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t!KEOR.TALMAGE. fcfiLE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "From Twenty to Seventy." Y Ticrr: "The days of our years are three' tcore and ten,"?Psalm sc., 10. f- The seventieth milestona of life is here planted as at the end of the journey. A few go beyond it; multitudes neverreach it. The oldesc person of modern times expired at 1169 year?. A Greek of the name of Strava Iirfcle Jived to 132 years. An Englishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. Before the time of Moses people lived 150 year?, and if you eo far enough back they lived 500 years. "Weli. chat was necassarv, because the story otr tfie world must come down by tradition, and it needed Ion? life , safely to transmit the news of the past. If the generations had been short lived, the story would so often have changed lips that ? it might have got all astray. | But after Moses began to write it down r and pa: chment told it irom century to century it was not necessary that people live so I long in order to authenticate the events of the past. If in our time people lived only IJtw^ntT-five year?, tuac wouiu uoo aucti maItory.since it is put in print anri is no longer (dependent upon tradition. Whatever your ft, [age, I will to-duy directly address you, and W I shall speak to "those who are in the twenty {ties, the thirties, tue forties, tha fifties, the i 'siitiep, and to those who are in the seven' (ties and beyond. t First, then, I accost tho39 of you who tare in toe twenties. You are full of expectation. Ycu are ambitious?that is, if you Jamount to anything?for some kind of suc[cese, commercial or mechanical or professional or literary or agricultural or social or mora). It I find some one in the twenties without any sort of ambition, I feel like saying. "My friend, you have got on the wrong planet. This is not the world for you. You are going to be in the way. Have you made your choice of poorhouses? You will never be able to pay for your cradle. Who is going to settle for your board? There is a mistake about the facc that you were born At all." But supposing you have ambition, let ma say to alt the twenties.* Expsct everything through divine manipulation, and then you ??* ??" wnnr or snmethinar better. rwiil QL JVK*. Are you looking for wealth? Well, remember that God controls the money markets, the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillar?, the locusts, the sunshine, the storm, the , ? land, the sea, and you will get wealth. Per ' baps not that which is stored up in banks, in safe deposits, in United States securities, in r houses and lands, but your clothing and , v board and shelter, and that is about aU you can appropriate anyhow. Tou cost the Lord a great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter for a lifetime requires a big sum of money, and if you get nothing more than fehe absolute necessities you get an enormous amount of supply. i Expect as much as you will of any kind of success; i! you expect it from the Lord, you ar* safe. Depend on any other resource and you may be badly chagrined, but depend on v God and all will ba well. It is a good thing In the crisis of life to have a man of large means back you up. It is a great thing to ihave a moneyed institution stand behind you in your undertaking. But ic is a mighttor thing to have the God of heavea and dearth your coadjutor, and you may have Him. I am so glad that I meet you while jou are in thg twenties. You are laying out (your plan?, and all your life in this world and the nexc for 500,000,000 years of your -- ?1? ~ ^+t*ru2A nlanc It ieziscence WIU ua nu.cv.mu uj ?uv? ...... is about 8 o'clock in the morning of your 2ife, and you are ju3t starting out. Which [way are you going to start? Oh, tha twenties! 'Twenty1' is a great word in the Bible. Joseph was sold for 20 piece3 of silver. Samson judged Israel 20 years. Solomon gave | Hiram 20 cities. The flying roll that *2echariah saw was 20 cubits. When the aailors of the ship on which Paul sailed * I Bounded the Mediterranean Sea, it was 20 (fathoms. What mighty things have been done in the twenties! Romulu3 founded (Rome when he was 20. Keats .finished life at 25. Lafayette was a world renowned 'soldier at 23. Oberlin accomplished his (chief work by 27. Bonaparte was victor (over Italy at 26. Pitt was prime minister of England at 22. Calvin had completed his immortal "Institutes" by the time he *was 26. Grotiu3 was attorney general at 24. > Some of the mightiest things for (rod and eternity have been done in the twenties. As long as you can put the figure "2" before the [other figure that helps describe your age I (have high hopes about you. Ljok out for jtbat figure "3." Watch its continuance with as muca earnestness as you ever ? ??? ???><? thnk voar salva ]' WBVtUCU aujrvuius f # I tion or threatened you demolition. Whit a L critical time, the twenties I Wniie they con* F tinue you decide your occupation and the A principles by which you will ba guided. You E make your most abiding friendships. You arrange your home life. You 'fix your habits. Lord God Almighty, for Jesm Christ's sa^e, hare mercy on all the men land women in the twenties 1 p Next i accost those in the thirties. You are at an age when you find what a tough thing it is to get recognized and established in your occupation or profession. Ten years ago you thought all that was necsssary for access was to put on your shutter the sign of physician or dentist, or attorney or broker or agent,and you would hare plenty of busi* [nees. How many hours you sat and waitei for business and waited in vain three per* sons only know?Sod, your wife an! yourself. In commercial life you have not bad the promotion an 1 the increase in salary you anticipatea, or tn<? place you expected to occupy in the firm has not been vacated. The produce of the farm, with which you expected to support yourself and those depending on yon, and to pay the interest on the mortgage, has been far less than you ? anticipated, or the pricss were down, or special expenses for sickness made drafts on your resources that you could nob have ex, jpected. \ - i In some respects the hardest decade of jlife is the thirtie?, becau*e the results are roeratly so far behind the anticipations It very rare indeed that a young man does las did the young man last Sunday night, when he came to me and said: "I have been eo marveloiuly prospered since I came to this country that I fee), as a matter of | gratitude, that I ought to dedicate myself to God." Nine-tenths of the poetry of life \ has been knocked out of you since yoa came [ into the thirties. Men in the different pro feesions and occupations saw that you were Ti^ng and they must put an estoppel on you 01'you might somehow stand in the way. ' iThey think yon must be suppressed. J* From 30 to 4J it is an eapecially hard time {for young doctors, young lawyers, young t [merchants, young farmers, young mechanics, young ministers. The struggle of the Wvj-J-Io,, io tnf hnnaa* unft hnlnflll and re /?UU viva IO 4V4 ? ? imunerative recognition. But few old peoIpla know how to treat youn? people without (patronizing thecn on the one hani or snubping tbera on the other. Oil, the thirties f Joseph stood before Pharaoh at 3). David [was 30 years old when ha began to reigo. Kmhe height of Solomon's temple was 30 cuts. Christ entered upon His active ministry t30 years ot age. Judas sold htmseir for aoj of silver. , |i Ob, the thirties! Waat a word suggestive jof triumph or disaster! Your decade is the one that will probably afford the greatest L (opportunity for victory, because tnere is A . jtba greatest necessity for struggle. KeM rthe world's history and know wnat are the [thirties for good or bad. Alexander the lOreat closed his career at 82. Frederick the Great made Europe tremble with his armies Hr Ut 35. Cortes conquered Mexico at 30. Grant fought Shiloh ahd Donelson when 3S. iRaphael died at 37. Luther was the hero jOf tne reformation at 35. Sir Philip Sydney got through by o'i. The greatest deeds for God and against Him ware dons within the thirties, and your . greatest battles are now and befcweeu the ? time waen you cease expressing your age by i*mttin<? firSt a fieure "i" and the time when (jou will cfwseexpressia-j it by putting first a figure "3." As it is the greatest time oi the struzgle. I adjura you, in God's nam? 1 jand by GodVs grac? make ic the greatest .achievement. My prayer is for all those ia the iremendous crises of the thirties. The 'fact is that by the way you decide tha present decade of your history you decile all the * , ^following decades. "When I was in Russia I was di3aopointei in not seeing the battlefield of Boro Jino. I iWhy was there fought such a battle at that l small village? It was TO miles from Moscow. J 'WhT that desperate struggle, in which 125,I 000 Franchuien grappled with 180,000 RusB sians, and 30,000 dead Frenchmen and 53,000 S& dead Russians were left on the field? It ,was because the fate of Moscow, the sacred Ci$y of Russia, was decided there?decided 7U mues away. Ana let me tell you, people of the thirties, you are now attheBoroiino, whence will resound its successes or its moral disasters clear on into the seventies if you live to the threescore and ten of the text. Next I accost the forties. Yours is the decade of discovery. I do not mean the dis covery of the outside, but the discovery of yourself. No man knows himself until he is 40. He overestimates or underestimates himself. By that time he has learned what ne can do or wnat be cannot do. He thought he had commercial geciius enongh to become a millionaire,but now he is satisfied to make a comfortable living. He thought he had rhetorical power that would bring him into the United States senate, now he is content if he can successfully argue a common case before a petit jury. He thought he had medical skill thai would make him a Motfc or a Grosse or a Willard Parker or a Sims; now he finis his sphere is that of a family physician, pre scribing for the ordinary ailments that af> flict our race. He was sailing on in a fog and could not take a reckoning, but now it clears up enough to allow him to find out hi< real latitude and longitude. He has beau climbing, but now he has got to the top ol the hill, and he takes a long breath. He i< half way through the journey at lea3t, and he is in a position to look backward or forward. He has more good sense than he evei had. He knows human nature, for he has been cheated often enough to tee the bad side of it, and he has met so many graciou< and kindly and splendid souls he also knows the good side of it. Now calm yoursalf. Thank God for the past and deliberately set your compass for another voyage. You have chased enijujli thistledown. You have blown enough soap bubbles. You have seen the unsatisfying I nature of atl earthly things. Open a new chapter with God and the world. This decade of the forties ought to eclipse all its ) predecessors in worship, in usefulness and in happiness. "Forty" is a great word in the Bible. God's ancient people were 40 years in the wilderness. ?11 judged Israel 4Q years. David and Solomon and Jehoash reigned 40 years. "Wnen Joseph visited hi3 bretheD, he was 49 years old. Oh, this mountain top of the forties! You have now the character you will probably have for all time and all eternity. God, by His grace, sometimes changes a man after the forties, but after that a man never changes himself. Tell me, oh men and women who are in the forties, your habits of thought and life, and I will cell you what you will forever be. I may make *a mistake once in a thousand times, but not more than in that proportion. My sermon next accosts the fifties. How queer it looks when in writing your age you make the first of the two figures a "5." This is the decade which shows what the other decades have been. If a young man has sown wild oats and he has lived to this Hmo ha nam t.hn harvest of it in the fifties. or if by necessity he was compelled to overtoil in honest directions ha is callel to settle up with exacting nature som 3 time during the fifties. Many have it so hard in early life that they are octogenarians at 50. Sciaticas and rheumatisms and neuralgia? and vertigo? and insomnias have their playground in tin fifties. A man's hair begins to whiten, and, although he may have worn spectacles before, now he asks the optician for No. 14 or No. 13 or No. 10. When hB gets a cough and is almost cured, he hacks and clears his throat a good while afterward. Oh, ye who are in the fifties, think of itl A half century of blessing to be thankful for, and a half century subtracted from an existence which in the most marked cases of longevity hardly ever reaches a whole century.'' By this time you ought to be eminent for piety. You have been in so many,battlei you ought to be brave soldier. You hav< made so many voyages you ought to be t good sailor. So long protected and blessed you ought to have a soul full of doxology. In Bible times in Canaan every 50 years was by God's command a year of jubilee. The people did not work that year. If property nad by misfortune gone out 01 one's possession on the fiftieth year it came back to him. If he had fooled it away, it was returned without a farthing to pay. If a man had been enslaved, he was in that year emancipated, A trumpet was soun led loud and clear and long, and it was the trumpet of jubilee. They shook hands, tbey laughed, they congratulated. Waat a time it was, chat fiftieth year! And if under the old dispensation it was such a glad time, under our new and more glorious dispensation let all who have come to the fifties hear the trumpet of jubilee that I now b.ow. That was the allusion made by Mr. Toplady, the great hymnologist, when oe wrote; Blow ye the trumpet, blow _ The gladiy solemn sound; . j_rec an me nsnouo naun, # To earti'4 remotest bound, Theyearof jubilee is coma. Return ye raaso:ned sinnerd horns. Ye who bare sold for naoiht Yonr heritage above Shall have it oac!c unbousht? The gift of Jehus'* love. The year of jubilee hu come. Ketorn ye ransomed sinners uoni9. My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning of that decaie is mora startling than any other. In his chrono >ogical journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures "2" and ''3'' and "1" and "4" but the figure u6" gives him a big jolt. He says: "It cannot be that I am 6'J. Lsi me examine the old family record. I gu9ss they made a mistake. Thev got my name down wrong in the roll of births." But, no; the older brothers or sisters remember the time of his advent, and there is some ralativa a year older," and another relative a year younger, and, sure enough, the fact is established beyond all disputation. Sixty! Now your great danger is the temptation to fold up your faculties and quit. You will reel a tendency to reminisce. it you do not look out .you will bezin almost everything with the words, "When I was a boy." But you ou?;ht to make the sixties more memorable for God and the truth than the fifties, or the forties, or th-3 thirties. You ought to do more during the next ten years than, you did in aqy,?) year; of your life because of all the experience you have had. You have committer enough mistakes in life to make you" wise above rmip -mniors. Now. under the accumulate i light of your past experimenting, go to work for God as never before. When a man in the sixties folds up his energy and feels he ha3 done enough, it is the devil of indolence to which he is sur rendering, and God generally takes the man at his word and lets him di9 right away. His brain, that under the tension of hard work was active, now suddenly shrivels. Men, whether they retire from secular or religious work, generally retire to the grave. No well man nas aright to retire. Tht world was made for worK. There remained a rest for the people of God, but it is in t sphere beyond the reacu of telescopes. Thi military charge that decided one of th' greatest battles of the ages?the battle ol Waterloo?was not made until 8 o'clock ii the evening, but some of you propose to gt into camp ac 2 o'clock in tae afternoon. My subject next accosts those in thi seventies and beyond. My word to them i congratulation. You have got nearly if no quite through. You have safely crosses toe sea of life and are about to enter th: harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg and' the war is over. Here and there i skirmish with the remaining sin of yourowi heart an \ the sin of the world, but I gaes you are about done. | There may be some work for you yet o small or larze scale. Bismarcx, of (iermanj vigorous in the eighties. The prime minis ter of England strong at 84. Haydn conn posing his oratorio, "The Creation," at 7 Eears of age. Isocrates doing some of hi est work at 74. Piato busy thinktne fo all succeeding centuries at 84. William Blak at 67 learning Italian, so as to read Dante ii the original. Lord Cockburn at 87 writin his best treatise. John "Wesles- stirrin great audiences at 85. William C. Bryant without spectacles, raiding in my hous "Thanatopsis" at S3 years of a?e. Christian men aud women in all de p&rtments serving God a'ter becoraini | septuagenarians and octogenarians an nonagenarians prove that thera are possi bilities of work for the aged, but I thin you who are passed the seventies are nea oeine through. How do you feel about it You ought to be jubilant, because life is i tremendous stru^le, aui it you have gol curough respec:ably aad usefully you oue;b 0 feel like people toward the close of a sum mer day seate i on the rocks watching th sunset at Bar Harbor or Capa May or Looi out Mountain. I am glad to say that most old Christian are cheerful. Daniel Webster visited Joh: Adams a short time before his death an found bim in very infirm health. He sail to Mr. Adams: "I am glad to see you. hope you are getting along pretty well? The renly was: "Ah, sir. quite the contrary 1 Snd I am a poor tenant occupying a houa ' much shattered by time. Its ways and tram bles with every wind, aad what is wors? 1 sir, tbe landlord, as near aa I can make out, does not intend Co make any repairs." Dr. Bemao, after passing into the seven* 1 ties, was asked by my friend. Rev. Dr. Spear. "Dr. Beman, how is your health now?" and he replied. "I have on me an in" curable disease." "What is that?" asked my friend, and the septuagenarian replied, 1 ''Old age." Both of the old men I have > mentioned intended their remarks for ' facetiousnes3, and old people have a right to ' be facetious. An a^ei woman sent for her > physician and told him of her ailments^ and > the doctor said: "Wnat would you have me L do, madam? 1 cannot make you youag 1 again-" She replied: "Iknow that, doctor. ; What I want you to do is to help me grow ? old a little longer." The young have their troubles before : them. The old have their troubles behind them. You have got about all out of this > eartn mat mere is in it. Be glad tnat yon, * an aged servant of God, are going to try another life and amid better surroundings. ' Stop looking back and look ahead. Oh, ye in the seventies, and the eighties, and the } nineties, your best days ar3 yet to come; J your grandest associations are yet to be formed; your best eyesight is yet to be ^ kindled: your beat hearing i3 yet to be awakened; your greatest speed is yet to bB ^ traveled i your gladdest song is yet to be sung. ' The most of your friends have gone over the border, and you are going to join them 1 very soon. They are waiting for you. They ' are watching the golden saore to see you land. They are watching the shining gate to see you come through. They are scanding by the throne to see you mount. What a glad hour when you drop the staff and take the scepter; when you' quit the stiffened joints and become an immortal athlete! But hear! hear! a remark pertinent to all people whetner in the twenties, the thirties, the 1 forties, the fifties, the sixties, the seventies, or beyond. What we all need is to take the supernatural into our lives. Do not let us depend on orain and muscle and nerve. We want a mighty supply of the supernatural. We want with us a divine force mightier than the waters and the tempests, and when the Lord took two steps on bestormed Galilee, putting one foot on the winds and the other on the waves, He proved Himself mightier than hurricane and billow. We want with us a divine force greater than the flre3, and when the Lord cooled Nebuchadnezzar's furnace until Shadrack, Meshach and Abednego did not even have to fan themselves He prove! Himself mightier than the fire. We want a divine force stronger than wild beast, and when the Lord made Daniel a lion tamer He proved Himself stronger than the wrath of tnejungles. There are so many diseases in Che world we want with us a di I viae physician capable of combating ailments, and our Lord when on earth snowed what He could do with catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take this supernatural into all your lives I How to get it? Just as you get anything you want?by application. If you want anything, you apply for it. By prayer apply for the supernatural. Take it into your daily business. Many a man has been able to pay only 50 cants on the dollar, who if he had called in the supernatural could have paid 100 cents on the dollar. Why do 98 men out of 180 fail in business? Because there are not more than two men out of a hundred who take God into their worldy affairs. "Behind the great, unknown 3tandeth God within the siiaaows keeping watch upon 4i3 own." A man got up in a New York prayer maet. ing and said: "God is my partner, i did business without Him for twenty years and failed every two or three years. I have been doing business with Him for twenty years and have not failed once." Oh, take the supernatural into all your affairs I I had such an evidence of the goodness of God in temporal things when 1 entered active life I must testify. Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey, I entered upon my work. But there stood the empty parsonage, and not a cent had I with which to furnish it. After preaching three or four weeks the officers of my ohurch asked me if 1 djd not want to take two or three weeks' vacation. I said "Yes," for I had preached about all I knew, but 1 feared they mu3t be getting tired of me. When 1 returned to the village after the brief vacation, they handed me the key of ! the parsonage and asked me if I did not want to go and look at it. Not suspecting anything had happened, I put the key into the parsonage door and opened it, and ttera was the ball completely furnished with carpet and pictures and hatrack, and I turned iuto the parlore, and they were furnished, the softest sofas I ever sat on. and into the study and found it furnished with book-cases, ana 1 went to the bedrooms, and they were furnished, and into the pantry, and that was furnished with every culinary article, and the spiceboxes were filled, anl a flourbarrel stx>l there ready to be opened, and I went down into the dining room, and the table was set and beautifully furnished, and into the kitchen, and the stove was full of futt1, and a match lay on the top of the stove, and all I had to do in starting housekeeping was to strike the match. God inspired the whole thing, and if 1 ever doubt His goodness, all up and down the world, call me an ingrate. I testify that I have been 1 in many tight places, and God always got " me out, and He will get you out of the tight places. dut the most of this audiencs will never reach the eighties, or the seventies or the 1 sixties, or the fifties, or the forties. He wao 1 passes into the lorties has gone far beyond the average of. human life. Amid the uncertainties take God through Jesu3 Christ as your present and eternal safety. The longest lite is only a 3mall tragmenc of the great eternity. We will all o? us soon be there. Bterultyl how near it rolls: Count U?a vuc va.ue of your souls. Beware and oount the awful coat Wbat they have gained whose uoiiIb are loit. | CUKIOUS FACTS. i. It'is not a rare sight to see horses la i Paris using false teeth. 1 At :Norwicb, England, a thirty-five ton weight stone has been quarried. It is the largest on record. , A churob in Missouri has a bell weigh ing 870 pounds which can be heard 1 quite plainly ten miles distant. i Mrs. McNair, a Scotchwoman of Godmacchester, near Montreal, Canada, hat just completed her 110'th year. > The natives of the Solomon Irtand9 L believe that cyclones are caused by some J monstrous invisible birds flapping their \ wings. ? A bill has been introduced into the 1 Pennsylvania Legislature making it a misdemeanoi to kill any bird except a while on the wing, A preaoher in Denton County, Texas, i who is ninety-five years old, has twentyi nine grandchildren and twenty-eight great-grandchildren. i ? B The ?aves Swallow. The cliff swallow, or eave3 swallow is " irregularly distributed over the Uuitei I States, breeding abundantly in many loi calities where suitable nesting site* are ^ found, and being rare in other districts, r They fly over upland meadows anJ pasa tures, often skimming along the sutface a of the ground to catch the numerous | leaf-hoppers and other insects that are there. A single specimen that was ** shot by Professor King while the bird was skimming over a wheat field cong taiaed twelve leaf-hoppers, seven two d winged flies (including one large cra^s ? fly), six small beetles and two rnediutr r sized ichneumon flie3. This bird ha< ;? been reported to catch numbers c! * small grasshoppers; and six specimens 6 taken in Nebraska after Western locusts j. had begun to fly had eaten 229 of these e ihese insects?an average of thirtyeight to each bird. Five specimens a studied by Professor Forbes had eater u ants, wasps, inchneumon flies, ground d beetles, fungus beetles, curcullo3, leafj beetles, two-winged flie3 and certain i bugs. The benefits derived from thi: bird appear to be much greater than auj 9 injury it may do in eating prcdaceou; j* or parasitic insects.?New York Voice TEMPERANCE. THE Wire's APP2CA.U Smile not so brightly from the cup He look* upon, Dear Circ;! thou hast many loves, And I?but one. Lc I'll deck my lip with sunny smile As bright as thine. My cieek shall glow as rosy red Aa ruhv winp. 1 False syren 11 thine arts defy, Lq tie is miua own, ani The love light in hi3 eyes shall shins an( On me abna, (R, Id 1 Ah I could I wake sweet Lyra's not?3 ^ Thy soul to move, Far from thy 'wlldering arts I'd bear j My ransomed love. But?3'mile no more fram out the cup H? looks upon, . . Dear Circe! thou hast many loves, 1QJ And 1?but one. . ?The Voice. j ^ ANOTHER REFORMA.TORT .VBEDEb. Among the questions which confront our bei lawmakers at Albany is the providing for hoi another State Reformatory. The State jn \ Board of Charities recommends that Elmira ciu Reformatory, which is overcrowded, be re- an( lieved by the erection of a n9w reformatory jes building in the eastern part of the State. aiw The Board presents strong reasons in sup- 9; , port of its recommendation, and it remains dai to be seen whether the Legislature will act j in accordance therewith. The tax-payers of i_g the Empire State may, however, well in- the quire why there is need of this additional tha reformatory, and what influences are at Ha work to create an increasingly large number rh< of wayward boys and young men with crim- anc inul tendencies, in the last analysis there wil is no doubt that the liquor license system of (j0 the State would be found largely responsible ten for these untoward tendencies.?New York mu Temperance Advocate. ? Goi WHAT DHINK BBOUGHT HIM TO. ?j^ The sudden death of a man in a lodging- j house in New York one night recently, #7. brought to light something of the history oc a remarkable man. The deceased was from a notable and wealthy family in Massachusetts; one which is recognized as a leading family in this State. He was a cousin of the United States Senator and statesman, wo Charles Sumner and was a graduate of Har- t^a vard College and valedictorian of. his class. 3UI For a number of years he was Superintea- n.. dent of the Public Schools of Fall River, hold- ^ ing that position when the war broke out. Ho 'j enlisted in a Massachusetts regiment and did valuable service on the field. He spoke ^ seven languages fluently, and was equally ge well educated otherwise. His death was r brought about by an over indulgence in >_ drink. For years he had been an intern- b ' perate man. This love of liquor was thd cause of his wife securing a divorce from him; the cause of his son being appointed conservator over him; and the cause of his the being ostracized by his friends and relatives. jQ . He was worth nearly $50,000 in his own g(X name, but for years he had been compelled ^ to work for any extra money ho desired. TKMPEKA.PTCE INSTRUCTION Iff ENGLAND. Cb During the series of enthusiastic and sue , cessful meetinzs which Lady Henry Somer- " set and Miss Willard have bean holding in -It the north of England, a special gathwiug of ? school teachers took place at Middlesborough. This town is in the centre of the sv[ vast Iron districts (the English Pittsburg), where the effects of tha terrible strike of Ple last summer among the Durham coal miners 8rj is still visible. The population is almost en- . t^rely composed of the wage-earning classes, h and the influenca of the board or elementary school teaciier is naturally a potent force for J11? either good or ill. It was, therefore, with 'tt peculiar satisfaction that Miss Willard and d0 Lady Somerset made this their first point of ' departure in their campaign in favor of the introduction of scientific temperance in struction iu public schools. At least a hundred teachers wei e present?eight -tenths ?r of whom were women?and, although tha ~ time was limited, a discussion of consider- *? able animation followed and a resolution in favor of temperanci instruction was carried. < The ball has sines been kept rolling 1V* by the letters full of suggestions whici sev- m! eral of the teachers have written, : and W? whicb, it is hoped, will tend to elucidate tha \ subject and adapt it to the EuglUa educa- 3?' tional code. ~ DIREFCL EFVKCTS Or VRUSKVNSKSS. Drunkenness robs man oi rea?on, darkens be his understanding, drowns his memory, be- th wilders his imiginatfon, hardens his will in a8 vice; excites his passions and lust?, and de- w< stroys the vital operations of his soul and th body. Drunkenness corrodes the entrails of the j.; human frame, ruins health, brings on many xi serious evils and diseases, causes grevious jr disorders in the body, changes man into the ^ likeness of u brute, brings on a variety of th afflictions, and shortens his vary exist- 0B ence. "W Drunkenness is the fomenter and foster z] parent of all vices and sin; it destroys the at peace of families, consumes their pecuniary ??j means, prevents them from lawful earnings', 0t wastes their necessary subsistence, and causes discords and quarrels among neigh- xj bors. ' m Drunkenness renders its viotims quite dull o and insensible in regard to their eternal G1 salvation, withholds them from hearing the w word of God in sermons anl instructions, je and shuts the gate of the soul acainst all ^ f kaf i a Kith Anana if. f/i all fhftf. id uuav AO ^WU( UUV vputu ?v w MU vumw la m evil. n Drunkenness sinks man to the level of the b beast; renders him even more degraded ^ than the brute, makes him a voluntary be demon, and subject! him to a wretched ou state, worse than madness. as Drunkenness renders man fit for all crime, and unfitted for the practica of virtue, it , .? brings him into bad company and places of ^ cursing, gambling, profaneness and idleness, ^ and excitai him to dissalution and de- ^ ;J. ... m< isruuneuueas causes luiuuess, uesuiujra iu- wj dastry, injures employers, disappoint! ^ customers, violates engagements, spoils j-a work, prevents all improvements, depreciate3 labor, ruins trade, agriculture ' and jn commerce, and is the twin companion of su robbery. Drunkenness wazes war against the living ge God. enkindles His fury and vengeance, * xj draws down His heaviest maledictions, robs e|? men of that blessed peace of Go 1, which De onrnooMtVi nil iinHarcf-nndimr iPhilin iv. 7l. mates them His enemies, tratnoles oa thd m, precious blood of His Divine Sjn, deprives te] him of His love and grace here, and Wl alienates their title to glory hereafter.?Sa- n0 cred Heart Review, m TEMPERANCE KEWJ AND NOTES. Vl God and the saloon keener never a;ree 1 about aoythinr. g 1 There are men who starve their children ^ I to help tho brewer fatten his horse?. ^ Sorrow has a lijhter specific gravity than fei most fluids. You cau never drown it in drink. Fifteen thousand drunkards were last qj i year arrested in Dublin; of this number SOOOwera women. Ot The Governor of the State of Vera Cruz te has issued an order providing for the dis? missal from the public service of all drunkard-. W Mrs. Averv, of Limonia, Fla., has offered 80 100 acres of laud an 1 a cottage to be used as a home for ornhaus under tin direction of < the W. C. T. U. D The favorite tipple in Hawaii is sii 1 to be tH called the "poi cocktail." This name teils but ?? , half the truth. Aid s-o-n to poi and \vj have the tvhole truth. W Dr. Guibert, writing to a Hivre journa1, Cf 1 states as cue result o: his experieuce that p( t habituil inebriates hava vary little cliance | of recovirinj from an attack of cholera. P( Tham?n?wr;n" L-mJon Tamneranc-i Q( Hospital recently ha 1 to .lectin?, as pare o' m a legacy left to the Uispital, 210 bottles of very oi l wine and orauJy, liavia^ no use ai tter.'for. " Ot Polica statistics show that the arrests for n, drunkenness in London arj at the annual , rate of one to ever? IJj inhabitants, -in Birmingliam one to 153, iu Miuchestar one t> bl seventy-oue, and iu Liverpool one to fifty, A good deal of complaint has been heard about lack of space for exhibitors at the Worm's .Fair, "but the ei<jhty-five liquor bars will be accommodated it tbo whole ex- "J hibition has to b* crowded into tae lake fc? do so, says the Voice. " A lady writing to the London newspapers | w i from a fashionable west end address urgel JJ society 'dames to abstain from drinking champagne during the L;nc and to giveth9 ' money thus saved to tae poor. The appeal ic i is a curious one, and the assumption upon which it is confi Jently based is scarciiy flattering to the rich womea o? EaglanJ. H SABBATH SCHOOL. riERNATIONAL LESSON FOB MARCH 20. j " ] >sson Text: Quarterly Review?Isa. 4 xl? iv., 0-20?Commentary Wesson I.?Home from Babylon (Ez. L, 1). Golden text (Deut. xxx., 3), "The i rd thy God will turn thy captivity, and ' d have compassion upon thee." The gifts i calling of God are without repentance , am. xi., 29); whatsoever He purposes shall due time be accomplished, and everything ill come to paiis exactly as He says (Isa. J, r., 24: Ps. xxxiii., 11). He doeth accord: to His will in heaven and on earth, and ds willing servants, both among men and jels (Dan. iv., 85). The rebuilding of the nple is suggestive of the temple now ng built, the church of God (Eph. ii., ' 22). ^sssorr II.?The Temple Begun (Ez. iii., 3). Golden text (Ez. iii., 11), 'They I tised the Lord, because the foundation i the house of the Lord was laid." Remera- < the key to the book of Ezra is "The I lse of the Lord." a obrase used flftv times the book. The thoughts of this lesson : ster around the work, and the workmen, < 1 the offerings, and the willing hearts, us delighting to do the Father's will and rays about His Father's business (Ps. xl? John viii., 29) is our pattern in all our ly life. jESSON III.?Encouragements (Hag. ii., j. Golden text (Ps. cxxvii., 1), "Except i Lord build the house they labor in vain it build it." i Read the four books of ggai, Zechariah, Ezra and Nebemiab. ose who are used of God must be strong 1 of good courage?strong to do?and thus 1 come only by a knowledge of God sh i., 7, 9; Dan. xi., 32). Israel, like the spies, saw the discouragements, but we at be like Caleb and Joshua, and see only i and make His business the flrst concern Dur lives. When we put our affairs first, will come to naught.' iESSorr IV.?Joshua, the High Priest ch. iii., 1-10). Golden text (Heb. iv., 14). To have a great High Priest that is Bed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of d." One of satan's ways of discouraging >ple is to point them to their sinfulness 1 tell them that God cannot use such un ri/uy uqtM aa tuo/ are. hwiui wju true it we are sinful and unworthy, but Jesus, - High Priest, is oar righteousness . (It r. v., 21) and our comeliness (Ezek. xvi., * ) and having accepted Him He stands for against all accuser?.-and will use ju9t h as we are as vessels through which He 1 accomplish His pleasure (Phil, ii., 13; b. xili., 20. 21). iiSsow V.?The Spirit nf the Lard (Zech. , 1-10). Oolden text (Zech. iv., 0,) "^oc might, nor by oower, but by My Spirit, Irit, saith the Lord of Hosts." fro work God can be done by human wisdom, ses had no say whatever in the design of i tabernacle, nor had David or Solomon the temple; the former was to be made nrding to the pattern shown him in the unt, and the latter was given to David the Spirit of the Lord (Ex. nr., 40; I ron. xxviii., 19). jjtssox VI.?Dedicating the Temple (En. , 14-22). Golden text (Pe. cxxii., 1), "f s glad when they said unto me, Let us go 0 the hoaie of the Lord." Haggai and :haria'n, the Lord's messengers, being 1 engthened themselves by the words and ions of the Lord, so encouraged the peo1 that the building was finished, and with sat joy dedicated unto the Lord. _iE8SOii ViL?Nebemiah'3 Prayer (Neh. 1-11). Golden text (Ps. xxx., 10), "Lord, Thou my helper." Nebemiah, in the ffialaAA of RnhrlAn hoftra rtf thft HACO 'S ? ? ion of the Holy City, the wail broken svn and the people io great affliction and >roach, and be is so affected that he weeps d mourns and fasts and prays for several ye. Identifying himself with bis people, confesses their sios and reminds Jehovah His promises. The result was that the rd inclined the king to let Nehemiah go Jerusalem with authority ta rebuild the ills of the city. Lessor VIlL?Rebuilding the Wall (Neh. ,9-21). Golden text (Neh. iv., 9), "We ide our prayer unto our God and sec a itch against tnem." Both men and wom of all occupations were ready and ined Nehemiah in the work of building e wall, for the people had a mind to work eh. iv., 6). But when anything is really ing done in the.4x>rd'<s name the adversary conies very active, and che opposition at is time was something tremendous, both to wiles and persistence. Lat us consider ill Nehemiah's strength and be strong in e Lord. Lesson IX.?Reading the Law (Neb. vii., 12). Golden text (Ps. cxix., I8j. "Open iou mine eyes, that I may benold wonou8 things out of Thy law." The temple id the walls may be built, but they may be rown down again. l'herb is just one thing i earth that can never pass away. "The 'ord of our God shall stand forever" (Isa. ., 8). We are to read it. and believe it, id thus understand it, and then do it, for 3e that doeth the will of God abidetb for'er" (I John ii? 17). Lesson X.?Keeping the Sabbath (Neb. ii., 15-22). Golden text (Ex xx.. 8>, "Keember iheSabbath aay to keep it holy." ne-seventh of our time and one-tenth of lr money should be cheerfully givaa holly up to God for His service as the very ast we can offer oa those two nnee. 11 no re redeemed, then we are all Hif, all time, loney, talents, everything; but it is best to lake Him sure of the seventh and tenth to egin with. Let us as individuals see that e conscientiously keep the Lord's day oo lin<?3 of Isa. lviii., 13 , H, and pray for r rulers that they may have grace to do Nehemiah did. Lesso.v XL?Esther Before the King st. iv., 10-17; v., 1-3). Golden text (Prov. :xi? 9), "Judge righteously, and plead the use of the poor and needy." Prom this ok we learn that God is on the field when rat invisible; that He is able to deliver len deliverance seems impossible; that ose who dig pits for the righteous will II into th9m themselves; that the good eds of the righteous are recorded and will due time be rewarded, and many other ch practical lessons. LIssson XII.? The Vanity of Graven Imas (Isa., xuv? 9-30). Golden text (Isa., v., 5), "I am the Lord, and there is none w; there is no God besides Me," When ople turn from the trutb, thev lay themIves open to every delusion. W hatever is are to us than God becomes an idol. ON a it is some work of our own hands. If i have learned to know the true God it is >t merely for our own benefit, but that we ay make Him known to others. The Saor's great command to preach the Gospel every creature is binding upon every one us, and if we are willing to be used by im, His "all power." and His "Lo, I am .'.w n nitra for His service. Our 1UU J WU, ? lily prayer and constant aim should be to low Him.?Lesson Helper. As a matter of economy the eveland, Cincinnati, Columbus and i. Louis railroad employed a barber to nd its switches at the Alton Jun.> on. His income from the railroad as assured, while that from his tourial establishment depended on the me and attention he devoted to it. uring a probable period of conflict itween his personal interests and lose of his employers, he neglected le latter, failing to set a switch at a itical moment. So the railroad's jculiar method of curtailing ex;nses cost indescribable agony to jarly 100 people, twenty-three huan lives, fatal injuries to fourteen, id serious injury to more than flrty hers. And the intelligent Corojr's jury returned a verdict in each ,tal case that death was caused by irning oil accidentally exploded and irown over the unfortunate victims. A Sax Jose gentleman sent to New 'ork for $30,001) worth of goods, con;rning the precise character of men ne is not now cuuiiuuuiuauvc. e sent $1,000. He did not get the )ods, but he received a box contain* ig a good quality of waste paper, >eful perhaps, but dear at $1,0U0. e also acquired some experience. RELIGIOUS READING. Am< take my hand. art 0f k tender child of summers three, anf M Seeking her little bed at night, Paused on the dark stair timidly, stonnj 'Oh, mother! Take my hand, said she, pppare "And then the dark will all be light." Ithe "arl We older children grope oar way erence From dark behind to dark before, and be &.nd only when our hands we lay, mente Dear Lord, in Thine, the night is day,... oacred And there is darkness nevermore.- v?S* , blue,? Reach downward to the sunless days clothe Wherein our guides are blind as we, i,ni_ \nd fnith is small and hope delays; ' ' ' 1 rake Thou the hands of prayer we raise, Aaron And let us feel the light of Thee! Moses. ?[By J. G. Whittier. g0i<i ai fine li some mixor characteristics of the chris- ancien tiax lifk. edge < There are major or principal characters- The tics of the Christian lire. One of them is wen u jelf-sacritice. There are also certain minor j ar subordinate characteristics of the Christlrrn lifp nr thorn otp wrijh fA nnv n wrtrrf Color t The Christian life is distinguished by what with a may be called responsiveness, flexibility, m upenness. It is free from hardness; It is . . tender. It is withoat narrowness; it is art 01 broad. It easily adjusts itself to varying regard conditions; its heart is not of stone, bat of of a p flesh, The peril of becoming hard and in- home flexible beneath the pressure of the forces of modern life is great. We are in danger of liquid becoming like Niobe, as seen In the statute ure, ai at Florence; stern, sullen, hopeless and help- s0 mU( less, before the deadly arrows of the Fates. , But the Christian life tends to keep one from P03^ this hardness. The heart that goes out in introd love to Christ is responsive to the answering {qo ha throbs of His love. The life that has its ? origin in Him tends to become itself yet , deeper and broader. work 1 The Christian life is also characterized by dyes a self-forgetfulness. It eats the hard bread of 0_ w self-sacrifice until this bread comes to taste . like the sweet tread of self-indulgence. It desiro drinks the bitter wine of self-denial till this shoulc wine comes to taste like the sparkliug wine fun of self-congratulation. It is free from the 11 law of its own members. The red flower of M . self-conhciousness becomes the snow-white Of flower of self-forgetfulness. The self-forget- colors fulness of the Christian life is rrompted by r? its perfect healthfulness. .Health is never .X ' self-conscious. Life that is most vital never witnoi tbinks of itself. The eye never turns it upon experi lfeelf. The strongest and the best Christian , tben1,1 character is self forgetful. a 11 A third charactistic of the Christian life, ~ W? which some would call minor, but which 'ore t some would call major, is its freedom from staine care. The best Christian goes through the fl_ world as the wise traveller goes through _ Europe, with light luggage. He is not cum- * or CI bered with many things. He takes no anx- of des ious thought about tomorrow. He appre- ieQ{ , ciates himself far more than he appreciates . . the thlncrs belonging to him. Indeed, the Junf1e loss of all things would not harm him, for used 1 he lias taken into himself the most precious wet b parts of each thing as it came to him. He r?;Pflr!| cannot lose himself. Be cannot lose his T ^ God. He has obeyed Christ's commands found and become a little child. He is at peace. chase< Blessed, thricc blessed, the Christian QOt fa whose life is responsive to all good, who is ... forgetful of self and who has no anxious thought.?[The Advance. the k< - .,'1 soda, how to be useful. ' make Usefulness is the result of character, and 3{ [e therefore character ought to have our earli- shade est care. Not what we can do for others, wront but rather what we are in ourselves, de- boomJ mauds our first attention, for to do good to *' others we must first be good ourselves. Use- dye D fulness is to character what fragrance is to ? Coi the flower. But the gardener does not make the fragrance his first or greatest aim. Nay, rather his grand design is to produce a per- -rm feet flower, for he knows that if he' suceeed " in that the fragrance will come of itself. In the bi the same way the Christian's first concern the 81 should be with his' own character. His diet, prime ambition ought to be, where he is to keep Christ's word and to confess His name; '"6" and when he has succeeded in that the door lingei to leg t mate and lasting usefulness will open lu th to him of itself, or rather Christ will open it' 'JBLet for him and no man will he able to shut it. " Hence I cannot but regard it as unfortu- duces n?ti> InrlerH unnatural, when voune con- I usual! verts, who have only just found their way necea to Christ are encouraged forthwith to begin . , to labor among others. They may be mstru- a J mental in doing something, but in that way ?wh they will never attain to anything like the fg t0 highest usefulness. Their first duty is fn the . .. sphere iu whUh Christ found thera, to keep KePl His word and to confess His name. Their at led first care ought to be for the manifestation soon of the Christian character in the lowly and Much limited place to which they originally be- ^ longed, and through their faithfulness in that the lord will open up for them a door souqc to something higher. To be holy is ou,r primary duty, ami through that we pass tb usefulness.?[Dr. Taylor. 1 xnei , when Then strength ix faith. - pogail The strong men of earth are not the jUftei doubters or the disbelievers. Men who are forever telling what they do not believe are overi of no more account than men who are for- most ever telling what they do not possess. Who then cares what a man does not believe? The dvsr* question is, what does he believe? What has . be that is of any value? What he has not is 14110 of no use to any one. Men who do great whicl works believe something. The inventors, when the discoverers, the men who cross oceans, f . explore lands, solve problems, and discover }. great principles, are men who can see what thing other people never have have seen; bbey can ia th< see that which is invisible. They can see a much building before a stone is laid or a tiin- _ her hewn. They ean see a complete ma- ? chine before a 'single part of it has been scale< formed. Men who see the invisible, who tl discern the signs of the times, who observe , . the hand of God in nature, who see the a Pia' working of his providence where others see egar, only blind chance, are charged with eternal spool power anti filed with thoughts of God; and an<j i passing through this world they fill its soli- v tary places with songs and cause its deserts P0,? to rejoice and blossom like the rose. Have rpvef I faith in God. "Without faith it is impossi- 'flesh" ble to please blm," but if we have faith like a ' grain of mustard see we can move mouatains.?[The Christian. Drait know n? HZED TOUR CONSCIENCE. two"! Not many years ago a student, desiring to i&v jD rise early in the morbiug, bought an alarm clock. For a few days it worked well. But one morning, after* biing aroused by its with alarm, be turned over and went1 to sleep nicel' again. On subsequent mornings after the clock failed to awake bim. He placed it un- 8,"ec der tbe head of his bed, in close proximity to and J his ear. Then it awoke him till the time layer he disobeyed its summons; ever afterward it u(l9 was a failure; lie slept through its call with " J perfect regularity. Yet, on tbe other hand, iQ.wt many a mother wake* on the faintest voice So of her child, and many a watcher on tbe aud i slightest movement of tbe patient. They have trained themselves to heed such a call. greaa Iu like manner the conscience may be dead- you < ened and trained. Let the Christian disre- pract gard its voice, and soon it will become una- an uc bie to arouse him at all. Let him carefully , heed its faintest remonstrance, and it will 1>W8'( become to him a most valuable mentor. Draii Take irood care of conscience; it is most gour delicate apparatus.? [Christian Obst ye . . j( centt NOTHING TO DO. (Ulctf 'Nothing to do" in this world of ours, parsli Where weeds grow up with the fairest m08t flowers, Tj Where smiles have only a titful play, Uc Where hearts are breaking every day? many "Nothing to do!" Thou Christian soul, 8 ' Wrapping thee round in thy selfish stole, 11JJ c Off with the garments of sloth and sin; in es Christ thy Lord hath a kingdom to win. unve i dciici Vlsitlnjf a Leper by Telephone. liandi The telephone has been j ut to a new some ,r% T.utmlrn Pn I X m.in r*F in- nnirii uaD " ? I t?o telligeuce, who is afflicted with leprosy, m th was isolated in a cabin away from the [{eS( hospital. A kind-hearted gentlemen of |U_ the town had a telephone put into the cabin and connected with the reading , room of the hospital, thus enabling the ? leper to talk w.th, it he might not visit lone or bo visited by, peyple of the outside ind 1 world. joarc >n it, When a man is too dull to see the md t point he gets little good out of the ;up s compass.?Troy Press. lickl HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. DYEING. >ng tie many aids to learning the dyeing is one of the most importit is the chief dependence of re5 and making over faded wearing il, writes Mrs. E. R. Parker. That : is very old may be proven by rofto the Scripture. To the splendor auty of color of the priestly vest* we have the testimony of the hi9toriaas in these words: "And ot. ind purple, aad scarlet they made i of service to do service in the lace, and made holy garments for as the Lord had commanded "And he made the ephod of ad blue and purple aad scarlet and nen." Thus, showing that the t Israelites had an intimate kuowi)f the existence ol rich colors, art of dyeing seems to have been nderstood by th& people of Asia, would seem that the sentiment of aok precedence of that of form 11 oriental Nations. He drainer seems to have been an great antiquity, it has always been* led as a difficult one, and the work rofessional dyer. If attempted at either with barks and roots, or dyes, it wa3 almost always a fail* ad the work was accompanied with ch labor that few women were diato undtrtake it. But the receoft uciog of successful home-dyeis rendered the art so easy that it r regarded as any other ordinary of the household. The prepared re put up in a great variety of col* hich are reliable &nd fast. When as of dyeing a garment the colptr I be selected from the card whldh ashed with all prepared dyes. It I to be remembered tnat A dark coU I not dye light, and that certain will only take a particular shade, ferred garments may be colored at ripping, but it is best for aa in- " encod haad sit tho business to rip " rendering the pressing much easier. >ods should ba perfectly clean b?hey are pat in the dye, and if d with spots of grease, ink, paint, they must be entirely removed, lis purpose washing in a solution laicated soap will De iouna excei* is it thoroughly cleans without in- * ; the fabric. Soft water should bo 'or dyeing.' The articles should be efore putting in the dye kettle. dons for doing the work will be with each package of dye purJ, and if carefully iollowed can il to givb satisfaction. er the articles are dyed, take from sttle and wash well through soap which will set the color and > ! the fabric soft and clean; then , pull out evenly and hang in the ! 'yi to dry; when half dry press on the j side. If the goods should be id or uneven in color re-dip in the ath until an even color is obtained, irier-Journal. FISH IK VARIOUS FORKS. tether fish furnishes phosphorus to rain or not, the fact remains that ha iring of the year we all enjoy a fish Fishmongers grow jocund and purses plethoric, and housewivep r around cool marble slabs where o speckled finny beauties. The in, the relish) is right. Meat pro- j caloric, and by spring we have . Ly a superabundance of this winter sity of which to rid our system*. hygienic measure, then, the fish diet erever fish can be procured ireto? be recommended. But whenever oa ice fish seems to lose its value? At its relishing flavor; also it very spoils, and then becomes deadly. l care ought to be exercised in buyHaving secured perfectly fresh, I fish,'varying from bass to blue, salmon to Bhad, vary the serving* ecipes here given are adaptable aver fish is used; every one is good. s are housewives who never by apy i?li ty vary the style of serving; from f to baked, and then to fried, and again they go. Fish is better alia any way than fried, because it ia bo often greasy, which makes it a jptic bugbear. If fish must be fried, it as soon as done from the fat, i should have been fiercely hot it was pot in, and lay it on a pieoe own paper. Nothing so ipoilB any* ^ fried as to let it stand a moment 3 pan after it is cooked. Fish ia , more delicious steamed. Steam a Fish?Having it properly i, dressed and well washed, secure ul of the fish in its mouth; lay it om ' I* .?.<! CG ana pour oyer it a uuptut vi v?into which you have stirred a t?aiful of salt; sprinkle with pepp? et it stand in tho ice box an hour; off the vinegar; put it ia a steamer boiling water, and steam until the easily leaves the bones?about ty minutos for a medium sized fish, i well, and serve with tho sauoo n as Maitre d'Hotci. ked Halibut, A La Creole--Take >ounds of halibut, cut as a steak; i a baking dish and sprinkle it with finely chopped garlic. Cover il a layer of tomatoes that have beea ? stewed, then a layer of dried and I bread crumbs, some bits of butter jepper and salt, last of all another of tomatoes* Bake twenty rainind serve very hot in the same dish ifch it was baked. le Fillets?Sole is a dclicate fish, tis simplj barbarous to serve il y and scorched. Cut into fillots if :an?it is easy enough after a little ice?wipe clean and let them lie for lur in a mixture of lemon juice^ oy, chopped onions, salt and pepper* - -?- u:*t . i them and dry oa a sou ctcnu. oi?? lightly over them and Iry in boil* -' ird. Lay a folded napkin in th? e of a hot dish ami serve the savory i upon it, with a bunch of fried cy in tha centre. Tomato is the suitable sauce. >w to Prepare Planked Shad?Hotr take the trouble to prepare shad as mid he? It is better plauked than ithcr way, hut as it requires both peci.il plank and an opeu' (ire fevr the chance *o know anything of its icy wheu thus serv?d. Secure a some, thick oak board, and have holes bored, with stout wooden to lit: auread the dressed fish odcu "" ?T ~k --- - - ? * e board, securiug it with the pegs, the end of tbe plank iu a shallow and act all before a clcar fire; put a salt aud water in tbe pan and basio sh often, adding wbea it i3 nearly a tablespoonful of melted butter mlf r.s much walnut catsup. If tba I is a hands >:ne one serve the s.iad , but it can be laid ou a bot dish, be gratf, witb a little wainut catidded, poured over. Serve with i-d walnuts.?No?v \\?rk Proas.