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I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEIIMON. Subject: "Joy! Joy! Joy!" (A Jubilee Sermon.) [This jubilee sermon was preached by the Rev. T. De Witt Ta'.mage, D.D., at an es|>ecial communion for the reception of 240 persons, making the present communicant membership of the Brooklyn Tabernacle 440S. This was also moving day in that church. The annual rental of pews had just occurred and many of the congregation occupied new places. The pews brought higher premiums this year than ever before, and the income of the church this year will be $33,. 804. But both plans are observed in the church. A vast space is kept free from all expense and only a part of the building is mapped off for rent. Dr. Talmage took his text from Luke xvM Si: "Bring hither the fatted calf and kill it. "J Joy! Joy! Joy! We banquet to-day over this accession of a multitude of souls. In all ages of the world it has been customarv to celebrate iovful events by festivity ?the signing of treaties, tbe proclamation of peace, tho Christmas, the marriage. However much on other days of the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanksgiving Day there must be something bountedus. And all the comfortable homes of Christendom have nt some time celebrated joyful events by banquet and festivity. Something has happened iu the old homestead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A favorite son whom the world supposed would become a vagabond and outlaw forever has got tired of sightseeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he never would come back. The old man always said his son would com9. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, having returned to his father's house, the father proclaims celebration. There is a calf in the paddock that has been kept up and fed to utmost capacity so as to De reaay ior some occasion ui joy moo might come along. Ah! there never will be a' grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their work, and the housekeepers bring into the table the smoking meat The musiciaus will take their places, and the gay groups will move up and down the floor. All the friends and neighbors are gathered in, and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at table, and says grace, and tlmuks God that his long-absent boy is home again. Oh! how they missed him; how glad they are to have him back. One brother indeed stands pouting at the back door and says: "This is a great ado about nothing; this bad boy should liav6 been chastened instead ' of greeted; veal is too good for him!" But the father says: "Nothing is too good, nothing is good enough." There sits the young man, glad at the hearty reception, but a shadow of sorrow flittint* across his brow at the remembrance of the trouble he has seen. All ready now. Lrf>t the cover* lift. Music. He was (lead and he is alive again! He was lost and he is found! By such bold imagery dee* the Bible set forth'the merry-making when a soul comes home to God. I. First of all there is the new convert's * ? *?fA Konnma a jvy, Jl> 19 II\J Millie iu&il? W UVVWUIV c* VU? M tian. The most tremendous moment iu a man's life is when he surrenders himself to Ood. The grandest time on the father's faomestead is when the boy comes back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of this church professed Christ one night was a young man who next morning rang my door bell and said: "Sir, I cannot contain myself with the joy I feel: I came here this morning to express it. I have found more joy in five minutes in serving God than in all the years of my prodigality, and I came to say so." You have seen, perhaps, a man running for his physical liberty and the officers of the law after "him, and you saw him escape, or Afterward you heard the judge had pardoned him. and how preat was the glee of that rescued man; but it is a very tame thing that, compared with the running for one's everlasting life?the terrors of the law after him. but Christ coming in to pardon and bless and rescue and save. You remember Johu Bunyan in his great story tell* how the Pilgrim put his fingers in his ears, and ran, crying: "Li'e. life, eternal life!"' A poor car-dr.ver in this ci'-y some years ago, after having had a struggle to support nis iamuy, suuaemy was liuoruea that a large inheritance was his, and there was .ioy amounting to bewilderment; but that is a small thing compared with the experience of one when he has put in his hands the title-deed to the joys, tho raptures, the plendors of heaven, and he can tru y say: 'Its mansions are mine, its temples are mine, its songs are mine, its God is mine!' Oh, it is no tame thing to become a Christian. It is a merry-making. It is the killing of the fatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Bible never compares it to a funeral, but always compares it to something bright It is more apt to be compared to a banquet than anything else. It is compared in the Bible to the water?bright, flashing water; to the morning?roseate, fireworked, mountain-transrigured morning. I wish I could to-day take all the Bible expressions about pardon and peace and life and comfort and hope and Heaven and twist them into one gar. land, and put it on the brow of the humblest child of God in this assemblage, and cry: Wearit. wear it now, wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty." Ob, the joy of the new convert! Ob, the gladness of the Christian service! You have seen sometimes a man in a religious assembly get up and give his experience. Well, Paul gave his experience. He arose in the presence of two churches, the church on earth and the church in heaven, and he said: "Now this is my experience: Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing?poor, yet making many rich?having nothing, yet pospossing all things." If the people in this house this morning knew the joy3 of the Christian religion, they would all pass over into the kingdom of God the next moment. When Daniel Sandeman was dying of cholera his attendant said : "Have Jou mu: h p lin I" " Oh,:' he replied, " since found the Lord I have never had any pain except sin.'* Then they said to him: "Would you like to send a message to your friends ?" ^"Yes, I would ; tell them that only last oight the love of Jesus came rushing into my oul like the surges of the sea, and I bad to dry out : * Stop, lx>rd. it is enough ; stop, Lord, enough !'" Oh, the joys of this Christian religion ! Just pass over from those tame joys in "" which you are indulging?joys of this world ?into the raptures of the GospeL The world cannot satisfy you: you have found that out? Alexander longing for other worlds to conquer. and yet drowned in his own bottle; Byron whipped by disquietudes around the world ; Voltaire cursing his own oul while all the streets of Paris were applauding him; Henry IL consuming with hatred against poor Thomas a Beckett?eill illustrations of the fact this world cannot make a man happy. The very man who poisoned the pommel of the saddh on which Queen Elizabeth rode, shouted la the street: "God Save the Queen!" One moment the world applauds and the next moment the world anathematizes. Oh.come over into th'S proater joy, this sublime solace, this magnificent beatitude The night after the battle of Shiloh, and there were thousands of wounded on the field, and the ambulances had not come, one Christian soldier lying th're a dying under tho star I light began to sing: "There a land of pnre de'.lght," And when he came to the next line there were scores of voices uniting: Where paints immortal reiim." The song was caught up a'l through the fields among the wounded, until it was said there were at loast ten thousand wounded men reuniting their \ oices as they came to the verse: "There everlasting spring abides, And never-withciinsr flowers; Death like a narrow stream divides That heavenly land from ours." Oh. it is a great religion to live by. and it is a great religion to die by. There is only one heart-throb between you and that religion this morninc. Just look into the face of your rardoninz God, and surrender yourself for time and for eternitv. and He is yonrs. and neaven is yonrs. and all is yours. Some of you, like the young man of the text, have gone far astray. I know not the history, but you know it, you know it. When a young man went fortb into life, the legend says, his guardian angel went forth with him, and getting him into a field the guardian angol swept a circle clear around where the yo ung man stood. It was a circle of virtue and honor, and he must not step beyond that circle. Armed foes came down, but were obliged to halt at the circle?they could not pass. But one day a temptress with diamonded hand stretched forth and crossed that circle with the hand, and the tempted soul took it,and by that one fell grip was brought beyond the circle and died. Some of vou have stepped bevond that circle. AVould you not like this day by the grace of God to step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of salvation. There was in the closing hours of Queen Anne what is called the clock scene. Flat down on the pillow in helpless sickness she could not move her head or move her hand. She was waiting for the hour when the Ministers of State should gather in angry contest, and, worried and worn out by the coming hour, and in momentary absence of the nurse, in the power, the strange power which delirium sometimes gives one, she arose and stood in front of the clock, and stood there watching the clock when the nurse returned. The nurse said: "Do you see anything peculiar about that clock?" She made no answer, but soon died. There is a clock scene in every history. If some of you would rise from the bed of lethargy and come out from your delirium of sin and look on the clock of your destiny this morning, | you would see and hear something you have 1 not seen or heard before, and every tick of | the minute, and every stroke of the hour, I and every swing of the pendulum would '| say: "Now, now, now, now!" Oh, come home \ to your Father's house. Coine home, oh, | prodigal, from the wilderness. Come home, i come home! II. But I notice that when the prodigal came there was the father's ^oV. He did not I greot him with any formal "How do you do?" | Hedid not come out and say: "You are un- | fit to enter: go out and wash in the trough I by the well, and then you can come in; we | have had enough trouble with you." Ah! I no. When the proprietor of that estate pro- i claimed festival, it was an outburst of a father's love and a father's joy. God is your Father. I have not much sympathy with that description of God I sometimes hear, as though He were a Turkish Sultan, hard and i unsympathetic, and listening not to the cry of His subjects. A man told me he saw in one of the eastern lands a King riding along, and k?n men wnrn in altercation and one charged the other with having eaten his rice; and the King said: "Then slay the man and by postmortem examination find whether ho has eaten the rice." And he was slain. Ah! the cruelty of a scene like that. Our God is not a Sultan, not a Czar, not a despot, but a Father?kind, loving, forgiving, and He makes all heaven ring again when a nrodieal comes Back. "1 have no pleasure," he says, "in the death of him that dietb." If a man does not get to heaven it is because he will not go there. No difference the color, no difference the history, no difference the antecedents, no difference the surroundings, no difference the sin. When the white horses of Christ's victory are brought , out to celebrate theeternal triumph you may ride one of them, and as God is greater than , all, His joy is greater, and when a soul comes back there is in his heart the surgin? of an infinite ocean of gladness, and to express that ( gladness it takes all the rivers of pleasure, and all the thrones of pomp, and all the ages of eternity. It is a joy deeper than all depth, and higher than all height, and wider tnan all width, and vaster than all immensity. It overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs all the united splendor and joy of the universe. Who can tell what God's joy is ? You remember reading the story of a King, who ou some great day of festivity scattered silver and gold among the people, and sent valuable Dresents to bis courtiers: but methinks when a soul comes back, God is so glad that to express His joy He flings out new worlds into space, and kindles up new suns, and rolls among the white robed anthems of the redeemed a greater hallelujah, while with a voic9 that reverberates among the mountains of frankincense and is echoed back from the everlasting gates, He cries: "This, my son, was dead, and he is alive again." At the opening of the Exposition in Now Orleans, I saw a Mexican flutist, and he played the solo, and then afterward the eight or ten bands of music, accompanied by the great organ, came in: but the sound of that one flute as compared with all the orchestra was greater than all the combined joy of th% i universe when compared with the resounding heart of Almighty God. For ten years a father went three times a day to the depot. His son went off in aggravating circumstances, but the father saia: "He will come back." The strain was too much, and his mind parted, and three times a day the father went. In the early morning be watched the train, its arrival, the stepping out of the passengers, and then the departure of the train. At noon he was there again watching the advance of the train, watching the departure. As night, there again; watching the coming, watching the going for ten years. Ho was sure his son would come back. God bas been watcnra? ana waning ror some 01 i you, my brothers, ten years, twenty years, | thirty yeare, forty years, perhaps fifty years ?waiting, waiting, watching, watching; and if this morning the prodigal should come home, what a scene of gladness and festivity, and how the great Father's heart would rejoice at your coming home. You will come, some of you, will you not? You will, you willl III. I notice also that when a prodigal comes home there is the joy of the ministers of religion. Oh, it is a grand thing to preach this Gospel. I know there has been a great deal said about the trials and the hardships of the Christian ministry. I wish somebody would wr.te a good, rouoing book about the joys of the Christian ministry. Since I entered the profession I have seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate in all eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they do not rise iuto enthusiasm, and they do not break down with emotion: but I confess to you plainly that when I see a man coming to God. nrd giving up his sin I feel in body,mind,and sou a transport. When I see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit emancipated, I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When to-day in our communion service such throngs of young and old stand at these altars, and in the presenc? of heaven and earth and hell attest their allegiance to Jesus Christ, I feel a joy something akin to that which the apostle de scribes when he say*: "Whether in the body I cannot tell, or out of the body I cannot tell: God knoweth." Oh, have not ministers a ri^ht to rejoice when a prodigal comes home J They blew the trumpet, and ought they not to bo glad of the gathering of the host? They pointed to the full supply, and ought they not to rejoice when souls pant as the fiart for the water-brooks? They come forth saying: "All things are now ready;" ought they not tc rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion as a class live longer than any other. It is confirmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upou human longevity. Why is it ? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in any other frofession, and their toil is more exhausting. have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations who wondered at the dullness of the sermons, when the men of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood, and had not enough nutritious food to keep any tire in the:r temperament No fuel, no fire. I have sometimes seen the inside of the life of many ot the American clergyman?never accepting their hospitality, because they cannot afford it; but I have seen them struggle on with salaries of five and six hundred dollars a year?the average less than that ?their struggle well depicted by ' the Western m:ssionary who says i in a letter: "Thank you for your last remit lance; uniu it came we mm uui>aujr meat m our house for one year; and all last winter, although it was a severe winter, our children wore their summer clothes." And these men of God I find in different parts of the land, struggling against annoyances and exasperations innumerable; some of them week after week entertaining agents who have maps to sell, and submitting themselves to all styles of annoyance, and yet without complaint, and cheerful of souL How do you account for the fact that these life insurance men tell us that ministers as a class live ! longer than any others* It is because of the I joy of tlieir work, the joy of the harvest field, the joy of greeting prodigals home to their Father's house. We are in sympathy with all innocent hilarities. We can enjoy a hearty song, ana we can be merry with the merriest; but those of us who have toiled in the service are ready to testify that nil these joys are tame compared with the satisfaction of seeing men enter the kingdom of God. The great eras of every minister are the outpourings of the iioly Ghost, and I thank Uod 1 have seen eighteeu of them. Thank God, thank God! IV". I notice also when the prodigal comes back all earnest Christians rejoice. If you stood on Montauk Point and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore, and a vessel crashed into the rocks and you saw people get ashore in the life boats and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not control your joy. And it is a glad time when the Church of God sees men who are tossed on the ocean of (heir sins plant their feet on the rock Cnrist Jesus. Oh, when prodigals come home just hear those Christians sine. Just) hear those Christians pray. It is not a stereotyped supplication we have heard over and over again for twenty years, but a putting of the case in the hands of Cod with an importunate pleading. No long prayers. Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say and their hearts are hard and cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: "God be merciful to me a sinner." "Lord, that I may receive my sight." "Lord, save me or I perish." The longest prayer, Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the Temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home. Just see them shake hands. No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a hearty grasp, where the muscles of the heart seem to clench the fingers of one hand around - * 1 * * iUnaa Pkpiofian CD0 otner. cidu men tuvso vmww<MM faces, bow illuminod they are. And see that old mar^ get up and with the same voice that he sang fifty years ago in trie old country meeting-house, say: "Now, Lord, lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation." There was a man Df Keith who was hurled into prison in time of persecution, and one day he got off hi shackles and he came and stood by the prison door, and wheu the jailer was opening the door, with one stroke he struck down the man who had incarcerated him. Passing along the streets of London, he wondered where his family was. He did not dare to ask lest he excite suspicion, but, passing along a little way from tho prison, he saw a Keith tankard, a cup that belonged to the family from generation to generation?he saw it in a window. His family, hoping that some day he would get clt-ar, came and lived as near as they could to tl>e prison house, and they set that Keith tankard in the window, hoping he would see it; and he came along and saw it, and knocked at the door, and went in, and the long-absent family were all together again. Oh, if you would start for the kingdom of God to-day, I think some of you would find nearly all your friends and and nearly all your families around the holy tankard of the holy communion?fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters around that sacrecl tankard which commemorates the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. Oh, it will be a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth, one in heaven. V. Once more I reraork, that when the prodigal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festival. I am very certain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are connected together and how manv lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth Beem articulated, and news flies from city to city, and from continent to continent But more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal returns it is announced before the throne of God. And if these souls this morning should enter the kingdom there would be some one in the heavenly kingdom to say: "That my's father," "that's my mother*" "that's my son." that'3 my daughter," "that's my friend," "that the one I used to pray for," "that's the one for whom I wept so many tears," and one soul would say, "Hosanna!" and another soul would say, "Hallelujah!" "Pleased with the news the saints bjlow Iu accgs thetrtongue* employ; Beyond the skies the tiding* no, And Heaven is flilea wita joy. "Nor aneeU can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire: The alurier lost is fonnd, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre." At the banquet ot Lucullus sat Cicero the orator, at the Macedonian festal sat Philip the conqueror, at the Grecian banquet sat Socrates the philosopher; but at our Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. The table is so wide its leaves reach across seas and across lands. Its guests are the redeemed of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God's forgiveness on every hand, the robe of a Saviour's righteousness adronp from every shoulder. The wine that glows in the cups ia from the bowls of ten thousand sacraments. Let all the redeemed of earth and all tha glorified of heaven rise, and with gleaming chalice drink to the return of a thousand prodigals. Singl singl sing! "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end." "Honob thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land," were the words which figured most pruuimt'iiiiv uu o* nu.uo|/tticu\,j juoi outside the railroad depot at Breslau on the occasion of Kaiser Wilhelm'a recent visit to that city. The young monarch was deeply incensed at this strange want of tact on the part of the local authorities. He chose to regard the transparency as an intentional allusion to his unfilial behavior to his parents, and has vowed never again to set liia foot in the ancient capital of Silesia. The Earl of Onslow, the new Governor of New Zealand, is an alert, terrier-like little man, with keen, intelligent eyes, a narrow profile, crisp manners, and brindled hair. He thoroughly understands the art of diniug, and can drive four horses respectably; j loves children, hates the sea, and has ' 1 * A A' P UUiilc Y cU a uiuuiuuiu vi c*u amateur photographer. Lord Onslow has no intention of permanently interrupting his "promising political career." At Newton. Kan., a young man was caught robbing a neighbor's hen rocst, and in the melee which ensued lost hid hat and a boot, which were kept by the owner of the chickens as a clue to the robber. The next morning the young man called around and demanded his hat and boot, and meeting with a refusal, threatened to bring down the law on the possessor for taking them by force on the public highway. The property was civen up. Among the many wonderful sights which are being organized for the Paris Exposition next year is an unprecedented flight of carrier pigeons from the Champs de Mara. All the cA/tiafioa nf HQ T^ronnaiaoa" OVVtwV^a VA vviviuA iUMvwiuvii Lave promised to take part in the affair, and it is calculated tliat over 40,000 pigeons will be released simultaneously for their flight to all parts ol France and the continent. Last summer, a 13-year-old hoy, while pulling fodder on the farm ol liis father, George G. Brogdon, ol Gwinnett, Ga., unearthed a rock described as "full of irold." Tbis fall Mr. Brogdcn had the vein tested by an experienced miner, who says it is a remarkably promising vein. It is opened for ten feet, is a foot thick, and will yield from ?30 to $50 p<*r ton. Georoe White, of Atkinson, Neb., a veteran of the last war, who has been poverty stricken for; everal years, has just fallen heir to $25,000 through the death of his aged father. The latter lived in New York, bat had not heard from his son for some time. t V-. yj5 7V-. HELIGiOUS READING. No Separation. Give dust to dust, and here we leave The earthly seed to die, That so this mortal may receive Its immortality. Spirits to spirits purified! And his hath soared on high, Hath joined the meml?ers glorified, The brethren in the sky. Saviour, thy love unites us all, The living and the dead; Tis but one body mystical, And butqflp glorious Heftfl Keep us in fellowship of soul With the dear saint that's gone, Make us in worship, service, love, Like those before the throne. And now to Him who conquered death United praise be given? Amidst the parting tears of earth The welcome-palms of heaven. ?George Hawson. Earnestness of Chinese Christians. It is said that the Chinese Christians are, almost to a man, ready to pray in public, to exhort one another at their meetings, and to speak for Christ to their neighbors. "I can witness in behalf of hundreds," writes the Rev. Hunter Corbett, "to their child-like faith in the power and willingness of God to fulfill every promise in the Bible, to their unshaken faith in the efficacy of prayer, their love for the Scriptures, and tho'r honest and faithful effort to live blame, less lives. Not a few, including some well advanced lusuch life, have persevered in the study cf the S riptures until they are able, with the gr<iat.'bt ease, to repeat chapter after chapter, tnd sometimes entire books, from both Old and New Testaments. Not only have they committed large portions to memory, but they are able to explain them." The Church and Amusements. Mr. Greenhough, of Leicester, one of the most robust and liberal thinkers in the Baptist pulpit, has arrived at the conclusion that the church ought to have as little as possible to do with the providing of what are called amusements. Referring to his own denomination, he said their history had been one prolonged witness against the secularization of the church?an incessant endeavor to keep it separate from the frivolities and lighter thoughts of each passing generation, and to concentrate its energies on purely religious objects. The ona business of the church is to cultivate the religious faculty in men. Its work is not moral in the first place, but religious?religious preeminently, moral only by consequence. Their final aim onsrht to be. not to trot their church buildings filled, but to get the many or the few who ccme imbued with religious principles. Mr. Greenhough's experience is either that the more solid and religious things are entirely neglected when game*! are provided, or two entirely different classes of young people support the one and the other respectively. He is convinced that the lighter things when carried on as part of the church work, tend to lower and secularize the whole atmosphere of a church. Put on the Buffers. Did you ever notice the way in which a train of railroad car3 are fastened together? At the end of each car is a huge bolt, which slides in and out a little way, to which is hooked another bolt just like it on the next car. When the engineer backs and the two cars come together, they do not strike with a hard bump, jolting the passengers out of their seats; but the two fastening?; meet,each slides in a few inches, breaking the force of the blow, and the two cars come together easily and gently. These slides are called buffers. because they buff each other, and save the cars from many a bump. Now do you know that everybody can carry with him a buffer, which will help him to avoid hard hits with other people. That buffer ii kindnafS. A kind wcrd, spoken gently, even in an swer to an uiikuiu ouo; u. t.iuu atuuu, deriving the good of another; above all, a kinc heart, full of love, will make all around ui friendly, and fill the world with sunshine. You remember how Joseph went out oi his prison to become a prince. If he had moped and sulked in Pot iphar's house, as he had some reason for doing, or had sat down in the prison cross and snappish, do you suppose he would ever have risen to greatness? No, with all his ability, but for his kindness and cheerful, helpful spirit, you and I would never have heard of his namo. Kindness will often succeed where eminent ability wdi fail.?Raleigh C. Advocate. Family Worship?An Incident. Ten years ago I boarded in the family of a pious woman whose husband was not a Christian. There was a daughter of nineteen, another of fourteen, and a son of ten. Every morning I heard that humble woman gather her family in the kitchen, and read with them a chapter, verse about, in the Bible. Then, as I could not help listening, there was a peculiarity of service that mysti fied me. At last I asked one day if I might remain. She hesitated; her daughter blushed, but she said I could do so if I really desired it. So I sat down with the rest. They gave me a Testament, and we read a verse in turn Then kneeling on the floor, that mother be gan her prayer audibly, for her dear one; there, her husband, and herself; and then pausing a moment, as if to gather energies 01 wing her faith, uttered a tender, affectionate supplication for me. She closed, and her daughter began to pray. Poor girl; she was afraid of me. 1 was from college; I was her teach*.r; but she tremulously asked for a blessing as usual Then camo the other daughter, and at laf- j the son, the youngest of that circle, who only rep?ated the Lord's prayir, with on) i etiticn of his own. His amen was said, but no one cro.-e. I knew on the instant they were waiting for me. And I, poor prayerless I, bad no word to say. It almost broke my heart. I hurried from the room, de olate and guilty. A few weeks only passxl, wi-en I a ked their permission to como in one; more; au'l then I prayed, too, and thanked my dear, patient Saviour for the hope in my li^art and tho new gong on my lips. Drinking at Snx Tho Xow York Mitrmr .lonrna!, in n timely art.cl?, "The Karat Sea," rails public attention to the urgent need of tnm|Wiiiiin reform on hoard our lirst class foreign steamers. It says: "Tho receipts of the lar on a lirst-chiss foreign steamer out of this port to Ktiro|Ht will amount, it is said, to three or four thousand dollars every trip. This will give some iilea ol the amount of drinking done in the week the ship is at sea by the passengers. '1 here is too much of a disposition to make the voyage o spree, if not a drunken del audi." A.i act toprohibit tho manufacture and sale of alcuhlic liquors as a beverage has heen presented for the consideration of the Missouri legislature bv Mrs. Anna S. Cairns, on behalf of 5000 Christian Temperance women of Ihe State. Under the present local option law there are -SCO dramshops in the State. ' ' < , ' ,\ / v ; - - . -- - ;/;t v'.- .v -v?'' *' ** . ** ' y ' t ' * ' *? j *_ ' . ji 1 TEMPERANCE. I Drink and Danger. Write It on the liquor store, Write it on the prison door; Write it on the gin shop fine: Write, oh! write this truthful line; Where there's drink there's danger. Write it on the workhouse gate, Write it on the school-boy's .slate; Write it 011 the copy hook, That, the young may in it look: Where there's drink there's danger. Write it on the churchyard mound Where the drink slain dead are lound, Write it on the gallows high, Write for all passers-by; Where there's drink there's danger. Write it underneath your feet, Write it on the busy street, Wri(:e it for the great ami small In the mansion, cot or hall. Where there's drink there's danger. Write it on our ships which sail Home along by steam and gale; Write it in large letters plain, U'er our mn i ana cross me main, Where there's drink there's danger. Wril.e it always in thehome, Write it where our drunkard's roam, "Year by year from good arid right, Proving with resistless might, W tiere there's drink there's danger. Write it for the rising youth, Write it for the cause of truth, Writs it for the fatherland, Write, 'tis duty's stern command, Where there's drink there's danger. Why a State is Taxed Heavily. Massachusetts, according to the reccnt annual report of the State Board of Lunacy and Charity, has ?>0 city and town almshouses, and nearly 3000 paupers residing in these anci State institutions. Of the inmates of the reformatory establishments of the State the proportion of those who are children of foreign parentage is stated as fully 90 per cent The poverty, insanity and crime, for which the property of the Commonwealth is so heavily taxed, owes its origin, to a large extent, to the injurious social drinking usages and to the liquor traffic. The State could well afford, as a matter of dollars and cents, to close all the drinking places, and support, instead of their pauperized victims, the saloon-keepers, brewers and distillery from the public treasury. ?National Advocate. Depot Ism or the Poluon-Vice. All poison-habits avenge tbemselvpi by their tyranny over the will-power of their victims. For weeks, often indeed for years, the monitions of instinct resist the yviles of the tempter; a boy may be coaxed or forced to swallow a spoonful of rum every day, and: yet abhor its taste at the end of a month as plainly as on the day of the first attempt; Nature protests against the incipience of a! life-endangering vice, and is apt to enforce: her voto by such arguments as nausea and, sick-headache; but if those warnings are! disregarded too often, the sinner is at last' abandoned to his fate, and his will becomesi a slave toan unnatural passion for the same! poison which at lirst formed Lbo object of a; violent aversion. There is an exception to: that rule- Chemistry knows no poison,' botany no deadliest weed, which by persist-i ent obtrusion iuto the reluctant organism; cannot be made the object of a passionate craving. Millions of men have become des-' perately addicted to the use of arsenic and. opium; the natives of Kamt.'chatbu fuddle with an infusion of poisonous mushrooms;! the Indians of eastern Yucatan with acuta,: tha Kvrisn* with hash-1 ?esh, the Tartar* with fermented mare's! milk, the miners of the Peruvian sierras' with antimrciy and sugar of lend, the Malays' with the acrid leaves of the betel plant. It would be mere sophistry to object that "a man may contract a penchant for any ar-j tide of diet." The predilection for harmless or nutritive substances will never assume the form of a mind-enslaving and exclusive passion. A jierson may become very fond! of ripe grapes without l>eing tempted to slay bis mother for a bunch or blue Catawbas. He will not risk his life in a midnight mid to plunder the vineyards on Kellev's Island. His green-grocers will not be knocked down for a crate of Concords; be will not board a freight train and fall like a famished wolf upon the content! of the grape car. If grapes should be out of season he will not stiller the tortures of Hades till the object of his mania can be imported from distant dimes. In de- | fault of graps, ripe bananas or a quart of< red raspberries will suit his purpose just at woll. The passion of the poison slave will accept tio such compromise. In tho absence of his wonted tipple the grief of a laudanum drinker refuses to l>e comforted by all the dainties <>f a Parisian restaurant. A hasheesh filler won d turn away in disgust from all the tree iniits of Paradise. Now the ali rolmi hnhil. is rbanu-teri/ed by an exactly analogous iii.liienco upon the passions of its victims. Continued topers loathe whole1 some food and drink while the unsatisfied i rage'of the poisoit-liunger is gnawing at their vitals. In pursuit of its gratification that hankering can rise to a passion overpowering nvnrv boLttsr instinct, the instinct of self preservation hardly excepted. I have known [ rum to cause soldiers to leave their post and make a rush for Ihe dramshop across the 5 border, with the full knowledge of running the risk of being shot for desertion. Baffled > topers will not husitate to cheat their neigltj bors apd friends; they will deceive their ' benefactors by the inennest tricks; they ) will not shrink from filching the pennies of a sleeping child. Dr. Isaac Jennings quotes the case of a tippler who wns set to work in a Massachusetts almshouse: "Within a few days he had devised various expedients to procure rum, but failed. At length he hit upcn one that proved successful. He went into the woodyard of the esi tablisbment, placed one baud upon a block, and with an aje in the other struck it olT at a single blow. With the stump raised and streaming, he ran into the house, crying: 'Get socie rum! get some rum! my hand is off!' In the confusion and bustle of the occasion a bowl of rum was brought, into which he plunged the bleeding member of his body, then raising the bowl to his month, 1 drank freely, and exultingly exclaimed: 'Now I am satisfied.'" Yet there is no doubt that the hero of the above exploit might have gratified his craving for various other arti1 cles of food or drink without a sacrifice of J DJOtMl. 21 bUiUier WII/II t\ U1 U3i Ui uioau lit ...? pocket would not drentn of risking his life for tile pleasure of buttering that bread. The experience of daily life would furnish nti abundance of similar cases to illustrate the fact that no natural appetite is characterized by the exclnsiveness of the alcohol passion.? Dr. Oswald, ?? the Voire. W. C. T. U. Kul let in. ''Stampede the Christian womanhood of ' tho nation and the saloon w safe." Fifty-four new Loyal Temperance Legions were organized in Nebraska lost year, i A 'Prayer Alliance" for the extinction of the saloon has beeu orgauizcd in ?rio Coun1 ty, l'enn. Dr. S. S. Thorne says: In regard to surgii cal operations every physician dreads to huve anything to do with beer-drinkers. It is dangerous,for a buor driuker to oven cut 1 his linger. Miss Mary A. Woodbridge, American Seci retary of the World's W\ C. T. U., will visit Kngland in t.hu spring to attend the annual meeting of the British Woman's Temperance ; Association. Wine is almost universally used by the Japanese in celebrating the Mikado's uirthday, Novemlier but the Japanese residents of Honolulu conducted their last festivities in lienor of this occasion without the use of any stimulant. Dr. Strong is authority for the statement that in t.he States between the Mississippi River and the Kooky Mountains there is on tho average one saloon to every fortv-tnree ?ii. ,\f fka Mid jivvpfttyfl is oue saloon to 107 voters. - In Sheffield, Ala., says the Nashville Issue, the licensed saloon supports the public schools. One man who asserted that both Ins sons were strong auti prohibitionists, upon Ixing asked why, saiil: ' Because they are indebted tu tlio saloon for their schooling." A good work is in progres? among the hundreds of Italians employed in the iron and coal mines and limestone quarries of Newcastle, Fenn. Mr. and Mrs. ISurde, Italian evangelists from New York e.ty. have been employed by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Newcastle, lo work among these people who are notably god less, ignorant ami quarrelsome. Mrs. Nnnle is blind, but is led from house to iiotwe by her husband as they visit these neglected Italian families holding cottage services, A new way of fighting the litiuor traffic has lately been tried with success oy some of the Catholic jrie>ts of Brooklyn, N. Y. Hundreds of boys and youn^ men have been pledged to shun the saloons aud cigar stores for a stated number of years. . y,r- . . > ' r.S ; V, . . y : -rWORDS OP WISDOM. Woman is bom for love. Tbink well before taking action. Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. Happiness ia not perfected until it is shared. The tender, humble, broken heart is the best thank offering. He who wisely uses his wealth need not leave it for his tombstone. Do the truth you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know. The sight of a man's money is ofttimes the antidote for the odor of a very bad character. The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasures of others. A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous. Do not wait for extraordinary opportunities for good actions, but make use of common situations. But the path of the just, as a shining light, goetn forward, and increaseth even to perfect day. The way of the wicked is darksome; they know not where they fall. The things which thy eyes have seen utter not hastily in a quarrel, lest afterward thou mayst not be able to make amends, when thou hast dishonored thy friend. No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best ho can to keep out of it. Spanish Ragamuffin Soldiers. Onpo fftr +Vi*. anlra nf t.VlA and diversion, I joined Don Carlos, the Pretender to the throne of 8pain, writes General Crawford, of the United 8tates army, at Los Arcos in the mountains of Navarre, and accompanied his troops to Vienna, on the Ebro, and was a witness to the attack and capture of the place. They were a tatterdemalion lot of soldiers, and no mistake, clothed in every conceivable garment and armed with every conceivable weapon, from a pitchfork to a broken scythe strapped on a stick, and from an antiquated out-ofdate army musket to the latest improved American breechloader. But nondescript and incongruous as they were, they had stout hearts in their ill-nurtured bodies, and when put to it and spurred on by the presence of their Prince, they would fight an gallantly and desperately as only brave men can. As for artillery, they had none; but that did not appear to affect them one way or the other. I stood by the side of Don Carlos on a rustic bridge one dismal and rainy morning as his devoted followers filed by on the march, and I was much struck by seeing a number of wagons in the line loaded down with barrels. I asked Don Carlos what they contained, and he care lessly answered in liis most nonchalant manner, with just a trace of a smile on hid handsome face: "The / contain petroleum." "And what earthly use," I asked, "have you for petroleum on the march?" "What use!" he answered1. "Why, much use to be sure. That's our artillery. We employ it to smoke out our enemiea from barricaded strongholds, and I can assure you it's been tried and found very effective in case a conflagration is deemed desirable." And then after a moment's pause and a look at my face, "Oh, yes, I can assure you, General Crawford, petroleum makes very good artillery on a pinch, very good indeed." ?New York Star. Cotton Seed Oil. In the United j$tatC3 cotton oil is made from the decorticated and crushed upland cotton-seed, by expression this process yielding an odorless dark brownish-green oil having a specific aravity of about 0224. Being then treated with alkaline solutions ("generally containing potash or soda), the clear yellow oil, which is odorless and flavorless and has the same specific gravity as the crude, is drawn off by racking, and the residuum, which is called soap stock, is treated in a suitable manner. The present consumption of cotton ^ ml wolrinrp nnrnAQAQ 1ft A?inilt CCCU XUl Vtl'u<aaiug -w , 800,000 toa3 a year, from which there are made about 28,000,000 gallons, worth about thirty cents per gallon in | the refined condition. The principal use to which it is put is for food purposes. The well-established | fact that it is not only healthful, but more easily digested than almost any other article of food, accounts for the rapid increase of its use for culinary purposes, which to-day simounts to a very large proportion of the entire production. It is safe to say that of the 2f, 000,000 gallons made each year, ninetenths enter into the composition of food products, principally refined lard and salad and cooking oil. It is also used for illuminating; in the manufacture of nuts and bolts; lor wool soap; for soap for laundry, bath and toilet purposes; as an emulsiou in medicine, to take the place of olive oil; as a substitute for cod liver oil; in packing sardines, and for dozens of other purposes as a substitute for olive oil.? Dicie. New Readings. There was once a little girl whose 1" "HAM Avnallanf h o f reacting m scuuui wiu su she was always called upon to display her abilities when visitors were present On one such occasion, says Youth's Companion, she rose, "puffed up with majestick pride," to repeat a poem be- I ginning: "Daffodils! daffodils!" But pride had a fall that time, for the words got twisted, and she enunciated with emphasis: "Daddyfoils! daddyfoils!" Many are the ludicrous mistakes belonging to reading classes. A little girl one day attempted the sentence:"Cortes, with a handful of followers, went to Mexico," but the r-.'ad, in all gravity: "Cortes, with a handful of flowers, went to Mexico." Another child delivered, with great expression, the lines from "Lord Lilin's .Daughter:" "AVho will cheer my bony bride. When thoy have slain her lover!" The Origin of Halloo and Hurrah. Among other exclamations in common use "Halloo!" and "Hurrah!" have curious origins attributed to them. It is sa d by the author ci "The Queen's ?uglisft" tnai tnc peopi*; vt iu?hj?vuuu Forost, Leicestershire. when they desired to hrul a person at a distance called out not halloo." but ' halloup!" This he iungincs is a survival of the times when one cried to another "a loup! a loup!" or as we would now say: Wolf! wolf!" "Hurrah!" again according to M. Littre, is derived from the Slavonic huraj, "to Paradise," which signifies that all soldiers who fell fighting valiautly went straight to heaven. "PrUhee" is obviously a corruption of "I pray thee;" while "marry" was originally a method of swearing" by the Virein Mary.?All the Year Round. " ' ; ' Wf' ':r?7,j CLEVELAND'S FUTUBET i M Tlie President to Enter a Large New York Law Firm. . j Ee Will Begin Practice as Soon as His Term Ezpires. A Washington dispatch states that "on Tuesday, March 5, Grover Cleveland, now I '/jffS President of the United States, will be-j :ome a resident of tho city of New York and i member of the law firm of Bangs, Stetson,; Tracy & MacVeagh. The President haj JUttll UUUtCIIipittl/lLlJJ bills aoouvmuvu &w? i , ' some time, but only completed his ar-! rangements recently, during a visit to J ? ;he White House of Mr. *rancis Lynda \ ; Stetson, with whom he is so soon to be con* aected in business. He will take the placo is counsel with the firm of Mr. Wayne Mac* Teagh. the father of Mr. Charles MacVeagh, . % whose name appears in the firm designation. The President's name is not to be incorporated in that of the firm, and he is not expecting - -;M 50 appear in court. "Tne President has not yet selected a permanent residence, but he will live in Ne^r gj York city and not in New Jersey or Brook* '7? lyn. The idea of living in New Jersey had a ijreat deal of attraction, but the inconvenience of travel was decided to be a sufficient objection to the plan of living on the Orange Mountain. For / the present the President will' live in a hotel near Madison Square and he will seek to maintain his present good health by walking from his hotel to his office ill William street He has been in training for these walks, for he has of late resorted to this plan of finishing his afternoon ride by being set down a mile or two from the v'fj White House and 'footing it' the rest of the distance. "Mrs. Cleveland and Mra Folsom wiH , find a large circle of old and new friends ready to welcome them to the soeiepr of the metropolis, xne country uoumj ut wo*. ?.. , which the President bought in anticipation of his marriage will not be occupied by him again. It has been closed since the Christ* . .f mas holidays, when the family came to the White House for the winter. The President will probably retain it until an advantageous- " ? opportunity is presented of selling it , . "Two other persons who have been doselr identified with the Administration will take up their residence in New York at the same time that the President foes to that city. Secretary of the Treasury airchild has purchased a house near Washington Square, and soon after he has occupied It he will take charge of an important business undertaking now organizing and' With which some of the most substantial men > \ ,'3J| of the city are identified. It is not s lair ; business, but the Secretary's legal attain- :;i ments will make him more valuable as th? . \ head of a concern in which the experience of the Secretary of the Treasury will perhaps constitute a greater recommendation for > .*>? employment. "Colonel D. S. Lamont, the President's private secretary, will also take hold of private business on March 5,and in a line winch he expects to be an agreeable and profitable change after four years of servitude in ne- .> tional politics. He and the President will I -?:ii AAmiMininiK fnr thftV exnect Dlllil W -V- J ?rC | to lire at the same hotel until . ;^JS i they have selected permanent resi- m j tiences. Mr. Lamont will not go Into the insurance business as has been reported, but Into one more attractive to him, in which be will be the associate of intimate friends who ifi have * proved ability in ventures requiring discretion, energy and capital. He is not vel prepared to go more fully into his plans, but : ,-\p they are understood to be m the direction of > railroad development." Mr. Stetson, the New York lawyer referred to in the above dispatch, in an interview corroborates the information therein contained concerning Mr. Cleveland's occupa* tion after h.'s retirement from the Presidency. <JM 7^ THE LATE CBOWN PEINCE. J Rudolph's Body Lyin? in State?A. Simple Barial. The body of the late Crown Prince of Austria lay in state in the private chapel of tha Hofburg, Vienna, for two days, when it was decided that it should be deposited in the vaults of the church, the heart in- * $ closed in a silver urn, placed in St. Augustine's and the intestine), in a silver vase, in St Stephen's Cathedral. The funeral procession, without pomp, it was de- . cided should go the shortest route. At the funeral of the Prince all the honors befitting the exalted rank of the deceased I ""?a Kii^ flicus TVAO nft arf-ronrHinirV {+ "CIO paiu, UUV ?"?ww HIM uv VAm j display of funeral pomp. Requiem mass was said at the Capuziner Church, which was filled with the dignitaries of the court and state. The Emperor knelt alone at the foot of the catafalque. Behind and around him were a number of Archdukes and other members of the Imperial family. To therm succeeded Ministers and high officers of the state, the army and navy. The rest of the congregation consisted of the Imperial household, the burgomasters of Vienna and Pestb, and members of the corporation in their robes shrouded with mourning, the diplomatic corps to the number of seventy-five, and a few representatives of the home and foreign pres9. Tne religious ceremonies were the only - ; elaborate feature of the funeral. All the rest, in accordance witfc the Emperor's desire, was comparatively simple. The procession, preceded by troops and bands with muffled drums, and including in due order all the people within the church, began to move at 4 o'clock. The streets through which it passid were crowded with mourning spectators from curb to housetop. The painful silence of the vast crowds was broken only by half suppressed sobs. Intense emotion was manifested everywhere. The pleasure-loving populace were subdued UJ aauuvn vfiuwuw.j ?9??%rw*w? The Empress, having taken a last look at her son in the morning, when the coffin was closed forever, did not attend the funeral,bat % with the Crown Princess Stephanie and the Princesses Gesels and Valerie remained at prayer in the chapel of the Hofburg. THE PARNILL COMMISSION. _ * Sensational Evidence of a Man One? a Prominent Fenian. The most sensational testimony yet adduced before the Parnell Commission in London has been given bv Dr. Thomas Philip Beach, better known as Major Le Caron, who has been connected with Fenian organizations since istio.and is said to have been in the pay of the British and Canadian Governments for a number of years. He said he attended meetings of the United Brotherhood, or Clan-na-(iael, in America, at which Messrs. Parnell and Dillon were present. The witness was informed by Patrick Egan that Mr. Parnell wanted to join the organization, ? but feareJ his accession might impair its usefulness. Le laron said he afterward had two interviews with Parnell: the first in the house of I A. M. Sullivan at Clapham, and the second in the lobby of the House of Common. "Doctor." said the Irish leader. ' ! have long since cea'ei to believe that anything but force of arms can ever bring abouo the redemption of Ireland." He did not see, he continued, why there could not be a successful revolution in Ireland. The League treasury had ?10),000 for the purpose, and the people might contribute more. The witness, in interviews with Messrs. Sexton and Kenney, discussed an uprising. A London dispatch states that on the second day of his appearance on the witness stand Le Caron "told what purported to be the story of how Fenianism developed into a dynamite conspiracy, and nt wearisome length detailed the proceedings at the Chicago Convention and other historical gatherings of American Irish. The names of Parnell and less prominent members of the Irish Parliamentary party were freely bandied nbout, but even if to-dav's evidence be accepted as truthful, which requires an exerciaa of phenomenal faith, it proves no more than that the Land League leaders from the tirst endeavored to sever themselves from the part nf vinlen^o mid tried ti> convert the revolu tionists to faith in constitutional raathoJs." The Navajo Indians of Arizona are very successful in raisin# stock. According to the figures of the reservation agent, they own ,'i-"),0.;0 horses and ponies, 600 mules, li'jOO cattle. 800,000 goats, and 500 burros. Their wool clippings for the year amounted to 1,200,000 pounds,and they also sold 300,00? sheep pelts and 100,000goat skins, - ! ...1 "l