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r ST. I SPRING SONG. jer'-.' - Bo many ways to wander in, So many lands to seel Tha wp?t, wind blows thronch t' ? orchard close. f' And the white clouds wander free; The wild birds sing in the heart of spring, i And the green boughs beckon ne. And it's oh, for the wide world, far away, I Tis there I fain would be, For it calls me, claims me, the livelong day, Bweet with the sounds and the scents of May, Anti the wind in the linden-tree; The wild birds sing in the heart of spring, And the green boughs beckon me. "Far and far, in tfce distance dim, Thy .artune waiteth thee"? I know not where, but the world is fair js With many a strange countrie; The wild birds sing in the heart of spring, And the green boughs beckon me. Bo many ways I may never win, Skies I may never see! Oh, wood-ways sweet for the vagrant feet, What may not come to be? What'do they sing in the heart of spring? And where do they beckon me? Farewell, farewell, to my father's house! Farewell, true love, to tbee! Dear, and dear, are the kind hearts here, And dear mine own roof-tree? But the wild birds sing in the heart of spring, And the green boughs beckon me. ?Graham R. Tomson, in Scribner. TVip T.nncr-TlTnfint.fi^ T.ftttflf. ing,''said she. "Oh, 1 am so sorry i Was she a friend of yours?" They had stopped opposite the little ! gate where the wheel-tracks of the hearse j were yet visible. The sign "Millinet ! and Dressmaker" yet creaked in the j wind, the red sud was sinking behind ; the low eaves, Rnd Miss Genny's cat rub- | bed itself against the doorsill as if begging to be let in. "A friend!" repeated the stranger, as he drew an old-fashioned miniature from his pocket. "See, hero is her picture! I:ve waited all these years to make a home for, and now?she is dead!" Isabel looked at the picture. Good heavens! had Genevieve Seaman ever looked as fair and dimpled and smiling as that? And the thought flashed across he: mind that it was well that this Captain j Glcason had not been undeceived. "Yes," she repeated, softly, "she is] dead." "And you were her friend?" "Yes, I was her friend?at least ? much any one here," falteringly owned i Isabel, feeling like an impostor. "Then perhaps you can tell me something of her. I waited to surprise her? and now?" His voice wa3 choked; he turned hia face away. Isabella told him, in a low, soft voice, all that she could?all that was good and cheering and hopeful?and Captain Glea- J son went back to the village hotel,walk- j I iug slowly, with his hands behind his ( I Kor.1- onr? hia Vipnr} drnnninc on his breast. For the time be truly mourned the j sweetheart of his youth, but no one cat grieve forever. Moss grows over the fallen tree; vio' lots bloom above the new-made grave. Poor Miss Genevieve was dead and buried, and when the next April blossomed ove; the laud, Captain Glcason was married to Isabel Islay. "If death was really so near her, I'm , glad I wrote the letter that made hci | happy," thought Isabel. "And Edward will always think of her as young and beautiful! But I never, never will plaj another practical joke!"?Saturdai, Night. Lake Tahoc's Peculiarities. A tradition has long prevailed that the waters of Lake Tahoe, California, will not sustain the weight of a human body, and that many daring swimmers have perished by venturing into its treacherous depths. A few years ago it was reported I that members of Le Conte's surveying ' party had disproved the old notion, j which up to that time had been respected 'bv Indians, Spaniards and Americans; ' alike. Now it is reported that a mem- I ber of the Le Conte party denies that the I attempt was made.?St. Lcuis Republic. The Ilcrculcs Kecllc. The biggest inscct of its kind in the . world is the hcrcules beetle of South ! America, which grows to be six inches ' in length. It is said, whether truthfully 1 or not, that great numbers of these creatures are sometimes seen on the mamrmca tree, rasping the rind trom the slender I branches by working around them with 1 their horns until they cause tiie juice ta flow. This juice they drink to intoxication, and thus fall senseless to the | gWund.?Chicago Herald. I fejif- 4> UV UWMi MV W?W4 9E;: BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. The yellow narcissus was all in blossom in the little yard that fronted the Tillage postoffice; the maple trees had dropped their red star3 long ago, and lET* here and there one found pink clus^ ters of honey-swcct trailing arbutus in the woods. Isabel Islay had a bunch in the front tof her jacket as she sauntered up to see if there were any letters; but they were p' no pinker than her cheeks. A little group of men and women had , assembled there for the same purpose. The women eyed Isabella, and wondered how it was that her dresses always ' 'set ?o stylishly;" the men looked admiringly at her big blue eyes and rosy complexion. Two or three other mill girls joined jc her; they laughed and talked gaily as ithe spec\acled old postmaster sorted the mails. ? At last the unpainted pine partition :> slid back, the spectacles appeared in the aperture and the postmaster cried, v briskly: "Naow, thenl "Who wants their ?- -irn R?-j man: Hp. Isabella stepped briskly forward. "Anything (or me, Sir. Rider?" said she. "Islay, Miss I. Isabel Islav. 'Miss . Isabel Islay!'" read out (he old man. /? " "'"Three for you. Who next?" V ''Isabel gets all the letters!" giggled fife the mill girls, as Isabella received her j? treasures. "She might divide with us! Hear comes Miss Seaman. Now for gome fun!" A pallid, pinched, old-young lady & here advanced with a smirk on hercounfe^-^tenance, and a faded shawl, whose folds fv scarcely covered the flat basket that she carried. "Anything for me, JVlr. postmaster f she demanded, with ill-simulated indifXereuce. "No, mum!" carelessly answered the ; official. "Are you sure?" "Yes'm!" "Oh!". A blank expression crept Mfesr across her face. "But it really don't ljj? signify. I just thought I'd inquire, as [,*> I chanced to be passing." And she withdrew, amid the very j audible titters of the mill girls. "There ain't a maii comes in," said the postmaster, oracularly, "but Miss Qenny Seaman's here a-watchin' for it. And she never gits a letter?not so much as a postal card. I should think she'd git tired o' runnin'." "Miss Genevieve Seaman?" said the I'. carcworn woman of the hoose where the mill girls boarded. "Oh, that all happened years ago! She had a beau, or E5&' - ? J - i. U ~ ,1 __ Uinin , anu nu weuv away?uuuuuj jesi knew whar. Reckon she didu't know r. herself. And it sort of upsot her brain, [,?, and she hain't fairly been herself sence. She's a very good dressmaker, and sho trims a bonnet quite scrumptiouslv, and r ?o 6he earns a decent liviu'. But she's been expectin' a letter this twenty-odd jear, an' it's never come." kr "Girls," said Isabel Islay, as they sat at the round table that evening, laughing and talking, "it's near the first of > April! Let's write a letter to that poor olu thing from her lover in the East." "Was he her lover?" said Lucy Felton. "Well, from the man she imagined to be her lover. Let's make it fervont aa fire and sweet as sugar. Let's lay it k" on thick."-.. jft "In short, let's make an April Fool of jg Miss Genny Seaman," said Mary Crane, who was retriuiing an old hat with lilac H ribbons and a bunch of violets. K "Just that," said Isabel. W "But you don't eveu know the fellow's name." "I can find that out. M;s. "Webb i knows, and I can easily coax it ouc of E: ; her. It will be such fuul" It was the morning of the first of April ?a blue-skied, breezy day, with the air full of growing scents and bluebird whistles?and soon after the cumbrous old four-horse stage had crashed through the village, the usual crowd began to assemble in the little postofticc. Isabel Islay was there, and Lucy Felton, and black-eyed Mary Crane; and presently Miss Genevieve Seaman came tripping in with the peculiar gait which the irre\crent village children compared to a rat wnlkinir unon walnut shells. " O " i "Tw o for Miss Islay," said the old man. scrutinizing each letter with provoking slowness. "One for Squire Zurab?" bablc Jenkins; one for Widder Ilopper, and o.;c for?Miss?Geaericve?Seai man!" Is ;bel flashed a inerrv glance at her companions as the poor little dressmaker ! tiptoed up to the counter, her color changing from safforn to scarlet, her y faded blue eyes full of intent rapture. ; "Is it true?'* said she. "A letter for ft ?me? And I've waited for it all these P years? all?these?years?" j She hid it uuder her shawl, cast a'dcI flant look around at the neighbors' faces i and hurried away, like a startled wild -, uiu>ai wu iuov/v/*(/i? She could uot open that letter with other eyes upou her. She felt that she must treasure it to herself, like oue who Ejj^ has discovered a preciouo jewel. REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: "Come, See the Place Where the Lord Lay." Text: "Come see the place wher$ the Lord lay."?Matthew xxviii., 6. Visiting any great city, we are not satisfied until we have also looked at its cemetery. We examine all the styles of conotaph, mausoleum, sarcophagus, cript and -?..intiira Horn lies hnriod n statesman. a Isabel Tslay stopped at the little house where the tin sign, "Millinery and Dressmaking," swung creeking in the wind that evening, on her way home from the mill. The window blind3 were fastened back, the parlor was opened and dusted. Miss Genevieve was moving through and fro, in her best India silk gown, with a flower pinned fantastically in her lustrele33 hair. A round, red spot glowed on each cheek; her bony fingers trembled with excitement as she laid down her spectacles. "Can you press over my Leghorn flat, Miss Seaman?" asked the beauty. "Oh, my dear, I'm afraid not!" said )the little woman, with a hysterical laugh. "Haven't you heard? I?I'm to be married very soon! Captain Edward Gleason?you may perhaps have heard of him ?he used to be a resident of Milltown ?he has made his .fortune, it seems, in Ne w York, and he'e coming back almost directly to?to claim an old promise I made him twenty years ago. My dear, he has loved me?twenty years!" Her eyes shone, her voice faltered with the ecstasy of her soul. "And to-morrow he is coming back to me. Oh, Miss l3lay, it seems almost like a dream!" She laughed again, but her eyes were full of tears. Isabel moved uneasily; she wis almost frightened at what she had done. The joke did not seem half so jocose as it had at first, since poor Miss Genevieve accepted it in such dead earnest. She took advantage of the entrance of a customer to slip out of the little shop, j "Girls," laid, ehs to her co-conspira- I tors, "ne must tell her that?that it ia | only an April Fool I" "Tell her!" echoed Lucy Felton. "What for? She'll find it out soon enough. She need'nt have been such a silly, anyhow 1" "It will kill her!" pleaded Isabel. "No, it won't. People don't die so easily," laughed Lucj. "Heard the news about Miss Qenny Seaman?" said Mrs. Webb, at the boarding-house breakfast table the next rasrniug, as she poured the coffee and helped the eggs and bacon around. Isabel looked guiltily up. "No," said she. "What is it?" "Found dead in her cheer," said Mrs. Webb. "A-smilin' a3 happy as a child. Some heart trouble, the doctor says." Isabel drew a long breath. So sha bad died, and never known how cruelly she had been deceived. ^ ?a vc:? U.1U aside. "Girls," said she, "you must never breathe a syllable of this to auybody. Let the secret die with this poor little woman." "But she died happy at last," said Mary, with the tears running down her checks. "Believing that her old sweetheart was coming back to her." "Ye3, but that don't justify our heartlessness," whispered Isabel. And then and there the three girls entered into a compact secrecy. Miss Genevieve was buried in a shady corner of the village cemetery, and on the very day of the funeral Isabel Islay met a tall, bearded stranger walking along the street, scanning the houses with keeu, i troubled eye3. "Can you tell me," said he, "where Miss Seamau lives?Miss Genevieve Sea- , man?" Isabel started. ">':ss Seamau was buried this morn yonder an orator, hero a post, out there an Inventor, in some other place a great philanthropist. But with how much greater interest and with more depth of emotion we look upon our family plot in the cemetery. In the one case it is a matter of public interest, in the other it is a matter of private and heartfelt affection. But around the grave at which we halt this morning there are gathered all kinds of stupendous interest. At this sepulcher, I have to tell you ?in this sepulcher there was buried a kmg, a conqueror, an emancipator, a friend, a brother, a Christ. Monarch of the universe, but bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, and sorrow of our sorrow, and heart of our heart. "Come, see the place where the Lord lav." It has for surroundings the manor in the miKnrha nf .Tarnsalem. a manor owned bv a wealthy gentleman by the name of Joseph. He was one of the court of seventy who had sondemned Christ, but I think he had voted in the negative, or, being a timid man, had been absent at the time of the casting of the vote. He had laid out the parterre at great expense. It was a hot climate, and I suppose there were broad branched trees and winding paths underneath them, while here the waters rippled over the rock into a flshpool, and yonder the vines and the flowers clambered over the wall, and all around these were the beauties of kiosk and arboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem courtroom, how refreshing to come out in these suburbs botanical and pomological! I walk a little further on in the parterre and I come across a cluster of rocks, and I see on them the marks of a sculptor's chisel. I come still closer and I find that there is a subterranean recess, and I walk down the marble stairs and come to a portico over the 1 1--? aoorway?an m uuhcxiui o wi iiuiw nuu flowers chisled by the hand of the sculptor. I go into the portico, and on either side there are rooms, two or four or six rooms of rock; in the walls niches, each niche large Bnough to hold a dead body. One of these rooms of rock is especially wealthy with sculpture. It was a beautiful and charmiDg spot. Why all this? The fact was that Joseph, the owner of the parterre, of that wealthy manor, had recognized the fact that he could not always walk those gardens,and he sought this as his own last resting place. What a beautiful plot in which to wait for the resurrection! Mark well the mausoleum in the rock. It is to be the most celebrated tomb in all the ages; catacombs of Egypt, tombof Napoleon, Mahal Taj of India, nothing compared with it. Christ had just beeu murdered, and His body must be thrown out to thSdogs and the ravens, as was customary with crucified bodies, unless there be prompt aud effective hindrance. Joseph, tkeownerof the mausoleum, begs for the body of Christ, and he takes and washes the poor and mutilated frame from the blood aud the dust, and shrouds it and perfumes it. I think embalmment was omitted. Wheu in olden times they wished to embalm a dead body, the priest with some pretension of medical skill would show the point between the ribs where the incision was to be made. Then the operator would come and make the incision, and then tun for his life else he wouid be slain for violating the dead body. Then the other priests would come with salt or niter, and cassia, and wine of palm tree, and complete the embalmment But I think in this case em balmment was omitted lest there bo more excitement and another riot. The funeral advances. Present, Joseph, the owner of the mausole lm; Nicodemus, who brought the flowers and the two Marys. Heavy bur den on the shoulders of two men a;i thev carry the body of Christ down the marhie stairs and into the portico, and lift the doad weight to the level of the niche in .the rock, and push the body of Christ iuto the only plewsaut resting place it ever had. These men coming forth close the door of rock against the recess. The government, afraid that the disciples would steal the body of Christ and play resurrection, put upon the door the seal of the Sanhedrim, the violation of that seal, like tha violation of the seal of the United States Government or of the British Government, always followed with severe penalties. A regiment of soldiers from tbo tower of Antonio is detailed to guard that mausoleum. At the door of that tomb a fight took place which decided the question for all graveyards and cemeteries. Sword of lightning against sword of steel. Angel of God against the military. The body in the crypt begins to move in its shroud of fine linen and slides 4-Vtrv no tfAmonf mATTA3 t W rAll rfh UWTTU UJJUU IUO ^aTCLllCUV, IUU* VO WIU VU^u the portico, appears in the doorway, comes up the marble steps. Christ, having left His mortuary attire Behind Him, comes forth in the garb of a workman, as I take it, from the fafct that the women mistook Him for the gardener. There and then was shattered the torn?) so that it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry cannot mend it. Forever and forever it is a broken tomb. Death that day taking the side of the military received a horrible cut under the angel's spear of flame, and must himself go down at the last?the King of Terrors disappearing before the King of Grace. "The Lord ii risen." Hosanna! Hosanna! O weep no more, your comforts slain; The Lord Is risen; He lives again. "While standing around the place where the Lord lay I am impressed with the fact that mortuary honors cannot atone for wrongs to the living. If they could have afforded Christ such a costly sepulcher they could have afforded Him a decent earthly residence. Will they give a piece of marble to the dead Christ when they might have given a soit pmow 10 tne nvmg ^nrist.' it they had put half the expense of that mausoleum in the making of Christ's life on earth comfortable the story would not have been so sad. He wanted bread; they gave Him a stone. Christ, like every other benefactor of the world, wa? better appreciated after He was dead. Standing in this place where the Lord lay I am impressed with the fact that floral and sculptural ornamentation are appropriate for the places of the dead. We are all glad that in the short time of the Saviour's inhumation He lay amid flowers and sculpture. I cannot quite understand what I see in tha newspapers where, amid the announcements and obsequies, the friends request "send no flowers." Why, there is no place so appropriate for flowers as the casket of the departed. If your means allow?I repeat, if your means allow?let there be flowers on the casket, flowers on the hearsa, flowers on the grave. Pat them on the brow; it means coronation. Put them in the hand; it means victory. Christ was buried in a parterre. Christ was buried in a garden. Flowers are types of resurrection. Standing in this place where the Lord lay I am also impressed with tho in lignity of unpretending obsequies. Joseph that day was mourner, sexton, lfvoryman?had the entire charge of all the occasion. Four people only at the buried of the King of the Universe. Let this be consolatory to those who, through small means or lack of large acquaintances, have but little demonstration of griof at the mm nf ilAArl It is not nacessarv. Long line of glittering equipages, two rows of silver handles, casket of costly wood, pall bearers scarfei an l glovad are nat nacessary. Christ looks out from heaven at a burial where there are six in attendance,-anJ remembers there are two more than He harl at His obsequies. Not recognizing this idea, low many small properties are scattered in ihe funeral rites, anl widowaool aul orphanage go out to the cold charity of the world. The departed left enough property t? have kept the family together until they could take care of themselves, but it is all absorbed in the funeral rites. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread. A man of small means can hardly afford to die in on? of our groat cities! Funeral pageautry is uot necessary. No one wa3 ever more lovingly and tenderly put into the grave than Christ, but there were only four ill but? f * WVWVU. Again, standing in this place whore the Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that you cannot keep the dead down. The seal of the .Sanhedrim, a regiment of soldiers from th% tower or Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock, niche of rock cannot keep Christ in tho ? crypt. Come out and come up He must. Came out and came up He did. Preflguration. The first fruits of them that sleep. Just as certain as you and I go down into the grave, just so certain we will come up again. Though you pile up on the top of us all the bowlders of the mountains you cannot keep us down. Though we be buried under the coral of the deepest cavern of the Atlantic Ocean we will rise to the surface. Various scriptural accounts say that the work of grave breaking will begin with the blast of trumpets and shoutings; whence I take it that the first intimation of the day will be a sound from heaven such as has never before been heard. It may not be so very loud, but it will be penetrating. There are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed silence has slept there ever since the day when the sleepers were left in th'jm. The great noisa shall strike through them. Amon? the corals of the sea, miles deep, where the shipwrecked rest, the sound will strike. No one will mistake it for thunder or the blast of earthly minstrelsy. There will be heard the voice of the uncounted millions of the dead, who come | rushing out ot the gates or eternity, nying toward the tomb crying: "Make way! Oh, grave, gives us back our body I Wo gave it to you in corruption; surrender it now in incorruption." Thousands of spirits arising from the field of Sedan, and from among the rocks of Gettysburg, and from among the passes of South Mountain. A hundred thousand are crowding Greenwood. On this grave three spirits meet, for there were three bodies in that tomb! Over that family vault twenty spirits hover, for there were twenty bodies. From New York to Liverpool, at every few miles on the sea route, a group of hundreds of spirits coming down to the water to m9et their bodies. See that multitude. That < is where the Central America sank? And f yonder multitude! That is where the Pacific I went down. Found at last! That is whera i the City of Boston sank. And yonder the I President went down. A solitary spirit I alights on yonder prairie. That is where a < traveler perished in the snow. The whoU ( air is filled with spirits?spirits flying north, < spirits flying south, spirits flying east, spiriti I flying west. Crash! goes Westminstei I Abbey as all its dead kings and orators and j i poets get up. And now the air is darkened with the frag- i ments of bodies that are coming together < from the opposite corners of the earth. Losl I limbs finding their mace?bone to bone, I sinew to sinew?until every joint is recon- i structed and every arm finds its socket, and i the amputated limb of the surgeon's tabl? ' shall be set again at the point from which it ( was severed. A surgeon told me that after I the battle of Bull Run h9 amputated limb3, throwing them out of the window, until the pile reached up to the window sill. All thosa fragments will have to take their places. , Those who were born blind shall have evea I I j:_j?1_ ara lo?,a aViall I 1 UIVJUVIJ &IUUIOU, I/UUSO nuu **?* have a limb substituted. In all the hosts of the resurrected not one eye missing, not one foot clogged, not one arm palsied, not one tongue dumb, not on a ear deaf. Wake up, my friends, this day. this glorious Easter morning, with all these congratulations. If I understand this day, it means pence toward heaven and peaca toward earth. Great wealth of flowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath thsm around the brazen throat of the cannon, plant them in the deserts until it shall blossom like the rose, braid them into the name of : the war charger as ha comes back. No more red dahlias of human blood. Give us ! white lilies of peaco. Strew all the earth j with Easter garlands, for the resurrection i we celebrate this morning implies all kinds j of resurrection, a score of resurrections. Resurrection from death and sin to the life j of the gospel. Resurrection of apostolic | faith. Resurrection of commercial integrity. Resurrection of national honor. Resurrection of international good will. Resurrection of art. Resurrection of literature. Resurrection of everything that is good and kind and generous and just and holy and bsautiful. Nothing to stay down, to stay buried, but sin and darkness and pain and disease 1 ? ? ? ? ? - ?J <-U T .af1 f Ua3u toi?t?w in I ana revenue auu ucaiu, *j=u >uuo>; ... the grave forever. "Glory to God in tha highest, and on earth peace, good will to men." Christ, the Lord, is risen to-d?y, Bona of men anl angels say, KAlae yonr songs and trlamphs high, Sing, ye heavens, and eirch reply. Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fljrht, the battle woo. Lot the saa's eclipse la o'er; Lol he sets la blood no more. CURIOUS FACTS. A Swiss artist paints with her toes. St. Petersburg (Russia) ha3 no directory. A Georgia railroad has never killed a passenger. An inventor soon hopes to produce [ artificial fur. Bees are said to be possessed of powerful memories. Alaska is more than eight times the size of Missouri. Uncle Sam has almost as many Indians as lived here when Columbus landed. To make one pound of honey the beea must visit from 90,000 to 200,000 Qower3. During a fire in Buffalo, N. Y., a case of lamp chimneys fell from the third story and not a chimney was broken. The Academy is the only French institution which has came down unchanged from the times before the Revoi lution. The first of the so-called Farmers' Alliance was called the National Grange of Patrons of Husbandry. Hence the name, Grangers. Five men committed suicide at St. Louis on a recent day, the gloomy i nnnttinii an/4 elnaViTT QtrnAfa hf?m (T. it 151 I TT ^UbUl/t auv4 oiuauj * v?w wv.?<^| - ? ? alleged, responsible. The oyster is one of the strongest creatures on the earth. The force required to open an oyster is more than 1300 times its weight. Brazil, occupied by the Portuguese in 1549, fell successively under the dominion of Spain and Holland, but was finally recovered by Portugal in 1564. William Clark, a farmer of Clarksville, Penn., born June 8, 1794, is said to have voted at nineteen Presidential elections. His first vote he cast for Monroe in 1816. The famous Russian composer, Rubinstein, in his autobiography recently published, expressed the opinion that not more than two per cent, of the English neoole were musical. The Runs of the following British men-of-war have a range of tea miles or more: Tho Collingwood, Rodney, Benbow, Camperdown, Howe, Anson, Iiero, Renown and Sanspareil. A large elm tree planted by General Lafayette at the Troy Female Seminary, at the time of his visit to Troy, N. Y., in 1824, was cut down the other day to make room for the new Gurley memorial building. t- t> 4.v. i?: j u_:j ~ in ourucu buc unuu auu unut-^iuuai are brought from different ends of the town to the spot where the ceremony is to be performed. They tire there made to sit on two bars of iron, that health as vigorous and blessings as lasting may attend the day. If cloth can be made out of line spun glass, it would seem a simple matter to make it out of wood, and this is done by boiling strips of fine grained timber, crushing them betw-sen rolls, carding the filaments into parallel lines, as with ordinary textile material, and spinning them into threads, from which cloth can be woven in the usual way. Dora?I showed my portrait to the JIayor yesterday, and he said that it licfn't flatter me. Bosom Friend?Oh, >ut it does, dear, and so did he! (They re not o& speaking terms now.) TEMPERANCE. " HABR7 KAHIf. A crav vouncr man named Harrv Kahn? A rich man's only son? Spent precious time of his glad prime In search of so-called "fun." He used his powers in wasted hours, As though life were a dream; He raced and drank, played cards and san! In poverty's deep stream. At length one day, in reckless play, He sold a neighbor's horse, And rashly thought, like he who bought It, "harmless fun," of course. If so, through flaw in "stars" or law? Or possibly in both? He went to jail, through lack of bail. Though very, very loth. With sentence passed, in prison fast Was changed his mode of life; He learned a trade, men's shoes he made, With many an inward strife. When passed ten years of hopes and fears And ne was free to roam, He found all changed, old friends estrangedAn outcast with no home. Now boy, dear boy, so full of joy, Let temperance lead the van; Touch not the bowl which blights the soulRemember Harry Kahn. ?Mary E. Ireland,in Temperance AdvocaU "A BILLION OT DOLLARS." That is less than the liquoi traffic costa tht jountry every year. It takes by far the larg jst part of it out of the pockets of the labor ng class and gives them nothing of value ii return. The greatest foe of the poor man ii ;he drink. It is the greatest monopoly in thi and. What do tne political papers sa] ibout it? Nothing. They are silent as thi jrave. In fact, they are silent partners ii ;his "gigantic crime of crimes of the nine :eenth century." To cover their shame anc to turn the attention of the people from theii iniquitous course, tbey make a great hue indcry about other matters of infinitely lea importance, fill their papers with inflated ac ?unts of baseball, horse races, bowl in{ teams and sports generally. No notices o: temperance meetings are allowed to appeal In tneir columns. They ara supremely unde: the control of the liquor oligarchy. Mean while, more than a billion of dollars coma ->"* nf tVio nr*\rata nt t.hn nonnlA with n< J"ww va* w"v ^vv?v?w ?w r?i?i ?aonest return for the money spent.?Nationa Advocate. PROTECTING THE CHILDREN. By degrees. Europeans are being con piLced of the injurious consequences of wine Irinking upon the young. A certain num aer children in Eerne, Switzerland, were for ridden the use of alcohol in any shape 01 form, during eight months of the year, but luring the remaining four monthB they wen supplied with the usual quantity of wine di uted with water: The parents carefullj watched the children throughout the year ind found that they slept better, and longer md appeared decidedly brighter during th< jight months of abstinence than during the Deriod of wine-drinking. In the recent International Alcohol Congress, held in Chris ;iania, Norway, great prominence was given x> the baneful effects of alcoholic liquors upon children, even the most persistent moderate Irinker admitting that education and legis ation are necessary on this point. It wai resolved to watch the methods employed ir :he United States for teaching children th< scientific effects of alcohol, and, if possible to secure the introduction of the same tex books. ZT ALCOHOL A3 A CAUSE OF DISEASE. Dr. Lowis D. Mason, of the Inebriati Asylum, Fort Hamilton, N. Y., discussinf "The Etiology of Dipsomania and th Heredity of Alcoholic Inebriety," determin as facts that alcoholism in progenitors wil produce physical and mental degradation ii their descendants, with the disorders tha arfce from a defective nerve organization and all grades of mental weakening, fron slight enfeeblement of intellect to insanit; and complete idiocy: andtbatthe lawsregu lating these changes are similar to those tha govern congenital degenerative changes froc other causes. The offspring of the conflrme* drunkard will inherit either the original vie or "some of its countless Protean transfoi inations." In another paper?on Pathologi cal Changes in Chronic Alcoholism?Di Mason exhibits alcohol as modifying th serum aud the anatomical elements of tu blood, besides being an irritant and directr producing modification and degeneration ci tissue, and therefore as being most evidentl a disease-produciug agent. Contrasting th little progress that has been ihude in th study of the pathology of chronic alcoholisi and of the diseases incident to alcoholisc %vith the great advance that has bee achieved in knowledge of microbic diseases he adds: "Alcohol has not any microbe, bu the grand total of its mortality will excee the combined effect of all the bacteria th? has ever passed the microscopic field or d< veloped in the culture-tube of the bactor ologist." The subject is now, however, b< ginning to receive some of the attention i deserves.?Popular Science Monthly. 1HIS WAT1UW S DK1NK BILL. Professor Francis G. Peabody.of Harvarc in a lecture on the temperance question bi fore the Lowell Institution of Boston th krt*. Aatr coir) in TV10PA nffl t.OT aspects of tho liquor question, the economl and the moral. There are at present in tfa liquor traffic throughout the country som 300,000 persons?163,000 in the retail and th rest wholesale. These figures represent onl the dealers. The number of persons employe is upward of 1,000,000. The worst of thes horrible figures is that th9y mean the witt drawal of just so many persons from tt right kind of employments. In their preset occupations they contribute little or nothin to the wealth of the country. As to the amount of liquor consumed i 1886, 1337,000,000 was spent for spirits, $304 000,000, for beer, $16,000,000 for import? wines and $34,000,000 for domestic winesfrightful total of about $700,000,000. This one-twelfth of the amount spent for foo< clothing and necessaries of life. In the same year there wa3 received i wages $957,000,000, and the liquor bill coi sumod two-thirds of it. Again, it costs $350 000,000 a year for churches, and the drin bill would buy all the churches in si months. Behind all this is the great importance < the moral aspect. That drink is injurious 1 990 cases out of 1000 goes without proo The question is: How can it be stoppet Legalization fails of its aim. The solutio of the problem, though still far off, perhap is in each individual recogniziagthat be hin self is an important factor in his communit as an example, and adopting for himelf tt teaching: "If meat make my brother t nffpnrl I will eat no meat, lest I make m brother to offend."?Commercial Adce, User. TEMPERANCErNEWS AND NOTES. Fully 3000 of the licensed cabmen in Loi don are total abstainers. A saloon in Cumberland Gap, Eas Tennessee, has the following inscriptioi "Sunny Side Saloon?Polytix and other tri diskused at all ours." Mrs. A. V. Quinn, one of tho leading "W C. T. U. workers of Wyoming, has been aj pointed by Governor Barber upon the Boar of Regents of the State University. A Buffalo (N. Y.) saloonlst, in offering b business for sale for a thousand dollar states as an inducement to the purchase that five thousand laborers pass his pLu daily. Tho Hoard of Trade Review of Baltimoi states that 25,000 more barrels of beer wei sold in that city in 18'Ji) under high licens than in 183'J under low license. Thero ai 2500 saloons. In New York City they' have associatior of men who do not drink during busiues In a big -jlty where competition in all lint of business is so groat, a cool and clear hoc i3 very essential. It has been estimated by an ex-major i the police'that it requires ?90,000 every wet to support the liquor traffic in tho District < Columbia, or ?4,030,000 per year, all of wh:c *1... is a direct tax upuu mu Drunkenness is saiil to be the besetting s of London flower girls, and Mrs. Franklj Taylor is establishing guilds in \-arious par .of the city iu which the flower girls mt find shelter and keep tboir own flowers. The British temperance women recent ! sent an appeal from their association to t! ; bishops of England, begging them to githeir influence to the Sunday closing of t! i public houses. A large number of replj I have been received, all showing hearty syi pathy withtip moreipegt.' . ; v -. if-.;v -/V- . . ^SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR APRIL 20. Lesson Text: "Nineveh Brought tc Repentance," Jonah Hi., l-lO k Golden Text: Lake xi., 32?Commentary. , 1. "And the Word of tho Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying," Prom tbe belly of the fish Jonah cried unto the Lord, and the Lord heard him. and spake unto the flsh, and It vomited out Jonah upon the dry land (chap, ii., 1, 10). Jonah's prayer is largely made up of quotations from the Psalms, as many as eight or ten different Psalms being quoted from (see marginal refsrences), teaching us that afflictions open up the mine of Scripture, and make real to m words before unheeded (Ps. cxix., 67, 71). If Jonah in the fish's belly was not hid from Gtod's sight and hearing, where can we hide from Him (Ps. cxxxix., 7-10)? Observe the jbedience of the fish. At the word of the Lord it swallows Jonah, and at the word of the Lord it casts him out. Consider also the little fish of Matt, xvii., 27, and the multitude of John xxi, 0, and aakyourself if like them you know no will but His. a. "Arise, go unto mneven, mat great , lity." How very gracious of the Lord to come to him the second time* with tho same ?. message (chap, i., 2) t How very patient and long suffering He is with us t , "And preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee." This is the whole responsibility ' ot every preacher, for we are simply messen" jers of. the Lord of Hosts. "Thoushaltgo to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever [ command thee thou shalt speak." ''Son of , man, go, get thee unto the house of Iarael, ^ and speak with My words unto them." "Now . therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth. and teach thee what thou shalt say." Ana [ our Lord Himself testifies that the Father . gave Him a commandment what He should , 3ay and speak (Jer. i.,7; Ezek. iii., 4; Ex. iv., 3 12; John xll., 40). How careful we should ba to get our message correctly, and speak it " faithfully in the power of the Holy Spirit! * ? Ta??K of^ca an/? wonf. inf/?NinAVAh according to the Word of the Lord." Now r he is obedient. This is what he should bave done at first instead of going to sea. By his 3 willfulness he has lost much precious time } and grieved his Lord. But let us take it to I ourselves. Are we obedient to tho word of the Lord, or wasting time and grieving the Spirit by our waywardness and disobedience!' 4. "And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey.' Many days bad he journeyed from the seashore across the country (look at your map and note the distance) and much time bad he for meditation and r communion with his God. However lonely ; the way and long the journey, he had the 5 consciousness that he was doing the will of the Lord and that the Lord had sent ' him. , "And he cried and said, Yet forty days, , and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Wbac a ) strange cry for a lone man in a great and > prosperous and wicked city! Who would rive heed to him? who would believe him? ** ' ' 1 Vii m o c a W OUJCI tney not turtwo uuu iwui uuu? i disturber of the peace? With these things i he had nothing to do; he was simply deliver5 ing his master's message, and hi3 master would see to all else. 3 5. "So the people of Nineveh believed God, i and proclaimed a fast, and put on sack3 cloth, from the greatest of them even to the , least of them." God was with His servant, t the Spirit of God was in the message, ana where the word of a king is there is power (Eccl. viii., 4). One man with God was a majority in this case, and so also was it at Pentecost, when through Peter 3000 became i truly penitent and accepted Jesus of Naza> reth as Saviour and Lord and Messiah (Acta 6 li., 41). But here is a whole city of half a 3 million of people affected by the word of one 1 man?no, it is not the word of a man, it is ? from the mouth of a man, but the words are 6 the words of God. It does not say that the ! people believed Jonah. but that they believed 1 God. f 6. "For word came unto the king of NiajT oveh, and he arose from his throne, and he * laid his robe from him, and covered hitn with sackcloth, and spt in ashes." So the * word of the Lord through this humble man 0 reached even the heart of the king on his throne, and he humbles himself before God, * as well as the lowest in the city. 7. "And he caused it to be proclaimed and 0 published through Nineveh, by the decree of 0 the king and his nobles, saying^" The king 7 and bis great men nave pui iusuisbi vca uu the side of Jonah and his (Jod. This is surelj y a great victory for Jonah, and we would ex 9 pect to find him full of joy because of th< ? success of his message, and to see even th? a king on his side for God against sin; but no, Q he is displeased, and very angry, and wants i to die (chap, iv., 1-3). ? '? "Let neither man nor boast, herd nor it flock, taste anything; let them not feed nor ? drink water." Surely this was a great and 't thorough repentance, at least on the part ol > the king and his great ones who ordered this t- severe fast. If you knew any one so bur8 dened by sin that he would neither eat noi it drink till he knew his sins were forgiven you would be apt to consider him very much iu earnest. ' 3. "But let man and beast ba covered with , sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God." Wh] ^ include the cattle, for they had not sinned: Though they sin not, yet they suffer becausi ? of man's sin, and God cares for cattle (chap, , iv., 11). The creation was made subject t< IC vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Hia 0 j who hath subjected the sams in hope; bo 0 cause the creation itseit also snau De ueu? ? ered from the bondage of corruption into th ? glorious liberty of the children of God (Rom viii., 30, 21). That the very beasts shall ye be blessed by God's redemption see Isa. xi. l" 0-9; Ixv., 25. "Yea, let them turn every one from hi evil way, and from the violence that is in ? their hands." Outward sorrow without t turning away from sin would avail nothing for God searcheth the heart. And inwarc sorrow must be accompanied by the actua turning away from all evil. , 9. "Wo can tell if God will turn and re j pent, and turn away from His fierce anger ' that we perish not?" Had they such ligh as Israel had, how they would have beei r. encouraged! If they had known of the re pentanoe of Ahab, how it might hav( j" helped them (II Kings xxi., 29). 10. "And God saw their works, that the] turned from their evil way." "The eyes ol . the Lord are in every place beholding thi evil and the good," and "the eyes of th< ? Lord run to and fro throughout the wholi h earth to show Himself strong on behalf o those whose hearts are perfect toward Him' 11 (Prov. xv., 3j II Chron. xvi., 9). He see s' unbelief, and it grieves Him; He sees faitl *1 and obedience, and He is pleased. ' ? "And God repented of the evil tnat ?k had said that He would do unto them, am He did it not." See His promise to act thu1 given at a later date to Israel (Jer. xviii., 7 8). Although it was just as He had alway done for Israel, as is fuliy recorded in thi book of Judges, or as in Fs. cvi., 43, 44 "Many times did He deliver them, but the] ?rovoked Him with thair counsel, aud wen rought low for their iniquity. Neverthe less He regarded their amotion when Hi . heard their cry." As to God repenting, wi '. have only to remember one or two things ^ Being unchangeable, and knowing the on< from tho beginniug, He cannot chaqge Hi: mind as we do or ever bd sorry for anythinj He r'oes(Mai. lit.. 6; Num. xxiii., l'J; Act ? xv., 18). But from the beginning, foreseeing d all things, He knew that with individual arul nations He could pursue a certain coursi is or mode of treatment to a certain point, an< s, that theu He would have occasion to do dif r, ferently; and these turning points to Hi: ;o modes of treatment are called repenting* w. mm minH .111,1 then ohamjo oui .e conduct or modo of action; He changes Hi .e mode of treatment, knowing beforehan< ,0 that IIo would do so just at that particulai 0 time. May the repentance of Nineveh no be lost upon us, but humble us before God ?Lesson Helper. is IM s. ?3 now THE "HUM BLOSSOM" BLOOMS, id The circulation is through two sets o blood vessels?arteries ami veins?both "ob 3f taiuing their motive power from tho hear ;k acting as a force-pump, Alcohoi increase of the pulsations, and, as the blood is sent froti ;h the heart to the extrerneties faster than th veins can toko it up again to return it, con gestion results, and the nose, being aremot portion of the circulation, reddens and fiuallj " becomes riiseuseu. mis, buwsvw, m ?. un fereat from other organs of the body; all ar * congested anu similarly diseased by tho us alcohol. iy he Self-denial consists in "being able t es say 110 to one's tielf?a lesson which So n- crates meant to inculcate wheu he sai< to the Athenians. "2fa thyself ~.iZ ' ' , .'-'.t ?S RELIGIOUS READING. MY PETITION. May every thought of mine thfc day Be pure sunshine's clearest ray. May every word that I shall speak 13c wise aud gentle, true and meek. May every act be just and kind, From dross of selfishness refined. May thought and act aud kindiy word, Together bouud, a threefold cora, Reach out to men and help me save Some sinking one from sinVcold wave. ? [Egbert L. Bangs. THE BI.00D OF CHRIST CLEAHSETH FROM ALL SIN. A gentleman teacher in one of our Sabbath-schools bad long been trying to make clear to his class wbat "the blood of Christ cleausetb from all sin" meant. Having a cottage at Cape May, he invited four of hia boys to visit nim. Tha shore, as all will remember, who have visited (hat watering place, is very smooth. Walking along the beach with the boys one day he told one of them to get him a stick. Having got the stick he told him to write "8''?and said, "You see that letter,?what is it?" "Why," they said, "it is 'S.'" "Now write 'I'?now write 'IT?noir wbat does that spell, boys?" "Why, sin." At this moment a great wave came in and washed the beach smooth and clean, so that no trace of the letters remained. "Now. boys," said the teacher, "that is just the way with the 'blood of Christ.' He comes with his love and power, and washes your sin just as you Dave seen inoae wavea wash the letters away. Do you not want to be washed?" VOICES OF GBACE. It Is marvellous and beautiful to observe how various are the voices of free grace. ' I am thirsty," says one. "Come to the waters," she cries. "I am hungry," says another. "Then eat ye that which Is good," she says, "and let your soul delight itself in fatness." "But I am poor, and have nothing to buy with." rfCorae, buy wine and milk without monev, and without price." "We are weary," sigh the laborers in the sun-beaten fields. "Come uato me," breathes her answer like a breeze from the waters, "and I will give you rest." "Cast thy burden on the Lord and He will sustain thee," she whispers to the pilgrim ready to faint on the highway. "Behold the fountain," she cries to the guilty; "the fountain opened fnr ain nni? unrWiinpas." To the lost she cries, "1 am the Wayto the ignorant,''I am the Truth;" to the dying, "I amtho Life." How large her welcome to the sinner, how soothing her consolation to the mourner, how Inspiring her tones to him that is faint of heart! There is no disease for which she has not a remedy, no want for which she has not a supply; and every one who applies to her shall confess at length. "It is enough; I am blessed as if ell tho methods and riches of grace were for ma. alone!"?[Hode. don't hear evehythixq. The art of not hearing should be learned by all.- There are so many things which it is*painful to benr, verv many or which, if heard, will disturb the temper, corrupt simplicity and modesty, detract from contentment and happiness. If a man falls into a violent passion, and calls us all manner of names, at the first word we should shut our ears, and hear no more. If in a quiet voyage of life we find ourselves caught in one of those domestic whirlwinds of scoring, we should shut our ears ns a sailor would furl his sails and, making nil tight, scud before the gale. If a hot, restless man begins to inflame our feelings, we Hhould consider what mischief the fiery sparks may do in our magazine below, where our temper is kept, and instantly close the door. If all the petty things said of one by heedless or ill-natured iHlora rooro hrnncrht. home to him. he WOUld become a mere walking pincushion stack full of sharp remarks. If we would be happy, when among good men we should open'our ears; when among bad men, shut them. It is not worth while to hear what our neighbors say about our children, what our riva's say about our business, our dress, or our a flairs. We are often speculating on what is to come, whether the vears shall bring life or death, prosperity or sorrow. You who trust Him, you who are His dear children through faith in Jesus Christ, may take this answer as regards the coming years: You are going forth into nothing hut goodness. "All things work together for good to them that love God." 1 cannot say that you m V not be going forward into trouble, humiliation, toil, d sappoiutment. It may well be. But I I repeat it: If you are walking at God's sido i you are going forward to nothing but good; j great goodness is laid up for you on the simple condition of your trust in God. Take this truth as a fact, and not as a poetic i fancy; God has great goodness laid up for , me. * If the worst which I fear shall come to pass, I shall find his goodness laid up in the , heart of the disaster.?[M. R. Vincent, D. D. I ! Not to enjoy life but to employ life ought to be our aim.?[Macduff. Solon# as we are run 01 sen, we are 1 shocked at the faults of others. j It is bard to say whether God discovers more love in preparing heavenly mansions 9 for the soul than in preparing the soul for - heavenly mansions.?flecker. * Christ, by bis gospel and the Spirit's work, > is now separating men in two classes. The process is going on every day in our homes, 3 in our places of business," in tlie house ot 1 God. We drift apart; we withdraw to our 1 own place and our own kind. Hy-and-by | the dirt'erence will be clear as noonday. 1 Sing in tine weather! Any bird can do that. Praising God when all goes well is commonplace work. Everybody marks the nightingale above all other birds bccausc she singcth when the other mins'rels of the wood are silent and asleep; and thus doth faith praise God under the cloud. Songs in the day are from man, but God himself giveth songs in the night.?[Spurgeou. Though there are many exceptions, tbe church is usually the birthplace of the Chris3 tian. In the assembly of the saints is found in which thp free of life most 3 iuu aiiuv0pu(.?? ,, M.?..? _ s commonly blossoms, and here is the genial . f warmth which is most conducive to the ' vigorous development of the germs of eters nal life. Here are the influences amid * i which the Christian attains his highest growth and usefulness and most be utiful | symmetry of character.?[Religious Herald. : People may escape the awful terrors of hell and stand before all the glories and splendors of heaven, but they must be ca'm * about it. They must not display any emotion for fear some reiiyious dilettante might ' think the excitement unhealthy. Men may [ go to hell with noise and tumult, but they must make heaven in solemn dignity or miss " it altogether. This is the argument of the 9 devil, and it lias cost many a man his soul. If peoule will not repent until they arc J soared, then by all means scare them. If it 5 takes a little noise to alarm them let the noise 1 come.? [Cumberland's Presbyterian. s j This puts the case very well. Men cau j I stand excitement and emotion in everything a I !mt in religion. They goto a horse-race and 9 shout and scream like mad men, and tosa 1 their hata into the air over a little contest - between two animals. In the theatre storm 5 upon storm of wild applause bursts forth amid the direst confusion, and strong men r and hysterical women weep Hoods of tears s over a sham scene. In political contests 1 grave citizens march and yell and wave parr ty ensigns until they are worn out and ex- * t hnusted with sheer excitement. But in a ! ch .irch not a tear must be shed, net a shout of joy must be heard, not a cry of victory must be raised. f "" * I WHAT PROHIBITION PROPOSES TO TEACH. I "T.-> r>rnsh self-reliance and personal dig j nity is to make a race of weak children, or 0 feeble cowards; and this is the endeavor?of Prohibition," savs Captain Pennick, in the a Cincinnati Soutn West. Not at all. ProT liibition proposes to take the luxurious saloon keeper, turn him adrift on the cold a world where he M ill have to earn an honest (3 living or starve. We want to teach him "self-reliance," and not reliance upon political favoritism on the one hand and the weakness and vices of his fellow-men on the 0 other. "VVe would also teach drinking men to rely upon themselves in getting their drinks. They now rely on the public support 1 of a vicious institution to supply them without effort oa their cart*?Z7?fi voice%, ^ _ . J