ins brother's wife requested Frank to cut some wood. He refused, whereupon she beat him out of the house with a rolling-pin and forbade him to ever enter her doors a^ain. Sad and dejected at the condition of affairs, Frank walked up the hill in the rear of his once happy home, until within a short distance of its summit, when he sat down upon a fat rock, at the same time stretching out his legs and bracing his feet against a small boulder in front of him. % ? 1 J - -1- 1 x? 1 1 ne una uut ueyu ujjre wug wuvu jya boulder under his feet gave way and went rolling down the hill. Frank raised himself and listlessly followed after the rolling stone-and just here we will digress and say that his experience exploded the aphorism that a "rolling stone gathers no moss"?and, picking it up, was surprised at its weight and general appearance. He showed the stone to some miners soon after, and they pronounced it horn silver ore of the ricnest character. Thereupon Frank prospected the place and soon found a ledge which paid big from the start, so that in less than a month after opening the mine Mr. Frank Martin's check was worth its face from $3000 to $3000. He had hosts of warm friends?indeed his friends were red-hot?reaching from Houston on the north to Blackfoot in the centre and | Hailey and Salt Lake in the east. One evening, after delivering a snipment of his ore to the redaction works at flailey, Mr. Martin dropped into a * restaurant and ordered a square meaL ^ He was promptly served by a comely waiter girl, and, being in a somewhat hilarious mood, challenged tha girl to marry him then and there. She accepted hi* proffer, a Justice of the Peace waa sent for and tho twain were made one. About six months after this he sold the mine for the sum of $55,090. By hia drinking and gambling he ha? reduced this to about $1000, and his wife has petitioned the Probate Couft to have a ' Ar' guardian appointed for him.?Idaho Regu!er. (jiiinino s ropuiar KiTai. "There never was such a large demand for cocoa as there is now," chatted a wholesaler as he discussed the advisability of raising the price. "Why," said he, "people who have for years used quinine wine ns a tonic have taken to cocoa instead recently. They say that it stimulates like quinine wine, but unlike the latter, leaves no subsequent depression. There is no getting away from the fact that cocoa is much richer in flesh forming and muscle Tiroducinsr compounds than people gen erally suppose. It is astonishing how the original high grade article is adulterated with starch and sucjar in order to enable sales at low prices, but regular consumers soon detect the fraud. It is of the same taste as the unadulterated, but there is no stimulating effect felt after using it.'.'?New York Mail and Expresi.