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[rev. dr. talmage. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUI Dil? SERMON. Subject; MTilings Which Men an Women May Do." Text: " The -people that do know thei Cod shall be strona and do exuloits."?Dai iel xi., i.2. Antiochus Epiphanes, the old sinner, cam down three times with his army to desolat the Israelites, advancing one time with hundred and two trained e'ephants,swingin their trunks this way and that, and sixtj two thousand infantry and six thousan cavalry troops, and they wer driven hack. Then, the second time, h advanced with seventy thousand armei men, and had beeu again defeated. But thi third time he laid successful siego until thi navy of Rome came in with the flash o tbeir long banks of oars and demande* that the siege be lifted. And Antiochu Epiphanes said he wanted time to consuli with bis friends about it, and Popilius, on< of the Roman embassadors, took a staf and made a circle on the ground arounc Antiochus Epiphanes, and compelled him tc ueujue oetore ne caine oui 01 tnac circle whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of th< Hebrews bad submitted to the invader, bui some of them resisted, valorously, as die Eleazer when he had swine's flesh forced intc ixis mcuth, spit it out^ although he knew ht must die for it, and did die for it; and others, as my text says, did exploits. An exploit! would define to be an heroic act, a brave feat, a jrreat achievement "Well," you say, "I admire such things, bui there is no chance for me, mine is a sort ol humdrum life. If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do exploits.11 xou are right, so far as great wars are concerned. There will probably be no opportunity to distinguish yourself in battles, The most of the brigadier generals oi this country would never have been heard of had it not been for the war. Neither will you probably become a great Inventor. Nineteen hundred a^d ninetynine out of every two thousand inventions found in the patent office at Washington never yielded their authors enough monej to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out ol the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in commercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Can you have no opportunity to do exploits? I am going to show that there are three opportunities open that are grand, thrilling, far reaching, stupendous and overwhelming. They are before you now. In one, if not all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest things on earth to do are tc save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground between two millstones, sits on the edge of some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in courtrooms. A young man has got into bad company and he has offended the law, and be is arraigned. All blushing and confused he is in the presence of judge and jury and lawyers. He can be sent right on in the wrong direction. He is feeling disgraced and be is almost desperate. Let the district attorney overhaul him as though he were an oid offender; let the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for him, because he cannot afford a considerable fee; let the judge give no opportunity for presenting the mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case andnustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, for seventy years he will be a criminal, and each decade of his life will be blacker thau its predecessor. In the interregnums of prison life he can get no wort.-, and he is glad to break a window glass or blow up a safe or play the highwaymau so as to get back within the walls where he can get something to eat and hide himself from thegaza of the world. Tiru? J??Ulr. U^lr-v V*tm! * * u? uuu i U19 latuvi wuiv auu uup utut, Kis father is dead. Why don't his mother come and help him? She is dead. Where are all t: e ameliorating and salutary influences of society? They do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand that there was an opportunity for the exploit which would be famous in heaven a quadrillion of yean after the earth has become scattered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the district attorney take that young man into his private office and say: "My son, I see that you are the victim of circumstances, This is your first crime. You are sorry. ] will bring the person you wronged intc your presence, and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chanc?"" Or that young man is presented in the courtroom, and he ha* no friends present, and tha judge says, "Who is your counsel?" And he answers, "I have none." And the judge says, "Whc wiil take this young mar.'s case?'' An i there is a dt-ai halt,an 1 no one offers, ami a!ter awhile the judge turns to some attorney, who never had a good case in ail hi! life and never will, and waoso aivoaicy would be enough to secure the condemn* tion of innocence itself. And the profes sional incompetent crawls up beside th prisoner, helplessness to rescue despair, where there ought to be a struggle amoni all the best men of the profession as to wh should have the honor of trying to help tha unfortunate. How much would such an at torney have receive! as his fee for such a: advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but mucl every way in a happy consciousness tha would make his own life brighter, and hi own dying pillow sweeter, and his owi heaven" happier?the consciousness that h had saved a man! .So there are commercial exigencies, i yery late spring obliterates the demand fo spring overcoats and spring hats and sprin apparel ot all sorts. Hundreds of thousand of people say, "It seems we are going t hare no spring, and we snail go straigh out of winter into warm weather an 1 w can eet alono; without the usual spring a1 tiro." Or there is no autumn weather, th heat plunging into tho cold, and the usu: clothing which is a compromise bctwee summer and winter is not required. ] makes a difference in the sale o? millioc and millions of dollars of goods, and son) oversanguine young merchant is caugl; M. ? nnootohlA tllll \Y ILIl tl VftM aiuuuiib VI uiiJtt.rtwiv will never be salable again, except at pric: ruinously reduced. The young merchant with a somowh" limited capital is in a predicament. Whr shall the old merchants do as thoy s;>j tli young man in this awful crisis-: Rub the; hands and laugh and say: "Crooi for hitt He might have known better. When I has been in business as long as we have 1 will cot load his shelves in that way. II) Ha' He will burst up before long. He h: no business to open his store so near to ou anyhow." Sheriff's sale! Red flay in tl window: ''How much is bid for these ou o'-fashion spring overcoats and spring ha or fall clothing out of date? What i I hear in the way or a bid?'' "Four dc Jars." "Absurd; I cannot tike that bid < four dollars apiece. Why, these coa when firit put upon the market were ofTer< at fifteen dollars eac'.i, an I now I am olTeri only four dollars. Is that all? Five dolls do I bear? Uoinzat that! Gon<j at fi\ dollars,'' and he takps the whole lot. The young merchant goes home tbi night and says to his wife: "Well, Mar; we will have to move out of this house an sell our piano. 1 hat oM merchant th: has had an evil eye on me ever since started has bought out all that clothinj and h^ will have it rejuvenate J, and uea year put it on tho market as new, while v will rio well if we keep out of the poo house." The young man, broken spirited goas to hard drinking. The young wife wit her baby goas to her father's house, an 1 nr only is his store wipri out, but his ho no, hi morals and his prospect for tw > wori !sthis and the next. And devils makj a bai quet of fire an I till their cups of gall, an .drink deep to tho hsalt'i of ti: old mjrehau who swallowed up th-? youug merchant wb fot stuck ou spring goods an I went dowr hat is one way, a:i 1 some of vou have trie it. But there is another way. That youn merchant who found that he hai miscalci lated in laying in too many goods of on kind, and been flung of the unusual seasoi is standing behind the counter, feeling ver blue and biting his finger nails, or lookin over his account books, which real darkt and worse every time he looks at them, an thinking how his young wife will have to h ool 1b a plainer' house than she ever jgj I pected to live io, or go to a thirl rate board Ing hous ', where they have tou^h liver and , sour bread five mornings out of the seven. I An old merchant comes in and says: "Well, Joe, this has besa a hard season for ' roune merchants, an 1 this nrolonTed cool I weather has put mauy in the doldrums, and - [ have been thinking of you a gool deal of late, for just after I startel in business d [ once got into the same scrape. Now, if there is anything I anu do to b?lp you Dut L.will gladly do it Better jturt put those goods out of sight for the present, r and next' season we will plan sorn?6hin? ** about them. I will help you to somo gooaa J that vou can sell for me on commission, and e I will go down to one of the wholesale houses e and teQ them that I know you and will back a rou up, and if you want a few dollars to g bridge over the present I can let you have . 1 them. Be as economical as vmi ca:L keeo a ititr upper lip, and reinemoer that you have two friends. God and myself. Good morning!" | The old merchant goes away and the young man goes behind his desk, and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is tho first time he has cried. Disaster made him mad at everything, and mad at man and mad at God. But this kindness melts him, and the tears seem to relieve his brain and his ! spirits rise from ten below zero to eighty in the shade, and he comes out of the i crisis. About three years after, this young mer' chant goes into the old merchant's store and says: "Well, my ol i friend, I was this ; j morning thinking over what you did for mo three years ago. You helped me out of an > I awful crisis in my commercial history. 1 . ! lonrnnH wi?r1nm nrnsnpritv hftS COmP. and , j the pallor has gone out of my wife's cheeks, | and the roses that were there when I courted : ^er in her father's house have bloomed again, . ' and my business is splendid, and I thought I i ought to let you know that you saved a man!" In a short time after, the old merchant, i who had been a good while shaky in his ' limbs and who had poor spells, is called to ? leave the world, and one morning after he had read the twenty-third Psalm about , "The Lord is my shepherd," he closes his ! eyes on this world, and an angel who bad i been for many years appointed to watch the old man's dwelling, cries upward the ; news that the patriarch's spirit is about ascending, and the tw elve angels who keep the I twaive gates of heaven, unite in crying aowu i to this approaching spirit of the old man, > "Come in and welcome, for it has been told i all over these celestial lands that you saved i a man.'7 There sometimes come exigencies in the I life of a woman. One morning a few years ! ago I saw in the newspaper that there was a 1 voung woman in New York whose pocketI book, containing thirty-seven dollars and t thirty-three cents, had been stolen, and she i had been left without a penny atthebegin ning of winter iu a strange city, and no ' work. Ana auaouga sae was usuau^oi, * did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the I lamppost on our corner without carrying > the thirty-seven dollars and thirty-three > cents, and the case was proved genuine. i Now, I have read all Shakespeare's tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's tragedies, and ; all Alexauder Smith's tragedies, but I never read a tragedy more thrilling than i that case, and similiar cases by the hundreds and thousands in all oar large cities. Young women without mon?y and without home an I without work in the great maelstroms of metropolitan life, when such a case conies under your observation, I how do you treat it? ' '(Jet out of my way. I We have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I don't believe in women anyway. They are a lazy, idle, worthless i sst. John, please show this person out o 1 t the door." Or do you compliment her personal appearance and say things to her which if any man said to your sister or daughter you would kill hirn on the spot? That is one way, and it is tried every day in th3 large cities, and many of thosa who advertise for female hands in factories and for governesses in families have proved themi selves unfit to be iu any plaeo outside ol hell. But there is another way. and I saw it ono day in the Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman ap p'ied for work, and the gentle.-nau in tone and manner said in substance: "My daughi rer, we employ women here, but I do nol i know of any vacant place in our depart ! meat. You had better inquire at such and I such a place. and I hop& you will b3 success ' lul ill getting something to do. Here is in^ I name, an 1 tell them I seat you." > The embarrassei anrl humiliated woman seemed to give way to Christian confidence, She started out with a hopaful look that ] i ihink must have won for her a p!ace in which to earn her bread. I rather ) think that considerate and Caristian gen i cleman saved a woman. New York and ? Brooklyn ground up last year about thirtj i thousand young women and would like tc i grind up about as many this year. Out ol all that long procession of women whc mtrch on with no hope for this world or the [ next, battered and bruised and scoff&d at, > and flung off the precipice, not one but I might have bean save I for homa and Go J [ and heaven. But good men and good worn; in are not in that kind of business. Alas i for that poor thing! Nothing but the thread , of that sewing girl's needle held her, and the thread broke. i I have heard men tell in public discourss what a man is. but what is a woman? Until some one shall give a better definition, I will tell you what woman is. Direct from God. 3 a sacred ?nd delicate gift, with affections so great that no measuring lino short of that of the infinite God can tell their bound Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and i irradiate home and society and tha worl i. Of such value that no oue can appreciate it, S unless his mother lived long enough to let 0 him understand it, or who in some grea' t crisis of life, when all else failel him, had a wife to re-euforco him with a faith in Goc 1 that nothinc could disturb. x Speak out. ye cradles, and tell of the feet t that rocked you and the anxious faces that J g hovered over you! Speak out, ye nurseries | u of all Christendom, and ye homes, whether e desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother and daughter, and help me \ to define what woman is. But as geographr ers tell us that the depths of the sea corre- ! , spond with the heights of the mountains I ? have to tell you that a good womanhood is c not higher up than bad womanhood is deep J' TO.,? fVxv nolaoa t.ho mnpfl [J UU? U. luo auuot cuv wu??wv e awful the conflagration that destroys it. I. The grander the steamer Oregon the more lt terrible her going down just off the coast. t Now I should not wonder if you tremu bled a little with a sense of responsibility ;t when I say that there is hardly a person in tlii# house but may have an opportunity w to save a woman. It may in your case be lt done by good advice, or by financial h?lp, lt or by trying to bring to bear som* one of a thousand Christian influences. If, for instance, you find a woman in financial disL, tress and breaking down in health and spirits tryin? to support her children, now t. that her husband is dead or an invalid.doing that very important and honorable work? , but which is little appreciate!?Iceepin; a boarding house, where all the guests,accordi( ing as thiy pay smill board, or propose, a without paying any board at all, to decamp, lc are critical of everything an 3 hard to please, busy yourself in trying to get her more ij patrons, and toll her of divine sympathy, t. Yea, if you sea a woman favored of fortune and with all kindly surrounding finding j< in the hollow fiattcriesof the world her chief ,1. regalement, living for herself an 1 for time as jjj if there were no eternity, strive to bring her t3 into the kingdom of G-o'l, aadid the other day j, j a Sabbath-school teacher, who was the means of the conversion of the daughter of a man of imm?ns9 wealth, and the daughter resolved to join the church, and she went home and said, "Father, I am going to join the church, and I want you to come." "Oh, _ no," he said, "I never go to church." ij "Well," said the daughter, "if I were going lt to be married would you not go to see me j married:'" And he said, "Oh, yes." "Well," r said she, "this is of more importance than that." Ij So ho went an! has gone ever sine?, atii r_ loves to go. I do not know but that faithj ful .Sabbath-sehool teacher not only saved k a woman, but saved a man. There may be in this audience, gathered from all p irts of . the world, there may be a man whoso bels havior toward womanhood has been i>eriidious. Kepuit! Stand u;?, tiion masterpiece of sin aud death, that 1 may charge you! As far as possible make reparation. lt Do not boast that you have her in your ? pow- a' 1 that she cannot help herself. d When that fine collar and cravat, ana that elegant suit of clothes comes off aud your g uncovered sou! stands before God, you will [. be better off if you save that woman. ie | There is another exploit you can do, and that is to save a chj Id. A child does not 6eem to amount to much. It is nearly a 7 year old before it can walk at all. For the 8 first year and a half it cannot speak a word, 'j For the first ten years it would starve if it J had to earn its own food. For the first flf10 teen years its opinion on any subject is abc' solutelv valueless. And then there are so many of them. Sly, what lots of children! And some people have contempt for children. They are good for nothing but to woar cat the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights crying. Well, your estimate of a child is quite different from that mother's estimate who lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air of tbe seashore and to t':3 tonic air of the mountains, but no hc-ip came, and the brief paragraph of it3 life is onripri Snnnose that life could be restored by purchase, how much would that bereaved mother give? She would take all the jewels from Tier fingers and neck and bureau and put them down. And if told that that was not enough she would take her house and make over the deed for it and if that were not enough she would call in all her investments and put down all her mortgages and bonds, and if told that were not enough slia would say: "I have made over all my property, and if I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will toil [ with my own hands and carry with my own shoulders in any kind of hard work and live in a cellar and die in a garret. Only give me back that lost darling!" I am glad that there are those who know something of a value of a child. It3 possi* bilities are tremendous. What will those hauds yet do? Where will those feefc yet walk? Toward what destiny will that never dying soul betake itself? Shall those Hps be the throne of blasphemy or benediction? Come chronoligists,and calculate the decades on decades, the centuries on centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among the great exploits? But what are you going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father and mother had diei the dav thev were born? There are tens of thousands ot such. Their parentage was against them. Tneir name is against them. The structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerve9 and muscles contaminated by the inebriety or dissoluteness of their parents; they are practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in an equinoctial gale, anl told to make for shore. What to do with them is the quea tion often asked. There i3 another question quite as pertinent, and that is, What are they going to do with us ? They will, ten or eleven years from cow, have as many votes as the same number of well born children, and they will hand this land over to the anarchy and political damnation just as sure as we neglect them. Suppose we eacn one 01 us save a uoy or save a girl. You can do it. Will you? I will. How shall we get ready for one or all of these three exploits? We shall make a dead failure if In our own strength we try to save a man or woman or child. But my text suegests whore we are to get equipment. '"The people that do know cneir God shall be strong and do exploits." We must know Him through Jesus Christ in our own salvation, and then we shall have His help in the salvation of others. And while you are saving strangers you may save eome of your own kin. You think your brothers and sisters anl children and grandchildren all safe, but they are not dead, and no one is safe till he is dead. On the English coast there was a wild storm and a wreck in the offing, and the cry was, "Man the lifeboat!" But Harry, the usual leader of the sailor's crew, was not to ba found, and they went without him, and brought back all the shipwrecked people but one. By this time Harry, the leader of the crew, appeared and said, "Why did you leave that one?" The answer was, "He could not help himself at all, and we could not get him into the boat." "Man the lifeboat I" shouted Harry, "and we will go for that one." "No," said his aged mother, standing by, "you must not go. I lost your father in a storm like this, and your brother Will went off six years ago, and X have not heard a word from Will since he left, and I don't know where he is, poor Will, and I cannot let you also go, for I am old and dependent on you." nis repiy was, "Mother, I must go and save that one man, and if I am lost God will take care of you in your old days." The lifeboat put out, and after an awful struggle with tne sea they picked the poor fellow out of tho rigging just in time to save his life, and star to 1 for the shore. As they came withiu speakiDg distanca, Harry cried out. "We savel him, an:l tell mother it v as brother Will." Oh, yes, my friends, let usstart out to save some one for time aud for eternity, some mau, some woman, some child. And who knows but it may, directly or indirectly, be th? salvation of one of our own kindred, and that will be an exploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is shipwrecked, and the sun has gone out like a spark >rome smitten anvil, and all the stars are dead I How tlie Paris Streets Are Cleaned. The ragpickers of Paris do a work for nrVii/?ii nt-hflr pities nav larirc sums an Dually to" street cleaning departments. According to an English writer they toil at night and the value of what they collect is estimated at $10,000 for each twenty-four hour3. Of course the conditions of Paris life arc exceptional. Population is very closc; the tall houses are crammed with inhabitants; there are no gardens?there are but the houses and streets. The Parisians have a way of emptying all kinds of lumber and refuse into the streets, and then the ragpickers gather in the harvest. A ust is found for everything, and metamorphosis never ceases. All the details are interesting, though some arc rather disturbing. Rags, of course, go to make paper; broken glas3 is pounded, and ' serves a3 the coating for saud or emery paper; bones, after the process of cleaning and cutting down, serve to make nailbrushes and toothbrushes and fancy buttons; little wisps of women's hair arc caiefully unravelled and do duty foi false hair by and by; men's hair, col lectecl outside the barbers', serves for filters through which sirups are strained bits of sponge are cut up and used foi spirit lamps; bits of bread, if dirty, ari toasted and grated, and sold to the res taurants for speading on hams or cutlets: sometimes they are carbonized and mad( into tooth powder; sardine boxes arc cu up iuto tin soldiers or into sockets foi candlesticks. A silk hat has a whol chapter of adventures in store for it. A1 this work employs a regiment of rag pickers numbering close on 20,000. Eight $20 Notes Made Out of Seven. Captain Porter of the secret service came into possession of a new counter feit yesterday. It was a ?20 bill mad of patches from seven diilcrent notes o the same denomination. The seven piece were skilfully patched together witl strips of court plaster, but they consti tuted a whole bill, which appeared per fectly good. Any mutilated bill is re deemablc at a Sub-Treasury, provide; three-lifth3 of the bill is presented. Tlx maker of the note therefore worked i very neat,scheme by taking seven $20 bill and tearing enough from each to mak< another bill. The mutilated notes beiu; redeemable, he cashe.l them for gooi notes at the Sub-Treasury, and, takinj the portions he had torn oil, he made very presentable $20 bill. The number in each corner were diilcrent, but th note m all other respects, even upon clos< investigation, appears good. Captaii Poiter, in endeavoring to trace the bil to its maker, found thai it had been pah into rhe Sub-Trea-'ury by a Postmaster The latter had received it from a woman who had taken it in change for a $10! bill at a large business house in this city The firm was unable to trace it to any o its customers, and the search was abau d-jiicd.? Chicugo lie rail. The standard of illuminating eff ciency known as the candle powe means the light of a sperm candl< seven-eighths of an inch in diametei burning at the rate of 120 grains pc hour. ? i ?nitiflrr " temperaxceT" FRtntS OF THE LIQCOR TRAFFIC. Poverty, crime ami foal disease; Revelling?, drunkenness an 1 strife; Loss of estate and loss of life; Loss of companions kind aud dear; Headaches a'nd puins, the fruits of boar Loss of employment, saa ai^ractr Blotches and pimples on the face. Brains taat are softening day by day, Health that is fleeing fast away: Bniises and wounds most hard to bear; Ruin and death and blank despair; Hopes that are crushed an 1 vows unpaid: Husbands in paupers' coffins' laid; Desolate homes, cheerless and bare, Women and children starving there: Tears and distress and lack or clothes; Fighting and swearing and other woesSuch are the fruits we daily see. 0, what a pity such things should be. ?T. R. Thompson,in Sacred Heart Iieeiew. THE 30BSR MAN WINS. Professor Simon N. Patten, in a recent paper on prohibition, points out that in the struggle for life the man who does not get drunk rapidly leaves the drunkard behind, and from this he argues that the economic advantage of the abstainers is so great that they will increase in numbers much more rapidly than the drinkers do, and will in the end form a large majority of the American population. Tney will gradually acquire a larger share of the land ani capital of the country, and by their numbers and influencesuppress their opponents or force them to reform. Slowly and steadily the abstainers gain upon their rivals through the better use they make of the laud,as well as through the fact that their habits and diet fit them better for the climate and the social conditions of this continent. ALCOHOL AN'D LONGEVITY. The comparative longevity and vitality of total abstainers and moderate drinkers of alcoholic beverages is c'.early shown by an examination of the annual report of tho United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution of London. In the temperance section of this association the expected claims were .314, but there were actually only 'iio. in the general section the expected claims were 282, and 'JS'J were presented. This shows that among the total abstainers the death-rate was only 71.6 par cent. c.C the expectation, while amon^ the moderate drinkers the percentage was 100.?, a difference oc 28.0 per cent, in favor of total abstinencr. Th* report shows that the comparatively large death rate is not du s to the fact that the members of the general section are heavy drinker?, because their largo percentage is still below tho average death rate of healthy males. The comparison, therefore, is between total abstainers ana moderate drinkers, and it seems to show what physiologists claim, that even a moderate use of alcohol accelerates the deganeration of the tissues and so shortens life. DECADENCE OF THE DRINKING HABIT. It is no longer fashionable in the best society to drink heavily. Men of wealth do not think it necessary to have wine upon the cat- f-Wo fashion of nuttin<r the seal of approval upon business men who are abstainers. The change in this respect is remarkable to those who have watched the social happenings of the past fifty years in New York It used to be believed that the reporter as well as the poet and essayist was most brilliant with the pen when drunk, but the habits of the old-time Bohemian are no longer tolerated on the press, and the man of education and brains who dresses well, is refined in his manners, has steady habits and shows himself the gentleman at home and abroad is the only one in | line lor promotion. The clubs, which are an excillent thermometer of society have taken measures to rid themselves of th3 ''soakers" who havj been a nuisance and an eyesore for years, not only with a desire to be rid of decayed timber, but as an object lesson to young members. Society has simply cjmi tj the conclusion that exoiss in drink is ungentlemanly and has a.-ted accordingly.?Fhiladeiphiu Record, CAUSE AXD EFFECT. Ant- nnsiml render of fcha rlnilv naners nnn not help noticing how frequently brutal crimes are explainel by the statement t "He was crazed with rum." It Is safe to say that more than one-half of the criminals who find their way to prison do so through the agency of drink, and if all the crimes are not directly traceable to this caus.?, it will appear in some indireo: way. A lesson of the evil effects of the drink habit; was forcibly taught in this city recently. A youug man living with his mother, sister and cousin returned homo from his work under the influence of liquor. A lamp which h s aged mother had lett burning for him in some way exploded, and the result was that all in the house but the drunken man were burned to death, 'lh; daily papers portrayed the terrible agony he suffered when told in a station house cell oE the trugedy of which he had been the cause, and his reported interviews clearly showed that he considered himself alone to blame. . 'T am a drinking man."' he said; and then hj related how, after leaving his place of en:Eloyment, he had taken so many drinks as to e utterly oblivious of what h9 was doing. He staggered home, and in a few ininute-j he had sent three souls int5 eternity. This is a lesson which every young man who drinks should take to hear!-. The man spoken of had the reputation of b?ing an inoffensive, good natured fellow- "bis own worst enemy/' What a terrible lesson he das tauglit tnose wno sei> no nariu 111 lue ' saloon audits allurements.?C. T. .4. News, TWrv CAUSES TilK IiniN'T: C"T.SE. The drink curse has ttvo principal cause? j which come iu the ordinary operation of life and which, if guarded against, might be greatly abated. These are prosperity aud adversity. "I have known," says an experienced ciergymat!, in this city, "more jjersoas to j drink on account of discouragement than . I from any other cause, unless it be from sue, | eassand prosperity. Both are sources of i temptation to drink.'1 >' "W hen a man's spirits are very low down ! on account of adversity in business or social : I life it is too often that he tries to get them [ up by the use of ardent spirits; but as this does not remove thecau$e it must bj resorte.l I to over aud over again, and when indulged ) ill too freely it adds to the difficulty by prot during a physical depression in reaction, thu-i j in temporarily relieving the depression it 1 j eventually niumpues ir. E | A young man in the city Io<t two horsjs ) ' at the same time. In discouragement lie drank*. Whiie intoxicated lie lost^i ). When he sobered up and found that he had lost his $00 he became intoxiu *ted again. This was kept up for four months At the end o; the time he found that in trying to get an 1 keep his spirits up by pouring spirits down, tie lnd 5 used up everything that he haJ accumulate I when sober; pawne I most of his elofain,.-, lost all his front teeth, spent a month at tiie c island and lost his wife. The young man did / not inherit this tendency from his parents, j nor contract it from b d comp.ini'M& ;ip. It was simply an effort to g.?t over his uia> 1 coui'agemsnts.?-Ve'.u Vor '; UeruUl. j TKMPERA.XCE NEWS ANT) .VOTES. it is thirty-two years sin th? first driuk - ki'* fountain was opens i in L >n lou. 1 The aggregate quantity of wine prohtcaJ H by ths vineyards of Franc \ in ls>?, was ]", % 41t?.:}Jr hectolitres, or rj;, riM.'CJ; ^.itloriJ. , Th? Indiana (.Iran 1 L>lg.' of 0 Idfellows has decide I tlia^ "aw abets n > v en-age 1 in " theliqu tra.IL* mart quit pith v.* th* traffic 2 or the Order ? >f O idfello.vs." :i ,'n France, fro.n t > W, about "iW.OTO ; persons ommitte I suicid . <).' t!ies.\ ovnr 15.U HI men and ! 1?>? wo uen wifs in .'briates, c and mt i.xi Mt.' I at the time of d ?ata. " A iiquor deal?:* in Iowa had as a sign foi* i bis business "TIi U jad to riell." He should | b.? tuvditeil with an honest expression of [ (.pinion an I t?:liii{ ::a trut'i ii n >''.i six -?U.\ An exchange states that ij.'.in ly igar*tte* is th? latest device of the J evil (> : ruining i the youth. It is made of tobuj> lint has ) been s.>ake I in braa ly, an I the snoieris enable ! to In iutoxic it" 1 with jat t vai'aing j a drop o.* liquor. AM Victorians in Australia, point wit'.i '* pride to Mildura, the beauty sp>;:, where the development of th? irrigation scheme of the Chatt'ey Brothers fro.n San Francisco is 1- making thu wilderness blosso n as the rose. ,j No public houses (saloon*) have been li' censed. Atter prosperity came, a club li ' cense was sought au:i granteJ, but wrought r? such disaster that it was soou revoked. The >r district policeman testifies that he has never had to arrest ft drunken man. -i:-j OstsiSBi I II I I WW?III ? I f m SABBATH SCHOOL iittERNATIO.NAfj LESSON FOR SEPTEMBER 13. Lesson Text: "Christ and the Blind * Man," John ix? 1-1 1, 35-3H? Golden Text, John ix.f 25-- Commentary, i 1. "And as Jesus passed by He sa?? a man 1 which was blind from his birth." And being full of compassion' His heart went out to this t poor man, who had flow spent over a s?ore of years in darkness, l>oth physical and spiritual (verso SI). ] 2. "And His disciples# asked Him, sayings ] Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind.' That all suffering ' is the direct result of some- ?in on the part of the sufferer or his ancestors is not only a j very old but a very common b?lief. That it is sometimes the ease is evident from the ] words of Jesus Himself, "Behold, thou art ] mads whole; sin no more, lest s worse thing come unto thee" (John v., 14). But to con- ' elude that it is always so would be directly contrary to the teachings of Scripture, for "Whom the Lord loveth He oharfteneth." "He whom Thou lovest is sick.'" "As many ' as I love I rebuke and chasten" (Keb. xii., 6; John xi., Rev. iii., 10). And iu the- case C T *-l -I li.?1 ,1^.4-U | 01 j-iazaruH cne sicsuess resuncu ju un?u, which brought heartbreaking sorrow-to Martha and Mary, each of whom Jesus loved (John xi.,5). 3. "Jesusanswered, Neither has this man ( sinned, nor his parents, but that the works , of God should be made manifest in him;" In 3 the light of the testimony of all .Scripture is 3 the only way to understand auy Scripture. ] From this saying of Christ some might < blindly conclude that we have here a sinless < man with sinless parents; but what saith thp | Scriptures? "All have sinned and come , short of the glory of God." "There is none ( righteous, no, not one," (Rom. iii., 10, .23). The words of Christ are concerning the f man's blindness and the reason of it, aud He ] simply says that there was no special sin on i the part of the parents by reason of which , they were given a blind son, but, on the con-- ? trary, this blind man was going to furnish a | special opportunity for the manifestation of , the power of God. j 4. "I must work the works of Him that ] sent Me, while it is day; the night cometb, when no man can work." Over thirty times in this gospel Jesus says that the Father sent Him, aud He constantly appeals to the works as evidence that He was sent by God (chapters v., 3C; x? 25; xiv.,. 10; xv., 24). ! 5. "As lone as l am in the world. I am the light of the world." This also He often repeats, as in chapters viii., 12; xii., 35,.46.. He is both Life and Light, and neither death nor darkness can abide in His presence. 6. "When He had thus spoken He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle,and He annointod the eyes of the blind man with the clay." Sometimes he made the blind to see with a word, and immediately (Mark x., 52); sometimes by the use of a medium, as in the clay and spittle and waters of Hiloam, as iu this case, and sometimes gradually, as in the case of the man who first saw men as trees walking, and then when Jesns put His hands on him a second time he saw c'.early (Mark viii., 23-25). He must have had the best of reasons for doing everything just as He did, and we do well to ponder deeply and prayerfully all His methods as well as His words. 7. "And said unto him, Go, wasa in tho pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing." Jesus was just, as able to open his eyes with a word, and on the spot,as in the case of the blind men at Jericho, but He saw fit to do as He did for some wise purpose. s. "The neighbors, therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he who sat and begged?'' The miracle being wrought and the power of God being made manifest, tho results are now to be wltnessed. Yesterday this man was one of the many blind beggars in Israel; thtj neighbors and the passers by all knew him and some of them had probably often given him alms. To-day hi is a blind bagger no longer, but with eyes opened he is in a condition to earn his iiviug. And now it is the talk of the section of the city where he was known, and the people are filled with wonder,but as yet they know not Him whose name is Wonderful (Isa. ix., (i). 0. "Some said, This is he; others said, He i-:? u..? coin T am hn." Notice IS 1IKB Ullll, uuu uo in the man's testimony his humility and right spirit; he does not deny that once, and but yesterday, be was only a poor blind beggar. He acknowledges his former low condition. It is good to remember what we were ere Jesus found us. Humility becometh us well, but pride never. God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble (I Pet. v., 10. "Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened." The c'.nuge was so great and so clearly manifest that the people could not help inquiring how it cameabout. 11. "He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and annointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam and wash, and I went t n J washed, and I received sight.'' This is his testimony, simple, full, straightforward. The man called Jesus did it all, and he, the blind man, simply obeyed. "Jesus heard that they had ca-.t him out. and when He had found hin E^said unto him, Dost thou believe on tl? L.on of God?"' Tbe intervening verses te.'l how the people brought him to the Pharu ees. and now he testified before them concert ing tha miracle wrought uoon him. The Pharisees would not believe he had ever been blind untiliiis parents testified. Then they refused to ac cuowledgo Jesus as a good man. and when be who had been blind insisted that Jesus must he of God because He had wrought . in unheard of work, thi Pharisees cast him c;i\ ''He answered and said. Who is He, T.ord, that I might believe on Him?" The greatest question that can be asked of any mortal is tnat which Jesus asked this man in tne last vers.1, or Pilate's question, "What s'.mll I do with Jesus?'' If all v/ereas ready as this man how blessel it would be! The vast multitude in Christendom know of Him, but will not accept Him, while among the hundreds of millions or neaiaeauum never heard of Him thera are many who would accent Him if they knew of Him, who ara accepting Him when they do hear of Him, und sorrow because their parents never heard of Him. that they, too, might be.ieve. 37. "And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talket'u with thee." The woman of Samaria said, "I know that Messiah comatb, who is called Christ * ' ' * Jesus siith unto lior, I that speak unto thea am He" (iv., 25. 2 i). And immediately she went n?r to the city with the tidings. So Jesus now reveals Himself to this man as the nee J of his unsatisfied soul; even as after the resurrection He revealed Himself to weeping Mary, the sorrowful two, the perplexe.1 women, the fearful disciples, doubting Thomas, tha hungry and disappointed fishermen, and in every case tears, doubts, fears and parplexities all vanished, and there was joy u.;d peace and plenty. i<. "An ! he said, Lord, I believe. And he worships I Him." Happy man; for as a believer he at onca receive! all the riches of Uoi's grace in Jesus Christ. I do not say he at once enjove 1 all the riches of God's grace, but he bei-ame possessor and began to enjoy. Consider the possessions of one who can truly say, "LerJ, I believe." According to the infallible testimony of God's word he has eternal life, is a child of Go I. has the forgiveness of sins, lias peace with God, is a joint heir with Christ, is a king and priest unto (JoJ. has an inheritance incorruptible, his body has become a temple of the Holy Spirit, and he has the assurance that some ilay he shall have a body just like Christ's glorilied bu.ly.?Lesson JlelfHW IIe was a wise man who, at a recent moeiing of the Chicago Trade and I Labor Assembly, opposed sending a i representative to tho coming iutcrua| tional labor congress at Brussels. "We got a sufficient dose of such European labor leaders as will probably attend that congress at tho Ilaymarket riots of '86. As an American citi- ( zen I objcct to the introduction of such ideas as aro likely to bo promulgated at Brussels." The majority was against him, but ho had the right in tho matter, as his associates will be ready to admit some day^ reiigiousjeadim ,rKKVEETHKLES8." h "Nevertheless'! am continually with Tfree: riiou hast hoklsti me bv my right hand/' ^ -[Ps. lxxiii: 23. ** 'Nevertheless!" tfrough the waves roll high,The Lord is greater than all; a' And when the burden's too great for me, 4 For His loving help I call. Jehovah, the Lord, hay promised to tless, CI Lie will fultill Ilis "nevertheless." ' Nevertheless!" though with feeble feet hi I fellow Him day by dav? w ind the hands may trembis that grasp Ilia f?i Word; The Lord is my strength atxl stay, for He, the Lord, lias promised'to bless, gi He will fultill His "nevertheless* 0I 'Nevertheless!" when the earth jrowsd'rear, m To rris loving hand I cling; Aind though the voiccs of earth spsak woe, ,. In my heart doth heaven's musi<rringf w frecause tlie Lord ha3 promised to Wess, kx Ely will fulfi ll' jaia ''nevertheless." ft "Nevertheless?r with sheaves we come,Oh Lord, to Tky heavenly throne, 4 A.nd, 'mid the ranks of the angel host,One voice is heard alone; 'Thy Savior, Lord. I promised to bless;- m I havo fulfilled my "nevertheless.*" gi ?-{Mary Sanders, in The Christian.sh Tir Cowest PLACE. G< It is-far better to have-an humble estimate to 5f ourselves. The time may come, after a1 a season of stflf-exuitationy when we may be required to t?ke au humbler place. How much hotter to occupy tue position 01 ine meek and lowly, for we .vball surely some' 9 [lay, even in this world,, hear the invitation, ^ !4Come up higher.-'' True merit will surely 61 be recognized.- The tftoilj* great are more p( conscious of' their own imperfections, because they know themselves better than the world can ever know themi When a French m ambassador paid a vifit to Lord Bacon on ja his death bed, lie said to the dying man: . "You are like the angels-, of whom wc read 10 and hear much, but have not the pleasure of or seeing them." The curtaiiis-had been close- w ly drawn around the bed:so that the visitor could not see the dying philosopher. Bacon replied, "If the complaisance of others com- pi pares me to an angel, mv infirmities tell me ce I am a man."?[Central Baptist. m THE WAY WIIX BB OLEMtED A3 WE GO. cc The driver of the tram-car through the streets of our city starts wifh his car upon a line which runs continuously to his journey's end. If; he goes on straight ahead he di will sorely come to the destined place. q( Should he be able to see ail the route at once j. he would observe many coal-wagons, furnlturc-vans, timber-carriagesj brewers' drays, u and the like blocking up his road along the qt rails, and he might mournfully ask: "How w can I move all these things?" But he takes no such lengthened view and asks no such useless-question. Ab he moves along all sorts-of obstructive traffic give way before \a him?even the van demons- yield him the road. When one of them is a little slow in w getting out of the way, our driver blow9 his ki whistle, and, after two or three shrill ap- p( peals, the obstinate vehicle retires. As the \ rails run all the way, so docs the car. Just a< so we are on the rails of eternal life. Be- tc tween us and heaven there are a thousand' obstructions, and if-we think of them all we , may well be fearful; but they will one ana i ?" all disappear as we come to them. If they te should seem likely to bar our progress we g must sound the whistle of prayer, aud in due season they will turn aside and leave us- 31 a clear road along the lines of covenant pi grace. Therefore go ahead, and fear no im- g pediment, for tht line is laid; and we have a f? legal right to travel along It, and none may lawfully hinder us. This Is what I learned n from the driver of the tram-car.?[C. H. Spurgeon. ^ AI/L LF.\I>S LP TO CHRIST. 01 I)r. Maclaren. commenting on the spirit w of sundry Old Testament criticisms, suggests a< the thought that the direct mission of the d book should never be lost sight of: "There . is a great doal being said nowadays abont : the position of the Old Testament, the origin tl of its ritual, and other critical, and, to some ci extent, historical, questions, I have no Qj doubt that we have much to learn upon these subjects; but what I want to insist upon is this: that all these subjects, about Bi which people are getting so excited, and some of them so angry, stand, and may be dealt with, altogether apart from this-central 6: thought, that the purpose and moaning, the p end and object of the whole preliminary and progressive revelation of (*od from the be- ~ ginning is to lead straight up to Jesus Christ } and to His cross. And if we understand that ii and feel that the testimony of Jesus is the a spirit of prophecy, and that law and sacrifice, commandments and altar, Sinai and lJ Zion, the fiery words that were spoken in the wilderness, and the perpetual burnt ^ offering that went up in the temple, had one mission, viz.: to ' prepare the way ot the a Lord.' we hive grasped the essential truth e a? to tuc old revelation?and if wc do not t! understand that, wc may be as scholarly and erudite and original as we please, but we mi.-s the one truth which is worth grasping. The relation between the ancient revelation e and the new is this?that Christ was pointed ? to by it all and that in Himself He sums up and' surpasses and antedates, because He n fullils all the past." c t STUDY Tin? HOME. On a stormy nisht, a man in the thralls o1 j drink angrill left his home and his loved i f ones. A colli rain was falling and the wind . was pitiless, but the outer tempest was I ' nothing to that which raged in his breast, a He wandered far away into streets, along a which the lamps in cheerful homes were re- a duplicated in the dare of the icy pavements. , A lur of light fell across his pathway from * the unshaded window of a beautiful*home, s It lav in squares on the glittering pavement, s and arrested the steps of the wretched man. . He paused and leaned against a box that 1 guarded a tree beside the way. He looked T up through its lealless branches and the t ?.* n wrathful Rkv. Then his pa/o fell across the street to tlie window, from which the graceful drapery was caught a aside. He saw the brilliant liglit, the choice t mantel ornaments, the easy chair?, the bright fireside. "Shall I evei have such a ' heme as that?" lie said to himself. At that a moment, someone sat down to the piano and I began to play. The music softened his heart c and opened the fountain of tears which had _ lieen sealed since his childhood. * "Yes." an inward voice said to him, "such 0 a home as this?beautiful, peaceful, with j the joyous presence of loved ones?may be i yours, if you will but walk in the ways of virtue." It was the turning point in that man's Im- I mortal destiny, and now for fourteen years a he has realized the blessing of just such a _ home. "I never could have borne it." sr.id a D business man, who had emerge I in safety T from weeks of awful cri-is in his affairs, "if u all had not been right at home.'' Have we not too much lost sight of the f home as a fulcrum for the moral lever which t is to lift the world heavenward? Neither t the church nor the individual, but the fanii- j Iv, the unit of social forces. May it not be that both the church and the individual, in c seeking to restore the harmony of society, a have yet to tiad largest and niost ettective i soeiafdynamics in the moral and Christian development of the family? It is fashionable just how for women to "improve the mind" in private, in social gatherings with enticing names, in multi- ^ plied Chautauqua circles, aud many other ^ "ways" which follow the "will." It would " be well if they would sink the plummet still f deeper, and map out a study, almost new in ; sociology, quite new in our ethics, and still undreamed of in our methods of education c and reform?the seieutilie study of the home, s its constitution, possibilities, obligations and j /elations.?[Co.'jgregationalist. . j f ????? \ f HOTELS WITHOUT LIQUORS. r Commenting upon the lvoen: action of the 4 Maine Hotel Keeper.-*' Association against prohibition, the Lewiston -Ionrii><! says When the era of prohibition iir.-t set in. 1 years ago, we were informed that a hotel t could not be successfully run i>y water- j power. Since prohibition was inaugurate I, Maine hotels have been developed troai a 1 mo>t limited and primitive cond tion. into J great ami fashionable places of entertain- f ment, especially in response to the demand of summer leisure. The elimination of the bar * has made healthy family life positoio at 1 Maine notels. ] i i / POPULAR SCIENCE. Butter made from cocoanuts is&id \Xf % >e healthful. Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist, wrote 'iJrtng his lifetime 184 volumes. jtitj prauuue ui "coia sawing 01 ad iron is being generally adopted. # ?M Reccnt experiments by German physf^Sai ians indicate that cancer is contagious.. The new Argentine Pacific Railroad ^ as one stretch of road 211 miles loog7/3^ ithout a curve or bridge, and no cntor;^jft [1 deeper than three feet. Experiment? in Chicago with emmen- ^ te and gelbite show them to be one and Vj ae-half times more powerful titan dyna> ite and as safe fa- handle ae pig iron. .V U For a good solution for removing the . ue from steel so as- to leaves as clean *d-? ? ;fore coloring, try acctic acidr or sola- Sji on of chloride of tin (stannous eWoride). --M Zinc expands up to the- melting point. C ;^ bar of hammered zinc-six- inches long' "^S ill expand one one-hundredth? of aa. cb in raising the temperature .100 de- ' reea Fah. A number of thoroughbred! Merino icephave been introduced'in the Cap?'<'-|| Dloayr from the United States, in1 order improve the quality of the Sooth. frican wool. The Graced Canyon of the Coloradomply the channel worn by the action: inning water to a depth of 5000' ?1 )00 feet. The sides of the canyon arc jrpecdicular diffs fifteen miles apart. jM The- serious- effects upon the- eyes of "*1 lUCIO 11UIU> WU*7 lUCUi bui; UlUUCIU' OdiUBJ -~~>ZCZR mp- has- been a: subject of investigatioa ' J England,, the result being that- in- ja cased lighting: power in such lamp* v$3 ill oausesuch troubles to disappears JK5 By moans of at powerful jet of com essed air a German engineer drive* drj , $ iment down. iato> the saud or mud at the4'% )ttom cf a stream so that the water intr ediately fixes- the cement and -it be-^ >mes-like-solid rock,, suitable for founds ' A three-foot vein of lead ore han boew ^ scovcred on the farm of J. Halbing^yp *r Breda,. Catroi County, Iowa, at jpth of 300 feet." Expert minera- at <4 irrol. report that the ore is of the finest lality and- can be- mined to good adr^*|j intage. It has been concluded that whatever:"^ eservative is to be applied, the timber p piles, subjected to-the action of sear orms,. should first be charged, soaattt "-j 11 any germs-near the surface, open th?. ;;*? >rcs of the wood for the antiseptic and ;. ^ jstroy the nutritive matter upon whiob . < 4 Shells foi il/'ng-high explojives- hav#-'"^ ;en patented abroad,, ia which a recefM^JSj ide is-made containing compressed air. -'!/ y suitable appliances this air is released iddenly, thus furnishing the propelling ower. Great range, no fouling of tho. an, scarcely any noise, and no smokok'^jj :e-thus obtained, combined with greafc "c;3 ipidity of fireWhat seems to bean infalliable remedy :Jj >r the poison of snake bites is a solution - : ~ E nitrate of strychnine in 240 parts of aterv to which a little glycerine i*&|| Jded.. This is U3ed hypodermically In; M oses of twenty minims, at intervals of m to twenty minutes, depending upoa ^ :e condition of the patient. In 100 ises tnus treated only one failure ccurredIn India the flaxseed grown up to the ^ Ititude of 6000 feet is oil yielding* :v^| [uchhas been done by the Indian Gotrnment to foster flax culture among thft ."is easantiy, but with little success. Joto-olds the place of flax in popular favor*-"^1 'he great enemy of the flax plant in India ;:i i the rust. The flax fiber, seed, and oil 3 re soHttle in favor that tho bulk of hem is exported. TVin onnrmnna mnqq nf PTfrft ue to the carrying of the boiler, fuel nd water in the old locomotive will ba ntirely unnecessary in the railways ot, Vj he future, which will be propelled bj lectricity. Unquestionably the futula lectro-locomotion will show a motor on .'? very axle, or, at any rate, upon xlcs of each car, and every car runmng s a unit, in which case they can rua^isg oupled together in a train or not,as may 3 ie convenient. Voice and Sound. It is a curious fuct that musical sound# /|j ly farther and are heard at a greater dia- j ancc than those which are more load ,nd noisy. If we go on the outside of >| , town during a fair, at the distance at .jg , mile we hear the musical instruments, "A >ut the din of the multitude, which is |8 0 overpowering in the place, can '?3 carcely be heard, the noise dying on. he spot. To those who are conversant eith the power of musical ins truments* -3 he followiug observation will be under- % :, tood: The violins made at Cremona >3 bout the year 1600 are superior in tone; 0 any of a later date, age seeming ta lispossess then: of their noisy qualities, '-i -1 1 Knf tKu IMirfl fATIA S" U UUI>U1U^ UUK tut. [JU1V .vm. . f a modern violin is played by the side ^ if one ot these instruments it will ap- .;3g3j tear much the louder of the two; but n receding a hundred paces, when comtared with the Cremona, it will scarcely ic heard. The voice of man is endowed with ;JI urity of tone, in a higher degree than. ny of the vocal animals, by whicb, , state of nature, it enables him to com- "la nunicatc with his fellows at a distance cry remote. Providence has bestowed ipon children a power of voice, in pro ortion to their size, ten times greater han the adult. In a state of nature, his serves them as a defense and pro- va cction; for it is well known that chilIren have sometimes, by their cries^ larmcd and kept off the attacks of tha nost furious animals.?7he Ledger. ' 'h Inventor Ediso.i's Bij* Fortune. The recent decision of the United States courts puts $14,000,000 into Thomas A. Edison's pocket. Never beore has any decision brought such an nundatiou of wealth, says the New York orresuondent of the Troy Times. Edi- ?! on sued a company which had been usng his invention, and after six yeare ot ? itigation he has triumphed. The deendauts were making enormous profits, vhich they must now turn over to the * ortuuate electrician. Edison is the ij idlest inventor the world ever saw. jonie ingenious calculators have been ,'~J_ rying to figure up his income an-i they ~ lave reckoned the different inventions mtil tiiev are tired without touching jj> )0tto:n. It would not be surprising if J t were almost as large as Jay Gould's. 3 Hr. Edison, by the way, has set himself o writing a novel. That it will be a 'jf inique work is to be expected. He will ^ lave uo difficulty in finding a pub-Jj