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f FARM-YARD PETS. BT CLARA M. HOWAUD. pets all gathered about me . As I came through the farm-yard just now; !Thero was Nubbin, the beautiful Holsteip. 1 And Cherry, the little red cow. There was Daisy, the youngest among ther^, And old Molly, the best of the lot, (With Star, and Blucher. and Bridget, i While Jersey must not be forgot. The pigs for their breakfast are squealing And here comes the red and wuite calf, Frisking about in the sunshine; l At its gambols oue can but Hugh. fort' /jA I ?j i ?. i 'i i awaite- There's Bess, the bay, colt, and her mothe? Old Sally, a fine, handsome pair. dome cantering gracefully toward me. ' With Beauty, the big fiery mare. < i The old sheep Tibbie and Topsy Are eager to share la the store Of yellow corn In my bask?t. While the chickens are feasting galore. All chattering and cackling about me; 1 : Their voices I seem well to know, J from Jim, the saucy black rooster, |, To old Brahma, as white as the snow. , There is Spot, the black and white kitten, ( And Rip, the tortoise-shell cat. And Job, and Gipsy, and Ginger, 5 All waiting a word and a pat. 1 Do I love them? Of coursel what a question! See how their loving eyes shiner I'd not lose, for the weath ct a kingdom, j Tho love of these dnmb friends of mine. Harvzy, Wis. /A WEIRD MYSTERY j 1 02 " I Tracing a Dark Grime. I BY ALEXANDER ROBINSON, M. D. s l CHAPTER XX VL ?fContina?<n. We had reached the Seabury mansion. And he had recognized It. "Yes," I r?plied; "here." j "Bat " J I "Ajsk no questions." t 1 "You are going in there?" ! ?Yos." 1 "Why?" I "Follow me and see." * j "Doctor!" 1 We had just entered the gate as Cain 1 littered the startled word. * He bad, too, grasped my arm ner- ? rously, and scanned the street searchIngly. , -What is it,Colonel?"] "I saw some one." 1 "A passer-by?" I "No." * j "A lurker?" ; Yes. A man. He passed .the court ^ondor as if shadowing us." 1 t "You imagine that." 1 ! "No, he dodged out of view as I looked." "Nonsense!" j "I am afraid." I "Of what?" j "The police." t ! "Have I not promised you protection?" I Cain actcd reassured, but nervous. I led him to the side garden. Where a e bower had been, and where broken c trellises and vines only now remained of s it, I chose a rustic seat t Sit down," 1 said. t i He obeyed me. The mansion looked weird and gloomy. 1 Cain shivered at my ominous proceedings. "Now, then, Colonel," I began, "we are here." "I don't like it." "This was the scene of the murder?" "Yes." i "Proceed, and relate to me everything 1 you did the night of the tragedy." c In a low tone of suppressed excite- $ taent, Cain began his story. , : He told how he had tried the trellis to )( each window and had failed. t Then he had pried open the pantry window with the steel instrument I had found under it, I j A stray siivor spoon only rewarded a c aearch In a cupboard. Then he ascended t the stairs. ! Footsteps had startled him. He ran $ down the hall. At its end an open win-, a dow showed. I He reached it and crouched low on a T {veranda. A minute later a woman came j: down the hall. She had a light in her hand. ], | She disappeared down a side corridor, And then a door opened and closed. "The balcony I was on," continued ^ Oaln, "looked out from two other win- t dows. I chanced to look in. A man stood near a chair, as if reflecting. "Who was it?" ; "Dr. Abraham Seabury. * "And then'.'" s ' "I started, for, as I raised ray head to t look at him more closely, 1 became con- j Bcious that a man was near mo. He had j Just climbed the trellis. He glanced eagorly into the room. Then " "Who was ho?" "Theodore Parker." The Doctor's son?" ' "Yos." "Did he seo you?" I askod. t "He did. In a Hash he seemed to recognize in me a burglar, I in him an 1 officer. Ho sprang at me. About to clench a cry of alarm reached me. ] glanced within the room.* "And saw?" c "A woman rushing upon Dr. Seabury." r I quivered with suspense. "The same woman you saw in the hall?" -Yes." "She was aione?" i "Alone, bho had In hor hand a knife? W creese. She lifted it. I saw it de cend?tho Doctor sink back. Thai there was a crash and the lamp was ex- i tlnguished." ] "And the woman?" s I was in anguish. I anticipated his r answer. I knew that I, interested in tho beautiful Lconore, and itrlving to save her, had placed the capping-stono c of evidence that signified h?*r 4oom. ' j "Look! look!" Of a sudden a light appeared at one of 1 the windows. A woman's form appeared and drew , down a shade. ' It was Leonore, locking sad and wear- a ied, and as if about: to seek rest after a ? woIIaoo vintl OOWIVOO TI^IW I "Leonore!" I breAl.hed, wildly. I 1 ^Who?" demanded Cain, sharply. | j. "Leonore. * "Is that her name?" "Yes." "Well, she's the woman whom I saw kill Dr. Seabury?she is the assassin!" chapter xxvu. His voice was positive, his jSp*'* glance eager, and his entire . manner indicative of ear J nestness and excitement ^7 The momentary vision of the beautiful Leonore had faded as it had appeared, and the heavy 3hade now shut out all view of the being whom I now knew to be veritably within the shadow of the dreadful scaffold. Colonel Cain saw my emotion, and regarded me in a puzzled, studious way, as if half sorry for his declaration. "You are sure?" I gasped. "Yes." "That woman " "Is Dr. Seabury's assassin." "But " "I could not be mistaken." "Perhapsshe arrived after the crime?" "I saw her strike the fatal blow," :ame the clear, decidod reply. "And would swear to It?" "I would, but I do not wish to." "Proceed with your story." My heart seemed Ice as, mechanic illy, I listened to the burglar's continued aarrative. I was hopeless now. The one vital revelation of Cain's positive recognition )f the woman had overwhelmed me. "VYeil, as I said," remarked ^ain, -i saw her strike the blow, and the light spoilt out*" "What did you do?" I faltered. "For two minutes I struggled with the man Who had seized me. Afterwards I realized that he thought only of getting rid of me, to hurry into the darkened room. Just then I supposed he was some Jetective bent on arresting me. It must have been fully two minutes before we stopped struggling and wrestling. Then his quick, agonized remark: 'Oh, leavens! her hand, her hand!' and his 8xed stare within the darkened room, told me that he thought little of me? that his attontion, his very soul, was :entered on the tragedy he had just seen enacted." "And then?" "He dashed into the room." "And you?" "Thought of flight, grew curious, jtepped also into the room, and relit the amp." "The woman?" I gasped, painfully. "Had disappeared." "Did you search for her?" "Why should I? I drew back and matched the scene. The man I had struggled with was, of course, Theodore Parker. " "Yes, Theodore Seabury, the Doctor's ion." "I saw at once that he was agitated by ;he profoundest emotion. He bent over .he dead man, for he was dead. He vrung his hands, he wept; he seemed ibout to hasten. after tho assassin, to irouse the house, and thon paused with t hollow, hopeless remark." rtWhat was it?" "I remember it distinctly. It was: He has died misjudging me; she has cilled him. One will have to suffer for t My wife, my father. Ohl why was his cruel deed committed?' " "Did he speak to you?" "Instantly. As he saw me he started, vondered, looked dismayed, and then emembered the scene on the portico. " 'Who are you?' he demanded. " 'A burglar,' I answered boldly. M 'You witnessed this deed?' "'Yes.' "He seemed to reflect, to put this and hat together, and then he said, in a larsh, constrained voice: " 'Man, you will get in trouble if you iver allude to what you have seen. No ine must ever know the truth about this .ffair. If you will aid me to throw jusice off the right track, I will pay you en thousand dollars." "And you agreed?" I asked breathessly. "Yea. "And he?young Seabury?" He reflected and then acted." "How?" "We removed the body to a bed." * "What then?" | "We placed him in a natural position. Chen the young man found a phial in a lesK, and poured some of Its contents lown the dead man's throat, fixed the >hial in the dead man's hand and we, eft. Only he said one word in explanaion.' "What was it?" "Suicide." I was more depressed than ever. The lear, concise statement of Cain seemed rue in every particular. More, it admitted of proof, for Theolore Seabury's false story fitted to it in . way. To shield the woman he loved, his rife, ho had deceived me, exhibited an ron nerve and rare powers of dissimulaion, and had bribed the burglar to sience. "Where did* you go thou?" I asked. "To the street. Hold! in the room rhere tho crime was committed I found he creese." "The one I first saw in your room?" "Yes." "Was it tho instrument of death?" "I thought so at tho time. I even ihowed it to barker, or young oeaoury, is you call him. I told him I would ceop It until the mouey was paid to me. L*ter " "Yes, later?" I queried, eagerly. "I knew that it could not be the fatal veapon." "And why not'''" "Because it had no blood-stains on it." "How do you account for its oelnj here, then?" "Dr. Seabury probably drew It to de'end himself." "And the real weapon?" "The assassin carried away with her. * Worse and worse! Every now develipmcnt shut in the beautiful Leonori nore and more closely to her doom. "Havo you seen Parker since?" I asked, "No." "Why not?" "I was to wait for a month for th( noney." "That was the agreement?" u V t??' lir? clIH hf\ ri i rl nnt. ft. than.* I am not a rich man. I had some ncans. I say tlit? because, just then, a? : veritably went mau for the moment, ill my actions hinged on the means J :ould command. Yes, I went mad momentarily. Prulence, Judgment, ricrht even, wero lost u an absorbing impulse. Lponore, beautiful Leonore, was a nurderess! I doubted It no longer. I saw her dragged to the common Jail >y rude hands?her rare beauty mocked tt, stared at by unfeeling idlers in tha treat court-room of justice. I saw the law blind to circumstanco or jalliating motive. She had, indeed, killed her guardian, >ut in a moment of insanity?aa insan s ity she could not prove, probably would not oven acknowledge. Her real ignorance of what she had c done in her Insane moments would be to h Justice.the audacity of hardened guilfc. h It would go 111 with her?she wa9 a doomed. I would save herl I would save her! At any cost of fidelity, honor, or policy, f; I would rescue this fair creature. Beside myself with love?for I did love her, wedded wife though she was?I cried out, vehemently: "Colonel Cain, I love that woman!" "A murderess?" o "I cannot help it. I must save her. I will give you all I oossess to disappear i from the city at once?to atrord me an opportunity to get her beyond the reach of a cruel, misjudging law." "Don't try it, Doctor!" I started. Cold, clear reason Immedi* $ ately supervened to fevered delirium as the strong tones spoke. And from the shrubbery, his impressive face telling that ho had overheard all my conversation with Colonel Cain, the burglar, stepped Abner Ketch* 1< am, the detective. ? c CHAPTER XXVIIL I am a strong man, ordinarilv abova trivial weaknesses of frame or mind, but in imnrnssiva hour extraordiary h rules of unnerve moved me. " a The accumulating revelations and episodes of the night bad proven too much & for me, and, mind and frame wrought up s to the highest tension, gave way in a collapse, sudden and blighting. 3 When 1 awoke again, I was lying on a couch in a comfortable room. c I recognized the apartment at once. ti It was the detective's cozy room. II c was broad daylight; and Ketcham him- k self sat at a window, smoking and thinking. P "Ketcham!" h I spoke the word, and arose on my ol> bow. . ti "Hello!" he said, coming to where I p lay. "Awake, eh?" "Yes?how came I here? Oh, I re- s member. Ketcham, you heard all, and n g "Hold on, Doctor, no spasmodies,* y smiled the detective. "Don't got excited a , or worried. The case Is ended." f "Ended?" I gasped. * ? "lea." "Then Leonore?" n "I am sorry to say is under arrest * d I fell back with a groan. Hope seemed to die in my breast Even thon it seemed as if I would have given my life to save her own. y "Now, Doctor," spoke tho detective, gently, "don't give way. I see whero you are caught?you love that women. Allowing that you can't help it married or not I do say you aro very foolish. She is a teetotally bad one, or else i crazy ono, and in either case dangerous. The law Is a hard keeper, sp you must t taiko affairs as thoy are. My duty wm plain. There aro a scoro of clows thai prove her guilty. I had to arrost her. As to your foolish thought of putting Cain out of the way as & witness, or ' spiriting the woman away, that 'would not only have .involved yourself la ? trouble, but also have been an act oi b great treachery to me.n "You aro right Doctor," I chokod out "I guess I was half crazy last night." "I guess you were. "Woll, givo up son- h timent about this girl. The hard, practical facts aro what demand your attea* tion now," "Do you think her guilty?" "I do." "Will a court sustain that line ot belief?" p "Most assuredly." "Will sue be convicted?" a "Yes." "Sane or insane?" "Ah, there is your only chance to save c her. My work Is ended. I bring a prisoner, with a Clear case proven, to ti justice. ii in oencs ma ic start ou& auu u undo my work. Your only hope is to o provo her subject to insane illusions? Q to have been insane when the deed ol murder was committed. I cannot, \ could not, holp you." "It is hopeless!" J^rroaned. "Not at all," ri*lied the detective, o quickly. "People not at all demented b havo been released on less apparent u grounds than those that exist in thii t] woman's case. She acts honestly ig- f( norant of the crime. There are proofi that Dr. Seabury feared her, yet h? nurtured and loved her Prove her a g somnambulist in childhood, eccentric rt later on, trace her disease carefully, and 0 at the first real clew of insanity you ari p safe to hope that she will not be con ? victed." " "Then you believe " 0 "Nothing," interrupted Ketcham, at> 0 ruptly. "I cannot see a trace of insanity in her cool, deliberate method .ol q striking a sure blow and secreting the a weapon later, for the creese found hidden in her room certainly did the deed." "Where is she?" I asked. S He informed me?at an uptown sta- P tion. He had not yet made the arrest ai public. He wished to still further forti- gi fy his case before making a final roport t at the Central Police Station. "And Cain'.'" "On parole. That Is, he is at the same " station, but he is not locked up. He has agreed to report there or romain there n until I need him; but I have arrested y young Seabury." u This amazed me. "Arrested him?" "Yes; I had to. He occupies a cell at s the station. It is to question and corner " him that I have acted so secretly. He refuses to talk. I want to get at a mo- ii tive for this crime. So far I can find e: none.'" t! I grew hopefuL ( "Ah!" I cried, "then that Is the defect t! [ in your case?" n "I admit it" "No motive proven?" 8I "None in the world. Dr. Seabury ,j apparently cherished and loved his ,, ward." ^ "But fortune?money?" ^ "For some strange reason ho had long ti Bince made over to her absolute control e of every dollar ho possessed. No, can- t' didly, Doctor, it will puzzle the shrewd- 8, est lawyer to apportion any motive to 0 the woman for the crime." t] "Then she is not guilty!" I cried. "Perhaps not?knowingly. Come; are 8! you strong enough to come with me?" ^ "Where?" t! "To the police station." o "Yes," I replied, eagerly. tl "An hour at toilet and broakfast re- jj vlved me. I felt chilled again, however, as wo took a cab and reached a gloomy public station. Colonel Cain sat smoking in the drillroom and nodded placidly to me. "Now, Doctor," spoke tho detective, "can I rely on you?" hi "To do what?" b' "To sco those pcoplo below, and report w' fairly to ojo what rhcy say." jj( L i nesaaicu. f hI "I want you to makp them talk; I hi can't." H "I will not further incriminate this ^ poor girl," I replied. w "Well, see them, anyway. You may learn something that may alter tho . looks of affairs." ' Ho motioned to an officer who un- k< locked a door, and directed me to thp d< cells below. m My heart sank as I reached a barred- a{ In apartment and peered within it. ac "Mr. Seabury!" "Eh, holloa! Who are . you? Go , away." " Theodore Seabury had hurried eagerly b< to the door. He scowled as ho recog- hi nized me. to I "I come, Mr. Seabury * tc "Yon traitor!" "Sir!* "I refuse to talk with you. Your speious ?tory won my confidence, and you ave connived at my arrest!" he cried, otly. "I refuse to talk with you, or nybody else." I was discouraged, but I said, gently: "You mistake. I am your friend?a riend to your wife." "Bah!" "I would save hor if I could" He was silent. "Tell mo what I wish to know." "Go away. I will nevor open my lips n the subject of the murder again." Ho was obdurate. I pleaded in vain, returned up-stairs with a glum face. "Well?" queried Ketcham, anxiously. I.reported my failure. j He looked grim and disappointed. "Never mind. Ho will sp<uik later, fow, then, for the woman." J "Leonore?" "Yes." "Where Is she?" He led mo to tbe detention room. 1 1 joked gratefully at him as I saw its omforts, and entered an apartment rith barred windows, out ngui unu iry. Seated at a table was Leonore. My eart bled for her as I saw her pale face aid her tear-dimmed eyes. "Oh, Doctor!" she cried, as she sprang o her feet and caught my hand, and obbed hysterically. "Be seated," I said, gently; "I wish to peak with you." Sho sat down. I summoned all my ourage and calmness to quiet her hys-' orical naturo, and gradually led the onversation to the painful theme that I new must bo discoursed. If I doubted her at any time in the ast, I doubted her no longer aftar she ad spoken. Sho absolutely denied the murder?she ras horrified at the mere idea of her imlication in the crime. "I loved him?he loved me. Why hould I wish him to die?" "Hut, Miss Leonore," I ventured ently, "may it not be possible that in our sleep when?when temporarily Inane " Sho stared at me in a dazed, curious ray. "Impossible!" she replied. "I am cither a somnambulic nor a lunatic. I id not kill Dr. Seabury." "Then who did?" "I do not know." "Do you know the evidence against /m,0" wYe9, the knife found in my room." "There are other proofs." She looked up innocently. "I did not know it. "Did not the detective tell you?" "No, Doctor." "Two witnesses positively assert that hey saw you commit the crime." Leonora looked shocked. "A cruel falsehood!" she gasped. "One Is a burglar?a Colonel Cain." "A burglar?" she repeated reproachully. "The other Is a?a friend?in fact, the on of your guardian, Theodore Sea* ury." "Oh, Impossible!" "He says, or rather could say " "Why, Doctor! I do not even know lm." "What?" I fairly shouted. "No, I never saw him." "Never saw him'" Never." I was dumfoundod. "Never saw your husband?" I gasped, eellng in bewilderment. "My whom?" asked Leonore, In wild mazement. "Your husband." Her fair face blanched with positive ?..n|A. UU1U3IUU* * "Doctor," she breathed wildly, "what arce Is this? Are you trying to drive ie demented? I am not married?Thedore Seabury is not and never could be ly husband." (TO Bl COrmif0HD.j ??A remarkable increase in the use of il as a fuel on Russian railroads is shown y recent statistics. In 1881 there were sed 1914 tons of naphtha, while in 1890 lere were used 291,307 tons of naphtha ssidues. The molecules of ice are bound to? ether by a very great force. To sepaite them, that is to melt say one pound f ice at thirty-two degrees F., requires a ower of 109,396 foot pounds, or a ower equal to lifting the ice to a height f over twenty miles, or the exertion for ne minute of over three horse power. While (Jigging sewer ditches in Albany, ia., recently, it is reported that work* ten unearthed curious rock formations, 'hich go to prove the assertions of eologists Vthat many years ago that art of Georgia was a part of the sea, a "A h.ttl* nn UtT rrrnriilftl Hflnnsitu of I TTBO UUiiV .. ? - ( sdiment from rivers and other sources." be rocks found are said to be lime;oae, and contain fossil sea shells and npressions of shells. A clever chemist has invented an autolatic sensitive paint, which is a bright ellow at the ordinary temperature, but, pon being brought into a warmer atmoshere, it changes color gradually, and at 20 degrees, it becomes a bright red. Ik Jturns to the original color upon coollg and may be heated with the same Sect over and over. It is suggested lat this paiat may be used with ad- ' antage to detect a rise in the tempera- j lire of the fractional working parts of i lachinery. p What were supposed to be fossil " aakes, recently discovered in the pecu- i ;ar rock formations near Canon City, li lol., a noted scientist now pronounces ! > be the finest casts he ever saw of the j runks of giant palms or iern trees of the t arboniferous age, on which grow leaves ^ welve or more feet lorg. The'smaller * pecimens he regards either as rootlets t f the larger trunks or new species of t iie palm family of that age. What was ' apposed to be the bulbous heads of replea are now known to be the base of ,j ie trees where the monster roots started ut, and the supposed enlarged tail ia c * 1...4 ?|f f?>? t ie top, irom wuicq rosu clusters wi ism ke leaves. His Dog Retriey<;il I ie lioml). A rather reckless Biddeford man, with 3 respect for law or gospel, is said to ive devised a scheme for catching trout f the wholesale, which did not work as ell as be thought. He thought that a joib exploded iu the brook would bring I the tish in it to the surface, so that j would only have to pick them up. e provided himself with a bomb poweril enough to blast a schopuer out of ater and went to a local brook in which icre were said to ba lots of trout. He ced the fuse, ignited it, and thre.v the * )mb into the brook. A3 ho did so his J jg jumped in after it, seized it iu his T outh, got back to shore, and started c ter his master, who was legging it s :ros3 the field as fast as he could in the c alization of his danger. The man had \ ie good luck to get over a tence, which s jthered the dog, and a moment later, t ;aring an explosion, he looked around ct i see his dog going skyward.?L-'wis- c m (Me.) Journal. t KEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN DAY SERMON Subject: "God Among the Chella." Text: "And the Lord said unto Most*. Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte and onycha.11?Exodus xxx., 34. You may not have noticed the shells of the Bible, although in thi9 early part of the sacred book God calls you to consider and employ them as He called Moses to consider ana employ them. The onycha of my text is a shell found on the banks of the Red Sea, and Moses and his armr must have crushed many of them under foot as they crossed the bisected waters, onycha on the beach and onycha in the unfolded bed of the deep. I shall speak of this shell as a beautiful and practical revelation of God, and as true as the first chanter nf flonmla ' ?. VIWUU0M UUU VUO JOOU ohapter of Revelation or everything between. Not only is thiB shell, the onycha, found at the Red Sea, but in the waters of India. It not only d electa tea the eye with its convolutions of beauty, white and lustrous and serrated, but blesses the nostril with a pun* sent aroma. This shellfish, accustomed to feed on spikenard, is redolent with that odorous plant?redolent when alive and redolent when dead. Its shells when burned bewitch the air with fragrance. In my text God commands Moses to mix this onchya with the perfumes of the altar in the ancient tabernacle, and I propose to mix some of its perfumes at the altar of Brooklyn Tabernacle, for, having spoken to yon on the ''Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among the Stars;" the "Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among tbe Centuries," the "Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the Birds;" the "Mineralogy of the Bible; or, God Amonsr the Amnthvata-" the "Ichthyology of the Bible; or* God Among the Fishes," I now come to speak of the "Concholoey of the Bible, or, God Among the Shells." It is a secret that yea may keep for me, for I hare never before told it to any one. Chat in all the realms ofxhe natural world there is nothing to me so fascinating, so completely absorbing, so full of suggestiveoess, as a shell. What? More entertaining than a bird, which can sing, when a shell cannot sing? Well, there you hare made a great mistake. Pick up the onychafrom the banks of the Red Sea or piclc up a bivalve Erom the beach of the Atlantic Ooean and listen, and you hear a whole choir of marine rolces?bass, alto, soprano?in an unknown tongue, but seeming to chant, as J. put them to my ear, "The sea is His and He made it;n sthers singing, 4 Thy way, 0 God, is in the na;n others hymning; "He ruleth the raging )f the sea." "What," says some one else, "does the ihell impress you more than the star?" In to me respects, yes, because I can handle the ihell and closely study the shell, while I annot handle the star, and if 1 study it must study it at a distance of millions and Billions o? miles. * "What," says some one else, 'are you nore impressed by the shall than the lowerf Yes, for it has far greater variedes and far greater richness of color, as I ?uld show you in thousands of specimen^ ind because the shell does not fade, as does ;he rose leaf, but maintains its beauty can* tury after century, ? that the onyoila prhfch the hoof of Pharaoh's horse knocked iside in the chase of the Israelites asross Che Eled Sea may hare kept its luster to this tour. Yes, they are so particolored and many colored that you might pile them up until you would hare a wall with all the jolors of the wall of heaven, from the Jasper it the bottom to the amethyst at the top. Oh, the shells! The petrified f<xam of the iea. Ob, the shells I The hardened bubbles tf tha Aacm Dh ttui holla wh{/>ti ?ra tha liadems tnrown by thaocean to the feet of the continents. How the shells *re ribbed, grooved, cylindered, mottled, iridaccent! rhey were used u coin by some of the Nations. They were fastened in belts by Dthers, and made in handles of wooden implements by still others. Mollusks not only )f the sea, bat mollusks of tbe land. Do you know how much they have had to do witb the world's history? They saved thechurcb jf God from extinguishment. Tbe Israelites marched out of Egypt 2,000,000 strong, besides flocks and herds, rbe Bible says * tbe people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in toe clothes on their shoulders. They were thrust forth out jf Egypt and could not tarry; neither had they prepared for themseves any victuals." lust think of it? Forty years in the wilder nes?. Infidelity triumphantly asks, How ?uld they live forty jeara in toe wilderness without food? You say manna fell. Oh, :bat was after a long while. They would save starved fifty tunes before tbe manoa Fell. Tbe tact u>, they were chiefly kept ilive by tbe mollusks or the land or shelled rreatures. Mr. Fronton and Mr. Sicard ;ook tbe same route from Egypt toward Janaan that the Israelites took, and they pve this as their testimony. "Although tbe cbildreu of Israel mint lave consisted of about 2,000.000 soul^, with aaggage and innumerable floe us and herds, :hey were not likely to exp?rience any in* jonvenience in their rharch. Several thouiand persons might walk abreast witb the greatest ease in the very narrowest pare of ;he valley iu which they flrst began to file iff. It soon afterward expands to above ;hree leagues in width. With respect to 'orage they would bo at no Joas. The cround is covered with tamarisk, broom, ilover and saint foin, of which latter "specially camels are passionately too I. be* idea almost every variety of odoriferous >lant and herb proper for pasturage. whnla irf riaa nf fKa vallav fhrnnirh * ?* UV1V UAU W Vk KUU TWUUJ VUtUUJ^U rhich the children of Israel marched are till tufted with brushwood, which doubt* ess afforded lood for their beasts, together vith many drier sorts for lighting fire, on rtuch the Israelites could with the greatest ase bake the dou^Q they brought with them in small iron plates, which form a constant ippendage to the baggage of an oriental raveler. Lastly, the neroage underneath hese trees and shrubs is completely covered, vith mails of a prodigious size and of the test sort, and, however uninviting such .a epast ought appear to us, they are here esteemed a great delicacy. They are so ulentiul in this valley that it may be literally said ;hat it is difficult to take one step without reading on them." So the shelled creatures saved the host of Israelites on the march to the promised and, and the attack of infidelity at this >oint is defeated by the facts, as infidelity is ilways defeated by facta, since it is founded in ignorance. In writing and printing our Dterrogation point has at the bottom a mark ike a period and over it a flourish liks the winzof a teamster's whip, and we put this nterrogation point at the end of a question, >ut in the Spanish language the interrogaion point is twice usea for each question. i.t the beginning of the questioi tne interogation point is presented upside do wo, ind at the close of the question right side m Whan inttHelitv duu a Question about he Scriptures, as it always indicates ignoance, the question ought to be printed with wo interrogation pointa, one at the beginlinsj and one at the close, but both upside lown. Thank Ood for the waalth of molluiks all ip and down the earth, whether feeding he Israelites on their way to the land flow* ng with milk and honey, or, as we are beter acquainted with lie mollusks, when lung to the beach of lake or sea. There are hree great families of them. If I should isk you to name three of the great royal amiiies of the earth, perhaps you would repond, the house of Stewart, the house of lapsbnrg, the house of Bourbon, but the hree royal families of mollusks are the uni? ,-alve, or shell in one part, the bivalve, or hell of two parts, and multivalve, or shell n many parts; and I see Goi in their every lince, in their every tooth, in their very cartilage, in their every ligament, in heir every spiral ridge, and in their every olor. prism on prism, and their adaptation if thin shells for still ponds and thick coatop for boisterous seas. They all dash upon ne the thought of the providential care of rod. W hat is th<? u?e of all this architecture of Hn c4ip1I And whv i?j it niofcureti from the lutside lip clear down into its labvrinths of onstruction? Why thn inflnitv of skill and adinace in a sh?ll? What is the use of the o!orand exquisite curve of a thin? so inignificaut a* a shellfish? Why, when ths unchoiogist by dreige or ra'ce fetches the rustaceous specimens to the shore, does he Ind at his feet whole alhambras and rolieums nnd partfcenons and crystal naiades op >eauty in miniahire, and these brintr tolight inly an infinitesmal part of the opulenc? in he ST^at subaqueous world. Liennaem iounted2500apecies ofs'iel's. but conchotomy ial then only begun its achievements. While exploring the bed of the i Ocean in preparation for laying tt shelled animals were broujnt uj depths of 1000 fathoms. When lift telegraph wire from the Mediterrane Seas, shelled creatures were t up from depths of 3000 fathoms. Tl lish admiralty, exploring in beh science, found raollusts at a depth fathoms, or 14,210 feet deep. What awful fo? yaitnessl As the shell Is only the house a wardrobe of insignificant animals deep, wby all that wonder and be construction. God's care for them only reason. And if God provide so i cently for them, will fie not see tl have wardrobe and shelter? Wardrc shelter for a periwinkle! Shall there wardrobe and shelter for a man? God eive a coat of mail for the defen nautilus and leave you no defense < the storm? Does He build a stone ho a creature that lasts a season and leav oat hocse a soul that takes hold on ce and eons? Hugh Miller found "the Footprints Creator In tbe old red sandstone," hear the harmonies of God in tbe ti tbe sea shells when the tides come in same Christ who drew a lesson of pre tial care from the fact that God cloth grass the field instructs me to draw tt lesson from the shell?. In almost every man's life, howevei born and prosperous for years, and most every woman's life, there oomea dark time, at least once. A conjunc circumstances will threaten bankrupt bomelsatness and starvation. It may these words will meet tbe ear ot wi ne eye or those who are in such a i foreboding. Come, then, and see h< gives an Ivory palace to a water anln you could cover with a ten-oent pie* clothes in armor against all attack a no bigger than a snowftake. I do no thai; God will talr* than of one of His own children. I rake to your feat with the goap the most thorough evidences of Got for Hi* creatorea. 1 pile around yot mounds of shells that they may taa a most comforting theology. Oh, ye c faith, walk among these arbors of o and look at these bouquets of shell, f handed a queen on her coronationds see these fallen rainbows of color, i amine these lilies in stone, these pri in atone, theee heliotropes in stone, cowslips in stone, these geraniums Id these japonicas in'stone. O ye who have your telescopes read; ing out on clear nights, trying to se is transpiring in Man, Jupiter and 1C< know "that within a few hour/ walk i of where you now are there are worlds that you might explore, but o( you are unconscious, and among tfa beautiful and suggestive of these w< the concholo^icai world. Take this la a providential care. How does t! hymn go? We may, like ships, by tempests be to* On perilous deeps, oat cannot be lost. Thoagb sstaa enrages the wind and chi The promise assures as the Lord will p But while you get this pointed 1? providential care from the shelled crc of the deep, notice in their consta that God helps them to help themselvi house of stone in which they live dropped on them and is not built i them. The material for it exudes froi own bodies and is adorned with a < fluid from the pores of their own nei is a most interesting thing to see the* tacean animals fashion their own hoi of carbonate of lime and membrane. And all of this is a mighty lesson t who are waiting for others to bull fortunes when tney ought to go fc and, like the molluska, build the! fortunes out of their own brain, out ( own sweat, out of their own Indi Not a mollusk on all the beaches of seas would have a house of shell if not itself built one. Do not wait for to shelter you or prosper you. A cnxstaoeous creatures of the earth every flake of their covering and froo ridge of their tiny castles on Atlan Pacific and Mediterranean ooasta ' Help yourself, while God helps you yourself." Those people who are waiting for father or rich old uncle to die an 1 leav a fortune are as silly as a mollusk wc to wait for some other <noliqsk to c it a equipment. It would kill tl task as in most cases It destroys a ma one person out of a hundred evir was enough to stand a large estate by L ance dropped on him in a chunk, great expectations from only two per God and yourself. Let the onycna text become your preceptor. But the more 1 examine the she more I am impressed tUatGo lis a ( emotion. Many scoff at emotion anc to think that God is a God of cold gee and iron laws and eternal apathy a: throned stoicism. No! Not IhesheJ overpowering emphasis deny it. Wt and order reign in the universe, yot but to see the lavisbuesa of color < crustacea, ail shades of crimson fro a est blnsh to blood of battlefield, all of green, all shades of all colors from < black to whitest light just called out shells with no more order than a j premeditates or calculates how manj and hugs she shall jrive her babe was in the morning sunlight. Yes, my God is an emotional God, i says, "we must have colors and let i paint all of them on the scroll of tha and we must have music, and here is for the robin, and a psalm for man, doxology for the seraphim, and a re tion call for the archangel.1' A] showed Himself a Goi of subline a when He flung Himself on this world personality of Christ to save it, with card to the tears it would take, or th ft would exhaust, or the agonies it crush out. When I see the Louvres and the I bourgs and "the Vaticansof Divine p strewn along the 8000 miles of coast, bear in a forest on a summer mornin leal academies and Handel societies orchestras, I say God is a God of en and ix ne ooeerves matoemauus u, u maticsset to music, and His figures ar ten not in white chalk on bl&csboart writtea by a finger of sunlight on m jasmine and trumpet creeper. In my study of theconchology of th this onycha of the test also impress with the fact that religion is perl What else could God hare meant wc said to Moses, "Take uato thee sweet stacte and oaycha?" Moses took tht of the onvcba, put it over the fire, ac crumbled into ashes it exhaled an ode hung in every enrtain and tilled the i tabernacle, and its sweet smoke e from the sacred precincts and satura outside air. Perfume I That is what religion is. instead of that some make it a me They serve God in a rough and acerb They box their child's ears because h not properly keep Sunday instead of e Sunday so attractive the child cot help but keep it. They make aim le< heart a difficult chapter in the book c dus, with all the hard names, because been naughty. How many disagi good people tnere are 1 No one doubt piety, and they will reach heaven, bi will have to get fixed up before tl /w thav wilt malra fmnhla hff , out to m: "Keep off that grass f ' Ho von mean by Hacking that fl 'Show yoor ticket! f Oh. how many Christian people n obey my text and take into their * and their behavior and their eonsoo and presbyteries and general asaembli conferences more onychat I have times gone in a very gala of spirit it presence of some disaereeable Chr and in five minutes felt wretched, <=ome other time I have gone depress* the company of suave and genial sou in a few momenta I felt exhilarant. was the difference? It was the dlffen what they burned on their censers. T burned onveba; the other burned asa In this conchoioTical study of the ' al.?o notice that the molusks or sbeili mals furnish the purple that you see darkening so many ScriDture cha The purple stuff in the ancient tabei the purple girdle of the priests, the mantle of Roman Emperors, the app Dives in purple and flno liaon?ay tiurnle robe whir?h in monlcerv was t upon Christ?were colored by tao pu the shells on the shores of the Med ean. It was discovered by a shsf riosj having stained his mouth by br< one of the shells, and th9 purple arous miration. Costly purple! Six pounds of the liquor extracted from the shellfishes used to prepare one pound of wool, was also used on the pages of book?, and prayer books appeared in purple v which may still be found in some of t tional libraries of Eur ope. Piatarch / Atlantic | of the purple which kept hia beauty for 190, te cable y"1, Bat after awhile the purple became' ) from to get, and that whicn had been a limr the of imperial authority when worn m! 'an and robes was adopted by many people, and wo. iroueht an ?mperor, jealous of this appropriation of.', he Enz- ^ pur?1?! made a law *hat any one exoepfl alf of royalty wearing parple should be pat to of 2435 death. a realm Then, as if to punish the world for that. outrage of exclusiveneag, God obliterated nd the ^ co'or from the earth, as* much as to say. of the a11 cannot hare it, none shall have it" auty of But though God has deprived the race of i8 the that shellfish which afforded the parple i mnnifl- there are she'-* enough left to make us gLad( lat you and worshipful Oh. the entranoement of! >be and ^ne and shape still left all np and down the [ not b9 beaches of all the continents I These creatures; Would of the sea have what roofs of eaameled dot- i . oelainl They dwell under what pavilions: Gainst blue aa the sky and fiery as a sunset and i ^ for mysterious as an auroral And am I no*: e with- right in leading you for a few moments nturies through this mighty realm of God SO neg*1 lee ted by human eye and human footstep? of the It is said that the harp and lute were in-, and I ranted from the fact that in Egypt the Nil*; nkle of overflowed Its banks, and when toe waters; The retreated tortoises were left by the mllltoa j j'viden- on ^ the lands, and these tortoises died., es with and soon nothing was left bat the cartilages i 18 same auu ot tnese cnmora, wukju wjfasened tinder the heat into musical strings r W8n that when touohed by the wind or foot erf iA al- 111411 vUrated, making street sounds, and ao iavery the world took: the hint and fashiooed the ttion of harP? aod am I not right in trying to mak? ;cy and music out of the shells and lifting them as * be that ha^p, from which to thrum the jubilant II meet praUea of the Lord and the pathetic strains of human condolence? >frQod But I find the climax of this cooohology of, ml that the Bible in the pearl, which hat this distioo*, ? and tioa abore all other gams?that it requires. i ooral no human hand to bring out its beauties., t think Job speaks of it, and its sheen is In Christfa; rivalve sermon, and the Bible, which opens with tha' onrcha of my text; closes with the pearl. , ?lrake Of suchralueisthis orustaceous product I. rscare* do not wander that for the exclusive right i great of fishing for it on the shores of Ceylon a chyou man paid to the English Government 1600,if little for one season. oraline So exquisive is the pearl I do not wonder It to be that Piiny thought it was made out of a. y, and drop of dew, the creature rising to tha sup- i index* iaoe to cue it ana me on em troy oc naturei mroses turning the liquid Into a solid. Ton will these ?ee why the Bible makes so rnneh of the] i stone, pearl in Its similitudes If 70a know howl much it costs to get it Boats with direr* j j look saliout from the island of Ceyioa, tea 0 what divers to each boat Thirteen "*?rj ircurj, guida and manage the boat Dome 1 or ride toto . the dangerous depths, amid i whole sharks that whirl around them, plunge tlwi ! which divers, while 60,000 people anxiously gue' .0 most on- After three or four minutes' abwpoa >rlds is from. tha air the diver ascends, nine tenths' son of strangulated and blood rushing from ears hat old and nostrils, and flinging his pearly treasure on the sand falls into nnwnPf*f<rfimnei ^ Ob, It Is an awful exposure and strain and peril to fish for pearls, and yet they do sot 1 tide, and is it not awonder that toget that which! ronde. the Bible calls the sear! of great price, worth A, mors than all other -pearls pile together, ? there should be so little anxietjr so little 3?" struggle, so liftle enthusiasm? Would God ? tm? that we were all as wise as the merohantmaa Christ commended, "who, when he had .ITj found one pearl of great price, went and ! sold all thathe had and bought lt.n ? ffL rJ But what thrills me with suggestivensss STrJ is the material out of which all pearls are , made. They are fashioned from foe wound of the shsllnsh. The exudation from that wound is fixed and hardened and enlarged ? -u into a pearl. The ruptured vessel* of the * water animal* fashioned the gem that now1 , adorns finger or earring, or sword hilt king^s crown. f- So out of the wounds of earth wilfc&Rna the pearls of heaven. Out of the i^Sud of "7??' bereavement the pearl of solaca. Cratof tha wound of loos the pearl of gain. Out ottha 1;lPaa deep wound of the grave the oearl of reeurrection joy. Out of the wound* of a * ^ the Saviour's life and a Saviour's death the rich, from the radiant, the everlasting pearl of hearan> 1 every lygladne^ ?c and "And the 13 gat ee were 13 pearls." Take the oonsolatlon, all ye who have been hurt, 10 p whether hurt in body, or hurt In mind, or . hurt In soul. Get your trouhlee sanctified. I If you suffer with Christ on earth, you will t? reign with Him in glory. Tha tears of earth aiwtBe crystals of heaven. "Erery several ?%? gate was of one pearl." n. .Not " " strong W0BD3 OP WI8D01. nherit- _____ sons? Great minds have ^ills; leeble ones of my have wishes. ^ th9 Art is the education and refinement of I Jod of &11 the five material senses. 1 seem Genius is common sense intensifl ed? od?ei?- common sense is the gift of heaven;is with enough of it is genius. 1'have How soon the millenium would come on the If the good things people intended to do1 - - ? 1- J... 1. <1.. i xaint- to-morrow were'ouiy uvu w ua;< deepest ^ the keynote of s man's conduct to oa the others had Its* spring in a flae self revernothcr ence there wou^d be no discourtesies. f irisses angup A Spanish proverb says: 4'Be hospipitabJe always, even to an enemy; the and He oa^ does not refuse its shade to the ftSI woodcutter." acaroi Ajs the sword of the best tempered * ^?rec? metal is most flexible, so the truly gen* re, He erous are most pliant and courteous in iU9tior their behavior to their inferiors. , out re- How much trouble he avoids who does 9 blood not look to see what his neighbor says, would or does, or thinks; but only to what juxem- k? does himself, that he may be just and ainting pure. smus- We should hold fa*t to principles at * of full >11 cost and work directly in the line of lotion, our best ideals; thus will our connatha sciences be clear, our characters pure, isTbut aQd ?ur lives will be fruitful in the best rails of result). e Bible What a great deal o( time and easa iei me ^at maa g*'ns 'et3 bis neighbor's 'umed. words, thoughts and behavior alone, conten Ha gnea inspections to himself and takes iXsheli ctre ^at bis own actions are honest and id as it righteous., indent Love can be increased by judicious scape i culture, as wild fruits may double their ted the bearing under the hand of a gardener, B and love can dwindle and die out by jodor. neglect as choice flower seeds planted in i way*, poor soil dwindle and grow single. aakiag Infinite toil would not enable you to lid not sweep away the mist that settles in a valirn by ley; but, by ascending a little, you hE^M ma^ 'ook over ltl moral eeable improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a s their vicious habit which would have no hold 16 they on us if we ascended into a higher moral i*y go atmosphere. sailing owwT Acadian Kai? Carpets. The pretty weavers in tnat fair land of Arcady that lies along the Teche bayou iatlons seem to have awakened to the trades lea and value of tlae products of their loom. Tbey now send to New Orleans for saie 'istlana stuffs hand woven anci aysa me most exand at quisite shades of blue, to be used as sdinto i0an?e covers, portieres and slumber What ruod- They also make & fine rag carpet, mcaln beautiful and durable, weaving it on. beone their crude looms, and which visitors Bible I kuy in quantity for rua;s and prize not sii ani- only as souvenirs of the A.cadian3, but richly for the fine, quaint fabric and peculiarly raiwit" delicate colorings employed.- New Orpurple Picayune. arol of . a. the brown He?"You don't mean to -tell ma iTerra- you are 5?oiQl? to marry that old, baidjherd's headed professor?" She?"He is eakinsr rather bald, but think how many isn aa- y0UQg metl 0f to-day are bald on the purple inside of their heads."?Truth. I were ' ' Purple A littlk learen leaveneth tho Bibiea rchole lump, but a great big 'leveo ;hena- roakefch the other fellow's caicc all speaks dough.?Chicago Tribune.