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THE NEW DAY. Out from the broken calyx of the night The new day merges with a slow surprise. And like some n.nv-winged tiling with startled eyes. Bests on the riven sheath ere taking flight. But a? pulses quicken and grow strong The purple mists are smitten from her face, I And slowly knowing all its new-born grace The red pomegranate flushes o'er it throne, Then up the cloudy way in stately wi- - Thrusting the shadows back ?l*'-1 mystic hand, Sherideth slowly tb""uS'u the waiting land. No thought 0f r -sierday doth dim her eyes, For lo t1* "e?"-born day that rulos the earth Is n--' d res'!1'1'0,-'ti"a, but a birth! ?Lvyj E. Tilley, in Harper's Weakly. i THE CAPTAIN'S STORY.! We were on our way from Iloug Kong ' to Foochow on the coasting steamer Na- i moa. when Captain N., mv "fidus i Achates'' of the voyage, looked at the j gathering clouds to the westward and remarked: UI hope it won't rain before we get into Amoy; we arc just thirty j miles away." ' How do you know the distance so exactly, Capt:u* k,Look at that rock, and over beyond | it, you can see through a rift in the clouds a little speck like a pin point on the top of that black mountain. The pin point is a tall pagoda on that high cliff, and the pagoda is as good a signboard , for this town as if that who'e black cliff ; were painted 111 white letters a mile high j aud half a mile wide?A-M-O-Y. I j never sec either the pagoda or the city , thai a cold chill does not run all over ; me."' AViiI you tell me why, Captain?" . . ''Certainly, but it's a long story?well, ~ here goes: Amoy was one of the first treaty ports i iu China open to foreign commeice, and | fur a long time the noted hatred of the 1 Chinese for foreigners was more intense j there than at any other port. I was then I Captain of a steamer on the first line ply- i ing between Amoy and the English colony 1 of Hong Kong, some two hundred miles ; away. One cloud}' evening in November I , went ishore in A.moy to make .1 few final j preparations for my ship's departure the ' next day. While on shore t noticed that 1 my footsteps were dogged by a disrepu- j table looking coolie, who approached me 1 with great earnestness in his manner as i soon as he had reached a comparatively j open spot, where the growing darkness j shut out the teeming hordes of a Chinese i city. I saw that it would be impossible j to avoid an encounter if this strange fol- < lower should prove to be a highwayman, j So carrying my hand to my hip pocket, j where I felt the friendly "grip" of my re- i vol ver, I waited for the man to come closer, j I then saw that the coolie was in great dis- j tress and, moved by his earnestness, I j stopped to listen to his talc. The man ex- ! plaiued in Chinese and '-pidgin1' English j that he had a brother in jail who was to | be beheaded in two days more for capsiz- j ing in a sail boat and drowning his pas- j senger, a mandarin's son. The mandarin, I bent on revenge, had thrown the boat- j trlinrA tV?r* farr?n nf n UIUU XU(,U piiovni, nuvtv vuv ?? w v? ?? I trial had been gone through with and i the innocent man had been doomed to j die. The coolie said that his family ; were all wretchcdly poor, but that they i had managed, by the sale of most of their j belongings, to raise money enough to , bribe the jailer to allow the prisoner to i escape, and all that was necessary to , save his life was to get him away on some [ vessel to the nearest foreign colony. The poor creature fell on his knees and imk plored me to save his brother's life. He ; " would give me anythiug?everything he i had?only to give the hunted creature a ; hiding place, to save a fellow-being from i the headman's ax! All this was uttered j between broken sobs, and the poor man j wept as if it were he himself who was , only to see two more suns rise before the j i..rth would drink up his life blood. I felt my sympathies intensely excited, j and yet I kuew the treacherous nature of , the Chinese and the danger in interfering i with their ideas of justice, and, wishing ! either to test the truth of his story or to pre- j vaii upon the coolie to choose some other means for his brother's escape,I said: "I'll; stow him away and carry him down tollong Kongfor 500taels"(about$550),thinking ; ? that such a price would be utterly beyqnd 1 the coolie's means. The poor man seems ; , staggered at the enormity of the sum, a i large fortune to one of his class, but he \ *"~i?Jiied in a moment and said he supposed he woild have to pay it; that it was a ' v fearful suva., that he was very poor, and s to raise so muc'n money his family would : ' ivave to sell all they owned: but he must ! save trv.s.brother's life; if the Captain insisted he woNSjldAuvc to pay it. My sympathies were now still more keenly aroused, and seeiug that the uu- 1 welcome passenger would be sent, and not caring either to break my word or to profit by the poor wretch's misfortunes, ; I said: "Well, I'll do it for the regular fare" (about ?10), "bring him down to the wharf at 11:30; I am going off to my ship then." The coolie seemed overpowered with joy and was still ''kow-towing" his thauks as I moved away and he disappeared in the darkness. I had no sooner rcached the wharf, about 11:45 p. sr., than I was touched by the same coolie, who now offered his services as "sampan"' man. I followed him to the boat and there saw another man whom the dim lamp light showed to . be as poorly clad as his brother. Wheu we shoved off I noticed that both were very clumsy with their oars, but as my J Bhip was close to the wharf we were soon ' alongside. Here I handed my overcoat to the i boatman and he picked up a bundle j tied Chinese fashion in a lar^e handkerchief, and we went on board, leaving my new acquaintance iu the boat. I sent j my steward forward ou an errand that : would detain hitn for a few moments and then had the coolie deposit his bundle in j a small closet in the eabiu, and told him that that must be his brother's hidiug place until we put to sea, and that he mils! It" murk to "ft into if. A', a motion o.y; the side lite condemned man sprain-1 out oi the boat, ! which lie had made fast at the gangway. I and slid noiselessly aft through the cabin i and into the closet. I turned the lock \ and put the key iu my pocket. But as he passed the cabin iamp curioJty had led me to take seurcliiug 1 glance at my strange passenger, and. in spite of his unkept hair and soiled and tattered clothes, his light complexion *nd retiued features revealed iu the coolie's brother a Ohlnainan of the higher classes. I tliea tried to scrutinize the boattnau, bui the inau's back was to the light, autl the steward returning just then I paid my V " -. A ... * *- ... sampan fare, ami my strange acquaint- I awe departed. I turned in. wondering who -Mysterious passenger might ba^'and my thoughts were not witho;:^vague misgivings of the noted Incichery of the Chinese. I woke "-<?r!y, and had hardly begun dress:.iig before a herald came to inform :.ie that the \ iceroy of the province desired to*ec me at Ins yamen" .tt 10 that morning. This strange summons I at <>nce connected with my harboring an <:s caped prisoner, and. full of vague distrust. I had almost decided either to put to sea two hours before the advertised time, noon, and so temporarily avoid any explanations, or io plead press of business and refuse to obey an almost royal command. Disturbed by such doubts, I hardly felt relieved when another herald came to say that the Viceroy had concluded, as he desired to see the ship, to visit the Captain, and that my presence at the "yamen" would be excused. Such a thing as a Viceroy visiting in state a merchant vessel was almost unprecedented. and I began to fear that I was implicated iu the escape of a political prisoner of high rank. Now the customary official messengers began to pour in: First, two clad in robes' of state announced that his excellency would arrive in half an hour; then four more that he was coming in ten minutes; then four horsemen gaudily caparisoned. rode down to the wharf where I was now waiting to say that their master would arrive in five minutes; thcu a procession of liveried servants bearing aloft on high poles red sign boards, on which all the virtues under the sun were ascribed in Chinese characters to their lord! soldiers with fl i?s and swords and spears; meu with whips and gongs to clear the way; mandarins on horseback; lictors with long pheasants' tails in their caps, and a large nibble on foot?all proclaimed that his excellency had arrived. Alighting from a gorgeous green sedan chair, borne by sixteen men in livery, lie greeted me most politely and accepted my invitation to take passage in my gig oil to the ship. A large portion of his escort followed, occupying a small fleet ol sampans. The Viceroy was ushered iDto the cabin and, strange to say, selected a chair immediately ir. front of the door of the closet in which the refugee was concealed. After a few courtesies had been exchanged I was informed through an interpreter that Prince Ichang, the leader of an insurrection, who had been captured and condemned to be beheaded, had made his escape. Suspicion, they said, seemed to point to his being secreted on board my ship; a sampan had been seen to go alongside of her the night before about midnight; it reached the ship with two boatmen and one foreigner and returned to the shore with only one man, and he made off in great haste as soon as he had landed, leaving the sampan adrift. "Of course the Captain knetv nothing about the escaped, prisoner, 'and so he could have no objections to allowing the ship to be searched." This was subtly put. To refuse to allow it would be equivalent to acknowledging that the man was on board, and would cost me my place in a company whose interest it was to placate the unfriendly Chinese. To allow the ship to be searched involved the possible discovery of the man, and in that case his recapture and ccrtain death, as well as my own dismissal from the company. Either """MO mirrVif- pndnnopr t,hf> livf'S of tile ll""?v """ ?3" foreign community in Amov, against whom the hatred of the Chiuesc needed only a pretext to begin a general massacre. 1 felt the color come and go in ray checks and for a moment I thought of delivering the refugee up to certain death, saying that when I took him on board I was not aware of the nature of the offence, and then revulsion of feeling came over me. I thought "this man has trusted his life in my hands and, hunted criminal that he is, I will not betray him." All this flashed through my mind in an instant, and when I turued to the Viceroy I felt the same spirit of helpless, yet indomitable defiance that every true sailor feels in the fury of the storm. I said quietly, "Certainly, your excellency, my steward will turn over the keys to your servants, but they will find no such mau on board my snip." The search party went all over the ship, directed by the crew, and after probing into corners and peering in amongst the bales of silk and boxes of tea, 110 stranger was found. This was reported to the Viceroy, who said: "You have not .searched this cabin; do so." I was wild with excitement and alarm, but my relief was intense when my furtive glances showed me that the search party did not dare to ask ttlcfr master to move from in frout of the door. This relief was of short duration, for he again asked if they had searched everywhere. "Everywhere except in that apartment behind your excellency's chair. We will look there too; where is the key?" [ now became thoroughly fright| ened, and, fumbling for some loophole to escape, I told the Viceroy that that was a lockcr where I kept my 1 wines, and?I was ashamed to confess it 1 to so high a ruler under the 'son of i heaven*?that I sometimes hid opium and ' other contraband articles there. Would his excellency forgive me if I begged that [ that place be kept unopened, as my pcc| eadilloes, if discovered, would cost me my post as Captain. i:Iu that case," said the Viceroy, "I will save you from trouble by inspecting myself?the key?"' Doubtful whether to confess my com plicity or to brave it through, I thought of the mysterious nature of the whole affair. and hoped tliat the strange passenger might, in some mysterious manner, have escaped. This straw of hope that drowning desperation clung to saved the day. I reached iti my pocket ami with trembling fingers pulled out. the key. The Viceroy unlocked the door.opeaed it and closed it hastily; behind him. My nerves were then so wrought upon that I could almost have heard tin- dew fall, and 1 fancied I heard a word within sooken .pry low. Then tin* door opened airain. I hen- was a rustle of silk robe*, the door closed, and the Viceroy said in Chinese: ' 'No one there!" 1 felt my heart throb with one great bound and things seemed to reel around me. When I recovered my composure enough to look up with pleaded and grateful eyes I saw au expression ) thought 1 recognized, and in an instant I knew what, my own unstrung nerves and the regal roites had before concealed?the miseri able coolie of the night before was none other than the Viceroy of the Province of i Fuh-kiod, the absolute ruler of twentyi five millions of people. I had no longer a doubt that my mysterious passenger and ; the royal fugitive were tlie same, and that \ N rJ yctf viceroy himself wai conniving at his [escape. ^ Th^ ship sailed on time and Prince j Ichang was landed safely in Hong Kong, | whore he lived under English protection I until a severe illne>s let him. 'him have j that privilege most mortals enjoy?of dying with hi.s head on. Subsequent developments pointed to I the fact that the Viceroy was influenced j not only by personal friendship but by an J enormous bribe with which the rich f pr'.uce bought his own head, and that, fearing the treachery of any of his suborj dinates, lie had planned and executed the escape entirely alone. Of my betraying ! him he had no fear, as the word of a 'foreign devil'' would then weigh nothing in ;i Chinese court. Two years afterward I received from ; the Viceroy of Kwang Tung a gorgeous pair of vases ami some magnificent cm! l)roidcri(.s. '-in gratitude for past liospi! tali ties:"' and I found that my coolic ' friend had been promoted to the governi ment of one of the largest provinces of ' the Empire.? Washington Star. Force Expended in Climbing a Hill. j The physical energy or force sometimes exerted by the humau body under certain ! conditions is known to be astounding, j but no one has ever taken the trouble to ! put before us that force in figures. Dr. J. Buchheister has now made a most iuj tercsting calculation outhc t:ivork done"' ; by mountaineers iu ascending heights, j which will serve us an illustration. Supposing a mountaineer weighing 168 pounds ; is making the ascent of a summit 7000 j feet high from the point of starting, he has to expend an amount of physical force j by multiplying his weight by the height to I be ascended. In the ease assumed a | weight of 16S pounds multiplied by a 1 height of 7000 feet equals 1,176,000 I foot-pounds; or, in other words, 1.176,I 000 pounds have to be lifted 1 foot. I This is work performed merely by the j muscles of the legs; but, besides this, | the contractions of the muscle of the J heart have to be taken into account. Its function consists, as is well known, in | propelling the blood collecting in the j heart, on the one hand, into the arteries, ' and, on the other, into the lungs. This j is effected at au iuitial velocity of 1^- feet I per second, which represents in the case of an adult a work of 4 foot-pounds for j each contraction of the heart. The pulI sations of an adult arc on the average 72 ; per minute, but in ascending heights, i owing to the additional exertion, their j number is increased to an extraordinary i extent. Assuming, for the sake of simplicity in ! calculation, only 100 beats of the pulse per minute, this would give 400 footpounds per minute, 24,000 toot pounds per hour and 120,000 foot-pounds .for the five hours supposed to be required iu ascending a height of 7000 feet. The work performed by the muscles in breathing, by the expansion and contraction of the chest, mav also be estimated i at four foot-pounds. Assuming, further, j that the number of breathings per minj ute is on the average only twenty-five, i although, as a matter of fact, it will be I fouud to be higher in a mountain ascent i lasting five hours, we have to add further work of 30,000 foot-pounds. The total work performed during five j hours by a mountaineer consequently j amounts to. 1,326,000 foot-pounds. In : this estimate are not included the physij cal force spent in overcoming the friction on the ground, the exertions to be ' made in keeping the body erect at dizzy heights aud in dragging heavy boots and foot-irons, nor the loss of muscle power ; in cutting steps in the ice, not to reckon j the work performed in carrying an ice j axe, or the physical force exerted in j crossing fresh, loose snow. Taking all j these conditions into account, Dr. Buch| heister arrives at the conclusion that the ! worn. done in an ascent of 7000 feet, ; lasting five hours, cannot be placed at j less than 1,380,000 foot-pounds.?Iron. Antipodean Cannibals. The savages of North Queensland, Ausj tralia, are still cannibals. The normal J condition of these savages is inter-tribal i war, and, this, no doubt, was the state ' of the earliest society. Every tribe, and I often sub-division of the same tribe, arc 1 at feud with one another and all the rest; the stranger is universally regarded as fair game, and especially as being provii dentially offered for the pot. A certain j path to distinction among them is skill ] in furnishing human meat, which is not j to be considered a staple, but as a highly i prized luxury. When the black fellows j feel the need of a Delmonico dinner, so j to speak, they send out their crafty man; hunters, and prepare to dish up the j strauger within their gates. Sometimes I the harmless necessary strauger is sadly | wantiug. Theu, if they are very sharp I set, they perhaps make au excuse for ! killing one of their own women, or a ! plump baby or so. Babies, as an ele1 rucnt of the cuisine, are highly appreI ciated, their tenderness being recalled : with watering of the mouth and geutle I sicrhs of satisfaction.?Carl Lumholtz. i ! "Nine Tailors Make a Man." The mcauiug of the expression '-Nine | tailors m:ikc man,'' is traced to the singj ular custom of tolling the church bell a I given number of times, at a burial, to I denote the sex of the deceased. In some j places the custom is still extant, and is ; generally three for a child, six for a ! woman, and nine for a man. These strokes, of course were counted and had an arithmetical idea connected with them, I and thus the knell, at its conclusion, was | said to be tolled or counted. By degrees ' this idea became confused or lost, and the participle "told'' was referred to a sup posed infinite -'to toll," instead of its : natural infinite "to tell." By carrying the history of this error a little further, we may arrive at an elucidation of an ! otherwise obscure proverb. The strokes I told or counted at the end of the knell 1 were called from their ollice "tellers." ! This term was again changed into ' "iailers," from their sounding at the end <>f '-tail" of the knell; and nine of these \ being given to announce the death of an tin, w? i*tii<i' il' I in I mini', i;a> u iii?u n? i??\ Nine tailors make u man.*1 Tho Phenomena of Echocs. j Every one is familiar with the phcno; menu of echoes. Iu a cavc in the Pantheon, the guide, by striking the flap of | his coat, makes a noise equal to a twelve i pound cannon's report. The singularity I is noticed, in a lesser degree, in the Mum; moth Cave, in Kentucky. In the cave of j Sinelliu, near Viborg, iu Finland, a cat , or dog thrown in will make a screaming echo, lasting some minutes. Pliny tells of a cave in Dalmatia where a stone tossed in would raise a perfect storm. Fingai's Cave, on the Lsle of Stafla, has an abnormally dcveloned echo. ' ; ' ? *> j r'"^ AS. Dfi. TALMA6E. I THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subjcct: "A Marriage Feast." j (Preached Near Can a in Galilee.) ! Text: "Thou hast kept tlic good wine ' until now."?John ii., 10. Standing not far off from the demolished j town of what was once called Cana of Galilee, I bethink myself of our Lord's first manhood miracle, which has been the astonishment of the ages. My visit last week to that place makes vivid in my mind that beautiful i occurrence in Christ's ministry. My text j brings us to a wedding in that village. It is | a wedding in common life, two plain people I having pledged each other, hand and heart, j and their friends having come in for ; congratulation. The joy i3 not tho less because there is no pretension. In each other they find all the future they want. The daisy 111 the cup on the table may ! mean as much as a score of artistic garlands fresh from the hothouse. When a daughter goes off from homo with nothing but a plain father's blessing and a plain mother's love, i she is missed as much as though she were a | Princess. It seems hard, after tho parents j have sheltered her for eighteen yoars, that in ' a few short months her affections should have j 1 been carried off by another; but mother re- I 1 members how it was in her own case when j she was young, and so she braces np until the wedding has passed, and the banqueters are gone, and she has a good cry all alone. Well, we are to-day at the wedding in ' ??,I tr.'o have been invited. It is evident that there j are more people there than were expected. ! Either some people have come who were not I invited, or more invitations have been sent i out than it was supposed would bo accepted. Of course there is not enough supply of ! wine. You know that there is nothing ! more embarrassing to a housekeeper thau a j scant supply. Jesus see3 the embarrass; raent, and He comes up immediately to relieve it. He. seas standing six water pots. He orders the servants to fill them with water, then waves His hand over the water, and immediately it is wine?real wine. Taste of it, and see for yousselves; no logwood in it, no strychnine in it, but first ! rate wine. I will not now be diverted to the ! question so often discussed in my own country, whether it is right to drink wine. I am describing the scene as it was. When God makes wine He makes the very best wiue; and one hundred and thirty gallons of it i standing around in these water pots?wine | so good that the ruler of the feast tastes it and says: "Why, this is really better than anythiug we have had! Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Beautiful miracle! A prize was offered to the person who should write the best essay about the miracle in Cana. Long manuscripts wore presented in the competition, but the poet won the prize by just this one line descriptive of the miracle. The uucouscious water saw Its God, and blushed. I We learn from this miracle, in the first place, that Christ has sympathy with housekeepers. You might have thought that Jesus would nave saia: "i cannot oe Docuerea wnn | this household deficiency of wine. It is not i I for me, Lord of heaven, of earth, to become ' caterer to this feast. I have vaster things i than this to attend to." Not so said Jesus. The wine gave out, and Jesus, by miraculous I power, came to the rescue. Does there ever come a scant supply in your household? Have you to make a" very close calculation? Is it hard work for you to carry on things decently and respectably? If so, don't sit down and ory. Don't go out and fret; but go to Him who stood in the house in Cana of Galilee. Pray in the parlor! Prav in the kitchen? *Let there be uo room in all your house uuconsecrated by the voice of prayer. If you have a microscope, put under it one drop of water, and see the insects floating about; and when you see that God makes thein, and cares for them, and feeds them, conic to the conclusion that He will take care of you and feed you. oh, ye of little faith. j A boy asked if he might sweep the snow from the steps of a house. The lady of the household said: '"Yes; you seem very poor." He says: "lam very poor." She says: "Don't you sometimes get discouraged, and feel that God is going to let you starve?" The lad looked up in the woman's face and said: "Do you think God will let me starvo when I trust Him,and then do the best I can?"' Enough theology for older people! Trust in God and do the best you can. Amidst all the worrimcnts of housekeeping, go to Him; He will help you control your temper,and supervise your domestics, and entertain your guests, and manage your home economies. There are hundreds of women weak, and nervous, and exhausted with the cares of hmiKAlr<v>nin<r_ I commend vou to the Lord Jtsus Christ ns the best adviser ami most efficient aid?the Lord Jesus who performed His first miracle to relieve a housekeeper. | I learn also from this miracle that Christ docs things in abundance. I thiuk a small supply of wine would have made up for the deficiency. I think certainly they must have j had enough for half of the guests. One gallon of wine will do; certainly five gallons ' will be enough, certainly ten. But Jesus goes on, and Ho gives them thirty gallons, aud forty gallons, and fifty gallons, and seventy gallons, and one hundred gallons, and one hundred and thirty gallons of the very t best wine. i It is just like Hiin, doing everything on the j largest and most generous scale. Does Christ, our Creator, go forth to make leavos? He makes them by the whole forest full; notched like the fern, or silvered like the aspen, or broad like the palm; thickets in the tropics, Oregon forests. Does He go forth to wake flowers? He makes plenty of tliem; Uicy flame from the hedge, they hang from the top of the grape-vine in blossoms, they roll in the blue wave of the violets, they toss their white surf into the spiraea?enough for every child's hand a flower, enough to make for every brow a chaplet, enough with beauty to cover up the ghastliness of all the graves. Does He go forth to create water? He pours it out, not by the cupful, but by a river full, . a lake full, an ocean full, pouring it out unj til all the earth has enough to drink, aud 1 enough with which to wash. Does Jesus, our Lord, provide redemption? i It is not a little salvation for this 0110, a little for that, and a little for the other, but ' enough for all?"Whosoever will, let him ! come." Each man an ocean full for himself. J Promises for the young, promises for the i old, promises for the lowly, promises for the blind, for tho halt, for the outeast, for the abandoned. Pardon for all, comfort for all, mercy for all, heaven for all; not merely a cupful of Gospel supply, but one hundred nnd thirty gallons. Av, the tears of godly repentance are all gathered up into God s bottle, and some day, standing before the throne, we will lift our cup of dolight and ask that it be filled with the wine of heaven; and Jesus, from that bottle of tears, will begin to pour in the cup, nnd we will cry: "Stop, Jesus, we do not want to drink our own tears!" nnd Jesus will say: "Know yc not that tho tears of earth nro tho wine of heaven?" Sorrow may endure, but joy coineth in the morning. I remark further, Jesus does not shadow the joys of others with His own griefs. He might have sat down iu that wedding and said: "I have so much trouble, so much poverty, so much persecution, and the cross is coming; I shall not rejoice, and tho gloom of My fnco and of My sorrows shall bo cast over all this group." So said not Jesus, no said to Himself: "Hero are two persons starting out in married life. Let it be a joyful occasion. I will liido My owii griefs. I will kindle their joy." Tliero are many not so wise as that I know a household where there are many little children, where for two years tho musical instrument has been kept shut because tliern has been troublo in the house. Alus for the folly! Parents sa3Ting: "We will nave no unrisimas tree mis coiiuiik uuuuuy because there lias been trouble in too house. Hash that laughing up stairs! How can (here be any joy when there has been so 1 much troublo ?" And so they make everything consistently doleful, and send their sous and daughters to ruin with the gloom they throw around them. (jh, my dear friends, do you not kuow those children will have trouble enough of their own after a while? Be glad they cauuot appreciate all yours. Keep back the cud of | bitterness from your daughter's lips. AY hen ' your head is down in the grass of the tomb, poverty may come to her, betrayal to her, i bereavement to her. Keep back the sorrows as long as you can. Do you not know that son may, after a while have his heartbroken? Stand between him and all harm. You may not fight liis battles long; fight them while you may. Throw not the chill of your own despondency over , his soul; rather be like Jesus, who came to : the wedding hiding His own grief and kindling the joys of others. So I nave seen I tho sun, on a dark day, struggling amidst clouds, black, ragged and portentous, but after a while the sun, with golden pry, heaved back the blackness; aud the sun laughed to the lake, and the lake laughed to the sun, and from liorizon to horizon, under the saffron sky, the water was all turned into wine. I learn from this miracle that Christ is not impatient with the luxuries of life. It was not necessary that they should have that wine. Hundreds of people have been married without any wine. We do not read that any of the other provisions fell short. When Christ made the wine it was not a necessity, but a positive luxury. I do not believe that He wants us to eat hard bread and sleep on hard mattresses, unless wo like them the best. 1 think, if circumstances will allow, we have a right to the luxuries of dress, the luxuries of diet and the luxuries of residence. There is no more religion in an olu coat than in a new one. We cau serve God drawn by goldeu-plated harness as certainly as whew we go a-foot. Jesus Christ will dwell with us under a fine ceiling as well as under a thatched roof; and when you can get wiue made out of water, drink as much of it as you can. What is the difference between a Chinese mud hovel and an American home? What is the difference between the rough bear skins of the Russian boor and the outfit of an American gentleman? No difference, except that whicn the Gospel of Christ, directly or indirectly, has caused. When Christ shall have vanquished all the world, I suppose every house will be a mansion, and every garment a robe, and every horse an arch-necked courser, and every carriage a glittering vehicle, and every man a King, and every woman a Queen, and the whole earth a paradise; the glories of the natural world harmonizing with the glories of the material world, until the very bells of tho horses shall jingle the praises of the fjord. I learn, farther, from this miracle, that Christ has no impatience with festal joy, otherwise He would not have accepted the invitation to that wedding. He certainly would not have done that which increased the hilarity. There may have been many in that room who were happy, but there was not one of thein that did so much for the joy of the wedding party as Christ Himself. He was tho chief of the banqueters. When the wine gave out, Ho supplied it; and so, I take it, He will not den)* us the joys that are positively festal. I think the children of God have more ri^ht to laugh than any other people, and to clap thoir hands as loudly. There is not a single joy denied them that is given to any other people. Christianity does not clip the wings of the soul. Religion does not frost the flowers. What is Christianity? I take it to be simply a proclamation from the throne of QoJ of emancipation for all the enslaved; and if a man accepts the terms of that proclamation, and becomes free, has ho not a ripchtto be merry? Supposo a father has an elegant mansion and large grounds. To whom will he give the first privilege of these grounds? Will he say: "My children, you must not walk through these paths, or sit down under these trees, or pluck this fruit. These are for outsiders. They may walk in them." No father would say anything like that. He would say: "The first privileges in all the grounds, and all of my house, shall be for my own children." And yet men try to make us believe that God's children are on the limits, and the chief refreshments and enjoyments of life are for outsiders, and not for Ilis own children. It is stark atheism. Ther is no innocent beverage too rich for God's child to drink; there is no robe too costly for liim to wear; there is no hilarity too great for him to indulge in, and no house too splendid for him to live in. He has a right to the joys of earth; he shall have a right to the joys of heaven. Though tribulation, and trial, and hardship may come unto him, let him rejoice. "Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous, aud again I say, rejoice." I remark again that Christ comes to us in the hour of our extremity. Ho knew the wine was giving out l>efore there was any embarrassment or mortification. Why did He not perform the miracle sooner? Why wait iinf.il if woe all orm** nnrl r?r* lmln nniilrl n/rniA from any source, and then come in and perform the miracle? This is Christ's way; and when He did come in, at the hour of extremity, He made first rate wine, so that they cried out: "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Jesus in the hour of extremity! He seems to prefer that hour. In a Christian home in Poland great poverty had come, and on the week day the man was obliged to move out of the house with his whole family. That night ho knelt with his family and prayod to God. While they were kneeling in prayer there was a tap on the window pane. They opened the window,and there was a raven tnat the family had fed and trainod, and it had in its bill a ring nil set with precious stones, which was found out to be a ring belonging to the royal family. It was taken up to the King's residenco, and for tlie honesty of the man in bringing it back he had a house given to him, and a garden and a farm. Who was it that sent the raven tapping on the window? The same God that sent the raven to feed Elijah by the brook Charith. Christ in the hour of extremity! You mourned over your sins. You could not find the way out. You sat down and said: "God will not be merciful. He has cast me off;" but in that, the darkest hour of your history, light broke from the throne, and Jesus said: l,0 wanderer, come home. T linvfi seen all thv sorrows. Ia this, the hour of thy extremity, I offer thee pardon and everlasting life!" Trouble came. You wore almost torn to pieces by that trouble. You braced yourself up against it. You said: "I will be a stoic, ana will not care;" but before you had got through making tho resolution it broke down under you. You felt that all your resources were gone, and then Jesus came. "In the fourth watch of the night," the Bible says. "Jesus came walkine on the sea." Why did He not come in the first watch ? or in the second watch ? or in the third watch '< I do not know. He caine in tho fonrth, ami gave deliverance to His discipl03. Jesus in the last extremity' I wonder if it will bo so in our very last extremity. We shall fall suddenly sick, and doctors will come, but in vain. Wo will try the anodynes and the stimulants and the bathings, but all in vain. Something will say: "You must go." No one to hold us back, but the hands of eternity stretched out to pull us on. What then? Jesus will come tous, and as we say: "Lord Jesus, I am afraid of that water; I cannot wade through to the other side," He will say: "Take hold of My arm:" and wo will take hold of His arm,and then He will put His foot in the surf of the wave, taking us down deeper, deeper, deeper, and our soul will cry: "All Thy waves and billows have gone over " aairm. thn foot: mm a tn tho IIIC. -* UDJ Wtci VMV . ? ? knee, pass the girdle and come to the head, and our soul cries out. "Lord Jesus, I cannot hold Thine arm any longer." Then Jesus will turn around, throw both His arms about U3 and set us on the beach, far beyond tho tossing of the billows. Jesus in the last extremity. That wedding scene is gow? now. The wedding ring has been lost, the tankards have been broken, the house is down; but Jesus invites us to a grander wedding. You know tho Bible says that the churcli is the Lamb's wife, and the Lord will after awhile come to fetch her home. There will be gleaming of torches in the sky, aud tho trumpets of God will ravish the air with their music, and Jesus will stretch out Hi9 hand, and tho church, robed in white A il I put aside her veil, und look up into the face of her Lord the King, and the bridegroom will say to the bride: "Thou hast been faithful through all these -fours! The mansion is ready ! Come home! Tlion art fair, My love !" and then He shall put upon her brow the crown of dominion, and the table will be spread, aud it will reach across the skies, and the mighty ones of heaven will come in, garlanded with beauty and striking their cymbals ; and the bridegroom and bride will stand at the head of the table, and the banqueters, looking up, will wonder and admire, and say: "That is Jesus the bridegroom? But thescar oil Ilis brow is covered with the coronet, and the stab in His side is covered with a robe!" anil "that is the bride! The weariness of her earthly woo lost in the flush of this wedding triumph!" Tii -tv will Ik- wine enough at that wanding: not coming up l'roni the poisoned vatof earth, but the vineyards of God will press their rii>est clusters, and the cups and the tankards will blush to the brim with the heavenly vintage, and then all tho banqueters" will drink standing. " Esther having come up from tho bacchanalian revelry of Ahasuerus. where a thousand Lords feasted, will be there. Anil the Queen of Shcba, from tho banquet of .Solomon, will be there. And the mother of Jesus, from the wedding in L'ana, will be there. And they all will agree that the earthly foasting was poor compared with that. Then, lifting their chalices in that holy light, they shall cry to the Lord of the feast: "Thou hast kept the good wine until now." Intemperance is the doctor's wet none. .- -^.sr *>. ' ^:.; f~Tm:. c ^ RELIGIOUS READING COt'I.D WE KNOT! Could wp but. glance tiie future o er. Its hidden depths unveil, Look on the blessings safe in store, Whose mercies never fail. Could we but see the happiness Each new year seeks to give, Our daily lives to cheer and blessHow gladly would we live! Could we behold the grief and care, The painful weary striTo, Allotted as our rightful *hare In earh new year of life. Could we anticipate the thorns That- in our nHtliwnv lip Before another (toy cou'd dawn How gladly would we die! Yet innocent of each we grope With blind porsisteuc.* on, I'p eld by patient faith and hope Each daily strife is won. A future'* burdens unconcealed, Our inmost hearts benumb, While sorrows one by one revealed Are coiique: rd as they come. ?Lvrana \\\ Shcldov* A FLAG FOR CHRIST. A few years ago, a converted Sikh lay dying at Amritsar, in the Punjaub, India. Before be pas ed triumphantly into glory, be expr ssed his desire to put up a flag for Christ, and left some money for the purpose. Today a flag waves in the gentle breezes above the houses of that citv. bearing simply the words, "For Christ.?' in bold letters on a scarlet ground. That bright flag seemed to us a monument of the grace ana mercy of God, who could transform an idolater into a saint; and also a glad prophecy of the future when all nations shall own the sovereignty of our coming King. ROCK f F AGES?AN* INCIDENT. On board the ill-fated steamer Seawanliaka was one of the Fisk University singers. Before leaving the burning steamer, and cominitling himself to the merciless waves, he carefully fastened upon himself and wife life-preservers. Some one cruelly dragged away that ot the wife, leaving her without I nv/iflr.f na eV? a ^ aIIikt tr\ lior Vi na_ l band. This she did.p'acing her hands firmly on his shoulders and resting there until, her strength becoming exhausted, she sa:d, "I can hold on no longer." "Try a little longer," was the response of the weary and agonized husband; "let us sing'Rock ot Ages."' And as the sweet strains floated over those troubled waters, reaching the ears of the sinking and dying, little did they know, those sweet singers of Israel, whom they comforted. But lol os | they sung, one after another of those ex- | hausted ones were seen raising their heads above the overwhelming waves, joining with a last effort in this sweet, dying, pleading prayer: "Rock of Ages, cleft for mo; Let me hide myself in Thee." With the song seemed to come strength; another and yet another was encouraged to renewed effort. Soon in the distauce a float was seen approaching. Singing still, they tried, and soon with superhuman strength laid hold of the life-boat, upon which they were borne safely to the land. This is no fiction. It was related by the singer himself, who said he believed "Rock of Ages" i saved many another besides himself and . wife. BEPKOVINC. SIX. How wo neg'ect this duty! There is a plain command upon the subject, "Thou shalt in anywise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin unon him." (Lev. xix: 17.) How it woulu diminish profanity, for instance. if every time a man should swear on the streets, on the cars, or in depots, he should be sure to call up some witness for Jesus. The judgment hall where the Son of God stood amid His foes was a good place to cry out, with Thomas, "My Lord and my God!" There are men living today who would do it, who would glory in do'ng . it. The eflect of simply speaking the name of Je us with reverence and love on such ocsasions is wonderful. Every reader is familiar with the name of John H. Vincent. Once he reproved a 3wearer so powerfully, and yet so tenderly, that he not only subdued him. but melted him to tears. Jt was in a railway'station. The room was full of passengers waiting for a belated train.* A man, probably slightly intoxicated, was shocking everybody with his profanity. Suddenly Dr. Vincent began to sing: "Jesus, Lovfr of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly." The song ceased. Perfect silence reigned. The swearer vva reproved. After a time he came to Dr. Vinceufc. and said: "Could I see you a moment outside?" They went out together. "How came you," said he, "to ling that hvnn just now?" The doctor replied: "I heard you swearing, and 1 thought I would let you know there was somebody there who loved the name of Jesus." "That's very strange,", said tho man. "My sister when she was dy ng sung that very hymn, and she made me promise to meet her in heaven. Could yo1.. pr?y fo.* me?" Down m the snow they knelt togcJie', and the doctor prayed for the penitent man, and asked that he might have grace and sirengin 10 Keep uis vow. The train came. They were separated to meet no more, in all probability, till they meet in eternity. r,REARING BRUISED REEDS. Sc'encc of a certain kind says we must lay down a law of the survival of the littest, and if the reeds are broken throw them away. Jesus says, throw nothing away. Let us work for the sav ng of every life, and see that we work so carefully, with so critical a | love and patience, that we lose nothing at last but the son of perdition, the son of ' waste, the child that must go home to the j devil. Let us have no rough-and-ready treatment, however, of human life; but let us examine and separate and do what we can, for we are bound to save the last atom; then, if we can no' save it, we must own that we have lost. Father. I have lost none but the son of perdition. lie did not want to lose any. He did not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. If men wiil not be saved, even the Son of (iod cannot | save them. To force a man into heaven is , not to till him with peace and joy; it is to j violate the harmony which he cannot ap- : predate. "A bruised reed,'* say | some. An instrument called a reed was meant, and tnere was a rut in it j which spoiled the music. Jesus Christ j said: We must repair this; something : must be done with this reed. It was meant ' fiv music, and we must look at it with that end in view. He does not take it, saying. There is a rift in the lute, and the music is impossible; rend it. and throw it away. lie always looks to see if a man cannot be made something of. He would heal us, every one. Say to Him. l> lirui&ed 1'ced, if I may but touch the hem of tby garment, even my lift-reed >hail be tieale.l. and I will take up*it'od'g music again, and be glad in Cod's house. Or a "br.iisci r.-cu" mr.y moan that wi'd bea-fs. in r "hi ih.-or.gh tl>e water or I Ir: l! i. have | crushed the grow.i.g .?!??so iliai rbev are bent; thtv 110 iu>.? SiUiiui ;:?sc.:aij?i!tl.v; but Jesus Christ o'utu* to lien! s'setn. And lbe smoking Ha:: i.ji' He not |iie,::h. He will rather take i; :.p ?::J shake "1*-: Oill v can shake, I r.?-?.- a little ;iy.. \ ai; ;o bear upon it, and sv!>: a !;. t1 mo:c \o j-adually; see hov. ;hs t? p.i"r v::::*n bow it le jis iii> into .. i.i,.(i ? ' ft."v. Now watch Him 1" w !!.* -niking. and >ce hn'v ,r:.u v,ii c .;i : wa< only snmkv . h\ '.aIght as a lire. liM'ful :;jjd how it is handed on to the aid '.i it*:* men?/ . <//'i /'?? /.< < A MISS A DEPI.TY COLLECTOR. A few days ago a trim young lady alighred from a train at Jeffersonville, lml.. and ] made her way into a number of saloons and liquor-stores. The proprietors of these plat es o|teni>d their eyes wide in astonishment when >he presented her card, which read as follows: ' ' Miss Maud Cottom. Deputy Collector. Seventh District." She then proceeded with a most thorough and business-like investigation of the places visited. This is the first time on record that a lady has been appointed a deputy collector of internal revenue, since such a position necessitates the regular personal visitation of all the tough dives and liquor shops in the district and the inspection of all Government licences. May Miss Maud perform her duties in a way to strike terror to the heart of every transgressing saloonkeeper and law-evading liquor^dealer.?New j 1'ork Witness. I TEMPERANCE.. '% THE TTVO DAKOTA8. 1 All hail: to the fair twin sinters V J Which have entered the Union grand, J With the glorious motto regnant, "God, Home, and Native%an<* " So rugged, and so beauteous, ? So young and yet so free; ^ If the morning is so glorious, 1 What will tne noontide be? V God bless the two young sisters, And the quartette* grand and brave; \ Sfhy they lead the way victoriotis And our own loved country save From the slavish rule of Bacchus, *c From the chains its servants wear. < Let the Stars and the Stripes float o'er us, A nation free and fair. " ''Maine, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. ?Mrs. Richmond, in National Advocate. J HOW KUCH IS CAUSED BY RUM? j The Board of Estimate and Apportion- { merit hnvp made their final annrcmriations for the city expenses of New York for 1890. Among the items are: Police Department, $4,610,515; for Charities and Correction, 12,109,030; for Asylums, etc., $1,180,5)68; for City Court and Judiciary salaries, $1,393, 240; Health Department, $391,500; Coroners J office, $50,000. ? These six items aggregate . 1 $9,740,252. What per cent, of tins vast amount is due solely and wholly to the liquor traffic in this rum-cursed city??New York . -Pioneer. a noble example. Dr. Horatius Bonar was a total abstainer, and this story is told concerning the event which led him to take the pledge: The head "<-r of a family in his congregation was addicted to drink, and the doctor advised him to abstain. "Have you taken the pledge?' inquired the poor man. Dr. Bonar went immediately, hunted up a pledge, signed it, and returned to say to his unfortunate parishioner: t-Yes, I have signed the pledge for your sake." Some men insist on their right J to drink moderately, and refuse to commit {?: themselves to total abstinence lest they should \ losea fragment of their rights and their free-dora. But do they owe uothing by way of example to the weakest and most needy class r jj of human beings? To stand stubbornly on J? one's rights in a case like this, and at a timd~~^B like the present, is an effectual way to break - V the bruised reed and quench the smoking flax, -3 ?Christian Adtocatc. don't go down that street. I was visiting at a good minister's house ~i'-r ] a few days ago, and made friends with his crj bright little daughter, onl^ six years old, who uxugui iue a ie:>suij. x uivit/cu uoi uv take a walk with me, and we proceeded down the street, her hand in mine, chatting in a very friendly way. As we came to a crossing, she said: "Don't go down that street !" "Why not?" I asked, in surprise. "Because I am always tempted when 1 go down there." "What is it that tempts you?" "The candy store. I always wants to go , go in and buy some candy." j Now here is a lesson for children of larger growth. What should you do when you are ! tempted'? Run away, or rather don't go in . [ the way of temptation. Is it the saloon that | tempts you to enter? Keep away. What[ ever it is that makes you spend your moner needlessly, keep away. Keep on the aare. ! side. We give you the advice in the words' '-A ! of the Bible: "Avoid it, pass not by it, turn , from it and pass away."?Youth's Temperance Banner. VICTIMS OF THRIST MADNESS. The periodical desire for strong drink which sometimes besets individuals other! wise moral and exemplary is a species of . | paroxysmal mania beyond the control of the ! Tf io /mltfl nnrloin f.Hof f.VtOrO ftfA J*-i I puiicuw XV UJ \jVUIA9 Wi ktuu VU?V ??v.? ? r w-j-r. ! thousand of cases of remitteut drunkenness I which present the specific symptoms of dte* : ease. The periodical drunkard is not an habitual dram-drinker. But at particular times he ! appears to be attacked with a thirst-madness I which deprives him of the power of volition ' aud hurries him into the most terrible ex- \ I cess. During the interval between the pari oxysms he may be a perfectly sober man. ML I For many weeks, or even months, he may ! have steadily refused to taste a drpp^JF^^ j liquor; may, indeed, have felt no inclination ; for it, but on the contrary regarded it with .v I disgust. And yet, when the fit time comes I on, the raging thirst for alcohol utterly par' alyzes his conscience and his will. A man in this condition is a monomaniac, and should be treated as one. If put under proper restraint at the commencement of i this furor, the dipsomaniac, in nine cases out of ten, might be tided over his difficulty in I the course of a week, and a perseverance in .* | the course at the recurrence of the hallucina' tion would probably eventuate in a complete cute. -.r . It is not easy to persuade the world that all i drunkenness is not voluntary. The law does 1 not recognize dipsomania. It treats all in1 ebriates alike. This seems to be unjust, alI though it is hard to say wkere the line should j be drawn between free-will excess and that , which proceeds from an uncontrolable maj nia. ? Toledo Blade. WHO 8TANDS THE CASH? ' : "Who pays the bills? Who feeds the ^ drunkard's children? Who provides for the KpAlron.hoitrhpH Wlfp9 Who S11IV ui uunai u ry utvnvu uvu* ?vm ...... : ports tiie beggarly tramps, who, having i wasted their money in drink, wander about the country? Who repairs the losses caused ! by the failure of intemperate merchants and reckless and half-intoxicated business men? Who makes good the damages caused by the ; blunders of drunken workmen and the hinj drance of business caused by sprees of inj temperate emplojesV Who pays for the rail! roaa wrecks caused by drunken conductors I and engineers? Who builds ehe asylum where the crazy drunkards are kept? "Who supports the idiotic children ot drunken parents? Who pays the attorneys and jurie6 : and judges to try drunken criminals? Who I pays the expenses of trials and commitments and executions occasioned by the crimes of drunken men? Who pays for the property destroyed and burned by drunken men? Who builds and supports almshouses, | which but for drink might remain unoccupied? I Who endures the sufFeri* ? and losses and brutality which are due to the recklessness and*, insanity of drunken husbauds and fathers?"** ; Who pays for the inquests held on drunkards j I found dead by the wayside? Who pays for a .1 j pauper's coffin and for digging a drunkard's J grave in the potter's field, when the last glass Has been drunK;' Who pays the bills? The drunkard cannot, for he has wasted his substance in the cup. Will the rumseller pay them? The fact is. you and I, the sober, industrious toiling portion of the community must meet all these bills. The drunken rowdy, wounded in the street fight, is cared for in the city hospital at our expense; the drunken beggar is fed from our table; his hungry children come to our dooi^s for bread, and we cannot refuse assistance to his suffering wife; and when at; last, having wasted his substance m riotous living, he comes to the almshouse, the asylum, the hospital or the prison, honest, sober, temperate men pay the Dills for supporting him there. There is no escaping it. We may protest, we may grumble at taxes, aud find fault with beggars, but ultimately and inevitably we must foot the bills.?The Ecamjf list. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. It has been resolved to form a National Union of British Temperance Choral Societies. Temperance teaching in the Stat* schools of Victoria, Australia, has been made compulsory. The retail liquor traffic is now prohibited in seventy-nine municipalities of the province of Manitoba. The W. (.'. T. I", of Mississippi has received ... ? tokMi affairil il gUt ^CMnnj uy >ui?u iu.vw. ?.>.?. ? sermon in behalf of its work, delivered at Meridian by Sam Jones. The new State headquarters of the Pennsylvania U* i'. T. 1'. have been formally dedicated and opened. The rooms are in a new and handsome building on Arch street, Philadelphia. The Woman's Christian Temperance Unionthe Independent Order of Good Templars and the Prohibition party of Nebraska have formed a triple alliance to work for the State Prohibition amendment. ? _ Mrs. S. K. (irubb. Superintendent of W- '" T. I", work anion? foreigners.!* now publishing her tracts in fourteen different lan ? * guages. She has begun to issue these tracts as semi-monthly temjierance talks, ten thousand at an issue. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia have asked Congress to pass a Sunday , law for the District of Columbia, and the President approves then- request. Hon. W. C. P. fy-eckinridge, of Kentucky, will intro1 duce such a bill and the American Sabbath A Uulvii ivilt a M