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r RE 7. DE. TALMAGE.*' THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SRRJIO.V, Subject: "Royal Blood." Text: "Each one resembled the children Of a king."?Judges viii., 18. Zebah and Zulmunna had been off to battle, and when they came back they were asked what kind of people they had seen. They answered that the people had a royal appearance; "each one resembled the children of a king." I stand to-day before many who have this appearance. Indeed, they are the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Though now in exile, they shall yet come to their thrones. There are family names that stand for wealth or patriotism or intelligence. The name of Washington means patriotism, although some of the blood of that race has become very thin in the last veneration. The family of i^edici stood as the representative of letters. The family of the Rothschilds is significant of wealth, the loss of forty millions of dollars in 1848 putting them to no inconvenience; Mid within a few years they have loaned Russia twelve millions of dollars, Naples twenty-five millions, Austria forty millions and England two hundred millions; and the stroke of their pen on the counting room desk shakes everything from the Irish Sea to the Danube. They open their hand, and there is war; they shut it, and there is peac?. The house of Hapsburg in Austria, the house of Stuart in England, the house of Bourbon in France were families of imperial authority. But I come to preach of a family more potential, more rich and more extensive? the royal house of Jesus, of whom the whole lamily in heaven and on earth is named. We are blood relations by the relationship of the Cross; all of us are the children of the King. First, I speak of our family name. When -we see a descendant of some one greatly celebrated in the last century we look at him with profound interest. To have had conquerors, kings or princes in the ancestral time give luster to the family name. In our line was a king hnd a conqueror. The Star in the East with baton of light woke up the eternal orchestra that made music at His ibirth. From thence He started forth to conquer all nations, not by tramping them down,but by lifting them up. St. John saw Him on a white horse. W hen He returns He will not bring the nations chained to His wheel or in iron cages; but I hear the stroke of the hoofs of the snow white cavalcade that bring them to the gates in triumph. Our family name takes luster from the star that heralded Him, and the spear that pierced Him, and the crown that was given Him It cithers fraerance from the frank incense brought to His cradle, and the lilies that flung their sweetness into His sermons, and the box of alabaster that broke at Hi* ieet. The comforter at Bethany, The resurrector at Nain. The supernatural oculist at Bet'asaida. The Saviour of one world, and the chief joy of another. The storm His frown. The sunlight His smile. The spring morning His breath. The earthquake the stamp of His foot. The thunder the whisper of His voice. The ocean a drop on the tip of His finger. Heaven a sparkle on the , ibosom of His love. Eternity the twinkling of His eye. The universe the flying dust of His chariot wheels. Able to heal a heartbreak, or hush a tempest, or drown a world, ' or flood immensity with His glory. What other,family name could ever boast of such an illustrious personage? Henceforth, swing out the coat of arms! Great families wear their coat of arms on the dress, or on the door of the coach, or on the helmet when they go out to battle, or on flags :and ensigns. The heraldic sign is sometimes a lion, or a dragon, or an eagle. Our coat of arms, worn right over the heart, hereafter shall be a cross, a lamb standing under it and a dove flying over it Grandest of all escutcheons! Most significant of all family - ? T_ T , "coats ot arms." m everj umuo x unu>. have it blazing on my flag?the dove, the cross, the ^amb, and when I fall wrap me in that gocd old Christian flag, so that the family coat of arms shall be right over my breast, that all the world may see that I looked to the dove of the spirit, and clang to the cross, and depended upon the Lamb of God, which taketh awcy the sin of the world. Ashamed of Jesus?that dear friend. On whom my hopes of life depend; No! when I blasn be this my shame? That I no more revere His name. Next I speak of the family sorrows. If trouble oome to one member of the family, all feel it It is the custom, after the body is lowered into the graVe, for all the relatives to come to the verge of the grave and look down into it. First those nearest the departed come, then those next of kin, until 'they have all looked into the grave. So when trouble and grief go down through the heart of one member of the family, they go down through them alL The sadness of one is the sadness of all. A company of persans join hands around an electric battery; the two persons at the ends of the line touch the battery, and all -the circle feels the shock. Thus, by reason of the filial, maternal and paternal relations of life, we stand so close together that when trouble sets its battery all feel the thrill of distress. In the great Christian family the sorrow of one ought to be the sorrow of all. Is one persecuted* All are persecuted. Does cne suffer loss? We all suffer loss. Is one bereaved? We are all bereaved. Their si reaming eyes together flow Vnmtn rrnlir ?nd mnrftnl WOP. . I If you rejoice at another's misfortune you ar* not one of the sheep, but one of the ! goats, and the vulture of sin hath alighted on your soul, and not the dove of the ' ; [tpinc. Next I notice the family property. After a man of large estate dies the relatives assemble to hear the will read. So much of the property is willed to his sons, and so ,much to his daughters, and so much to benevolent societies. Our Lord Jesus hath died, and we are assembled to-day to hear the will read. He says. "My peace I give tinto you." Through His apostle He says, "All are yours." Whatl Everything? Yes, everything! This world and the next. In distinguishing families there are old pic" tures banging on the wall. They are called the "heirlooms" of the estate. They are very old, and have come down from generation to generation. So I look upon all the beauties of the natural world as the heirlooms of our royal family. The morning breaks from the east. The mists travel up hill above hill, mountain above mountain, until sky lost. The forests are full of chirp and buzz and song. Trees'a leaf and bird's wing flutter with gladness. Honey makers in the log, and beak against the bark, and squirrels chattering on the rail, and the call of the hawk out of a clear sky make you feel glad. The sun, which kindles conflagrations among the castles of elouds and eets minaret and dome aflame, stoops to paint the lily white, and tha buttercuo yellow, and the forget-me-not blue. iVihat can resist the sun? Light for the voyager over the deep! Light for the shepherd guarding the flocks afield! Light for the poor who have no lamp to burn! Light for the downcast and the lowly! Light for aching eyes, and burning brain, and wasted captive! Light for the smooth brow of ?.,.4 ?.uA auu xui iuu utiu > uivu ut tuo octogenarian I Light for queea's coronet, and tor sewing girl's needle! Let ther? be light! Whose morning is this? My morning. Your morning. Our Father gave us the picture, and hung it on the sky in loops of fire. It is the heirloom of our family. ' And so the night. It is the full moon. The mists from snore to shore gleam like shattered mirrors, and the ocean, under her glance, comes up with great tides, panting upon the beach, mingling, as it ware, foam and fire. The poor man blesses God for throwing such a cheap light through the broken window pane in his cabin, and to the sick it seems a light from the other shore which bounds this great deep of human pain and woe. If the sun seemed like a song full and poured from brazen instruments that fill heaven and earth with great harmonies, the moan is plaintive and mild, stauliu? beneath the throne of (rod, sending up her soft, sweet voice of praise, while the stars listen, and the sea. v ' No mother ever more sweetly guarded the sick cradle than all night long this pale watcher of the skv bends over the weary, heartsick, slumbering earth. Whose is this black framed, black tasseled picture of the night! It is the heirloom of our family. Ours, the grandeur of the spring, the crystals of the snow, the coral of the beach, the odors of the garden, the harmonies of the air. You cannot see a large estat3 in one morning. You must take several walks around it. The family property of this royal house of Jesus is so great that we must take several walks to get any idea of its extent. Let ths first walk be around this earth. All these valleys, the harvests that wave in them " '/f. . . _ ? ;:V J ; and the cattle that pasture them?all these mountains and the precious things hidden beneath them, and the crown of glacier they cast at the feet of the Alpine hurricane?all these lakes, these islands, these continents, are ours. In the second walk go among the street lamps of heaven, and see stretching off on every side a wilderness of worlds. For us they shine. For us they sang at a Saviour's nativity. For us they will wheel into line and with their flaming: torches add to the splendor of our triumph on the day for WHICH tUi UtilCl uajo irnio In the third walk go around the Eternal City. As we come near it. hark to the rush of its chariots and the wedding peal of its great towers. The bell of heaven has struck twelve. It is high noon. We look off upon the chaplets which never fade, the eyes that never weep, the temple3 that never close, the loved ones that never part, the procession that never halts,the trees that never wittier, the walls that never can ba captured, the sun that never sets, until wa can no longer gaze, and we hide our eyes and exclaim. Eye hata not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love HimP' As these tides of glory rise we have to retreat and hold fast lest we be swept off and drowned in the emotions of gladness and thanksgiving and triumph. What think you of the family property? It is considered an honor to marry into a family where there is great wealth. The Lord, th? bridegroom of earth and heaveD, offers you His heart and His hand, saying in the words of the Canticles, "Bise up, My love, My fair one, and come away;" and once having put on thy hand the signet ring of His love, you will ba endowed with all the wealth of earth and all the honors of heaven. Almost every family looks back to a homestead?some country place where you grew up. You sat on the doorsill. You heard the footstep of the rain on the garret roof. You swung on the gate. You ransacked the bam. You waded Into the brook. You thvachad fha fnr nnnlac *nrl t.ho neighboring woods for nuts; and everything around the old homestead is of interest to you. I tell you of the old homestead of eternity. In my Father's house are many mansions. When we talk of mansions we think of Chatsworth and its park, nine miles in circumference, and its conservatory that astonishes the world; its galleries of art, that contains the triumphs of Chantrey, Canova and Thorwaldsen; of the kings and the queens who have walked, its stataly halls, or, nying over the heather, have hunted the grouse. But all the dwelling places of dukes ?nd princes and queens are as nothing to the family mansion that is already awaiting on our arrival. The hand of the Lord Jesus lifted the pillars and swung the doors and planted the parks. Angels walk there, and the gods of all age3. The poorest man in that house is a millionaire, and the lowliest a kin?, and the tamest word he speaks in an anthem and the shortest life an eternity. it toek a Faxton to build for Chatsworth f? r? i.u. T7t~ a covering lur tu? wuuuunui uvwoa, w iv toria Regia, five feat in diameter. But our Lily of the Valley shall need no shelter from the blast, and in the open gardens of God shall put forth its full bloom, and all heaven shall come to look at it, and its aroma shall be as though the cherubim had swung before the throne a thousand censeau I have not ?teen it yet. I am in a foreign land. But my Father is waiting for me to come home. I ba re brothers and sisters there. In the Bible I have letters from there, telling me what a fine place it is. It matters not much to me whether I am rich or poor, or whether the world hates me or loves me, or whether I go by land or by sea, if only I may lift my eyes at last on the family mansion. It is not a frail house, built in a month, soon to crumble, but an old mansion which is as firm as the day it was built. Its walls are grown with the ivy of many ages, and the in ns at the gateway are abloom with the century plants of eternitv. The Queen of Sheba bath walked its halls, and Esther and Marie Antoinette and Lady Huntingdon and Cecil and Jeremy Taylor and Samuel Rutherford and John Milton, and the widow who crave two mites, and the poor men from the hospital?these last two perhaps outshining all the kings and queens of eternity. A family mansion means reunion. Some of your families are very much scattered. The children married, and went off to St. Louis <%r Chicago or Charleston; but parhap once ayear you come together at the old plac?. How you wake up the old piano that has been silent for years! (Father and mother do not play in it.) How you bring out the old relics, and rummaze the garret, and open old scrapboois, ana shout and laugh and cry and talk over old times, and, though you may be forty-five years of age, act as though you were sixteen! Yet soon it is goodbye at the car window, and goodbye at the steamboat wharf. But how will we act at the reunion in the old family mansion of heaven? It is a good while since you parted at the door of the grave. There will b9 Grace and Mary ana Martha and ? tj?i- 1?11 4.U. J__i: ^narne uuu uizz.iv auu un tuo uamugo \j?. your household?not pale and sick aad gasping for breath, as when you saw them last, but the eye bright with the luster of heaven, ana the cheek roseate with the flush of celestial summer. What clasping of hands! What embracings! What comin? together of lip to lip! What tears of joy! You say, "I thought there were no tears in heaven." There must ba, for the Bible says that "God 9hall wipe them away;" and if there were tears there, how could He wipe them away? They cannot be tears of grief or tears of disappointment. They must be tears ofgladnes9. Christ will come aad say: "What! child of heaven, is it too much for thee? Do3t thou breakdown under the gladness of this reunion? Then I will help thee." And, with His one arm around us and the other arm around our loved one, He shall hold us up in the eternal jubilee. . While I speak, some of you, with broken hearts, can hardly hold your paaca. You feel as if you would speak out and say* "Oh, blessed day! speed on. Toward thee I press nibu uiuuuoa icov i/uo uwoi w ?oj. u*j eyes fail for their weeping. I faint from listening for feet that will not come and the sound of voices that wilt not speak. Speed on, oh, day of reunion! And then, Lord Jesus, be not angry with me if after I have just once kissed Thy biassed feet I turn around to gather up the lpng lost treasures of my heart. Oh, be not angry with me! One look at Thee were heaven. But all these reunions are heaven encircling heaven, heaven overtopping b*aven, heaven commingling with heaven!'' I was at Mount Vernon and went into the dining-room in whicU our first President entertained the prominent men of this and other lands. It was a very interesting spat. But oh, the banqueting hall of the family mansion of whicn I spaak! Spread the table; spread it wide, for a great multitude are to sit at it. From the Tree by the River gather the twelve manner of fruits for that table. Take the clusters from the heavenly vineyards and press them into the golden tankards for that table. On baskets carry in the bread of which, if man eat, he shall never hunger. Take all the shot-torn dags of earthly conIuest and entwine them among the arches. ?t David come with his harp, and Gabriel with his "umpet, atyi Miriam with the timbrel, for the prodigals are at home, and the captives are free, and the Father hath invited the mighty of heaven aud the redeemed of earth to come and dine. Mrs. Potter Palmer has been requested to drive the last nail in the woman's building for the Chicago World's Fair. The matter is in the hands of a committee of "Ladv Man agers of the Columbian Exhibition," although why so exalted beings as "lady managers" should condescend to have anything to do with a mere woman's building is not apparent. The scene will be a beautiful one if Mrs. Palmer is really to drive the nail. First she will probably give a blow that will leave a dint the size of half the hammer head in the woodwork; then she will bend the nail nearly double; and after that she will smash her pretty Angers, and throw down the hammer in disgust. TTrnrpvpr nnil tr> ho nf crr.lH and silver and copper, not to mention any precious stones which it may be decided to put into it, there will probably be a neat hole made into which Mrs. Palmer can gently push the composite spike with her fingers, and thus avoid the terrific complications which would inevitably follow upon any attempt to really drive the nail home. ?-*' ' ' - * - * L \ . RELIGIO US_READING. AT THE DOOU. [Revelation, chapter iii. verse 20.] At the door of thy heart He stands. And long has knocked, But the door is barred with iron bands, And doubly locked. J" tVio dnmiiinp's sun and the winter's rain. He has pleaded entrance oft and again. And with patience waits?in vain?iu vain? His words are mocked. Tis the Prince of Peace that calls; No loujrer wait! But hasten down from thy banquet hallsUnbar the gate! He will change thy songs to nobler strains, He will cleanse thy soul from sin's dark stains? Give crowns for pleasure's gilded chainsGive love for hate. O heart, thou bast for so long quaffed Sin's baleiul wine, Thou longest not for tbe purer draught From fount divine! The feasts that grace thy banquet room, Though bright with beauty's gorgeous bloom, Will lose their brilliance and perfume? These feasts resign. The door of thy heart open wide; Depart, 0 Sin! Bid the Prince of Peace to thy sideWelcome Him in! A loving, tried and constant guest, He will dwell forever in thy breast, Joy, peace and everlasting "rest Will then begin. ? [J. Wall is Cook. THE CRUSE OF SALT. In the story of old. when the water was bitter and the land was barren, the prophet took a cruse of salt and east it into the spring. At once the fountain was healed, and tne land became fruitful. Christ's true disciple is just a cruse of salt in the Master's hand, one whose presence has power to heal life's bitterness, making the power of life sweet for those about us, ana planting the waste and desolate places of life with a beauty like the garden of the Lord. Surely heaven itself could have no fairer sight for our blessed Master than such a discipie here *? Uiian UTa amo wKnao in me linuai. ui uui uum mv, noiseless influence is like a breath of heaven,, bringing wholesomeness, sweetness and strength. To come into contact with, such a one is to find a healing virtue.?[Pearse. PURPOSE OF HEART?BEAUTY OF PACK. Alice Freeman Palmer, ex-president of Wellesley Collece, recently said in an address before the Women's Board of Foreign Mission*, Boston: . " I am so sorry for the girls and women who have so great, absorbing interest outside of themselves. In studying faces at social gatherings, one can hardly fail to be Impressed with the different expressions upon the countenances of those who aro accustomed to assemble purely for pleasure, and those whose lives are dominated by noble purpose. Girls naturally desire to be beautiful*. But if the beauty is to be lasting, if at forty or sixty they wish to have that certain something in their personal presence which makes women of that age bo attrac. tive, they must live outside of themselves. Self-culture sought for its own sake will never make a giri winsome. Her graces, her BCCOmpilsnments, ner raienis qi every aun, must subserve some higher good to be reallv possessions. That is why an interest In foreign missions has such an ennobling effect upon a young person's character. It carries thought and atfection to the farthest limit. Therefore, girls, with all your getting, get enthusiasm for this branch of Christian work, for your own sakes also." THE ROPE HAS A HOLD ON ME. A few years ago, one of our great ocean steamers was crossing the Atlantic when it was overtaken by a storm. At midnight, when all were bravely battling with the elements, there came a sudden cry of "a man overboard!" The hurricane was too fierce to permit of the vessel being brought to a standstill, but as soon as the cry was heard the captain and a sailor rushed to the stern of the vessel, the latter hastily coiled up a rope, and noosing it at the end as he ran, threw it with fervent hope that it might catch the drowning. They anxiously watched the rope, and to their joy it tightened. Although they were almost certain that the man had got hold of the rope, they feared to draw It in, lest they were mistaken. Then the captain shouted with all his might, " Have you got hold of the rope?" And in a lull between the blasts of wind there came these words, in a faint voice, ' No, but the rppe has a hold of me." The drowning man had caught the rope and slipped the noose over Ills Head* had drawn it tigmiy unaer nis arm9, and he was safe, for held there by the strong cable, he was pulled on board. When he had the rope holding him he was far safer than if he had held tne rope in his feeble grasp. And it is much tbe same with tbe saved sinner. He must first of all take hold of Christ, and when that is done it is not so much his hold upon Clmst as Christ's almigbtv encircling, embracing grasp upon him.?[Exchange. THE CHL'ECH OF THE FUTURE. The Christian world contains no sadder picture than small towns where money and strength are wasted, not that souls may be saved and the human condition bettered, but that sects may win proselytes. All denominations are sinners in tbis matter. A new church is needed in a town, and those already there hold no conference, make no mutual plans, never ask who can do the work best, but the one that happei.s to have ready money rushes in and pre-empts the field. Missions are needed to the heathen, and, in too many iustances, there are offered to those who know not how to distinguish, Presbyterian. Congregational, Methodist and Episcopalian forms of Christianity, and the poor heathen make the best bargain by going to the highest bidder. Think of rival societies in the face of the poverty and crime wbicn are rising like a flood! Think of a Zulu trying to understand the immense significance of tbe difl'erence between immersion and sorinlviinp;! Think of a Sioux Indian trying to fathom tbe mystery of the historic E'piscopite! Think of street children growing 10 be criminals while the General Assembly is settling the infinitely important nuestion" as to whether Moses wrote the books that contain no mention of his authorship! Sects are the products of intelltctual differences. They will exist as long as men differ, which will probably be forever. Heaven would be a monotonous place if all the angels looked alike and sang tile same strain without ceasing. But is there no basis for the co-operation among Christians which i< imperative? There is. and it may be found in the principle of federation. Let tlie sec:s keep apart as much as thev choose in the linking of their theologies but come together in the service of humanity. In the not distant future ail denominations in the community will have some sort of a legislature?a committee, perhaps, on which all will l e represented and to whose treasury ill will contribute?and this body of elders, wardens, deacons, or what not. will have direction of all that concerns the whole community. Is a new church needed in a locality? This committee will report what denomination will suit that particular field best, and then ail others will help as much as if it were their own. Is a mission required, or a place where those who have no home can be provided w'xh a home? All :11 i A.I i i. mu cunsiurr iuc <[Ui-3iiL.il uuu iiuijj uuluiuing to ability. Nothing less than this can meet the problem of the modern city. Not only is the need too great for money to be wasted, but the ignorance of the people is micIi that they must not be coDfused with speculations. " A denominational' mission in Africa or in Whitoehap'l is poor gin -ral] hail the better .lav!?[Rev. Dr. A. II. I'radfortl at the London Council. A Valuable Dogr. At the recent American Stock Show at Chicago there -wag a trotting match between two dogs harnessed to small sulkies. A dog named Dock won the race, covering his mile in three minutes with Sever a break. The dog belongs to a boy named Willie Ketchaw, who bought him some time ago for $7. His owner now has in bank, it is said, $7000 that |the dog ha9 won for him in lace?.?New Orleans Picayune. i ^SABBATHSCHOOL^ INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR DECEMBER 27. Fourth Quarterly Review?Golden Text: I Cor. it., 3-4. Question?What message did the sisters of Lazarus send to Jesus? Answer?Lord, behold, he whom Thou lovest is sick. Q.?How did Jesus tell His disciples of the death of Lazarus? A.?Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. O?What HiH MArt.hn sav to Jams when He came to Bethany? A.?Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Q.?What did Jesus reply? A.?Thy brother shall rise again. Q.?How did Jesus show His sympathy for the sisters? A.?Jesus wept. Q.?How did He raise Lazarus from the dead? A.?He cried with a loud voice. Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead came forth. Q.?What did Jesus perdict concerning Himself? A.?And I; if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me. Q.?How did Jesus teach His disciples humility? A.?He poured water ioto a basin and washtd the disciples' feet. Q.?What assurance did Jesus give His disciples. A.?in JVly .Father's house is many mansions: 1 go to prepare a place for you. Q.?What did Jesus give as the test of friendship for Him? A.?Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. Q.?What did He tell them about His departure? A.?It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will send Him unto you. Q.?How did Jesus begin His prayer? A.?Father, the hour is come; glorify Thy Son, that Thy Son also may glorify Thee. 2.?What did He ask for His disciples? .?Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou hast given Me, that they may be one, as we are. Q.?Where did Jesus go after His prayer for His disciples? A.?He went forth with His disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into which He entered. Q.?Who guided His enemies to the place? A.?Judas, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. Q.?What did the band do? A.?They took Jesus, and bound Him, and led Him away to^Anoas. Q.?What did mate say to tne jews auer he had examined Jesus? * A..?I find no fault in Him. Q.?What did they all cry out when Pilate would have released Him? A.?Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him. Q.?What did Pilate finally do? A.?He delivered Him unto them to b? crucified. Q.?What was then done? A.?They crucified Him, and two others with Him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. \ Q.?What occurred on the third day after the death of Jesus? A.?-He rose from the dead. Q.?To whom did the risen Saviour first appear? A.?He appeared first to Mar7 Magdaline, Marl; 16:9. Q.?What messago did He give her? A.?Go to My brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto My Father, and your Father; and to My God, and your God. %?To whom did Jesus appear at the Sea berias? A.?He showed Himself to seven of His disciples. Q.?What direction did He give them? A.?Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. n-ttlut fnllnnmrt whon thnr had donn this? A.?They took a great multitude of fishes. ? Westminster Teacher. The Great Sutro Tnnnel." "There are some interesting facts connected with the great Sutro tunnel of the Comstock mines in Nevada," said 4'Brick" Pomeroy, the originator of the Atlantic-Pacific tunnel now being bored through the Rockies just we3t of Denver. "The Sutro tunnel starts in at a little village called Sutro, on the line of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, on the Carton River. The tunnel enters the eround at a point fifty feet above Carson River, and is projected to run four miles into Mount Davidson and there end at a depth of 1800 feet below the surface finder Virginia City, where it taps the Yellow Jacket and other silver bearing veins that form the so-called Comstock mines. When the Sutro tunnel whs projected but little was known of the character of the Comstock mines. It was thought the mines were shallow. This mineral deposit had to be drained, tt was believed that a tunnel running into the deposits would drain the mines and provide a way tor carrying the ore out on wheels rather than by the expensive method of hoisting. The owners agreed to pay Sutro 82 per ton for all the ore taken from their mines, no matter whether it was tasen out through his tunnel or hoisted to the surface by the mine owners. The water was run out through his tunnel free of charge. This was the alluring inducement offered Sutro to drive the tunnel. The size of the tunnel in the clear was made eight feet in width by ten feet in height. Under the timber floor is a waterway, through which flows the water df&iaed from the mines. Before the Sutro tunnel was finished a shaft had been sunk in the mines to the depth of 2200 feet. Therefore, the tunnel was of no use in draining the chief mines. The owners of the mines refused to pay Sutro the ?2 per ton royalty on the ore on the < ground that his tunnel did not drain 1 their properties to the depth they hud descended in them. Sutro threatened 1 to erect a solid bulkhead in the tunnel and J stop the drainage. Rather than be drowned out the mine owner j paid the $2 per ton royalty, and at last bought the controlling stock in the Sutro Tun- 1 nel Company. The greatest depth which any of the Comstoclc mines descended is 3200 feet. Some years ago the mine owners let their workings fill un with water to the 1800 foot level of - the tunnel, so that what were at one ' time the deepest workings in the Yel- ' low Jacket mine are now under 1400 feet of water. 4'The miners put on an india rubber ' cap and india rubber 3houlder pieces to protect them from the dripping hot. 1 water. They wear woolen wraps arouud ' their hips and heavy wooden-soled s!i>es. ' Their bodies and legs are bare. Tlie ' heat in the ore beds is 120 degrees on ' an average. The miners work fifteeu minutes, then return to the cooling- ] room and are rubbed down with cakes ol 1 ice. Each man is allowed eight gallons ' of ice or ice water, as he prefers, each day. The miner remains in the shaft eight hours a day. Alternately he works fifteen minutes and takes forty-five ] minutes in cooling off, and therefore t actually works but two hours a day. i He receives $4 a day."?Chicago Uirald. ] henry M. Monroe, an ex-Dwight (111.) ! patient, has sued Dr. Keeley and his bichloride of gold company for $150 for failure to 1 cure him of the drinking habit. Munroe also 1 sues for *12,000 damages to his health. AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OP INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN, ROOTS FOR FEEDING FIG8. Boiled turnips are not a desirable food for pigs if fed alone. They are too watery, and need Bome more solid nutriment added. But when boiled with any J ? * ?? ?/> ? rrVtoof Ar Kl1/*1r. a. I LIU U1 giaiu, (IO W1U, nuvuv, vr. .... wheat, the mixture is healthful and de-sirable. The mixed food should be made as thick a3 can be eaten readily? as thich, for instance, as it can be poured out of a pail.?New York Timet. BOILED GRAIN FOR STOCKFarmers who are distant from mill can generally afford to purchase those portable milh made for farm use, operated by horse power, which at the seasons when most grain is fed a majority of farmers have more of than they can find use for. But there are many who cannot, or think they cannot, afford to purchase these. For such the old-fashioned plan of boiling grain makes an excellent substitute, for grinding it. The grain in boiling is swollen, thus preventing the distention of stomach that is often caused by whole grain when it digests slowly.?Botton Cultivator. HOW TO KEEP APPLES. When apples are as plenty as this year it if a good plan to buy stock when cheap. "The main point is to keep at a low, equable temperature. A cellar that will not freeze and is a little above the freezing point answers best. By taking pains enough almost any kind of fruit can be kept much longer than is generally supposed. Apples may be had fresh and crisp the year around. The secret is in keeping them dry and cool. In the first place they must be picked and handled so as to keep them perfectly free from bruises. Only perfect fruit will pay for such care. Apples should be placed on shelves or in shallow boxes, so that they do not press much on each other. If they are actually free from contact or if they are wrapped in soft paper very little change in them will be obser?able.?Gretn's Fruit Recorder. THE PEA AS STOCK FOOD. In the northern section of the cotton belt of the United States the value of the cow pea as a stock food is being discussed very nuch. Many Southern journals are urging its value and growth. The popular idea that it is an unsafe lood is based upon the fact that the grain when fed alone is too concentrated, which is a very correct idea. But the huli of the pea is but-little above the straw of grain, hence the hull and the gra-.n fed together make a popular, well balanced food. The present more common method of having the peas thrashed is giving way to the latter practice?picking the peas and storing them away in the hull. This method being once adopted it seems apparent that the grower would have them picked by the hundred as cot' ton js picked, and not have them picked on the shares as is now the. prevalent plan. They can usually be picked at a cost of thirty cents per hundred. The idea that the pea is an unhealtHy food for stock is unfounded. The Southern Farmer says: "We have fed peas in in the hull to horse3 and mules for the last fifty years and never had a case ot colic or other disease traceable to it. They are fully as safe feed as corn, while they can be raised on land that will not grow corn.''?Farmers' Home Journal. bide hills. In more than forty years of reading agricultural journals, writes W. H. Gardner, I have never seen a word upon the subject of the differenfce between the area of side-hill acres and level. Arithmetic teaches that there is a difference between the hypothenuse and base. We see this lact illustrated in every vertically boarded bam gabie. The rafters are longer than the beams according to their slope, and the vertical boarding cover3 beam and rafter alike. The old question in arithmetic?"How many more pickets set vertically will it take to build a fence | over a hill than upon a level?" is also illustrated in the bam gable?no more. How many farmers, asked if there is more plant room upon a side hill acre, could make a correct reply V The seeder and the plow find more surface?there is more surface?and yet the barn-gable illustration shows us that the space for plants is the same on a side hill as upon a plain,consequently that an acre of side hill should not be seeded according to lineal surface, but as a plain or level acre. In other words plants should grow farther apart as to surface upon a side hill than upon a plain in proportion to the descent.?Rural Home Journal. SOME POINTS ABOUT SHORT HORX3. There are many points to support the claim that the short horn is emphatically the farmer's cow. Many experienced men firmly believe that no other cow is so well suited to all purposes, and despite the outcry against the "general purpose" cow, that is after all what the great majority of farmers want. Even for special dairy purposes they are rarely excelled. A.t the Bristol Dairy Show in Eagland a short horn took first prize, giving fifty two pounds of milk per day at the, test, five months after coming in. At the British Dairy Show held at London, where there were two hundred and fiftyseven entries of all breeds, short horns took first and second prizes. The British Agricultural Gazette says: "The short horn is the best cow we have in England for dairy purposes." The Michigan Agricultural College says: "The short boins are undoubtedly the best farmer's low." The Ontario Agricultual College says': "For beef and milk there is nothing that can equal the short horns; nor have they any equals for improriug other breeds." This last point should have the most careful consideration. The :onstant infusion of better blood in all >ur herds, both for beef andj dairy, is :he chief thing that we neeSJ aad we should use those breeds which will most impress their good point3 upon their progeny. This prepotency of the short horns is most marked.?New York Observer. NIOHT TEMPERATURE FOR PLANTS. The constantly increasing use of greenlouses in the cultivation of plants makes i knowledge of the best methods for :heir management of general importance, [n growing plants under natural couJitions out-of-doors it is well known ;hat they undergo wide variations of ;einperature in the changes from day to light. It is not, however, as generally . V ' r. . ?.'rV'.*. ' J, '*>>? XJ -7^7 -cr: known that such changes in temperature are equally necessary for successful plant growing in glas3 structures where artificial heat is used. On this subject Mr. Saunders, the Superintendent of gardens and grounds at Washington, has said that one of the most prevalent and injurious errors in the management of greenhouses and other plant houses is that of * keeping the temperature too high during the night. To maintain as high a degree of heat during the darkness as during the light is a practice opposed both to science aau cue results 01 experience. It is said that plants grown in a nearly uniform temperature under glass seldom ripen or mature their wood in a thorough manner; the buds are immature and make feeble growth, and the whole plant contracts a delicate habit of ^constitution which renders it incapable of withstanding the slightest neglect without injury. On the contrary, plants constantly subjected to a suitable lowering of night temperature are more robust, have shortjointed and matured growths; flowers not only expand more fully but remain longer in perfection; fruits are better ?i j ?j a j --j uuiureu auu imvuicu9uuu rnuic j^ncwu m every respect thaa those developed ia aa atmosphere of uniform heat aad moisture. Greenhouse plants require no heat during the night further than to exclude frosts. Another injury consequent upon a high night temperature during winter arises from the extraction of moisture from the atmosphere. To maintain an inside temperature of even fifty degrees when the external is near zero involves a rapid generation of heat, and as the capacity of air for taking moisture increases in proportion to its rise, a great demand is made upon the plants and everything in the house capable of giving up moisture. The quantity of water thus carried off may be seen by the deposition of ice on the inner surface of the glass after a night of severe frost. Ice one-fourth of an inch in thickness is often found under these circumstances, the result of condensation and freezing oi the water carried from the contained moisture in the atmosphere and from the surface of the plants. The parched and unhealthv asoect of the plants subjected to such treatment is sufficient evidence against the propriety of the practice.? Jfew York World. FABM AND GARDEN NOTES. Animals appreciate kindness. Use the curry-comb less, and thi brush more. Nowhere will skimmed milk pay better returns than in the poultry yard. Never allow a bottle of medicine to remain in your stable, unless it is plainly marked. A horse has no gall bladder and oi course Is not affected like a human being by its being upset. Refuse vegetables will be greedily eaten by fowls and is good food in con< junction with grain. In order to have good, healthy, vigor* ous chickens it is necessary to have strong, vigorous breeding Jowls. Neglected repairs to fences often result in creating a breechy habit in the live stock that are kept on a farm. Dust.bath^ are now ,ja order, and happy is the farmerwho has a big supply of dry roaii dust on hand for his fowls. Never undertake to treat an animal whose disease you do not understand, but secur? competent, veterinary surgeon. One of the best crosses for common hens, when it is desired to increase the i size, is to use a Brahma or cochin rooster. , Sorghum seed can be used to good advantage in feeding the incubator chickens as soon as they are large enougb to eat it. Isn't it a little singular that a ewe sheep will distinguish her own lamb'f bleat among hundreds all bleating at the same time? Because prices get low at certain soasons is no reason why, with good management, poultry-keeping cannot be jnide to pay. It is said that a horse is more sensitive to pain than a man, ana as to uervous ess, be is more sensitive than a hysterical woman. Eggs generally bring good prices from this time on and care mu3t be taken in managing so as to secure as large a supply as possible. Don't expect to see the effects of your medicine as soon as it has been administered, but wait a proper time before repeating the dose. The comic side of farming appears when those complaining o{ hard time] leave their reapers and binders out to take the weather. The leaves in the pig-pen help to fatten hogs by keeping them warm and dry, thus preventing loss of food by saving the warmth of the body. The quiet cow, the friendly hen, the peaceful horse give the largest returns with the least expense. Conquer everything on the farm, including the hired ? i iii.. ? J man, oj pouieuess uuu &iuuu?9, Do not expect any breed to lay equally well in the summer and in winter. If you insist on a good supply of eggs from November till February, theD select a breed noted for the ability to lay in the winter. Do not expect everything of one breed. The raising of ducks is only in it3 infancy in this country. The time will perhaps come when that fowl will be raised as extensively as in Chin a. One of the best reasons for extending the breeding of ducks is the fact that they are less liable to disease than any other breed of fowl: Small sweet potatoes are superior to corn for fatting pigs, as they contain a large proportion of starch and sugar. The proper way to feed them is to first boil j them, adding a peck of brand to each j bushel of potatoes. The refuse roots < and all unsalable portions are equal to the ( best for fattening purposes. ] Keep as many animals as possible, but 1 do not keep more than can be comfort- J ably sheltered. A sheep should have < twenty square feet of room, as crowding < is injurious. Too maty animals will oc- < casion a loss, but the capacity of the farm and buildings for the support of stock should be fullv utilized. * ^ A barrel of apples or other fruit will . bring a better price when the fruit hai 1 been assorted. It is a waste of barrels, , fruit, labor, and transportation to ship * two barrels of ordinary fruit to market 8 when a better price can be obtained for one-half of the same fruit if it is carefully selected over aud only the beat marketed. i-lL.. .. 'V.' .VI-1 A ': " - ' . 7 i ' -:r.-V - 'jj,;' ' : '-' lip. feigft . ' 'Wn ? THE BATTLE OF LIFE. ' .:.?M Rise! for the day is passing,. And you lie dreaming on, ' . \ The others have hackled their srmof.-' ;.2 And forth to the fight have gone I A place in the ranks awaits you, *' Each man has some part to play* The post and the future are nothing^ In the /ace of the stern to-day. V.;\ Kiso from your dreams of the future- ' ^ Of gaining some hard fought fluid; 'fi Of storming some airy fortress, Or bidding some giant yield. Your future has deeds of glory, fiAnAl* m*anf if mavrf * *i^? Vk UVUVIf uuu gtouu ?UUU?J ? Eat your arm will never be stronger. Or the need so great as to-day. , Rise! If the past detains 700, Her sunshines and storms forget; No chains so unworthy to hold you ^$5 As those of a vain regret; Sad or bright, she is lifeless forever; ^ , Cast her phantom arms away, ' Nor look back save to learn tlm lesson Of a nobler strife to-day. Bise! for the day is passing, The low sound that you scarcely hear- > Is the enemy marching to battle. .. Rise! for the foe is here! Stay not to sharpen your weapons Or the hour will strike at last, When from dreams of a coming battle \ You may wake to find it past! ?Adelaide Proctor PITH AND POINT. "I am the great corn eradicator,1" remarked the crow. ,;'-X AS A tight money market often induce! loose financial operations. ?Lowed C<m* ' rier. All that most men have in- the worldis what they are going to get.?Atchtion Globe. , The clergyman with a "long head" is apt to indulge in short sermons.?Boiiott. n . T -.wHi courier. * As a sole stirring invention the bastinado is worthy eminent mention Boston Courier. Nothing so vividly reminds us of the Si J brevity of life as a thirty-day note.? Texas Si/tings. "How do you treat a headachef" tfl "Politely. I just sit still and let it achei"?Lowell Citizen. , The best wives are the women who. are as good to their husbands 8s they are to their children.?Atchuon Globe. '.i "The light that failed" is the title of f, the only match a man hod, and went out before he could light the gas.?'Lowdl' - ^M Caurw. ?Mn|| Pater (sternly)?"Now, children, I don't want you to get eick any more uu- 'fe til that measles account is settled with / the doctor."?Judge. . ..Twelve hundred and eighteen kind? . j of mushrooms grow in Great Britain, not including the mushroom aristocracy.? Binqfamton Rtpublican. Diplomatic Phrase Tommy?"Paw, M what is u prevaricator?" Mr. Figg?' y'| "Hfe is a liar who weighs more you."?Indianapolis Journal. * 'I have always wished," soliioquwetfO'^f the coroner pensively, "that I cooMI/^a have held this office immediately aftet^S the flood."?Pacific Harbor Light. \ ;.-j An exchange speaks of a man who "is Jij ' not a physician, but a simple druggist^^jffi We had supposed that a druggist was ? compound fellow.?Binffhamton Leader* -:tr^ He is a mighty meek man that ctt'^gf patiently hold the baby while his wif$ hjsfi puts in a couple of hours at the piattO/;'cjjj learning the latest lullaby.?indianapol^^^k Rural Gent?"What are they cati^V:rJ| ing all that garbage into that theatre^S? for, sonny?" Messenger?"Oh, dere goin' ter play de "Streets of New York.^|ja| Texai Siftingt. : "Man is known by the company hafe-#?! keeps," is an old axiom and as true as it is old. If he keeps very much compattj'l^$i he is known to be the poorest man in the county, soon.?National Weeldy. , Ji Hedgeroe (looking at card)-r"What*i young Brown-Smith doing with S hyphen in his rame?" Bordfence?"Oh, " he needs it in his business. He's gone into society."?Detroit Free Prat. ;v|ii ' Weary Watkins?"How would 7QB; jfi like to be rich?" Hungry Higgio*-^ "Rich? How would I like to be richf Jest think o' pie three times a day aa^i i ^ a solid gold knife to shove it in with! Ah!"?Iudianapolit Journal. Mrs. Brink?"Mrs. Klink! Mra?..^?t| Klink! Your little boy is in our yard J ;$j| atoning our chickens." Mrs. Klink? ^ "Horrors! He'll get his feet wet in your big, ugly, damp grass. I don't ae?> jp why you can't keep your lawn mowed, ,.|jy Mrs. Brink."?St. Louit Star-Sayinqt. v||jj Wife?"My dear, that horrid maa ;$jl next door has killed the dog." Ho?> . band?"Well, never mind, my dear. JT1 . get you another one some time." Wife ." -y!rij ?"But it wasn't my Fido that he killed; it was your hunting dog." Husband \ (wildly)?"Where is my guu?"?New York Etrald. She?"I thought I married the best -v man in town, but I find I made a mis-- ? take." He?"I thought I married the * '.ie9t little girl in town, and I find that I was nnfc mistaken." She?"Forarive me? ' Charlie. You know that I don't alwayt mean what I say." He (sotto voce)? J # 'Neither do I."?Brooklyn Life. We must content ourselves to-day with " > ancedotes of foreigners trying to expres* M their thoughts in English. The latest ia * told by Dean Briggs, of Harvard. A ".igS Japanese student, desiring to impress on the dean how studious he had been, said: "I have worked so hard I eat '.igj nothing since to-morrow."?Boston >i|? Crlobt. "Aud so you have decided to ma rry - J your deceased wife's sister, eh, Fred?*' ^ "Yes, old man. Two years of lonlinesa ire all I can stand." "Do you love her , is well as you did your wife?" "Why, % what a question, Harry." "I know, but 3o you?" "Well, to tell you the truth, :"$|j [ do not." "Why do you marry her :hcn?" "Well, to tell you the truth igain, her mother is really a delightful .$30 ihi lndv. and I don't feel like takina anv :hance9 on another mother-in-law. Chicajo Tribune Eauks lose a great deal by short "|| weight gold coin, \7hea turned into he Sub-Treasury in New York City it s valued by weight alone?so much reight should produce so many dollare. ^9 I recent deposit of nearly $6(3,000 reulted in a loss of $.600 to tho bank rliich deposited it. 1 Over 4,000,("O'l peasants in Ru?ia aie ;<iauger til starvej