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drifting down. Gone the ripplo and the rushes i Of the love song of the thrushes* ftnna tha rncflc in fliartlrteae Af j | ]' ? ? VMVJ Viyooa VI ClXC ?aiUCU,UUU 1 the blushes s Of the sky verbena creeping T By the old south wall and steeping T All its sweetness in the sunshine of the x sleepy summer hushes; * And ever o'er it all, in a gold and crimson ^ pall, e Over mignonette grown tawny, and o'er grasses bronzing brown, s With a rustle and a whir, and a sad and a solemn stir, V The leaves are drifting down, dear; oh, the leaves are drifting down. b Come the mornings gray and chilly. Come the nights ssrene aud stilly. Comes an airy midnight fairy, tracing fern and rose and lily On the window panes that glisten, While in dreams tho children listen To the swing of skates that ring, and shouts that echo shrilly; And ever, ever still, in the hollow, on the * hoi, : By the roadside, where the sunflower lifts aloft a ruined crown, ^ Like tbe dear old dreams of youth, dreams of honor, fame and truth, ' Forever falling from us, do the leaves keep drifting down. Let the summer set in splendor, s Let the summer tribute render Bridelike beauty,bridelike duty, every charm ,1 divine and tender, I To the conquering king, who loudly s' All in trumpst tones and proudly t Tells the story of his captire, and her passion- Ci ate surrender; t< And with the leaves that fall, in a rich and y< royal pall, O'er the rose heart's crumpled crimson, and J] ^ the grass grown dull and brown, Let the bitterness, the strife, all the ills of oi life, s{ Go drifting, drifting down, deal-! with the el leaves go drifting down! &] ? ?The New York Ledjer. FROM DOOR TO DOOR, 'u 14 BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. }Iat>el Mellen sat pensively before the w blazing cannel coal fire, with Pug in her pj lap and two very decided tears in her at soft brown eyes. Her pink "Watteau sc wrapper was very becoming, aud her pet rose-bush in the window was just corfi- jj, ing into bloom; but these facts were no 0I consolation. All the same, Mabel was cj very unhappy. w "My dear," said the sage elder sister, hj who was all the mother she had ever known, "I wouldn't fret about it!" m Mabel raised the liquid brown eyes, tu fringed around with dark lashes. "But I am sure," said she, "that he m preached directly at me. Oh, I don't think he should have done that!" sj, "Nonsense, my dear!" said Zulcima. d( One of the big round drop3 detached itself from the curly lashes,and fell,with a plash, directly on Pug's fine, shelf-like ru f , ;?08e. UI ""WTiat else would he have me to do?" w: remonstrated Mabel, piteously. "I belong to all the societies, don't I? And w' I go to all the services, and I visit every th one of the poor people in my district. Does he want me to go to Africa and be 0j a missionary, I wonder? Or join a sisterhood, and wcarjx horrid black night- sn cap over my hair, and go about without speaking to anybody?" hi "I'm quite sure that he don't want he anything of the sort," said Zuleima, gently. pi "I'm ready to make any sacrifice," w; said Mabel,unconsciously tweaking Pug's j'j Wrinkly ears in her enthusiasm, until to that much enduring beast uttered a yelp ai of anguish. ' 'It isn't work that I'm afraid of. Didn't I wash all the little Riley -*' ~ children's faces last week for the mission aE crVinol and mend .Tohnnv "Ruiikav's hnr rid clothes so he could go to the anni- 3t vcrsary? And I'm sure I only want the vj chance to be a heavenly Una, or a gray cc nun, or a pilgrimess, or any of those people that give up their whole lives for 0, the cause of humanity. I'd do anything m <o help my fellow creatures?yes anything!" . ?? Mabel's lips quivered and an involuntary tremolo came into her voice. ni Zuleima gazed admiringly at her. bj "I'm sure yon would, my darling," said she. "And now if you feel inclined for a good walk, you might take a glass of jelly around to old Betsy Blundell, in cc Charcoal street." ra "It's a shame," she said to herself, ar 'for any one to expect that sweet humaa ar blossom to work any harder thau she ci docs. I do wish Mr. Rockingham would st leave off preaching those harrowing ser- tr mons." Old Betsy Blundell was as deaf and as n( cross a3 ever. It was always a tribula- i tion to go and see Betsy. Nothing suited ^ her, and the element of gratitude was f0 apparently left out of her nature. B She glared at Mabel as if she were an fu emissary of the Evil One. c\ 4 'That last tea you left tasted smoky!" tl snarled she; "and I'm mortal certain the rice was damaged. I may be a poor creetur, but that ain't no reason I should th be p'isoned. Jelly? Wal, I s'pose you m may leave it, though there aiu't much to nourishment in such kickshaws. Lou'sy p, she's, kind o' complainin', and maybe she'll cat it." w "Is Louisa sick?" V! Mabel turned quickly around to the battered old couch at the other side of L the room, where a pleasant-faced girl of jn about twenty lay, covered with a faded blanJrtrfshawl. .^""^Oh, it ain't much, Msss Mellen,"said Ci Louisa?"only rheumatism. But it crip- h" pies me so I cau't move off the couch, fe and I'd just got a bushel o' them tippets it and capes knitted, all ready to carry around to the doors and sell?a dozen of each. I'd put all my money into the ai material, and I think they'd 'a sold well, w I used to get up nights and knit 'em, C( after factorv hours." "Is it hard to sell them?" Mabel s suddenly asked. p "Oh, no, miss," Louisa responded, tl "It's real light, pleasant work. 'Twould ha' been nothing but fun for inc." Mabel breathed quick aud fast. Tsvo vi red spots came out on hercheeck; brown si lightnings flashed under the curly gateWays of her eyes. tl Here was the opportunity at last? coining, it wa3 true, in no poetic guise, surrounded by no attractive circumstances, but au opportunity all the same, tl "Louisa," said she, "I will sell them b for you." a "You, Miss Mellen?" n "Yes. Why not?" said Mabel, with I & curious, little, dry laugh. "I had a 11 stall once in a fancy fair. Why shouldn't J I sell tippets and capes and imtteus? I'll e go out with the basket this very clay, a Arc the j^riccs all marked?" . j She did not even consult Zuleiraa, this mpetuous, impulsive child of one idea. "Zuleima will be sure to oppose the )lan," said she. "There'll be a thouand-aud-one good and sufficient reasons vhy I shouldn't undertake the good vork. I will be a heroine! I will practice vhatMr. Rockingham preaches! "NVbere's he use of all my good resolutions if I laven't the moral courage to face an mergency like this?" So she took the splint-basket and tarted bravely out into the raw, chill tmosphere of the November day with a aliant heart. "It will be fun," she assured herself; mt nevertheless the two red spots glowed lotter still in her checks, and there came suspicious fluttering under her beltmckle, when she rang the bell of the learest house in the humdrum little red>rick row thot she had selected for the cene of her first triumphs. "Madam," as the door opeued, not uite three-quarters of an inch, and a mrple nose, surmounted by a dirty lace ap, became faintly visible ia the crevice, 'will you allow me to show you?" 4'I don't never buy nothing at the loor!" shrilly auswered the owner of the iurple nose. So Mabel tried the next door-knob. A spectacled old woman, with a double hin and a big cameo brooch, bouueed uddculy out at her. "Woolen shoulder-capes?" said she. 'Wa'al, I dunno. What ye ask for ?ein? icmmc have a look. Mittens? La! I Wouldn't think there'd be no wear to hem thffigs. Ef ye'll leave some of the Dinfortcrs till my son Zeke comes home ) try 'cm on, 1 iniglit mate a sate ior u." "Oh, I couldn't do that!" gasped [abel. "Oh!rt said the old woman with a toss I her head that had nearly unsettled tho jectacles. "Ain't willin' to trust me, 1? Wall, then, I guess ye'd better go on g." And she shut the door in Miss Mellen's ice. Third customer apparent bawled out om out from the back kitchen that she didn't want anything." The fourth was a tall, sallow-faced oman, who read Mabel a lecture on the ropricty of giving up this gaddingjout-the-streets business and taking up me creditable work. The girl was beginning to feel weakaeed and trembling now, the rose- spots 1 her checks had widened into a deded flush all over her face, and she inced before the sallow-faced female's irsh words as if they had been blows. "I haven't sold an article?not one!" urmured Mabel, ruefully viewing the mbled contents cf her basket. "Oh, ;ar! And I am so tired, and it makes e feel so ashamed when those people lk so at me, and stare so rudely and fl*/* rlrtAr in mv "Rnt._ nh_ ;ar, this isn't being a heroine!" With a resolute rallying of her quail* g spirits, she ran up the steps of a inous wooden house and rang. An itidy woman bawled at her out of the icdow overhead: "Why don't you pull the bell wire out bile you're about it? Don't ye know ere's a sick woman ic. the house?" Almost at the same moment the door >ened. "Don't sass the lady, Mariar," said a 100th, oily voice. And a sinister-eyed man projected s disagreeable visage almost close to irs. "Eh? Woosted goods for sale?tipts and knit gloves? Just precisely bat I'm a-wantin', my dear. Oh, yes, il buy anything such a pretty girl has sell 1 Set the basket down here, and low me?" But Mabel jerked away the basket, of hich he fain would have relieved her, id with burning face and tumultuouslyirobbing breast ran away down the reet, never pausing until she came so olently in contact with an umbrella ruing around the corner that the bas;t, with its contents, was scattered rer the pavement, already wet and uddy with the raw autumn ram. "I beg your pardon," she sobbed, but?" "Why, Miss Mellen, what are you riming away from?" cried a deep, cheerful ISS. t(Mr. Rockingham!" And then Mabel burst out crying. It was not until the mittens, capes and imforters were all gleaned off the paveent and returned to their original place, Ld Mabel was sitting, chilled, shivering id sobbing at intervals, like a grieved lild, in front of the fire in the pastor's udy, that he began to comprehend the ue nature of affairs. "It's no use trying," said Mabel. "I'm >t a heroine, and I never shall be one. thought I was going to do ? good ork, but I haven't; I've only 'iade a >ol of myself and spoiled all poor Louisa lundel's things, and in my heart I'm ill of envy, hatred, malice and all unlaritableuess! Oh, why did you preach tat sermon at me?" "I, MabelT Preach at you!" "I know I'm awfully wicked!" sobbed le girl. "Ican'tf ever be a saint or a -missionary, and I'm not fit to come i church ami say my prayers with other jople?I, that can't do the simplest sod work! And I know you meant me hen you talked about unprofitable serin ts, and? "Mabel?dear little liable?hush! isteu to me!' gently urged Mr. Rockigham. "If you're going to scold at me?" But as her big, brown, tear-drenched fes met his, a sudden dumbness smote er; the piteously gesticulating hands ill into her lap, and she shrank back ito the shadows. "I?I don't understand!" said she. "But it was strange," Mabel declared, a hour afterward, in recounting the hole story to faithful Zuleima "how I mid ever be so blind! Aud it's stranger ill that he should love me so dearly! | uch an idiotic little failure as I've roved myself I Say, Zuleima, do you link I'm half good euough for hiuiif" "Certainly I do," said Zuleima. "Do you think"?putting her face cry close to the elder sister's?"that I lall make a good minister's wife?" "He thinks so," said Zuleima. "And lat's enough."?Saturday Night. The Longest Uridine in Europe. King Charles of Iioumauia has laid lie foundation stonp of the new railway ridge across the Danube at Tchernvoda. His Majesty declared that the ew bridge would be the longest in iurope and would form the shortest leans of communication between the forth and Black Seas, thus making an poch in the history of Europe and {fording evidence of the economical lovyerof Rouuiaaia.?New York Times, HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. BAKED CALVES' LIVER. Baked calves' liver is a dish that needs only to be eaten to be appreciated. "Wash the liver in cold, water and wipe it dry. Cut a long deep hele in the side and fill it with a dressing made of bread crumbs, minced bacon and onion, salt to taste, Email piece of butter and one well-beaten egg. Sew or tie the liver together, lard the top and bake in a moderate oven, basting frequently. Serve with the gravy and current jelly.?New York World. BREAKFAST DISHES. " Fish makes capital breakfast dishes, flaked, tossed in a little white sauce of butter, seasoned and served piled on croutons of fried bread or made into cutlets, or steamed in little molds and served with anchovy sauce, or in omelets. Eggs again are excellent. The .following makes a very pretty dish: Have ready some boiling lard and slip into it as many whole egg3 as you require and let them fry, stirring the fat the whole time so as to keep up a circular motion. "When cooked lift them out and serve on croutons of fried bread spread with cither ham or anchovy butter or on a bed of spinach.?prooklyn Citizen. SQUASH PIE. Peel a Hubbard squash, cut in pieces about two inches square, remove the seeds without taking away any of the substance of the squash and put it to steam in a colander closely covered in a pot of boil' i? ??? ?? r\r rvlnno if. in a r>r>rpol?in iHq naiu I vi mw M ?? lined saucepan, without water, and set it over a gentle fire where it will soften slowly without burning, stirring it occasionally to prevent burning, or boil it until tender in sufficient water to cover it. When the squash is tender drain it until it is quite free from water and rub it through a sieve or a fine colander with a wooden spoon or potato masher. Mix one quart of the squash so prepared with one quart of miik, four eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful of mixed ground cinnamon, mace and ginger, one teacpoonful of salt and one cupful of sugar, and use it to fill two large pie plates lined with a good plain pastry. Do not cover the pies with pastry, but grate a little nutmeg over the top or sprinkle over the grated yellow rind of a lemon.?Julia Corson} in Chicago News. 1TA "RTROTTPL ( T. Many popular soups are made from tomatoes. One of the most fashionable of these is tomato bisque, a ^iew recipe for which is here given: One can of tcmatoes, or enough fresh ones to equal that amount; one pint of thin sweet ?cream, onft-half teaspoonful of soda, one generous teaspoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of minced onion, one tablespoonful of corn starch, one tablespoonful of butter, one-half pint of boiling water, two tablespoonsful of rolled crackers, pinch of cayenne pepper, and salt to taste. Stew the tomatoes with the water and onion for half an hour, then add sugar, salt and pepper. Heat the cream in a double boiler and add the soda. Rub butter and flour to a paste, thin with a little of the hot cream, and stir into the double boiler just as the cream reaches the boiling point. Cook for a few moment* till well thickened. Press the tomatoes through a colander, add the thickened cream, stir in the rolled crackers and serve at once. If prepared according to the directions thdre is no danger of curdling, and the bisque is rich, aud delicious. If served at lunch in cups, a teaspoonful of whipped cream on the top of each cup renders it more attractive.? Good Rouiikctping. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Well-ventilated bedrooms will prevent 1 ? ?i morning neaaacnes uuu iossiluuc. A couple of figs eaten before breakfast make an excellent laxative, especially for children. ' When suffering from overstrained and tired eyes bathe them in hot water several times a day. A pinch of soda beat tn a foam in either molasses or houey will cut the phlegm from babies', throats. Lettuce ccrtainly has a sedative action on tee nervous system, and can be usefuily employed in insomnia. Tacks taken from carpet3 should be well sca'ided before being used again as a precaution against the moth. When acid of any kind gets on clothing, spirits of ammonia will kill it. Apply chloroform to restore the color. If you set auything hot on oilcloth, find it burns white, drop on a little spirits of camphor; rub with a dry cloth. The toughest fowl can be made eatable if put into cold water, plenty of it, and cooked very slowly from five to six hours. Scalding hot water should never be poured into dishes which have held milk until it has been removed by cold water. A clothes wringer can be easily cleansed from the lint that collects on the rollers by saturating a cloth in kerosene anil rubbing it over. It is a mistake, affirms culinary authority, to cook corn as much as most persons do. Long boiling does not make it tender, but hardens it like an egg over-boiled. Starch Polish?A piece of stearine, candle spermacetti or white wax as large as a robin's egc: will give a nice gloss. j A teaspoon of suit to each pint of starch prevents sticking. To Revive Old Silk?"When siVk has lost its gloss and becomes limpy it may be restored by sponging with a solution of half an ounce of gum tragacanth in a pint of hot water. Wlinlfl />lrttrne orn now nsod to eTtermi nntc the merciless and industrious moth. It is said they arc more effectual as a destroying agent than cither tobacco, camphor, or ccdar shavings. A good remedy for sore mouth is one teaspoonful each of powdered borax and alnm, one-half teuspoonful of soda and one teacupful of sage tea. Mix well and rinse the mouth frequently. If one wishes to cool a hot dish in a hurry, it will be found that if the dish be placed in a vessel full of cold, salty water it will cool far more rapidly thau if stood in water free from salt. Every housekeeper knows how important it is to keep the refrigerator clean. Wash tho shelves and ice racks in soap, ammonia and water. Vinegar and water will remove every staia from the zinc. KEY. DE. TALMAGE. 5 c d THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN n DAY SERMON. ? ?? a Subject: "On Lake Galilee." ' 8] g Text: "He entered into a ship, aud sal tl in the sea; and the whole multitude wai h by the sea on the land.1'?Mark iv., 1. it It is Monday moraine in our Palestine ex- " periences, ana the sky is a blue Galilee above, c< as in the boat we sail the blue Galilee be- n neath. It is thirteen lr.iles long and six miles p wide, but the atmosphere is so clear it se9tns as if I could cast a stone from beach to beach. The lake looks as though it had been let c< lown on silver pulleys from the heavens and g were a section of the sea of glass tbatSt. li John describes as a part of the celestial land- w Bcape. Lake Galilee is a depression of six pi hundred feet in which the river Jordan h widens and tarries a little, for the river Jor- 11 dan comes in at its north side and departs D from Its south side; so this lake has itscradle ii and its grave. t< Its white satin cradle is among the snows tl of Mount Hermon where the Jordan starts, a and its sepulchre is the Dead Sea into which S the Jordan empties. Lake Como of Italy, b Lake Geneva of Switzerland, Lake Lomona It of Scotland, Lake Winnipesaukee of America u are larger, but Lake Galilee is the greatest w diamond that ever dropped from the finger tl of the clouds, and whether encamped on its a banks as we were yesterday and worship- fl ing at its crystal altars or wading into its g waves, which make an ordinary batn solemn f( as a baptism, or now putting out upon its ^ sparkling surface in a boat, it is something j( to talk about and pray about and sing about f, until the lips witn which we now describe a it can neither talk nor pray nor sing. . tl As sometimes a beautiful child in a neigh- h borhood has a half dozen pet names, and som? ul tuo uci^uuuia vuu ua uj uuo uaiuc auu Q< others by another, so this pet laka of the a planet has a profusion of names. Ask the j Arab as he goes by what this sheet of water h is, and he will call it Tabariveh. Ask Moses b of the Old Testament, and he calls it Sea of t< Chinnereth. Ask Matthew, and he calls it j] Sea of Galilee. Ask Luke, and he calls it Sea ti of Gennesaret. Ask John, and he calls it Sea ii of Tiberias. Ask Josephus and Eusebius, p and they hare other names ready. But to me p it appears a child of the Bky, a star of the o hills, a rhapsody of the mountains, the bap- h tismal bowl of the world's temple, the: smile tl of the great God. Many kinds of fish are si found in these waters, every kind of tree upon t its bank, from those that grow in the torrid j zone to those in the frigid, from the plain to the cedar. y, Of the two hundred and thirty war ships n Josephus mancevred on these waters?for q Josephus was a warrior as well as a historian a i-there remains not one piece of a hulk or j| on? patch of a canvas, or one sjplin'or of an v oar. But to return to America we never b will until we have had a sail upon this inland s sea. Not from a wharf, but from a beach I covered with black and white pebbles, we go n on board a boat of about ten or twelve tons, f, to be propelled partly by sail and partly by c oar. The mast leans so far forward that it j] seems about to fall, but we find it was pur- fl posely so built, and the rope through a pulley o manages to hoist and let down the sail. It is b a rough boat, and as far as possible removed b from a Venetian gondola or a sportsman's yacht. With a common saw and, hammer e ana ax man j or you couia raaKe a newer one. t Four barefooted Arabs, instead of sitting s down to their oars, stand, as they alwavs do G in rowing, and pull away from shore. 1 in- a sist on helping, for there is nothing more ex- p hilarating to me than rowing, but I soon t have enough of the clumsy oars and the awk- t ward attempt at wielding them while in J standing posture. n We put our overcoats and shawls on a il small deck in the stern of the l>oat, the very si kind of a deck where Christ lay on a fisher- 1 man's coat when of old a tempest pounced si upon the fishing smack of the affrighted disciples. Ospreys and wild ducks and kingfisners fly overhead or dip their wings into the lake, mistaking it for a fragment of fallen sky. Can it be that those Bible stories about sudden storms on this lake are true? Is it possible that a sea of such seeming placidity of temper could ever rise and rage P at the heavens? It does not seem as if this a happy family of elements could have ever v had a falling out, and the yater strike at the * clouds and the clouds strike at the water. 11 Pull away, oarsmen 1 On our right bank 8< are the hot sulphur baths, so hot they are * scaltlinp, and the waters must cool off a long * while before hand or foot can endure their 1 temperature. Volcanoes have been boiling these waters for centuries. Four springs " roll their resources into two great swimming P reservoirs. King Herod here tried to batne " off the results of his excesses, and Pliny and n Josephus describe the spurtings out of these ? Volcanic heats, and Joshua and Moses knew about them, and this moment long lines of ? pilgrims from all parte of the earth are waiting for their turn to step into the P Bteaming restoratives. Let the boat, as far as possible and not run * aground, hug the western shore of the lake 5 that we may see the city of Tiberias, once a great capital, of the architecture of which a , few mosaics and fallen pillars and pedestals, ? and hero and there a broken and shattered ^ frieze remain, mightily suggestive of the ^ time when Herod Antipas had a palace here tj and reigned with an opulence and pomp and d cruelty and abomination that paralyzes the j fingers of the historian when ha come3 to j write it and the fingers of the painter when j, he attempts to transfer it to canvas. I sup- c pose he was one of the worst men that ever j lived. And what a contrast of character _ comes at every moment to the thoughtful (, traveler in Palestine, whether he walks the f( beach of this lake or sails as we now do these ri waters! a oij* ?i/1 a ama rmaof <\kat?aafai*o i n UIUO UJ OIUO BID IUH lliu oau VUCUOtWlTCAa II of this lake region, Jesus and Herod An- E tipas. And did any age produce any such u antipodes, any such antitheses, any such t! opposites? Kindness and cruelty, holiness " and filth, generosity and meanness, selfsacrifice and selfishness, the supernal and the ii Infernal, midnoon and midnight. The father d of this Herod Antipas was a genius at assas- a sination. He could manufacture more rea- c sons for putting people out of this life than w ?ny man in all history. He sands for ti Syrcanus to come from Babylon to J era- h 3alem to be made high priest, and slays him. t; He has his brother-in-law while in bathing h with him drowned by the king's attendants, e He slays his wife and his wife's mother aud g two of bis sons and his uncle, and filled a a volume of atrocities, the last chapter of is tfhich was the massacre of all the babies at 1 Bethlehem. t With such a father as Herod the Great you o are not surprised that this Herod Antipas, r whose palace stood on the banks of this lake v we nowsau, was a comDmauon 01 won, rep- i tile and hyena; while the Christ who walked v yonder banks and sailed these waters was so ' good that almost every rood of this scenery p is associated with soma wise word or some s kindly deed, and all literature and all art J and all earth and all heaven are put to the o utmost effort in trying to express how graud and glorious and lovely He was and is and is g to be. The Christly and Herodic characters E as different as the two lakes we visit, and not t far apart Galilee and the Dead Sea; the one r flower banked and the other bituminous and f blasted; the one hovered over by the mercy of c. Christ, the other blasted by the wrath of -1 God; the one full of finny tribes sporting in t the clear depths, the other forever lifeless; 1 the waters of the one sweet and pleasant to ( the taste, the other bitter and sharp and ? disgusting. Awful Dead Seal Glorious ! Uennesaret. t We will not attempt to cross the eastern ? 6ide of this lake, as I had thought to do, for ? those regions are inhabited by a thieving and ? murderous race, and one must go thoroughly armed, and as I never shot any one and I have no ambition to be shot, I said: "Let us c stay by the western shore." But we look ? over to the hills of Gadara,on the other side, t down which two thousand swine after being * possessed by the devil rau into the lake, ana j HAwti nv% PVitMcfc for nprmifctincr it i UW"** f-- O -- I the wrath of all the stock raisers o? that f country because of this ruining of the pork 1 business. Y ou see that Satan is a spirit of J bad taste. "Why did he not say: "Let me go ^ into those birds, whole flocks of which flyover Galilee!'" No; that would have been too high. "Why not let me go into the sheep J which wander over these hills?" No; that would have been too gentle. "Rather let * me go into these swine. I want to be with j the denizens of the mira. I want to associate with" the Inhabitants or the fllth." Great is I mud! I prefer bristles to winga. I would rather root than fly. I like snout better than ? wing." f mndellty scotts at tbe Idea that those swine r ihould have run into the lake. But it was j, quite natural that under the heat and burn- j ing of that demoniao possession they would t start for the water to get cooled off. Would ? that all the swine thus possess^ had plunged ? "1 o the same drowning, for this day the escendants of some of those porcine roatures retain the demons, and as the evils were cast out of man into them they ow afflict the human race with the devils f scrofula, that comes from eating the unleanmeat! The healthiest people on earth re the Israelites, because they follow the ill of fare which God in the book of <eviticus gave to the human race, and our pleudid French Dr. Pasteur and our lorious German Dr. Koch may go on with leir good work of killing parasites in the uman system; but until the world corrects a diet, and goes back to the divine regulaon at the beginning, the human race will jntinne to be possessed of the devils of licrobe and parasite. But I did not mean > cross over to the eastern side of Lake alilee even in discussion. Pull away, ye Arab oarsmen 1 And we jme along tne snore near by which stand reat precipices of brown and red and gray mestono crowned by basalt, in the sides of hich are vast caverns,sometimes the hiding lace of bandits, and sometimes the home of onest shepherds, and sometimes the dwellig place of pigeons and vultures and eagles. >uring one of Herod's wars his enemies hid 1 these mountain caverns and the sides were 30 steep for Herod's army to descend, and ae attempt to climb in the face of armed len would have called down extermination, o Herod had great cages of wbod, ironound, made and filled them with soldiers and it them down from the top of the precipices ntil they gave signal that they were level rith the caverns, and then from these cages hey stepped out to the mouth of the caverns, nd having set enough grass hnd wood on re to fill the caverns with smoke and stranulation, the hidden people would coma >rth to die; and if not coming forth volunirily Herod's men would pull them out with rag iron hooks, and Josephus says that one ither, rather than submit to the attacking rmv flung his wife and seven children down tie precipice and then leaped after them to is own death. Now. ye Arab oarsmen, row on with swiftr stroke, for we want before noon to land t Capernaum, the three years' home of esus. But before arrival there we are to ave a new experience. The lake that had een a smooth surface begins to break up in* 3 roughness. The air, which all the mornig mule our sail almost useless, suddenly jkes hold of our boat faith a grip astonishig. and our poor craft begins to roll and itch and tumble, and in five minutes wa ass from a calm to violence. The contoar f this lake among the hills is an invitation to urricanes. I used to wonder why it was hat on so limited a sheet of water a b?> tormed boat in Christ's time did not DUt iack to shore when a Hurricane was coming, wonder no more. On that lake an atmospheric fury gives no rarniug, and the change we saw in fire linutes made me feel that the boat.in which Christ sailed may hare been skilfully mangad when the tempest struck it and the wild, nportunate cry went up, "Lord save us or re perish 1" I had all along that morning een reading from the New Testament the tory of occurrences on and around that lake. !ut our fiible was closed now. and it was as nuch as we could do to hold fast and wish or the land. If the wind and the wares had ontinued to increase in violence the follow* ig fifteen minutes in the same ratio as in the rat fire, and we had been still at their mercy, ur bones would bare been bleaching in the ottom of Lake Gennesaret instead of our eing here to tell the story. But the same power that rescued the Ashmen of old to-day safely landed our party. Vhat a Christ for rough weather! All the ailor boys ought to fly to Him as did those ialilean mariners. All you in the forecastle nd. all you who run up and down the slipery ratlines, take to sea with you Him who rith a quiet word sent the winds back hrough the mountain gorges. Some of you ack Tars to whom tnese words will come eed to 4'tack ship" and change your course t you are going to get-across this sea of life afely and gain the heavenly harbor. Belay here! Ready aboutl Helm's a-leel .Mainail haul 1 Star of peace! beam o'er the billow. Bless the soul that sighs for thee; Bless the tailor's lonely pillow, Far, far at sea. Here at Capernaum, the Arabs having In lieir arms carried us ashore to the only laca where our Lord ever had a pastorate, [ nd we stepped amid the ruins of the church rhere He preached again and again and j gain?the synagogue whose rich sculptur- I ig lay there, not as when others see it in pringtime covered with weeds and loathome with reptiles, but in that December r eat her completely uncovered to our agiated and intense gaze? On one stoue of that ynngogue is the sculpturing of m pot of lanna, aa artistic commemoration of the ime when the Israelites were fed by manna i the wilderness, and to which sculpturing o doubt Christ pointed upward w hils He ras preaching that sermon on this very spot a which He said: "Not as our fathers did eat icuna and are dead; he that eateth of this read shall live forever." Wonderful Caernaum I Scene of more miracles than any lace in all the earth! Blind eyes kindling rith thetnorning. Withered arms made to ulsate. Lepers blooming into health. The ead girl reanimated. These Arab tents which on this December ay I find in Palestine disappear, and I see ,'apernaum as it was when Jesus was pastor f the church here. Look at that wealthy ome, the architecture, the marble front, be upholstery, the slaves in uuiform at the oorway. It is the residence of a courtier of [erod, probably Chuza by name, his wife oanna, a Christian disciple. But something ) the matter. The slaves are in great exitement, and the courtier living there runs own the front steps and takes a horse and uts him at full run across the country. The oy of that nobleman is dyine of tVDhoid jver. All the doctors have failed to give nlief. But about Ave miles up the country, t Cana, there is a divine doctor, Jesus by ame, and the agonized father has gone tor [im, and with what earnestness those can nderstand who have had a dying child in ae house. This courtier cries to Christ, Come down ere my child die!" TVV.Ha tha fnt.hnr fa nhqant; find ftt 1 o'clock i the afternoon, the people watching the ying boy see a change in the countenance, nd Joanna, the mother, on one side of his ouch, says: "Why, this darling is getting roll; the fever has "broken. See the prespiraion on his forehead. Did any of you cive lmany new kind of medicine?' "No," Is he answer. The boy turns on his pillow, is delirium gone, and asks for something to atandsays: "Where'sfather?" Oh, hehas one up to Cana to get a young doctor of bout thirty-on8 years of age. But no doctor 5 needed now in this house at Capernaum. Tie people look at the sun dial to see what Ime it is, and see it is just past noou and 1 'clock. Then they start out and meet the eturning father and as soon as they come rithin speaking distance they shout at the op of tbeir voices: "Your "boy is getting rell." "Is it possible?" says the father, 'When did the change for the better take Jace?" "One o'clock" is the answer. "Why," ays the courtier, "that is just the hour that osus faid to me 'Thy son liveth.' One 'clock. As they gather at the evening meal what ladness on all the countenances in that tome at Capernaum! Tho mother, Joanna, ias not had sleep for many nights, and she tow falls off into delightful slumber. The ather. Chuza, the Herodian courtier, worn iut with anxiety as well as by the rapid ourney to and from Cana, is soon in restful m consciousness. Joanna was a Christian before, but I warrant she was more of Christian afterward. Did the father Chuza iccept the Christ who had cured his boy? [s there in all the earth a parent so ungrateul for the convalescence or restoration of in imperiled child as not to go into a room md kneel down and make surrender to the ilmighty love that came to the rescue? The mightiest agency in the universe is waver, and it turns even the Almighty. It iecides the destinies of individuals, families mH wotinns Diirincr our sad civil war a jentleman was a guest at the White House n Washington, and he gives this incident. Jo says: "I had been spending three weeks n the White House with Mr. Lincoln as his cuest. One night?it was just after the batla nt Rnll Run?I was restless and could not ieep. I was repeating the part which I was o take in a public performance. The hour vas past midnight. Indeed, it was coming lear to the dawn when I heard low tones jroceeding from a private room where the President sleDt. The door was nartlv onen. instinctively walked in, ana there L saw a ight which 1 shall never forget. It was the President kneeling before an open Bible. "The light was turned low in tha room, lis bapk was turned toward me. For a monenF twas'silenCas 1 stood iooRtntf in .mazement and wonder. Then he cried out n tones so pitiful and sorrowful: 'Oh,Thou Jod that heard Solomon in the night when te prayed for wisdom, hear me! I cannot eau this people, I cannot guide' the affairs of his nation without Thy help. I am poor and reak and sinful. Oh, God, who didst hear - . '-W 4 f. y JT * M Solomon when he cridd for wisdom, hear me and save the nation 1'" Ton see we don't need to go back to Bible times for evidence that prayer is heard and answered.. But some one may say that Christ at Capernaum healed that courtier's child, yet would not have done it for one in humble life. Why, in that very Capernaum He did the same thing for a dying slave belonging to the man who had made a present to the town of the church of which Jesus was pastor, the synagogue among whose ruins I today leap from fragment to fragment. This wa3 the cure of a Roman soldier's slave, whose only acknowledged righta- were the wishes of his owner. And none are now so enslaved or bo humble or so sick or so slnfal but the all-sympathetic Christ is ready to help them, ready to cure them, ready to emancipate them. ?Hear it I Pardon for all. Mercy for alJ. Help for all. Comfc. o for all. Heaven for rll. Oh, this lake Galilee I What a refreshment for Christ it must have been after sympathizing with the sick, and raising the dead, and preaching to the multitudes all day long to come down on these banks in the night time, and feel the cool air of the sea on His hot face, and look up to the stars, the lighted lamps around the heavenly palaces from which 3? had descended! All heaven and earth W8re still: from the high post Of stars to the hilled lftke and mountain coast. All heaven and eartb were still?though not in sleep, ( Bnt breathless, as we g<ow when feeling most. "But," says soma one, "why was it that Christ, coming to ;Vve the world, should spend so much of His l ime on and around so solitary a place as lf*ke Galilee? There is j only one city of nnyrize on its beach, and j both the western ai)fl eastern shores are a . solitude, broken onlyfcy the connds coming ; from the mud hovels 7f the degraded. "Why did not Christ begin 4 Babylon the mighty, at Athens the learne<? at Cairo the historic, at Thebes the hundred gated, at Rome the triumphant? If CbAt was going to save the world, why not xo where the world's people dwell? Woufl a man wishing to revolutionize for goow the American continent, pass bis time afid the fishing huts on the shores of NewfounRand?' My friends, Galilei was the hub of the wheel of civilization art, and the center of a population that sAggere realization. On the shore of the laft we sail to-day stood nine great cities-fScythopolis, Tarich, Hippos. Gamala, (yrazin, Capernaum, Betnsaida, Hagdala,priberias?and many villages, the smallest W which had 15,000 inhabitants, according ? Josephus, and reach*, ing from the beach baj into the country in all directions. PalacA.temples, coliseomns, gymnasiums, amphithPtres, towers, gardens terraced on the hilisidJ fountains bewildering with sunlight, bat upon whose mosaic floors kings trod: whilathis lak<j,from where the Jordan enters it 'o where Tne Jordan leaves it," was beauti '.1 with all styles of shallop or dreadful wit Jail kinds of war galley. Four thousand si Is, history says, were at one. time noon, these ^aters. fought therei which ih >Ead all nations with their co map uencas. Here mingling Wood with Pre and sparkling foam, In her last throes Judaa rofcht with. Borne. Upon those sea flgPs looked Vespasian and Titus and Trajai* and whole empires. From one of these nav> encounters so many of the dead floated to) *ie beach they could not soon enough be eiAWbed, and a plague was threatened. Ttfeve hundred soldiers . e3capinz from thess vd^els of war were one day massacred in tne ??ipnirneacre ac Tiberias. For three hunited years that almost continuous city encircing Lake Galilee was the metropolis of our planet. It was to the very heart of the worn that Jesus came to soothe its sorrows, anc pardon its sin3, and heal its sick, and emancipate its enslaved and reanimate Its dead. And let the church u?d the world take the suggestion. While toe solitary places are not to b3 neglected, we must strike for the great cities, if this worH is ever to be taken for Christ. Evangelize all the earth except the cities and in one y?ar the cities would corrupt the earth. Bit bring the cities and all the world will com?. Bring London and England will come. 31ns: Berlin and Germany will come. Bricg Paris and France will come. Bring St.I^tarsburg and Russia win come, cring vWmi ana Austria win come. Bring Cairo L&d Egypt will come. Bring the near thraEnillion people in this cluster of cities on ttV .tlantic coast and all America will soon sea *e salvation of God. Ministers of religion at us intensify our evangelism. EditorSad publishers! purify your printing prera! Asylums of mercy I enlarge your plans <* endeavor! ^ Ana instead of tt# absurd and belittling and wicked rivalryBmong our cities as to which happens to Are the most man and women and childrefl not realizing that the more useless and b?people a city has the worse it is off, and fcity *which has ten thousand good people wiore to be admired than a city with one huBred thousand bad people, let us take a nlral census, and see how many good men anS good women are leading forth, how larA a generation of good children who will Asecrate themselves and consecrate the rouJV world to holiness and to God. Oh, thou blessed Christ, who didst come t) the mighty cities encircling Lake Galilee! come in mercy to all our great cities of to-day. Thou who didst put Thy hand on the whit9 mane of the foaming billows of Gennesaret ana mase tnem lie down at my reec, nu3n an the raging pa ssioi.s of the world I Oh, Thoo blessed Chust, who on the night when thi disciples were trying to cross this lake and "the wind was contrary," after nine houn of rowing had msde only three miles, didst come stepping on water that at the touch ol Thy foot nardend iiito crystal, meet all oui shipping, whether oil placid or stormy seas, ana say to all Th pl-ople now, by whatevei style of tempestlo^sed or driven, as Thou didst to the drench/"1 disciples in the cyclone: "Be of good cheer.' r r.t is I. Be not afraid 1* " n~J ooon fliia InlfA of maun <JTJU LUttb. UHTo Christly memorie ^J and I can say with Robert McCheynerJpe ascended minister ol Scotland, who, seajjffi on the banks of thu lake, wrote in his llat sick days, and just before he crossed th? .ordan, not the Jordan that empties into ralilee, but the Jordan that empties into te "sea of glass mingled with fire," these sv\ ret words, fit to be played 1 by human finger 3. on strung strings ol | earthly lute, or Dy aigelic fingers on seraphil harps: It Is not that the wid gazelle Cornea down to ddnk ihy tide. But He that wae t>te.ced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy aide. Graceful around thee the mountains meet, l'hoa calm, reposing gea: Bat ah! far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked o'er thee. O -Saviour! gone to God's right hand, Yet the same Saviour still, Graved on Thy heart is tbda lovely otrand And every fragrant hill. CURIOUS FACTS. Sugar was unknown to the ancient Greeks and Romans, St. Peter's Church at Rome, Italy, has a seating capacity of 54,000. Woodchucks Jiave the same greeting as cats, but loudetr and more cmphatic. Fowls have undoubtedly a larger vocabulary than autf of the other domestic animals. j E. M. Blond, df New York City, has lived in one hotel'?t,he Fifth Avenue? for thirty-one years, j In the middle age?, the lower animals were frequently tried, convictcd and punished for various (offenses. The ruby is muchi rarer than the diamond, and about as ( costly, the prices ranging from 615 a carat to $1000. A young man walked in his sleep recently at SlatervilU,; Ga., and when he awoke he found 1 at a grindstone sharpening his k ife . All of Emperor ^ Villiam's HohenzolIem ancestors born s ince 1722, as well as himself, his brothe rs and sisters have been locked in the slime cradle. The use of India rubber for erasing pencil marks was fi rst suggested in or just prior to 1732 '!>y an academician named Magellan, a i descendant of the great uiiviyuLui. A prisoner il tie Webster County (Iowa) Jail, a fojw .flays ago, received a copy of "The K^eivtzer Sonata." The sheriff felt obligj-ed to read tlio book through in ordeif t<3 judge of the propriety of leaving it with the prisoner. Tho official was iowarded for his watchfulness by dincorerjng two sharp steel saws secreted jbetjween leaves which had been pabtecl together. _. SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL LESSpN FOR / DECEMBER 21. Lesson Text: "Jeans's Farting Worda," Luke xxlv., 44-63?Golden Text: John xiv., 8?Commentary. 44. "And He said onto them, These are the words which 1 spake unto you while 1 was yet with you." * He is no longer with them as when in His mortal body. He is the same Jesus as He has proved by walking, talking, eating with them, allowing them to handle Him; but while all this is grandly true, yet He has ceased to beloDg to the earth in its NMAAMtf af?fA Anltr AS f A MMAM . . uj uouv \x iurj^a umj oo w hwvimi^ ui/vu it), for the immortal and incorruptible does not yet dwell on earth. "That all things must be fulfilled, -which ' were written in the law of Moees, and In tye prophets, and in the psalms concerning Me." Here is the only key to all Scripture, Jesus himself. Observe that all things written concerning Him must be fulfilled. 45. "Then opened He their understanding, that they mjgnt understand the Scriptures?' As He is the key to all Scripture, so He also by His Spirit is the only Teacher. 46. "And said unto them, Thus it is writ* ten, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day." Jesus in all His teaching appealed to the Scriptures, saying: "It is written," -or "What is written, how readest thou?" And now He repeats what He bad said to the two on the way to Emma us, that, according to the Scriptures, the Christ must die and rise again the third day. Believers who now see % only a Saviour who died for their sins and ,v rose again, to the exclusion of His return to establish the kingdom of David, are as blind as were these disciples and with far less ex* cuse, for we have a more full revelation from God and we live after Pentecost. 47. "And that repentance, and remission of sins, shonid be preached in His name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." This ~ the apostles faithfully preached. "Him ^ hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins" (Acts v., 81). Thus preacbed Peter to Jews only, before he received the vision which sent him . to Gentiles also. "Through this man is , . preached unto you the forgivenessof sins,and by Him all that believe are justified from all things" (Acts xiii., 38, 39). Thus preached * ' Paul to both Jews and Gentiles at Aotioch in Pisidia. Repentance and forgiveness of sins was nothing new in the way of preaching, for "To Him give all the pYophets wit- ' ' ness, that through His name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of sins" (Acta x., 43). But repentance and for- ? - + given ess to Gentiles as well as to Jews, and *, on equal terms?faith only?without cir- cumcision or the ceremonies of the Mosaic ' > ritual, was a new thing. 48. "And ye are witnesses of these things.^ Or as it is written in Asts 1 8: uYe shall be witnesses unto Me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto theatter- T* most part of the earth." Unto Israel God - d bad said: "Ye are my witnesses, saith the -V 3 Lord, that I am God" (Isa. xliii., 10, 12). It is considered an honorable andvery desirable position to be a representative of a country or a government at a foreign coort. God chose Israel from among alf the nations of Abe earth to be His witness to all nations that He is the one only living and true God, bat while a faithful remnant stood for Him, the majority of the people failed to honor God, but sadly dishonored Him, and made Hiaf name a reproach. The apostles were chosen to go forth in the name of Jesus, and be living His life over again, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, to win to Christ, such as might believe en Him throngh. their word. The Acts of the Apostles tell how , * faithfully they did tbis. Christians are . " * still expected to be witnesses unto Christ, and thus win others to Him, and hasten His return. 49. "And behold I send the promise of my Father upon you; but tariyye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power fmm on hich." It is not oossible for the natural man to please God (Rom. viii, 7, 8); ?3 he must be born again or from above (John iii., 3, 5, 7). It is just as impossible for the M new man to be a faithful witness unto Christ except by the power of the Holy ^ Spirit; and here is where all the fail lire in Christian life and service oomes in. >"j 50. "And He led them out as far as to Beth- "-1 any, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them." During forty days He had showed . Himself alive at various times to various individuals or companies of His followers on ten or twelve different occasions, and always speaking of the things pertaining to the King- ' \ dom of God (Acta i., 3). But now thelast time has come, and He is about to leavethem to appear no more on the earth till His feet shall stand again on that same Mount of Olives when He comes in power and glory, bringing His saints with Him (Zech. xiv., 4. 4; 1 Thess. . " > iii., 13). And even as His first sermon began with blessing, so His last act ere He finally ascends is to bless these His disciples. 51. "And it came to pass while He blessed them, He was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." Gradually He ascended from their midst, until a cloud received Him out of their sight, and He was seen of them no more. As Stephen was dying he saw heaven open, and tne Son of Man standing on the right hand of God. As Saul of Tarsus journeyed to Damascus J ejus spoke to him from heaven and appeared to him. And again to John on Patmos Jesus appeared in I vision. But since He visibly ascended from the Mount of Olives He has not, as far as we know, appeared on earth, as He did at various times during those forty days after the resurrection. 52. "And they worshiped Him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy." When they were so sad at His death, became He had not redeemed Israel as they expected He " ^ fViov flfA would nave uuue, uun ,a ? now full of great joy when He has gone again and the Kingdom had not yet come? Some teli us that now they understood, as they did not before, that He had coma, not to restore the Kingdom to IsraoJ, but to set a spiritual kingdom in the hearts of men. This is a mere f {ibrication of man, and it is not only without foundation in Scripture, but is contrary to all Scripture. Tbetrue ^ reason of their joy is found in the message of the angels who stood by them after He ascended, and said, "This came Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven shall so come in like manner as ye bare seen Him go into Heaven" (Actei., 11). 53. "And they were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Amen." May such be the end of each chapter of our spiritual life, the end of each day and of each week till we see Him. May'our days begin and end with praise to God for giving unto us His dear Sou, ilis uiispeajtaom guv, ?? the great redemption which is ia Hun. May we be filled with the Spirit, so as to be His faithful witnesses even unto death, and may % we each day be found eagerly longing for and expecting His return. Let our hearts say. "I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall be continually in my mouth." "My meditation of Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in the Lord." iPs. ixxiv., 1; civ., 34).?Lesson Helper. t The cost of French revolutions to the French Government of to-day ia reoordi ed in this little list of pensioned per? sons and families: Senators of the em> pire, 48,000 francs; in consequence oi the Vienna peace, 434,211; men of th< times of Louis XVIIL and Charle3 X., 15,000; families of Louis Philippe'^ time, 41,225; wounded in June, 1848, 136,975; persons of the second empire, iaa nnn wmmded in February, 1848, 198,000; victims of Dec. 2, 6,553,260, Each government has respected th< pension obligation of its predecessor as to this growing list, and has paid everj item with scruuulous rearnlaritv. J3ot'LAXGER is accused by Ills formei chief lieutenant, M. Nuquot, with di *? a, verting 3,700,OOU Irancs xroiu mo CiCV toroJ fund to his own use. With thai jH snue little income the man who used to ~ loot so well on a black charger should be able to keep the wolf from the door. No wonder he is cheerful and hauor. desuii* all the accasuiea. Chinesjs pheasants were introduced into the vast forests of Oregon ten yeara | ago, and now it is estimated that there | are 1,000,000 of them in the country, ^ 1