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f POET AND KING. . Though I am king I have no throne Save this rough wooden siege alone; I have no empire, yet my sway Extends a myriad leagues awayl No servile vassal bends his knee In groveling reverence to me? - Yet, at my word, all hearts beat high ; And there is fire in every eye. And love and gratitude they bring As tribute unto me, a king! The folks that throng the busy street Know n?t it is a king they meet, And I am glad there is not seen The monarch in my face and mien; I should not choose to be the caus3 Of fawning or of coarse applause? I am content to know the arts Wherewith to lord it o'er their hearts; For, when unto their hearts I sing, I am a king\ I am a king I My scepter?see, it is a pen! Wherewith I rule these hearts of men; Sometimes it pleaseth to beguile Its monarch fancy with a smile? . , Sometimes it is athirst for tears ; . And so adown the laureled year3 I walk, the noblest lord on earth, * Dispensing sympathy and mirth? , ]i i Aha, it is a magic thing v 7' ; That makes me what Fam?a king I Let empires crumble as they may, > - Pl-oiadiyl hold imperial sway! The sunshine and the rain of years Are human smiles and human tears That come or vanish at my calllam the monarch of them all I Mindful alone of this am I: ' The songs I sing shall never die? Not even envious death can wring * His glory from so great a king! Come, brother, be a king with me And rule mankind eternally; Lift up the weak and cheer the strong, Defend the truth, combat the wrong 1 You'll find no scepter like the pen To hold and sway the hearts of men; Its edicts flow in blood and tears That will outwash the flood of years? So, brother, sing the songs, oh, sing, And.be with me a king?a king! / ' Captured by Comanches. I ' , '?~~ I had been scouting from Fort Bascom, 9n the Canadian River, and carrying despatches between that point and Fort Stanton, on the Rio Pecos, for six Ii me uomancues cauea tae It is agreed that an Apache nate, but in the old days much choice between the were bloodthirsty and ret mattered little into whose er might fall. Every torgenuity could suggest was applied, and no ransom, , could effect the release (of ; was while engaged in such t my first capture came ritizens from Santa Fe had b Bascom for a hunt along River to the east. They cnown men, and were outnest style, having the best ;nd being accompanied by ad guides of long cxperldians were bitterly hostile and although seldom seen they were ever on the j one leaving its shelter, ubered twenty, all told,and was strong 'enough to go anywhere, protiding it was well handled. It left the post one Sunday morning and was gone three weeks, and, up to two days before "L j.\. j. _ 11 x 11 mi reacmng xne post, auweni wen. men a Dr. Albertson, of Albuquerque, tarried behind one morning as the party broke camp, and three Comanches dashed in and cut him off. They mounted him on : Ob own horse and had a start of half a Bile before the mishap was discovered, and, although pursuit was made, it was ageless. The Doctor was a man of ' prominence, holding some position under the Government, and having many * friends, and the party no sooner reached ' the post than it was determined to make '< very effort to secure his release. It was idle to think of sending out an armed force, and it was finally decided that I ahould go out as an emissary to treat for jhis ransom. It was agreed that I should | promise the Indians as high as $10,000 in cash for his release, and all were hopeful that this large sum would induce the redskins to give him up. I had been told time and again that the Comanches i had never been known to give a prisoner, and I was therefore in a state of doubt as I rode away on my errand. I had got to put myself in their hands in order to negotiate, and if they refused to give up the Doctor it was probable that they would hang on to me. I rode away to the east, knowing that the prisoner had been conveyed to some #?mn lt\ +l-*n YViT Infi n ui IT iwuiut IUU^Ci X igib bUU post in the morning and rode hard all day "without sightingan Indian. At dark I went into camp and had no alarm during the night, and at sunrise was again holding for the mountains. At about 11 o'clock, while riding over broken ground, 1 caught sight of an Indian taking cover, and halting my horse I made the peace gns with my blanket. Ten minutes hter I was surrounded by a dozen warriors, who were evidently astonished at my ioolhardiness, I could speak their Sngo fairly well, and I told them what I had come for, and asked to be taken to the nearest village. This request was olkily complied with, and at the end of two hours I found myself in the village of Bed Moon, Chief of all tho Comanches. The village was scattered along the river for a mile or more, and numbered at least a thousand souls. My advent was hailed with whoops and yells and other tokens of satisfaction, and even when it was known that I had voluntarily come into camp on an errand of mercy it was hard to restrain some of the young bucks from doing mc in jury. I was taken directly to Bed Moon's tent, and mv reception there was anything but cordial. He was anything but noble in speech and look. He was dirty, unkempt and out of sorts, and I had no sooner set eyes on him than I knew my mission would be a failure. "Why does the dog of a white man come to my camp?" was his salutation. "Four days ago some of your warriors captured a white hunter a sun's journey to the west," I replied. ' ?. "They did, and to-morrow he shall die!" "I have come from his friends to* bay ^ his liberty. They will give Red Moon Bore silver than he ever had before." "I spit upon the white man's money!" he retorted. "The white man has killed any young men, built his forts on my land, and would drive us away if he were strong enough. I would not take food from his hand if I was starving!" I named the price which we would pay lor the Doctor, and tried to make him understand how many guns and blankets and other things the amount would purchase, but he grew more and more excited, and finally shouted: "Does the white man regard the Comanches as squaws that their heads can be turned by soft talk? Only the DogIndian begs for mercy from a foe or takes presents from an enemy. Were you to offer all you had I would not give him up. He shall die. I have said it!" Finding him so obstinate and determined, I mentioned that I had come alone and placed myself in his power, trusting to his honor to be permitted to return in safety. ' 'Did I ask you to come?" he thundered. "Are you not here to insult me? You shall see the other prisoner die, and then you shall suffer the same fate!" I began to protest, but was hurried away to a lodge, disarmed, searched, and very roughly used. Before being left alone my hands and feet were tied, and the buck who did this gave mc a good-day in the shape of a slap in the face which made my teeth rattle. I was left alone until just at dark, when a boy brought me a gourd of water, and helped it to my lips while I drank. I thanked him, aud inquired where the Doctor was. He replied that he was confined in a lodge about two hundred feet away, and that he would be put to the torture next day. All the tribe within call had been notified to be present. I asked him about my own fate, and he said it was understood that I was to die the day after. If there was any doubt about this it was soon dispelled. The boy had scarcely disappeared when old Red Moon appeared. He was now fully dressed as a chief, and had on all his dignity. I was lying on my back, and he stood over me far a moment, glowering down upon me with savage expression before he sa'.d: "Does the white man think the Comanche a dog that he can come into his village and insult him?" "On the contrary, the white man knows the Comanches to be brave," I replied, "and no chief is greater or braver than Fled Moon." "But you come to buy us off." "The white man captured by your brave warrior is neither a soldier, hunter nor scout. He is a man of peace, living far away. He has never harmed you. ne is a great medicine man among his people. For these reasons his friends hoped the great chief would spare his life. We wished to make you a present." "White dog, you lie!" shouted the Chief. "You wish to get us in a trap!" I argued and protested, and again appealed to his honor in my own case. He heard me through, and then gave me several hearty kicks in the side, and exclaimed : "You shall die! You were a fool to come!" The kicks made me mad, and feeling that I had no hope of release I opened on Red Moon in the choicest Billingsgate of the West. I called him a cowardly n.iltrnnn snnn.w_ buzzard, and ? J J ->! 7 everything else mean I could think of. I offered to fight him in any way he wanted, and boasted that I had on one occasion charged five of his bravest warriors and killed two and run the others into the wood3. I gave it to him straight from the shoulder for ten minutes without a break, and he did not interrupt me by word or gesture. When I finally paused for want of breath he said: "The white scout is not a dog, as I thought for. He is a brave man. He will not cry and beg for his life when the fire is lighted at his feet. My young men shall let it be known at the fort that he died without being a woman." "And that's more than you can say for any of your warriors 1" I flung back at him. "The Comanche whines like a dog when he is hurt. He cannot stand fire. When his feet get a little warm he becomes a child." He pulled his knife from his belt, thinking to end my life then and there, but on the second thought he replaced it and walked out. Directly he had gone two warriors came in with a liberal supply of food, and my arms wf s untied and I was given a chancc to eat. They appeared good nature d, and as the thongs were being replaced one of them said: "The white man is very brave. He will hold out a long time." At last two guards were placed outside my tent, and knowing that I had no show for escape, I made myself as comfotable as possible and soon fell asleep. It may be thought curious that a person could sleep soundly under such circumstances, but as a matter of fact I did not open my eyes until long after daylight. There was considerable bustle in the camp, and in a few minutes my breakfast was brought in. Arms and legs were now untied, and one of the three bucks who came into the tent informed me that preparations were being made to torture the Doctor. It was an hour later before I was sent for. Then my arms were left free and my legs were hobbed just below the knees. While I could walk it was only with short steps, and the idea of my trying to escape from such a crowd was too absurd to be entertained. I found the inhabitants of the village drawn up in two long lines extending out on the plains. Even children five or six years old, were in line,' each one armed with stick or switch. I was led to the head of the line * ' J r H Detwecn two warriors, ana in iour or uve minutes the Doctor was brought out Red Moon had arranged this as a mental torture to both of us. lie signified to us that we might speak, and I at once informed the Doctor of my errand and its failure. He expressed his pleasure that his friends thought so well of him, and his sorrow that I had brought misfortune upon myself, and he seemed to have made up his mind to die like a man. I knew the Indians thoroughly, and I told him what the programme would be. After running the gauntlet, he would be tied to a post and submitted to the powder torture, which consists in shooting charges of powder into the flesh, with the muzzle of the gun only a foot or two away. After that would come cutting and mutilating, and he would not be tied to the fire stake until pretty thoroughly exhausted. I advised him to do as I intended to do?lea}) upon some warrior as he ran down the lines, grab his knife or tomahawk, if possible, and then fight until they would have to kill him then and there. He calmly replied that he should adopt the plan, shook me by the hand, thrd all was ready. As we talked I had been getting the lay of the village. It was only a quarter of a mile to the foothills. I had made up my mind to make a break for liberty, and I .had my plans all laid before the Doctor started. Red Moon commanded me to tell , him that he was to run straight down the lane and back, and that if he made a good run he would not be much hurt. I gave him the information, and i \ # advised' him to make his break about two-thirds of the way down, as he came to the last of the warriors. When ] stepped back my elbows touched a guard on either side and I saw that they were deeply interested in the scene before them. When I dropped my left hand down it was close to the hilt of the warrior's knife, and then I was as ready as I could be. The Doctor was a powerful big fellow and was entirely naked. Ho was to start at the report of a rifle fired in the air, and when the signal came he bounded away like a deer. The lines closed up and eveiy one tried to strike at him, but the climax came when he made his bolt. With a leap to one side he seized a tomahawk, and at that moment I got hold of the knife without being detected. A great cry arose and one of my guards started forward I bent down and cut my thongs at a single sweep, and then by a back hand blow, drove the knife so far into the body of the other guard, who had given me no attention, that it was wrenched from my grasp as he fell. Then I bounded away down the river, and I believe I had a start of twenty rods before pursuit began. It is not bragadocio to assert that in those days I had the speed and bottom of a thoroughbred. I hadn't the least feai of being overtaken after I got that start by anyone on foot, and as I at once made for the broken ground their ponies had no advantage. I looked back only once, and that was as I got clear of the village. At least fifty Indians -were pursuing me on foot, and a few minutes later a score of others had mounted. Tho pursuers were so strung out that no one dared shoot, and when I got settled down tc the pace I ran for my life. In five or sis minutes I was in the foothills, and in ten I had gained the shelter of the scrub pine. At that moment twenty rifles turned loose on me, but none of the bullets came near enough to make me dodge, and I contrived to put in my best licks. They followed me for about four miles, losing ground all the time, and then drew ofl to return to the Doctor. It was five days before I got back to the fort, my clothes in tatters, and my strength almost gone, and it was two years before I learned the particulars of the Doctor's fate. He made a gallant fight when he got possession of the tomahawk, killing a warrior and a boy and wounding another warrior and an old man, but he was overpowered and disarmed, and then the devils glutted their vengeance. Some idea of his suf-j ferings can be imagined froqx the fact that he was under some sort of torturei for three days * and nights, andi and there was still life left in him when he was given up to the fangs of the village dogs. The Comanche who gave me the particulars was then "a ward of the Government," drawing his rations, ammunition, and blankets from the very men whose scalps he hungered for, and he could not be punished. He identified himself as the warior who was' guarding me on the right when I made my break, and for his carelessness on that occasion the chief stripped him of all his worldly possessions and p-ave the goods to the widow of the warnor I had slain.?New York Sun. . . j ? ~y.;\ Wholesale Horse Stealing. A gigantic horse-stealing industry is thought to have been established in the Coteaus along the Missouri River. A 1 great many horses stray away and are j never heard from; others are taken from I the stables and no trace is ever found of them, and their complete disappearance, and the utter impossibility of ever finding them after they have strayed away or been stolen has been a mystery that has caused considerable comment; but facts i have lately come to light which may ex-, plain some of the looseness of equine property. . '? : v . .Jj Different parties take a number of old,' decrepit horses out among the hills which are totally uninhabited, and any strays | that may be around will come to the i herds, when they will be caught and sent i out to other parties connected with the ! gang, and in a few days they will have the horses hundreds of miles from where they were picked up, and then offer them j for sale with safely. Facts lead to the ! belief that this organization leads from near Pierre, South Dakota, to Great Falls, Montana, and possibly to the British possessions. Horses that are stolen neai Pierre are run North through the Coteaus, traveling stated distances and by night, and are stolen in the northern field, while horses that are sold in the North are ! sent South, and sold or traded between ; La Moure, North Dakota, and Pierre. A vigilance committee of large dimen- | sions should go North and clear out these | organized bands of thieves.?riYew Tor"k Times. A'The Icelandic Lntheran Church* ! The Icelandic Lutheran Church ol America consists of twenty-two congre* gations, and has just held its fifth annual conference at Argyle, in Manitoba. In 1880 the whole number of immigrants from Denmark to the United States was only a little over 64,000, including Icelanders ; but since then the total has beeD about doubled, and among the new settlers are many Icelanders also, though ; their most numerous colony is in Manito ba. They have established a colony in i Dakota, one in Southern Minnesota, and 1 there is a settlement at Green Bay. Al- ' though they number as yet only a few thousands in both this country and Canada, with the prospect, however, of a considerable increase, though it car never be great, since the population ol Iceland itself is barely 72,000. These immigrants from Iceland come from t region where they have never seen a real tree, a road or a plow, ana yen it is remarkable how soon they adapt themselves to their new surroundings. Thej are of much intelligence, and there are no people among whom education is more generally diffused, the humblest being able to read and write, and being thoroughly conversant with the sages, and the history and laws of their country.? New York Sun. The Indigo Plant ^ The best indigo is obtained from twe shabby plants, Indigofera tinctoria and I. Anil. The former is a native of Indkt, and the latter of the West Indies. Tc extract the indigo the plants are cuj down, or macerated in water, the blue matter falls to the bottom, the muddj ; sediment being pressed into cakes ana dried, but there are a large number ol plants which yield indigo that do not be- ; long to the same genus of plants as thi true indigo, but most of it is of an inferior quality. Indigo is now principally cultivated in India, but the recent discov? ery of the means of preparing artificial indigo by a chemical process is seriouslj affecting this industry in India.?Neu York Sun. ? J F POPULAE SCIENCE. CoaLcutting machines arc now run by1 electricity. The average depth of all the oceans i* from 2000 to 2500 fathoms. The new city of Tiai-pei Fuin Formosa is lighted electrically, the plant being uncharge of native workmen. The French Government, when it takes possession of the telephones in France, i proposes furnishing the service to tin* public at cost. At the next military manoeuvres in France a new application of telegraphy] will be made, which innovation it is: thought will be of the greatest utility intime of war. Electric lighting is said to be one oI the hardest kinds of work for a steam engine, the continuous running and the. i work being thrown on and off instantan*- i ously, causing immense strain. An Easton (Penn.) paper says Charles Zinc has an amorphophallus plant, the only one of the lrind in that section.. The odor of the flower is that of stale raw meat, but its color is beautiful. Concerning the great British naval re- ; view?qvery armor piate m mat neec is > fastened with the late Sir William Palliser's patent screw bolts, and the Government has never paid for one of them yet. Discussions on the economic size of line wire brings out the fact that the diameter of the wire depends on the price, of copper, cost of power and quantity of current, and is entirely independent of j the length of the current. i Ten men with drills operated by electricity can take out as much ore*and tun- ] nel as far as 100 men with picks, shovels ] and blasting material, besides which the ] buildings can be lighted and a great sav* ing on insurance and oil made thereby. One paper mill in England, in Setting- i bourne, manufactures enough paper every , year to put a belt around the world some j 100 inches in width. One of the constituents 1 of this paper is esparto grass, which is j brought in great bales from Algeria. , A test has Leen made in France to see whether the color of a horse had anything to do with his characteristics. It < has been demonstrated that any such idea is all nonsense. ' Pedigree and early training have all to do with it, and.color j nothing whatever. ' 1 At the sham battle fough at Spandaut ! by the German troops for the amusement | of Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria ' one division used a new "smokeless" ; powder, the effect being that no smoke 1 was visible at a distance of 300 yards, i and no sound was heard beyond a slight | tapping. From a recent study of the bones of 1 anthropoid apea it appears that the goril- j la and chimpanzee approach nearest to j man, but in different degrees, the orang- \ outancr holdinsr the third place. But : great differences exist between the pro- j portions of the human frame and those of ] all the apes. j Dr. Nansen estimates that the ice of . Greenland's interior must be 6000 feet 1 thick in places, even the tops of the j mountains probably being covered with i hundreds of feet of glaciers. He believes < that the wind has much to do with main- ' taming the ice level, and that the quanti- ] ty of snow does not vary much from year i to year. ( ] There are in Nevada several deposits < of mineral soap, one of which has been J worked for some years, the soap being j formed by natural combination of soda, < borax and mineral oils, the process in ! some localities being assisted by hot , springs; some of these natural soaps are cut up and sold as found, but they are oftener used in combination with other j soaps. ' . The latest use of photography is to j make a cannon ball take a picture of itf j own wabblings. An arrangement some- ] thing like a camera is to be placed in the ' forward end of the projectile, and when ' it is fired directly at the sun the light traces lines upon the plate, from the direction of which it can be told whether the projectile has kept in one position 01 has wavered to and fro during its flight, t ^^ Failure of the Tienna Exposition. The worst failure in the way of an ex-' position ever made was that in Vienna, Austria, in 1873. The Emperor Francis j Joseph was greatly interested in the sue- j cess of the enterprise, and the court j party and the Parliament were thoroughly ? at>one with him. 1 When the scheme was mooted in 1871 * the Vienna business houses subscribed {>1,500,000; in July of the same year o Parliament gave $3,000,000, and a year ? later $3,000,000 more. Other sums were j begged and borrowed until the total was s pver $11,000,000. Magnificent build- 4 Ings were erected in the Prater, hotels ? were run up all over the town, and there fc was a carnival of real estate speculation, c The Exhibition opened May 1 and went wrong from the start. There were ? twenty-five rainy days that month, a j, thing unknown before. On the 9th ? :ame the "Black Friday" of the bourse s ind 110 Viennese firms were bankrupt n before sundown. The smash was one of h the most appalling known in Germany c and the citizens were in no humor foi * sight-seeing or holitlay-making. Labor- e ers were out of work, small store-keepers fc: were in distress, and large firms were ? cutting away every expense possible. y Then, too, Vienna is off the line of the h regular European tourist and neithei a English nor American visitors were fre- ^ quent. It was a bad year all over the a world, and the net result was a loss oJ b dearly $10,000,000.?Chicago Times. a] a; S( An Over-Faitlifal Guard. w | L, An amusing incident occurred a1 ei Edison's laboratory at Llewellyn Park, a] N". J., some days ago. A young man "1 tvas engaged as doorkeeper for Mr. Edi- 0] son's sanctum sanctorum?the den, as ht it calls it?with instructions to admit no 54 one without first sending in his card. The young man had never seen Mr. Edi- si son, and when a slouchy-looking, shab- ri bily dressed man tried to walk in, he op- ? posed him with a request for his card. ? "Oh, that's all right," was the response. n "But it isn't all right. You can'l d come in here without a card." 11 "Oh, yes, I can," was tho reply, and ? the man tried to brush by, but the zealous young doorkeeper took him bj 0 the shoulder, and was proceeding to ejeel him, when one of the clerks, who had ij been an amused witness of the scene, o; called out in a half whisper: "You fool, ? that's Mr. Edison," wheretit tho young c man collapsed. Mr. Edison had greatlj t enjoyed the occurrence, and patted the f young fellow on the back, saying: "1 t guess it's my tftra to say 'that's all riflht.,n?Nenn 35WSVi&tf REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "What Sea Captains Say." (Preached at Portland, Oregon.) Tzxr: "Lest that by any means I myself should be cast away."?Cor. ix., 27. In the presence of you who live on the Pacific coast, I who live on the Atlantic coast may appropriately speak on this marine allusion of the text, for all who know about the sea know about the castaway. The text implies that ministers of religion may help others into heaven and vet miss it themselves. The carpenters that built Noah's ark did not get into it themselves. Gown and surplice, and diplomas, and canonicals are no security. Cardinal Wolsey, after having been petted by kings, and having entertained foreign ambassadors at Hampton Court, died in darkness. One of the most eminent ministers of religion that this country has ever known, plunged into sin and died: his heart, by post-mortem examination, found to have been, not figuratively but literally, broken. We may have hands of ordination on the head, ana address consecrated assemblages, but that is no reason why we shall necessarily reach the realm celestial. The clerflrvman must co throueh the same crate of pardon as the layman. ^Tiere hare Seen cases of shipwreck where all on board escaped excepting the captain. Alas! if, having "preachea to others, I myself should be a castaway." God forbid it. I have examined some of the commentaries to see what they thought about this word "castaway," and I find they differ in regard to the figure used, while they agree in regard to the meaning. So I shall make my own selection, and take it in a nautical and seafaring sense, and show you that men may besome spiritual castaways, and how finally they drift into that calamity. You and I live in seaboard cities. You have all stood upon the beach. Many of you have crossed the ocean. Some of you have managed vessels in great stress of weather. There is a sea captain, and there is another, and yonder is another, and there are a goodly number of you who, though once you cud not know the difference between a brig and a bark, and between a diamond knot and a sprit sheet sail knqt, and although you could not point out the weather cross jack brace, and though you could not man the fore clew garnots, now you are as familiar wih a Bhip as you aro with your right hand ana if it were necessary you could take a vessel clear across to the mouth of the Mersey without the loss of a single sail. Well, there is a dark night in your memory Df the sea. The vessel became unmanageable. You saw it was scudding toward this shore. You heard the cry: "Breakers ahead! Land on the lee bow!" The vessel struck the rock and you felt the deck breaking up under your feet, and you were a castaway, as when the Hercules drove on the coast of Caffraria, as when the Portuguese brig went staying, splitting, grinding, crashing on the Goodwins. But whether you have followed the sea or not, you all understand the figure when I tell you. that there are men, who, by (their sins and temptations, are thrown helpltss! Driven | before the gale! Wrecked for two worlds! / naa^anatral Pnof nuromj t By talking with some sea captains, I have found out that there are three or four causes tor such a calamity to a vessel. I have been told that it comes sometimes from creating false lights on the beach. This was often so in olden times. It is not many years ago, indeed, that vagabonds used to wander up md down the beach, getting vessels ashore in the night, throwing up false lights in their presence and deceiving them, that they may despoil and ransack them. All kinds of infernal arts were used to accomplish this. And one night, on the Cornish coast, when bhe sea was coming in fearfully, some villains took a lantern and tied it to a norse, and led bhe horse up and down the beach, the lantern swinging to the motion of the horse, and a sea captain m the offing saw it, and made up his oiindthat he was not anywhere near the shore, for he said: "There's a vessel?that must be a vessel, for it has a movable light," rod he had no apprehension till he heard tbe rocks grating on the ship's bottom, and it went to pieces and the villians on shore gathered up the packages and treasures that were tvasheu to the land. And I have to tell you that there are a multitude of souls ruined by raise lights on the beach. In the dark night of maivs danger, false religion goes up and iown the shore, shaking its lantern, and men look off and take that flickering and expiring wick as the signal of safety, and the cry is: "Heave the main topsail to the mast I All is well!" when sudden destructioncomethupon them, and they shall not escape. So- there ire all kinds of lanterns swung on the beach ?philosophical lanterns, educational lanterns, humanitarian lanterns. Men look at them and are deceived, when there is noth 1?* nt tha rjrto ki-lU UUU UUU a CWXUUt uguvuvujg vt BUW vVMpel that can keep them from becoming castaways. Once, On Wolf Crag lightHouse, they triod to build a copper figure of a wolf with its mouth ipen, so that the storms beating into it, the svolf would howl forth the dangers to mariners that might be coming anywhere near the coast. Of course it was a failure. And so all new inventions for the saving of man's soul aro unavailing. What the human race wants is a light.bursting forth from the :ros3 standing Og the great headLands?the light of pardon, the light )f comfort, the light or heavsn. You might better go to-night, and destroy all the great Jight-bouses on the dangerous coasts?tho Barnegat lighthouse, thi fastnet Rock lighthouse, the Slierryvore ightbouse, the Longships lighthouse, the iollyhead lighthouse?than to put out God's jreat ocean lamp?the Gospel. Woe to those vho swing false lanterns on the beach till aen crash into ruin. Castaways! Castaways! By talking with sea captains I havo heard ilso that sometimes ships come to this calamity by the sudden swoop of a tempest. For ustance, a vessel is sailing along in the East ndies, and there is not a single cloud on the ky; but suddenly tho breeze freshens, and hero are swift feeu on the ratlines, and the ry is: "Way, haul away there!" but before hey can square the booms and tarpaulin he hatchways, the vessel 'is groaning and reaking in the grip of a tornado, and ills over into the trough of the sea, nd broadside it rolls on to the beach nd keels over, leaving the crew to struggle a the merciloss surf. Castaway! Castaway! Lnd so I have to tell you that there aro thouands of men destroyed through the sudden woop of temptations. Some great inducelent to worlaliness, or to sensuality, or to igh temper, or to some form of dissipation, omes upon them. If they had time to oxmine their Bible, if they had time to consult pith their friends, if they had time to delibfliow etnn/1 if.? hnf. f.llO ion came so suddenly?an euroclydon on the loditerranean, a whirlwind of the Caribean. One awful surge of temptation and hey perish. And so we often ear tne old- story: "I hadn't jen my friend in a great many years. We re re very glad to ineot. He said I must rink and he took me by the arm and pressed le along, and filled the cup until the bubles ran over the edge, and in an evil moment [1 my good resolutions were swept away, ad to the outraging of God ana my own >ul. I fell." Or the story is: "I had hard ork to support my family. I thought that" y one falso entry, by one deception, by ono nbezzlement, I might spring out free from 11 my trouble; and the temptation came pon me so fiercely I could not deliberate. . did wrong and having done wrong ( ice, I could not stop." 0, ! is the first step that costs; the i >cond is easier; and the third; and on to the .st. Once having broken loose from the ; nchor, it is not so easy to tie the parted Tands. How often it is that men are ixined, for the reason that the temptation i Dmes from some unexpected quarter. As < essels lie in Margate Roads, safe from south- 'est winds, but tho wind changing to the | ortheast, they are driven helpless and go | own. 0 that God would have mercy upon hose upon whom there comes the sudden 5 svoop of temptation, lest they perish, becomlg castaways I castaways! By talking with sea captains, I have found ut also that some vessels come to tliis cal- 1 mity through sheer recklessness. There are ; tiree million men who follow tho sea for a ving. It is a simple fact that tho average f human life on the sea is less than twelve ears. This comes from the fact that men y familiarity with danger sometimes beome reciaess?tne captain, the helmsman, he stoker, the man on the lookout, become eckless, and in nine out of ton shipwrecks, it i found that some one was awfully o blame. So I have to tell you that ien are morally shipwrecked through sheer ecklessness. There are thousands who da not care where they are m spiritual things. They do not know which way they are sidling and the sea is black with piratical hnlks that would grapple them with hooks of steel and blindfold them and make them "walk the plank." They do not know what the next moment may bring forth. Drifting in their theology. Drifting in their habits. Drifting in regard to all their future. No God, no Christ, no settled anticipations of eternal felicity: but all the time coming nearer and nearer to a dangerous coast. Some of them are on fire with evil habit, and they shall burn on the sea, the charred hulk tossed up on the barren beach. Many of them with great troubles, financial troubles, domestic troubles, social troubles; but they never pj-ay for comfort. With an aggravation of sin they pray for no pardon. They do not steer for the lightship that dances in gladness at the mouth of heaven'i Larbor; reckless as to where they come out. drifting further from God, further From early religious influences, further from happiness; and what is the worst thing about it is, they are taking their families along with them, and the way one goes, the probability is they will all go. Yet no anxiety. As unconscious of danger as the passengers aboard the Arctic one moment before the Vesta crashed into her. Wrapped up in the business of the store, not remembering that soon they must quit all their earthly possessions. Absorbed in their social position, not knowing that very soon they will have attended the last levee, and whirled in the last schottishe. They do not deliberately nViruvia tn hnruin<v1? nnirhar HJH HVnnrn frigate Medusa aim for the Arguin banks, bat there it went to pieces. I wish I could wake you up. The peril) are so augmented, you will die just as certainly as you sit there unless yon bestir yourself. Are you willing to become a castaway? Ton throw out no oar. You take no surroundings. You watch no compass. You are not calculating tout bearings while the wind is abaft, and yonder is a long line of foam bounding ths horizon, and you will be pushed on toward it and thousands have perished there, and you are driving in the same direction. Ready about I Down helm! Hard down I Man the life boat t Pull, my lads, pull! "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall be suddenly destroyed and that without remedy." But some of yon are saying within yourselves: "What shall I do?' Do? Do? Why, my brother, do what any ship does, when it is in trouble. Lift a distress signal. On the sea , there is. a flash and a boom. You listen and you look. A vessel is in trouble. The distress gun is sounded, or a rocket is sent up, or a blanket is 1 if tod, or a bundle of rags?anything to catch the eye of the passing craft. So if you want to be taken off the wreck of your sin, you must lift a distress signal. The publican lifted the distress signal when hfi cried: "God, be merciful to me a sinner J" Peter lifted the distress signal when he said: "Lord, save me, I perish P' The blind man lifted the distress signal when he said: "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." The jailer lifted the distress signal when he said: "What must I do to be saved?" And help will never come to your soul until you lift some signal. You must make some demonstration, give some sign, make some heaven-piercing outcry for help, lifting the distress signal for the church's prayer, lifting the distress signal for heaven's pardon. Pray! Prayl The voice of the Lord now sour.ds in your ears: "In Me is thy help." Too proud to raise 1 i 1 ? 3 iA 1. - .-J suuu a bigutu, i/w uiuuu tv tu savou. Thoro was an old sailor th limping about in a small boat in a tempest. The larger vessel had gone down. He felt he must die. The surf was breaking over the boat, and he said: "I took off my life belt that it might soon be over, and I thought somewhat indistinctly about my friends on shore and then I bid them good-by like, and I was about sinking back and giving it up, when I taw a bright star. The clouds were breaking away, and thero that blessed star shone down on me. and it seemed to take right hold on me; and somehow, I cannot tell how it was, but somehow, while I was trying to watch that star, it seomed to help me ,nnd seomed to lift me." 0, sinking soul, see you not the glimmer between the rifts of the storm cloud? That is the star of hope. Deathstruck, I ceased the tide to stem, . When suddenly a star arose. It was the star of Bethlehem! If there are any here who consider themselves castaways, let me say God is doing everything to save you. Did you ever hear of Lionel Luken? He was the inventor of the insubmergible life boat. All honor is due to his memory by seafaring men, as well as by landsmen. How many lives he saved by his invention. In after days that invention was improved, and one day there was a perfect life boat, the Northumberland, ready at Ramsgato. The life boat being ready, to test it the crew came out and leaped on the gunwhale on one side to seo if the boat would upset; it was impossible to upset ie. rnen amig mo huzzas ol excited thousands, tliat boat was launched, and it has gone and come, picking up a great many of the shipwrecked. But I have to tell you how of a grander launching, and from the dry docks of heaven. Word came up that a world was beating on the rocks. In the presence of the potentates of heaven the life boat of the world's redemption was launched. It shoved off the golden sands amid angelic hosannas. The surges of darkness beat against its bow, but it sailed on, and it comes in sight of us thi? hour. It comes for you, it comes for me. Soul! soul! get into it. Make ono leap for heaven. Let the boat go past and your opportunity is gono. I am expecting that there will be whole families hero who will get into thatlifo boat. In 1833, the Isabella came ashore off Hastings, England. The air was filled with sounds?the hoarse sea trumpet, the crash' of the axes, and the bellowing of the tornado. A boat from the shore came tinder the stern of the disabled vessel. There were women and children on board that vessel. Some the sailors jumped into the small Jt>oat and said: "Now give us the children." A father who stood on deck took his first born and threw him to the boat. The sailors caught him safely, and the next, and the next, to the last. Still the sea rocking, the storm howling. "Now," said the sailors, "now the mother:" and she leaped, and was saved. The boat went to the shore; but before it got to the shore the landsmen were so impatient to help the suffering people that they wnded clear down into the surf with blankets and garments, and promises of help and succor. So there are whole families here who are going to be saved, and saved altogether. Give us that child for Christ, that oth'T child, that other. Give us the mother, jrive- us the father, the whole family. They must all come in. All heaven wades in to help you. I claim this wholo audience for God. I pick not out one man here nor one man there; Iclaim you all. There are some of you who, thirty years ago, were consecrated to Christ by your parents in baptism. Certainly I am not stepping over the right bound when I claim you for Jesus. Then there are many hero who have been seeking God for a good while, and am I not right in claiming you for Jesus? Then there are somo here who have been further away, and you drink, and you swear, and you bring up your families without any G-od to take care of them when you are dead. And I claim you, my brother; I claim all of you. You will havo to pray sometime; why not begin now, while all the ripe and purple cluster of divino promise bond over Into your cup, rather than postpone your pfayer until your chance is past, and the night drops, and the sea washes you out, and the appalling fact shall be announced that notwithstanding all your magnificent opportunities, you have become a castaway. ilixg kalaeaua, having figured up incl found out that lie does not owe but ?120,000, has concluded to take in the Pavis Exposition this summer. The mnouncement that the quarterly allowmce of the Prince of Wales has been Increased by $45,000 has probably inspired Kalakaua with the belief that ;he 1'iince will now have a spare dolar about his clothes to lend to a deserving fi iend. A "Poverty Society has been started in Russia, the object of which is to popularize poverty among tha poor, and to teach them that their lot is not one to be repined at, since the finest pleasures of life can bo enjoyed independent of money. a petrieied tree wa3 recently Tinearthed at Farmingdale, N. J., eixtasn feet below the surfaoe. J SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 15. Lesson Text: "David Sparing Saul,** 1 Sam. xxiv., 4-17?Golden Text: Rom. xii., 21? Commentary. 4. "And the men of David said unfo him. Behold the day, of which the Lord said onto, thee." Saul, who so persistently sought David's life, is now completely in David's power and his men seem to suggest that now he slay him; but as David himself had cried: "Be merciful unto ma O God, be merciful unto me" (Pa 1L, 1 and Title), so he would show mercy even to Saul, and is content to lay no hand uponhinL but simply cutoff the . slnrt of his robe privily to show him afterward that he haa lum in his power. Jesus our King could any moment overthrow and: banish Satan forever from this earth, and. He will do it in due time, but He Is content to wait patiently, and permit His people and His earth to groan a little longer. 5. "David's heart smote him because he had cut off Saul's skirt." Even for asserting this slight token of his power, he feels condemned. His enemy was off his guard and unable to defend himsnlf. and David would rather meet an enemy, if he must be met, as he met the lion and the bear and Goliath, in open fight, that the power of God might be manifest. There is nothing of the Spirit of Christ in secret sayings or doings which will not bear the light. 6. "The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto mv Master, the Lord's anointed."-. Here is another view of the case; Saul was . not acting like the anointed, of the Lord" should act, his l|fe did not testify in that direction, but as to his office he was "the anointed of the Lord," and therefore responsible to God to act a^ such; and if he failed it was for the Lord and not for David to deal with him. Two great practical thoughts are presented here: U we are children of God by faith of Christ Jesus, then we have received the Spirit, and are anointed kings and priests unto God, and are responsible every aay to walk worthy of our High Calling; ana on. the other hind, though failure ana even sin; may be manifest in the lives of the anointed of the Lord, it is for their Lonl and not-for their fellows to judge and chadfem them. 7. "So David stayed his servants with these words; * * ? Saul rose up out ,of the cave and went his way." We may do very much by kind words and the manifestation of a Christ-like spirit to hindur otters . from speaking against or touching in any way the anointed of the Lord. We should ? remember that it is written, "He that touch- g eth you toucheth the apple of His' eye.* (Zecb. ii. 8.) Every redeemed one, however i full of failure, is dear to God; even IsraeLin! all her sins, He called "the dearly beloved of His soul." (Jer. xii., 7.) Saul, rising up and going his way, unconscious of the loss of a part of his robe, reminds us that when we ' are not in the Lord's! way we may lose many things and yet be unconscious of it. 8. "David* * * cried,after Saul, say-' ing, 'My Lord the King,' * * * and stooped ^ with his face to the earth." Notwithstanding * David's fears and ofttimes questionable conduct, here is a truly humble and forgiving v spirit. Whatever were his sins, his heart was in the main right with God, and his fiiK ures tell us the truth of that which he himself wrote: "Verily, every man at his best estate is altogether vanity." (Pa. :rxrix., 5.) <? A U?if?? ? Ixwiwinf mauled V. " IT UWOiUi O UUAICOV VUUUUiOus nvi%w/ saying, Behold David seeketh thy hurtt&j Saul Had turned a deaf ear to the words of God. and was giving heed to ^lelyingandde- i ceitiul words of men, and was, therefore, far from the way of peace. The only rest of soul for man & upon the words and thought* of God; but how few, even among Christians, rest quietly there? The words of this or that man, what some one has said oe re- * ported, is constantly heeded, and there is, < therefore, soch unrest, while all the while ' the Gkxl of peace is speaking peace and longing to give peace to all who will hear Him. ' As to the false reports that David sought ' ! Saul's hurt, is it not commonly believed Dy *J the unsaved that to be a Christian would deprive them of some happiness, or, in other words, that Jesus is seeking their hurt? 10, 11. "Some bade me kill thee; but mine eye spared thee; * * * yet thou huntast, my soul to take it." Here David recount* ~ the incident in the cave, and displays as proof o4 the truth of it the part of Saul's roba which he had cut off, thus testifying most; unmistakably that there was no evil in his. heart against 8auL \ 12. "The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge ,nie of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee." This is beautiful on itiig |g ?nw?faM?ting Mahnrrton upon the Lord. Oh, what a resting place it is; we have not to fight oar owrf battles, l'or it is God who fighteth for us; we hare not to-"1 defend our reputation, bat commit all onto Him: we have no revenge to take, but inasmuch as whosoever toucheth us toucheth the apple of God's eye, just let Him see to it in v' His owngood time and waj. 13. "Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked, but mine hand shall not be upon thee." If the boys of all our Sunday-schools would act upon this principle, and remem- 1 be ring that wicked words and deeds proceed from wicked hearts, avoid all such, refusing even, when injured by them, to lay ah&na . upon them, it might be that some wicked^ hearts would be *on by such a spirit and v learn of the new and clean heart which alone 1 can act in such a way. If men and women who bear the beautiful name of Jesus would in this respect show more of His spirit, how many they might win to Him. 14. "After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea." David was as harmless to Saul as a dead dog, for he had no thought-of doing him any injury; bat Saul, tempted by the evil spirit of envy which had taken possession of him, fancied all ' manner *of things against David, and his fancies. were helped by the liars aad slanderers about him. How many wretched people live to-day who imagine that evil is surely coming to them from this or that direction, while the truth is that the imaginary source of evil is as harmless as a dead dog or a flea. 15. "The Lord be judge, *. * * and see and plead my cause and deliver me out of thine hand." "Jqjige nothing before the time, until the Lord come." "We shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ." "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God." These are some helpful words of the Holy Spirit upon this matter from the New Testament. 16. "Saul said: Is this thy voice, my son David? And Saul lifted up his voice and wept." There are many such words and tears nowadays, uui mry uu uuu " - ? . anything. That they did not mean much . from Saul at this time is evident from chap, xxvi, where we see him as hotly as ever pursuing David to take his life. Saul had good 1 occasion to weep, for he had sinned greatly y* against David and against God; and if his tears had indicated true penitence, it had been well for him; but he seems to stand with Esau and Judas and others whose repentance needed to.be repented of, and whose sorrow was not heart deep. 17. "And he said to David, Thou art i more righteous than I, for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas. I have rewarded thee evil." These are true words from Saul's lips, and if you read to the end of the chapter ana notice all He said, and especially tlie words about David and the kingdom, and if this was the last we ever heard of Saul, we might (say: "Well, surely Saul is a changed man for he could not otherwise talk this way.* But alas for the wickedness of our incurably deceitful hearts! his words were true words, but his heart was not right with God.?Lesson Helper, "William H. Able is a farmer near Collins Station, Pa., and for some time | one of the water-pipes on the place was clogged. He did not feel like catting the pipe, so he caught an eel, pnt it in the pine and next morning was ^ gratified to find the eel in the trough at the end of the pipe and the water running freely. VYm. Robinson, of Venango County, Pennsylvania, claims that crude oil will cure almost any ailment. He savg he has used it in all his sicknesses, and has always been cured. < A doctor says thaiJyoung men who wear belts are affected somewhat tha same as women who lace tightly, kk.. M -V. . 7JH