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r__ REV. DR. TALMAGE. / (THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY DISCOUIC^E. Subject: "Religion at Home." (lasued at Chicago, 111.) '? Text: "As for me and my house, we will Iterve the Lord."?Joshua xxiv., 15. I" Absurd. Joshua! You will have no time for family religion, you are a military character, and your time will be takoa up with affairs connected with the army; vou are a statesman, and y our time will be taken up with public affair?; you are the (Washington, the Wellington, the McMahon of the Israelitish host; you will have a great many questions to settle; you will have no time tor religion. But Joshua, with the same voice witn which he commanded the on and moon to halt and stack arms of Sight on the parade ground of the heavens, flays, "As for me and my house, we will 1 serve the Lord." , * Before we adopt the resolution of this old aoidier we want to be certain it is a wise resolution. If religion is going to put my piano out of tune, and clog the feet of the children racing through the hall, and sour ^ ? L?? J r\r% fKa /InAphall T MJU Ui oau, auu pun V,tapv vu VUW> do not want it in my house. I once gave f6 to hear Jenny Lind warble. I have never gyen a cent to hear any ona groan. Will is religion spoken of in my text do any , thing for the dining hall, for the nursery, for the parlor, for the sleeping apartment* B > It is a great deal easier to invite a dis| agreeable guest than to get rid of him. If | you do not want religion, you had better *u>6 f ask it to come, for after coming it may stay f a great while. I?aac Watts went to visit St- Thomas and Lady Abney at their place in Theobald and was to stay a week and staid thirty-five year*, and if religion once gets Into your household the probability is it will stay there forever. 4-Ua ^iiaoftAn T txtant. f.ft i.q. ' What will religion do for the household? Question the first: What did it do for your father's house if you were brought up in a Christian home?" That whole scene has vanished, but it comes back to-dav. The hour for morning prayers came. You were,invited in. fcJomewaat fldgetv, you sat and listened. Your father made no pretention to rhetorical reading, and be just went through the chapter in a plain, straightforward way. Then you all knelt. It was about the same prayer morning by morning and night by night, for be had the same sins to ask pardon for, and he had the same blessings, for which to be grateful day after day and year after 3?ear. ' The prayer was longer than you would 2 Kke to have had it, for the came at ball was f- waiting, or the skates were lying under the shed, or the school books needed one or two more looking at the lessons. Your parents, somewhat rheumatic and stiffened with age, found it difficult to rise from their kneeling. The chair at which they knelt is gone, the Bible out of which they read has perhaps fallen to pieces, the parents are gone, the children scattered north, east; south and west, but that whole scene flashes upon your . memory to-day. ?? yt as luaii murxiiu^ auu otduiu^ ?u jour father's house debasing or elevating? ( Is it not among the most sacred reminia cenoet*? Tou were not aa devotional as some 1 of (he older members of your father's house who were kneeling with you at the timet ud ' you did not bow your head as closely as they ] aid, and you looked around and you saw 1 Just the posture your father ana mother 1 assumed while they were kneeling on the floor. The whole scene is so photographed < an your memory that if you were an artist i you could draw it now just as they knelt. For how much would you have that scene | obliterated from your memory? It all comes 1 back to-day, and you are in the homestead i again. Father is there, mother is there, all i of you children are there. It is the same old i prayer, opening with the same petition, i closing with the same thanksgiving. The ] family prayers of 1340-50 as iresh in your < memory as though they were uttered yesterday. The tear that starts from your eye 1 melts all that scene, (rone, is it* Why, i many s time it has held you steady in <*he i a# Ufa Vah nn^a Qfjtrhpd for a t W~U?g*U Vfc Ui>V. *V? V-V- ? 4 place, and that memory jerked you back, and yon coald not enter. ( The broken prayer of your father has had j more effect on you than all you ever read in J Shakespeare and Milton and Tennyson and 1 Dante. You have goneorer mountains and . across seas. You never for a moment got out of sight ol that domestic altar Oh, my i frlands, is it your opinion this morning that tiie 10 or 15 minutes substracted from each day for family devotion was an economy or a waste of time in your father's household? 1 think some of us are coming to the conclusion tbat the religion which was in our father's house would be a very appropriate religion for our homes. If family prayers did not damage that household, , ther?is no probability that they will damage our household. "Is God deadf* said a child to her father. *'No," he replied. "'Why do you ask that?" "Well," she said, ''when mother was living, . we used to have prayers, but since her death we haven't had family prayers, and I didn't know but tbat Go a was dead too." A family that is launched in the morning with family prayers is well launched. Breakfast over, ' the family scatter, some to school, some to household duties, some to business. During the day there will be a thousand perils broad?perils of the street car, of the acxf ' folding, of the uagoverned horse, of the misstep, of the aroused temper, of multitudin j ous temptations to do wrong. Somewhere between 7o'clock in the morn* ing and 10 o'clock at night there may be a moment when you will be in urgent need of God. Besides that, family prayers will be a I secular advantage. A. fathsr went into the i n:- -L;I j . war to serve nis c-uumry. uis guuuieu stayed and cultivated the farm. His w.fe prayed. One of the sons said afterward, "Father is fighting, and we are digging, and t mother is praying." "Ah," said some one, k "praying and digging and lighting will bring us out of our national troubles. We may pray in tha morning, "Give us this day our daily bread," and sit down in idleness and starve to death; but prayer and hard work will give a iiveiihood to any family. Family religion pays for botn worlds. Let us nave an altar in each one of our household;. You may not be able to formulate a prayer. Then there are Philip Henry's prayer^ and there are McDuflfs prayers, and there are Philip Doddridge's prayers, and there are the Episcopal church prayers, and there are scores of booles with supplications just suited to the domestic circle. "Oh," says some man, "I don't feel competent to iead my housahold in prayer." Well, I do not know that it is your duty to le*d. I think perhaps it is sometimes better for the mother of the household to lead. She knows better the wa'Sis of the household. She can read the Scriptures with a motv ;tender enunciation. She knows more < God. I will put it plainly and say she pra\ .< better. Oh, these mothers decide almost every thine I Nero's mother was a murderass. Lord Byron's mother was haughty and imniniiii Vrm mitrhfc hftca triiocttuwi that from ? their children.. Walter Scott'* mother was foad of poetry. Washington's mother was patriotic. Sanfbel Budget'* mother was a thorough Christian. St. Bernard's mother was noble minded. 80 you might have guessed from their children. Urood men always have good motaers. There may once in ten or twenty years be , an excsption to the rule, but it is only an ' exception. Benjamin West's mother kissed him after she had seen his first wonderful ' sketch with the pencil. Benjamin West afterward said, "That kiss made ma a painter." A young man recai^ed a furlough to return from the army to his father's house. Afterward he took the furlough bac'ic to the officer, saying, "I would like to postpone my visit for two wee*?." At the end of the two weeks he came and got tae furlough. He was asked why he waited. "Well," he " ? replied, "Whan 1 left home I told my mother , I would be a Christian in the army, and I was resolved not to eo home until I could answer her first question." Oh, the almost (omnipotent oowerofthe mother! But if both the father and the mother be right, then the children are almost sura to be right. The voung people may raa'ie a wide curve from the straight path, but they ara almost rare to come baci to the right road. It mav not be until the death of one of th? * parent?. Ho** often it is that we he \r some one say. "Ob, he was a wild vounz man. but since his father's death he has been differ* ent!" The fact is that the father's coffin or or the mother's coffin is often the altar of repentance for the child. Oh, that was a stupendous day, the day of father's burial. It was not the officiating clergyman who , * maJe the chief impression, nor the svmoa\ tuiziug mouruers. it was cue latuer asleap in the casket The hands that had toiled for that hous?hold so long, foldel. Th9 brain coole.i off after twenty or forty years of anxiety about how to put that family in right position. The lips closed after so many year3 of good advice. There are more tears falling in mother's grave than in father's grave, out over the father's tomb I think there is a kind of awe. It is at that marble pillar many a young man has been revolutionized. Oh, young man with cheek flushed with rliosinatinn I hnw Inn IT in it srinca VOtl haVS been out to your father's grave? ^Vill you not eo this week? Perhaps the storms of the Last few days may hare bent the headstone until it leans far over. You had better go 3ut and see whether the lettering has been defaced. You had better go out and see whether the gate of the lot is closed. You bad better go and sae if you cannot find a sermon in tho springing grass. Ob, young man, go out this week ana see your father's jrave! Religion did so much for our Christian ancestry, are we not ready this morning to be trilling to receive it into our own households? [f we do recaive it, let it come through the Croat door, not through the back door. In other words, do not let us smuggle it in. There are a great many families who want to be religious, but they do not want anybody outside to know it. They would be mortified to death if you caught them at their family prayers. They would not sing in the worship for fear the neighbors would hear them. They do not have prayers when they have company. They do not know much about the nobility of the western trapper. A traveler going Hong was overtaken by night and a storm, and he entered a cabin. There were firearms hung up around the cabin. He was alarmed. He had a large amount of money with him, but he did not dare to venture on into the night in the storm. He did not like the looks Df the household. After awhile the father, the western trapper, came in, gun on ihoulder, and when the traveler looked at turn he was still more affrighted. After awhile the family were whispering together in one corner of the room, and the traveler thought to himself: ''Oh! now my lima has come; I wish I was out in ;he storm and in the night rather :han here." But the swarthy man cams up ;o him and said - "Sir, we are a rough peo>le; we get our living by hunting, and we are rery tired when the night comes; but before joing to bed we always have a habit of readng a little out of the Bible and having >rayers, aad I think we will have our usual : us torn Do-night, and if you don't believe in ;hat kind of thing if you will just step outlide the door for a little while I will be much >bliged to you." Oh I there are many Christian parents who have not half the courage of that western trapper. They do not want their 'eligion projecting too conspicuously. They would like to have it near by so as to call on it in case of a funeral, but as to having it iominant in the household from the 1st of January, 7 o'clock a. m., to the 31st of Decamber, 10 o'clock p. m.t they do not want it. They would rather die ani have their 'amilies perish with them than to cry out in :he Doia woras or tue soicuer in my text, "Aa for ma and my house, we will serve :he Lord." There was, in my ancestral line, an incllent so strangely impressive that it seems more like romance than reality, it has sometimes been so inaccurately put forth that [ now give you the true Incident. My grandfather and grandmother, living at Somerrilla, N. J., went to Ba3klnridge to witness i revival under the ministry of the Rev. Or. Finley. They came home so impressed with irhat they had se9n that they resolved oa the salvation of their children. The young people of the house were to go jff for an evening party, and my grandmother said* "Now, when you are all ready for the party, come to my room, for I have something very inroortant to tall you." All ready for departure, they came to her room, iud she said to them, "Now, I want you to remember, while you are away tais eveningg, that I am all the time in this room praying for your salvatioa. and 1 shall not :aase praying until you get back." The roung people went to the party, but amid che loudest hilarities of the night they could QOl forget that their mother was praying cor them. Tne evening passed, and the night passed. The next day my grandparents heard an autcry in an adjoining room, and they waat in and found their daughter imploring the salvation of the gospel. Tha daughter told them that her brothers wera at the barn and at the wagon house under powerful conviction of sin. They went to the barn. They found my Uncle Jehiah, who afterward became a minister of the gospel, crying to God for mercy. They went to tae wagon house. They iound their son David, vhn mtf*rvr*rA hoMnriA mv fftthnr imnlor tog God's pardon dad mercy. Before a great vrhile tbe whole family were saved, and David went and told the story to a young woman to whom he was affianced, who as a result of the story became a Christian, and from her own lips?my mother's?I have received the incident. The story of that converted household ran througn all the neighborhood from family to family until the whole region was whelmed with religious awakening, and at the next communion in the village church at Somerville over 200 souls stood up to proless the faith of the gospel My mother, carrying the memory of this scene from sarly womanhood into further life, 'in after years was resolved upon the salvation of her children, and for many years every week she met three other Christian mothers to pray for the salvatioa of their families. I think that all the members of tb sse families wore saved?myself, the youngest and last. There were 12 of us children. I trace the whole line of mercy back to that hour when my Christian grandmother sat in her room imploring the blessing of Ood upon her nhildreo. Nine of her descendants became preachers of the gospel. Many of her descendants are in neaven. many of tbem still in the Christian conflict. Did it oav for her to spend the whole evening ia prayer for her household? Ask her before the throue of Go J, surrounded by her children. Ia the presauce of the Christian church to-day ? make this record of ancestral piety. Oh, there is a baauty, and a teaderueu, aad a sublimity in family religion! Tbere are but four or live pictures in the old family Bible that I inherited, but Dora never illustrated a Bible as that book is it* 1 us Crated to my eyes. Through it I can see into marriages and burials, joys and sorrows, meetings and partings. Thanksgiving days and Christian festivals, cradles ana deathbeds. Old old book, speak out and tell of the sorr?w8 comforted and of the dying hours irradiated. Old, old book, the hands that held thee are ashes, the eyas that persued thee are closed. What a pillar thou wouldst make for a dying head. I salute all the memories of the past when I press it to ray h9art and when I press it to my lips. Oh, that family Bible! The New Testament in small type is not worthy of being called by that name. Have a wbole Bible in large type, wita the family record of marriages and births aad deatb*. Whit if tbe curious should turn over tas leavas to sec how old you are? You are younger no* than you will ever be again. Tbe curiou; will riud out from thosd with whom yoi have played in your childhood how old yoi are. Have a family Bible. It will go dowr from (feneration to generation, full'of holj memories. A hundred years after 70a an dead it will be a benediction to those whc come after you. Other book?, worn out 01 fallen apart, will be flung to the garret 01 the cellar, but this will be inviolate, and i< will be your protest for centuries against iniquity and in behalf of righteousness Oh, when we 9ee what family religion did for our father's household, do we not want it to come into the dining-room to break the bread, into the nursery to bless the young, into the parlor to purify the socialities, into the library to control the reading, into the bedroom to hallow the slumber, into the hall to watch our going out and our coming in; Ave, there are hundreds of voic??< in this house ready to err out; "Yes! Yes! As for mo and my house, we will serve the Lord." There are two arms to this subject. Th? one arm puts its hand on all parents. It says to them: "Don't interfere with youi children's welfare, don't interfere with theii eternal happiness, don't you by anythint you do rut out your foot and trip them int< ruin. Start them under the shelter, the in surance, the everlasting help of Cbristiai parentage. Catechisms wilt not have them, thouzh catechisms are good. The rod wil not save them, though the rod may be neces sary. Lessons of virtue will not save them, though they are very iraoortant. Becomine a through and through, up and down, ou1 and out Christian yourself will make them Christians." The other arm of this subject puts ib hand upon those who had a pious bringing up, but who as yet have disappointed the expectations excited in r^ari to them. I said that children brought up iu Christian household?, though they might ms'te a wide curve, were very apt to come back to the straight path. Hare you not been curving out long enough, and is it not most time for you to begin to curve in? "Oh," you say, "they were too rigid." Well now, my brother, I think you have a pretty good character considering what you say your parents were. Do not boa3t too much about the style in which your parents bronght you up. Might it not be possible that you would be au exception to the general rule laid down, and that you might spend your eternity in a different world from that in which your parents are spending theirs? I feel anxious about you; you feel anxious about yourself. Ob, cross over into the right path. If your parents prayed foryoa twice * dayeaca of them twice a day for 30 years, that would make 29,000 praye-'j for you. Think of them 1 By the memory of the cradle in which your childhood was rocked with the foot that long ago ceased to move, by the crib in which your own children slumber nipht by night under U-oct's protecting care, 07 taa two graves in which sleep those two old hearts that beat with love so long for your welfare, and by the two graves in which you, now the living father and mother, will dad yoar last repose, I urge yon to the discharge of your auty. Thoagh parents may la covenant be Ana hare their hatred la rlew, The/ are not happy till they see Their children happy too. Ob, you departed Christian anostry, fathers and mothers in glory, bend from the ikies to-day and give new emphasis to what you told us on earth with many tears and anxieties! Keep a place for us by your blissful side, for to-day, in the presence of aarth and heaven and hell, and by the help 3f cha cross and amid overwhelming and gracious memories, we resolve, each one for himself, "As for me and my house we will ierve the Lord.'' HOUSEHOLD MATTEEfl. BLEACHING. Into a large porcelain lined or agate saucepan put four quarts of water, and when it is hot, add one pound of chloride of lime, and stir with a wooden stick until all is dissolved that will; then strain through a cheese cloth bag, but do not squeeze the bag. Put one quart of this preparation into a large tubful of warm soft water; put a pint into another tub of the same kind of water. Put the muslins to be bleached into tub number one; do not crowd them together, but work them about id it lor nueeu uuuu^b, then wring out; put iu the other tub, and let them lie half an hour. At the expiration of this time, wring out, wash thoroughly in hot suds, rinse well in two waters, and dry. If the above directions are carefully followed, the muslins will be nicely bleached, and not injured in the least. The same preparation will also bleach clothes that have become yellow by lying by.?New York Observer. TO COOK VEGETABLES. Vegetables to be thoroughly cookcd should be kept on the stove as follows: Potatoes,, boiled, thirty minutes. Potatoes, baked, forty-five minutes. Sweet potatoes, boiled, sixty minutes. Sweet potatoes, baked, twenty to forty minutes. Grean peas, boiled, sixty minutes. Shelled beans, boiled, ono to two uv/u&o. Green corn, twenty-five to sixty minutes. Asparagus, fifteen to thirty minutes. Spinach, sixty minutes. Tomatoes, fresh,.sixty minutes. Tomatoes, canned, thirty minutes. Cabbage, three-quarters to two hours. Cauliflowers, one to three houts. Dandelions, two to three hours. Beet greens, one hour. Onions, one to two hour?. Beets, one to five hours. Yellow turnips, one and onc-iulf to two hours. Parsnips, one to two hours. White turnips, forty-five to sixty minutes. Carrots, one to two hours. PANCAKES FOR SPRING. Rice Pancakes?Boil half pound of the best rice to a jelly in a little water; when cold mix with it a pint of cream, eight well beaten eggs, a dash of nutmeg and a pinch of salt; stir into this six ounces of butter, just heated, and enough dry, warm flour to make it into a smooth batter. Grease the inside of a pan with butter, then fry the pancakes a golden brown. Send them to table " J ~ fkom AM on TOlieCl, ft lew atu time, mj wcui vu uu ornamental paper, dust over a little ca3ter sugar and serve with red currant jelly. Novel Rich Pancakes?Mir two tablespoonfuls of ground rice into a pint of cream. Set it high over a slow fire and stir well until it thickens. Pour into the liquid six ounces of butter melted, add half a nutmeg grated and pour the whole into an earthen pan. When it is cold stir in two tablcspooafuls of dry flour, a pinch ot salt, two ounce3 of caster sugar and six well beaton egzs. Mix all thoroughly together and fry the pancakes a good color. When milk is used instead of cream allow one mare tablespoonful of ground rice. Only small quantities should be poured into the pan at one time on account of its lightness. Ladylove Pancakes?Mix the yolks of two well beaten eggs with a dessertRnnnnfnl of around rice and a ffill of ~r 0 w cream. Add two ounces of caster sugar, a small piece of powdered cinnamon, a ' i blade of mace, pounded, and a dash of nutmeg. Rub a perfectly clean frying rf pan with a piece of butter tied in a , cloth. Fry the pancakes a light golden i color and as thin as possible. Roll them i and lay not more than five at once on a , hot dish screened with an ornamental ? paper. Dust over each a little caster . sugar. Garnish with green sprigs of myrtle and serve quickly. If too many \ pancakes are piled upon the dish they become sodden and heavy. I ? j A Moose That Loves Scorpions. Among the queer forms of animal life that inhabit Death Yallev, Cali| fornia, is a mouse that has acquired such I a tost, fnr Qpnrninns that thev form its r ? Wt*?fcw ~?* t * 1 entire bill of fare. The scorpion car| ries its formidable armament in the end of its slender, elongated abdomen, in ? the shape of an extremely venomou3, I hooked sting. When disturbed it elevates this in the air and goes in search of its disturber. But it is comparatively J slow in its motions, while mice are proverbial for their quickness the world 1 over. The mouse learned many generai tions ago where the scorpion carries his weapon, and when he meets it he leaps J at the uplifted abdomen, takes off the l sting at a single bite, and proceeds to i make a meal of his helpless prey. It is supposed to be the only animal that reU I ishes scorpions.?Ne?r York Commercial i Advertiser. | TEMPERANCE. 'TIS TRUE A3 TRUTH. My boys, come listen while ? teach A lesson true as truth, A lesson that you all should learn By heart in early youth. Tis this, there's naught upon the earth That hapless home can cheer, HVhere but five cents is spent for bread To fifty cents for beer. The wife and mother, though she ha As patient as the best, Wears on her face a looic that tells Of nights unknown to rest. The children shiver oft with cold. And tremble oft with fear. Where but five cants is spent for bread To fifty cents for beer. The holidays bring: but fresh grief. Fresh want, and added care. /vaa wimr, aruuuuit, uappy ?uga And laughter 6(1 the air, The sound of curses, sighs and sobs Is all that one can hear Where but fire cents is spent for breal To fifty spent for beer. And boys, I beg you, let my words On fruitful soil be sown. So when you've left your boyhood's dayi And are to manhood grown. No one can speak of home you've As places poor and drear. Where but five cents is spent for bread To fifty spent for beer. ?Stored Heart Review. rA SENSIBLE BISSOP. The Catholic Club in Columbu?, Ohio, went to (be wall because Bishop Watterson could not consent to the existence of a bar or buffet "I sincsrely regret," said the Bishop in a public sermon, "that the'project bas fallen through, but if the sail of liquor was essential to the success of the club l rejoice at the failure, A buffet would or would not pay. If it did not pay, too little liquor would ba sold to make it worth having. If it did pay, too much liquor would be sold to make it a safe place for tue young." a solemn warning. Take the advice of one who has seen some ! o:. ma pmymsitn ui ms jruuiu mane tueir selection, follow thair pattern and land in a drunkard's grave, while others shunei the vile stuff in all its forms and are now occupy, ing positions of honor and trust. Whatever you do, or don't do, my boy. swear by 1 all that is good, true and noble, that so lone 1 as you draw breath it shall not be tainted : with that which will eventually rob you of mind, money, body and soul, and leave you 1 a stranded wreck on the shoreless ocean of 1 eternity, beyond the reach of a mother's I prayers or a father's advice.?Dansville (N.Y.) Breeze. ?? . , THE AWFUT. DRINK TBAGXDY. ( President Gerrv, of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to < Children, in his annual address, which ap- i pears in the society's eighteenth report, i gives the following pathetic case as an ] Illustration of the beneHcient work of his society, and it is also a striking: illustration of the degradation and suffering involved i in the drink habit: 4'It was a cold, blea'c nigbt ?uct before Thanksgiving Day. A woman, meanly clad, and bearing the marks of dissipation 1 upon her face, wandered into a saloon in Elizabeth street in this city, with a small ] boy clinging to her hand, one had known better days, had straggled against poverty, , had sacrificed herself in order to support < her child. And she turned in out of the cold with the boy, into the only place of refuge she knew, to try and find either some j friend who would give her the means to sleep with her child in a cheap lodging , house, or else find ont what might be done for him. Down the Bowery, in the bitter , cold they had walked for hours, seeking shelter, and she bad only that morning taken the child to the police court, and told ] her pitiful tale to the justice. Her husband ] had died four years previously, and she wa3 a widow with two children, the boy and a . girl. This society had cared for the girl and placed her in a home. 'Johnny and I ' are starving. Your Honor,' she said, 'and I j want you to put him where he will be warm.' The usual order was made on this \ society and given her. She put it in her pocket, went back to the saloon with the child, sat down, turned to the bystanders I and said: MIy boy Is safe; 1 am going to I put him in a home, and little Johnny will be taken care of now.' Then sho fell back In her chair and died "liqucd brbao." W. 8. Cainc, M. P., in a recent temperance address at Basingstoke. England, referred as follows to tha subject of "liquid bread:'' I remember once seeing over a public house door in Liverpool ? "3ood ale is liquid bread." I went into the house, and said. "Gat me a quart of liquid bread." [Laghter 1 The landlord said. ''A first rate si?n, isn't it?" 4,Yept" said t, "if its true " "Oi. it's ' I true enough, my beer Is all ri?ht" "Well, give me a bottle to take home." He gave me a bottle of liquid bread. I took it to Dr. j Samuelsou, an analytical chemist, and I said to him, "I want you to tell me how much bread there is in this bottle." He suuit it and said, "it's bear." "No, no," I said, "it's liquid bread." "WeU," he said, "if you come again in a week-. I'll tell you all about it" He charged me three guineas. [Laugh* I ter.] In a weed's time I went to know all about the liquid bread. The first thing about It was that there was 93 per cent, of water. [Laughter.] "It's liquii, anyhow." I said, we'll pass that" .('Renewed Laughter.] I "Now let's go on to the bread." "Alcohol, five per cent." "What's alcohol?' I said. "There's the dictionary, you can turn it up for yourself." I turned it up and found alcohol described as a "powerful narcotic 1 poison." "Well," I thought, "this is the ] | queerest description of bread I ever read in 1 my life." [Laughter.] Thea he gave me a < number ot small p?centages of curious things, which he had put carefully down on l each corner of a pieca of white paper, and j which amounted to about a quarter ot a j thimbleful of dirty looking powder. That was the bread?[great iauzhter]? two per 1 cent "And there would not be so much as . that" said Dr. S imuelson, "if it were Bass's or Alhop'a. Tdis is bad bear." "3o the better the beer the less bread there is in it?" "Certainly it is the business of the brewer to get the bread out of it, not to put bread into it." This is the simple scientitice truth with regard to beer, and the case la stronger with regard to wiae and spirits. There is no nourishment in it all. Science tells you so. Experience tells you so. It ha3 no use for the human body either as food or melicine. TBMPBBANCK NEWS AND NOTES. There are 13,846 juveniles in the reformatories of th9 United States. There are 440,003 places in Prance where liquor is sold, 27,:K)3 of waica are lozat9i in Paris. Russia's daily drink bill is said to amount to *1,900,10:), and Russia is confronted with faraiue. The Edinburgh School Board have agreed to introduce temperance teaching into their schooc. ! The wife of Francis Murphy, the tamper- 1 ance lecturer, is an enthusiastic in her busband's wortc and is almost constantly with him ou his travels. The polyglot petition of ths W". C. T. U.. , askinz the rulers of th? world to proaioit the liquor traffic,has 1,112,733 signatures and is tweive miles long. Says a Prohibition paper 'There are saloonkeepers who have made hundreds ot widow?. No such terrible indict n*nt cau ever be drawn against a temperance man," In London, the arrests for drunkenness are at the rate of one for evaiv 175 inhabitants; in BirminerliHT. ona for 151; in Manchester, om tor seventy-t .vo, au l in Liverpool, one lor fifty. The Sailor.-.' Teruperauo Hnn\ Scanlinavim, Brooklyn, tias eurertiiuel siucj its established <>ix years ago 10,vi70 stilotv. Tho society's building tund now reaches the sum of J2+S2.33. The New York Bartenders' Union has fined several of its members lor getting drunk. These craftsmen are evidently anions: the class of doctors who do not believe iu taking their own medicine. Lidv Henry Somerset declares that not even John B. Gou?h or Dwieht L. Moody was received in England with greater enthusiasm than Miss Francis E. Willard, President of the Wo uan's Christian Temperance Union of the Uait9<i States. Temperance puts coal on tbo fire, meal in the barrel, flour in th< tub, money iu the purse, credit in the country, contentment in the bouse, clothes on the children, vigor lo I the body, intelligencd in the brain, and spirit in the whole constitution.?Poor Richard. I SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL. IjESSON FOB APKIL 9. Lesson Text: "Afflictions Sanctified," Job. vh 17-27?Golden Text: Ueb. xtl., 6?Commentary. Three of Job'a friends?Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar?having heard of tae afflictions of Job, made an appointment to come and mourn with him and comfort him. When they saw him they knew him not because he was so changed. They wept, and rent their clothes, and sat witn him upon the ground seven days and seven nights without speaking a word, for they saw that his grief was very great (chapter ii., 11-13). Then Job spoke and cursed his day, after which Eliphaz was the first of the three to speak, and this lesson is part of his speech. Job bad borne meeklv and without complaint the loss of children and cattle and even his bodily affliction (chapters i.. 23; ii.. 10). but these friends, with their false accusations and insinuations, stirred all the old man that was in him. These three condemned Job without cause, and yet their words have much in t.hflm that in hplnfnl *17. "Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth, therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty." This is sound wisdom and very profitable if put in practice. Blessed is the man thit endureth trial! Count it all joy when ye fall into divers trials. "Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth. If ve endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons (Ja3. i., 13, 2; Heb. xii., 6, 7). 18. "For He maketh sore and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His bands make whole." Or, as it is written elsewhere, "I kill and I make alive; 1 wound and I hea!; neither is there any that can deliver out ot My hand" (Dent, xxxif., 39). But though He cause prief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies, for He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men (Lam. iii., 32, 33). 19. "He shall deliver thee in six troubles: Sea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee." rot even satan can touch a believer without permission, for he ha1 to obtain permissioa to touch Job, and if God allows us to go to the furnace He knows how to deliver. So that Daniel's friends were right when they said, "Our God, whom we serve, is able to rlftlivor u<j from thn hnrninc flflrv ftirnnn? and He will deliver as oat of thine hand, 0 king" (Dan. ill., 17j. In the promise, "There shall no evil befall thee" (Ps/xci.,10), we must not think to escape trouole, for just that is promised us (John xvi., 33), and possibly imprisonment and death (Rev. ii., 10; Math, x., 28), but in the resurrection it shall be seen that we have not been hurt, nor a hair of our heads perished. 20. "In famine He shall redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword." The upright shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied (Pa xxxvii., 13, 19}. He who fed Elijah by the brook and in the widow's house during the three years' famine, who fed Israel for forty years with bread from heaven, who fed over 5000 with the lad's few loaves and fishes, is the tame yesterday, to-lay and forever. And fes to the sword, think of David's deliverance from the sword of Goliath and his victory over him. 21. "Ihou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction When it cometb." The tongue is often as a sharp sword (Ps. lv., 21; Ivii., 4), but He will keep us secretly in a pcvilion from the strife of tongues (Pi. xrri., 30) Inasmuch as the angel of the Lord encamoBth round about no, the tongue that would touch us must first to^ch Him. Not even a dog can move bis tongue against us without permission (Ex. xi., 7). 0<J A f. ^ootninhnn onH fami'na fhnn aHalf; laugh, neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth." One would almost think the speaker was describing the millenaial time?, when the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God's noly mountain (Is*. 1x7., 25). But with such records as that of David over the lion and the bear, Daniel over the lions and Paul over the poisonous reptile (I Sam. xvii., 36^ Dan. vi., 22; Acta xxviii.. 4, 5), we see wlut may be even now as foreshadowings of coming glorv. Let us "have faith in God." 23. "For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the fUl>4, and the beasts of the field shall be ap peaca with thee." David comes to mind again with his stones gathered from the brook, one of which, slung in the name of the Lord of Hosts, sank into the giant's forehead ([ Sam. xvii., 49). And the 7J0 left handed men who could sling stones at a hair and not miss (Judg. n , 16) show how God can give control over stones in that sense. As to the beasts, read Isa. xi? 6?'J, and for another wonderful story of the past see I Kings xiii., 28. 24. "And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace, and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shall not sin," or, R. V., "shalt miss nothing.'1 "The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. And My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places (Is*, xxxii., 17, 18). We may even dwell in Jehovah Himself, for it is written, "Lord, Thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations" (Pi xc., 1). 25. "Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth." The promise to Abram was that bis seed should be as the stars of h?a /eu and as the ?and udoq the seashore (Gen. xxii., 17). When Rebekah left her home to become the bride of Isaac they praved that she might become the mother of thousands of millions (Gen. xxiv., <W). Jesus has said, ' There is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or lather or mother or wife or children or lands for My sake and the gospel'* but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecution?, and in the world to cjme eternel life1' (Mark x., 39; xxlx., 30). ^6. "Thou shalt ome to thy grave in a full age,' like as a shock of corn coroeth in in His season.'' It turned out so fn Job's case, for he lived after this affliction 140 years and saw four generations. So Job died, being old and full of days (Job xlii., 16, 17). With the l)9liever in Je:m length of years in a mortal body is not the greatest blessing except in so far as God is glorified thereby. 27. "Lo this, we have searched it; so it is; hear it and know thou it for thy good." We might with Job have somewhat to say to Eliphaz, but we are trying to forget the man and get something out of the message, and therefore we notice that it is good to search out a good matter, but especially good to search thu Scriptures, for therein is the best of all matter. ?Lesson Helper. Malls Through Pneumatic Tubes. The tubes are laid under ground between the branch postoffices and tbe main office; they are of brass, covered with various materials to protect them in the ground, and in laying them care is taken to avoid sharp corners and curves. At the starting point machinery is placed, by which air is compressed and kept stored under a number of pounds pressure. The mail matter is put into leather boxes, which tit the interior of the tubes; these are placed in the receiving tuhes, which are closed with heavy doors. The com pressed air is then turned into the receiving tube. It can expand in only one direction, that is, in the direction of the tube, and in expanding it drives the leather box with its ':cntents before it until at the main office the box is discharged into the recaiving tube, and the liberated air follows it with a slight explosion. The system is in use in many newspaper offices and between telegraph offices. The shorter the distance to be traversed the les? pressure need oe applied to the air. Brass is used as the material of the tubes because it is self-lubricating and becomes and remains smooth easily, and therefor* offers the least resistance to the vat* sage of the boxes. A dad man bates the things that can do him good. RELIGIOUS READING* MEETING AGAIIT. When for rae the silent oar Parts the silent river, And I stand upon the shore Of the strange For Ever, Shall I miss the loved and known* Shall I vainly seek mine own? 'Mid the crowd that.come to meet Spirits sin-forgiven, Listening to their echoing feet Down the streets of heavenShall I know a footstep near That I listen, wait for here? Then will one appreach tbc brink With a hand extended, One whose thoughts I loved to think Ere the veil was rended, Saying, "Welcome! we have died And agaiu are side by side.'' Saying, "I will go with thee That thoa be not lonely, To yon hills of mystery; I have waited only Until now to climb with thes Yonder hills of mystery." Can the bonds that make as hero Know ourselves immortal, Drop away like foliage ?ere At life's inner portal? What is holiest below Must for ever live and prow. ?[Lucy Larcom. don't worry. If 70U want a good appetite, don't worry. If you want a healthy body, don't worry. If you want things to go right in your homes or your busincs, don't worry. Nervousness, according to the American Artisan, is the bane of the race. It is not confined to the women by any means, but extends to the men as well. What good does fretting do ? It only increases with indulgence, like anger, or appetite, or love, or any other human impulse. It deranges one's temper, excites unpleasant feelings towards everybody, and confuses the mind. It affects the whole persou, unfits one for the proper completion ot the work whose trifling interruption or disturbance started the fretful fit. Suppose these things go wrong today, the tomorrows ore coming in which to try again, and the thing is not worth clouding your own spirit and tho?e around yon, injuring yourself and them physically for such a trifle. 8trive to cultivate a spriit of - 1..-V jjaueaW) uuiu iur ;uut unu gvvu auu >w good of those about you. You will never regret the step; for it will not oniv add to your own happiness, bin the example of yoar conduct will affect those with whom you a* sociate, and in whom you are interested. Suppose somebody makes a mistake, suppose you are crossed, or a trifling incident occurs; to fly into a fretful mood will not mend, bat help to hinder the attainment of what vou wish. Then, when a thing is beyond repair, waste no useless regrets over it, and do no idle fretting. Strive for that serenity of spirit that will enable yon to make the bestfof all things. That means contentment in its best sense, and contentment is the only trae happiness of life. A pleasant disposition ana pood work will make the whole surroundings ring with cheerfulness. / FOB MOTHERS. The following are some resolutions made by an earnest Christian mother. Would that every mother in the land would copy them, and read and think of them every day: Resolved, That tbe first duty of the daj performed by me sball be prayer to uoa, especially for strength and wisdom to properly instruct, guide and govern my child. Resolved, That I will never permit my child to wilfully disobey me, or treat me with disrespect. Resolved, That I will earnestly strive never to act from an impulse of passion or resentment, but will endeavor to preserve my judgment cool and ray feelings calm, that I may clearly see and truly perform my duty to ray cbiid. Resolved, That I will devote a portion of my time eacb day to self-instruction, in order to be able to properly instruct my child. Resolved, Tbat I will watch over my own temper at all tiroes, cultivate a bablt of cheerfulness, apd interest myself in tbe matters of my child, thfct I may thereby gain his love. Resolved, That I will devote my time especially to those pursuits which will increase the comfort and happiness of my home and forward the best interests of my child. . Resolved, That I will study tbe health of my child, reading on the subject and asking tbe advice of those who are more experienced than myself. Resolved, That I will not yield to discouragements from failure, but will persevere, putting faith in the promise of God to all those who earnestly and faithfully strive to j- J..l w QU lUCir UUVJ ?'[OOicucui THE FOUNTAIN CRITICISED. A certain man placed a fountain by the wayside, and be bung a cup near it by a little chain. He was told some time afterward that a great art critic bad found much fault with its design. "But," he said, "do many persons drink at it?" Then they told him that thousands of poor people?men,'women and children?slaked their thirst at the fountain. He smiled and answered that he was little troubled by the critic's observations; only that he hoped that on some sultry summer's day the critic himself might ml the clip and be refreshed. The Bible is the fountain with the cup. Just now there seems to be an nnusual number of crities. Some of us seem afraid lest confidence be shaken and its honor be decreased. But let us be sure of this, that from the standpoint of its munificent Desier.er the only question is: "Domany persons drink at it?" and that Qod, the giver, is fully satisfied In knowing tbat increasing multitudes of earth's weary, wistful souls areslakine their thirst at Hia life-giving fountain?bleat fountain which can satisfy the craviug, the yearning desire of every fainting soul, famishing for tbe water of life. 0 that men who are troubled with doubts and questionings and skeptical thoughts about ihe Bible, would calmly examine it for thenselvea! 0 that iu a calm and teachable frame of mind they wou'd take it up and read it! Tbe tessof experience is tbe disarming of criticism. The | book itse'f is its own best witness ana defender.?[Sabbath Reading. CHRISTIAN' UNITY. Free, yet in chains, the mountains stand, The valleys linked run through the land; In fellowship the forests thrive, And streams from streams their strengtn derive. Tbe catt'e graze in flocks nnd herds, In choirs and concerts sing the birds, Insects by millions ply the Wing, And flowers in peaceful armies spring. All Nature is society. All Nature's voice is harmony. All colors blend to form pure lightWhy then should Christians uot unite? Thus to the Father prayed the Son: ' One may they be, as we are one, That I in tbem, and thou in me, They one with us may ever be.'' C'hi'dren of fiod, combine your plans; Brethren in Christ, join hearts and hands And prny?for so the Father willed That the Son's prayers may be fulfilled. Fulfilled in you-fulfilled in all That on tbe name of Jesus call, And every covenant of love Ye bind on earth, be bound above. ? [Janet Montgomery. There is a bro'herbood of error aa close as the brotherhood or truth.?I"Argyll. Physicians should always take their business to a pellet court.? Pittsburgh Chronicle. We have an idea that the Chronicle pil-fered that joke. "Polite literattre" must consist of that class of books which we never meet without an introduction. Beware of the man whose wife is always saying he has no faults. Thl real meaning of reform is trying to make a tiger behave itself. , tUKiULS t'ALiS. -\\<t A Michigan man has a dove farm. A horse sometimes sheds real tears ot angoiih. The first workman who made pens got $1 apiece for them. Pittsburg. Penn., is known in Europe as the City of Bridges. In small towns in Germany only chim* ney sweeps wear plug hats. A wild bear waadered iato the streets of Wilbur, Washington, the other day, and was shot for his temerity. Female fish of all species are considerably more numerous tban males, with two exceptions, the angler and the catfish. A Guatemalan mother giires her consent to her daughter's marriage by belaboring the voune lady with a heavy stick. The greatest number of people ever killed by a a earthquake was 190,000, i? the year 1703, at Yeddo, Japan, and vicinity. The Dundee (Scotland) Courier tell* of a white leghorn hen laying an egg. two and a half inches in diameter and weigh* ing orer four and a half ounces. General John Sevier was Governor of the State of Franklin, the name first given to Teunessee. He died near Fort Decatur, Ga.. September 24, 1315. During the past year a church in New England village, which has a membership of fifty-eight, has. heard or con sidered ninety candidates tor the pulpit. At a Rich Hill (Mo.) "social" the other day prizes were offered to the young man who could thread a needle in the shortest time and to the woman who could drive the straightest nail. The first locomotive ever sepn in Bangkok, Siam, was recently stated on the Korat railway. The native population took immense interest in the trial run over the half mile of railway now laid. The saltest lake in the world is Lake Urumia, in Persia, situated more than 4000 feet above the level of the sea. It contains twenty-two per cent, of salt, at against 8.5 per cent, in the Dead Sea. All the suitors for a girl's hand in Borneo are expected to be generous is . r their presents to her. These presents are never returned. Therefore the artful female long defers a positive selection of the happy man Clara Edwartft, a resident of Stewart County, Georgia, , owns a hen which she claims has laid two eggs about the siae of turkey eggs "&very day for the past four years. She also assarts that every egg contains two yolks. ' h Al?T?nrlpr lTAnnftdv. A HI (Vint Catiotv (Tennessee) man, resides in the hooie in which he was bora, ninety-two years ' ' ago. He is the father of twenty-six children, all of whom grew up to maturity, and eighteen of whom are now alive. The halcyon days art the seven days before and the seven days after the shortest day. The halcyon or kingfisher, is supposed to be breeding at this time, for which reason the sea, for this fortnight, very considerately preserves a perfect calm. In the Isle of Man it was formerly the law that to take away an ox or a horse was not a felony, but a trespass, because of the difficulty in that little territory of concealing or carrying them off; but to steal a pig or a fowl, which, is easily done, was a capital crime. The expression "Vox populi vox Dei" ?the voice of the people is the voice of God?was used in the writings of William of Malmesbury, who was born AD. 1075 or 1095, and dle<i about 1142. He quoted the expression as a proverb even in his time sufficiently well known. A wainscoting extends from the choir lott of the Firsl Baptist Church, Newburyport, Mass., to the opposite end of the church, just over the pulpit. The ticking of a watch placed on the wains- * coting, at either end, can be distinctly hoard at the other extremity of the church. A battalion of infantry carries 150 picks, 150 shoreU, ten spades, twenty* tire axes, fifty billhooks and four crowbars. An engineer company has 130 picks, 130 shovels, six spades, eighty-on* axes, thirteen handsaws, four , cross-cut saws, forty billhooks, thirteen crowbar* and two-hear; hammers. " ? A Fijchiiiif fox. Harry Quimby, of Rangeley, Me., set a trap for a fox about a quarter of a mile from his father's house, and while Mr. Reynard was smelling around the bait he suddenly got one of his feet into the *? fhon atarj-urJ tnmrd the trap. x410 house, trap and clog hanging to him, and whan near the bouse he stopped to take a look at the farm buildiogs. Some of Deck Quimby's children, out to play saw his foxship and gave a jell that brought Deck to the door in his stocking feet. Deck called his dog and started for the fox in his stocking feet. The fox went just below Mr. Quimby's house, near the shore of Quimby's pond, with Deck and the dog after him. While trying to climb over a fallen log the log caught and held the fox, and Quimby and the dog went at him, but they did not stand much show, for in less than fiva minutes the fox had whipped the dog and Deck, too. Deck says the fox was the greatest fighter ha ever saw. But by and by he got hold of a club aad as he supposed bad the fox killed. He then took him by the hind legs aad car* ried him up to the house aad there threw him dowa into the dooryard aad went iato the house to dress his feet. He had got them almost dressed whea he heard aa awful noise, aad oa going to the door there was that same fox lighting the dog. Deck ran up to him aad gave him aaother pouuding, aad this time he thought he had killed him sure, aad he huag him up oa a post and agaia left him. But agaia the fox came to life aad weat for the dog, and Deck had to go aad cut him up with an axe.?New York Telegram. A X?MT Theory of Anawthetic3. A new theory in anaesthetics is report ed from Vienna, Austria. Dr. Schleicb, the discoverer, secures absolute immunity from pain by local action only, tbe consciousness of the patient being maintained. The process, a subcutaneous injection of salt or sugar, of plain distilled water, even, appears most simple. It offers none of the objections to be raised against the use of narcotics, and numerous experimeuts have proved its success. The lm-nunity from pain is obtained by temporary paralysis of the nerve caused by the action of the cold injection.?Now$Yorls Commercial Advertiser. t