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REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- J DAY SEKMON. Subjcct: ,:Our Departed Still Livinff.' j Text: "And tr/in he saw the icagons I tciiich Joseph had. svnt. to curn./ him, the \ spirit of Jacob their father revived. And I Israel said: 'It is enough; Joseph, my son, } is yet alive.1 "?Genesis xlv., 27-'?. | The Egyptian capital was the focus of the ( world's wealth. In ships and barges thero 'had been brought to )t iroin India frankincense, ciona-non, and ivory, and diamonds; from tho North, marble and iron; from Syria, purplo and silk; from Greeco some of the finest horses of tho world, and some of the most rilliant chariots; and from all tho earth that which could best please the eye, and charm the tar, and gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with "red sandstone.entered by gateways that wero guarded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen serpents,and adorned ^pth wingedcreatures?their eyes, and be 'ks, j and pinions glittering with precious stones. 1 There wero marble columns blooming into white flower-buds; there were pillars, at the top bursting into the shape of the lotus when in full bloom. Along the avenues, lined with sphinx, and fane and obelisk, there were princes who came in gorgeously upholstered palanquin, carried by servants in scarlet, or I , elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow-white horses.golden-bitted, and six abreast dashing at fidl run. There were fountains from stonewreathed vases cl mbing the ladders of the light. You would near ;t bolt shove.aud a doer ; oi brass would open like a flash of the sun. The surrounding gardens wero saturated . with odors that mounted the terrace, and dripped from the nrl ors, and burned their incenso in tho Kgyptan noon. On lloors of mosaic the gloiies of rhuraoh wero spelled out in letters of porphyry, and beryl, and flame. Thero wera ornaments twisted from the wood of the tamarisk, embossed with silver breaking into loam. There were footstools made out of a single precious stone. There wero beds fashioned out of a crouched lion in bronze. Thero wero chairs j spotted with tho sleek hide of leop- 1 ards. There wera sofas footed with the j claws of wild beasts, and armed with tho tanks of birds. As vou stand on the level ] beach of the sea on a "summer day, an 1 look either way, and there are miles of breakers, white with the ocean foam, dashing shoreward; so it seemed as if the sea of tha world's pomp and wealth in the Egyptian capital for j miles and miles flung itself up into white breakers of marble temple, mausoleum, and obeliss*. h This was the place where Joseph, the shepherd boy. was called to stand m-xt to Pharaoh ^ in honor. \\ ljat a contrast between this scene and bis humble starting, and the pit into which his brotlieis threw him. Yet he was not forgetful of his early home; he was not ashamed of where he came from. The Bishop of Mentz, descended from : a wheelwright, covered his house with sp. .vs, and hammers, and wheels; and t!ie King of Sicily, in honor of his father, who was a potter, refused to drink out of anything but an earthen vessel. So Joseph wa< not ashamed of his early sur- ; roundings, or of his oid-time father, or of his bribers. U'hen they came up from the famine-stricken land to get corn fiom (he King's corn crib, Joseph, instead of chiding them for the way they had maltreated and abused him, sent them back with wagons,which Pharaoh furnished, laden with cor.'?: and old Jacob, the father, in the very same wagons, was brought baek, that Joseph, the son, might see him, ami give him a comforatablo home all the rest of his days. ; Well. I bear the wagons.the King's wagons, rumbling down in front of the palace. On the outside of the palace, to see the wagons go off, stands Pharcah in royal robes; and : beside him Prime Minister Joseph, with ' a chain of gold around his neck, and on Lis hand a ring Riven by Pharaoh to him, so that any time he wanted to stamp tho , royal seil upon a document he could do i so. Wagon after wagon rolls on down from tbe palace, laden with corn and meat, and changes of raiment, and every thing (hat could helD a famine-struck j-eople. One day 1 see aged Jacob seated in front of his house. He is possibly thin'jng of his absent boys (sons, however old they ( get, are never to a father any more than boys); and while he is seated there, he sees | dust arising, and he hears wagons rumbling, ' and he wonders what is coming now, for ' i the whole land had been smitten with the famine, and wcs in siiencc. But after a while the wagons have come near enough, i and he sees his sons on tho wagons, ! and before they come quite up, tbey shout: "Joseph is yet alive!" The old roan faints ; dead away. I do not wonder at it. The . boys teil the story how that the boy, the l long-absent Joseph, has got to be the first man in the Egyptian palare. While they j unload the wagons, tho wan and wacted creatures in the neighborhood come up and a?k for a handful of corn, and they are satis- j flad. One day the wagons are brought up, for Jacob, the old father, is about to go to see Joseph in the Egyptian palace. You know it Is not a very ea-y thing to transplant an old | tree, and Jacob has bard work to get away j from the p are where ho has lived so long, j He bids good-bye to the oiJ place, i and leaves his blessing with tbe neighbors, and then Ms sons steady . him, while ho, determined to help himself. J gets into the wagon, stiff, old and decrepit. Yonder they co, Jacob and his sons, ana their wives, and their children, eighty- I two in all, followed by herds and flocks. | which the herdsmen drive along. They are j going out from famine to luxuriance: tbey ; are going from a plain country home to the ; linest palace under the sun. Joseph, the Prime Minister, gets in hi3 chariot, 1 and drives down to meet the old i man. Joseph's charioteer holds up j the horses on one side?the dust-covered < wagons of the emigrants stop on vhe other, j Joseph, instead of waiting lor h!s father to i come, leaps out of the chariot and jumps ) into the emigrants' wagon, throws his arms around the o!d man. aut) weeps aloud for past memories and present joy. The father, Jacob, can hardly think it is his hoy. Why, the smooth brow of childhood has become a wrinkled brow, wrinkled with the cares of state, and the garb of the shepherd-boy has bocome a robo ) royally bedizened! But as the old man finds j out it is actually Joseph, I see the thin lip quiver against the toothless gum as he cries ' out: "Jiow let me die, since I have seen thy face: behold Joseph is yet alive!" The wagons roll up in front of the palace. Help out the grandchildren, and take them in out of the hot Egyptian sun. lleln old Jacob out of the wagon. Send word to Hiaruoh that the old shepherd has come. In th * royal apartment Pharaoh and Jacob meet?dignity and rusticity?the gracefulness of the court and the plain manners of the field. The King, wanting to make the old countryman at ease, and seeing how whitj bis board is, and how feeble his step, looks familiarly into his face, and says to the aged man: "How old art thou?" (jive the old mun a seat. Unload the wagons: drive oat the catt'e toward the pastures of Goshen. Let tho slaves in scarlet kneel and wa>h the feet of the newly-arrived, wiping them on tho finest linen of tho palace. From vasts of perfume let the newly'-arrived be sprinkled and refreshed; let minstrels come in ith sandals of crimson, and thrum the harps, and clap the cymbals, and jingle the tambourines, while we sit down, at this great distance of time and space, and loam the lesson of the King's wagons. My friends, we are in a world by sin famine st rack; but the King is in constant communication with us, his wagons coming and going perpetually; and in the rest of my discourse I will show you what the wagon3 bring am! what th^y take back. In the first place, like those that came from the Egyptian palace, the King's wagons now bring us corn and meat, and mnny changes of raiment Wo are apt to thiuk of tho fields and the orchards as feeding ns; but wnomates ine nax grow :or me nnen, and the wheat for the bread, and the wool on the sheep's back? Oh, I wish we could see through every grain field, by every sheep fold, under the trees of every orchard, the King's wagons. They drive up three times a day ? morning, noon, and nignt. They bring furs from tue Arctic, they bring fruits from the tropic, they bring bread from the temperate /one. The King looks out, and he says: '"There are twelve hundred millions of peoplo to be fed and clothed. So many pounds of meat, so many barrels of flour, so many yards of loth, and linen and flannel, so many hats. 30 many socks, so many shoos;' enough for ail, save that we who are greo iy get more shoes than belong to us, and others go barefooted. None but a God could feed and clothe the world. None but a King's cornerib conkl appease the world's famine. None I bat a King could tell how many wagons to I send,and bow beavily to load tham,and when i. .' they nre to start. They are coming over the frozen ground to-daj*. Do you not hear their rumbling? They will stop at noon at your tab c. Oh. if for a little whilo tiiey should cease, hunger would come into the nations, a> to U tica when Harnilcar b sieged it, and as in Jerusalem when \ espasian surrounded it; and the nations would t.e holloweyed, and fall upon each other in universal cannibalism; and skeleton would drop upon ske.eton; and there would be no one to bury tho dead; and the oarth would be a field of bleached skeletons; and the bird3 of ' prey would fall dead, flock after flock, with out any caicasses to devour; and the earth in silenco would wheel aro:.nd, one great , black hearse! All life stopp-.d because tiie [ King's wagons are stopped. Oh, thank God for bread?lor bread! 1 I remark again, that like those that came from the Egyptian palace.the King's wagons bring us good news. Jacob had not heard from his ooy for a great miuy years. He never thought o him but with a heart-ache. There was in Jacob's heart a room where lay the corpse of his unburied Joseph; and when the wagons came,the King's wagons,and told I linn that Joseph was yet olive, he faints ! dead away. Good nows for Jacob! Good | news for us! The King's wagons come down ' and toll us that our Joseph-Jesus is yet aiive: that He has forgiven us becauso we ; throw Him into the pit of fullering and the duu eon of shame. He has risen from ihence to stind in a palace. The Bethlehem shepherds were awakened at midnignt oy ine raining ol the wagons that brought the tidings. Uur Joseph-Jesus sends us a message of jrardon, of life, of heaven: corn for our hunger, raiment for our nakedness. Joseph-Jesus is yot alive! I go to hunt up Jesus. I go to the village oi Dethanv, and say: "Where does Mary live.'" They say: "Yonder Wary lives." I go in. 1 see where she fat in the sittingroom. I go out where Martha worked in the kitchen, but I find no Jesus. 1 go into Pilate's court room, and I find the judges and the p lice and the prisoner's box, but no .Jisus. I go into the Arimathean cemetery: but the door is gone, and the shroud is gone, and Jesus is gone. By faith I look upto the King's calaeo; and behold I have loundhim! Joseph-Jesus is still alive! Glorious religion,a religion made not out of death's heads, and cross-bones, | and undertaker's screw-driver, but one j bounding with life, and sympathy and glad- i ness. Joseph is yet alive! " I know that my Redeemer Uvea. What comfort this sweet sentence gives! He lives, lie lives, who once was (lead, Ho lives, my ever-living Head! " lie lives to grant tnc dally breath, lie lives, and 1 shall couqucr death. He lives my maunon to prepare, Ho lives to" brinir nio safely there. *116 llve3, all glory to His name; lie lives, my Jes>is, still the same. Oh, the sweet joy this sentence irives, I know that my Redeemer lives!" The King's wagons will after awhile unload, and they will turn around, and thov* will go back to tbo palace, and 1 really think that you and I will go with them. The King will not leave, us in t.'iis famine-stricken world. The King has ordered that we be lifted into the wagons, and that we go over into Goshen where there shall bo pas turage for our largest tloik of joy, and then we Will drive up to the palace, whore there are glories awaiting us which will melt all the suow of Egyptian marble into lorgetf ulceus. I think that the King's wagons will take as up to see our lost friends. Jacob's chief anticipation was not seeing the Kile, nor of seeing the long colonnades of architectural beauty, nor of seeing the throne-room. There was a focus to all his journeying.*, to all his anticipations; and that was Joseph. Well,my friends, I do not think heaven would be worth much if our bi~'lier Jesus was not there. If there were tv>o heavons, the o-te with all the pomp and paraphernulia of an eternal monarchy, but no Christ, and the other were a plain heaven, humbly thatched, with a few daisies in the yard, and Christ were thero 1 would say: "Let the King's wagons take mo up to the old farm-house." If Jesus were not in heaven, there would be no music thero; there would bo bnt few people there: they would bo oft* locking for the lost Christ, crying through the universe: "Where is Jesus? where is Jesus?" and after they had found him, with loving violence they would take him and bear him through the gates; and it would be the greatest day known in heaven within the memory of the oldest inhab tant. Jesus never went ?IT from heaven but once, and He was so badly treated on that excursion they will never let Him go again. Gh. the joy of meeting our brother. Joseph-Jesus! After wo have talked about Ilim for ten, or fifty, or seventy years, to talk with Him, and to clcsp bands with tha haro of the a^es; not crouching as underlings in tiispresence, out, as jacooana Joseph, hug each other. We will want some new term by i which to address Him. On earth wo call Him Saviour, or Redeemer, or friend; but when i we throw oar arms around Him in everlasting embrace, we will want somo new name of i endearment, I can think of what we shall do i through the long ages of eternity; but what we shall do the first minute I cannot i guess. In the first flash of His countenance, in the first rush of our emotions, what we shall do I cannot imagine. Uh, the overwhelming elory of the first sixty seconds in ( heaven! Methinks we will just stand, aud i look, and look, and look. The Kind's wagons took Jacob up to see lost boy, and so I really think that the Kind's ] wagons will take us up to see our lost km- I dred. How long is it since Joseph went out I of your household? How many years is it | now last Christmas, or the fourteenth of next month? It was a dark night when he 1 died, and a stormy day it was at the I burial; and the clouds wept with you, and the winds sighed for the dead. Tihe bell at Greenwood's gate rang only a few moments, 1 but your heart ha< been tolling, tolling, ever ' since. You have been under a de- 1 lusion, like Jacob oE old. You have thought that Joseph was dead. You put his nam s first in the birth-record of the family IhlVe, and then you put it in the dt ath-record of the family Bible, and vou have been deceived. JoseDhi.vet alive. He is more alivo tlmn you are. Of all the sixteen thousand millions of children that statistic-inns say have pone into the future world, there is not one of them dead, and tiio King's wagons will take you up to seo them. You often think how glad you will bo to sco them. Have you never thought, my brother, my sister, how glad they will bo to I see you.' Jacob was no moro glad to see Joseph than Joseph was to see Jacob. Every time the door in Heaven opens, they look to see if it is you coming in. Joseph, once standing in the palace, burst out erjiiig when he thought of Jacob?afar off. Ana the heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you got there. All the kindnesses shown them by immortals will not make them forgot you. There they are, the raidiant throngs that went out from your homes! 1 throw a kiss to the sweet * darlings. They aro all well now in the jMlnce. The crippled child has a sounl foot now. A little lame child says: "Ma, will I bo iame in heaven?" "No, my darling, you won't bo lame in heaven." "A little sick child says: "Ma, will I l?e sick in heaven." "No, my dear, you won't ba sick in heaven?" A little blind child says: "Ma. will 1 be blind in tinivmi" niv rlanr. vou won't hfl blind M heaven." They arc all well there. In my boyi oid, for some time we lived three inilos from church, and on stormy daya the children staid at home, but father and mother always went to church; that was a habit they bail. On those stormy Sabbaths when we staid at home, the absence of our parents seemed very much protracted, ior the roads were very bad, and they could not get on very fust. fcjo we would go to the window at twelve o'clock to see if they were coming, and then wo would go at half-past twclvo to see if they were coming, and at quarter to one, and then at one o'clock. After a while, Mary, or David, or De Witt would shout: ' 'ihe wagon's coming!" and then we would see it winding out of the woods, and over the brook, and through the lane, and up in front of the old farm-bouse; and then we would nwli nn?- Imvini' tho doors wide or>en. with many thinjrs to tell them, askin? them many questions. Well, my dear brethren, I think we are many of us in tlie King's wagons, and we are on the way homo. The ronrt is very bail, and we get on slowly; but after a while we will come winding out of the woods, and through the brook of death, and up in front of the old heavenly homestead: and our departed kindred, who bavi been waiting and watoh:ng for us. will rush ' out through the doors and over tho lawn, crying: "The wagons are coming! the King's wagon1! are coming!" Hark! thd bell of the City Hall strikes twelve. Twelve o'clock on earth, and likewise it is high noon in heaven. Does not the subject of to-day take the gloom out of the thoughts that would otherwise be struck through with midnight? We uso I to think that when we died we wc^ld have to go afoot, sagging down in the mire, and the hounds of terror might got after ut>, and if wo got through into Heaven at all, we would come ia torn, and wounded, and bleed ing. I remember whem my teeth chattered I and my knees knocked together when I heard j anybody talk about death; but I have come j to think that the grave wilt be the softest j bed I over slept in. and the bottom of my feet will not bo wet with the passage of the ' Jordan. "Them that sieep in Josus will God bring with Him." I was reading of Robert Southey, who said lie wished he could die fur away from his friends?like a dog, crawiin-r into a corner and dying unobserved. Tiiese were his words. Be it ours to die on a couch surrounded by loved ones, so that they with us snav hear the glad, sweet, jubilant announcement: "The King's wagons are coming." , i3arkt I bear them now. Are they coming for you or mo? RELIGIOUS HEADING, j Tho Great Hereafter. 'Tis sweet to think, when struggling Tho goal of life to win. Tint jusu boyoiid tho shores of time The better years begin. When through the nameless ages 1 cast my longing eyes, Before me, like a bouudless sea. The Great Hereafter lies. Along its brimming bosom Perprt.ua! summer smiles, And gathers like a g<>laen robo Arvund the omerakl irles. There, in the blue, long di tance, By Jailing breezes fanned, I seem to see the flowering grovoa Of the old Beulah laud; And far beyond the islands, That gem tue waves serene, The image 01 the eloulk-ss ihoro Of holy heaven is seen. Unto tho Groat Hereafter? Aforetime dim and dark? I lreelv n- w and gladly give Of life the wand'ring bark. i And in tho far-t IT haven, , When -hadowy seas are passal. By aneel hands its quivering sails Shall all bo l'urlod at last The Christian Path. ( The path by which Go I leads his children j Is not always" straight. Tho way is like the j couive of som-* stream, stiirtiug rrom liiJana mountains and loading to tho ocean. For awhile it goes right on, without interruption; .-ml thon, as if it had lost its couise, it 1 turns back upon itself, winds about a mountain rnn^e, traverses many wasted miles of distance, gives up iti direction at every impediment and seems to forget whither it s e?ing. But at last it is led out into a broad pl.on and to a smoother channel, to pursue its unobstru-ted jour- , ney. Yet all the while it | was on its way to the ocean. There ( was no prof ability that its destiny would be denied it. G>>d knew the best way. Ho watered many a valley by its wander- c ings. Such is the Christian's path. It ad- 11 vances by turns ar.d struggles. Mountain i ranges of difficulties are to be compassed; t other lives must be visited and blessed. By 1 and by the way wil' grow smooihor and i 6traff;bter to the tired feet and the sweet end t will come, like the smooth gliding of a.great s river into a greater sei. God sees tho end s from the far-off beginning and He never e loses sight ot it on the way.?[Selected. ? Tho Word of God. In proportion as we fail to accept the 1 s Book?the wtiole Book, as the Word of God. c in that degree it loses its power over us. and c we fail to appreciate its glories. To feel that , lam reading woids which come trom the [ lips ?>f God, and not a human producti n, is ^ to bo awed into reverenc# before thu sacred j page. J no ureeK jpacncrs. especially, re- , c garded the Scriptures as the Spirit's wonder- t ful work. "The sacred books," savsOrigon, j "are porvaded by the fullness of the Spirit, t Tnero is nothing either in the prophets, or in s the Jaw, or in the Gospels, or in the Epis- s ties, which does not spring from the fullness r of the divine majesty." When the F thers i introduced a quotation from the Scriptures, 1 r tht-y were accustomed to omit the human j i writer, and substitute the Holy Spirit as the 1 r real author, thus: ''As the Holy ' ] Ghost siitb." They say, "We can t by no means Fay of the writings of i l the Holy Ghost that there is anything super- I fluous or idle in them, although many a g thing m 'y appeir dark to many." If we all r accepted the Scriptures thus, they would be I n to us spirit and life. Justin Martyr ropre- j i: sents the sacred writers as n stringed instru- I y raent. "Their, ta-k," ho says, "was but to 'r surrender themselves wholly to the working ! I Df the Spirit of God. that the divine plec- ? trum descending from heaven miyht make I \ use of holy m^n as of a harp or lyre, in or- I c ler to reveal to us the knowledge of divine i f and heavenly things." In this way we have 1 ^ the music of heaven without the discords e which come of human infirmities. The Bible is no human production, but a letter, lictated by the Holy Spirit, and revealing the will of our F-ither in heaven. How blessed the thought.?[Chris. Witness. The Obligation of tho Church; ! t t 1. ?i.~ ! 0 uwqm ^uun, wi ilu iui?Nuuai y iwviow ui ,, the World has the following relating to the j obligation that is laid upon the Church to i give the Gospel to the nations of the earth: < n 4,1 do not believe in probation for men af- | v ter death, therefore I believe in sending the I 0 Uosi>el to all men before death! Like a pillar ] v of lire should we be guided by that definite I declar.ilion that wo shall be judged 'accord- j 0 ing to the deeds done in the body.' We ' s know nothing about another opportunity for j| men iu an 'intermediate state,' therefore will , h wo 8::nd missionaries to them in our pr'sent state. Over all the world it is true of every ! s man and woman, tliat to be happy thoro j. nust be salvation from thnt sin which is ^ true, alas, ot everyone. If I possess a Christ i <, who alone can save from sin, and from the | inevitable, invariable consequences of sin, ! , my responsibilities toward other men is I ? R'inply immeasurable. Science toache^ this. | ?j Mature prompts it. Common sense ratifies I 1 it. Three hundred millions of women hold I 8 the Buddhist belief, as is is held by them, that they will reappear on earth after death v as bugs and all manner of vermin; t unless, indeed, they are extraordinary r good, in which case they will be born again, a this time as men. The money wo give to t: send tneuospet to tnose, our yearly contributions to missions, will not pay the I r ! ?... 4U. 4>^1 4. r nvjuvi vi iuo %j uiuru owics jur lvtu s days: will not pay for tho spirits drunk in y the British Island during two days. Pro- fi tentiuitx Rive ten millions of dollars annually a to evungelze tho heathen. Wh >t is ten mil- a lions iii comparison to what we could do? f Some one has said th t this nineteenth con- I tury will seem to those coming after us an I .. amu-inz century, and nothing will amuse our posterity more thnn our absurd conceit j that we are doing great things for the world. | e It is because we have so slight a conception * of the visible needs of the heathen. Out of sixty-three mdlions of Bengal, ten millions ; ?u utterly depenu upon tho current harvest that for "it to fail is lor them to perish; thir!e:<n millions more do not know, except n while the mangoes are ripe, what it is i he 1 year round, to bavoa full stomach. In China 1 sixty dollars r year is wealth beyond " the reneii of myriads. In India many a mil- f lion of men has to support life, each man on 8 less than ?15 a year; multitudes of widows 1 supporting existence on a dollar a month. 1 The American Board is in the lead of every other missionary association, for tliey re- tl quire mission churches to be self-sustaining, j laving it down ns law that every conrert c should give a tenth of his income to the t Lrml.in which they differ from other boards. ^ There is not now on? ordained missionary for 1 a million heathen; surely there should be ono 1 for every fifty thousand. Rfmember that c tho population of the world is increasing at s thou l.h? inrroase of mis- I sionnry effort. It ou^ht to be the law of 1 cverv Cluisti in in the world: "For every i live dollnrs I expend upon myself I will give ! t one dollar to the spread of the Gospel." Wounds given to honor never heal.?Cor neill. If you cinnot be great, be willing to aern God in thihgs that arc small. There is by God's grace an imraeasurabii i distance letween late and too late. Th.ise men whose brains Hre few bu' , ucttvo, nre the most successful in business J What a heaven earth would be could w< j always appreciate all we have as keenly a; < ^ e do whon on the point of lo?ing itl- j , Alexander Innes Shancf. Fi aines and feelings have an inherent tei* | ' dtnoy to subside Iijio fbitness, dullness, stole ' | ae?s.l Toere is only one unfailing sourc.* of i, unfujiling freshness-Christ Uinittlf. I I, i . TEMPERANCE. Colfl "Water Ballad. Toil may romo from t.ho East, you may come from the West, You may bring every wine from each country the best; They are nothing to me if I only can have A glass of cold water my thirsting to lave. You may coma from the South, you may crme from the .Norrh, You may bring all tho drink that thoso countries bring forth; Yet I'il laugh them to scorr, while with firmi n?ss I ding To m>lglass of cold water flipped fresh from "the spring. An old lady comes with hor hot cup of tea, lindshe says: "That is ju.it the best beverage for me." And her Ji|>s seem to smile and her eyes I glimmer bright, For she's sure that she's taking the drink ' that's just right. Yei some others there are, who'll firmly in' sist, > Vhaj 'tis coffee that all should place first on | the list. But! their coltco is mud, and their tea just as 1 bail, TVhjiJo tho glacs of clear water my spirit j makes glad. The^ro is wine that's as red as the ruby, I know, But cola water resembles the diamond's 1 glow. So wo:l) drink to your health, from its pure, ' sparking cup, And) the strife lor its glory we'll never give I upi ?Emmet Howard, in the Pioneer. i Shocking Results of Inebriety. FUlly HHK) infants are suffocated in bed by theiiV parents every jvur In London. The great majority of these deaths occur on Saturday nfoht, when the parents are too drunk iok,ro w or care whether they are lying on Iheiir children or not Yet, because it is so r-omqnon, little or nothing is said about it! Wo 4tipposo it will bo said that the publicans must! live, or be compensated if thi3 is to bo put a stop to.?Glw'jo < lie former. He Signed r-lie Pledge. An intoxicated man staggered into Justice O'Nqal's ollice yesterday. Ho had, from all appearances, been out in tho rain and snow Cor sejveral hours and was soaking wet. "l want to take tbe pledge," he muttered. "\\rb.-it for;" asked the justice. ''To keep sober, of course." ho answered, ou had better go home," said '.!><? justice, ' and come bid: when you are sober." "Then 1 won't sign tho pledgee's id the }riint-r\n mnn *'1 nnlv sictj it wllcll I am irunjc. 1 am drunk now, und kno?v it, and i' I jiign the pledge 1 won't take another lrinld I own a house now, and if I take the jledc a to-day I'll keep it, but if I don't away prill go the house." 'Hi >w long do you want to take the pledgo 'orf'.iskel che .iustice. ' Oi io year," ho replied. Thc justice thon made out the pledgo. The Irunt en mau signed it, and swore that he vould not tcu.'h another drop for a year. \fter the mau had gone the just ee explained ,hat t lis was not the firsi time that the man lad ta ken tho pledge. He always takes it vlieti be is intoxicated. He usually takes lie pli jdsre homo to his wife, and when he is ihovvt tho- pledge tho next morning ho is iober enough to undcrstan 1 it, and is man inoug i to keep it.? W isliing'ton Stur. JnncI ay Morninjg T<*mpcrance Work. "O. H. B ." of Fort Myers, Flo., writes in ;ho 3 'a'.ionnl Tfinjierance Advocate.: For ?me * cars past I have made it r rule to arry with me, while traveling by rail, a pianti ty of temperance papers, to haufl to jassen,;ers and to throw to idle men at connry stations. But the best opportunity foi listriliuting leaflets, in town or city, is early 5undajy jabrning. There is a largo class ?f paople who have no church to g(! o, awl who cannot dress well enough to go f they) hud a church. You will find them at he liv?ry stables, or sitting on tho steps of alooni, or wandering aimlessly along the troetx. glad to take and read anything that nay ha given them. Here in this little but leautifjul town I gave out on last Sunday uornitlg iifty copies of "A Woman's Cry," >y Eliaalietli Cleveland: and every one was ejoiceel to liavo something to read from the President's sister. Talmage's sermons on empenuire are always acceptable. The * U t'7f/ UUU ttic i Ull'ft d 4 C/IW/Of uritc Janju-V, for children, should never "be for[ottcn. And while you are listening to your niniste r preaching his Sunday morning sernon, y iu will have the satisfaction of know* ng tin it, through these instrumentalities, ou ai a preaching to score-- of immoral ouls, many of whom never attend church. )on't s< ;Dd'a boy out with theru, but go yourelf; and you will Ik? learning grand lessons vhiio y ou are distributing words ol truth to ithers. Lay in a supply. It will cost but n ew cen t3, and give an hour's timo to thn vork n ext Sunday morning, and you will iver be thankful for tho experience! Tcinpcrance News and Notes. Saloo i motto?We vote as we prey. Of 0.000 railway employes in Great Sritaiu, 12,.">iX) are total abstainers. Since it started twenty-thres years ago, he Nat: onal Temperance Society lias paid ut S-'P. WO to women for writing temperanco iteratui v. Dr. 1 >onnet says that Bordeaux, where aany p< srsons drink one and a half litres o: vino wi tl> each meal, lias a greater number f a))Oj '.exies tbau any other city of tho forld. A !?/? ?v*fnV,l!ellniAn f in fhn Pnnrrrt vn. x\ uaiiiiir, cowi/uaiiutbith miv ww.,&v jv ently s out an order to I?nglnml for a conignmen ; of mm. Ami very appropriately t was n Id^d in a postscript: 'Send more andfiil! s." Accor. ling to Iuternal Revenuo Commisiotier J Idler, the peop'o of these United itates cc nsutned during the past year over Bventy millions of gallons of whisky and 4,'>80.21 ! larrois of beer. An cif. hfc-yeor-old son of Patrick Bray, of lontclai r, N. J., found a bottle containing a ialf pini i of whisky and drank nearly all of t. In a :ew hours he was seized with oonvulions and died next day in great agony. An in uate of the State Prison at Stillrater, S! iun., atlirms m a recent number of he lVis( in Mirror that '"Ten nichts in a baroom'' ar d apt to be followed by ten yenrs in . prison: and is apparently able to prove the ruth of lis assertion from actual experience. It is stjited on the authority of tnose best losted in such matters that the championhip of tl o baso'.iail league, which was this ear give n to the Sew York club, would not taveTieei iwon by them had not their captain, t the l?e; winning of the season, taken a total bstinene pledge, which he tias since faithullj* kept One of the rules of Cornell University eads as f o.lows: "Students found guilty of ntoxicati or, gambling, or gross immorality, r of any interference with the personal lihrty of p nv student, will bo roinoveti from he Univt irsity." Vresid nfc Adams has given lotice th at the rule will Iks promptly and tnpartial ly enforced. The He Charles Goss, of Chicago, said in i recent, sermon: '"One single saloon in a own Of ' > pcopiR JS mull] IUUU UKU'IV.. han all the thieves and gamblers in t.ho >tnte. Ii i live years it will broak up twenty amilies. f 1111S.1 ut least threo suicides and reult in at!( st liity infractions of tbo law. The ears cans ot bo counted nor the heart-aches lumb.red . God alono knows them." A mt-inl 'orof the medical staff in the LonI011 hosp ti'.l being recently asked by a re)ortor of the Pall Mall 0'u.zftle how many ?f the cn<w -s treated in the institution are atritutablo to intemperance, replied: "It rould lie difiicnlt to estimate the number, >ut is uaq uestionably great. We sometimes hid even children with drunkards' livers. lueto1!i:> habit 01* giving infants gin to iooth? ilic m wh:!o teething. Drink is with is a so;:re a of much trouble. If tho public louson we -e shut, we should have to close mil o>ir v rards, or rather wo should be a">le :o fcnkiiticf 1 v a- tunnv rationts'" "Wnu.r: a wedding party was waiting - x - ?-.r+1,^nromnnv ivr a sij'.ime vu penutiu uu? ^ at Al))l?a rotta, Georgia, the groom excused h irnselt and fled. The bride proposed to the groomsman on the spot, ana thry wero maiTied within an hour I Mr. M' ^Rkei.l, who is to marry one jf the Mi 38es Drexel, of Philadelphia, who has i in income of $300,000 a j'ear, will abju: :e Protestantism and join the Catholic Church before the ceremcnv, Mis* Drt xel being a derout Catholic. * 1^1 WOllDS OF WISDOM. In fihoal water you know how deep it is. The present is the golden moment of life. Be contcnt with such thinsrs as you have. Only very mean men always take the half cent. Beautiful bubbles are but glittering emptiness. The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Jr. Merry man. Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth smell of smoke. Women arc extremists?they arc cither better or worse then men. A lady and her maid actiDg in accord I win outwit a uo/.en sprues. There is no torture that a womau will not suffer to enhance her beauty. Woman is a chaiming creature, who changcs her heart as easily as her gloves. Life is a series of surprises, and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not. Tne sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows, and at midday, when he is his lighcst, none at all. Conviction is in itself a power. The man who is sure of what he 9ays, gives assurance to those who hear him. There may be ' times when silence is gold, and speech silver; but there are times, also, when silencc is death and speech is life. If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, many would they gain to the good cause. A nobleness and elevation of mind, together with firmness of constitution, gives luster and dignity to the aspect, and makes the soul, as it were, shine through the body, I* row in ui Aiucnciin una1?. Presidential elections always call out a full vote, aud the vote cast in the leading cities of the couutry can be taken as an indicaiion the relative growth of those cities, says the Philadelphia Record. In'cw York, with its 2i0,l:>4 voles for Prcsideut, leads all her sister cities, with Philadelphia and her 205,747 votes a good second. These figures indicate a population of over 1,500,000 people for New York, and shows that Philadelphia has passed her 1,000,000 mark. Brooklyn and Chicago are pressing this city, but they are nearly a">0,0u0 behind us Boston shows the smallest percent/* f ^n/twAAaA a f ann A p fkn Ai fino tllo luticooc vi aujf ui tuc vibtvo* following table gives the total number of votes ea?t in each of eleven leading cities for President at the recent election: Total vote cast in lh?& It e w York 270,194 Phi ladel phia 205,747 Brooklyn I"*7,fc6j Chicago 1&5,475 Baltimore 85,409 Boston 0"v>9!) Cincinnati 63,706 St. Louis 515,462 San Francisco 55,370 Buffalo 4.i, 461 Cleveland 41,'JOG The following shows the population in 13.S0 in proportion to the vote of each city in that year: No. of population to each voter in 1880. Now York 5.87 Philadelphia 4.93 Brooklyn ; 5.29 Chicago Baltimore 5.93 Boston 0.74 Cincinnati 4.79 St. Louis 7.24 San Francisco 5.75 BulTalo 4.S3 Clevland 5.23 The following table contains the population of ea h city in 1SS0 and the apparent population at present, based upon the vote ca3t on Tuesday, November G: Apparent Pojm'ation Imputation /n lf?l. in 183R New York l,2Ul>,299 1,585,529 Philadelphia 847,170 1,014.:;8> Brooklyn 752,221 Chicago 503,185 748,25S Baltimore 332,313 507,001 Boston 3(53,832 440, 181) St Louis 8 >0,518 414,431 Cincinnati 255, 139 305,151 San Francisco 233,959 82S,93l Cleveland I(!0,l4t? 219.103 BulTalo 155,134 218,127 Tricks of Lapidaries. The old-time trick by which lapidaries at Brighton, Kngiand, grew rich by nractisinjr on the ignorance and credu lity of the public, was last summer revived by lapidar.es at Narrngansett Pier. Brighton lapidaries cut water-worn bits of bottle-glass into what became known as "Brighton emeralds," but the more enterprising lnpidaiies at Narragunsett i ier cut ordinary pebbles into moonstones, yellow quartz and topaz, and have even been known to convert an ordinary white stone into a clcar, yellow gem. Mr. George F. Ivunz, tlio wellKnown mineralogist, said lately that he had seen a number of stones from Marragaasett Pier, ami that moonstones of the kind shown to him were never 1 found in tue United States, but were Ceylon moonstones, and were cut in Ceylon, and were much less than the 1 price charged by the Narragansctt lapidary, even for cutting. The yellow Saxon topaz, which visitors at Narragansett believed they had picked up on the beach, were stones never found in J nature, but topaz artinciauy coiorea uy heat. The <jias9 gems were not bottleglas*, like the "Brighton emeralds," but ordinary imitation gems, such as are imported in wholesale quantities by manufacturers of pinchbeck jewelry in Providence and elsewhere. A gentleman at Narra.uransctt offered the lapidary a considerable sura to be allowed to see him cut a pebble into a ; moonstone, but the man said that he bad already run too much risk by allowing people at the peril of their lives to watch him. The lapidary's wheel is ordinarily too simple an instrument to work such dire destruction, but the daugerous conditions referied to may be ' due to climatic influences at Is'arragansett Pier.?Nea York Tribune. Photographing Flying Cannon Halls. < The well-known photographer, Anschuetz, of Lissa, lias for some years 1 been experimenting with photographs of J the llight of cannon balls from the moment of their projection to theirstriking J the target or object aimed at. Last 1 month, or the trying grounds of the 1 (Jruson works, near Buckau, he has ' demonstrated the perfection of his studies, lie succeeded in obtaining remarkable and highly interesting results. J lis plates were submitted to the ex pert, Professor D. ICoenig, of the Berlin University, who was perfectly able to make therefrom the desired practical calculations. He established the fact 1 that the projectile thus photographed had a velocity of 400 metres a second, and the deration of the iight thrown on the photographic, plate did not exceed I the teu-thousandth part of a second. 1 Meet di liculties with unflinahing per- | severance, and they will disappear at least; though you should fall in the ] struggle, you will be honored; but shrink j from the task, and you will be despised. , i . * :;b ??: ' '-' r' 1 tV$. V> . -? "* . * "WOMEN OF JAPAN'" THEIR POSITION AS WIVES AND HOUSEHOLD DUTIES. Acting as Both Helpmeet and Servant For Their Husbands?A MatrimonialGo-B 'tween? The "Onna Dai^raku." The Japanese girl can, as a rule, read and write Japanese, says Frank G. Carpenter in the New York World. She lcarii9 all about household matters, and Bhe takes the whole charge of the household. This is her sphere. and she is known as the honorable mistress of the household. Her husband has no right to be meddling with the cooking-stove. She pays the servants and the market bibs. In the case of the poorer merchants she often acts as one of the clerks in the store and takes the place of the husband when he is not present. In the country you will tind her often working in the liclds, and at Mikko I saw great numbers of women who acted as the leaders of pack-horses carrying copper and goods up and down the mountains. Still, I think the women here have an easier time than those of the lower classes of Germany or Holland, and you see fewer labor hardened faces among the other sex here than you do in many of the countries of Europe. The wife is, however, after all, but little better than the servant of the husband, and the ties of marriage and divorce are here so loose thai; he can dispense with her at pleasure. Marriage in Japan is not attended with the solemnity and religious ceremony of the American wedding. It is a civil contract, and the negotiations for it go on, as a rule, through the parents. The young man and woman have no preliminary courtship, and the seeing one another for one or two times is the only chance they have of deciding whether there is any compatibility of temperament. When Yum Yum has arrived at the age of lo or 1(5 her parents instruct one of their friends or a professional match-maker to look about for a good husband for her. II they nave aeciaea upon ine youug man, they mention his name and it is the duty of the friend to speak to the parents of the prospective bridegroom and arrange the matter. The gu-between ia called a Nakadachip. lie appears in every Japanese marriage, and it would be entirely improper for either the bridegroom or the parents to arrange a match w.thout him. He has charge of everything relating to the marriage. He brings the young people together, generally at a tea-house where both families meet to have a party for the occasion, and it is at this meeting that the two often see each other for the first time. If,as in the case of "The Mikado," Yum Yum falls in love at first sight with her Nanki-Poo, it is all rignt. The two giggle and laugh and examine each ofher, and a few days huer, the match being agreed upon, presents pass between the two parties, and the acceptance of these presents is understood as an agreement that the marriage is to take place. The presents consist of five tubs of sake or rich wine, of five articles of food, two rolls of silk, and a silken girdle. This is, of course, among the better classes. The lower and poorer send a less amount and a poorer quality. The ceremony proper is made up of the drinking of sake and the eating of a dinner together in the presence of the two families. The bride comes to the groom's house to be married, and she brings along presents for him and her prospective parents-in-law. She appears upon the scene in a dress of white, which, however, she changes before the ceremony for one of colors, which is a present to her from the groom. The groom also gets a present of a gown from her, and puts this on. At the drinking of the wine the brine gets the first cup, and there is an almost incessant drinking throughout the ceremony. After marriage the bride or the wife is swallowed up, as it were, in the family of her husbana. Books on the duties of women urge her to be subservient to her parents-inlaw. and in times past she was expected to communicate with her own parents chieliy by messenger and not to visit them* by any mean9 frequently. The chief book on woman's training in Japanese literature is the "Onna Daigaku," which is taught to all .Japan i- ?j r am .?],! ?t,?? CSC glTlS, UUU UU ?U1U1 J. am IVIU iu?> base their cond ict. It is founded on the principle that woman is much the inferior of man and that she i3 naturally prone to evil. It says that nine women out of ten are suffering from mental disorders of intellect, anger and resentment, evil speaking, jealousy, and lack of intellect. The wife should, therefore. depend upon her husband's instruction-} in all tilings, and she is subservient to her father in a like degree before marriage. the has, says this book, no right to BhotV jealousy, and if her husband is guilty of improprieties she should gently reprove him. She should go no place without her husband's permission, and a husband has the right to biiug concubines into the house if he will. The result of this is that concubinage prevaiis here to a large extent, and the men of Japau have a low moral standard in re1 1 J L -1 fjard to woman, jne husduuu una inmost absolute control over his wife by ihe law of divorce, and lie can get rid of her if he will on seven different grounds. Norwegian Fcnco*. Even <o commonplace a thins a3 a fence gives character to the landscape. This is a matter ot importance to all whe are interested in making country place? and country life us attractive as possible. The fences of Norway, as described, must be an ugly blemish upon the face of the country: Two thick stakes of pine, from seven to eight lcet long, are driven lirmly into the ground within an inch of cacb other, and repeated at intervals of foui feet. Smaller sticks are then placed in t slanting position between the upright-?, which serve as grooves to keep them it their place, and they are still further se cured by their being bound together with twigs of osier. "When completed, it makes so compact a fence that a wease. could scarcely put his nose through. They cannot, however, boast of combining the ornamental with the useful, having a gaunt, monotonous look, whii.-l* made us long to see them replaced by the pretty hedgerows of England. Peculiar Way of Catching Quail. A man living near Davis <Ss Co well'* lime kilns ba3 been catching quail in a peculiar way. l*'or three weeks he has been spreading grain in the road neai his place, where quail abound. On the clay the law was out he put wheat in the place as usual, but had previously soaked the water in whisky. Watching the place he saw the quaii come out, eat, get drunk, and in a short time lie down, stupefied." He then went to them and gathered about one hundred int? a sack that he carried with him. A few that were not fully drunk were easily caught by his dog. He has practUcd the same method sinee successfully.?Santa Cruz r(J'd.) Sli'f. ' ' I ?rorULAB SCIENCE. A Xorwe^'an savant estimates the agf of the world at one million years. A raitle^nnko bite on a Virginia boy has been cured by the use of mud. An electric tire cng ne, to bo operated by rapping electric"iii^ht circuits, is a new invention. f '**3 The statement is made that an Italian has taken out a patent for making build* ing blocks of corn-cobs. fctccl is wound on a spool, placed in an oil bath, and by elccric currents kept at the cxact decree of redness neces sary for the temper required. Pomades are made of purified lard and tallow which have been placed in an inclosed place where they have absorbed "3H tlu: odi>rs of the petals of rowers. The filth meeting of the International Geological t on^rcss will be held iti Philadelphia in lJt'.M. The i revious ses.-ions have been: Paris, 1 .>7rt; Bologna, ltfSI; Berlin, 1883, and London, IrsbS. Cii*xel Magazine tells about a new electric in cntion; it is electric lighted spectacles for surgical examination. The r.m shuts out other light and a strong beam falls on the spot under examina-. tion. --'Mh The discovery and utilisation of natural gas have proved a powerful stimulus to the manufacture of iron pipes and tubes in this country: there are now 2..00 miles of mains in the United States for conveying natural gas. A list of the discoveries of chemical elements in eleven years (18T7-188J) has been compiled by Professor H. Carringtou Bolton, and shows that no less than fifty-eight supposed new elementary substances have been announced during that period. . It is just a century since the first ftu-hsia was introduced into Europe. S nee that time travelers in the mount ains ol tropic America have discovered numerous varieties and broughc back specimens. j\ow there are fifty distinct species known. Dr. Donald C. Hood has collected. many fact9 relating to the use of salicylic acid for rheumatism. Uf 728 patients treated with salicylates 523 were relieved of their pains within seven days,whereas ol ?il2 patients treated by other methods only HO were relieved within the same time. Mr. Gladstone computes that the habitual speakers of j nglish have increased from 15,000,000 to 105,000,000 during the last 100 years, that they will number 120,000,000 by the year 1;<00,and at that rate of increase, seven times in a ?, j century, they will include d40,000,000of people by the year 2000Twenty guinea p'gs were placed by M. L. Hoincarre in the most dusty part of a Hour mdl, in order to test the effect of the constant inhalation of the dust. ' At the end of two years ten pigs survived. The others, mostly young ones, seemed to have died from catarrhal pneumonia, and in no case from con* sumption. Little dust was found beyond the passages of the nose. A bark on any plant is but a mass of CS tne specKs o rearm mat is cast upon me surface of the plaut by the power of the plant's construction. Its color depends upon the degree of decomposition of the specks while iu the cells of the plant. These specks are what the scientists call the nuclei of plant cells, described in a description of proto plastn. All the specks not wholly decomposed arc finally cast out on the surfaces of perennial plants. Asbestos Manufacture. Quite a good deal of attention in Boston is devoted to the manufacture of asbestos. The stuff, as everyone knows, is a mineral fibre, but concerning its nature and the uses to which it is pat very little seems to be comprehended. A piece of cloth made of it closely resembles, both to sight and touch, coarse cotton toweling. It may be wsed for the same purposes, aud, when dirty, thrown into the fire. Hake it out after i-vji a little while, and it is found intact^ but cleaned as perfectly as though subjected to the steam laundry process. The ancients. years ago, were well acquainted with asbestos and its properties. They thought it was vegetable, but knew that it would not burn. So they wrapped their corpscs in cloths woven in us nax-iiKe stranns, in oruer to keep the ashes of their relatives aud friends from mingling with the charred remains of the funeral pyres. They used it also for lamp wicks and for napkins. In fact, however, asbestos is a form of very hard rock, callcd hornblende,, and is found in strata of a fibrous consistency, read ly divisible into silky strands resembling flax. Hence it is commonly known as "earth-flax." Recently va<?t deposits of it have been found in the Canadian provinces, whoreas in former times it was chiefly imported from Savoy and the Tyrol. The variety of uses to which it has been applied by modern ingenuity is surprising. Clothes for firemen and gloves wherewith to handle red-hot iron arc made of it. Hooting materia!, boiler felting and paper stock are other products largely manufactured from the same material. Besides, it is employed in the mixing of fireproof paints ior stage scenery anu uiucr purposes. Sometimes this mineral is found in thin sheets of interlaced fibres, known in vulgar parlance as '-mnautain leather." When the natural fabric i3 developed in thick sheets it h called "mountain cork." In any shape the material is indestructible by fire at th? ordinary temperature of flame. As a mat* ter of fact, however, tliere'i^nothiog in nature that will not burn if only the thermometer is high enough. Did you J*m*m ever see a lccturer on the problcmS*<?f / chemistry direct tho lighted jet from kn oxy-hydrogen blowpipe upon a piece ol iron or zinc? if so, you will have ob served how the metal is consumed, uuder such conditions, like so much tinder. In like manner the hardest rocks arc disintegrated by the action of heat. Asbestos cloth is a very pretty goods, but it is not altogether incouibmtible.?IHaijune. Syndicates Flourish iu Philadelphia. The words syndicate and Philadelphia UIUOIUTTIJ WUW OMIV.J UWV.WUilliy OJ UUUJ rnous. The Philadelphia mind turns naturally to the syndicate idea, and it ia a fact which seems to escape comment that i hiladelphia capital is at pre-ent ruuning some of ihc biggest enterprise) in >.'ew Vork city. There srems to be a boundless amount of ready ca>h in the Quaker City. They run to railroads mainly, though they occasionally woke up aud bet money, as they did on liar, rison. They have tremendous interests in New York street railroads, are building the Poughkeepsic bridge and a lot of connecting lines, own the entire system of cable cars iu Chicago, and have a strong hold in Hoston, Washington and Baltimore. The odd thing about it all, according to financial men, is that, though the Philad< lphians have a great reputation for conser>atism and caution, they comc up like a shot when a syndicate scheme that promises great profits ia piaced before them ?St. Louia Hlar Haying*.