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I THE THREE AGES. My dears, when I was young like you? O, days that long ago took wins! ? I had your wit, your sweetness, too. And loved, like you, the spring. Fondly do I remember still How dear to me were fields and flowers; How dear the hearts in lighter hours Made captive in the gay quadrille: A merry child like you, my dears, And such was I at fifteen years. Later, my heart, less wild and gay, To one devout espousal moved; Aud wedded joys, how sweet are they. To love and to be loved! " "* ' -A-' ' i DUD sometimes peusivo au'i u, I prayed in secret sighs to heaven. That some dear angel might be given To stir in me a mother's heart; Wife and fond mother, too, my dears, And such was I at thirty years. O later! Onward still and on Time flies, like an advancing wave. And summer, autumn, both are gone, W ith all the joys they gave! Yet, while we droop with age and pain, The heart that to our babes we give In their sweet innocence may live, And with their babes be young again; I And such i am at length, my dears, With my full span of eighty years. I ?George Cotterell, in the Argosy. HISTMOTHER. BY AMY RANDOLPH. I .-S HF ^ ^ HE ^cold-gray and meadow V/y$m^ forest streams //Affl JI g/ja* ^ in their uncertain mist, the factory chim-j neys nung meir fiery banners of smoke against the leaden sky, a basso relievo that would hare made Rembrandt himself rejoice, and the hum of never-ceasing machinery in the little town rose above the rush of the jiver, like ihe buzz of a gigantic insect. Charles Emery, the day foreman in the rolling mills, was just retiring to his home, having been relieved by John Elter, the night official, and as he walked along, his feet sounding crisply on the hard-frozen earth, he whistled softly to himself, as light-hearted as a bird. 'You'r? going with U3 to-night, Charley i" cried a gay voice, and two or three young men came by. i 4'Do you mean?!" "I mean to the opera!" v For upon that especial evening there was to be an opera in the little town of Crvstalton, a genuine New York com* 1 pany with a chorus, a full orchestra and all the paraphernalia of scenery and costume which provincial residents so seldom enjoy, and the younger population were on the qui vive of delighted expec. tation. | "I am going," said Mr. Emery, slowly; "but not with you!" "But you will change your mind, though," said Harrison Vail, "when jou hear that Kate Marcy is to be of the party. Kate Marcy and the Miss Hallowellfl and Fanny Hewitt. There are eight of us going. "We've kept a seat on purpose for you!" "I have engaged myself to another lady," Emery replied, after a second or , so of hesitation. | . Vail laughed. "Well, I'm sorry fcrit,"said he, "but I Miss Marcy is not a girl who need pine for a cavalier. We'll keep the seat for you until a quarter of eight, in case you should see fit to change your mind. Only let me give you a word of warning, old fellow! Kate Marcy is a high spirited gin ?IE won i uo to trmu toy muuu witu i her!" : Charles Emery went on his way rather , graver and more self absorbed. He had asked his mother, the day before, to go to see "The Mascot," and his mother's eyes had brightened with genuine de- j light. > "Your father often used to take me, Charley," she said, "when we were young people and lived in New York. But it's twenty years and more since I have been to an opera. And if you're quite sure, dear, that there is no young girl whom yoa would rather take?" . "As if any young girl in the world could be to me what my own darling little mother is!"replied Emery, smiling across the table to her. "Then I shall be so delighted to go," said Mrs. Emery. And her voice and eye3 bore happy witness to the truth of her words, k But now that a regular party had been ft. organized, and Kate Marcv had promised J to join it, things looked very diffrently % to the young man. For a moment he ^ almost regretted that he had engaged \ himself to take his mother. Y "She would be as well pleased with any concert," he said to himself, "and I should have the opportunity of sitting a!ll the evening next to Kate Marcy. I'll ask her to let me off this time. She woqM; care." r But when he went into the little sitting room of tb;ir humble domain, and saw bis mother, with her silver grayhair rolled into puffs on either side of her almost uuwrinkled brow, her best black silk donned, and the one opal brooch which she owned pinned into the white lace folds at her bosom, his heart misgave him. "I have been trimming my bonnet over with some violet velvet flowers," said she, smiling, "so as to do you no discredit, unariey; ana i nave a new pair of violet kid'gloves. And now you must drink your tea. I've made some of your favorite cream biscuit, and the kettle is nearly at the boil. Oh, Charley, you'll laugh at me, I'm afraid, but I feel exactly like a little girl going to her first children's party. It'a so seldom, you know, that a bit of pleasure comes in my way." And then Charles Emery made up his mind that his mother was more to him, in her helpless old age and sweet, affectionate dependence, than nny blooming damsel whose eye3 shone like stars and whose cheeks rivaled the September ! peach. "Going with some one else!" said Kate Mircy, rather surprised and not exactly pleased. She was & tall, beautiful maiden, the belle of CrystaltOD, aud rather an heiress in her own right, with all the rest. She certainly liked Charles Emery, and she rather surmised that he liked her also. And when she had been studying up her toilet for the opera, she had selected a blue dress, with blue corn-flowera for her hair and ornaments of turquois, be - i. A , . I cause she tad once heard Mr. Emery say that blue was his favorite color. "Going with some one else?" she repeated. "Well, of course he has a right to suit himself." i And she kept within her own soul the fevered fire of girlish resentment, the gnawing pangs of jealousy that disturbed j her all the while that she was sitting waitiug for the great green curtain to be drawn up. Until, of a sudden, there was a slight bustle on the row of seats beyond, and Mr. Emery entered with his mother. And then Kate's overgloomed face grew bright again. She drew a long breath of relief and turned to the stage; it was as if the myriad gas-lights had all of a sudden been turned up; as it all the mimic world of the opera house had grQwn radiant. GOING HOME FROM THE OPEKA. Never was voice sweeter in her ears than the somewhat thia and exhausted warble of Mademoiselle Rosalie de Vigue, the prima-donna; never did scenery glow with such natural tints or footlights shine more softly. Kate Marcy declared that the opera was "perfection !" 44Yes, but," said pert little Nina Cummings, 44dolook at Chariey Emery, with that little old woman 1 Why couldn't he have come to sit with us!" Kate bit her lip. In the crowd now surging out of the aisles of the little opera house she could scarcely venture to express her entire opinion; but she said, in a low, earnest tone: 44I don't know what you think of it, Nina, but I, for my part, respect Mr. Emery a thousand times more for his politeness to his mother." And, almost at the same second, she found herself looking directly into Charles Emery's eyes. For a moment only. The crowd separated tbem,almost ere they could recognize one another; but Kate felt sure? and her cheek glowed vivid scarlet at the certainty?that he had heard her wcrds. "Charley," said little Mrs. Emery, looking into her son's face, as they emerged into the vail of softly falling snow, which seemed to enwrap the whole outer world in dim, dazzling mystery, "who was that girl?" "What girl, mother?" with a little pardonable hypocrisy. "The one, Charley, wiih the big blue eyes, and the sweet face wrapped in a white, fleecy sort of hood?the cne who said she respected you?" "It was Kate Marcy, mother." "She has a face like an angel," said Mrs. Emery, softly. The next day the foreman of the roli ling-mills went boldly to the old Marcy homestead, whose red-brick gables, sheeted over with ivy, rose up out of the leafless elms and beeches, just beyond V.O nfti'co on/1 nfir r\f hllAV flrVKtftltOD. ~ W* ??'J CHABLES EMEfc/ AND KATE MARCY. "Miss Marcy," he declared, "without intending to be an eavesdropper, I heard what you said last night." "It was not intended for your ears, Mr. Emery," said Kate, coloring a soft, rosy pink. "Buc," he pursued, looking her full in the face, "I cannot be satisfied with mere cold respect, Miss Marcy. I want a warmer, tenderer feeling toward myself. If you could teach yourself tolove me? The dimples came out around Kate Marcy's coral-red lips, wreathing her smile in wondrous beauty. "The lesson is already learned, Mr. Emery" said she. "I do love you. 1 have lo ved you for a long time." And the foreman of the rolling-mills went home, envying neither king nor prince that day. "Bat I never should have loved you so dearly." his young wife told him afterward, "if you hadn't been so good to that dear little mother of yours. In my eye3 you never looked half so handsome as when you stood bending over her gray head in the crowded hall of the operahouse that night." i L V ah orirt " Prtirl T? m arrr 1 an rvViirtrr of x uu OCC) ackivA ijiuwij) i^u^uiu^ uv her enthusiasm, "I agreed with'the hero of the old Scotch ballad* "' Sweethearts I may get many a one, But of mithers ne'er another.'" ?The Ledger. South Carolina produced more than one-third of the entire amount of phosphate rock mined in the world last year, the output being 600,000 tons. The new Swiss railway?the Brenzer Rothhornbahn?is the highest in the Alps. It is 7586 feet at the summit level. There are 980 students at Priacton this season against 851 last year. J<. .v : I BILL ARP. I was ruminating about the farmer and the low price of cotton. We have been watching with intense interest the advancement of ibe cottonpicking machines. Two weeks ego I felt satisfied that the Cunningham machine was a success, for it had picked 300 acres for Jeff Wei born in Texas at a cost of less than $2 a bale. Then the Mason cotton-picker was in Augusta at the exposition and picked cotton in the field and was pronounced a success. I saw the Mason machine several years ago and believed it could be made a success. There is no similarity in the two machines. The Ma>on actually picks the open cotton and leaves the maturing bolls harmless. It ia emphatically a picker?a substitute for human fingers. But the Cunningham machine is simply a harvester and nakes a clean sweep of everything on the stalk?stripping it of bollB and leaves and turning it all over to another machine that extracts the cotton and discards the trash. Hence the cotton must be pretty well open before the machine is put to work upon it. Hence the cotton roust be of a variety that most a 1 of it matures at once. And hence, as "Roderic Dhu" says, it mnst be Jeff Welborn's "Ppt" and henoe the Texas farmers mut buy their seed from Jeff, a seed that Roderick says has been discarded by Teians as a fraud under various names as tha Cheatham (and it cheated 'en) and th? Dixon and the Cluster and now "Welborn's Pet. "Roderic Dhu" pronounces the Cunningbam machine "practically worthless." while others who saw it in operation declare it a success and eay that the universal exclamation of the farmers who followed it was "farewell, darky, goodby, fingers." And so we are hearing both sides now. Dick Naylor seems to be the champion of the Cunningham machine, and admits that a change in the variety of cotton will have to be made. He declares the "Pet" to be the very cotton for the harvester, as it all opens at once and is comparatively storm proof, and most of the leaves drop off as soon as the bolls open. But Roderic Dhu says the Pet will not stand a drought and is the home of the bollworm, and the rank stocks fall down with their, top-heavy load and lia upon the ground. And so we will let the fight go on?we will | watch and wait. But Mr. Cunningham never invented his mach ne to please Jeff Wei* born. Whether any machine is wanted or not is the question?wanted by the toilers I mean. Of course the world wants evenrthing cheap. The consumers do, and the producers want everything cheap that they do not produce. Bat it is a distressing thing to heai* the poor crying for work. I had some tenants on my farm and their children picked the cotton. A great planter like Richardson, or Jeff Welborn, knows exactly what their cottoa costs teem to make it, but a poor tenant does not I have seen Rowland's wife and children in the field before I got my breakfast. They chopped the cotton and they picked it, and Rowland could rell at 7 cents a pound and be thankful. If he got more he was the more thankful?that was all. What is the machine to do for Rowland? Machinery is a good thing, I know, but thev are hard on the laboring man who can't buy them, lbs whole thing is a prob- I lem to me. The rich feem to be getting richer, and the poor poorer. Then 'was a time when there was a wagon shop, and a blacksmith shop, and a hatter's shop, and a shoe shop, and a < hair shop at every cross i\ ads and little mills and tanyarda all about, and the people were happy and had plenty of work to do, but machinery hao run them all off. They couldn't compete. Tbac helped me, but it wa* hard on the bumble workman who made his living there. It is a pitiful, plaintive cry to hear anybody begging for work. Ay, only give me work, And then you need not fear That I shall snare his worship's hare, Or kill his grace's d*er. Wherever nature reeds, Whoever labor calls, No job I'll shirk o' the hardest work, To shun the workhouse walls. No alms I ask; give ma my task, Here are the arms, toe le. s, The strfngth, the sinews of a man To work and not to beg. The cry of the day Is not for bread. 1 ut it is for work; our young men are begging for it Seventeen lrom our town have found places in Atlanta with meager salarieo, just enough for board and clothes, and seventen more are trying. They are just from the schools atid are capable and willing, but there are few vacancies. It is the same way with the girls. Almost every day I receive pleading letters from anxious mothers wanting teachers'places for their daughters. The genteel, educated poor are increasing in numbers. Will they have to be servantshousekeepers?menials? But we were talking about the cotton pick ers. Su pose they are a success, what then? Who will it beneSt? If the cotton can be picked at $2 a bale instead Of $10, it will cheapen the price just that much. Eight dollars a bale will be saved to the world, but bow will it profit the producer? The newspsp* s figure up a saving to the south of ICM.OOO.GOO a year, but it seems that it will save nothing, and will Hecriye thousands cf our poor, both white and Dlack, or employment. Of course machinery is a good thing, and the progress of the age demands improved and cheapjr methods, but I can't see any great good to come to cur fara.e<s from the cottc li pickers. If it could be grown and ninlrr/^ oiltnor) an/] /tnwinfamaA ?A4L fug. what then? 1 saw an Immense sawmill at Brutcn that cut 125 000 feet of lumber a day, and kiln-dried mo t of it, and while I lingered there I thought tho hands had gone to dinner, but they had not Machinery was doing mix^ all the work. What used to tnromfenn nunarai nan as anowaone with ten. This would seem all right if the other ninety bad something to do. These big thing8 enrich the rich but reduce the poor to be?gary. The farmers are crying for relief?for h Ip.but I see no help for tbem except through bounties. The protective tariff "ft upon tbem for ten yeara at least. There Is a bounty upon sugar, and it helps the sugar planter and has reduced the price t-> the consumer. Sugar never was so cheap. Why not give a bounty to every bile ot cotton?say $10 a bale?and every tierce of rioe aod every bushel of wheat and corn. Why not* Suppose it took $300,000,000 a year?that is no more than is paid in pensions?make the plutocrats pay it by an income tax. Something must be done to make the government secure. Necessity knows no law, neither dees misery, ffh n the Central railroad suddenly turned off 200 workmen, and the Richmond and Danville does the same, and the men go to their homes right on the eve of Christmas, right on the eve of winter and know not today how their little ones will get bread tomorrow it Bhows that there is something wrong in the system; something wrong in the relations of capital to labor; somethlDgthat the lawcannot reach nor defend nor protect. Right in the face of the most bountiful crop ever produced on this continent we are in the midst of a crisis, a financial stringency that affects everybody and has paralyzed the business of the country. The debtor class are dunned and pursued with a persistency never known. One man jumps upon another, and it reacts all along the line. A duns B and B duns 0 and C duns D and so on down to izzard, and everybody feels aggrieved with everybody. It is like the old song of "Pray dog catch (at, make c il catch rat, make rat gnaw rope, make rope hang butcher, make butcher kill nr, make ox drink water, make water quench Ore, make fire burn stick, make stic* Deal kid. make kid go. Time kid and I were home an hour and a half ago.' Now if we could just turn izzard loose wl?ha littta monev and let him pay Y and let Y pay X and X pay W, and so en, until the mo ey got up to A. there would b? twenty-six d bts paid and all would be calm and serene. And so I think we ought to hav* a kind of clearing house for the whole twenty-six. L?t A. lend $100 to izzard and let izznra pay it to * ana 1 to X, and so on until it got back to A 'gain, and be would put it in bis pocket and he no worse off* and yet twenty-five debt* would be paid and twenty-Ore persons maae najpr. , Why not? Let's go into ic and make up the schedule. Surely we can And one man in twenty six whe will lend the money. There is a man dunning roe now about once a week for a few dollars, and he writes me affection ate notes through the pos office. He is worth five dollars to iuy one,, but I'm afra.d he wi'l pt-riSh to death ami I would pay htm if I coul d collect, but I can't, and so I think 1 e ought to lend the money to izzard and let's start the ball rolling. There is nothing impracticable about this plan of r-lieving the financial embarras-meut. It will do it certain,if we can get it started. It is 011 a better principle than that by * hich Joe Plunket settled with the cross roads barkeeper. He first bargained for a gino-er rake and after handling and smelling it awhile handed it back and said he would tnke a drink of whisky instead of the cake. He drank the whisky and started out, when the barteeeper said, ''hold on my friend, jcu didn't pay for that whisky," ice ' t ' fM' . ''' . . was very indignant and saw, "i give you the ginger cake for the whisky." "Well, but you didn't pay me for the ginger .cake/' said the barkeepr. "Darn you,'' said Joe, "you've got the gingtr cake. There it is on the shelf right where you put it," and he walked ont like he had been insulted. Now what is the matter: why can't we turn the money loose among the people and let it pay a big lot of debts and get back to the banks again? These financial panics are distressing and there cught'to be a remedy?a balance wheel, a safety valve, a regulator, a something that would restore the equilibrium. The rich can fatten on these panics, while the average merchant or trader or farmer can be crushed by them. Our taxes are a burden too great to be borne. Th?y now amount to 10 per cent, of the a>erage m-n's income?that is if he livtB in a town or city that has gas and water and public schools. But maybe things will brighten up again after a while. The times are awful hard, but it is not so bad aa it was. Sorrow enduretn for a night, but joy cometh n the morning. The grip has got iue and got Mrs. Arp and two of the children, and we are all fussiDg about who is the sickest, but it is not so bad as it was, and there is still room to be thankful.?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. P. 8.?f have score? of letters from Massachusetts to California asking for General Jackson's address, but the general writes me be has no copies. He will soon issue it in pamphlet form with important addenda and will be pleased to give it to the public ^ TEMPERANCE. DRUNKARDS TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE. With reference to the proposed legislation against drunkenness, the Medical Board of Saxony has unanimously resolved to express the opinion that persons who violate the laws in a state of unconsciousness, or morbid disturbance of the mind, should be held responsible if the said conditiou be due to drunkenness for which they were themselves to blame. The Medical Board will also advocate the framing of a statute which will make it possible, under certain conditions, to place drunkards under guardians. So says the London Lancet. abolish canteen beer selling. Beer is in no sense a necessity in army life, and the present arrangement for its sale in connection with the army canteens ought to be abolished. Sundry subordinate officers reDOrt in its favor, and their rnnr>rh? hnvA been widely heralded throughout the country. But one superior to all of them iu rank, whose word may be relied upon in the matter, gives his testimony, as might be anticipated, against beer-selling in the army canteen. It should be stopped by the War Department, and prohibited by act of Congress.? National Advocate. THE GREATEST MONOPOLY ON EARTH. The population of the United States today is about sixty-two millions. Of this number about 240,009 are retail liquor dealers, or one person out of every 253. The n-oss income of the business is over eleven hundred million dollars each year, an average to each dealer of nearly $5000, the best part of which represents clear profit. One person out of every 258 has the privilege of going into this business and reaping the enormous profits. He alone has the permission of the law. The other 257 are debarred from the business, and an attempt on their Dart to sell liauor will be followed with legal penalties. Before a man can enter into this business, in any State of the Union, with few exceptions, he must secure the permission of certain men. He may have all the capital necessary, all the facilities required by trade, all the knowledge essential. He may proffer the amount ot the license fee in good cash; but nothing will avail if those few men say no, he shall not have a license. A few years ago the Excise Board of New York City decided that the number of licenses should not be increased, and no new ones should be issued except as the old ones expired. This meant that out of every 163 persons then in New York City, 159 were absolutely debarred from going into the business.?The Voice. THE TEMPERANCE UNION. "The home against the saloon" was the animating principle of the great convention of the National and World's Women's Christian Temperance Unions which was lately held in Boston. This convention, whicn represented more than ten thousand local unions in America alone, with a memberbersbip in this country of more than one hundred and fifty thousand, was attended by delegates from all parts of the world Not only were England and other European countries represented, but also Canada, Alicfrnloala Janon PWina Tn4<? The objects of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, as stated in tbo resolutions adopted by the conventiau, are diverse, but they group themselves about the central purpose to usa the influence of women, through the home, the church and such public functions and relations as women possess or may obtain, against vice, and chiefly against the vice of drink, which the members regard as the central vice of all? the "sum of all viUanies." Few great conventions have ever met which showed so complete an absence of disagreement, and yet. as we have saidT the programme of the Union Is a very extensive and varied one, which must provoke sharp discussion unless the memoer? were practically of one mini. This programme demands, first of all, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks for the individual and legal prohibition of the manufacture of and traffic in such liquors for the State. In order that women may work uiure cii.cv;Liveijr lur most) taints, taey are formally advised by the Union to use every practicable means to obtain the ballot and secure "equal Governmental rights." The local unions are giveu leava to render any assistance which they deem best to any political organization which is acting; in narmony w ith the principles of the society. In several ways In its resolutions tne National Union commits itself, and urges its members to work along the lino of polU tics. In on9 of its resolutions it protests against license or leniency toward lotteries, and condemns various public manifestations of vice and immorality. Following its purpose to pursue its objects through as great a degree of inflaence upon legislation as it can exert, the general con* vention of the Union petitioned Congress ior several cnings. uae or these is tue ratlflcation by the Senate of a treaty which was proposed to the Governments of civilized countries by a Congress of Nations held at Brussels last year, and which has for its object the exclusion of intoxicating liquors from large parts of Africa, and the more complete stamping out of the slave trade there. Congress was also asked to appoint two commissions, composed of men and women, one to investigate social vice, and one to make inquiry into the alcoholic liquor traffic; and to settle all difficulties, at home and with foreign countries, by arbitration. The convention also meinoralizei the commissioners of the World's Pair of 1893 at Chicago to close tho gate3 of tho Fair on Sunday, and to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks on the grounds. The influence of the Women's Christian Temperance Union upon public affairs has alreadv been considerable. Lar^elv throuzh its efforts, in thirty-five States of the Union special instruction with regard to the physiological effects of alcohol has been introduced into the public schools. It is estimated that thirteen millions of children have come under tho influence of instruction of this sort. But the great mass of the work of the Women's Christian Tomparancj Union is not alone the Hues of public agitation. There is, besides this, a great deal of dir?cc benevolent and evangelistic work. Many neglected children?the majority of them, 110 doubt, neglected because their parents love drink better than they do their childreu iima /tu ha/1 frt.? A>t I tsnf m?Mi flin tnrrl^f*. l*nnil o urn cu iwi au t puu u wuit iuv ti^uv a Tu many ways the members of this gran 1 body continually worlc to protect society at largo against drunkenness and vice, or to repair t ie ravages caused by them. The delegates to this great convention were earnesc and tnanifestetlly united in their purpose. Their deliberations were of a calm and systematic sort, though they were at the same time characterized by a groat deal ot enthusiasm.?Youth's Companion. Riches do not seem to lengthen life. The man who is so rich he can go North in summer and South in winter, does not live any longer than the poor fellow who has to stay at home and shiver or sweat with every change of weather. SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JANUARY Lesson Text. ''Overcome W 1th Wine," Isaiah xxvlii.. 1-13 ? Golden ^ Tex*: ^Proverbs xx., 1 ?Commentary. As most of the verses in this Jesson are too long to quote in full in these brief notes I must beg the reader to peruse with Bible in hand, as should always be done, otherwise lesson heips may become a snare and hindrance. 1. "Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim. * * * overcome with wme.': This is a lesson of warning to the sensuous, self indulgent unbelievers in Israel?a curse pronounced upon them instead of the blessing which might have been theirs had they only been willing and obedient (Isa. i., 19,20). Observe how this and the next three chapters begins with "Woe!" then "Behold a righteous king" (xxxii., I); another woe, a judgment, and then the kingdom comes (xxxv., 1-1C). 2. "Behold the Lord bath a mighty and Btrong one, who shall cast down to the earth with the hand." Read verses 16, 17 and see what the mighty and strong one might have been to them bad they built upon Him, but what he will be because of tneir BiD, 3. "The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet." Nations and individuals choose their own destiny If willing now to And the joy in God and in His will, proving that His love is better than wine (Cant, i., 2) then all the joys of His kingdom shall be theirs; but if tney pr?*ier iuo jujro ui uuc nuoui c. ?u, they must expect to suffer the wrath of God. Rev. xiv., 18, 19. 4. "And the glorious beauty which is on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower." * * * The terraced and luxuriantly fruitful hills of Samaria are a symbol of excessive worldly luxuriance and pleasure. Israel was placed in a land flow ngwith milk and hooey that she might glorify God as the author and giver of every eifi atae enjoyed, but whea she enjoyed her luxuries and forgot God she only wrought sorrow for herself, discarding an eternity for a present joy which proved only a fading flower. 5. "In that day shall the Lord of Hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of His people." Unto the remnant who shall be left cuter the judgments have fallen God shall be an eternal excellency. They are spoken of as but a third part of the nation, but thev shall be His people and He will be their God, (Zch. xiii., 8, 9). Not only shall He be their crown of glory, but they shall be His crown of glory, and a royal diadem in His hand (Isa. IxiL, 3). 6. "And tor a spirit of judgment to Him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate." He will be wisdom to the rulers who rule for Him, and He will be the strength of all who flght for Him and drive the enemy from their gates. The Lord is k God'of judgment (or discernment) chapter xxx., 18, and all who rely upon Him will have wisdom given them to decide rightly. 7. "But they also have erred through wine, and tnrough strong drink are out of the way. They err in vision, they stumble in judgment." And these were the priests ' " ?J ok/Mtlri V?otro 1/vrJ fnn nfl'V. OUU \JX UpiJCUO 1TUU OUVAIIU U?V? IVU . WHV (/wv pie in the right way. There is a wisdom of this world which intoxicates and blinds paopie to the truth of God; many teachers and preachers thus err and stumble nowadays and multitudes are led astray by them. Test all by Isa. viii., 20, R. V. 8. ,lForall tables are full of vomit and fUtniness, so that there is no place cleat." As disgusting and abominable as such results of drunkenness are, so is all spiritual uncleanness and unholiness in the sight of God. As a refined and temperate person abhors the company of the drunken and profane, we may in some small measure imagine how loathsome to God must be the worldlv and pleasur 3 loving who bear His name. He gays He will spew them out of His mouth (Rev. iii, 16). 9. "Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts." This may be the sneer of the drunkards at the prophet, whom thev think talks to them as if they were children. Or it may be the Spirit of the Lord seeking such as He may guide into the truth. If the latter, we cannot help think* ing of Paul's difficulty with some believers (see I Cor. iii., 1, 2; Heb. v., 12-14), and praying that we may not be babes like them, but able to eat some strong meat. 10. "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon preempt, line upon line, line upon line; here a little and tflere a lutle." So blind are we to spiritual things, and so slow to learn that we must have the same truths repeated over and over again. Thus tbe Saviour taught, and so we must tmch also, with patience and perseverance and loving kindness, relyin? upon the Spirit to xnake us "apt to teach" (II Tim. ii., 24). 11. "For with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to this people." As they stammer in their drunkenness, so He will speak to them by those who in tneir estimation are stammerer?. Paul was considered by some to be, as to his bodily presence, weak, anri as to his speech contemptible (II Cor. x., 10). So also were the prophets despised and hated because of the message they carried (Jer. xi., 19; xx.. 8). 12. "To whom He said, This i3 the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest: and this is the refreshing. Yet they would not hear." He would give them rest and fullness of joy, but His word was to them a weariness, a series of trivial commands and they would not hear. In quietness and confidence might they live if they would only return to and rest in Him; but they would not (Isa. xxx., 15) So also did Jesus complain of them. 13. "But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept * that they might go, and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken." The same Gospel gives life and causes death, gives * * ! ? ??AI? DftFrn??thfl first oit-uaiuif or uui amg, juj u, It received, the last if rejected (II Cor ii., 15, 16: Math, xiii., 14, 15, Isa. vi., 9, 10). Let all who live odIj for the present, and are thus intemperate, whethei* given to wine or not, take need to this warning, hear the word of the Lord and learn to delight in Him. But we might also ask. Is it not as plainly written that "Except a man be born from above he cannot see the kidgdom of of God" (John iii., 3), and vet multitudes of church goers and church members who know nothing of the birth are vainly dream* ing of safety and of peace. It .is written that without shedding of blood there is no remission, for it is the blood that maketh atonement for the soul (Heb. ix., 22; Lev. xvii., 11), and yet many will net hear of the blood of atonement, but vainly think to reach heaven without it. Let all such remember that the coming storm will sweep away the refuse of lies.?Lesson Helper. Burglary long ago attained the ? ? -? V..4. I dlglHLy Ul <411 <AI L, uuu xu nao imcij been so perfect in all the details as In the Incidents connected with the raid upon an Iowa postofflce. The thieves, [ having broken open the safe and sei cured $1,500 in money and stamp?, "then stole a horse and buggy with which they escaped." The postmaster at Indianola, Iowa, will of coarse be on hand at the opening of Congress with a bill to relieve himself and his sureties from responsibility in the matter, and no doubt the bill will become law, as many such do in every Congress. But it would seem the time has come when postmasters and all other custodians of United States funds should be held to a more rigid A ^-1 *! ?? ??-? f VtATT Vv n TTA V\Oflr? aCC0UUL3Umi,iy biiuu ltiicj iiaTo in recent years. In this case it will be especially pertinent to Inquire why so small an office had so large an amount of money ready to the hands of thieves. _ "Washington may not be thought of these times as much as he might be, but the farmers and others as they see the big crops can't help thinking of the fodder of their country. ; :v;Mvr RELICtIOUS_READING. BIT OF HEAVENLY BLUE. When clouds o'erhang your pathway,friend, And many are your cares, And, with discouraged heart, you find No answer to your prayers, Remember there are always flowers, Somewhere, of lovely hue, And somewhere, shining in the sky, A bit of heavenly blue. Our world would be a dreary place If this, friend, were not so, And even Hope would drop her "wings Beneath a weight of woe; But, thank Go<J, there are always flowers, Somewhere, of lovely hue, And somewhere, shining in thaskv. A bit of heavenly biae. ?[Yick*8 Magazine* from father to so.v. One day a young man entered a merchant's office in Boston, and with a pale and careworn face said: "Sir, lam in need of help. I have been unable to meet certain payments, because certain parties have not done astbey agreed by me, and I would like to hire $ 10,000. I came to you because you were a friend to my father, and might be a-friend to me." "Come in," said the old mercnant, "come in and have a glass of wine." "No," said tbeyoungman; "I don't drink." "Have a cigar, then?" "No, I never smoke." "Well," said the old gentreman, "I would like to accommodate you but I don't think I can." "Very well,'' said the young man, as he was about to leave the room: "1 thought perhaps you might. Good day, sir." "Hold on," said the merchant; "you don't drink V "No." "Nor gamble, nor anything of that kind?" "No, sir, I am superintendent of a Sunday school." "Well," said the merchant. *'Yon shall have it. and three times the amount if you wish. Your father let me have $5000 once and asked me the same questions. He trusted me and I will trust you. No thanks?I owe it to you for your father's trust."?[Ex. CHEEBFUL PIETY. Cheerfulness, that compound of many excellencies, comparable unto "the powders of the merchant" mav scarcely be claimed to be called a virtue; "but it is the friend and helper of all good graces, and the absence of it is certainly a vice. If cheerfulness be not health, assuredly melancholy is disease. Practically,cheerfulness occupies a very high position, and without it ths Christian laborer is destitute of a very considerable element of strength. Cheerfulness sharpens the edge and removes the rust from the mind. A joyous heart supplies oil to our inward machinery, and makes the whole of our. powers work with ease and sufficiency; hence it ' is of the utmost importance that we maintain a contented, cheerful; genial disposition. The louger I am engaged in my Master's service, the more 1 am confident that the joy of the Lord is and must be our strength, ana that discontent and moroseness are fatal to usefulness. With all my heart would I say to my fellow servants, "Rejoice in the Lord always." not only for your own sakes, but for the sake of the work which is so dear to you. Whoever may advocate dreary dullness, I cannot and dare not do otherwise than Impeach it as an enemy of true religion. TAKE HEED HOW YE HEAR. What do you go to church for? Did you ever stop to"think? I knew a tittle girl whose mother asked her one morning if she were going to church. She waited a minute, hesitated, and then answered, "I 'spose there is no use in having new shoes if you don't wear theoi. Yes, rJl be dre?sed, and go." Is this your object to be dressed, to show new shoes? Do you go to look about at strange faces and new bonnets? Remember wbat the Bible says: "The Lord is in bis holy temple." Remember wbat Cbrist said: "When you gather together in my name, JI will he there in the midst of you." God is fn tbe church. Christ is there; and we go to worshp tbem. Though we can* not see them, they see deep down Into our hearts. They know all we hive done through the week, and what we are doing', and thinking now. i If we cannot understand what the minister says, we can always think this?"Christ is here! He who Joved the little children, and said, "Suffer them to come unto me," and took them in his arms and blessed tbem. Christ is there ; he will forgive my faults, and teach me how to be good. TOO ACTIVE TO FKEEZE. I looked to Nature. It was a clear, cold, bright winter's day. The crisp, untrodden snow, which covered the landscape,sparkled in the sun light as if with millions of gems. The little stream, that in summer was always dancing and singing by the rayside, was now completely frozen over, silent and still under its icy covering; but as we approached the mill, where a little fall was visible in its channel, there it was leaping and sparkling as merrily as in the midst of a summer's day. Cold as it was on every side, and frost-bound as the stream was above and below, here it was too active and busy to freeze! From nature, I turn to history. It was sunset on the Alps. A traveller is descending from the summit, when a storm arises, ftna the winds blow; and^the snow tilling tbe air, rapidly buries all traces of bis path. He struggles on till his way is lost, and night sets iu ft Its horrors, wh6n bewildered, discouraged, exhausted, he sinks down to die. The last thought has been given to home and kindred and friends, ana bli soul comI ?--*a its onil thp nnmhnm 111UUUCU WW AW Atbuvviuvi J M.V la already stealing on bia senses and limbs, when a sound of distress is borne on the tempest to bis ears. It is an appeal to his humanity, tbat rouses him even from tbe stupor of death itself. With an effort he risen and follows tbe sound as it is repeated, and soon rinds a fellow-traveller like himself, benignted and exhausted, aud laying down to be wrapped in the winding-sheet spread by the tempest. Earnest for bis brothers safety, be puts forth every effort to rouse and animate and aid him; and his exertions are crowned with surcess. His activity has kept himself from freezing, and saved a fellow-beiug from death! From nature and history, I turn to the church. A disciple who has every motive to faithfulness is getting cold, indifferent, unspiritual. He has entered tbe backslider's path, and is making rapid progress in it, when by the Providence of God, and a word from his pastor, he is lead to become a tract distributor, and a teacher in the Sabbathschool. Before he was in danger of freezing ?of becoming coid himself, and like a mass of ice, diffusing a chilling influence around him. But now, he is too busv to freeze. Activity is giving him a glow. Motion is developing' .it; and already others are gathering warm fii from his example, and lea by it to effort in the cause of Christ, and for the souls of men. The water, the traveller, the disciple, each has a voice for us. "W'e must be diligent, devoted, earnest in our master's service, if we would be kept from cold, being lifeless and useless. We should aim to be too active to stagnate, too busy to freeze. We should endeavor to be like Cromwell, "who not only struck while the iron was hot, but made it hot by striking"?like the missionary who said, "If there be any happiness on earth, it is in laboring in the service of Christ"? like the blessed Redeemer, whose meat and drink it was to do the will of God. The vineyard must be cultivated; and the command is, that we enter and work. There is work enough to be done, and the injunction is, that we do with our mieht what our.hands find to do. To be healthful, we must be active; to be happy, we must be useful; to receive the promise, we must have done the will of God; we must be diligent, active, earnest, if we would make our calling and election sure, and have at last an open and abundant entrance into the kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesns Christ. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will cive thee a crown of life."?[Americau Jles< senger. The first victim of the Broadway ?v,i? in "Woto Vnrir w5iQ the notorious | tauic m xivu xviu ?. w.w -? I Freddy Gebhard, who caught the wheel of his dogcart In the slot and was overturned. If cable railways prove fatal to persons of the Gebhaid stamp many of their evils will be forgiven them. Evert man thinks that if his neighbor could be in his shoes for a few days, he would go back to his own position contented for the rest of his life. POPULAR SCIENCE* There are aluminum sounding-boards*! According to a doctor's estimate, one person in nine is'left-handed. A French officer m Buisson has invented a hippometer which will register the places and ground corned by ahorse. It is estimated that 19,000 electric jft lamps, aggregating 10,000,000 candle <?$j| Jp power, will be required for the Chicago ' "World's Fair. Recent delicate experiments with kites AtnAimf rtf AWtP!^if.v in. 5JL1UW WUOU buc aiuvuuv . the air is proportionate to the height above the eartn. The rudder of the French ironclad Brennus, which was recently lannched, was eighteen feet high and thirteen feet' 1 wide, weighing seventeen tons. Some French authors have adopted the practice of using green-tinted paper for manuscript, finding it less harmful to the eyes than white paper. Paper properly treated with chemical! and then subjected to a great pressure is preferred for flooring material and for t:> general use in building as a fire-resisting j substance. ? When a gun is fired absolutely in the , vertical the ball will fall a few inches south and west from the gun in northern} latitudes, due west at the equator andj o ; norm west ju tiuuiueru lanituuca. Prefes8or Scernwitz, the Assistant; State Geologist of Texas, who spent all* the summer in geological work in the northern part ot' the State, says he i* convinced of its great value as a mineral' region. Recentl y two cases of idiocy in Cincinnati, Ohio, resulting from retarded skull growth, were cured by a surgical operation followed by trephining. Capable sufgeons believe that all similar cases can now be cured. f A French authority tells that if potatoes are immersed for ten hours in a solution of 1} per cent, of commercial sulphuric acid they will keep without alteration for more than a year if ordinary care is exercised in handling . ? them. Some observations made by Arthand< |jj have convinced him that consumption is contagious, and that the incubation period is about two months. Consump. ... ..t * * -l i. tives in Ui-vemuaieu suops or m viuav railway cars expose their fellow laborers or travelers to the risk of infection. Astronomers recently observed by photography a solar disturbance lasting :0 fifteen minute j, in which vapors ascended to a distance of 80,000 miles. The com* pass needle was sensibly affected, and ' the effort was presumed to have been caused by a meteor striking the son. . A. L. Tread well concludes that the soaring of milk is but sb'ghtly quickened during thunder-storms* and that the effect is not due to the o?one generated, but probably to the more rapid growth 1 ^ of bacteria, occasioned by the warm saltry atmosphere usually accompanying such storms. Galvanized Into Life. A remarkable recovery from snake* bite is reported from Cnmbourne, New Zealand. Hourigan, an engine driver and inspector of pumps on the. Gipps- jflj land railway line, was oiling the plunger of s .pump, when a snake bit hifn on the ? J band, iioungan scanneu ami suc&cu the wound, and felt no inconvenience be- % yond a general drowsiness. Last Friday, declaring himself quite well, he again*. proceeded to Pakenham, and finding the necessity to give the "plunger" a second! oiling, he was in the act of so doing when a snake again bit the same.hand^ / only half an inch from the first'wound, ' ^ the fang* penetrating so deep that Hourigan had to knock the snake . off with"" his left hand, suffering acute pain. He hurried to the Pakenham station, and' the stationmaster applied ligatures at the wrist and above the elbow, and sent t&r sufferer to Berwick, where he appeared' to be dying. The local doctor injected* strychnine and then sent him to Dandenong, where the doctors injected the thirtieth of a grain of strychnine, and kept the patient walking up and down,* till after a few hours he became black in^ *. f ' the face and his limbs were perfectly limp, whon another thirtieth of a* V-1-- .-J grain 01 \BtryCUUlUC ouu minims of ammonia were injected and brandy administered. Then he appeared aomewhot better, but relapsing, the in* jecticns were repeated for the third time, | but in an hour's time he collapsed. Ether was injected without avail, and then the galvanic battery was applied to the nape of the neck and the apex of the heart, galvanizing the man into life, when ha became nearly mad with rage, owing to congestion of the brain. The doctoe opened a vein, but the blood was too ? thick to flow and cupping was resorted, ' (\ to, four ounces of blood being removed. From this time the sufferer showed sigae of recovery, and he is now considered . . /? out of danger, although the battery treatment had to be used until 2 o'clock ', the next morning. The battery was a strong bichromato cell battery.?As* Francitco Chronicle. II. . Novel Advertising Scheme. A member of the company of actors at a Prussian theatre was to have a benefit night, and the question was how to get together a good audience. Accordingly, some days before the eventful evening, there appeared in all the papers an advertisement to the following effect? "A gentleman, who has a niece and ward possessing a disposable property of $15,000, together with a mercantile establishment,desires to find a young man who would be able to manage the business, and become the husband of the young lady. The possession of property or other qualifications is no object. Apply to?*M Hundreds upon hundreds of letters poured in in reply to this advertisement. On the morning of the benefit day each person wno had sent a reply received the following note: "The most important - - * -i 1J l:i point is. 01 course, mat jou suuuiu nu one another. I and my niecc will visit the theatre this evening, and you can just drop in upon us in box No. 1." As a matter of course the theatre was crammed. All the best paying places io the house were filled in the evening with a public mostly male, get up in a style seldom seen even at the royal opera itself. Glasses were leveled on all sides in the direction of No. 1 box, aad eyei were strained to catch the first glimpse of the Diece when she sh'.uld appear in com pany with her uacle; but uncles arc proverbially -'wicked old men," and, in the present case, neither uucle or niece wit* to be found aad the disconsolate lo rers ?of a fortune?were left to clear no thu mystery as best tncy m i? at. -r-Lonik* '3? fi