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fmaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmammmmmm EAMOAD FATALITIES. (Great Loss of Life Attending: Three "Wrecks. [Robbers Derail a Train But Miss the $1,000,000 Booty. f The east^ound uight expres; on the Santa | Fe Railroad was thrown from the track by j |Would-be train robbers, three miles east of ! .Osage City, Kan., at three o'clock the other j icorninsr. Fo;xr men were killed and about j twenty-fire persons seriously injured. ' mi ' * ? a* a Ki rr-~rn TO at. | J.ne train, consisiiujs ui ? press an I mail car, two dav coaches, two j chair cars and three sleep?rs, was thrown | over an embankment three feet high, and the first five cars oile t on too of the enzine. Enzineer Edward Hayer stated before he died that he had seen that the rail? had been loosened and turned so as to derail the train, and. beine unable to stop in time, had tried to 'umo the obstruction. I There were $1,000,000 in Mexican sub?idiarv bond?, consigned to the Mexican Central offices in Boston, in th^ safe in the express 'car, and it was probably the mistaken impression of the wreckers that the amount was in currency that caused them to wreck the train. J The three Pullman pleeaers remained on jtbe tracs. i ce passengers were . [from the telescDra1 cars an'I a relief train I summoned from Topeka, thirty miles to the I northeast. ( Tne relief train returned to^ that city at ! |10:20 o'clock in the forenoon. * Several passengers jay that they saw a number of men run for the brush near bv immediatelv after | . jthe disaster. The toolhouse at B3rclay [three miles w.->st of the scsne of the accident, | iwas broken open the nijjht before and a jnumberof tools removed. Several empty | (whisky bottles were founl in a pool of iwater near the scene of the wreck. A spot * ' * * ? U?%.J Im'n in 'Via I jwas rouna wuera taree meu u?u grass, ani tracks were fouad leading from Ithis snot to the railway track. I Relief first reached the train from Emporia. An examination of the track was made, and it was found that the fish plates {had been carefully removed and the bolts taken out and spikes drawn from tea ties, iand the rails bent over to the inside. Burneil in the Wreck. i Alleged neglect of orders by the craw of a freight train, which pulled onto the main tract of the Pittsburg, Fort Wavne and Chicago Raiiroad, near Shrave, Ohio, in | front of the eastbound express from Chicago jat about 3 o'clock a few mornings ago caused a terrible wreck, in which eleven persons were killed. Nine were injured. ) Both locomotives were ditchel and com --'"J <i-?- (?im nf thn BTnras?. ipiewiy mumuo'j, t T [including tba>po3tal car, two express cars, (the baggage car, smokinj car and one Ecoach, together with five of the freight cars, ere also wrecked. The wrecked cars were totally destroyed f fire. One coach and two sleeping cars on the express train were not wrecked, and 'escape! the flames. There were five clerks at work in the postal car. Four were instantly killed, and the fifth one was mortally injured. | The passengers imprisoned in th9 burning smoker and day coach made desperate efforts Itofree themselves as the flames swept toward them and their cries for halp were heart" ? m'? nnAn fViam a>\ mi ir?Lrlrr renumg. iae uro creyu upu iucm that their rescuers had to stand back while Ule victims perished. A Fatal Collision. J The second section of the Philadelphia exfpress, eastward bound, ran into the westjward bound Pacific exprass at Rheems Stajtion, Penn., on the Pennsylvania Railroad, early the other morning. One engineer wa3 bided, and the other and the firemen of both itrains mortally injured. MES. HARBISON EEMOVED, The President's Sick Wife Return" to Washirizton. MRS. BENJAMIN" HARRISON1. The mountain air at Loon Lake, N. Y., not naviug provou uttuwuiai wj ncsiueub Harrison's sick wife, it was decided to remove her to Washington. At 11 o'clock a. m. Mrs. Hirrison's journey was begun by her transfer to the long mountain wagon by which she was conveyed to the nearest railroad station, three miles distant. ' * Four strong men carried her on a stretcher I to the wagon. The President and Dr. Gardner walked on either side, each holding one of the patient's hands. The stretcher was carefully placed in the wagon on a large and comfortable cot. Dr. Gardner, the nurse, and the President were the only other occupants of the wagon except the driver. The other members of the family followed in tally-ho coaches and other vehicles. The trip t roui the cottajre to the special train in waitiag at Loon Like station was successfully made. The horses proceeded at a walk, and the wagon springs wer<j so perfectly adjusted that the many rough spots in the mountain road were scarcely felt by the occupants. The wagon was carefully backed up to the rear of the train, and willing hands were found to assist the President and Dr. Gardner in carrying the patient into the car which hal been specially prepared for her reception. It was 12:15 o'clock when the train moved slowly away on its long journey to the National capital. It was a Pennsylvania special anl was tin best that could be procure i for the purpose. It was a vestibule train, composed of tha Esperanza, a combination ba^agi and parlor car; the Newport, a hotel sleeper, and theSybaris, au observation car. The SyVv>-?win ic a * fKa ruor ftf f rm fi*ain ttqc i xae OUliSiU'^ Ui. LLIW ttlUUUlttllL'e. X- JUt UIUUUIIQU I policemen cleared the streets for the party. They were driven immediately to the main entrance of the White House. Mrs. Harrison was taken from the ambulance and carried to her apartments on the second floor, accompanied by the President and Dr. Gardner. Dr. Gardner, in speaking of the trip, said that Mrs. Harrison stood the journey very . well, in fact much better than they had expected, and as the train brought them to Washington ib# bacpme more buqyfeat in | spirits. j uaiu, ?T UIVU U.W * v-w%4 vr?. WUW WltMU, ?? fc*-> occupied by Mrs. Harrison. A large, comfortable bod had baen set up in the open portion generally used as a sittiT 3 room. It was provided with everything that could possibly contribute to the ease and comfort of tne occupants. The train ran at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour. Tue route selected was by way of Malone, Moore's Junction. Plattsburg. Albany, Jersey City, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Groups of people were gathered at the stations along the route who made no demonofr.tinns hnr. stood in an attitu ie of silent sympathy as the train passed. No on9 was allowed to enter the train. The special train arrived at Washington at 3:45 next morning abcui fifteen minutes late. About 5"03 people asseoiblad to await the ] arrival of the Presidential party. Mrs. Harrison was taken froai the rear car and placed on an army litter and carried to an j army ambulance. The President and Dr. Gardner rode in the ambulince with Mrs. Harrison, and Dr. Bannister took a seat on J * ? 1 D.S.,* rkv.dk. talmage. THE BROOKLYN DIFINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Snbjeot: "Nature's Wonders and Heaven's Glories."?(Farewell I Sermon in London.) Text: "2"he spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaccs."?ProvI erbs xxx., 3S. Permitted a3 I was a few days ago to attend the meeting of the British Scientific Association at Edinburgh, I found that no ! paper read had excited more interest than | that by Rev. Dr. McCook, of American, on j the subject of spiders. It seems that my talented countryman, banished from his < pulpit for a short time by ill health, had in the fields and forest given himself to the -a a e A*??4 cni-olv iP if. io rsnf hpb I 5LUU V UI liiacuco* &LAKA ou*'?y ? ?. ? -w. neath the dignity of God to make spidere it [ is not beneath the dignity of man to study them. ' We are all watching for phenomena. A pfey fu): of stars shining from January to j January calls out not so many remaks as ttie blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of i robins take not so much of our attention as j one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound and sight and occurrence fail to reach us. ! and yet no grasshopper ever springs, upon ""* no mnth pver dashes Into the ! evening candle, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam that pours through the crack of the window shutter, no barnacle on ship's hull, | no burr on a chestnut, no limpet clinging to arocr:, no rind of an artichoke but would teach us a lesson if we were not so stupid. God in His Bible sets forth for our consideration the lily, and the snowflake, and the locust, and the stork's nest, and ^the hina'9 foot, and the aurora borealis, and the ant hills. in mf text insniration ODens before us the gate of a palace, and we are inducted amid the pomp of the throne and the courtier, and while we are looking around upon the magnificence inspiration pointa us to a spider plying its shuttle and weaving its net on the wall. It does not call us to regard the grand surroundings of the palace, but to a solemn and earnest consideration of the fact that "The spider taketh hold with her hands and is ia kings' palaces." It is not ?ery certain what was the particular spscies of insect spoken of in the text, but I shall proceed to learn from it the exquisiteness of the divine mechanism. The L-ino'c f?h?mhprlain comes into the palace and looks around and sees the spider on the wall and says, "Away with that intruder," and the servant of Solomon's palace comes with bis broom and dashes down the insect, saying, "What a loathsome thing it is." But under the microscopic inspection I finl it more wondrous of construction than the embroideries on the palace wall and the up* hclsterv about the windows. All the machinery of the earth could not make anything so delicate and beautiful as the prehensile with which that spider clutches its prey, or as any of its eight eyes. We do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry Hanging around the windows of heaven, 'or in the horses or chariots of fir a with which the dying day departs, or to look at the mountain swinging out its sword arm from under the mantle of darkness until it can strike with its scimeter of the lightning. I love better to study God in the shape of a fly's wing, in the formation of a flsh'8 scale, in the snowy whiteness of a pond lily. I love to track His footsteps in the mountain moss, and to hear His voice in the hum of the rye fields, and discover the rustle of His robe of light in the south wind. Oh, this wonder or divine power that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune a bee's voice until it is flt for the eter ' 1 ?aam o flrnfltr UfcU UfUiicawo, auu c**j w uuiv**/, there be light;" and from holding an ocean in the hollow of His hand, goes forth to find heights and depths and length and breadth of omnipotency in a dewdrop, and dismounts from the chariot of midnight hurricane to cross over on the suspension bridge of a spider's web You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of God, but I shall take the leaf holdmg the spider and the spider's web, and I shall bring the microscope to my eye, and while I gaze and look and study and am confounded 1 will kneel down in the grass and cry, "Great and marvelous are Thy works, Lord God Almighty!" Again, my ten teacaes me mat uiaiguiu* cance is no excuse for inaction. This spidsr that Solomon saw on the wall might nave 6aid: "I can't weave a web worthy of this great palace; what can I do amia all this gold embroidery? I am not able to make anything fit for so grand a place, and so I will not work my spinning jenny." Not so eaid the spider. ''The spider taketh hold with her hands." On, what a lesson that la for you and met You say if you bad some great sermon to preacb, if you only had a great audience to talk to, if you had a great army to marshal, if you only had a constitution to write, if there was some tremendous thing in the world for you to do ?then you would show us. Yes, you would how ud 1 What if the Levita in the ancient temple had refused to snuff the candle because he could not be a high priest? What if the humming bird should refuse to sing its songs into the ear of the honeysuckle because it cannot, like tae eagle, dash its wing into the sun? What is the rainciroo should refuse to * 5 ' - *- 2 - XT! oescenu oecause it is uvi* a u?w if the spider of the text should refuse to move its shuttle because it cannot weave a Solomon's robe? AWSy with such folly I If Sou are lazv with the one talent, you would e lazv with the ten talents. If Milo cannot lift the calf he never will have strength to lift the ox. In the Lord's army thero is order for promotion, but you cannot be a general until you have been a captain, a lieutenant and a colonel. It is step by step, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by stroke that our Christian character is builded. Therefore be content to do what God commands you to do. God is not ashamed to do small things. Ha is not ashamed to be found chiseling a grain or sand, or helping a honeybee to construct its cell with mathematical accuracy, or tingeing a shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of a chaffinch. What GoJl does, Hedoes well. What you do, do well, be it a great work or a small work. If ten talent?, employ all the ten. If five talents, employ all the five. If one talent, employ the one. If only | the thousandth part of a talent, employ that. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life." I tell you if you are not faithful to God in a small sphere, you would be indolent and insignificant in a large sphere. Again, my text teaches me that repulsive- i liess anu loamaomeness wm sometimes climb up into very elevated places. You would have tried to kill the spidf-r that Solomon saw. You would have said: "This is r.o place for it. If that spider is determined to weave a web, let it do so down in the cellar of this palace or in so-no darl: dungeon." Ah! the spider of th? text could not be discouraged. It clambered on ani climbed up, higher and higher and higher, until after awhile it reached the king"s vision, and he ,\l IITho V.~l,4 NllU, AUO O^/IUCl liA&Cba il^iu ? IULL. UUl hands, and is in kings' palaces." And so it often is now that things that are loathsome and repulsive get up into very elevated places. The church of Christ, for instance, is a palace. The King of heaven and earth lives in it. According to the Bible, her beams are of cedar, and her rafters of fir. and her windows of"agate, "and the fountains of salvation dash a rain of light. It is a glorious palace?the church of God is, and yet sometimes unseemly and loathsome thiugs creep up into it?evil speaking and rancor and slander and backbiting and abyse, crawling up on the walls of the church, spinning a web from arch to arch, and from the top of one communion tankard to the top of another communion tankard. Glorious palace in which tivire ought only to ba light > and love and pardon and grace; yet a spider in the palace! Home ought to be a castle. It ought to be the residence of everything royal. Kindness, love, peace, natience and forbearance ought to be the princes residing there, and yet sometimes dissipation crawls up into that home, and the jealous eye come3 up, and the scene of per.ce and plenty becomes the scene of domestic jargon and dissonance. You say, "What is the matter with the house." I will tell you what is the matter with it. A spider ia the palace. A well developed Christian character Is a grand thing to look at. Yon see some man with great intellectual and spiritual proportions. You say, "How useful that man must be!" But yon And amid all his 'splendor of faculties there is some prejudice, some whim, some evil habit that a great many people do not notice, bat that rou; I nave Tisppenecr to' notice, and It is gradually spoiling that man's character?it is gradually going to injure his entire influence. | Others may not see it, but you are anxious in regard to his welfare, and now you discover it. A dead fly in the ointment. A spider in the palace. Again* my text teaches me that perseverance will mount into the king's palace. It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb in Solomon's splendid residence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went up over the panels of Leba non cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the nations?the throne of Solomon. And so God has decreed it that many of those who are down in the dust of sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King's palace. We see it in worldly things. Who is that banker in Philadelphia? Why, h9 used to be the boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while the million, aire went in to collect his dividends. Arkwri^ht toils on up from a barber shop un til he pets into tfce palace ot invention. Sextus V toils on up from the cfflce of a swineherd until he pets into the palace of Rome. Fletcher toils on ud from the most insiarnificant family position until he gets into the palace of Christian eloquence. Hogarth, enzraving pewter pots for a living, toils on up until he reaches the palace of world renown? 1 art. The spider crawling up the wall of Solomon's palace was not worth looking after or considering as compared with the fact that we, wnoaro worm* 01 t-ne uusc, ma/ at ju?u ascend into the palace of the King Immortal. By the graca of God may we all reach it. Oh. heaven is not a dull place. It i? not a wornout mantlon, with failed curtains and outlandish chairs and cracked ware. No, it is as fresh and fair and beautiful as though it were completed but yesterday. ThekinRsof the earth shall bring their honor and glory into it. I do not know but that Christ referred to the real juice of the grape when He said that we should drink n?w wine in our Fathers kingdom, but not the intoxicating stuff of this world's brewing. I do not say it is so; but I have as much right for thinking it is so as you have for thinking the other way. At any rate, it will be a glorious banquet. Hark! the chariots rumbling in the distance, I really believe the guests are coming now. The gates swing open, the guests dismount, the palace is filling, and all the chalices, flashing with pearl >aud amethyst and I carbuncle, are lifted to the lips of the myriad banqueters, whilestanding in robes of snowy white they drink to the honor of our glorious King. "Oh," you say. "that is too grand a place for you and me." No, it is not. If p spider, according to the text, could crawl up on the wall of Solomon's palace, shall not our poor souls, through the blood of Christ, mount up from the depths of their sin and shame, am naaiiy reacu tuts puiave ui tuo era liiu Eing? Years ago, with lanterns and torches and a guide, we went clown in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky. You may walk fourteen miles and see no sunlight. It is a stupendous place. Some places the roof of the oave is a huuared feet high. The grottoes filled with weird echoes: cascades falling from invisible height to invisible death. Stalagmites rising up from the floor of the cave; salactites descending from the roof :>? the cave, Joining each other and making pillars of the Almighty's sculpturing. There are rosettes of amethyst in halls of gypsum. As the guide carries his lantern ahead of you tne shadows I 1 ? ? ai?nnwnotlirhl onH enoP cave UU aupcai auto oujsca u^wutwM tral. The darkness is feari'ul. Two people, getting lost from their guide only for a few hours, years ago, were demented, and for years sat iu their insanity. You feel like holding your breath as you walk across the bridges that seem to span the bottomless abyss. The guide throws his calcium light down into the caverns, and the light rolls and tosses from rock to rook and from depth to deptb, making at every' plunge a new revelation of the awful power that could have made sach a place as that. A sense of suffocation comes upon you as you think that you are two hundred and fifty feet In a straight lins from the summit surface of the earth. The guide after awhile takes you into what is called'the "star chamber;" and then he gays to you, "Sit here;" and then he takes on/3 mug /IrtOTn iinHflr fhA roeks. and it gets darker and darker until the night Is eo thick that the hand an inch from the eye is unobservable. And theu, by kindling one of the lanterns and placing it In a cleft of the rock there, is a reflection cast on the dome of the cave, and there are stars coming out in constellations?a brilliant night heavens?and you involuntarily exclaim. "Beautiful! beautifulP Then he takes the lantern down in other depths of the cavern and wanders on and wanders off until he comes up from behind - 5 1H the rocks gsaduaiiy, ana ic seems use mo dawn of the morning until It gets brighter and brighter. The guide is a skilled ventriloquist, and be imitates the voices of the morning, and soon the gloom is all gone and yon stand congratulating yourself over the wonderful spectacle. Well, there are a great many p?ople who Inok down into the crave as a great cavern. They think it is a thousand miles subterraneous, and all the echoes seem to be the voices of despair, and the cascades seem to be the Calling tears that always fall, and the gloom of earth seems coming up in stalagmite, and the gloom of the eternal world seems descending in the stalactite, making pillars of indescribable horror. The grave * is no such place as that to me, thank ttodl Our divine guide takes us down into the great caverns, and we have the lamp to our feet and the light to our path, and all the * 1 * " ~? ""A anfhomo echoes mine mis ul wo iwa mo and all the falling waters are fountains of salvation, and after awhile we look np, ant? behold I the cavern of the tomb has become a king's star chamber. And while we are looking at the pomp of It an everlastinz morninsr begins to rise, and all tbe tears of earth crystallize into stalagmite, rising up in a pillar on the one side, and all the glories of heaven seem to be de* oending in a stalactite, making a pillar on the other side, and you push against the gate that swings between the two pillars, and as that gate flashes open you flna it as one of the twelve gates which are twelve pearls. Blessed be God that through this Gospel the mammoth cave of the sepulcher has become the illuminated star chamber of the King! Ob, the palaces 1 the eternal Dalacesl the King's oalaces' CURIOUS FACTS. There are ia all 135,000 miles of cable. The largest pyramid in Egpyt is 433 fett high. The Azores Isles were discovered by Portugal in 1491. It has been discovered that the ancient Greeks were fom] of griddle cakes. The first omnibus appeared in Paris in | 1S25; in New York rive years later. Tho plumes ia the helmets of the French dragoons ere made of human hair. In 100 years $500 woith of pennies would only be worth $250, so quickly does copper money wear away. The prefix of "O" before so many names of Irishmen is an abbreviation of the word Ogha, rneaniog grandchild. Richmond, Ind., has an organization known as the "1827 society," composed entirely of persons born in 1827. A Houston County (Georgia) man has a sow, six years old, that has been the mother of 172 pigs, and now has a litter of eleven. Maryland was Darned from Queea Henrietta Maria. In the charter its T ofir* troa ToppO ATQfio mO'ininr? uaiug vi ikw iwuu luvuuiu^ the land of Maria or Mary's land. Chicago is to have a belt line railroad, of eight tracks and covering a route of nearly sixty miles. It is to connectwith every road running into the city. ^ The smallest representatives of the. sheep species are the tiny "Bretons,", natives of Breton, France. When full grown they are not much larger than a raDDU. Wife?Harry, why did you have your new trousers made without pockets? Husband?I did it for the saka of change, jjarllxm. ? SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 0. IiCSPon Text: "Dorcas Raised to Life," Acts ix., 32-43?Golden Tex?? Acts lx., 30?Commentary. .'52, "And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda," Believers are called saints in the various epistles (see Rom. i., 7; I Cor. i., 2, etc., oraittine the italics), because all who truly receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour are in Him washed, sancti6ed, justified, and He is made unto them wisdom, righteousness, sanctificatlon and redemption (I Cor. vi., 11; J., 30; II Cor. v., 21). Lyiida is between Jerusalem and Joppa, about ten miles east ot' Joppa. 33. "And there he found a certain man named ./Eneas, which bad kept his bed eight years and was sick of the palsy.'' Jesus healed those who had been eighteen and thirty-eight years sick, and Peter had already been the channel of health from Je?us to one forty years afflicted (Luke xiii., 10; John v., 5; Acts iv., 22), so that a sickness which had lasted eight years would not seem an insuperable difficulty to Peter or to any one who believed (Jer. xxxii., 17; Mate, xix., 26; xvii.. 20i. 34. "And Peter) said unto him, ^Eneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whota; arise and make thy bed: and he arose immediately." Compare iii., 6, 16, and iv., 10. The great fact of our redemption is Jesus Christ risen from the dead, and alive for evermore, hav ing all power in heaven and on earth (Rev. I., 18; Math, xxviii., 18). This was made plain to Saul in the last lesson by the appearing of Jesus to him, and is now made plain to ./Eneas and to the people of Lydda by this miracle. 35. "And all that dwelt at Lydda and Baron saw him, and turned to the Lord.'' Note the expression "turning to the Lord" in chapters xi., 21; xv., 19; xxvi., 20, and in [ Thess. i., 9, see what it means turning from. We aro all by nature turned from Gk>d, and repentance is a turning to God, to erva Him, an t wait for His Son from aeaven (I Thess. i., 10). it more or tne power and worts of the risen living Christ were seen in us, there would be more sinners turning to God, and the kingdom would be greatly hastened. 86. "Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tahitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and alms deeds which the did." Both of the names of this woman signify "a roo or hart or gazelle," and are ndicative of swiftness. See I Chron. xii., 3; Songs ii, 17; vili, 14. S&e believed ibat the king's business required haste, ind whatever was to be done should be done quickly. She is called a disciple?i. a taugnt or trained one. .a.w wuo truiy receive Christ are holy in Him, but not all iuch are willing to be trained by Him. All true disciples or trained ones will, like Dorcas, be full of good works (Eph. ii., 10; Titus iii., 8; John xv., 8.) 87. *And it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died, whom when ttiey aad washed they laid her in an upper chamber." No evil can befall a child ot God; not >ven satan can lay a finger on such without (rod's permission. Both sickness and death may glorify God (John xi., 4, 14, 15) by giving occasion for the display of His grace and power. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints?to die is gain, to depart and be with Christ is far better (Ps. ?vis 15; Phil, i., 21, 23 ) 88. "And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, tbey sent unto him two cen desiring him that he would not delay to come to them." Whether they thought that God might through Peter give Dorcas back to them, or whether they wanted only the comfort of the Spirit's words tbrouga bim, is not very clear. While thankiul tor " ' ?' nfnrHo am TI Of t 1 (DB CUULUI b Ul oui.u ?. . Phil. J,. 21; I Thass. It., 16-1?, most of us are selfish enough to want our friends back again, even though we know, or at least pro* fess to believe, that having died in Christ they are now unspeakably happy. 39. * Then Peter aroae and went with them. When be was come they brought him into the upper chamber, and oil the widows 6tood by him weeping, and showing the coata and garments whicn Dorcas made while she was with taem." Observe Peter's promptness, remember the significance of Dorcas and prav for that quickness to respond to the call of the Spirit which is here suggested. It was a sal hou?e; th^sorrowing nearts, an>l tearful" eyes, and the~works wrought by the hands now cold in death, all proclaimea what a blessing she had been1 who was now no more with them. Happy) are those who prove their relation to Christ} by their abundance of goo.l works. 40. "But Peter put taem all forth, ana kneeled down and prayed, and turning hini to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And sha opened her eyes, and waenshe saw Peter she sat up." Peter had seen Jesus put thetn all forth except toe lather and mother and the three with Hitn (Mark v., 40). Elijah and Elisha were both a.one with toe dea i bodies which they raised to life (I Kings xvii., 19; II Kings iv., 33). If we would know the powerofGod,it must be in being muctj alone with God. Even Jesus found it necess&rv to be alone with God (Lutce ii, 18: Johnvi., 15). 41. "And He gave ber his band, ana lifted ber up, and when he bad called th8 saints and widows, presented her alive." A few moments before it was all tears anJ sadness, but now all is joy and gladness, and it is the work of the risen Christ wb i PROMINENT PEOPLE. Six of the famous Beecher family ara still living. Senator Kenna, of West Virginia, Is aa enthusiastic amateur photographer. August Strixgberg, the Swedish author, is famous for his hatred of women. Ex-Govenor Berry, of Bristol, N. H., hAs recently observed his ninety-sixth birthday in good health. Sir Andrew Clark started the title of "Grand Old Woman" for Mrs. Gladstone. and it 16 going the rounds of the British press. Comngsby Ralph Disraeli, the nephew of Benjamin Disraeli, who has just been elected to tho British Parliament, is only twenty-tive years of age. John D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil magnate, has given $40,000 to erect a building in Atlanta, Ga., which will accomcomodate 800 colored students. By the death of ex-Governor Myron H Clerk, Hamilton Fish is now left the sole survivor of those distinguished men who have held the Governorship of New York prior to 1879. Dp.. Piersov, of Philadelphia, has accepted the call of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, of London, to bacjme the successor of the Rov. Charles H. Spurgeon, and will be^in his pastoral duties on January 1, 1893. GlLMOHE, the New York bandmaster, bosides beinc a wonderfully swil't music penman, ba6 the largest stock of orchestral scores in America, if not the world. The cash value ot his musical library is estimated at about $50,0<X>. John Jacob Astor, the New York millionaire, has invented an automatic s weeper which can be drawn'by one hor^e ani is in complete control of the driver. It can be use;l to advantage on all village roatla scientifically laid out. William Reese, the pioneer iron mill fnnntter of Pennsvlvania. who died recently at Bolivar, Westmoreland County, at the age of 102 years, leaves, it is saiJ, about 800 descendants. Several sons of tha dead man are in business iu Pittsburg. AGAINST LIZZIE BORDEN". The State Will Try to Prove a Sas. picious 1'rlp to Providence. The State is ready to prove, it is aJleged, that six months before the Borden murders at Fall River, Mass., Lizzie Borden went to Providence by way of New Bedford and there consulted with a lawyer as to the possible disposition of her father's property. Two weeks before the murder she again went to Providence, and received all the information the lawyer cculd give her. Then she went to several stores iu Providence and made purchases. When the story of the murders was published the lawyar recallad his client of two weeks previous. "temperance. THE OROGGEHY CASH BELL. From the earliest glimmer of day To the setting of every sun. There's a chiming of bells that merrily tells Of shame and of crime begun. Ching! Five cents for a glass of beer; Ching! Ten cents for a whisky straight. And the devil stands near with a horrible leer Like the wrath of a hideous fate. And all through the wearisome night In noisome and smoke-tainted air.^ ^ men are mixing sneir urums whu uumuie pains And branding their souls with despair. Ching! Ten cents for a glass ot rye Ching! Fifteen for a Bourbon sour. "While little babes cry because hunger is nigh And tortures them hour after hour. Ob, vain for the church bells to sound The beautiful praises of Christ. By a merrier chime ringing all the tim9 Are the souls of our brothers enticed. Ching! Ten cents for a glass of wine; Ching! Fifteen for a bumper ot rum, While the desolate pine with a patience divine, And the mourners with sorrow are dumb. Then what though hard times be abroad. And the gaunt form of famine appear? There is gold and to spare to buy whisky and care, And enough to buy sorrow and beer. UtHDR! Ten cents for insanity's spell; Ching! Five cents for a bumper of woe? Tis a musical knell ringing souls down to hell, And to frenzy* and shame ere they go! ?George HortOD, in Chicago Herald. WINE AND BEEB INCREASE. According to a Government statistical abstract, there has been a small per capita decline in the consumption of distilled liquors in this country sinca 1875. In 1875, when the population was about 42,000,000, the aggregate consumption of distilled liquors was 60,120,158 gallons; in 1891, with a population of 64,000,000, the aggregate was 91,157,565 gallons; a per capita consumption of 1.50 in 1875, and of 1.42 gallons in 1891. The per capita consumption of wine and beer, ao cording to the same authority, has in the same period largely increased. In 1875 the wine consumption was 12,954,951 gallons; in 1890, 29,000,000 gallon?, of which 24,000,000 gallons were of domestic manufacture. The hofir increase is still more striking. In 1875 the heir aggretate was 294,953,157 gallons; in 1891 it was 977,479,761 gallons; a per capita consumption of malt liquors in 1875 of 8.71 gallons; in 1891 of 15.?J5 gallons! The field is indeed white unto the harvest for total abstinence missionaries.?National Temperance Advocate. VWO ILLUSTRATIONS. The effects of license and prohibition are clearly seen in two towns lying side by side in our Empire State. The one is a city of ten thousand inhabitants with ninety-nine lic?rsed drinking places. It goes without saying that poverty abounds and crime is rite. The many manufactories render it possible for each poor man to own his home. Instead, in most cases, bis earnings go into the rumseller's till, and the hearts of many good citizens who love purity and temperance are filled with sorrow and discouragement. The other, a tillage of three thousand five hundred inhabitants, has had no license for fourteen year.->. The law is enforced. It hai one of the finest Normal Schools in the State. The building, costing one hundred thousand dollars, was the gift of citizens to the State. It is hard to find a home of destitution and most citizens own their pleasant homes. Tbey have a fine water syst9m owned dy tne towa; electric lights, also the town's property; and a line of electric care connecting her with her less favored sister. If one is willing to see, it is easy to determine the claims of license vs. prohibition by these two illustrations.?National Advocate. A LESSON* FROM A PRIZE FIGHT. The prize fight between Corbett and Sullivan was, as all prize fights are, a brutal affair; but if a valuable lesson can be extracted from it, it seems to us well worth while to extract it. Corbett, if not a total abstainer, is the next thin^ to one. Sullivan will not, we hope, be disposKi to knocfe us out if we observe that be is not. Immediately after the fight, when Corbett's friends drank enthusiastically to his health, be drank with them in a cup of milk. A " ' J 1 1 1 ? ? * rfinr<o menu woo liuu uui xui Juuu , liquor declared that for once he was going to break his pledge, but Corbett is said to have threatened never to speak to him again if he did. The first thing Sullivan did after he pulled himself together was to go on a continuous jag, lasting until he was placed on the homeward-bound train and his trainer succeeded in seeing that the supply of liquor ran out. The speech which his trainer made to him on the train will not rank with one of Deroosthenes's orations, but it had pith and point to it nevertheless. He said : "Boozj has brought you down to the levil of a fourth-rate fighter from the top of the ladder. Isn't that enough? You made a game fight, and will have no trouble in getting along if you let the bottle alone. If vou keep on, though, you'll be a common bum in six months." Among those who took care of Corbett during the fight was Mike Donovan, trainer of the New York Athletic Club To a friend of ours several years ago, in explaining why he did not drink, Mike said: "Whisky takes the heart out of a man." The strongest man _? ii nnrl nn? of the mOSt ui lue ccuiui j, poiuup.., mmv. perfect specimens of physical manhood the I world has ever seen, was whipped, as one | Eaper observes, not so much oy J im Corett as by jim-jams; and he is not a sot, either?not yet. But no man yet tackled the demijohn and came off first best. The greatest prize tight of many years in the minds of "sports" who make a living punching each other's heads has this as one redeeming trait in its demoralizing influence, that it is a temperance object Jesson that will be seen am pondered over by thousands who never heard a tenipjrance speeca and never had the glorious privilege of reading tho Voic*. Thus, even as damson, the strong man of old. exracted sweet honey from the carcass oi a dead lion, so from the Konr?>ii hruisid and besotted body of John | L. Sullivan is extracted a lesson that gives strength to the cause of sobriety and selfrestraint.?The Voice. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Eighty-five towns in the province of Manitoba have local option. The new British House of Commons will contain eighteen brewers. Ths prohibition town of Pullman, 111, with a population of 11,000, employs two policej mer. Maine has a population oi wi,uuu, ol wuum 14fi,Kfi8 have deposited $.>0,278,452 in savings bank?'. There were 263,935 pubi c school teachers and 204,913 liquor dealers in the United (States last yvar. Of a total of 26o patients admitted to the London Dalryniple Home for Inebriate?, 234 also used tobacco. Harriman, Tenn., founded upjn the basis of prohibition title-ieed*, now his a populatiou of upwards of 4 TOO. ' f Unr i OTA I In Guinness's great, urcw?j . fourteen millions of capital invests 1, and three thousand m<m employe J, The latest victim to the bi-chloride of j gold treatment ior confirmed inebriates is . Mr. Broous. it prominent Memphis lawyer, who after one injection hid a violent attack or' convulsions, wnich soon caused death. The Band of Hopo Union in England reports IS. 441 Ban Is of Hope and other juvenile temperance societies with a membership of 2,013,UflO youiu p-joole. lu London alone 17&1 meetings wore held during the past year, and special lecturers had visited 2i4J schools, while 1.-4\ 100 copies of the societies' publications ?>? ! been sold. Southeastern Kentucky, onco the scene ol wild hrawl.--, ruMs ana lernoieueumuci TO, is fast becoming entirely changed by the determination of some of its best inhabitints. Many counties have prohibited tbe sale of liquor, and emigrants o' j;oad character are ouying; the rich farming land. Temperance, education and religion have gone hand in hand. RELIGIOUS READING. YOUNG CONVERTS HOLDING ON. Very mucb depends upon starting right, but the start is not the fini-h, and many that make a most hopeful beginning come after all to an ignominious end. The apostle Paul, wilting to the Galatians, says: "Ye did run well; who did hinder?" Something hindered, and hence tbey halted who awhile ago had been so eager in the race. There are many things that hinder, as any pilgrim ?/. (. /-V,.* C^-m rtttlottiol stitw" Will vprv ! tiuu ovia uui. iui iuc Wivouuivivj ? -- j soon discover. Hun van's pilgrim sets out on a run. with bis lingers thrust in his ears and shouting: ' Eternal life, eternal," at the top of his, voice, but he bad not gone far before heplunged into the "Slough of Despond/ where he wallowed in a fearful way. Many never get any farther than the s'ough, una they craw! out on the side on which *>bey fall in and go back to ,4the weak and ba&garly elements of the world." This, is the crowning test of disciplesbip. "If ye-continue in my word, then are ye disciples" indeed." Almost anybody can make a spurt, but only those who are soundly principled can stand the long stretch of heroic effort. "They that wait upon tne Loru snau renew their sirength." and this language implies that there la constant waste and wear and tear, making constant renewal necessary; and this is true alike of our physical and intellectual and religious nature. "We need perpetually fresh impulses of power or presently we shall come to a dead stop. And this is the meaning of that other Scripture: "He hath saved us by the washing of regeneration,and the renewing of the Holy Ghost." The first refers to the change that is wrought once for all, and the other to that constant iyipartation of fresh grace and strength to repair the loss of power that comes from contact with the world; and this we must have, and this we may have, if we will only keep up our connection with our base of supplies. "My grace is sufficient," saith the Lord. Only let the golden pipes be unobsirn^tPil nn'rf Hie crnce will flow steadilv in: and steady flow is what we want. Enthusiasm is peaceful, but "patient continuance is well doing"?this, after all, is the thing that wins. To "mount upon wings as eagles" is doubtJess very fine, but to "run and not be weary" finer sti'll; while to "walk and not faiut" on the long, Ions tramp is the highest of all te^ts of true soldierly quality. There is no "hurrah" about that. Beautiful and enjoyable is the flush of feeling, but there will be times when feeling is faint, and if we simply "go by our feelings" we shall presently cease to go at all. In times of revival it is easy enough to be religious, for the current sweeps powerfully in the direction of religion, and even things without life may be borne along by it. But when the revival is over the current fets the other way; then it takes life to stem it. Not that all who temporarily lose their in terest lose their souls, or are to be counted as spurious professors because they do not go constantly and rejoicingly forward. Alas! who of us has not had bis "sad season of declension? And after mountain-top ex{>eriences, such as some of us have been enoying, we are apt to go down for a time into the valley.?[The Rev. Dr. P. S. Henson, in "The Standard." SENATOR COLQUITT'S IDEA OF WORSHIP. What an idea we have nowadays of worship. We sometimes think that churches are only made for talking and preaching, that they are only to be made comfortable and of good acoustic properties, and that we are doing our whole duty when we get thereat 11 o'clock on Sunday morning to hear the preacher talk. Some of us nave an idea fhat wo nra wnrahinlntr find wheil we Come In on Sundav morning, all dressed in our beet bibs and luckers, arid sit up and criticise the preacher, never gettiDg on our j knees to pray, but putting two fingers of a tightly-gloved hand to one of our temples, as if we were reflecting about something. This is what some people call church service. It's a mockery. In the early days the service consisted of something more than prophesying, which meant preaching. The almsgiving was one of the principalparts of it. The church, in order to accomplish its work in missionary enterprises or in anything else, must have services different from those I have described. It must be composed of warm-hearted, true men and women. It must be active and energetic, ani\ somebody besides the pastor lias cot to do some of the work. Everv man, woman an<j chUd jn the church has g yuty to f*jerTorm. and these duties sliould not be ffpgected. I believe as firmly as I believe anything in the world that what this New Testament *- ?? ' A?mrvhotii>ol(t* +1*110 T says 13 lueiau; nuu cmpuuuuu.v ...v. believe it is right when it tells us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Yet the philosophy of today tenches that it is blessed to get all you can and keep all you get. Ta!k about the teachings of the skeptics and infidels. I believe this doubting of one of God's fundamental laws is the cause of more skepticism than all their teachings combined. There is really no true happiness in this world for the man who doesn't feel, for his neighbor. The man who lives a life so narrow that he can think of no one but himsolf, that he can see no one's needs but his own, who enn think of only what hr> fan cret. can find no real happiness in this world, and it's doubtful if be will get any in the next.?[Baltimore Sun. | TRUE GREATNISS. The greatest man is he who serve3 the greatest cumber of his fellow-men iu the best manner. The man who seeks to make others serve him is not a great' but a small man. lie who tries to elevate himself by bringing others down is the smallest and worst man. "Whosoever of you will be the i rhiefest. shall be the servant of all," is the rule of greatness as laid down by the Saviour. This service is not to be a menial servility required by the command of authority of the one served. It is free in its exercise and its reception. It cannot be required or given under compulsion. The ministration of love is limited only by tbe ability of the one exercising it, II is not bounded by tbe narrow lines of a certain party to which one belongs. It is the same principle which in the Father of All reaches to every one of his creatures. In him it is un.imited, because he is able to extend his benefits to all. In finite beings tbe same kind of love may exist, but it will necessarily be limited. m,nnnt )>!<>?? fviTv human be ingwith our ministrations, we may extend our eood works to more than we often think. We can help very many if we only try. We need not do much to any, ana therefore be able to do a little for many. But if it is necessary that we do all for one, or for a few, and nothinz therefore for ethers, we are none the less dutiful for so limiting our ministrations in extent if we do not limit in amount. But let us not forget God's rule of greatness and seek ourjrreatness in servinsr others rather than requiring others to serve us. "For the Son of man catne not to he ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life arausom for many." PRAYER. "There is no way." said the late Dr. j Alexander, ''in which we can more surely increase mutual love than by praying for one another. If you would retain warmth of affection for an absent friend, pray for him. If you would live in the regarus of another, beseech him to prav for you. If you would conquer enmity in your own soul toward one who has wronged you, prav for him. Dissension or coldness can not abide between those who bear each other to God's throne in supplication. It is what we meet to do in family worship. ''Often has the tenderness of a half-dying attachment been renewed and made young again, when the parties have found 'themselves kneeling before the mercy-seat. Everything connected with such utterance nf nmhifll cnnil-wi!l in the domestic worship tends to foster it. and thus the daily prayers are as the dews of heaven." BATTLE IN DAHOMEY. The Natives Lose 1200 Killed and "Wounded. Advices from Porto Novo, Africa, 9ay that j the troops under Colonel Dodds, commander j of the land forces of France in Dahomey, met and defeated 4000 Dahomeyans at Dosha. Tne fighting la?t?l four hours. The Uanomeyans lost about 1200 killed and woundei. Colonel Dodds lost live killed and fifteen wounded. The Dahomeyans fought doggedly, and retreated from the field slowly. HOUSSHOED MATTERS HOW TO FLAVOR A TENDERLOCT. To assure a delicious steak, broil ai tenderloii and at the same time a piece! of round, which usually contains a great deal ot well-flavored juice. Then cuti the round steak into small pieces and! squeeze it in a lemon squeezer over the* tenderloin. Tenderloin is usually neitherj very juice or particularly well flavored,) but by this method one pets a very delicious steak.?St. Louis Republic. SATISFACTORY WOOD STAINS. A very satisfactory stain may be made a? follows: Wash the wood to be stainedi with a weak solution of sulphuric acid, using about half an ounce of the acid to al pint of warm water. Use this solution! while warm,and follow with a stein made by boiling a pound of cheap tobacco ini water until it gains the consistency ofi syrup. Strain and apply lightly with a flannel cloth. Finish with the follow-) ing preparation: Half a pound of common beeswax, dissolved in a half pint raw and half a pint of boiled linseed oil. If the stain 19 desired light o3e one coat; if darker, apply oftener.?Detroit Free Press. COLD WATER COFFEE. For every cup of water use a heapi ng| tablespoonful of coffee. Soak the coffee' for several hours in cold water?it mayj be soaked all night. Then bring it to> the boiling point and let it simmer for &i few minutes just before using. This i? said to be the most economical way lor] more is obtained from the coffee by this treatment. This flavor is certainly fine.i Long boiling dissipates the delicious' aromatic oils, and as probably these are. the most valuable properties of the coffee the necessity of preserving them is easily seen. Be careful not to boil for more than from three to Ave minutes, and simmer rather than boil, so as to pre-< serve as much as possible the fine flavord which are so quickly dissipated by boiling, yet the high temperature seems to be necessary to extract the desirable; properties of the bean. One must therefore ever bear in mind the seemingi paradox?that coffeo should reach the' boiling point and yet not boil.?Atlanta) Constitution. > . : ;/?! HOW TO COOK 8WEETBHEAD3. Sweetbreads are the pancreatic glands of the calf. They are good while thej animal lives on milk, bat change wheai It begins to eat grass and hay, and arej no longer useful for lood. The glandj, consists of two Darts, the long, slender) portion called the "neck" sweetbread J and the round, thick part known as thai "heart" sweetbread. These are some-) times sold separately, but they should be) together. Among epicures they are considered a dainty, and are certainly at most acceptable form of food lor thai sick. i As soon as sweetbreads come from! the market they should be cleaned audi j' parboiled. Cut off the pipes, fat ana any bruised portion, and wash quicklyj in cold water. Pour into a saucepan^ some boiling water, salt it ana &aa a little lemon juice or viniger?not more than a teaspoonful 1o a pint of water. Parboil the sweetbreads in this for fifteen minutes if tliey are to be creamed,; broiled or baked, or again cooked inI any way. If they are to be served plain with peas they should cook twenty-five or thirty minutes. When done, drain of! the water and cool. t Sweetbreads must always be parboiled as ao6n"~as"p6ssible after being takea MM from the animal. Make a cream sauce with a cup of sweet cream, a tablespoon of flour and ai V.I* ^-UI Then <?nf! JJttU LttUlCOjJWU V4 UUUbVM* AMVM a sweetbread in half-inch cubes, salt it slightly, and spriDkle on a little white pepper. Mix equal quantities of sweet-' bread and cream sauce together, put the mixture into individual porcelain patty dishes or scallop dishes, sprinkle the top with buttered crumbs, and bake in a hot oven on the grate for ten minutes. This will give sufficient time to finish the cookiog of the sweetbread without hardening it. The sauce may be made quite acceptably with milk by using a whole inslead of half a tablespoon of butter. j I This is a most delicious way of prepar! " - ?J | lDg 6W66lDr6&U8j &UU uuo ^atuwuuuij desirable for the sick. They will be tender and delicate if care is taken not to overcook them, in either boiling or baking.?Chicago News Record. BECIPES. Chocolate Candy?Take one cup of grated chocolate, three cupfuls of granulated sugar, a piece of butter the size of a walnut, one cupful of hot water, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Boil for ten minutes, stirring constantly; fry in a cup of cold water, and as soon as it is of the consistency of molasses pour into buttered tins. Take a silver I I ? it? hn/?lr nnd fnrth Until it j Q.U1IO UUU OK44 hruvik HM?? - J sugars, then mark off into little squares and set away to cool. Fried Liver?Have the beef or sheep's liver cut in slices balf an inch thick. Dip them into salted flour aud put into hot lard in your skillet, with a small piece of fnof Koonn oddpd Frr brown UI cuaivwu UHWU J quick on both sides, then add a little hot water, and cover close. Set upon the back part of the stove and cook slowly till well done, being careful to keep it from cooking hard. Take the liver out upon a platter; make a nice gravy and pour over it. Scalloped Chicken?Cut the cold cooked chicken into small pieces, and to each pint of meat allow one-half pint of I oniiro made as follows: Melt one tea spoonful of butter and rub ia it one even teaspoonful of flour, then add one-half pint of milk; stir continually until it boils, add one-half teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper. Chop four hardboiled eggs, and alternate in layers with; the chicken in an earthen dish. Season with a little salt and pepper, and moisten with the sause. Cover the top with bread crumbs, dot here and there with butter, and bake in a hot oven for fifteen minutes. Hashed Potatoes?Take six cold boiled potatoes, mince them ana season thera with salt and pepper, adding a little milk or a little stock as you prefer. A scant half cupful of liquid is generally i sufficient. Melt a teaspoonful of butter in an omelet pan, and when the pan is very hot pour in the potatoes, spread them evenly, and set them a little back or the stove or in the oven,well covered, to brown. "When they are a golden brown on the bottom, fold them over like an omelet and serve. The addition of a little Darsle? minced, or a teaspoon ful of oaion, gives a new zest to this dish. :