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UP AND DOWN. We're up to-Jay on fortune's hill And free from every sorrow, But in the wheel of good ami ill All may be changed to-inorrow*. We're up and down as tune iiies on? Now ease, now hardest lab' >r? ' So millionaire can safely frowa Upon his lowly neighbor. Riches take wings?the man of wealtt May n??et with sudden losses, While he whose only store is health May ride behind his horses. rheu do not slight the toiling pODr, For !at">r ne'er disgraces, And though your fortune seems s?cura Some day you may change places. ^ God help us all?we're potr at best? Dependent on each other? Though crowned with ease or sore distressed ' Weak ma j is still man's brother. Then when on fortune's top we stand, No ill our state attending. Let us extend a helping haa I To those about descending. ?Francis S. Smith, in New York Weekly. JAGGS'S WIFE. BY C. It. HARDY. Somebody had stolen a horse from Daniel Jobson. The stable and horse > weie built "right under their noses," to use an expression of his wife's?a fact , which gave rise to frequent auimadver- ; jions on her part respecting the uafor tunate choice of the situation of this I necessary outbuilding. She was in the habit of attributing to their noxious influence whatever ills! might befall the family?their state of ; health, or rather unhealth?if the hens , refused to lay, or if the watchdog ran j about at night instead of staying at home j to guard them from thieves. By the j game token she once even attempted to account for the caterpillars which had attacked the cotton. Now that a horse j was stolen it was because 3Ir. Jobson had persisted in having the stable and horse lot right'in the back yard, where nobody else under the sun would have thought of having them. She hoped he 1 would learn a lessson, now, before he lost i every horse and mule to his name, and , the cows aud pigs thrown in, not to j mention his wife aud children. There had been a light rain in the ; early part of the night, and the tracks made by the lost animal and the thief could be seen very distinctly. Mr. Jobson traced them to the house of Pete ( Jaggs, a good-for-nothing, shiftless fcl- j low, who lived in an abandoned settle- , mcnt a mile or so away. From the signs . it appeared that the horse had been tied to a small persimmon tree at a litt'.e dis tauce from the house, and a number of tracks were seen about the place, going back und forth between the house and the tree. Pete Jacjgs was not at home. Ilis wife said that he bad gone away early that . morning to visit a relation in an adjoining countv. Sha knew nothing of the missing animal, and was sure that her husband knew nothing of it, or he would have mentioned it to her. She allowed that some of the tracks around the place J had been made by hh.i. but she could not . account for the others. They had had ! no visitors that night, and she had not heard or seen any one about the premises j till Mr. .Jubsoa and his mea came to iuquire. 3Ir>. Jobson quickly rendered the verdict on hearing the evidence in the case. 4,I never 'spected nothin' less 'n that .w.ft,;.,- ?r'nurc, stole the mare; nav fool can see that, j What's a wonder to mc is lis uida't take the whole shebang an' us into the bargain, bein' as the lot is ri*^ht in the house, ! all but, an' anybody that's fool ernough to have one in sich er outlandish place needn't 'spcct nothiu' else, nuther."' No one, not even Daniel Jobson, disputed her opinion as to the identity of the thief, however they might differ in regard to the baleful influence which the J situation of the horse-lot was supposed to exert on that unfortunate individual. ; The horse was gone, and so was Pete: but the tracks of both were there, and while u<> one could say Jaggs was actually seen to take the horse, the evidence that j he had was plain enough to convince any jury in the world, not themselves horse- i thieves. Mr. Jobson went to town to inquire ! after the lost mare, and to offer a suitable reward for her return and for the apprehension of the thief, which, along with : a prolific description of the animal writ- ' ten in his beat hand, was tacked up by the courthouse door and in the postoffice. . Diligent inquiry rewarded him with a ! clew, though an uncertain one. At a wagon yard in the town he had found a ' man who had seen the animal. Wasn't she a light sorrel mare, blaze-faced, with j left fore-foot white? Of course she was; but the man who had her and who traded ! her olT to a farmer for a scraggy bay, | blind in one eye, seventeen dollars to boot, was not "a little old humpback, ' Bandy-haired fellow with a pair of new black jeans britches and a squint in oue ' eye, the left one, and home-made knit gallusses and an old wool hat in his shirt sleeves"?which bill of particulars repre- [ sented Pete Jaggs as he had left home ! that morning, according to the evidence J given by his wife to David Jobson, and by nim accordingly set forth in the ad- j vertisement. But his most persistent inquiries led to 1 no better result; no one had seen Pete) Jaggs, cither with or without a blazefaced soirel mare, and Mr. Jobson was forced to return home disconsolate at his ill-luck. Daniel Jobson had two meu living on his farm as tenants who had evinced great interest in the fate of the stoleu mare, and had shown much zeal in the search for her and the thief?as every one believed Jaggs to be. They were loud in their denunciations of the little hunchback for the crime of which it was eviVin tx-.ic rniilfv kiSumpin' ought cr be did wid dc lowdown sciaiuur'i; nobody's critter's safe wid sicli ir rogue gwiae rouu* at night au er rteaiin' uv *c:n." They protested against Mr. Jobsou's having IVtc arrested by the sherill to be . tried by due form of law. j , "L.iwiu's too good for 'im. Give 'im sump'iu wat'U learu 'im er lesson w'at 'c won' have no chanch ter fergit,''?with | a sinister look and inflection conveying a dark hint as to the nature of the intended lesson. One day Jaggs unexpectedly returned home. That night he was arousal by a loud knocking at his door. Opening it. to discover his visitors, he found a pair j of rifles pointed at his breast, and heard j a muttered command to "Come erlong. ' aa^ iqji" ruiss ao a^aailut. tuier J. don waa'er git hurt.'" His visitors,whose faces were concealed by torn pieces of clotli, carried him away through tho woods, several hundred yards leforc halting. At last, coming to a little clearing in j the woods wlier:1 the moon shone brightly, they p.vasjd and ordered their prisoner to hold out his hands, which one of them immediately proceeded to bind with a sh-irt piece of rope. With an oath the [ captors declared that they would now proceed to business, producing a rope that had an unmistakable noose tied in one end. I i;I)is is de wav we cyores lioss stealin'," one said, with a coarse laugh, "an' hit giuor'ly cyorcs, tjo. ef hit don't kill 'em." Pete Jaggs was trembling violently, lie had boi'n too surprise 1 and terrified to resist his assailahts, evcu if so weak and almost helpless a person a? he could have hoped to cope with such strong and desperate enemies. He instinctively drew baclc, shuddering, at siyht of the rrmo ns the evident uuroose of their UU ~ i i seemly visit flashed upon him. "Wat yergwi' do, Bill, you au' Dick Waters'1' he asked, recognizing Mr. Jobson's teuants in spite of their flimsy disguise. ' We's gwiner hang yer fer stealin' Dan'l Jobson's marc, dat's w'at,'' one of them answered roughly. "Boys." cried Jaggs, "I ain' ne'er tuck none er Dan'l Jo'osou's critters; I ain' ne'er hyeerd none er 'em bceu stoled tell I gets back home ter night." "Aiu' no useerlyin' erbout hit, Pete; vcr done it?wc tracked yer an' dc mare, an's Dan'l war gwi' put de sher'ff a'ter yer, wc I hought we'd save 'em dc trouble. We knows yer do* wan'er go terde penetccch'rv no-how." They rudely adjusted the noo3c upon the neck of the trembling little hunchback, and throwing the end over the limb of au oak growing near, seized it and began to draw liiin up. "Yer won' steal ua' nuther'n, Pete, I rcck'n," they said, as they pulled on the rope. At that moment the sudden, sharp report of a rifle ran;; on the still night air. The suspended body of Pete Jaggs made a few rapid turns, as the rope untwisted, and he fell to the earth. The rope was cut just above his head by a well-aimed bullet. The men pulling hard on the rope, as it parted, fell to the grounu. Nancy Jaggs ha 1 bcronic alarmed at the summary way in which her husband had been carrie 1 oil. Feeling sure that some harm was intended, she dressed, and seizing his rille?which she had learned to use, and with which she had brought to death many a wild turkey and even deer in the wilds of the Oomulgee River swamp, not far away?followed the men stealthily, until she came upon them as they were in the act of lynching Pete. In an instant she thought that if the rope were cut Pete would fall to the ground uninjured. Taking quick, but steady aim at thecott >n rope gleaming in the moonlight, she rired and severed it with the shot. Throwing aside the how useless ' J ' J ? ?..A I weapon, sat' ru<r.c.i iorwaru, scizl-u uu? of the rifles that had been laid down by the men and covered the:n before they could realize the situation. "De fust 'un 'at moves is cr dead man!" she fried, excitedly. 4*I r.vk'n yer ain' gwi' hang Pete ter night, air yer?" ' Don't shijjjt. Nance," they implored. ;;Wc*sji.st cr skevrm* Pete. We ne'er 'lowed ter hurt 'itn. Pete aiu' hart none; is yer, Peter" Pete's activity showel he was not much injured, for. having scrambled to his feet and rid his hands of the clumsy bond, he had sei/.e.l the other rifle and stooJ ready to assist his wife in guarding his late captors. They carried the would-be lynchers to Dauiel Jobsan, who, aroused by their calls, came out and secured the men in an outhouse, while Pete and Xance stood guard without. At the trial which followed the arrest of the two men it was brought out that they had stolen Jobsou's mare and purposely carried her to Pete's house in A.?. c?e-,;^;nn nr. him Thpr were convicted and sent to the penitentiary. from which they wore so anxious to save Pete; and Jaggs'3 wife became the heroine of the hour.?New Orleans Time*-Democrat. An Unusual Rank. William Murray, a guest of the Grand Pacific, who is oue of the biggest linen manufacturers in Ireland, tells a story which has a local interest. 4'You hear of any number of bogus noblemen in this country,'" said Mr. Murray in the hotel rotunda last evening, ' but an American who afiecte a title in the Old World is somewhat rare. A year ago this summer I arrived at a little town in the South of Ireland called DuDgarwau. The people were excited over the presence of an American official. Flags were flying, bands playing, and everything was gay. As I was somewhat acquainted with the United States, I asked the name of the guest so royally entertained. Nobody knew, except that he was oue of the biggest men of the United States and a native of Ireland. Elbowing my way through the crowd I went to the little hotel, and there learned that I was to have the honor of being under the same roof with an official who stood next to the President of the United States. I went to the register to see if the VicePresident was there, and to my surprise saw this ou the books: " 'Redmond Sheridan. Chicago, 111., Aldermau of America.'"?Chicago Tribune. Electrified Snow. In a paper describing a perilous asccut of Pike's Peak, Lieutenant John P. Finley, Uuited States Signal Service, says mat tiie ascent was maac wnen me snow was the deepest of all the year, and the Lieutenant was accompanied by the Sergeaut of the Station The ascent was accomplished on mule back until a zone of deep snow was reached, and then the animals were taken back to the half-way house below. Into this snow they sometimes sunk up to their arm pit 3, and saved themselves from plunging deeper by spreading out their arms. At one time they crossed a frozen crust in shape of a turtle's back, where a foothold had to be cut at each step, and where a misstep would have sent thsm thousands of feet down the mountain. Electric storms sometimes were witnessed there when each saowflake, charged with electricity, discharged a spark as it touched a mule s back in its fall. Electric sparks streamed from the fingertips of upraised hands. In their ascent they encountered a storm of sleet that cut their faces so as to draw blood. The last five miles was a fight for life against wind, sleet, cold and utefcd au-. ^ RE\r. DR. TALMAGE." THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SEKMOX. Subjcci: "The Old Figlit to Be Settled." Text: "Whatsoever ye wduld that men should do to >/ou, do ye even so unto them.1' ?Matt, vii., 12. Two hundred an 1 fifty thousand laborers in Hyde Park, London, and the streets of American and European cities filled with processions of workmen carrying banners, Drinks the subject of Lahor and Capital to the front. That a.l this was done in peace, and that as a result, in many places, arbitration has taken place, is a hopeful sign. The greatest war the world has ever seen is between capital and labor. Thi strife is not like that which in history is called the Thirty Years' AVar, for it is a war of centuries, it is a war of the tivo continents, it is a war hemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom the nation has depended for holding the balance of power and for acting as mediators between tha two extremes, are diminishing; and if th ngs go on at the same ratio as they have for the last twenty years been going on, it will not be very long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will ba very rich or very poor, princes or paupers, and the couutry will be given up to palaces and hovels. The antagonistic forces have agrain and atrain closed in uuon each other. You may pooh pooh it; you may say that this trouble, lise an angry child, will cry itself to sleep: you may oeiittle it by calling it Fourierism, or Socialism, or St. Simonism, or Nihilism, or Communism, but that will not hinder the fact that it is the mightiest, the darkest, the most terrific threat of this century. Most of the attempts at pacification have been dead failures, and monopoly is more arrogant and the trades unions more bitter. ''Give us more wages," cry the employes. '"You shall have le?s," says the capitalists. "Compel us to do fewer hours of toil in a day. "You shall toil more hour?," say the others. "Then, under certain conditions, we will not work at all," say these. "Then you siall starve," say those, and the workmen gradually using up that which they accumulate l in better times, unless thera be some radical change, we shall have soon in this country three million hungry men and women. Now, three million hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All the enactments of legislatures ana all the constabularies of the cities, and all the army an 1 navy of the United States cannot keep three million hungry people quiet. What then? Will this ivar between capital and labor be settled by human wisdom? Never. The brow of the on9 becomes more rigid, the fist of the other more clinche 1. But that which human wisdom cr.nnot achieve will be accomplished by Christianity if it be given full sway. You have heard of medicines so powerful that one drop would stop a disease and restore a patient. aucj I have to tell you that ou? drop of my text properly administered will stop all these woes of society and give convalescenca and complete health to all classes. "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them." I shall first show ye this morning how this controversy between monopoly and hard work cannot be stopper!, and then I will show you how this controversy will be settler!. Futile remedies. In the first place thera wiil come no pacification to this trouble tiirou^h an outcry a^ainsc rich men merely because they are ric'a. There is no laboring man on earth that would not be rich if he could be. Sometimes through a fortunate invention, or through some accident of prosperity, a man who had nothing conies to lar ?c estate, and we se^ him arrogant and cupercihou-, and taking people by tir? throat juit as other people took him by the throat. There is something very mean about human nature when it comes to the top. But it is no more a sin to be rich than it is a sin to be poor. There are thoo who have gathered a great estate through fraud, and then there are millionaires who have gathered their fortune through foresight in regard to chanzes m th>i markets, and through brilliant bu-iuess faculty, and every dollar o: their estate is as honest as th j dollar which the pln:nb3rgets for mending ?i pipp, or tha mason sets for buil ling a wall. There are those who keep in poverty becausd of their own fault. Thsy might have been well off. but they smoked or chewed up their earning?, or fiey lived beyond their means, while others on the s:i:n2 wages and on tha same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all the time complaining of his poverty and crying out against rich men. while he himself keeps two dogs, and chews an;l smoke-, and is filled to the cain with whisky and beer! Micawber said to David Copperfield: "Copperfield, my b^y, ono pound income, twenty shillings and sixpence expenses; result, misery. But Copper field, my boy. one pound income, expenses nineteen shillings and sixnc.ice; result, happiness." And there are vast multitudes of people who are kept poor because they are the victims of their own improvidence. It is no sin to be rich, ar. l it is no sin to be poor. I protest against this outcry which I hear against those who, through ecouom3' and self-denial and assiduity, have come to large fortune. This bombardment of commercial success will never stop this controversy between capital and labor. p.eituer win tue conce.sc oe seuieu oy cynical and unsympathetic treatment of the laboring classes. There are those who speak of them as though they were only cattle or uraup'it horses. Their nerves are nothing, their domestic comfort is nothiug. They have no more sympathy for them than a hound has tor a hare, or a hawk for a hen, or a tiger for a calf. When Jean Valjean, the greatest hero of Victor Hugo's writings, after a life ofsuifering and bravo endurance, goes into incarceration and death, they clap the book shut and say. "Good for him!" They stamp their feet with indignation and say just the opposite of '"Save the working classes." They have all their sympathies with Shylocl", and not with Antonio and Portia. They are plutocrats, and their feelings are infernal. They are fdled with irritation and iiaseibility on this subject. To stop this awful Imbroglio between capital ana labor they will lift not so much as the tip end of the little finger. Neither will there be any pacification of this angry controversy through violence. God never blessed murder. Blow up tomorrow the country seats on the banks of the Hudson, and all the fine houses on Madison Square anl Brooklyn Heights and and Brooklyn Hill and Rittenhouse Square and Beacon street, and all the bricks ani timber and stone will just fall back on the bare head of American labor. The worst enemies of the working classes in the United States and Ireland are their demented coadjutors. A few years ago assassination? ftcreacelnofinn rsf T .nrH dish and Mr. Burke in Phcenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland?only turae.i away from that aflPctei people millions of sympathizers. The attempt to blow up the House of Commons, in London, had only this effect: To throw out of employment tens of thousands of innocent Irish people in England. In this country the torch put to the faotories that have discharged hands for good or bad reason; obstructions on the rail track in front of midnight express trains because the offenders do not like the President of the company strikes on shipboard the hour they were going to sail, or in printing offices the hour theuaper was to go 1o press, or in m.n?s the day the coal was to be delivered,or on house scaffoldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract?all these are.only a hard blow on the head of American labor, and cripple its arms, an l lamo its feet, and pierce its heart. As a result of one of our great American strikes you find that the operatives lost lour hundred thousand dolJaio' wi;:\h of wage?, and have had poorer wast-? twr silica. Traps sprung suddenly upon employer, and violence, never took one kno.'out of the knuckle of toil, or j.ut ono farthing of wa^e^ into a caiious palm. Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark that! Frederick the Great admired some land near his y ' ? at Pots lam and he resolved to get it. ... .>*as owned by a miller. He offered the miller three times the value of the property. Tha miller would not take it, because it was the old homestead, and he felt about it as Naboth felt absut his vineyard when Ahab wanted it. Frederick th9 Great was a rough and terrible man,and he ordered the miller into his presence; and the King, with a stick in his hand?a stick with which he sometimes struck his officers of state?said to this miller: "Now, I have offered you three times the value of that property, and if you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow." The miller said: "Your Majesty, you won't" ' Yea," said tha King, "1 will take it." * y ''Than," said the miller, "if your Majesty does take it I will sue you iu the chancery court." At that threat Frederick the Great yielded his infamous demand. And the most imperious outrage against the working classes will yet cower before the law Violence and contrary to the law will never accomplish anything, but righteousness and accor.ling to law will accomplish it. Well, if this controversy between capital and labor cannot be sattled by human wisdom, it is time for us to look somewhera elsa for relief, and it points from my text roseata and jubilant, and puts one hand 0:1 the broadcloth shoulder of capital, and puts the other hand on the homespun covere 1 shoulder of toil, and says, with a voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this aud settle everything. "'Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." That is, the lady of the household will say: "I must treat th9 maid in the kitchen just as I would like to ba treated if I were downstairs, and it were my work to wash, and cook*, and sweep, an l it war e the duty of the maid in the kitchen to preside in the parlor." The maid in the kitchen must say: "If my employer seems to ba more prosperous thin I I, that is no fault of hers; I shall not treat j he.' as an enemv. I will have the same industry and fidelity downstairs as I would expact from my subordinates if I happened to be the wife of a silk importer." The owner of an iron mill, having ta'cen a dose of my text before leaving hooia in tha morning, will go into his foundry, and, passing into what is called the puddling room, he will sea a man there stripped to tha waist, and basweated and exhausted with the labor and tha tail, anl he will say to him: "?Vhy. it seams to be very hot in here. You look very muci exhausted. I bear your child is sick with scarlet fevar. If voi want your wages a little earlier this weat, so as to pay the nurse and get the medicin93, just coma into mv o.T5m nnv ti:n9." After awhile, crash goes the money market, and there is no more demand fcr ths articles manufacture! in that iron mill, and the owner does not know what to do. He says, "Shall I stoo th9 mill, or shall I run it on half time, or shall I cut down tha men's wages?" He walks the floor of his counting room all day, hardly knowing what to do. Toward evening he calls all the laborers together. They stand all around, some with arms akimbo, soma folded arms, wondering what the boss is going to do now. The manufacturer says: ".Men, business is bad; 1 don't make twenty dollars where I usad to make one hundred. Somehow, there is no demand now for what we manufacture, or but very little demand. You sea, I am at vast expanse, 1 and I have called you together thisafternoaa to sea what you would ad visa. I don't want to shut up the mill, because that would forca you out of work, aud you have always baen very faithful, and I like you, and you saetn to like me, and the bairns must be lookel afcer, and your wife will after awhile want a new dress. X don't know what to do." There is a dead halt for a minuta or two, and the.i one of the workmen steps out fro.n the ranks of his fellows and says: "Boss, you have baeu vary good to us, and when you prospared we prospere 1, and now you are in a tight placa, and I am sorry, and we have got to sympithiza with you. I don't know how the otliers feal, but I propo^that we take off twenty ner cant, fro.n our wages, and that when tfw times get good you will remember us and raise them again." Tin workman looks around tr> his comrade? an 1 says: "Boys, what do you say to this? All in favor of my proposition will say ay." "Ay! ay! ay!" siioutel two hundrad voices. But the mill owner, getting in soma new machinery, exposes himself very much, and takes cold and it settles into pneumonia and he dies. In the procession to the tomb are all the workmen, te.irs rolling down their cheeks and otE upon the ground; but an hour before the procession gets to the cemetery the wives and children of those workmen are at tiie grave waitinz for the arrival of the funeral pazeant. The minister of religion may have delivered an eloquent eulogium before they started from the house, but th9 most impressive things are said that day by the working classes standing around the tomb. That night in all the cabins of the working people where they have family prayers, the widowhood and the orphanage in the mansion are remembered. No glaring populations look over the iron fence of the cam> tery; but hovering over the s:ene, the benediction of God and man is coming for tha fulfillment of tha Christr-like injunction, "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do yc even so to tae.n." "Oh." says soma man here, "that is all Utopian, thit is apocryphal, that is impossible." No, I cut out of a papar this: "One of the pleasautest incidents recorded in a lon^ time is report'.".! from SheftiekJ, lingland. The wages of the men in the iron works ai; Sheffield are regulated by a board of arbitration, by vmos9 decision both masters and men are bound. For soma time . past the iron and steel trada has been extremely unprofitable, and the employer cannot, without much loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor employed have the power to change. To avoid this difficulty, tne workmen in one of the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon a device as rare as it was generous. Tney offered to work for their employers one weak without any pay whatever. How much better that plan is than a strike would be." But you go with 1113 and I will show you? not so far off as Sheffield, England?factories, banking houses, store houses, and costly enterprises where this Christ-like injunction of my text is fully kept, and you could no mora get tho employer to practice au injustice upon hi.s men, or the men toqonspire against the employer, than you csuld get your right hand and your left hand, your right eye and your left eye, your right ear an l your left ear, into physiological antagonism. Now, where is this to bagin? In our horn js, in our stores, on our farms?not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is there a diverg ence now oenve^n uie parior una mis kitchen? Then there is something wrr'ng, either in the parlor or ths kitcaan; psrhaps in both. Are the clerks in your store ir.it? against the firm? Then there issomething wrong, either behind the counter, in thj private office, or perhaps in both. The great want of the world to-day is tha fulfilment of this Christ-like injunction, that which He promulgated in His sermon Olivetic. All tuo political economists under the archivolt of the heavens in convention for a thousand years cannot settle this controversy between monopoly and hard work, between capital and labor. During the Revolutionary war there was a heavy piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing the work, aud he was giving commands to some soldiers as they lifted: "Haave away, there! yo heave!" Well, the timber was too heavy; they could not get it up. There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal, "Why don'f you help them lift? That timber is too heavv for tham to lift.' "No," he said, I won't; 1 am a corpora!." The gentleman got off his horse and came up to the place. "Now," he said to the soldiers, "all together?yo heave!" and the timber went to its place. "Now,'1 said the gentleman to the corporal, "when you haveftpieco of timber too heavy for the m?n to lift, and you want help, you send to your Commander-. m-Chief." It was Washington! Now, that isabout all the gospel I know?the gospel of giving somebody a lift, a lift out of darklies*, "a lift out of earth into heaven. That is the gospel of helping somebody else to lift. urvu ?> ? UU, Oil) a suuiu ? J3COUJ <r, una. iu j uu will, tho law of demand and supply will regulate those things until the end of time.*' No, it will not, unless God dies and the batteries of the judgment day are spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king and queen of the infernal regions, take full possession of this world. Do you know who Supply and Deman 1 are* Tney have gone into parnership, and they propose to swindle this earth and are swindling it. You are drowning. Supply and Demand stand on the shore?one* on one side, the other on the other side of the life boat, and they cry out to you: "Now, you pay us what we ask you forgetting you to shore, or goto the bottom!" It you cau borrow $5000 you cau keep from failing in business. Supply and Demand say: '"Now, you p:iy us exorbitant usury or you go into bankruptcy!'1 This robber lirm of Supply and Demand say to you: "Thecrops are short. Wo bought up all the wheat and it is in our bin. Now, you pay our price or starve!" That is your magnificent law of supply and demandSupply and Demand own the largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll over their wheel, and into their hopper they put all the men, women aud children they can - shovel out of the centuries and the blood and the bones redden the valley while the mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand aside* and instead thereof will come the law of love, the law of coopjration, the law of kindness, the law of j sympathy, the law of Christ. Have you no idea of the coming of such a time? Then you do not believe the Bible, j All the Bible is full of promises on this subject, and as the ages roll on the time will cpmo when gien of fortune will be giving | larger sums to humanitarian and evangelistic purposes, and there will be more I James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William E. Dodges and George reabodys. As that time comes there will ba more parks, more picture galleries, more gardens thrown open tor the holiday people and the working classes. I was reading tome tima ago, in regard to a charge that had beau made in Eugland against Lambeth palace, that it was exclusive; and that cliarge demonstrated the sublime fact that to the grounds of that wealthy estate eight hundred poor families had free passes,ani forty croquet companies, and on the half day holidays four thousand poor people recline on the grass, walk through the paths, and sit under the trees. That is gospel?gospel on tin win?, gospel out of doors worth just as much as in doors. That time is going to come. That is oaly a hint of what is going to be. The time is going to come whan, ir yo'u"H&ve anything in your house worth looking at? pictures, pieces of sculpture?you are going to invite me to come and see it; you are going to invite my frieuds to come and S9e it, and you will say, "See what I have beau blessed w&h! Goi has given me this, and, so far as enjoying it, it is yours also." That is gospel. In crossing the Alleghany Mountains, many years ago, the stage halted, and Henry Clay dismounted from the stage and went out on a rock at the very verge of the cliff, and he stood there with his cloak wrappsd about him, and he seamed to be listsning for something. Soma one said to him: "What are you listening for?" Standing there, oa the top of the mountain, he said: "I am listening to the tramp of the foot> steps of the coming millions of this continent." A sublime po3tura for an American statesman I You and I to-day stand on the mountain top of privilege, am on the roek of ages, and we look off, and wa hear coming from the futura the happy industries, anl smiling populations, an i the consecrated fortunes, and tin innumerable prosperities of the closing nineteenth and the opening twentieth century. And now I have two words, one to capitalists and the other to laboring man. To the capitalists: Be your own executors. Make investments for eternity. Do not be like some capitalists I know who walk around among their employes with supercilious air, or drive up to the factory in a mannei which seems to indicate they are the auto* cratsof the universe with the sun and moon in their vast pockets, chiefly anxious when they go among the laboring men not to be touched by the greasy or smirched hand and ' have their broadcloth injured. Bf a Christian employer. Remember those who are under your charge are bone ol your bone and flesh of your ilesh, thai Jesus Christ died for them, and that they are immortal. Divide up your estates, or portions of them, for the relief of the world before you leave it. Do not go out of the world like that man who died ei^ht or ten years ago, leaving in his will twenty million dollars, yet giving how much for the church of God? How much fot the alleviation of human suffering? He gave some money a little while before he died. Thai was well; but in all this will of twenty million dollars, how much? One million! No. Five hundred thousand? No. One hundred dollars? No. Two cents? No. One cent? No. These great cities groaning in anguish, nations crying out tor tne oread ot everlasting life. A mm in a will giving twenty millions of dollars an i not ona cant to God! It is a disgracj to oar civilization. To laboring tneu: I congratulate you on your prospects. I congratulate you on tin fact that your ara getting your rep:-dS3utatives at Albany, at Harrisburg, and at Washington. This will go on until you will have representatives at all the headquarters, and you will have full justice. Mark that. I congratulate you also on the opportunities for your children. Your children are going to have vast opportunities. I congratulate you that you have to work and that when you are dead your children will have to work. I congratulate you also on your opportunities of information. Plato paid one thousand three hundred dollars for two books. Jerome ruinad himself, financially, by buying one volume of Origen. What vast opportunities for intelligence for you and your children! A workingruan goes along by the show window of some great publishing house and he sees a book that costs five dollars! He says, 4;I wish I could have that information; I wish I couid raise five dollars for that costly and beautiful book." A few months pass on and he gets th9 value of that book for fifty cents in a pamphlet. There never was such a day for the workingmea of America as the day that is coming. But the greatest friend of capitalist and fnilAr ;inrl the one who will vet brinz them together in complete accord, was bora one Christmas night while the curtains of heaven swung, stirred by the wings angelic. Owner of all things?all the continents, all worlds, and all the islands of light. Capitalist of immensity, crossing over to our condition. Coiniug into our world, not by gate of palace, but by door of barn. Spending His first night amid the shepherds. Gathering afterward around Him the fishermen to b9 His chief attendants. With adz?, and saw, anl chisel, and ax, and in a carpenter sho \ showing Himself brother with the ;radesmen. Owner of all things, anl yet oa a hillock back of Jerusalem one day resigning everything for others, keeping not so much as a shekel to pay for His obsequies. By charity buried in the suburbs of a city that had cast Him out. Before the cross of such a capitalist, and such a carpenter, all men can afford to shake hands and worship. Here is the every man's Christ. None so high but He wa3 higher. None so poor but He was poorer. At His feet the hostile extremes will yet renounce their animosities, and countenances which have glowered with the prejudices and revenge of centuries shall brighten with the smile of heaven a3 He commands: '"Whatsoeverye would that men should do to you, do ye eveu so to them." It is a fine question of law and morals that the Pennsylvania oil producers bring up to justify the pumping of their oil wells on Sunday. A Iccal justice in the oil regions has fined a man for operating a well on the Sabbath, and the case is to be taken up to the higher courts, on a plea that if the oil wells stand idle for a day, the water, which is the bane of every oil field, will Cow in and rnia them. For this reason the oil people say their occupation is a work of necessity, and is not Sabbath desecration within the meaning of the law. An authoritative utterance on this point will interest the people of a great ram occupation a James M. Rice, a larmer living la Indiana, is trying the experiment of raising wild geese and ducks. He has a half dozen of each, which he has cn ponds on his farm. They were caught on tlie lvantaicto luver last tau, ana ne keeps their wings clijjped. They Lave become quite tame, but it remains to bo seen w hether they will be come thoroughly domesticated and breed. Two wild ducks have been living 0:1 an adjoining farm for three years, but have never reared any young. According to tho British National Sea Fisheries Protection Association, sea fit heries all over the world are suffering from the reckless destruction of ( immature fish. Communications have I been sent to all the European maritime states and to the United States of America suggesting a friendly conference on the question, under tho auspices of the society, with a view to united action. A story comes from Germany that tho scrofulous affection under which the Emperor suffers has broken out with renewed virulence. It is said that the leading medical authorities of Germany give him but ten years of 1 qtgitj Ijfg. : RELIGIOUSJEADINa FOR JESUS' SAKE. There is a word which, murmured low By humblest child of human woe, Soars swiftest to the eternal ear, And angels hush their hearts to hear? "For Jesus' sake." It is the one true countered That passes every suard divine; The golden key that, borne from far, The inner temple can unbar? ''For Jesus' sake.'' All precious things iu earth and heaven The Father to the Son hath given, And we, through lndy gates of prayer, May enter in and freelv share? "For Jesus' sake." Though weary cares oppress our years, And sorrow tills our cup witli tears, The hope that ansels can not know, The peace of God is ours below? ;'For Jesus'sake." Oh, let lis then that watchword take, And bear l.fe's cross "for Jesus' sake;'' And when we lay our burden dowu, Be ours the vi< tory and the crown? ' For Jesus sake." ?[Frances II. Mace, in Congregationalism STANLEY'S CONVERSION. in a rerent article on tne great expiorer? a contributor to the Congrogationalist remarks: "Among all the in eresting notices of Stanley, we have seen no direct reference to the change evidently wrought in his religious character t?y the experiences of th'ee months with Livingstone in the wilds of Africa." Pertinent to that point is the following statement of Stanley's conversion which I found in the Congregationalist more than a year aeo; (I copy it from the paragraph in my Scrap book). "Livingstone taught me during those four (sic) months that I was with him. In 1871, 1 went to him as prejudiced as the biggest atheist in London. To a reporter and correspondent such as I. who had only to deal with wars, m*ss meetings and political gatherings, sentimental matters were entirely out of my province. But there came for me a long time for reflection, I was out there away from a worldly world. I saw this solitary old man there and asked myself : How on earth does he stop here? Is he cracked or what? What is it that inspires him? "For months after wc met, I simply found myself listening to him, wondering at the old man carrying out what was said in the Bible. 'Leave all things and follow me.' But little by little his sympathy for others became contagious my sympathy was aroused. Seeing his piety, his gentleness, his zeal, his earnestness, and how he went quietly about his business, I was converted by him, although he bad not tried to do it." "A powerful illustration this of the indirect or un-nnscious influences of a godly man. In fnidinz Livinsstone Stanley found Christ. The ungodly may sneer if" they will at Stan 1- y's p:ntts letter, lately sent to the New York Herald; but the Christian world may well rejoi. e that this heroic explorer, whose name and fame resound throughout the civilized earth, humbly gives the glory of all his great achievements to the God in whom he trusts.?[Springfield. PARDON ILLUSTRATED. There is an incident in the career of Ilenry M. Stanley which beautifully illustrates the excrete of pardon 011 tlie ground of substitution. In his recent explorations in Africa he had a great deal of trouble with his assistants on account of their propensity to steal. Finally, he decreed ttiat the next man, who was caught stealing, should sutler the penalty of death. Not long after, great was Mr. Stanley's grief, upon learning that Uledi, the bravest and noblest of bis followers. had been detected in committing theft, of a peculiarly aggravating character. This man had saved a hundred, lives, besides his own. by his brilliant daring and skill, and he was always successful and very kind. Yerv orry, therefore, was Mr. Stanly that Uledi I'ad violated his commandment, but more -orry that he should have to be executed for his deed. But Mr. Stanley re clved to find a way out >f this serious affair without compromising the majesty of his coveritmeiit of the mon. So ho called them all together and constituted thrm a council. Then lie explained to llin ifwn'ifi-Af opinio rOMiin^inr? them of his own icwre decree, and saying that he could not feel like executing it. lie would not shoot Uletli. nor would he demand that any of bis nun should do what he himself would not do. So. he left it with the council to decide w hat must be done with the culprit: and tbey agre d that he should be flogged. When the decision was announced, Uledi lay crouched at the feet of Stanley, while the council gathered more closely around the two. At that point one man, whose life was saved bv Uledi under circumstances of remarkable peril, stepped forward and said: (Jive me half the blows, master." Then, another one, with tender ..ccents and falling tears, said: "Will the master give his slave leave to speak?" Mr. Stanley replied, "Yes." Then the Arab went to Ulcdi's side, knelt down anil said: "The master is wise. lie knows ail that has been, for he writes tbem in a book. 1 am black and know not. Nor can 1 remember what is past. What we saw yesterdav is* today forgoten. 'But the master forgets nothing. lie puts it all in that book. Each day something is written. Let your slave fetch the book, master, and turn its leaves. Maybe there is something that tells how he saved Zaidi from the white waters of the cataract; how saved many men,?how many I fonret.? tin A!i, Mabruki, Koni-Kusi?others, too; how he is worthier than any three of us; how be always listens when the mastei speaks, and flies forth at his word. "JLook, master at the book. Then, if the blows must be struck. Shumari will take half, and I the other half. The msster will do what is right. Saywa has spoken." Upon bearing this interceding and pathiticspcech, Mr. Stanlev threw away his whip, and said. 'Tledi is "free. Shunnri nnd Saywa are pardoned." This in a beautiful picturc ol pardon, on the ground of a proffered sulstitution of two fellow-men, in behalf of another; but it does not extend so far as God's scheme of pardon does. Nor does the substitutionary featu re of it cover the same extent of ground that 53 seen in the work of Christ; for he actually took the sinner's plr.ee, and received the blows which the law of God had said that the sinucr deserved. And yet, we may well admire the scene which is pictured to us, in thf above narration, because it shows the pity which was evoked, in behalf of one who had violated his commander's law. It docs not suggest any approbation of the culprit's act. ?no sympathy with his sin, but a pity foi him, in his condemned condition. Besides this, the moral influence of thai whole transaction seems to have been healthy and effective. It doubtless did more to restrain the forgiven man from repeating the act than the threatened Hogging would have done, had it been executed. And maj we not say, that when we have felt a sense of divine pardon for some specially aggravating sins committed; the effect has been mnip viiluliiiiur mul utrnnwr resolves to sin no more have been made, tlian would have been the ease, had we not experienced such a sense of pardon? We think that such k the case.?[i'cligious Herald. Whatsoever we bego? God, let u3 also work for it.?[Jeremy Taylor. The whole system of life i$ full of dhine and memorable compensation.?[Canon I'nrrar. Remember in Christian life every moment and every aet is an opportunity for doing the one thing of becoming Clirist-like. Four elements of Christian life and experience: First, admit: second, submit; third, commit; fourth, transmit.?[Canon SVilberforee. A NATIONAL TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL. A white-ribbon enterprise often inquired about is the National Temperance Hospital in Chicago, where patients are treated with- ( out the use of alcohol in any form. The last monthly meeting of the directors of this hospital brought favorable reports from various ' officers. Dr. Ousley, the house physician, reported twelve patients treated within the hospital during the month, eight of them i surgical cases, beside a number of outside patients. Much incidental good is also done. ' For instance, two gentlemen patients, who ' were deprived of tobacco in accordance with the invariable rule, at first objected very ! strongly, but found themselves so much bet- < ter without it that on leaving the hospital , Cbej "42CW ?4" aitaziiliaE. 1 -v'l V - ' " -' - -r. V " SABBATH SClil^B INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR R JUNE 8. j| Lesson Text: "Teaching to Pray,"Luke xi., 1-13 Golden Text: Luto xi., 9?Commentary. H All that? ft recorded between the last lesson IS and ibis one is the most interesting and in* struetive incident of Jesus in the house of 9 Martha (chap. x., 38-42. I have no doubt but 9 that both women were true disciples of Jesus Hj (see John xi., 5, 27) and that Mary was as H willing to do housework as Martha; but the n attitude of soul which Jesus commends in -H Mary, and which wa-s lacking in Martha, was H the greater interest in the things unseen than K in the things of this life. Mary was increas- H ing in riches which she would never lose; H while Martha, though just as safe as Mary, was more careful about tho many thiugs of H this life which sooner or later must all be left H behind. H i '-And it came to Das~. that as He was praying in a certain place." Luke records jH more instances of the Saviour's praying than K either of the others. In Luke alone do vre HE find that He prayed at His baptism, at His H transforation. after He cleansed the leper, H and before He chose the twelve (iii., 21; ix., H 29; v., 16; vi., 12, 13). The incident of our H lesson also is found on'y in Luke. 9 "Lord, teach us to pray, as John also H taught his disciples." In the sermon on the H mount .Tesus had already taught how to pray BB (Matt, vi., 9-13), but as it was after that the H twelve were chosen, it is probable that the H disciple who asked this question was not pre*- H ent at that time. We would not have known H that John taught his disciples to pray but for H this statement, and we are glad that this dis> H ciple has mentioned the fact. H 3. "And He said unto them. When ye H pray, say Our Father which art in Heaven." H In His sermon on the Mount Jesus said: "Your Father which is in heaven," or "your H Heavenly Father," eight times, 'Thy or your Father,"' seven times, 'My Father which is in heaven," once, and "Our Father which art in htaven," once. To Mary after His resurrection He said: "G-o to my bret^J^H ren and say ur to them, I ascend unto Father and you- father; and to my God ntad your Uod" ( John .:x., 17). If we more fully ^9 realized our relationship to God as His children by faith in Christ Jesus, aud His rela- H| tionship to us as Our Father who art in heaven, bow happy we would be and what |M delight we would take in prayer, either publie or private. "Hallowed be Thy name." In His last prayer with His disciples Jesu3 said to His rather- "I have manifested Thy name;" "I declared unto them Tiiy Name." At another time He prayed, "- atner, gioruy my Name" (John xvii., 6, 28; xii., 23). RH "Thy kingdom com-?.'' The God of Heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall break in pieces and consume all the kingdoms of this world and it shall sfaud forever. "Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so in earth." When this petition shall have been manifestly answered, then the kingdom shall have cime. But until God's will is done on earth as it is iu Heaven let no one BH say that the kingdom has come. 3. "Give us day by day our daily bread." Bfl 3us:enance for t body and soul .aa each day shall require": but one day at a H| time. "A daily rate fo- evjry day all the ffl days of his life' was what a certain king gave to one who was his captive (II. Ki. xxv., 30). How much more will our Father in Heaven made good His promises to each of His children. 4. "And forgive us our sins; for wa also WM forgive every one that is indebted to us." When He taught them this prayer in the serinon on the mount, He added: "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive jour trespasses." And I the same teachiug He repeated o:i yet an- IH o. her occasion, as recorded in Mark si., 23, and again in Matt, xviii., 35; iu the last place emphasizing the point that the forgiveness of. other's must be from the heart. MB "And lead-us not into temptation, but de- H| liver us from evil." God did tempt, or try, or prove Abraham, ana juraes says, ''Blessed is the man that endureth tempta- ^H tion;-' but he also adds, "Grnd cannot tempted with evil, neither tempteth He mail" (Gen. xxii.. 1: Ja-\ i., TempB^^^H Hons, in the seuse of trials, are our greatest? blessings (Jas. i? 2; I. Pet. iv., 12, 13); and 'iod is faithful who /ill not suiter us to he ^H tempted above that we are ablw. (T. Cor. z.. 13). ^H .">-7. "Friend, lend me three loaves; tor a riend of mine in his journey is come to me HH and I haw nothing to set before him." Jesus I now uses the illustration of a friend coming to a frie.rl, on behalf of another friend, and it a very unseasonable hour, but with a very irgent request: and the request is denied, Ifl or the man of whom the request is made ^H chinks more of the comfort of his children, vho are in bed with him, than of the need of lis frieurl. On the one side is a father caring IS or his chi dren, and on the other a man seek- BH ng food for a friend. He ha I just taught hem how how to approach their Father in teaveu, and now He will encourage them by llustrations from daily life among meu, evi- |M ently making a point of the greater love of HH i man for his children than for hi< frieajL J S. '"Because of his importunity he will rise IB ind give him as many as he needetb." The ivord for importunity is used only this ^Hj nice in the Bible, aud signifies literally ".shamelessness" or "impudenca'' or "rough earnestness." Here is an earnestness, not HH ery seemly, but which accomplishes its end, :ven at the" expense of the children's comfort. He seems to teach us that there is a taking hold of God in prayer as Jacob did when in HH his helplessness he clung to the angel, saying: "I will not let thee go. ex:ept thou bless - *si Bfl 9. "And I say unto you. Ask and it shall HH he given you." "All tilings whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall re* ceive." "Whatsoever ye shall a3k in My ^H| uame. that will I do, that the Father may lie glorified in the Sou. If ye shall as'c any- IH thin? in Mv name. 1 will do it." "If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be dons' unto you (Matt. ~xi.,' John xiv., 13, 14; HH xv., 7). These are a few of the many plain, H9 emphatic words of our Lord upoa asking and receiving, but who balieves theai? Who^^M thus aslcs and receives? "Seek an:l r? shall find." 'Ye shall Me and find Me when ye shall search for with all your heart." 'Those that seek lie diligently shall find Me" (Jer. xxix., 13; Prov. Rfl viii., 17, R. V.). When we seek according to the mind of God and with the whole h?ar(, BH when we seek spiritual good as m9ii seek sil-" veror hidden treasures (Pr. i>., 4), then we H may expect to find. BK 10. "For every on? that asketh receiveth." etc. And these promises and statements about askinr, seeking, knocking, are prefixed ^H| by His emplbatic '"I say unto you.'' How HH comforting are the words of I. John v., 14, 15; B9 ' And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we as!: anything according to His will, He heareth us; and if we know that He hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know H that we have the petitions that wj desired of ^DB Him.'' ^^B .11, 12. ''If a son shall ask bread of any of IK you that isa father, will hejnvehima?tone?" ^^B in the previous illustration He encourages to Iflfl ask, and now He encourages to expect what ^Hj we ask for. 13. "How much more shall your Heavenly ^^B Father give the Holy Spirit to them thatask Him?" If a father will give ti a friend, how ^^B much more will a father give to his son? And if earthly parents love to giva good ^H] things to their children, how much more ^^9 will our Heavenly Father giv\j good things ^^9 (Matt, vii..Hi to them that ask Him? The HH fact that Matthew says "^ood things'" and ^^B Luke says "the Holy Spirit." seems to indi- ^EB cate that the Holy Spirit is the sum o' all ?rood things. And ?ur->ly he is; for whatever Jesus was to His disciples, while with them, HH that must tlie otuor t. onuorrer oe, eise no would not be truly "another Comforter" HB (John xiv., lf'?. They had asked to be taught to pray, it was tin Holy Spirit who HH prayed in Christ, and He tells them how to receive the same Spirit.?Lesson Helper. In one of the upper counties of Michl- HH jan a woman with one child was suited by a woman with seven childrea^^H The one-child woman took her litt^^^J iear to Wisconsin, exposed him to the HH (vhooping-cough, and then returned Hfl *nd pushed him through the line fence. rhe seven children now whoop, rell, cough and kick, and the mother ^H8 lays she had rather been struck by^HH lightsing. _ ?? ?