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1 ' "' v' *????"' " ' 1 ' 7 t,\y.-? < v,1 ; KEY. DR. TALttAGE. * " nr?n/Mri.vM rtTlrrVR!*! SITV. Jini' ouuunuxn DAY SERMON, Subject '"Advice to Voters " r Text: "Alas, alas, that great, city Baby|Ion, that mightu city, for in one hour is thy judgment come."'?Revelation xviii , 10. Modern scientists are doing a nplendid work in excavting the tomb of a dead- empire holding in its irms a dead city?mother and child of the same name, Babylon. The ancient mound invites the spades and shovels and crowbars while the unwashed natives look on with surprise. These scientists find yellow bricks still inrpwfcsed with the name Nebuchadnezzar, and they go down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy buried more than two thousand year* ago. May the explorations of Rawlinson and Layard and Chevalier and Opperto and Loftus and Cbeeney be eclipsed by the present archaeological uncovering! But is it possible this is all that remains of Babylon?a city once five times larger than London and twelve times larger than New York? Walls three hundred aDd seventy-three feet high and ninety-three feet thick. Twenty-five burnished gates on each side, with streets running clear through to corresponding gates on the other side. Six hundred and twenty-five squares. More pomp and wealth and splenlor and ain than could be found in any five modern cities combined. A city of palaces and temples. A city bavin?- within it a garden on an artificial hill four hundred feet high, the sides of the mountain terraced. All this built to keep, the king's wife, Aruytis from becoming nomesicx tor the mouutainous region io which she had spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates spouted up to irrigate this great altitude into fruits and flowers and arborescence unimaginable. A great river running from north to south clear through the city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats on ir. A city of bazaars and market places, unrivaled for aromatics and unguents, and high mettled horses with grooms by their aide, and thyme wood, and African evergreen, and Egyptian linen, and all styles of costly textile fabric, and rarest purples extracted from shellfish on the Mediterranean ooast, and rarest scarlets taken from brilliant insects in Spain, and ivories brought -from successful elephant hosts in India, and diamonds whose flash was a*repartee to the sun. Portress within fortress, ernbattlement rising above embattlement Great camtal of (he ages. But one night, while honest citizsns were asleep, but all the saloons of. saturnalia were in full blast, and at the Mag's castle they had filled the tanicards for the tenth time, and reeling and guffawing and hiccoughing around the state table were the rulers of the land. General Cyrus ordered his besieging army to take shovels and spades, anil tney diverted the river from its usual channel luto another direction, so that the forsaken bed of the river became the path on which the besieging army entered. When the morning dawned the conquerors were inside the outside trenches, Babylon bad fallen, and hence the sublime threnody of the text: "Alas, alaa, that great city of Baby lon, that roightv city, for in one -!n/i<?nnnnfcrr?mfit" But do Nations UVU* UVUJ die? Oh, yes; there Is great mortality among mooarcbies and republics. They are like individuals in the fact that they are born; they have a middle life; they have a decease; they have a cradle and a grave. Some of them re.assaariaat&V some destroyed by their own hand. Let me call the roll of some of the dead civilizations and some of the dead cities and let some one answer for them. Egyptian civilization, stand up. "Deadf answer the ruins of Kara a k and Luxor, and from seventy pyramids on the oast side of the Nile there comes up a great chorus cry tag, "Deatf, dead I" Assyrian Empire, stand .up and answer. "Dead!" cry the charred ruins of N ineveh. Arter six hundred years of magnificent opportunity, dead. Israelitish kingdom, stand up. After two hundred and fifty years of divine interpositions and of miraculous vicissitude, and of heroic behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead. ' Phoenicia, stand up and answer. After inventing the alphabet and giving it to the world, and sending out her merchant caravans in one direction to Central Asia, and aandiDg out her. navigators taue ausduc Ocean in another direction, dead. ! Pillars of Hercules and roclu on which the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets all answer, "Dead Phoenicia." Athens, after Phidias. after Demosthenes, after Mimadee. dead. Sparta, after Leonidas, after Euribiade?, after Sslamis, after Thermopylae dead. Roman empire, stand up and answer ?empire once bounded by the British Channel on the north, by the Euphrates on the east, by the great Sahara desert in Africa on tho south, by the Atlantic Ooean on the west; home of three great civilisations, owning all the then discovered world that Gibbon in bis "Rise and Fall of (be Roman Empire" say?,' '-Dead P' and the forsaken seats of the ruined Coliseum, and the skele* .ton of tbe aqueducts, and the miasma of the iCampagna, and the fragments of the marble baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge Triumphalls, and the M&mertlne prison, holding no more apostolic prisoners, and the silent Forum and Basilica or Constantine, and (he arch of Titus, and the Pantheon come in with great chorus, orying, "Dead, dead." After Horace, after Virgil, after Tacitus, after Cicero?dead. After Horatiua on the bridge and Ctnolnnatus, the farmer ollI Kirch, after Poinpey, after Bolplo, after Cassiuf; after Ck>nstantlne, after Csesar? dead. The war eagle of Rome flew so high ft was blinded by tbe sun and came whirling down through the heavens, and the owl of desolation and darkness built its-nest in the forsaken eyrie. Mexican empire?dead. French empire dead. You see, my friends, it is no unusual thing for a government to perish, and in the same necrology of dead Nations and in tbe same graveyard of ezoired governments will go HW U HI led duki 01 America unless there be some potent voice to call a halt, and unless (Sod in His merer interferes, and through a purified ballot box and, a widespread public Christian whtiment the catastrophe be averted. This nation is about to go to the tiallot box to exercise tb? ri??ht of suffrage, and I propose to set before yon the evils that threaten to destroy the American Government and to annihilate American institutions, and if God will help me I will show you before I get through the mode in which each and every one may do something to arrest that appalling calamity. And I shall plow up the whole field. The first evil that threatens the annihila tion of our American institutions is cue lacc that political bribery, which onoe sras considered a crim? has by many come to be oonsiderei a tolerable virtue. There is a legitimate use of money in elections, in the printing of political tracts, and in the hiring of public hall*, and in the obtaining of campaign oratory, but is there any homunculus who supposes that this vast amount of money now bejng raised by the political partiei is going in a legitimate direction* The vast majority of it will go to buy votes. Hundreds and thousands of mea will have set before them so much money .for a RepubhfeAn yot*. and so much Amey for a Democratic vote, and the superior financial inducement will decide the action. You want to know which party will carry the douDtiui Biases aay aicer to-morrow i will toll you. The party that spends the most money. This moment, while i speak, the peddlers carrying gold from Wall street, gold from Third street, gold from State street, and gold from the Brewers' association are in all the political headquarters of the doubtful States, dealing out the infamous inducement. There used to be bribery; but it held it* bead in shame It was under the utmost secrecy that many years a?o a railroad company bought up the Wisconsin legislature and many other pablic official? 4a that State. The Governor of the State at : that time receivdd $59,000 for his signature. His private secre:ary received $5000. Thirteen members of the Senate received $175,000 among them in bonds. 8ixty members of the other house received from $5000 to 110,000 each. The Lieutenant-Governor received $10,000. The clerks of the house received from $50X) to $10,000 each. The bank comptroller received $l(\000. ,Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ;were divided among the lobbyists. You saa ;the railroad company was very generous. :Rut aII that was hidden, and onlv fchrouz'i the severest scrutiny on the part of a legislative committed was this iniquity displayed. :Now political bribery defies you, dares you, is arrogant* and will probably decide the. 'election next Itiesday. t VnJess this dj'Jwliam ceases in this ooua try BarCBoiara statue on 8eJIo3'? Island, with uplifted torch to light other Nationi into the harbor, had better be changed anc the torch dropped as a symbol of uni versa: incendiarism. Unless this purchasa and sale of suffrag3 shall cease the American Government will expire, and you might as well be getting ready the monument for another dead Na tion and let my text inscribe upon it thes; ?11 A Inn atao f/\? Da Kvlftn fhot*. OTOAt IVUlUSk a*(W| IVI >WU4 city, that mighty city, for in one hour ii thy judgment oomeP" My friend?, if you have not noticed that political bribery it one of the ghastly crimes of this day, you have not kept your eyes open. Another evil threatening the destruction of American institutions is the solidifying of the sections against each other. A solid north. A solid South. If tbis goes on we [ shall after a while have a solid East agaiDst i a solid West; we shall have solid Middle [ States against solid Northern States: w< j shall have a solid New York against a solid Pennsylvania, and a solid Ohio against a solid Kentucky. It is twenty-seven rears since the warclou 1, and yet at every Presidential election the old antagonism is aroused. When Gar field died and all the 8tates gathered around his casket in sympathy and in tears, and as hearty telegrams of confidence came from New Orleans and Charleston as from Boston and Cnicago, I o?i/i mvQAip "I think sectionalism is dead." But, al&s, not The difficulty will never be ended uatii each State of the Nation is split up into two or three great political parties. This country cannot exist unless it exists as one body, the National Capital, the heart, sendin<out through all the arteries of communication warmth and life to the very extremities. This Nation cannot exist unless it exists as one family, and you might as well have solid brothers against solid sisters, and a solid bread tray against a solid cradle, and a solid nursery against a solid dining room, and you might as well have solid ear* against solid eyes, and solid head against solid foot. What is the interest of Georgia is the interest of Mas<iachuvkat i* fh? interest of New York is the interest of South Carolina. Docs the Ohio River chanty its politics when it gets below Louisville? It is not possible for these sectional antagonisms to continue for a great many years with permanent compound fracture. Another evil threatening the destruction of our American institutions is the low state of public morals. What killed Babylon of my test? What killed Phoenicia? What killed Rome? Their own depravity, and the fraud, and tbe drunkenness, and the lechery which have destroyed other Nations will destroy ours unless a merciful Go 1 prevent. To show you the low state of public morals I have to call your attention to the fact that many men nominated lor ouicuj in umnoun States at different times are entirely unBt for the postioos for whioh they have been nominated. They have no more qualification for them than a wolf has qualification to be professor of pastoral theologr in a flock of sheep, or a blind mole has Qualification to lecture a class of eagles on optica, or than a vulture has qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere pronunciation of some of their names makes a demand for carbolic acid and fumigation I Yet Christian men will follow right under the political standards. I have to tell you what you know already, that American politics have sunken to such a low depth that there is nothing beneath. -What we see in some directions we see in nearly all directions. The peculation and the knavery hurled to the surface by the explosion of banks and business firms are only specimens of great Co* ? ?? * ftf arlplrolitlKa that lA/pOAUl OUU UviUiUuvtw v? ? - boil and roar and surge beneath, bat have cot regurgitated to the surface. When the heaven descended Democratic Party enacted the Tsve?d rascajity it seemed to eclipse everything, but after awhile the heaven descended Republican Party outwitted pan* demonium with the star route infamy. My friends, we have in this country people who say the marriage institution nmounts to nothing. They scoff at it. We have people walking in polite parlors in our day who are not good enough to be scavengers in Sodom I I went over t6 Ban Francisco ten or fifteen years ago?that beautiful city. that queen of the facmc. May me messing of God come down upon her great churches and her noble men and women I When I got into the city of San Francisco the Mayor of the city and the President of the Board of Health called on me and insisted that I go and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt 90 that on my return to the Atlantic coast I might tell what dreadful people the Chinese are. Bat on the last night of my stay in Han Francisco, before thousands of people in their great opera hoose, I said, "would you like me to tell you just what I think, plainly Th?r said. "Y?s. ves. auu uv/umvij . v r ^?, yes I* I said, "Do you think you can stand it oil?" They said, "Yea, yes, yeaT 'Then," I said, "mv opinion is that tbe curse of San Francisco is not yonr Chinese quarter, but your millionaire libertines P And two of them sat right before me? Felix and Drusilia. And so it is in all tbe cities. I never swear, but when I see a man go unwhipped of justice, laughing over his shame and calling his damnable deeds gallantry and peccadillo, I am tempted to burl red hot anathema and to conclude that if, according to some people's theology, there is no bell, there ought to be! There is enou :h out and out licentiousness in American cities to-day to bring down upon them the wrath of that God who, on the 24th of August, 79, buried Herculaneuta and Ponmeii so deeD in as les that the eight eon hundred and thirteen subsequent years have not been able to complete exhumation. There are in some of the American cities today whole blocks of houses which the authorities know to be infamous, and yet by purchr.se they are silenced by hush money, so that such places are as much under the defense of government as public libraries and asylums of mercy. These ulcers on the body politic bleed and gangrene away the life of the Nation, and public authority in many of the cities looks the other way, x ou coouuv uu aucu wounds as these with a silken bandage. You will have to cure them by putting deep in the lancet of moral surgery, and burning them out with the caustic of holy wrath, and with most decisive amputation cutting off the scabrous and putrefying abominations. As the Romans wire after the Celts, and as the Normans were after the Britons, so there are evils after this Nation which will' attend its obsequies unless we first attend theirs. Superstition tells of a marine reptile, the eephaloptera, which enfolded an<1 crushed a ship of war; but it is no superstition when I tell you that the history of many of the dead Nation* nroelaims to us tha fart that our ship of Btate is in danger of boins crushed by the cephiloptera of National depravity. Where is the Hercules to slay this hydra? Is it not time to speak by peD, by tongue, by ballot box, by the rolling of the prison door, by hangman's halter, by earnest prayer, by Sinaitic detonation? A son oC King Croe-us is said to have been dumb and to have never uttered a word until he saw his father being put to death. Then he broke the shackles of silence and cried cut, "Kill not my father, Croesus!" When I see the cheatery and wantonness and the manifold crime of thia country attempting to commit patribid<v?yoa, matricide?upon our institutions, it seems to me that lips that heretofore have been dumb ou^ht to break the silence with canorous tones of fiery protest. 1 wont to nut ail of the matter before you, so that every honest man and woman will know juat how matters stand, and what they ought to do if they vote, and what they ouzht to do if they pray. This Nation is not going to perish. Alexander, when he heard cf the wealth of the indies, divided Macedonia among his soldiers. Some one asked him what he had kept for himself, and he replied, 4,I am keeping hope!" And that jewel I keep bright and shining in my soul, whatever else I shall surrender. Hope thou in God. He will set back these oceanic tides of moral devastation. Do you know what is the priza for which contention is made to-day? It is the prize of this continent. Never since, according to John Milton, when "satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin anc combttstion down," have the powers ol darkness been so determined to win this continent as they now are. TThat a jewel it is?a jewel carved in relief, the cameo ol this planet! On one side of U3 the Atlantic Ocean, dividing us from thewornout Govommonfo aP Rurnno On f".h a nthor oiHa t.Y\o Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the superstitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic Sea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators develop their courage. A continent 10,503 miles long, 17,000,000 square miles, and all of it but about one-seventh capable of rich cultivation. ... V. V > j One hundred millions of population on J I this continent of North and douth America? 1 I one hundred millions, and room for man/ ' hundred millions more. All flora, and all fauna, all metals, and all precious woods, and all grains and all fruits. The Appalachian range the backbone and the rivers ? the ganglia, carrying life all through and out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien > the narrow waist of a giant continent, 1 all to be under one government, and all free, 1 and all Christian, and the scene of Christ's 1 personal reign on earth if, according to the 1 expectation of many people, He shall at last 1 set up His throne in this world. Who shall have this hemisphere* ..Christ or satan? Who shall have the shore of ' her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Colorados. the telescopes of 1 her observatories, the brain of her universities, the wheat of her prairie?, the rice of her | savannah^ the two great ocean beaches, the one reaching from Baffin's Bay to Terra del Fuego, and the other from Behring Straits to Cape Horn?and till the moral and temporal and spiritual and everlasting interests ot a popuiawuu 1 vast beyond all computation save by Him with whom a thousand years are as one day* Who shall have the hemisphere? Tou and I will decide that, or help to decide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian institutions, by support ' of great philanthropies, by putting body, mind ana soul on the right side of all moral, religious and National movements. Ah, it will not be long before It will not make any difference to you or to me what becomes of this continent, so far as earthly comfort is concerned. All we will want of it will be seven feet by three, and that will take in tbe largest, and there will be room and to spare. That is all of this country we will need very bOOD, the youngest of us. But .we have an anxiety about the. welfare and the happiness of the generations that are coming on, and it will be a grand thing if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds^ we find that our sepulcher, like the one Joseph of Arimathea provided for Christ, is in the midst of a garden. By that time this countrv will be all paradise or all dry ? - ? - :a. tortugas. Eternal Uod, to xnee wa commit the destiny of this people I POPULAR SCIENCE. Germany has a 4000-ton forging press. A natural gas gusher has been struck W Boone County, Indiana. 3* Bees never store honey in the light because honey so exposed granulate* and is thus useless to the bees. Dr. F. Werner records that, in cap-1' tivity, certain grasshoppers bite off and' even devour portions of their legs. A fresh eg% contains the same amount | of nourishment as one and a half ounces j of fresh meat and one ounce ot wbeaten I bread, but in a more digestible form. Women require one hcur ot sleep more a day than men. Fewer of the latter reach the age of fifty than the former, but afterward the sterner sex bas the best of it. The demand for coal in Northern Mexico for the development of the smelting and manufacturing industries for railway extensions has occasioned almost a coal famine. Electricity is never visible but in it3 fnrm ttf v\a7ncr Hcrhtninir. Edison think* ?r? ? ?o o differently as to the first point, aad photography has proven the second to be an optical illusion. Boston is talking of disposing of it* garbage by chemical treatment instead of by cremation. The plan proposed would require the investment of about $175,000 in a plant. In experimenting with potatoes, Rauliu finds that the crop decreases in proportion as the olay aod limestone in the soil augments, and increases with the augmenting proportions of s&nd and humus. Among the waste,products now finding application in agriculture are woolen waste, wood dust and residae from crude rr" -J ?rt-n. wool. inese urt) UBL'U auutcojmu^aiivi proper treatment as fertilizing materials. A firm of opticians have devised what they call a "Hat Detective Camera.1" It is provided with a complete apparatus weighing only two and one-half ouncej, whioh can be fitted into a hat, the operation being conducted through the ventilating hole. It is well known that the Pinna mussel of the Mediterranean secretes an abundant mass of silklike thrends, or bjssus, by which it anciors itself to the bottom. The Rev. H. Seddall refers to the fact that the Maltese formerly made gloves of this bvssus, the silk being of fine texture but heavy. The black, solid-rlooking shadows cast by the electric lights that may be seen in the air when it is not clear suggest that the "cosmic dust" which is supposed to occupy tho inter-planetary spaces may be capable, in certain conditions, of showing a profile of the earth under the 1!/-rV? h f\t fVlfl oiln yVT?C"UL HjJU. w According to Dr. Krue9s, temperature has decided action on the absorption pectrum of colored solutions. Dr. Bremer now finds that the rise and fall of a few degrees in temperature of tho light-absorbing liquid may affect the position and intensity of the absorption spectra to a measurable extent. Hteel instead of copper trolley wire31 are employed on a recent extension of i the street railway system of Ottawa, Canada, gliding instead of rolling con- j tacts are used, the idea being that the harder metal will be better able to stand i the increased friction. Copper cross ( wires from the feeders will be used in; stead of steel, as is the custom. The- Innumerable Insects. It is believed, according to L. L. Simi monds, that there are five times a3 many insects as there are species of all other living things put together. The oak alone supports 450 species of insects,and '200 kinds make their home in the pine. Forty years ago Humboldt estimated that the number of species preserved in collections was between 150,000 and 170,000, but scientific men now say that 1 there must be more than three-quarters of a million, without taking into account the parasite creatures. Of the 35,000 > species in Europe, howevor, not more ' than 3500 are noxious or destructive. There are more than 100,000 kinds of beetles. Such being an enumeration of the different forms, what an array of figures would be required for tabulating a census of insect individuals?cach a distinct living thing! Some single specics include an incredible number of speci| mens. The locusts on the coast ot the Mediterranean, for instance, sometimes cover the ground inches thick for miles, 1 while a few years ago 14,000 bushels of locusts ?ggs were collected in a single : season in three Algerian provinces. A | single house fly lays from 15U to 200 j eggs, which in two weeks become .11? A I"" on/1 Jnoa^fo rrnnnru 11 if [ equzuijf lcrilLU UIUO, auvi luavvw j ! "have astonishing powers of multiplica1 tion.?Trenton (N. J.) American. ? The day la coming when the star! age battery will displace the horse as a motive power for carriages. The ; storage battery does not eat its own head off. Let it come. . . ' ' - .. r "J * . * RELIGIOUS READING. LITTLE KIM'NKSSKJj. I a uu.cen years aj;u i waa uiaiui; w?t? .ionic picturesque, But rather hard, New Hampshire bills of a range in which Blue Job is the most prominent. I walked up the long hill beside my home and was glad to find, part way up, a roadside wateringtub, placed there undfcr the hutnaue New Hampshire laws. It was under some trees, I and h wooden pipe brought the coolest and purest water out from under the roekv hill. But there was something- more, testing I tfncMn A ftinn ftMA O + ftlrACl Hl>1VOn Infrt j U^/SIUV UUH U UjiUU Hi U Obdnvo ui >* vu im?v ' tbe ground, wore two cups, shaped like a child'w silver mug, and made of the sweetest and cleanest birch bark. No house was near. I do not know who made., those cups, but the stitches showed the handiwork of some girl who had made these cups for the comfort of unknown wayfarers like myself. I hope that girl has a nappy home. Her thoughtfulness, in this Jittle kindness, makes me bless ber memory. Little things can add much to human happiness. Little things are sometimes heroic. 1 have often wished that our Sunday school literature could make much of historic stories like that of Sir Philip Sidney, who, being mortali.-wounded under the walls of Zutphen, callkl for water, but who, when they brought it. told them *> give it untasted to a wistful private soldier suffering like himself. "Thy necessity," said the gallant Christrian eent.'eman and true soldier, "is yet greater than mine." Our young_.people should be nurtured upon food like this. One such incident is worth a hundred ordinary vojumes. xne tioutrine ox Dumau rignuj is uiu?;?uci overdone. One's rights are of far less consequence than one's righteousness, 'and one's righteousness is far less honorable than one's sacrifice. Hate yOa not noticed that when ministers stand op for their rights they begin to lose their privileges? If a pastor cannot trust to-thc generous k'ndness of a people, it is bi tter for him to go elsewhere. Most people know, however, that little kindnesses touch the minister^ Heart. But little uimlnesses require thougbtfulness. It is a kind thing for a person who has horsed and carnages to take a less fortunate neighbor, who is in delirate health out for a drive. Go yourself, and don't send your coachman. A little thought will give happiness and comfort to somebody, at little or no cost. A few buds in a sick room are gospel. They are more than beauty, tbey are tne expression i of Christian love. , ' ' Tberc is a deep rmnciple ip this matter of little kindnesses! They are a duty. One may Bay he is under no obligation, to give some flower8|to a sick-room, but lie is_ mistaken. He owes the gift of thoso no'wejs) not to the sick neighbor or the crippled cnUd, but he owes it to himself to do it. The girl who made the birch bark cups owed it to her own unselfish nature. It was a duty to herself. When one says that the Lord Jesue was under no obligation to redeem men by his suffering, it Is a mistake. The Lord was nnder obligation to do it. not under oMitta tfon to the binner, but under obligation to bis own great, soul. One has no right to limit himself bv his rights. Love makes duties. 1 may an well parallel the case of Sidney with another. My friend, Wilder Dwight ?we slept under" the sarin blanket in the open night liefore Antietim?lay mortally wounded in' that, battle. The surgeon came .tohimns he lay suffering. The- Christian !'man pointed to" other w ounded men lying near, "Attend to them first: lean bfcarit >>pt*er Mutn they."?[Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint, in the Congregationalism GOD SETS THK TRUTH. In painting tiuth Qod is like the artist. The artist claims it is an artist's right that he locate his own picture. Some time ago different artists entered into competition, at me rfquebt CM llie huspiuii uuiciiiiucnk, pain tins: the portrait of the late Czar. A day was fixed when all should submit their work to a committee appointed to decide what picture should be submitted to public exhibition. One artist among others brought his picture to the reception committee. The committee so disliked the man's work that thev told him bis picture could not be admitted to competition. The artist replied '*1 claim the right of hanging that picture before I will submitto.its rejection, for its location ' has been part of my plan." The committee could not deny this plain right. He put bis work, which seemed so clumsy and coarse, -? - >>...IIAJ iliulanKo tinectfitm Wf>fP ^ Bl< i% Oiuuitu uiomiuvv. ..... . allowed to<?ome so near, and no nearer. When the great day of decision came, that picture, set according to the artist's mind, was the picture that won universal acceptance. In pointing His truth, God claims the right of setting the truth, and the setting of tli?? truth is sometimes everything. In th<> Bible, Hia own inspired Word, He sets the truth. If wc would give His truth to the world as He wants it to be given, we must keep close to the Book. Hence, I raise the cry in the Church of God todav: Back from the mandrawn creed to the bible: back from human systems of theology to the Bible; back from ? - ? .1 mail's way 01 preeeuiiug uvwiuc iv wu o way of presenting doctrine. The infallible Word! The infallible Word 1 Let this be eutbroued ns the supreme authority in all matters that pertain to the religious life. >IE COULDN'T ANSWER. After an infidel had concluded a lecture in a village in Enziand he challenged those present to a discussion. Who should accept the challenge but an old, bent woman, in antiquated attire, who went up the lecturer and said: "Sir, I have a question to put to you." "Well, my good woman, what is it?" "Ten years ago," she said, "I wbs left a widow with eight children utterly unpro- i vided for, and toothing to call my own but this Bible. By its direction and looking to God for strength, I have been enabled to feed myself and fanoi y. I am now tottering to the grave, but I am perfectly happy, because I look forward to a life of immortality with Jesus. That's what ray religion ha* done forme. "What has your"way of thinkine done for you?" "Well, tny good lndy," re-joined the lecturer, "I don't want to disturb your comfort, but?" "Oh, that's not the Question," said she; "keep to the point, sir. /hat has your way of thinking done you?" The infidel endeavored to shirk the matter again: the meeting gave way to uproarious api-laune, and the champion had to go away diseomfltted by an old woman. __ ' Wi* do not ordinarily look for any strong indorsement of religious ideas and methods in a publication like the Popular Science Monthly. It is, therefore, the most grat fying to find a writer in the August number controverting the notion that manners, culture, education, music and what not, are elevators of society. He says: "These are not (he elevators 01 sucuiy. uuuus ornnments. The llower cannot elevate the stalk. Society is elevated just so far as it lift its face toward Mt. .Sinai and no more. T"e Ti n Commapdmenta are tforth more as '{levators* than all the putent contrivances which the unregonerate mind of man can couceive." Would that this Opinion were universally adopted by all the students of science and sociology. We wight then wit-, uess a union of their forces with the noble anuy of Christian men and woman, who have always maintained precisely this principle, in their efl'orts to rcclaitu the individual and to reconstruct society. IJIKirUSr 01 t'Ur ICIIUH rrcaiii.c -1 umifi; or fidelity is sail enough, but :i Christian's distrust of his Saviour ai <1 bis almighty friend is a sin that nrings its own punishment. Half of the misery of life conies from tbis very t<in. There was a world of truth in the remark of tho simple-hearted nurse to the mother who was worrying over her sick child: ''Ma'am, don't worry: you just trust God; He's tediour. but He'* surf." ? [Theodore Cuv'er. 1>. 1?. L ? The report that a lineman had received an electric charge of 3,450 volts and kept It several minutes, escaninff without mure serious injury than a burn and a bruise, was of much scientific interest so long as its integrity was unquestioned. For one thing it .started a theory that Kemmler and the other murderers who thought they were being electrocuted were really being scared to death. But the lineman's experience proves to have been with less than 500 volts, so his escape loses the character of a ? I?1? t'nnimlor'a (imth cannftt, | muauic, auu u uvv?v.. w i be ascribed to any intensity of mental distress. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LF \SOV FOP \nl7PHf DL'T> Lesson Text: "The Apostles Tnrninfl to the Gentiles," Acts Kill., 44-52; xlv., 1-7?Uolden Text: Acts xiif., 47?Commentary. 44. "And the next Sabbath day cams almost toe whole city together to War* the word of GodThe apostles had, no donot, spoken to many in private through thp week, and those who had heard the preceding Sabbath bad not been quiet about the wondrous resurrection stdrjrf and the consequent great redemption so fuiiy and freely proclaimed. I JLb UCUOUJO bUO UlIA UL 1/UC9 IAJWU, J1UU ail ltU* mense congregation assembled, not to Lear the wisdom nor the oratory of the apostles, but to hear the word of Clod. 45. 8uch manifest working of th* Holy Spirit could not but provoke the adversary to envy and blasphemy. Compare Acta v., S3; vif., 54. If none of the religious people ot a community are stirred to talk against the preaching it Is an evidence either that they are all wonderfully in sympathy with Christ, or that the preaching lacks salt (II Tim. ill., 12; CoL iv., 6). 46 "To the Jew first" was the principle acted upon in ail apostolic preaching (Rom. i., 16), then to the Gentiles. Man has the power of receiving or putting from-him this great gift of everlasting lite which God has provided at such infinite cost, bat if say pne judges himself uo worthy of life: it is equal to judging himself worthy of death (John iU.. 36; Rom. it, 4, 5), ( 47. Paul's commission was to bear the name of the Lord doc only before the children of Israel, bat before the Gentiles (Acts ix., 15), and he quotes from Iaa. xlix.. 6, concerning Israel's Messiah, called the Servant of the Lord. "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be My salvation unto the end of the earth." wlbile the mystery of the church is hoc revealed in the Old Testament (Epb, iii., 5, 6), the calling of th9 Gentile Nations after Israel shall have been converted is an oft repeated fact; and yet Paul seems to gather from this passage something concerning his mission to the Gentiles. 48. The Gentiles gave heed to the message, and by receiving the word of the Lord they glorified it and were made glad, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." \ Not all are now given to Christ, but all who?a V are given shall come (John vi, 37), and wnosoever will may come (Rev. xxii., 17), sorev that none will be cast out. This is the time c of salvation for the elect church, after which shall come the salvation of Israel, and then of all Nations (Acts xv., 14-17.) 49. "And the Word of the Lor<1 was published throughout the region." This is thi orro?lr r\f tha ohnrnK Anrt rtf A7APT inriiviHtiA! member of it, to proclaim everywhere a full and tree redemption through the death and resurrection of Jesus that all may hear, that so from all the elect church may be gathered Her song indicates that sue is to be made up ot believers from all parts of the earth (Rev. T.t 9.) 50. How little these honorable worn 3D and chief men thought that by this conlucc they were declaring themselves against God and His Christ. Wnen the seventy were . sent out Jesus said, "He that despissCh you -despiseth Me, and he that despiaeth Me de- spiseth Him that seat Me" (Luke x., 16) But this rough wind would work God's glory by scattering yet more the precious seed. (tin wafh nrniin aha 11 nrnl4i? Thftft" (Ps. Ixxvi., 10), 51. ''But tney shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium." Compare chapter xviii., 6, and see their hi' structions in Mark vi.. Il; Luke i*., 5. It is our privilege to proclaim the glad tidings, to make known the love of God, to offer to all in His name eternal life, eternal redemption; and while expecting that some will receive it, qui.-tly leave reeult* to God. 52. "And the disciplee were Oiled with joy and with the Holy GhostAll that we arj called upon to bear for the sake of Christ and His truth should be borne cheerfully, for He has taught as to be exceeding glad, and leap for joy, under such circuinstances (Math. v.. l? 12; Lake vl.. 22, 23j. We are told that ''For tne joy sat before Him. He endured the croee" (ileb. xii., 2); and it is written that the worthiest ot Heb. xi, were ' sustained by the joys before them. fc?ee es- ' penally verses 10, It), 20, 20. Consider also ?om. viii., 18; I JPeC. iv., la, IS. Chapter xiv., 1. Having pa?ei on to Iconium, we had them as uinal first among the Jew*, and w> speaicing taac a great mutilude of both Jews and Gentiles believed. The key to this must be found in the last verse; they were tilled with the Holy tfpirit. "W hv mav not sucti promisee as the*e be true of us and iu us in these days? 55. Again the enemy is stirred and it is manilest that tbe devil is losing some of his subjects. It should give us great encouragement when the Word preacaed provokes cae adversary; while, on the other nand, if the ' waters are not disturbed we have reason to fear that there is no healing power present. 3. They abode here a long time, the Lord bier sing His Word and granting tn*m power to oo signs and 'wonders, according to Mark xvi., "Ju, and Heb. ii., 4. One has said thac when we yield ourselves fully to God He will yield Himself luliy to us, and this sh uld cause us to inquire very caretuily as to woether we are yet withholding aught trom Hun and thus losing the enjoyment of His lull new. 4. A aiviaed city, some believed and some I beueved not (chapter zzvilL, 34). Abel be lieved and Cain believed not meu. * ., *, * Joan ill., l5Jj. So it Has been and will b? till the kingdom come and God's will Ls done on earth as in heaven. 5. Jesus taught His followers to expect suffering and even death for His sake (Math. j x.. 28; John xvi., 2). And by His spirit He j taught them to take pleasure even in these things, bee chapters v., 41; xx., 34; II Corinthians xii., 13. 6. Being made aware of the coming storm thej fled to other cities, not because they feared death, bat because Jesus had taught them "Wheu they persecute you iu this city, ? " ? ' A-L __ ftO. All nee ye into anocner' [sa&zn. x. m). an mnfal means to preserve life are not inoonadstent with readiness to lay down our lifei when Ho calls ns to it. Many times they sought to take His life, but could not till His hour came and then He gave it up. 7. "And there they preached,the Gospel." They also lived the Gospel, for Paul could say to the Theeealonians, and doubtless to all others, "Ye are witnesses, And Goi also, how holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe." (1 Thess. II.. 10). Like Je?us, they first did and then taught (Acts i., 1; Mark vi? 30). If the church would give herself to living I and preaching the Gospel, instead ot to I amusing and entertaining the people, how I the Great Head of the Church would delight to show Himself strong on her behalf <11 Cbron. xvi., 9) and so hasten her completion.--Lesson Helper. One excellent feature of the World's Fair will be the opportunities afforded for study. No one can "do" the great exposition in one day, nor ilrtwo days. The expenses of a trip to Chicago, living while there and daily admission to the grounds will be beyond the reach of many deserving persons, particularly women. T' C* "Paul ? AITS. X. JO. ivc, ul uv. ahiu, ? member of the Board of Lady Managers, has proposed a plan that reflects as much honor on herself as it promises profit for the beneficiaries. "Scholarships" will be sold to wealthy r\r onHoHa<j and will be by ( p?/XOV/UO VI ovv^wv.w-, ? _ them conferred on women who could and would use the splendid opportunities for study, but whose limited fortunes would compel them to remain at home. The ''scholarships" entitle holders to fare to and from the city, board while here, and tho freedom of the grounds. Much good will thus be done those who most need it and whose added knowledge will be one of America's most lasting and valued nrotits from the fair. It Is good hews which says that "the cholera is losing lta grip." It's bad enough wlthout^hojrrip. ""temperance. THE nTDEPS*n)ENT CITIZEN*. Here each man a king may be. Enthroned among his peers, and free lO worn nuu wiu i cuunu^ And hold his manhood with the best, Where plots will not disturb his rest. Nor stain bis laurel crown. The pa teat of nobility Nature bestows, without the fee That comes of golden gains. 'Tis a white charter, plainly writ, For the wise man, whose mother wit Outweighs a crown with brains. He fears no train of dynamite, No powder plots that oft affright 'Princes and emperors. His cottage is his palace, there He reigns a king, his elbow-chair The throne nu earthshock stirs. Give honor to the man of worth, Not to the accident of birth, They come not from above. The cradle unadorned may hold Fall carets of the purest gold? A human heart of love. The trtoe man's Iring among his peers, No rivals rise to wake his fears. And take away his crown. His title wears no mold of years, No stajas of human strife and tears, They come from Adam down. Bis crown is honor without stain. His realm is home, where he may reigng He's temperate, true and jusc. He is the king, his wife is queen, * His sceptre love, his laurel green, In Heaven he put his trust. ?National Temperance Advocate. STAKING WRKCKS OF MIX AKD WOMEN. Will you credit this? There is a place?indeed there are places?where for five cent* a man may insert one end of a tube into a bar' rel of beerani drink through the tube till he can't -drink any longer. It'k a long pull and strong pull, its length and strength are only regulated by the capacity of the drinker, I and the- price is five oents. The tube is hmHv inr nil mm era?wrecks of men and ! wrecks of women?what next. JfR. MOODY ON WINS. The League JouraaJ,of Glasgow, Stotland, in a recent issue publishes the following: "Mr. D. L. Moody, in addressing the noonday prayer-meeting in the Christian Institute, Glasgow, on Monday week, referred to the miracle performed by Christ at Cans'of Galilee in turning water into wine, flelfeid &me people had a difficulty about this sqb: ject in regard to what kind of wine Christ made. They were somewhat afraid to deal with the difficulty, but he was qoite car tain Christ never made alcoholic wine. He never made aioohol in nature. Ic was only- when men took the good grain and destroyed it that alcohol was produced. Mr. Moody said he was in Jerusalem lately, and he asked a Jewish rabbi there waat kind of wine they used at their feasti. The rabbi replied: "We use the pore juice of the grape, we do not use leaven in oar bread, and, of coarse, we would have nothing to do with alcohol in oar wine.' When tbe pure jaic* of the grape couki not be got, they poured hot water on the raisins and drank It. Those people in this country who have some >? n?o nf t.hn un farm Anted wine at the communion need have no difficulty in this matter,as it is quite dear ChrWt neVer made or used alcoholic wine." TBS NATIONAL W. C. T. XT. CONVENTION. Trinity Methodist Church, in Denver, Col., was crowded recently with delegates to the nineteenth annual convention of the Woman's Christian Temperanoe Union. The building was haoasomely decorated with bunting and flags, among ?t?Wi ?? hunnppu hmrlncr armroDriate mottoes, the most prominent of which was hung over the sta?e and bore the words: "No sex Id citizenship." Around the speaker's desk and back of it were seated the State Presidents, members of the Executive Committees and Superintendents, while in the body of the house were about 800 delegates. An overflow meetingwas held at the Unity Church, where Lady Henry Somerset would speak. A second overflow meeting assembled at the Central Christian Church, where speeches were made by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt and Mrs. S. E. V. Emory. Mtn Frances S. Willard. the President, called t&e, convention to order, and after a brief ptorer by Lady Somerset the regular routioft convention work began, which included reading of minutes and reports and the appointment of committees. Miss Willard read her annual report. The report reviewei the work of the onion for the year and spoke of its Diana for the future. Miss Willard said in part: "There is no object that we White Ribboners so much desire to photograph upon the brain of every voter as the American saloon. It is an institution the character of which becomes each year more clearly defined, and one that, because of our form of government, exposes us more than any other people to political corruption. Because tneee things are true, the temperance women of America have gone into notices, and have taken si' les with the men who first, last arui.aU k times cast their ballots against candidates for offices who are pledged to the saloon. "While I-am heart and sonl.jp,sympathy with every movement for the"'upHfting of labor, it remains true that three-fourths of the whole labor question is summed up in the following: ' vVtaere are oar carriagesF 1 said vi Anarchist, as some capitalists drove j by. "Why,' replied a red-nosed follower, to tell you the troth, a saloon keeper yonder is riding there in mine.' "We expect to convene the World's W. C. T. U. the first week in June at the Columbian Exposition, and we hope that the Ifatiohal Association will be held at the same time. The only new department of which I give notice this year, is for the building up of the local auxiliaries. If we oould put a capable woman at the head of the departmeut of work for the local W. C. T. IT., and this could be carried out Into all our borders, we should find that this con ooomKlaH fn w I VOUl/lUU uau UVU awoiuuivv* MM., The report of the National Secretary, Mrs. Caroline B. Bael, shows that the union.is in a most flourishing condition. The total number of auxiliary and including "Y's" is 7857, total membership, 142,503; number of "Y" unions, 736; total membership, 12,863; number of coffee houses, restaurants, eta, 282; money raised by local unions, $336,244.71; raised by State unions, $133,79J.4'J; paid National Union in duss, $12,872.03; for other purposes, $11,577.32. In Colorado, North Dakota, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington there is school suffrage, and in Wyoming there is full suffrage. The report of the Treasurer, Miss Esther Pugh, shows that the total amount of money raised by local unions in the la5t year for temperance work is $368,244.71. There has been paid into the National Treasury for State dues,. $15,500.16; for other purposes,. $11,578.26, and for the temple. $23,500.53. New Yoric paid dues on a membership of 1C. fVYl Pann*. 'Of,WJ; Illinois UU U1U1C Uliau 1V|W., sylrania on more than 15,000, and Ohio on upward of 10,000 members. TIKPERAXCI XEWS AND .VOTES. The pleuro is stamped out, but tbe saloon remain* Tbe pleuro kills cattle; tbe saloon, men. One illegal rumseller of Portland, Me., at the last, criminal court in that city, wax I fined $1300, and sentenced to sirteea months I in jail. There are in the United Kingdom 2,613, 000 young people who are members of the Binds of Hope or other juvenile temperance organ nations. Over seventeen hundred indictments against liquor dealers were recently .aturned by the grand jury of JefTei*""* .1" nty in Indiana in a single month. ?- 1 A Vienna paper has collected statistics * -a -l IQ01 showing that 49,453 breweries exissea m in twenty-one couatries, a decrease of almost a thousand in one year. Dr. Guibert, wi-iting to a Havre journal, states as the result of his expjrience that habitual inebriates have very little chance of recovering from an attack of cholera. An enterprising ven ler has purchase 1 the privilege of selling popcorn at the World's Fair for $60,000, and another guarantees the Fair managers not less than ?1(JO.OOJ for the privilege of selling peanuts. The price of the beer and whisky concessions is much more. if rain can oe manumccured, wnj not cold waves? Here is a chance for a summer industry that would make its inventors millionaires?nay, trillionaires?in a week. THE ffSW8 EPITOMIZED. Easter* and Middle State*. Thb examination of candidate* tor ?oramissions in the medical department of the United Htates Army, held a few days since m New York, was not very prolific in re suiw. Kji zae twenty-two young doctors wno appeared four succeeded in passing. congbks8scait Edwakd F. McDonald, of Hairison, N. J., died from pneumonia a few days ago. He was born in Ireland on September 21st, 1844. Hs wa? a candidate tor re-election. Ax Pittsburg, Penn., Colonels Hawkins and titreator were acquitted of the caarge of aggravated assault preferred by Private lam?. Loao Melrose, largest St. Bernard dog in the world.died a few days ago,at Boston, Mass., at the Melrose kennels of gastric colic. He was fired by Ben Lomond out of Recluse, and won first prize at many bench shows. He was thirty-five inches high and weighed 210 pounds. ~ South and Weat. ? Firs Indian boys, oach between fifteen and sixteen years old, escaped from the Roman Catholic school at Peoria, Ilin and > walked 600 miles to their home. Joe Mcrphy fatally shot Lawrence Early. Richard Thomas and C. B. Johnson at Bit- / mingham, Ala. They had a row orer a game of cards. Twelve of the sixty-one labor union* went on strike in New Orleans, La? in the big strike. The teamsters, mnddans, car drivers, pap r-aan?er<j, gas workers- and coachmen went oat. Several theatre* could not give performances. All business was practically paraiyzeo. mb. ahd mbs. jb bed iaakx, bw*01sn settlers on a claim threo miles from 0 xarehe. Indian Territory, hare been found deal inidde their house. Both had beea shot. Hiss Parxslia, W bio ht died in Benton Harbor, Mich., aged 102 yean^ Miss Wright was born near Fairfax Court House. Va., and often met Washington, Jefferson and other noted men of that time. , .J. Thk Eeqriimau badr born the other day at the Wort a'3 Fair Grounds, Chicago, has died from sore throat. Wachlnjteon. > ' Skoibtabt of Stat* Fostsb received a cable message from the United States Mini*ter to Denmark saying that the Danish v? Government has pardoned D. Ryder, late United States Consul at Copenhagen, who was recently tried and convicted on a charge of embezzlement and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor. -v] Assistant Secretary of Wax Goaht left Washington this afternoon for bit home in Minneapolis. As Secretary Elkins was alao absent from the city, Major General Sohofleld, who is in oommand of the United States Army, became also acting Secretary 1 of War. ''I A. W. Nettletoit, Assistant Secretary of thaTreasur} has resigned.foreign. The winter crop in- most Ravian provinces presents a bad appearance. The poor peasants, anticipating serious consequences, have held riotous demonstrative meetings, though the police have prohibited such. The trial of Mr. Merrier, ex-Premier at Quebec, Canada, charged with stealing 100,000, ended in his acquittal. The vindicated statesman was carried on the shoalden of adherent?, followed by cheering * $ thousands, from the court to the house of a friend, where he made a speech. The first class battle ship Royal Oak was auoched at Birkenhead, Eta gland. She oost 13,750,000. The great English cotton strike was in- . '-U augurated at London, and fifty-five thousand persons employed in the cotton Indus j try are Idle. Ax infernal machine, placid by AnI archista in the Carmaux Mining Company's i building in Paris, exploded, killing four police officials. Tme universal suffrage movement has caused renewed rioting in Brussels, Belgium. the labob world. ?? _ , f-~ Tarr rues are first in Prussian industries. Mixers at Carmaux, Franca, have r*l > lUUiCU WUl ft* The strike of the printers io Pittsburg has I lasted oyer one year. Thb par of an ordinary British constable is from 17.50 to $9 a week. i Thb Bakers' Unions of the States of HewYork and Pennsylvania are forming State organizations. A co-operative shoe factory Is about to be established bv the Knights of Lsbor in Rochester, K. T. Wages for miners have been raised two per cent, by the Schuylkill Coal Exchange^ In Pottsville, Penn. Over seven thousand applications war* recently received in Paris, ft-aace, for fiftyfive vacant positions. Over 3,750,000 women are working for wages in France, and hundreds of thousands t are seeking work without being able to find it. TJmoir bricklayers who were employed to build an addition to thaBatler Univenttjat Indianapolis, lad., refund to work oa an old foundation built by non-union man.. Thetrustees allowed them to tear down the old wall, and then the work went on. Thc Order of Train Dispatchers was per- . manently organised at Mwmphfr Teon., with 152 charter members. The coostftation. and by-laws embrace the protective features which caused eo much discussion at the con ention in New Orleans last June. The following are a faw example* of the rate of pay of women in London: Hairing paper bags, eight cents per 1000; passible earnings |L25 to ta.35 par wees, jduesob* holee, six cents per doe en; possible earnings, $2 per week. Shirty four oents; each worker finding her own cotton can get six dose between 6 a, m. and U p. ra. ArriR several years of strangle, cotton spinning of Chineee cotton by Chinese bands is established in Shanghai, fire hundred and fifty looms and 3^000 spindles torn oat weekly 180,000 yard*, thirty-six inches wide, of a superior quality of imitation' American drill sheeting. Hal" the looms are of English make and half oi American. Konsbeqo, In Norway, seems to be m little paradise for workmen. Of the 4t0 miners employed there every one has a house of his oven, an<l men having worked for ten yearshave a right to a pension of ten per cent, of their wages, which increase* every year two per cent. After thirty years tho pension would amount to $3.25-per month,. or Muar cient for a man. to-live upon. Idleness from lack of work or through, strikes Is unknown in Konsberg, MISSENT MAIL. Decrease in Number ot Letters Received at the Dead Letter 0fi09? The report of the Superintendent of the Dead Letter Office has been made public. It shows that the annual increase of mail matter at this office has been arrested, the figures showing an actual decrease of 48,480 pieces, or nearly one per ceot. lesa than the number received during the fiscal year of 1891, notwithstanding the fact that t<M postal business of the country has increased nearly eight per cent, the past year, while mi'otoLr/vo r\f tKa nuKHn mnr Ha it by the increase of over seventaeo per cent, in unaddressed letters alone. The receipt* at tha Dead Letter Office for the past six years show respectively an increase of five Eer cent., eleven per cent., sixteen per ceat., ve per cent, 4^ per cent., and a decrease of nearly one per cent. The work lias been done this year without any extra hoars of labor and an increase of 231,000 letters was returned to writers in excess of last year's record. A rbj?abkaelk meteor passed over Birmingham, Ala., about 5 o'clock a few afternoons ago. It passed from northeast to southwest. It was intjnsaly Dngnc ana seemingly about three feet wide. The track it left was serpentina in shape, and remained bright for folly fire minutes. At the spot where it disappeared in the eouthweet a bright line in the shape of the letter L remained for aereial minute*.