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? THE FLEET. b- ? It was long ago that my dream ships sailed - Day by day to that shadowy sea; And I -watched cach ono till my vision failed I? And the ships vere lost in mystery. Sometimes a rose-hueJ and billowy cloud ? Shut out my view ere the ship wont far, But often the darkness would seem to shroud i; The vessel before she crossed tho bar. They sailed at the sunset, every one; 1 They sailed away on the ebbing tide. Sometimes a brave vessel went out alone, And again two sailed forth side by side. I left them alone in the hands of Fate; Prayed she would make them reality; many a, time uiu i waica anu waxu For my fleet to return from the sea. Then my last ship sailed?for my dream3 were done? And I grieved that my ships cama not back. But only last night at the set of sun I saw a mast o'er tho wasteless track; And the twilight mists gave away and made -a. pat a way nt wita uie sunssb s utjuiu; And a ship sailed in through the twilight shade, ; And brought back to me a youthful dream. ?Flavcl Scott Mines, in Harper's Weekly. How Peter Won Juliana, STORY OF AN-ESKIMO MARRIAGE. The little Eskimo settlement of Kajartalik was in a great state of excitement. For a long time young Peter Manasse had wanted to marry pretty Juliana Marie Andreas, but because of the opposition of the girl's parents and brothers he had been unable to accomplish his desires. To the villagers the opposition of the relatives had seemed to be wholly unwarranted, for Peter was a most likely young Eskimo. He had a beautful kayak, with two harpoons and a bird spear, two fish lines and two hooks, beside a net with which to scoop out the little salmonoids that throng the water there at certain seasons. More. over, he could use them as well as any one that had ever paddled that way. Further still, ho was courageous. Once in early spriug, when the field ice had tilled the fiord for several days in such a way that no one could go seal hunting, Peter, having seen a seal on an iceberg, k ran across the lloating ice cake3 till he could strike it, and so, in spite of the dangers relieved the pressing need of the idony. ^ However, the relatives of the girl reW maincd obdurate, while she looked on 9 with apparent indifference, and so poor f Peter sighed in vain until at last his father determined to interfere by giving a great feast to all his neighbors. It was the anrouncement of the dateofthe i feast that had excited the people, and not without reason, too, for if during the course of the iestivities young Peter r - . could manage to pick up and carry away the pretty Juliana to his lather's house, ! the matter would bt settled; she would , be constrained by the usages of polite i Eskimo society to accept the bold lover, while the relatives would not be allowed to interfere once the young man got his sweetheart safely at the door of the hut. ! It appeared "that the Manasse family had had the feast in mind fcr a long * time, for, now that it was announced, y - - the people remembered that both father T and eon had been very assiduous in look- < ing alter their traps during tee winter, and had taken many foxes. The pelts ^ had been carefully prepared and de^ posited at the store of the white man. Among ether things obtained in exchange were three kinds of hard bread, a large supply of coffee and enough tobacco to la3t a long time. It was when the father and son carried home these things that the feast was announced and everybody knew that a very great feast it would IP& Tb the afternoon arrived llrs.Mnnasse <$jj placed three flat stones close together not very far from the entrance to her house, and built a fire of driftwood and faggots from the tiDy forests hard by. Over this U' was placcd a big iron pot bought of the whites, loDg before. The pot was filled with sea water, and into it she placed as > many big chunks of seal meat and seal : fat as would serve to make the founda- : tion of a most nourishing and savory Eskimo stew. To the seal meat she had added enough ptarmigans and hares to give each member of the community one, and thereafter she carefully, tended the fire so that the mess simmered gently and continuouslv, and the broth was kept well replenished. Meantime a host of youngsters gathered about the fire, sniffling the odors and dancing with" one another and singing a song that related the trials of an Eskimo lover who, having failed to win the object of his desires, went away and married a wild goose, a song very popular on such occasions in Eskimo land. But the older part of the community kept strictly within the huts. By and by, when the stew was done to the taste of Mrs. Manasse, she called her husband from their hut, and thereupon he begain shouting at the top of his voice: "O-e-yo! O-e-yo!" which is an Eskimo word of invitation to eat boiled meat. The people all came out so quietly that a stranger would have surmised that they had been waiting, perhaps not without come impatience, for the word to come. Gathering about the fire, thev all squatted down in a circle. Then Peter's father, with a seal rib sharpened at one end, dexterously picked a piece of boiled meat from the kettle and passed it to Mr. Andreas, who was squatted by his side. Mr. Andreas put as much of it as possible into his mouth, and then cutting his bite clear with a knife he had brought with him for the purpose, he passed the chunk to the next person on h? right. A tin can full of the soup followed the meat in its travels around the circle, each man drinking a swallow and passing the can along?growlfcr fashion?the men being served first and the women ind children afterward in succession. Then the bread was passed around, so that each one had a biscuit, and in the meantime coffee hud been boiled on a fire in the hut by one of the Andreas girls, unci this was brought out and passed as the soup had beeu. It was a remarkably tine Eskimo feast, and no attention was puid to anything but the eating, save by the two most interested persons present, young Peter and pretty Juliana. As for Juliana, she was seated on a rock on the side of the circle furtherest from the Mauasse door, way, and was keeping a bright lookout for every motion that Peter made, being determined to give him such a tussle as he had never dreamed of whenever he strove to capture her, as he was sure to do before the festivities were ended. Peter was waiting until when, after the edge had been taken from appetite, the oldest woman in the village would pnnfrrt nf tlio nrrAim nn/1 would there entertain everybody by contorting her facc just as children do making faces. lie had noticed, wily fellow, that the old woman's doing3 always convulsed pretty Juliana, and he guessed that if he were ever to capturc the girl he must make his rush at the climax of the fun, when the old woman, with bulging eyes, wide, extended mouth and protruding tongue, would call herself Quarnat?the moon. It was, therefore, with beating heart and rising emotions that he watched the well-known programme of the feast pass on till at last old Marie Tirra stepped into the ring aud began the fun by looking square at pretty Juliana and then drawing one side of her face into a remarkable grimace. Under ordinary circumstauces Juliana would have roared with laughter, but this time her eyes had been wandering elsewhere, and sho had seen, looking over the shoulder of her father and past the head of her unaccepted lover, an oomiak or great boat full of strangers coming around the rocks at the entrance of the little harbor, while two men in kayalks paddled beside the oomiak. Instead of laughing she jumped to her feet and shouted: "Strangers! Strangers!" It was a most startling event in the history of the little settlement. At the sound of the girl's voice evprybody stood up and looked toward the strange boat. Then all flocked down to the landing and greeted the newcomers by shouts and inquiries regarding their health. It was a cordial meeting in appearance only, however, for according to custom, one of the strangers had to wrestle with a picked man of the settlement, and under a very old custom the stranger, if defeated, could be killed by the victor?a custom now obsolete. Now, the party of strangers includod an old man, his wife, two sons, a daughter-in-law and several children. The sons were in the kayaks, and it was tho unmarried one who led the way to the landing. As he stepped from his kayak the villagers by common instinct turned toward young Peter Manasse. He had had hard luck ill wooing a wife, and here was his opportunity to show his prowess such as he had never had before. In some way?probably from the chatter among the gossips?the young straucer seemed to apprehend the condition of affairs in the village, and looked at one after another of the maidens standing behind their elders and glancing shyly at him when they thought he wouldn't observe them, until at last his eyes fell on Juliana. Ker beauty of face and form would have convinced a less observant youth that she was the one sought for, but had anything else been wanting, her quick flush was enough to a i mi A. Deiray ner. lneruut mu youag struager picked a great dead swan?a very rare bird in those parts?from the top of his kayak and carried it to the feet of pretty Juliana, who said not a word, though she smiled very brightly toward her mother. Then the young man said: 'My name is Habakik. Who is it that will meet Habikik?" and young Peter Mauasse stepped from the group and said that it was he. The two eyed each other and then, as white athletes would say, began to wrestle catch-ascatcli-can. It was a mighty and memorable struggle. No such match had ever been seen by any one present. With equal strength and skill they pulled and pushed and lifted, hither and thither, about the level beach, till both were flaming red in the face and bathed in psrspiration. Then the foot of the stranger slipped and he stumbled forward, head down, under Peter's right arm. A shout went up from the villagers, but before Peter could take advantage of the slip Habikik had grabbed the young man about the knees, lifted him from his feet aud threw him hiavily with his back on the sand. And there the two lay panting, while blood oozed s'.owly from Peter's nose, the shock of the fall having burst a small blood vessel. After a minute or so, when both had partially recovered their wind, they rose slowly, and the villagers began once more giving the strangers a cheery welcome, in which, though crestfallen, Peter joined heartily. As he stood before Habakik, saying it had been a fair fight and well won, he saw the pretty Juliana, her big brown eyes watching the blood flowing down his face with a look of concern in them that uo bright young Eski-1 mo man could mistake. She was just outside of the group of villagers, and her father and brothers had run down to l?nlrv rlmtf t1ir> c+rnnrro nnmifit An sVintw ">-'f *"?*" ??to- ~ Juliana, catching the eye of Peter, turned her head very quickiy away, and then the long disappointed lover reached her side with a jump, picked her up in his arms, and fled away in triumph to his father's iglu, and there they remained till the rc3t were through with the feast. A week later the moon was full. Juliana received from her mother a new scraping knife and a new butcher's knife, and from her father a lamp made of a hollow stone. The white trader gave her a very fine, large iron kettle, a coffee pot and a great quantity of bright colored eoods, and beads enough for a new collar a foot wide, which, under the circumstances, was a very decent thing for the trader to do. Juliana, as was said, was a very pretty girl. Then Juliana and Peter went to the house of the native preacher, and in the prcseucc of all the people were married according to the Lutheran service, for nearly all Greenland Eskimos are Lutherans, When Juliana had married him Peter went to live with his mother-in-law, according to the u3ual Eskimo custom. Eskimo wits never make jokes about the mother-in-law. It would not be iu good form. The Eskimo mother-in-law rules the household. She can even command a divorce, the process being a simple one. She orders her unacceptable sou-in-law out of the house, and when he obeys, ai he always does, she throws any personal property after him that he may have left behind. Doth the young people are then free to marry again. j The Eskimos do not marry cousins. A | man could always have as many wives as he could support before the Danes discouraged polygamy, and it was the rule for a man to take one of the sisters of his chosen sweetheart. It is said that the old practice is still adhered to, though j without the sanction of any religious i ceremony. I It occasionally happens that a newly! married couple Jo not begin housckeepj ing at once?each instead remaining ! home. On the other hand, some young ! men set up a separate establishment at ! once by buildiug a new iglu or house. Even then, the husband is not unlikelj to have his wife's parents come in and , live with him. "When the new husband goes to his wife's house one end of the low platform, used as abed in the house, is curtained off to form the bridal chamber, and in front of that the young wife may set up her own lamp if she choose. The bridegroom is expected to make a present to his wife's parents, even when he has to fight to get her or when he is betrothed to her in early years. In the old days he had to buy her.?New York Sun. Imagination Killed Her. A remarkable instance of the hold superstition has upon the mind of even the j educated and religious was recently exhibited in the case of Mrs. Rebecca ' Byrnes, of Helena, Ark., a lady noted for her intellectual attainments aud pious J life. Oqo morning, arising in what seemed her usual health and spirits, she summoned her children to come to her. One son was residing in Topeka, Kan.; one in New Orleans; two daughters were married and living in Sedalia, Mo., but, obedient to their mother's call, they came at once, though ignorant of the reason of their summons. "When all were about her the lady informed them that she had had a dream in which her husband, who had been dead for nearly fifteen years, had warned her that she had only ten days more of life. She sent for her children to bid them good-by, which she proceeded to do with much calmness, but with the air of one who had not the slightest doubt that she wa3 already dying. Hsr friends attempted to reason with her and to point out the folly of placing such perfect confidence in a dream, but all to no purpose, for the lady persisted in asserting that she would depart from earth on such a day and exactly at a certain hour. Her pastor remonstrated with her, and even brought the severest censure to bear on her superstitious credulity, and ai, last Mrs. Byrnes ceased to speak of the matter, so that her family had begun to think that she had conquered her fancy. She continued 'n excellent health, and pursued her usual daily life, but just befnrn the Vinnr slip lmrJ nredirted -would I I be that of her death she sought her chil- \ dren and bade them good-by; then, seating herself quietly in an arm-chair, expired just as the hour was struck. The physicians declare that her death was due solely to her imagination.?St. Louis Star-Sayings. The Art of Manicuring. Very few people know how to properly care for the nails. In cleaning them a sharp knife ought never to be used, but between the ends of the nails and the fingers the space should be filled with soap (this is best done by dragging the finger nails along the bar), and then removed by brushing with a good, stiff nail brush. The best brush for this purpose is made in the shape of a half cylinder, the inside of which is furnished with short, stiff bristles that can nevef become soft and useless. It also nts close aDout tue nngers, scouring tnem effectually. Mauy improperly cut away that part of the flesh which grows over the nail from the bottom; they should simply press it backward sufficiently to show the white "half-moon," considered by soldo to bo a mark of beauty. If the flesh is adherent to the nail the operation may be facilitated by passing the sharp point of a knife underneath tho fold of the flesh and separating it from its attachments. With this done, it can be pushed back more readily. Scissors should never be used to cut the nails; that should be done only with a Bharp penknife.?Detroit Free Press. Remarkable Giants. The teeth aud bones of the fossil elephants found in Europe were formerly assigned to giants, and many remarkable stories were circulated regarding what was supposed to have been an extinct race of men "with teeth weighing from four to ten pounds." The last of these finds, which was believed to be the remains of a giant of the genus homo, was discovered during the reign of Louis XIV., and was referred to as the giant of Dauphine. These gigantic remains were discovered by a surgeon, who stated they were enclosed in an enormou3 sepulchre, covered with a etc:^ slab which boro the inscription: "Teutoboc"nu3 rex;'' and that in the vicinity there was also found coins and medals, all of which showed the remains to be those of a giant king of Cimbri, who fought against Marius and was slain. It was afterward proved that the surgeondiscoverer of these gigantic remains was a9 great a fraud as the man who manufactured the plaster cast known as the "Cardiff Giant." The story of Teutobochus res is even excelled by that of another giant, called tho giaat of Lucerne, whose remains, when dug up, were described by a learned professer of Basle, who, by the way, was skilful enough to put the bones together so that they resembled a human skeleton no less than twenty-six feet in height. For some time the deluded people of Lucerne paid homage to this elephantine prodigy, until Blumenbach proved to the learned faculty of the Jesuit College, where it lay in state, that their relic was but the remains of a monster elephant, long sincc extinct.?St. Louis Republic. For His Own Coffin. George "W. Piper, of Sebewa, Mich., formerly a merchant, is dying of consumption, ^and has developed a queer mania for economy. He is a man of considerable means, and is sane on all other points but that of his own fuueral. A week ago he took a laborer with him "into a swampy piece of woodland and cut down a lot of red cedars. IIo had the logs sawed iDto boards and took the boards-to the best cabinet-maker and surprised that workmau by ordering him to build a coffin to measure. IIo said he did not propose to have the undertakers make anything out of his dying, and he made a contract with the village expressman to carry that box to the grave. Mr. riper walehcs tliat camnet-nxauer at work aud sees to it that the job is not slighted. He is growing weaker every day, and cannot totter to the workshop to superintend the job more than once or twice more.? Chicago Tribune. The Wind Cave of the lllaok Hills. i A new discovery was made in the wind cave last week by which openings were found that took a seven hours' tramp to oue of the subterranean cham: bers and return. This cave is surpass; ing the famous Mammoth Cavo of Kcn; tucky in magnitude and will be a princical object of attraction to visitors to thQ ' Black HUla,?Deadvood Phmtr, :t V j? - - v - /; ....... _ ; REV. DR. TALMAGE. | THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN "* DAY SERMON. Subjcct: "Faith Without Works." Text: "Faith without works is dead."? Jas. ii., 20. The Roman Catholic Church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good works aud not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good works as connected with salvation. Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works he has no real faith and no genuine religion. There are those who depend upon the fact that they are all right inside, while tlieir conduct is wrong outside. Their religion for the most part is made up of talk?vigorous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, perpetual talk. They will entertain you by the hour m telling you how good they are. Thoy come up to such a higher life that wo have no patienca with ordinary Christians in the pla'n discharge of their duty. As near as I can tel], this ocean craft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretopmast staysails, foretopmast studding sail, maintopsail, mizzentopsail?everything from flying jib to mizzen spanker, but making no useful voyage. Now the world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work into all th? circumstances of life. We do not want a new religion, but the old religion applied in all possible directions. Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, and it roars like a young Niagara " . it rolls on over it3 rough bed. It does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its 6ource in the mountain to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are 60 steep the cattle cannot come down to drink. It aoes not run one fertilizing rill into tha adjoining field. It has not one grist mill 01 factory on either side. It sulks in wel weather with chilling fogs. No one cares when that river is born among tha rocks, and no one cares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another river, and it mossea its banks with the warm tides, and it rocka with floral lullaby the water lillies asleep ou its bosom. It invites herds of cattle, and flocks of sheep, and coveys of birds to come there and drink. It has three grist mills on one side and six cotton factories on the other. It is the wealth of two hundred miles of luxuriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in th9 mrmntAino nnd thp nnr>Art shinninc will rtress in from the sea to boil it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who lives for himself, the other river is a man who lives for others. Do you know how the site of the ancient city of Jerusalem was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the othei bad no family. The brother with a large family said, "There is my brother with nc family; he must be lonely, and I will try tt cheer him up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my field in the night time and set them over on his farm and say nothing about it." The other brother said, "My brother has a large family, and it is very difficult for him to support them, and I wil help him along, and I will take some of the sheaves from my own farm in the night time and set them over on his farm and say noth ingaboutit." So the work of transference went on night after night, and night after night, but every morning things seemed tt be just as they were, for though sheaves hac been subtracted from each farm, sheaves hac also been added, and the brothers were pei>' plexed and could not understand. But one night the brothers happened to meet while making this generous transference, and th? 6pot where they met was so sacred that it was chosen as ihe site of the city of Jerusalem. If that tradition should prove unfounded it will nevertheless stand as a beautiful allegory setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed that is the spot fit for some temple of commemoration. I have often spoken to you about faith, but now I speak to you about works, for "faith without works is dead." I tbink you will agree with me in the statement that tno great want of this world is more practical religion. "We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will supervise tho labeling o' goods. It will not allow a man to say a thing was made in one factory when It was made in another. It will not allow the merchant to say that watch was manufactured in Geneva, Switzerland, when it vras manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say that wine came from Madeira wheu it came from California. Practical religion will walk along by the store shelves and tear off all the tags" that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say that is pure coffee when dandelion root and chicory and other ingredients go into it. It will not allow him to say that is pure sugar when there are in it Band and ground glass. "When practical religion gets its full swing in the world it will go down the streets, and it will come to that shoo store and rip off the fictitious soles of many a fine looking pair of shoes, and show that it is pasteboard sandwiched between the sound leather. And this practical religion will go right into a grocery store, and it will pull out the plug of all the adulterated sirups, and it will dump into the ash barrel in front of the store the cassia bark that is sold for cinnamon and the brick dust that is sold for cayenne pepper, and it will shake out the Prussian blues from the tea leaves, and it will sift from the flour plaster of Paris and bone dust and soapstone, and it will by chemical analysis separate the one quart of Ridgewood water from the few honest droDs of cow's milk, and it will throw ont the livi animalcules from the brown sugar. There has been so much adulteration o( articles of food that it is an amazement to me that there is a healthy man or woman in America. Heaven only knows what they puPhito the spices, and into the sugars, and mto the butter, and into the apothecary drugs. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made wonderful revelations . The board of health in Massachusetts analyzed a great amount of what was called pure coffee and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there i9 a law that forbids the putting of alum in bread. The public authorities examined fifty-one packages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescription, does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his patient, because there may be one of tho drugs weakened by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in lull force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. Oil of wormwood, warranted pure, from Boston, was found to havo forty-one per cent, of resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable medicinal dru^s. It is very rare, vary precious. It is the sap or the gum of a tree or bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision is made into the root, and then shells aro placod at this incision to catch the sap or tho gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. Rut the peasant mixes it with cheaper material; then it is taken to Aleppo, and tho merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist in London or New York, and he mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes to the- retail druggist, and he mixes it with a cheaper material, aim by sne time uio |?m situ iunUgets it into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pure scarninony after analysis has beoo tound to bo no scamniony at all. Now practical religion will yet rectify alt this. It will go to those hypocritical professors of religion who got a "corner" in corn and wheat in Chicago and Now York, sending prices up and up until they were beyond the reach of the poor, keeping thee? breadstuffs in their own hands, or controlling them until, the prices going up and up and up. they were after awhile ready to sell, and they sold out, making themselves millionaires in ou.) or two years ?trying to fix the matter up with the Lord by building a church, or a university, or a hospital?deluding themselves with the idea that tho Lord would ba so pleased with the gift He would forget tho swindle. Now, as such a man may not have auv liturgy in which to say his prayers, I will compose for him one which no practically is making: "O Lord, wo, by getting a 'corner' in breadstuff?, swindled tho peoplo _? a. j i. _o oi mo unitou ouiitw out ul i/eu uumuu uur lars, and made suffering "all up and down the lund, and we would liko to compromise this mutter with Thee. Thou knowest it was a scaly job, but then it was smart. Now, horo wo compromise it. Take one per cent, of tho protlts, and with that one per cont. you can build hn asylum for these poor miserable ragamuffins of the street, and I wiil tako a yacht and go to Europe, for ever and ever, amen!" Ah, my friends, if a man ^ hath gotten his es&to wrongfully, and hq build a line of U<&. 'y " - pital3 and universities from here to Alaska, he cannot atone for it. After a while this man who has been getting a "corner" in wheat dies, and then Satan gets a "corner" on him. He goes into a great, long Black Friday. There is a "break" in the market. According to Wall street parlance, he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collaterals on which to make a spiritual loan. Eternal defalcation I UftF tins pracEIcar reirgTon wHTnat only rectify all merchandise, it will also rectify all mechanism and all toil. A time will come when a man will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done, "Oh, that wa3 done by the 30b I" You can tell by the swiftness or slowness with which a hackman drive3 whether ha is hired by the hour or by the excursion. If he ishii-zd hv tfca nmu-slon he whips up the horses, so as to get arouna ana gee anomer customer. iui styles of work have to be inspected. Ships inspected, horses inspected, machinery inspected. Boss to watch the journeyman. Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to watch the boss. Conductor or a city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nicke). All things must be watched and inspected. Imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them on the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for a dollar and a half. Bookbindery that holds on until you read the third chapter. Spavined hordes by skillful dose of jockeys for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks without any provocation and falls off. Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. Imperfect car wheel that halts the whole train with a hot box. So little practical religion in the mechanism of the world. I tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rectify these things. It will be the all pervadinginflueuce of the practical religion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. Yes, this practical religion will also go into acriculture. which is nroverbiallv honest but needs to be rectified, and it will keep the farmer from sending to the New York market veal that is too young to kill, and when the farmer farms on share3 it will keep the man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his posts and rail fence on his neighbor's premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground when nobody sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the house, and over the barn, and oyer the field, and over the orchard. Yes, this practical religiou of which I speak will come into the learned professions. The lawyer will feel his responsibility in defending innocence, and arraigning evil, and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charging for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percentages he never earned, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, j this practical religion will come into the Ehysician's life, and he will feel the responsiility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by the fact that Christ Himself was a physician. And it will make ! biin honest, ana when he does not understand n ??V*ft will ear ar\ fTVInff frt PAVPf im I C* L-OOC UO "ill OUJ OV| uvyu HI J ?v ?rv ?. v. | lock of diagnosis with ponderous technicalities, or send the patient to a reckless drug store because the apothecary happens to pay a percantags on the prescriptions sent. And this practical religion will come to j the school teacher, making her feel her responsibility in preparing our youth for usefulness, and for happiness, and for honor, and will keep her from giving a sly box to a dull head, chastising him for what he cannot help, and sending discourgement all through the after years of a lifetime. This practical religion will .also come to the newspaper men, and it will help them in the gathering of the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best interests of society, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than its virtues, and its mistakes than its achievements. Yes, this religion, this practical religion, will come and put its hand on what is called i good society, elevated society, successful society, so that people will have their expenditures within their income, and they will ex- j change the hypocritical "not at home" for ! the honest explauation "too tired" or "too busy to see you," and will keep innocent reception from becoming intoxicating conviviality. Yes, there is a great opportunity for mis- j gionary work in what are called the successful classes of society. It is no rare thing now to see a fashionable woman intoxicated j in the street, or the rail car, or the restau- j rant. The number of Hue ladies who drink | too much is increasing. Perhaps you may ! And her at the reception in most exalted ; company, but she has mado too many visits ! to the wine room, and now her eye is glassy, I and after a while her cheek is unnaturally f flushed, and then she fails into fits of i excruciating laughter about nothiug, and j then she offers sickening flatteries, telling j some homely man how well he looks, and then she is helped into the carriage, and by the time the carriage get to her home it takes the husband and coachman to get her up the stairs. The report is, She was taken suddenly ill at a german. Ah! no. She took too much champagne, and mixed rrr,+ rlmnlr Thflt WHS all. VeSj this practical religion will have to I come in and fix up the marriage- relation in | America. There are members of churchea i who have too many wives and too mauy has- i band3. Society needs to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. "We have missionary- societies to reform Eltn street, in New York, BeJford street, Phila- | delphia, and Shoreditcb, London, and the j Brooklyn docks; but there is need of an or- ! ganization to reform much that is going on I in Beacon street and Madison square and j Rittenhouse square and West End and Brooklyn Heignt3 and Brooklyn. Hill. We j want this practical religion not only to take i hold of what are called the lower classes, I but to take hold of what are called the | higher classes. The trouble is that people have an idea they can do all their religion on Sunday with hymn book and prayer book and liturgy, and some of themsitin church rolling up their eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sides by an inconsistent life, and while you are expecting to come-out from under their arms the wings of an angel, there come out from their forehead the horns of a beast. There has got to be a new departure in religion. I do not say a new religon. Oh,, no; but the old brought to new aDDliances. In our time we nave had the daguerreotype, and the ambrotype, ana tne photograph, but it is the same old sun, and these arts are only new appliances of the old sunlight. So this glorious Gospel is just what we want to photograph, the image of God on one soul, daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new Gospel, but the- old Gospel put to-new work. In our time we have had the telegraphic inventiou, and the telephonic invention, and the electric light invention, but they aro all the children of old. electricity, an element that the philosophers have a long while known much, about. So this electric Gospel needs to flash its light on the eyes and ears aDd souls of men, and became a telephonic medium to make the deaf hear, a telegraphic medium to dart invitation and warning to all nations; an eleotrin lichi to illuminate the eastern and western hemispheres. Wot a new Gospo.', but tin old Gospel doing a new work. Now you 6ayf "That is a very beautifn theory,, but is it possible to take one's religion into all the avocations and business ol life?" Yes, and I will give you a few specimens. Medical doctors who took their re ligion-into everyday life: Dr. John Abercrombie? of Aberdeen, tbo greatest Scottish physician of the day, his book on "Diseases of the Ptrain and Spinal Cord," no more wonderful than his book on "The Philosophy ot tha Moral Feelings," and often kneeling at the bedside of his patients to cornmendthein to God in prayer. Dr. John Brou n, of Edinburgh, immortal as an author, dvingund?r the benediction of the sick of Edinburgh, myself romembsring hitn as ha s it in his study in Edinburgh talking to me about Christ ami his hope of heaven. And a score of Christian family physicians in Brooklyn just as good as they wore. T awyers who carrio 1 their religion into their profession: Tho late Lord Cairns, the Queen's adviser for many years, the highest le.^al authority in Great Britain?Lord Cairns,ewry summer in his vacation, preaching as an Evangelist among the poor of his country. John McLean, J udgo of the Supremo Court of tho United States and President of tho American Sunday School Union, foaling moro satisfaction in tho latter office than in tho former. And scores of Christum lawyers its eminent in tho church of God as they aro eminent at the bar. Merohants who took their religion into everyday life: Arthur Tappan, derided in big day because ho established that system by which, rrg come to flud cut the c-oinraar" V * i ' ' cial standing of buaaaa men, starting that entire system, derided for it then, himself, as I knew him well, In moral character A1. Monday mornings inviting to a room in the top of his storehouse the clerks of his establishment, asking them about their worldly interests and their spiritual interests, then giving out a hymn, leading in prayer, giving them a few words of good advice, asking them what church they attended on the Sabbath, what the text was. whether they had any especial troubles of their o wn. Arthur Tappan. I never heard his eulogy pronounced. I pronounce it now. Ana other merchants ju3t as good. William E. Dodge, in the iron business; Mose3 H. Grinnell, in the shipping business; Peter Coooer, in the glue business. Scores of men just as good as they were. Farmers who take their religion into their occupation: Why, this minute their horses and wagons stand around all the meeting houses in America. They began this day by a prayer to God, and when they get home at noon, after they have put their horse3 up, will offer prayer to Goa at the table, seeking a blessing, and this summer there will be in their fields not one dishonest head of rye, not one dishonest ear of corn, not one dishonest apple. Worshiping God to-day away up among the Berkshire Hills,or away down amid the lagoons of Florida, or away out amid the mines of Colorado, or along the banks of the Passaic and the Raritan, where I knew them better because I went to school with them. Mechanics who took their religion into their occupations: James Brindley, the famous millwright; Nathaniel Bowditch, the famous ship chandler; Elihu Burritt, the famous blacksmith, and hundreds and thousands of strong arms which have made the hammer, and the saw, and the adze, and the drill, and the ax sound in the grand march of our national industries. Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to Him your store, your shop, your banking house, your factory and your home. They say no one will hear it. God will hear it. That is nnnn<yVi Vnu hnrrllv know of anv one else than Wellington as connected with the victory at Waterloo; but he did not do the hard flghtiug. The hard fighting was done by the Somerset cavalry, and the Kyland regiments, and Kempt's infantry, and the Scots Grays and the Life Guards. Who cares, if only the day was won! In the latter part of th9 last century a girl in Englaud became a kitchen maid in a farm house. She had many styles of work, and much hard work. Time rolled on, and sh? married the son of a weaver of Halifax. They were industrious; they saved money enough after a while to build them a home. On the morning of the day when they were to enter that home the young wife rose at 4 o'clock, entered the front door yard, knelt down, consecrated the place to God, and there male this solemn vow: "0 Lord, if Thou will bless me in this place, the poor shall have a share of it." Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Children grew up around them, and they all became affluent; one, a member of parliament, in a publio tilaca declared t'uat n;s success came from that prayer of his mothsr in the door yard. All of tlxeiu were affluent. Four thousand hands in their factories. They buUt dwelling housas for laborers at cheap rents, and when they were invalid and could not pay they hart the houses for nothing One of these sons came to this country, admired our parks, went b&sk, bought land, opened a great public park, and made It a present to tho city of Halifax, England. They endowed an orphanage, they enaowed two almshouses. All England has heard of the generosity and the good works of the Crossleys. Moral?Consecrate to God your small means and your humble surroundings, and you will have larger means and grander surroundings. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come." Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead." TOPULAR SCIENCE. Tnr?;,mrmoIig. Ind.. boastg of an abui dant supply of natural gas. A new typewriter, under the "point" system, produces writings which the blind can read. At least one person in three betweee the age of ten and forty years is subject to partial deafness. Felix L. Oswald maintains that night air from the outside is far more healthful than the vitiated, disease-laden night air of ordinary human dwellings. A grain of fine sand would cover one J hundred of the minute scales of the human skin, and yet cach of these scales in turn covers from 300 to 500 pores. The Common Council of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the suggestion of the health officer, has passed an ordinance making it a misdemeanor to give public exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism. A method for using the short pieces of carbons usei in the electric arc lights is in operation by the electric light company at Cancord, N. H., and it is stated that it saves thirty per cent, of the cost. The smokeless powder that will be used in the thirty-calibre magazine rifles that the Army Board on Magazine Guns are about to experiment with is^ of Belgian make* It is known as the Wetteran powder. Among the latest disinfectants is "Iysol," which appears to be very much like carbolic acid. The emulsifying agent is resin or fat soap, tar acid being incorporated with the soap at the moment of saponification. A new idea in arc lamps is the substitution of a hollow carbon cylinder for the usual upper carbon point and a disc for the lower rod. The edges of the cylinder and disc are in cod tact, and the light is formed at that point. A Willows (Gal.) paper says that Jeff Ctornetthas utilized three miles of barbed wire fencing for a telephonet It runs from his old ranch home to a new residence just finished. A small wire at each end of the fence connects a telephone in each house. Oxygen is the most abundant of a'li the elements. It composes at least onethird of the earth,, one-fifth of the atmosphere and eight-ninths by weight of all the water on the globe. It is also a very important constituent of all minerals, animals and vegetables. A scientific paper says: Observation* seem to show that a decrease in the earth's latitude is in progress, implying an alteration in the direction or the earth's axis. The fluctuation is thought to be due to a minute oscilation caused by changes in internal wars of the earth. Homoeopathy is said to be spreading in Russia, especially in the upper social strata. Societies for the propagation of the Hahnemannian doctrines hare recently been established at Tseheraigov, Odessa and Warsaw. The clergy are conspicuous among the supporters of tht great medical heresy, and in Russia the military mind seems also to have au elcc- | tivc affinity for globules audiutinitesimal dilutions. Month by month the number of telegrams -which can be sent through a siugle wire increases, and the distnuee through which n telephonic message can be heard is lengthened out. A newly devised apparatus, quite simple in form, is said to take a telegram as it flows from one's pen 1 and transcribe it from the wire in facsimile. Even the words impressed upon tho wax of a phonograph are now capable of being forwarded to distances exceeding a-hundred miles. A large^piine ot agate onyx has been opened iu a, care near.Ozark, J?o. SABBATH SCHOOL^ INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB \ MARCH 8. \ ' *4 Lesson Text: "Naaman Healed," 2 j Kings v., 1-14 ? Golden ; Text: Psalm clif., 8? Commentary. * 1. "NowNaamaD, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and honorable, becaiue by him the Lord had given deliveranca unto Syria." The Bible is full of contrasts. The great contrast is between the Son of God and the devil; then between those who believe God, stand before Him and serve Him, and such as are only . I men of this world, serving of sin and Satan. ' 2. "And the Syrians had gone out by j companies, and bad brought away captive I out of the land of Israel a little maid, and ! she waited on Naaman's wife." Let any j little girl consider well the situation of this J little maid, stolen from home, which was as I much to her as home is to any child, and now a little slave in a far off land, with little if any prospect of seeing father and mother again; and yet she seems to be faithful in her new home under these hard circumstances. Let the boys consider Joseph, stolen from home by his own brethren and serving as a slave in Egypt; and yet we read four times Jo one chapter that the Lord was with him (Gen. mix., 2, 3, 21, 23). 3. "Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for He would recover him of his leprosy." Not only faith* ful as a servant, but faithful in testimony, and laat for tbe benefit of her enemy, reminding us of Rom. v., 8-10; Matt. V., 44; Rom. xii., 20, 21. She knew of the mtghty works done by Elisha, seven of which are recorded in the last three chapters, and she believed that such a mighty man of God could heal even a leper. If Christians had as much faith in Jesus as this little maid had in Elisha they would be pointing every sin. ^ I sick and heavy laden soul to Him. 4. w And one went in and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel." The little girl's saying ^ is being spread abroad. It has now reached his ears for whom it was intended. Wd have only to speak of Jesus as we have op portunity, ana we may bo sure that the message will in due time be owned of God. 5. "And the king of 8yria said, Goto; go,* and I will send a letter onto the king of !* . 3 rael." The little girl spoke of the prophet in Israel, not of the king: of Israel, out kings and such prophets as Elijah and Eltsha were not often in sympathy (I Kings xviii., 17: xxif., 18; II Chron. xvL, 10; xviii., 25, 26J, and the king of Syria may have thought that if there was any power in Israel to heal leprosy the king of Israel would surely know it But neither of these kings knew the God of Elisha nor the power that could heal the leper. ! 6. "Behold I have sent Naaman, my servant, to thee, that thou mayeet recover him J of his leprosy." Thus wrote the king of i Syria to the king of Israel. The Lord who ' 2 gave deliverance to Syria is not recognized. We cannot wonder at this if we consider the church of Christ to-day and see her reliance upon money and influence and the favor of this world, while He whose name she bears is comparatively, unknown and un gets, -but to- oe treatea rnus, ana men to uo sent to Jordan, is too much for his Syrian ,IM pride, and ht went away in a ra^e BH 13. " My father,. if the prophet had bid BB| thee do some great thin?, wouldst thou not havedono it?' Thus reason his servants with him, showing mare wisdom than their master, for "Great men are not al ways wise" gaE (Job xxxii., 9); anJ they had him, too, as we say, for that was just the thought of his jjjHj heart. 14. "Thfia wont h? down." That is good, fin for every proud person must come down, ana M if they come willingly it will save God the |PB trouble of bringiujj them down. HH " And dippei nimself seven times in Ufl Jordan, according to the saying of the man 8BB of God." He is now obedient and in the ? ?? rf and blessed he shall be. KH Jordan is the river of judgment. Had therenever been an there had never been sickness. Sin mast bo judged and condemned MM and put away. Seven times denotes perfect MB cleansing. "And bia flesh came again like-unto the ?H flenh of a little Aild, and ho was cleans MB Just as the man of 6od had said so it came- flE to pass. It always baa been, is and will be |^B just as God says. Tkere is nothing like- the BH word of God, and o* our part nothing like obedience. It Is not some great thing we xffl| are to dQ to be clean, but just come as we arc, and accept Jesus as God's gift to us> and He will do great things for us.?Le&stm H Helper. Ax Elk ton, 3Id., man feared that he jSH might bo buried before Le was really . dead, and he, therefore, directed in his will that hid body should bo kept foi forty days in a shed built for the pur- BfiH rvnen TTa wantttil <\ bottle of water be side him, a latch on the inside of the door and a roof slanting to the west. ?D lie is m>\y lying iu the shod. HM As old fellow who has been married HH six times savs that a man can impose JH on a woman, and fool her, in most '^HS things, but it has been his experience4 fflH that as soon as a woman becomes jeal- jaW| oils, a man had better tafco iu3 hat and M| rUC. ~i,r. - * H JM Iouuguu auu uuucuvicu. ' ;j 7. "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy V Thus spake the king of Israel, when having read the letter he rent his clothes and fancied that Syria's king sought a quarrel with him. "Am I God?' reminds us of Jacob's angry words to his wife Rachel (Gen. m., 2), and killing and making alive reminds us of Deut. xxxii., 30,1 Sam. ii., The king of Israel wa? in the place of God'* representative, and inet?ad of getting angry he should have felt honored, and been able to point to Him who alone can kill and make alive. 8. "Let him come now to me and he shall know that there is a prophet iu Israe!." Thus spake the man of God when he heard that tne king had rent his clothes. Here is the ^. one to whom Naaman should have come; he fears not man, nor does he seek honor from man, but be loves to honor God. 9. "8o Naaman cnme with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha." A great and honorable and mighty man of this world stands at the door of this poor and dependent servant of God. He is now in the right place, but not in the right spirit. Ho knows that he is a leper, that he has a deadly disease, and he has come a long journey seeking for health; but then be is no poor man: he does not come as a beggar; he is not like the leper of Matt. friii., nor the ten of Luke xvii. He is able to , pay for his healing and he wants it done: as to a great and mighty man. He is dealing with men and. wants his position before moa to be recognized. He does not know Luke xvi^ IS. [ 10. "Ana Jsnsiia sent a messenger uuvj bim saying. Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to . thee, and thou shalt be clean." What magnificent indifference to earth's potentates and earth's favors. What an opportunity to make a friend with great influence ana obtain a great sum of money. But, like Abram before the king of Sodom, be is conscions that the possessor of heaven and earth is his friend, and he can afford to say concerning the king of Sjrria's gold and silver, UI will receive none"' (vs.. 16). But what a gracious messago he sends to Naaman, and what a simple requirement and glorious result. J 11. "But Naaman was wroth, and went away and said, Behold, I thought" * * * He wanted health, but lie wanted it given in & style befitting his high position, ana he had his own thouehte as to haw it ouzht to be done. He fancied just how Elisha would come out and cry to Jehovah, and with great SB demonstration make him a well man. Bat |H all his thoughts are swept away. BH?h% B does not even come out to him, and there is B9 no demonstration, but only a kind message MB telling him what to do and promising health. H Many are to-day out of Christ and unsaved BH just because they have their own thoughts OB as to how they onght to- be converted, and |H *hey won't come any other way. HB 12. "-Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers H| of Damascus, better than all tae waters of Israel?" Here are somt> more of his thoughts; IH Syria is better than Israel, Damascus than Jerusalem^. Abana arul Pharpar than Jordan. It is a great humiliation for bim, a Syrian, MS to come to Israel seeking any favor, and he ,Hg does not want favors; lie can pay for all ho