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r I pEV. DR. TALMGE."; ,THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- c DAY SERMON. J I ] Subject: "Lesson Learned From the t Story of Ehud." t \i 1 \ Text : "But when the children of Israel k. cried unlo the Lord the Lord raised them up a * > deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, a Bcnjama man left handed."?Judges iii., 15. 8 ft Ehud was a ruler in Israel. He was left ( B handed, and what w<is peculiar about tho f H tribe of Benjamin, to which ho belonged, I B there were in it 700 left handod men, ?n?l g B yet so dexterous had they all become in toe t use of the left hand that the Bible says they z BV oould sling stones at a hair's breadth and s not miss. t g I Well, there was a king of the name of ggjf UCiglUU W UU OU V^piCOOU4 V/t lOKtui. uv w 29 Imposed upoD fhem a most outrageous tax. t B Ehud, the man of whom I first spoke, bad a t R divine commission to destroy that oppressor, t n He came, pretending that he W3S going to I pay the tax. and asked tosae King Eglon. He r Was told he was in the summer house, the d place to which the king retired when it was e too hot to sit in the palace. This summer 1) house was a place surrounded by flowers and ij trees and springing fountains and warbling a birds. n I Ehud entered the sumtnsr house and said I to King Eglon that he had a secret errand a With him. Immediately all the attendants L were waved out of tha royal presence. King ii Eglon rises up to receivo the messenger. Ehud, the left handed man. puts his left hand b to his right side, pulls out a dagger and c) thrusts Eglon through until the haft went 01 In after the blade. Eglon falls. Ehudcomes a1 forth to blow a trumpet of recruit amid the ii mountains of Ephraim, and a great host i3 st marshaled, and proud Moab submits to the Y eonquoror, and Israel is free. So, O Lord, n let all Thy enemies perish! So, 0 Lord, let r< all Thy friends triumph! sc i I learu first from this subject the power of ci left handed men. There are some men who b< physical organization have as much ft strength in their left hand as in their rig t aj hand, but there is something in the writing P of this text which implies that Ehud had qi some defect in his right hand which com- It f>eneu aim 10 use me icn. v?u, mo |w?n ul eft handed men! Geni;is is otten self obser- fi: rant, careful of itself, not given to much toil, ic burning incense to its own aggrandizement, g< jWhilo many a man with no natural endow- gi ments. actually defective in physical and si: mental organization, has an earnestness for ht fcho right, a patient industry, an all consum- "< Lag perseverance which achieve marveis for m the kingdom of Christ. Though left handed w as Ehud, they can strike down a sin as great ry rid imperialas Eglon. vfi I have seen men of wealth gathering about si< them all their treasures, snuflflngat the cause w of a world lying in wickedness, roughly si! ordering Lazarus off their doorstep, sending ht their dogs, not to lick his sores, but to hound nc him off their premises, catching all the pure F< rain of God's blessing into the stagnant, ropy, n? frog-inhabited pool of their own selfishness be '?right-handed men, worse than useless? be ,While many a man with large heart and little D< purse has out of his limited means made poverty leap for joy and started an influence au that overspans the grave and will swing h* round and round the throne of God, world of Without end, amen. dc | Ah. me, it is high time that you left handed ga Enen who have been longing for this gift and -pi that eloquence and the other man's wealth is should take your left hand out of your pock- | ey ,et. Who made all these railroads? Who set 01 pp all these cities? Who started all these at Ohurches and schools and asylums? Who p? has done all the tugging: and running and gi pulling? Men of no wonderful endowment?, ca thousands of them acknowledging themseives Sc to bo left handed, and yet they were earnest, al and yut they were determined, and yet they bi were triumphant. si 1 But I do not suppose that Ehud the first hi time ho took a sling in his hand could throw he a stone a hair's breadth and not miss. I suppose it was practice that gave him the ei sronderful dexterity. Go forth to your pi spheres of duty and be not discouraged if in w your first attempts you miss the mark. Ehud st; missed it. Take another stone, put it care- tii luUy into the sling, swing It around your hj bead, take better aim, and the next time yoa w will strike the center. The first time that a ca mason rings his trowel upon the brick he "< does not expect to pnt up a par feet wall, gc The first time a carpenter sends a plane over lo - a boar J or drives a bit through a beam he th does not expect to make perfect execution, th The first time a boy attempts a rhyme he st does not expect to chime a "Lalla Rookh" or a "Lady of the Lake." Do not besur- st jprised if in your first efforts .at doing good in you ar9 not very largely successful. Under- ai Btf.nd that usefulness Is an art, a science, a to trade. d( |> TRuro was an oculist perrorming a very n difflnilt operation on the human eye. A h< young doctor stood by and said: "How easily ta you uo that. It doesn't seem to cause you ki any trouble at all." "Ah," said the old ocu- T list, "it is very easy now, but L spoiled a hat- w Jul of eyes tq leafrn that." Be not surprised If It takes some practice before ws can help m men to moral eyesight and bring them to a ai vision of tha cross. Le:t handed men to the ir work ! Take the gospel for a sling and faith cc and repentance for the smooth stone from pi v the brook, take sure aim, God direct tha pi sreapon. and groat Goliaths will tumble be- if lore you. ni j I learn also from this subject the danger w of worldly elevation. This Eglon was wnat bi the world called a great man. There were pi hundreds of men who would have considered tr It the greatest honor of their life just to have tt -him speak to them. Yet, although he is sc a< high up in worldly position, he is not beyond X ithe reach of Ehud's dagger. I sae a great ti Z11AUJ klJXUht IV UUIUIJ uy 1U OV(.H I u [position, having an idea that there is u safe (place somewhere far above, not knowing that st the mountain of fame has a top like Mount vi .Blanc, covered with perpetual snow. a % We laugh at the children of Shinar for try- a1 ing to build a tower that could reach to the w heaven?, but I think if our eyesight were " only good enough we could see a Babel in 9' many a dooryard. Oh. the struggle is fierce a lit is store against store, house against ? Ihouse. street against street. Nation against c' SNation. The goal for which m:;n are run- ? ning is chairs and chandeliere and mirrori " \ ?nd houses and lands and presidential equip- tJ ments. If they get what they anticipate. P iWhat have they got? Men are not safe from *J ' calumny while they live, and, worse than ? .that, they are not safe aftor they are dead, {J [lor I have seen swine root up graveyards. " One day a man goes up into publicity, P And the world does him honor, and * [people climb up into sycamore tr jes to ^ iwatch him as he passes, and as h? goes along on the shoulders of the people ^ there is a waving of hats and a wild huzza. To-morrow the same man is caught between 8' , the jaws of the printing press and mangled J* anrl hiniico/1 <1 vwl fK.i i>uoir a>imA a??l- itf^A tJ japplBuded him before cry . "Down with the u traitor! Down with him !" ' Boishazzar sits at the feast, the mighty men ? Of Babylon sitting all around him. Wit ? sparkles like the wine and the wine like the * wit. Music rolls up among the chandeliers; * the chandeliers flash down on the decanters The breath of hanging irardens ftrvits in oil the night air; the voice o? revelry llo.;ts out. Amid wreaths and tapestry and folded banners a finger writes. The march of a host is heard on the stairs. Laughter catches lathe _ ? ,throat. A thousand hearts stop beating. * The blow is struck. The blood on tha flo >r r is richer hued than the wine on tha table. rJ Tho kingdom has departed. g Belshazzar was no worse perhaps than hun- t dreds of people in Babylon; but his position _ slew him. Oh, bo content with just su;?h a position as God has placed you in! It may not be said of us. "Ho was a great general." f or "Ho was an honored chieftain,-' or "He ^ was mighty in worldly attainments." but this thing may be said of you and me, "He was a ' good citizen, a faithful Christian, a friend of f' Jesus." And that in the last day will be the u .highest of all eulogiums. s i I learn further from this subieet that death jCOmes to the summer hous*. Eglon did not p expect to die in that fine plaee. Ami J all the flower leaves that drifted like snow into the * window ; in the tinkle and .lash of the I'ouu- 0 tains ; in the sound of a thousand leaves !lut- ii .tering on one tree branch ; in the cool bre w; ; ikni .KI,? sxf ^ ^uai uamo up tw ona.vc iovciiou uvuuiu vui vi . the king's locks, thero was nothing that sp:i'.:n ' of death, but there he died! In the winter, when the snow is a shroud, and when th'? Tvind is a dirge. It is easy to think of our mortallly, but when the weather is pleasant and all our surroundings are agreeable how ,difficult it is for us to appreciate the truth that we are mortal! And yet my text teaches that death does sometimes come to the sumk oner house. . He is blind and cannot see the leaves. lie pp deal and cannot hear the fountains. Oh, f death would ask us for victims, we could )oint him to hundreds of people who would ejoice to have him come. Push back the loor of th3t hovel. Look at that little child :old and sick and hungry. It has never leard the name of God but in blasphemy, .'arents intoxicated staggering around its traw bed. Oh, doath, there is a mark for heo! Up with it into the light! Before hese littlo feet stumble oniife's pathway give hem rest. Here is an aged man. Ho has done his vork. He has done it gloriously. The com)anions of his youth are all gone, his chilIren dead. He longs to be at rest, and vearily the days and the nights pass. He iays. "Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." )h, death, there is a mark for thee! Take rom him the staff and give him the sceptt-e! Jp with him into tho light, where eyes never frow dim, and the hair whitens not through he long years of eternity. Ah, death will lot do that. Death turns back from the traw bed and from tho aged man ready for he skies and comes to the summer house. What doest thou here, thou bony, ghastly aonstar, amid this waving grass and under his sunlight sifting through" the tree tranches? Children are at play. How quickly heir feet go and their locks t03s in the wind"! 'ather and mother stand at the side of the oom looking on. enjoying their glee. It loes not soem possible that the wolf should ver break into that fold and carry off a imb. Meanwhile an old archer stands lookag through the thicket. He points his arrow t the brightest of the group?he is a sure aarksman?the bow bends, the arrow speeds1 lush, now! The quick feet have stopped, nd the locks toss no more In the wind, atighter has gone out of the lialL Death 1 the summer house! Here is a father in midlife. His coining ome at night is the signal for mirth. The iiidren rush to the door,and there are books a the evening stand, and the hoars pass way on glad feet. There is nothing wantig in that home. Religion is there and icriflces on the altar morning and night, ou look in that household and say: "I canot think of anything happier. I do not ;ally believe the world is so sad a place as )me people describe it to be." The scene janges. Father is sick. The doors must j kept shut. The deathwatch chirp3 doledly on the hearth. The children whisper ad walk softly where oace they romped, assing the house late at night, you seo the aiok glancing of lights from room to room, is all over. Death in the summer hoSse. Here is an aged mother?aged, but not inrm. You think you will have the joy of carig for her wants a good while yet. As she jes from house to house, to children and vmi1r?hitdren her comincr is a drooDinir Of mlight in the dwelling. 5four children see jr coming through the lane, and they cry, Grandmother's come!" Care for you has"1 arked up her face with many a deep rinkle, and her back stoops with caring your burdens. Some days she is >ry quiet. She says she is not ;k. but something tells you you ill not much longer have mother. She will t with you no longer at the table nor at the sarth. Her soul goes out so gently you do )t exactly know the moment of its going. >ld the hands that have done.'O many kindssses for you right over the heart that has at with l<Jve for you since before you were irn. Let the pilgrim rest. She is weary, eath in the summer house! Gather about us what we will of comfort id luxury, when the pale messenger comes > does not stop to look at the architecture the house before he comes in, nor entering >es he wait to examine the pictures we have ithered on the wall, or bending over your How he does not stop to see whether there a color in the cheek, or gentleness in the e, or intelligence in the brow. But what that? Must we stand for ever mourning oong the graves of our dead, No I No! The sople in Bengal bring cages of birds to the aves of their dead and then they open the ,ges, and the birds go singing heavenward. > I would bring to the graves of your dead 1 bright thoughts and congratulations and d them think of victory and redemption. I amp on the bottom of the grave, and it eaks through into the light and glory of >aven. The ancients used to think that the straits itering the Bed sea were very dangerous aces, as they supposed that every ship that ent through those straits would be deroyed, and they were in the habit of putag on weeds of mourning for those who id gone on that voyage, as though they ere actually dead. Doyou know what they died those straits? They call them the Gate of Tears." Oh; I stand to-day at the iteof tears through which many of your ved ones have gone, and I want to tell you tat all are not shipwrecked that have gone trough those straits into the great ocean retching out beyond. The sound that comes from that other lore on still nights when we are wrapped i prayer makes me think that the departed e not dead. We are the dead?who til, we who weep, wo who sin?we are the ;ad. How my heart aches for human sor>w! This sound of breaking hearts that I jar all about me! This last look of faces tat will never brighten again! This last iss of lips that never will speak again! his widowhood and orphanage! Oh, when ill the day of sorrow be gone? After the sharpest winter the spring disounts from the shoulder of a southern gale id puts its warm hand upon the earth, and i its paim mere comes rne grass, auu suere >me the flowers, and God reads over the jetry of bird and brook and bloom and renounces It very good. What, my friends, every winter had not its spring, and every Ight Its day, and every gloom Its glow, and rery bitter now its sweet hereafter? If you ive been on the sea, you know, as the ship issesin the night, there is a phosphorescent ackleft behind it, and as the waters roll up ley toss with unimaginable splendor. Well, ;ross this great ocean of human trouble esus walks. Ob, that in the phosphorescent ack of His feet we might all foliow and be lumined! There was a gentleman in the rail car who iw in that same car three passengers of ary different circumstances. The ttrst was maniac. He wa3 carefully guarded by his ttendants ; his mind, like a ship dismasted, as beating against a dark, desolate coast, om which no help could come. The train :opped, and the man was taken out into the 5ylum to waste away perhaps through years f gloom. The second passenger was a ixlprit. The outraged law had seized on him. 3 the cars jolted the chains rattled. On his ice were crime, depravity and despair. The rain halted, and he was taken out to the enitentiary, to which he had been conemned. There was the third passengaruner far different circumstances. She was a ride. Every hour was gay as a marriage ell. Jjiie gunerea :mu oousuuou. aww/iuanion was taking her to his father's house, 'he train baited. The old man was there to relcome her to her new home, and his white >oks snowed down upon hor as he seaied his rord with a father's kiss. Quickly we fly toward eternity. We will oon be there. Some leave this life ronemned culprits. They refused a pardon , key carry their chains. Ob, may it be with s that leaving this fleeting life for the next, re may tind our Father ready to greet us to ur new home with Him forever. That will e a mariage bauquet. Father's wilr.nn! 'ather's bosom1 Father's kiss I Hoaveu! leaven 1 In a Parit Pawnnhop. Thtt number of pledged articles at he Mont <le Pieto, tbe national lawnshop in Paris, that have been euewe.'i durinjr tbe year is 307,319. ["he term renewed indicates that a ruall sum has been paid in order that he objects may not be sold, but reaain in pawn for a further term. There is a timepiece whicb wa? iled^ed for ?i> in !33.;, and which ha* ieen paidfuinuailv ever since. A silver dish-cover has been pledged or seventy years, and a piece of lace, ;pon which only 12f. was lent lor c?gii \jj - w ?j v.ifci o. The fact hardest to explain is the ircsence of an umbrella?a green ingham of enormous dimensions, the rivfinal proprietor of which, ur ti heritors, have cJuly paid the fee for ^renewal for the last sixty-Uaran 'earu. A brother of the great pre:xchei ipurgeon has been posing in the manle of the deceased, and a misfit; deected. Now a son will try the garnent on, and if he cannot All it, the ividence that there is little in a name rould seem to be complete. ' . j- ... . EDWIN BOOTH DEAD, ' The Great Tragedian Passes Away Peacefully la Now York City Edwin Booth, the well-known actor, died at the Players' Club. New York City, where he has been ill for many weeks, at 1:15 o*clock a few mornings ago. At Mr. Booth's bedside when ho died were Mr. and Mrs. Grass man. his son-in-law and daughter. John Henry Magonigle and Dr. St. Clair Smith. The attack which was the beginning of Mr. Booth's last sickness occurred on Wednesday, April 19. He had gone to bed at his usual time on the previous night and apparently in his usual health. No one went, into his room till his usual time for ordering breakfast the next morning, uuu tuuu u. was found that he could not speak. He had had a stroke of paralysis which Anally caused his death. Edwin Booth was incomparably the finest tragic actor of our time, and most playgoers will no doubt agree that they will never look upon his like again. He combined the spirit and intelligence of Forrest with the grace and polish of Edwin Adams. Though he camo from a long line of play actors, several of whom were distinguished, he was accounted a much more finished player than his father. the great Junius Brutus Booth. Edwin Booth was born in Baltimore, Md., on November 13, 1833, in which town he lived until he was about seventeen years old. That he was born to be a play actor was shown at an early day. Edwin Booth. John Sleeper Clark, John E. Owen3, Theodore Hamilton, George Kunkle and half a dozen others formed an amateur dramatic club. While Edwin Booth and his playmates were playing at acting, his father' Junius Brutus, was starring the country. Edwin went on the stage in 1849. Ho was then only sixteen years old. In several years thereafter he was his father's constant companion. Together they visitod the Paciilc coast, whence they sailed to Australia. In ten years he played anythiug and everything. No youncr actor ever had a hotter schooling. In 1860 he visited England. Half a dozen years later he for the first time tried his hand at managing. Ha took hold of the Winter u-araen xneater, ihuw iure in which he played Hamlet for 100 nights. Mr. Booth had little managerial timber in his composition. He was toj dreamy and unpractical for such work. Still, in his youth he was as gay as most actors. In 1869 he opened Booth's Theatre. New York City, managing 1t himself. It was by far the most complete play house in th> country. Still it was a failure. Mr. Booth emerged from its management, some say. with debts amounting to over $500,000. He buckled down to acting, and in a few years had paid off every penny he owed. His triumphant tour through the South, which was followed by a journey to California, yielded him upward of a quarter of a million of dollars. The hard work this entailed affected his healtn. When Lawrence Barrett became his manager things went well with Mr. Booth. His health improved. He furnished the Players' Club and endowed it handsomely. Sinca Mr. Booth retired from the stage in Brooklyn, in April, 1891, he has lived at the Players' Club. It was noticed that after the death of Mr. Barrett Mr. Booth became more reserved and retiring than ever. He cared little for society. Ho had an almost matchless knowledge of Shakespeare and the history of the drama. CONTESTED SEATS. Ten Cases Before the Next House of Representatives. There will be ten contests before the House of Representatives next winter. In Alabama the seat of James E. Cobb, re-elected from the Fifth District as a Democrat, will be contested by Martin W. Whatley, Populist. In California the seat of S. G. Hiiborn, re-elected as a Republican in the Third District, is con tested by W. B. English, Democrat, the plurality in this case being only thirty-tnree votas. In Georgia the seat of J. C. C. Black, elected as a Democrat in the Tenth District, is contested by Thomas E. Watson, Populist, who had the seat in the last' Congress. In Illinois, the seat of Robert A. Childs, elected a3 a Republican in the Eighth District,is contested by Lewis Stewart, Democrat, the plurality being only thirty-seven votes. In Kansas, the seat of E. H. Funston, re-eiected as a Republican in the Second District, is contested by H. L. Moore, Alliance Democrat, thoir difference being only eighty-three votes. In Michigan is the closest contest. George P. Richardson holds the seat for the Fitth District bv just ten votes in a total poll of about 42,000. The contestant Is the late member, Charles E. Belknap. In Missouri, Charles F. Joy, Republican, holds the seat for the Eleventh District. It is contested by JO Oil J. \J null, IUO ItlbO icpivocmuuru, TT?v will have a plurality of sixty-seven votes to overcome. Ia North Carolina the Fifth District seated Thomas Settle, Republican. H. A. Williams, Democrat, contests his claim. In Tennessee, the seat of B. A- Enloe, Democrat. from the Eighth District, is contested by P. H. Thrasher, Populist. In Virginia, the seat for the Fourth District held by James F. Epes, Democrat,is contested by J. Thoman Goode, PoDulist. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. During May a Net Decrease of $739,425.99 is Reported. The publio debt statement just issued from Washington, shows that thera was a net docrease of $733,425.99 during the month of May. Of this $057,175.50 was in the amount of the bonded indebtedness of the Government, and $82,250.49 was in the increase of the cash in the Treasury. The interest bearing debt increased $300.CO, debt on which interest has ceased since maturity decreased $37,480, and the debt bearing no interest $819,695.50. The aggregate interest and non-interest bearing debt May 31 was $9G1,750.965.63; on April 30 it was $962,407,764.13. The certificates and Treasury notes, offset by an equal amount of cash In Treasury outstanding at the end of the montb, was $594,531.017, an increase of 81,4^5,804. The total cash in the Treasury was ?7&4,122,934. the gold reserve $95,048,640, and the net cash balance $26,516,514.30. In the month there was a decreaso of $5,764,749.32 In gold coin and bars, the total at the close being $196,518,609.76. Of silver there was an increase of $5,173,874.48 Of tho surplus there was in National bank depositories $11,649,142.34, against $U,270,696.G9 at the end of the previous month. BRIGGS SUSPENDED. Indefinitely Deposed From the Prasbyterlan Ministry. Sitting as the Supreme Court of the Presbyterian Church in the United States or America, the General Assembly at Washington formally suspended Doctor Charles A Briggs from tho ministry of the Presbyterian Church until h? shall give satisfactory evidence of repentance to the General Assembly. The reason for this action, as given by the Assembly, is a violation by him of his ordination vow, -ind the judgment is based upon the verdict given the night before as the result of the heresy trial. Now it will rest with the New York Synod to present its case for acquitting the Professor. If it can justify ita action Brings may m r">instate*!. If any defect is discovered in its Hnnin^s thou the itelek'iwit will remain out lor itood. A DOCTOR'S SUICIDE. Ki9 Patient Iia<l !)to<l 01' Heart Failure in Ii is Ofiicc. Mrs. Coitoa, a widow, wont to the office of Doctor Elderkina. af Chautauqua, N. Y.,lo receive professional treatmeut. But an hour afterward Mrs. Harwood, who lives in the house in which the doctor has his office, found Mrs. Coltou lying on the floor dcait and the doctor on a loungo in a dying > condition. A letter found lying on his table read :-Mrs. Coiton died of heart failure and I have taken my own life with mSSpllinc used hyodermically. No use, can't save mo . r.o neod of autopsy : must die, but hato to leave my ! friends." , The doctor has since died. His will was found in a bundle of papers lying by his side. ^ SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOl JUNE 25. LflEson Text: Quarterly ~ Review Psalm 1?Golden Text: Prov. ill., G?Commentary. Lf.hbon I.?Tho Resurrection of Chris (Math, xxviii., 1-10). Qoldon Text (I Coi xv., 20), "But now is Christ risen from fcb dead and becomo tho first fruits of them thi slept." Looking back over the quarter ther is a remarkable completeness in the first I? son being a resurrection lesson, and the lasl one on tho kingdom, while between the tw we have so much on the practical daily lil of one associated with Christ In resurrectio and waiting for the kingdom. Let us emphc size and if possible embrace more fully th fact that all believers are looked upon b God as risen with Christ and seated wit Him m tne neavenues (_.&pn. u., o. o; uo iiL, 1, 2), and may our constant prayer b that of Paul in Phil. iii., 10, 11. Lesson II.? Afflictions Sanctified (Job v. 17-27). Golden Text (Heb. xfi., 6), "Fo whom tho Lord loveth He chasteneth." I our three lessons in this book, or four if w had taken the first instead of the Easter le? son. we have a righteous man being mad meet for his place In the kingdom. Th principal point in this lesson is that we ar to accept all chastening with not oniy sut mission, but even joyfulness, because ou Heavenly Father is lovingly dealing with u to make us more confirmed to the image c His Son (Rom. viii., 28, 29). Lesson III.?Job's Appeal to God (Jo xxiii.. 1-10). Golden Text (John xiii., 7] "What I do Thou knowest not now, bu Thou shait know hereafter." A centra thought is In venae 10: "He knoweth thewa that I take. When He hath tried me, I shai come forth as gold." A true believer i God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesu unto good works which God hath before pre pared for us to walk in (Eph. ii., 10). Lesson IV.?Job's Confession and Restora tion (Job xliiL, 1-10). Golden Text (Jas. v. 11), "Ye have heard of the patience of Jo and have seen the end of the Lord ; that th Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy. We now see a man who has been through th fire come forth as gold. His eyes are n longer on himself, as in chapter 29, but thi is his testimony to the Lord, "Mine eye seetJ Thee, wherefore I abhor myself." To den self and follow Jesus, to live in the power c "not I. but Christ" (Math, xvl., 24; Gal. ii. 20). is to manifest something of the resurrec tion life that looks for the kingdom. Such one *an pray even for friends like Job's (vers 10) end for enemies (Luke xxiii., 34; Act If., 60) Lehhon V.?Wisdom's Warning (Prov. i., 20-33). Golden Text (Heb. xii., 25), "Se that ye rejpse not him that speaketh." Thi and the next four lessons are in the book o Proverbs and are suggestive of the manifee tation'in the daily life of Him who is "Th Wisdom of God" (I Cor. 1., 24). In this sec tion Wisdom cries unto the simple ones wh are being led astray that they, may turn an receive His spirit and thus dwell safeiy an be quiet from fear of evil. Lesbos VI.?The Value of Wisdom (Prov iii., 11-24). Golden Text (Prov. ill., 5] "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart an lean not unto thine own understanding. Here, as in lesson ii.. we learn that only b loving chastisement can we learn wisdom 8o sinful are we and so loving is our Heaven ly Father that He speaketh even by chastec ing if only He may save us from the pit (Jo xxxiii,, 18, 19, 29. 30) and make us partaxer of His holiness (Heb. xii., 10). Like chiJ dren. we are apt to take gilt for gold, bu our Father would have us possess true riches The world would have us believe that he ways are the only happy ones, while th truth is that it is only wisdom's ways that ar ways of pleasantness and her paths peac (verse 17). Every possible attraction, and al real, is set before us in wisdom that wo as and receive Civ., 7 ; Jaa. i., 5). Lesbos Vll.?Fruits of Wisdom (Prov. xii 1-15). Golden Text (Prov. xi., 30), "Th fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and h that winneth souls is wise." Thirteen out c the fifteen verses of this lesson contrast th wise and the foolish, the righteous and th wicked, reminding us of the Savior's word concerning the wise and foolish in Math. vii. 24-27 ; xxv., 1-13. Adam and Eve in the gai den of Eden did not think enough of the tre of life to prefer it to that of the knowledge o good and evil, and their descendants hav all f/v/vUak V? IUiiCUbOU bliCIl lnniii^n CUiU AXC OU IVVUOU K/ nature. We must be born from above by re ceiving Him who is the wisdom of God. Lesson VIII.?Against Intemperance (Pro\ xxiii., 29-So). Golden Text (Prov. xx., 1] 'Wino is a mocker, strong drink is raginf and whosoover is deceived thereby is nc wise." In contrast to being filled with wint the believer is commanded to be filled wit the spirit (Eph. v., 18), and thus be fllle with songs of rejoicing instead of the nois and vaih song of the drunkard. Lesson IX.?The Excellent Woman (Pro; xxxi., 10-18). Golden Text (Prov. xxxi., 30] 'Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but woman that feareth the Lord she shall b praised." Instead of beholding here merel the perfect woman, wife and mother, we cor sidered her as suggestivo of the true churct the bride of Christ, as to her personal stand ing and character, and then her relation t her Husband, to her household and to th poor and needy. Lesson X.?Reverence and Fidelity (Eoe. v., 1-12). Golden Text (Rom. xii.. 11), "Nc slothful in business, fervent in spirit, servm the Lord." Two lessons have been given u from this wonderful book, with its deaerif tion of things as seen under the sun. Tber is nothing very comforting or -neouratnnx i the constant endeavor to do right and not t do wrong with the thought of a just God eve before you. Neither is there anything restfi in a study of tho riches and poverty problenr but there is real rest of soul in seeing Jesu as the end of the law for righteousness t every one that b^lieveth. Lesson XI.?The Creator Remtjmbere (Eccl. xii., 1-7,13,14). Golden Text (Eool xii., 1) "Remember now thy creator in th A" Ynnt.h in Hnt?hfiforo US a v"".o W ? the time waen we are apt to seok our ow pleasure and forget God, but wo are reininde that old ago will come when wo may have n deslro for anytmng,';and that our Crwtor hn a right to the vigor of our youth. Our eye turn to Him who bs a young man flnishe His work on earth, who will in duo time b our judgo, and who offors ua eternal youth i we will but wolcomo Him to our hearts. Leesox XII.?Messiah's Kingdom (Mai. lii. 1-12). Golden Text (Mai lit, 17). "The shall be mine, saith tho Lord of Hosts, ii that day wben I make up my jewels." It i a fitting close to a quarter's lessons to con template the time of the kingdom when Is rael, after all her wandering shall be ''holJ ness unto the Lord." sind when the risei Christ shall be accepted as her long lookei for king. All the mom so, us wo seem to b on the very verge o! tho time of the restora tion of all things of which the prophets hav< spoken (Acts iii., 19-21).?Lesson Helper. Tus man who gesticulates raos wildly in an argument isn't always th< man who promulgates the most valu able ideas. He is very liable to b< beaten, in the opinion of the crowd by the quiet man who doesn't movi a finger, but whose low voice utter steady common sense. The jury considering the case c Anton Woode, Colorado's boy-mui derer, failed to agree. He had kille and robbed a man in cold blsod, bi he is r.nly 11 years old, and the jur believed evidently that erring chilt hood should bo gently dealt with. A r.Aov .says that she could alwaj Icnuv/ when she had taken just, tc .iuch wine at dinner?her husband 'ikes began to seem fuuuy.?Sit i.ijs. Tiie atmosphere of the America' continent is death to monarchy. IIj waii's kingdom might have laste longer if it was a little farther froi the United States. A Bootless Attempt.?To get u] stairs without being heard by yoi vMe.?Texas Siftimrs. ...... ft-:. 2. .. . * TEXTILE EXHIBITS. R AMERICAN COTTON, SILK AND WOOL AT THE FAIR. '? brilliant Contents of Somber Cases in the Manufactures Building? A Railroad Train Made of Silk Spools, it 'e ^^SmOTTON, Rilk and it wool enter largely 6 *ja*? ^ex^ile ex'jfflpfBk. J hibit in the Amerio can eecti?Q of the 6 !. ?* * J Manufactures ? Building and it now 0 is complete. Itocy cupies the northeast 1 ft* corner ?f build? r JL an(* ^een I ^aaDDea "undertak ? T ii^*n ers' row?" because r ^e number of B "M ^lack cafle9- Howh I ! I ever somber the 0 cases are the contents are brilliant ? jnough and attract crowds of people. ? Che space, which is one of the largest r n the building, is divided into three i s actions, wool, silk and cotton. The yool and silk exhibits are made by the b issociation, the members of which are >, I r- HATLROAD TP. .US X.V Ji ? wholesale dealers. The cotton exhibits y are made by individual firms. t. One does not expect, as a rule, to sie l" a lot of pieces of cloth piled up in a ? picturesque way, but that is just what 3 the woolen exhibitors have done. In I- one case is shown a lot of blankets made ^ entirely of American wool. They are r ? y DISPLAY OP PASTOONABIJS FABBICS. I '? light and soft, and suggestive of warm ? comfort in cold weather. In thfe overa joat materials the goods are graded from the very heavy shaggy cloths L down to the very finest. There are * thirty-four of these cases representing is 115 mills oxtending from Milwaukee to > e f ' ' ~ I B" I gj jl JJ * SC33N75 IN THE 1 k .. ^ Maine. The progression of the wor!: j is shown by a flirty ile.-cc just ebon, e and this beinaj the tirat step o;ich 3acr ceediDg proccBs is exhibited, 1hn carding, spinning, weaving, and finally th-> completed cloth. All the grades cud styles known to woolen manufacture ere shown. Several cases aro filled with a bright colored yarn p.*.id tJio finer thread used in making; cloth. 3 Th^; silk department is 1h" mo*t pie, tnreaqe, as the soft quality oi the goods 3 admits of full scope lr. ?Le window a dresser's art. One of ?he TCi?t intrvesting and at the same time inefrucfcive exhibit? is at the north erd of the f space. There is a long show cw; with ' ?i row of bottles. la the fir.?t is the '* moth, then in succ^lou are shown the d motli eggs, the h?uchin^ proj-vjs, with j it the worm :-nn day old and su on up to | y the age of four weeks, whori it begins j j? to make silk. Keeping t.p tha ] ?o-; grcasion the cocoon is o JiiKtod iii its ' various HtMges from the time it cov-j rs ?red with the shell that looks like a j peanut ti> the t'nie when it is uncoviied, reeled and ready for the loon). ^ The silk has three natural color?, white, cream and yellow, and 10!) j nmu.r.a lira ronnirpii fcn m:>!:0 .int, cLein ! of the delicate silk. This i.<> reeled by 1 Q a machine in charge of a girl. The > l- cocoon is put iu a large msehiur, aiuf j d jnc end of the silk tni'r.d ia fo:u;d. j n The mot'on, although rapid, is very I *entle and not unhlic the process i;nown to rnauy a small boy who bns j listened to fairy stories from bis grand-; P- mother while he held hi r :ik'.?in of j II yarn. la the sarny ease are shown' ?ome very pretty designs made of silk skeins and braids.' One is a large fan A JAPANESE GARDENER. I ehatie with a fountain ?f?pn#> nn the J side, all worked out with bunches of bright colored silks. They are not sewed together, but simply placed in bunches, and are very artistic. The most elaborate of all the dis. plays is made by a silk thte&d firm. It is an engine and car made of spools Eight thousand spools of silk are used' Each piece is ten feet long. The DE OF SILK SPOOLS. wheels are made of large spools and the spokes of smaller ones. They are all of black. The panels of the car are: worked out in different colors. The engine is the most wonderful piece of work. Every detail has been worked out in a marvelous way, even to the counter-weights on the side of the. driv-wheels. From the smokestack flies backward a lot of silk floss, very black at first and ending in thin steam. The bell is made of gold-colored silk and the reversing lever is made of tin spools put end to end. The only material not made of spools is the headlight, which is a reflector with an electric light. Another case shows a life-size figure of a Chinaman watching a big silk worm at work. All of the products of the silk worm are shown and they take many forms. There is a collection of hosiery fit for a princess and beautiful silks for gowns. Many of the articles are made expressly for this exhibit, while others are just the stock of the linns. The cotton exhibit is extensive and includes all branches of the trade. One of the prettiest exhibits is made of bath towels, which have been ingeniously worked into theshaoe of a Turk ish bower. The many cases include all of the different cotton fabrics made in the country.?Chicago News. "Strip, the Electrician." A Brighton correspondent of the London Graphic sends the accompanying sketch of "Strip, the Electrician," the clever fox terrier belonging to ' Messrs. Crompton, the electrical engineers, preparing to go to work underground. Strip's business is to carry TTTTT.T: nx.TTprr. ee^h electric light wire through the pipe to the workmen waiting at the other end, who disengage it from her collnr, to which the wire is fastened before sho starts. The dog then scrambles through the pipe with the ! ill most vigor, and seems to understand } perfectly what her business is, and does it without nny delay. Before going to Brighton Strip'did good work 1'STT.rr," Tit?. EMTiTRICAL TERRIER. for lior ??m up I overs in Lomlou, where s:H' Jairl clown vinay miles of electric light wire. A resident of Butler County, Kansas, is sui?l to have ir.kon the Keelcy cure for .the fishing habit. Cadets at West Point receive a salary oi $540 a year. . -rf-' HOUSEHOLD MATTEBS. Z TRIED CUCUMBEEC. ' Peel three good-aixed cncnmben^l slice them half an inch t.aick and lay] in cold, salted -water for an hour, then! dry* on a toweL Put a large frying-; pan over the fire, with drippings or! lard half an inch deep in it, and wheal th? fat begins to smoke put in the en-. cumbers, only so many at once as will' lie on the bottom of the pan, dust with- 1 pepper and quickly fry them brown on both sides. ' Serve hot. These are very nice served with toast.?Boston. Cultivator. HOW TO COOK JTUSHBOOMR. ,, Peel the mushrooms, wash them is cold water and cut off the bottom e? the stalks. Then put them into ft porcelain-lined kettle. To every pint of mushrooms add a tablespoonful' of butter divided into four bits and rolled in flour. Let the mushrooms cook in their own liquor with the butter and flour for fifteen minutes, then add two tablespoonfuls of thick cream, salt and pepper to taste. Take from the fire, add the well beaten yolk of one egg, and, if you use it, one tablespoonfnl of sherry. Serve immediately.?New York Mail and Express. FIG FECIT CAKE. One cup of butter, two. cups of sugar, three cups of flour, si# eggs, one pound of figs, teaspoonful of soda dissolved in one cup of cold water. First open the figs and spread them upon s dish and put them in the oven a few moments to soften. Mix as you would fruit cake, without the figs. Ptit h'alf the batter in a square pan, such as is used for rolls. Spread the figs and add the rest of the batter. Bake in ft moderate oven to pretent drying. When nearly cold slice once lengthwise and spread with a thick layer of boiling icing. Put back the top fitted nicely and ice the whole cake.?New " * t Xork World. OX EYE3. I These daxnties are very innocent. and are made, of rings of stale bread soaked in milk. Cut slices rather more thao half an inch thick, and cut in ro?mdf with the top of a tumbler, taking: smaller rounds from the centre' of each with the top of a small wineglass. Lay in a buttered tin and cover with milk, and when they have absorbed it, break an egg into the centre of each ring, pepper and salt them, and put a teaspoonful of milk ( on ths top of each egg. Bake in a hot oven till the whites are set, but not brown. When ready, lay the ox eyes on a hot dish, garnish with watercreaa and send to table.?St. Louia B^ 48 public. PERFECT CREAM BU3C0TE. There have been several calls for recipes for food for invalids. For s timo a momW nf ffllT family iuJJK ' - ? ? could not eat yeast-raised bread, and this biscuit, invented then from necessity, has proved so palatable and ? wholesome, and so useful for the children, that it has come to b? a stand-by. Four quarts of flour, one cup of white sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, ona tablespoonful of soda, two tablespoonhils of cream of tartar. Mix well and wet with pare cream, mating only moist enough to roll; if too wet they will not be crisp. Roll rather thin, and cut in squares the size of sod* crackers, and bake. We often on white flour and sifted graham, equal parts, and they closely resemble thy graham wafers we buy. City folks can order them from their country friends, who have pure cream.?New York Recorder. HOUSEHOLD HXNT3. Rice flour wafers, slightly sweetened, are a nice dainty for afternoon teas. Oil cloth or linoleum will be bright* ened by a thin coat of copal varnish.. Dampen a cloth and dip in soda and rub tinware briskly, after which wipe dry. Tea trays and all japanned goods should be cleaned with a sponge wet with warm water and a little soap. A large piece of charcoal put in a refrigerator will help to keep it sweet. It should be renewed every week.Kerosene applied with a rag when* you are about to put your stoves away for the summer will prevent them from rusting. Sunning clothes and carpets and curtains ought to b# as important a part - " ' 1 1 :? ?,? OX cne iwice-jearij cicuuiu^ ?? n.iuubing and washing. Skimmed milk makes hardwood floors, stained ones and oilcloth ls^k * shiny. A woolen cloth should be used to wipe up the floor. In bottling pickles or catsup, boil the corks, and while hot you can pre? them in the bottles, and when cold they are sealed tightly. To clean woodwork which is painted, wring a soft cloth out of warm water, dip in whiting and rub off the whiting and rub with a dry cloth. , it A great convenience when cleaning house is a stick with a notch in the end that will lift the picture cords off from the hooks without so much stepping up " and down. For starching muslins, ginghams 3nd /liaaolvA & meco of alum the sizo of a hickorv nut for every pint of starch. This will keep the colors bright for a long time. If you have lace for muslin curtains to be washed there is no better time . than now. Tbey will dry beautifully out of doors these suuny days. Wash them carefully iu tepid water. Use castile soap, if any be necessary, and dry in the sunshine upon frames. No fruit loses flavor from being carelessly handled more quickly than apples. Apples which have been well stored retain their flavor throughout the winter, but those which have been allowed to lie about with d- caying specimens or are stored loosely in barrels either lose their flavor or acquire a rank taste from the conditions around them. Pillows, blankets and bods should hang in the suu all day, or for two days, if possible, on frames which allow air to circulate freely under them. And they must be turned from time to time so that every part on the surface may get the sun. A two-days' airing and sunning in a warm spring sun ia the nest best thing to a bteam cleanings better in some ways. j