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Undercurrents. BY MARGARET J. PRESTON. Upon a lofty glacier's peak, Amid the avalanche's thunders, A scientist who came lo seek Some hint of nature's hidden wonders, Poured through its rift a rubied stream Of water, wnose descent might show him If It could pierce the mass, ana gleam Down in the valley far below him. He watched and waited long, until The somber autumn grass grew duller,? When, lo, the proof! He found a rill That tinged the 9now with rosy color ! I think of one whose life, so litir, Than other lives was fairer, brighter; Who breathed an atmosphere more rare; Whose garmenture was purer, whiter; Who, from his unwatched vantage height, Poured t hrough the rifts of keen endeavor Currents of influence all too bright And living lo be lost forever. We may not trace the hidden force Of trach a soul, to whom 'tis given Through many an unsuspected course To send the roseate hues of heaven; Enough that Ills far-reaching powers, Touched with his country's song and story. Are caught from this low life of ours Up to the mouutain-caims of glory! Edison's Bi? Check. When Edison had finally sold hi> patent on the colt' and stock indicator to the Western Union Telegraph com, nauv for $-40,000, he came over lo New York to get his money. He had heard of Wall street and its bulls and bears, and had been told that it was full of "sharks," who would fleece a man very quick. So he made up his mind that Wall street was a verv dangerous place, and that if he ever had occasion to go there he would be lucky if he got away without losing his overcoat and umbrella. At that time General Lefterts was president of the Western Union. One morning Edison came into the company's general offices to close up the sale of his patent. After a few prelimiuaries he was giveu a check for $40,000. He looked at it curiously for a moment or two and appeared to be puzzled what to do with it. He knew that he had sold a patent to the Westera Union company for $40,000. but he did not see any money. Observing his perplexity, General Lefterts told him that if he would go to the Bank of America, in Wall street, ho would get "" the check cashed. "So I started," said E<Jison, "after carefully folding up the check and went toward Wall street." On arriving at the Lank of America he hesitated about entering, fearing still that something might be wrong. At last, however, he mustered up courage and half tremblingly shoved his check out to the cashier. The latter scrutinized it closely, gave Edison a piercing glance ana said something * which Edison could not understand", 1 i 1 as no wots iittru in iicuiiug. That was enough. He was nowmore than ever convinced that his "check" wasn't worth $40,000, autl thought as he rushed out of the bauk with it, that any man who would give him $2,000 could walk away with the check. He hurried back to the Western Uuion offices and said ho couldn't get any money. General Lell'erts sent a man with him to identify him. lie Maid : "This man is Mr. Thomas A. Edison, to whose order the check is drawn." "Why, certainly, Mr. Edison," said the cashier, obsequiously, "how would you like your $40,000?in what shape?" "Oh ! any way to suit the bank. Jt doesn't make any dilFerence to me so long as I get my money." Edison was given $40,000 in large bills. . After dividing the roll into wads f $20t000 each, he stuffed one into each trouser's pocket, buttoned up his coat as tightly as possible, and made a break to get out of Wall street a9 quick as he could. The next day he began work on his first laboratory at New York. If You Want to bk Lovhi?.? Don't tind fault. Don't contradict people even ii you're sure you are right. Don't be inquisitive about the affairs of even your most intimate friend. Don't underrate anything because you don't possess it. Don't believe that everybody else in the world is happier than you. Don't eonclude that you have never had any opportunities in life. Don't believe the evil you hear. Don't repeat gossip, even if it does interest a crowd. Don't go untidy on the plea that everybody knows you. Don't be rude to your inferiors in social position. Don't over or under-dress. Don't express a positive opinion unless you perfectly understand what you are talking about. Don't cpt in the hiibit of vulirariziuir life by making light of the sentiment of it. Don't jeer at any bod's religious belief. Don't try to be anything else but a gentlewoman?and that means a woman who lias considerut on for the whole world and wlx.se life is governed by the Golden Rule, ''Do unto others as you would be done by." Ladies1 Home Journal. M. de Calinaux is not satisfied. He ha* tent his servant to do an errand, which the faithful but stupid domestic has made a mess of. "You have no common sense," cries M. de Calinaux in a fury. ' But, sir"? "rfilence! I ought to have remembered that you ure nothing but an idiot. The next time I have occasion to seud an imbecile to do an erraud, 1 shall not want you; I will go myself." A Kansas City girl, utterly unable to walk a step on account of acute rheumatism, was found staudiug erect on the table the other day, cured. Christian science? Not a bit of it. Mouhe. A farmer said : "One thing I don't like about city folks?they be either so n stuck up that yer can't reach 'em with a hay-stack pole, or so friendly that they forget to pay their board." No man ever believed that a crying baby betougea as niucn 10 mm um iu us mother. ? - ? ? - Oatmeal Mi:?h fok C'jiilpbkn oh Invamds.?Take one cup granulated oatmeal, a half teaspoonful of salt and one scant quart of boiling water. Put the meul and salt in the double boiler, pour on the boiling water and cook two or three hours. Remove the cover just before serving] and stir with a fork to let the steam es-j cape. If the water iu the lower boiler be strongly salted the meal will cook) more quickly. Serve with sugar or salt anu cream. Baked sour apples, apple sauce and apple jellv are delicious eaten with the oatmeal. They should be served with the mush, and the cream and 6Ugar poured over the whole. They give the acid flavor, which so many crave iu the morning. Coarse oatmeal is not suitable for any form of waterbrasb, acidity or bowel irritation. It ofteu causes eruption on the skin in warm weather. Who rises from prayer a better man, Ails prayer is answered. > ?: ' -vs"7 -T.-\~":%] *-' ' ' -;. .' ' * '. " f .; __U mi " ;J- ? " ? Drudgery. Zffie was doomed, or so it seemed lo. a life of drudgery. What else than! drudgery was it to wash the dishes for; ten in family three times a day, to; sweep aud dust the same rooms every j day, to do the errands, to answer calls j made on her by all the older ones and > all the younger ones as well? Surely j when she got to school, away from :iil! the tiresome home duties, she would; be happy aud content. She was placed in a Loarding-school,: and fur a lime she was happy and eon-, tent. Tiiare were no meals to get ori clear away, only her room to see to. i But pretty soon the examples in ari(h-| metic got very hard, and she eouldn't "get" them all; the declensions and| conjugations in her Latin grammar, | how long it took to learn the tiresome j things, and ofteu she missed them ; the parsing in English grammar perplexed her,-and she found the hill of knowledge very steep climbing. The school-bell rang just when she was ready to have a "little good time;" the table fare grew monotonous; not all her school-mates were agreeable to her, and poor Elfie felt that the old doom of drudgery was on her still. But by and by she would be through the arithmetic and in algebra, through the Latin | grammar aud in Ctesar, through parsing and in "composition," aud then I lite would be easier. In fact, it troubled her more to find the value W>f x than to work in figures ; it was harder to guess what Ciesar meant than to learn conjugations aud rules; and, what was the hardest task of all, to vvriteon a given subject when she L-n<wu oni? tliimr nluinf. if nnd hadn't a word to say. ?o the same old iJiscoutented look that had been on her lace at home was ou her face at school, and she had changed her skies only, herself remaining the same. When she had finished school and had become a young lady, then, certainly, she would be happy. Then her mother's health failed, and Eftie had to rake charge of the household. This wasn't harder for Eflie than it was for those who had to live with her, for now every thing was drudgery, and the spirit of drudgery pervaded the entire house. This last calamity, her mother's ill health, was really Etlie's opportunity if she had only known it. She might have learned how to administer domestic affairs so as to be ready to take charge of a home of her own. She might have made the lives of her younger brothers and listers a joy to ihem rather than a burden. She might have caused her mother's heart to be glad and her father's to rejoice in her. But the old habit of considering every tumg sue uiun i ieei hkc uumy ! to be drudgery was too strong to be broken. Wheu her mother's health was restored iu part, Effie went to learn the dress-maker's trade, and she was sure that when she could make dresses nicely, her owu and other people's, she would be happy and independent and content. She was for a time; then she found some customers very hard to ploai^she had to be very diligent to meet her engagements, she got tired of sitting so steadily at the needle, (he work was monotonous and wearing; in fact, it was drudgery. What tas<k imposed on mortals may not be turned into drudgery? What task may not, by a cheerful, obedient, submissive soul, be made delightful? What task may not be made a stepping-stone to something higher and ever higher? It takes some people all their lives to learn that the happiest place is here, flint thp har.nipst time is now. and some never learn the les?on. Finding The Key. When Mary Siinms was in the country last summer, she became acquainted with h little boy who liven next door. Lawrence was slow to learn and rather lazy, and so no one had taki'ii pains with him, and he had never learned to read. Mary, who could read very well, wondered that a boy so old as he did not know his letters, and she made uj> her mind to teach him. It took a great deal of patience for Mary to do thi.-?, but she had been I taught by her mama to be useful. ' Do all the good you can," her mania would often say, "in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, for Jesus'sake." So Mary, without saying a word to anybody about it, undertook to teach Lawrence to read. When Lawrence didn't feel like studying his lesson, Mary would coax him with a story. This is one of the stories she told him : "Once there was a great king who had two nice little boys. One day their father said to them, 'I have a chest full of the most beautiful and precious thing?, and you may open it and have all the treasures in it if you will find the key. You must look two hours for it every day.' Erie was u good boy and did as his father wished, but Otho was a lazy boy and would not try. By-and-by, Eric found the key, and then what treasures he had! Otho was angry when he saw his brother's good times, and sulked because he could not have them, too. You see, be couldn't even get a look into the chest, because he hadn't found the key." "He was foolish, wasn't he?" said Lawrence. "Just as foolish as you will be if you don't learii your letters-," said diary. "The A B C is the key that wili open all the beautiful books in the world, so (hat you can enjoy the treasures in them, anil call them your own." "O, I will try, I will !" suiil Lawrence. He began to study with all his might, and before Mary went home he could read in words of three letters quite well. Mother and Child. Talk about educating a child I Why, if a mother is a true woman ami mother, the child educates her mor'u she educates the child, enough sight. She learns a divine patience through beariug with the childish little faults. Through fear of setting a bad example in front of it, she learns to control her own temper and her tongue, and behaves herself more'n a good deal of the time. Oh ! how that old bird would love to keep it in the warm nes>t? how her love wants to brood over it always? bow she yearns to keep it close to ner own jealous, beating heart,?how doubly lonesome the old nest is when the little one is gone ; how happily sad, ami how joyously mournful is the thought that it is learning to fly ahsne?that it ia learning to bs happy away from her, away from the old nest*!?that the walls of the old home can never again be the bound of it* joy and content. No, the wide horizon has now dawned upon it, the clear, far fields of either, and it must now soar and sing, and sing its own pongs, build its own nest, live its own life, in its own world.?Josiuh Allen's Wife. An exchange defines an optimist as a woman who has a new winter cloak! and bonnet, and a pessimist as a wo-J man who has neither. V \1!>5~' v' - - . ? IK: i r';. A Working Man's Reason for Not i Fighting. ] The following extracts from a speech ( delivered niauy years ago in the Town I Hall, Hull, by a working man named 1 Scholey, appeared in the Arbitrator in | 1S72. We have several times been i urged to republish it. and now comply \ with the request: < "I feel inclined to give my opinion J on the subject of peace, and, as a mem- < ber of the working classes, I wish to ?ay I shan't fight. If ail working men I were of my opinion there would soon I be an end of war. But, however that < may be, I shan't fight, and any man I who does tight, who has nothing to i light for, in my opinion is a fool. I have nothing in the world to protect ] except my share in tie national debt, i ami 1 don't care if the French come < and run away with that. I, like my ' worthy friend opposite, lived at the i time of the last war. It's true work- ? ing men got belter wages then than < they can get now, but hasn't the pres- I ent misery arisen from it? I recollect j the peace* of 1801, and I recollect the i rejoicings we had at that time, when ] the country was one coutinual brist- ; ling of bayonets. You couldn't have a i walk without seeing them in all directions. Young men couldn't walk out i with their sweethearts. They couldn't i go where somebody with a bayonet i wouldn't disturb them. It was impos | sible at tbat time. Then as for the ! Sabbath?the day of rest and comfort s whinh ilin nnor nmn mav eniov along I with the rich?you couldn't enter a < village, but before you were in sight of it. if you stood for u minute, you would hear?right?left ? right ? left ? eyes i right?dress?and so on. This was the I occupation of the village at that time, ] and it wasn't a great village eilher. It had no matter of population, but it was a beautiful little village, and a stiller, quieter, and more peaceable village you could scarcely find. Well, EVERY MAN IN IT WAS FORCED TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER. Strange a thing as it appears, so it was. it's a fact incontrovertible, that a mau would have been ousted out of society , if he hadd't become a volunteer. No religious scruple wus allowed to interfere with a man learning the discipline on a Sunday. * * * So the war went on, and it's true that a flourishing time it was. You couldn't go to a town where you wouldn't find banners (lying, and drums beating, and trumpets souuding, and all the inhabitants, from youngest to oldest, up in arms. A rare time for our trade it was then. But what was the consequence? Is not our present misery, our present wretchedness, the consequence? And Unpeople in the country were demoralized ; for the army wasn't a school from which young men came back better than they went. If a young mau went and joined the army, and stopped but a very short time, he very likely came back with a wooden leg, and only -wanted one shoe; but besides this, and worse than this, he had learned to 8wear a round hand. They had learned to make use of expressions which made the people of the village shudder to hear them. Many of these expressions are now common, such as "bloody" this, and "bloody" that, and many other expressions which J shouldn't like to mention, but which we are constantly in the habit of hearing. But they wasn't known in that peaceful district before the war. These things, however, constituted the principal part of the soldier at that time. I was quite young, and nearly all my playmates - all who were boys at the same time I was a boy myself?nearly all went to be soldiers, and some, as I said before, t'AMK HACK WITH A WOODKN LKO AND SOMK HAD J.OST 'I'll KI It HEADS, mid stoi.ned to bear them company. Ho it as it would, they almost all went, aiul frequently I have known tine young men of fifteen and sixteen, aye, and some of twelve and thirteen, for they would take them as low as that then?I have known that, throe or four mouths after they had enlisted, we had a letter, perhaps from Spain, that they were shot; and then what work there was with mothers aud sisters weeping. There was all this trouble then ; hut paying parts in our time. Now, I object to paying. I won't pay if J can help, because, I say, there fs no wisdom in men going to tight to protect what they have not. Let them fight if they like, but not such as me who have nothing to tight for. I should be very sorry to put myself in such a ridiculous position as to go to be shot at. I recollect that asses spoke in ancient times, and they had a deal more sense than many men now. Now, you remember the a^s in the fable. His master flogged and said, "jjook sunrp oil, ilic cuuiuj uic ti^ui behind, and we shall certainly be takeu prisoners." Then spake the ass ] and said, "Shall I have two panniers to bear tuen instead of one?" "No," said the master. "Well, then, thou mayst shift for thyself; what matterj does it malce to me who's my master, | so long as I have no more panniers to I bear." This was sense, and we seejl that a sense of justice even emanated from an ass. Well. Balaam's ass spoke too, and very seusible was that ass also. "Am I not thine ass ; have 1 not | carried thee ever since I was thine ass? What have I done unto thee that thou hast smitten me these three times?" He was smitten only three times, and yet he aesented it. We, asses, have always carricil the aristocracy on our backs to the battle, and yet we nave to ne sniiuen many times a day. If we raise a meal, we have to be smitten in our tea, in our sugar, in our coffee, and indeed in almost everything we have; and though smitten in this way, though smitten fur worse and more often than Balaam's ass, we take all quietly. But we'll not fight. Now this is the long and short of it. Give us summat to light for, and then maybe we may. But it's a difficult matter to convince me that any one has a right to kill his fellow men, J, for one, have no desire ; f<>r, as friend Tate save, ,fJt docs, ! I should think, produce a disagreeable sensation to have the thin end of a bayonet stuck into you." I was at the Manchester massacre, and I wasn't a mile off those that were killed either: the man I stood next to had a sword sent into him, which went in at his shoulder and came out at his breast. And it was tlie aristocracy that were at i the bottom of that; the aristocracy, j ll>uni (iu n r-lnue niwl lint im-llld-H ing individual men, for there are some very good men amongst them, when they descend to be men. However, it's no matter; I'll not light. IK ALL WORKING MKN WOULD COME , KOJIWAHI) A XL) SAY Til ICY | WOULDN'T FJCJirr, THKKE Wol'LI) SOON JJH AN KNP OK yWHTfXfl ALT00BTHEK. It is a nice tiling enough to be an of- | fieer ; you never hear tell of an ollicer , deserting; the consequence is there's no occasion to Hog an officer, because } lie doesn't desert. IJut I have Keen | sights awful enough, I'll assure you. , In the beautiful little town of Doncas- | ter I have seen fifteen men flayed alive n one morning. I have heard their, icreams while they got five hundred ashes each, till I turned sick and Jidn't know where I'd been. I learnt :hen to l:o peaceable, and ever since have had a particular disposition to be' peaceable, and am determined that I'll have nothing to do with fighting. I'll f>ay nothing, if I can help it, but I ?an't help paying maybe: however, I'll not do anything that I can help loing to enable war to be carried on. I say that it demoialized the population. The morality of the people of ihe last century, notwithstanding all )ur education and all our stuff, was jetter than it is now. The {teople were moral, but we shall walk back to the uime pass again if we only keep the r>eace. If war had continued (addressng the chairman) you, sir, would nevil* have presided at railway dinners, rhere would never have been a railway. There would have been no joint stock cotton mills. There was nothing ilse to be done but soldiering. Even joys thought of nothing else. When r was a boy we used to play at soldiers, ind never at anything else; and vilium>ra mid netmle in towns, wherever " "n ~ r i ? you went, were all seeking to be solliers. I have no object ion to the French coming over, ami if they can find aught in our house (hat they think worth their while, they're wefjometoit. They'll not lind u deal in poor people's houses who stand in the ?auie position as me, and I stand in the ame position as the principal part of Lhe working classes. What need we sate? THE ASS WAS RIGHT; it doesn't matter who dtives us if we have no more panniers to carry. The principal wars have always been carried out by the aristocracy, because they're afraid the people should have time to think, and that, like the clock peudulum that goes swinging backwauls nnd forwards tick, tack, tick, tack, there should be nothing but work, work, work, for them. They have secured all the land of the ooun-j try, and they have secured many things beside, and what they haven't secured the Queen has. Everything belong-f to her. It is " The Queen's Army," "The Queen's Navy," ''The Queen's lfevenue," and " The People's Debt." We have nothing else that's uational to divide among us, and so it will be until such time as workingmen are of my opinion, that they won't light, and then there'll be an end of war. Consider tlio Poor. It is very possible to he fairly faithful in much, and yet unfaithful in that which is least. We may have thought about our gold and silver, and ye have been altogether thoughtless ubout our rubbish ! Some have a habit of hoarding away old garments, "nieces." remnants, and odds and ends generally, under the idea that they "will come in useful souk* clay very likely setting it up as a kind of mild virtue, backed by that noxious old saying, "Keep it by you seven years, and you'll And a use lor it." And so the shabby things get shabbier, and moth and dust dotii corrupt, and the drawers and places get choked and crowded; and meanwhile all this that is sheer rubbish to you might be made useful at once, to a degree beyond what you would guess, to some poor person. It would be a nice variety for (he clever lingers of a lady's maid to be set to work to uphold things; or some tidy woman may be found in almost every locality who knows how to contrive children's things out of what seems to you only fit for the rag-bag, either for her own little ones or those of her neighbors. My sister trimmed seventy or eighty hats every Spring for several years with the contents of friends' rubbish drawers, mus relieving aureus iu yuui mothers who liked their children to "go tidy oil Sunday," and also keeping down finery ?n her Sunday-school. Those who literally fulfilled her request for "rubbish" used to marvel at the results. Little scraps of carpet, torn old curtains, faded blinds, and all such gear, go a wonderful long way towards making iwor cottagers and old or sick people comfortable. I never saw anything in this "rubbish" line yet that could not he turned to good account some where, with a little considering of the poor and their discomforts'. I wish my lady reader would just leave this book now, and go straight up stairs, and have a good nimmage at once, and see what can thus ue cleared out. If she does not know the right recipients at first hand, let her send it ofl to \he nearest working clergyman's wife, and see how gratefully it will be recieved! For it is a great trial to workers among the poor not to be able to supply the needs they see. Such supplies are far more useful than treuie cneirsmau money vuiue. Frances Jiidtey llavergal. i . .i Women anil Housekeeping. Housework, in mode ration, is healthy and pleasant. It is the want of just such an unemotional vent for their rest lens energy that produces many victims of nervous prostration. It is al.<o wholly compatible, jf brought under any proper system with good intellectual work. Moreover, the. creating and guidiug of a home is the best gift the world has to offer. When one thinks of the flood of bud art and seo ond-rate literature of the present day, is it not melancholy to reflect upon the wasted energy that might have gone into bcautifui and helpful lives? The education is costly, indeed, whose pi ice is the woman's joy in the superintendence of her home. If she with all the incentives of love and pride, despises the daily cares that make the comfort of the household, how can she expect them to be rigidly met by a hired housekeeper, whose only interest is money-getting? "No man can serve two masters;" and therefore, it seems to me self-evident that any woman who accepts the gift of a home thereby pledges herself to devote lo it her I est service. The neiilnet of her first dutv and Inchest privilege cannot lead to any true work in other directions : I'afc-lotted to exnlt The artist's instinct In me at I lie cost. C?f putting <lowi? the woman's, I l'oi'got No perfect arli?t Is developed lu'ie From any Imperfect woman. sang a true poet and noble woman. There arc women whose tiod-given talents require to tread a lonely path. There are many others to whom the uipreme treasure of a home is denied, lint the l>e*t work of artist or poet or |?hy.-ieian will ever spring from the hidden, passionate womanliness that appreciates to tlie full the greatness of the sacrifice or Joss. Vhristia n Her/ infer. Children should be trained up to ijtIcnd the preaching seryice in the public congregation as yvell as the Bible <tudy service In the Snnday-sehool. Attending church and joining in the inging and listening respectfully to the sermon easily becomes a habit iviih most ehildien who are properly rained. ." v.- .at'-: tr Vs". Various Thought*. BV JOHN HRMMENWAY. Peace is the continual necessity of I nations. ' Any peace for nations is greatly more glorious than any war. Blessed are all persons who are meek- , ly trying to be the best Christians in < the world. 1 Man's power to communicate his ideas with the pen is one of the most useful and wonderful faculties of his nature; but alas! how often it is shamefully abused, so that the pen becomes a flighty instrument of sin. Blessed is the man who is peacefu' ; always and warful never. (I do not find the word warful in the dictionary, but it ought to be there; for every man and every nation that make or approve of war are warful, and a disgrace to human nature, and if professedly Christian, a great disgrace to the blessed Christian religion, as taught and practiced by Christ, the holy Founder of the Christian religion.) It is far uobler for a people as a nation to suffer in virtuous bondage than to rejoice in vicious liberty. tnnnueiy uetier n me everiasimg silence of a Quaker meeting than the vocal devotions of a religion, mixed with a war spirit, in sermousand prayers, though it be performed with the highest order of human learning and eloquence, and abounding in the most fervent zeal. He who does not highly prize and enjoy religion in secret, and ever more than in public, has reason to fear that he is not a Christian. A late Scotch D. P., did not satisfy by his preaching the Calvanistic portion of his flock. "Why, sir," said they, "we think ye dinna tell us enough about renouncing our ain righteousness." "Renoueing your ain righteousne.-s," vociferated the Doctor, "I never saw any ye had to renounce." The Evangelical Association, a church that has 100,000 members, an IMIUUWUI Ml 111 V lUClllWUlOlO, utw iiau trouble with its three bishops. Two of them have been suspended and the third is to be tried next week. It is said that Claus Spreckles has cleared $3,000,000during the past year by selling his sugar one-eighth of a cent below ihe cost of that sold by the trust. What do the members of the trust make ? Binghamlon is to have a crematory for garbage. The plant will cost $25,000, and will consist of two plants, one burning the refuse and the other consuming the smoke. No odor will be created. The plan is to nave a trial before acceptance. There are banks at Buenos Ayres with capital greater than any in the United States, and occupying buildings finer than any banking-house in New York. The Provincial Hank has a capital of $33,000,000 and $07,000,000 of deposits. The National Bank has a capital of $40,000,000. Henry B. Pierce, Secretary of State for Massachusetts, declares that the Southern iron-fields must become the world's seat of that industry, and that the next twenty-five years will witness a development there surpassing alike belief and history. Dr. Andrew Hunter, delegate-elect to the General Conference, will be the only member of that body who wns a member of the General Conference in 1844, when the Church was divider*. It will be worth a trip to St. Louis to meet that grand old man. From a bushel of corn a distiller gets 4 gallon of whiskey, which retails at SIC. The government gels $8.00, the farmer 40 cents, the railroad Si, the manufacturer $4, the retailer 57, and tbe consumer gets drunk. Opium is got by cutting the capsule of the poppy tlower with a notched iron instrument at sunrise, and by (he next morning a drop or two of juice has oozed out. This is scraped off" and saved by the grower, and alter he bus a vessel full of it it is strained and dried, It takes a great many poppies lo mane ii poimu iu uuium, nun ii> guco through a number or processes before it is ready for the market. In a liquid state it looks like a dark, strawberry jam. The cause and remedy for the depression among the farmers is being discussed from the rostrum and through the preys, to an extent never before experienced in this country. Let it go on until It is presented in all its aspects, and may Uod defend the right. The fanners have leen, and are still being more neglected and worse abused any other class of people in the country. On the thrift of the farmer depends to a large extent the thrift of ti e whole countiy. The millionaire must have his meat and bread, as well ss the day-laborer, and both are dependent on the farmer. The unprecedented prevalence of icebergs in the Atlantic ocean, together with the failure of the ice crop ou shore, has stimulated the brains of Eastern ice-dealers to propose a remarkable exnloit, neither more nor less than the capture of a number of th floating masses. A tlcet of tugs bus been fitted out in Boston for the purpose of towing iuto port one or more of the Ice mountains, which, thus secured, pan be quarried at leisure. The undertaking will be watched with some interest, for should it prove successful the Atlantic coast uetd have no fear of an "ice famine.' Von Caprivi has been appointed Chancellor instead of Prince Bismarck, and gives intimation to German embassadors abroad that he will continue the policy of bis illustrious predecessor. A plant called the Australian wattle is found to be twice as rich in tannic acid as the best oak hark. It is easily cultivated, and it doubtless will soon be largely grown to tan leather, i'he provisional government of Brazil has decreed the neperatlon of church and state, and at the end or one year proposes to withdraw the aid heretofore extended to religious establishments. The decree is very lengthy, but its leading feature is contained in I he following paragraph: "Art '2. All religious denominations have equally 1 the right to liberty of worship and ' that of governing themselves in ae- I cordance with tneir respective creeds ' without being disturbed in the private < acts pertaining to the exercise of this 1 light," 1 The simple method of treating drunkenness, practiced in Norway and . Sweden, iu reported to be very efFee.-' tive. The inebriate is placed in con-j: flnement, and fed only with bread1' soaked in wine, which in eight or ten J days creates a positive loathing for strong drink. |t > ' ' ' ' ': ( f ~ t?mrii "Cocoa?nut Day" is celebrated in nost parts of India during the full noon iu August. On that day numbers of nuts are thrown into the sea as xu offering to the Hindu gods. Baron Uebig. the great German ;hemist, nays tbat "as much flour as ?an lie on the point of a table-knife contains as mucii nutritive con?titusnts as eight miarts of the beat and most nutritious beer that is made." Ex-President Cleveland has united with the Central Presbyterian Church, New York City, of which Rev. WJlton Merle Smith is pastor. Mis. Cleveland has long been a member of the Presbyterian Church. There is a man over seventy years of age living at a cheap lodging-house on the New Dowery, New, York. He was formerly worth over $iuu,ooo, and his family and connections are very wealthy, but they have disowned him entirely. On the first day of each month* the proprietor of the lodginghouse receives So in an envelope, with the brief direction: "This is to pay for Mr. 's lodging for one month." The old fellow is not allowed to touch one cent of it, as it is an assured fact proved by experience mat u me were placed in his hands it would go ut once for rum. Pie bus a sad history. A number of druggists in South Dakota have signed an agreement to keep no liquors after May 1. They have done this because they do not like the provisions of the prohibition bill, especially those requiring petitions signed by twenty women necessary to tecure permits, the $1,000 bond clause, and the general "humiliating features of the measure" as they please to termi them. Certain parties have recently predicted the simultaneous inundation and destruction of San Francisco, Oakland, C'al., Chicago find New York by an earthquake, April 14, and believers in Oakland are becoming mote and more excited. They are selling real estate at half it# value, and disposing of other property for a song to secondhand dealers. They will move to the surrounding hills out of harm's way. There will be an organized hegira under leaders, and daily prayer-meetings will be held until the night of the 13th. On the 20th of March a magnificent piece of property assessed at $10,000 was sold for $6,500, and all the furniture in a nine-room house went for $35. One devotee gave away several ffnrds of wood, saving he would not need it.?Nashville "Advocate. Expect Little.?The least we expect from this world the better for us. The less we expect from our fellow men, whether of spiritual help or of inspiring example, the smaller will be our disappointment. He that leans on his own strength leans on a broken reed. We are always going to be something stronger, purer, and holier. Somewhere in the future there always hangs in the air a golden ideal of a higher life that we are going to reach ; but as we move od, the dream of better things moves on before us also. It is like the child's running over behind the hill to catch the rainbow. When we get on the hilltop, *:ie rainbow is as far off as ever. Thvis does our daydreams of a higher C'h/istian life keep floating away from us; and we are left, to realize what frail, unreliable creatures we are when we rest our expectations of growth and victory over evil in ourselves. "My soul, wait thou only upon God ! My expectation is ouly from him.11?Dr. T. L. Cuyler. Redeeming- the Time. Confining ourselves to the higher aspects of life, the intellectual and religious, is it not true that the danger of the day is a sad lack of concentration? Distractions do so multiply around us, new lines of studv to be followed, new books to be read, new orators to be heard, new claims of religion or philanthropy to be answered, new theories of theologians to be puzzled over, new doors of opportunity to be entered, that we are all too prone, without pausing to consider how far we have fulfilled our duty towards tlmt wiiich we already have in baud, to try to take up oue thing more, when, our arms being already full, we can only do so by dropping something that should not be let go. The consequence is a rushing from duty to duty, a constant changing of mental attitude that is fatal to the concentration upon a few ihinL'9 which is the absolute prerequi site to thoroughly good work" in any sphere. The brilliaut author of "Natural Law in the Spiritual World" has put the whole matter into one pregnant sentence when he Bays: "To concentrate upon a few great correspondences,?to oppose to the death the perpetual petty larceny of our life by trifle-!, these ure the conditions for the highest and happiest life. It is only limitation which can secure the illim ilable." The same thought was in the mind of Frederick \V. llobertson, than whom surely no man spent his hours ro better nurpo.-e, when, in a letter to a friend, lie wrote: ''Broken and interrupted as life is, it demands all the more earnest effort to prevent it all falling into fiagtnents. I know the restlessne.-s and misery of time occupied in a desultory way,?the hurried scramble into which it converts exis\on nnci Mm loneliness and aimless uess which it leaves behind, auu which tempt one to get rid of them by the same unprofitable seeking of distraction again." Ami was it not. Matthew Arnold who sang in tones of fathomless regret: ' Tills Is the curse ol lire! lliat not A nobler, yulnier tr?lu Of wiser thoughts jind CopIIhijs blot Qur passions from OUT bruiu J Hut each duy brings its petty dust Our soon-choked souls to 11II. And we forget because we must, And not because we will." Surely it is not too much to expect of those who claim to be followers of Him whose noblest disoiple announced us his motto, "Tin's one thing I do," that they should so order their lives as to beat least measurably free from re* proach of desultor'uu^s and fragmentary fulfilment of duty, that they should set inspiring examples of opposing to the death the perpetual petty larceny of our life by trifles. Yet, I lu it en 9?./ <1/ OtI/ U in iS, TtiUC?> j Faith shines inofit bilghtly in believing things that stein incredible?hope! shines in expecting tilings thut seenij improbable?patience, in bearing! crosses that appear intolerable. To accept Christ is to live his life ; to make his Spirit the model by which ive shape our lives; to emulate the! love that he manifested ; to strive for liis humility ; to seek to attain his selfforgetful ne.-s ; to endeavor to reach toward the purity of his life, it is the 1 reproduction of his life in us. Sometimes the very "stats in their, courses" seem to tight against as hey fought agfijnst Sispra. The akj^'s tie clouded, the storm howlp about us, he atmosphere is oppressive, and our 'environment" suppresses, choke* us. 10veil then all we are required to do is >ur best and leave resulls with a high-j ?r power. ' -i i -I -i'; ' Oulr a Mask. BV E17DOR A 8. LUM8TKAD. Tommy ran In all out of breath. And I played I was scared almost to death, For he wore a mnsk so strange and queer, With a mouth that grinned from ear to ear. He rolled up bin eyes, and bis tongue ran out; He doubled his fists aud stamped about Like a queer little goblin bent oil a fight; But at last he seemed to piiy my fright, s' So he snatched it off, saying, "Auntie, seel. ' I'm the same little boy I used to be." Then by nnd hy, when the play wpnt wrong, He came with a face so sad and long, And he shrugged his shoulders, and flang about With an angry frown and a snlky pout. For. of course, I knew It was just a mask * So I kissed Ihe cheeks and lips and chin, And I kl>sed the pluee where the scowls begin ; They vanished away, and I said: ''Why, see. He's the some little boy he used to be.'' His Mother's Pies. . fM I've tolled and tried and worried, I've gone the cook books through, - # Till my hraln Is tired and flurried, And my hands and patience too. I've had the best Instruction From the ablest cooks In town, And my pies are crisp and dainty / ' And delicately brown. But apple, mince or pumpkin, * Of any form or shade, . Are nothing to iny husband Like the pies his mother made. So I'll give thestruxgloover, And throw my pride away, But as sure as I'm a mother -?< I'll be avenged some day. My bonnle lads are growim?. And they'll not be itfniid To tell thiir future spouses What pies their mother mnde. Good Hotuekecping. ' Fruitless is sorrow for having done amiss, if it issue not in resolution to do so no more. In the worst of times there is more cause to complain of an evii heart than \ j of an evil world. Hosts of Cluistians have motion, but no progress, like a horse iu a treadmill or a child on a rocking horse. A holy life has a voice. It speaks when the tongue is silent, and is either a constant attraction or a continual re- J proof. If a man is as passionate, malicious, resentful, sullen, or morose after his conversion as before It, what is he con- < verted from or to? New strength can often be gained by changing the surroundings, the companions, the every-day influences, and u ringing to bear Jothers of a different, and better type. What caunot be done by direct volition can often be accomplished by indirect means. It is said that "consistency is a jewel." So it Is; but there are better things than iewels. Some people have r?1o.i?\7 of fou'pla nf fnimifctpTirv. fv-" "J " ? J ? ? > . who are as poor m character as Lazarus was in property. It is better to be right than to be simply consistent. We are made for wide communion The man who isolates himself dwarfs and loses the power he believes he is cultivating. Our need is to have intimate communication with our fellowraen, and with us large a variety as possible, always excepting, of course, the depraved. They that trust in the Lord shall find their strength renewed day by day. When they think themselves powerle.-s and exhausted, suddenly their wings shall sprout like those of the eugle. They shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. Advance, then, pious soul, advance; and when you believe yourself at the last gasp, redouble your zeal and courage, for the Lord will sustain you. 1 Be not disheartened because the eye I ?1 la rw?*\ VAIl fn <JI IUC WU11U 19 upt/KA JVU, VU uvwvv . your errors and to rejoice in your halt- I ing. But ratber regard this state of I things, trying as it may be, as one of A| the safeguards which a kind Father has placed around you to Jieep alive in ? /TH your own bosom au antagol'iistrc"*8i?h1tr of watchfulness, and to prevent those very mistakes and transgressions which your enemies eagerly anticipate. There can be no such thing as a quarrelsome, revengeful Christian; it is a contradiction of terms.... There can be no such thing as a proud Christian; humility lies at the foundation of the Christian character. ... There can be no such thing as an unkind, unfeeling Christian. There can be no such thing as an exclusive, censorious Christian. There mny be the form, indeed, but the spirit is not there. To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the oross ana bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great meu which so few understand; it is the crueiest trial reserved for selfdevotion ; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the .Son of Man ; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflict ing upon Him. He also?He above all ?is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended. Alas! alas! Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always, like God ; to , love always - this is duty. 1 Tub Voice.?Probably no one can ever fully estimate how much influence he is constantly exerting through his tones of voice. Nothing is so powerful to cheer the drooping energies of a discoursed group as the inspiring tones of hope in the words of a new ; arrival. Who has not seen the immedinte eftVct of a glad aud sprightly vH voice breaking in upon a dull aud uniutercsted party of people? How their fl eyes brighten, ami their brows clear, I and their forms become erect! On the fl other hand, let a solemn or doleful or 9 fretful voice break in on a gay and cheerful company, and how quickly the smile dits on the lip, and the depressing influenco goes round! The infant who oanuot understand a word that hi* mother says la soothed and pleaded or grieved and frightened by her tone.-', and the seeds thus sown of love and gentleness or of harshness and impatience, are sure to bear fruit in his later development, aud exert a strong inlluence in mellowing his future character, and preparing it to contend the better with the roughness of i the world.?Ntw York Lcdf/er. THE Oriolk's Cj'ohf.- Dr. Ah ? bott, in the charming book, '"Upland and Meadow," tell this interesting story about an oriole's nest : "I placed a series of short pieces of woollen yam, fastened together at one end, near the tree containing a partly constructed nest of a llaltimore oriole. These yai lis weie rod, yeiiow, purpie, ug green audgrey. Au equal number or 9 strands of eaeli c??l??r were thus offered to the orioles as building materials. gl [ purposely placed the red and yellow B strands on' the outside of the tassell- I shaped mass, so that the*e would be H first taken if the eolor was not objee- H tionable. To my great surprise the I jrray strands only were taken, until B I he nest was nearly finished. when a fl few of the purple and blue yarns were used. Not a red, yellow or green W strand was di-turbed. Here we have * an instance of theexerciseof choice on the part of n hird which la full of ins tereyt. The Nyool&n threads being otlh V prwise identical, it \\'u$ the color only 9 wliioh influenced the birds; they re; H aliaod that the red or yellow would M render the nest consniciuous, though A well protected by the branch on whicty n it was placed." fl