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> TEE PAMELL INQUIRY. A Leading Witness Against the Home Rule Leader Confesses. Admitting the London "Times" j Letters Were Forgeries. After a searching examination of sixty days, the Parnell inquiry in London has resulted in the most sensational developments, j The Parnell Commission, as it is called, was j instituted to examine into allegations of the London Times that Mr. Parnoll had written letters sympathizing with criminal efforts? , murder and the use of dynamite?to further 1 the cause of Irish Home Rule. The Times published what purported to bo letters of Mr. Parnell favoring criminal action in behalf of Ireland's liberation from English domination. The Irish Home Rule leader asserted that these letters were forgeries and demanded an investigation. A Special Com- j mission was appointed to take testimony,and ; the trial began over two months ago. The most important witness upon whom the 'lime* relied was one Richsrd Pigott, who had furnished the paper with the alleged Parnell letters,and who swore before the Commission that they were genuine: Upon cross examination, Dowerer, ngon, went iu )jio? i completely when confronted with a letter I which he bad written to Archbishop Walsh, j offering for pay to prove that the Parnell | letters were fraudulent. In further cross- j examination Pigott involved himself in a complete network of lies, and the case of the i Times seemed knocked all to pieces. To put ' a cliocher upon tbe matter Tigott made a confession that the letters were forgeries, and j then disappeared. A London dispatch gives ' these further particulars: Richard Pigott, the principal Times wit- | ness in the Parnell case, has made a startling j confession. He declares the Parnell letters, published by the London Times, absolute forgeries. The announcement of this sensational da- j velopment was made at the morning session ; of the Parnell Commission. Sir Charles Russell, counsel for Parnell, arose shortly after the opening of the court and stated that on Saturday last at the j house of Henry Labouchere, editor of Lon- i don Truth, Pigott signed a confession. This j confession stated in so many words that tbe alleged Parnell letters printed by tbe Times, and on which tbe Times based its charges azainst tbe Irish members, were forgeries. Mr. George Augustus Sala was also present when the confession was made. Pigott had, without invitation, called on i Mr. Labouchere and offered to confess. Mr. Labouchere declined to listen with- j out witnesses, whereupon Mr. Sala ; was summoned, and Pigott confessed that he was the forger. He admitted | that he forged all the letters ascribed to i ?? ^ ;**. /VLTA11?. ! Messrs. .tgan, rarusn, aiiu yiwuj. He also admitted that ha perjured himself > before the Commission. The statement of Sir Charles Russell was i corroborated by the witnesses. Having made this extraordinary statement ! to the court, Sir Charles Russell applied for a j warrant for the arrest of Pigott. The Presiding Justice said that within an hour a war- { rant would be ready. Mr. Shannon, a Dublin solicitor, who as- ! .sisted the Times in constructing its case, was then called to the witness box. Mr. Shan- | oon testified that on Sunday night Pigott j -came to him and gave him a written state merit denying the statement he had made on ! Saturday to Mr. Labouchere that he had j forged all the letters. The first batch Pigott ! declared he believed to be genuine. Tiia sec- I ond batch, including two of the Parnell let- j ters, was forged by himself and Casey. The j third batch, which includes those of Davitt j and O'Kelly, were similar!}- forged. Pigott added, in his statement to Shannon, j that he now- having stated the truth and 1 confessed before the world, the Ti.nes should deal lenientlv with him. Sir Charles Russell, Mr. Parnell's counsel, | -cross examined Mr. Shannon, who stated in answer to a question that he took no steps to ; prevent Pigott from escaping, but that he : fully expected to see him appear in court. It was very evident to all present that "the Times had met its Waterloo, and that the j case was in a state of complete collapse. The following cablegram has been received in Chicago from Michael Davitt by Alexander Sullivan: t "Pigott has bolted. It is the general be- ' lief here that the Times and the Government have paid him to clear out.'1 Abandoning the Case. When the Parnell Commission resumed its fitting on the morn ng after the above disclosures, Attorney-General Webster an- j nounced that Pigott lmd written to Mr. . ;Shannon from Paris. The letter was read in ! court. It contained the *ame confession that j Sir Charles Russell read the previous day. i Pigott acknowledged t>at be forged "the ! fac-simile printed by the Timet and theother letters. He admitted that he fabricated the letters which he said ho found in a bug, and describes the process by which he did it. He used genu ne letters of Parnell's and Egan's, , copying closely several words of general ! character, and tracing the actual writing by I ho'ding the letters up ajrainst a window and following line for line. The second batch of Parnell's litters he imitated from fac-simi e. In conclusion, Pigott says that Mr. Labouchere's account of the interview between Pigott and himself is mainly correct. After Pigott's letter had been read Attorney Genera! Webster said: , "Nobody will attach any weight to Pigott's evidence. It is now our auty to ask leave to withdraw from considering the genuineness of the letters. Ih-i publishers of I the Times desire to express their regret for the publication of them, and will a little later give fuller mani:estations of regret over the ' |matter.,; l Mr. Parnell took tbo witness stand and de- j nied the genuineness of th-j letters alleged to j have been signed by himself and addressed to Ejjan. He had dictated to Mr. Cimpbell a letter regarding his desire to have au inter- ' view with Figott. This letter was evidently | the one from which imitations were made. ; After Mr. Parnell's testimony the Com- ; mission adjourned. The London Times has withdrawn its ad- ' vertisement of the pamphlets "Parnellism jind Crime*' and "0 Donn9ll versus Walters." Applicants for the pamphlets are informed that they are "out of print." GOLD AND SILVER, The Precious Metal Mined in This Country l^urinj* 1888. ^ The Director of the Mint reports to Congress that the gold production in the United States in was 1,<?I4,927 fine ounces, of the value of $-33,17"),CO). Ihe silver product was 45,78 >,63} fine | ounces, of the commercial value of ahout i , $4;i.OO ?,003 and of the co n n ' value of $5'J,Slf5.0J0. , f The average price of silver durin? the year : wa< about 'J4 cents per onnce. At this price ! ^_the bullion value of the silver contained in "the silver dollar was 72.<*. cents. The Government purchised standard ounces of silver during the year, costing $34,491,310. j The total amount of silver purchased for the ' coinage of the silver dollar since March 1, IIH? "evil Jvauutuu UUUUW, costing $2Ki,0l'1,440?an average pr.ce of "W.T ceuts per standard ounce. The coinage o" the mints during the calendar year was: Gold. ?31..'{si>,?>0$; silver dollars, subs tliarv silver, $1,034,773: minor, Total, gi?,31S,015. j The import of gold buliion and c>in was $11,0:>1,J?41 an I the export $.>4,0r.,,?>67?a loss I by export of $.'3,5*7,72 i. The import of silver was $31, M) 2,0 an 1 the export $:2!?,$J5,- ' [SSi?a loss by export of ?8,3'#, 1 IK). The metallic sto.-k of thi I 'nited States, January 1, lss'f, is estimattd Co have been: Gold. $701,O il,975; silver, $403,.",16,756. Total, 11,1)5,5^,7^1. '1 he est mated consumption of gold and lilver in the industries in tho United State? during 18S3 was: Gold, $14,OJO,OJO; silver, S3.2iO.OJO. A NEW FEENCH CABINET. | ! t Carnot Announces the >s of the Next Ministry. ; Carnot, of France, has signed e ; >inting the following Cabinet: j I, Premier and Minister of Com- 1 ans, Minister of the Interior. er, Mi rioter of Finance, not, Ministerof Justice, res. Minister of Education. Minister of Agriculture. 3uyot, Minister of Public Worki ivc.net, Minis er of War. Jaures. Minister of Marine. arcel, Minister of Foreign Affairs. WORDS OF WISDOM. Empty vessels make most sound. Do not ride a free horse to death. Debt is the worst kind of poverty. Cleave the log according to the grain. There is a peace more destructive than war. Children and fools should not handle edge tools. We are not shaped and fashioned by what we love. Waste not time, for time is the stall life is made of. Children and fools should not see a work that is half done. One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. Find out your work, and stand to it; the night cometh when no man can work. I ife is no idle dream, but a solemn reality based on and encompassed by eternity. Work of whatever kind, if rightly rende.ed, is the best teacher of knowledge and trainer of virtue. There is a small chance of truth at the goal where there is not a childlike simplicity at the starting-post. The soul in deep sorrow recoils from tfAr/lj no tlio rIplirfitA diuiuao llV/Ui ?? Wl v? U j vt?v V?V?>VM?V Qowcr from a cold night breeze. Our value in life is not in being conspicuous. but in being faithful to the work given us and the trust imposed on us. It is no great matter to live lovingly with good natured, humble and meek persons; but he who can do so with the forward, wilful, ignoraut, peevish and perverse, hath true charity. Tricks of Ticket Takers. There was a man talking the other day about the tricks practiced by ticket sellers and ticket takers who were in collusion to "go suooks." Their idea is to get the collected tickets back to the ticket seller so that they can be sold twice and accountcd for but once, the extra money making up the "snooks." To do this undetected the tricks are employed. Out at Cheltenham Beach once, said, the man, one of ticket sellers had by the side of his big tin box a huge cotton umbrella. Every once in awhile ho would slip a ticket or two into the capacious maw of the umbrella, dropping the rest in the box where they belonged. This worked successfu l/, and at lunch time the tickets were slipped t-.\ tVin ;r>L-pf co'lpr who was in L'itfV l?vr nuw tivtkvw ww. with the deal, and resold to the pro.it of both. Late in the afternoon it began to rain. One of the managers had occasion to run outside of the gate. He saw the umbrella by the ticket taker's side and grabbed it, saying: "I'll return you this in a moment.' As be opened it a shower of tickets fell to the ground, and the trick was thus accidentally exposed. It is perhaps unnecessary to state that the ticket taker was at once relieved from duty. Years ago, out at the West Side Driving Park, a certain gate keeper used to take a sandw ch in to a certa n ticket seller at frequent intervals. This man's appetite was apparently so enormous that he attracted attention. One day the ticket seller was waylaid and four tickets were found, (arefu'ly placed between the slices of ham and bread, iroiuedays later a suspected ticket taker was searched for tickets held out. Nothing was found in hi*clothes, ana uc was at last requested to pull o!t the heavy boots he always wore. lie did so, reluctautly, and a shower of tickets fell to the ground. There are, truly, tr.cks in all trades. ? ChkcijO II raid. Wonderful Memories lor B tsiness. Phil Armour, the great Chicago porkpacker, is said to have remarked that a goo.l memory is ucces ary to one who wishes to succeed. This is, porhips, a trifle strong, and yet there is 110 lack of evideuce to support the statement. Armour himself is an example of what a good memory can do. He is as wonderful in h's time a3 Cardinal Mczzofanti was in his. lie is said to carry the smallest detail of his immense business in his head. He cau remember the date of small as well as large busiuess transactions. He knows the names of pretty nearly all 01 nis army ux cui^iujca. After the building of theaddit ou to his great e-tablishment in Chicago he astonished a circle of friends by rattling offhand the number of bricks, carloads of sand, feet of timber, ctc., that were used in the (onstructiou. Aimour's gift is a uatural one. He has never cultivated it, but the demands of his business have unqua^tionably kept His powers of memory in active training. "Old Ilulch," as the imperturbable Chicago wheat manipulator is called, is another mau gi:ted with an extraordinary memory./He needs no books to curry his transactions in, although of course, he uses them. With him. too, retoativene=s is a natural ?ift. He renjembers everything that he wants to r/?rrw>mi.or Kiit- cnvs fmnklv lie doesn't know how lie does it. lie also possesses the gift of not remembering th;ugs he floes not wish to rc;nember. Rut then that gift is not rare. ? Kansas City Tims. We Hire Gi.OOO l'oets. According to the best statistics at hand there are at present ?;5,oCO | oets in the country -one to every 1000 inhabitants! In other words, one-tenth of one per cent of the people of thi I nited States are poets! Some parts of Indiana are literally overrun by poets! A congress of bards is annually held in that State. A college of poetry will diminish the number of singers, for every poet will have to have a diploma. There could be a State Board of l'oetry, and every man caught writing poetry without a diploma could lte proecuted to the full extent of the law. The e could be a peuitentiary for unlcensed poets and a poetical reform school for young oHenders. The number of poets in the country might rapidly diminish from (j.'jOOO to scarcely more than ! ",< 0 ). One work of the proposed school of x til 4.~ inn aIi I, ..1. ! poetry Will IU icauu I'victs uuuis ui method. They will be taught to avo d litter and to keep their manuscript in a precise and exact way. They will learn regular hour3 of work. They will be taught a system of double eutry bookkeeping by which they may iccoid their ideas on one page and their emotions on another.?New Yor.': Jin1 J. 31 rs. Hetty Green's 31 i I lions. Mrs. Hetty Green, the e.-centnc old lady sometimes r^'erred lo as the W itch of Wall street," has real estate, stocks, bor.as and diamonds reputed tc be worth $10,000,000. Mrs. Green dresses with uncommon plainnes?, has au aversion for society, and weighs lsOpouud-'. 8he has diamonds valued at * J..0,000, but larelv wears any of them, and regards them simply as so much valuable property. "Buy till I tell you to stop," is the pertinent order Airs, (ireen usually gives to her broker when she is after any particular railroad stock. In this way she has often boomed a certain stock, and when the profit suited her she would give the order to half a dozen other brokers: "Sell till I tell you to stop."? Philadelphia limes. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEIIMON. SiiDJect: "Dark Sayings on a Harp." Text: "twillopen vvi dark sayings on a harp."?Psalm of David, xlix., 4. The world is full of the inexplicable, the impassable, the unfathomable, the insurmountable. We cannot go three steps in any direction without coming up against a hard wall ot' mystery, riddles, paradoxes, profundities, labyrinths, problems that we cinnot solve, hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason David in my text proposed to take up some of these somber and dark things and try to set them to sweet music: "1 will open my dark sayings on a harp." So I look ofT upon society and find people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances and they do riot know what it means and they have a right to ask: why is this? and why is that? and I think 1 will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot. and I shall only be answering questions that have often been asked me, or that we have all asked oarselves, while I try to set these mysteries to music and open my dark sayings on a harp. InfAPrncalinn tho first: W hv does God take out of this world those who are useful and whom cannot spare and leave alive and in g< od health so many who ar? only a nuisance or a positive injury to the world* I thought I would begin with the very toughest of all the seeming inscrutables. Many of the most useful men and women die at thirty or forty years of age, while you often find useless "people alive at sixty and seventy and eighty. John Careless wrote to Bradford, who was soon to be put to death, saying: ' Why doth God suffer rae and such other caterpillars to live that can do nothing but consume the alms of the church, and take away so many worthy workmen in the Lord's vineyard*" Similar questions are often asked. Here are two men. The one is a noblt, character and a Christian man; be chooses for lifetime companion one who has been tenderly reared, and she is worth}- of him and he is worthy of her; as merchant, or farmer, or professional man, or mechanic, or artist, he toils to educate and rear his children; he is succeeding, but he has not yet established for his family a full competency; he seems absolutely indispensable to that household, but one day before he has paid off the mortgage on his hou-e he is comii.g home through a strong northeast wind and a chill strikes through him and four days of pneumonia end his enrthly career and the wife and children go into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who, though strong and well, lets his wife support him; he is round at the grocery store or tome general loafing place in the evenings while bis wife sews; his boys are imitating his example and lounge and swagger and swear; all the us9 that man is in that house is to rave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutt ng things about his wife's looks when he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that family would be that man's funeral; but he declines to die: he livts on and on and on. So we have all noticed that many of the u?eful are early cut off while the parasites of society have great vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and givo three or four thrums on the string in the way of surmising and hopeful guess. Perhaps the useful man was taken out of the world, teca se he and his family were so constructed that they could not have endured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead and they altogether might have gone down in the vortex of worldliness which every year swallows up ten thousand households. And eo he went while he was humble uud consecrated, and they were by the severities of ii.'o kept close to Christ an:l fitted for usefulness linrft and high seats in heaven; and when they meet at last before the Throne, they will acknowledge that though the furnace was hot, it purified them, and prepared them for an eternal career of glory and reward for which no other kind of life could have fitte 1 them. On the the other hund, the u>ol<ss man lived on to fifty or sixty, or seventy years, because all the onse l:e ever can have he must have in tlrs world, and you ought not, therefore, begrude him his earthly longevity. In all tha ages there ha3 not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place for him there to hang around. Not in the temples, for they are full of the most vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. Not on the river bank, for that 13 the place where the conquerors recline. Not in the gates, because there are multitudts entering, and we are told that at each of the twelve gates, there is an angel, and that celestial guard would not allow the place to be bioc-ked up with idlers. If the good and useful go earlv, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a strusgle. And if the use < ss and the bad stay, rejoice that they may be out in the world's fresh air a good many years before their final incarceration. Interrogation the second: Why do so many good people have so much trouble; sickness, bankruptcy, persecution,the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks into one set cf janged nerves? 1 think now of a good friend I once bad. He was a consecrated Christian man, nn elder in the church and as polished a Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general neaicn gave ouc ana ne nouoiea around on a cane, an old man at forty. After a while paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suJ denly to quit business, he lost what property he had. Thvn his b-autiful daughter died. Then a son became hopelessly demented. Another son. sp'endid of mind and commanding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father's household, but under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernandina, F.a., he suddenly expired. So you know tood men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to music, or play it on violin or flute or dulcimer or sackbut, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp. You wonder that very consecrated people have trouble? Did you ever know any very consecrated man or woman who had not had great trouble? Never. It was through their troubles sanctified that they were made very good. If you find anywhere in this city a man who ha3 now and always lias had perfect health, and never lost a child, ana ha3 always been popular, and never had business struggle or misfortune, who is distinguished for goodness, pull your wire for a telegraph niesseneer boy and send me word and I will drop everythine and go right away to look at him. There never has been a man like that, and never will bo. Who are those arrogant, self-conceited creatures who move about without sympathy for others anrl who think more of a St. Bernard dog, or an Alderney cow, or a Southdown shrep, or a Berkshire pie than of a man? Th?v ppv?t bad any trouble, or the troub:e was nevei sanctified. Who are tli03e men who listen with moist eye as you te'l them of sufTerinfj and who have a pathos iu their voice and a kindness in their manner and an ex> cuse or an alleviation for those gone astray: Tliey are the men who have graduated at the Royal Academy of Trouble and they hav? 4i.. i IrllU U.U UJIIil WflllCH III ?TilU\iCT Ull I/UUIA WVTUcountenances. My! mvl What heartaches they had! What tears they have wept! What injustice they have suffered. The mightiesl influence for purification and salvation is trouble. No diamond fit for a crown until it is cut. No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There are only three thines thai can break off a cha:n?a hammer, a file or i fire, and trouble is all thre9 of them The greatest writers, orators and reformersgct much of their force from trouble. Whal rave to Washington Irving thai exquisite tenderness and pathos which will make his books favor'tes while the Knglisl: language continues to be written and spoken: An early h"artbreak that he never oncj mentioned; and whin, thirty years aftei the death of Matilda Hoffman, who wai to have bern his bride, ber fathet picked un a piece of embroidery anc said: "That is a piece of poor Matilda"! workmanship." Washington Irving sanb from hilarity into silenca and walked away. Out of that lifetime grief the great author dipred his nen's mightiest re-enforcement. "Calvin's Institutes of Religion." than which a more wonderful book was never written by human hand, was begun by th? author at twenty-five years of age, t>ecaus? of the persecution by Francis. King ol France. Faraday toiled for all time on s salary of 80 pounds a year and candle*, A? -/ .y'f ' * *** ' - " i'* . . " -I every brick of the wall of Bibylon was stamped with the letter N, standing for Nebuchadnezzar, so every part of the temple of Christian achievement is stamped with the letter T. standing for trouble. When in olden time a man was to be honored with knighthood, he was struck with the flat of the sword. But those who have come to the honor of knighthood in the kingdom ot God were first struck not with the flat of the sword but with the keen edge of the crimeter. To build his magnificence of character, Paul could not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreck. What is true of individuals is true of nations. The horrors of the American revolution gave this country this side of the Mississippi River to independence. and the conflict between Eneland and France gave the most of this country west of the Mississippi to the United State'. France owned it. but Napoleon, fearing that England would take it, practically made a present to the United States? for he received only 11"),000,000?of Louisiana. Missouri. Arkansas, Kansas. Nebraska. Iowa. Minnesota. Colorado, Dakota, Montana. Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out cA the fire of the American revolution came this country east of the Mississppi. out of the European war csme that west of the Mississippi River. The British Empire rose to its present overtowering grandeur through gunpowder jjlot, and Guy n-?.1 \nptKnmnfftn in r tt?Yhta 3 t?i|i3|fll j , auu ... surrection, and "Walter Raliegh's beheading, and Bacon's bribery, and Cromwell's dissolution of parliament, and the battles of Edge Hill, and Grantham, and Newberry, and Marston Moor, and Naseby, and Dunbar, and Sedgemoor, and execution of Charles th* First, and .London plague, and Iondon fire, and Londo* insurrection, and Ryehouse plot, and the vicissitudes of centuries. So the earth itself, before it could become appropriate and beautiful residence for the human family had, according to geology, to be washed by universal deluge, and scorched and made incandescent by universal fires, and pounded by sledge-hammer of icebprgs, and wrenched by earthquakes that split continents, and shaken by volcanoes that tossed mountains, and passed through the catastrophes of thousands of years before Paradise became possible and the groves could shake out their green banners and the first garden pour its carnage of color between the Gihon and the Hiddeke!. Trouble a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nation?, as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I open tbe dark saying on a harp and. thouzh I can neither t>lav an organ, or cornet, or hautboy, or bugle, or clarionet, I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: "All things work toiether for good to those who love God." Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth all possible fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." "Weepng may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning." What a sweet thing is a harp, and I wonder not that in Wales, the country of my ancestors, the harp has become tbe national instrument, and that they have festivals'where great prices are offered in the competition between harp an 1 harp; or that weird Sebastian Erard was most of h's time bent over this chorded and vibrating triangle, and was not satisfied until he had given it a compass of six octaves from E to E with all the eomi-tones, or that when King Saul was demented the son of Jesse came before him and putting his fingers among the charmed strings of the harp played the devil out of the crazed monarch, or that in heaven there shall be harpers harping with their harps. So you will not blame me for opening the dark saying on the gospel bam. Yotir htrps, ye trembling saints. Down from tbe willows take; Lond to the praiee of love divine urn every siriDi{ nwaxe: Interrogation third: Why did a good God let sin and trouble come into the world when Ho might have kept them out? My reply is, Ho hau a good reason. He had reasons that He has never given us. He had re asons which He could no more make us understand in our finite state than the fatli r starting out on some great and elaborate enterprise could make the twovear-old child in its armed chair comprehend it. Cne was to demonstrate what grandeur of character may he achieved on earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then this universe would never have known an Abraham or a Moses or a Joshua or an Kzekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirits of all ages would never have been gained. Had ! there been no batt'e there would have I V^oan na Vliio.fanfVie aF flii nnflioma I of heaven would never Have been sunj. j Heaven could never have been a thousandth ! part of the heaven that it is. I will not say J that I am glad that sin nnd sorrow did i enter, but I do say that I am glad that j after God has given all His reasons to an assembled universe Ho will bo more honored than if sin and sorrow had never entered, and that the unfa'.len celestials will be outdone and will put down their trumpets to listen and it will be in heaven wht-n tho-e who have conquered sin and sorrow shall enter, as it would bo in a small sinsinji school on earth if Thnlberg anri (Jottschalk and Wagner and Beethoven aud Rheinherger and Schumann should all at on e enter. Tne immortals that have been chanting ten thousand years before tho throne will say, as they c!o3e their librettos: "Oh, if we cou'd only sin:; like that:" But God will say to tho?o who have never fallen and consequently have not been redeemed: "You must le silent now; you have not the qualification for this anthem,'5 so they sit witu closed lip* and f.ilde 1 hands and sinners saved by grace take up the harmony, for the Bible says "no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand which were redeemed from the earth. A great prima donna, who can now do enything with her voice, told me that when she first started in music her teacher in Berlin told her she could be a good singer, but a certain note she could never roach. "And then." she said. "I went to work and studied and practiced for years until I did reach it." But the song of the sinner redeemed, the Bible says, the exalted harmonists who have never sinned could not reach and never will reach. Would you like to hear me in a very poor way play a snatch of that tune? I can give you only one bar of the music on this gospel harp: "Uuto Him that hath loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood and hath made us kings and priests unto (ioi and the Lamb, to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, Amert." But before leaving this interrogatory, Why God let sin come into the world? let me say that great battles seem to be nothing but sutrering and outrage at the time of their occurrence, yet after they have been a long while past we can see that it was better for them to have been fought, namely, Salami's, Inkerman, Tou'.ouse, Arbella, Agincourt, Trafalgar, Blenheim, Lexington. Sedan. So now that the great battles against sin and suferine are going on we can see mostly that which is deplorable. But twenty thousand years from now, standing in glory, we shall appreciate that heaven is better ofT thin if the battle of this world's sin and suffering had never been projected. Rnf. nnw T oAtnA nonrAP hnniA find nilfc ft I dork saying on the gospel harp, a style of question that is asked a million times a year. Interrogation the fourth: Why do I have it so hard while others have it so easy? or, why do I have so much difficulty in g^ttinsr a livelihood whilo others go around with a lull portemonnaie? or, why must I wear these plain c'othes while others have to push hard to ect their wardrobes closed, so crowded nre they with brilliant attire? or, why should I have to work so bard while others have three hundred and sixty-five holidays every year? They are all practically one question. I answer them j hv saying, it is bcnuso the Lord has His favorites and He puts extra discipline unon you, and extra trial, because he Ins for youex'ra g!or>. extra enthronement and extra felicities. That h no guess of mine, but n divine say-so: '"Whom the Lord loveth He chastem>th." "Well," savs some one, "I would rather have a little le;s in heaven and a little more here. Discount my heavenly robe ten per cent, and let me now put it on, a fur lined overcoat; put me in a less gorgeous room of the hou3e of many mansions and let mo have a house here in a better ne'ghborhood." No. no; God is not goin>* to rob heaven, which is going to be your res:dence for nine hundred quadrillion of years, to fix up your earthly abode, which you will occupy at most for less than a century, and where you may perhaps stay only ten years longer, or onlv one year, or perhaps a month more. TT6w you had batter cheerfully let God have His way, for, you see, He has been taken care of folks for near seven thousand years, and knows bow to do it. and can see what; is best for you better than you can yourself. Don't think you are too insignificant to be divinely cared for. It was said that Diana, the goddess, could not be present to keep her temple at Ephesus from burning because she was attending upon the birth of him who was to be Alexander the Great Hut I tell you that your God and my God is so great in small "thinsrs as well as large things that He could attend the cradle of a babe and at the same time the burning of a world. And God will make it all right with you, and there is one son? that you will sing every hour your first ten years in heaven, and the refrain of that sone will be: "I ara so glad God did not let me have it my own wav." Your case will be all fixed up in heaven and there will be sucli a reversal of conditions that we can hardlv find each other for some time. Some of us who have lived in first rate houses here and in first rate neighborhoods will be found, because of our lukewarmne83 of earthly service, living on one of the back streets of the celestial city, and clear down at the end of it at No. SOS, or 909, or 150.3, while gome who had unattractive earthly abodes, and a cramped one at that, will, in the heavenly city, be in a ; house fronting the Koyal plaza, right by the ! imperial fountain, or on the heights overI lookine the River of Life, the chariots of salvation halting at your door while those visit you who are more than conquerors, and those who are Kings and Queens unto God forever. You, my brother, and you, my sister, who have it so bard here will have it so fine and grand there that you will hardly know yourself and will feel disposed to dispute your own identity, and the first time I see you there I will cry out: "Didn't I tell you so when you sat down there in the Brooklyn Tabernacle and looked incredulous because you thought it too good to be true'" And you will answer: "You were right, the half was not told me!" 80 this morning I open your dark sayinsr of despondency and complaint on my gospel ham and give you just one 1 ar of mu-ic, for I do not pretend to be much of a player. "The Lamb which is in I the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." But I must confess I am a little perplexed bow some of you good Christians are going ' to get throu h tho gate, because there will | bo so many there to greet you and they will all want to shake hands at once and will all j want the first kiss. They will have heard I that rou are comin?. and they will all press I around to welcome you and will want you to i say whether you know them after being so long parted. Amid the tussle and romp of reunion I tell you whose hand of welcome you had better first clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the first kiss. It is the hand and the cheek of Him without whom you would never have got there at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, as He crusi out: "I have loved thee with an everlasting love and the fires could not burn it and the floois could not drown it." Then vou, my dear people, having no more usa for my poor harp on which I used to open your dark sayings and whose chords sometimes snapped, despoiling tiie symphony, you wi'l take down your own harps from the willows that prow by t ne eternal water courses and play together lhos3 celestial airs, some of the names of which are entitled: "The King in Hi* Beauty," "The Land That Was Far Off," "Jerusalem, the Golden," "Home Again," 'The Grand March of God," "The Life Everlasting." And as the last dark curtain of mystery is forever gifted it will be as though all the oratories that were ever heard ha.1 been rolled r,nn nr>/4 ?*Tct*Qia1 in Vffnttf" '' Tonli. tha'.'i Daughter" and Beethoven's ''Overture in C" and Ritter's flrst sonata in D minor and the "Ov ation" and the "Messiah" had lieon blown from the lips of one tiumpetor beer: invoked by the sweep of one bow or had been 'dropped from the vibrating chords of ofae harp. But here I must slow up lest in trying tc solV'3 mysteries I add to the mystery that we havu already wonderod at; namely: Why prea ehcrs should keep on after all tho hear| ers aro tired? So I gather up into on9 great armful all the whys, and hows, and wherefores of your life and mine, which we have not had time or the ability to answer, and write on them the words "adjourned to eternity." I rejoice thai; w? do not understand all things now, for if we did, what would we learn in heaven? If we knew it all down I ere in the freshman and sophomore class, what would be the use of our going up to stand amid the juniors aud the seniors? If we could put down one leg of the compass and with the other sweep a circle clear around all the insrrutables, if we could lift our little steelyards and w eigh the throne of the Omnipotent. if we could with our seven day clock measure eternity, what would be left for heavenly revelation? So I move that we cheerfully adjaurn what is now beyon I oar romfr.-h 'iision, and as Kn'ln thn historian. A!?*san>loi* the Gr-afc, hiving obtained tho polil casket in wh ch Darim liad kept his rarti perfume. mod that aromatic casket thereafter to keep his favorite copy of Homer in, ?nd called the hook, therefore, the "edition of the casket," and at night he put the casket and his sword under his pillow, so 1 put this day into the perfum 'I casket of your richest affections and hopes this promise, worth more than anything Homer ever wrote or sword ever conquered: "What I do 1;hou knowest not now but thou shalt know hereafter," and that I call the "edition celestial/' Two monster Russian guns have been sent to Sel a>toool for the purpose of being j laced in tha new ironclad Sinope, and although some of the details must be inaccurate, th9 official description is too interesting to be ignored. They are 12-inch jieccs, weighing 50 tons, and throwing pro jec :iles of nearly half a ton. 'ina ! powder charge is 270 pounds, and the [ initial velocity 3,000 meters, w hile the distance of the cannon's ranges is said to be 20 versts, or over 13 miles. As a consequence the fire of the guns can only be directed by the map, the ol> ject fired at being out of sight. Two men, however, suffice for each gun, as they are worked by hydraulic maJhinerv. Clari:kceH. Clakk, of Philadelphia, has a sel; of Motley's "Dutch Eepublic" that he has "extended" from nine to twenty-nine volumes by the insertion of 2,500 engravings, autographs, etc. The work is said to have cost him $50,000, in which statement there is not necessarily much exaggeration, as there arij few hobbies more expensive (or more delightful) than that of "extra illustrating." A bilI'j "to amend ttis penal code ao 1 that combinations of workiDgmen foi legitimate purposes cannot be punished under the conspiracy clauses" has been 1 introduced into the New York State , Assembly. The bill provides that "no J act shall be deemed unlawful because * 1 i - 1- _ 1 1 t done or agreea to ue uone uy a uum* | ber of persons which would not have been deemed unlawful if done 01 | agreed to be done by a single person.' e Says a Comanche Indian clergyman: jj "What -we need is tie Bible taught in 11 a plain manner instead of the whisky- j flask. We want the Government to h educate our children to be good and 1 useful cnizens of this country instead ; of drunkards. Let the Government a appropriate more money for teachers of a pood moral character and less for I sealp-kn:'.ves and guns." u ? o The r.iisin crop of California the t past year reached 904,000 boxes of q twenty pounds each. ?s?yggI 1 - ' ' V " - / TEMPERANCE. " Amen Sallie. Qood Farmer Bluff and his cherry wife Set out tor town one day And left, with wise injunctions, Their little ones at play. There was Sallie, who was twelve at least, And Johnnie?nino or more. With the household pet and baby, Sweet May, aged lour. The farm-house caught on fire that day, Just how no one could tell, The children quenched the flames alone By working bravo and well. And when the farmer came at eve, They crowJed close and high, And Johnnie hnckpd by Snllie. Told what they did, and why. But little May, somehow. Had nothing much to say Until her father, smiling, asked: "'What did you do to day!" There wasn't much that I tould do," She said, with down-cast eye, "For Jotinnie bringed the wattr here And Sallie made it fly. 5o I dot up in tie toroer. Wis my hands all folded tight, An' I hol.'ed 'Amen, Sullie,' L'es as loud, wiv all mv mieht" To workers in the temperance cause There'9 nothing to explain, For think this story over Aud the application's plain, If you can't be a second Gough, Nor work as FinL-U has done. Do what you can, with earuestnsst, 'Till right and victory's won. R? number that oM couplet, tor here you'll find it's true, That "Satan finds some miscnief still For idle hands to do," And "when your guns are loaded." While you "guard the faith with zeal," Say "Auien. Sallie," so the world Arouud shall hear and feel. ?Libbic J. Sherman, in Waterloo Observer Coffee Houses. :tt is a principal in algebra that you cannot eliminate a quantity from an equation without putting something exactly ecpia'l in its puiue; mis is aisu a principal iu uuiuau nature. The neglect of it has led to the failure of many attempted reforms, and will lead to the failure of many more. We are glad to see that our enterprising religious contemporary, tho New York Observer, recognizes this principle, anci advocates the establishment of something to take the place of the saloon as a social center, aa well as the abolition, so far as that is possible, of the saloon itself. The saloon, in metropolitan life?or in any city or even village life, for that matter?is more than a place where men pander to depraved appetites. It satisfies not only thirst for liquor, but thirst for human companionship. It is the poor man's club. If we are to abo'.iah the saloon, we must put something in place of it If a substitute can bo found that will offer all the social attractions of the saloon and all its creature comforts, without tne iutoxicating liquor, then the chance of abolishing the saloon is largely increased. The only thing that ever has succeeded in ralr-nrr tho nlopo r\f tViA snlnrm sn far ia the coffee nouae or cocoa room. In Liverpool there are now sixty-one of the these coffee houses paying an average yearly dividend of ten per cent, on the capital invested, and in the who.'e of England there are more than two hundred. Such houses have, to a small extent, been established in this country; but tbey have generally be n run, not as a business, but as a philanthropic enterprise or charity. They are not likely to succeed on a charitable basis. Men are shy of charitable or avowedly philanthropic institutions of this kind. They prefer to feel that they are giving value received for that they get Furthermore, there are apt to be too many restrictions in a char* itable coffee house. In many of them men cannot smoke,or talk above a whisper. They cannot play games other than checkers. Such places are not attractive,and will never supplant the saloons, Coffee houses, without pandering at all to really vicious tastes, should be made as attractive as possible, with as few restrictions as possible. Says the Observer: "i'he rum power is being weakened every day by the attacks made on it from the ground of politics, of morals, and of religion. Attack it from the social side and the lina of oircumvallation is complete. Let something be devised which shall take the place of the fialoon as a resort for the masses, making up for ail that it lacks of the features of the saloon in honest comfort,good cheer and real homelikeno-s, and the most difficult point yet remaining in the problem of the drink evil is solved/' CJnr contemporary is right. It is the social feature of the saloon that constitutes its main strength to-day. Let that be supplanted and its power is more than half gone. ?New York Mail and Express. Hereditary Alcoholism. The c..b>u .1 iicicuitaiy aicot.ui.aui are interestingly ceser.bej by Dr. T. D. Crothers, in the J ojmtar Science Monthly. In persons of sound mind, but infected with an alcoholic taint, Dr. Crothers has observed some singular instances in which, at times of excitement, and without any usj of intoxicants, evtry symptom of intoxication is exhibited. An unfortunate treasurer of a large manufactory upon being accused of fa sifying his books, suddenly appeared to l.e intoxicated, both looking and walking like one wl.o had drunk large quantities of spirits. The next day he recovered, and then made a full and satisfactory explanation. His father hud teen a sai.or and a free drinker. Hardly less astonishing is the sudden, sympathetic drunkenness of persons who have formerly been addicted to excessivo use of intoxicants. A prominent military man dining with so.ne old comrades, who became intoxicated, iu Idenly, though he had drunk nothing but coffee, became as lii.ariou* us the rest, made a foolish speech, and. at length, had to be taken home in a state of stupidity. Of temperance lecturers who be ame intoxicated while engaged in describing the effects of alcohol, Dr. Crothers gives some curious instance* A Suggestion by Dr. Talmage. Rov. T. De Witt Talmage says in the Ob server: The startling announcement was made by the retiring chaplain, that the Bmghamton Asvlum for Inebriates'was a fai'ure, only three out or eighty-two patients being permanently cured of the drunkenness for which they were there treated. We hope our information is fa'se. But there is another style of treatment we suggest as worth trying. We seek for it thorough investigation. One summer, in a religious meeting held in Fourth Ward. New York, we heard men say that they had been drunkards, but had been, by the grace of God, not only pardonei, but also entirely cured of the thirst for strong driuk. We telieve them. The time will come when religion will do many things that we will not no'v let it do. If there are cases, and we are ready to point them out, where conversion has not only set the heart right, but revolutionized the body, why not declare a maw era? What inebriate asylums cannot do, the Lord is ready to accompl sh. Give our religion elbow room, and it will reclaim intemperance, purify libertinism, enlptv , ;'ails, ami make poverty a curiosity to look at The age of miracles will coma lacli wher the Church of God will allow it. W. C. T. U. Notes. Sin Francisco ha3 thirteen W. C. T. Onions. The W. C. T. U. of Nashville, Teuc.,maintains several night schools. Ttia nnmnop of \V. d. T. TTnions in Georgia ! las nearly doubled during the last year. There are forty Y. \V. C. H. Unions in Sbrtliein California claiming an aggregate nembership of 1000. It is said tbat in France from 1SH0 to l^SO, here was an increase of -10,000 idiots, largey due to the use of wine. The Dominion (Canada) W. C. T. U. is ilanning to hold its annual convention at iloutreal in May or June. Miss Willari is xpected to be present. "Down with the white-livered clergy and ho Sunday-schoo's" was the complimentary notto poited on the wall at areceut brewers' ueeting in Sandusky, Ohia Bv order of the Board of Education. Dr. lichardson's Temperance Lesson Book will lereafter be usod in the public schools of Jrii:ct> Edward Islanl. A largo Loyal Temperance Legion was reently organized at Tucson, Arizona. The ?rst and most influential ladies of the city re at work for its success. Rochester, N. Y., has eight local W. C. T. ,'nions organized by wards, one society of oloro I women and two young women's inions. These are all unitei in a central rganization. From the London Lancet we learn that oany children of poor parents in Vienna freluentlr receive by way of breakfast nothing nore than a glass of spirits, often appearing n th* ?C300i room drank. RELIGIOUS EfiADING. '- sk We Should Hear the Angels Singing, ^ If we only sought to brighten Every pathway dark with care, If we only tried to brighten All the burdens others bear, We should bear the angels singing All around us, night and day; We should feel that they were'winging At our side their upward way! If we only strove to cherish ' ' m Every pure and only thought, . . Saj Till within our hearts should p. rish All that is with evil fraught, We should hear the angles ringing AH around us, night and day; We should feel that they were winging At our side their upward way I If it were our aim to ponder On the good that we might win, Soon our feat wou'd eiase to wander In forbidden paths of sin; We should hear the angels sing'ng All i.round us, night and day; We should feel that they were winging At our side their upward way I If we onlv did our duty. Thinking not what it might cost Then the earth would wear new beauty ; Fair as that in Eden lost; We should hear the angels singing All around us, night and daj; We should feel that they were wingin V At our side their upward way. Unseen Protection. "A lady was wakened up one morning by a strange noise of pecking at the window,' and when she got up she saw a butterfly flying backwards and forwards inside the window in a great fright, because outside there was a sparrow pecking at the glass, wanting to reach the butterfly. The butterfly did ii<w see the gla-'s, but it saw the sparrow, and ^ evidently ex fee ted every moment to be caught. Neither did the sparrow see the J glass, though it saw the butterfly, which &! because of the thin sheet of glass, was ac- U tually as safe as if it bad been miles away from the sparrow." It is when we forget our J rotectcr that our hearts fail us. Elisna's ' ; servant was in great fear when he awoke in the morning and saw the city of Dot ban encompassed witn norses auu chariots and a great host, but when his eves were opened at the prayer of the Prophet, his fears vanished, for ne beheld the mountains full of horses and chariots of fire. 'Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is >;Jjj staved on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee." "The Lord shall preserve thy going out and M thy coming in from this time forth and even forevermore." 'Though now unsoen by outward sense, , Faith sees him always near; . , A guide, a glory, a defence; Then, what hiave you to fear?" ?Waymarte for Pilgrims. ' A Fifty Thousand Dollar Mission. . ;'Si Mr. Arthur L. Shumway, a well-known American newspaper correspondent, writing m in the Christian Union in answer to the criticisms on missionaries which have recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, says: How shall I separate from a large number of similarly conspicuous proof* of ?Jj the worth of missionaries, some single reminiscence that will serve to vindicate my own respect for the class of people belittled by Mr. House? One day as I was walking the streets of . V Canton, China, with Mr. Charles Seymour, our American Consul General in that city. we met and passed a quiet, modest-mannered man cn his way into the city. Said Mr. Seymour: '"'Do you see that man yonder?" pointing in the direction <>f the receding stranger. I assented, and he continued: "That is Dr. Kerr. He is in charge of the :-i| great missionary hospital ycnder. The hospital was fcunded in 1837, and has already treated three-quarters of a million cases, X believe. I consider that he is the peer of any in nmrlH To mv UVlllg OUI &CVU in uuv J , - ^ personal knowledge he undertakes, almost daily, cases which our most distinguished surgeons at home do not dard attempt, even in Philadelphia, the medical capital of ,3 our country. I suppose that humble ,v mm might just as well as not be enjoying an income of from $50,000 to ^ $75,000 a year, instead cf his present small salary, if he was only practising in the city of New York on his own account. And! "r suppose he knowns it, too." And when he afterward passed through the hospital, inspected the photographs of operations already performed, and viewed the array of deformities to be treated that afternoon, I could not doubt that what be had said was literally true. Our Best for C hrlsf. i Mary had rcceivcd richest blessings at the lmnri of her Lord. Her heart overflowod with love for Him, and nothing in all the wcrld was too dear or too costly to bestow upon Him. So she brought an alabaster bo* of very preci< us < intment, broke the box and poured the ointment on His head. She brought the best gift she had. So we ought all to bring our best things to Christ. He gave the b st Fe had for us. He gave His life; His heart was broken, and 'Hi* precious bloo 1 was poured out for up. From His throne of glory He lavishes now the best gifts of His love upon us. We owe to Him, therefore, the best of everything we have. We should give Him the best of our affections. He ought to have the warmest place in our hearts. Bring all the gems and jewels or your love and put them in the crown of Jesus. We ought to bring to Him the best of our lives. Too many give Him only the wasted remains. Thev f-pend (he vigor of their youth, the strength of their manhood, the best of their life s energies in tho world, in business, in selfishness, in 9in; and when ihey are old, seek to I ring a poor, worthless offering to ChrKt. They give the best to the world ai:d the faded leaves to Ch. ist. Surely it is not such an offering that Jesus deserves. We ought to consecrate our childh od to Him; to spend our youth in His service; to - c. lay our manhood and womanhood 0:1 his altar. Gi e Him the arm when it is strongest, the foot wh?n it is swiftest the brain when it is clearest, the heart when it is warmest, the tongue when it is most eloquent. We ought to give to Him our best services. There ara too many prcfe si<~g Christians who have time for everything but the work of the Lord. It's a fair qu stion to put to fach professing Christian. What are y u fircto IVhnft is thft nnn thine of vour life which enkindles your warmest "thought, which inspires your loftiest enthus'nsm, which impels ycur best en -'eavor.-. Is it the glorv of God, or is it your busnes', your wordly ambition? Bring Christ no more the mere waste and fragmentary services of your lives. Make not your Christian life any longer a secondary thing. Bring not to the altar of your Redeemer anv more a cold, dead, heartless service. Put Christ flist. Do your best work, sing your sweetest song, speak ycur t?nd rest word, perform your h liest ministry for Him. Wo shoul I bring our best gifts to Jesus. Is it Lot true too often that we keep our best l'or oUi"s?!ves. and give Him tho tilings that we shall miss the least from ou own stories? When our cuns run over we give Him the drops that fall from the brim. When we have eaten and are full, we sweep up the crumbs for Him. Let us bring our dearest things and lay them on His altar, nothing is too good or too costly to be bestowed on such a Saviour. Nothing is wasted which is given to Christ. No deed is in vain which is dono for Him. No life is lost which is poured out upon His altar. He accepts the smallest ? * j L: needs 01 iove as uone uj uumx.-u. lowly service, every self-denial, every b?autiful deed of love done to a suffering oiw is an alabaster box of ointment broken open to anoint Christ's head and feet He will gather up the perfume and keep it sweet and sacred forever for a -memorial of you.? WVsf/n inster Tmiwwv. Sick oT His "Business." A leuorter of u Chicago paper says: 1 walked into the bar of one of tue i,ig hotelr of this c.ty the other day an l found the new pr. pnetor s.tting at one end of the bar ' Where is your nog bowl?" 1 asked "haven't any tiiis year,' i:e replied. "D< you know,' he continued, "that a man u this business geta mighty tick of it. I don'l know why, sometimes, 1 remain in it. Ee cause, 1 suppose, lam not tit tor anything el^e. But l find a growing repugnance to it It is bad enough to have to serve this s-turt c*t to men when they come in and ask yoi fir it. But to keep it m a bowl, to make it seductive in its appearance, thereby creating au appetite often?for there are men who cau't look at the stuff without taking it? that is something which I have concluded not to do any more.'